September 22, 2025 • 37 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. The show opens with ABC News national correspondent Jim Ryan speaking on the lack of backups highlighting the fragile and outdates FAA systems. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers discusses President Trump & VP Vance speaking at Charlie Kirk’s memorial. Bloomberg Media’s Courtney Donohoe shares the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy talking about the continuing fallout over FCC Chair’s comments regarding Kimmel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app
panned kost HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's five o'clock straight up on this Monday, September twenty second.
This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I hope you had
a great weekend. I had a spectacular weekend. Took a
couple of days off thanks to Heather Brooker to fill
for filling in for me.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I went up to Big Bear. Never been to Big
Bear before, and it was so fantastic. I'm like, when
can I come back up here again? It was so
much fun and it was so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We got up there on Thursday and we had some
thunderstorms on Thursday and it was just starting to rain
as we were making our way up the mountain, and
then we got the full brunt of the storm when
we got there. But happy that we went up when
we did because there were some mudslides and there were
people who were stuck on those mountain highways for like
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twelve hours Highway thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hiway thirty eight was closed yet. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So anyway, but then after that the weather was so
beautiful and it's so gorgeous up there, and we went
for walks, and we went to the Alpine Zoo and
we went to october Fest.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Did you see sunny or Cuzmo.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Did not see eagles.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Saw lots of pelicans though, So yeah, but if you
haven't been up to Big Bear. In fact, we're going
to be going out and about and give you a
little preview of the Octoberfest, which is going on through October.
They started early, starting September, and in fact, the Munich
Octoberfest didn't know this started on Saturday, so they started
in September two and then just you know, party for
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a month and a half. But it was great And anyway,
I hope you had a great weekend. I know I did,
feeling rested and relaxed and ready to go.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
So here's what's the head on wake up call.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
A bit of a shaky start to the day for
people in the Bay Area. The US Geological SURVEYCES A
four point three earthquake hit shortly before three am. It
was centered just east southeast of Berkeley. A lot of
people reported feeling a sharp shake. No reports of any
damage or injuries. City of Las increased security around Jewish
places of worship for the High Holy Days. Rashashana begins
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this evening and goes for ten days. ABC's Karen Travers
is going to be joining us in a few minutes
to tell us more about the memorial yesterday for Charlie
Kirk and some memorable memorable moments. Governor Newsom assigned five
bills that will restrict federal immigration raids in California. News
signed the bills on Saturday. They ban ICE agents from
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wearing masks and require them to show ID, among other things.
More than a thousand flights were canceled because of a
fiber optic line that was cut in a little tiny
town in Texas. ABC's Jim Ryan's gonna join us to
tell us how this latest situation has exposed more vulnerabilities
that the FAA great something more to worry about. Fallout
(03:19):
continues following Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air. ABC
Stephen Portnoy's going to tell us about the red flags
being raised over that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's at five fifty just.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Five days to go until I go over the edge
to help find someone find their way home, and we
need your help to make that happen. I'm going to
tell you more about how you can help and how
you too could repel off a twenty five story building
to help homeless people actually get off the streets for good.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. More than
ninety thousand people turned out in Glendale, Arizona, for the
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memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. State Farm Stadium
was filled to capacity yesterday, while tens of thousands of
people gathered outside. Many say they were moved when Kirk's
wife spoke about her husband's killer and quoted it Jesus
during the crucifixion.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Father, forgive them for they not know what they do.
That man, that young man, I forgive him.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That was a very very powerful moment. President Trump and
Vice President Vance also spoke at the memorial. Democratic members
of Congress are expected to join a rally in Hollywood
in support of Jimmy Kimmel, whose late night show was
suspended over comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination. The rally is
being held later this morning outside the Dolby Theater, which
is across the street from where Jimmy Kimmel Live is taped.
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The lawmakers and Hollywood unions say the rally is to,
as they put it, defend American's constitutional right to free
speech and against the FCC these threats and intimidation. The
LAPED is looking for a man who's shot at officers
in Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That happened early Sunday morning in a neighborhood near the
one oh one Freeway. A man armed with a rifle
shot at officers who were responding to a call about
an armed suspect in the area. Officers fired back, but
the man was able to escape. It's unclear if he
was wounded. No officers were injured. Daniel Martindale, CAFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, there
were fewer planes in the air on Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
How come.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Well because of one little construction crew. Apparently a back
ho operator cut a couple of pipe fiber optic cables
in Argyle, Texas. Which is why's that north of Dallas
ford Worth by about thirty thirty five miles or so Unfortunately,
those fiber optic cables carry the FAA radars, the terminal radar,
approach control system, radio frequencies, computers, all in those two
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fiber optic cables. So once those were severed, they're supposed
to be a backup company that steps in and takes
up the slack. Well, that didn't happen for some reason.
So this domino effect happened, this cascade of little errors,
and suddenly one hundred thousand American Airlines passengers are stuck
at DFWR port, can't go anywhere, they can't go east,
they can't go west out to Los Angeles. They're sitting there.
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Dallas Lovefield, the major hub for Southwest Airlines, was also
at a gridlock situation. It lasted hours and hours, all
because of a couple of fiber optic cables that got cut.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, so, Jim, then you said it was a construction
crew in Argyle, Texas that accidentally cut the lines, and
that happened sometimes, right, But they were were they working
on anything that had to do with the FAA or
those particular lines, or were they just doing some random
construction project and just happened to hit those lines.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
They were working on a different project altogether. They apparently
were dealing with a different company and we're working on
fiber optic cables, but somehow cut those two cables, and
those crucial FAA communications were just pretty much shut down.
It really points out amy how fragile this system is
and how outdated it is, as well how backups sometimes
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don't exist, and so when one minor thing goes wrong,
it turns into a major hassle for the nationwide airspace.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And in this case, where there was there supposed to
have been a redundancy, I think you mentioned that, but
there wasn't or it didn't work right.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, Frontier Communications is the company that runs these fiber
optic cables. They're in charge of the cables. If those
were to be severed or if somehow that system broke down,
a company called L three Harris is supposed to step
in and pick up, so there's no real gap in
service to the FAA. Well, for some reason that company
didn't jump in. The FAA is blaming those two companies.
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The American airlines in Southwest are blaming the FAA. The
FAA also is blaming the Biden administration FAA and saying
not enough was done to modernize the system. So a
whole lot of fingerpointing going on. All those passengers did
finally get to their destinations.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Okay, and so you said, right now, there's a lot
of fingerpointing, but it is is the FA announcing any
new things they're going to do to prevent this kind
of thing, or technically those they're already in Technically those
systems are supposed to be in place, they just didn't
work well.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
They are well, right, and so much of the system
is it's also analog, it's not digital. And so Congress
approved a few months ago, twelve and a half billion
dollars to upgrade the whole system. But clearly it wasn't
done soon enough to see this prevented until yet. There
are things in the works to try to keep this
from happening again, but it'll take a while.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Okay. ABC's Jim Ryan, hope everybody's back in the air.
Talk to you soon, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Democratic
leaders in Congress are demanding a meeting with President Trump
to negotiate a government spending plan. Senate Minority leader Chuck
Schumer says if the government shuts down on October first,
it'll be because of Republican lawmakers.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
There has been no negotiation with the Republicans. There always
used to be.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
When I was Majority leader for four years, we didn't
have a shutdown because we sat down with Republicans.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
His comments come after the Senate voted down a stopgap
funding measure to avoid a shutdown. Trumpet urged lawmakers to
pass it. Democrats want to extend health or extend health
insurance subsidies that are set to expire at the end
of the year, plus reverse Medicaid cuts, including in a
spending bill that was passed earlier this year. Israeli Prime
(09:36):
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit back at the UK, Canada,
and Australia for recognizing a Palestinian state. ABC's Tom Sufi
Burridge says, according to Netanyahu, there will be no Palestinian state.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Israel has already said as a result of these recognitions,
they Israel will expand that settlement.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
They'll double it inside from around forty thousand to eighty
thousand people.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He says the recognition of statehood could potentially make things
harder for Palestinians. One person has been killed two others
hurt in a shooting during a wedding at a country
club in New Hampshire. A witness says he heard the
shooter say the children are safe and free Palestine and
appear to be targeting someone. This man says one guy
(10:21):
tried to stop the shooter on Saturday night. We get
him over heavy to chair and he probably saved a
munch of lives as doing that, because the shooter was
dazed when he came into the ballroom. The suspected shooter
was taken into custody in a neighborhood nearby. He was
booked on suspicion of second degree murder and more charges
are expected. Ebola vaccinations are being given to healthcare workers
(10:43):
in Congo in Central Africa. Doctor Patrick O'tem with the
World Health Organization says there have been dozens of confirmed
deaths there in recent weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
In this outbreak, we have seen that women are more affected,
accounting for around fifty five percent of cases.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Says they're trying to stop a new outbreak at the
deadly virus from getting worse. Proposed changes to vaccine recommendations
for kids and for COVID or awaiting final approval by
the CDC. Doctor Darien Sutton says COVID vaccines are said
to become an individual choice.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Private insurers have pledged to keep the coverage of COVID
nineteen vaccines, mainly because of a cost benefit. COVID nineteen
vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalizations, which are incredibly expensive.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
He says people should check with their pharmacist, primary care provider,
and state to understand their access. American Girl's twenty twenty
six IT girl has made history.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
She was a.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
Quel Rays is the twenty fifth American Girls Girl of
the Year. Raquel is Samantha Parkington's great great granddaughter ag Doll.
Fans will note this basically makes her Dull world royalty.
She's a ten year old from Kansas City whose parents
run a Paletta shop. She's got a Pomeranian sidekick named Luzita,
and yes, she plays pickleball. Her dad is Mexican, so
her release is timed with Hispanic Heritage month. How the
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brookerp caf I knew.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
My friend had an American girl? Are those the ones
that look like you? They're kind of creepy, I think so.
I was telling you earlier that I went up to
Big Bear this weekend, and I will tell you that
drive is a bear. We took the three point thirty
up and as we're driving up the mountain side and
the cliff is right there and there's a huge cliff
and a huge drop off. I was pretty much white
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knuckling it the whole way and I was thinking, boy,
I really do not like heights.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Kind of ironic that this Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I'll be going over the edge, repelling down twenty five
stories off the side of the Hilton Los Angeles Universal City.
We're doing this for the Union Rescue Mission to raise
money for them to fight the homeless crisis. And the
way that they do it is one by one. They
help people. They take them in, they get them into rehab,
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they get them job trained, they provide long term solutions.
They have recovery, transitional housing, education, training, job placement. And
they get no federal funding because they they're a dry facility.
They don't allow drugs and alcohol, and so because of that,
the government won't give them any funding. This is all
privately raised money and that's what we're doing. We're trying
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to raise money to help people get off the streets
and actually find their way home and like get off
the streets for good, not just throw money at the problem,
but help people restart their lives. We're doing it this
Friday and Saturday, September twenty sixth and twenty seventh at
the Los Angeles Universal City Hotel.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It's the Hilton.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It's the one that you can see from the freeway
there that big, beautiful black building and we're going to
go over the edge, and I would love for you
to donate to help us raise money. If you want
to go over the edge with us, I'd love that too.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I need moral support, but.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
A thousand dollars donation, you can go over the edge
if you would like to donate twenty bucks or a
hundred bucks, or five hundred bucks or ten bucks, I
don't care. Whatever you can spare. It's going for again
actually fighting homelessness, and we need your help to get
that done. So it's very easy to do. You can
sign up to donate, or you can sign up to
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go ahead and repel with us. Neil Sevadra is also
doing it, and we're going to do it on Friday,
September twenty sixth. They're also going over the Edge on
the twenty seventh, so either day, but you can sign
up at RM dot org slash ote and then just
look for the team. KFI and Neil and I are
there and would appreciate if you'd make a donation.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Charlie Kirk's widow has told a capacity crowd at State
Farm Stadium in Phoenix that she forgives the man who
assassinated her husband. President Trump vice President Vance were among
the speakers at the service yesterday that drew about one
hundred thousand people. Anti LGBTQ plus and other graffiti. It's
been spray painted on a utility box in front of
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the building that houses Long Beach Pride. Mayor Rex Richardson
says there were also swastikas and mega painted on the
building Saturday. At the corner of tenth Street and Obispo Avenue.
Despite the destructive et and fire, the annual Christmas Tree
Lane event is returning to Alta, Dina. Organizers made the
announcement Saturday. The cedar trees at East Mariposa Street in
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Santa Rosa Avenue are going to be decorated with Christmas lights,
along with nearby homes. The one hundred and fifth annual
tree lighting ceremony and winter Festival will be held on
December sixth. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
Good morning, Karen. As I mentioned, the turnout for Charlie
Kirk's memorial was huge, tell us about it.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, it was huge. It was held in the NFL
stadium there in Arizona. I mean, it was five hours long,
and it was just VIP after VIP from the conservative
political world, including President Trump as you mentioned, and Vice
President Vance. So it was a massive show of support
for Kirkis family. But you mentioned that think Charlie Kirks's widow,
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and that I think is going to be a moment
that really will probably stick with people, maybe the lasting
moment from that event yesterday. Kirk's widow very emotional remarks,
but the line that's going to last is when she
said that she forgives the alleged shooter and that hate
cannot be met with hate in this country, and the
crowd gave her a standing ovation. She was struggling to
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hold back her emotions. That is not an easy speech
to give. I mean, I think that's an understatement to
say in a stadium like that. So soon after her
husband's death. But she had that crowd on her feet,
their feet and really giving her support. And I mean
she's now in charge of the organization that her husband
founded and led, and she showed that she is going
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to continue his legacy in conservative politics.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, and Jade Vance also along with the President Trump's speech.
Jadie Vance was a good friend of Kirk's and he
spoke too, did.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
He was, Yeah, he was, you know, and he was
emotional too. But he talked about their personal relationship. Remember
he escorted Charlie Kirk's casket from Utah to Arizona on
Air Force two. He also talked about what an impact
he had on conservative politics, including especially the MAGA movement.
They were very good friends as well. The President spoke
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at length and talked about the influence Kirk had and
said that he is somebody that is going to be
remembered and now that his organization is going to be
bigger and better than before. So I think, you know,
there was also a look forward about what the legacy
of Charlie Kirk will now bring with millions of people
in the President's view being inspired by what he has
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left behind.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, it was a pretty amazing, and I agree with you.
I think that the Eric at Kirk's speech was just
just mesmerizing really. I mean, five hours is a long time,
but I think she had everybody just on the.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Edge of their seat absolutely. ABC. Skaren Travis, thanks so much.
Have a great day, all right you too.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Governor Newsom has signed five bills aimed at restricting federal
immigration rates. One of the bills, signed Saturday and LA
bans law enforcement agents from wearing masks. Another requires agents
to display ID. A third ban's bounty hunters from doing
immigration enforcement. The other two bills have to do a schools.
One requires parents, students, and staff be notified when immigration
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enforcement actions are confirmed on campus, and the other requires
ice officers to get a warrant and meet other requirements
before entering a school or school facility. Acting US Attorney
Bill Assales's California has no jurisdiction over the federal government
and that if Newsom wants to regulate federal agents, he
has to go through Congress. A man from Sacramento accused
(18:38):
of shooting at a TV station has been arrested again.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
The FBI says Annabal Hernandez Santana has been rearrested after
posting bail. Agents say he violated a federal law that
covers interference with licensed radio and TV stations. Hernandez Santana
is accused of firing multiple shots at the ABC ten
building in Sacramento Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
No one was hurt.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
He's now in federal customs and do back in court
today and tomorrow. Brigitia Agostino k if I News.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
A man accused of killing a small dog during a
burglary in West Hollywood has been arrested. The guy was
caught in Beverly Hills last night. Officials say nothing was
stolen during the break in earlier this month. Apparently the
man knew the person of the house that he broke into.
The guy arrested his facing charges of burglary, vandalism, and
animal cruelty. A man inventory County's been arrested for allegedly
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recording women inside a dressing room at a target in
Thousand Oaks. The allegations date back to June fifth. Jack
Crawford is facing eight counts of invasion of privacy after
he allegedly filmed women with his cell phone. Investigators are
trying to find more women who may have been recorded.
LA's chief accountant has expressed worry over the city council's
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decision to expand the convention center.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Two point six billion dollar price tag has the city
Controller's office nervous. Controller Kenneth Mahea says he's worried because
the city could be on the hook for over one
hundred million dollars in debt payments annually for three decades.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
I'm afraid financially because I do not know where we're
going to find one hundred four million dollars each year
for the next thirty years.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
He says. The city has struggled to bring in revenue
in recent years and has had to cut services and
staff to make up shortfalls. Supporters of the project say
it will generate jobs and millions in tax and other revenues.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
New research shows the annual death toll from wildfire smoke
in the US could go higher than seventy thousand by
twenty fifty. Researchers at Stonybrook University looked at health risks
from ash and soot. Their study shows that if public
health measures don't improve, more people will likely die from
wildfire smoke. As global warming continues to be an issue
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in the next couple of decades. The twenty twenty five
Dodgers have become the fifth franchise in Major League Baseball
history to draw four million fans in a single season.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Dodgers officially top the four million attendance mark on Sunday.
A crowd of forty six thousand, six hundred and one
people attended the final regular season home game, which was
won by the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers averaged forty nine,
five hundred and thirty seven fans per game this season.
This is the new all time record for attendance for
the Dodgers franchise. The last teams to top the four
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million attendance mark were the two thousand and eight New
York Yankees and the two thousand and eight New York Mets.
The Dodgers will be back in the playoffs, but have
yet to clinch home field advantage in the first round.
Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, we gotta wait and see if we win the division,
and maybe our regular season is over, but there are
still being game.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
There are still games being played.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
You can catch all the Dodgers games on our sister
station klac am five to seventy. And of course, as
I mentioned, regular season for the Dodgers might be done,
but we got playoff coming. Uh. The LAPDE is looking
for a man who's shot at officers in Boyle Heights.
The LAPD says, a man with a rifle shot at
the officers early yesterday morning when they were responding to
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a call about an armed suspect in a neighborhood near
the one on one Freeway. Officers fired back, the shooter
got away, nobody was hurt. Looks like TikTok won't stop.
The White House says American companies led by Oracle will
now control TikTok's algorithm. In the US Press, Secretary Caroline
Levitt says the Chinese company Byte Dance will get one
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of the seven board seats for TikTok's US operations, and
Americans will hold the remaining street sweet seats.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I need to take a sip of coffee. I got
something in my throat. Boom doom, doom, All.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Right better, Lovitt says a deal could be signed in
the coming days, but nothing's final yet. The annual Christmas
Tree Lane event returning to ald Sedina this holiday season,
organizers say the cedar trees at East Mariposa Street and
Santa Rose Avenue will be decorated with Christmas lights, along
with nearby homes. Lovely to see that they're going to
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celebrate in spite of the wildfires.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
A vigila has.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Been held in Lake Elsinor to remember the teen girl
whose body was found in an impounded tesla in Hollywood,
Celeste Revs Hernandez, had disappeared a year ago. This girl
tells Katla she went to school with Revs.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It feel really bad for what happened to her because
the story is so messed up. End's like I don't
even know what to say.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
My friends told me about it, and it's like I
never imagined that would happen. Revs's body was found this
month in a car registered to a singer named David.
He has canceled several concert dates. A teacher who says
Revs was a former student told TMZ the girl once
ran away with the rapper she met on social media
before police found her in Hollywood. The teacher says he
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shared the story as a cautionary tale about online dangers.
City leaders in La are ramping up security ahead of
the Jewish High Holy Days.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Mary Karen Bass and Police Chief Jim McDonald's say officers
will increase patrols at synagogues, schools, and community centers, working
directly with Jewish leaders to deter crime and provide reassurance.
Rashashana begins Monday evening, launching ten days of reflection leading
to Yam Kapor. Officials say the LAPD is updating contacts
for every Jewish institution, training officers on customs and traditions,
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and standing united against anti Semitism to keep Jewish angelinos
in all communities safe. Heather Brooker Kafie News.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Former Vice President Harris has written a new book on
last year's presidential election called One hundred and Seven Days.
The host of ESPN's First Take, Stephen Smith's, Harris lost
the election and is now blaming everyone but herself.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
In twenty twenty four, you lost every swing state.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
You lost a popular vote for the first time since
two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Nobody wants to hear it now.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I believe her political career is all for.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Harris's book is due out later this month. Time to
get in your business now and in for Bloomberg's Courtney
Donaho is Bloomberg's Monica Ricks.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Good morning Monica, Good morning Amy. It's always so exciting
to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I know we miss you in LA, but now you're
in the I miss you too, a big, big city.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
I have been for a little while, but that doesn't
mean in that my heart isn't still in LA.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You left find Los Angeles. Wait, that's not a song, Okay,
but it could be. Okay, let's get down to business. Courtney,
what's the latest.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I just mentioned this that Montica, not Courtney. Sorry, you're
an autopilot.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I know it's because I'm looking at your note that
says I'm filling in for Courtney, So I just saw
your name. Tell us the latest on the US TikTok
takeover that we're just mentioning.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Yeah, you were just.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Talking about that a little bit, but just a few
more details to expand on that. We learned this morning
that Oracle is planning to recreate and provide security for
a new US version of TikTok's algorithm. So under this
new deal to sell to a group of American investors,
the company will store US data on a secure cloud,
and it's going to have controls to keep out those
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foreign adversaries, including China, which is where which is controlling
the app? Now, now, President Trump did hint over the
weekend that Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch are involved. Billionaire Michael
Dell could also be involved. And as you mentioned, US
operations will be majority owned and controlled by American investors.
So Americans are going to hold six of seven board
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seats for TikTok.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So we can continue to watch our dances and food
shows stuff. Thank goodness, I know, okay, so we knew
that there was a fallout. In fact, we're going to
be talking more about this with Stephen Portenite from ABC
pretty soon. But there's fallout from the cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel.
How is it hitting like Disney Plus?
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Well, Disney stock is down a little over one percent
right now in pre market trading as those cancelations continue
for Disney Plus, ESPN, and Hulu. Of course, users are
closing their accounts following Jimmy Kimmel's cancelation last week. But
it's not easy to cancel. I mean, I'm keeping my
account for now. I want to see how this all
plays out. But I tried to go through the motions
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this weekend, and Hulu's Give You gives you a ton
of prompts, so they're attempting to keep users with lower
rates for a few months. They offered a pause subscriptions
and you really have to jump through a lot of
hoops to actually cancel your account. Shares with the company
have also lost billions in value since Kimmel's cancelation.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Wow okay, And on an up note, people are they
have a lot of interest in the old iPhone seventeen.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Apparently, oh Man good weekend for Apple stores around the world,
reporting strong demand for its new iPhone seventeen lineup. It
focuses on better battery life, durability, camera, power, colors, all
the things that consumers have been asking for. And I
gotta say it got me. I want the Orange one.
Orange is my favorite color and I might get one
just because of that. But most purchases have been for
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the new Pro model Air is also popular. That's Apple's
new thinner iPhone.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I like the Orange one too, I've seen that in
a lot of the ads. I'm like, oh, that sounds
so cool. And I want to talk to Rich Dimiro,
who's our tech guy from KTLA, and he has said
if you've been waiting or you've been thinking about it.
This phone is actually a good one to upgrade too.
Like some of them haven't had a lot of changes,
this one does.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
I mean a lot of people have been posting videos
on social media over the weekend, like the zoom is incredible,
the quality of pictures is great. Selfies look crisper like
I mean, it looks like.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It's a good upgrade.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And anything I can do to improve my selfies is
a good thing because I'm really bad.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
At no kidding.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Okay, Bloomberg's Monica ricks in for Courtney today. Get in
your business and we will either talk to you or
to Courtney tomorrow. Thanks so much, Monica, Thanks Amy all right.
Detectives are investigating the death of a two month old
boy found not breathing at a home in Lancaster. Sheriff's
deputies were called to the house on Beach Avenue yesterday morning.
The little boy died at the scene. No other information
(28:38):
was provided, but apparently no arrests have been made. French
President and Menuel Maccron says he will formally recognize the
Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in New
York it's about to get underway on Face the Nation.
McCrone said his decision is necessary to counter hamas Canada,
Australia and the UK have all taken similar stances. The
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Dodgers have become the fifth franchise in Major League Baseball
history to draw four million fans in a single season.
The Dodgers top the four million mark yesterday, which was
their last regular season game. The Dodgers lost it to
the Giants three to one. Average attendance this season was
forty nine, five hundred and thirty seven, an all time
record for the team. We're just minutes away from Handle
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on the news this morning. Course Handle is still on vacation,
so we have Nil sav Adrian going to give us
some takeaways from the Charlie Kirk memorial service that happened
yesterday at a stadium in Glendale, Arizona. A packed stadium,
like one hundred thousand people almost turned out. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Steven and Portnoy. So Stephen,
(29:41):
Jimmy Kimmel is still off the air and both sides
of the aisle are weighing in on it.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
What are they saying, Well, increasingly Republicans and Congress are
stepping up and saying they don't like the idea that
the federal regulator of broadcast radio and television would try
to assert pressure on some of the businesses that he
licenses to say that they ought to do something one
way or another about what airs on the stations. And
(30:07):
you know, specifically we're talking about Jimmy Kimmel. I obviously
am employed by ABC. I have no specific or particular
insights as to what is going on, but I can
tell you that here in Washington, d c. The idea
that you would have Senators such as Rand Paul of
Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas joining a number of
prominent conservative commentators saying that it's inappropriate for Brendan Carr,
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the SEC chairman, to be doing this is notable. The
President says that Carr is a great American patriot who's
doing the right thing. And the President believes that some
licensed radio and television station should lose their ability to
operate because they criticize him, and he says that that
ought to be the subject of government action. The First
Amendment and the Communications Act of nineteen thirty four would
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suggest otherwise. There's a specific section of the Communications Act
that says that the FCC does not have the power
to censor broadcasters or to interfere with the rite of
free speech of broadcasters. So what is Brendan Carr saying, Well,
he's been saying that he has the obligation to enforce
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the law which for nearly one hundred years has said
that broadcasters must operate in the public interest. Now, Congress
never defined that term, and Brendan Carr seems to be
invoking it in every conversation he has. What does he
mean when he speaks of the public interest? And you know,
if it's been one hundred years now since we've all
been operating under that standard, why should it change now?
(31:37):
And what does he mean when he says it? We
don't know. But the bottom line is that, you know,
this is a regulatory question, a legal question, a business question.
And you had the decision by two of the largest
stations owned station owners in the country, Next Star and
Sinclair last week deciding that they were not going to
run the Jimmy Kimmel Live program on the ABC stations
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they own, which cover at least twenty percent of the country.
And following that, my employer, ABC made the announcement that
the show would be suspended indefinitely. Again, we're waiting to
hear amy as to the final disposition of that situation.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay, and Stephen. Did they make that decision because of
comments that Brendan Carr made, or did they make that
decision because they said their viewers weren't happy with it
and they were losing sponsors.
Speaker 11 (32:23):
Disney has not provided any further information to me or
to you as to what decision was based on, except
to say that the show has been indefinitely suspended.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, but that's Disney, that's ABC. But the Sinclair and
Next Star, right, those are the station owners, correct, and
they had already said that they were going to preempt
the show before Disney made the decision.
Speaker 11 (32:47):
That's right. And so Next Star had a statement that
indicated that what Brendan Carr said had nothing to do
with their decision. Sinclair said that they were offended by
what Jimmy Kimmel said a week ago tonight. But ultimately,
you know, it's hard to ignore the fact that these
decisions were made in the immediate aftermath of what Brendan
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Carr said on a podcast that got a lot of
attention and he specifically suggested that the station groups should
do exactly what they did do within the following hours.
There's a long precedent in our history of broadcast station
owners deciding that they they won't clear the content of networks.
Most infamously, you'd look back at the middle of the
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twentieth century, when a number of broadcast stations in the
South decided that they wouldn't air, for example, the Nat
King Cole Show because he was an African American. You
had the example of stations refusing to air the nineteen
seventy seven sitcom Soap on the ABC television network.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
That show was hilarious.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
I thought so too, but many programmers felt that it
was inappropriate that Billy Crystal would play a gay man
in primetime television, so they declined to air that program.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
There was a.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
Controversy over the airing of Roots in the late nineteen seventies,
although I'm not aware of any stations refusing to run it. Yeah,
but look, the idea of pressure coming from stations is
nothing new. What's interesting here, and new here is the
idea that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission would
suggest that stations use that power in this particular circumstance,
and hours later they did.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, well, we'll be watching to see what happens next.
As you said, no definitive decision on Kimmel has been made.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
It's sort of just in limbo right now.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
That's my understanding. I don't have any particular insights to share.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
All right, Steven Portnoy, ABC, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
You bet all right, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Almost one hundred thousand people have paid tribute to conservative
activist Charlie Kirk at a memorial service in Arizona. The
memorial yesterday at State Farm Stadium drew people from across
the country. One of the speakers was Kirk's widow, Erica,
who talked about seeing her murdered husband's body.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I felt everything you would back to feel. I felt shock,
I felt poor.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
And a level of heartache.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
But I didn't even know existed.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Still, she tearfully told the crowd that she forgives the shooter.
Eric Kirk was recently named CEO of Turning Point USA,
which her husband started. Authority say the gun used to
kill Charlie Kirk maybe a decade old untraceable rifle. Prosecutor
say the gun is a Mouser Model ninety eight bolt
action rifle, a type originally manufactured in Germany for use
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during World War one and two. Authority say belonged to
Tyler Robinson's grandfather. He's the shooting suspect, the son or
the grandson, and that he may have used the rifle
because it was difficult to trace. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's
his Americans most universally condemned political violence after the assassination
of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Shapiro says it needs to be stamped out her.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Where it is, whether it's against Charlie Kirk, where someone
else it is not okay.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Shapiro and his family were targeted in an arson attack
at their home earlier this year. The Save America Movement
says it'll deploy video vans to monitor immigration enforcement in La.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Hundreds of people gathered at MacArthur Park for the announcement
over the weekend, including La Mayor Bass. She says Liberty
Van one, two and three will play a crucial role
in protecting illegal immigrants in the city. When we think
back at the civil rights movement.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
What changed the hearts and minds of the country and.
Speaker 10 (36:32):
The world were cameras was documentation of what was happening.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
The organization says it will spend the next couple of
weeks training volunteers, and then the vans will hit the
streets in early October with lawyers, clergy and video cameras
that can stream live. Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
KFI news filmmaker Christopher Nolan's been appointed President of the
Directors Guild of America. The Oppenheimer director ran for the
top spot unopposed and will now lead the union of
about twenty thousand directors, unit production manager and stage managers.
Nolan called it one of the greatest honors of his career.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
(37:09):
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
This has been your wake up Call, and if you
missed any wake up Call, you can listen any old
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You can always hear wake Up Call five to six
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's five o'clock straight up on this Monday, September twenty second.
This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King. We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I hope you had
a great weekend. I had a spectacular weekend. Took a
couple of days off thanks to Heather Brooker to fill
for filling in for me.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I went up to Big Bear. Never been to Big
Bear before, and it was so fantastic. I'm like, when
can I come back up here again? It was so
much fun and it was so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We got up there on Thursday and we had some
thunderstorms on Thursday and it was just starting to rain
as we were making our way up the mountain, and
then we got the full brunt of the storm when
we got there. But happy that we went up when
we did because there were some mudslides and there were
people who were stuck on those mountain highways for like
(01:21):
twelve hours Highway thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hiway thirty eight was closed yet. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So anyway, but then after that the weather was so
beautiful and it's so gorgeous up there, and we went
for walks, and we went to the Alpine Zoo and
we went to october Fest.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Did you see sunny or Cuzmo.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Did not see eagles.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Saw lots of pelicans though, So yeah, but if you
haven't been up to Big Bear. In fact, we're going
to be going out and about and give you a
little preview of the Octoberfest, which is going on through October.
They started early, starting September, and in fact, the Munich
Octoberfest didn't know this started on Saturday, so they started
in September two and then just you know, party for
(02:05):
a month and a half. But it was great And anyway,
I hope you had a great weekend. I know I did,
feeling rested and relaxed and ready to go.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
So here's what's the head on wake up call.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
A bit of a shaky start to the day for
people in the Bay Area. The US Geological SURVEYCES A
four point three earthquake hit shortly before three am. It
was centered just east southeast of Berkeley. A lot of
people reported feeling a sharp shake. No reports of any
damage or injuries. City of Las increased security around Jewish
places of worship for the High Holy Days. Rashashana begins
(02:36):
this evening and goes for ten days. ABC's Karen Travers
is going to be joining us in a few minutes
to tell us more about the memorial yesterday for Charlie
Kirk and some memorable memorable moments. Governor Newsom assigned five
bills that will restrict federal immigration raids in California. News
signed the bills on Saturday. They ban ICE agents from
(02:57):
wearing masks and require them to show ID, among other things.
More than a thousand flights were canceled because of a
fiber optic line that was cut in a little tiny
town in Texas. ABC's Jim Ryan's gonna join us to
tell us how this latest situation has exposed more vulnerabilities
that the FAA great something more to worry about. Fallout
(03:19):
continues following Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air. ABC
Stephen Portnoy's going to tell us about the red flags
being raised over that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's at five fifty just.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Five days to go until I go over the edge
to help find someone find their way home, and we
need your help to make that happen. I'm going to
tell you more about how you can help and how
you too could repel off a twenty five story building
to help homeless people actually get off the streets for good.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. More than
ninety thousand people turned out in Glendale, Arizona, for the
(03:52):
memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. State Farm Stadium
was filled to capacity yesterday, while tens of thousands of
people gathered outside. Many say they were moved when Kirk's
wife spoke about her husband's killer and quoted it Jesus
during the crucifixion.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Father, forgive them for they not know what they do.
That man, that young man, I forgive him.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
That was a very very powerful moment. President Trump and
Vice President Vance also spoke at the memorial. Democratic members
of Congress are expected to join a rally in Hollywood
in support of Jimmy Kimmel, whose late night show was
suspended over comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination. The rally is
being held later this morning outside the Dolby Theater, which
is across the street from where Jimmy Kimmel Live is taped.
(04:50):
The lawmakers and Hollywood unions say the rally is to,
as they put it, defend American's constitutional right to free
speech and against the FCC these threats and intimidation. The
LAPED is looking for a man who's shot at officers
in Boyle Heights.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That happened early Sunday morning in a neighborhood near the
one oh one Freeway. A man armed with a rifle
shot at officers who were responding to a call about
an armed suspect in the area. Officers fired back, but
the man was able to escape. It's unclear if he
was wounded. No officers were injured. Daniel Martindale, CAFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, there
were fewer planes in the air on Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
How come.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Well because of one little construction crew. Apparently a back
ho operator cut a couple of pipe fiber optic cables
in Argyle, Texas. Which is why's that north of Dallas
ford Worth by about thirty thirty five miles or so Unfortunately,
those fiber optic cables carry the FAA radars, the terminal radar,
approach control system, radio frequencies, computers, all in those two
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fiber optic cables. So once those were severed, they're supposed
to be a backup company that steps in and takes
up the slack. Well, that didn't happen for some reason.
So this domino effect happened, this cascade of little errors,
and suddenly one hundred thousand American Airlines passengers are stuck
at DFWR port, can't go anywhere, they can't go east,
they can't go west out to Los Angeles. They're sitting there.
(06:17):
Dallas Lovefield, the major hub for Southwest Airlines, was also
at a gridlock situation. It lasted hours and hours, all
because of a couple of fiber optic cables that got cut.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Okay, so, Jim, then you said it was a construction
crew in Argyle, Texas that accidentally cut the lines, and
that happened sometimes, right, But they were were they working
on anything that had to do with the FAA or
those particular lines, or were they just doing some random
construction project and just happened to hit those lines.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
They were working on a different project altogether. They apparently
were dealing with a different company and we're working on
fiber optic cables, but somehow cut those two cables, and
those crucial FAA communications were just pretty much shut down.
It really points out amy how fragile this system is
and how outdated it is, as well how backups sometimes
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don't exist, and so when one minor thing goes wrong,
it turns into a major hassle for the nationwide airspace.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And in this case, where there was there supposed to
have been a redundancy, I think you mentioned that, but
there wasn't or it didn't work right.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, Frontier Communications is the company that runs these fiber
optic cables. They're in charge of the cables. If those
were to be severed or if somehow that system broke down,
a company called L three Harris is supposed to step
in and pick up, so there's no real gap in
service to the FAA. Well, for some reason that company
didn't jump in. The FAA is blaming those two companies.
(07:46):
The American airlines in Southwest are blaming the FAA. The
FAA also is blaming the Biden administration FAA and saying
not enough was done to modernize the system. So a
whole lot of fingerpointing going on. All those passengers did
finally get to their destinations.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Okay, and so you said, right now, there's a lot
of fingerpointing, but it is is the FA announcing any
new things they're going to do to prevent this kind
of thing, or technically those they're already in Technically those
systems are supposed to be in place, they just didn't
work well.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
They are well, right, and so much of the system
is it's also analog, it's not digital. And so Congress
approved a few months ago, twelve and a half billion
dollars to upgrade the whole system. But clearly it wasn't
done soon enough to see this prevented until yet. There
are things in the works to try to keep this
from happening again, but it'll take a while.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Okay. ABC's Jim Ryan, hope everybody's back in the air.
Talk to you soon, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Democratic
leaders in Congress are demanding a meeting with President Trump
to negotiate a government spending plan. Senate Minority leader Chuck
Schumer says if the government shuts down on October first,
it'll be because of Republican lawmakers.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
There has been no negotiation with the Republicans. There always
used to be.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
When I was Majority leader for four years, we didn't
have a shutdown because we sat down with Republicans.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
His comments come after the Senate voted down a stopgap
funding measure to avoid a shutdown. Trumpet urged lawmakers to
pass it. Democrats want to extend health or extend health
insurance subsidies that are set to expire at the end
of the year, plus reverse Medicaid cuts, including in a
spending bill that was passed earlier this year. Israeli Prime
(09:36):
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit back at the UK, Canada,
and Australia for recognizing a Palestinian state. ABC's Tom Sufi
Burridge says, according to Netanyahu, there will be no Palestinian state.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Israel has already said as a result of these recognitions,
they Israel will expand that settlement.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
They'll double it inside from around forty thousand to eighty
thousand people.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He says the recognition of statehood could potentially make things
harder for Palestinians. One person has been killed two others
hurt in a shooting during a wedding at a country
club in New Hampshire. A witness says he heard the
shooter say the children are safe and free Palestine and
appear to be targeting someone. This man says one guy
(10:21):
tried to stop the shooter on Saturday night. We get
him over heavy to chair and he probably saved a
munch of lives as doing that, because the shooter was
dazed when he came into the ballroom. The suspected shooter
was taken into custody in a neighborhood nearby. He was
booked on suspicion of second degree murder and more charges
are expected. Ebola vaccinations are being given to healthcare workers
(10:43):
in Congo in Central Africa. Doctor Patrick O'tem with the
World Health Organization says there have been dozens of confirmed
deaths there in recent weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
In this outbreak, we have seen that women are more affected,
accounting for around fifty five percent of cases.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Says they're trying to stop a new outbreak at the
deadly virus from getting worse. Proposed changes to vaccine recommendations
for kids and for COVID or awaiting final approval by
the CDC. Doctor Darien Sutton says COVID vaccines are said
to become an individual choice.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Private insurers have pledged to keep the coverage of COVID
nineteen vaccines, mainly because of a cost benefit. COVID nineteen
vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalizations, which are incredibly expensive.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
He says people should check with their pharmacist, primary care provider,
and state to understand their access. American Girl's twenty twenty
six IT girl has made history.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
She was a.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
Quel Rays is the twenty fifth American Girls Girl of
the Year. Raquel is Samantha Parkington's great great granddaughter ag Doll.
Fans will note this basically makes her Dull world royalty.
She's a ten year old from Kansas City whose parents
run a Paletta shop. She's got a Pomeranian sidekick named Luzita,
and yes, she plays pickleball. Her dad is Mexican, so
her release is timed with Hispanic Heritage month. How the
(12:02):
brookerp caf I knew.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
My friend had an American girl? Are those the ones
that look like you? They're kind of creepy, I think so.
I was telling you earlier that I went up to
Big Bear this weekend, and I will tell you that
drive is a bear. We took the three point thirty
up and as we're driving up the mountain side and
the cliff is right there and there's a huge cliff
and a huge drop off. I was pretty much white
(12:30):
knuckling it the whole way and I was thinking, boy,
I really do not like heights.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Kind of ironic that this Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I'll be going over the edge, repelling down twenty five
stories off the side of the Hilton Los Angeles Universal City.
We're doing this for the Union Rescue Mission to raise
money for them to fight the homeless crisis. And the
way that they do it is one by one. They
help people. They take them in, they get them into rehab,
(12:58):
they get them job trained, they provide long term solutions.
They have recovery, transitional housing, education, training, job placement. And
they get no federal funding because they they're a dry facility.
They don't allow drugs and alcohol, and so because of that,
the government won't give them any funding. This is all
privately raised money and that's what we're doing. We're trying
(13:21):
to raise money to help people get off the streets
and actually find their way home and like get off
the streets for good, not just throw money at the problem,
but help people restart their lives. We're doing it this
Friday and Saturday, September twenty sixth and twenty seventh at
the Los Angeles Universal City Hotel.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It's the Hilton.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It's the one that you can see from the freeway
there that big, beautiful black building and we're going to
go over the edge, and I would love for you
to donate to help us raise money. If you want
to go over the edge with us, I'd love that too.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I need moral support, but.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
A thousand dollars donation, you can go over the edge
if you would like to donate twenty bucks or a
hundred bucks, or five hundred bucks or ten bucks, I
don't care. Whatever you can spare. It's going for again
actually fighting homelessness, and we need your help to get
that done. So it's very easy to do. You can
sign up to donate, or you can sign up to
(14:18):
go ahead and repel with us. Neil Sevadra is also
doing it, and we're going to do it on Friday,
September twenty sixth. They're also going over the Edge on
the twenty seventh, so either day, but you can sign
up at RM dot org slash ote and then just
look for the team. KFI and Neil and I are
there and would appreciate if you'd make a donation.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Charlie Kirk's widow has told a capacity crowd at State
Farm Stadium in Phoenix that she forgives the man who
assassinated her husband. President Trump vice President Vance were among
the speakers at the service yesterday that drew about one
hundred thousand people. Anti LGBTQ plus and other graffiti. It's
been spray painted on a utility box in front of
(14:59):
the building that houses Long Beach Pride. Mayor Rex Richardson
says there were also swastikas and mega painted on the
building Saturday. At the corner of tenth Street and Obispo Avenue.
Despite the destructive et and fire, the annual Christmas Tree
Lane event is returning to Alta, Dina. Organizers made the
announcement Saturday. The cedar trees at East Mariposa Street in
(15:19):
Santa Rosa Avenue are going to be decorated with Christmas lights,
along with nearby homes. The one hundred and fifth annual
tree lighting ceremony and winter Festival will be held on
December sixth. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
Good morning, Karen. As I mentioned, the turnout for Charlie
Kirk's memorial was huge, tell us about it.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, it was huge. It was held in the NFL
stadium there in Arizona. I mean, it was five hours long,
and it was just VIP after VIP from the conservative
political world, including President Trump as you mentioned, and Vice
President Vance. So it was a massive show of support
for Kirkis family. But you mentioned that think Charlie Kirks's widow,
(16:01):
and that I think is going to be a moment
that really will probably stick with people, maybe the lasting
moment from that event yesterday. Kirk's widow very emotional remarks,
but the line that's going to last is when she
said that she forgives the alleged shooter and that hate
cannot be met with hate in this country, and the
crowd gave her a standing ovation. She was struggling to
(16:23):
hold back her emotions. That is not an easy speech
to give. I mean, I think that's an understatement to
say in a stadium like that. So soon after her
husband's death. But she had that crowd on her feet,
their feet and really giving her support. And I mean
she's now in charge of the organization that her husband
founded and led, and she showed that she is going
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to continue his legacy in conservative politics.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, and Jade Vance also along with the President Trump's speech.
Jadie Vance was a good friend of Kirk's and he
spoke too, did.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
He was, Yeah, he was, you know, and he was
emotional too. But he talked about their personal relationship. Remember
he escorted Charlie Kirk's casket from Utah to Arizona on
Air Force two. He also talked about what an impact
he had on conservative politics, including especially the MAGA movement.
They were very good friends as well. The President spoke
(17:16):
at length and talked about the influence Kirk had and
said that he is somebody that is going to be
remembered and now that his organization is going to be
bigger and better than before. So I think, you know,
there was also a look forward about what the legacy
of Charlie Kirk will now bring with millions of people
in the President's view being inspired by what he has
(17:37):
left behind.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, it was a pretty amazing, and I agree with you.
I think that the Eric at Kirk's speech was just
just mesmerizing really. I mean, five hours is a long time,
but I think she had everybody just on the.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Edge of their seat absolutely. ABC. Skaren Travis, thanks so much.
Have a great day, all right you too.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Governor Newsom has signed five bills aimed at restricting federal
immigration rates. One of the bills, signed Saturday and LA
bans law enforcement agents from wearing masks. Another requires agents
to display ID. A third ban's bounty hunters from doing
immigration enforcement. The other two bills have to do a schools.
One requires parents, students, and staff be notified when immigration
(18:17):
enforcement actions are confirmed on campus, and the other requires
ice officers to get a warrant and meet other requirements
before entering a school or school facility. Acting US Attorney
Bill Assales's California has no jurisdiction over the federal government
and that if Newsom wants to regulate federal agents, he
has to go through Congress. A man from Sacramento accused
(18:38):
of shooting at a TV station has been arrested again.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
The FBI says Annabal Hernandez Santana has been rearrested after
posting bail. Agents say he violated a federal law that
covers interference with licensed radio and TV stations. Hernandez Santana
is accused of firing multiple shots at the ABC ten
building in Sacramento Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
No one was hurt.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
He's now in federal customs and do back in court
today and tomorrow. Brigitia Agostino k if I News.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
A man accused of killing a small dog during a
burglary in West Hollywood has been arrested. The guy was
caught in Beverly Hills last night. Officials say nothing was
stolen during the break in earlier this month. Apparently the
man knew the person of the house that he broke into.
The guy arrested his facing charges of burglary, vandalism, and
animal cruelty. A man inventory County's been arrested for allegedly
(19:27):
recording women inside a dressing room at a target in
Thousand Oaks. The allegations date back to June fifth. Jack
Crawford is facing eight counts of invasion of privacy after
he allegedly filmed women with his cell phone. Investigators are
trying to find more women who may have been recorded.
LA's chief accountant has expressed worry over the city council's
(19:48):
decision to expand the convention center.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Two point six billion dollar price tag has the city
Controller's office nervous. Controller Kenneth Mahea says he's worried because
the city could be on the hook for over one
hundred million dollars in debt payments annually for three decades.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
I'm afraid financially because I do not know where we're
going to find one hundred four million dollars each year
for the next thirty years.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
He says. The city has struggled to bring in revenue
in recent years and has had to cut services and
staff to make up shortfalls. Supporters of the project say
it will generate jobs and millions in tax and other revenues.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
New research shows the annual death toll from wildfire smoke
in the US could go higher than seventy thousand by
twenty fifty. Researchers at Stonybrook University looked at health risks
from ash and soot. Their study shows that if public
health measures don't improve, more people will likely die from
wildfire smoke. As global warming continues to be an issue
(20:43):
in the next couple of decades. The twenty twenty five
Dodgers have become the fifth franchise in Major League Baseball
history to draw four million fans in a single season.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Dodgers officially top the four million attendance mark on Sunday.
A crowd of forty six thousand, six hundred and one
people attended the final regular season home game, which was
won by the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers averaged forty nine,
five hundred and thirty seven fans per game this season.
This is the new all time record for attendance for
the Dodgers franchise. The last teams to top the four
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million attendance mark were the two thousand and eight New
York Yankees and the two thousand and eight New York Mets.
The Dodgers will be back in the playoffs, but have
yet to clinch home field advantage in the first round.
Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, we gotta wait and see if we win the division,
and maybe our regular season is over, but there are
still being game.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
There are still games being played.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
You can catch all the Dodgers games on our sister
station klac am five to seventy. And of course, as
I mentioned, regular season for the Dodgers might be done,
but we got playoff coming. Uh. The LAPDE is looking
for a man who's shot at officers in Boyle Heights.
The LAPD says, a man with a rifle shot at
the officers early yesterday morning when they were responding to
(21:55):
a call about an armed suspect in a neighborhood near
the one on one Freeway. Officers fired back, the shooter
got away, nobody was hurt. Looks like TikTok won't stop.
The White House says American companies led by Oracle will
now control TikTok's algorithm. In the US Press, Secretary Caroline
Levitt says the Chinese company Byte Dance will get one
(22:18):
of the seven board seats for TikTok's US operations, and
Americans will hold the remaining street sweet seats.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I need to take a sip of coffee. I got
something in my throat. Boom doom, doom, All.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Right better, Lovitt says a deal could be signed in
the coming days, but nothing's final yet. The annual Christmas
Tree Lane event returning to ald Sedina this holiday season,
organizers say the cedar trees at East Mariposa Street and
Santa Rose Avenue will be decorated with Christmas lights, along
with nearby homes. Lovely to see that they're going to
(22:52):
celebrate in spite of the wildfires.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
A vigila has.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Been held in Lake Elsinor to remember the teen girl
whose body was found in an impounded tesla in Hollywood,
Celeste Revs Hernandez, had disappeared a year ago. This girl
tells Katla she went to school with Revs.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It feel really bad for what happened to her because
the story is so messed up. End's like I don't
even know what to say.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
My friends told me about it, and it's like I
never imagined that would happen. Revs's body was found this
month in a car registered to a singer named David.
He has canceled several concert dates. A teacher who says
Revs was a former student told TMZ the girl once
ran away with the rapper she met on social media
before police found her in Hollywood. The teacher says he
(23:37):
shared the story as a cautionary tale about online dangers.
City leaders in La are ramping up security ahead of
the Jewish High Holy Days.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
Mary Karen Bass and Police Chief Jim McDonald's say officers
will increase patrols at synagogues, schools, and community centers, working
directly with Jewish leaders to deter crime and provide reassurance.
Rashashana begins Monday evening, launching ten days of reflection leading
to Yam Kapor. Officials say the LAPD is updating contacts
for every Jewish institution, training officers on customs and traditions,
(24:07):
and standing united against anti Semitism to keep Jewish angelinos
in all communities safe. Heather Brooker Kafie News.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Former Vice President Harris has written a new book on
last year's presidential election called One hundred and Seven Days.
The host of ESPN's First Take, Stephen Smith's, Harris lost
the election and is now blaming everyone but herself.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
In twenty twenty four, you lost every swing state.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
You lost a popular vote for the first time since
two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Nobody wants to hear it now.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I believe her political career is all for.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Harris's book is due out later this month. Time to
get in your business now and in for Bloomberg's Courtney
Donaho is Bloomberg's Monica Ricks.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Good morning Monica, Good morning Amy. It's always so exciting
to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I know we miss you in LA, but now you're
in the I miss you too, a big, big city.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
I have been for a little while, but that doesn't
mean in that my heart isn't still in LA.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You left find Los Angeles. Wait, that's not a song, Okay,
but it could be. Okay, let's get down to business. Courtney,
what's the latest.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I just mentioned this that Montica, not Courtney. Sorry, you're
an autopilot.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I know it's because I'm looking at your note that
says I'm filling in for Courtney, So I just saw
your name. Tell us the latest on the US TikTok
takeover that we're just mentioning.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Yeah, you were just.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Talking about that a little bit, but just a few
more details to expand on that. We learned this morning
that Oracle is planning to recreate and provide security for
a new US version of TikTok's algorithm. So under this
new deal to sell to a group of American investors,
the company will store US data on a secure cloud,
and it's going to have controls to keep out those
(25:47):
foreign adversaries, including China, which is where which is controlling
the app? Now, now, President Trump did hint over the
weekend that Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch are involved. Billionaire Michael
Dell could also be involved. And as you mentioned, US
operations will be majority owned and controlled by American investors.
So Americans are going to hold six of seven board
(26:07):
seats for TikTok.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So we can continue to watch our dances and food
shows stuff. Thank goodness, I know, okay, so we knew
that there was a fallout. In fact, we're going to
be talking more about this with Stephen Portenite from ABC
pretty soon. But there's fallout from the cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel.
How is it hitting like Disney Plus?
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Well, Disney stock is down a little over one percent
right now in pre market trading as those cancelations continue
for Disney Plus, ESPN, and Hulu. Of course, users are
closing their accounts following Jimmy Kimmel's cancelation last week. But
it's not easy to cancel. I mean, I'm keeping my
account for now. I want to see how this all
plays out. But I tried to go through the motions
(26:49):
this weekend, and Hulu's Give You gives you a ton
of prompts, so they're attempting to keep users with lower
rates for a few months. They offered a pause subscriptions
and you really have to jump through a lot of
hoops to actually cancel your account. Shares with the company
have also lost billions in value since Kimmel's cancelation.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Wow okay, And on an up note, people are they
have a lot of interest in the old iPhone seventeen.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Apparently, oh Man good weekend for Apple stores around the world,
reporting strong demand for its new iPhone seventeen lineup. It
focuses on better battery life, durability, camera, power, colors, all
the things that consumers have been asking for. And I
gotta say it got me. I want the Orange one.
Orange is my favorite color and I might get one
just because of that. But most purchases have been for
(27:36):
the new Pro model Air is also popular. That's Apple's
new thinner iPhone.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I like the Orange one too, I've seen that in
a lot of the ads. I'm like, oh, that sounds
so cool. And I want to talk to Rich Dimiro,
who's our tech guy from KTLA, and he has said
if you've been waiting or you've been thinking about it.
This phone is actually a good one to upgrade too.
Like some of them haven't had a lot of changes,
this one does.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
So.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
I mean a lot of people have been posting videos
on social media over the weekend, like the zoom is incredible,
the quality of pictures is great. Selfies look crisper like
I mean, it looks like.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It's a good upgrade.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And anything I can do to improve my selfies is
a good thing because I'm really bad.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
At no kidding.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Okay, Bloomberg's Monica ricks in for Courtney today. Get in
your business and we will either talk to you or
to Courtney tomorrow. Thanks so much, Monica, Thanks Amy all right.
Detectives are investigating the death of a two month old
boy found not breathing at a home in Lancaster. Sheriff's
deputies were called to the house on Beach Avenue yesterday morning.
The little boy died at the scene. No other information
(28:38):
was provided, but apparently no arrests have been made. French
President and Menuel Maccron says he will formally recognize the
Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in New
York it's about to get underway on Face the Nation.
McCrone said his decision is necessary to counter hamas Canada,
Australia and the UK have all taken similar stances. The
(28:59):
Dodgers have become the fifth franchise in Major League Baseball
history to draw four million fans in a single season.
The Dodgers top the four million mark yesterday, which was
their last regular season game. The Dodgers lost it to
the Giants three to one. Average attendance this season was
forty nine, five hundred and thirty seven, an all time
record for the team. We're just minutes away from Handle
(29:21):
on the news this morning. Course Handle is still on vacation,
so we have Nil sav Adrian going to give us
some takeaways from the Charlie Kirk memorial service that happened
yesterday at a stadium in Glendale, Arizona. A packed stadium,
like one hundred thousand people almost turned out. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Steven and Portnoy. So Stephen,
(29:41):
Jimmy Kimmel is still off the air and both sides
of the aisle are weighing in on it.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
What are they saying, Well, increasingly Republicans and Congress are
stepping up and saying they don't like the idea that
the federal regulator of broadcast radio and television would try
to assert pressure on some of the businesses that he
licenses to say that they ought to do something one
way or another about what airs on the stations. And
(30:07):
you know, specifically we're talking about Jimmy Kimmel. I obviously
am employed by ABC. I have no specific or particular
insights as to what is going on, but I can
tell you that here in Washington, d c. The idea
that you would have Senators such as Rand Paul of
Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas joining a number of
prominent conservative commentators saying that it's inappropriate for Brendan Carr,
(30:30):
the SEC chairman, to be doing this is notable. The
President says that Carr is a great American patriot who's
doing the right thing. And the President believes that some
licensed radio and television station should lose their ability to
operate because they criticize him, and he says that that
ought to be the subject of government action. The First
Amendment and the Communications Act of nineteen thirty four would
(30:54):
suggest otherwise. There's a specific section of the Communications Act
that says that the FCC does not have the power
to censor broadcasters or to interfere with the rite of
free speech of broadcasters. So what is Brendan Carr saying, Well,
he's been saying that he has the obligation to enforce
(31:14):
the law which for nearly one hundred years has said
that broadcasters must operate in the public interest. Now, Congress
never defined that term, and Brendan Carr seems to be
invoking it in every conversation he has. What does he
mean when he speaks of the public interest? And you know,
if it's been one hundred years now since we've all
been operating under that standard, why should it change now?
(31:37):
And what does he mean when he says it? We
don't know. But the bottom line is that, you know,
this is a regulatory question, a legal question, a business question.
And you had the decision by two of the largest
stations owned station owners in the country, Next Star and
Sinclair last week deciding that they were not going to
run the Jimmy Kimmel Live program on the ABC stations
(31:59):
they own, which cover at least twenty percent of the country.
And following that, my employer, ABC made the announcement that
the show would be suspended indefinitely. Again, we're waiting to
hear amy as to the final disposition of that situation.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay, and Stephen. Did they make that decision because of
comments that Brendan Carr made, or did they make that
decision because they said their viewers weren't happy with it
and they were losing sponsors.
Speaker 11 (32:23):
Disney has not provided any further information to me or
to you as to what decision was based on, except
to say that the show has been indefinitely suspended.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, but that's Disney, that's ABC. But the Sinclair and
Next Star, right, those are the station owners, correct, and
they had already said that they were going to preempt
the show before Disney made the decision.
Speaker 11 (32:47):
That's right. And so Next Star had a statement that
indicated that what Brendan Carr said had nothing to do
with their decision. Sinclair said that they were offended by
what Jimmy Kimmel said a week ago tonight. But ultimately,
you know, it's hard to ignore the fact that these
decisions were made in the immediate aftermath of what Brendan
(33:09):
Carr said on a podcast that got a lot of
attention and he specifically suggested that the station groups should
do exactly what they did do within the following hours.
There's a long precedent in our history of broadcast station
owners deciding that they they won't clear the content of networks.
Most infamously, you'd look back at the middle of the
(33:31):
twentieth century, when a number of broadcast stations in the
South decided that they wouldn't air, for example, the Nat
King Cole Show because he was an African American. You
had the example of stations refusing to air the nineteen
seventy seven sitcom Soap on the ABC television network.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
That show was hilarious.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
I thought so too, but many programmers felt that it
was inappropriate that Billy Crystal would play a gay man
in primetime television, so they declined to air that program.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
There was a.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
Controversy over the airing of Roots in the late nineteen seventies,
although I'm not aware of any stations refusing to run it. Yeah,
but look, the idea of pressure coming from stations is
nothing new. What's interesting here, and new here is the
idea that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission would
suggest that stations use that power in this particular circumstance,
and hours later they did.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, well, we'll be watching to see what happens next.
As you said, no definitive decision on Kimmel has been made.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
It's sort of just in limbo right now.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
That's my understanding. I don't have any particular insights to share.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
All right, Steven Portnoy, ABC, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
You bet all right, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Almost one hundred thousand people have paid tribute to conservative
activist Charlie Kirk at a memorial service in Arizona. The
memorial yesterday at State Farm Stadium drew people from across
the country. One of the speakers was Kirk's widow, Erica,
who talked about seeing her murdered husband's body.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I felt everything you would back to feel. I felt shock,
I felt poor.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
And a level of heartache.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
But I didn't even know existed.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Still, she tearfully told the crowd that she forgives the shooter.
Eric Kirk was recently named CEO of Turning Point USA,
which her husband started. Authority say the gun used to
kill Charlie Kirk maybe a decade old untraceable rifle. Prosecutor
say the gun is a Mouser Model ninety eight bolt
action rifle, a type originally manufactured in Germany for use
(35:38):
during World War one and two. Authority say belonged to
Tyler Robinson's grandfather. He's the shooting suspect, the son or
the grandson, and that he may have used the rifle
because it was difficult to trace. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's
his Americans most universally condemned political violence after the assassination
of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Shapiro says it needs to be stamped out her.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Where it is, whether it's against Charlie Kirk, where someone
else it is not okay.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Shapiro and his family were targeted in an arson attack
at their home earlier this year. The Save America Movement
says it'll deploy video vans to monitor immigration enforcement in La.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Hundreds of people gathered at MacArthur Park for the announcement
over the weekend, including La Mayor Bass. She says Liberty
Van one, two and three will play a crucial role
in protecting illegal immigrants in the city. When we think
back at the civil rights movement.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
What changed the hearts and minds of the country and.
Speaker 10 (36:32):
The world were cameras was documentation of what was happening.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
The organization says it will spend the next couple of
weeks training volunteers, and then the vans will hit the
streets in early October with lawyers, clergy and video cameras
that can stream live. Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
KFI news filmmaker Christopher Nolan's been appointed President of the
Directors Guild of America. The Oppenheimer director ran for the
top spot unopposed and will now lead the union of
about twenty thousand directors, unit production manager and stage managers.
Nolan called it one of the greatest honors of his career.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
(37:09):
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
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