September 14, 2023 • 37 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC National News Correspondent Steve Portnoy joins the show to discuss Hunter Biden suing former Trump aide Garret Ziegler over infamous laptop. Amy interviews world renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new book “To Infinity and Beyond.” A new edition of ‘Amy’s On It’ featuring Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+. Former FBI agent and current crime and terrorism analyst for ABC News Brad Garrett joins the show to talk about a profile of the law enforcement response to, and eventual capture of, Danelo Cavalcante and how one guard could have prevented all of it.
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You're listening to a wake up callon demand from KF I am six forty
k F and kost H T two, Los Angeles, Orange County. Dad
agree, Yes, Amy King,this is your wake up call for Thursday,
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September fourth. We're half not fourthSeptember fourteenth, We're halfway through the
month already. I'm Amy King.Thanks for waking up with me this morning.
I hope you got your coffee,I got mine, got my oatmeal
ready to go. Hey, Igot to do something kind of special at
Disneyland yesterday. I'm gonna be tellingyou about that in just a few minutes.
And the show's going to go outof this world today, So you're
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not gonna want to go anywhere becausewe've got the one and only Neil de
grass Tyson coming on the show.That's coming up at five twenty. Here's
what's ahead on the wake up Call. Police have made an arrest in the
hit and run crashes involving three bicyclistsin Huntington Beach. One of the bicyclists
was killed on Sunday night. Theguy arrested is believed to be between fourteen
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and sixteen years old. The CSUsystem has approved a plan to hike student
tuition six percent a year starting nextyear. That's more than three hundred dollars
a year for undergrads. More thantwo hundred passengers aboard a cruise ship that
ran aground and Greenland are going tobe stuck there until at least tomorrow.
The Ocean Explorer ran aground in aremote part of Greenland Monday afternoons, so
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they've been stuck there for a whileand haven't had any luck getting them unstuck.
At six oh five, it's handleon the news that killer in Pennsylvania
back in custody in large part becauseof a K nine named Yoda. Let's
get started with some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Dozens of people in Whittierhave had to leave their homes because of
a big gas leak. A womanwho lives in the area on Vicki drives
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his crews have been doing construction inthe area. Some neighbors say they started
smelling gas yesterday afternoon. The motherof a baby found alone in a stroller
in LA's Larchmont village has been arrestedon suspicion of child endangerment. The toddler,
about two to three years old,was found at about three in the
morning on Tuesday. Police say themom's I D was in the stroller,
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so they found out who she wasand arrested her when she showed up for
work. Former La County Sheriff Alexvien Auava says he's going after Janis Han's
seat as chair of the La CountyBoard of Supervisors. Vien Auava says Han
and other elected officials have let LAspiral out of control. They know that
career politicians are only going to ensurethat continuous downward spiral. It's not going
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to change. They created the problemand they're trying to sell you, Oh
yeah, we'll change, We'll dobetter next time. No, they're not
being away. Announced his campaign inWhittier yesterday, defending his stance that LA
was safer when he was sheriff.The Studio City Neighborhood Council has collapsed over
the board appointing a registered sex offender. The man was voted into the council
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last month while two members were awarethat he may have been convicted of rape
and had been paroled in twenty twentyone. Board member Kim Clement says she
was conflicted on how to handle thesituation after being pressured by the city to
proceed. That was very difficult becauseonly two of us going into the meeting
new and yet it was so new. It was just a complete shock and
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disbelief, Clement said. Yesterday,most of the board members resigned after confirming
the new council members served thirteen yearsin prison for sexual assault Chris Adler KFI
News. The White House says theHouse impeachment inquiry targeting President Biden is a
move to prevent unhappy Republicans from removingKevin McCarthy as speaker. Yeah, Matt
Gates as well threatened to ouse himas speaker if he didn't do it.
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White House Press Secretary Karin Jeanpierre criticizedMcCarthy for not putting the impeachment inquiry up
for a vote in the House.She says some Republicans admit there's no evidence
President Biden profited from his son's businessdealings. Caesar's Entertainment in Las Vegas is
reportedly paid about a half of athirty million dollar ransom. Following a cyber
attack the Wall Street journalists, hackerspretended to be the IT department to have
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a password changed. MGM Resorts alsoreported a cybersecurity issue Sunday that caused the
company to shut down slot machines,sports betting, kiosks, digital keys for
hotel rooms, online reservations, andcredit card transactions. Well, that doesn't
sound like any fun in Las Vegasat all. Several toys are vying for
a spot in the National Toy Hallof Fame. The Strong National Museum of
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Play in Rochester, New York,has announced this year's finalists for induction.
The list includes Bingo, Cabbage PatchKids, Battleship You Sunk My Battleship,
Baseball Cards, Nerve Toy Slime,Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles, and Ken.
People can vote online for their favoritetoys until September twentieth. The winning
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toys will be announced in November.It's five or six on your wake up
call. Let's get right into itand say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy.
Stephen Hunter Biden is suing over hislaptop. Tell us about this.
Yeah. The lawsuit is filed againsthim and named Garrett Ziegler and ten unnamed
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co defendants. Filed in the CentralDistrict California, where you are. And
the lawsuit alledges that Garrett Ziegler andhis co defendants violated state and federal computer
privacy laws by hacking into not justthe laptop itself, but in particular the
encrypted iPhone backup that was stored onthe laptop, and there are emails and
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photographs that have since become public isGarrett Ziegler has been putting these materials on
his website for the last couple ofyears, and the lawsuit comes this week.
It's the same week the House Republicansare moving forward with what they're calling
an impeachment inquiry into the president.And the suggestion, of course, that
they're making is that the former presidentin some way benefited from his son's business
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dealings in an untoward way, somethingthat they've offered no specific evidence of,
other than in situations and intimations basedon, in part some of the things
that were on the laptop. SoHunter Biden, it all becomes a bit
of a circle here. Hunter Bidenis suing in civil court. He wants
a civil trial, he wants ajury to hear the case and to award
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him damages. Can't they can theystop that dead in its tracks by saying
that Hunter dropped off that computer andsigned the piece of paper saying, hey,
if I don't come pick it up, I surrendered the computer. It's
interesting because the lawsuit does not emphaticallysay that the laptop was Hunters. It
was something that you know, theysay what they do. Yeah, it's
very strange. But what they aresaying is encrypted iPhone backup was Hunters.
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Right. So that's kind of thelane pin in it because the iPhone wasn't
the computer. It's a separate thing, but that was his and he didn't
turn that in. Well, it'sthe data really and the fact that an
action had to be taken to hackthat data. They say that that's a
violation of California and federal computer privacylaws. That I mean, I listen,
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I'm not an experts, says,you know, but that is the
argument that they're making. One argumentthat the defendant, Garret Ziegler's making is
that he's an author, and sohe's essentially you read between the lines and
it makes some sort of a FirstAmendment defense that he had the right to
publish these things, that it wasin the public interest, that there's some
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sort of news gathering protection. Veryinteresting to see how it all plays out.
But the allegation is that Garrett Zieglerboasted about hacking into this encrypted file,
which is not easy to do.Oh, so he's said, hey,
I hacked into this, but itwas on the computer that was surrendered,
but it was tied to an iPhonethat wasn't surrendered. Maybe well,
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I suppose, But the point isthat it was the dad on the laptop,
but that the ideas it was itwas itself, it was itself protected
or encrypted, and then they wentin and hacked that. So one of
the things we should mention is thatGarret Ziegler formerly served in the Trump White
House. He was an aide toPeter Navarro and Navarro was a trade advisor
and was said to be responsible forhelping to bring Sydney Powell into the Oval
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office in that now infamous December meetingwhere Sydney Powell started spouting things that even
the former president described as crazy aboutelection interference and fraud. And so Sydney
Powell has not been sued multiple timesand finds herself as one of the nineteen
co defendants in the Georgia election interferencecase. Okay, and I know you
gotta run. But Hunter Biden wantsa jury trial. Isn't he like a
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that's isn't he kind of a sketchyperson in everybody's eyes? At this point,
that'll be up to a jury toweigh, a jury of Southern California's
by the way, look, thisis the argument would be that the defendant
violated particular laws, and that willbe the basis for the case to be
weighed. But at the same point, you know, we'll see what the
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defense brings up. Never a dullmoment. And I'm so glad you're here
to share all this with us,Stephen Port, and I thank you.
Yeah, let's get back to someof the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour news room. Ateenager has been arrested for a fatal hit
and run crash that was part ofa spree of side swipe attacks on bicyclists
in Huntington Beach. The suspect,it's a mill juvenile between the age of
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fourteen and seventeen. Huntington Beach policeis Jessica Kutilla, says. Investigators found
the black four door Sedan believed tobe involved, which led to the arrest.
Juvenile was poked in the Orange Countyjuvenilele on several counts, including homicide.
Investigators say call started coming in Sundaynight of three attacks that appeared to
intentionally target bicyclists, all the senseit has happened within the hour in a
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short distance from each other in OrangeCounty. Corbin Carson k if I News.
A man from la is facing aminimum of ten years in prison for
illegally selling guns out of his Hookahlounge downtown Povac. De Gaussian admitted to
selling eleven guns out of his shop, which included ghost guns. US attorney's
Kiered macavoy says investigators executed a searchworn at the hookah shop in twenty to
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twenty one. During this search,they seized five point eight ounces of methamphetamine,
a digital scale, a two hundredand fifteen rounds of AMMO, and
many firearms he was willing to sell. One of them was a sought off
shotgun. Degaussian also admitted to sellingmetha is part of his plea yesterday.
He's set to be sentenced in January. Blake Trolley k if I News.
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Bill Maher says his HBO show realtime is returning this fall without Riders.
Mar says he loves his writers andis one of them, but he's not
prepared to lose an entire year andsee so many below the line people suffer
so much. He added yesterday's segmentslike his monologue, desk piece, new
Rules or editorial won't happen. Insolidarity with the ongoing WGA and SAG strike,
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He says the show without Riders willnot be as good, but the
heart of the show will continue.Bodies have been washing ashore in Libya days
after flooding killed at least six thousandpeople. The mayor of Derma, which
was especially hard hit, Sunday,says the death toll is still climbing.
ABC's Tom Sufi Burridge says nine thousandpeople are missing in the coastal city of
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Dernah. Rescue is navigating through densemud and tangle debris retrieving bodies. Drna
was destroyed when two dams burst becauseof a storm that caused waves twenty three
feet high to rush through the townand into the sea. Officials in a
neighboring coastal town say at dam therecould also collapse and cause similar devastation and
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Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney says he'snot running for reelection. In twenty twenty
four, he said he would bein his mid eighties at the end of
a second six year Senate term.Romney was once governor of Massachusetts and ran
for president in twenty twelve. He'sbeen criticized by some in his own party
for voting to convict President Trump atboth of his Senate impeachment trials. Got
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to do something at Disneyland that Ihaven't done before. I had a glass
of wine with my dinner. SoDisneyland just recently started selling beer, wine
and specialty cocktails at more restaurants.So for decades, Disneyland was dry.
And that's fine, that's great.And in fact, while Disney apparently was
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totally against having alcohol in the park, he told The Saturday Evening Post back
in nineteen fifty six, no liquor, no beer, nothing, because that
brings in a rowdy element that bringspeople we don't want and I feel they
don't need it. Well, apparentlythe people who are running Disney have changed
their tune a little bit. OgusCantina opened up in Galaxy's Edge, which
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is star wars Land a couple ofyears ago, right after the pandemic,
and they started offering they started offeringspecialty cocktails, and then the Blue by
You, which is in New OrleansSquare, also had like a hurricane that
you could get. But that wasthe only places aside from Club thirty through
which ninety nine percent of us canever get into. But just yesterday or
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actually not yesterday, but on Tuesdaythey started selling cocktails in Carnation Cafe,
river Belt Terrace and Cafe Orleans.So of course, since it's something new
at Disneyland, we had to go. And I took Nick Polyochini with me,
or he took me with him,one of the two, and we
went and had a lovely dinner andI had a glass of wine and Brian
had a hurricane Pims hurricane and itwas kind of cool. I mean,
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it's a little bit weird because youfeel like you're doing something bad, like
sneaking alcohol into Disneyland or something.But it was good and so it's available.
It's not for walk around, it'sjust when you sit down, but
a new feature for you to enjoyat Disneyland next time you go to visit.
And for me that's going to betomorrow, Okay. Right now,
I am absolutely thrilled to say goodmorning to astrophysicist and best selling author and
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well all around smart guy Neil deGrasseTyson. Good morning, Neil, good
morning, good morning. Thank youso much for coming on early this morning
with us. So Neil's on withus because he has a new book out
about the Cosmos and beyond. It'sabout real science versus basically what we see
in TV and movies. And beforewe jump in, Neil, I want
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to just say that when I hearyou talk, I realized how incredibly smart
you are and how much you know. But you always talk to us in
a way that my brain can understand. And I appreciate that because you know,
you talk to really smart people sometimesand they talk in these technical terms
you don't get, and you havea way of breaking through and talking to
me. So I appreciate the diflecturing and communicating. I think that's that's
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that's all it is. So Ican face the chalkboard and have you tried
to meet me ninety percent of theway of where I am, Well,
I can face you and meet youninety percent other way towards you and that's
that's that's my goal and if Iachieve that, then that's a good day
for me as an educator. Well, I think you have. So you
have this new book called Infinity toInfinity and Beyond and again in the meeting
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me on my side, it's illustrated, so there's there are some fistic pictures
in here. So I read thepictures last night, and okay, you
have some of stuff from like theHubble Space telescope, or not from Hubble,
from the James Webbs telescope. Thankweb All the latest stuff is in
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there. So the book has attemptsto take the reader on a journey of
mind and spirit from the time whenwe're just standing on Earth looking up,
wondering how would you ever get tothe move just I could imagine five hundred
years ago looking up? Do youjust ascend? Does air continue from Earth
already to the moon if you havea balloon, But balloons were kind of
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a latter day thing, right,so you have to learn that hot air
rises and so it tracks. Thanks. So for example, the first aero
knots was a sheep, a duckand a rooster. They were sent up
in a balloon like what was that? And they just how hard did they
get? Well? So, yeah, so it's not safe if you keep
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going too high up. And Ifeel sorry for the sheep because had that
experiment failed, the duck and therooster still had a chance of surviving coming
down back to earth. But youyou get a sense of are certain dreams
you have impossible? They're reel inyour head, but they can't happen until
more science and technology and engineering arrived. And so we also follow the fits
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and starts and the mistakes, andwhen we can, we analogize if there's
scenery that we pass along the way. And these are movies that have attempted
to portray some aspect of the sciencethat we talk about, and then we'll
tell you if the movie got itright or wrong. And because movies formed
part of the pop culture dimension ofthe communicating there's science, humor, empop
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culture, which is the three DNAstrands of my podcast which is called start
Talk. And this is a bookin the in the Start Talk tradition.
Well, I love that you weretalking about that kind of marriage between art
and science because I see a lotof movies and I go or you see
some science that's coming out and yougo, god, I saw that in
a movie like twenty years ago.How did they know? So, like,
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what's a good example. I knowthat you you said something about gravity
and Sandra Bullock, oh yeah,so just you know when we talk about
how do you escape gravity? Youknow, I referenced the movie, the
movie Gravity, right, which hasSandra Bullock and handsome man leading man.
Let's say good George Clooney, thankyou and so so I first, I
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think the movie should have been calledzero Gravity because the whole movie is in
zero gravity. And they did somevery good things, all right. You
know, when you burn a candle, a candle just keeps burning. You
know why the hot air rises andit brings in new oxygen. They showed
correctly in that movie a flame thatextinguished itself because it beats up the oxygen.
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The warm air doesn't know to rise, and then the absence of oxygen
extinguishes the flame. They got somuch right, but I had to call
him out. How is it thatSandra bullets bangs always knew which way down
was? Their hair wasn't floating inthe zero G that their hair knew?
Okay, so, but it's funto point this out because we all have.
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Many people have seen the movie orother movies. Talk about Back to
the Future, talk about the movieThe Martian, talk about the Hulk.
When we talk about the density ofthings and air, it's odd that the
Hulk could start out just as alittle person and it become a big person.
Did he just sort of swallow up? And if you did, he
would have the density of a beachball, and Augusta Wynn would just blow
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him around and we just pop him. He still had but right exacts at
of that. So so if youif, if, if the Hulk actually
has masks, when did you getthe extra masks from? You had to
get it from the energy in theenvironment. He equals mc squared, and
then he would suck all the energyout of his sector of the world,
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and then there's no no one tofight and there's no battles. But the
biggest question is how can his shortsstill fit him when he gets big.
I don't never understood that. I'vealways wondered that. Yeah, okay,
so and I was, I was, I was looking through the book and
I will tell you I stayed uptoo late last night because I was trying
to cram this in because unfortunately Ididn't get it in time to read cover
to cover. But I got somequestions for you, and one of the
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big ones that I've always wondered,and you were the perfect person to ask.
This is when we go up intospace. Because you have a whole
sex and on rockets and leaving theatmosphere and that kind of stuff. How
come we can't just go on aplane and just go up to elevation and
break out of the atmosphere. Whydo we have to go on a rocket
straight up like that? Oh?Yeah, yeah, Two very important reasons.
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First, airplanes work because they're combiningthe oxygen of the air with the
fuel in their fuel tanks to createsome form of combustion, right, So
they're they're air breathing, right,They need the air to run their engines.
When you get to very high inthe atmosphere, the air gets thinner
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and thinner, there's less and lessoxygen. You need a whole different kind
of fuel system in order to getaround. So another way, you have
to bring your own oxygen oxidizers.They're called Okay, so if we were
flying in a plane, So ifyou were in a plane and you just
kept going higher and higher. Eventuallyit wouldn't work anymore because you don't have
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the oxygen. So not only ifyou don't have the oxygen, the air
stays aloft because of the buoyancy.That the buoyancy because of the there's air
pressing up underneath the wings that keepsit flying. Okay. So that's the
weird thing. Like in Apollo eleventhat the lundar module is called the eagle,
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right, and it shows this eaglelanding. Well, an eagle on
the Moon would fall like a brickbecause the eagle has wings that need air,
right, So you need the airto hold you up, and you
need the oxygen in the air toburn your engines, and you have neither
of that in the very highest altitudes, so you need what you call a
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rocket. And there it is.Okay, all right, here's another one
because you have a section on Marsand terraforming Mars and you have these fabulous
photos and so it made me thinkof again a movie Total Recall where they're
on Mars and they're trying to keepthe people from getting the oxygen. So
could Mars become habitable with the releaseof water if they found it? Yeah,
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So we think there's water. That'sa great question. We think there
is water on Mars. Well,we have evidence that it was once liquid
running water on the Martian surface.If you look at it, everything's dry,
but they're me hindering river beds,liver Delta's blood plains, all the
all the telltale evidence that Mars wasonce a liquid planet and it's all gone
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today. So we should try tofigure out how it lost all of those
water in case there's some knob we'returning here on Earth that could give us
the same fate. We think maybeit went down into permafrost. So,
and the Martian atmosphere is very verythin, one percent that of Earth.
So we had to reference the movieThe Martian, where does a dust storm
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gets rocking their spaceship and they giveup Mark Wotney for dead because they have
to take off because they don't.They all die. But what they don't
tell you is the adversary is sothin that one hundred mile an hour winds
would be like a gentle grief.It would not have rocked, It would
not have rocked the ship. Sowe were off there. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah, I told it him.He said, well, yeah,
and I'll give him a haul passon that because you've got so much other
science. Correct. So yeah,if you want to TeleForm it, you
have to put microbes in the soilsthat can naturally produce some oxygen, so
you have to work that. Butif you TeleForm Mars, you can fly
there, walk off your space shipwithout a space suit, and then we'd
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have two planets to live on.That could be cool. Wouldn't that be
cool? Okay? Then my lastquestion, because and I could ask you
one hundreds of them, but doyou also have this really cool picture.
It's a conceptual picture of a shipthat's outfitted with everything you would need to
take a deep trek into space.So is long term space travel actually something
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that we could eventually do? Isit realistic? Okay? If the image
you're referring to as the one I'mthinking of, that's a generational ship because
to get to the nearest star onour fastest rockets would take fifty thousand years,
so you'll be dead. So whatyou need to do in a generational
ship is get a bunch of veryfertile people, put them on, they
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make babies, they get old anddie. The babies get old and everybody's
making babies for a thousand generations andthen you arrive at your destination. But
I'd rather wait around for like warpdrops. I know right, he's doing
me, Okay, so we'll waituntil start predestined. Yeah, I don't
want to predestine the next generation tofollow my dreams. When in a free
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society, they should be able tochoose not to go on a generational ship.
Okay. And wouldn't you be madif you went on a generational ship
and then they discovered warp speed.So you're out in the middle of space
somewhere and then a ship goes andpasses you. Oh yeah, I would
be so pissed off exactly. Ohmy gosh. It's a part of what
it is to make the future real. Like you were saying, you see
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things in a sci fia movie,it gives your ideas that to try to
reach forty reach for the stars innew and innovative ways. And that's what
the entire book is about, andit from what I've read of it,
Neil, it is so fascinating andI wish we had like tons more time
to talk to you. Neil deGrasseTyson, the author of Too Infinity and
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Beyond, and did you know thatthere was actually thoughts at one point that
there was actually a vulcan like areal planet. But that's another discussion.
I'm yeah, that's a whole otherthing. Yeah, it's a whole other
thing. All right. Thank youso much for your time. You can
get too Infinity and beyond. Iwould imagine about everywhere everywhere. Okay,
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and your podcast is Star talk O, Start Talk, Start Talk. Yeah,
that's exactly. Well, you getthe book everywhere except for space.
You have to get it on Earth. Oh okay, good clarification. Thank
you again for your time this morning. Oh my gosh, thanks for having
me. Here's what we're following inthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police
have made an arrest in the hitand run crashes involving three bicyclists in Huntington
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Beach. One of the cyclists waskilled on Sunday night. The guy arrested
is believed to be between fourteen andsixteen years old. The CSU system has
approved a plan to hike student tuitionsix percent a year starting next year,
and President Biden's SUN has sued aformer Trump staffer, claiming in his federal
court filing in LA that Garrett Zieglerillegally got into Hunter's laptop and stole information
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at six oh five. It's handledon the news. Burbank's mayors put himself
in an interesting situation, one thathas gotten eight million views on social media.
But guess what time it is?So what am I on? I'm
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on streaming shows, movies, TVshows. Of course, there are a
new TV shows right now because ofthe Stern and a recent survey show that
forty one percent of people ask forthe opinion of friends and family when they
decide what shows to watch. Andthere are so many shows out there.
Hopefully I can help you navigate throughit a little bit. I can be
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on books too, and I'm goingto recommend to Infinity and Beyond. This
book is fascinating. But for asfar as streaming shows, this week,
I want to tell you about ashow on Prime Video. It's called Lions,
stars Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman anda couple other faces you'll recognize.
It's based on a real group ofCIA operatives called Lioness's. So there's military
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operations going on in Syria. Itfocuses on the war on Terror. There
is an operative whose cover is blownand then they have to deal with that
situation. So it's all very spystuff, but it's always seld Ona recruits
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somebody to come in and help themout, and basically this woman comes to
join the operation to get close tosomebody in Syria who's like a terror or
related to a terrorist, and itfollows the story of how she gets in
with the woman, how she putsherself in danger. You know, she's
she's CIA, so if she getsin trouble while she's out in the field,
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she's kind of on her own.And they've got the people back at
the Pentagon and in the US tryingto protect them, and you know,
like what lengths will they go toto accomplish their mission. So, as
I mentioned, it's based on areal life CIA program and all the women
are Marines and they're called the Lionesses. So it's the full series is out
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or the full season is out.I think it was good. I don't
think it was great. I havea friend Debbie, who was like,
I can't stop watching it, andso she loved it. I thought it
was good, but not great,but I think it's worth Again, it's
a streaming, it's a streaming series, and the full series is now out.
I had to do that week byweek waiting for it to come out,
and that drives me crazy. Butit was really it was worth a
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watch. So it's called The Lioness. It's on Prime Video and give it
a look and let me know whatyou think. You can always send me
a note at Amy K King onInstagram. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four newsroom. Lawyers say the Merino
Valley School District will pay the largestbullying settlement in US history. It's better
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be a wake up call for schools. Lawyer David Ring says the twenty seven
million dollars settlement goes to the familyof Diego Stultz, who reported bullying assaults
several times and was promised the boyswould be suspended in twenty nineteen, but
three days later, two boys suckerpunched him. They knocked him into a
concrete pillar. He had massive braininjury and never regained consciousness and died nine
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San Jacinto accused of sexually assaulting threegirls and then escaping to Mexico. The
man is charged with sixty five felonyoffenses, most of which alleged forcible lewd
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acts on a child under fourteen.The man was captured eighteen months ago in
Rosarino, Mexico, following an investigationby the DA's office and a US Marshall's
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Vegas getaway. Right now, let'ssay good morning to ABC's crime and Terror
expert Brad Garrett. Brad, we'vetalked recently about how we are fascinated by
prison breaks like Daniello, Caldvalcante,and you were right. But now we've
got him back. So why didit take so long? So Amy,
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let's start at the beginning. Okay, he escaped and no one saw him.
You think if you go back toMay, a guy escaped, mister
Bolt escaped the same way, buthe was spotted in the prison yard.
They caught him in less than tenminutes. I don't know if there's nobody
in the tower. The short answeris nobody saw him leave. He went
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up the same wall. I thinkcrab walked up the same wall that both
did, worked his way through additionalrazor wire. I don't know how you
do that, but he did it, and it got over the wall and
kept going. It was over anhour before they knew he was caught.
Seem to start with that big disadvantagefor law enforcement. So if you combine,
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then it takes quite a while topull together all the tax teams,
dogs, helicopters, planes. Youknow, he's moving along Cavalcanti and he
has the advantage. It appears,based on an interview with his mother that
he had spent time in the Braziliansavannah and knew how to move around it,
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apparently at night. That's a bigplus because the ability to work in
or maneuver yourself in remote areas.Think Eric Rudolf several years ago. He
stayed in the woods for years beforewe caught him. The Olympic bomber.
Yes, okay, the Olympic bomber. And so I'm just sharing that with
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the ability if you were able tosecrete yourself without lighting and moving around,
it makes it tougher to catch you. And you add forest undergrowth, one
hundred degree temperature, I've had allthat equipment on before. It's not fun
when it's a hundred degrees and you'retrying to track through woods. So it's
a combination of all of those thingsthat slowed them down, and Cavalcanti was
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just able to basically elude them,sort of stay generally speaking, outside their
perimeter or close to outside their perimeter, and kept moving until really two things
happened. What catches fugitives are desperatenessand timely reporting when they do something.
He got desperate, apparently walked intoa garage, grabbed a rifle, got
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shot at, took the rifle,attempted to burglarize a house, and law
enforcement happened to be close when thathouse burglary occurred. They set up immediately.
They put a plane up. Theygot thermal imaging of a person they
thought was him. They started tomove closer, the weather went bad on
them, they had to take theplane away. They brought the plane back
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in the morning yesterday morning, gotthe same thermal imaging, and so they
were able, through surprise, Ithink, to encircle him, and once
I assume where they were there,he starts to crawl away with a rifle.
They turned the dog loose, andlet me tell you, that would
not be a pleasant experience. You'renot going to go for the rifle.
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You're gonna go for your leg,your head, your arm, wherever the
dog has grabbed you. And theywere able them to take him into custody,
So it doesn't surprise me. Ittook two weeks, but I felt
pretty confident, as they told youto laugh week, yeah, that it
would happen. Yeah, well,I'm glad that they got him and thank
thank god for Yoda that's the nameof the canine unit that and grabbed him.
So yeah, thanks, thanks Brat, And you were right when we
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talked last week. We were talkingabout how we get fascinated by this is
when we've got this information. Yesterdayit was just like, okay, what
happened. What happened? Well,what are they doing now? And where
did they get him? And youknow, like we just were craving information.
So it's just fascinating. And again, I like we talked about,
I think it's going to be aTV movie. It's got to be because
it's just fastiniled out. Yeah allright, Brad Garrett, thank you so
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much for your time this morning.I appreciate it. You're welcome to take
care of Ami. Take care Hey, Dancing with the Stars has unveiled its
new cast. I know. Iknow because I haven't watched the show for
like a few years, because Ikind of felt like it had turned into
the Dancing with the wannabees. SoI was really pleasantly surprised because I'm watching
the unveiling yesterday and there are somelegit stars on the show this season,
(35:57):
like open up Your macy Me,open Up your Class, Jason maz is
going to be Dancing Academy Award winnerMira Sorvino love her. There's actress Sochi
Gomez. She's newer to the scene. I didn't know her name, but
she was in Doctor A Doctor Strangein the Multiverse of Madness. Former Seahawks
player Adrian Peterson had not heard ofthis person until yesterday. YouTuber Lele pons
(36:23):
she had like eleven and a halfmillion followers on Vine before it shut down.
Jamie Lynn Spears, of course,Britney's sister then from the reality TVA
World. These are my sketchy ones. Model Tyson Beckford. Although very nice
to look at, the most recentBachelor at Shanty or Chanty Lawson, reality
star Harry Josie had never heard of. Also Adriana Maddox, who you would
(36:46):
know if you watch Vanderpump Rules,and then the Real Housewives of Beverly Hill's
husband Mauricio Umansky, and then acouple more actual I think Legit stars,
veepstar Matt Walsh. I met yourmother an American Pie star Alison Hannigan one
time at band camp. Yeah,love her, and then I love this
(37:07):
too. Greg Brady is going tobe on the show Barry Williams Dancing with
the Stars and not scripted, soI think maybe it's going to go on
this fall. We shall see.Thanks for joining us on the wake Up
Call. This is KFI and KOSTHDtwo Los Angeles, Orange County. We
lead local live from the KFI twentyfour hour newsroom. I'm Amy King.
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September fourth. We're half not fourthSeptember fourteenth, We're halfway through the
month already. I'm Amy King.Thanks for waking up with me this morning.
I hope you got your coffee,I got mine, got my oatmeal
ready to go. Hey, Igot to do something kind of special at
Disneyland yesterday. I'm gonna be tellingyou about that in just a few minutes.
And the show's going to go outof this world today, So you're
(00:58):
not gonna want to go anywhere becausewe've got the one and only Neil de
grass Tyson coming on the show.That's coming up at five twenty. Here's
what's ahead on the wake up Call. Police have made an arrest in the
hit and run crashes involving three bicyclistsin Huntington Beach. One of the bicyclists
was killed on Sunday night. Theguy arrested is believed to be between fourteen
(01:19):
and sixteen years old. The CSUsystem has approved a plan to hike student
tuition six percent a year starting nextyear. That's more than three hundred dollars
a year for undergrads. More thantwo hundred passengers aboard a cruise ship that
ran aground and Greenland are going tobe stuck there until at least tomorrow.
The Ocean Explorer ran aground in aremote part of Greenland Monday afternoons, so
(01:41):
they've been stuck there for a whileand haven't had any luck getting them unstuck.
At six oh five, it's handleon the news that killer in Pennsylvania
back in custody in large part becauseof a K nine named Yoda. Let's
get started with some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Dozens of people in Whittierhave had to leave their homes because of
a big gas leak. A womanwho lives in the area on Vicki drives
(02:04):
his crews have been doing construction inthe area. Some neighbors say they started
smelling gas yesterday afternoon. The motherof a baby found alone in a stroller
in LA's Larchmont village has been arrestedon suspicion of child endangerment. The toddler,
about two to three years old,was found at about three in the
morning on Tuesday. Police say themom's I D was in the stroller,
(02:28):
so they found out who she wasand arrested her when she showed up for
work. Former La County Sheriff Alexvien Auava says he's going after Janis Han's
seat as chair of the La CountyBoard of Supervisors. Vien Auava says Han
and other elected officials have let LAspiral out of control. They know that
career politicians are only going to ensurethat continuous downward spiral. It's not going
(02:52):
to change. They created the problemand they're trying to sell you, Oh
yeah, we'll change, We'll dobetter next time. No, they're not
being away. Announced his campaign inWhittier yesterday, defending his stance that LA
was safer when he was sheriff.The Studio City Neighborhood Council has collapsed over
the board appointing a registered sex offender. The man was voted into the council
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last month while two members were awarethat he may have been convicted of rape
and had been paroled in twenty twentyone. Board member Kim Clement says she
was conflicted on how to handle thesituation after being pressured by the city to
proceed. That was very difficult becauseonly two of us going into the meeting
new and yet it was so new. It was just a complete shock and
(03:34):
disbelief, Clement said. Yesterday,most of the board members resigned after confirming
the new council members served thirteen yearsin prison for sexual assault Chris Adler KFI
News. The White House says theHouse impeachment inquiry targeting President Biden is a
move to prevent unhappy Republicans from removingKevin McCarthy as speaker. Yeah, Matt
Gates as well threatened to ouse himas speaker if he didn't do it.
(04:00):
White House Press Secretary Karin Jeanpierre criticizedMcCarthy for not putting the impeachment inquiry up
for a vote in the House.She says some Republicans admit there's no evidence
President Biden profited from his son's businessdealings. Caesar's Entertainment in Las Vegas is
reportedly paid about a half of athirty million dollar ransom. Following a cyber
attack the Wall Street journalists, hackerspretended to be the IT department to have
(04:25):
a password changed. MGM Resorts alsoreported a cybersecurity issue Sunday that caused the
company to shut down slot machines,sports betting, kiosks, digital keys for
hotel rooms, online reservations, andcredit card transactions. Well, that doesn't
sound like any fun in Las Vegasat all. Several toys are vying for
a spot in the National Toy Hallof Fame. The Strong National Museum of
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Play in Rochester, New York,has announced this year's finalists for induction.
The list includes Bingo, Cabbage PatchKids, Battleship You Sunk My Battleship,
Baseball Cards, Nerve Toy Slime,Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles, and Ken.
People can vote online for their favoritetoys until September twentieth. The winning
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toys will be announced in November.It's five or six on your wake up
call. Let's get right into itand say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy.
Stephen Hunter Biden is suing over hislaptop. Tell us about this.
Yeah. The lawsuit is filed againsthim and named Garrett Ziegler and ten unnamed
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co defendants. Filed in the CentralDistrict California, where you are. And
the lawsuit alledges that Garrett Ziegler andhis co defendants violated state and federal computer
privacy laws by hacking into not justthe laptop itself, but in particular the
encrypted iPhone backup that was stored onthe laptop, and there are emails and
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photographs that have since become public isGarrett Ziegler has been putting these materials on
his website for the last couple ofyears, and the lawsuit comes this week.
It's the same week the House Republicansare moving forward with what they're calling
an impeachment inquiry into the president.And the suggestion, of course, that
they're making is that the former presidentin some way benefited from his son's business
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dealings in an untoward way, somethingthat they've offered no specific evidence of,
other than in situations and intimations basedon, in part some of the things
that were on the laptop. SoHunter Biden, it all becomes a bit
of a circle here. Hunter Bidenis suing in civil court. He wants
a civil trial, he wants ajury to hear the case and to award
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him damages. Can't they can theystop that dead in its tracks by saying
that Hunter dropped off that computer andsigned the piece of paper saying, hey,
if I don't come pick it up, I surrendered the computer. It's
interesting because the lawsuit does not emphaticallysay that the laptop was Hunters. It
was something that you know, theysay what they do. Yeah, it's
very strange. But what they aresaying is encrypted iPhone backup was Hunters.
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Right. So that's kind of thelane pin in it because the iPhone wasn't
the computer. It's a separate thing, but that was his and he didn't
turn that in. Well, it'sthe data really and the fact that an
action had to be taken to hackthat data. They say that that's a
violation of California and federal computer privacylaws. That I mean, I listen,
(07:23):
I'm not an experts, says,you know, but that is the
argument that they're making. One argumentthat the defendant, Garret Ziegler's making is
that he's an author, and sohe's essentially you read between the lines and
it makes some sort of a FirstAmendment defense that he had the right to
publish these things, that it wasin the public interest, that there's some
(07:45):
sort of news gathering protection. Veryinteresting to see how it all plays out.
But the allegation is that Garrett Zieglerboasted about hacking into this encrypted file,
which is not easy to do.Oh, so he's said, hey,
I hacked into this, but itwas on the computer that was surrendered,
but it was tied to an iPhonethat wasn't surrendered. Maybe well,
(08:09):
I suppose, But the point isthat it was the dad on the laptop,
but that the ideas it was itwas itself, it was itself protected
or encrypted, and then they wentin and hacked that. So one of
the things we should mention is thatGarret Ziegler formerly served in the Trump White
House. He was an aide toPeter Navarro and Navarro was a trade advisor
and was said to be responsible forhelping to bring Sydney Powell into the Oval
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office in that now infamous December meetingwhere Sydney Powell started spouting things that even
the former president described as crazy aboutelection interference and fraud. And so Sydney
Powell has not been sued multiple timesand finds herself as one of the nineteen
co defendants in the Georgia election interferencecase. Okay, and I know you
gotta run. But Hunter Biden wantsa jury trial. Isn't he like a
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that's isn't he kind of a sketchyperson in everybody's eyes? At this point,
that'll be up to a jury toweigh, a jury of Southern California's
by the way, look, thisis the argument would be that the defendant
violated particular laws, and that willbe the basis for the case to be
weighed. But at the same point, you know, we'll see what the
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defense brings up. Never a dullmoment. And I'm so glad you're here
to share all this with us,Stephen Port, and I thank you.
Yeah, let's get back to someof the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour news room. Ateenager has been arrested for a fatal hit
and run crash that was part ofa spree of side swipe attacks on bicyclists
in Huntington Beach. The suspect,it's a mill juvenile between the age of
(09:46):
fourteen and seventeen. Huntington Beach policeis Jessica Kutilla, says. Investigators found
the black four door Sedan believed tobe involved, which led to the arrest.
Juvenile was poked in the Orange Countyjuvenilele on several counts, including homicide.
Investigators say call started coming in Sundaynight of three attacks that appeared to
intentionally target bicyclists, all the senseit has happened within the hour in a
(10:09):
short distance from each other in OrangeCounty. Corbin Carson k if I News.
A man from la is facing aminimum of ten years in prison for
illegally selling guns out of his Hookahlounge downtown Povac. De Gaussian admitted to
selling eleven guns out of his shop, which included ghost guns. US attorney's
Kiered macavoy says investigators executed a searchworn at the hookah shop in twenty to
(10:31):
twenty one. During this search,they seized five point eight ounces of methamphetamine,
a digital scale, a two hundredand fifteen rounds of AMMO, and
many firearms he was willing to sell. One of them was a sought off
shotgun. Degaussian also admitted to sellingmetha is part of his plea yesterday.
He's set to be sentenced in January. Blake Trolley k if I News.
(10:56):
Bill Maher says his HBO show realtime is returning this fall without Riders.
Mar says he loves his writers andis one of them, but he's not
prepared to lose an entire year andsee so many below the line people suffer
so much. He added yesterday's segmentslike his monologue, desk piece, new
Rules or editorial won't happen. Insolidarity with the ongoing WGA and SAG strike,
(11:20):
He says the show without Riders willnot be as good, but the
heart of the show will continue.Bodies have been washing ashore in Libya days
after flooding killed at least six thousandpeople. The mayor of Derma, which
was especially hard hit, Sunday,says the death toll is still climbing.
ABC's Tom Sufi Burridge says nine thousandpeople are missing in the coastal city of
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Dernah. Rescue is navigating through densemud and tangle debris retrieving bodies. Drna
was destroyed when two dams burst becauseof a storm that caused waves twenty three
feet high to rush through the townand into the sea. Officials in a
neighboring coastal town say at dam therecould also collapse and cause similar devastation and
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Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney says he'snot running for reelection. In twenty twenty
four, he said he would bein his mid eighties at the end of
a second six year Senate term.Romney was once governor of Massachusetts and ran
for president in twenty twelve. He'sbeen criticized by some in his own party
for voting to convict President Trump atboth of his Senate impeachment trials. Got
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to do something at Disneyland that Ihaven't done before. I had a glass
of wine with my dinner. SoDisneyland just recently started selling beer, wine
and specialty cocktails at more restaurants.So for decades, Disneyland was dry.
And that's fine, that's great.And in fact, while Disney apparently was
(12:45):
totally against having alcohol in the park, he told The Saturday Evening Post back
in nineteen fifty six, no liquor, no beer, nothing, because that
brings in a rowdy element that bringspeople we don't want and I feel they
don't need it. Well, apparentlythe people who are running Disney have changed
their tune a little bit. OgusCantina opened up in Galaxy's Edge, which
(13:05):
is star wars Land a couple ofyears ago, right after the pandemic,
and they started offering they started offeringspecialty cocktails, and then the Blue by
You, which is in New OrleansSquare, also had like a hurricane that
you could get. But that wasthe only places aside from Club thirty through
which ninety nine percent of us canever get into. But just yesterday or
(13:26):
actually not yesterday, but on Tuesdaythey started selling cocktails in Carnation Cafe,
river Belt Terrace and Cafe Orleans.So of course, since it's something new
at Disneyland, we had to go. And I took Nick Polyochini with me,
or he took me with him,one of the two, and we
went and had a lovely dinner andI had a glass of wine and Brian
had a hurricane Pims hurricane and itwas kind of cool. I mean,
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it's a little bit weird because youfeel like you're doing something bad, like
sneaking alcohol into Disneyland or something.But it was good and so it's available.
It's not for walk around, it'sjust when you sit down, but
a new feature for you to enjoyat Disneyland next time you go to visit.
And for me that's going to betomorrow, Okay. Right now,
I am absolutely thrilled to say goodmorning to astrophysicist and best selling author and
(14:13):
well all around smart guy Neil deGrasseTyson. Good morning, Neil, good
morning, good morning. Thank youso much for coming on early this morning
with us. So Neil's on withus because he has a new book out
about the Cosmos and beyond. It'sabout real science versus basically what we see
in TV and movies. And beforewe jump in, Neil, I want
(14:35):
to just say that when I hearyou talk, I realized how incredibly smart
you are and how much you know. But you always talk to us in
a way that my brain can understand. And I appreciate that because you know,
you talk to really smart people sometimesand they talk in these technical terms
you don't get, and you havea way of breaking through and talking to
me. So I appreciate the diflecturing and communicating. I think that's that's
(15:03):
that's all it is. So Ican face the chalkboard and have you tried
to meet me ninety percent of theway of where I am, Well,
I can face you and meet youninety percent other way towards you and that's
that's that's my goal and if Iachieve that, then that's a good day
for me as an educator. Well, I think you have. So you
have this new book called Infinity toInfinity and Beyond and again in the meeting
(15:26):
me on my side, it's illustrated, so there's there are some fistic pictures
in here. So I read thepictures last night, and okay, you
have some of stuff from like theHubble Space telescope, or not from Hubble,
from the James Webbs telescope. Thankweb All the latest stuff is in
(15:46):
there. So the book has attemptsto take the reader on a journey of
mind and spirit from the time whenwe're just standing on Earth looking up,
wondering how would you ever get tothe move just I could imagine five hundred
years ago looking up? Do youjust ascend? Does air continue from Earth
already to the moon if you havea balloon, But balloons were kind of
(16:08):
a latter day thing, right,so you have to learn that hot air
rises and so it tracks. Thanks. So for example, the first aero
knots was a sheep, a duckand a rooster. They were sent up
in a balloon like what was that? And they just how hard did they
get? Well? So, yeah, so it's not safe if you keep
(16:30):
going too high up. And Ifeel sorry for the sheep because had that
experiment failed, the duck and therooster still had a chance of surviving coming
down back to earth. But youyou get a sense of are certain dreams
you have impossible? They're reel inyour head, but they can't happen until
more science and technology and engineering arrived. And so we also follow the fits
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and starts and the mistakes, andwhen we can, we analogize if there's
scenery that we pass along the way. And these are movies that have attempted
to portray some aspect of the sciencethat we talk about, and then we'll
tell you if the movie got itright or wrong. And because movies formed
part of the pop culture dimension ofthe communicating there's science, humor, empop
(17:15):
culture, which is the three DNAstrands of my podcast which is called start
Talk. And this is a bookin the in the Start Talk tradition.
Well, I love that you weretalking about that kind of marriage between art
and science because I see a lotof movies and I go or you see
some science that's coming out and yougo, god, I saw that in
a movie like twenty years ago.How did they know? So, like,
(17:37):
what's a good example. I knowthat you you said something about gravity
and Sandra Bullock, oh yeah,so just you know when we talk about
how do you escape gravity? Youknow, I referenced the movie, the
movie Gravity, right, which hasSandra Bullock and handsome man leading man.
Let's say good George Clooney, thankyou and so so I first, I
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think the movie should have been calledzero Gravity because the whole movie is in
zero gravity. And they did somevery good things, all right. You
know, when you burn a candle, a candle just keeps burning. You
know why the hot air rises andit brings in new oxygen. They showed
correctly in that movie a flame thatextinguished itself because it beats up the oxygen.
(18:21):
The warm air doesn't know to rise, and then the absence of oxygen
extinguishes the flame. They got somuch right, but I had to call
him out. How is it thatSandra bullets bangs always knew which way down
was? Their hair wasn't floating inthe zero G that their hair knew?
Okay, so, but it's funto point this out because we all have.
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Many people have seen the movie orother movies. Talk about Back to
the Future, talk about the movieThe Martian, talk about the Hulk.
When we talk about the density ofthings and air, it's odd that the
Hulk could start out just as alittle person and it become a big person.
Did he just sort of swallow up? And if you did, he
would have the density of a beachball, and Augusta Wynn would just blow
(19:07):
him around and we just pop him. He still had but right exacts at
of that. So so if youif, if, if the Hulk actually
has masks, when did you getthe extra masks from? You had to
get it from the energy in theenvironment. He equals mc squared, and
then he would suck all the energyout of his sector of the world,
(19:30):
and then there's no no one tofight and there's no battles. But the
biggest question is how can his shortsstill fit him when he gets big.
I don't never understood that. I'vealways wondered that. Yeah, okay,
so and I was, I was, I was looking through the book and
I will tell you I stayed uptoo late last night because I was trying
to cram this in because unfortunately Ididn't get it in time to read cover
to cover. But I got somequestions for you, and one of the
(19:52):
big ones that I've always wondered,and you were the perfect person to ask.
This is when we go up intospace. Because you have a whole
sex and on rockets and leaving theatmosphere and that kind of stuff. How
come we can't just go on aplane and just go up to elevation and
break out of the atmosphere. Whydo we have to go on a rocket
straight up like that? Oh?Yeah, yeah, Two very important reasons.
(20:14):
First, airplanes work because they're combiningthe oxygen of the air with the
fuel in their fuel tanks to createsome form of combustion, right, So
they're they're air breathing, right,They need the air to run their engines.
When you get to very high inthe atmosphere, the air gets thinner
(20:34):
and thinner, there's less and lessoxygen. You need a whole different kind
of fuel system in order to getaround. So another way, you have
to bring your own oxygen oxidizers.They're called Okay, so if we were
flying in a plane, So ifyou were in a plane and you just
kept going higher and higher. Eventuallyit wouldn't work anymore because you don't have
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the oxygen. So not only ifyou don't have the oxygen, the air
stays aloft because of the buoyancy.That the buoyancy because of the there's air
pressing up underneath the wings that keepsit flying. Okay. So that's the
weird thing. Like in Apollo eleventhat the lundar module is called the eagle,
(21:21):
right, and it shows this eaglelanding. Well, an eagle on
the Moon would fall like a brickbecause the eagle has wings that need air,
right, So you need the airto hold you up, and you
need the oxygen in the air toburn your engines, and you have neither
of that in the very highest altitudes, so you need what you call a
(21:41):
rocket. And there it is.Okay, all right, here's another one
because you have a section on Marsand terraforming Mars and you have these fabulous
photos and so it made me thinkof again a movie Total Recall where they're
on Mars and they're trying to keepthe people from getting the oxygen. So
could Mars become habitable with the releaseof water if they found it? Yeah,
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So we think there's water. That'sa great question. We think there
is water on Mars. Well,we have evidence that it was once liquid
running water on the Martian surface.If you look at it, everything's dry,
but they're me hindering river beds,liver Delta's blood plains, all the
all the telltale evidence that Mars wasonce a liquid planet and it's all gone
(22:29):
today. So we should try tofigure out how it lost all of those
water in case there's some knob we'returning here on Earth that could give us
the same fate. We think maybeit went down into permafrost. So,
and the Martian atmosphere is very verythin, one percent that of Earth.
So we had to reference the movieThe Martian, where does a dust storm
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gets rocking their spaceship and they giveup Mark Wotney for dead because they have
to take off because they don't.They all die. But what they don't
tell you is the adversary is sothin that one hundred mile an hour winds
would be like a gentle grief.It would not have rocked, It would
not have rocked the ship. Sowe were off there. Yeah, yeah,
(23:14):
yeah, I told it him.He said, well, yeah,
and I'll give him a haul passon that because you've got so much other
science. Correct. So yeah,if you want to TeleForm it, you
have to put microbes in the soilsthat can naturally produce some oxygen, so
you have to work that. Butif you TeleForm Mars, you can fly
there, walk off your space shipwithout a space suit, and then we'd
(23:36):
have two planets to live on.That could be cool. Wouldn't that be
cool? Okay? Then my lastquestion, because and I could ask you
one hundreds of them, but doyou also have this really cool picture.
It's a conceptual picture of a shipthat's outfitted with everything you would need to
take a deep trek into space.So is long term space travel actually something
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that we could eventually do? Isit realistic? Okay? If the image
you're referring to as the one I'mthinking of, that's a generational ship because
to get to the nearest star onour fastest rockets would take fifty thousand years,
so you'll be dead. So whatyou need to do in a generational
ship is get a bunch of veryfertile people, put them on, they
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make babies, they get old anddie. The babies get old and everybody's
making babies for a thousand generations andthen you arrive at your destination. But
I'd rather wait around for like warpdrops. I know right, he's doing
me, Okay, so we'll waituntil start predestined. Yeah, I don't
want to predestine the next generation tofollow my dreams. When in a free
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society, they should be able tochoose not to go on a generational ship.
Okay. And wouldn't you be madif you went on a generational ship
and then they discovered warp speed.So you're out in the middle of space
somewhere and then a ship goes andpasses you. Oh yeah, I would
be so pissed off exactly. Ohmy gosh. It's a part of what
it is to make the future real. Like you were saying, you see
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things in a sci fia movie,it gives your ideas that to try to
reach forty reach for the stars innew and innovative ways. And that's what
the entire book is about, andit from what I've read of it,
Neil, it is so fascinating andI wish we had like tons more time
to talk to you. Neil deGrasseTyson, the author of Too Infinity and
(25:25):
Beyond, and did you know thatthere was actually thoughts at one point that
there was actually a vulcan like areal planet. But that's another discussion.
I'm yeah, that's a whole otherthing. Yeah, it's a whole other
thing. All right. Thank youso much for your time. You can
get too Infinity and beyond. Iwould imagine about everywhere everywhere. Okay,
(25:45):
and your podcast is Star talk O, Start Talk, Start Talk. Yeah,
that's exactly. Well, you getthe book everywhere except for space.
You have to get it on Earth. Oh okay, good clarification. Thank
you again for your time this morning. Oh my gosh, thanks for having
me. Here's what we're following inthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police
have made an arrest in the hitand run crashes involving three bicyclists in Huntington
(26:07):
Beach. One of the cyclists waskilled on Sunday night. The guy arrested
is believed to be between fourteen andsixteen years old. The CSU system has
approved a plan to hike student tuitionsix percent a year starting next year,
and President Biden's SUN has sued aformer Trump staffer, claiming in his federal
court filing in LA that Garrett Zieglerillegally got into Hunter's laptop and stole information
(26:30):
at six oh five. It's handledon the news. Burbank's mayors put himself
in an interesting situation, one thathas gotten eight million views on social media.
But guess what time it is?So what am I on? I'm
(26:53):
on streaming shows, movies, TVshows. Of course, there are a
new TV shows right now because ofthe Stern and a recent survey show that
forty one percent of people ask forthe opinion of friends and family when they
decide what shows to watch. Andthere are so many shows out there.
Hopefully I can help you navigate throughit a little bit. I can be
(27:14):
on books too, and I'm goingto recommend to Infinity and Beyond. This
book is fascinating. But for asfar as streaming shows, this week,
I want to tell you about ashow on Prime Video. It's called Lions,
stars Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman anda couple other faces you'll recognize.
It's based on a real group ofCIA operatives called Lioness's. So there's military
(27:41):
operations going on in Syria. Itfocuses on the war on Terror. There
is an operative whose cover is blownand then they have to deal with that
situation. So it's all very spystuff, but it's always seld Ona recruits
(28:02):
somebody to come in and help themout, and basically this woman comes to
join the operation to get close tosomebody in Syria who's like a terror or
related to a terrorist, and itfollows the story of how she gets in
with the woman, how she putsherself in danger. You know, she's
she's CIA, so if she getsin trouble while she's out in the field,
(28:26):
she's kind of on her own.And they've got the people back at
the Pentagon and in the US tryingto protect them, and you know,
like what lengths will they go toto accomplish their mission. So, as
I mentioned, it's based on areal life CIA program and all the women
are Marines and they're called the Lionesses. So it's the full series is out
(28:48):
or the full season is out.I think it was good. I don't
think it was great. I havea friend Debbie, who was like,
I can't stop watching it, andso she loved it. I thought it
was good, but not great,but I think it's worth Again, it's
a streaming, it's a streaming series, and the full series is now out.
I had to do that week byweek waiting for it to come out,
and that drives me crazy. Butit was really it was worth a
(29:11):
watch. So it's called The Lioness. It's on Prime Video and give it
a look and let me know whatyou think. You can always send me
a note at Amy K King onInstagram. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four newsroom. Lawyers say the Merino
Valley School District will pay the largestbullying settlement in US history. It's better
(29:32):
be a wake up call for schools. Lawyer David Ring says the twenty seven
million dollars settlement goes to the familyof Diego Stultz, who reported bullying assaults
several times and was promised the boyswould be suspended in twenty nineteen, but
three days later, two boys suckerpunched him. They knocked him into a
concrete pillar. He had massive braininjury and never regained consciousness and died nine
(29:55):
days later. Ring says the hopeis more schools will strengthen and enforce bullying
policy. Marino Valley School District declinedto comment. Corbin Carson. Kf I
News tril has been set for Januaryfor a seventy six year old man in
San Jacinto accused of sexually assaulting threegirls and then escaping to Mexico. The
man is charged with sixty five felonyoffenses, most of which alleged forcible lewd
(30:17):
acts on a child under fourteen.The man was captured eighteen months ago in
Rosarino, Mexico, following an investigationby the DA's office and a US Marshall's
Fugitive Task Force. He's being heldon a million dollars bail. Senate majority
leader Chuck Schumer has met with prominenttechnology executives to look for guidance on how
Congress should legislate legislate AI. Yesterday'sclosed door forum on Capitol Hill included some
(30:44):
of the industry's biggest names, includingMeta's Mark Zuckerberg X and Tesla owner Elon
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Vegas getaway. Right now, let'ssay good morning to ABC's crime and Terror
expert Brad Garrett. Brad, we'vetalked recently about how we are fascinated by
prison breaks like Daniello, Caldvalcante,and you were right. But now we've
got him back. So why didit take so long? So Amy,
(31:53):
let's start at the beginning. Okay, he escaped and no one saw him.
You think if you go back toMay, a guy escaped, mister
Bolt escaped the same way, buthe was spotted in the prison yard.
They caught him in less than tenminutes. I don't know if there's nobody
in the tower. The short answeris nobody saw him leave. He went
(32:15):
up the same wall. I thinkcrab walked up the same wall that both
did, worked his way through additionalrazor wire. I don't know how you
do that, but he did it, and it got over the wall and
kept going. It was over anhour before they knew he was caught.
Seem to start with that big disadvantagefor law enforcement. So if you combine,
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then it takes quite a while topull together all the tax teams,
dogs, helicopters, planes. Youknow, he's moving along Cavalcanti and he
has the advantage. It appears,based on an interview with his mother that
he had spent time in the Braziliansavannah and knew how to move around it,
(32:58):
apparently at night. That's a bigplus because the ability to work in
or maneuver yourself in remote areas.Think Eric Rudolf several years ago. He
stayed in the woods for years beforewe caught him. The Olympic bomber.
Yes, okay, the Olympic bomber. And so I'm just sharing that with
(33:19):
the ability if you were able tosecrete yourself without lighting and moving around,
it makes it tougher to catch you. And you add forest undergrowth, one
hundred degree temperature, I've had allthat equipment on before. It's not fun
when it's a hundred degrees and you'retrying to track through woods. So it's
a combination of all of those thingsthat slowed them down, and Cavalcanti was
(33:44):
just able to basically elude them,sort of stay generally speaking, outside their
perimeter or close to outside their perimeter, and kept moving until really two things
happened. What catches fugitives are desperatenessand timely reporting when they do something.
He got desperate, apparently walked intoa garage, grabbed a rifle, got
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shot at, took the rifle,attempted to burglarize a house, and law
enforcement happened to be close when thathouse burglary occurred. They set up immediately.
They put a plane up. Theygot thermal imaging of a person they
thought was him. They started tomove closer, the weather went bad on
them, they had to take theplane away. They brought the plane back
(34:27):
in the morning yesterday morning, gotthe same thermal imaging, and so they
were able, through surprise, Ithink, to encircle him, and once
I assume where they were there,he starts to crawl away with a rifle.
They turned the dog loose, andlet me tell you, that would
not be a pleasant experience. You'renot going to go for the rifle.
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You're gonna go for your leg,your head, your arm, wherever the
dog has grabbed you. And theywere able them to take him into custody,
So it doesn't surprise me. Ittook two weeks, but I felt
pretty confident, as they told youto laugh week, yeah, that it
would happen. Yeah, well,I'm glad that they got him and thank
thank god for Yoda that's the nameof the canine unit that and grabbed him.
So yeah, thanks, thanks Brat, And you were right when we
(35:10):
talked last week. We were talkingabout how we get fascinated by this is
when we've got this information. Yesterdayit was just like, okay, what
happened. What happened? Well,what are they doing now? And where
did they get him? And youknow, like we just were craving information.
So it's just fascinating. And again, I like we talked about,
I think it's going to be aTV movie. It's got to be because
it's just fastiniled out. Yeah allright, Brad Garrett, thank you so
(35:31):
much for your time this morning.I appreciate it. You're welcome to take
care of Ami. Take care Hey, Dancing with the Stars has unveiled its
new cast. I know. Iknow because I haven't watched the show for
like a few years, because Ikind of felt like it had turned into
the Dancing with the wannabees. SoI was really pleasantly surprised because I'm watching
the unveiling yesterday and there are somelegit stars on the show this season,
(35:57):
like open up Your macy Me,open Up your Class, Jason maz is
going to be Dancing Academy Award winnerMira Sorvino love her. There's actress Sochi
Gomez. She's newer to the scene. I didn't know her name, but
she was in Doctor A Doctor Strangein the Multiverse of Madness. Former Seahawks
player Adrian Peterson had not heard ofthis person until yesterday. YouTuber Lele pons
(36:23):
she had like eleven and a halfmillion followers on Vine before it shut down.
Jamie Lynn Spears, of course,Britney's sister then from the reality TVA
World. These are my sketchy ones. Model Tyson Beckford. Although very nice
to look at, the most recentBachelor at Shanty or Chanty Lawson, reality
star Harry Josie had never heard of. Also Adriana Maddox, who you would
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know if you watch Vanderpump Rules,and then the Real Housewives of Beverly Hill's
husband Mauricio Umansky, and then acouple more actual I think Legit stars,
veepstar Matt Walsh. I met yourmother an American Pie star Alison Hannigan one
time at band camp. Yeah,love her, and then I love this
(37:07):
too. Greg Brady is going tobe on the show Barry Williams Dancing with
the Stars and not scripted, soI think maybe it's going to go on
this fall. We shall see.Thanks for joining us on the wake Up
Call. This is KFI and KOSTHDtwo Los Angeles, Orange County. We
lead local live from the KFI twentyfour hour newsroom. I'm Amy King.
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