August 14, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller joins the show liver from Jerusalem to speak on IDF Chief approving new Gaza attack plan. Amy takes us ‘Out and About’ to Look! Cinemas in Glendale and Jurassic World: Rebirth. Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe shares the latest regarding business and Wall Street. The show closes with ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan talking about gaining ground on scammers who target senior citizens.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Thursday, August fourteenth. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Almost to the weekend.
Big day for more than five hundred thousand kids. First
day of school for LA school districts, So that Palisades
kids went back to school yesterday, different district. They're in
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a temporary school because of the fires, so they're at
the old Steers building, and then a lot of Orange
County doesn't go back till I believe it's next week,
or maybe even the week after. We used to start
school in September when I was a kid. It's changed.
So anyway, that means a lot of you, a lot
of extra people, probably extra cars on the road too.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Today. Will Coleschreiber just agreed with me, so he'll get you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The latest and get you to where you need to
go today and make sure that you get there on time.
Wouldn't want the kids to be late. Right, here's what's
ahead on wake up call? Is I just mentioned more
than five hundred and forty thousand students in twenty four
thousand teachers are heading back to class. It's the first
day of school in the La School District. The district
has taken steps to ensure safe passage for students and
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parents because of the ICE immigration enforcement actions. That includes
changing bus routes to better serve immigrant families. A fire
burning in the grape vine near Gorman has charged about
two hundred acres. It's zero percent surrounded. The fire burning
in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara County continues to grow.
It's now burned almost one hundred and thirty three thousand
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acres and is forty one percent surrounded. Evacuation or and
warnings still in effect. Eleven suspected gang members are facing
federal charges. Six have been arrested in connection with a
massive sex trafficking ring along the Figaroa Corridor in South
LA apparently notoriously known for prostitution. Prosecutors say the group
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recruited their victims through the foster system on social media,
then kidnapped and drug the women and girls before turning
them into sex workers. Things appear to be ramping up
in Israel as the IDF prepares to take over parts
of the Gaza Strip. Is it a bluff or is
it imminent. ABC's Jordana Miller joins us from Jerusalem with
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more that's coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Also, another day, another scam.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We've got ABC's Jim Ryan to tell us about it,
and a possible a little bit of good news as
law enforcement starts to crack down on the scammers.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
It's about time, that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We went out in about to a bit of a
scaled down but still luxurious movie experience, and we're kind
of mashing up with Amy's on it to tell you
about a movie of prehistoric proportions and whether it should
be extinct.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Let's get started with some of the stories.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Kids in La going back to school the new academic
year begins today. The district is implementing those measures to
ensure what it calls safe passage for students and parents
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who are worried about federal immigration raids. Hundreds of District employees, volunteers,
school police and officers from several areas will be patrolling
about one hundred campuses and set up so called safe zones.
District Superintendent Alberto Carvallo will spend the day visiting eight schools.
LA Mayor Bass is calling for an end to the
federal immigration raids in the city. She's expected to join
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leaders and community members from the West Side this morning
to speak against what they call the discriminatory and reckless
immigration raids and the administer stration's chaotic escalation of its tactics.
A possibly intoxicated man has been removed from a plane
that was on his way to LA after flight attendants
and a pilot say he was yelling racial slurs and
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fighting with flight attendants and other passengers. ABC Sam Sweeney
reports the passenger was restrained twice, was able to break free,
and then was swinging a skateboard.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
According to the pilot, he was swinging a belt around.
The plane was over southwestern Colorado when it made that
u turn and drop from thirty four thousand feet and
made a descent into Grand Junction instead of going to
Los Angeles. Police were able to board that flight took
him into custody the.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Plane that later landed safely in LA. Governor Newsom says
California will move forward with drawing up a new congressional map.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
The governor not holding back.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
In an all caps post on X calling President Trump
Taco Trump, Newsom said Trump missed the deadline and California
will now draw quote more beautiful maps that will end
the Trump presidency and allowed Democrats to take control of
the US House of Representatives. The announcement comes as Texas
Republicans attempt to redraw congressional maps to get five additional
seats in their parties favor. A spokesperson for California State
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Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves confirmed to ABC that the state
legislature is aiming to release draft maps on Friday. The
brookerk KFI news.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And all caps ex post. I think it's just it's
just gotten so out of control. It's crazy. And did
he end it with thank you for your attention?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He did here it is Liberation Day. Many are calling
it thank you for your attention to this matter. Gcn Ooh,
what's Gavin Newsom's middle name. I'll have to google it.
It's Christopher Gavin Christopher Newsomb let's say good morning now
to ABC's Jordanah Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, looks like Israel's
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moving forward with plans to go into Gaza and take
it over.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
What do we know now, that's right, Amy, The Israeli
Army chief a Yal Zamir approved the army's plans to
take over and seize Gaza City. This is the first
phase of what the Israeli Prime Minister has been threatening
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to do, which is to occupy all of Gaza. These
plans were approved yesterday. It will not It's important to
say this larger military operation will not really be launched
until October. There are several things the army is going
to focus on in the coming six weeks, and that is,
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first of all, moving the civilian population out of Gaza City.
There's almost a million Palestinians there, and unfortunately, Amy, some
of that has already started, not by evacuation orders which
have been issued, but really by the intensification of Israeli
airstrikes in Gaza City. That always is really what gets
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people to move, and that has already started. Joel also
says it's going to ramp up the distribution sites for
eight in the next six weeks before it goes into
Gaza City. There are four humanitarian distribution sites working right
now through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation PS. Very deadly occurrences
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every single day at these sites right where dozens of
hungry Palestinians are being killed as they make their way
to these sites. Nonetheless, instead of shutting them down and
coming up with a safer system, the Israelis, along with
the help of President Trump, are going to expand this
system and add another four or eight sites that we're
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told is going to happen before the army goes into
Gaza City. And then of course the Israelis have to
call up tens of thousands of more troops, which is
not very popular. We have to remember that this operation
to go into Gaza City is going to force the
Israeli soldiers to work in areas where the Israeli hostages,
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the living hostages, some of them are believed to be
kept in tunnels underneath Gaza City, and that of course
has sent fear through the families of the hostages that
this operation could of course endanger the lives of their
loved ones. You know, whether Hamas kills them out of
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revenge or the Israelis kill them inadvertently through airstrikes or operations.
You know, they say this is going to endanger their lives.
So there's a lot of public opposition to this move
to expand the operation in Gaza City. Amy, kind of a.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Catch twenty two, don't you think, Jordana, Because the families
are worried that their loved ones will be killed if
Israel goes in. But then those videos are that last
video that was released of one of the hostages who
looked like he was literally starving in being forced to
dig his own grave. I mean, it's like, how do
you weigh which one is better or worse? Right?
Speaker 8 (09:09):
That was the video of Avatar David, who was a
civilian kidnapped on October seventh by Hamasa, now clearly being starved. Amy,
I want to remind everyone who's listening also that Hamas's
campaign of starving the hostages did not begin now where
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there's a hunger crisis and pockets of starvation. It did
not begin now. I heard on the radio just a
few hours ago one of the hostages who was taken
by Hamas in the first fifty days before the vast destruction,
before any kind of major hunger crisis, and she was
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saying at that time they were only being given half
a piece of pida, which is a round piece of bread,
and a little bit of rice and water every day.
So it's clearer Hamasa's than they meant to starve these
hostages all along. Now it's hit a critical juncture. The
families of the hostages, including a Vatar David's family, they
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want the Israeli Prime minister to cut a deal right
now to get the hostages out right and the war.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Now.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
That's their position, and unfortunately it doesn't look like that's
going to happen for various reasons.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, all right, Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, thanks so much
for the update.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
We appreciate it. We'll get more information from you soon.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Talk soon, Amy.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
All right, let's get back to.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. People in Washington, d C. Have protested
the increased police present in the district following the Trump
administration's takeover of the DC Police Department. President Trump also
called in the National Guard to fight crime, and he
announced plans to move homeless people out of the nation's capital.
The White House says authorities are focusing on in forcing
(11:00):
existing laws. DC officials have been making more space available
at shelters, as well as doing outreach at homeless camps.
The President says there will be very severe consequences if
Russian President Putin does not agree to stop the war
in Ukraine. Following the two leaders meeting that set for
Alaska tomorrow, Trump didn't say what those consequences might be.
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The remark yesterday came soon after Trump consulted with European leaders,
who said the President assured them he would make a
priority of trying to achieve a cease fire in Ukraine.
The trip to Alaska will be Putin's first to the
US since twenty fifteen. British Prime Minister kir Starmer is
meeting with Ukraine's President Zelenski in London today, follows Zelensky's
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virtual meetings yesterday with Trump and European leaders. The European
leaders called the discussions constructive, but some Ukrainians say they
are still skeptical about achieving meaningful progress.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
A man from all Be in.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
New York set to appear in court today accused of
stalking and harassing the family of United Healthcare CEO Brian
Thompson remember he was murdered in front of a hotel
in Manhattan. Prosecutors say Shane Daily sent threatening emails in
the days after the murder to the family. The man
accused of murdering Thompson was arrested after the killing and
is awaiting trial on murder charges. GE says it's moving
(12:18):
production of multiple appliances from Mexico and China to the US.
CEO Kevin Nolan says the three billion dollar project will
create one thousand jobs and when it all.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Comes together, bold investments like this one can usher in
a new era of US manufacturing.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The production will move to Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and
South Carolina. The announcement comes as President Trump raises tariffs
in parts in part to try and lure manufacturing back
to the US.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Need a Gramma rent one.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
The company Client Partners provides interpreters, handyman and other services
in Tokyo, often using people over sixty. A few years ago,
the company realized, just like someone needs a handy man
for a home building projects, someone might want to hire
a grandmother for a homemaking project. Since then, people have
been using the okay oboson or okay grandmother's service to
hire grandma's for cooking chores or just emotional support that
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also gives those older women jobs that become more scarce
in their golden years. Japan may have gotten the ball rolling,
but rent a Grandma's services are now popping up in
the US. Michael Krozier kf I News.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
That's so cute. Rent a just rent one.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The Kennedy Center honorees for twenty twenty five have been announced.
President Trump made the announcement yesterday morning. And here's who's
on the list.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
You to guess.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
George Strait, country music legend, love him? How about this way?
Gloria Gaynor Kit that was my brother's favorite band.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
And then we had to Broadway.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Michael Crawford, famously known for Phantom of the Opera.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
And is this because they're buddies? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Silvestrist alone, we'll get a Kennedy Center honor. President Trump
was appointed Chairman of the Kennedy Center by the new
Trump appointed board.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Recently.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He said during the ceremony yesterday that he had been
asked and had accepted the invitation to host the Kennedy
Center Gala.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
It's happening on December twenty second.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
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isn't just building a team, They're building champions. Come feel
what they're building. Visit angelcity dot com to find out
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twenty first. The man police say through chunks of concrete
at federal officers doing immigration enforcement is expected to be
arraigned today on a federal charge. Court papers say E
lpdo Reno of Compton is accused of throwing the concrete
at ice agents on June seventh on a laundro boulevard,
injuring a federal officer and damaging government vehicles. A federal
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judge in Miami has delayed a decision on whether operations
and construction can resume at the immigration detention facility known
as Alligator Alcatraz. The judge had previously ruled in favor
of an environmental advocacy group that called for a shutdown
of the facility until an environmental study could be completed.
(15:57):
Texas Democratic lawmakers are headed back to the Lone Star state.
Report says more than fifty lawmakers will be headed home
after a special session of the legislature in Texas ends Friday. Now,
Governor Greg Abbott has promised to immediately call another session.
The lawmakers left to keep the state House from having
a quorum needed to redraw the state's congressional maps.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Six oh five.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's handled on the news. Europeans are a little more
upbeat after Trump listens to what they have to say
about that summit and what needs to happen at the
summit in Alaska tomorrow. Okay, so we went out and
about this week, and we're also going to sort of
a little mash up. So because it's it's sort of
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to two segments in one.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
They did the Moms. Yeah, it doesn't have anything to
do with Halloween, but it's a mashup.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Okay, So you go to a movie theater and it's
a lovely experience. I mean, theaters have gotten so much ershy.
They are cushy, and like when Will and I went
and what did we see? We saw Superman. Yeah, which
I need to go see that again. That was really good.
But we went and saw Superman and that was just
at the AMC at the Americana in Glendale. Very nice theater,
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nice cushy seats. They have a bar now, you can
put your own butter on your popcorns. You can put
as much as you want anyway, So we did stepped
it up a little bit. And actually it's quite a bit.
But we went to the Look Cinemas. There's one in Glendale.
I believe there's a couple others, but we went to
the Look Cinemas in Glendale and the price very similar.
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I think we paid thirteen bucks for and instead of
just regular seats, you get recliners. Oh yeah, and of
course you have the cup holders and then you have
a place like a fold away tray, and there's seat service.
So they come and they will bring you food that
you order.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
They will bring you cocktails if you would choose to
do that.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
So it's like a step down from the IPIC, which
is a little more intimate because like you sit just
next to you know, you're whoever you're there with. This
one is a regular theater, but all the seats are
recliners and it's lovely and they adjust and so you
can get your head just right, and you get your
feet comfortable.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But is it too comfortable?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Do you fall asleep?
Speaker 10 (18:23):
Because sometimes I have issues with that in movies. If
if it's if I'm reclined.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Or it could be rough, Well you should take a
napp first or a movie and you know what, and
you're not going to take an app during this movie.
So and here's the mashup. So we're also going to
do a little Amy's on it. So we The movie
that we saw was Jurassic World Rebirth.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
It's in theaters.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It was just released July second, still in theaters, and
I think you can rent or purchase it now. Oh
you can on Apple TV and Prime Video, but it's
not free yet with streaming. It's it's an charge, okay.
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershela Ali love him, and Rupert Friend.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
They play their roles great and they do a great
job with what they're given. The movie is super action packed.
Of course it's a dinosaur movie, so that's fun. And
it's a Jurassic Park movie. I've always loved the spectacle
of them. I love, you know, like the huge dinosaurs
and the t rex and and I've come to have
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quite an affection reaction to the velociraptors.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I love the velociraptors.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Not if you saw one in person, but when Chris
Pratt was training the velociraptors and they had blue that
was great.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Loved it. That being said, the movie misses on a
lot of fronts.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
The story is weak, the situations are a stretch, the
decisions are bad.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Predicaments are unlikely. Of course they're unlikely.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a movie, but so it's you know, using your imagination,
but things just don't fit. And I'm not going to
tell you specifics in case you haven't seen it, Like
it had a huge, huge first weekend, then a huge
drop off for the second weekend. There's this one scene though,
that there were a couple of dinos that were becoming amorous, right,
I mean it wasn't They weren't mounting each other or
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anything like that. But as this is going on, there's
these ginormous dinos and one of the characters thinks, oh,
that's a good time for me to walk up to them,
and like huggin I mean, like what what.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Like that's a good idea?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Like it's never a good idea anyway, but then when
dinosaurs are you know, getting a little chicken bound bound
bowel and he didn't get killed.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Okay, are any of the og actors in it?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
From no, So it's Scarlett Johansson who plays Zora Bennett,
and Maherschel Ali is Duncan Kincaid, and then Rupert is
Martin Krebs. I mean, it's a it's a Jurassic Park movie,
so you know that some of the people are gonna
get eaten by dinosaurs. And about ten minutes in, this
is another problem I had. About ten minutes in, I
could tell you every person who was going to be
eaten and everybody who would survive. It's just like so
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predictable formulaic. And the biggest disappointment was the lack of
the velociraptor, which I love, and the dino villain, because
they always have one. You know if in the first
movie it was the the t rex, and then the
second movie they made another one, or the second movie
they didn't, but the third movie then they created some
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and then but they still were like dinos. This thing
wasn't even a dino. And when you go to a
dinosaur movie, you want to see dinosaurs. So I mean,
they can laugh all the way to the bank. Because
it's a franchise movie. They know people are going to
see it. And that being said, knowing all of that,
why not make a great movie. Why not make a
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great movie like you're spending two hundred and fifty million
dollars or whatever they do, why not just tweak this,
tweak the story, make it a better story.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
You're gonna make money on it.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Okay, I'm on it because it's a Jurassic movie, but
maybe wait until it's included with your streaming if you
haven't already seen it, or it's like three ninety nine
and you can rent it. I think it's like twenty
bucks right now. Right so, I think maybe it's time
to make Jurassic Park extinct. I hate to say that,
I do love those movies. It's sort of like Gary Channer,
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we're talking about what's the worst movie that you love.
I love the Jurassic Park movies.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
I just remember that original, the very first one, when
the scene opens and you first see that cgi dinosaur
that's or whatever. It was stunning. It was really stunning.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
It was. And again the dino in this one is stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Okay, I feel yeah, right, Okay, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Federal authorities have rated the notorious Figaroa
Corridor and arrest is six suspected members of a South
LA street game.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
According to an indictment, the suspects were acting as pimps
for adults and miners in the area. The Figaroa Corridor
is known as a haven for sex workers and customers.
The lead defendant, twenty five year old Amaya Armstead, is
accused of trafficking a fourteen year old girl for prostitution,
according to the indictment, which names eleven defendants. Some members
of the gang produced rap music and videos which often
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glorified the gang, sex trafficking, drug sales, and firearms possession.
Eileen Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
LA Mayor Karen Bass says we Are LA program, launched
in twenty twenty three, has already helped more than one
hundred thousand people remain in their homes.
Speaker 12 (23:29):
Preventing the inflow of people on the street has been
one of the greatest challenges, and what I'm very excited
about is that the Mayor's fund is conquering that challenges
with proven strategies on how to protect people from being evicted.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The eviction prevention program is funded by the city, the
city's mansion tax, and nonprofit donations. An RV homeless camp
could be on the way to Lake Balboa.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
The only City Council is given the ok for city
officials to start negotiating the life for a parking lot
owned by La Metro. It's near schools and a park
on West Victory Boulevard. Councilman Monica Rodriguez says she's supportive
of the idea but voted against it because homeless programs
like Inside Safe have not been as transparent as she wants.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
A centralized effort in the Mayor's office for this boutique
program is not delivering the accountability.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
The parking lot serves commuters who use Metro's G Line busway.
It'll be able to hold one hundred and twenty five RVs,
will have a fence and a security booth. Michael Monks
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Farmers in California say climate change is affecting the fruit
supply in the state.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
It's also raising prices this past winter. Stone fruits like peaches, plums,
and cherries, didn't get enough cold weather. Warmer winters have
disrupted the natural cycles of fruit trees, which require cold
temperatures to thrive. Just in the Central Valley, peaches are
down by thirty percent, while prices have gone up for consumers.
Yellow peaches have increased twenty three cents per pound and
white peaches by seventeen cents. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
News Love me a good peach.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
As students head back to class, the districts as hundreds
of district employees, volunteers, and police and officers from several
areas will patrol near an estimated one hundred campuses and
set up so called safe zones and neighborhoods that have
a high population of Latino students and families. Two more
homes have been broken into in the San Fernando Valley.
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The break ins happened thirty minutes and three miles apart
in Northridge. The LAPD says in both break ins Tuesday night,
there were people at home. LAPD Chief MacDonald's says this
is the latest in a string of robberies and burglaries
done by sophisticated groups using technology to surveil their targets.
State lawmakers moving ahead with new voting maps for California.
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Governor Newsom says California must respond to Texas's efforts to
redraw congressional districts in favor of the Republicans. Lawmakers will
vote next week to move forward with a special election
on November fourth, and let voters decide if the maps
should be redrawn for the twenty twenty six, twenty eight,
and thirty elections. At six five, It's handled on the news.
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Things could get dicey. If you're planning to fly air
Cantona Air Canada. Bill's going to tell you why. The
Dodgers looking their wounds after a six to five loss
to the Angels last night. They'll be back in action
tomorrow night, taking on the padres at Dodgers Stadium, with
the first pitch going out at seven o'clock. Listen to
all the Dodgers games on AM five to seventy LA
(26:24):
Sports Live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth, and you
can stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app.
Again the keyword AM five seventy LA sports. Medicaid data
is now off limits to the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
The Department of Health and Human Services cannot share individual
health information with the DHS. California's Attorney General, Rob Bontas
has the courts temporarily halted Medicaid access to ICE. The
decision follows arguments from California and other states that ahhs's
unrestricted access to sensitive health data violates the law. DHS
can't use Medicaid information for immigration related actions until a
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llegal processes properly followed or the case is resolved. Mark
Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Hew is brought to you by Simper Solaris, a high
school basketball coach in Dana Point, has been arrested on
suspicion of having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl.
Orange County Sheriff's Departments's deputies were contacted by a mandated
reporter this month about an inappropriate relationship between the girl
and Michael Duran. The girl said she was groomed for
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a relationship with him while he was an assistant basketball
coach at Dana Hills High School. Duran also coaches a
basketball club in San Juan Capistrano. Lancaster Mayor R Rex
Paris has defended his comments about wanting to give homeless
people all the fentanyl they want.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Those are his words.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
He first said it in April and was confronted about
it this week during a council meeting.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
I do not want the homeless criminal population, who are
drug addicted, who are robbing, raping and murdering our citizens
in Lancaster. And yes, if I could give those that
particular population fentanyl, I would give them fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The mayor says he wants them out of the city.
From oil refinery to town square, plans are coming together
in Wilmington.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Phillip sixty six wants to shut down the plant by
the end of the year, and developers are calling the
new plan for the footprint the Five Points Union. The
land will be divided into two parts. The southern part
will consist of several industrial buildings ranging from fifty five
to one hundred and fifteen feet in height. The northern,
much smaller portion will have a town square, including retail uses,
recreational space, a massive indoor sports complex, and possibly a
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gas station. Jason Campedonia KFI News a.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Gas station at an old oil refinery. Huh, I get it.
Time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe
Morning Courtney, Good Morning, Okay, so we gonna we're gonna
taste the natural rainbows. Skittles is making some changes.
Speaker 14 (28:58):
Yes, Skittles without artificial dies are on the way. So
it's a big shake up we're seeing in the candy aisle.
Mars will offer naturally colored Skittles along with Eminem, Starbus Starburst.
I can say that I was about to say Starbucks
and extra Gum next year. The move by Mars, basically,
it's a step toward appeasing health in Human Services Secretary
(29:19):
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, and he's made artificial dies a
top target.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Okay, well that's good news.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
You know. I just saw too that Kellogg's has announced
that it is eliminating artificial dies. It doesn't go into effect,
I think, like till twenty twenty seven. I have to
retool everything. But that's also good news, right Yeah.
Speaker 14 (29:37):
Same with Hershey's too, which is a big rival for Mars.
But it's interesting how Mars stopped short of removing artificial
dies from all of its brands. The other brands or
the other companies who were talking about said we're going
to try to get rid of everything by twenty twenty
seven or late twenty twenty six, but they said that
they're going to continue to work on the effort to
get all of its brands.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Okay, we've seen this before outweed at our own little
mashup earlier. Here's another mashup, and this one's of restaurants.
Speaker 14 (30:04):
Yes, so diners had to ie Hop for their pancakes
in the morning and then to Applebee's later in the
day for their burgers and their fajitas for lunch and dinner.
So soon you may see the two restaurants popping up
in one location. The parent company of both chains, dining brands,
is planning to expand its I Hop Applebee's concept around
the country. It was a great success, the I Hop
Applebee's combo. They had two of them in Texas. So
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the company says they remain on course to open at
least a dozen dual branded restaurants in the US by
the end of the year.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
So what are they gonna call it? I ies Ibes?
It should but album Hop. I like that.
Speaker 14 (30:43):
But most of when I'm looking at some of the
concepts and the mock ups, it has ie Hop and
then the Applebee's sign right next to each other, but
in one location. So you go there early in the
day and you stay all day and.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Just eat and eat. I like Apple Hop. I think
we should push them more trouble for Hollewe.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I mean, this is a huge thing because it affects
so many people in southern California, because so many people
are in the movie industry. Yellowstone creator and the creator
of so many other great shows, Taylor Sheridan is building
a film production campus.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
But not here.
Speaker 14 (31:16):
Yeah, in Texas. Texas is trying to take on Hollywood.
He's actually teaming up with billionaire Ross Pero Junior, and
they're betting on stepped up demand for filming in Texas
because the state legislature in Texas recently approved a bigger
pot of financial incentives for productions. So filming has already
begun at the Fort Worth facility. They say they have
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space right now for four simultaneous productions and they plan
to expand to at least ten stages.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Okay, we'll be watching that.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
And what are we watching on Wall Street because we
had another really strong day yesterday.
Speaker 14 (31:49):
Oh yeah, Well, Wall Street is hoping the Federal Reservoi
cut interest rates next month, and that gave a four
hundred and sixty four point bump to the Dow yesterday.
Now this morning, eh, we just's got a report on
wholesale inflation. Producer prices surged in July by the most
in three years, much more than Wall Street expected. And
of course inflation worries if it's in businesses, when is
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it going to trickle down to the consumer. But this
could mean that the Fed may hesitate on stepping into
cut interest rates next month. So we are seeing doll
futures down one hundred and sixty five points.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And when you say producer prices, so the people who
are making things, it's costing them more to make exactly
the wholesale prices that we're seeing before it actually ends
up getting to the businesses they're selling to you and me. Okay,
getting in your business like we do every morning with
Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
To see you later, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Governor Newsom's headed to la to annance his announce his
plan to quickly redraw the state's congressional districts. It's being
done in an attempt to counter redistricting efforts in Texas
that would benefit Republicans by giving them basically five more seats.
California Republican Party Chairman Corn Rankin says Republicans will fight
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the effort in court and at the ballot box. LA
Mayor bass is the city's expanding the we Are LA
program with a new eviction Protection office in South LA's
Crenshaw District. Over our one thousand residents facing eviction have
already received legal aid and referrals there. The mayor says
the program that was launched in twenty twenty three has
helped more than one hundred and five thousand people avoid eviction.
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California farmers say peaches, plums, and cherries didn't get enough
cold weather last winter, which has reduced the crop and
driven up prices. In the Central Valley. The peach crop
was down thirty percent, yellow peach prices up twenty three percent,
and white peaches were up seventeen cents per pound. We're
just minutes away from handle on the news that starts
(33:43):
at six oh five, so stick around for that right now, though,
let's say good morning.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
To ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Jim, it seems like every time we talked, we're talking
about a scam and we got another one.
Speaker 15 (33:53):
I know well and this one. We've talked about this
one in the past, and I'm going to tell you
what's different about at this time though. This is the
grandparent scam. You get a call or an older person
gets a call from someone saying, I'm your grandson, I'm
your granddaughter, I'm in trouble, I need money. Don't tell
my parents, please do this, do it quickly, et cetera,
and the parent unfortunately gives up the money. We've seen
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this time and time again to the tune of four
point nine billion dollars in twenty twenty three. That's a
dramatic increase from the year before. So the grandparent scheme
is paying off for criminals. Here's the twist, though, a
lot of people are now getting caught, they're being arrested,
they're being prosecuted, and they're facing justice for doing this
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kind of thing. We had a case last month out
of Canada, a group of twenty five people accused of
running a grandparent scam up there, defrauding twenty one million
dollars out of people across the United States. This week,
a new case, one involving a call center in the
Dominican Republic that was ripping off people that you know
victims again coast, Well.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
That's finely who and is it Department of Homeland Security?
Is it the small business en wh who's looking at
the FBI?
Speaker 15 (35:11):
Well, it's the FBI in this country and working with
Interpol and working with you know, the Canadian Mounted Police.
You know, they're working with different agencies around the country,
around the world, and that's maybe the difference here, But
they're also working with private companies. This the one out
of Massachusetts, the one involving the Dominican Republic, is fascinating
to me because here's here's how it work.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Would work.
Speaker 15 (35:33):
The the scammer would call the grandparent and say, look,
I need help, I need money, And then they'd put
somebody else on the phone who pretends to be the
lawyer for this poor kid who's in jail, and say, yeah,
we're going to send an uber to your house who
pick up the money for the bail or to pick
you up. Well, well, we'll have the uber driver take
you to the bank you can withdraw, et cetera. So
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the uber driver started noticing these weird trips they were
making with older people whose grandkids were in trouble and
they needed to get money or gift cards for Heaven's sake,
So the drivers contacted Uber. Uber contacted the FBI, The
FBI launched an investigation, put the pieces together, and now
we have these arrests. But unfortunately Amy, it took two years.
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So the arrests that were announced this week were from
cases related to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I would imagine that's probably still going on though. I mean,
if they're making money at it, why not do it?
Is the cracking down and starting to catch people, is
that a new thing, like they finally figured it out
or have they been doing it all along?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
We just don't hear about it that much.
Speaker 15 (36:37):
Well, certainly they've certainly been higher profile about it. The
Boston case. They've had a old news conference talking about
that when this week. And I think it's been difficult
at first they had to figure out exactly who was
doing this and then try to reach out and with
the governments involved, So I think it has been more difficult,
gets more difficult also considering the technology, right, You've got
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scammers who can sit there, go on to an Instagram
account or a Facebook page and start putting pieces together.
Here they find a video of a kid who's talking
about his birthday. You're talking about something or other using
artificial intelligence, taking that voice and turning it into a
plea for help and then reaching out to the grandparent
whom they also found on social media, and you know
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it's insidious and so you know, technology doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, I was going to ask you whether AI is
complicating it because they can take and make somebody's voice
and make them say something. Do we are there ways
that families can safeguard themselves? I was thinking about, like,
how do you protect you? Do you create a safe
word or something like if you're in trouble, say Rudebega
or something.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
I mean, it wouldn't be.
Speaker 15 (37:46):
That one, because that's that's a good one. Now, somebody's
gonna have to change their password, aren't they from Rudebega?
How about turn?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I think that that might sound a little weird in
conversation though, Hi, Grandma, I really need your help.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Rudebega?
Speaker 15 (37:58):
Well no, yeah, the grandparents should say, Okay, you're my grandson.
You're stuck in jail in Alameda and you need to
get out. Well, what's the password that we established? And
if the grand kid can't give it, then you know,
some red flag should go up. But at the heart
of it all is maintaining communication.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Right.
Speaker 15 (38:18):
The setting up a password is great, but that requires
the family sitting down to the table and saying, Grandma, listen,
if somebody calls you, or if my grandson here calls you,
if your grandson calls you, and let's all establish this
code word that we're going to use when something like
this pops up, and you know so, but having that
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basic communication, making sure you're staying in touch and if
that older person says, you know, I've been getting these
calls from people who say that they need money and
that they're pretending to be you know, you can certainly
stay in front of it that way.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan, great advice. I'm glad to hear
that they're cracking down. This is crazy. I just got
something from the Social Security Administration yesterday speaking of scams.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Just wanted to put this on your radar. Guys.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
If you haven't gotten this, it says your new statement
is available. I'm like, well, I don't get social Security.
I mean that's a ways a while away, but this
will inform you that your Social Security statement has been
updated with the latest earnings and benefit calculations, and then
of course it has something that you can click on
a link to check out your statement. So I googled
it and the Social Security Administration doesn't send you links
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and documents like that. They might send you an email
apparently if you get to Social Security age they might do.
Speaker 10 (39:36):
That, or a regular mail. I've getten those snail mails with.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
The but most of the communication is through snail mail. Yeah,
so just so you know, be careful by Jim. He's gone,
you know what, You're gonna get gone pretty soon, I
would imagine, because I would, I'm guessing a lot of
people are up early today because thousands of kids in
La are headed back to class.
Speaker 16 (40:00):
The district is implementing measures to ensure the safe passage
of children and parents to and from school amid heightened
concerns of federal immigration rates. Hundreds of volunteers, district employees
and police are set to patrol near dozens of schools
and set up safe zones and areas that have a
large Latino student population. Mark Mayfield, Kofi News.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
La City Council and Current Price is due in court
to face two new charges of public corruption. They were
filed this week. Prices already facing ten felam accounts of
grand theft, perjury, and conflict of interest for allegedly voting
in favor of projects in which his wife had a
financial interest. The Port of La says July was a
record breaker.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Compared to a year ago. Import traffic at the port
was up eight percent and exports also rose six percent.
But Port Executive Director Gene Siroca says it's another signed
retailers are stocking up to bypass tariffs and that the
bulk of inventory retailers will order is already here.
Speaker 16 (40:54):
All this means higher prices, fewer selections, and probably lower
inventories as we look to the back half of this year.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Sorokas says high tariffs on major US trading partners like China, Japan,
and India could lead to lower activity at the port
as the second half of the year continues. Michael Monks
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
This has been your wake up call. If you missed
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Thursday, August fourteenth. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Almost to the weekend.
Big day for more than five hundred thousand kids. First
day of school for LA school districts, So that Palisades
kids went back to school yesterday, different district. They're in
(00:48):
a temporary school because of the fires, so they're at
the old Steers building, and then a lot of Orange
County doesn't go back till I believe it's next week,
or maybe even the week after. We used to start
school in September when I was a kid. It's changed.
So anyway, that means a lot of you, a lot
of extra people, probably extra cars on the road too.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Today. Will Coleschreiber just agreed with me, so he'll get you.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The latest and get you to where you need to
go today and make sure that you get there on time.
Wouldn't want the kids to be late. Right, here's what's
ahead on wake up call? Is I just mentioned more
than five hundred and forty thousand students in twenty four
thousand teachers are heading back to class. It's the first
day of school in the La School District. The district
has taken steps to ensure safe passage for students and
(01:34):
parents because of the ICE immigration enforcement actions. That includes
changing bus routes to better serve immigrant families. A fire
burning in the grape vine near Gorman has charged about
two hundred acres. It's zero percent surrounded. The fire burning
in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara County continues to grow.
It's now burned almost one hundred and thirty three thousand
(01:56):
acres and is forty one percent surrounded. Evacuation or and
warnings still in effect. Eleven suspected gang members are facing
federal charges. Six have been arrested in connection with a
massive sex trafficking ring along the Figaroa Corridor in South
LA apparently notoriously known for prostitution. Prosecutors say the group
(02:17):
recruited their victims through the foster system on social media,
then kidnapped and drug the women and girls before turning
them into sex workers. Things appear to be ramping up
in Israel as the IDF prepares to take over parts
of the Gaza Strip. Is it a bluff or is
it imminent. ABC's Jordana Miller joins us from Jerusalem with
(02:37):
more that's coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Also, another day, another scam.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We've got ABC's Jim Ryan to tell us about it,
and a possible a little bit of good news as
law enforcement starts to crack down on the scammers.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
It's about time, that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
We went out in about to a bit of a
scaled down but still luxurious movie experience, and we're kind
of mashing up with Amy's on it to tell you
about a movie of prehistoric proportions and whether it should
be extinct.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Let's get started with some of the stories.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Kids in La going back to school the new academic
year begins today. The district is implementing those measures to
ensure what it calls safe passage for students and parents
(03:28):
who are worried about federal immigration raids. Hundreds of District employees, volunteers,
school police and officers from several areas will be patrolling
about one hundred campuses and set up so called safe zones.
District Superintendent Alberto Carvallo will spend the day visiting eight schools.
LA Mayor Bass is calling for an end to the
federal immigration raids in the city. She's expected to join
(03:51):
leaders and community members from the West Side this morning
to speak against what they call the discriminatory and reckless
immigration raids and the administer stration's chaotic escalation of its tactics.
A possibly intoxicated man has been removed from a plane
that was on his way to LA after flight attendants
and a pilot say he was yelling racial slurs and
(04:13):
fighting with flight attendants and other passengers. ABC Sam Sweeney
reports the passenger was restrained twice, was able to break free,
and then was swinging a skateboard.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
According to the pilot, he was swinging a belt around.
The plane was over southwestern Colorado when it made that
u turn and drop from thirty four thousand feet and
made a descent into Grand Junction instead of going to
Los Angeles. Police were able to board that flight took
him into custody the.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Plane that later landed safely in LA. Governor Newsom says
California will move forward with drawing up a new congressional map.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
The governor not holding back.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
In an all caps post on X calling President Trump
Taco Trump, Newsom said Trump missed the deadline and California
will now draw quote more beautiful maps that will end
the Trump presidency and allowed Democrats to take control of
the US House of Representatives. The announcement comes as Texas
Republicans attempt to redraw congressional maps to get five additional
seats in their parties favor. A spokesperson for California State
(05:10):
Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves confirmed to ABC that the state
legislature is aiming to release draft maps on Friday. The
brookerk KFI news.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And all caps ex post. I think it's just it's
just gotten so out of control. It's crazy. And did
he end it with thank you for your attention?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
He did here it is Liberation Day. Many are calling
it thank you for your attention to this matter. Gcn Ooh,
what's Gavin Newsom's middle name. I'll have to google it.
It's Christopher Gavin Christopher Newsomb let's say good morning now
to ABC's Jordanah Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, looks like Israel's
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moving forward with plans to go into Gaza and take
it over.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
What do we know now, that's right, Amy, The Israeli
Army chief a Yal Zamir approved the army's plans to
take over and seize Gaza City. This is the first
phase of what the Israeli Prime Minister has been threatening
(06:14):
to do, which is to occupy all of Gaza. These
plans were approved yesterday. It will not It's important to
say this larger military operation will not really be launched
until October. There are several things the army is going
to focus on in the coming six weeks, and that is,
(06:38):
first of all, moving the civilian population out of Gaza City.
There's almost a million Palestinians there, and unfortunately, Amy, some
of that has already started, not by evacuation orders which
have been issued, but really by the intensification of Israeli
airstrikes in Gaza City. That always is really what gets
(07:00):
people to move, and that has already started. Joel also
says it's going to ramp up the distribution sites for
eight in the next six weeks before it goes into
Gaza City. There are four humanitarian distribution sites working right
now through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation PS. Very deadly occurrences
(07:24):
every single day at these sites right where dozens of
hungry Palestinians are being killed as they make their way
to these sites. Nonetheless, instead of shutting them down and
coming up with a safer system, the Israelis, along with
the help of President Trump, are going to expand this
system and add another four or eight sites that we're
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told is going to happen before the army goes into
Gaza City. And then of course the Israelis have to
call up tens of thousands of more troops, which is
not very popular. We have to remember that this operation
to go into Gaza City is going to force the
Israeli soldiers to work in areas where the Israeli hostages,
(08:10):
the living hostages, some of them are believed to be
kept in tunnels underneath Gaza City, and that of course
has sent fear through the families of the hostages that
this operation could of course endanger the lives of their
loved ones. You know, whether Hamas kills them out of
(08:31):
revenge or the Israelis kill them inadvertently through airstrikes or operations.
You know, they say this is going to endanger their lives.
So there's a lot of public opposition to this move
to expand the operation in Gaza City. Amy, kind of a.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Catch twenty two, don't you think, Jordana, Because the families
are worried that their loved ones will be killed if
Israel goes in. But then those videos are that last
video that was released of one of the hostages who
looked like he was literally starving in being forced to
dig his own grave. I mean, it's like, how do
you weigh which one is better or worse? Right?
Speaker 8 (09:09):
That was the video of Avatar David, who was a
civilian kidnapped on October seventh by Hamasa, now clearly being starved. Amy,
I want to remind everyone who's listening also that Hamas's
campaign of starving the hostages did not begin now where
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there's a hunger crisis and pockets of starvation. It did
not begin now. I heard on the radio just a
few hours ago one of the hostages who was taken
by Hamas in the first fifty days before the vast destruction,
before any kind of major hunger crisis, and she was
(09:51):
saying at that time they were only being given half
a piece of pida, which is a round piece of bread,
and a little bit of rice and water every day.
So it's clearer Hamasa's than they meant to starve these
hostages all along. Now it's hit a critical juncture. The
families of the hostages, including a Vatar David's family, they
(10:14):
want the Israeli Prime minister to cut a deal right
now to get the hostages out right and the war.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Now.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
That's their position, and unfortunately it doesn't look like that's
going to happen for various reasons.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Okay, all right, Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, thanks so much
for the update.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
We appreciate it. We'll get more information from you soon.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Talk soon, Amy.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
All right, let's get back to.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. People in Washington, d C. Have protested
the increased police present in the district following the Trump
administration's takeover of the DC Police Department. President Trump also
called in the National Guard to fight crime, and he
announced plans to move homeless people out of the nation's capital.
The White House says authorities are focusing on in forcing
(11:00):
existing laws. DC officials have been making more space available
at shelters, as well as doing outreach at homeless camps.
The President says there will be very severe consequences if
Russian President Putin does not agree to stop the war
in Ukraine. Following the two leaders meeting that set for
Alaska tomorrow, Trump didn't say what those consequences might be.
(11:21):
The remark yesterday came soon after Trump consulted with European leaders,
who said the President assured them he would make a
priority of trying to achieve a cease fire in Ukraine.
The trip to Alaska will be Putin's first to the
US since twenty fifteen. British Prime Minister kir Starmer is
meeting with Ukraine's President Zelenski in London today, follows Zelensky's
(11:42):
virtual meetings yesterday with Trump and European leaders. The European
leaders called the discussions constructive, but some Ukrainians say they
are still skeptical about achieving meaningful progress.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
A man from all Be in.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
New York set to appear in court today accused of
stalking and harassing the family of United Healthcare CEO Brian
Thompson remember he was murdered in front of a hotel
in Manhattan. Prosecutors say Shane Daily sent threatening emails in
the days after the murder to the family. The man
accused of murdering Thompson was arrested after the killing and
is awaiting trial on murder charges. GE says it's moving
(12:18):
production of multiple appliances from Mexico and China to the US.
CEO Kevin Nolan says the three billion dollar project will
create one thousand jobs and when it all.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Comes together, bold investments like this one can usher in
a new era of US manufacturing.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The production will move to Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and
South Carolina. The announcement comes as President Trump raises tariffs
in parts in part to try and lure manufacturing back
to the US.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Need a Gramma rent one.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
The company Client Partners provides interpreters, handyman and other services
in Tokyo, often using people over sixty. A few years ago,
the company realized, just like someone needs a handy man
for a home building projects, someone might want to hire
a grandmother for a homemaking project. Since then, people have
been using the okay oboson or okay grandmother's service to
hire grandma's for cooking chores or just emotional support that
(13:12):
also gives those older women jobs that become more scarce
in their golden years. Japan may have gotten the ball rolling,
but rent a Grandma's services are now popping up in
the US. Michael Krozier kf I News.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
That's so cute. Rent a just rent one.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The Kennedy Center honorees for twenty twenty five have been announced.
President Trump made the announcement yesterday morning. And here's who's
on the list.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
You to guess.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
George Strait, country music legend, love him? How about this way?
Gloria Gaynor Kit that was my brother's favorite band.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
And then we had to Broadway.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Michael Crawford, famously known for Phantom of the Opera.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
And is this because they're buddies? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Silvestrist alone, we'll get a Kennedy Center honor. President Trump
was appointed Chairman of the Kennedy Center by the new
Trump appointed board.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Recently.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He said during the ceremony yesterday that he had been
asked and had accepted the invitation to host the Kennedy
Center Gala.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
It's happening on December twenty second.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
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twenty first. The man police say through chunks of concrete
at federal officers doing immigration enforcement is expected to be
arraigned today on a federal charge. Court papers say E
lpdo Reno of Compton is accused of throwing the concrete
at ice agents on June seventh on a laundro boulevard,
injuring a federal officer and damaging government vehicles. A federal
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judge in Miami has delayed a decision on whether operations
and construction can resume at the immigration detention facility known
as Alligator Alcatraz. The judge had previously ruled in favor
of an environmental advocacy group that called for a shutdown
of the facility until an environmental study could be completed.
(15:57):
Texas Democratic lawmakers are headed back to the Lone Star state.
Report says more than fifty lawmakers will be headed home
after a special session of the legislature in Texas ends Friday. Now,
Governor Greg Abbott has promised to immediately call another session.
The lawmakers left to keep the state House from having
a quorum needed to redraw the state's congressional maps.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Six oh five.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's handled on the news. Europeans are a little more
upbeat after Trump listens to what they have to say
about that summit and what needs to happen at the
summit in Alaska tomorrow. Okay, so we went out and
about this week, and we're also going to sort of
a little mash up. So because it's it's sort of
(16:46):
to two segments in one.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
They did the Moms. Yeah, it doesn't have anything to
do with Halloween, but it's a mashup.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Okay, So you go to a movie theater and it's
a lovely experience. I mean, theaters have gotten so much ershy.
They are cushy, and like when Will and I went
and what did we see? We saw Superman. Yeah, which
I need to go see that again. That was really good.
But we went and saw Superman and that was just
at the AMC at the Americana in Glendale. Very nice theater,
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nice cushy seats. They have a bar now, you can
put your own butter on your popcorns. You can put
as much as you want anyway, So we did stepped
it up a little bit. And actually it's quite a bit.
But we went to the Look Cinemas. There's one in Glendale.
I believe there's a couple others, but we went to
the Look Cinemas in Glendale and the price very similar.
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I think we paid thirteen bucks for and instead of
just regular seats, you get recliners. Oh yeah, and of
course you have the cup holders and then you have
a place like a fold away tray, and there's seat service.
So they come and they will bring you food that
you order.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
They will bring you cocktails if you would choose to
do that.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
So it's like a step down from the IPIC, which
is a little more intimate because like you sit just
next to you know, you're whoever you're there with. This
one is a regular theater, but all the seats are
recliners and it's lovely and they adjust and so you
can get your head just right, and you get your
feet comfortable.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But is it too comfortable?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Do you fall asleep?
Speaker 10 (18:23):
Because sometimes I have issues with that in movies. If
if it's if I'm reclined.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Or it could be rough, Well you should take a
napp first or a movie and you know what, and
you're not going to take an app during this movie.
So and here's the mashup. So we're also going to
do a little Amy's on it. So we The movie
that we saw was Jurassic World Rebirth.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
It's in theaters.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It was just released July second, still in theaters, and
I think you can rent or purchase it now. Oh
you can on Apple TV and Prime Video, but it's
not free yet with streaming. It's it's an charge, okay.
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershela Ali love him, and Rupert Friend.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
They play their roles great and they do a great
job with what they're given. The movie is super action packed.
Of course it's a dinosaur movie, so that's fun. And
it's a Jurassic Park movie. I've always loved the spectacle
of them. I love, you know, like the huge dinosaurs
and the t rex and and I've come to have
(19:28):
quite an affection reaction to the velociraptors.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I love the velociraptors.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Not if you saw one in person, but when Chris
Pratt was training the velociraptors and they had blue that
was great.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Loved it. That being said, the movie misses on a
lot of fronts.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
The story is weak, the situations are a stretch, the
decisions are bad.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Predicaments are unlikely. Of course they're unlikely.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a movie, but so it's you know, using your imagination,
but things just don't fit. And I'm not going to
tell you specifics in case you haven't seen it, Like
it had a huge, huge first weekend, then a huge
drop off for the second weekend. There's this one scene though,
that there were a couple of dinos that were becoming amorous, right,
I mean it wasn't They weren't mounting each other or
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anything like that. But as this is going on, there's
these ginormous dinos and one of the characters thinks, oh,
that's a good time for me to walk up to them,
and like huggin I mean, like what what.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Like that's a good idea?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Like it's never a good idea anyway, but then when
dinosaurs are you know, getting a little chicken bound bound
bowel and he didn't get killed.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Okay, are any of the og actors in it?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
From no, So it's Scarlett Johansson who plays Zora Bennett,
and Maherschel Ali is Duncan Kincaid, and then Rupert is
Martin Krebs. I mean, it's a it's a Jurassic Park movie,
so you know that some of the people are gonna
get eaten by dinosaurs. And about ten minutes in, this
is another problem I had. About ten minutes in, I
could tell you every person who was going to be
eaten and everybody who would survive. It's just like so
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predictable formulaic. And the biggest disappointment was the lack of
the velociraptor, which I love, and the dino villain, because
they always have one. You know if in the first
movie it was the the t rex, and then the
second movie they made another one, or the second movie
they didn't, but the third movie then they created some
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and then but they still were like dinos. This thing
wasn't even a dino. And when you go to a
dinosaur movie, you want to see dinosaurs. So I mean,
they can laugh all the way to the bank. Because
it's a franchise movie. They know people are going to
see it. And that being said, knowing all of that,
why not make a great movie. Why not make a
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great movie like you're spending two hundred and fifty million
dollars or whatever they do, why not just tweak this,
tweak the story, make it a better story.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
You're gonna make money on it.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Okay, I'm on it because it's a Jurassic movie, but
maybe wait until it's included with your streaming if you
haven't already seen it, or it's like three ninety nine
and you can rent it. I think it's like twenty
bucks right now. Right so, I think maybe it's time
to make Jurassic Park extinct. I hate to say that,
I do love those movies. It's sort of like Gary Channer,
(22:20):
we're talking about what's the worst movie that you love.
I love the Jurassic Park movies.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
I just remember that original, the very first one, when
the scene opens and you first see that cgi dinosaur
that's or whatever. It was stunning. It was really stunning.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
It was. And again the dino in this one is stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Okay, I feel yeah, right, Okay, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Federal authorities have rated the notorious Figaroa
Corridor and arrest is six suspected members of a South
LA street game.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
According to an indictment, the suspects were acting as pimps
for adults and miners in the area. The Figaroa Corridor
is known as a haven for sex workers and customers.
The lead defendant, twenty five year old Amaya Armstead, is
accused of trafficking a fourteen year old girl for prostitution,
according to the indictment, which names eleven defendants. Some members
of the gang produced rap music and videos which often
(23:14):
glorified the gang, sex trafficking, drug sales, and firearms possession.
Eileen Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
LA Mayor Karen Bass says we Are LA program, launched
in twenty twenty three, has already helped more than one
hundred thousand people remain in their homes.
Speaker 12 (23:29):
Preventing the inflow of people on the street has been
one of the greatest challenges, and what I'm very excited
about is that the Mayor's fund is conquering that challenges
with proven strategies on how to protect people from being evicted.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The eviction prevention program is funded by the city, the
city's mansion tax, and nonprofit donations. An RV homeless camp
could be on the way to Lake Balboa.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
The only City Council is given the ok for city
officials to start negotiating the life for a parking lot
owned by La Metro. It's near schools and a park
on West Victory Boulevard. Councilman Monica Rodriguez says she's supportive
of the idea but voted against it because homeless programs
like Inside Safe have not been as transparent as she wants.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
A centralized effort in the Mayor's office for this boutique
program is not delivering the accountability.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
The parking lot serves commuters who use Metro's G Line busway.
It'll be able to hold one hundred and twenty five RVs,
will have a fence and a security booth. Michael Monks
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Farmers in California say climate change is affecting the fruit
supply in the state.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
It's also raising prices this past winter. Stone fruits like peaches, plums,
and cherries, didn't get enough cold weather. Warmer winters have
disrupted the natural cycles of fruit trees, which require cold
temperatures to thrive. Just in the Central Valley, peaches are
down by thirty percent, while prices have gone up for consumers.
Yellow peaches have increased twenty three cents per pound and
white peaches by seventeen cents. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
News Love me a good peach.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
As students head back to class, the districts as hundreds
of district employees, volunteers, and police and officers from several
areas will patrol near an estimated one hundred campuses and
set up so called safe zones and neighborhoods that have
a high population of Latino students and families. Two more
homes have been broken into in the San Fernando Valley.
(25:20):
The break ins happened thirty minutes and three miles apart
in Northridge. The LAPD says in both break ins Tuesday night,
there were people at home. LAPD Chief MacDonald's says this
is the latest in a string of robberies and burglaries
done by sophisticated groups using technology to surveil their targets.
State lawmakers moving ahead with new voting maps for California.
(25:43):
Governor Newsom says California must respond to Texas's efforts to
redraw congressional districts in favor of the Republicans. Lawmakers will
vote next week to move forward with a special election
on November fourth, and let voters decide if the maps
should be redrawn for the twenty twenty six, twenty eight,
and thirty elections. At six five, It's handled on the news.
(26:04):
Things could get dicey. If you're planning to fly air
Cantona Air Canada. Bill's going to tell you why. The
Dodgers looking their wounds after a six to five loss
to the Angels last night. They'll be back in action
tomorrow night, taking on the padres at Dodgers Stadium, with
the first pitch going out at seven o'clock. Listen to
all the Dodgers games on AM five to seventy LA
(26:24):
Sports Live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth, and you
can stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app.
Again the keyword AM five seventy LA sports. Medicaid data
is now off limits to the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
The Department of Health and Human Services cannot share individual
health information with the DHS. California's Attorney General, Rob Bontas
has the courts temporarily halted Medicaid access to ICE. The
decision follows arguments from California and other states that ahhs's
unrestricted access to sensitive health data violates the law. DHS
can't use Medicaid information for immigration related actions until a
(26:59):
llegal processes properly followed or the case is resolved. Mark
Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Hew is brought to you by Simper Solaris, a high
school basketball coach in Dana Point, has been arrested on
suspicion of having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl.
Orange County Sheriff's Departments's deputies were contacted by a mandated
reporter this month about an inappropriate relationship between the girl
and Michael Duran. The girl said she was groomed for
(27:26):
a relationship with him while he was an assistant basketball
coach at Dana Hills High School. Duran also coaches a
basketball club in San Juan Capistrano. Lancaster Mayor R Rex
Paris has defended his comments about wanting to give homeless
people all the fentanyl they want.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Those are his words.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
He first said it in April and was confronted about
it this week during a council meeting.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
I do not want the homeless criminal population, who are
drug addicted, who are robbing, raping and murdering our citizens
in Lancaster. And yes, if I could give those that
particular population fentanyl, I would give them fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The mayor says he wants them out of the city.
From oil refinery to town square, plans are coming together
in Wilmington.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Phillip sixty six wants to shut down the plant by
the end of the year, and developers are calling the
new plan for the footprint the Five Points Union. The
land will be divided into two parts. The southern part
will consist of several industrial buildings ranging from fifty five
to one hundred and fifteen feet in height. The northern,
much smaller portion will have a town square, including retail uses,
recreational space, a massive indoor sports complex, and possibly a
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gas station. Jason Campedonia KFI News a.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Gas station at an old oil refinery. Huh, I get it.
Time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe
Morning Courtney, Good Morning, Okay, so we gonna we're gonna
taste the natural rainbows. Skittles is making some changes.
Speaker 14 (28:58):
Yes, Skittles without artificial dies are on the way. So
it's a big shake up we're seeing in the candy aisle.
Mars will offer naturally colored Skittles along with Eminem, Starbus Starburst.
I can say that I was about to say Starbucks
and extra Gum next year. The move by Mars, basically,
it's a step toward appeasing health in Human Services Secretary
(29:19):
Robert F. Kennedy Junior, and he's made artificial dies a
top target.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Okay, well that's good news.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
You know. I just saw too that Kellogg's has announced
that it is eliminating artificial dies. It doesn't go into effect,
I think, like till twenty twenty seven. I have to
retool everything. But that's also good news, right Yeah.
Speaker 14 (29:37):
Same with Hershey's too, which is a big rival for Mars.
But it's interesting how Mars stopped short of removing artificial
dies from all of its brands. The other brands or
the other companies who were talking about said we're going
to try to get rid of everything by twenty twenty
seven or late twenty twenty six, but they said that
they're going to continue to work on the effort to
get all of its brands.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Okay, we've seen this before outweed at our own little
mashup earlier. Here's another mashup, and this one's of restaurants.
Speaker 14 (30:04):
Yes, so diners had to ie Hop for their pancakes
in the morning and then to Applebee's later in the
day for their burgers and their fajitas for lunch and dinner.
So soon you may see the two restaurants popping up
in one location. The parent company of both chains, dining brands,
is planning to expand its I Hop Applebee's concept around
the country. It was a great success, the I Hop
Applebee's combo. They had two of them in Texas. So
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the company says they remain on course to open at
least a dozen dual branded restaurants in the US by
the end of the year.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
So what are they gonna call it? I ies Ibes?
It should but album Hop. I like that.
Speaker 14 (30:43):
But most of when I'm looking at some of the
concepts and the mock ups, it has ie Hop and
then the Applebee's sign right next to each other, but
in one location. So you go there early in the
day and you stay all day and.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Just eat and eat. I like Apple Hop. I think
we should push them more trouble for Hollewe.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I mean, this is a huge thing because it affects
so many people in southern California, because so many people
are in the movie industry. Yellowstone creator and the creator
of so many other great shows, Taylor Sheridan is building
a film production campus.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
But not here.
Speaker 14 (31:16):
Yeah, in Texas. Texas is trying to take on Hollywood.
He's actually teaming up with billionaire Ross Pero Junior, and
they're betting on stepped up demand for filming in Texas
because the state legislature in Texas recently approved a bigger
pot of financial incentives for productions. So filming has already
begun at the Fort Worth facility. They say they have
(31:38):
space right now for four simultaneous productions and they plan
to expand to at least ten stages.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Okay, we'll be watching that.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
And what are we watching on Wall Street because we
had another really strong day yesterday.
Speaker 14 (31:49):
Oh yeah, Well, Wall Street is hoping the Federal Reservoi
cut interest rates next month, and that gave a four
hundred and sixty four point bump to the Dow yesterday.
Now this morning, eh, we just's got a report on
wholesale inflation. Producer prices surged in July by the most
in three years, much more than Wall Street expected. And
of course inflation worries if it's in businesses, when is
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it going to trickle down to the consumer. But this
could mean that the Fed may hesitate on stepping into
cut interest rates next month. So we are seeing doll
futures down one hundred and sixty five points.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And when you say producer prices, so the people who
are making things, it's costing them more to make exactly
the wholesale prices that we're seeing before it actually ends
up getting to the businesses they're selling to you and me. Okay,
getting in your business like we do every morning with
Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
To see you later, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Governor Newsom's headed to la to annance his announce his
plan to quickly redraw the state's congressional districts. It's being
done in an attempt to counter redistricting efforts in Texas
that would benefit Republicans by giving them basically five more seats.
California Republican Party Chairman Corn Rankin says Republicans will fight
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the effort in court and at the ballot box. LA
Mayor bass is the city's expanding the we Are LA
program with a new eviction Protection office in South LA's
Crenshaw District. Over our one thousand residents facing eviction have
already received legal aid and referrals there. The mayor says
the program that was launched in twenty twenty three has
helped more than one hundred and five thousand people avoid eviction.
(33:23):
California farmers say peaches, plums, and cherries didn't get enough
cold weather last winter, which has reduced the crop and
driven up prices. In the Central Valley. The peach crop
was down thirty percent, yellow peach prices up twenty three percent,
and white peaches were up seventeen cents per pound. We're
just minutes away from handle on the news that starts
(33:43):
at six oh five, so stick around for that right now, though,
let's say good morning.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
To ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Jim, it seems like every time we talked, we're talking
about a scam and we got another one.
Speaker 15 (33:53):
I know well and this one. We've talked about this
one in the past, and I'm going to tell you
what's different about at this time though. This is the
grandparent scam. You get a call or an older person
gets a call from someone saying, I'm your grandson, I'm
your granddaughter, I'm in trouble, I need money. Don't tell
my parents, please do this, do it quickly, et cetera,
and the parent unfortunately gives up the money. We've seen
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this time and time again to the tune of four
point nine billion dollars in twenty twenty three. That's a
dramatic increase from the year before. So the grandparent scheme
is paying off for criminals. Here's the twist, though, a
lot of people are now getting caught, they're being arrested,
they're being prosecuted, and they're facing justice for doing this
(34:39):
kind of thing. We had a case last month out
of Canada, a group of twenty five people accused of
running a grandparent scam up there, defrauding twenty one million
dollars out of people across the United States. This week,
a new case, one involving a call center in the
Dominican Republic that was ripping off people that you know
victims again coast, Well.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
That's finely who and is it Department of Homeland Security?
Is it the small business en wh who's looking at
the FBI?
Speaker 15 (35:11):
Well, it's the FBI in this country and working with
Interpol and working with you know, the Canadian Mounted Police.
You know, they're working with different agencies around the country,
around the world, and that's maybe the difference here, But
they're also working with private companies. This the one out
of Massachusetts, the one involving the Dominican Republic, is fascinating
to me because here's here's how it work.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Would work.
Speaker 15 (35:33):
The the scammer would call the grandparent and say, look,
I need help, I need money, And then they'd put
somebody else on the phone who pretends to be the
lawyer for this poor kid who's in jail, and say, yeah,
we're going to send an uber to your house who
pick up the money for the bail or to pick
you up. Well, well, we'll have the uber driver take
you to the bank you can withdraw, et cetera. So
(35:55):
the uber driver started noticing these weird trips they were
making with older people whose grandkids were in trouble and
they needed to get money or gift cards for Heaven's sake,
So the drivers contacted Uber. Uber contacted the FBI, The
FBI launched an investigation, put the pieces together, and now
we have these arrests. But unfortunately Amy, it took two years.
(36:17):
So the arrests that were announced this week were from
cases related to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I would imagine that's probably still going on though. I mean,
if they're making money at it, why not do it?
Is the cracking down and starting to catch people, is
that a new thing, like they finally figured it out
or have they been doing it all along?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
We just don't hear about it that much.
Speaker 15 (36:37):
Well, certainly they've certainly been higher profile about it. The
Boston case. They've had a old news conference talking about
that when this week. And I think it's been difficult
at first they had to figure out exactly who was
doing this and then try to reach out and with
the governments involved, So I think it has been more difficult,
gets more difficult also considering the technology, right, You've got
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scammers who can sit there, go on to an Instagram
account or a Facebook page and start putting pieces together.
Here they find a video of a kid who's talking
about his birthday. You're talking about something or other using
artificial intelligence, taking that voice and turning it into a
plea for help and then reaching out to the grandparent
whom they also found on social media, and you know
(37:23):
it's insidious and so you know, technology doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, I was going to ask you whether AI is
complicating it because they can take and make somebody's voice
and make them say something. Do we are there ways
that families can safeguard themselves? I was thinking about, like,
how do you protect you? Do you create a safe
word or something like if you're in trouble, say Rudebega
or something.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
I mean, it wouldn't be.
Speaker 15 (37:46):
That one, because that's that's a good one. Now, somebody's
gonna have to change their password, aren't they from Rudebega?
How about turn?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I think that that might sound a little weird in
conversation though, Hi, Grandma, I really need your help.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Rudebega?
Speaker 15 (37:58):
Well no, yeah, the grandparents should say, Okay, you're my grandson.
You're stuck in jail in Alameda and you need to
get out. Well, what's the password that we established? And
if the grand kid can't give it, then you know,
some red flag should go up. But at the heart
of it all is maintaining communication.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Right.
Speaker 15 (38:18):
The setting up a password is great, but that requires
the family sitting down to the table and saying, Grandma, listen,
if somebody calls you, or if my grandson here calls you,
if your grandson calls you, and let's all establish this
code word that we're going to use when something like
this pops up, and you know so, but having that
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basic communication, making sure you're staying in touch and if
that older person says, you know, I've been getting these
calls from people who say that they need money and
that they're pretending to be you know, you can certainly
stay in front of it that way.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan, great advice. I'm glad to hear
that they're cracking down. This is crazy. I just got
something from the Social Security Administration yesterday speaking of scams.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
Just wanted to put this on your radar. Guys.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
If you haven't gotten this, it says your new statement
is available. I'm like, well, I don't get social Security.
I mean that's a ways a while away, but this
will inform you that your Social Security statement has been
updated with the latest earnings and benefit calculations, and then
of course it has something that you can click on
a link to check out your statement. So I googled
it and the Social Security Administration doesn't send you links
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and documents like that. They might send you an email
apparently if you get to Social Security age they might do.
Speaker 10 (39:36):
That, or a regular mail. I've getten those snail mails with.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
The but most of the communication is through snail mail. Yeah,
so just so you know, be careful by Jim. He's gone,
you know what, You're gonna get gone pretty soon, I
would imagine, because I would, I'm guessing a lot of
people are up early today because thousands of kids in
La are headed back to class.
Speaker 16 (40:00):
The district is implementing measures to ensure the safe passage
of children and parents to and from school amid heightened
concerns of federal immigration rates. Hundreds of volunteers, district employees
and police are set to patrol near dozens of schools
and set up safe zones and areas that have a
large Latino student population. Mark Mayfield, Kofi News.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
La City Council and Current Price is due in court
to face two new charges of public corruption. They were
filed this week. Prices already facing ten felam accounts of
grand theft, perjury, and conflict of interest for allegedly voting
in favor of projects in which his wife had a
financial interest. The Port of La says July was a
record breaker.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Compared to a year ago. Import traffic at the port
was up eight percent and exports also rose six percent.
But Port Executive Director Gene Siroca says it's another signed
retailers are stocking up to bypass tariffs and that the
bulk of inventory retailers will order is already here.
Speaker 16 (40:54):
All this means higher prices, fewer selections, and probably lower
inventories as we look to the back half of this year.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Sorokas says high tariffs on major US trading partners like China, Japan,
and India could lead to lower activity at the port
as the second half of the year continues. Michael Monks
KFI News.
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