January 8, 2026 • 30 mins
In this episode of Wake Up Call, we look back at the LA fires a year later, and a special report on the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. We also discuss the new food pyramid, which emphasizes cutting out processed foods, and the importance of personal finance education in schools. Additionally, we talk to Dr Bill Hensley, the President and CEO of the National Endowment for Financial Education about the benefits of teaching financial literacy to young people.
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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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It is, because it's five o'clock, straight up, Good morning,
I'm Amy King. This is your wake up call for Thursday,
January eighth.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I just realized I'm a really bad friend.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
My friend Scott's birthday was a couple of days ago,
and I totally spaced it.
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If you're listening, Happy birthday, Busy day, yesterday, busy, busy day.
Did you catch Michael Monks special on the LA Fires
a year later? It was Michael Monks and the KFI
news team taking a look back and a look forward.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
If you missed it.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Really really interesting and you can catch it at any
time on the iHeartRadio app, just like you can catch
wake Up Call anytime on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Gusty Santa Ana wins blown into Southern California, win gus
of twenty five to forty miles per hour.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Expected for most areas.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
GUS could hit seventy miles per hour in the Antelope Valley,
the fourteen Freeway corridor, and the San Gabriel Mountains. The
Santa Ana wind events expected to continue into the weekend,
but because of the recent heavy rains, red flag warnings
for increased fire danger are not expected to be issued.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
A little bit of good news there.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
TV personality Spencer Pratt, who lost his home in the
Palisades fire and has been a pretty vocal critic of
the city in the state's response to the fires, has
announced he's running for mayor of Los Angeles. A protest
has planned this morning at the downtown LA Federal Building.
Demonstrators would be calling for the arrest of the ice
officer who shot and killed a woman during immigration enforcement
(02:08):
operations yesterday in Minneapolis. About a thousand people gathered in
Minneapolis last night to protest the shooting.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
We're going to get the latest from Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We'll be talking with ABC's immigration reporter Armando Garcia in
less than five minutes.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So we're a week into the new year. Have you
already broken your New Year's resolution.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
ABC's Jim Ryan says, there's one that we really just
shouldn't make but we should make some common sense changes instead,
and that's being bolstered by the White House. Jim's going
to join us at five point fifty. Did you take
personal finance classes in high school? I did, but kids
today don't really have that option. Well, that is changing.
(02:49):
We're going to be joined by the President and CEO
of the National Endowment for Financial Education. He says those
classes will lead to a better life. And one of
the many shows I've watched Pluribus. There are many reasons
you should watch this one brought to you by the
creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Amy's on
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it coming up at the bottom of the hour. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A year ago, the
fires were raging through the Palisades and Altadena. Fire survivors
gathered yesterday to demand answers and accountability.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Frustration boiled over as hundreds gathered in Palisades village, marking
one year since fire destroyed seven thousand homes and businesses.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
The city failed US.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Palisades resident Brent Bergdorf says his family lost everything.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh, it's a gross negligence on behalf of the mayors,
the fire department, and the city fount.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Some people that are responsible for maintaining these things.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
There's no reason for the the reservoirs to be empty
at the end of the day, and it's an absolute.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Trialisy organizers say they plan to deliver a list of
demands to city leadership, including a sales tax exemption, permit
fee waivers, and full budget transparency. Heather Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Two LAPD officers have been injured during a stolen car chase.
The LAPD says officers were following a car in North
Hollywood last night. Four people in the car jumped out
and ran off. All four were arrested a short time later.
The two officers injured were taken to the hospital. Not
clear how they were hurt. A shooting investigation has led
to a massive traffic jam on the ten Freeway. The
(04:25):
CHP says a person was injured in the shooting yesterday
afternoon that prompted a freeway shutdown at Crenshaw Right during
the afternoon commute that backed up traffic into Santa Monica
and jammed side streets as drivers tried to get around
the closure. The nominees have been announced for the thirty
second Annual Actor Awards, which she used to know as
(04:46):
the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
The award show streams at five pm Pacific Sunday, March first,
on Netflix from the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall. Director
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another got the most nominations,
including Best Male Lead Actor Leonardi DiCaprio and Female Actor
Chase Infinity. The vampire movie Sinners got five nominations. Those
two movies are also in the Outstanding Cast Performance in
a Motion Picture category, along with Frankenstein, Hamnett and Marty Supreme.
(05:12):
In television, The Studio from Apple got five nominations. Harrison Ford,
We'll get a SAG After Life Achievement Award. Mark Ronner
KFI News Well.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Deserved Life Achievement Award.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I think let's say good morning now to ABC's immigration
reporter Armando Garcia. Armando, what we know is that an
ICE agent has been shot. Are has shot and killed
a protester in Minneapolis. I saw interviews where another protester
said this woman was leading other cars protesting immigration enforcement,
(05:43):
but local officials saying, now, this was not justified. So
can you give us the latest from Minneapolis this morning.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Amy, Good morning, Minneapolis here is waking up, still reeling
from that fatal shooting yesterday of thirty seven year old
Renee Nicole Good. Overnight, thousands of people paying their respects
that are growing makeshift memorial here. Protesters are demanding that
I leave the city immediately, and across the city schools
are canceled until Monday out precaution. Also out of precaution,
(06:12):
Governor Wallas has put the National Guard on standby in
case those protests do not become peaceful. But as you know,
perhaps by now, millions of Americans have seen those Google
images showing the moment of the shooting. The disturbing video
shows the vehicle driven by Good reverse slowly as an
agent grabs the door. The SEV then appears to move forward.
(06:35):
The agent near the front of the vehicle fires multiple rounds,
including through the windshield. Moments later, the SEVU crashes into
a parked car.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Amy and Armando, you're there. I've seen the videos.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You've seen the videos, and it's so interesting to me
how different people are seeing them differently.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Are you getting that sense?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I mean, are you seeing the polarization of people saying Yep,
it was justified, and Nope, it wasn't.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Oh certainly. And you know those videos actually have only
caused more questions than answers. And you heard Minneapolis Mayor
Jacob Fry and Governor Tim Waldsman's and no words. They're
condemning the shooting after they watched the video, putting the
blame squarely on the Trump administration and its immigration enforcement agenda,
it's deportation agenda. THHS has painted a very different picture,
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claiming that the woman attempted to run over the agent,
accusing her of engaging in domestic terrorism as well. But
I know that investigators are going to be coming over
every second of that video. It just does millions of
Americans have just to figure out how this unfolded.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Eighty Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And as you're saying that, DHS is saying one thing,
that the woman was trying to run them down, and
the Minneapolis City Council said the woman was out carrying
for her neighbors when this happened. So are you expecting
the two sides to start clashing. You said that thousands
(08:00):
have turned out in protests. Are there are there classes
going on or is it mostly peaceful at this point?
Speaker 8 (08:08):
No, all has been peaceful so far. There is a
barricade kind of blocking off parts of the scene where
the shooting happened, but so far a thing that have
remained peaceful. But I gotta tell you, you know, I've
been on the ground in Chicago and Charlotte and Raleigh,
countless other cities. Now in Minneapolis, the way that a
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community activists have responded to the presence of ICE and
Border Patrol agents in their communities is to form these
rapid response groups, essentially filled the volunteers who race to
the scene of reported ICE activity that sometimes warned the
neighbors about ICE presence in their community, and sometimes even
to tell arrestees that, you know, they have rights and
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inform them what those rights are. It's unclear if that's
what Good was doing at this moment. We're going to
keep reporting that out. Alhan Omar has a claimed that
she was a legal observer, but you know, those details
about what led up to that shooting is something that
we're going to be continuing to report over, and of
course investigators are going to be taking a look at.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, because I saw an interview with a woman who said, yeah,
it sounds like she was one of those Rapid Response
team people and that they had been trying to block
Ice from doing their their enforcement. I mean she was
with the woman and said that that's what they were
doing that day. So it'll be interesting to see how
that all plays out, whether she was sort of an
innocent bystander or was actively involved, and how that changes
(09:35):
or doesn't change things. But we will hope for peaceful protest.
I would expect that another big one is planned for today.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Yeah, more protests are are planned for today. We're going
to see how those unfold. Amy, but for now, hanging
in the balances in Minneapolis, who has a long history
of protesting against law enforcement. This shooting actually happened just
a four minute drive few blocks away from where George
Floyd was killed by a former MPD officer. So long
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history here, a lot of anger, so far off peaceful.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Kind of a tinderbox.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
ABC's immigration reporter Armando Garcia, thanks so much for the
update and the information.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Thanks, Amie.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We got protests planned in la as well in response
to the shooting in Minneapolis. We'll be telling you more
about that as we go through the morning. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man hunt is on
in Utah following a shooting at a Latter Day Saints
meeting house last night. Salt Lake City Police spokesperson Glenn
(10:39):
Mills says authorities don't have a lot to go on yet.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
There was a funeral taking place at the church out
in the parking lot.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
There was some sort of altercation and that's when shots
were fired.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The ATF and FBI are helping in the investigation. President
Trump has given his okay for US officials to meet
with officials from Denmark and Greenland. Trump has said he
wants to make the island in the Northern Atlantic US territory,
but ABC's Rachel Scott says not all Republicans are on board.
Speaker 11 (11:07):
Republican Senator Tom tillis attacking one of the president's top
aides for declaring obviously Greenland should be part of the US.
Other Republicans criticizing the administration for refusing to rule out
using the military to seize Greenland.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Senator Mitch McConnell says using the force against an ally
would be an especially catastrophic act of strategic self harm
to the US. President Trump says he's had a phone
call with Columbia's President Gustavo Petro. He says the call
was friendly and the leaders talked about drugs and other
disagreements between the two countries. Trump says he invited Petro
(11:44):
for a meeting at the White House in the near future.
The Trump administration has laid out a three part plan
for Venezuela's future, and ABC's Christian Cardero says it intends
to control Venezuelan oil sales indefinitely.
Speaker 12 (11:57):
Secretary of Saint Marco Rubio says one is stabilization, which
includes the sale of up to fifty million barrels of
Venezuelan oil the White House, saying the US will share
in the profits.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
She says a second phase is recovery, which will open
up Venezuela's oil market to American companies and others, and
the final phase is transition, which is unclear. President Trump
has announced plans to ban institutional investors from snatching up
real estate and driving up housing prices. Economist Jake Krimmel
of Realtor dot Com SA's large investors own just one
(12:32):
to three percent of single family homes, and Trump's plan
doesn't address other things like the shortage of new building
projects and construction.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Costs increasingly over the last four or five years.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
I think, you know, America is short essentially like four
million homes, and that's translating into real affordability issues.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Companies like Blackstone and other major landlords saw their stock
prices drop yesterday with Trump's announcement. A viral post about
uber eats is now being exposed as an AI hoax.
Speaker 13 (12:58):
The thread, posted Toddit claims uber eat lowers drivers pay
based on customers tips. It also claims the company has
a desperation score to see how often drivers accept low
paying orders so they don't get big ones. The anonymous
poster claims they worked as a software engineer and helped
develop these practices. Uber and door dash both say the
claims are made up, and the post was taken down
(13:19):
by Reddit moderators. I think Gonzalez k if I news, Well.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's good news, because I'd heard that too, that people
would wait to get the big orders and if you
didn't tip, then they'd take extra time to deliver your food.
So if that's a hoax, that makes me happy. Traveling
through some airports can be extra stressful if you don't
arrive early enough.
Speaker 14 (13:38):
The analysis by Luxury France towards way TSA wait times,
passenger volume relative to airport size, parking infrastructure, and flight delays.
Denver International Airport tops the list due to its massive footprint,
heavy traffic, and frequent delays. LAX ranks second due to
complex operations, long TSA lines, and high passenger volume. Voxla Report,
(14:00):
Orlando International and Charlotte Douglas also placed in the top five,
mostly due to very long TIA say wait times. Sharon
reardan KFI.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
News, You know, I don't think LAX is that bad,
although I haven't been there during like Christmas time, but
I usually have pretty good luck with it. But it
might be because I usually fly Alaska and maybe that's
not as crowded.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Let's say good morning now to the President and CEO
of the National Endowment for Financial Education, doctor Billy Hensley.
Good morning, doctor Hensley, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I don't know about most people, but I took personal
finance class in high school, and I know it did
me a lot of good. But somewhere along the line
it got cut from the curriculum and those effects are
pretty far reaching, but hopefully that's starting to change. So
why did personal finance get cut? And then why now,
doctor Hensley, is it getting added back?
Speaker 15 (14:56):
Yeah, well, I'm glad to hear you had the class
and found it valuable.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, it was a long time ago.
Speaker 15 (15:04):
Well, you know, our data show that those who took
a class in financial education eighty six percent consider it valuable,
just like you did, and those who didn't wish they
did at eighty two percent. And quite frankly, that matters
because those who didn't take it seventy percent believe the
quality of the financial life would be better. And you know,
(15:25):
this is an essential topic, and this is largely due
to the fact that we're seeing this resurgence, this momentum
and getting it back in the classroom. Eighty three percent
of Americans across the country believed their state should require
a semester or a year long course in finn ed
and thankfully California passed a requirement in twenty twenty four
(15:47):
that will start with the class of twenty thirty. So
the students who start high school in the fall of
twenty twenty six, by the time they finished they will
have had to take a personal finance class.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, I think it's great news.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Like I learned how to balance a checkbook, and I
mean like little things that you don't even really think
of as being really key to learning how to manage
your money and keep track of your money, because you know,
that's just it's been wiped out from our education system,
right right.
Speaker 15 (16:21):
You know, we surveyed a national sample of folks and
seventy six percent believe that financial education is among the
most essential classes that they should take in high school,
virtually tied with math and just a little higher than English,
so you know, of those cornerstone courses, there's a demand
for financial education. We know that increases knowledge, it builds confidence,
(16:44):
it leads to informed decision making, and there's a lot
of noise out there, we all know, right, and let's
ensure that every young person can launch their financial life
with the tools to better distinguish between what information is
beneficial and what is noise. Okay, no one is saying,
let's who's less been it? You know?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Okay, And doctor Hensley, like, when you're talking about personal finance,
what kinds of things are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
The students needing to learn about.
Speaker 15 (17:10):
Yeah, we actually ask people what they're interested in, what
subjects do they want covered in the classroom, And right
at the top of that list is spending and budgeting
because that's always front of mine. Saving earning income and
how do you move up the career ladder, managing credit investing,
And one that I think it's too underrated but it's
(17:33):
being asked for, is understanding the financial system. It continuously evolves,
products are always evolving, so how do we navigate that?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
And well, I know that you're talking about like budgeting
and that kind of stuff. I wish that there would
have been a greater f emphasis on saving money sooner
because there's you know, a few people who started saving.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Right out of high school or right out of college.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
They're sitting pretty and then there's others of us who
maybe didn't do that quite as aggressively.
Speaker 15 (18:02):
So we're playing ketchup right exactly. And you know, part
of that is sort of the competence and understanding benefits
packages and what compounding means and four one ks and
you know, the jargon that we hear about fundamentally, let's
dissect that and get to the root of what it
means and what that can mean for our future selves.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Okay, Well, and the good news, like you just said,
California is going to require personal finance classes starting with
the twenty twenty seven to twenty eight school year. I believe,
so the graduating class of thirty one, they're going to
have to know a little bit about money, which I
think is super important, especially right now where money is
so tight and inflation's high and all that stuff.
Speaker 15 (18:43):
Absolutely, there's six point seven million plus students in the
California schools, so you know, if we can make a
dent in the population that large, we can make some
great headway on building that confidence and the knowledge necessary
to navigate the financial system.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
All right, doctor Billy Henn, the President and CEO of
the National Endowment for Financial Education. We love to give
good news, and that's a little good news that we got,
so thank you so much, appreciate it. Yes, all right,
have a great day.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Does anybody even keep a record of like checkbooks? How
do you balance your money? Now?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I still have a check register.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't write checks, but I keep track of everything
that I spend, and I don't know if everybody does that.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
We should ask Joel Larsgart about that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
A Democratic candidate for California's governor is reacting to the
deadly Ice shooting in Minneapolis.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Northern California. Congressman Eric Swalwell posted on ex a video
of the shooting, calling it murder. He went on to
say that local officials need to prosecute Ice and that
Congress should strip them of their immunity. He reiterated with
the mayor of the city, Jacob Fry, said after the shooting.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Get the got of Minneapolis.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Swalwell's caption under the video said, stay the God of California.
Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
A woman from the San Fernando Valleys expected to plead
guilty to to federal charges for her alleged role as
the getaway driver in a series of robberies of smoke shops,
donut shops, and convenience stores around La and Orange Counties.
Abigail Lucky has agreed to enter a plea to two
counts of interference with commerce by robbery. Prosecutors say a
dozen businesses were targeted in January and February of twenty
(20:20):
twenty four. A bill making its way through the California
legislature would stop people from getting fake liens that can
cost victims thousands to clear their names and fix their credit.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Some people have abused the lien system to harass others
for personal or political reasons. California's lean system is easy
to misuse. Costs five dollars to file a lien, but
removing a fake one can break the bank. The state
also doesn't notify victims, so fake lians may go unnoticed
for years. The legislation would require the state notified people
within twenty one days of a lien filing, delay court fees,
(20:53):
and increase fines for fake liens. Filing a fake lean
as already a felony in California. Tammy Trio kfi knew.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Up in the sky.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's a bird, it's a plane. It's your next speeding ticket.
Speaker 16 (21:04):
The Law Enforcement Drone Associations as drones are becoming as
commonplace as tasers or patrol cars, with at least six
thousand programs nationwide. Drones have been used for years for
things like search and rescue and trailing suspects, but being
used more now instead of patrol officers for enforcement and
issuing tickets. Drones have also met a boost and revenue
from fines drones throughout California. We used to find people
(21:24):
for illegal fireworks last year. Civil liberty groups say drones
are helpful, but threats to privacy and the Fourth Amendment
will change what it's like to be out in public
in America. Michael Krozier KFI News.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Big Brother always watching.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You know, I was trying to figure out what the
Billy Bob Thornton show was where he places the lawyer
that Anne loves, and I keep forgetting what it's called.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Well, Kevin hit us up on the talkback.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Oo Amy Goliath, so good, so good man. That's a
good one. And I got a question for you right now. Okay, So,
if Titanic we're being made today, how good of a
serious do you think that would be? Like imagine they
break down a four hour movie and I don't know,
(22:07):
four seasons, ten episodes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Uh wow, that would be a lot of shipwreck.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I've thought that about some movies where you know, they
condense everything into two hours, and I've always said, like
with the with the stream and you probably have two
with the streaming episodes. It gives the stories time to breathe.
Do you want to breathe that much? Titanic in.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Know?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
How it ends? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Here's what we're following. In the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
About a thousand people turned out to protest a woman
being shot and killed by an Ice agent in Minneapolis.
Department of Homeland Security says thirty seven year old was
shot as she tried to ram into an ICE agent
with her vehicle, but the Mayor of Minneapolis is that's bs.
The Minneapolis City Council says the woman was, in their words,
(22:59):
out caring for her neighbors when it happened. A man
who shot and killed two students at Santana High School
in two thousand and one may be released from prison soon.
Charles Williams was sentenced to fifty years to life in prison,
but a judge revoked his life sentence after his case
was moved over to juvenile court. Williams was fifteen at
the time of the shooting. Prosecutors say they're going to
(23:19):
fight to keep him in prison, and Orange County Superior
Court judges agreed to resign and plead guilty to workers
comp fraud. Prosecutors say Israel Claustro engaged in a fraud
scheme as part of a business venture with a doctor
in Pasadena while he was an Orange County DA prosecutor.
He's facing probation or up to six months of home confinement.
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We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning,
the Trump administration flippin' the pyramid. Bill's going to have
a few things to say about that. Let's say, good
morning though, now to ABC's Jim Ryan. We're a week
into the new year. A lot of people have made resolutions,
a lot of people have already broken him.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Right, And yeah, this kind of relates to Handle's topic
there the food pyramid as it's now been released upside down.
It's an inverted pyramid now, sort of like the rule
in journalism, right, But yeah, so that has changed somewhat.
So anyway, let's go back. You gov, which is an
online analytics company, asked people that it's surveying nationwide right
(24:22):
before New Year's and said, you're going to make a
New Year's resolution. About thirty one percent of the people
who responded to the survey said yeah, I'll make a resolution,
and then it said, well what is it? And about
a quarter of those people said, I want to lose
weight and or eat healthier. Okay, so it's always in
the top five, maybe top ten of New Year's resolutions
(24:46):
that eat healthier, eat better, be healthier, go on a diet.
And that's what a lot of people do. They go
on diets, and unfortunately many cases, these are fad diets
that just have little effect because they're so hard to maintain.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I remember going on the cabbage soup diet. Ah, yeah,
you did lose weight quickly, but it didn't stay off.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Yeah, because it's hard. You can't eat cabbage for the
rest of your life, right, No, that is that the
sert food sert food diet.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I don't know sert foods.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
These are plant based things like kale, arugula, chocolate, green tea,
and probably cabbage. I bet that's on that list.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, So don't do extreme diets. That's the kind of
the gist of it, like, maybe just make smarter choices.
Speaker 10 (25:36):
Smarter choices, more rational choices, and don't set yourself up
for failure. I talked with a couple of dieticians about this,
about the fad dies. One who writes extensively about fad diets,
and she said that, yeah, they all work, but you
can't keep them going for very long. And once you
drop it, because it's so hard to maintain, then so
(25:56):
many people just gain the weight right back. Something interesting
in the journal in the British Medical Journal today about
GLP once, the injectable weight loss medication. Once people stopped
taking that, in a lot of cases they're gaining back
the weight that they lost with the GLP once and then.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Some So we were talking to Denise Pellegrini, you got
to watch out.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And so the new food pyramid that the dietary guidelines
that have been put out, they change the food pyramid
every I don't know, five years years. The last time
they did it, it seemed like there was a lot
of processed foods on it. I remember looking at it
and going, well, that's stupid, But this one actually makes
some sense to me.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
Right well, RFK Junior has emphasized processed foods and taking
that out of the diet, and he's getting a lot
of praise for that from the American Medical Association, which
says that's good news. Get that highly processed food, sugar,
sweetened beverages, and sodium out of The Diet American Artist
Association also is applauding that, except with a caveat it
(27:02):
says that it's concerned about the protein recommendations that are
in this new pyramid.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Because there's a big picture of a steak right at
the top.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Yeah, a big old steak, and what goes with steak, salt, potatoes, potatoes,
and what goes with potatoes butter, sour cream, bacon, man
and making myself hungry. But yeah, so that's where the
concern is there, that it may be the other things
that come along with that high protein diet.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
All right, maybe lean protein, lean it down, how to go?
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Jim Ryan, are you you don't need to lose weight?
Are you doing anything for resolutions?
Speaker 8 (27:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
You resolved to get married and be happily ever after.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
I'm doing that, doing that. But I told you I
busted my leg in August, and since that happened, I've
lost twenty five pounds, mainly just from muscle mass in
the leg. And now it's a matter of gaining that
back twenty five pounds. Who knew your leg weighed twenty
five pounds.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I didn't, Jim Ryan, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
We'll talk to you soon you all right, Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. Wind advisories going to
effect at six this morning from the beaches to downtown
LA and San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys ahead of
what the National Weather Service is calling a moderate to
strong Santa Ana wind event. It says there is a
high risk of trees being knocked over and power outages
(28:22):
because of the soaked soil from recent rainfall in southern California.
There are also hazardous travel risks in places like the
Five through the Grapevine and the fourteen Freeway Corridor, as
strong winds will impact vehicles, especially high profile ones. Former
reality TV personality Spencer Pratt is running for mayor of LA.
He made the surprise announcement yesterday at a wildfire anniversary
(28:45):
rally in Pacific Palisades, where he criticized city and state
later leaders for what he called a failed response to
last year's deadly fires as usual as a death sentence
for Los Angeles and I'm done waiting for someone to
take your action. Bratt, who lost his home in the fire,
has since become a vocal advocate for fire survivors. Leaders
(29:08):
in Altadena say an early warning system could save lives
if another fire flares up.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Former Altadena Town Council President Victoria Napp says the Eaton
fire exposed critical gaps in how residents get emergency alerts.
Speaker 17 (29:20):
We tried for at least two years to get people
to sign up for Genesis.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Nap says the Genesis warning system would provide faster, more
precise notifications during wildfires, and she thinks signing up shouldn't
be optional.
Speaker 17 (29:35):
We need to find a way to require participation, she.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Says, to Kuga family's crucial minutes to evacuate and reduce
confusion in another disaster. How the Rooker KFI News A.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Lot more people have been watching NFL football this season
compared to last. The Sports Business Journal says games average
nearly nineteen million viewers for the twenty twenty five season.
That's about ten percent more than in twenty twenty four.
League officials say they expect even more people will be
watching during the playoffs, which typically outpaced regular season audiences.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Is it that time already?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It is, because it's five o'clock, straight up, Good morning,
I'm Amy King. This is your wake up call for Thursday,
January eighth.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I just realized I'm a really bad friend.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
My friend Scott's birthday was a couple of days ago,
and I totally spaced it.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Scott Lewis.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
If you're listening, Happy birthday, Busy day, yesterday, busy, busy day.
Did you catch Michael Monks special on the LA Fires
a year later? It was Michael Monks and the KFI
news team taking a look back and a look forward.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
If you missed it.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Really really interesting and you can catch it at any
time on the iHeartRadio app, just like you can catch
wake Up Call anytime on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Gusty Santa Ana wins blown into Southern California, win gus
of twenty five to forty miles per hour.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Expected for most areas.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
GUS could hit seventy miles per hour in the Antelope Valley,
the fourteen Freeway corridor, and the San Gabriel Mountains. The
Santa Ana wind events expected to continue into the weekend,
but because of the recent heavy rains, red flag warnings
for increased fire danger are not expected to be issued.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
A little bit of good news there.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
TV personality Spencer Pratt, who lost his home in the
Palisades fire and has been a pretty vocal critic of
the city in the state's response to the fires, has
announced he's running for mayor of Los Angeles. A protest
has planned this morning at the downtown LA Federal Building.
Demonstrators would be calling for the arrest of the ice
officer who shot and killed a woman during immigration enforcement
(02:08):
operations yesterday in Minneapolis. About a thousand people gathered in
Minneapolis last night to protest the shooting.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
We're going to get the latest from Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
We'll be talking with ABC's immigration reporter Armando Garcia in
less than five minutes.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So we're a week into the new year. Have you
already broken your New Year's resolution.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
ABC's Jim Ryan says, there's one that we really just
shouldn't make but we should make some common sense changes instead,
and that's being bolstered by the White House. Jim's going
to join us at five point fifty. Did you take
personal finance classes in high school? I did, but kids
today don't really have that option. Well, that is changing.
(02:49):
We're going to be joined by the President and CEO
of the National Endowment for Financial Education. He says those
classes will lead to a better life. And one of
the many shows I've watched Pluribus. There are many reasons
you should watch this one brought to you by the
creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Amy's on
(03:12):
it coming up at the bottom of the hour. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A year ago, the
fires were raging through the Palisades and Altadena. Fire survivors
gathered yesterday to demand answers and accountability.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Frustration boiled over as hundreds gathered in Palisades village, marking
one year since fire destroyed seven thousand homes and businesses.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
The city failed US.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Palisades resident Brent Bergdorf says his family lost everything.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh, it's a gross negligence on behalf of the mayors,
the fire department, and the city fount.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Some people that are responsible for maintaining these things.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
There's no reason for the the reservoirs to be empty
at the end of the day, and it's an absolute.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Trialisy organizers say they plan to deliver a list of
demands to city leadership, including a sales tax exemption, permit
fee waivers, and full budget transparency. Heather Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Two LAPD officers have been injured during a stolen car chase.
The LAPD says officers were following a car in North
Hollywood last night. Four people in the car jumped out
and ran off. All four were arrested a short time later.
The two officers injured were taken to the hospital. Not
clear how they were hurt. A shooting investigation has led
to a massive traffic jam on the ten Freeway. The
(04:25):
CHP says a person was injured in the shooting yesterday
afternoon that prompted a freeway shutdown at Crenshaw Right during
the afternoon commute that backed up traffic into Santa Monica
and jammed side streets as drivers tried to get around
the closure. The nominees have been announced for the thirty
second Annual Actor Awards, which she used to know as
(04:46):
the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
The award show streams at five pm Pacific Sunday, March first,
on Netflix from the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall. Director
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another got the most nominations,
including Best Male Lead Actor Leonardi DiCaprio and Female Actor
Chase Infinity. The vampire movie Sinners got five nominations. Those
two movies are also in the Outstanding Cast Performance in
a Motion Picture category, along with Frankenstein, Hamnett and Marty Supreme.
(05:12):
In television, The Studio from Apple got five nominations. Harrison Ford,
We'll get a SAG After Life Achievement Award. Mark Ronner
KFI News Well.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Deserved Life Achievement Award.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I think let's say good morning now to ABC's immigration
reporter Armando Garcia. Armando, what we know is that an
ICE agent has been shot. Are has shot and killed
a protester in Minneapolis. I saw interviews where another protester
said this woman was leading other cars protesting immigration enforcement,
(05:43):
but local officials saying, now, this was not justified. So
can you give us the latest from Minneapolis this morning.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Amy, Good morning, Minneapolis here is waking up, still reeling
from that fatal shooting yesterday of thirty seven year old
Renee Nicole Good. Overnight, thousands of people paying their respects
that are growing makeshift memorial here. Protesters are demanding that
I leave the city immediately, and across the city schools
are canceled until Monday out precaution. Also out of precaution,
(06:12):
Governor Wallas has put the National Guard on standby in
case those protests do not become peaceful. But as you know,
perhaps by now, millions of Americans have seen those Google
images showing the moment of the shooting. The disturbing video
shows the vehicle driven by Good reverse slowly as an
agent grabs the door. The SEV then appears to move forward.
(06:35):
The agent near the front of the vehicle fires multiple rounds,
including through the windshield. Moments later, the SEVU crashes into
a parked car.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Amy and Armando, you're there. I've seen the videos.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You've seen the videos, and it's so interesting to me
how different people are seeing them differently.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Are you getting that sense?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I mean, are you seeing the polarization of people saying Yep,
it was justified, and Nope, it wasn't.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Oh certainly. And you know those videos actually have only
caused more questions than answers. And you heard Minneapolis Mayor
Jacob Fry and Governor Tim Waldsman's and no words. They're
condemning the shooting after they watched the video, putting the
blame squarely on the Trump administration and its immigration enforcement agenda,
it's deportation agenda. THHS has painted a very different picture,
(07:24):
claiming that the woman attempted to run over the agent,
accusing her of engaging in domestic terrorism as well. But
I know that investigators are going to be coming over
every second of that video. It just does millions of
Americans have just to figure out how this unfolded.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Eighty Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And as you're saying that, DHS is saying one thing,
that the woman was trying to run them down, and
the Minneapolis City Council said the woman was out carrying
for her neighbors when this happened. So are you expecting
the two sides to start clashing. You said that thousands
(08:00):
have turned out in protests. Are there are there classes
going on or is it mostly peaceful at this point?
Speaker 8 (08:08):
No, all has been peaceful so far. There is a
barricade kind of blocking off parts of the scene where
the shooting happened, but so far a thing that have
remained peaceful. But I gotta tell you, you know, I've
been on the ground in Chicago and Charlotte and Raleigh,
countless other cities. Now in Minneapolis, the way that a
(08:29):
community activists have responded to the presence of ICE and
Border Patrol agents in their communities is to form these
rapid response groups, essentially filled the volunteers who race to
the scene of reported ICE activity that sometimes warned the
neighbors about ICE presence in their community, and sometimes even
to tell arrestees that, you know, they have rights and
(08:50):
inform them what those rights are. It's unclear if that's
what Good was doing at this moment. We're going to
keep reporting that out. Alhan Omar has a claimed that
she was a legal observer, but you know, those details
about what led up to that shooting is something that
we're going to be continuing to report over, and of
course investigators are going to be taking a look at.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, because I saw an interview with a woman who said, yeah,
it sounds like she was one of those Rapid Response
team people and that they had been trying to block
Ice from doing their their enforcement. I mean she was
with the woman and said that that's what they were
doing that day. So it'll be interesting to see how
that all plays out, whether she was sort of an
innocent bystander or was actively involved, and how that changes
(09:35):
or doesn't change things. But we will hope for peaceful protest.
I would expect that another big one is planned for today.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Yeah, more protests are are planned for today. We're going
to see how those unfold. Amy, but for now, hanging
in the balances in Minneapolis, who has a long history
of protesting against law enforcement. This shooting actually happened just
a four minute drive few blocks away from where George
Floyd was killed by a former MPD officer. So long
(10:04):
history here, a lot of anger, so far off peaceful.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Kind of a tinderbox.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
ABC's immigration reporter Armando Garcia, thanks so much for the
update and the information.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Thanks, Amie.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We got protests planned in la as well in response
to the shooting in Minneapolis. We'll be telling you more
about that as we go through the morning. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man hunt is on
in Utah following a shooting at a Latter Day Saints
meeting house last night. Salt Lake City Police spokesperson Glenn
(10:39):
Mills says authorities don't have a lot to go on yet.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
There was a funeral taking place at the church out
in the parking lot.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
There was some sort of altercation and that's when shots
were fired.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The ATF and FBI are helping in the investigation. President
Trump has given his okay for US officials to meet
with officials from Denmark and Greenland. Trump has said he
wants to make the island in the Northern Atlantic US territory,
but ABC's Rachel Scott says not all Republicans are on board.
Speaker 11 (11:07):
Republican Senator Tom tillis attacking one of the president's top
aides for declaring obviously Greenland should be part of the US.
Other Republicans criticizing the administration for refusing to rule out
using the military to seize Greenland.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Senator Mitch McConnell says using the force against an ally
would be an especially catastrophic act of strategic self harm
to the US. President Trump says he's had a phone
call with Columbia's President Gustavo Petro. He says the call
was friendly and the leaders talked about drugs and other
disagreements between the two countries. Trump says he invited Petro
(11:44):
for a meeting at the White House in the near future.
The Trump administration has laid out a three part plan
for Venezuela's future, and ABC's Christian Cardero says it intends
to control Venezuelan oil sales indefinitely.
Speaker 12 (11:57):
Secretary of Saint Marco Rubio says one is stabilization, which
includes the sale of up to fifty million barrels of
Venezuelan oil the White House, saying the US will share
in the profits.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
She says a second phase is recovery, which will open
up Venezuela's oil market to American companies and others, and
the final phase is transition, which is unclear. President Trump
has announced plans to ban institutional investors from snatching up
real estate and driving up housing prices. Economist Jake Krimmel
of Realtor dot Com SA's large investors own just one
(12:32):
to three percent of single family homes, and Trump's plan
doesn't address other things like the shortage of new building
projects and construction.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Costs increasingly over the last four or five years.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
I think, you know, America is short essentially like four
million homes, and that's translating into real affordability issues.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Companies like Blackstone and other major landlords saw their stock
prices drop yesterday with Trump's announcement. A viral post about
uber eats is now being exposed as an AI hoax.
Speaker 13 (12:58):
The thread, posted Toddit claims uber eat lowers drivers pay
based on customers tips. It also claims the company has
a desperation score to see how often drivers accept low
paying orders so they don't get big ones. The anonymous
poster claims they worked as a software engineer and helped
develop these practices. Uber and door dash both say the
claims are made up, and the post was taken down
(13:19):
by Reddit moderators. I think Gonzalez k if I news, Well.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's good news, because I'd heard that too, that people
would wait to get the big orders and if you
didn't tip, then they'd take extra time to deliver your food.
So if that's a hoax, that makes me happy. Traveling
through some airports can be extra stressful if you don't
arrive early enough.
Speaker 14 (13:38):
The analysis by Luxury France towards way TSA wait times,
passenger volume relative to airport size, parking infrastructure, and flight delays.
Denver International Airport tops the list due to its massive footprint,
heavy traffic, and frequent delays. LAX ranks second due to
complex operations, long TSA lines, and high passenger volume. Voxla Report,
(14:00):
Orlando International and Charlotte Douglas also placed in the top five,
mostly due to very long TIA say wait times. Sharon
reardan KFI.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
News, You know, I don't think LAX is that bad,
although I haven't been there during like Christmas time, but
I usually have pretty good luck with it. But it
might be because I usually fly Alaska and maybe that's
not as crowded.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Let's say good morning now to the President and CEO
of the National Endowment for Financial Education, doctor Billy Hensley.
Good morning, doctor Hensley, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I don't know about most people, but I took personal
finance class in high school, and I know it did
me a lot of good. But somewhere along the line
it got cut from the curriculum and those effects are
pretty far reaching, but hopefully that's starting to change. So
why did personal finance get cut? And then why now,
doctor Hensley, is it getting added back?
Speaker 15 (14:56):
Yeah, well, I'm glad to hear you had the class
and found it valuable.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, it was a long time ago.
Speaker 15 (15:04):
Well, you know, our data show that those who took
a class in financial education eighty six percent consider it valuable,
just like you did, and those who didn't wish they
did at eighty two percent. And quite frankly, that matters
because those who didn't take it seventy percent believe the
quality of the financial life would be better. And you know,
(15:25):
this is an essential topic, and this is largely due
to the fact that we're seeing this resurgence, this momentum
and getting it back in the classroom. Eighty three percent
of Americans across the country believed their state should require
a semester or a year long course in finn ed
and thankfully California passed a requirement in twenty twenty four
(15:47):
that will start with the class of twenty thirty. So
the students who start high school in the fall of
twenty twenty six, by the time they finished they will
have had to take a personal finance class.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, I think it's great news.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Like I learned how to balance a checkbook, and I
mean like little things that you don't even really think
of as being really key to learning how to manage
your money and keep track of your money, because you know,
that's just it's been wiped out from our education system,
right right.
Speaker 15 (16:21):
You know, we surveyed a national sample of folks and
seventy six percent believe that financial education is among the
most essential classes that they should take in high school,
virtually tied with math and just a little higher than English,
so you know, of those cornerstone courses, there's a demand
for financial education. We know that increases knowledge, it builds confidence,
(16:44):
it leads to informed decision making, and there's a lot
of noise out there, we all know, right, and let's
ensure that every young person can launch their financial life
with the tools to better distinguish between what information is
beneficial and what is noise. Okay, no one is saying,
let's who's less been it? You know?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Okay, And doctor Hensley, like, when you're talking about personal finance,
what kinds of things are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
The students needing to learn about.
Speaker 15 (17:10):
Yeah, we actually ask people what they're interested in, what
subjects do they want covered in the classroom, And right
at the top of that list is spending and budgeting
because that's always front of mine. Saving earning income and
how do you move up the career ladder, managing credit investing,
And one that I think it's too underrated but it's
(17:33):
being asked for, is understanding the financial system. It continuously evolves,
products are always evolving, so how do we navigate that?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
And well, I know that you're talking about like budgeting
and that kind of stuff. I wish that there would
have been a greater f emphasis on saving money sooner
because there's you know, a few people who started saving.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Right out of high school or right out of college.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
They're sitting pretty and then there's others of us who
maybe didn't do that quite as aggressively.
Speaker 15 (18:02):
So we're playing ketchup right exactly. And you know, part
of that is sort of the competence and understanding benefits
packages and what compounding means and four one ks and
you know, the jargon that we hear about fundamentally, let's
dissect that and get to the root of what it
means and what that can mean for our future selves.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Okay, Well, and the good news, like you just said,
California is going to require personal finance classes starting with
the twenty twenty seven to twenty eight school year. I believe,
so the graduating class of thirty one, they're going to
have to know a little bit about money, which I
think is super important, especially right now where money is
so tight and inflation's high and all that stuff.
Speaker 15 (18:43):
Absolutely, there's six point seven million plus students in the
California schools, so you know, if we can make a
dent in the population that large, we can make some
great headway on building that confidence and the knowledge necessary
to navigate the financial system.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
All right, doctor Billy Henn, the President and CEO of
the National Endowment for Financial Education. We love to give
good news, and that's a little good news that we got,
so thank you so much, appreciate it. Yes, all right,
have a great day.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Does anybody even keep a record of like checkbooks? How
do you balance your money? Now?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I still have a check register.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't write checks, but I keep track of everything
that I spend, and I don't know if everybody does that.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
We should ask Joel Larsgart about that.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
A Democratic candidate for California's governor is reacting to the
deadly Ice shooting in Minneapolis.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Northern California. Congressman Eric Swalwell posted on ex a video
of the shooting, calling it murder. He went on to
say that local officials need to prosecute Ice and that
Congress should strip them of their immunity. He reiterated with
the mayor of the city, Jacob Fry, said after the shooting.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Get the got of Minneapolis.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Swalwell's caption under the video said, stay the God of California.
Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
A woman from the San Fernando Valleys expected to plead
guilty to to federal charges for her alleged role as
the getaway driver in a series of robberies of smoke shops,
donut shops, and convenience stores around La and Orange Counties.
Abigail Lucky has agreed to enter a plea to two
counts of interference with commerce by robbery. Prosecutors say a
dozen businesses were targeted in January and February of twenty
(20:20):
twenty four. A bill making its way through the California
legislature would stop people from getting fake liens that can
cost victims thousands to clear their names and fix their credit.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Some people have abused the lien system to harass others
for personal or political reasons. California's lean system is easy
to misuse. Costs five dollars to file a lien, but
removing a fake one can break the bank. The state
also doesn't notify victims, so fake lians may go unnoticed
for years. The legislation would require the state notified people
within twenty one days of a lien filing, delay court fees,
(20:53):
and increase fines for fake liens. Filing a fake lean
as already a felony in California. Tammy Trio kfi knew.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Up in the sky.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's a bird, it's a plane. It's your next speeding ticket.
Speaker 16 (21:04):
The Law Enforcement Drone Associations as drones are becoming as
commonplace as tasers or patrol cars, with at least six
thousand programs nationwide. Drones have been used for years for
things like search and rescue and trailing suspects, but being
used more now instead of patrol officers for enforcement and
issuing tickets. Drones have also met a boost and revenue
from fines drones throughout California. We used to find people
(21:24):
for illegal fireworks last year. Civil liberty groups say drones
are helpful, but threats to privacy and the Fourth Amendment
will change what it's like to be out in public
in America. Michael Krozier KFI News.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Big Brother always watching.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You know, I was trying to figure out what the
Billy Bob Thornton show was where he places the lawyer
that Anne loves, and I keep forgetting what it's called.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Well, Kevin hit us up on the talkback.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Oo Amy Goliath, so good, so good man. That's a
good one. And I got a question for you right now. Okay, So,
if Titanic we're being made today, how good of a
serious do you think that would be? Like imagine they
break down a four hour movie and I don't know,
(22:07):
four seasons, ten episodes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Uh wow, that would be a lot of shipwreck.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I've thought that about some movies where you know, they
condense everything into two hours, and I've always said, like
with the with the stream and you probably have two
with the streaming episodes. It gives the stories time to breathe.
Do you want to breathe that much? Titanic in.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Know?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
How it ends? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Here's what we're following. In the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
About a thousand people turned out to protest a woman
being shot and killed by an Ice agent in Minneapolis.
Department of Homeland Security says thirty seven year old was
shot as she tried to ram into an ICE agent
with her vehicle, but the Mayor of Minneapolis is that's bs.
The Minneapolis City Council says the woman was, in their words,
(22:59):
out caring for her neighbors when it happened. A man
who shot and killed two students at Santana High School
in two thousand and one may be released from prison soon.
Charles Williams was sentenced to fifty years to life in prison,
but a judge revoked his life sentence after his case
was moved over to juvenile court. Williams was fifteen at
the time of the shooting. Prosecutors say they're going to
(23:19):
fight to keep him in prison, and Orange County Superior
Court judges agreed to resign and plead guilty to workers
comp fraud. Prosecutors say Israel Claustro engaged in a fraud
scheme as part of a business venture with a doctor
in Pasadena while he was an Orange County DA prosecutor.
He's facing probation or up to six months of home confinement.
(23:40):
We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning,
the Trump administration flippin' the pyramid. Bill's going to have
a few things to say about that. Let's say, good
morning though, now to ABC's Jim Ryan. We're a week
into the new year. A lot of people have made resolutions,
a lot of people have already broken him.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Right, And yeah, this kind of relates to Handle's topic
there the food pyramid as it's now been released upside down.
It's an inverted pyramid now, sort of like the rule
in journalism, right, But yeah, so that has changed somewhat.
So anyway, let's go back. You gov, which is an
online analytics company, asked people that it's surveying nationwide right
(24:22):
before New Year's and said, you're going to make a
New Year's resolution. About thirty one percent of the people
who responded to the survey said yeah, I'll make a resolution,
and then it said, well what is it? And about
a quarter of those people said, I want to lose
weight and or eat healthier. Okay, so it's always in
the top five, maybe top ten of New Year's resolutions
(24:46):
that eat healthier, eat better, be healthier, go on a diet.
And that's what a lot of people do. They go
on diets, and unfortunately many cases, these are fad diets
that just have little effect because they're so hard to maintain.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I remember going on the cabbage soup diet. Ah, yeah,
you did lose weight quickly, but it didn't stay off.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Yeah, because it's hard. You can't eat cabbage for the
rest of your life, right, No, that is that the
sert food sert food diet.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I don't know sert foods.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
These are plant based things like kale, arugula, chocolate, green tea,
and probably cabbage. I bet that's on that list.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, So don't do extreme diets. That's the kind of
the gist of it, like, maybe just make smarter choices.
Speaker 10 (25:36):
Smarter choices, more rational choices, and don't set yourself up
for failure. I talked with a couple of dieticians about this,
about the fad dies. One who writes extensively about fad diets,
and she said that, yeah, they all work, but you
can't keep them going for very long. And once you
drop it, because it's so hard to maintain, then so
(25:56):
many people just gain the weight right back. Something interesting
in the journal in the British Medical Journal today about
GLP once, the injectable weight loss medication. Once people stopped
taking that, in a lot of cases they're gaining back
the weight that they lost with the GLP once and then.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Some So we were talking to Denise Pellegrini, you got
to watch out.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And so the new food pyramid that the dietary guidelines
that have been put out, they change the food pyramid
every I don't know, five years years. The last time
they did it, it seemed like there was a lot
of processed foods on it. I remember looking at it
and going, well, that's stupid, But this one actually makes
some sense to me.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
Right well, RFK Junior has emphasized processed foods and taking
that out of the diet, and he's getting a lot
of praise for that from the American Medical Association, which
says that's good news. Get that highly processed food, sugar,
sweetened beverages, and sodium out of The Diet American Artist
Association also is applauding that, except with a caveat it
(27:02):
says that it's concerned about the protein recommendations that are
in this new pyramid.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Because there's a big picture of a steak right at
the top.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Yeah, a big old steak, and what goes with steak, salt, potatoes, potatoes,
and what goes with potatoes butter, sour cream, bacon, man
and making myself hungry. But yeah, so that's where the
concern is there, that it may be the other things
that come along with that high protein diet.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
All right, maybe lean protein, lean it down, how to go?
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Jim Ryan, are you you don't need to lose weight?
Are you doing anything for resolutions?
Speaker 8 (27:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
You resolved to get married and be happily ever after.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
I'm doing that, doing that. But I told you I
busted my leg in August, and since that happened, I've
lost twenty five pounds, mainly just from muscle mass in
the leg. And now it's a matter of gaining that
back twenty five pounds. Who knew your leg weighed twenty
five pounds.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I didn't, Jim Ryan, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
We'll talk to you soon you all right, Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. Wind advisories going to
effect at six this morning from the beaches to downtown
LA and San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys ahead of
what the National Weather Service is calling a moderate to
strong Santa Ana wind event. It says there is a
high risk of trees being knocked over and power outages
(28:22):
because of the soaked soil from recent rainfall in southern California.
There are also hazardous travel risks in places like the
Five through the Grapevine and the fourteen Freeway Corridor, as
strong winds will impact vehicles, especially high profile ones. Former
reality TV personality Spencer Pratt is running for mayor of LA.
He made the surprise announcement yesterday at a wildfire anniversary
(28:45):
rally in Pacific Palisades, where he criticized city and state
later leaders for what he called a failed response to
last year's deadly fires as usual as a death sentence
for Los Angeles and I'm done waiting for someone to
take your action. Bratt, who lost his home in the fire,
has since become a vocal advocate for fire survivors. Leaders
(29:08):
in Altadena say an early warning system could save lives
if another fire flares up.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Former Altadena Town Council President Victoria Napp says the Eaton
fire exposed critical gaps in how residents get emergency alerts.
Speaker 17 (29:20):
We tried for at least two years to get people
to sign up for Genesis.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Nap says the Genesis warning system would provide faster, more
precise notifications during wildfires, and she thinks signing up shouldn't
be optional.
Speaker 17 (29:35):
We need to find a way to require participation, she.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Says, to Kuga family's crucial minutes to evacuate and reduce
confusion in another disaster. How the Rooker KFI News A.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Lot more people have been watching NFL football this season
compared to last. The Sports Business Journal says games average
nearly nineteen million viewers for the twenty twenty five season.
That's about ten percent more than in twenty twenty four.
League officials say they expect even more people will be
watching during the playoffs, which typically outpaced regular season audiences.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
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