November 6, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Jim Ryan opens the show talking about FAA cutting thousands of flights starting Friday due to the government shutdown. ABC News reporter Steven Portnoy speaks on the Supreme Court and Trump administration’s arguments regarding tariffs. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pelegrini discussing how the markets are looking today. The show closes with Amy talking with President of the Brad Kaminsky Foundation Lisa Millar about the upcoming 18th annual Heroes of Hope Race for brain tumor research.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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And his name is Amy King. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Thursday, November sixth Good morning, I'm Immy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeart radio app. Here's what's
ahead on your wake up call. LAX is on the
list of forty airports that will see a ten percent
reduction in traffic due to staffing shortages caused by the
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ongoing government shutdown. The Ontario and San Diego airports also
on the list. The flight reductions are expected to go
into effect as soon as tomorrow. We're going to find
out how far reaching those reductions will be with ABC's
Jim Ryan. He's joining us in just a couple of minutes.
The California Republican parties filed a federal lawsuit to block
Proposition fifty from going into effect. The measure to allow
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Democrats to redraw congressional district lines to gain five more
seats in the House passed by a sixty four to
thirty six percent margin Tuesday. The lawsuit claims the new
maps are unconstitutional because Democrats used voters race as a
factor in drawing the lines. Instagram's been issued a cease
and desist and was ordered to stop using PG thirteen
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to describe its new teen accounts. The Motion Picture Association
says it can't be aligned with the rating system on
Instagram because it doesn't use the same processes and the
Instagram setting could lead to the public questioning the integrity
of its rating system. Big day for the Supreme Court,
which has heard arguments about whether or not President Trump's
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tariffs are legal. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's gonna tell us about
what was argued, what the judge's reactions were, and what
happens if they ruled that Trump does not have the
authority to impose tariffs. That's coming up at five twenty.
Hey taking a run or a walk at Dockweiler State Beach.
Good for your brain. We're going to tell you all
about that when we talk to the organizer of the
(02:50):
Heroes of Hope Race. That's coming up. Also, how can
you relive the excitement of the game that made the
Dodgers back to back World Series champions. We'll tell you
that's coming up. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The longest federal government shutdown in history now means millions
of people need help to get food in La Rowan
(03:13):
van sleeve from Hope the Mission tells KTLA that poverty
could get worse because of the shutdown.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
With SNAP Benefits off, it's creating a situation we could
see young people and kids here on skid row and
more and more people in our communities and neighborhoods who
are finding themselves without food and on the streets.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
He says. Food lines have grown dramatically in just a week.
Snap Benefits ended on Saturday, which means forty two million
Americans no longer have a way to buy groceries. LA
Fire has been served with a federal grand jury subpoena
to hand over text messages from firefighters about smoldering hotspots
in the area where the Lackman fire started on New
Year's Day. The La Times reports the US Attorney's Office
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once all communications related to reports of fire, smoke or
hotspots from New Year's Eve until January seven. That's when
the Palisades Fire started at the same place where the
Lackman fire burned. It follows reports of a battalion chief
ordering crews to leave the burn area the day after
the Lackman fire, even though they said the ground was
still smoldering. Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County has
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been closed until further notice because of mountain lions.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Oh See Parks officials say the closure is out of
an abundance of caution, while it's not clear exactly what
prompted the closure, A video shared on social media Monday
shows a mountain lion stalking a couple of mountain bikers
as they yell at the large cat to go away.
The bikers did make it out of the park safely.
Whiting Ranch is the same area where mountain lion killed
a mountain biker in two thousand and four. I think
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Gonzalez k Ifi News, let's.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Take a first look at your morning commute, and unfortunately
it's a bad start. We've got a deadly crash in
mid city La. Wait a second, how come we can't
hear you? I should probably move this in front of
my face. Okay, you guys, Okay, here's behind the scenes.
I had the microphone turned up and on for Will
and he started talking, but he didn't put the microphone
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in front of his face. It was like two feet away. Okay, okay,
wake up, Bill, let's go.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
We have a couple of lane.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
We have a couple of lanes blocked on the eastbound
side of the ten at Arlington, at that off ramp there,
eastbound side of the ten, only two lanes are open,
the two left lanes as they do an investigation there.
So there are some minor delays, not really that heavy.
You will see a quick slow down there at this point.
I would stick with the freeway. You'll get through it
pretty quickly. And then continuing east on the ten as
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you head to City Terrace. There, we've got a crash
that just cleared out of lanes, so you might find
a few leftover break lights.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
But that's about it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And one more thing for you.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Four or five southbound at Westminster boulevard crash clearing there
as you make your way into Orange County. For the
most part, everything else is nice and calm at this hour.
With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports, I will Cole Schreiber,
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Will.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Will's going to keep you up to date all morning
long so you can get to where you need to go.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
if you're traveling anytime soon, you better pack your proverbial patients.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
Well, yes, if you're trying to get from point A
to point B and you're not on the five, then yeah,
it's going to be a challenge. The FAA is throttling
back the air traffic capacity by four percent starting today
and then ten percent tomorrow. Now, considering that the FAA
handles about forty four thousand flights a day, that's commercial
airline flights, that's cargo flights, some private aircraft. That would
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be about four thousand, four hundred tomorrow that'll be off
the schedule. That's going to be a real challenge. This all,
of course, amy goes back to the government shutdown. Air
traffic controllers aren't getting paid. Many are calling in sick
in order to make money doing something, you know, driving
door dash or or something else, just to put food
on the table.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Okay, And so forty four hundred flights and they're just
canceling them.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
They totally the airlines. The airlines are the ones who
are responsible for it. They have to shift their schedules
around to make this work. And it's not as though
the heads of the airlines were sat down in room
with the FAA a week or so ago and told
this was happening. Now they got word yesterday, So they're
scrambling to shift their schedules, move flights into and out
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of different slots to make sure that this is met.
But it's going to be a really challenging time. And
of course the longer the shutdown goes, the more likely
this is to be extended and the air traffic control
system will be throttled even further.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, and you said four percent today and then ten
percent tomorrow. Do we know if that number is going
to be fluid? As like if they say, oh, we
canceled forty four hundred flights, everything seems to be going,
we can increase traffic a bit, or have they said
at all?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
I think you'll be fluid insofar as okay. Let's say
LA is doing okay, so they keep lax and they
keep the other schedules as they are. Middle of the
country are having trouble. We're seeing backups, And also depends
upon where some of the stickouts are going on the most.
And it's not just air traffic controllers but also TSA right,
so the blue shirt agents, they're not getting paid, but
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they're expected to be at work anyway, and so this
is kind of a whole system wide problem anymore. I
mean long and short, Amy, if you're flying somewhere, you
better keep your notifications turned on and get those messages
from your carrier.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, And I had seen a couple of statements from
like United in America and they said that they're going
to at least Americans said that they would be proactively
reaching out to customers too, because I'm sure there's going
to be a ton of confusion. But like you said,
keep those updates on and then I think it's got
to be frustrating too for probably all parties involved, because
it's kind of a moving target. Like you said, it
depends on where the air traffic controllers and TSA people
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are calling out sick because and it's not you know,
a static number every day at each airport.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
No, and there will be this ripple effect as well.
And we see it every time there is a weather
delay or some weather event moves into one part of
the country, you know, Miami for example, and they have
to close down Miami for a few hours or a
day or so. That starts to affect the flights into
and out of Charlotte and into and out of DFW.
We I mean, it's all very much interconnected, so when
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one goes down, the others start to feel it. Here
we have the whole system kind of being affected by this, Okay, And.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Then we know that it's forty airports. We have seen
the list at lax is on it, Ontario is on it,
San Diego's on it. And then what are some of
the other airports because they said forty major volumes on
the Oakland's on it.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Yeah, right, California I think maybe affected more than any
other by in terms of sheer number of airports. But
I mean if it's a big airport and you've heard
of it, then it's probably included there. Seattle, Chicago, both
airports at Chicago DFW love Field. You know, across Texas
worse see a big effect too. So yeah, just yeah,
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as you say, pack your patients.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, and you know an airport that was not on
that list was my little hometown airport, Medford, Oregon. I looked,
oh nice, So hopefully I can still.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
If you're flying to Portland or you're flying to Seattle.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, and then with Thanksgiving a couple of weeks away,
any rumblings at lawmakers might be able to resolve anything
before the holiday.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
Well that's kind of what folks are thinking is maybe
the FAA is trying to put a little pressure on
Congress to get something done on this. But I mean,
at the same time, let's hope not. Because the fa
is responsible for safety, it's not responsible for politics.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Right.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
We saw what happened when there were staffing issues at
Washington Reagan and the collision of a military helicopter and
a commercial jet.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks for the update. All right,
all right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
number of people killed in the ups cargo plane crash
in Louisville has gone up to twelve. ABC's Mola Lange
says NTSB investigators are.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
All scen ANDTSB investigators plan to be there for at
least a week, probably more. People in the surrounding areas
are being asked to notify police if they find any
of the wreckage.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The three crew members on board the plane that was
headed to Honolulu were killed, along with nine on the ground.
The crash damage to petroleum recycling plant and an auto
parts warehouse. President Trump's still pressing Republicans to change the
rules of the Senate and ditch the filibuster in order
to bypass Democrats and pass a spending bill to end
the federal government's shutdown. But ABC's Nicole Antonio says Senate
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Republicans are saying they don't have the votes.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
Democrats, boosted by their wins on election night, say it's
time for Republicans to negotiate health insurance premiums at the
center of the shutdown drama.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
She says Democrats swept all key races Tuesday night by
promising to address the high cost of living. Authorities have
made more arrests in connection with an alleged Halloween terror
plot in Michigan. Possibly targeting an amusement park and bars
near Detroit. US attorney Elena Haba says two nineteen year
olds in New Jersey have been arrested.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
The first suspect is charged with conspiring to provide material
support to a designated terrorist organization. The second suspect is
charged with transmitting violent anti Semitic threats across the Internet.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
She says protecting the US from radical Islamic terrorism and
violent extremism is one of the Justice Department's highest priorities.
A woman detained by ICE agents at a daycare center
where she works in Chicago sparked protests. ABC's Andrea Fujii
says when officers tried to pull over a car driven
by the war that the woman was in, the man
(12:36):
who was driving sped off.
Speaker 11 (12:38):
Dhsays Galiano, who is from Columbia, has been in the
country illegally for years. They claim she facilitated human smuggling
when she paid smugglers to bring her children into the US.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The woman's supporters say she was chased inside the daycare
and dragged out, but Homeland Security says agents tried to
arrest her earlier, and she resisted a blast of Arctic
air we'll hit the eastern US this weekend, bringing a
deep freeze to millions. Temperatures are expected to fall from
the Dakotas all the way down to Florida, with forecasters
saying it'll feel more like January than November. That's going
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to be sunny. With heis in the seventies and eighties
here in southern California, Ben and Jerry's Ben is bummed
with the big bosses.
Speaker 12 (13:20):
Ben Cohen says Unilever blocked the launch of an ice
cream flavor that was about solidarity with Palestine. Cohen says
he'll instead release his watermelon flavored sorbet, whose colors are
similar to the Palestinian flag on his independent Ben's Best
ice cream brand. Cohen and Jerry Greenfield sold Ben and
Jerry's to the British based Unilever in two thousand. Greenfield
stepped down from the company in September, saying Unilever has
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compromised its independence by curbing the ice cream's famous activism
for political, environmental and humanitarian issues, including Israel's two year
bombing of Gaza.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Michael Krozer kf I News watermelon sorbet that doesn't sound
good to me. I like watermelon. I love jolly ranchers,
the little candies, but other than that, I'm not a
big fan of watermelon flavoring. LA Fire has been served
with a federal grand jury subpoena to hand over text
messages from firefighters about smoldering hotspots in the area where
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the Lackman Fire started in Pacific Palisades on New Year's Day.
That fire became the Palisades Fire. A week later, five
international fugitives living in Woodland Hills Irvine Agra Hills in
LA been arrested at the request of Germany. They're facing
charges in Germany in a fraud scheme in which bogus
charges were charged to debit and credit cards. Prosecutors say
(14:38):
the group kept those charges below fifty seven dollars a
month to keep victims from questioning them. A thirty say
they would act to extradite the defendants to Germany. Powerball
jackpots growing. No one matched all six winning numbers from
last night's drawing, so the next drawing on Saturday worth
four hundred and sixty seven million dollars. And if that's
(14:59):
not enough for you, there was no winner in the
Mega Millions drawing from Tuesday nights to that jackpot which
happens tomorrow night. Next drink worth eight hundred and forty
three million dollars at six oh five its handle on
the news, President Trump's new push to end the government's
shutdown and end the filibuster. Right now, let's say good
morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy So, Stephen before the Supreme Court,
(15:24):
president Trump's tariffs. What's in question here.
Speaker 13 (15:27):
Well, what's in question is the president's invocation of a
nineteen seventy seven law which doesn't use the word tariff
to impose tariffs. What was most clear to me and
the most observers yesterday is where the Court's liberals are
on this. Sonya Sotomayor told the Solicitor General John Sower,
that's clear to her that the president's overstepped.
Speaker 14 (15:49):
It's a congressional power, not a presidential power to tax.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And you want to say.
Speaker 15 (15:54):
Tarifs are not taxes, but that's exactly what they are.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's a point that was echoed by the Chief
Justice on Roberts.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
The vehicle is in position of taxes on Americans, and
that has always been the core power of Congress.
Speaker 13 (16:08):
The broad idea of executive encroachment on congressional authority led
to a stark warning from Trump appoint Neil Gorsich. He
went into a line of questions yesterday about whether Congress
can delegate certain authorities to a present Listen to what
he said.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
So one way ratchet towards the gradual but continual accretion
of power in the executive branch and away from the
people's elected representatives.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Stark stuff there from Gorsach.
Speaker 13 (16:36):
Through the argument, both he and fellow Trump appoint Amy
Cony Barrett probed to the text of that nineteen seventy
seven law, the AIPA Statue, and Barrett seized on the
fact that the word tariff isn't even in it, As
she asked the administration lawyer, this.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Can you point to any other place in the code
or any other time in history where that phrase together
regulate importation has been used to confer tar composing.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
Authority because the word tariff isn't in the law, and
instead it says that the president can regulate the importation
of goods to the country and the event of an emergency.
Barrett also asked, why is it an emergency the fact
that we have trading, you know, let's just say there's
a deficit between the United States and our allies Spain
and France. Barrett was really skeptical on that point, which
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leads a lot of observers to think that when you
take the liberals Barrett, Gorsic, Roberts, that would be at
least five, maybe six justices who would vote to strike
these tariffs down. But a lot of experts we're talking
to still see this as something of a toss up because,
as they also listened to the argument, they heard the
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Justice is looking for other parts of the law under
which the tariffs could be sustained, perhaps as part of
a licensing scheme or something like that. If the tariffs
were to be overturned by the Supreme Court, Amy Cony,
Barrett put it this way, be a mess because you'd
see tens of billions of dollars now sitting in the
treasury having to.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Go back out the door in the form of refunds.
We've never seen anything quite like that.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And who would they be refunded too?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
To anyone who paid the tariffs? Who pays the tariffs?
Speaker 13 (18:10):
So that was a question that was asked yesterday, and
the Chief Justice made it clear that despite whatever the
President might say about you know, us charging other countries,
it's Americans who pay the tariffs. Tariffs are taxes on
goods imported to the country. Who pays the tax the importer?
Well who could The importer is not a foreigner. The
importer is an American, and the American importer, generally a
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business passes those costs on to the consumer when they
buy the good. And that applies to whether you when
you buy a car, you pay the tariff, whether you
buy a piece of furniture, there's a tariff. It's embedded
in the cost and it may not be explicit on
the receipt, but you pay it. And even the administration lawyer,
while he tried to paper it over, said, well, you
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know it can be there can be contractual relationships between
the importer and the exporter, and you know they can
share some of that cost. And generally the estimates say
that anywhere from thirty to eighty percent really is paid
by Americans. Oh okay, So that means that Americans paid
the tax.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Okay, And then I have a question for you. So
the Trump team had argued that the tariffs helped secure
peace deals between countries, and that kind of thing. But
the Justices wouldn't take that into account, right because does
that does that count with the constitutionality of it?
Speaker 13 (19:25):
Well, it certainly could. I mean, look, it gets in
the question of core powers. And I will say this,
at one point in the argument yesterday, I actually heard
Chief Justice Roberts tip his hat to that idea that
the tariffs have been effective for President Trump and trying
to extract concessions from certain foreign countries. I wonder to
what extent he and the other justices are willing to
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give the president latitude here, because you know, the president
has Article to authority to conduct American foreign policy. But broadly,
the question is Article one is explicit that the power
to lay taxes duties in post exercises belongs to congres,
not the president. Can Congress delegate some of that power
to a president or is that nineteen seventy seven law
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on the way that's been interpreted a violation of the
Constitution because Congress can't delegate that power. This is what
Neil Gorstitch was getting at. He actually asked the question
of the administration's lawyer, if Congress wanted to, could it
delegate the power to declare war to a president. You know,
the practical reality is Congress hasn't declared war since nineteen
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forty one. So the question is could it seed that
power for all time to a president And the answer,
of course, of course, is no, it can't. So the
questions can other core functions of Congress, the ability to
attacks be delegated in the way that President Trump argues
it has been. That's where it seems like Neil Gorstich
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may come down.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But we'll see, okay, and we will be watching Steven Portnoy.
Thanks for helping us peel back the onion, which you
do so well.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Hey, you bet all right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Two Republican congressmen whose districts are being redrawn following the
passage of Prop fifty say they're not done yet. Representative
Ken Calvert from Riverside County says he's going to keep
fighting for the families he represents in Congress. Republican darryl Isa,
who represents the San Diego area, is also vowing to
fight against what he calls an underserved advantage for Democrats,
or actually not an underserved but an undeserved advantage for Democrats.
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Voting on Prop fifty largely based on geography, wealth and population.
Yes votes dominated in coastal cities and larger wealthier communities
in La Orange, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sanoma Counties.
Most rural counties, including Kern, Tuwolami, and Uba, largely voted
no on Prop. Fifty. The measure passed sixty four to
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thirty six percent. US Customs and Border Protection officers have
intercepted a record breaking heroin shipment at the Sandy Cedar
Report of Entry near San Diego.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Official say on October twenty second, officers stopped at Chevrolet
Silver Rada driven by a lawful permanent resident A K
nine alerted to hidden compartments, leading to the discovery of
nearly two hundred and ninety pounds of heroin worth over
thirteen million dollars. The drugs were reportedly concealed throughout the vehicle,
including the spare tire, air filter, fender, glove box, and
(22:18):
rear seats. ICE agents interviewed the driver and federal importation
charges were filed. Chris Powers KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
A tree trimmer has been killed in the Beverlywood area
of West La.
Speaker 14 (22:30):
La.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Fire says firefighters found the man suspended above the ground
in below high voltage wires along Kirkside Avenue south of
Pico yesterday afternoon. They say it appears the man was electrocuted.
Bail for a former LAPED officers shot and killed what
turned out to be an unarmed man in Venice has
been slashed from two million to one hundred thousand dollars.
The sixty year old officer. Former officer is has posted
(22:53):
bail and will be out free while he rate awaits trial.
In the twenty fifteen shooting, the officer said he thought
the man he shot was reaching for his partner's gun.
Google's putting artificial intelligence in the driver's seat.
Speaker 16 (23:08):
Google announced it's adding its AI assistant Gemini, into Google Maps,
letting drivers ask complex questions and complete tasks hands free.
Beyond directions, Gemini can find budget friendly vegan spots at
calendar events, and even summarized news during commutes. The move
signals Google's push to reclaim ground in the AI race
against Open AI and Meta, using its vast map data
(23:31):
to power what it calls a more conversational, local expert
experience on the road. Heatherbrookerk KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
The FAA says it'll cut ten percent of flights at
forty high volume airports across the country that includes lax
because of staffing shortages caused by the government shutdown, which
is now in its thirty seventh day. Shots have been
fired during a home invasion at a former Lakers player's
home in Sherman Oaks. The lapds hays three men smashed
(23:59):
the back door of Christian Woods home on at Otseego
Street around one yesterday afternoon. Wood confronted the men and
fired three to four shots. They ran off and drove away.
Police are still looking for the would be robbers. Sean
Combs is apparently expecting a presidential pardon in the new year.
TMZ says the music Mogul's been boasting to other inmates
(24:19):
at President Trump's going to pardon them in twenty twenty six.
Colmbs is serving a fifty month sentence. The White House
Communications Office has denied a pardon is in the works.
At six O five's handle on the news, Republican lawmakers
in California didn't waste any time. They've already filed the
lawsuit to try to block the implementation of Proposition fifty. Okay,
remember this, Hold on to.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Your bots, folks, Hold on to your body, Jay's on
the corners, one out, the Dodgers lead by one, Yamamoto's
two coming to Kirk, broken back ground ball bets.
Speaker 17 (24:51):
Hazard steps on the back, the Dona firs to the
play from backs against the wall to back to bell,
the Dodgers cement their dynasty.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
So I was in a car driving from Corvallis, Oregon,
back up to Portland after the Beavers game, listening to
that call, and we're listening, you know, and it's extra
endings and we're like, oh my gosh, it's gonna win.
When is this game gonna end? And who's gonna win?
And I heard that call and we went, oh cool,
double play, and then we sat there for a few
(25:27):
seconds and then went, oh my god, they just won.
It was a surprise, such a fun, fun broadcast. And
if you want to relive all of that World Series action,
tomorrow afternoon at three am, five to seventy LA Sports
is going to replay Game seven. It's your Dodgers back
to back World Championship champions You can listen to it
(25:50):
again on AM five to seventy LA Sports also on
the iHeartRadio app. Presented in Park by Bank of America,
the official Bank of the La Dodgers. It was such
a good game. I think it probably and listen to
it again. What fun. Here's what's coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. The federal government says
flights are going to be cut back at forty US airports,
including lax Ontario International and San Diego International. Transportation officials
(26:14):
say it's because of air traffic control staffing shortages during
the ongoing federal government shutdown.
Speaker 18 (26:20):
This is going to be an unimaginable, unprecedented, unwelcome, unpleasant
level of chaos. If you don't have to fly starting
on Friday, please don't travel.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Industry analyst Henry Hartevelt says it's going to start tomorrow.
Rabbit bats have become a growing problem around LA County.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
County health officials say sixty one rabbit bats have been
discovered this year. That's the second highest total ever recorded
in the county. Rabbit bats have been found in San
Fernando Valley suburbs, buildings in downtown LA Parks, schools, businesses,
and residential backyards. Health experts warn people should never touch
a bat or allow pets to come in contact with them,
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as even small bites can transmit rabies. Eileen Gonzalez k
if I News.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Monument at the Van Nights Civic
Center is being unveiled today. The monument is the last
of three from Hulu's made by Her Monuments initiative. It
seeks to balance gender disparities in public art. The two
others are Coreta Scott King in Atlanta and journalists author
and conservationist Marjorie Stoneman Douglas That Monuments in Miami. The
(27:29):
ceremony in Van Eys begins at eleven. The big sendoff
is turning into more of a silence.
Speaker 12 (27:36):
So long for people too young to know a successful
career used to be joined a company, work there for decades,
and retire with a big party, maybe even getting a
gold watch. Today's workplace of job hopping, mass layoffs, and
remote slash hybrid workers has changed what happens when you retire.
No one tracks workplace parties in their attendance, but retirement
parties or any company parties are becoming more scarce. Recent
(27:57):
data says the roast and toast soires are turning into
a lunch with close co workers, a charity donation in
the retiree's name, or even just an email saying goodbye
and good luck and the gold watch. Don't even think
about it. Michael Krozier k.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
If I News, I always wanted a gold watch. Time
to get in your business with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Good morning, Denise.
Let's talk Starbucks.
Speaker 19 (28:18):
Yeah, you can't get a gold watch, but you can
get an adorable stuffed Hello Kitty Bear Easta from Starbucks.
They're out with all their holiday version now, and I
kind of say this thing is adorable.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They've also got the holiday.
Speaker 19 (28:31):
Drink seut, including what looks like a really good Crembrula Lotte,
although I gotta admit that's more like dessert.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
But I know some of them are so sweet that
I'm like, this isn't coffee. This is just like you said,
it is almatos.
Speaker 19 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, but delicious and irresistible, especially as it starts
to get called out. And that's what they're bargaining on
this holiday rollout, though it's coming as the Starbucks Workers
United threatens a strike in twenty five cities, including La
Of course, November thirteenth, that's today Starbucks gives out all
those free red cups right to try to get as
many people as possible into its coffee shops.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
That's not going to work if they're having a strike. Okay, okay,
I just looked at the Berry stay. He is cute
and speaking of little tiny things. If you're trying to
have a baby but having trouble conceiving, how can we
get some help?
Speaker 19 (29:24):
Try remote work. There's this new study from Stanford University
that says remote work makes it easier, of course, for
you to take care of kids. We all knew that,
but it also apparently makes it easier for you to
conceive kids by cutting stress and increasing proximity.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
We'll call it more opportunity. Is that what you're saying.
I think that requires both people to be working from home. Yeah,
because you can't conceive by email. Okay. If you're in
the market for a new home, you might get a
really good deal.
Speaker 19 (30:00):
Yeah, and you should look if mortgage rates are a problem,
if affordability is an issue, and for most people it
is for everybody in the Alps market pretty much is
no matter what your income level. Basically you can get
a way better deal on borrowing if you buy a
new home. Then if you buy an existing home. If
you buy an existing home, you're buying it from an individual,
(30:23):
but if you buy a new home, you're buying it
from a company. And the breaks that they're offering people
on mortgages are just substantial. Right now, they're matching COVID
nineteen levels, which is crazy, you know, two point six.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Five two and a half percent.
Speaker 19 (30:36):
That's an addition to all the other perks like free appliances,
finished basements, and zero closing costs that they're throwing in.
We even spoke to one mortgage broker who says they
got a two percent mortgage on You're Fixed for a client,
and d R. Horton is offering drum roll a one
percent introductory rate for a year.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
This is not an ad. This is news.
Speaker 19 (30:58):
One percent introductory rate for your for some customers in
some markets, on some homes.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
So check it out. Okay, I'm guessing it's not going
to be here. Denise Pellagreene getting you in your business
every day like we do at five point forty, We'll
talk to you tomorrow, talk to you then, all right.
The Miramar National Cemetery Support Foundation has announced because of
the government shutdown, which is in its thirty seventh day
Veterans Day ceremonies have been canceled. Organizers say they'll be
(31:26):
rescheduled once the government reopens. The public is still invited
to visit the ten memorials on the Memorial Walkway because
the cemetery will be open from sunrise to sunset on
Veterans Day. Shots have been fired during the home invasion
at a former Lakers player's home in Sherman Oaks. The
LAPD says three men smashed the back door of Christian
(31:48):
Woods home on Otsego Street about one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Wood confronted them and fired three to four shots into
the ground. They ran off and got away in a
gray jeep Grand Cherokee. Closing ceremonies for the twenty twenty
eight Olympic Games will be held exclusively at La Coliseum.
LA City Council confirmed that none of the ceremonies are
(32:10):
going to be held at Sofi Stadium. Opening ceremonies for
the summer games will be held at both Sofi and
the Coliseum. We're just minutes away from handle on the
news this morning. Trump's lawyers have argued before the Supreme
Court that the tariffs are not all about money. Bill's
going to tell you about that. Let's say good morning
now to Lisa Malar with the eighteenth annual Heroes of
(32:33):
Hope Race for Brain Tumor Research. Good morning, Lisa, Good morning.
Speaker 15 (32:38):
How are you doing good?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
So you know I found out about your little event
at a Dodgers game of all things. Ronda is one
of your participants. She sits next to me at the
Dodger Games, and she survived a brain tumor. And you
know when you survive something like that, you tend to
want to do something to help or bring awareness or
raise money for something that affected you so prof only.
(33:00):
And so she shared that with me, and I said,
my gosh, let's share that with wake up call listeners.
So tell us about what you're doing at Dockweiler on Sunday,
November sixteenth.
Speaker 15 (33:10):
Sure, and congrats to the Dodgers right back to back winners.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (33:16):
So on November sixteenth at eight am, we will be
holding our five K, ten K and Kids Fun Run
is a race for brain tumor research and it's a
wonderful event that is supporting local researchers at UCLA, Theedar
Steini and Children's Hospital Los Angeles right here in the
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area and it's at the beach. It's a beautiful day
of hope and remembrance.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Okay, and you said it's a run aura walk, Yeah
you can walk, sure, thank you on the walk. I
would definitely be walking. And you said that name. The
money goes to brain tumor research. So what I mean, like,
what have they made any breakthroughs or is the I
know you guys have raised a ton of money in
the last eighteen years.
Speaker 15 (34:03):
Yeah, so we have more almost as a two million
dollar mark, which is amazing, and we're funding low toxicity research,
things like immuno therapies and gene therapies. So that's like
kind of the wave of the future in cancer research.
They're still doing chemotherapies of radiation, but with little success
in brain tumors, and now they're fighting they're using our
(34:26):
own bodies immune systems to recognize cancer cells and fight them.
And so a lot of the doctors have explained to
me that cancer cells are very tricky. They're kind of
like spies. They're kind of like double agents. They kind
of trick your immune system into thinking they're good cells,
but they're really bad cells. And so they're training these
(34:47):
I guess they're called T cells, but they're training them
to basically fight off these bad cells, to recognize them
and fight them. So they are making progress, not fast enough,
of course, but it is happening, and it only happened
with research and with federal funding so low for rare
types of cancers, which it's debatable the braintorers are rare,
(35:08):
but they technically are considered rare. Any private funding, like
from races like ours or events like ours or smaller
foundations are very helpful.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, and I would argue about the rarity of them too.
My grandfather died from a brain tumor, and so did
my aunt. So, Lisa, why did you get involved in
this organization?
Speaker 15 (35:30):
I lost my brother to brain cancer twenty four years
ago now he died in two thousand and one, who
is twenty nine years old, and assistant district attorney, three children,
And it was probably the most traumatic and horrible thing
our family ever went through to watch somebody so strong
and young just be taken down by brain tumor. And
(35:53):
before he died, he just said, promise me, you will
never stop fighting until we find a cure. And so
I've been learning that promise to him for the past
twenty four years.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
That's beautiful, Lisa. Okay, so let's talk about how because
we're not just donating, we're also showing support. Like you said,
never give up the fight, and show support for the
people who are fighting it or or who have beat
their battle with it. How do we get involved?
Speaker 15 (36:19):
Well, first and foremost, go to ww dot Superheroes of
Hoope dot org and that we'll take you to our website.
You can register to run or walk. You can choose
the five k or the ten k or even the
kids Fun Run. You could also be a virtual runner
if you can't attend physically, and you can start a team.
It's not too late. You can grab a bunch of
(36:40):
people at your company and come on out and run together.
We have a wonderful prize for the top the fastest
team this year. To the top five runners of the
team will we have there times will be averaged together
and the fastest team's going to get a great prize.
And so and even if you can't run or walk
or just volunteers, just come out and help us. And
(37:02):
you can register to volunteer on the website as well.
And obviously you can't do any of that. Make a
donation because that ultimately helps fun research.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Okay, great, And what's the website again? One more time?
Speaker 15 (37:13):
Www dot how many w don on it? Superheroes of
Hoope dot org?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Super Heroes of Hope. And that's Sunday, November sixteenth, at
Dockwyler State Beach, Lisa Malura. I hope you raise a
ton of money.
Speaker 15 (37:27):
Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Got it. What a great way to go out, get
some exercise, have some fun, and raise money for a
good cause. I like that a lot. Hey, we've been
talking about Snap benefits being cut off and how that's
putting a lot of people at risk because there's like
forty two million people who are on them. Not everybody
sees it that, you know, it's this crisis. It's going
(37:50):
to leave children starving. Of course there are those who are.
But apparently on the talkback I got a couple of
calls from people who say that there's a lot of
abuse in the system. Let me see if I can
play this. I'm having technical well, I'm I'm trying to
figure out where this is going to go and not
(38:12):
fire other sound so old please. Okay, now we're going
to try it.
Speaker 14 (38:19):
I am really getting tired of hearing the children are
going to be starving. I've worked for a grocery store
for over thirty five years. These snap cards, which are
like a gift card, the checker can see the balance.
These balances are over four thousand dollars. These people should
be stocking up. They have been stocking up. They buy
(38:41):
a lot of junk. John talked the other day about
how the systems being abused.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
It is. I work in retail.
Speaker 14 (38:50):
These women come in with their Gucci bags, their designer glasses,
their nails done, their hair done, and they're all paying
with snap It's a joke. They just hand it out
like candy. Nobody. There needs to be some checks and balances.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I don't disagree with that. I know that there are
people who definitely need it, but I've also heard a
ton of stories of people who are taking advantage. And
that's pretty infuriating because, as I said, a lot of
people do need it. Okay, here are a few more
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A group advocating for illegal immigrants has urged the World
Cheer Series champion Dodgers to skip a visit to the
(39:28):
White House. The National Day Laborer Organizing Network wrote an
open letter saying players should decline a visit with President
Trump in protest of immigration rates in southern California. The
visits expected to happen in early April, when the Dodgers
play the Washington Nationals on the first road trip of
the twenty twenty five season. A new law in California
could change the way the country uses the Internet. The bill,
(39:52):
signed into law by Governor Newsom, requires companies like Google
and Microsoft to offer users in opt out signal, which
would prevent sides from sharing or selling personal information. Experts
say would be easier for companies just to change their
services to affect the entire country, rather than just doing
it for users in California. And Elon Musk could become
(40:12):
the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 20 (40:14):
TESLA shareholders will decide on whether to approve a pay
package that could hand the world's richest man another one
trillion dollars in shares. Supporters say Elon Musk is a
miracle man who needs the money is a way to
focus on the company. Critics say the board that designed
the package is to beholden to Musk and the pay
is excessive. Shareholders are voting today at their annual meeting
(40:37):
in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
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Speaker 1 (01:04):
It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Thursday, November sixth Good morning, I'm Immy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeart radio app. Here's what's
ahead on your wake up call. LAX is on the
list of forty airports that will see a ten percent
reduction in traffic due to staffing shortages caused by the
(01:24):
ongoing government shutdown. The Ontario and San Diego airports also
on the list. The flight reductions are expected to go
into effect as soon as tomorrow. We're going to find
out how far reaching those reductions will be with ABC's
Jim Ryan. He's joining us in just a couple of minutes.
The California Republican parties filed a federal lawsuit to block
Proposition fifty from going into effect. The measure to allow
(01:46):
Democrats to redraw congressional district lines to gain five more
seats in the House passed by a sixty four to
thirty six percent margin Tuesday. The lawsuit claims the new
maps are unconstitutional because Democrats used voters race as a
factor in drawing the lines. Instagram's been issued a cease
and desist and was ordered to stop using PG thirteen
(02:07):
to describe its new teen accounts. The Motion Picture Association
says it can't be aligned with the rating system on
Instagram because it doesn't use the same processes and the
Instagram setting could lead to the public questioning the integrity
of its rating system. Big day for the Supreme Court,
which has heard arguments about whether or not President Trump's
(02:27):
tariffs are legal. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's gonna tell us about
what was argued, what the judge's reactions were, and what
happens if they ruled that Trump does not have the
authority to impose tariffs. That's coming up at five twenty.
Hey taking a run or a walk at Dockweiler State Beach.
Good for your brain. We're going to tell you all
about that when we talk to the organizer of the
(02:50):
Heroes of Hope Race. That's coming up. Also, how can
you relive the excitement of the game that made the
Dodgers back to back World Series champions. We'll tell you
that's coming up. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The longest federal government shutdown in history now means millions
of people need help to get food in La Rowan
(03:13):
van sleeve from Hope the Mission tells KTLA that poverty
could get worse because of the shutdown.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
With SNAP Benefits off, it's creating a situation we could
see young people and kids here on skid row and
more and more people in our communities and neighborhoods who
are finding themselves without food and on the streets.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
He says. Food lines have grown dramatically in just a week.
Snap Benefits ended on Saturday, which means forty two million
Americans no longer have a way to buy groceries. LA
Fire has been served with a federal grand jury subpoena
to hand over text messages from firefighters about smoldering hotspots
in the area where the Lackman fire started on New
Year's Day. The La Times reports the US Attorney's Office
(03:53):
once all communications related to reports of fire, smoke or
hotspots from New Year's Eve until January seven. That's when
the Palisades Fire started at the same place where the
Lackman fire burned. It follows reports of a battalion chief
ordering crews to leave the burn area the day after
the Lackman fire, even though they said the ground was
still smoldering. Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County has
(04:17):
been closed until further notice because of mountain lions.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Oh See Parks officials say the closure is out of
an abundance of caution, while it's not clear exactly what
prompted the closure, A video shared on social media Monday
shows a mountain lion stalking a couple of mountain bikers
as they yell at the large cat to go away.
The bikers did make it out of the park safely.
Whiting Ranch is the same area where mountain lion killed
a mountain biker in two thousand and four. I think
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Gonzalez k Ifi News, let's.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Take a first look at your morning commute, and unfortunately
it's a bad start. We've got a deadly crash in
mid city La. Wait a second, how come we can't
hear you? I should probably move this in front of
my face. Okay, you guys, Okay, here's behind the scenes.
I had the microphone turned up and on for Will
and he started talking, but he didn't put the microphone
(05:07):
in front of his face. It was like two feet away. Okay, okay,
wake up, Bill, let's go.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
We have a couple of lane.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
We have a couple of lanes blocked on the eastbound
side of the ten at Arlington, at that off ramp there,
eastbound side of the ten, only two lanes are open,
the two left lanes as they do an investigation there.
So there are some minor delays, not really that heavy.
You will see a quick slow down there at this point.
I would stick with the freeway. You'll get through it
pretty quickly. And then continuing east on the ten as
(05:36):
you head to City Terrace. There, we've got a crash
that just cleared out of lanes, so you might find
a few leftover break lights.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
But that's about it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And one more thing for you.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Four or five southbound at Westminster boulevard crash clearing there
as you make your way into Orange County. For the
most part, everything else is nice and calm at this hour.
With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports, I will Cole Schreiber,
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Will.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Will's going to keep you up to date all morning
long so you can get to where you need to go.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
if you're traveling anytime soon, you better pack your proverbial patients.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
Well, yes, if you're trying to get from point A
to point B and you're not on the five, then yeah,
it's going to be a challenge. The FAA is throttling
back the air traffic capacity by four percent starting today
and then ten percent tomorrow. Now, considering that the FAA
handles about forty four thousand flights a day, that's commercial
airline flights, that's cargo flights, some private aircraft. That would
(06:35):
be about four thousand, four hundred tomorrow that'll be off
the schedule. That's going to be a real challenge. This all,
of course, amy goes back to the government shutdown. Air
traffic controllers aren't getting paid. Many are calling in sick
in order to make money doing something, you know, driving
door dash or or something else, just to put food
on the table.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Okay, And so forty four hundred flights and they're just
canceling them.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
They totally the airlines. The airlines are the ones who
are responsible for it. They have to shift their schedules
around to make this work. And it's not as though
the heads of the airlines were sat down in room
with the FAA a week or so ago and told
this was happening. Now they got word yesterday, So they're
scrambling to shift their schedules, move flights into and out
(07:22):
of different slots to make sure that this is met.
But it's going to be a really challenging time. And
of course the longer the shutdown goes, the more likely
this is to be extended and the air traffic control
system will be throttled even further.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, and you said four percent today and then ten
percent tomorrow. Do we know if that number is going
to be fluid? As like if they say, oh, we
canceled forty four hundred flights, everything seems to be going,
we can increase traffic a bit, or have they said
at all?
Speaker 9 (07:50):
I think you'll be fluid insofar as okay. Let's say
LA is doing okay, so they keep lax and they
keep the other schedules as they are. Middle of the
country are having trouble. We're seeing backups, And also depends
upon where some of the stickouts are going on the most.
And it's not just air traffic controllers but also TSA right,
so the blue shirt agents, they're not getting paid, but
(08:12):
they're expected to be at work anyway, and so this
is kind of a whole system wide problem anymore. I
mean long and short, Amy, if you're flying somewhere, you
better keep your notifications turned on and get those messages
from your carrier.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, And I had seen a couple of statements from
like United in America and they said that they're going
to at least Americans said that they would be proactively
reaching out to customers too, because I'm sure there's going
to be a ton of confusion. But like you said,
keep those updates on and then I think it's got
to be frustrating too for probably all parties involved, because
it's kind of a moving target. Like you said, it
depends on where the air traffic controllers and TSA people
(08:50):
are calling out sick because and it's not you know,
a static number every day at each airport.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
No, and there will be this ripple effect as well.
And we see it every time there is a weather
delay or some weather event moves into one part of
the country, you know, Miami for example, and they have
to close down Miami for a few hours or a
day or so. That starts to affect the flights into
and out of Charlotte and into and out of DFW.
We I mean, it's all very much interconnected, so when
(09:17):
one goes down, the others start to feel it. Here
we have the whole system kind of being affected by this, Okay, And.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Then we know that it's forty airports. We have seen
the list at lax is on it, Ontario is on it,
San Diego's on it. And then what are some of
the other airports because they said forty major volumes on
the Oakland's on it.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Yeah, right, California I think maybe affected more than any
other by in terms of sheer number of airports. But
I mean if it's a big airport and you've heard
of it, then it's probably included there. Seattle, Chicago, both
airports at Chicago DFW love Field. You know, across Texas
worse see a big effect too. So yeah, just yeah,
(10:00):
as you say, pack your patients.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, and you know an airport that was not on
that list was my little hometown airport, Medford, Oregon. I looked,
oh nice, So hopefully I can still.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
If you're flying to Portland or you're flying to Seattle.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, and then with Thanksgiving a couple of weeks away,
any rumblings at lawmakers might be able to resolve anything
before the holiday.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
Well that's kind of what folks are thinking is maybe
the FAA is trying to put a little pressure on
Congress to get something done on this. But I mean,
at the same time, let's hope not. Because the fa
is responsible for safety, it's not responsible for politics.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Right.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
We saw what happened when there were staffing issues at
Washington Reagan and the collision of a military helicopter and
a commercial jet.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks for the update. All right,
all right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
number of people killed in the ups cargo plane crash
in Louisville has gone up to twelve. ABC's Mola Lange
says NTSB investigators are.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
All scen ANDTSB investigators plan to be there for at
least a week, probably more. People in the surrounding areas
are being asked to notify police if they find any
of the wreckage.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The three crew members on board the plane that was
headed to Honolulu were killed, along with nine on the ground.
The crash damage to petroleum recycling plant and an auto
parts warehouse. President Trump's still pressing Republicans to change the
rules of the Senate and ditch the filibuster in order
to bypass Democrats and pass a spending bill to end
the federal government's shutdown. But ABC's Nicole Antonio says Senate
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Republicans are saying they don't have the votes.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
Democrats, boosted by their wins on election night, say it's
time for Republicans to negotiate health insurance premiums at the
center of the shutdown drama.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
She says Democrats swept all key races Tuesday night by
promising to address the high cost of living. Authorities have
made more arrests in connection with an alleged Halloween terror
plot in Michigan. Possibly targeting an amusement park and bars
near Detroit. US attorney Elena Haba says two nineteen year
olds in New Jersey have been arrested.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
The first suspect is charged with conspiring to provide material
support to a designated terrorist organization. The second suspect is
charged with transmitting violent anti Semitic threats across the Internet.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
She says protecting the US from radical Islamic terrorism and
violent extremism is one of the Justice Department's highest priorities.
A woman detained by ICE agents at a daycare center
where she works in Chicago sparked protests. ABC's Andrea Fujii
says when officers tried to pull over a car driven
by the war that the woman was in, the man
(12:36):
who was driving sped off.
Speaker 11 (12:38):
Dhsays Galiano, who is from Columbia, has been in the
country illegally for years. They claim she facilitated human smuggling
when she paid smugglers to bring her children into the US.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The woman's supporters say she was chased inside the daycare
and dragged out, but Homeland Security says agents tried to
arrest her earlier, and she resisted a blast of Arctic
air we'll hit the eastern US this weekend, bringing a
deep freeze to millions. Temperatures are expected to fall from
the Dakotas all the way down to Florida, with forecasters
saying it'll feel more like January than November. That's going
(13:13):
to be sunny. With heis in the seventies and eighties
here in southern California, Ben and Jerry's Ben is bummed
with the big bosses.
Speaker 12 (13:20):
Ben Cohen says Unilever blocked the launch of an ice
cream flavor that was about solidarity with Palestine. Cohen says
he'll instead release his watermelon flavored sorbet, whose colors are
similar to the Palestinian flag on his independent Ben's Best
ice cream brand. Cohen and Jerry Greenfield sold Ben and
Jerry's to the British based Unilever in two thousand. Greenfield
stepped down from the company in September, saying Unilever has
(13:43):
compromised its independence by curbing the ice cream's famous activism
for political, environmental and humanitarian issues, including Israel's two year
bombing of Gaza.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Michael Krozer kf I News watermelon sorbet that doesn't sound
good to me. I like watermelon. I love jolly ranchers,
the little candies, but other than that, I'm not a
big fan of watermelon flavoring. LA Fire has been served
with a federal grand jury subpoena to hand over text
messages from firefighters about smoldering hotspots in the area where
(14:16):
the Lackman Fire started in Pacific Palisades on New Year's Day.
That fire became the Palisades Fire. A week later, five
international fugitives living in Woodland Hills Irvine Agra Hills in
LA been arrested at the request of Germany. They're facing
charges in Germany in a fraud scheme in which bogus
charges were charged to debit and credit cards. Prosecutors say
(14:38):
the group kept those charges below fifty seven dollars a
month to keep victims from questioning them. A thirty say
they would act to extradite the defendants to Germany. Powerball
jackpots growing. No one matched all six winning numbers from
last night's drawing, so the next drawing on Saturday worth
four hundred and sixty seven million dollars. And if that's
(14:59):
not enough for you, there was no winner in the
Mega Millions drawing from Tuesday nights to that jackpot which
happens tomorrow night. Next drink worth eight hundred and forty
three million dollars at six oh five its handle on
the news, President Trump's new push to end the government's
shutdown and end the filibuster. Right now, let's say good
morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy So, Stephen before the Supreme Court,
(15:24):
president Trump's tariffs. What's in question here.
Speaker 13 (15:27):
Well, what's in question is the president's invocation of a
nineteen seventy seven law which doesn't use the word tariff
to impose tariffs. What was most clear to me and
the most observers yesterday is where the Court's liberals are
on this. Sonya Sotomayor told the Solicitor General John Sower,
that's clear to her that the president's overstepped.
Speaker 14 (15:49):
It's a congressional power, not a presidential power to tax.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And you want to say.
Speaker 15 (15:54):
Tarifs are not taxes, but that's exactly what they are.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's a point that was echoed by the Chief
Justice on Roberts.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
The vehicle is in position of taxes on Americans, and
that has always been the core power of Congress.
Speaker 13 (16:08):
The broad idea of executive encroachment on congressional authority led
to a stark warning from Trump appoint Neil Gorsich. He
went into a line of questions yesterday about whether Congress
can delegate certain authorities to a present Listen to what
he said.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
So one way ratchet towards the gradual but continual accretion
of power in the executive branch and away from the
people's elected representatives.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Stark stuff there from Gorsach.
Speaker 13 (16:36):
Through the argument, both he and fellow Trump appoint Amy
Cony Barrett probed to the text of that nineteen seventy
seven law, the AIPA Statue, and Barrett seized on the
fact that the word tariff isn't even in it, As
she asked the administration lawyer, this.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Can you point to any other place in the code
or any other time in history where that phrase together
regulate importation has been used to confer tar composing.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
Authority because the word tariff isn't in the law, and
instead it says that the president can regulate the importation
of goods to the country and the event of an emergency.
Barrett also asked, why is it an emergency the fact
that we have trading, you know, let's just say there's
a deficit between the United States and our allies Spain
and France. Barrett was really skeptical on that point, which
(17:22):
leads a lot of observers to think that when you
take the liberals Barrett, Gorsic, Roberts, that would be at
least five, maybe six justices who would vote to strike
these tariffs down. But a lot of experts we're talking
to still see this as something of a toss up because,
as they also listened to the argument, they heard the
(17:43):
Justice is looking for other parts of the law under
which the tariffs could be sustained, perhaps as part of
a licensing scheme or something like that. If the tariffs
were to be overturned by the Supreme Court, Amy Cony,
Barrett put it this way, be a mess because you'd
see tens of billions of dollars now sitting in the
treasury having to.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Go back out the door in the form of refunds.
We've never seen anything quite like that.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And who would they be refunded too?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
To anyone who paid the tariffs? Who pays the tariffs?
Speaker 13 (18:10):
So that was a question that was asked yesterday, and
the Chief Justice made it clear that despite whatever the
President might say about you know, us charging other countries,
it's Americans who pay the tariffs. Tariffs are taxes on
goods imported to the country. Who pays the tax the importer?
Well who could The importer is not a foreigner. The
importer is an American, and the American importer, generally a
(18:33):
business passes those costs on to the consumer when they
buy the good. And that applies to whether you when
you buy a car, you pay the tariff, whether you
buy a piece of furniture, there's a tariff. It's embedded
in the cost and it may not be explicit on
the receipt, but you pay it. And even the administration lawyer,
while he tried to paper it over, said, well, you
(18:54):
know it can be there can be contractual relationships between
the importer and the exporter, and you know they can
share some of that cost. And generally the estimates say
that anywhere from thirty to eighty percent really is paid
by Americans. Oh okay, So that means that Americans paid
the tax.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Okay, And then I have a question for you. So
the Trump team had argued that the tariffs helped secure
peace deals between countries, and that kind of thing. But
the Justices wouldn't take that into account, right because does
that does that count with the constitutionality of it?
Speaker 13 (19:25):
Well, it certainly could. I mean, look, it gets in
the question of core powers. And I will say this,
at one point in the argument yesterday, I actually heard
Chief Justice Roberts tip his hat to that idea that
the tariffs have been effective for President Trump and trying
to extract concessions from certain foreign countries. I wonder to
what extent he and the other justices are willing to
(19:46):
give the president latitude here, because you know, the president
has Article to authority to conduct American foreign policy. But broadly,
the question is Article one is explicit that the power
to lay taxes duties in post exercises belongs to congres,
not the president. Can Congress delegate some of that power
to a president or is that nineteen seventy seven law
(20:08):
on the way that's been interpreted a violation of the
Constitution because Congress can't delegate that power. This is what
Neil Gorstitch was getting at. He actually asked the question
of the administration's lawyer, if Congress wanted to, could it
delegate the power to declare war to a president. You know,
the practical reality is Congress hasn't declared war since nineteen
(20:30):
forty one. So the question is could it seed that
power for all time to a president And the answer,
of course, of course, is no, it can't. So the
questions can other core functions of Congress, the ability to
attacks be delegated in the way that President Trump argues
it has been. That's where it seems like Neil Gorstich
(20:50):
may come down.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But we'll see, okay, and we will be watching Steven Portnoy.
Thanks for helping us peel back the onion, which you
do so well.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Hey, you bet all right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Two Republican congressmen whose districts are being redrawn following the
passage of Prop fifty say they're not done yet. Representative
Ken Calvert from Riverside County says he's going to keep
fighting for the families he represents in Congress. Republican darryl Isa,
who represents the San Diego area, is also vowing to
fight against what he calls an underserved advantage for Democrats,
or actually not an underserved but an undeserved advantage for Democrats.
(21:24):
Voting on Prop fifty largely based on geography, wealth and population.
Yes votes dominated in coastal cities and larger wealthier communities
in La Orange, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sanoma Counties.
Most rural counties, including Kern, Tuwolami, and Uba, largely voted
no on Prop. Fifty. The measure passed sixty four to
(21:46):
thirty six percent. US Customs and Border Protection officers have
intercepted a record breaking heroin shipment at the Sandy Cedar
Report of Entry near San Diego.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Official say on October twenty second, officers stopped at Chevrolet
Silver Rada driven by a lawful permanent resident A K
nine alerted to hidden compartments, leading to the discovery of
nearly two hundred and ninety pounds of heroin worth over
thirteen million dollars. The drugs were reportedly concealed throughout the vehicle,
including the spare tire, air filter, fender, glove box, and
(22:18):
rear seats. ICE agents interviewed the driver and federal importation
charges were filed. Chris Powers KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
A tree trimmer has been killed in the Beverlywood area
of West La.
Speaker 14 (22:30):
La.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Fire says firefighters found the man suspended above the ground
in below high voltage wires along Kirkside Avenue south of
Pico yesterday afternoon. They say it appears the man was electrocuted.
Bail for a former LAPED officers shot and killed what
turned out to be an unarmed man in Venice has
been slashed from two million to one hundred thousand dollars.
The sixty year old officer. Former officer is has posted
(22:53):
bail and will be out free while he rate awaits trial.
In the twenty fifteen shooting, the officer said he thought
the man he shot was reaching for his partner's gun.
Google's putting artificial intelligence in the driver's seat.
Speaker 16 (23:08):
Google announced it's adding its AI assistant Gemini, into Google Maps,
letting drivers ask complex questions and complete tasks hands free.
Beyond directions, Gemini can find budget friendly vegan spots at
calendar events, and even summarized news during commutes. The move
signals Google's push to reclaim ground in the AI race
against Open AI and Meta, using its vast map data
(23:31):
to power what it calls a more conversational, local expert
experience on the road. Heatherbrookerk KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
The FAA says it'll cut ten percent of flights at
forty high volume airports across the country that includes lax
because of staffing shortages caused by the government shutdown, which
is now in its thirty seventh day. Shots have been
fired during a home invasion at a former Lakers player's
home in Sherman Oaks. The lapds hays three men smashed
(23:59):
the back door of Christian Woods home on at Otseego
Street around one yesterday afternoon. Wood confronted the men and
fired three to four shots. They ran off and drove away.
Police are still looking for the would be robbers. Sean
Combs is apparently expecting a presidential pardon in the new year.
TMZ says the music Mogul's been boasting to other inmates
(24:19):
at President Trump's going to pardon them in twenty twenty six.
Colmbs is serving a fifty month sentence. The White House
Communications Office has denied a pardon is in the works.
At six O five's handle on the news, Republican lawmakers
in California didn't waste any time. They've already filed the
lawsuit to try to block the implementation of Proposition fifty. Okay,
remember this, Hold on to.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Your bots, folks, Hold on to your body, Jay's on
the corners, one out, the Dodgers lead by one, Yamamoto's
two coming to Kirk, broken back ground ball bets.
Speaker 17 (24:51):
Hazard steps on the back, the Dona firs to the
play from backs against the wall to back to bell,
the Dodgers cement their dynasty.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
So I was in a car driving from Corvallis, Oregon,
back up to Portland after the Beavers game, listening to
that call, and we're listening, you know, and it's extra
endings and we're like, oh my gosh, it's gonna win.
When is this game gonna end? And who's gonna win?
And I heard that call and we went, oh cool,
double play, and then we sat there for a few
(25:27):
seconds and then went, oh my god, they just won.
It was a surprise, such a fun, fun broadcast. And
if you want to relive all of that World Series action,
tomorrow afternoon at three am, five to seventy LA Sports
is going to replay Game seven. It's your Dodgers back
to back World Championship champions You can listen to it
(25:50):
again on AM five to seventy LA Sports also on
the iHeartRadio app. Presented in Park by Bank of America,
the official Bank of the La Dodgers. It was such
a good game. I think it probably and listen to
it again. What fun. Here's what's coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. The federal government says
flights are going to be cut back at forty US airports,
including lax Ontario International and San Diego International. Transportation officials
(26:14):
say it's because of air traffic control staffing shortages during
the ongoing federal government shutdown.
Speaker 18 (26:20):
This is going to be an unimaginable, unprecedented, unwelcome, unpleasant
level of chaos. If you don't have to fly starting
on Friday, please don't travel.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Industry analyst Henry Hartevelt says it's going to start tomorrow.
Rabbit bats have become a growing problem around LA County.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
County health officials say sixty one rabbit bats have been
discovered this year. That's the second highest total ever recorded
in the county. Rabbit bats have been found in San
Fernando Valley suburbs, buildings in downtown LA Parks, schools, businesses,
and residential backyards. Health experts warn people should never touch
a bat or allow pets to come in contact with them,
(27:02):
as even small bites can transmit rabies. Eileen Gonzalez k
if I News.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Monument at the Van Nights Civic
Center is being unveiled today. The monument is the last
of three from Hulu's made by Her Monuments initiative. It
seeks to balance gender disparities in public art. The two
others are Coreta Scott King in Atlanta and journalists author
and conservationist Marjorie Stoneman Douglas That Monuments in Miami. The
(27:29):
ceremony in Van Eys begins at eleven. The big sendoff
is turning into more of a silence.
Speaker 12 (27:36):
So long for people too young to know a successful
career used to be joined a company, work there for decades,
and retire with a big party, maybe even getting a
gold watch. Today's workplace of job hopping, mass layoffs, and
remote slash hybrid workers has changed what happens when you retire.
No one tracks workplace parties in their attendance, but retirement
parties or any company parties are becoming more scarce. Recent
(27:57):
data says the roast and toast soires are turning into
a lunch with close co workers, a charity donation in
the retiree's name, or even just an email saying goodbye
and good luck and the gold watch. Don't even think
about it. Michael Krozier k.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
If I News, I always wanted a gold watch. Time
to get in your business with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Good morning, Denise.
Let's talk Starbucks.
Speaker 19 (28:18):
Yeah, you can't get a gold watch, but you can
get an adorable stuffed Hello Kitty Bear Easta from Starbucks.
They're out with all their holiday version now, and I
kind of say this thing is adorable.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They've also got the holiday.
Speaker 19 (28:31):
Drink seut, including what looks like a really good Crembrula Lotte,
although I gotta admit that's more like dessert.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
But I know some of them are so sweet that
I'm like, this isn't coffee. This is just like you said,
it is almatos.
Speaker 19 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, but delicious and irresistible, especially as it starts
to get called out. And that's what they're bargaining on
this holiday rollout, though it's coming as the Starbucks Workers
United threatens a strike in twenty five cities, including La
Of course, November thirteenth, that's today Starbucks gives out all
those free red cups right to try to get as
many people as possible into its coffee shops.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
That's not going to work if they're having a strike. Okay, okay,
I just looked at the Berry stay. He is cute
and speaking of little tiny things. If you're trying to
have a baby but having trouble conceiving, how can we
get some help?
Speaker 19 (29:24):
Try remote work. There's this new study from Stanford University
that says remote work makes it easier, of course, for
you to take care of kids. We all knew that,
but it also apparently makes it easier for you to
conceive kids by cutting stress and increasing proximity.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
We'll call it more opportunity. Is that what you're saying.
I think that requires both people to be working from home. Yeah,
because you can't conceive by email. Okay. If you're in
the market for a new home, you might get a
really good deal.
Speaker 19 (30:00):
Yeah, and you should look if mortgage rates are a problem,
if affordability is an issue, and for most people it
is for everybody in the Alps market pretty much is
no matter what your income level. Basically you can get
a way better deal on borrowing if you buy a
new home. Then if you buy an existing home. If
you buy an existing home, you're buying it from an individual,
(30:23):
but if you buy a new home, you're buying it
from a company. And the breaks that they're offering people
on mortgages are just substantial. Right now, they're matching COVID
nineteen levels, which is crazy, you know, two point six.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Five two and a half percent.
Speaker 19 (30:36):
That's an addition to all the other perks like free appliances,
finished basements, and zero closing costs that they're throwing in.
We even spoke to one mortgage broker who says they
got a two percent mortgage on You're Fixed for a client,
and d R. Horton is offering drum roll a one
percent introductory rate for a year.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
This is not an ad. This is news.
Speaker 19 (30:58):
One percent introductory rate for your for some customers in
some markets, on some homes.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
So check it out. Okay, I'm guessing it's not going
to be here. Denise Pellagreene getting you in your business
every day like we do at five point forty, We'll
talk to you tomorrow, talk to you then, all right.
The Miramar National Cemetery Support Foundation has announced because of
the government shutdown, which is in its thirty seventh day
Veterans Day ceremonies have been canceled. Organizers say they'll be
(31:26):
rescheduled once the government reopens. The public is still invited
to visit the ten memorials on the Memorial Walkway because
the cemetery will be open from sunrise to sunset on
Veterans Day. Shots have been fired during the home invasion
at a former Lakers player's home in Sherman Oaks. The
LAPD says three men smashed the back door of Christian
(31:48):
Woods home on Otsego Street about one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Wood confronted them and fired three to four shots into
the ground. They ran off and got away in a
gray jeep Grand Cherokee. Closing ceremonies for the twenty twenty
eight Olympic Games will be held exclusively at La Coliseum.
LA City Council confirmed that none of the ceremonies are
(32:10):
going to be held at Sofi Stadium. Opening ceremonies for
the summer games will be held at both Sofi and
the Coliseum. We're just minutes away from handle on the
news this morning. Trump's lawyers have argued before the Supreme
Court that the tariffs are not all about money. Bill's
going to tell you about that. Let's say good morning
now to Lisa Malar with the eighteenth annual Heroes of
(32:33):
Hope Race for Brain Tumor Research. Good morning, Lisa, Good morning.
Speaker 15 (32:38):
How are you doing good?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
So you know I found out about your little event
at a Dodgers game of all things. Ronda is one
of your participants. She sits next to me at the
Dodger Games, and she survived a brain tumor. And you
know when you survive something like that, you tend to
want to do something to help or bring awareness or
raise money for something that affected you so prof only.
(33:00):
And so she shared that with me, and I said,
my gosh, let's share that with wake up call listeners.
So tell us about what you're doing at Dockweiler on Sunday,
November sixteenth.
Speaker 15 (33:10):
Sure, and congrats to the Dodgers right back to back winners.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (33:16):
So on November sixteenth at eight am, we will be
holding our five K, ten K and Kids Fun Run
is a race for brain tumor research and it's a
wonderful event that is supporting local researchers at UCLA, Theedar
Steini and Children's Hospital Los Angeles right here in the
(33:37):
area and it's at the beach. It's a beautiful day
of hope and remembrance.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Okay, and you said it's a run aura walk, Yeah
you can walk, sure, thank you on the walk. I
would definitely be walking. And you said that name. The
money goes to brain tumor research. So what I mean, like,
what have they made any breakthroughs or is the I
know you guys have raised a ton of money in
the last eighteen years.
Speaker 15 (34:03):
Yeah, so we have more almost as a two million
dollar mark, which is amazing, and we're funding low toxicity research,
things like immuno therapies and gene therapies. So that's like
kind of the wave of the future in cancer research.
They're still doing chemotherapies of radiation, but with little success
in brain tumors, and now they're fighting they're using our
(34:26):
own bodies immune systems to recognize cancer cells and fight them.
And so a lot of the doctors have explained to
me that cancer cells are very tricky. They're kind of
like spies. They're kind of like double agents. They kind
of trick your immune system into thinking they're good cells,
but they're really bad cells. And so they're training these
(34:47):
I guess they're called T cells, but they're training them
to basically fight off these bad cells, to recognize them
and fight them. So they are making progress, not fast enough,
of course, but it is happening, and it only happened
with research and with federal funding so low for rare
types of cancers, which it's debatable the braintorers are rare,
(35:08):
but they technically are considered rare. Any private funding, like
from races like ours or events like ours or smaller
foundations are very helpful.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, and I would argue about the rarity of them too.
My grandfather died from a brain tumor, and so did
my aunt. So, Lisa, why did you get involved in
this organization?
Speaker 15 (35:30):
I lost my brother to brain cancer twenty four years
ago now he died in two thousand and one, who
is twenty nine years old, and assistant district attorney, three children,
And it was probably the most traumatic and horrible thing
our family ever went through to watch somebody so strong
and young just be taken down by brain tumor. And
(35:53):
before he died, he just said, promise me, you will
never stop fighting until we find a cure. And so
I've been learning that promise to him for the past
twenty four years.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
That's beautiful, Lisa. Okay, so let's talk about how because
we're not just donating, we're also showing support. Like you said,
never give up the fight, and show support for the
people who are fighting it or or who have beat
their battle with it. How do we get involved?
Speaker 15 (36:19):
Well, first and foremost, go to ww dot Superheroes of
Hoope dot org and that we'll take you to our website.
You can register to run or walk. You can choose
the five k or the ten k or even the
kids Fun Run. You could also be a virtual runner
if you can't attend physically, and you can start a team.
It's not too late. You can grab a bunch of
(36:40):
people at your company and come on out and run together.
We have a wonderful prize for the top the fastest
team this year. To the top five runners of the
team will we have there times will be averaged together
and the fastest team's going to get a great prize.
And so and even if you can't run or walk
or just volunteers, just come out and help us. And
(37:02):
you can register to volunteer on the website as well.
And obviously you can't do any of that. Make a
donation because that ultimately helps fun research.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Okay, great, And what's the website again? One more time?
Speaker 15 (37:13):
Www dot how many w don on it? Superheroes of
Hoope dot org?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Super Heroes of Hope. And that's Sunday, November sixteenth, at
Dockwyler State Beach, Lisa Malura. I hope you raise a
ton of money.
Speaker 15 (37:27):
Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Got it. What a great way to go out, get
some exercise, have some fun, and raise money for a
good cause. I like that a lot. Hey, we've been
talking about Snap benefits being cut off and how that's
putting a lot of people at risk because there's like
forty two million people who are on them. Not everybody
sees it that, you know, it's this crisis. It's going
(37:50):
to leave children starving. Of course there are those who are.
But apparently on the talkback I got a couple of
calls from people who say that there's a lot of
abuse in the system. Let me see if I can
play this. I'm having technical well, I'm I'm trying to
figure out where this is going to go and not
(38:12):
fire other sound so old please. Okay, now we're going
to try it.
Speaker 14 (38:19):
I am really getting tired of hearing the children are
going to be starving. I've worked for a grocery store
for over thirty five years. These snap cards, which are
like a gift card, the checker can see the balance.
These balances are over four thousand dollars. These people should
be stocking up. They have been stocking up. They buy
(38:41):
a lot of junk. John talked the other day about
how the systems being abused.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
It is. I work in retail.
Speaker 14 (38:50):
These women come in with their Gucci bags, their designer glasses,
their nails done, their hair done, and they're all paying
with snap It's a joke. They just hand it out
like candy. Nobody. There needs to be some checks and balances.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I don't disagree with that. I know that there are
people who definitely need it, but I've also heard a
ton of stories of people who are taking advantage. And
that's pretty infuriating because, as I said, a lot of
people do need it. Okay, here are a few more
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A group advocating for illegal immigrants has urged the World
Cheer Series champion Dodgers to skip a visit to the
(39:28):
White House. The National Day Laborer Organizing Network wrote an
open letter saying players should decline a visit with President
Trump in protest of immigration rates in southern California. The
visits expected to happen in early April, when the Dodgers
play the Washington Nationals on the first road trip of
the twenty twenty five season. A new law in California
could change the way the country uses the Internet. The bill,
(39:52):
signed into law by Governor Newsom, requires companies like Google
and Microsoft to offer users in opt out signal, which
would prevent sides from sharing or selling personal information. Experts
say would be easier for companies just to change their
services to affect the entire country, rather than just doing
it for users in California. And Elon Musk could become
(40:12):
the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 20 (40:14):
TESLA shareholders will decide on whether to approve a pay
package that could hand the world's richest man another one
trillion dollars in shares. Supporters say Elon Musk is a
miracle man who needs the money is a way to
focus on the company. Critics say the board that designed
the package is to beholden to Musk and the pay
is excessive. Shareholders are voting today at their annual meeting
(40:37):
in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Deborah Mark, KFI News. This is KFI and kost HD
two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your
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Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage
Rewarded for bravery that goes above and beyond the call of duty, the Medal of Honor is the United States’ top military decoration. The stories we tell are about the heroes who have distinguished themselves by acts of heroism and courage that have saved lives. From Judith Resnik, the second woman in space, to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice, these are stories about those who have done the improbable and unexpected, who have sacrificed something in the name of something much bigger than themselves. Every Wednesday on Medal of Honor, uncover what their experiences tell us about the nature of sacrifice, why people put their lives in danger for others, and what happens after you’ve become a hero. Special thanks to series creator Dan McGinn, to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and Adam Plumpton. Medal of Honor begins on May 28. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear ad-free episodes one week early. Find Pushkin+ on the Medal of Honor show page in Apple or at Pushkin.fm. Subscribe on Apple: apple.co/pushkin Subscribe on Pushkin: pushkin.fm/plus
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com