November 13, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy talking about House votes ending the government shutdown. KFI White House correspondent Jon Decker talks about 30 years at the White House. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pelegrini discussing how the markets are looking today. The show closes with Amy talking with ABC News crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett about all the sports betting schemes seeming to be taking over.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It's time for your morning wake up call.
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Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Good morning, five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Thursday, November thirteenth. I'm Amy King. We're
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to say. I am a happy camper this morning because
I have my coffee. If you were listening yesterday, I
told you that my little, my cute little coughie maker
just crapped out and broke. So I didn't and I
program it so it starts in the morning and I
wake up and there's you can smell coffee in the house.
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It broke. Well, I got a new one yesterday and
I didn't even go to the store, went to Amazon.
They delivered it yesterday. Shocking, right, how do they do that? Anyway?
I hope you have fresh coffee this morning as well.
Let's get started. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
A powerful winter storm expected to hit southern California this evening. Waves,
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a strong wind, and rain are expect. They had off
and on through Sunday. The National Weather Service says the
storm could dump the most rain seen in downtown LA
in at least a month, possibly since February. The former
chief of staff to Governor Newsom has been arrested and
charged with stealing two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
from political campaigns, funneling money into a friend's account over
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a three year period that started in twenty twenty two.
The House has passed a Senate passed funding plan to
end the longest government shut the in US history. The
vote last night was two twenty two to two oh nine.
Six Democrats voted for the measure, two Republicans voted against it.
President Trump then signed it at a ceremony in the
Oval Office last night. The shutdown lasted forty three days.
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ABC Stephen Fortnoy's going to join us with the latest
on that, we'll find out when snap funds are going
to be delivered and how much longer travelers are going
to have to deal with shutdown delays and cancelations. Kfi's
White House correspondent John Decker has been working at the
White House for thirty years now. Kind of a cool anniversary.
What changed since he first stepped foot in the people's house.
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He's going to be telling us. John Decker's going to
join us at five point twenty what is up with
all these sports betting scandals? First was the NBA, Then
this week two Major League Baseball pitchers busted for allegedly
intentionally throwing balls to help pay off bets. ABC's Crime
and Terror analyst Brad Garrett's going to join us tell
us how widespread it is and what's being done about it. Also,
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in Air Force Base in Floridas, told residents to slow
their role when it comes to Christmas. Base officials say, hey,
it's one holiday at a time. What residents who've already
put up their decorations have been ordered to do? We'll
tell you about that coming up at the bottom of
the hour. Let's get started now with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Southern California is expected to see four straight days of
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rain starting tonight. Cafi's Mark Mayfield said La County could
get an inch and a half tonight and another inch
tomorrow and Saturday.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Less than an inch of rain is expected to fall
on Sunday, when the storm system begins to clear out.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Rain could linger through Monday.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
In all, the valleys and coasts could see nearly three
inches of rain, while the foothills and mountains could see
up to five inches of rain.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He says there's a risk of flooding and debris flows
in recent burn areas also in the canyons. The City
of La has issued an evacuation warning from six o'clock
tonight to eleven am Sunday for people who live near
the Palisades, Hurst and Sunset fire burn zones. Those residents
have been advised to be ready for possible evacuations because
of the potential for debris flows. LA has capped rent
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hikes for stabilized apartments at four percent.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
The original proposal was to cap rent increases at three
percent at sixty percent the rate of inflation. The final
decision resulted in a maximum four percent increase at ninety
percent the rate of inflation. Councilwoman Nitthia Rahman says rent
cost are pushing people out of LA. We have to
make it possible for people to live in Los Angeles,
to make businesses in Los Angeles, to have their families
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in Los Angeles. Property owners say rent caps and the
rising cost of doing business in the city would likely
hurt LA's goals of having more housing units in the
years ahead. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The LA City Council has unanimously approved a settlement to
change plans to expand the LA Zoo.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
The settlement agreement with Griffith J. Griffith Charitable Trust and
the Friends of Griffith Park, among others, is expected to
end a two year court battle with the city. The
zoo will now abandon large proposed developments, which included excavating
an artificial sixty foot canyon and building an eighteenth and
square foot visitor center. Friends of Griffith Park Rep's head
said the plan was excessive and didn't focus on animal care.
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A statement from the La Zoo says the changes will
not impact the purpose of the vision plan to improve
the zoo. The settlement now heads to Mayor bas for consideration.
II Ling Gonzalez, okay if I news, I love the Zoo.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
The driver list. Ride haling company Weimo is now offering
rides on freeways in the LA area, as well as
in the Bay Area and Phoenix. Waimo's robot taxi service
has been operating on surface streets around LA for about
a year. The company says it has done extensive testing
on freeways that took some time to make sure that
everything's right. Uh yeah, I still am taken my first Weymo.
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Let's get a first look at your morning commute. Work
zone is slowing you down in South LA. It's on
the one oh five. Good morning, will Cole Schreiber, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, we've got up lanes taken away in the process
of being reopened.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The cones getting picked up here.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's the westbound side of the one oh five, right
around CRANCHHAF two lanes.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We're supposed to be completely open about a half.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
An hour ago, but it's taking a little while for
them to pick that up, and there's some delay. Six
oh five northbound at Spring Street, we've got a trailer
hitch in the roadway, big metal steel trailer hitch that
apparently people are hitting, so be careful there. Sixty westbound
at Hacienda that is a little bit of a problem
in terms of a crash clearing and sixty west pound
at Azusa. This may be one and the same an
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accident there and things are a little bit slow on
the westbound side. Otherwise things are moving well, so buckle
up and drive carefully. From with Southern California's most accurate
traffic report.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So I'm Will Cole Schreiber. Buckle up, I like it.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Steven Portnoy. So, Steven,
it's officially over forty three days of a shutdown. Bring
us up to speed on what happened yesterday.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Well, the House voted two twenty two in favor two
oh nine against on a bill that reopens the government.
Six House Democrats crossed.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
The aisle to vote yes, two.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
House Republicans voted no, and President Trump signed the bill
intol on the ten o'clock Eastern time hour last night. So,
federal workers who've been furloughed or expected back at their
duty posts and stations and desks and all across the
federal government, and you know, paychecks will start going out
in short order. According to reports, the FAA employees the
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air traffic controllers could be made whole partially in the
next couple of days with seventy percent of their back pay,
and then thirty percent more in the next paycheck. So
the effort is to get that money out the door
as soon as possible. The CBO Congressional Budget Office estimates
that the total cost of the shutdown to the US
economy could be eleven billion dollars for the longest shutdown
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in the modern era.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, how do they determine that that dollar figure?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Oh, I don't know. I'm not an economist. I'm just
reporting their findings. Yeah, but you know, I think what
they're doing is they're looking at the fact that for
many weeks, the federal government, which would normally be pumping
out output into the economy not been And there are
other broader effects. I mean, here's a tangible example. There's well,
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it's at least reports. The word is that the Bureau
of Labor Statistics may not ever release the October jobs
report because the people who were responsible for that were furloughed,
and we may never know. It may sort of be
a black hole for economic forecasters as to where we
were in the month of October twenty twenty five with
respect to the job market.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Okay, so then you get all into the conspiracy thing
because the economy's kind of been softening. Maybe Trump didn't
want to have those numbers come out. Ah, I know,
I know that's just being conspiracy. So and SNAP benefits
are going to be paid under this spending plan through
next September, and they have been cut off or partially paid.
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So do we know when those are expected to start
rolling out.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Yeah, I don't know the specifics, but I do know
that now that the Appropriations Bill has been signed, any
of the back and forth of this question about partial
benefits and the core and all this, that's all moot.
The money is now there, and it really shouldn't be
much of a problem. The you know issue with respect
to you know, fully funding the SNAP benefits and the
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entire Department of Agriculture which provides them, that's taken care
of now through the end of the fiscal year. Few
areas of the federal government are now addressed in that respect.
Military construction, the Veterans Affairs Department, the entire Legislative branch,
so that means Congressional staff won't have to worry about
their paychecks. If Heaven help us, we wind up in
another government shutdown at the end of January that would
be described properly as a partial shutdown, because certain areas
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of the government will have now been funded for the
fiscal year, and you know, it's it's now on Congress
to do the rest of its job, which is funding
the rest of the government before the next deadline.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And it's not that far away, so we might be
talking about this very same thing. And just you know,
right after the new year, the furloughed people that would
like it was like a sinsident, like seven hundred thousand
people who were off the job up during the shutdown,
some crazy high number like that.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Yeah, I mean that was the reporting. I mean, you know,
you had so many people who were reporting to work
without paychecks, whether they were in law enforcement or you know,
obviously we've spent a lot of time talking about air
traffic controllers, but you know, I've seen park rangers on
the job at national parks, and you've got a feel
for these people who are showing up to work every
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day expecting that they'll get their bi weekly paychecks, and
for six weeks they didn't come. You know, people had
to max out their credit cards or at least put
money on those credit cards, or maybe ask for help,
maybe go to food banks. It's really an unfortunate circumstance,
and it's a good thing. It's over.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Absolutely. And then one other thing before I let you go.
Once the House got back into session, they did us
swearing in for somebody who's been waiting for a while
to officially be sworn in as a Congresswoman.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Adelie Agrihalva, the Democrat of Arizona, succeeding her father, was
kept essentially at bay for seven weeks after the special
election that saw her coming to Washington, and just yesterday
was she sworn in. First action after giving her speech
was signing the discharge petition that will force a vote
on the bill that would order the release of the
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Epstein files. That bill is now going to be put
up for vote next week, Speaker Johnson swallowing the bitter pill.
What you need to know, though, is that even if
it passes the House, which it probably will, there's no
guarantee it's going to be put on the floor of
the Senate. Oh and by the way, the president would
have to sign it. Oh gee, White House has been
so interested in this not happening that yesterday they called
Lauren Bobert of Colorado to the Situation Room to try
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to convince her to take her name off the discharge petition.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
She refused to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, I have a feeling we'll
be talking about that in the near future too. Thank you,
you bet. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Newly
released emails show sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly or repeatedly
discussed President Trump with his co conspirator Gallaine Maxwell, ABC's
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Mary Bruce's The emails were released by Democrats on the
House Oversight Committee.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
In at twenty eleven exchange, with his co conspirator Glenn Maxwell,
Epstein writing the quote dog that hasn't barked is Trump,
adding one of his victims spent hours with Trump at
Epstein's home.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Republicans in the White House say the person mentioned was
Virginia Giuffrey, who once worked at Trump's spot mar A Lago.
She said she never saw Trump do anything inappropriate. President
Trump has urged Israel to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
in a corruption case. He's facing charges of fraud, breach
of trust, and taking bribes ABC's Ian panels As. Trump
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sent a letter to Israeli President Isaac Hertzog yesterday, calling
the case a political, unjustified prosecution.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
The statement president Herzogg responding that he holds President Trump
in the highest regard, but that anyone seeking a pardon
has to submit a formal request.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Trump also mentioned the pardon during a speech at Israel's
Knesset last month, when the ceasefire with Hamas was announced.
Paris is commemorating the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks
that killed one hundred and thirty two people and injured
one hundreds. Gosh, that was ten years ago. Already crazy.
The attacks in twenty fifteen included shootings at cafes, explosions
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at a stadium, and a massacre at the Batklan concert hall.
The ceremonies today will include tributes led by President Emmanuel
Macron and Paris Mayor and Hidalgo. At each attack site,
a new memorial garden will be unveiled, and the Eiffel
Tower will be lit in French colors. The US Mint
has made its final penny. The last one cent coins
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were produced yesterday at the Mint in Philadelphia at a
cost of nearly four cents each.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
The final pennies minted will be auctioned off and not
go into circulation.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Now. Some are wondering if the.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Five cent nickel, which costs fourteen cents to make, could also.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Be in jeopardy. ABC's Andrew Fujii says the Treasury Department
expects to say fifty six million dollars a year on
materials by not making pennies. Retailers have complained that the
phase out was abrupt and came with no guidance from
the government. There are still three hundred billion pennies in
circulation and they are considered legal tender. The parties before
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and after the IDEs are going away.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Wedding planners say cocktail hours and receptions bookending wedding ceremonies
dropped in part because of the pandemic, but it's become
less popular since then. Recent data says reception free weddings
have gone up two hundred percent over the last year.
The historic Levena Inn and Palace Verita's got so many
requests for paired down weddings. It created a ceremony only
package this year. Some say it makes the vows the
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centerpiece of the occasion, but others say it frees them
from the stress of planning the big to dos, including
the cost of wedding cakes, videographers and more. It also
lets them limit the number of guests to just the
people they actually care about. Michael Krozier kf I.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
News flight reductions will remain at six percent at forty
May your airports and will not increase to eight percent
today is planned. The FAA says it's because more air
traffic controllers are coming back to work now that the
government's shutdown has officially ended. The six percent restriction will
stay in place while officials assess whether the air traffic
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system can safely return to normal operations. Hopefully they'll be
back on track by Thanksgiving. They have two weeks. A
new report from the National Association of Walter says the
age of first time home buyers has climbed to an
all time high. Forty years is now the average age.
The number of first time home buyers has also dropped
to a record low of twenty one percent in twenty
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twenty five. Skyrocketing home prices and mortgage rates are to blame.
The home buyer's crisis is prompted the White House to
propose a new fifty year mortgage, which would lower your payments,
but you know you'd be paying for a lifetime. The
La City Council has passed a resolution officially opposing the
Dodger's gondola project. The resolution isn't binding, but it will
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be consis by La Metro, which is in charge of
reviewing mass trends at projects. Supporters say the gondola from
Union Station the Dodger Dodger Stadium would reduce traffic at
six oh five. It's handle on the news. Of course,
President Trump has signed the bill that ends the longest
government shutdown in US history. Let's say good morning now
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to mister Anniversary. It's kfi's White House correspondent John Decker.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning to you. Amy. A
big night for our country because the government shutdown is
finally over after forty three days. The President signing that
continuing resolution about ten thirty pm Eastern time in the
Oval Office last night. So now the government has reopened
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and all of those furloughed workers will get their back pay,
they can go back to work, and hopefully very soon
all of that air travel mess that we've seen over
the course of the last few weeks, we'll get back
to normal.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Absolutely that things are getting back to normal. We can
get back to things like celebrating your thirtieth anniversary as
a White House correspondent. Holy cow, John, that's a long time.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
It's a long time. Yeah, when you think about I've
covered every president since Bill Clinton in his first term.
I've traveled the world with these presidents. I've worked with
seventeen White House Press secretaries, and for me, it never
gets old.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I love what I do.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
You know, presidents and press secretaries tell me I'm good
at what I do. I got a really nice congratulatory
note from President Trump. I even got one from both
President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. So I
couldn't be happier about that. And you know, I'm humbled
by the fact that, you know, I'm going to be
celebrating this thirtieth year milestone to night at the Swedish
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Embassy right here in Washington.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
D C.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Why why is it at the Swedish Embassy?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Well, you know, I've developed very close friendships over the years,
and one of those friendships, one of my good friends
is the Swedish ambassador, and he wanted to host this
event and that's exactly what he's going to be doing.
So about two hundred guests will be attending this event. Friends, family,
my wife, colleagues, other ambassadors. It's going to be a
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great event. This evening very cool.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, So let's talk about thirty years. What are some
of your maybe one or two of your most memorable moments, because,
like you said, you've dealt with all these presidents, traveled
the world, been through scandals and successes and failures. What
are a couple that really stick out in your mind?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Well, Amy, you know, I could go year by year,
but that will take us too long. But certainly in
the Clinton years, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, being at the
White House when that broke, and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
I've been in the House Chamber for thirty data Union addresses.
They're never old for me. They're like my Super Bowl
when those happen. Of course, the Persian Gulf War, the
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war in Iraq and Afghanistan under George W. Bush, the
historic it and see an election of Barack Obama. I
traveled to Cuba with Barack Obama that historic trip. I
traveled to Singapore when President Trump met for the first
time with Kim Jong Un. I travel with President Biden
to Geneva when he met with President Putin. Most recently,
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I was with President Trump in Alaska when he met
with President Putin. There have been so many memorable moments
and memorable trips that are a part of American history
that I've reported on and witnessed. And to me, that's
a great privilege a.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Witness to history. Nice I would put that on my tombstone,
not that we're hoping there you go. Okay, So was
there a worst moment?
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I'm going to tell you a moment that well, nine
to eleven. First of all, you know, being there on
nine to eleven, I mean that that is a sering
memory for me. That is, you know, I think the
worst moment in our in our you know, our our memories,
our country's history that we can certainly recall, you know,
not being around for some of the events of the
nineteen sixties assassinations that took place then. But so nine
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to eleven certainly sticks out. A funny moment I will
tell you was in two thousand and eight when I
was bit by President George W. Bush's Scottish Terryer Barney.
He bit me on the finger, and that actually made
national news.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
At the time.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Give you a sense about how the world has changed
so much. That was a funny moment. Missus Bush was
so apologetic, and President Bush said to me at the
Christmas party about a month later, but it was good
for ratings. It was pretty funny, pretty funny moment, and
I had a good laugh about it when it happened,
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of course. And still you know, you can actually see
that moment as it happens amy on YouTube. It went
viral at the time. So that was a pretty funny
moment that happened. Wow, my gosh, more than fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Okay, So Biden's dogs aren't the only dogs that were
biting people.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
There are other presidents dogs that were that. It's a misues,
that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So here's a question for you, because you've been asking
questions at the President and talking to, you know, people
in the White House for all these years. How do
you manage to stay in the good graces of the
most powerful man in the world and still ask the
tough questions.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Well, I think you can do so, you know, just
by being fair, having integrity, being honest, and still asking
tough questions. You know that we live in America. We
have a free press, and I think every president recognizes that.
And so for that reason, you know, I think that
it makes me feel proud to know that I received
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a congratulatory letter that praised me and my reporting coming
from President Trump, and I received similar types of letters
coming from his polar opposite, you know, and that's Barack Obama.
So I know I'm doing something right if I'm receiving
praise from each of those presidents that represent opposite extremes
on the political spectrum. The key is is just to
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be fair and honest and decent with the people that
you cover.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Okay, and you sent a picture or your scheduler sent
a picture of the letter that's framed, and of course
it's a gold frame. Did you frame it in gold
or did you get it that way from the White House?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
That's a great question. Amy. No one's asked me that
I chose that frame. I chose the way it looks.
I just felt, you know, how fitting to have gold
because who else do you associate with colden? President Donald Trump?
So great question, and I gather you like the frame
that I chose.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It's beautiful and you know, kind of cool to have
a framed letter from the President of the United States
and also from the former presidents of the United States.
Can'fi's White House correspondent John Decker, thanks so much. Congratulations
have fun at your party tonight.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Oh thanks so much, Amy, I appreciate it. Well, I'll
talk to you real soon, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
The La City Council has approved a plan to address
a projected two hundred and sixty three million dollar budget
deficit in the first three months of the fiscal It
was caused by unexpected spending in several city departments. According
to officials, the city will spend over fourteen million dollars
to cover immediate expenses, and then has also identified one
hundred and sixty nine million dollars in possible actions that
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will reduce over overspending revenue for the quarter. Good news
is up eighty million dollars over projections. The mother of
a missing nine year old girl from Santa Barbara County
has appeared in court in a case unrelated to her
daughter melodies disappearance. ABC's Matt Gutman says Ashley Buzzard is
accused of holding a man hostage in her home.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
It was at Buzzard's home last week trying to help
her search for the girl when the mother became visibly distressed.
After sharing information, she appeared to regret disclosing.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The guy claims a box cutter was used, and despite
asking Buzzard to let him go, she wouldn't. Buzzard has
pleaded not guilty. State officials say they planned to revoke
seventeen thousand commercial driver licenses given to immigrants after discovering
the expert ration dates went past the dates the drivers
were legally allowed to be in the US. The announcement
follows criticism from the Trump administration about California and other
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states granting licenses to illegal immigrants. The practice came to
light in August when the driver of a tractor trailer
made an illegal U turn in Florida and caused a
crash that killed three people. MSNBC's officially changing its name
this weekend.
Speaker 11 (24:24):
The news network will be known as MS Now. It's
all part of the corporate divorce from NBC News. NBC
Universal's parent company, Comcast, spun most of its cable networks
off into a new company. The network's lineup remains the same,
but it has built a new studio and hired a
new reporting staff to make up for losing its partnership
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with NBC.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Deborah mark Koffi News. Some Starbucks baristas are putting down
the coffee and hidden picket lines today. The strike coincides
with Starbucks Red Cup date, it's one of its busy
siest days of the holiday season. The workers' union accuses
the coffee giant of refusing to fairly negotiate and has
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rejected its latest proposal. Starbucks says it already offers competitive
pay and benefits and is ready to negotiate if the
union returns to the table. The Starbucks that are affected
or the unionized Starbucks, so it affects about five hundred
of their stores. Residents who live in areas burned by
wildfires have been told to be ready to leave as
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a stom moves into southern California. The National Weather Service
says heavy periods of rain over the next few days
could bring flooding and debris flows. A half inch of
rain per hours expected at times. LA City Council's voted
to update the Rent Stabilization Ordinance with a new formula
that allows landlords to raise rents by up to four percent.
It also removes additional charges for electricity and gas. These
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are the most substantive changes to rent policies in more
than four decades. The last pennies have been minted in
the US. The Philadelphia Mint made the very last pennies. Yesterday,
President Trump ordered the Mint to stop producing pennies, which
now cost almost four cents to make. In seventeen ninety three,
a penny could buy you a biscuit, a candle, or
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a piece of candy. Billions of pennies are still in
circulation and will remain legal tender. Okay, we got you know.
I love Christmas and I've already been talking about it.
The countdown is on. It's like forty two days now.
Not everybody is quite as excited about as me.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Hi, No, no, no, no, not Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Amy, you go back to talking about Disney Man. We
still Thanksgiving, but not everybody agrees. Others say, go ahead, Hi.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Amy, you're right, it's not too early to talk about Christmas.
I think you should talk about start talking about Easter
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, So I am a one holiday at a time person,
and I think there's a little gray area when it
comes to Thanksgiving. But in Florida, at Tindel Air Force Base,
which is just outside of Panama City, apparently some of
the people who live on base had started putting up
Christmas decorations early. They didn't wait until after Thanksgiving like
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you're supposed to. And they got a letter from the
base and it said, all right, slow your role, guys.
And they said it's one holiday at a time, and
they basically ordered them to take their decorations down. Yeah.
They said all holiday decorations should be reflective of their
respective months and not displayed any sooner than thirty days
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before the given holiday. If you currently have Yule tied
decor outside your home, please remove it and re install
it in accordance with your community guidelines. They say they're
just enforcing community standards, not a DoD policy or I
guess Department of War policy. But it is apparently common
practice across rental communities to keep neat, consistent, and enjoyable
(27:59):
and vires for all residents. I think that might have
been a little bit extreme because if they should have
told them beforehand, because you think hours and hours of
time and breaking your back and falling off ladders to
make sure that your holiday decorations look fabulous, right, your
things intense? Yes, Anyway, I am a one holiday at
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a time, So decorations don't go up until after Thanksgiving,
and no Easter doesn't go up before Christmas. Here's what's
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news from
President Trump assigned a bill to reopen the government. The
bill was passed by the House late yesterday. Even some
Democrats voted to end the shutdown. After the vote, Speaker
Johnson blamed the historically long shutdown on Democratic leaders, saying
(28:43):
they use the American people as pawns.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
The Democrat shutdown is finally over thanks to House and
Senate Republicans who stood together to get the job done.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The bill was passed by a vote of two twenty
two to two oh nine. President Trump then signed it
at the Oval Office last night. For the thousands of
airline passengers have had to deal with flight cancelations and delays,
and end to the government's shutdown couldn't come soon enough.
ABC's Gio Benita says more than nine hundred flights were
canceled yesterday and more than seventeen hundred were delayed.
Speaker 12 (29:13):
Airlines say it could be several more days before they
are fully operational, but for the first time in two weeks,
nearly every air traffic control center in the country was
properly staffed.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
The FAA says flight cuts will stay at six percent
instead of going to ten percent this weekend. The opening
ceremony for the twenty twenty eight Summer Games in LA
will be held July fourteenth at SOFI Stadium and the
Los Angeles Coliseums. You can put it on your calendar.
The full schedule for games was released yesterday. The twenty
twenty eight Olympics will start with track and field events
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and then end was swimming. That's a reverse from the
twenty twenty four Games. Flag football makes its Olympic debut
on July fifteenth. Lacrosse is returning to the Olympics for
the first time since nineteen oh eight. It'll take place
in the second week of the Games. Another beloved cartoon
character that has entered the public domain is getting grizzly.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
This time it's Betty Boop. The nineteen thirties girl who's
being turned into a gruesome villain by vm I Worldwide,
Your Mine and Monday. The creators have given their upcoming
film the ominous title Boop, and they're calling it a
true testament to feminism as well as a wildly violent,
ridiculously fun ride. Other characters who've been put into horror
movies since entering the public domain include Winnie the Pooh,
(30:26):
Mickey Mouse, and Popeye, Mark Ronner, Kfi Newsoo, Peter, that's just.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Wrong time to get in your business. Now with Bloomberg's
Denise Pellegrini. Good morning Denise, Yeah, good morning Amy.
Speaker 13 (30:39):
You were talking about Christmas and how you like it
so much. My stepmom out there in California keeps the
tree and all the ornaments up all year long. Comes spring,
she just covers them up with pieces of cloth and
then she takes the cloth.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, but around September. Okay, Hey, we were talking about movies,
and obviously these movies are ones that I'm not going
to go see. Slasher movies about Betty Boop and Winning
the Poop. But let's talk about Disney and its profits.
Speaker 13 (31:10):
Yeah, your listener wants you to talk less about the
holidays and more about Disney. Right, So here we go,
Disney blaming film studio expenses for weaker than expected results,
saying expenses tied to the theatrical release of Zootopia two and
Avatar Fire and Ash will cut earnings by four hundred
million bucks amy in the first quarter. Disney predicting, though
(31:30):
growth will intensify in the second half of the year,
investors aren't buying it today.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That stock is lower in the early going. Hey, when
that happens to Disney. NBC is launching a cable sports channel.
Guess they want to get in the sports game.
Speaker 13 (31:43):
NBCSN will carry sports including NBA games, Premier League Soccer,
and also sports talk programming some Major League Baseball games
as well. NBC Universal hoping like you are indicating that
NBCSN can be offered in slimmed down on bundles through
pay TV distributors, and they'll have another way to make
(32:03):
money off all their sports content.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Alway's got to make more money. FanDuel is going to
debut Prediction Market. What's about that?
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Yeah, so it wants to rival Calshi And they're doing
this because they're facing a lot of competition now and
This move will theoretically allow FanDuel to open up in
states where traditional sports betting is illegal, including California. They'll
be introducing new mobile app, FanDuel Predicts, you can bet
on the outcome of sports and economic indicators as well.
(32:33):
Sports betting Futures will only be available in the states
where traditional online sports gambling is illegal, as FanDuel tries
to fend off other competitors like Calshi and Polymarket.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Okay, and then let's talk snacks, because I always like
a good snack and my favorite is Cheetos except for
the orange fingers that are left behind.
Speaker 13 (32:52):
Yeah, and so I've got something to tell you about.
Pepsi is introducing what it's called naked versions of its
popular snacks, no artificial dye, so it won't make your
fingers turn orange, and it's all part of its push
to boost healthier options.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Amy.
Speaker 13 (33:08):
They claim that these snacks without the artificial dye taste
exactly the same as the other ones.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
So we're all making finger Yeah.
Speaker 13 (33:18):
Yeah, you just don't have to lick the orange off
your fingers, but you'll still want to lick your fingers
because you know.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
That's part of the fun of it. Although they do
have the white cheddar Cheetos that don't stain your fingers.
They're pretty good. That one gets all over your clothes, though,
I know it looks like you have bad dandruff, right,
And then Trader joe what's up with Traders cornbread crisps? Okay?
So this is that sweet and savory snack.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
You know.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
They take the corn bread, they cut it up, they
bake it, they put some rock salt on it or whatever.
It's kind of a huge buzz on the internet this year.
It's not new at all. They have it every year
at this time, but it's sort of like the McRib
of Trader Joe's, which.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You can now get back Donald's in La.
Speaker 13 (34:00):
On a limited time basis, right, And people love it.
So that's how these companies get us. You know, they
make us wait all year long and then they give what,
you know, give us what we want for a couple
weeks to make us happy.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, all I know is I'm going to go get
some cornbread crist and some mirb and I've never had one,
and some cheetahs. Thank you, Denise Pelgrene And getting in
your business with Bloomberg every day like we do let's
do it again tomorrow. Shall we talk to that? Okay?
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Bye?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
An evacuation warning will be in effect from six tonight
through eleven a m. Sunday for residents near the Palisades,
Hurst and Sunset burn zones. LAPED officers are going to
be going door to door to let residents know in
the highest risk areas, and evacuation warning is also an
effect for the burn area in Altadino, with flooding and
debris flows possible. Reverend Jesse Jackson is in the hospital
(34:49):
in Chicago. A statement from his Rainbow Push coalition says
the eighty four year old civil rights activist was admitted
yesterday and is being observed for a neurological condition he's
been dealing with for a decade. The statement says the
family welcomes all prayers. Weymo driverless taxis have hit freeways
in La Weymo officials say they are confident now that
(35:12):
all the real world performance and comprehensive testing means the
robotaxi can deliver safe and reliable service. Weymo has been
operating on La City streets for about a year. Weymos
are also now driving on freeways in the Bay area
and Phoenix, tw just minutes away from Handle. On the news,
the Dems have released some emails about Jeffrey Epstein talking
(35:32):
about President Trump. The White House says there's nothing to
see here. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Crime
and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. So, Brad, first was NBA.
Now it's the major leagues. What is up with these
sports betting scandals?
Speaker 14 (35:47):
So let's go back to twenty eighteen for a couple
of seconds. Saving the Supreme Court authorized the case to
allow sports betting of the State Law thirty eight Some
odd states have now approved authorized sports betting, and as
(36:09):
a result, it's obviously a big cash cow for the states. Now,
the problem, of course, is that it is to really
increase the number of people that are involved in sports betting.
Now that's you know, that can be driven because the
availability you could have an app on your phone Fantasy
(36:29):
Football League, I think draws a lot of people that
maybe were somewhat passive about sports now more active because
they can you know, build their virtual teams and you
know and have fun with other people, family, friends, etc.
So the point being is that gambling is now more
much more in our face. But you've got the reality
(36:49):
of two things. One, mainly why we're talking this morning
is because of professional athletes that are willing to basically
throw a game for lack of a better terms, underperform, overperform,
go out staining an injury, go out of a game,
change the way they pitch, all sorts of things to
(37:09):
basically control the outcome of the game based on how
people have bet. And that's what all these recent federal
indictments are alleging. The other side of this, obviously that's
not part of this, but it is part of the story,
is the number of people that are now addicted to gambling.
(37:32):
And the people who treat folks for gambling addiction, they
say they're just off the charts for clients.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, that yeah, when you make it that easy. I mean,
like imagine living in Las Vegas at a casino, and
that's kind of what it is. It is just right
there you can get to at anytime.
Speaker 14 (37:51):
I mean, one therapist stated that he had a client
or as a client, that that's in the shower, that's
why they're making breakfast, that BET's on their way to work.
I mean, just because to your point, you can if
you've got your phone in front of you, you can
do it. And people that are prone or you don't
have some predisposition, whether it need be genetics or otherwise,
(38:15):
to become addicted to stuff. I mean, this is just
like fire for them. So there's that whole side of
the story too. Which but you know why professional athletes,
some of them that have made you know, over one
hundred million dollars in their career playing in whatever professional sport,
would then get involved in rigged poker games as these
(38:37):
indictments allege or commit what we just talked about, you know,
rigging games by you know, telling people I'm going to underperform,
so bet that way through prop bets.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah, it is kind of interesting to think about it.
Like you mentioned, I mean, these professional athletes, the good ones,
can make millions of dollars a year and they would
literally throw that a way for people who are going
to win a fifty thousand dollars bet or something like that.
But it's nothing new. I mean, they've got Pete Rose,
of course, you've got the White Sox and shoeless Joe
(39:11):
Jackson over the years. It's just now it's more prevalent.
So is there anything that can be done about it.
Speaker 14 (39:17):
Well, I don't know. I mean one aspect is, according
to these indictments, one way they have caught some folks
is that the sports betting apparatus keep crack of betting obviously,
and they can look for anomalies. Anomalies mean, you know, unusual. Well,
let's say that you played for the Lakers and there's
(39:41):
a lot of betting on you to underperform at particular games.
That would be an anomaly, and so they can dig
deeper into that and then figure out maybe, again, according
to these indictments, that the players are on purpose under
or overperforming. Tell some people have gotten caught. So that's
(40:02):
an apparatus, But you know, how much of that can
they catch? How sophisticated are the players that are maybe
predisposed to be involved in this type of behavior. I mean,
it's I don't do I see it going away? The answers, No,
it's just too pervasive in society for people to want
(40:22):
to bet, and you're going to have a percentage of athletes, unfortunately,
that are willing to push those limits.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
Now you can look.
Speaker 14 (40:30):
At the personality profile of maybe players that are more
predisposed to do this. You know that the studies would
suggest that, you know, they're arrogant, they lack empathy, they're
sort of antisocial and their baseline thinking and they're just
like getting over on people and they see a way
of making a lot more money on the side that
nobody knows about. So does that drive some of this?
(40:53):
I think probably it does.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
All right, Well, so good to note not going away,
and I am just glad that I am not on
these wedding sites because I think it could be very dangerous.
ABC's Crime and Terry analyst Brad Garrett, Thanks so much
for the info. We'll talk to you.
Speaker 14 (41:06):
Soon, Okay, take care.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Amy, all right, I just got a text from my
sister in law. We were talking about Christmas and one
Holiday at a time. She just said, Hey, we might
put up our Christmas decorations in our treede this weekend. Casey,
One holiday at a time. This is Kfi'm kost HD
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wake up and there's you can smell coffee in the house.
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It broke. Well, I got a new one yesterday and
I didn't even go to the store, went to Amazon.
They delivered it yesterday. Shocking, right, how do they do that? Anyway?
I hope you have fresh coffee this morning as well.
Let's get started. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
A powerful winter storm expected to hit southern California this evening. Waves,
(01:32):
a strong wind, and rain are expect. They had off
and on through Sunday. The National Weather Service says the
storm could dump the most rain seen in downtown LA
in at least a month, possibly since February. The former
chief of staff to Governor Newsom has been arrested and
charged with stealing two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
from political campaigns, funneling money into a friend's account over
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a three year period that started in twenty twenty two.
The House has passed a Senate passed funding plan to
end the longest government shut the in US history. The
vote last night was two twenty two to two oh nine.
Six Democrats voted for the measure, two Republicans voted against it.
President Trump then signed it at a ceremony in the
Oval Office last night. The shutdown lasted forty three days.
(02:14):
ABC Stephen Fortnoy's going to join us with the latest
on that, we'll find out when snap funds are going
to be delivered and how much longer travelers are going
to have to deal with shutdown delays and cancelations. Kfi's
White House correspondent John Decker has been working at the
White House for thirty years now. Kind of a cool anniversary.
What changed since he first stepped foot in the people's house.
(02:36):
He's going to be telling us. John Decker's going to
join us at five point twenty what is up with
all these sports betting scandals? First was the NBA, Then
this week two Major League Baseball pitchers busted for allegedly
intentionally throwing balls to help pay off bets. ABC's Crime
and Terror analyst Brad Garrett's going to join us tell
us how widespread it is and what's being done about it. Also,
(02:58):
in Air Force Base in Floridas, told residents to slow
their role when it comes to Christmas. Base officials say, hey,
it's one holiday at a time. What residents who've already
put up their decorations have been ordered to do? We'll
tell you about that coming up at the bottom of
the hour. Let's get started now with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Southern California is expected to see four straight days of
(03:19):
rain starting tonight. Cafi's Mark Mayfield said La County could
get an inch and a half tonight and another inch
tomorrow and Saturday.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Less than an inch of rain is expected to fall
on Sunday, when the storm system begins to clear out.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Rain could linger through Monday.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
In all, the valleys and coasts could see nearly three
inches of rain, while the foothills and mountains could see
up to five inches of rain.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
He says there's a risk of flooding and debris flows
in recent burn areas also in the canyons. The City
of La has issued an evacuation warning from six o'clock
tonight to eleven am Sunday for people who live near
the Palisades, Hurst and Sunset fire burn zones. Those residents
have been advised to be ready for possible evacuations because
of the potential for debris flows. LA has capped rent
(04:04):
hikes for stabilized apartments at four percent.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
The original proposal was to cap rent increases at three
percent at sixty percent the rate of inflation. The final
decision resulted in a maximum four percent increase at ninety
percent the rate of inflation. Councilwoman Nitthia Rahman says rent
cost are pushing people out of LA. We have to
make it possible for people to live in Los Angeles,
to make businesses in Los Angeles, to have their families
(04:29):
in Los Angeles. Property owners say rent caps and the
rising cost of doing business in the city would likely
hurt LA's goals of having more housing units in the
years ahead. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The LA City Council has unanimously approved a settlement to
change plans to expand the LA Zoo.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
The settlement agreement with Griffith J. Griffith Charitable Trust and
the Friends of Griffith Park, among others, is expected to
end a two year court battle with the city. The
zoo will now abandon large proposed developments, which included excavating
an artificial sixty foot canyon and building an eighteenth and
square foot visitor center. Friends of Griffith Park Rep's head
said the plan was excessive and didn't focus on animal care.
(05:05):
A statement from the La Zoo says the changes will
not impact the purpose of the vision plan to improve
the zoo. The settlement now heads to Mayor bas for consideration.
II Ling Gonzalez, okay if I news, I love the Zoo.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
The driver list. Ride haling company Weimo is now offering
rides on freeways in the LA area, as well as
in the Bay Area and Phoenix. Waimo's robot taxi service
has been operating on surface streets around LA for about
a year. The company says it has done extensive testing
on freeways that took some time to make sure that
everything's right. Uh yeah, I still am taken my first Weymo.
(05:42):
Let's get a first look at your morning commute. Work
zone is slowing you down in South LA. It's on
the one oh five. Good morning, will Cole Schreiber, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, we've got up lanes taken away in the process
of being reopened.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The cones getting picked up here.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's the westbound side of the one oh five, right
around CRANCHHAF two lanes.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We're supposed to be completely open about a half.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
An hour ago, but it's taking a little while for
them to pick that up, and there's some delay. Six
oh five northbound at Spring Street, we've got a trailer
hitch in the roadway, big metal steel trailer hitch that
apparently people are hitting, so be careful there. Sixty westbound
at Hacienda that is a little bit of a problem
in terms of a crash clearing and sixty west pound
at Azusa. This may be one and the same an
(06:23):
accident there and things are a little bit slow on
the westbound side. Otherwise things are moving well, so buckle
up and drive carefully. From with Southern California's most accurate
traffic report.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So I'm Will Cole Schreiber. Buckle up, I like it.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Steven Portnoy. So, Steven,
it's officially over forty three days of a shutdown. Bring
us up to speed on what happened yesterday.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Well, the House voted two twenty two in favor two
oh nine against on a bill that reopens the government.
Six House Democrats crossed.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
The aisle to vote yes, two.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
House Republicans voted no, and President Trump signed the bill
intol on the ten o'clock Eastern time hour last night. So,
federal workers who've been furloughed or expected back at their
duty posts and stations and desks and all across the
federal government, and you know, paychecks will start going out
in short order. According to reports, the FAA employees the
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air traffic controllers could be made whole partially in the
next couple of days with seventy percent of their back pay,
and then thirty percent more in the next paycheck. So
the effort is to get that money out the door
as soon as possible. The CBO Congressional Budget Office estimates
that the total cost of the shutdown to the US
economy could be eleven billion dollars for the longest shutdown
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in the modern era.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, how do they determine that that dollar figure?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Oh, I don't know. I'm not an economist. I'm just
reporting their findings. Yeah, but you know, I think what
they're doing is they're looking at the fact that for
many weeks, the federal government, which would normally be pumping
out output into the economy not been And there are
other broader effects. I mean, here's a tangible example. There's well,
(08:07):
it's at least reports. The word is that the Bureau
of Labor Statistics may not ever release the October jobs
report because the people who were responsible for that were furloughed,
and we may never know. It may sort of be
a black hole for economic forecasters as to where we
were in the month of October twenty twenty five with
respect to the job market.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Okay, so then you get all into the conspiracy thing
because the economy's kind of been softening. Maybe Trump didn't
want to have those numbers come out. Ah, I know,
I know that's just being conspiracy. So and SNAP benefits
are going to be paid under this spending plan through
next September, and they have been cut off or partially paid.
(08:47):
So do we know when those are expected to start
rolling out.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Yeah, I don't know the specifics, but I do know
that now that the Appropriations Bill has been signed, any
of the back and forth of this question about partial
benefits and the core and all this, that's all moot.
The money is now there, and it really shouldn't be
much of a problem. The you know issue with respect
to you know, fully funding the SNAP benefits and the
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entire Department of Agriculture which provides them, that's taken care
of now through the end of the fiscal year. Few
areas of the federal government are now addressed in that respect.
Military construction, the Veterans Affairs Department, the entire Legislative branch,
so that means Congressional staff won't have to worry about
their paychecks. If Heaven help us, we wind up in
another government shutdown at the end of January that would
be described properly as a partial shutdown, because certain areas
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of the government will have now been funded for the
fiscal year, and you know, it's it's now on Congress
to do the rest of its job, which is funding
the rest of the government before the next deadline.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And it's not that far away, so we might be
talking about this very same thing. And just you know,
right after the new year, the furloughed people that would
like it was like a sinsident, like seven hundred thousand
people who were off the job up during the shutdown,
some crazy high number like that.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Yeah, I mean that was the reporting. I mean, you know,
you had so many people who were reporting to work
without paychecks, whether they were in law enforcement or you know,
obviously we've spent a lot of time talking about air
traffic controllers, but you know, I've seen park rangers on
the job at national parks, and you've got a feel
for these people who are showing up to work every
(10:24):
day expecting that they'll get their bi weekly paychecks, and
for six weeks they didn't come. You know, people had
to max out their credit cards or at least put
money on those credit cards, or maybe ask for help,
maybe go to food banks. It's really an unfortunate circumstance,
and it's a good thing. It's over.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Absolutely. And then one other thing before I let you go.
Once the House got back into session, they did us
swearing in for somebody who's been waiting for a while
to officially be sworn in as a Congresswoman.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Adelie Agrihalva, the Democrat of Arizona, succeeding her father, was
kept essentially at bay for seven weeks after the special
election that saw her coming to Washington, and just yesterday
was she sworn in. First action after giving her speech
was signing the discharge petition that will force a vote
on the bill that would order the release of the
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Epstein files. That bill is now going to be put
up for vote next week, Speaker Johnson swallowing the bitter pill.
What you need to know, though, is that even if
it passes the House, which it probably will, there's no
guarantee it's going to be put on the floor of
the Senate. Oh and by the way, the president would
have to sign it. Oh gee, White House has been
so interested in this not happening that yesterday they called
Lauren Bobert of Colorado to the Situation Room to try
(11:37):
to convince her to take her name off the discharge petition.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
She refused to do that.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, I have a feeling we'll
be talking about that in the near future too. Thank you,
you bet. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Newly
released emails show sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly or repeatedly
discussed President Trump with his co conspirator Gallaine Maxwell, ABC's
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Mary Bruce's The emails were released by Democrats on the
House Oversight Committee.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
In at twenty eleven exchange, with his co conspirator Glenn Maxwell,
Epstein writing the quote dog that hasn't barked is Trump,
adding one of his victims spent hours with Trump at
Epstein's home.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Republicans in the White House say the person mentioned was
Virginia Giuffrey, who once worked at Trump's spot mar A Lago.
She said she never saw Trump do anything inappropriate. President
Trump has urged Israel to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
in a corruption case. He's facing charges of fraud, breach
of trust, and taking bribes ABC's Ian panels As. Trump
(12:41):
sent a letter to Israeli President Isaac Hertzog yesterday, calling
the case a political, unjustified prosecution.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
The statement president Herzogg responding that he holds President Trump
in the highest regard, but that anyone seeking a pardon
has to submit a formal request.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Trump also mentioned the pardon during a speech at Israel's
Knesset last month, when the ceasefire with Hamas was announced.
Paris is commemorating the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks
that killed one hundred and thirty two people and injured
one hundreds. Gosh, that was ten years ago. Already crazy.
The attacks in twenty fifteen included shootings at cafes, explosions
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at a stadium, and a massacre at the Batklan concert hall.
The ceremonies today will include tributes led by President Emmanuel
Macron and Paris Mayor and Hidalgo. At each attack site,
a new memorial garden will be unveiled, and the Eiffel
Tower will be lit in French colors. The US Mint
has made its final penny. The last one cent coins
(13:43):
were produced yesterday at the Mint in Philadelphia at a
cost of nearly four cents each.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
The final pennies minted will be auctioned off and not
go into circulation.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Now. Some are wondering if the.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Five cent nickel, which costs fourteen cents to make, could also.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Be in jeopardy. ABC's Andrew Fujii says the Treasury Department
expects to say fifty six million dollars a year on
materials by not making pennies. Retailers have complained that the
phase out was abrupt and came with no guidance from
the government. There are still three hundred billion pennies in
circulation and they are considered legal tender. The parties before
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and after the IDEs are going away.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
Wedding planners say cocktail hours and receptions bookending wedding ceremonies
dropped in part because of the pandemic, but it's become
less popular since then. Recent data says reception free weddings
have gone up two hundred percent over the last year.
The historic Levena Inn and Palace Verita's got so many
requests for paired down weddings. It created a ceremony only
package this year. Some say it makes the vows the
(14:42):
centerpiece of the occasion, but others say it frees them
from the stress of planning the big to dos, including
the cost of wedding cakes, videographers and more. It also
lets them limit the number of guests to just the
people they actually care about. Michael Krozier kf I.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
News flight reductions will remain at six percent at forty
May your airports and will not increase to eight percent
today is planned. The FAA says it's because more air
traffic controllers are coming back to work now that the
government's shutdown has officially ended. The six percent restriction will
stay in place while officials assess whether the air traffic
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system can safely return to normal operations. Hopefully they'll be
back on track by Thanksgiving. They have two weeks. A
new report from the National Association of Walter says the
age of first time home buyers has climbed to an
all time high. Forty years is now the average age.
The number of first time home buyers has also dropped
to a record low of twenty one percent in twenty
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twenty five. Skyrocketing home prices and mortgage rates are to blame.
The home buyer's crisis is prompted the White House to
propose a new fifty year mortgage, which would lower your payments,
but you know you'd be paying for a lifetime. The
La City Council has passed a resolution officially opposing the
Dodger's gondola project. The resolution isn't binding, but it will
(15:59):
be consis by La Metro, which is in charge of
reviewing mass trends at projects. Supporters say the gondola from
Union Station the Dodger Dodger Stadium would reduce traffic at
six oh five. It's handle on the news. Of course,
President Trump has signed the bill that ends the longest
government shutdown in US history. Let's say good morning now
(16:22):
to mister Anniversary. It's kfi's White House correspondent John Decker.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Good morning, John, Hey, good morning to you. Amy. A
big night for our country because the government shutdown is
finally over after forty three days. The President signing that
continuing resolution about ten thirty pm Eastern time in the
Oval Office last night. So now the government has reopened
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and all of those furloughed workers will get their back pay,
they can go back to work, and hopefully very soon
all of that air travel mess that we've seen over
the course of the last few weeks, we'll get back
to normal.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Absolutely that things are getting back to normal. We can
get back to things like celebrating your thirtieth anniversary as
a White House correspondent. Holy cow, John, that's a long time.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
It's a long time. Yeah, when you think about I've
covered every president since Bill Clinton in his first term.
I've traveled the world with these presidents. I've worked with
seventeen White House Press secretaries, and for me, it never
gets old.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I love what I do.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
You know, presidents and press secretaries tell me I'm good
at what I do. I got a really nice congratulatory
note from President Trump. I even got one from both
President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. So I
couldn't be happier about that. And you know, I'm humbled
by the fact that, you know, I'm going to be
celebrating this thirtieth year milestone to night at the Swedish
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Embassy right here in Washington.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
D C.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Why why is it at the Swedish Embassy?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Well, you know, I've developed very close friendships over the years,
and one of those friendships, one of my good friends
is the Swedish ambassador, and he wanted to host this
event and that's exactly what he's going to be doing.
So about two hundred guests will be attending this event. Friends, family,
my wife, colleagues, other ambassadors. It's going to be a
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great event. This evening very cool.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Okay, So let's talk about thirty years. What are some
of your maybe one or two of your most memorable moments, because,
like you said, you've dealt with all these presidents, traveled
the world, been through scandals and successes and failures. What
are a couple that really stick out in your mind?
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Well, Amy, you know, I could go year by year,
but that will take us too long. But certainly in
the Clinton years, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, being at the
White House when that broke, and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
I've been in the House Chamber for thirty data Union addresses.
They're never old for me. They're like my Super Bowl
when those happen. Of course, the Persian Gulf War, the
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war in Iraq and Afghanistan under George W. Bush, the
historic it and see an election of Barack Obama. I
traveled to Cuba with Barack Obama that historic trip. I
traveled to Singapore when President Trump met for the first
time with Kim Jong Un. I travel with President Biden
to Geneva when he met with President Putin. Most recently,
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I was with President Trump in Alaska when he met
with President Putin. There have been so many memorable moments
and memorable trips that are a part of American history
that I've reported on and witnessed. And to me, that's
a great privilege a.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Witness to history. Nice I would put that on my tombstone,
not that we're hoping there you go. Okay, So was
there a worst moment?
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I'm going to tell you a moment that well, nine
to eleven. First of all, you know, being there on
nine to eleven, I mean that that is a sering
memory for me. That is, you know, I think the
worst moment in our in our you know, our our memories,
our country's history that we can certainly recall, you know,
not being around for some of the events of the
nineteen sixties assassinations that took place then. But so nine
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to eleven certainly sticks out. A funny moment I will
tell you was in two thousand and eight when I
was bit by President George W. Bush's Scottish Terryer Barney.
He bit me on the finger, and that actually made
national news.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
At the time.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Give you a sense about how the world has changed
so much. That was a funny moment. Missus Bush was
so apologetic, and President Bush said to me at the
Christmas party about a month later, but it was good
for ratings. It was pretty funny, pretty funny moment, and
I had a good laugh about it when it happened,
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of course. And still you know, you can actually see
that moment as it happens amy on YouTube. It went
viral at the time. So that was a pretty funny
moment that happened. Wow, my gosh, more than fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Okay, So Biden's dogs aren't the only dogs that were
biting people.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
There are other presidents dogs that were that. It's a misues,
that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So here's a question for you, because you've been asking
questions at the President and talking to, you know, people
in the White House for all these years. How do
you manage to stay in the good graces of the
most powerful man in the world and still ask the
tough questions.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Well, I think you can do so, you know, just
by being fair, having integrity, being honest, and still asking
tough questions. You know that we live in America. We
have a free press, and I think every president recognizes that.
And so for that reason, you know, I think that
it makes me feel proud to know that I received
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a congratulatory letter that praised me and my reporting coming
from President Trump, and I received similar types of letters
coming from his polar opposite, you know, and that's Barack Obama.
So I know I'm doing something right if I'm receiving
praise from each of those presidents that represent opposite extremes
on the political spectrum. The key is is just to
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be fair and honest and decent with the people that
you cover.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Okay, and you sent a picture or your scheduler sent
a picture of the letter that's framed, and of course
it's a gold frame. Did you frame it in gold
or did you get it that way from the White House?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
That's a great question. Amy. No one's asked me that
I chose that frame. I chose the way it looks.
I just felt, you know, how fitting to have gold
because who else do you associate with colden? President Donald Trump?
So great question, and I gather you like the frame
that I chose.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It's beautiful and you know, kind of cool to have
a framed letter from the President of the United States
and also from the former presidents of the United States.
Can'fi's White House correspondent John Decker, thanks so much. Congratulations
have fun at your party tonight.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Oh thanks so much, Amy, I appreciate it. Well, I'll
talk to you real soon, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
The La City Council has approved a plan to address
a projected two hundred and sixty three million dollar budget
deficit in the first three months of the fiscal It
was caused by unexpected spending in several city departments. According
to officials, the city will spend over fourteen million dollars
to cover immediate expenses, and then has also identified one
hundred and sixty nine million dollars in possible actions that
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will reduce over overspending revenue for the quarter. Good news
is up eighty million dollars over projections. The mother of
a missing nine year old girl from Santa Barbara County
has appeared in court in a case unrelated to her
daughter melodies disappearance. ABC's Matt Gutman says Ashley Buzzard is
accused of holding a man hostage in her home.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
It was at Buzzard's home last week trying to help
her search for the girl when the mother became visibly distressed.
After sharing information, she appeared to regret disclosing.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The guy claims a box cutter was used, and despite
asking Buzzard to let him go, she wouldn't. Buzzard has
pleaded not guilty. State officials say they planned to revoke
seventeen thousand commercial driver licenses given to immigrants after discovering
the expert ration dates went past the dates the drivers
were legally allowed to be in the US. The announcement
follows criticism from the Trump administration about California and other
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states granting licenses to illegal immigrants. The practice came to
light in August when the driver of a tractor trailer
made an illegal U turn in Florida and caused a
crash that killed three people. MSNBC's officially changing its name
this weekend.
Speaker 11 (24:24):
The news network will be known as MS Now. It's
all part of the corporate divorce from NBC News. NBC
Universal's parent company, Comcast, spun most of its cable networks
off into a new company. The network's lineup remains the same,
but it has built a new studio and hired a
new reporting staff to make up for losing its partnership
(24:45):
with NBC.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Deborah mark Koffi News. Some Starbucks baristas are putting down
the coffee and hidden picket lines today. The strike coincides
with Starbucks Red Cup date, it's one of its busy
siest days of the holiday season. The workers' union accuses
the coffee giant of refusing to fairly negotiate and has
(25:07):
rejected its latest proposal. Starbucks says it already offers competitive
pay and benefits and is ready to negotiate if the
union returns to the table. The Starbucks that are affected
or the unionized Starbucks, so it affects about five hundred
of their stores. Residents who live in areas burned by
wildfires have been told to be ready to leave as
(25:29):
a stom moves into southern California. The National Weather Service
says heavy periods of rain over the next few days
could bring flooding and debris flows. A half inch of
rain per hours expected at times. LA City Council's voted
to update the Rent Stabilization Ordinance with a new formula
that allows landlords to raise rents by up to four percent.
It also removes additional charges for electricity and gas. These
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are the most substantive changes to rent policies in more
than four decades. The last pennies have been minted in
the US. The Philadelphia Mint made the very last pennies. Yesterday,
President Trump ordered the Mint to stop producing pennies, which
now cost almost four cents to make. In seventeen ninety three,
a penny could buy you a biscuit, a candle, or
(26:13):
a piece of candy. Billions of pennies are still in
circulation and will remain legal tender. Okay, we got you know.
I love Christmas and I've already been talking about it.
The countdown is on. It's like forty two days now.
Not everybody is quite as excited about as me.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Hi, No, no, no, no, not Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Amy, you go back to talking about Disney Man. We
still Thanksgiving, but not everybody agrees. Others say, go ahead, Hi.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Amy, you're right, it's not too early to talk about Christmas.
I think you should talk about start talking about Easter
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, So I am a one holiday at a time person,
and I think there's a little gray area when it
comes to Thanksgiving. But in Florida, at Tindel Air Force Base,
which is just outside of Panama City, apparently some of
the people who live on base had started putting up
Christmas decorations early. They didn't wait until after Thanksgiving like
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you're supposed to. And they got a letter from the
base and it said, all right, slow your role, guys.
And they said it's one holiday at a time, and
they basically ordered them to take their decorations down. Yeah.
They said all holiday decorations should be reflective of their
respective months and not displayed any sooner than thirty days
(27:34):
before the given holiday. If you currently have Yule tied
decor outside your home, please remove it and re install
it in accordance with your community guidelines. They say they're
just enforcing community standards, not a DoD policy or I
guess Department of War policy. But it is apparently common
practice across rental communities to keep neat, consistent, and enjoyable
(27:59):
and vires for all residents. I think that might have
been a little bit extreme because if they should have
told them beforehand, because you think hours and hours of
time and breaking your back and falling off ladders to
make sure that your holiday decorations look fabulous, right, your
things intense? Yes, Anyway, I am a one holiday at
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a time, So decorations don't go up until after Thanksgiving,
and no Easter doesn't go up before Christmas. Here's what's
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news from
President Trump assigned a bill to reopen the government. The
bill was passed by the House late yesterday. Even some
Democrats voted to end the shutdown. After the vote, Speaker
Johnson blamed the historically long shutdown on Democratic leaders, saying
(28:43):
they use the American people as pawns.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
The Democrat shutdown is finally over thanks to House and
Senate Republicans who stood together to get the job done.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The bill was passed by a vote of two twenty
two to two oh nine. President Trump then signed it
at the Oval Office last night. For the thousands of
airline passengers have had to deal with flight cancelations and delays,
and end to the government's shutdown couldn't come soon enough.
ABC's Gio Benita says more than nine hundred flights were
canceled yesterday and more than seventeen hundred were delayed.
Speaker 12 (29:13):
Airlines say it could be several more days before they
are fully operational, but for the first time in two weeks,
nearly every air traffic control center in the country was
properly staffed.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
The FAA says flight cuts will stay at six percent
instead of going to ten percent this weekend. The opening
ceremony for the twenty twenty eight Summer Games in LA
will be held July fourteenth at SOFI Stadium and the
Los Angeles Coliseums. You can put it on your calendar.
The full schedule for games was released yesterday. The twenty
twenty eight Olympics will start with track and field events
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and then end was swimming. That's a reverse from the
twenty twenty four Games. Flag football makes its Olympic debut
on July fifteenth. Lacrosse is returning to the Olympics for
the first time since nineteen oh eight. It'll take place
in the second week of the Games. Another beloved cartoon
character that has entered the public domain is getting grizzly.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
This time it's Betty Boop. The nineteen thirties girl who's
being turned into a gruesome villain by vm I Worldwide,
Your Mine and Monday. The creators have given their upcoming
film the ominous title Boop, and they're calling it a
true testament to feminism as well as a wildly violent,
ridiculously fun ride. Other characters who've been put into horror
movies since entering the public domain include Winnie the Pooh,
(30:26):
Mickey Mouse, and Popeye, Mark Ronner, Kfi Newsoo, Peter, that's just.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Wrong time to get in your business. Now with Bloomberg's
Denise Pellegrini. Good morning Denise, Yeah, good morning Amy.
Speaker 13 (30:39):
You were talking about Christmas and how you like it
so much. My stepmom out there in California keeps the
tree and all the ornaments up all year long. Comes spring,
she just covers them up with pieces of cloth and
then she takes the cloth.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, but around September. Okay, Hey, we were talking about movies,
and obviously these movies are ones that I'm not going
to go see. Slasher movies about Betty Boop and Winning
the Poop. But let's talk about Disney and its profits.
Speaker 13 (31:10):
Yeah, your listener wants you to talk less about the
holidays and more about Disney. Right, So here we go,
Disney blaming film studio expenses for weaker than expected results,
saying expenses tied to the theatrical release of Zootopia two and
Avatar Fire and Ash will cut earnings by four hundred
million bucks amy in the first quarter. Disney predicting, though
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growth will intensify in the second half of the year,
investors aren't buying it today.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That stock is lower in the early going. Hey, when
that happens to Disney. NBC is launching a cable sports channel.
Guess they want to get in the sports game.
Speaker 13 (31:43):
NBCSN will carry sports including NBA games, Premier League Soccer,
and also sports talk programming some Major League Baseball games
as well. NBC Universal hoping like you are indicating that
NBCSN can be offered in slimmed down on bundles through
pay TV distributors, and they'll have another way to make
(32:03):
money off all their sports content.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Alway's got to make more money. FanDuel is going to
debut Prediction Market. What's about that?
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Yeah, so it wants to rival Calshi And they're doing
this because they're facing a lot of competition now and
This move will theoretically allow FanDuel to open up in
states where traditional sports betting is illegal, including California. They'll
be introducing new mobile app, FanDuel Predicts, you can bet
on the outcome of sports and economic indicators as well.
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Sports betting Futures will only be available in the states
where traditional online sports gambling is illegal, as FanDuel tries
to fend off other competitors like Calshi and Polymarket.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Okay, and then let's talk snacks, because I always like
a good snack and my favorite is Cheetos except for
the orange fingers that are left behind.
Speaker 13 (32:52):
Yeah, and so I've got something to tell you about.
Pepsi is introducing what it's called naked versions of its
popular snacks, no artificial dye, so it won't make your
fingers turn orange, and it's all part of its push
to boost healthier options.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Amy.
Speaker 13 (33:08):
They claim that these snacks without the artificial dye taste
exactly the same as the other ones.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
So we're all making finger Yeah.
Speaker 13 (33:18):
Yeah, you just don't have to lick the orange off
your fingers, but you'll still want to lick your fingers
because you know.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
That's part of the fun of it. Although they do
have the white cheddar Cheetos that don't stain your fingers.
They're pretty good. That one gets all over your clothes, though,
I know it looks like you have bad dandruff, right,
And then Trader joe what's up with Traders cornbread crisps? Okay?
So this is that sweet and savory snack.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
You know.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
They take the corn bread, they cut it up, they
bake it, they put some rock salt on it or whatever.
It's kind of a huge buzz on the internet this year.
It's not new at all. They have it every year
at this time, but it's sort of like the McRib
of Trader Joe's, which.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You can now get back Donald's in La.
Speaker 13 (34:00):
On a limited time basis, right, And people love it.
So that's how these companies get us. You know, they
make us wait all year long and then they give what,
you know, give us what we want for a couple
weeks to make us happy.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Well, all I know is I'm going to go get
some cornbread crist and some mirb and I've never had one,
and some cheetahs. Thank you, Denise Pelgrene And getting in
your business with Bloomberg every day like we do let's
do it again tomorrow. Shall we talk to that? Okay?
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Bye?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
An evacuation warning will be in effect from six tonight
through eleven a m. Sunday for residents near the Palisades,
Hurst and Sunset burn zones. LAPED officers are going to
be going door to door to let residents know in
the highest risk areas, and evacuation warning is also an
effect for the burn area in Altadino, with flooding and
debris flows possible. Reverend Jesse Jackson is in the hospital
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in Chicago. A statement from his Rainbow Push coalition says
the eighty four year old civil rights activist was admitted
yesterday and is being observed for a neurological condition he's
been dealing with for a decade. The statement says the
family welcomes all prayers. Weymo driverless taxis have hit freeways
in La Weymo officials say they are confident now that
(35:12):
all the real world performance and comprehensive testing means the
robotaxi can deliver safe and reliable service. Weymo has been
operating on La City streets for about a year. Weymos
are also now driving on freeways in the Bay area
and Phoenix, tw just minutes away from Handle. On the news,
the Dems have released some emails about Jeffrey Epstein talking
(35:32):
about President Trump. The White House says there's nothing to
see here. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Crime
and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. So, Brad, first was NBA.
Now it's the major leagues. What is up with these
sports betting scandals?
Speaker 14 (35:47):
So let's go back to twenty eighteen for a couple
of seconds. Saving the Supreme Court authorized the case to
allow sports betting of the State Law thirty eight Some
odd states have now approved authorized sports betting, and as
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a result, it's obviously a big cash cow for the states. Now,
the problem, of course, is that it is to really
increase the number of people that are involved in sports betting.
Now that's you know, that can be driven because the
availability you could have an app on your phone Fantasy
(36:29):
Football League, I think draws a lot of people that
maybe were somewhat passive about sports now more active because
they can you know, build their virtual teams and you
know and have fun with other people, family, friends, etc.
So the point being is that gambling is now more
much more in our face. But you've got the reality
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of two things. One, mainly why we're talking this morning
is because of professional athletes that are willing to basically
throw a game for lack of a better terms, underperform, overperform,
go out staining an injury, go out of a game,
change the way they pitch, all sorts of things to
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basically control the outcome of the game based on how
people have bet. And that's what all these recent federal
indictments are alleging. The other side of this, obviously that's
not part of this, but it is part of the story,
is the number of people that are now addicted to gambling.
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And the people who treat folks for gambling addiction, they
say they're just off the charts for clients.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, that yeah, when you make it that easy. I mean,
like imagine living in Las Vegas at a casino, and
that's kind of what it is. It is just right
there you can get to at anytime.
Speaker 14 (37:51):
I mean, one therapist stated that he had a client
or as a client, that that's in the shower, that's
why they're making breakfast, that BET's on their way to work.
I mean, just because to your point, you can if
you've got your phone in front of you, you can
do it. And people that are prone or you don't
have some predisposition, whether it need be genetics or otherwise,
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to become addicted to stuff. I mean, this is just
like fire for them. So there's that whole side of
the story too. Which but you know why professional athletes,
some of them that have made you know, over one
hundred million dollars in their career playing in whatever professional sport,
would then get involved in rigged poker games as these
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indictments allege or commit what we just talked about, you know,
rigging games by you know, telling people I'm going to underperform,
so bet that way through prop bets.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah, it is kind of interesting to think about it.
Like you mentioned, I mean, these professional athletes, the good ones,
can make millions of dollars a year and they would
literally throw that a way for people who are going
to win a fifty thousand dollars bet or something like that.
But it's nothing new. I mean, they've got Pete Rose,
of course, you've got the White Sox and shoeless Joe
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Jackson over the years. It's just now it's more prevalent.
So is there anything that can be done about it.
Speaker 14 (39:17):
Well, I don't know. I mean one aspect is, according
to these indictments, one way they have caught some folks
is that the sports betting apparatus keep crack of betting obviously,
and they can look for anomalies. Anomalies mean, you know, unusual. Well,
let's say that you played for the Lakers and there's
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a lot of betting on you to underperform at particular games.
That would be an anomaly, and so they can dig
deeper into that and then figure out maybe, again, according
to these indictments, that the players are on purpose under
or overperforming. Tell some people have gotten caught. So that's
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an apparatus, But you know, how much of that can
they catch? How sophisticated are the players that are maybe
predisposed to be involved in this type of behavior. I mean,
it's I don't do I see it going away? The answers, No,
it's just too pervasive in society for people to want
(40:22):
to bet, and you're going to have a percentage of athletes, unfortunately,
that are willing to push those limits.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
Now you can look.
Speaker 14 (40:30):
At the personality profile of maybe players that are more
predisposed to do this. You know that the studies would
suggest that, you know, they're arrogant, they lack empathy, they're
sort of antisocial and their baseline thinking and they're just
like getting over on people and they see a way
of making a lot more money on the side that
nobody knows about. So does that drive some of this?
(40:53):
I think probably it does.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
All right, Well, so good to note not going away,
and I am just glad that I am not on
these wedding sites because I think it could be very dangerous.
ABC's Crime and Terry analyst Brad Garrett, Thanks so much
for the info. We'll talk to you.
Speaker 14 (41:06):
Soon, Okay, take care.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Amy, all right, I just got a text from my
sister in law. We were talking about Christmas and one
Holiday at a time. She just said, Hey, we might
put up our Christmas decorations in our treede this weekend. Casey,
One holiday at a time. This is Kfi'm kost HD
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