December 12, 2024 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy starts the show talking about Christopher Wray announcing his resignation as Director of the FBI. ABC News crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett speaks on the radicalization of Luigi Mangione, FBI Director resigning, and the concern about his replacement. Amy takes us ‘Out and About’ for a Southern California Sleigh ride to the Los Angeles Christmas Market and speaks with Queenie Quan with their marketing team. The show closes with ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan talking about tax season rapidly approaching and preparing your 2024 return.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI had KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up
call for Thursday, December twelfth. I'm Amy King. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good Morning. Thirteen shopping days
till Christmas. I'm still way behind, and my tree is
still up. It's still not decorated. I looked at it
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yesterday and I went, oh, it's a perfect day. It's
kind of cloudy, it's not very warm. This is the
perfect day to get the lights on and decorate the tree.
And then I got distracted into it. Kind of chilly
this morning. You need to grab a sweater. You might
want to do that before you head out the door.
It's a day that I'm very thankful for seat warmers.
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You know I mentioned that, don't You don't use them
that often in southern California, But on the days that
you do, it's like, ah, it's so nice. Oh, and
there's a gorgeous moon. It's not quite full yet, but
it was beautiful driving in this morning. So as you
head out, look up. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Sant Ana wins have died down. Humidity levels are increasing
as firefighters continue to battle the fire burning in Malibu.
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It's charred more than four thousand acres and is seven
percent surrounded. Fire officials say nine homes and other buildings
have been destroyed, six others are damaged. Will's going to
give you an update on road closures in the area
around the fire in just a couple of minutes. President
Biden has commuted sentences of roughly fifteen hundred people who
were released from prison and placed on home confinement during
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the pandemic. Is so pardoning thirty nine Americans convicted of
non violent offenses. It's the largest single day act of
clemency in modern history. The President said America was built
on the promise of possibility and second chances. Police a
fingerprints found at the scene where United Healthcare CEO was
shot to death in New York City last week match
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Luigi Mangione's. This is the first forensic match that investigators
say Ti Manchioni to the scene of the murder. Manngioni
was arrested at a McDonald's Pennsylvania Monday. We're going to
be digging into the mind of the potential killer with
ABC's crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. That's coming up
at five twenty. Forget Christmas, ABC's Jim Ryan says, it's
time to start thinking about taxes for twenty twenty four.
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That's at five point fifty, and we're going to take
a southern California sleigh ride this holiday season to a
brand new Christmas event. It's in the heart of downtown LA.
That's coming up at the bottom of the hour, So
we hope you'll stick around the whole hour because we
got lots going on, So get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
More than six thousand people in Malibu remain under evacuation orders.
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As the fire in the area has grown to more
than four thousand acres, thousands more people are under evacuation warnings.
The fire is seven percent surrounded. CalFire Incident Commander Dusty
Martin says it is burning in areas that are hard
to get to.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The challenging areas for us have been on the west
side of the fire up in the Malibu Canyon area.
It's extremely steep and unaccessible terrain that the fire is in,
and we're working on getting firefighters in there to start
containing that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Cruz say the winds have died down and that's helping
firefighting efforts. The La County Fire Department says damage assessments
so far found nine homes and other buildings destroyed, six damaged.
LA County has reported its highest ever number of reported
hate crimes.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Well the third straight year. There's been a double digit
percentage increase in reported hate crimes in twenty twenty three,
forty five percent more than the year before. Supervisor Holly
Mitchell says even she experiences what she calls microaggressions.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
This isn't Alabama, Mississippi. I experience, without exaggeration, minimally of microaggression.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Every single det.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Race was the top category for reported crimes, while there
were also increases in cases involving gender, identity and religion.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Michael Monks KFI News. The family of a Hawaii woman
who disappeared after arriving at lax now says she is
safe in Mexico. Hannah Kobayashi was last seen in early November.
The LAPD said evidence showed she walked into Mexico on
her own and was not a victim of foul play. Yesterday,
the woman's family confirmed she is safe. This holiday season,
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Santa Claus is connecting with us like never before. Saint
Nick has gotten tech savvy, and starting today, he will
offer one on one chats with chat GPT. Whether you
have questions about life at the North Pole, you're curious
about what the elves are up to, or your lif
looking for a silly reindeer story as a parent with
curious kids, you can now ask Sanna. He will respond
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in real time in his signature jolly voice in chat
GPT's advanced voice mode. Let's say good morning now at
five h seven to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, the FBI
director has decided to quit instead of getting fired. Was
this a surprise at all?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, to the extent surprise. It's surprised that you know,
it was announced yesterday, and it was the choice that
Christopherray is making, not to quote drag the FBI deeper
into the fray. You point out, Amy that you know
Chrisphray was not invited to stay on in the Trump administration.
In fact, the President elect made that very clear about
two weeks ago when he announced that Cash Pttel would
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be his nominee to lead the FBI. Of course, there
wasn't a vacancy. Donald Trump's you know, appointment of a
man to a post that isn't vacant is a legal challenge.
And Christopher Ray has a term that lasts through twenty
twenty seven, but he's taking himself out of the role now.
He's announced that he's going to leave the agency when
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the Biden administration ends next month.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Okay, And normally you said he's been in there for
seven years. Normally it's a ten year term that the
FBI director serves, but the president can fire.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Him, that is correct. I mean, look, Donald Trump fired
James Comy in the middle of his tenure term, and
so Trump would have would have fired Ray if Ray
hadn't announced yesterday that he's going to step down voluntarily.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay. And it's interesting because Trump actually appointed Ray when
he was president last time.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's right, and it's a great fanfare praising him as
a sort of a paragon of virtue. But Trump said yesterday, quote,
I just don't know what happened to him. You know,
Trump believes that Ray was responsible for the FBI's rate
of mar A Lago in twenty twenty two. Of course,
that happened after months of back and forth between unbeknownst
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to the public, between Trump and the Justice Department and
the National Archives over the boxes of classified material that
we're hanging out in you know, the bathroom and the
auditorium and the storage room at mar A Lago, with
allegedly his staffers moving the boxes around behind the attorney's back.
All of this was ultimately the subject of a federal
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indictment that has now been dismissed, but Trump says that
the FBI was responsible for how it was handled. Of course,
the FBI is a law enforcement agency and can't operate
without direction by the Justice Department and attorneys there, attorneys
who go to court to get the FBI's search warrants signed.
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So anyway, long story short, Trump is not a fan
of Christopher Ray and is tapping a longtime loyalist in
Cash Patel, to essentially clean house. No, Pateel's gonna have
to answer questions from skeptical senators, maybe some moderate Republicans,
but certainly Democrats on camera. I had a confirmation hearing
about how serious he is about the things he said
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on podcasts and in other places talking to right wing
audiences about his desire to clean house and go after
Trump's enemies.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, and so is it like a cabinet position where
he has to get the Senate to back the comfort
to back the appointment.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
The FBI director certainly is the Senate confirmed post. And
the whole idea of the ten year term established by
Congress is to go beyond the length of any particular
presidency to sort of take the Bureau out of politics. Well,
that's not going to happen here. Christopher Ray is ceding
to the intent of the incoming president to replace him.
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And that's understood now that the constitution gives the president
the power to point officials and to fire them.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Okay, And when does the raised resignation take effect. Is
it going to be now or is he going to
do like work with the Biden administration right up until
January twentieth thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It is not happening now. What is not clear is
exactly when his term will end. But he said yesterday
that he'll leave next month. When that when the administration
is over, so I suppose that means noon at January twentieth,
but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much as always,
you bet all right, Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Police in New York say a gun found on the
man suspected of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson matches
shell casings found at the crime scene in Manhattan. YPD
Commissioner Jessica Tish says there is also other evidence against
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Luigi Mangioni.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
We're also able at our crime lab to match the
person of interests fingerprints with fingerprints that we found on
both the water bottle and the kind bar near the
scene of the homicide in Midtown.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Mangioni was seen on video to Starbucks the day Thompson
was killed, buying water and the food bar. Mangioni was
arrested in Pennsylvania at MacDonald's and is fighting extradition to
New York. A fundraiser has been set up online for
the man accused of killing Brian Thompson in New York
as of this morning. Donations for mangeone on Give Send
Go have topped forty four thousand dollars. The goal is
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two hundred thousand. People on the site can also send prayers.
There's a button for that. The fundraiser said it is
not to celebrate violence, but that organizers believe in the
constitutional right of fair legal representation. The man accused of
lying in wait to try to assassinate President elect Trump
has asked a judge in Florida to delay his trial
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until December of twenty twenty five. Ryan Routh is pleaded
not guilty to five counts, including attempted assassination of a
presidential candidate. The judge in the casay she'll rule on
the delay request in the not so distant future. New
York City Mayor Eric Adams is said to meet with
President elect Trump's incoming borders are.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
The two are expected to discuss deepporting migrants who come
out crimes, the migrant crisis in the city, and federal
immigration policy. Tom Homan has threatened to withhold funding from
sanctuary cities that don't cooperate with deportation plans kafight.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Scott Pringle says New York is a sanctuary city, but
Mayor Adams says he'd like local law enforcement to work
with the Feds to deport criminals. Protests over the meeting
are planned outside city Hall. As more insurers stop offering
insurance to homeowners in California, Farmers says it's going to
offer more policies. Farmers has been limiting the number of
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new residential insurance policies in the last year to seven
thousand per month. It announced it will raise that number
for home and condo owners and renters to ninety five
hundred new customers per month starting later this month. Six
times Super Bowl winning coach Bill Belichick is going back
to college. She'll become the next head coach at North Carolina.
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The former New England Patriots head coach has worked in
the NFL almost fifty years. He holds the record for
most Super Bowl and most Playoff wins in NFL history.
He resigned from the Patriots at the end of the
twenty twenty three season. Okay, as you know, Pastathon has
come and gone and we finally have all the totals,
So we wanted to say one more big, fat thank
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you to you, because you guys really opened up your
hearts and your pocket books and donated a whole ton
of money and pasta. So the final the final total
is one million, two hundred twenty three thousand, two hundred
and seventy dollars. And on top of that, eighty nine
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thousand and five pounds of pasta and sauce was donated
during Pastathon twenty twenty four and it all goes to
Katarina's Club. Chef Bruno serves up twenty five thousand meals
every week, twenty five thousand, So that's kids who get
to have a nice full belly and get to you know,
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go back and do their homework, had their minds cleared,
their minds nourished, and it's all because of you. Couldn't
do it without you. Again, thank you so much for
your participation in Pastathon twenty twenty four. About six thousand
people are still under evacuation orders because of the fire
in Malibu. The winds have died down, so cal Edison's
power has been restored to customers in the area and
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traffic signals are working again. The fires burned more than
four thousand acres since Monday night. It's seven percent surrounded.
Several roads are still closed around Malibu, including a stretch
of Pacific Coast Highway. Others have reopened, but only to residents.
Sheriff's deputies are patrolling the area to guard against looting.
Schools in the area will stay closed at least through
tomorrow because of the fire still being investigated. President elect
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Trump has been named Times Person of the Year. To
mark the unveiling of the magazine cover, Trump's team says
he'll be on Wall Street this morning to ring the
opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. This will
be the first time he's done that. It's his second
time being named Times Person of the Year. At six
oh five. It's handle on the news. FBI to TIS
director Christopher Rayes calling it quits right now, let's say
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good morning to ABC's crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. So,
Brad Luigi Mangioni had got everything going for him. He's smart,
he's cute, starting a good career, good family, and then
something happened that led him to basically assassinate the CEO
of United Healthcare allegedly.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
So Aman, we don't know it got him there, but
I can guarantee you he got there, and you only
get there through radicalization. And I don't know who radicalized him.
I don't know obviously who he was talking to online,
but this kid at some point started delving into sort
of a radical way of thinking about the healthcare industry
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and probably got in trade. He's really smart, and my
guess has put everything into well what this is all about?
And you know, isn't it awful? And you know, whatever
negative things he could find, and maybe he's now talking
to people that all also supporting that way of thinking.
So radicalization basically goes through four phases for lack of
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better terms, where you get intrigued with a particular philosophy,
you then accept it, and then you accept that violence
is the way to deal with it, and then you act.
And obviously he did act. And just his comments of
what little has been released about whacking the CEO, I mean,
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it's all like, was he felt, he feels totally justified
that what he did, that he's on the right side
of all of this and the rest of us are
on the other side. And I mean, let's face it,
I mean there's a lot of people that are sort
of applauding what he did, which obviously is not right,
but it is out there. And so despite the fact
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he had all this going for him, he still felt
had a vulnerability to fall into something like this, and
the whole idea that he just peered for six months.
It sort of fits. I mean, six months of total
isolation of maybe just dealing with like minded people, probably
online mostly. We'll have to see till he ultimately plans
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this and figures out where the CEO is going to be,
shoots him, and then it leaves, and I think feels
just fine about it, Yeah, which is not uncommon with
people who commit these kind of acts.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And Brad, I'm guessing, just from hearing you talk about,
you know, the road to radicalization for people who may
be heading that way, I'm guessing that the Internet and
social media helps that along. And you know, I mean,
for lack of a better word, because the algorithms all
point you to places you're already going. It's just like it,
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you know, it pushes conservative people more conservative, and it
pushes liberal people further to the left. So I would
imagine as he starts digging around and finding stuff that
it just makes it. I mean, it's like it's just
fanning the flames for him.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
There is no doubt, and right it helps you go
down whatever path you're choosing, whether it's a light path
or a dark path. In his case, obviously he was
he has gone down a very dark path, and you know,
he's basically giving up his life to do this, and
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maybe he doesn't recognize this. I think the harsh reality
of the four walls that he's currently sitting in that
which may be his residence for maybe ever we'll have
to see, is they don't think about that. And clearly
maybe he planned it high risk he got away, but
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he didn't. He didn't plan the elk game, and that's
what got him caught, which I thought all along he
was going to get caught, because it just didn't strike
me that you know that he was on a you know,
a jet to some island in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, he was. He was found two hundred and fifty
miles away.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Right right, and he's driving through familiar territory. I think
he'd been to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. He went to college
at at the University of Pennsylvania. So I don't know,
but it's a story that we don't have all the pieces,
but I'm pretty clear that he had to go through
this sort of stages of radicalization to get to where
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he got to last week.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Here's a question for you, Brat. I mean, this doesn't
happen overnight. Is this like a year in the making
or two years in the making, or is there any
kind of a timeline typically that you see with these
kind of cases.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
There's not a timeline, Amy, but I will tell you
that it has come out that in twenty twenty one,
so that's three years ago. He's in some sort of
book club and he brings in the writings of Ted Kaczynski,
the unabomber, and talks about beasically that he gives him
a four star rating, and that that you know, maybe
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it was not right that he was the Ted was
blowing people up, but that this whole idea of stopping
society from improvements in technology was the right thing to do. Basically,
he sort of justifies what Kazinski did and apparently it
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alarmed so many people in the book club. People started
pulling out of it. Oh really, so I only shared
only share that that's three years ago. So something's been
going on with this kid for a long time, is
a short answer.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, Now we know he had a back injury. That's
been talked about quite a bit, But are there any
indications so far that he was like denied coverage or
a medical procedure or something by the insurance companies. And
maybe that just really ticked him off and again sent
him down that road.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Oh maybe, or maybe that got him to be intrigued
by the whole idea even had I may be wrong
about this a second back surgery, and his back is
much better than it was previously, but yes, that may
have given him a direction. And then once he starts digging,
he sees sort of how murky the whole healthcare insurance
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industry is.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, well, it's fascinating in a very morbid way that
somebody who, like we talked about, who seemed to have
it all, shows that very dark.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Path, right and throw it all away?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah right, all right. ABC's Crime and Terror Analyst Brad Garrett,
Thank you so much, appreciate your insight. As always, you're
welcome take carry me all right, talk to you soon.
A homeless man charged with punching an Asian woman in
the head in Culver City while shouting racial slurs at her,
is pleaded guilty to a federal charge. The US Attorney's
Office says it's a felony and carries a possible maximum
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penalty of ten years in federal prison. Sentencing a set
for March. The man appointed as the director of the
FBI by then President Trump in twenty seven teen will
step down before Trump takes office in January. Christopher Ray
announced yesterday he was resigning. He said it was the
best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray.
The resignation clears the way for Trump to nominate Cash
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Battel to head the FBI. The Pentagon is pushing back
on claims by New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew that
mysterious drones spotted over the state could be from Iran.
Andrew says there is evidence that suggests the drones could
be the work of foreign adversaries and should be shot down.
He also says Americans should have full disclosure.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
That doesn't mean we tell their military sequence. But when
you have something the size of a Chevy suburban hovering
over your backyard, and these reports are real and they
don't deny them. The Pentagon doesn't deny the reports. Nobody does.
There's something going on here.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Republican State Senator John Bremnick is calling for the drones
to be temporarily banned. Such a bizarre story be interesting
to see how that all shakes out. An American detained
for seven months in Seria has been freed as the
rebels who toppled the government have been letting people out
of prisons. Travis Timmerman says he had crossed into Syria
illegally from Lebanon on a Christian pilgrimage. He says he
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heard other young men being tortured while he was detained,
but that he was treated okay. He says he was
fed and given water, but complained he could only use
the restroom three times a day. The last surviving star
of a landmark counterculture TV show has died.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Michael Cole starting the hit show The Mob Squad from
nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy three with Clarence Williams
the Third and Peggy Lipton. They played hip rebellious youths
recruited to work as undercover detectives for the Man instead
of doing time for crimes. Cole's twenty eighteen memoir was
titled I Played the White Guy. He played Pete Cochran,
a rich kid busted for stealing a car, and with
partners Julie and Link, got involved in heavy stories of
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the time that regular fuzz cops couldn't get near. Cole
died Tuesday in Tarzana. He was eighty four. Mark ronnerd KFI.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
News about five hundred Boeing workers in southern California are
losing their jobs. The company announced yesterday that one hundred
and fifteen workers in Long Beach and one hundred and
forty four in El Segundo will be laid off. More
will soon lose their jobs in Seal Beach, Huntington Beach,
and San Diego. Boeing says it's being done in part
because of losses from the two month machinist strike. The
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La City Council's voted twelve to three to increase the
minimum wage for tourism workers more slowly than originally approved.
The new measure increases the minimum minimum wage to twenty
two to fifty an hour by February of twenty twenty five,
instead of to twenty five dollars, and then the wages
will gradually increase and will hit thirty dollars an hour
by twenty twenty eight, just in time. For the twenty
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twenty eight Summer Olympic Games. Workers will also get better
health benefits. Four restaurants in California have made yelp's top
twenty five list for best new restaurants in twenty twenty four.
The Asian fusion restaurant Burn and Shell Cute in La
is fifth on the list. Mexico restaurant Paseo in Downtown
Disney and Anaheim is ninth. Two restaurants in San Diego
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made the list. Kid Me Oma Cassi is fourth and
Bougie Mana is eighth. On the yelp list. Bougiemna is
a Mediterranean restaurant at five point fifty. It's two weeks
away from Christmas, so doesn't it make sense that we
should maybe start talking about your taxes. We're going to
be checking in with ABC's Jim Ryan, who says it
is time to start planning now. Oh, we're not talking
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taxes right now, because it's time for us to take
a Southern California's sleigh ride. We're going out and about
to a brand new event in the heart of downtown
LA that is definitely going to help get you in
the Christmas spirit. As far as I know there hasn't
been anything like this in LA until now. It's the
Los Angeles Christmas Market. We caught up with marketing team
member Queenie Kwan. So Queenie, please tell us about the
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Los Angeles Christmas Markets.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
Well, the Los Angeles Christmas Market. It's the first ever
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
One.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
Yeah, this is our first year, okay, and we are
trying to bring some European inspired Christmas magic into the
heart of LA. We have food, drink, plentey of little
activities for everyone to enjoy. It ranges from meeting Sana,
writing letters to Santa, some diy ornament painting, chocolate dipping
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and of.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Course tippy wait tell me about chocolate chocolate dipping.
Speaker 10 (25:29):
Well, you are able to purchase a little tray and
it'll come with your chocolate dip, a bunch of sweet treats, decorations.
You can customize it however you want and enjoy as
you make your food.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, okay, And we are here actually at Letters to Santo,
which is adorable. So you can sit down at your
big people table and you write your letter to Santa
and then you send it off to him and it
heads to the North Pole and that's just one of
the several activities that we can do. And then now
tell us about some of the shopping because we're only
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a few days away from Christmas and shopping is paramount
right now. So what are some of the things that
people are gonna find.
Speaker 10 (26:12):
We have a lot of local California vendors. A lot
of them are small businesses of their own, and there's
a variety of different merchandise that everyone can purchase. It
ranges from pet goodies to jewelry. If you like tea
or honey, we have those as well. We have a
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local chocolate booth as well. It's freshly made every day.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And how many shopping booths are there about?
Speaker 10 (26:42):
I would say about twenty to thirty. Okay, we are
in a smaller lot, but it gives off a pretty
cozy vibe as everything's a little bit clustered together. And
of course you'll you're gonna see so many light displays everywhere,
plenty of photo opportunities.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Let's talk about the light displays because they're every you
wear and they're so fun. So they are light displays
and their photo ops. So there's so many opportunities, Like
there's that the light tunnel which is so spectacular beautiful. Yes, yeah.
And then there's a couple of ornaments that we went
in and you walk into the ornament and look and
it's just a sea of lights and it just makes such
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a cool picture.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Oh yes, definitely. Even some of our trees have a
little tunnel underneath as well. They love walking through it
taking photos. Yep, so many different light displays. We just
wanted to bring some Christmas magic to everyone's lives.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
If you really have. I mean it really just because
we've walked around and looked around and now get to
talk about it, but it just really feels homey and
Christmas y. It doesn't feel all big time. It feels
like a really well thought out, beautiful activity to do
for Christmas. So you can come and do your shopping,
you can come to your activities with your family. And
then we ought to talk about food, because there's food here,
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there's always fun here. So tell us a couple of
the premiere ones or the hits.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
So some of the food items that we do sell.
Obviously plenty of sweet treats for everyone with a sweet too,
and we also have some European inspired dishes as well.
It ranges from Snitchell to ratt Wars and Swedish meatballs
given smoky salmon as well.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Smoked salmon too. The Swedish meatballs delicious, yes, yeah, okay.
And then there's like you said, there, I saw like
a strawberry shortcake. I thought I saw something that had
to do with waffles. I'm guessing those are sweet too.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
Yes they are. And some of these vendors are also
local to California as well, so there's plenty of variety
to choose from. There isn't too many that you're overwhelmed with,
chy ses yep. And there's also plenty of drink holiday
drinks to go around, such as hot chocolate eggnogs and
some adult beverage as well. Adult beverages as well.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And then I want to talk about this other thing
that is so cool. They have igloos that you can
rent out, so tell us about the Igloo experience.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
The Igle experience is one of our more VIP experiences.
Once you first walk into the event, you're going to
be handed a menu with your selections of foods and
beverages that you'll be receiving in that igo. It's a
ninety minute designated experience and so you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Can eat in there and have a cocktail or a
hot chocolate and just get off your feet and just
have some like you know, just hang out with your
friends and family. It's really really neat and like you
if you have the time and you want to do
the VIP, I think the ALUs is really a cool
thing to do. So tell us when are you open
and how do we find out?
Speaker 10 (29:43):
We open? From time wise, it's from four pm to
ten pm on Christmas Eve. We do have special hours,
it's twelve pm to five ven pm last finish shopping. Yes,
and we're open up into Christmas Eve, okay, from Wednesday
to Sunday.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So you're dark on Monday Tuesday, and then open Wednesday
through Sunday from four to ten pm. And then you
advise that people buy tickets ahead of time.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
Yes, tickets are sold only online, okay, and the weekends
do get a little bit busier.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, queeny, I think you guys are onto something, because,
like I said, this is a really really cool thing
and it's new, it's the first year, but it doesn't
look like it's the first year. I mean, this thing
is dialed in and ready for you to come down
and see it. It's our Southern California sleigh ride. We
went to the Los Angeles Christmas Market and I think
it was really really a great outing. It's just something
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a little bit different, and like I said, once it
got dark, because we got there when it was light
and then the twilight and then the lights really start
showing up and they have all these great light installations.
So it's just a very chill thing to do. And
one thing that we didn't mention when I talked to
Queeny was they do movies every night, so they have
an outdoor movie screen and they have all these Adirondack chairs.
When we were there, they were playing White Christmas, and
I think they they're rotating different movies around. But when
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we went there, like the whole everybody was sitting there
watching the movies. There were people standing around, but like
all the chairs were full. And they've do like two
showings of the movie every night. And there's also a
scavenger hunt for the kids and for the kids at
heart because Nick and I both did the scavenger hunt.
You can take a sneak peek at the Los Angeles
Christmas Market. It's up on my Instagram or will be
(31:23):
shortly as soon as they get a chance to put
it up there, it's at Amy K.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
King.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I'm gonna post it at KFI AM six forty as well,
but I would love for you to take a look,
and I would love for you to follow me at
Amy K. King. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The wind driven fire in Malibu has grown to more
than four thousand acres. It's still seven percent surrounded. Fire
officials say the most challenging areas are on the west
side of the fire, in Malibu Canyon, where the terrain
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is steep and hard to get to.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
As we look for in the days to come, I
want to ensure that getting the citizens back into their
homes is our number one priority. But to do that,
we have to make sure that the area is safe
before we could let folks back.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
In CalFire incident Commander Dusty Martins's sixty three hundred people
remain under evacuation orders. Thousands more are under evacuation warnings.
Assessments so far show nine homes and other buildings have
been destroyed and six are damaged. UCLA's police Chief, John
Thomas has left his job after being criticized for serious
security lapses and failing to protect students during pro Palestinian protests.
(32:26):
UCLA's announcement didn't say if he was fired or he resigned.
A University of California independent review released last month found
that UCLA failed on several fronts, leading to what it
called institutional paralysis. California could face economic challenges due to
President Elect Trump's announced policies.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
The newest economics forecast from UCLA Anderson suggests the state
could face a labor shortage because of the mass deportation proposal.
Millions of illegal immigrants could depart the state's workforce as
part of the deportation process or voluntarily exit because of
the fear of deportation. The report also notes that Trump's
emphasis on H one B visas for tech workers could
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benefit California's tech industry.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Michael Monks KFI News about six thousand people still under
evacuation orders because of the fire in Malibu. The winds
have died down, so cal Edison's power has been restored
to customers in the area and traffic signals are working again.
The fires burn more than four thousand acres since Monday night,
seven percent contained. Several roads are closed in the Malibu area,
including a stretch of PCH. Others are only open to residents.
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Sheriff's deputies are patrolling the area to guard against looting.
Schools in the area will be closed. The cause of
the fire is still being investigated. President elect Trump has
been named Person of the Year. To mark the unveiling
of the magazine covers, people say, he'll be on Wall
Street this morning to ring the opening bell at the
New York Stock Exchange for the very first time. It's
his second time though, being named Person of the Year.
(33:54):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
it's less than two weeks until Christmas, So why not
start talking about taxes?
Speaker 11 (34:03):
You gotta start talking about them sometime. And the end
of the year, of course, is the end of the
tax season for most of us. And so yeah, just
stick in the back of your mind and think, you
know what, Hey, let me grab that receipt while I'm
thinking about it, to the donation that I just made
to some charity or the big box of goods that
I took there, collected a receipt from them. So yeah,
start putting those things aside, getting ready for the tax season,
(34:26):
because it's coming, whether you want it to or not.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Amy, I know, so you're saying, and that's actually a
good reminder for any charitable donations you make around the
Christmas time. You got to get those receipts. Like if
you made a donation to Pastathon, you got to get
those receipts.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
Right, That's important, man, And that is one way to
kind of soften the blow of the tax filing and
the amount that you're going to own the end.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, and so in general, like when would you say
is a good time to really in earnest start putting
your taxes together, knowing that April fifteenth is the day.
And I know we've had several times in the last
few years of probably because of the pandemic and buyers
and stuff, where they've delayed the deadline. But April fifteenth
is the date.
Speaker 11 (35:06):
It is twenty twenty five, It is the date. No
federal holidays, nothing happening in Washington in terms of a holiday,
no disasters that are slowing things down at least not yet,
no fingers crossed. But yeah, fifteenth, this I'd say, I
mean the time to start is as soon as you
get your W two right that tells you what your
earnings were for the previous year. Now, once that comes
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in the mail or is delivered to you electronically, then
you can really start sitting down, whether you're filing by
paper or filing electronically. And speaking of that in California,
California is one of twelve states that were in the
pilot program for IRS Direct File, and it's a program
that allows you to log on, you set up your
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IRS ID, and then answer a few questions and you
file your tax returned directly to the IRS, whether you
owe or you're owed a refund. So it's expanded this
year to twelve more states twenty four states altogether, but
as with so many other things, it's coming under scrutiny
and controversy.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
That controversy, well.
Speaker 11 (36:12):
Thirty Republican lawmakers say Direct File IRS direct File is
a government overreach and that taxpayers run the risk of
overpaying if they use this service. So well, yeah, that's
the why. I mean, critics say that it digs too
deep into taxpayers. Information advocates, though, say, look, it's just
(36:37):
answering a few questions about your status, about the amount
you made answering these questions and then filing directly with
the IRS, so it's fairly transparent. But yeah, these thirty
lawmakers are urging President Trump when he takes office to
shut down the program, so we'll see what happens with
it even before the administration steps inward seeing a controversy
(36:59):
related to to this aspect.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Okay, but even if he does shut it down, it's
not going to be for this year. This is going
to be available for the twenty twenty four. So the
question is is it for all taxes or just for
the really really simple taxes.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
Well, it's best obviously with simple taxes, you know, for
this coming year. Direct file supports the ten ninety nins.
It didn't last year, so even ten ninety nine for
interest income greater than fifteen hundred dollars. So they're actually
expanding this not only to more states, but to more details,
(37:35):
the fine details of your return. So yeah, it's the
free file is the one that you really should be
very simple. I mean, if you're single and you have
one source of income, you don't have a lot of deductions,
than free file is probably the best way to go.
But that one involves a private tax preparer working with
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the IRS.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
But it's free.
Speaker 11 (37:58):
But it's free.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Okay, some of that's great.
Speaker 11 (38:00):
Well, so too is direct files. Right, Well, they're both free,
but the direct file allows you to file directly with
the IRS. Free file allows you to work with a
tax preparer who's under contract with the IRS. It true
is free, but brings in this third element.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
But they're working with the IRS. I think I want
a private person.
Speaker 11 (38:21):
Yeah, well, I mean they're working with him in terms
of under contract with the IRS. Doesn't mean they're going
to fudge your numbers or anything. They'll they'll still do
what they have to do because they're legally bound to
be accurate or as best or as accurate as they
can be at least.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Okay, all right, well, thanks for dampening my Christmas spirit
by bringing up taxes. I think I need to go
watch a Christmas movie. ABCD ABC's Jim Ryan thinks so much.
We'll talk to you soon. So yeah, all right, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden's commuting sentences
of about fifteen hundred people who were released from prison
(38:57):
and placed on home confinement during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
He's also pardoning thirty nine Americans who were convicted of
nonviolent crimes. He said he would be taking more steps
in the weeks ahead and would continue to review clemency petitions.
The family of a missing woman from Hawaii says she
is safe. Anna Kobayashi was last seen in early November
(39:18):
crossing the border into Mexico shoo that was seen on
surveillance video. According to the LAPD, she had missed a
connecting flight from Hawaii to New York City at LAX
earlier in the month. On Wednesday, the thirty year old's
family confirmed that she is safe and they have talked
to her. The incoming Trump administrations reportedly planning to reverse
a policy to prevent immigration and Customs enforcement officers from
(39:42):
arresting illegal immigrants at her near churches, schools, hospitals, and
other sensitive sites. NBC News says talk of the day
one policy shift has already drawn criticism from groups like
the ACLU that argue migrants with potentially contagious diseases should
not be afraid to go to the hospital. Researchers that
you see David say feeding cows seaweed could help save
(40:04):
the planet. Burps that come from cows are a major
source of methane and that contributes to climate change. But
Professor Erme's cou Rob says, if you feed cattle seaweed,
you can reduce methane emissions by almost forty percent.
Speaker 12 (40:18):
An inhibitor basically inhibits the formation of methane.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
The goalie says is to make cattle farming more sustainable.
Speaker 12 (40:25):
We want to reduce the amount of methane that is
in the atmosphere so that we don't have the screenhouse
cut effect as much as we do right now.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
He says, about a third of all methane comes from cows.
The professor says adding a seaweed supplement to the cow's
diet did not affect their health or their weight. This
is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County
Southland weather from KFI party cloudy with air, twenty percent
chance of rain in the afternoon and evenings will be
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in the mid sixties at the beaches Metro LA and
in an Orange, Orange County lod to mid sixties in
the valleys in ie fifties. The Antelope Valley overnight lows
in the thirties and forties, then becoming sunny. Tomorrow heis
in the sixties. Mostly cloudy on Saturday, with highs in
the sixties and a chance of rain in the evening,
then morning clouds afternoon sun. For Sunday, it's thirty nine
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in Anaheim forty seven, Redondo Beach forty eight, and Claremont
forty six in Downey. We lead local live from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical
producer KNO and also traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King.
This has been your wake up call. If you missed
any of wake Up Call, you can listen anytime on
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with me, Amy King. You can always hear wake Up
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI had KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up
call for Thursday, December twelfth. I'm Amy King. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good Morning. Thirteen shopping days
till Christmas. I'm still way behind, and my tree is
still up. It's still not decorated. I looked at it
(00:51):
yesterday and I went, oh, it's a perfect day. It's
kind of cloudy, it's not very warm. This is the
perfect day to get the lights on and decorate the tree.
And then I got distracted into it. Kind of chilly
this morning. You need to grab a sweater. You might
want to do that before you head out the door.
It's a day that I'm very thankful for seat warmers.
(01:12):
You know I mentioned that, don't You don't use them
that often in southern California, But on the days that
you do, it's like, ah, it's so nice. Oh, and
there's a gorgeous moon. It's not quite full yet, but
it was beautiful driving in this morning. So as you
head out, look up. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Sant Ana wins have died down. Humidity levels are increasing
as firefighters continue to battle the fire burning in Malibu.
(01:36):
It's charred more than four thousand acres and is seven
percent surrounded. Fire officials say nine homes and other buildings
have been destroyed, six others are damaged. Will's going to
give you an update on road closures in the area
around the fire in just a couple of minutes. President
Biden has commuted sentences of roughly fifteen hundred people who
were released from prison and placed on home confinement during
(01:58):
the pandemic. Is so pardoning thirty nine Americans convicted of
non violent offenses. It's the largest single day act of
clemency in modern history. The President said America was built
on the promise of possibility and second chances. Police a
fingerprints found at the scene where United Healthcare CEO was
shot to death in New York City last week match
(02:21):
Luigi Mangione's. This is the first forensic match that investigators
say Ti Manchioni to the scene of the murder. Manngioni
was arrested at a McDonald's Pennsylvania Monday. We're going to
be digging into the mind of the potential killer with
ABC's crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. That's coming up
at five twenty. Forget Christmas, ABC's Jim Ryan says, it's
time to start thinking about taxes for twenty twenty four.
(02:44):
That's at five point fifty, and we're going to take
a southern California sleigh ride this holiday season to a
brand new Christmas event. It's in the heart of downtown LA.
That's coming up at the bottom of the hour, So
we hope you'll stick around the whole hour because we
got lots going on, So get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
More than six thousand people in Malibu remain under evacuation orders.
(03:07):
As the fire in the area has grown to more
than four thousand acres, thousands more people are under evacuation warnings.
The fire is seven percent surrounded. CalFire Incident Commander Dusty
Martin says it is burning in areas that are hard
to get to.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The challenging areas for us have been on the west
side of the fire up in the Malibu Canyon area.
It's extremely steep and unaccessible terrain that the fire is in,
and we're working on getting firefighters in there to start
containing that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Cruz say the winds have died down and that's helping
firefighting efforts. The La County Fire Department says damage assessments
so far found nine homes and other buildings destroyed, six damaged.
LA County has reported its highest ever number of reported
hate crimes.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Well the third straight year. There's been a double digit
percentage increase in reported hate crimes in twenty twenty three,
forty five percent more than the year before. Supervisor Holly
Mitchell says even she experiences what she calls microaggressions.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
This isn't Alabama, Mississippi. I experience, without exaggeration, minimally of microaggression.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Every single det.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Race was the top category for reported crimes, while there
were also increases in cases involving gender, identity and religion.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Michael Monks KFI News. The family of a Hawaii woman
who disappeared after arriving at lax now says she is
safe in Mexico. Hannah Kobayashi was last seen in early November.
The LAPD said evidence showed she walked into Mexico on
her own and was not a victim of foul play. Yesterday,
the woman's family confirmed she is safe. This holiday season,
(04:45):
Santa Claus is connecting with us like never before. Saint
Nick has gotten tech savvy, and starting today, he will
offer one on one chats with chat GPT. Whether you
have questions about life at the North Pole, you're curious
about what the elves are up to, or your lif
looking for a silly reindeer story as a parent with
curious kids, you can now ask Sanna. He will respond
(05:06):
in real time in his signature jolly voice in chat
GPT's advanced voice mode. Let's say good morning now at
five h seven to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, the FBI
director has decided to quit instead of getting fired. Was
this a surprise at all?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Well, to the extent surprise. It's surprised that you know,
it was announced yesterday, and it was the choice that
Christopherray is making, not to quote drag the FBI deeper
into the fray. You point out, Amy that you know
Chrisphray was not invited to stay on in the Trump administration.
In fact, the President elect made that very clear about
two weeks ago when he announced that Cash Pttel would
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be his nominee to lead the FBI. Of course, there
wasn't a vacancy. Donald Trump's you know, appointment of a
man to a post that isn't vacant is a legal challenge.
And Christopher Ray has a term that lasts through twenty
twenty seven, but he's taking himself out of the role now.
He's announced that he's going to leave the agency when
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the Biden administration ends next month.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Okay, And normally you said he's been in there for
seven years. Normally it's a ten year term that the
FBI director serves, but the president can fire.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Him, that is correct. I mean, look, Donald Trump fired
James Comy in the middle of his tenure term, and
so Trump would have would have fired Ray if Ray
hadn't announced yesterday that he's going to step down voluntarily.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay. And it's interesting because Trump actually appointed Ray when
he was president last time.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's right, and it's a great fanfare praising him as
a sort of a paragon of virtue. But Trump said yesterday, quote,
I just don't know what happened to him. You know,
Trump believes that Ray was responsible for the FBI's rate
of mar A Lago in twenty twenty two. Of course,
that happened after months of back and forth between unbeknownst
(07:02):
to the public, between Trump and the Justice Department and
the National Archives over the boxes of classified material that
we're hanging out in you know, the bathroom and the
auditorium and the storage room at mar A Lago, with
allegedly his staffers moving the boxes around behind the attorney's back.
All of this was ultimately the subject of a federal
(07:24):
indictment that has now been dismissed, but Trump says that
the FBI was responsible for how it was handled. Of course,
the FBI is a law enforcement agency and can't operate
without direction by the Justice Department and attorneys there, attorneys
who go to court to get the FBI's search warrants signed.
(07:44):
So anyway, long story short, Trump is not a fan
of Christopher Ray and is tapping a longtime loyalist in
Cash Patel, to essentially clean house. No, Pateel's gonna have
to answer questions from skeptical senators, maybe some moderate Republicans,
but certainly Democrats on camera. I had a confirmation hearing
about how serious he is about the things he said
(08:06):
on podcasts and in other places talking to right wing
audiences about his desire to clean house and go after
Trump's enemies.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, and so is it like a cabinet position where
he has to get the Senate to back the comfort
to back the appointment.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
The FBI director certainly is the Senate confirmed post. And
the whole idea of the ten year term established by
Congress is to go beyond the length of any particular
presidency to sort of take the Bureau out of politics. Well,
that's not going to happen here. Christopher Ray is ceding
to the intent of the incoming president to replace him.
(08:47):
And that's understood now that the constitution gives the president
the power to point officials and to fire them.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Okay, And when does the raised resignation take effect. Is
it going to be now or is he going to
do like work with the Biden administration right up until
January twentieth thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It is not happening now. What is not clear is
exactly when his term will end. But he said yesterday
that he'll leave next month. When that when the administration
is over, so I suppose that means noon at January twentieth,
but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much as always,
you bet all right, Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Police in New York say a gun found on the
man suspected of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson matches
shell casings found at the crime scene in Manhattan. YPD
Commissioner Jessica Tish says there is also other evidence against
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Luigi Mangioni.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
We're also able at our crime lab to match the
person of interests fingerprints with fingerprints that we found on
both the water bottle and the kind bar near the
scene of the homicide in Midtown.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Mangioni was seen on video to Starbucks the day Thompson
was killed, buying water and the food bar. Mangioni was
arrested in Pennsylvania at MacDonald's and is fighting extradition to
New York. A fundraiser has been set up online for
the man accused of killing Brian Thompson in New York
as of this morning. Donations for mangeone on Give Send
Go have topped forty four thousand dollars. The goal is
(10:17):
two hundred thousand. People on the site can also send prayers.
There's a button for that. The fundraiser said it is
not to celebrate violence, but that organizers believe in the
constitutional right of fair legal representation. The man accused of
lying in wait to try to assassinate President elect Trump
has asked a judge in Florida to delay his trial
(10:38):
until December of twenty twenty five. Ryan Routh is pleaded
not guilty to five counts, including attempted assassination of a
presidential candidate. The judge in the casay she'll rule on
the delay request in the not so distant future. New
York City Mayor Eric Adams is said to meet with
President elect Trump's incoming borders are.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
The two are expected to discuss deepporting migrants who come
out crimes, the migrant crisis in the city, and federal
immigration policy. Tom Homan has threatened to withhold funding from
sanctuary cities that don't cooperate with deportation plans kafight.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Scott Pringle says New York is a sanctuary city, but
Mayor Adams says he'd like local law enforcement to work
with the Feds to deport criminals. Protests over the meeting
are planned outside city Hall. As more insurers stop offering
insurance to homeowners in California, Farmers says it's going to
offer more policies. Farmers has been limiting the number of
(11:30):
new residential insurance policies in the last year to seven
thousand per month. It announced it will raise that number
for home and condo owners and renters to ninety five
hundred new customers per month starting later this month. Six
times Super Bowl winning coach Bill Belichick is going back
to college. She'll become the next head coach at North Carolina.
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The former New England Patriots head coach has worked in
the NFL almost fifty years. He holds the record for
most Super Bowl and most Playoff wins in NFL history.
He resigned from the Patriots at the end of the
twenty twenty three season. Okay, as you know, Pastathon has
come and gone and we finally have all the totals,
So we wanted to say one more big, fat thank
(12:14):
you to you, because you guys really opened up your
hearts and your pocket books and donated a whole ton
of money and pasta. So the final the final total
is one million, two hundred twenty three thousand, two hundred
and seventy dollars. And on top of that, eighty nine
(12:34):
thousand and five pounds of pasta and sauce was donated
during Pastathon twenty twenty four and it all goes to
Katarina's Club. Chef Bruno serves up twenty five thousand meals
every week, twenty five thousand, So that's kids who get
to have a nice full belly and get to you know,
(12:55):
go back and do their homework, had their minds cleared,
their minds nourished, and it's all because of you. Couldn't
do it without you. Again, thank you so much for
your participation in Pastathon twenty twenty four. About six thousand
people are still under evacuation orders because of the fire
in Malibu. The winds have died down, so cal Edison's
power has been restored to customers in the area and
(13:16):
traffic signals are working again. The fires burned more than
four thousand acres since Monday night. It's seven percent surrounded.
Several roads are still closed around Malibu, including a stretch
of Pacific Coast Highway. Others have reopened, but only to residents.
Sheriff's deputies are patrolling the area to guard against looting.
Schools in the area will stay closed at least through
tomorrow because of the fire still being investigated. President elect
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Trump has been named Times Person of the Year. To
mark the unveiling of the magazine cover, Trump's team says
he'll be on Wall Street this morning to ring the
opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. This will
be the first time he's done that. It's his second
time being named Times Person of the Year. At six
oh five. It's handle on the news. FBI to TIS
director Christopher Rayes calling it quits right now, let's say
(14:03):
good morning to ABC's crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. So,
Brad Luigi Mangioni had got everything going for him. He's smart,
he's cute, starting a good career, good family, and then
something happened that led him to basically assassinate the CEO
of United Healthcare allegedly.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
So Aman, we don't know it got him there, but
I can guarantee you he got there, and you only
get there through radicalization. And I don't know who radicalized him.
I don't know obviously who he was talking to online,
but this kid at some point started delving into sort
of a radical way of thinking about the healthcare industry
(14:46):
and probably got in trade. He's really smart, and my
guess has put everything into well what this is all about?
And you know, isn't it awful? And you know, whatever
negative things he could find, and maybe he's now talking
to people that all also supporting that way of thinking.
So radicalization basically goes through four phases for lack of
(15:07):
better terms, where you get intrigued with a particular philosophy,
you then accept it, and then you accept that violence
is the way to deal with it, and then you act.
And obviously he did act. And just his comments of
what little has been released about whacking the CEO, I mean,
(15:28):
it's all like, was he felt, he feels totally justified
that what he did, that he's on the right side
of all of this and the rest of us are
on the other side. And I mean, let's face it,
I mean there's a lot of people that are sort
of applauding what he did, which obviously is not right,
but it is out there. And so despite the fact
(15:51):
he had all this going for him, he still felt
had a vulnerability to fall into something like this, and
the whole idea that he just peered for six months.
It sort of fits. I mean, six months of total
isolation of maybe just dealing with like minded people, probably
online mostly. We'll have to see till he ultimately plans
(16:14):
this and figures out where the CEO is going to be,
shoots him, and then it leaves, and I think feels
just fine about it, Yeah, which is not uncommon with
people who commit these kind of acts.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
And Brad, I'm guessing, just from hearing you talk about,
you know, the road to radicalization for people who may
be heading that way, I'm guessing that the Internet and
social media helps that along. And you know, I mean,
for lack of a better word, because the algorithms all
point you to places you're already going. It's just like it,
(16:49):
you know, it pushes conservative people more conservative, and it
pushes liberal people further to the left. So I would
imagine as he starts digging around and finding stuff that
it just makes it. I mean, it's like it's just
fanning the flames for him.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
There is no doubt, and right it helps you go
down whatever path you're choosing, whether it's a light path
or a dark path. In his case, obviously he was
he has gone down a very dark path, and you know,
he's basically giving up his life to do this, and
(17:26):
maybe he doesn't recognize this. I think the harsh reality
of the four walls that he's currently sitting in that
which may be his residence for maybe ever we'll have
to see, is they don't think about that. And clearly
maybe he planned it high risk he got away, but
(17:47):
he didn't. He didn't plan the elk game, and that's
what got him caught, which I thought all along he
was going to get caught, because it just didn't strike
me that you know that he was on a you know,
a jet to some island in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, he was. He was found two hundred and fifty
miles away.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Right right, and he's driving through familiar territory. I think
he'd been to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. He went to college
at at the University of Pennsylvania. So I don't know,
but it's a story that we don't have all the pieces,
but I'm pretty clear that he had to go through
this sort of stages of radicalization to get to where
(18:28):
he got to last week.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Here's a question for you, Brat. I mean, this doesn't
happen overnight. Is this like a year in the making
or two years in the making, or is there any
kind of a timeline typically that you see with these
kind of cases.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
There's not a timeline, Amy, but I will tell you
that it has come out that in twenty twenty one,
so that's three years ago. He's in some sort of
book club and he brings in the writings of Ted Kaczynski,
the unabomber, and talks about beasically that he gives him
a four star rating, and that that you know, maybe
(19:04):
it was not right that he was the Ted was
blowing people up, but that this whole idea of stopping
society from improvements in technology was the right thing to do. Basically,
he sort of justifies what Kazinski did and apparently it
(19:26):
alarmed so many people in the book club. People started
pulling out of it. Oh really, so I only shared
only share that that's three years ago. So something's been
going on with this kid for a long time, is
a short answer.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, Now we know he had a back injury. That's
been talked about quite a bit, But are there any
indications so far that he was like denied coverage or
a medical procedure or something by the insurance companies. And
maybe that just really ticked him off and again sent
him down that road.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Oh maybe, or maybe that got him to be intrigued
by the whole idea even had I may be wrong
about this a second back surgery, and his back is
much better than it was previously, but yes, that may
have given him a direction. And then once he starts digging,
he sees sort of how murky the whole healthcare insurance
(20:17):
industry is.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, well, it's fascinating in a very morbid way that
somebody who, like we talked about, who seemed to have
it all, shows that very dark.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Path, right and throw it all away?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah right, all right. ABC's Crime and Terror Analyst Brad Garrett,
Thank you so much, appreciate your insight. As always, you're
welcome take carry me all right, talk to you soon.
A homeless man charged with punching an Asian woman in
the head in Culver City while shouting racial slurs at her,
is pleaded guilty to a federal charge. The US Attorney's
Office says it's a felony and carries a possible maximum
(20:52):
penalty of ten years in federal prison. Sentencing a set
for March. The man appointed as the director of the
FBI by then President Trump in twenty seven teen will
step down before Trump takes office in January. Christopher Ray
announced yesterday he was resigning. He said it was the
best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray.
The resignation clears the way for Trump to nominate Cash
(21:12):
Battel to head the FBI. The Pentagon is pushing back
on claims by New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew that
mysterious drones spotted over the state could be from Iran.
Andrew says there is evidence that suggests the drones could
be the work of foreign adversaries and should be shot down.
He also says Americans should have full disclosure.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
That doesn't mean we tell their military sequence. But when
you have something the size of a Chevy suburban hovering
over your backyard, and these reports are real and they
don't deny them. The Pentagon doesn't deny the reports. Nobody does.
There's something going on here.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Republican State Senator John Bremnick is calling for the drones
to be temporarily banned. Such a bizarre story be interesting
to see how that all shakes out. An American detained
for seven months in Seria has been freed as the
rebels who toppled the government have been letting people out
of prisons. Travis Timmerman says he had crossed into Syria
illegally from Lebanon on a Christian pilgrimage. He says he
(22:11):
heard other young men being tortured while he was detained,
but that he was treated okay. He says he was
fed and given water, but complained he could only use
the restroom three times a day. The last surviving star
of a landmark counterculture TV show has died.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Michael Cole starting the hit show The Mob Squad from
nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy three with Clarence Williams
the Third and Peggy Lipton. They played hip rebellious youths
recruited to work as undercover detectives for the Man instead
of doing time for crimes. Cole's twenty eighteen memoir was
titled I Played the White Guy. He played Pete Cochran,
a rich kid busted for stealing a car, and with
partners Julie and Link, got involved in heavy stories of
(22:50):
the time that regular fuzz cops couldn't get near. Cole
died Tuesday in Tarzana. He was eighty four. Mark ronnerd KFI.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
News about five hundred Boeing workers in southern California are
losing their jobs. The company announced yesterday that one hundred
and fifteen workers in Long Beach and one hundred and
forty four in El Segundo will be laid off. More
will soon lose their jobs in Seal Beach, Huntington Beach,
and San Diego. Boeing says it's being done in part
because of losses from the two month machinist strike. The
(23:21):
La City Council's voted twelve to three to increase the
minimum wage for tourism workers more slowly than originally approved.
The new measure increases the minimum minimum wage to twenty
two to fifty an hour by February of twenty twenty five,
instead of to twenty five dollars, and then the wages
will gradually increase and will hit thirty dollars an hour
by twenty twenty eight, just in time. For the twenty
(23:43):
twenty eight Summer Olympic Games. Workers will also get better
health benefits. Four restaurants in California have made yelp's top
twenty five list for best new restaurants in twenty twenty four.
The Asian fusion restaurant Burn and Shell Cute in La
is fifth on the list. Mexico restaurant Paseo in Downtown
Disney and Anaheim is ninth. Two restaurants in San Diego
(24:05):
made the list. Kid Me Oma Cassi is fourth and
Bougie Mana is eighth. On the yelp list. Bougiemna is
a Mediterranean restaurant at five point fifty. It's two weeks
away from Christmas, so doesn't it make sense that we
should maybe start talking about your taxes. We're going to
be checking in with ABC's Jim Ryan, who says it
is time to start planning now. Oh, we're not talking
(24:33):
taxes right now, because it's time for us to take
a Southern California's sleigh ride. We're going out and about
to a brand new event in the heart of downtown
LA that is definitely going to help get you in
the Christmas spirit. As far as I know there hasn't
been anything like this in LA until now. It's the
Los Angeles Christmas Market. We caught up with marketing team
member Queenie Kwan. So Queenie, please tell us about the
(24:56):
Los Angeles Christmas Markets.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
Well, the Los Angeles Christmas Market. It's the first ever
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
One.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
Yeah, this is our first year, okay, and we are
trying to bring some European inspired Christmas magic into the
heart of LA. We have food, drink, plentey of little
activities for everyone to enjoy. It ranges from meeting Sana,
writing letters to Santa, some diy ornament painting, chocolate dipping
(25:26):
and of.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Course tippy wait tell me about chocolate chocolate dipping.
Speaker 10 (25:29):
Well, you are able to purchase a little tray and
it'll come with your chocolate dip, a bunch of sweet treats, decorations.
You can customize it however you want and enjoy as
you make your food.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, okay, And we are here actually at Letters to Santo,
which is adorable. So you can sit down at your
big people table and you write your letter to Santa
and then you send it off to him and it
heads to the North Pole and that's just one of
the several activities that we can do. And then now
tell us about some of the shopping because we're only
(26:06):
a few days away from Christmas and shopping is paramount
right now. So what are some of the things that
people are gonna find.
Speaker 10 (26:12):
We have a lot of local California vendors. A lot
of them are small businesses of their own, and there's
a variety of different merchandise that everyone can purchase. It
ranges from pet goodies to jewelry. If you like tea
or honey, we have those as well. We have a
(26:32):
local chocolate booth as well. It's freshly made every day.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And how many shopping booths are there about?
Speaker 10 (26:42):
I would say about twenty to thirty. Okay, we are
in a smaller lot, but it gives off a pretty
cozy vibe as everything's a little bit clustered together. And
of course you'll you're gonna see so many light displays everywhere,
plenty of photo opportunities.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Let's talk about the light displays because they're every you
wear and they're so fun. So they are light displays
and their photo ops. So there's so many opportunities, Like
there's that the light tunnel which is so spectacular beautiful. Yes, yeah.
And then there's a couple of ornaments that we went
in and you walk into the ornament and look and
it's just a sea of lights and it just makes such
(27:18):
a cool picture.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Oh yes, definitely. Even some of our trees have a
little tunnel underneath as well. They love walking through it
taking photos. Yep, so many different light displays. We just
wanted to bring some Christmas magic to everyone's lives.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
If you really have. I mean it really just because
we've walked around and looked around and now get to
talk about it, but it just really feels homey and
Christmas y. It doesn't feel all big time. It feels
like a really well thought out, beautiful activity to do
for Christmas. So you can come and do your shopping,
you can come to your activities with your family. And
then we ought to talk about food, because there's food here,
(27:58):
there's always fun here. So tell us a couple of
the premiere ones or the hits.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
So some of the food items that we do sell.
Obviously plenty of sweet treats for everyone with a sweet too,
and we also have some European inspired dishes as well.
It ranges from Snitchell to ratt Wars and Swedish meatballs
given smoky salmon as well.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Smoked salmon too. The Swedish meatballs delicious, yes, yeah, okay.
And then there's like you said, there, I saw like
a strawberry shortcake. I thought I saw something that had
to do with waffles. I'm guessing those are sweet too.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
Yes they are. And some of these vendors are also
local to California as well, so there's plenty of variety
to choose from. There isn't too many that you're overwhelmed with,
chy ses yep. And there's also plenty of drink holiday
drinks to go around, such as hot chocolate eggnogs and
some adult beverage as well. Adult beverages as well.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And then I want to talk about this other thing
that is so cool. They have igloos that you can
rent out, so tell us about the Igloo experience.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
The Igle experience is one of our more VIP experiences.
Once you first walk into the event, you're going to
be handed a menu with your selections of foods and
beverages that you'll be receiving in that igo. It's a
ninety minute designated experience and so you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Can eat in there and have a cocktail or a
hot chocolate and just get off your feet and just
have some like you know, just hang out with your
friends and family. It's really really neat and like you
if you have the time and you want to do
the VIP, I think the ALUs is really a cool
thing to do. So tell us when are you open
and how do we find out?
Speaker 10 (29:43):
We open? From time wise, it's from four pm to
ten pm on Christmas Eve. We do have special hours,
it's twelve pm to five ven pm last finish shopping. Yes,
and we're open up into Christmas Eve, okay, from Wednesday
to Sunday.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So you're dark on Monday Tuesday, and then open Wednesday
through Sunday from four to ten pm. And then you
advise that people buy tickets ahead of time.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
Yes, tickets are sold only online, okay, and the weekends
do get a little bit busier.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, queeny, I think you guys are onto something, because,
like I said, this is a really really cool thing
and it's new, it's the first year, but it doesn't
look like it's the first year. I mean, this thing
is dialed in and ready for you to come down
and see it. It's our Southern California sleigh ride. We
went to the Los Angeles Christmas Market and I think
it was really really a great outing. It's just something
(30:39):
a little bit different, and like I said, once it
got dark, because we got there when it was light
and then the twilight and then the lights really start
showing up and they have all these great light installations.
So it's just a very chill thing to do. And
one thing that we didn't mention when I talked to
Queeny was they do movies every night, so they have
an outdoor movie screen and they have all these Adirondack chairs.
When we were there, they were playing White Christmas, and
I think they they're rotating different movies around. But when
(31:02):
we went there, like the whole everybody was sitting there
watching the movies. There were people standing around, but like
all the chairs were full. And they've do like two
showings of the movie every night. And there's also a
scavenger hunt for the kids and for the kids at
heart because Nick and I both did the scavenger hunt.
You can take a sneak peek at the Los Angeles
Christmas Market. It's up on my Instagram or will be
(31:23):
shortly as soon as they get a chance to put
it up there, it's at Amy K.
Speaker 10 (31:27):
King.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I'm gonna post it at KFI AM six forty as well,
but I would love for you to take a look,
and I would love for you to follow me at
Amy K. King. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The wind driven fire in Malibu has grown to more
than four thousand acres. It's still seven percent surrounded. Fire
officials say the most challenging areas are on the west
side of the fire, in Malibu Canyon, where the terrain
(31:49):
is steep and hard to get to.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
As we look for in the days to come, I
want to ensure that getting the citizens back into their
homes is our number one priority. But to do that,
we have to make sure that the area is safe
before we could let folks back.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
In CalFire incident Commander Dusty Martins's sixty three hundred people
remain under evacuation orders. Thousands more are under evacuation warnings.
Assessments so far show nine homes and other buildings have
been destroyed and six are damaged. UCLA's police Chief, John
Thomas has left his job after being criticized for serious
security lapses and failing to protect students during pro Palestinian protests.
(32:26):
UCLA's announcement didn't say if he was fired or he resigned.
A University of California independent review released last month found
that UCLA failed on several fronts, leading to what it
called institutional paralysis. California could face economic challenges due to
President Elect Trump's announced policies.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
The newest economics forecast from UCLA Anderson suggests the state
could face a labor shortage because of the mass deportation proposal.
Millions of illegal immigrants could depart the state's workforce as
part of the deportation process or voluntarily exit because of
the fear of deportation. The report also notes that Trump's
emphasis on H one B visas for tech workers could
(33:04):
benefit California's tech industry.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Michael Monks KFI News about six thousand people still under
evacuation orders because of the fire in Malibu. The winds
have died down, so cal Edison's power has been restored
to customers in the area and traffic signals are working again.
The fires burn more than four thousand acres since Monday night,
seven percent contained. Several roads are closed in the Malibu area,
including a stretch of PCH. Others are only open to residents.
(33:30):
Sheriff's deputies are patrolling the area to guard against looting.
Schools in the area will be closed. The cause of
the fire is still being investigated. President elect Trump has
been named Person of the Year. To mark the unveiling
of the magazine covers, people say, he'll be on Wall
Street this morning to ring the opening bell at the
New York Stock Exchange for the very first time. It's
his second time though, being named Person of the Year.
(33:54):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
it's less than two weeks until Christmas, So why not
start talking about taxes?
Speaker 11 (34:03):
You gotta start talking about them sometime. And the end
of the year, of course, is the end of the
tax season for most of us. And so yeah, just
stick in the back of your mind and think, you
know what, Hey, let me grab that receipt while I'm
thinking about it, to the donation that I just made
to some charity or the big box of goods that
I took there, collected a receipt from them. So yeah,
start putting those things aside, getting ready for the tax season,
(34:26):
because it's coming, whether you want it to or not.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Amy, I know, so you're saying, and that's actually a
good reminder for any charitable donations you make around the
Christmas time. You got to get those receipts. Like if
you made a donation to Pastathon, you got to get
those receipts.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
Right, That's important, man, And that is one way to
kind of soften the blow of the tax filing and
the amount that you're going to own the end.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, and so in general, like when would you say
is a good time to really in earnest start putting
your taxes together, knowing that April fifteenth is the day.
And I know we've had several times in the last
few years of probably because of the pandemic and buyers
and stuff, where they've delayed the deadline. But April fifteenth
is the date.
Speaker 11 (35:06):
It is twenty twenty five, It is the date. No
federal holidays, nothing happening in Washington in terms of a holiday,
no disasters that are slowing things down at least not yet,
no fingers crossed. But yeah, fifteenth, this I'd say, I
mean the time to start is as soon as you
get your W two right that tells you what your
earnings were for the previous year. Now, once that comes
(35:28):
in the mail or is delivered to you electronically, then
you can really start sitting down, whether you're filing by
paper or filing electronically. And speaking of that in California,
California is one of twelve states that were in the
pilot program for IRS Direct File, and it's a program
that allows you to log on, you set up your
(35:49):
IRS ID, and then answer a few questions and you
file your tax returned directly to the IRS, whether you
owe or you're owed a refund. So it's expanded this
year to twelve more states twenty four states altogether, but
as with so many other things, it's coming under scrutiny
and controversy.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
That controversy, well.
Speaker 11 (36:12):
Thirty Republican lawmakers say Direct File IRS direct File is
a government overreach and that taxpayers run the risk of
overpaying if they use this service. So well, yeah, that's
the why. I mean, critics say that it digs too
deep into taxpayers. Information advocates, though, say, look, it's just
(36:37):
answering a few questions about your status, about the amount
you made answering these questions and then filing directly with
the IRS, so it's fairly transparent. But yeah, these thirty
lawmakers are urging President Trump when he takes office to
shut down the program, so we'll see what happens with
it even before the administration steps inward seeing a controversy
(36:59):
related to to this aspect.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Okay, but even if he does shut it down, it's
not going to be for this year. This is going
to be available for the twenty twenty four. So the
question is is it for all taxes or just for
the really really simple taxes.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
Well, it's best obviously with simple taxes, you know, for
this coming year. Direct file supports the ten ninety nins.
It didn't last year, so even ten ninety nine for
interest income greater than fifteen hundred dollars. So they're actually
expanding this not only to more states, but to more details,
(37:35):
the fine details of your return. So yeah, it's the
free file is the one that you really should be
very simple. I mean, if you're single and you have
one source of income, you don't have a lot of deductions,
than free file is probably the best way to go.
But that one involves a private tax preparer working with
(37:55):
the IRS.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
But it's free.
Speaker 11 (37:58):
But it's free.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Okay, some of that's great.
Speaker 11 (38:00):
Well, so too is direct files. Right, Well, they're both free,
but the direct file allows you to file directly with
the IRS. Free file allows you to work with a
tax preparer who's under contract with the IRS. It true
is free, but brings in this third element.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
But they're working with the IRS. I think I want
a private person.
Speaker 11 (38:21):
Yeah, well, I mean they're working with him in terms
of under contract with the IRS. Doesn't mean they're going
to fudge your numbers or anything. They'll they'll still do
what they have to do because they're legally bound to
be accurate or as best or as accurate as they
can be at least.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Okay, all right, well, thanks for dampening my Christmas spirit
by bringing up taxes. I think I need to go
watch a Christmas movie. ABCD ABC's Jim Ryan thinks so much.
We'll talk to you soon. So yeah, all right, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden's commuting sentences
of about fifteen hundred people who were released from prison
(38:57):
and placed on home confinement during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
He's also pardoning thirty nine Americans who were convicted of
nonviolent crimes. He said he would be taking more steps
in the weeks ahead and would continue to review clemency petitions.
The family of a missing woman from Hawaii says she
is safe. Anna Kobayashi was last seen in early November
(39:18):
crossing the border into Mexico shoo that was seen on
surveillance video. According to the LAPD, she had missed a
connecting flight from Hawaii to New York City at LAX
earlier in the month. On Wednesday, the thirty year old's
family confirmed that she is safe and they have talked
to her. The incoming Trump administrations reportedly planning to reverse
a policy to prevent immigration and Customs enforcement officers from
(39:42):
arresting illegal immigrants at her near churches, schools, hospitals, and
other sensitive sites. NBC News says talk of the day
one policy shift has already drawn criticism from groups like
the ACLU that argue migrants with potentially contagious diseases should
not be afraid to go to the hospital. Researchers that
you see David say feeding cows seaweed could help save
(40:04):
the planet. Burps that come from cows are a major
source of methane and that contributes to climate change. But
Professor Erme's cou Rob says, if you feed cattle seaweed,
you can reduce methane emissions by almost forty percent.
Speaker 12 (40:18):
An inhibitor basically inhibits the formation of methane.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
The goalie says is to make cattle farming more sustainable.
Speaker 12 (40:25):
We want to reduce the amount of methane that is
in the atmosphere so that we don't have the screenhouse
cut effect as much as we do right now.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
He says, about a third of all methane comes from cows.
The professor says adding a seaweed supplement to the cow's
diet did not affect their health or their weight. This
is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County
Southland weather from KFI party cloudy with air, twenty percent
chance of rain in the afternoon and evenings will be
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in the mid sixties at the beaches Metro LA and
in an Orange, Orange County lod to mid sixties in
the valleys in ie fifties. The Antelope Valley overnight lows
in the thirties and forties, then becoming sunny. Tomorrow heis
in the sixties. Mostly cloudy on Saturday, with highs in
the sixties and a chance of rain in the evening,
then morning clouds afternoon sun. For Sunday, it's thirty nine
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in Anaheim forty seven, Redondo Beach forty eight, and Claremont
forty six in Downey. We lead local live from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical
producer KNO and also traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King.
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