December 11, 2025 • 38 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller joins the show live from Jerusalem to discuss Israel not letting journalists into Gaza and has yet to offer a reason. Amy takes us on a Southern California Sleigh Ride where she highlights different fun events and activities you can do with your friends and family this holiday season. This week, Amy takes us to ‘Enchant’ at the Santa Anita racetrack. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pellegrini discussing how the markets are looking today. The show closes with Amy talking with ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy talking about head-to-head healthcare proposals, both doomed to fail the Senate vote.
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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 KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Good morning. It's five o'clock straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's Thursday, December eleventh, two weeks till Christmas.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
Spose that litt This is your wake up call. I'm
Amy King, good morning. Hello to early risers.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We love it when you weigh in on the iHeartRadio app,
which you can do anytime on the talkback if you
have something to say.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Again, as long as you're night, as long as you're nice.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
You know.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I heard that the Gary and Shannon pro right right
before wake Up Call. Well, I didn't take offence to it.
It's that that was me.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
She talked about it on the air because I and
I don't even remember exactly what it was, but I
said something like, you're you're so much nicer than that,
and they.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Anyway, I love Gerry and Shannon. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I got this cool card from Pasading in Humane yesterday.
I'd love to hold it up to the radio, but
I can't. But look, it's this beautiful picture of Riley,
who is this beautiful white.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
He looks like I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
What freed he is. He looks like he's got husky
and I'm absolutely stunningly beautiful. And he's one of the
dogs that they rescued from the eating fire. And he's
doing great.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
He's still there.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I don't know they had put him up for adoption. Adoption.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It took him a long time because he was really
badly burned and wasn't doing great. I'm not sure if
Riley's been adopted yet, so I'm gonna have to look
into that. As Riley and my doctor.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Well, I'll let you know.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Also, you might notice I'm wearing my ugly Christmas sweater today.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Okay, that really is.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
It's Katie odious right.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I've ever seen?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
I will just tell you it's blue.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Which I love blue, but it has a yetti on it,
and then it's got a bonus because behind the Yeti's head,
it's also a cup holder.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
This is the worst sweater I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, there's an ugly sweater contest at our holiday party today.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I'm not sure if I'm.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Going to stick around for it, but I think I
should win.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Regardless, I think they should give me an honorary win anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Okay, if you want to.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Check it out, it's on my Instagram fee and my
story at amy K King.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
And yes it is ugly. Here's what's ahead on wake
up Call.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Eight members of the Anaheim High School running team have
been hurt when a car plowed into them on a sidewalk.
They were waiting for the light to change around three
yesterday afternoon at Harbor Boulevard and North Street. The twenty
seven year old driver who allegedly ran into them was
arrested and is suspected of dui.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Governor Newsman L.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Mah Bass both applauded the federal judges ruling ordering the
removal of National Guard troops in LA and also the
return of control of the troops to the governor. About
one hundred or still in LA following protests against immigration
raids over the summer. The White House says it will
appeal the ruling that goes into effect Monday. No students
were on board, but the driver of an electric school
(03:20):
bus was taken to the hospital after the bus caught
fire beneath the two ten at West and Lakeview Terrace
yesterday The fire started shortly after nine am. Firefighters had
to wait as the lithium ion battery on the bus
burn has. Matt Cruz were called to clean it up.
The ceasefires Holding eight is getting into Gaza, But is
that all really whole happening. ABC's Jordana Miller says Israel
(03:43):
is still keeping journalists out of Gaza. We're going to
get the latest with Jordana from Jerusalem in just a
couple of minutes. Times running out on those subsidies to
the Affordable Care Act for millions of Americans. ABC Stephen
Port and who's going to join us to talk about
whether Congress can pass a plan to stop a price
spike and what's going to happen if it can't.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Remember Calendar Girls with Helen Mirren.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, so there's a town in southern Oregon that has
created a real life calendar girls calendar. It's boys too,
and it's adorable. I'm gonna tell you about that in
just a little bit. Also, wake up call taking a
southern California sleigh ride to a place that will absolutely
enchant you. At your hint, I'll tell you about that
at five twenty. I would say it's a not miss
for the holidays. I don't say that very often, and it's.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
A not miss.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Eight Anaheim High
School track runners have been hit by a suspected DUI
driver while waiting for a light to change.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
The driver swerved onto the sidewalk and hit him.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yesterday, a single vehicle accident ran into several pedestrians.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Elie Sergeant Matt Setter said the driver appeared to be
intoxicated and that investigators were getting a warrant to search
his car for a number.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Reasons, to get the on board computer to determine spees
and other factors like that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I'll also to see what's inside the car.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The students are expected to be okay. Driver was also
taken to the hospital. LA has approved a new Know
Your Rights campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The city and other local governments have been actively handing
out literature informing people what their rights are during immigration
enforcement since the summer. City councilman Unses Hernandez says it's
time to expand.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Both for immigrant communities but also for our non.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Immigrant communities, as we are seeing many of them step
up and try to protect and support.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
The plan is for multiple city departments to work with
immigrant rights groups to create a campaign to be displayed
on sidewalks, at bus shelters, and in those advertising slots
on city buses. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Lawyers for the two boys arrested in connection with the
beating of the man who was walking in an alley
in Hermosa Beach have blamed the man who was attacked.
They tell the La Times the man was the aggressor
and their clients were trying to protect their friend. Security
camera shows a group of teens on e bikes confronting
the man, then beating him unconscious. The boys are charged
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with felony assault. The man who was attacked has been
released from the hospital. The officials will play Santa Claus
and Santa's Elves today and will be distributing gift cards
to kids at a target near Culver City. It's part
of what's called the Heroes and Helpers program. About sixty
children are expected to be there to receive an early
Christmas present. Time to say good morning to ABC's Jordana
(06:18):
Miller in Jerusalem, So Jordana as the ceasefire continues to
hold and hopefully more aid is getting into Gaza and
people are being allowed to go back to what's left
of their homes. We're apparently supposed to take Israel's word
for it because they're not letting any journalists in to look.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Well, it's the same issue amy that has plagued international
foreign reporters and their coverage of Gaza since October seventh, right,
that is that the Israeli government has not let foreign
reporters into Gaza at all. Initially, during the combat in
(06:59):
the two two years, it looked like the High Court
sided with the government and it's claim that it was
just simply not safe, though many you know, I think
all journalists would disagree with that as a justification for
keeping them out. Journalists have been covering, you know all
you know, the many previous major conflicts right that you
(07:24):
know that would be on the same level as this war.
But now the real problem is that we're in a ceasefire.
Right there hasn't been active combat for two months, and
still the Nataniel government has not opened Gaza in a
way that would allow foreign reporters to go in unfettered
(07:45):
and you know, walk around either the Israeli controlled side
or the Hamas controlled side and talk to people right,
talk to every day Gozzen's, talk to NGO workers, talk
to children, talk to mothers. You know, it's just not happening.
We're still having to rely on local Palestinian reporters to
(08:09):
tell us what's happening, to give us the pictures, to
give us the interviews, to get people in front of
a screen so we can talk to them live sometimes
on zoom. And they've done an incredible job. Nonetheless, foreign reporters,
you know, want to get in and have unfettered access,
and so far the government has continued to ask for delays.
(08:35):
The Supreme Court said that the Nataniel government has to
submit their position on letting journalists in or justify why
they won't and we're waiting and waiting for that. For
that submission, it was supposed to come at the end
of November, and now there's been a new extension and
(08:55):
the latest deadline is December twenty first.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay, okay, let's see if they get in in a
couple of weeks. Is there from what you have been
able to find out, like you said, it's they just
can't go in and walk around and check. But is
aid getting in now and are people getting back to
what's left of their homes.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Well, there is free movement within the Gaza side, the
Hamas controlled side of Gaza, right, so people have been
moving back up north and the roads there, you know,
are are open and people are going back and forth
and trying to put together the pieces of their lives
(09:37):
that have essentially been destroyed during the war. Right right now,
there's a storm here in heavy rains, so I think,
you know, Gazans are facing flooding and cold conditions. And remember,
you know, seventy five percent of the buildings in the
Gaza strip, homes and otherwise have been damaged, A big
(10:00):
portion of those destroyed, and so a lot of Gozens
are living in tents which simply don't provide enough shelter
during the winds and the rains. So they're they're facing
a really harsh The last few days have been harsh,
and this storm that came over front through Greece Byron
is supposed to you know, just there's supposed to be
(10:22):
a downpour of rain continuing for the next several hours.
So it's it's been really it's been really hard for
Gossens and the aid issue there are you know, the
the there's six hundred to eight hundred trucks of aid
getting into the Gauza Strip. Uh, you know, almost on
a daily basis since the ceasefire began. But remember Amy,
(10:44):
and we talked about this so much during the war,
there's still a problem with distributing aid right across the
gauds of strip. Right, you still need all the all
the ways to transport it to the north and other areas.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Right.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
So there is aid getting in now in the numbers
we saw during the previous ceasefires, but it's just not
getting where it needs to be fast enough. And you know,
there there's a hangover, if you will, of all the
malnutrition and disease that spread during the war. Right, they're
still in dire straits. The UN just did a report
(11:20):
saying there's still a huge number of children malnourished in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, so situations still miserable. It would be nice if
you guys could get in and get some eyes on there.
ABC's Jerdona Miller in Jerusalem. Thanks for the update. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Thanks Amy, talk soon.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I'm looking forward to the days when things start to
get better there.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Like they're like she just said, they're out of their homes,
they're living in tents, and now they've got this barrage
of rain.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
That's got to be miserable too.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
All Right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The
Federal Reserve has cut its key interest rate for the
third time in a row to about three point six percent.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
That's the lowest it's been in nearly.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Three years, but board Chairman Jerome Powells suggested yesterday that
the FED would likely hold off on any more rate
cuts in the coming months while it evaluates the health
of the economy. FED official signal that they expect to
lower rates just once next year. The US has seized
an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Venezuela's government calls the seizure a blatant theft and an
act of international piracy, but Attorney General Pam Bondi says
the tanker was used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela
and Iran and as part of an illicit oil shipping
network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
ABC's Hannah Batta says lawmakers in Washington have voiced concerns
about a potential conflict with Nicholas Maduro's government. The Senate's
expected to reject legislation today that would extend Affordable Care
Act subsidies for millions of Americans. Lawmakers are setting or
set to vote on two partisan bills which are not
expected to pass, that would basically guarantee that many who
(12:55):
buy their health insurance on the ACA marketplaces could see
rise in costs in January. We're going to get more
from ABC. Stephen Portnoy on that coming up before the
end of wake Up Call, President Trump says he's waiting
for answers to his latest round of talks about ending
the Russia Ukraine War. He says he has spoken with
Europe's main leaders.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
The leaders of France we spoke to and Germany and
uk all very good leaders, very good friends of mine,
and we discussed Ukraine in pretty strong words.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
The Europeans say intensive work will continue in the coming
days on the US plan to end the war. Ukraine's
president is said to hold urgent talks with leaders from
about thirty countries in an effort to secure fair terms
in a peace agreement to end the war with Russia
leaders from Germany, Britain and France are expected to participate
by video link. Ukrainian President Zelensky has said that his
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country would not seed any land to Russia as part
of a peace deal, which is among the concessions outlined
in the US backed plan. Okay, so remember the show
Calendar Girls. I think that's the first time I ever
saw Helen Mirren and instantly fell in love with her
as an actress. Well, there's a small town in Oregon.
It's in Lakeview, which I think is around Klamath Falls
(14:11):
in southern Oregon.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I should know better. I'm from there.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And they have had some mismanagement issues and they've had
some corruption, and so they're having budget problems and they're like,
how are we going to raise money? And they tried taxes,
and then they said, well, well let's think outside the box.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
A little bit.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So they decided that they were going to raise money
to be able to properly clear snow from the streets.
So this is money that's going to snowplows. So they
did the only thing that they thought they stripped. It's
a group of mostly middle aged and elderly men and
women who have volunteered to pose nude for a calendar
(14:50):
to raise money for Lakeview. It's called out Back Naked,
and Margaret Dodds is sort of the brain child behind that.
She did say that she was inspired from Calendar Girls,
which was back in two thousand and three, which is
also based on a true story about a group of
women who did a naked calendar to raise money for
a leukemia wing.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
At their hospital.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So dodd says, at first people were like, really, do
you think that that's gonna fly? And is anybody even
going to volunteer? Well, volunteers weren't hard to find it all.
They kind of turned out and groves and the pictures
are really sweet, Like there's mister September is Alan and
he's out looks like he's out gardening and he just
has a basket strapped to his waist. There's another woman
(15:35):
who's behind a jukebox. There's another guy with just he's
got his apron on with his dog in a bike shop.
So far, in Lakeview has raised thirteen thousand dollars. So far,
the calendars are twenty five bucks. I just went and
looked for it to see if I could buy it,
and it says there's a link but it's saying this campaign.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Is closed, so I got to go look.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But I thought that'd be actually kind of a fun
Christmas gift. So if you're looking for something kind of fun,
it's very cute and it is. It's very tastefully done,
just like Calendar Girls was, but it's called out Back
Naked twenty twenty sixth and Lake County Chamber of Commerce
apparently is the place to call. So if you're looking
for something kind of fun for Christmas. Paramount has told
(16:15):
company shareholders it is not giving up on its bid
to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery. Paramount says its bid is
better than the more than eighty two billion dollar deal
Warner Brothers has agreed to with Netflix because it delivers
superior value. CEO Larry Ellison also questioned whether the Netflix
deal can survive regulatory scrutiny. FED Chairman Jerome Powell isn't
(16:37):
showing his hand about whether more interest rates are coming
in the new year. The Fed lowered interest rates by
a quarter percent yesterday. The Santa Clara County Board of
Supervisors has unanimously passed and ordinance creating an ice free zone.
It will limit federal agents from carrying out raids or
staging operations on county owned and controlled parking lots, vacant
(16:59):
lots and more. At six oh five, it's handle on
the news. Judge says, yeah, get those National Guard members
out of LA.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I think there's about one hundred left here.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It's time for us to take a Southern California sleigh ride.
This week, we're going out and about to Santa Anita
Park or Enchant.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And I can tell.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You already I am enchanted by this place. With us
tonight we have Jababel who is the producer of.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
This amazing event.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It's the first time for this event to be here
in Los Angeles, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Absolutely, we're thrilled to be here in the community. It's
been on our bucket list, so to speak, for many years,
and so we're absolutely excited about what the community has
done and how they've come out this year.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I'm having a little overstimulation because there's so much to see.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
You walk in and immediately you're greeted with these.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Giant reindeers in this arch and there's lights everywhere. So
how many lights are in this whole area?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So this is actually the world's largest Christmas light Mason Market.
We've done this event thirty five times before, and I
can attest that we have over four million lights here.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
That's great to adore the fence and you've done it thirty.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Five times and it's about time you got here.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Okay, So you mentioned the maze and it's this giant maze.
So walk us through what we're going to see and
what we're going to do when we go through them.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The pace does the scavenger hunt.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So our story is about Eddie the El and Santa
Good Light, and so it's called Santa's Magic time Piece.
And the reason that Santa is able to deliver all
the presents in a single night is because he has
a magic time piece. That timepiece is broken, and what
we need you to do is find all the missing parts,
put it back together and help us save Christmas.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Love it. I love that you put a story behind it.
And then when you come out of the maze, there's
so many things to do and see, including this beautiful.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Little ice drink that's right behind us. And this is
real ice, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean for us, it's about the magic of Christmas
or the holiday, spending time with your loved ones, yeah,
and those shared experiences. Doing something unique means bringing real
ice so that it is a unique experience for our guess.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, so we've got a real ice spring and there's
also a snow boat.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
What we call it is the Stargazer Summit, but it's
actually real ice as well, so you can go down that.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
There's a lot of glee that you hear.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
As yes, thanks really and I can't wait for you
to try it. But it's also real ice on the
on the Stargazer Summit as well.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, all right, I'm looking forward to the glee there,
all right.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
And then so that leads me into food.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
There's like lots of hot complaints and different drinks and is.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
There like you can come out here and have dinner
or is it snacks or what is it?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
What we try and do is support local so that
we're leaning into.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
The city of Arcadia and the LA community at large.
And so there are things from lobster cheese pastas to
turkey legs and so there is something for everyone. It
is a multi generational event. If you're a kid who's
looking for a turrow, you'll be able to find that.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
If you're an adult he's looking for something that will
fill you up. Alou see, we have that as well.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
There's something a little more sparit exactly, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And then you mentioned Arcadia supporting local and it wouldn't
be Christmas if there wasn't some form of shopping so
that you could do some shopping while you're here as well.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Absolutely so. We have retail vendors that are in here.
You can get a character done of yourself.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You can go visit the enchant shop where we've got
a bunch of different giftables and things that you would
ad buy for your loved ones, as well as local
vendors from the community in Arcadia as well as Los Angeles,
and there's something for everyone.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Then here is if you really want to amp.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It up, there is a special area where you can
get a group of up.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
To fifteen people and basically go part in a snow globe.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Absolutely so, tell me about that.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
These are snow globe private suites, okay. And so inside
of those you have space for fifteen people. We have couches,
we have service that is from our fab partner here
at Santa Anita Park.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
We also have a fire pit outside so that you.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Can lounge It is a wonderful opportunity for small.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Businesses, groups, friends.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
To be able to commune and share the experience with
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So you can run in and out, like you get
the snow globe for the night and it's yours, and
then you can go and go to the maze, go
to the snow hill, go to the ice skating, and
then come back and that's sort.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Of your home base.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It is your home base for the evening.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Okay, And what if I want a little sweet treat
that has to do with a fire pits ah?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, So we've partnered with our friends at foody Land
and we have the s'mores experience. So right next to
our village experience. You can come in, you can sit down.
We have jar Delli chocolate, We have s'mores that you
can roast in front of the open flame during the
holiday experience.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Chest Nuts, no chest no chestnuts.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes, but it is a wonderful opportunity for people to
do something unique during the holiday experience. For us, it's
really about these shared memories. I keep reverting back to that, right,
It's like the shared experiences when I was a kid,
you know, I did receive gifts and things.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But it's those opportunities to like.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Create something new with your family, friends and loved ones
that I remember. My uncle used to pull me behind
my car in a GT snow racer.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Can't do that.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Anymore, We do not have that experience.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yes, you can't do that anymore. But those are the
things that I remember.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Okay. So that's what we're trying to.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Do here with the s'mores, the ferris wheel, the ice
skating is a unique experience that you will remember during
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Okay, So when can people come and experience this and
when is it run through?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
We are open Tuesday through Sunday for the remaining portion
of December, and we're open every day during Christmas Week.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Great, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The little girl behind me just to mispill on the
ice adorable, Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And then where do we get more information about to
Please visit in chant Christmas dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
We'll have all the information that you need, including the
no before you go planning your visit and take a crisis.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Okay, awesome, Jababel, this is so magical. I mean literally,
you will be enchanted when you come here.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
That's where we're taking our Southern California sleigh ride. It's
enchant at the Senna Anita Park, open through.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
The twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It is so cool, like really, it's so well done,
and I think one of the reasons it's so well
done is it started in Las Vegas, so everything is
done to the nines in chant La. It's absolutely beautiful,
fun way to spend the evening. And if you want
to check out the interview and get a sneak peek,
including a little ride down the snow hill, you can
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check it out on my Instagram at amy Kking. Also
at KF I am six forty and I would love
for you to follow me as well because we're going
to be doing more fun Southern California slay ride stuff
as we get closer to Christmas again. It's at amy Kking.
Investigators are asking for the public's help in finding three
people who threw things at CHP officers during immigration protests
(24:05):
in La in June. The trio hurled rocks and other
objects at police from an overpass on the one to
one freeway in downtown La. The remains of more than
twenty three hundred people are going to be laid to
rest in a common grave during an interfaith ceremony at
the La County Cemetery in Boyle Heights. The ceremony has
taken place for over a century. It's for those who
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were homeless or had no next of kin who could
be contacted on their behalf. The three day Democratic National
Committee Winter Meeting starts today in downtown LA. Organizers say
they're going to take a look back at election victories
from this year and then look ahead to the midterms
next year. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is going to
be there, along with LA Mayor Bass, Governor Newsom, and
(24:45):
Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker. Here's what's coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County DA Nathan
Hockman is planning to announce charges against unlicensed contractors accused
of targeting victims of the EA and Fire and ALTA Dina.
LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger is expected to join Hawkman
for the announcement this afternoon. An electric school bus has
(25:09):
caught fire under the two ten Freeway and Silmar. A
thick black smoke could be seen from under the bridge yesterday,
caused a mess of traffic as the bus burned. LA
Fire says its has Met units were called in to
monitor air quality and water runoff because of the bus's
lithium ion batteries that just had to be allowed to burn.
No kids were on the bus at the time. The
driver was treated for smoke inhalation. The La County Board
(25:33):
of Supervisors has asked for a new public awareness campaign
around animal abuse. Supervisor Hilde Sally says there are growing
concerns about animal abuse among the homeless population, especially on
LA's skid row. Being an unhoused pit owner in and
of itself is not a crime, and there are many
unhoused individuals who are excellent pit owners, But she says,
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she and other elected officials have been inundated recently with
calls of concern over the conditions for animals in homeless camps.
The new campaign would explain what abuse is, how to
report it, and how homeless people can get help with
their animals.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Time to get in your business, as we do every day.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Today, we're talking to Bloomberg's Alexis Christophoris. Alexis another twist
in the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery, which is
a big deal in southern California.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
President Trump has something to say about it.
Speaker 9 (26:25):
Yeah, absolutely, you bet we could have bet on that one, right, Amy.
So President Trump is signaling here that he's going to
oppose any deal that does not include new ownership of CNN,
and we know that the President has long complained about
that network.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Now, this could hurt Netflix's bid. We know that.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
You know, Warner Brothers Discovery already said yes to that
Netflix bid, but it does not include Warner Brothers cable
properties such as CNN. So Paramount Skydowans may have a
leg up here because it's CEO David Ellison apparently said
they want the whole company. Okay, they want the cable
properties as well as the studios and the streaming service.
(27:08):
And David Ellison has reportedly promised President Trump that he
will bring in sweeping changes at CNN if he gains control.
But you know, Netflix and Paramount are waiting to hear
from Warner Brothers. I think they're going to hear something
in about eight days or so. They're going to say
they say they're going to make their decision and recommendation
for shareholders. So more twists and turns to come, I'm
sure between now and then.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Okay, let's switch to Amazon, which is planning a new service.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
And when is it not is really the question.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
So it's reportedly developing this rush pickup service, that's what
it's calling it, Rush Pickup Service. This is going to
let customers collect orders that they ordered online from their
stores within an hour. I mean that's pretty good. I
can't imagine they would have all of those products in
the store.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I don't know how they do it, and that they
can even do same day delivery. I did a coffee
maker in it CA like three hours later. I was like,
how does that even happen?
Speaker 9 (28:03):
I don't know. It's insane, but that's what they want
to do. And they're going to have a pilot program
on this thing. They haven't said the city they're going
to launch in yet, but it will happen early next year.
So and also, I mean, do you have an Amazon
store near your house? I mean mine's not that close,
but I mean it's another option, okay.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
And Oracles stock is taking a hit.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Yeah, and that could drag other tech stocks lower today,
So it's down about thirteen percent here in the pre market.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
It came out with earnings.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
They were really good on the surface, but they were
not good enough. Sometimes it's just not good enough for
Wall Street. So there was a thirty four percent jump
in their cloud revenue. Wall Street was hoping for better.
Just investors are worried in general that these companies are
spending too much on AI, on artificial intelligence data centers,
and they're not yet seeing the benefits. So you know,
sometimes good just isn't good enough for Wall Street. And
(28:51):
I think Oracle's an example of that today.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Okay, And by the way, I just googled it and
there's actually an Amazon facility right here in Burbank.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Who knew there? You go, Yeah, you can do this
thing when it comes to you.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Alexis Christopherus with Bloomberg, thank you so much getting in
your business like we do every day.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
At five forty, I.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Want to say congratulations now to Donna Buxton from Villa Park.
Donna just scored herself a pair of tickets to enchant La.
You're going to be enchanted. I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
It is so cool.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And again, if you want to take a sneak peek
at it, see some of the lights and some of
the fun things that you can do that will definitely
get you in the holiday spirit. It's on my Instagram
at Amy K. King, and of course I would love
it if you followed me. A federal judge's ruling calling
for National Guard troops to be removed from LA and
also to return control of the Guard to Governor Newsom
(29:45):
goes into effect Monday. There are just about one hundred
troops still in LA following immigration protests in June. The
White House says it will appeal the FBI in LA
is released a new photo of wanted drug kingpin Ryan Wedding.
The former Olympic snowboarder for Canada, is on the FBI's
ten most wanted lift wedding a list. Wedding is accused
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of trafficking drugs through Mexico and southern California and also
orchestrating several murders. Still growing, no jackpot winner from last
night's Powerball drawing. You know what that means, more money.
That pushes the next drawing for Saturday night up to
an estimated one billion dollars. We're just minutes away from
handle on the news this morning. Mountain lions in southern
California may soon be more protected. Bill's going to tell
(30:28):
you about that right now. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy's Stephen, time is running out for people
with ACA subsidies. Is Congress making any progress on coming
up with a new plan?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I mean not substutely.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
What you'll see today is a couple of votes that
indicate that each side has a plan, but neither's going
to meet the sixty vote threshold. So I guess we'll
just watch it all fail. We could talk about what's
in each proposal, and you know, let's let's do it.
Let's let the people know what won't happen. The Democrats
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say that the way to address the expiration of the
COVID era subsidies that have made the Affordable Character Plans
more affordable over recent years is to extend the subsidies
for three more years, and that will come at a
cost of eighty three billion dollars according to the Congressional
Budget Office, but prevent these skyrocketing premiums that people are facing.
Twenty million Americans who don't get health insurance at work
(31:27):
who buy it on the open market are facing the
sticker shock, the real stress of how they're going to
maintain their healthcare coverage without the federal support. Republicans say no, no, No, No,
it's too expensive. Eighty three billion dollars a year. No,
this is a COVID era plan. COVID is over and
it's time for these subsidies to end. And no, because
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there's nothing that fundamentally changes the overarching problem, which the
cost of medicine in this country continues going up, and
there's something that ought to be done about it. So
what are the Republicans propose? Their proposal is to put
money cash into health savings accounts for people who buy
bronze or catastrophic plans in the open market. What does
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a bronze plan cover sixty percent of major medical which
means you've got to come up with the other forty
percent after you hit the deductible, which is thousands of
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Which is one of the problems with the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
Well, I mean, arguably the Affordable Charact makes it possible
for you to buy those plans. But the problem that
Republicans see is that the costs are too high because
there's nothing being done in the system to address the
rising cost of health care. What they propose to do
is put one thousand dollars into these health saving accounts
for people under the age of fifty and fifteen hundred
(32:44):
dollars a year in the health savings accounts for people
fifty plus just shy of Medicare age right fifty to
sixty five. And the argument is, if people only want
a bronze plan or a catastrophic plan which they might
be able to afford, that they can use the fifth
teen hundred dollars to cover their costs until they then
need to spend their own money to meet the deductible.
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Democrats say it's a phony proposal, it's a junk plan
that people. It really doesn't help people. People really need
the help, and this isn't going to put them in
a better position. It's going to put them in a
worse position. And it's still going to cost tens of
billions of dollars a year. Well, Republicans say yes, but
it puts the power in the individual's hands. They can
buy coverage that would cover them. It gives them some
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measure of support and coverage through the first fifteen hundred
dollars out of pocket. And that's number one. That's better
than nothing, which is what they're going to get because
this isn't going to pass. And two, it also allows
people to have a bit more control over their health
care spend and they can really focus on what they
perhaps might need most and make choices based on their
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own economics and all this. Democrats say that is such
a terrible way to look at it, because people can't
control their own health circumstances. That's why they need insurance
in the first place. Because people, as they get older,
they have health problems, and it costs a lot of
money in this country to solve those problems or to
address them. And anyway, around and around we go on
the merry go round.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Okay, So I have a question for you.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
So that we know that the health care subsidies that
were put in place during COVID to help people get
through understandable they were supposed to sunset. Everybody agreed, maybe
not everybody, but the Democrats even agreed on that. So
my question is, were the premiums as high as they're
expected to be if the subsidies aren't extended before they
(34:35):
were put in place.
Speaker 10 (34:37):
Make no, no, yes, I understand your question. The point
is premiums continue to rise, and not just in the
affordable exchanges Affordable Care Act exchanges, but also in the
private market.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
For employers.
Speaker 10 (34:46):
Healthcare keeps getting more expensive every year in this country
for reasons that are at once simple but also impossible
and confounding. Right, Look, we have inflation, you have new innovations,
You have major you know, advancements in medicine that make
it possible for us to get shots that all of
a sudden, you know, the weight just comes right off, right.
(35:07):
That costs money. And doctors go to school and they
take out tremendous loans to fund their education, and then
they get out of school, they become very well practiced
surgeons and other things.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
And they expect a high salary.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
And the middlemen had themselves with profits, which is we
are a capitalist society, and you know that drives innovation,
and everybody wants more money every year. So those costs
keep going up, and why should there be a government
control on those costs? Many would argue, why, you know,
wouldn't that stifle innovation? Wouldn't that make it harder for
(35:44):
us to achieve the greatest possible health care in the world. Sure,
but nothing's free. So again, around and around we go.
If there were simple solutions, we would have found them
by now.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Right, Okay, So then you said that both of the
the stuff that's going before lawmakers today, it's not going
to pass. It needs a sixty vote threshold in the Senate,
it's not going to get there. So this is asking
for your opinion. Isn't it political suicide for the Republicans
not to do something before these to do something, I mean,
(36:15):
because they're going to get blamed for it.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Yeah, and it's increasingly you're hearing Republicans acknowledge that they
have a problem. You know, whether it's Marjorie Taylor Green,
who was the first outspoken Republican to draw attention to
this issue months ago and say, the Democrats may have
a point. And then you have a number of brank
and file House members, some of whom are actually leaving
the House, who say, hey, folks, the real solution here
is to extend the premium subsidies. But the leadership is
(36:39):
not on board. And so you really may see a
rift on the GOP side with some Republicans who say
this is going to cost us in November. The people
will remember and the Democrats are certainly ahead of Republicans
on trying to figure out a way to address the
concern that millions of people have that this is costing
too much money. The problem is, again there's no agreement
(36:59):
between the in both houses of Congress on how to
address this problem of increasing cost and the only solutions
are are ones that nobody really wants to get into
because it involves perhaps either increased federal spending deficit spending
on a thirty seven trillion dollar debt driven mainly by
health care costs, or managed care or you know, ration care,
(37:23):
and anyway, like I said, if it were easy, we'd
have a solution by now.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Absolutely, okay, ABC, Stephen Portenoy, thanks so much for the info.
As always, you bet it's just such a sticky wicket.
It doesn't sound like anybody's gonna win on this. But
you know what, I won because you listened to wake
Up Call today. How's that for smunky yea, yeah, smunky
pre Christmas stuff right, I got mygly sweater on. I'm
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gonna win.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
I'm gonna win if I stay for the party. But
thanks for listening to Wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
We've got to handle on the news coming up next,
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Speaker 5 (00:25):
Good morning. It's five o'clock straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's Thursday, December eleventh, two weeks till Christmas.
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Spose that litt This is your wake up call. I'm
Amy King, good morning. Hello to early risers.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We love it when you weigh in on the iHeartRadio app,
which you can do anytime on the talkback if you
have something to say.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Again, as long as you're night, as long as you're nice.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
You know.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I heard that the Gary and Shannon pro right right
before wake Up Call. Well, I didn't take offence to it.
It's that that was me.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
She talked about it on the air because I and
I don't even remember exactly what it was, but I
said something like, you're you're so much nicer than that,
and they.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Anyway, I love Gerry and Shannon. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I got this cool card from Pasading in Humane yesterday.
I'd love to hold it up to the radio, but
I can't. But look, it's this beautiful picture of Riley,
who is this beautiful white.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
He looks like I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
What freed he is. He looks like he's got husky
and I'm absolutely stunningly beautiful. And he's one of the
dogs that they rescued from the eating fire. And he's
doing great.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
He's still there.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
I don't know they had put him up for adoption. Adoption.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It took him a long time because he was really
badly burned and wasn't doing great. I'm not sure if
Riley's been adopted yet, so I'm gonna have to look
into that. As Riley and my doctor.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Well, I'll let you know.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Also, you might notice I'm wearing my ugly Christmas sweater today.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Okay, that really is.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
It's Katie odious right.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I've ever seen?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
I will just tell you it's blue.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Which I love blue, but it has a yetti on it,
and then it's got a bonus because behind the Yeti's head,
it's also a cup holder.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
This is the worst sweater I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, there's an ugly sweater contest at our holiday party today.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I'm not sure if I'm.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Going to stick around for it, but I think I
should win.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Regardless, I think they should give me an honorary win anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Okay, if you want to.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Check it out, it's on my Instagram fee and my
story at amy K King.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
And yes it is ugly. Here's what's ahead on wake
up Call.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Eight members of the Anaheim High School running team have
been hurt when a car plowed into them on a sidewalk.
They were waiting for the light to change around three
yesterday afternoon at Harbor Boulevard and North Street. The twenty
seven year old driver who allegedly ran into them was
arrested and is suspected of dui.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Governor Newsman L.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Mah Bass both applauded the federal judges ruling ordering the
removal of National Guard troops in LA and also the
return of control of the troops to the governor. About
one hundred or still in LA following protests against immigration
raids over the summer. The White House says it will
appeal the ruling that goes into effect Monday. No students
were on board, but the driver of an electric school
(03:20):
bus was taken to the hospital after the bus caught
fire beneath the two ten at West and Lakeview Terrace
yesterday The fire started shortly after nine am. Firefighters had
to wait as the lithium ion battery on the bus
burn has. Matt Cruz were called to clean it up.
The ceasefires Holding eight is getting into Gaza, But is
that all really whole happening. ABC's Jordana Miller says Israel
(03:43):
is still keeping journalists out of Gaza. We're going to
get the latest with Jordana from Jerusalem in just a
couple of minutes. Times running out on those subsidies to
the Affordable Care Act for millions of Americans. ABC Stephen
Port and who's going to join us to talk about
whether Congress can pass a plan to stop a price
spike and what's going to happen if it can't.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Remember Calendar Girls with Helen Mirren.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, so there's a town in southern Oregon that has
created a real life calendar girls calendar. It's boys too,
and it's adorable. I'm gonna tell you about that in
just a little bit. Also, wake up call taking a
southern California sleigh ride to a place that will absolutely
enchant you. At your hint, I'll tell you about that
at five twenty. I would say it's a not miss
for the holidays. I don't say that very often, and it's.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
A not miss.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Eight Anaheim High
School track runners have been hit by a suspected DUI
driver while waiting for a light to change.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
The driver swerved onto the sidewalk and hit him.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yesterday, a single vehicle accident ran into several pedestrians.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Elie Sergeant Matt Setter said the driver appeared to be
intoxicated and that investigators were getting a warrant to search
his car for a number.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Reasons, to get the on board computer to determine spees
and other factors like that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I'll also to see what's inside the car.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The students are expected to be okay. Driver was also
taken to the hospital. LA has approved a new Know
Your Rights campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The city and other local governments have been actively handing
out literature informing people what their rights are during immigration
enforcement since the summer. City councilman Unses Hernandez says it's
time to expand.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Both for immigrant communities but also for our non.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Immigrant communities, as we are seeing many of them step
up and try to protect and support.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
The plan is for multiple city departments to work with
immigrant rights groups to create a campaign to be displayed
on sidewalks, at bus shelters, and in those advertising slots
on city buses. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Lawyers for the two boys arrested in connection with the
beating of the man who was walking in an alley
in Hermosa Beach have blamed the man who was attacked.
They tell the La Times the man was the aggressor
and their clients were trying to protect their friend. Security
camera shows a group of teens on e bikes confronting
the man, then beating him unconscious. The boys are charged
(05:55):
with felony assault. The man who was attacked has been
released from the hospital. The officials will play Santa Claus
and Santa's Elves today and will be distributing gift cards
to kids at a target near Culver City. It's part
of what's called the Heroes and Helpers program. About sixty
children are expected to be there to receive an early
Christmas present. Time to say good morning to ABC's Jordana
(06:18):
Miller in Jerusalem, So Jordana as the ceasefire continues to
hold and hopefully more aid is getting into Gaza and
people are being allowed to go back to what's left
of their homes. We're apparently supposed to take Israel's word
for it because they're not letting any journalists in to look.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Well, it's the same issue amy that has plagued international
foreign reporters and their coverage of Gaza since October seventh, right,
that is that the Israeli government has not let foreign
reporters into Gaza at all. Initially, during the combat in
(06:59):
the two two years, it looked like the High Court
sided with the government and it's claim that it was
just simply not safe, though many you know, I think
all journalists would disagree with that as a justification for
keeping them out. Journalists have been covering, you know all
you know, the many previous major conflicts right that you
(07:24):
know that would be on the same level as this war.
But now the real problem is that we're in a ceasefire.
Right there hasn't been active combat for two months, and
still the Nataniel government has not opened Gaza in a
way that would allow foreign reporters to go in unfettered
(07:45):
and you know, walk around either the Israeli controlled side
or the Hamas controlled side and talk to people right,
talk to every day Gozzen's, talk to NGO workers, talk
to children, talk to mothers. You know, it's just not happening.
We're still having to rely on local Palestinian reporters to
(08:09):
tell us what's happening, to give us the pictures, to
give us the interviews, to get people in front of
a screen so we can talk to them live sometimes
on zoom. And they've done an incredible job. Nonetheless, foreign reporters,
you know, want to get in and have unfettered access,
and so far the government has continued to ask for delays.
(08:35):
The Supreme Court said that the Nataniel government has to
submit their position on letting journalists in or justify why
they won't and we're waiting and waiting for that. For
that submission, it was supposed to come at the end
of November, and now there's been a new extension and
(08:55):
the latest deadline is December twenty first.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay, okay, let's see if they get in in a
couple of weeks. Is there from what you have been
able to find out, like you said, it's they just
can't go in and walk around and check. But is
aid getting in now and are people getting back to
what's left of their homes.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Well, there is free movement within the Gaza side, the
Hamas controlled side of Gaza, right, so people have been
moving back up north and the roads there, you know,
are are open and people are going back and forth
and trying to put together the pieces of their lives
(09:37):
that have essentially been destroyed during the war. Right right now,
there's a storm here in heavy rains, so I think,
you know, Gazans are facing flooding and cold conditions. And remember,
you know, seventy five percent of the buildings in the
Gaza strip, homes and otherwise have been damaged, A big
(10:00):
portion of those destroyed, and so a lot of Gozens
are living in tents which simply don't provide enough shelter
during the winds and the rains. So they're they're facing
a really harsh The last few days have been harsh,
and this storm that came over front through Greece Byron
is supposed to you know, just there's supposed to be
(10:22):
a downpour of rain continuing for the next several hours.
So it's it's been really it's been really hard for
Gossens and the aid issue there are you know, the
the there's six hundred to eight hundred trucks of aid
getting into the Gauza Strip. Uh, you know, almost on
a daily basis since the ceasefire began. But remember Amy,
(10:44):
and we talked about this so much during the war,
there's still a problem with distributing aid right across the
gauds of strip. Right, you still need all the all
the ways to transport it to the north and other areas.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Right.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
So there is aid getting in now in the numbers
we saw during the previous ceasefires, but it's just not
getting where it needs to be fast enough. And you know,
there there's a hangover, if you will, of all the
malnutrition and disease that spread during the war. Right, they're
still in dire straits. The UN just did a report
(11:20):
saying there's still a huge number of children malnourished in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, so situations still miserable. It would be nice if
you guys could get in and get some eyes on there.
ABC's Jerdona Miller in Jerusalem. Thanks for the update. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Thanks Amy, talk soon.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I'm looking forward to the days when things start to
get better there.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Like they're like she just said, they're out of their homes,
they're living in tents, and now they've got this barrage
of rain.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
That's got to be miserable too.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
All Right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The
Federal Reserve has cut its key interest rate for the
third time in a row to about three point six percent.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
That's the lowest it's been in nearly.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Three years, but board Chairman Jerome Powells suggested yesterday that
the FED would likely hold off on any more rate
cuts in the coming months while it evaluates the health
of the economy. FED official signal that they expect to
lower rates just once next year. The US has seized
an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Venezuela's government calls the seizure a blatant theft and an
act of international piracy, but Attorney General Pam Bondi says
the tanker was used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela
and Iran and as part of an illicit oil shipping
network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
ABC's Hannah Batta says lawmakers in Washington have voiced concerns
about a potential conflict with Nicholas Maduro's government. The Senate's
expected to reject legislation today that would extend Affordable Care
Act subsidies for millions of Americans. Lawmakers are setting or
set to vote on two partisan bills which are not
expected to pass, that would basically guarantee that many who
(12:55):
buy their health insurance on the ACA marketplaces could see
rise in costs in January. We're going to get more
from ABC. Stephen Portnoy on that coming up before the
end of wake Up Call, President Trump says he's waiting
for answers to his latest round of talks about ending
the Russia Ukraine War. He says he has spoken with
Europe's main leaders.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
The leaders of France we spoke to and Germany and
uk all very good leaders, very good friends of mine,
and we discussed Ukraine in pretty strong words.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
The Europeans say intensive work will continue in the coming
days on the US plan to end the war. Ukraine's
president is said to hold urgent talks with leaders from
about thirty countries in an effort to secure fair terms
in a peace agreement to end the war with Russia
leaders from Germany, Britain and France are expected to participate
by video link. Ukrainian President Zelensky has said that his
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country would not seed any land to Russia as part
of a peace deal, which is among the concessions outlined
in the US backed plan. Okay, so remember the show
Calendar Girls. I think that's the first time I ever
saw Helen Mirren and instantly fell in love with her
as an actress. Well, there's a small town in Oregon.
It's in Lakeview, which I think is around Klamath Falls
(14:11):
in southern Oregon.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
I should know better. I'm from there.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And they have had some mismanagement issues and they've had
some corruption, and so they're having budget problems and they're like,
how are we going to raise money? And they tried taxes,
and then they said, well, well let's think outside the box.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
A little bit.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So they decided that they were going to raise money
to be able to properly clear snow from the streets.
So this is money that's going to snowplows. So they
did the only thing that they thought they stripped. It's
a group of mostly middle aged and elderly men and
women who have volunteered to pose nude for a calendar
(14:50):
to raise money for Lakeview. It's called out Back Naked,
and Margaret Dodds is sort of the brain child behind that.
She did say that she was inspired from Calendar Girls,
which was back in two thousand and three, which is
also based on a true story about a group of
women who did a naked calendar to raise money for
a leukemia wing.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
At their hospital.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So dodd says, at first people were like, really, do
you think that that's gonna fly? And is anybody even
going to volunteer? Well, volunteers weren't hard to find it all.
They kind of turned out and groves and the pictures
are really sweet, Like there's mister September is Alan and
he's out looks like he's out gardening and he just
has a basket strapped to his waist. There's another woman
(15:35):
who's behind a jukebox. There's another guy with just he's
got his apron on with his dog in a bike shop.
So far, in Lakeview has raised thirteen thousand dollars. So far,
the calendars are twenty five bucks. I just went and
looked for it to see if I could buy it,
and it says there's a link but it's saying this campaign.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Is closed, so I got to go look.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But I thought that'd be actually kind of a fun
Christmas gift. So if you're looking for something kind of fun,
it's very cute and it is. It's very tastefully done,
just like Calendar Girls was, but it's called out Back
Naked twenty twenty sixth and Lake County Chamber of Commerce
apparently is the place to call. So if you're looking
for something kind of fun for Christmas. Paramount has told
(16:15):
company shareholders it is not giving up on its bid
to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery. Paramount says its bid is
better than the more than eighty two billion dollar deal
Warner Brothers has agreed to with Netflix because it delivers
superior value. CEO Larry Ellison also questioned whether the Netflix
deal can survive regulatory scrutiny. FED Chairman Jerome Powell isn't
(16:37):
showing his hand about whether more interest rates are coming
in the new year. The Fed lowered interest rates by
a quarter percent yesterday. The Santa Clara County Board of
Supervisors has unanimously passed and ordinance creating an ice free zone.
It will limit federal agents from carrying out raids or
staging operations on county owned and controlled parking lots, vacant
(16:59):
lots and more. At six oh five, it's handle on
the news. Judge says, yeah, get those National Guard members
out of LA.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I think there's about one hundred left here.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It's time for us to take a Southern California sleigh ride.
This week, we're going out and about to Santa Anita
Park or Enchant.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And I can tell.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You already I am enchanted by this place. With us
tonight we have Jababel who is the producer of.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
This amazing event.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It's the first time for this event to be here
in Los Angeles, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Absolutely, we're thrilled to be here in the community. It's
been on our bucket list, so to speak, for many years,
and so we're absolutely excited about what the community has
done and how they've come out this year.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I'm having a little overstimulation because there's so much to see.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
You walk in and immediately you're greeted with these.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Giant reindeers in this arch and there's lights everywhere. So
how many lights are in this whole area?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So this is actually the world's largest Christmas light Mason Market.
We've done this event thirty five times before, and I
can attest that we have over four million lights here.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
That's great to adore the fence and you've done it thirty.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Five times and it's about time you got here.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Okay, So you mentioned the maze and it's this giant maze.
So walk us through what we're going to see and
what we're going to do when we go through them.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
The pace does the scavenger hunt.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So our story is about Eddie the El and Santa
Good Light, and so it's called Santa's Magic time Piece.
And the reason that Santa is able to deliver all
the presents in a single night is because he has
a magic time piece. That timepiece is broken, and what
we need you to do is find all the missing parts,
put it back together and help us save Christmas.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Love it. I love that you put a story behind it.
And then when you come out of the maze, there's
so many things to do and see, including this beautiful.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Little ice drink that's right behind us. And this is
real ice, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean for us, it's about the magic of Christmas
or the holiday, spending time with your loved ones, yeah,
and those shared experiences. Doing something unique means bringing real
ice so that it is a unique experience for our guess.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, so we've got a real ice spring and there's
also a snow boat.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
What we call it is the Stargazer Summit, but it's
actually real ice as well, so you can go down that.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
There's a lot of glee that you hear.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
As yes, thanks really and I can't wait for you
to try it. But it's also real ice on the
on the Stargazer Summit as well.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, all right, I'm looking forward to the glee there,
all right.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
And then so that leads me into food.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
There's like lots of hot complaints and different drinks and is.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
There like you can come out here and have dinner
or is it snacks or what is it?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
What we try and do is support local so that
we're leaning into.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
The city of Arcadia and the LA community at large.
And so there are things from lobster cheese pastas to
turkey legs and so there is something for everyone. It
is a multi generational event. If you're a kid who's
looking for a turrow, you'll be able to find that.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
If you're an adult he's looking for something that will
fill you up. Alou see, we have that as well.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
There's something a little more sparit exactly, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And then you mentioned Arcadia supporting local and it wouldn't
be Christmas if there wasn't some form of shopping so
that you could do some shopping while you're here as well.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Absolutely so. We have retail vendors that are in here.
You can get a character done of yourself.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You can go visit the enchant shop where we've got
a bunch of different giftables and things that you would
ad buy for your loved ones, as well as local
vendors from the community in Arcadia as well as Los Angeles,
and there's something for everyone.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Then here is if you really want to amp.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It up, there is a special area where you can
get a group of up.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
To fifteen people and basically go part in a snow globe.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Absolutely so, tell me about that.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
These are snow globe private suites, okay. And so inside
of those you have space for fifteen people. We have couches,
we have service that is from our fab partner here
at Santa Anita Park.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
We also have a fire pit outside so that you.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Can lounge It is a wonderful opportunity for small.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Businesses, groups, friends.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
To be able to commune and share the experience with
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So you can run in and out, like you get
the snow globe for the night and it's yours, and
then you can go and go to the maze, go
to the snow hill, go to the ice skating, and
then come back and that's sort.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Of your home base.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It is your home base for the evening.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Okay, And what if I want a little sweet treat
that has to do with a fire pits ah?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, So we've partnered with our friends at foody Land
and we have the s'mores experience. So right next to
our village experience. You can come in, you can sit down.
We have jar Delli chocolate, We have s'mores that you
can roast in front of the open flame during the
holiday experience.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Chest Nuts, no chest no chestnuts.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes, but it is a wonderful opportunity for people to
do something unique during the holiday experience. For us, it's
really about these shared memories. I keep reverting back to that, right,
It's like the shared experiences when I was a kid,
you know, I did receive gifts and things.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But it's those opportunities to like.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Create something new with your family, friends and loved ones
that I remember. My uncle used to pull me behind
my car in a GT snow racer.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Can't do that.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Anymore, We do not have that experience.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yes, you can't do that anymore. But those are the
things that I remember.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Okay. So that's what we're trying to.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Do here with the s'mores, the ferris wheel, the ice
skating is a unique experience that you will remember during
the holidays.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Okay, So when can people come and experience this and
when is it run through?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
We are open Tuesday through Sunday for the remaining portion
of December, and we're open every day during Christmas Week.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Great, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The little girl behind me just to mispill on the
ice adorable, Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And then where do we get more information about to
Please visit in chant Christmas dot com.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
We'll have all the information that you need, including the
no before you go planning your visit and take a crisis.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Okay, awesome, Jababel, this is so magical. I mean literally,
you will be enchanted when you come here.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
That's where we're taking our Southern California sleigh ride. It's
enchant at the Senna Anita Park, open through.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
The twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It is so cool, like really, it's so well done,
and I think one of the reasons it's so well
done is it started in Las Vegas, so everything is
done to the nines in chant La. It's absolutely beautiful,
fun way to spend the evening. And if you want
to check out the interview and get a sneak peek,
including a little ride down the snow hill, you can
(23:42):
check it out on my Instagram at amy Kking. Also
at KF I am six forty and I would love
for you to follow me as well because we're going
to be doing more fun Southern California slay ride stuff
as we get closer to Christmas again. It's at amy Kking.
Investigators are asking for the public's help in finding three
people who threw things at CHP officers during immigration protests
(24:05):
in La in June. The trio hurled rocks and other
objects at police from an overpass on the one to
one freeway in downtown La. The remains of more than
twenty three hundred people are going to be laid to
rest in a common grave during an interfaith ceremony at
the La County Cemetery in Boyle Heights. The ceremony has
taken place for over a century. It's for those who
(24:25):
were homeless or had no next of kin who could
be contacted on their behalf. The three day Democratic National
Committee Winter Meeting starts today in downtown LA. Organizers say
they're going to take a look back at election victories
from this year and then look ahead to the midterms
next year. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is going to
be there, along with LA Mayor Bass, Governor Newsom, and
(24:45):
Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker. Here's what's coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County DA Nathan
Hockman is planning to announce charges against unlicensed contractors accused
of targeting victims of the EA and Fire and ALTA Dina.
LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger is expected to join Hawkman
for the announcement this afternoon. An electric school bus has
(25:09):
caught fire under the two ten Freeway and Silmar. A
thick black smoke could be seen from under the bridge yesterday,
caused a mess of traffic as the bus burned. LA
Fire says its has Met units were called in to
monitor air quality and water runoff because of the bus's
lithium ion batteries that just had to be allowed to burn.
No kids were on the bus at the time. The
driver was treated for smoke inhalation. The La County Board
(25:33):
of Supervisors has asked for a new public awareness campaign
around animal abuse. Supervisor Hilde Sally says there are growing
concerns about animal abuse among the homeless population, especially on
LA's skid row. Being an unhoused pit owner in and
of itself is not a crime, and there are many
unhoused individuals who are excellent pit owners, But she says,
(25:55):
she and other elected officials have been inundated recently with
calls of concern over the conditions for animals in homeless camps.
The new campaign would explain what abuse is, how to
report it, and how homeless people can get help with
their animals.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Time to get in your business, as we do every day.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Today, we're talking to Bloomberg's Alexis Christophoris. Alexis another twist
in the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery, which is
a big deal in southern California.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
President Trump has something to say about it.
Speaker 9 (26:25):
Yeah, absolutely, you bet we could have bet on that one, right, Amy.
So President Trump is signaling here that he's going to
oppose any deal that does not include new ownership of CNN,
and we know that the President has long complained about
that network.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Now, this could hurt Netflix's bid. We know that.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
You know, Warner Brothers Discovery already said yes to that
Netflix bid, but it does not include Warner Brothers cable
properties such as CNN. So Paramount Skydowans may have a
leg up here because it's CEO David Ellison apparently said
they want the whole company. Okay, they want the cable
properties as well as the studios and the streaming service.
(27:08):
And David Ellison has reportedly promised President Trump that he
will bring in sweeping changes at CNN if he gains control.
But you know, Netflix and Paramount are waiting to hear
from Warner Brothers. I think they're going to hear something
in about eight days or so. They're going to say
they say they're going to make their decision and recommendation
for shareholders. So more twists and turns to come, I'm
sure between now and then.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Okay, let's switch to Amazon, which is planning a new service.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
And when is it not is really the question.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
So it's reportedly developing this rush pickup service, that's what
it's calling it, Rush Pickup Service. This is going to
let customers collect orders that they ordered online from their
stores within an hour. I mean that's pretty good. I
can't imagine they would have all of those products in
the store.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I don't know how they do it, and that they
can even do same day delivery. I did a coffee
maker in it CA like three hours later. I was like,
how does that even happen?
Speaker 9 (28:03):
I don't know. It's insane, but that's what they want
to do. And they're going to have a pilot program
on this thing. They haven't said the city they're going
to launch in yet, but it will happen early next year.
So and also, I mean, do you have an Amazon
store near your house? I mean mine's not that close,
but I mean it's another option, okay.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
And Oracles stock is taking a hit.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Yeah, and that could drag other tech stocks lower today,
So it's down about thirteen percent here in the pre market.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
It came out with earnings.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
They were really good on the surface, but they were
not good enough. Sometimes it's just not good enough for
Wall Street. So there was a thirty four percent jump
in their cloud revenue. Wall Street was hoping for better.
Just investors are worried in general that these companies are
spending too much on AI, on artificial intelligence data centers,
and they're not yet seeing the benefits. So you know,
sometimes good just isn't good enough for Wall Street. And
(28:51):
I think Oracle's an example of that today.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Okay, And by the way, I just googled it and
there's actually an Amazon facility right here in Burbank.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Who knew there? You go, Yeah, you can do this
thing when it comes to you.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Alexis Christopherus with Bloomberg, thank you so much getting in
your business like we do every day.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
At five forty, I.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Want to say congratulations now to Donna Buxton from Villa Park.
Donna just scored herself a pair of tickets to enchant La.
You're going to be enchanted. I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
It is so cool.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And again, if you want to take a sneak peek
at it, see some of the lights and some of
the fun things that you can do that will definitely
get you in the holiday spirit. It's on my Instagram
at Amy K. King, and of course I would love
it if you followed me. A federal judge's ruling calling
for National Guard troops to be removed from LA and
also to return control of the Guard to Governor Newsom
(29:45):
goes into effect Monday. There are just about one hundred
troops still in LA following immigration protests in June. The
White House says it will appeal the FBI in LA
is released a new photo of wanted drug kingpin Ryan Wedding.
The former Olympic snowboarder for Canada, is on the FBI's
ten most wanted lift wedding a list. Wedding is accused
(30:06):
of trafficking drugs through Mexico and southern California and also
orchestrating several murders. Still growing, no jackpot winner from last
night's Powerball drawing. You know what that means, more money.
That pushes the next drawing for Saturday night up to
an estimated one billion dollars. We're just minutes away from
handle on the news this morning. Mountain lions in southern
California may soon be more protected. Bill's going to tell
(30:28):
you about that right now. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy's Stephen, time is running out for people
with ACA subsidies. Is Congress making any progress on coming
up with a new plan?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I mean not substutely.
Speaker 10 (30:43):
What you'll see today is a couple of votes that
indicate that each side has a plan, but neither's going
to meet the sixty vote threshold. So I guess we'll
just watch it all fail. We could talk about what's
in each proposal, and you know, let's let's do it.
Let's let the people know what won't happen. The Democrats
(31:05):
say that the way to address the expiration of the
COVID era subsidies that have made the Affordable Character Plans
more affordable over recent years is to extend the subsidies
for three more years, and that will come at a
cost of eighty three billion dollars according to the Congressional
Budget Office, but prevent these skyrocketing premiums that people are facing.
Twenty million Americans who don't get health insurance at work
(31:27):
who buy it on the open market are facing the
sticker shock, the real stress of how they're going to
maintain their healthcare coverage without the federal support. Republicans say no, no, No, No,
it's too expensive. Eighty three billion dollars a year. No,
this is a COVID era plan. COVID is over and
it's time for these subsidies to end. And no, because
(31:48):
there's nothing that fundamentally changes the overarching problem, which the
cost of medicine in this country continues going up, and
there's something that ought to be done about it. So
what are the Republicans propose? Their proposal is to put
money cash into health savings accounts for people who buy
bronze or catastrophic plans in the open market. What does
(32:09):
a bronze plan cover sixty percent of major medical which
means you've got to come up with the other forty
percent after you hit the deductible, which is thousands of
dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Which is one of the problems with the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
Well, I mean, arguably the Affordable Charact makes it possible
for you to buy those plans. But the problem that
Republicans see is that the costs are too high because
there's nothing being done in the system to address the
rising cost of health care. What they propose to do
is put one thousand dollars into these health saving accounts
for people under the age of fifty and fifteen hundred
(32:44):
dollars a year in the health savings accounts for people
fifty plus just shy of Medicare age right fifty to
sixty five. And the argument is, if people only want
a bronze plan or a catastrophic plan which they might
be able to afford, that they can use the fifth
teen hundred dollars to cover their costs until they then
need to spend their own money to meet the deductible.
(33:07):
Democrats say it's a phony proposal, it's a junk plan
that people. It really doesn't help people. People really need
the help, and this isn't going to put them in
a better position. It's going to put them in a
worse position. And it's still going to cost tens of
billions of dollars a year. Well, Republicans say yes, but
it puts the power in the individual's hands. They can
buy coverage that would cover them. It gives them some
(33:29):
measure of support and coverage through the first fifteen hundred
dollars out of pocket. And that's number one. That's better
than nothing, which is what they're going to get because
this isn't going to pass. And two, it also allows
people to have a bit more control over their health
care spend and they can really focus on what they
perhaps might need most and make choices based on their
(33:50):
own economics and all this. Democrats say that is such
a terrible way to look at it, because people can't
control their own health circumstances. That's why they need insurance
in the first place. Because people, as they get older,
they have health problems, and it costs a lot of
money in this country to solve those problems or to
address them. And anyway, around and around we go on
the merry go round.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Okay, So I have a question for you.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
So that we know that the health care subsidies that
were put in place during COVID to help people get
through understandable they were supposed to sunset. Everybody agreed, maybe
not everybody, but the Democrats even agreed on that. So
my question is, were the premiums as high as they're
expected to be if the subsidies aren't extended before they
(34:35):
were put in place.
Speaker 10 (34:37):
Make no, no, yes, I understand your question. The point
is premiums continue to rise, and not just in the
affordable exchanges Affordable Care Act exchanges, but also in the
private market.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
For employers.
Speaker 10 (34:46):
Healthcare keeps getting more expensive every year in this country
for reasons that are at once simple but also impossible
and confounding. Right, Look, we have inflation, you have new innovations,
You have major you know, advancements in medicine that make
it possible for us to get shots that all of
a sudden, you know, the weight just comes right off, right.
(35:07):
That costs money. And doctors go to school and they
take out tremendous loans to fund their education, and then
they get out of school, they become very well practiced
surgeons and other things.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
And they expect a high salary.
Speaker 10 (35:22):
And the middlemen had themselves with profits, which is we
are a capitalist society, and you know that drives innovation,
and everybody wants more money every year. So those costs
keep going up, and why should there be a government
control on those costs? Many would argue, why, you know,
wouldn't that stifle innovation? Wouldn't that make it harder for
(35:44):
us to achieve the greatest possible health care in the world. Sure,
but nothing's free. So again, around and around we go.
If there were simple solutions, we would have found them
by now.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Right, Okay, So then you said that both of the
the stuff that's going before lawmakers today, it's not going
to pass. It needs a sixty vote threshold in the Senate,
it's not going to get there. So this is asking
for your opinion. Isn't it political suicide for the Republicans
not to do something before these to do something, I mean,
(36:15):
because they're going to get blamed for it.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Yeah, and it's increasingly you're hearing Republicans acknowledge that they
have a problem. You know, whether it's Marjorie Taylor Green,
who was the first outspoken Republican to draw attention to
this issue months ago and say, the Democrats may have
a point. And then you have a number of brank
and file House members, some of whom are actually leaving
the House, who say, hey, folks, the real solution here
is to extend the premium subsidies. But the leadership is
(36:39):
not on board. And so you really may see a
rift on the GOP side with some Republicans who say
this is going to cost us in November. The people
will remember and the Democrats are certainly ahead of Republicans
on trying to figure out a way to address the
concern that millions of people have that this is costing
too much money. The problem is, again there's no agreement
(36:59):
between the in both houses of Congress on how to
address this problem of increasing cost and the only solutions
are are ones that nobody really wants to get into
because it involves perhaps either increased federal spending deficit spending
on a thirty seven trillion dollar debt driven mainly by
health care costs, or managed care or you know, ration care,
(37:23):
and anyway, like I said, if it were easy, we'd
have a solution by now.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Absolutely, okay, ABC, Stephen Portenoy, thanks so much for the info.
As always, you bet it's just such a sticky wicket.
It doesn't sound like anybody's gonna win on this. But
you know what, I won because you listened to wake
Up Call today. How's that for smunky yea, yeah, smunky
pre Christmas stuff right, I got mygly sweater on. I'm
(37:48):
gonna win.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
I'm gonna win if I stay for the party. But
thanks for listening to Wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
We've got to handle on the news coming up next,
and we'll talk to you tomorrow morning. This is KFI
and KOSTD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the
KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
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