December 12, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. The show opens with ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers discussing the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, indicating the administration won't telegraph future sanctions or military moves but will enforce existing policies against sanctioned entities like those carrying "black market oil." The host of ‘Home’ on KFI Dean Sharp joins the show and talks about how to de-clutter in 48 hours. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pellegrini who speaks on what the markets are looking like as the week comes to a close. The show closes with a Wake Up Call ‘taste test,’ an update on Shelby the dog, and hearing from you the listeners through talk backs.
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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 hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is your wake up call for Friday, December twelfth.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I want to say hi to early risers. Thanks for
getting up early. You're probably not doing it just because
you like the show. It's probably because you got to
go to work or something.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Right.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Either way, I'm happy you're here.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Hey, we had our company Christmas party yesterday and someone
hit us up on the talkback about it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Ay Evelhobber here iHeartRadio Christmas party. Yeah it's today.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Oh yes, sir Herd.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
There's an open bar and a sexy I just hope
you and Will don't get too drunk and you end
up taking photocopies on the printer while you two are
making out. Have a great day, Amy, Thanks for bitening
my morning every day.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You're welcome, and don't worry. That's not going to happen.
And it didn't happen, did not happen. I don't know
if they got out of control or not. I actually
I had to go because I had to take Shelby
to the vet.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I'll tell you about that later. Yes, back to the vent.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But anyway, Hey, you can hit us up anytime on
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Speaker 4 (01:39):
Wake Up Call. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This beautiful Friday morning, The La County DA's office has
charged five unlicensed contractors for illegally offering to rebuild properties
in Alta Dina damaged by the Eton fire. LA County
DA Nathan Hoffman says if others try this, his office
is going to go after them too. The man accused
of assassin conservative activist Charlie Kirk has appeared in person
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in court for the first time. Tyler Robinson, occasionally smiled
as he spoke to his defense lawyers before the hearing.
He's charged with murder, and prosecutors say they planned to
go for the death penalty. LA City officials are accepting
donations as part of a holiday drive for families impacted
by federal Immigration Enforcement the city's looking for new toys, books,
sports gear, warm winter clothes and grocery cards. Donations can
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be dropped off next Wednesday around the city. So the
US sees that Venezuelan oil tanker that was apparently transporting
oil to Iran. ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us.
Let us know what's going on with that, what's going
to happen to the oil and with the tanker too?
Having guests for dinner, how about for Christmas for the
whole week? Dean Sharp's going to join us at five
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twenty to tell us how to deck the halls and
declutter the home ahead of the holidays. Something is apparently
all the rage. At seven to eleven, it's very exciting. Well,
we got it. We're going to try it. We'll let
you know if it's worth the hype. I guess we're
going to be your human guinea pigs. Of course Ann
and Kono don't know that yet, but they are in
another day, another vet bill for my precious little Shelby.
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You guys have all been so kind about her health issues,
so I have a little update on her and the
running tally on how much a ten pound cap actually costs.
It's into the thousands. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A car has crashed into a building in Santa Monica,
causing part of the building to collapse. The crash happened
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at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Princeton Street
this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The driver was taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The LAPD says it's going to be forced to stop
hiring if it doesn't get a budget increase.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald says he agrees with the letter
from Mayor Bass to the city council. Four point four
million dollars is needed immediately or new recruit classes stop
in January.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Fewer officer officers will mean longer shifts, increased over time,
and a greater strain on all of.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Our department has more than four hundred officers in the
hiring pipeline, but there was never any money allocated in
the city budget for it. The city council told the
department that months ago, but LAPED proceeded with the hirings anyway.
Michael monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
At least six people have been hurt in an explosion
in a neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. It
happened yesterday morning in a densely populated part of Hayward.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
This guy says he felt the blast.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I could sleep through anything, and it woke me.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Up and it was a big boom and house jumped,
literally literally jumped.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
At least a couple of homes were destroyed and a
highway had to be shut down. Neighbors say a street
construction project was being done at the time of the explosion.
PG and E says a third party construction crew damaged
an underground gas line in the area about two hours earlier,
Disney's making a billion dollar leap into AI.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
The company announced a one billion dollar investment in Open
Ai and a three year deal that will let Sora
users generate videos featuring more than two hunderd Disney character
from Mickey Mouse to the Mandalorian. Curated AI generated content
will appear on Disney Plus, and Disney says it plans
to use open AI tools internally. Characters are expected to
roll out on Sora in early twenty twenty six, as
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both companies emphasize quote responsible AI and creator protections.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
How the brookerp KFI News.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We're going to go to Karen.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Now, we'll check in with Will in just a moment, Okay,
probably a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Good morning, Karen.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
As tensions ramp up between the US and Venezuela, the
US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of
the South American country.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So what's the latest. What's going to be done with
the tanker and with the oil.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
The tanker is heading to a port in Texas. That's
what we are hearing this morning from US officials, and
the White House said yesterday the US intends to take
all the oil that was contained in the tanker. The
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt so that the vessel is going
through a forfeiture process, that the people on board are
being interviewed as part of an investigation, but that there
is a legal process to seize the oil that is
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now and will be followed. The tanker, according to the
White House, was transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.
And now there could be more tankers that are seized
because the administration is sanctioning six additional tankers they say
are carrying Venezuela and oil. So they're certainly indicating that
this is just the first and what could be part
of a campaign in the coming weeks.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So are they trying to stop all oil or just
oil that's going to around.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
It's not clear, and they were certainly not telegraphing their
playbook yesterday. There were questions that the briefing about, you know,
are you going to do this again how soon? In
Caroline Levitt wouldn't say. Did say though, that the President
is committed to enacting the administration's sanction policy. Even the
President yesterday when he was pushed on this wasn't really
showing his cards. They're surprised, but it is part of
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this broader pressure campaign right now on Venezuela and on
President Nicholas Maduro. The President and Caroline were asked yesterday
about whether this campaign and the operations are about drugs
with those boat strikes or about oil, and both said
it's about both. At this point, you know that they
want to stop the illegal flow of drugs into the US,
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but also stopping or enacting the administrations and enforcing the
sanctions policy that's in place.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, and so you just mentioned enforcing the sanctions policy.
So the US has the authority to seize a ship
like this or is that sort of in it.
Speaker 10 (07:27):
Yeah, when it's that's what every legal expert we've been
talking to say, Yeah, this is when you've sanctioned the
ship like this. Yes they can now it's going through
the actual process, so yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And Venezuela is saying that the US committed an act
of piracy.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
There are they expecting Pezuaita they to do anything?
Speaker 10 (07:50):
Not clear they have, certainly Venezuela has pushed back strongly
with words we heard Maduro again condemning this as criminal
piracy and active inner national piracy. Theft is what they
were saying over the last two days. But in terms
of what they will do, that's not clear.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
ABC's Karen Travers, thanks for the update. I have a
great day, all right, have a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A magnitude six
point seven earthquake has caused small tsunami waves off the
coast of northeastern Japan. The quake today was centered near
the a Amrii region on the main Japanese island. The
japan Meteorological agency issued a tsunami advisory. It was lifted
(08:35):
about two hours later. The quake today followed a magnitude
seven point five quake that hit the area on Monday.
That one caused injuries, some damage and a small tsunami
on Japan's Pacific coast. The Senate has voted down two
healthcare proposals, one from Republicans and one from Democrats. ABC's
Mary Bruce's Affordable Care Act tax credits now hang in
(08:57):
the balance.
Speaker 11 (08:58):
Senate Republicans blocked a move to extend Obamacare subsidies, saying
the whole healthcare system needs to be overhauled, but Republicans
still have not agreed on their own health care plan.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
She says more than twenty million Americans are all but
certain to see their health insurance premiums go up at
the end of the year. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been
released from federal immigration detention following a judge's order that
he be let go. The judge in Maryland said yesterday
the man from El Salvador has been detained without any
legal basis after he was deported and then returned to
(09:32):
the US. He's scheduled to appear this morning at an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office in Baltimore. And we're
also just getting worried that the federal judge has issued
a temporary restraining order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining
Abrego Garcia again. A grand jury in Virginia's refused for
a third time to indict New York Attorney General Letitia
(09:55):
James for mortgage fraud.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
It's also the second setback in a week for the
Justice Department. A judge dismissed an earlier case last month
based on the unlawful appointment of US Attorney Lindsay Halligan.
Prosecutors claim New York's ag falsely listed a how she
bought in twenty twenty as the second home instead of
an investment property. Her lawyer issuing a statement calling this
(10:18):
third grand jury denial an unprecedented rejection that makes it
even clearer that this case never should have seen the
light of day. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler Gimnor.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Newsom has criticized an executive order on Artificial intelligence signed
by President Trump. It creates one central clearinghouse for AI regulation.
Newsom says it'll hurt states like California, which he says
is a leader in advancing AI. Trump says it's better
to have one central source of approval.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Every time you make a change, and it could be
a very reasonable change, you still won't get it approved of.
You have to go in a fifty states, So this
centralizes it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Newsom says giving the Fed's sole control over AI's implemented
in practice would mean no AI safeguards. Eight football players
from Philadelphia are accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth
of merchandise from a Dick's Sporting goods store in Florida.
The theft happened just hours before they were scheduled to
play in a championship game. Officials say the teens took
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an uber to the store, stuffed forty seven items into
their bags and their pants, and then took off. The
players were members of the United Thoroughbred's youth football team.
Some swollen rivers in Washington State have not crested yet,
but another round of rain is on the way. Meteorologist
Danny Beckstrom says in the Midwest, people are ready for
(11:39):
yet another rain of snow and bitter cold.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Big Arctic glass for the weekend.
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Windshills dipping below zero from Minneapolis to Chicago Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It'll feel like the teens here in New York City.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Friday morning getting.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Even colder for the I ninety five corrid or by.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Monday, Jesus, the next round of rain is forecast to
move into the Pacific Northwest on Sunday night into Monday.
That could swell rivers again and cause more flooding. One
hundred thousand people are being forced to evacuate. A new
study shows dark chocolate may slow aging.
Speaker 14 (12:07):
The study looked at a chemical in dark chocolate that
gives it the bitter taste and found its link to
DNA that appears biologically. Younger Researchers looked at levels of
the chemical called theobromine and the blood in sixteen hundred people,
and for the most part, people who had the higher
amount of the chemical had DNA that appeared younger. Researchers
caution though, that people should eat dark chocolate in moderation
because it could be high in fat and sugar. So
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thanks for that, Mark Groener, KFI News, and I.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Was about to just say past the dark chocolate please,
although I'm not much of a dark chocolate are you guys?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You like dark chocolate? I like milk chocolate sweet.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The latest casualty of the Palisades fire is the Pallisadian Post.
The owner of the ninety seven year old paper says
it is ceasing operations. He says the fire destroyed businesses
that brought advertise or bought advertising, and the paper lost
readers because the Palisades became a ghost town after the fires.
A security supervisor at Moreno Valley Highchool's been arrested for
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allegedly sexually assaulting a student. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department
says their investigation uncovered evidence of a sexual assault at
Canyon Springs High School. Kilmar A Brego Garcia has been
released from ice custody following a judge's order. A Brego Garcia,
who Homeland Security says is an illegal immigrant and gang member,
has been fighting deportation attempts for months. In ordering the
(13:29):
release yesterday, the judge said a Brego Garcia has been
held without lawful authority, and the judge followed up this
morning by issuing a temporary restraining order so immigration officials
can't pick them up again. Let's say good morning now
to the host of Home on KFI. It's the house
whispered Dean sharp morning, Dean morning, Amy. So it's not
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only time to deck the halls, it's time to declutter
your home ahead of the holidays.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
You know, a lot of people go through this, and
it came to my attention about a year ago, and
I've been following this that around the holidays.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Now.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
I don't know if you realize this, but there has
been a new trend across America and it's here in
southern California as well, and that is people who do
kind of a forty eight hour declutter before the in
laws arrive, meaning they don't have space to put a
lot of stuff that's in the way, actually get a
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short term storage area and put a lot of their
stuff temporarily through the month of December and into January
into storage until the family is gone, and then bring
it all back.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Wait, people are actually getting storage units to make room
for family to come visit.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Yeah, it turns out that storage units offering short term
rentals are now like they look forward to December.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It's one of the biggest months of the year.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Okay, So what are some things that people should be
thinking about clearing out?
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Well, you know, I mean I'm not advocating getting a
storage unit, but if it is.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Tottle extreme, but I mean, if you have to, you
have to.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Well, you know what it comes from now is that
people are utilizing their homes more and more for themselves
all the time. So you've got things like guest rooms
that aren't really guest rooms. They're spare rooms that have
been converted to offices or gyms or you know, other
kinds of storage spaces. And if you're having family and
all of a sudden, that room has got to be
a guest room again, and there just isn't necessarily place
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to put stuff. But it brings up the whole subject
which I love, which is decluttering. People ask me all
the time, They're like, hey, what's the one thing I
can do inexpensively to my home to make it look better?
And I say, there's absolutely only one answer that I
always give, and that is, you know, bite the bullet
and declutter. Nothing ruins a good design or good decor
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or anything more than having too much stuff. And so
I'm all for the idea of decluttering for the holidays,
especially if family's coming into town. You're gonna have to
make some space. So you're going to need to clear
out some pathways. That's what I like to think about.
Think about the pathway of your guest into where they're
gonna be staying. Clearing out the entryway, the living room,
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the guest bathroom, and the sleeping area. Hallways included. Hallways
are an area where surprisingly a lot of clutter can
form in a hallway. Clear it out so that it's
all open and clear, give your guests some space. And
then if you've put stuff into storage come January, press
pause for a second. Once the decorations come back down,
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look around, enjoy how open and clean things are, and
maybe maybe consider not bringing it all back.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Boy, you've got me thinking, because I'm just sitting there thinking, yep,
I got that clutter right now, and I hate it.
But I've I have a small space. I don't have
a large home here, and so I'm running out of
room because as you go through years, you accumulate stuff,
right absolutely, And they've been thinking about like the entry way,
like there's coats hanging by the door, or an extra
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pair of shoes there. Get that stuff out of there,
because then your whole house looks less cluttered.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Absolutely absolutely, And the holidays are a great time to
make the excuse of getting rid of things or clearing
things out. I should say, because you're not getting rid
of it, let's just say we're moving it to the side.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
But that again is a process that we send a
lot of our clients through. We're like, hey, don't get
rid of it, Let's just move it to the side.
Let's clear it out of the space, get used to
living in this space with less stuff in it. And
then in a month or two, let's have a conversation
about whether you really really really wanted to come back.
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Because you know, I mean, you decorate for the holidays.
I decorate for the holidays. It actually adds another layer
of things in the room. Yeah, and so it's really
good time to think that stuff through.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I love that, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And then I love this too, where you said, as
you're going through the process of decluttering, don't just shove
it in the closets.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
And there's a reason.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Oh absolutely, there's a reason, because closets don't don't belong
as storage units. I say this all the time. And
this is the one thing. If you want to take
something and just chew on it and hold this, closets
inside a house should not be considered long term storage.
Closets should be considered staging areas for frequently used items.
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That's what a closet is for. Everything else can be
long term storage, but not in your closets, and freeing
yourself from that burden that can change everything.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And plus you said in your notes, if you do
use your closets for storage, your in laws are going
to end up noticing.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Oh no, absolutely, I mean here, this is why it's
such a prime time for this, because because you're showing
off your place to somebody else, and that use that
impetus to say, you know what, maybe maybe I really
just should clean up my act here a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Absolutely, Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And then here's like we were talking about getting rid
of clutter, but you also say that if you want
to just create more space, it only takes one thing.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Yeah, Quite often in every room there's one thing that
is kind of like the key that if you remove
it can free up the space, maybe one piece of furniture,
one chair, one end table, one something. And so it
doesn't have to be like, oh, I've got to get
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rid of fifty percent of the things in my house
and now it's not true. Go into a room. Try
removing just one signific significant item. It may unlock the
entire room.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, perfect, So great advice. And you're gonna be talking
about this all weekend.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah okay.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And you can listen six to eight tomorrow morning right
here on KFI and nine to noon on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
The show is called Home with Dean s Thank you
Dean Sharp. Oh and you can follow him too at
Home with Teen.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Thank you Amy.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Sounds good.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Oh, it'll be our last show before Christmas, I know. Okay, Well,
we've got to find some fun Christmasy stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
We will so we could drive people crazy because I
talk about Christmas too much.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
All right, thank you Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
By bye.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
woman from Harupa Valley has been stabbed at Macy's flagship
store in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Please say.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
She was attacked on the seventh floor of the Macy's
Herald Square store Thursday afternoon. Police say it appears the
attack was unprovoked. Carrie A. Hearn of Massachusetts was arrested
in charge with attempted murder. A Macy spokesperson released a
statement saying we're deeply saddened about the incident that took place,
as the safety of our customers in college's top priority.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
NBC Scott Pringle says the woman was stabbed multiple times
and is recovering in the hospital. The Ela County DA's
office has charged five unlicensed contractors for a legally offering
to rebuild properties in Altadena damaged by the Eton Fire.
The DA's office ran a sting that busted the five
operating illegally. DA Nathan Hockman says it's a warning for
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anyone else who's thinking about doing.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
It, warning wildfire, state of emergency, unlicensed contractors and contractors
fraud will be prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
The five men could face up to three years in
prison if convicted. Huntington Beach has lost another round in
court in its fight against California's affordable housing requirements.
Speaker 15 (21:31):
The state Supreme Court refused to review an appeals court
ruling that lower court said that Serf City must follow
the affordable housing requirements. Both Governor Gavin Newsoman Attorney General
Rob Bonta hailed the decision. HB officials have long insisted
that its status as a charter city means it does
not have to comply with state affordable housing mandates. The
States sued the city in March of twenty twenty three,
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and many elements of the case are still pending. HB
still hopes that the US Supreme Court will agree to
hear the case.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Kofive News the.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
World Cup ticket sales window has opened.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
FIFA's third random draw phase for the twenty twenty six
tournament just started and runs until January thirteenth, with matchups
now said. Fans can apply for single game tickets across
all one hundred and four matches hosted in the US, Mexico,
and Canada. Fans must register on FIFA dot com for
a chance to buy, and demand is expected to be huge.
Prices range from about sixty dollars for group stage games
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to more than sixty seven hundred dollars for the final.
How the Rooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Police are looking for three men who tried to break
into a house in San Marino. Reilly say the trio
shut off the power and severed a water pipe when
they attempted to break in Tuesday. A housekeeper saw what
they were doing called the homeowner. The guys took off
before police showed up. The Senate has voted down both
Republican and Democrat healthcare proposals aimed at stopping rising costs.
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Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of this year.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republican leaders are moving forward
the healthcare package that excludes ACA subsidy extensions, but would
instead set up health savings accounts for families and individuals.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Snoop Dogg has.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Been named the first ever honorary coach of Team USA
for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. In a
post on LinkedIn, he says he will support Team USA
on and off the field during the twenty twenty six
Winter Games in Italy. Coach Snoop said he's looking to
bring a little more love and motivation to the group.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Speaking of Republicans and Democrats, President Trump says, Hey, we
can all work together.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Bill's going to tell you more about that.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Hey, we took our Southern California sleigh ride yesterday to
enchant very cool place at Santa Anita Park. Even got
the endorsement not endorsement, but the sign off by a
very own Shannon Farren. She went there and said she
loved it too. Well, we got another one for you,
Scott wide in about it on the talkback King.
Speaker 16 (24:00):
This is Scott and Pittsburgh, PA, originally from Glahaber, California.
We're coming out for Christmas this year to go to
the Rose Parade. We're also going to go to Disconso
Gardens for their Christmas Evening Show one night. I would
urge you to consider promoting that on your program too.
The Disconso Evening Program runs I believe through New Year's
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or maybe January two, so anyhow might want to check
it out. Thanks as always, love you guys.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
That's a great reminder, Scott. We didn't make it out
to Disconso this year. I think we were there last year.
And they also have a fabulous Christmas display. So if
you're looking for fun holiday things to do, here's what's
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah
has made his first in person court appearance. His lawyers
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asked the judge yesterday to limit media access in the case,
saying all the media attention could interfere with Tyler Robinson's
right to a fair trial. Prosecutors have charged Robinson with
aggravated murder and say they plan to ask for the
death penalty. President Trump is thanked both Republican and Democratic
lawmakers for their work in Congress during the annual Congressional
(25:08):
ball He told them last night at the White House
that regardless of their differences, they can find ways to
come together as Americans.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I really believe we can work on healthcare together and
come up with something that's going to be much better,
much less expensive for the people, less expensive for our nation.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
His comment came the same day the Senate voted down
both Republican and Democrat health care proposals to avoid a
massive spike in healthcare premium, says Affordable Care Act subsidies
are set to expire at the end of the year.
USC football may be forced out of its home stadium
at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after the twenty twenty
(25:45):
eight Olympic and Paralympic Games, at least for a while
the only time, says The one hundred million dollar temporary
track being put in for the games. Track and field again.
Events probably wonn't be removed in time for the start
of USC's football season. No final decisions have been made,
but Sofi Stadium could be the most likely alternative for
the Trojans to play at least some of their games.
(26:07):
The LA Department of Water and Powers agreed to inspect
nearly one hundred drinking water reservoirs and storage tanks and
to clean more than fifty of them. The epas identified
maintenance issues it says could pose a risk of contamination
if those things are left undone. The DWP operates the
second largest water system in the United States, serving about
(26:28):
four million customers in the Greater LA area. The next
time you're in the ocean, keep an air out for
the fish.
Speaker 17 (26:36):
A new tool uses underwater microphones and cameras to identify
fish using the sounds. They make spatial audio figures out
where the sound comes from, and the camera snaps a
pick to you or me. It may sound like a
small pop, but Fish Eye Collaborative says the diversity of
fish sounds on a coral reef rivals that of birds
and a rainforest. It says it's matched up at least
forty six fish species in the Caribbean with the sounds
(26:58):
they make, and more than half of them were never
owned to make a sound. More than seven hundred species
make sounds on the Caribbean alone. The researchers are expanding
next to Hawaii and Indonesia in the coming months. Michael
Krozer kf I News.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You'll be surprised. I mean, didn't Chelsea finding Nemo? Okay, Cono,
come on.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg, as
we do every today, but we don't have Denise this morning.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
We have Erica. Good morning, Erica, Good morning Amy. Okay,
doing good.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So let's talk about Open AI.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
And how it's getting disneyfied.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
Yeah, So Open ai users are going to soon be
able to use Disney characters on Sora. The two companies
announcing a three year licensing deal that'll allow users to
generate short form videos on the AI platform using more
than two hundred Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters.
A selection of the user generated videos will be made
available to watch.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
On Disney Plus.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
The deal will also allow.
Speaker 13 (27:59):
Chat gpt to create user prompted images using Disney properties,
and as part of the deal. Disney's making a billion
dollar equity investment into Open.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
AI, So we're gonna have all these little Disney shorts.
I was thinking about it as I was driving in.
I was like, okay, so I could make a little
mini movie and put me in, you know, next to.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Aladdin. You know, is that who you would choose? No,
it's just what came to mind. Whatever, So more prince charming.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, okay, We've already got Waimo here driving around without
drivers in LA. But Uber says it's gonna do some
expansion for driverless cars too.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
Uber says it expects to offer robo taxi services in
more than ten markets by the end of next year,
the company hoping to position itself as the dominant force
in an industry it estimates will eventually be worth at
least a trillion dollars. Uber's made hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of investments into autonomous vehicle developers, with the
company's CEO saying Uber has quote plenty of capital to
invest in growth area.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
We were talking about AI a second ago. Well, Broadcom
is taking a hit because of AI.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
Yeah, Well, broadcamt shares are down about five percent in
pre market trading after sales outlook for the AI market
failed to meet investors expectations.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
CEO Hocktan says.
Speaker 13 (29:16):
The company has a backlog of seventy three billion dollars
in AI product orders and investors are still looking for
more clarity on when or how Broadcom will get that
payoff from AI.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Wait, so they they have orders for AI, but they
just haven't delivered yet, right they orders?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
They exactly? Okay. Lululemon not quite as popular popular as
it used to be.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (29:40):
Shares down eleven percent after yesterday's closing, Lulu boosting its
full year earnings, though per share guidance reporting that early
holiday performance was encouraging. Cheaper knockoffs and quality missteps have
plagued Lululemon, leading to a sales slow down and shares
falling fifty percent this year.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Separately, the company said the.
Speaker 13 (29:57):
CEO, Calvin McDonald, he was stepping down at the end
of January.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
That seems reasonable if you've lost fifty percent of your
market share. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And the FDA looking to put a black box warning
on some vaccines.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
Yeah, COVID nineteen vaccines, specifically Amy and CNN reporting that
the food and Drug Administration preparing to do that. Black
box warning is the strongest caution for prescription drugs that
is usually a reserve for alerting patients to possible adverse
reactions that could lead to death or serious injury. Bloomberg
reported earlier this week that the FDA was currently investigating
(30:32):
whether COVID nineteen vaccines caused death in adults.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yikes, okay, ABC or not ABC?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Sorry, Bloomberg's Erica Hrstkowitz, thank you so much. We get
in your business every day at five point forty, well
except on weekends. We'll do it again Monday. Have a
good weekend. Hey, Dean Sharp and I. We're talking earlier
about decluttering your home, getting it ready for like the
in laws to come visit, and we had someone weigh
(30:58):
in on talkback.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Dean and Amy, good morning. I cannot believe people are
renting storage to declutter because the in laws are coming
or whatever. It's like, get rid of it, donate it.
It's the end of the year. You're going to get
a tax right off. Other people can use the stuff
(31:20):
that you don't use. Oh, humans, that's why California is
the way it is. People vote that way. Blah, blah
Mike blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Voice sounds like somebody who works here. Ooh, maybe it
is they colin all inc Meatium. It's a good point, though,
like renting a whole storage unit to make room for
somebody to come visit, you might be a little excessive.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A pro housing group pursued Governor Newsom for restricting duplex
construction in the Palisades and Eaton Burn areas. SB nine,
which took effect in twenty twenty one, allows homeowners to
split single family lots into as many as four properties,
but new has restricted that law. San Francisco based Yimbie
(32:03):
Law says that's a constitutional overreach and violates the California
Emergency Services Act. The son of Grammy nominated opera star
Jubilant Sykes has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing
his father to death at the family's home in Santa Monica.
Micah Sikes appeared in court yesterday. His arraignment has been
delayed until after the new year. He remains in jail.
(32:24):
The state Supreme Court has refused to review an appellate
court ruling requiring the City of Huntington Beach to build
affordable housing in the city. Governor Newsom applauded the decision, saying,
in his words, no more excuses.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
You lost again. It's time to get building.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Hey, got a lot of nice comments on the talk
about and on my Instagram about Shelby, my lovely little
kitten who she's not a kitten, she's like thirteen years old,
but she spent the day at the vet er and
also fifteen hundred dollars at the vet er to find
out that she has asthma.
Speaker 18 (32:56):
My Amy Kim from Lake Forest. Sorry deligrit like that.
Glad to hear you found out what's going on. I
had a cat with asthma as well. Let you know,
you can also use your prescription for asthma to get
the meds and it's a lot less. Same exact prescription
RX that you use, you can use on your kiddy.
(33:19):
Just to heads up, to save some money, have a
good day.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I would be all about saving money. That's a great recommendation.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
And actually it is it's people Inhaler's that she has
to she has to take and she has to have
this little contraption because you can't just do an inhaler
into a cat's mouth.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Is it a nebulizer.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
It's not a nebulizer.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It's like the contraption that you put on the end
of the inhaler, like you plug it into it and
then you stick it the contraption over their nose, so
then they'll breathe in whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It is, almost like an oxygen mask.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, kind of like that. I'll bring it in and
show it to if you want to see it. It's
it was a bargain on Amazon, just like fifty or
sixty dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Anyway, she's doing okay.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
She was actually she was breathing really good last night
and overnight, so I was thrilled. But she's getting her
inhaler twice a day, and then they just put her
on steroids.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
We went.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back to the vet, and then of course they said, well,
we want to do more tests, and I'm like, why
do we have to do a test? They wanted to
test for fungus that if it's fungus, they can treat it.
And I said, what's the likelihood of her getting fungus
if she's an indoor cat and she hasn't been walking
around in the dirt or on grass or doing any
kind of outside activities. They said, well, you might track
(34:34):
it in, so we did a fungus test. So the
running tally is now over two thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
But I love her. I love her.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Okay, there's something new that's all the rage at seven eleven,
and I was like, after we got done with a vet,
I went, oh, there's a seven eleven. I got to
go grab this because I've been meaning to grab it
and try it. So it is it's an egg salad sandwich.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
What egg salady?
Speaker 19 (35:04):
Yes, So apparently it's all the rage in Japan, and
so now it's available at seven eleven, and I thought, wow,
I'm going to go into the seven eleven.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I wonder if I'm gonna be able to find it.
There's signs on the door about it, like ooh, here's
the egg salad sandwich.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
So it's called.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
The Japanese style egg salad. Imagine that. And this is
what they say in the news release. It's made with
soft and fluffy milk bread and rich and creamy egg
salad crafted with QP mayonnaise. It's Japan's original egg yolk
only mayo, known for its umami packed flavor. The Japanese
style egg salad sandwich is equal parts comfort food and
(35:46):
culinary icon.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
So I got them. I will tell you. It's a
pretty little sandwich. Cono, Did you try yours?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I add some questions.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
No, just try it.
Speaker 20 (35:55):
No, because it's from seven eleven. I've grown up eating
from seven eleven. Is this was this prepackaged? Or is
this just sitting there?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
No, it's pre packaged.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Is there a date best Buy?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yes? I got a best buye Saturday of twelve thirteen.
Speaker 20 (36:11):
Okay, because I'm wearing about my eggs. That's all I
want to eat eggs.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
They're mass marketing and I are going to be like
a head in the bathroom at the other show.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
We try it, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Okay, So it is. It is fluffy white bread, and
it does it's very pretty. I mean for a salad
that comes in a plastic container, or eggs solad that
comes in plastic container, it is good. Is it so
that the trick is supposed to be the QP mayonnaise?
It's ooh, mommy packed.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
It almost has uh what's the sweet mayonnaise.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Miracle whip?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, it almost has a miracle whip.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Oh taste well anyway, it's white bread, it's eggs salad.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
It's good. It's good. It's very fluffy bread too.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
It is very fluffy remove fluffy bride.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
It reminds me of a high tea at the Empress
Hotel because you know they have those little sandwiches, like
little tomato sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I'm not that sophisticated.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh all right, so anyway, that's that's what it is.
It's it's very exciting. Yeah, it's six dollars. It's okay,
is it all? Is it worth it? I mean like
it's going viral.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
And they had a bunch of them because, like I said,
I thought, I'm like, oh, are we going to be
able to get them? Will they be sold out of
the day For the day, they had.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
A ton of them. They've actually whipped the egg concoction
into it. There's no structure to it. Yeah, it's just
light and buffy. It's like a it's like a deviled
egg kind of yeah, but there's no chunks of like
the egg whites or anything. It's smooth.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
There you go give it a try. Let just know
what you think.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Got to finish chewing.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The City of La has opened a holiday donation drive
for families affected by immigration enforcements.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Their drop off locations at City Hall and Downtown La
and the City Hall buildings in South La. Van NICs
Eagle Rock, West La, and San Pedro Merbas says it's
important for the city to show its true spirit of
being united, compassionate and caring. The city is asking for
all new items toys, gifts, books, sports equipment, warm winter coats,
grocery cards or even Metro tap cards. The driver is
(38:25):
open through next Wednesday. Michael monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Thieves have burrowed into a business in Woodland Hills, allegedly
stealing about thirty thousand dollars worth of trading cards. The
owner of Cards and Coffee says the thieves first broke
into Mendocino Farms yesterday, which is next door, then made
a hole in the wall and got into the card store.
They got away with Pokemon and sports memorabilia, including Kobe
(38:49):
Lebron and Michael Jordan trading cards.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
They were only in the place for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Utility crews had already shut off the flow of gas
before a powerful explosion blew up a house in the
Bay Area. Six people were injured in the explosion and
fire in Hayward yesterday. Several other homes were damaged. A
spokesperson for PG and E says construction crews damaged multiple
gas lines just after seven point thirty. The gas company
(39:16):
turned off the gas by nine to twenty five. The
explosion happened about ten minutes later. Indiana's Republican led Senate
has decisively rejected a re drawn congressional map that would
favor their party. President Trump has been urging Republicans across
the country to redraw congressional maps in an unusual campaign
to help the party maintain its thin majority in the
(39:37):
House of Representatives. The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on
three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicholas Munduro, plus six tankers
suspected of transporting Venezuelan oil. ABC's Martha Radit says it
comes after the administration seized an oil tanker off the
coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 21 (39:55):
Officials say that tanker was transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela
and Iran as part of an illicit oil shipping network
supporting foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
The ship is being guided to a port in the US.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
This Christmas season may not be quite as merry because
of money. A new poll shows American shoppers have been
dipping into their savings and scouring for bargains because of
high prices on everything from groceries to electricity to gifts.
A new ap nork Pole says Americans think the economy
is stuck in a rut under President Trump. About half
of those polls say it's harder than usual to afford presidents,
(40:33):
and about the same numbers say they're delaying big purchases
or cutting back on non essential items. The president says
the US economy is booming and has expressed frustration that
the public feels differently. He said on Truth Social when
will people understand what is happening? People, by the way,
felt similarly dismal about holiday shopping and the economy when
(40:54):
President Biden was president in twenty twenty two. This is
KFI and KOSTO Los Angeles, Orange County live from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. For producer and and technical
producer Kono along with traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
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It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is your wake up call for Friday, December twelfth.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I want to say hi to early risers. Thanks for
getting up early. You're probably not doing it just because
you like the show. It's probably because you got to
go to work or something.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Right.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Either way, I'm happy you're here.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Hey, we had our company Christmas party yesterday and someone
hit us up on the talkback about it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Ay Evelhobber here iHeartRadio Christmas party. Yeah it's today.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Oh yes, sir Herd.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
There's an open bar and a sexy I just hope
you and Will don't get too drunk and you end
up taking photocopies on the printer while you two are
making out. Have a great day, Amy, Thanks for bitening
my morning every day.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You're welcome, and don't worry. That's not going to happen.
And it didn't happen, did not happen. I don't know
if they got out of control or not. I actually
I had to go because I had to take Shelby
to the vet.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I'll tell you about that later. Yes, back to the vent.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But anyway, Hey, you can hit us up anytime on
the iHeartRadio app. It's the little microphone in the upper
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Speaker 4 (01:39):
Wake Up Call. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This beautiful Friday morning, The La County DA's office has
charged five unlicensed contractors for illegally offering to rebuild properties
in Alta Dina damaged by the Eton fire. LA County
DA Nathan Hoffman says if others try this, his office
is going to go after them too. The man accused
of assassin conservative activist Charlie Kirk has appeared in person
(02:03):
in court for the first time. Tyler Robinson, occasionally smiled
as he spoke to his defense lawyers before the hearing.
He's charged with murder, and prosecutors say they planned to
go for the death penalty. LA City officials are accepting
donations as part of a holiday drive for families impacted
by federal Immigration Enforcement the city's looking for new toys, books,
sports gear, warm winter clothes and grocery cards. Donations can
(02:27):
be dropped off next Wednesday around the city. So the
US sees that Venezuelan oil tanker that was apparently transporting
oil to Iran. ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us.
Let us know what's going on with that, what's going
to happen to the oil and with the tanker too?
Having guests for dinner, how about for Christmas for the
whole week? Dean Sharp's going to join us at five
(02:48):
twenty to tell us how to deck the halls and
declutter the home ahead of the holidays. Something is apparently
all the rage. At seven to eleven, it's very exciting. Well,
we got it. We're going to try it. We'll let
you know if it's worth the hype. I guess we're
going to be your human guinea pigs. Of course Ann
and Kono don't know that yet, but they are in
another day, another vet bill for my precious little Shelby.
(03:11):
You guys have all been so kind about her health issues,
so I have a little update on her and the
running tally on how much a ten pound cap actually costs.
It's into the thousands. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A car has crashed into a building in Santa Monica,
causing part of the building to collapse. The crash happened
(03:33):
at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Princeton Street
this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The driver was taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The LAPD says it's going to be forced to stop
hiring if it doesn't get a budget increase.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald says he agrees with the letter
from Mayor Bass to the city council. Four point four
million dollars is needed immediately or new recruit classes stop
in January.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Fewer officer officers will mean longer shifts, increased over time,
and a greater strain on all of.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Our department has more than four hundred officers in the
hiring pipeline, but there was never any money allocated in
the city budget for it. The city council told the
department that months ago, but LAPED proceeded with the hirings anyway.
Michael monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
At least six people have been hurt in an explosion
in a neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. It
happened yesterday morning in a densely populated part of Hayward.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
This guy says he felt the blast.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I could sleep through anything, and it woke me.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
Up and it was a big boom and house jumped,
literally literally jumped.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
At least a couple of homes were destroyed and a
highway had to be shut down. Neighbors say a street
construction project was being done at the time of the explosion.
PG and E says a third party construction crew damaged
an underground gas line in the area about two hours earlier,
Disney's making a billion dollar leap into AI.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
The company announced a one billion dollar investment in Open
Ai and a three year deal that will let Sora
users generate videos featuring more than two hunderd Disney character
from Mickey Mouse to the Mandalorian. Curated AI generated content
will appear on Disney Plus, and Disney says it plans
to use open AI tools internally. Characters are expected to
roll out on Sora in early twenty twenty six, as
(05:12):
both companies emphasize quote responsible AI and creator protections.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
How the brookerp KFI News.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We're going to go to Karen.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Now, we'll check in with Will in just a moment, Okay,
probably a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Good morning, Karen.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
As tensions ramp up between the US and Venezuela, the
US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of
the South American country.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So what's the latest. What's going to be done with
the tanker and with the oil.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
The tanker is heading to a port in Texas. That's
what we are hearing this morning from US officials, and
the White House said yesterday the US intends to take
all the oil that was contained in the tanker. The
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt so that the vessel is going
through a forfeiture process, that the people on board are
being interviewed as part of an investigation, but that there
is a legal process to seize the oil that is
(06:01):
now and will be followed. The tanker, according to the
White House, was transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.
And now there could be more tankers that are seized
because the administration is sanctioning six additional tankers they say
are carrying Venezuela and oil. So they're certainly indicating that
this is just the first and what could be part
of a campaign in the coming weeks.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So are they trying to stop all oil or just
oil that's going to around.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
It's not clear, and they were certainly not telegraphing their
playbook yesterday. There were questions that the briefing about, you know,
are you going to do this again how soon? In
Caroline Levitt wouldn't say. Did say though, that the President
is committed to enacting the administration's sanction policy. Even the
President yesterday when he was pushed on this wasn't really
showing his cards. They're surprised, but it is part of
(06:52):
this broader pressure campaign right now on Venezuela and on
President Nicholas Maduro. The President and Caroline were asked yesterday
about whether this campaign and the operations are about drugs
with those boat strikes or about oil, and both said
it's about both. At this point, you know that they
want to stop the illegal flow of drugs into the US,
(07:12):
but also stopping or enacting the administrations and enforcing the
sanctions policy that's in place.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Okay, and so you just mentioned enforcing the sanctions policy.
So the US has the authority to seize a ship
like this or is that sort of in it.
Speaker 10 (07:27):
Yeah, when it's that's what every legal expert we've been
talking to say, Yeah, this is when you've sanctioned the
ship like this. Yes they can now it's going through
the actual process, so yes, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And Venezuela is saying that the US committed an act
of piracy.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
There are they expecting Pezuaita they to do anything?
Speaker 10 (07:50):
Not clear they have, certainly Venezuela has pushed back strongly
with words we heard Maduro again condemning this as criminal
piracy and active inner national piracy. Theft is what they
were saying over the last two days. But in terms
of what they will do, that's not clear.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
ABC's Karen Travers, thanks for the update. I have a
great day, all right, have a good weekend.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A magnitude six
point seven earthquake has caused small tsunami waves off the
coast of northeastern Japan. The quake today was centered near
the a Amrii region on the main Japanese island. The
japan Meteorological agency issued a tsunami advisory. It was lifted
(08:35):
about two hours later. The quake today followed a magnitude
seven point five quake that hit the area on Monday.
That one caused injuries, some damage and a small tsunami
on Japan's Pacific coast. The Senate has voted down two
healthcare proposals, one from Republicans and one from Democrats. ABC's
Mary Bruce's Affordable Care Act tax credits now hang in
(08:57):
the balance.
Speaker 11 (08:58):
Senate Republicans blocked a move to extend Obamacare subsidies, saying
the whole healthcare system needs to be overhauled, but Republicans
still have not agreed on their own health care plan.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
She says more than twenty million Americans are all but
certain to see their health insurance premiums go up at
the end of the year. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been
released from federal immigration detention following a judge's order that
he be let go. The judge in Maryland said yesterday
the man from El Salvador has been detained without any
legal basis after he was deported and then returned to
(09:32):
the US. He's scheduled to appear this morning at an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office in Baltimore. And we're
also just getting worried that the federal judge has issued
a temporary restraining order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining
Abrego Garcia again. A grand jury in Virginia's refused for
a third time to indict New York Attorney General Letitia
(09:55):
James for mortgage fraud.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
It's also the second setback in a week for the
Justice Department. A judge dismissed an earlier case last month
based on the unlawful appointment of US Attorney Lindsay Halligan.
Prosecutors claim New York's ag falsely listed a how she
bought in twenty twenty as the second home instead of
an investment property. Her lawyer issuing a statement calling this
(10:18):
third grand jury denial an unprecedented rejection that makes it
even clearer that this case never should have seen the
light of day. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler Gimnor.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Newsom has criticized an executive order on Artificial intelligence signed
by President Trump. It creates one central clearinghouse for AI regulation.
Newsom says it'll hurt states like California, which he says
is a leader in advancing AI. Trump says it's better
to have one central source of approval.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Every time you make a change, and it could be
a very reasonable change, you still won't get it approved of.
You have to go in a fifty states, So this
centralizes it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Newsom says giving the Fed's sole control over AI's implemented
in practice would mean no AI safeguards. Eight football players
from Philadelphia are accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth
of merchandise from a Dick's Sporting goods store in Florida.
The theft happened just hours before they were scheduled to
play in a championship game. Officials say the teens took
(11:18):
an uber to the store, stuffed forty seven items into
their bags and their pants, and then took off. The
players were members of the United Thoroughbred's youth football team.
Some swollen rivers in Washington State have not crested yet,
but another round of rain is on the way. Meteorologist
Danny Beckstrom says in the Midwest, people are ready for
(11:39):
yet another rain of snow and bitter cold.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Big Arctic glass for the weekend.
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Windshills dipping below zero from Minneapolis to Chicago Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It'll feel like the teens here in New York City.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Friday morning getting.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Even colder for the I ninety five corrid or by.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Monday, Jesus, the next round of rain is forecast to
move into the Pacific Northwest on Sunday night into Monday.
That could swell rivers again and cause more flooding. One
hundred thousand people are being forced to evacuate. A new
study shows dark chocolate may slow aging.
Speaker 14 (12:07):
The study looked at a chemical in dark chocolate that
gives it the bitter taste and found its link to
DNA that appears biologically. Younger Researchers looked at levels of
the chemical called theobromine and the blood in sixteen hundred people,
and for the most part, people who had the higher
amount of the chemical had DNA that appeared younger. Researchers
caution though, that people should eat dark chocolate in moderation
because it could be high in fat and sugar. So
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thanks for that, Mark Groener, KFI News, and I.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Was about to just say past the dark chocolate please,
although I'm not much of a dark chocolate are you guys?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You like dark chocolate? I like milk chocolate sweet.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
The latest casualty of the Palisades fire is the Pallisadian Post.
The owner of the ninety seven year old paper says
it is ceasing operations. He says the fire destroyed businesses
that brought advertise or bought advertising, and the paper lost
readers because the Palisades became a ghost town after the fires.
A security supervisor at Moreno Valley Highchool's been arrested for
(13:06):
allegedly sexually assaulting a student. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department
says their investigation uncovered evidence of a sexual assault at
Canyon Springs High School. Kilmar A Brego Garcia has been
released from ice custody following a judge's order. A Brego Garcia,
who Homeland Security says is an illegal immigrant and gang member,
has been fighting deportation attempts for months. In ordering the
(13:29):
release yesterday, the judge said a Brego Garcia has been
held without lawful authority, and the judge followed up this
morning by issuing a temporary restraining order so immigration officials
can't pick them up again. Let's say good morning now
to the host of Home on KFI. It's the house
whispered Dean sharp morning, Dean morning, Amy. So it's not
(13:50):
only time to deck the halls, it's time to declutter
your home ahead of the holidays.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
You know, a lot of people go through this, and
it came to my attention about a year ago, and
I've been following this that around the holidays.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Now.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
I don't know if you realize this, but there has
been a new trend across America and it's here in
southern California as well, and that is people who do
kind of a forty eight hour declutter before the in
laws arrive, meaning they don't have space to put a
lot of stuff that's in the way, actually get a
(14:24):
short term storage area and put a lot of their
stuff temporarily through the month of December and into January
into storage until the family is gone, and then bring
it all back.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Wait, people are actually getting storage units to make room
for family to come visit.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Yeah, it turns out that storage units offering short term
rentals are now like they look forward to December.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It's one of the biggest months of the year.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Okay, So what are some things that people should be
thinking about clearing out?
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Well, you know, I mean I'm not advocating getting a
storage unit, but if it is.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Tottle extreme, but I mean, if you have to, you
have to.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Well, you know what it comes from now is that
people are utilizing their homes more and more for themselves
all the time. So you've got things like guest rooms
that aren't really guest rooms. They're spare rooms that have
been converted to offices or gyms or you know, other
kinds of storage spaces. And if you're having family and
all of a sudden, that room has got to be
a guest room again, and there just isn't necessarily place
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to put stuff. But it brings up the whole subject
which I love, which is decluttering. People ask me all
the time, They're like, hey, what's the one thing I
can do inexpensively to my home to make it look better?
And I say, there's absolutely only one answer that I
always give, and that is, you know, bite the bullet
and declutter. Nothing ruins a good design or good decor
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or anything more than having too much stuff. And so
I'm all for the idea of decluttering for the holidays,
especially if family's coming into town. You're gonna have to
make some space. So you're going to need to clear
out some pathways. That's what I like to think about.
Think about the pathway of your guest into where they're
gonna be staying. Clearing out the entryway, the living room,
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the guest bathroom, and the sleeping area. Hallways included. Hallways
are an area where surprisingly a lot of clutter can
form in a hallway. Clear it out so that it's
all open and clear, give your guests some space. And
then if you've put stuff into storage come January, press
pause for a second. Once the decorations come back down,
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look around, enjoy how open and clean things are, and
maybe maybe consider not bringing it all back.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Boy, you've got me thinking, because I'm just sitting there thinking, yep,
I got that clutter right now, and I hate it.
But I've I have a small space. I don't have
a large home here, and so I'm running out of
room because as you go through years, you accumulate stuff,
right absolutely, And they've been thinking about like the entry way,
like there's coats hanging by the door, or an extra
(17:08):
pair of shoes there. Get that stuff out of there,
because then your whole house looks less cluttered.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Absolutely absolutely, And the holidays are a great time to
make the excuse of getting rid of things or clearing
things out. I should say, because you're not getting rid
of it, let's just say we're moving it to the side.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
But that again is a process that we send a
lot of our clients through. We're like, hey, don't get
rid of it, Let's just move it to the side.
Let's clear it out of the space, get used to
living in this space with less stuff in it. And
then in a month or two, let's have a conversation
about whether you really really really wanted to come back.
(17:46):
Because you know, I mean, you decorate for the holidays.
I decorate for the holidays. It actually adds another layer
of things in the room. Yeah, and so it's really
good time to think that stuff through.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I love that, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And then I love this too, where you said, as
you're going through the process of decluttering, don't just shove
it in the closets.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
And there's a reason.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Oh absolutely, there's a reason, because closets don't don't belong
as storage units. I say this all the time. And
this is the one thing. If you want to take
something and just chew on it and hold this, closets
inside a house should not be considered long term storage.
Closets should be considered staging areas for frequently used items.
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That's what a closet is for. Everything else can be
long term storage, but not in your closets, and freeing
yourself from that burden that can change everything.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And plus you said in your notes, if you do
use your closets for storage, your in laws are going
to end up noticing.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Oh no, absolutely, I mean here, this is why it's
such a prime time for this, because because you're showing
off your place to somebody else, and that use that
impetus to say, you know what, maybe maybe I really
just should clean up my act here a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Absolutely, Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And then here's like we were talking about getting rid
of clutter, but you also say that if you want
to just create more space, it only takes one thing.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Yeah, Quite often in every room there's one thing that
is kind of like the key that if you remove
it can free up the space, maybe one piece of furniture,
one chair, one end table, one something. And so it
doesn't have to be like, oh, I've got to get
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rid of fifty percent of the things in my house
and now it's not true. Go into a room. Try
removing just one signific significant item. It may unlock the
entire room.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, perfect, So great advice. And you're gonna be talking
about this all weekend.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah okay.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
And you can listen six to eight tomorrow morning right
here on KFI and nine to noon on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
The show is called Home with Dean s Thank you
Dean Sharp. Oh and you can follow him too at
Home with Teen.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Thank you Amy.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Sounds good.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Oh, it'll be our last show before Christmas, I know. Okay, Well,
we've got to find some fun Christmasy stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
We will so we could drive people crazy because I
talk about Christmas too much.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
All right, thank you Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
By bye.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
woman from Harupa Valley has been stabbed at Macy's flagship
store in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Please say.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
She was attacked on the seventh floor of the Macy's
Herald Square store Thursday afternoon. Police say it appears the
attack was unprovoked. Carrie A. Hearn of Massachusetts was arrested
in charge with attempted murder. A Macy spokesperson released a
statement saying we're deeply saddened about the incident that took place,
as the safety of our customers in college's top priority.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
NBC Scott Pringle says the woman was stabbed multiple times
and is recovering in the hospital. The Ela County DA's
office has charged five unlicensed contractors for a legally offering
to rebuild properties in Altadena damaged by the Eton Fire.
The DA's office ran a sting that busted the five
operating illegally. DA Nathan Hockman says it's a warning for
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anyone else who's thinking about doing.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
It, warning wildfire, state of emergency, unlicensed contractors and contractors
fraud will be prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
The five men could face up to three years in
prison if convicted. Huntington Beach has lost another round in
court in its fight against California's affordable housing requirements.
Speaker 15 (21:31):
The state Supreme Court refused to review an appeals court
ruling that lower court said that Serf City must follow
the affordable housing requirements. Both Governor Gavin Newsoman Attorney General
Rob Bonta hailed the decision. HB officials have long insisted
that its status as a charter city means it does
not have to comply with state affordable housing mandates. The
States sued the city in March of twenty twenty three,
(21:52):
and many elements of the case are still pending. HB
still hopes that the US Supreme Court will agree to
hear the case.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Kofive News the.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
World Cup ticket sales window has opened.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
FIFA's third random draw phase for the twenty twenty six
tournament just started and runs until January thirteenth, with matchups
now said. Fans can apply for single game tickets across
all one hundred and four matches hosted in the US, Mexico,
and Canada. Fans must register on FIFA dot com for
a chance to buy, and demand is expected to be huge.
Prices range from about sixty dollars for group stage games
(22:26):
to more than sixty seven hundred dollars for the final.
How the Rooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Police are looking for three men who tried to break
into a house in San Marino. Reilly say the trio
shut off the power and severed a water pipe when
they attempted to break in Tuesday. A housekeeper saw what
they were doing called the homeowner. The guys took off
before police showed up. The Senate has voted down both
Republican and Democrat healthcare proposals aimed at stopping rising costs.
(22:53):
Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of this year.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republican leaders are moving forward
the healthcare package that excludes ACA subsidy extensions, but would
instead set up health savings accounts for families and individuals.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Snoop Dogg has.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Been named the first ever honorary coach of Team USA
for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. In a
post on LinkedIn, he says he will support Team USA
on and off the field during the twenty twenty six
Winter Games in Italy. Coach Snoop said he's looking to
bring a little more love and motivation to the group.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Speaking of Republicans and Democrats, President Trump says, Hey, we
can all work together.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Bill's going to tell you more about that.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Hey, we took our Southern California sleigh ride yesterday to
enchant very cool place at Santa Anita Park. Even got
the endorsement not endorsement, but the sign off by a
very own Shannon Farren. She went there and said she
loved it too. Well, we got another one for you,
Scott wide in about it on the talkback King.
Speaker 16 (24:00):
This is Scott and Pittsburgh, PA, originally from Glahaber, California.
We're coming out for Christmas this year to go to
the Rose Parade. We're also going to go to Disconso
Gardens for their Christmas Evening Show one night. I would
urge you to consider promoting that on your program too.
The Disconso Evening Program runs I believe through New Year's
(24:22):
or maybe January two, so anyhow might want to check
it out. Thanks as always, love you guys.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
That's a great reminder, Scott. We didn't make it out
to Disconso this year. I think we were there last year.
And they also have a fabulous Christmas display. So if
you're looking for fun holiday things to do, here's what's
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah
has made his first in person court appearance. His lawyers
(24:48):
asked the judge yesterday to limit media access in the case,
saying all the media attention could interfere with Tyler Robinson's
right to a fair trial. Prosecutors have charged Robinson with
aggravated murder and say they plan to ask for the
death penalty. President Trump is thanked both Republican and Democratic
lawmakers for their work in Congress during the annual Congressional
(25:08):
ball He told them last night at the White House
that regardless of their differences, they can find ways to
come together as Americans.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I really believe we can work on healthcare together and
come up with something that's going to be much better,
much less expensive for the people, less expensive for our nation.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
His comment came the same day the Senate voted down
both Republican and Democrat health care proposals to avoid a
massive spike in healthcare premium, says Affordable Care Act subsidies
are set to expire at the end of the year.
USC football may be forced out of its home stadium
at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after the twenty twenty
(25:45):
eight Olympic and Paralympic Games, at least for a while
the only time, says The one hundred million dollar temporary
track being put in for the games. Track and field again.
Events probably wonn't be removed in time for the start
of USC's football season. No final decisions have been made,
but Sofi Stadium could be the most likely alternative for
the Trojans to play at least some of their games.
(26:07):
The LA Department of Water and Powers agreed to inspect
nearly one hundred drinking water reservoirs and storage tanks and
to clean more than fifty of them. The epas identified
maintenance issues it says could pose a risk of contamination
if those things are left undone. The DWP operates the
second largest water system in the United States, serving about
(26:28):
four million customers in the Greater LA area. The next
time you're in the ocean, keep an air out for
the fish.
Speaker 17 (26:36):
A new tool uses underwater microphones and cameras to identify
fish using the sounds. They make spatial audio figures out
where the sound comes from, and the camera snaps a
pick to you or me. It may sound like a
small pop, but Fish Eye Collaborative says the diversity of
fish sounds on a coral reef rivals that of birds
and a rainforest. It says it's matched up at least
forty six fish species in the Caribbean with the sounds
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they make, and more than half of them were never
owned to make a sound. More than seven hundred species
make sounds on the Caribbean alone. The researchers are expanding
next to Hawaii and Indonesia in the coming months. Michael
Krozer kf I News.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You'll be surprised. I mean, didn't Chelsea finding Nemo? Okay, Cono,
come on.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
That was good.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg, as
we do every today, but we don't have Denise this morning.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
We have Erica. Good morning, Erica, Good morning Amy. Okay,
doing good.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So let's talk about Open AI.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
And how it's getting disneyfied.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
Yeah, So Open ai users are going to soon be
able to use Disney characters on Sora. The two companies
announcing a three year licensing deal that'll allow users to
generate short form videos on the AI platform using more
than two hundred Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters.
A selection of the user generated videos will be made
available to watch.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
On Disney Plus.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
The deal will also allow.
Speaker 13 (27:59):
Chat gpt to create user prompted images using Disney properties,
and as part of the deal. Disney's making a billion
dollar equity investment into Open.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
AI, So we're gonna have all these little Disney shorts.
I was thinking about it as I was driving in.
I was like, okay, so I could make a little
mini movie and put me in, you know, next to.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Aladdin. You know, is that who you would choose? No,
it's just what came to mind. Whatever, So more prince charming.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, okay, We've already got Waimo here driving around without
drivers in LA. But Uber says it's gonna do some
expansion for driverless cars too.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
Uber says it expects to offer robo taxi services in
more than ten markets by the end of next year,
the company hoping to position itself as the dominant force
in an industry it estimates will eventually be worth at
least a trillion dollars. Uber's made hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of investments into autonomous vehicle developers, with the
company's CEO saying Uber has quote plenty of capital to
invest in growth area.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
We were talking about AI a second ago. Well, Broadcom
is taking a hit because of AI.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
Yeah, Well, broadcamt shares are down about five percent in
pre market trading after sales outlook for the AI market
failed to meet investors expectations.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
CEO Hocktan says.
Speaker 13 (29:16):
The company has a backlog of seventy three billion dollars
in AI product orders and investors are still looking for
more clarity on when or how Broadcom will get that
payoff from AI.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Wait, so they they have orders for AI, but they
just haven't delivered yet, right they orders?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
They exactly? Okay. Lululemon not quite as popular popular as
it used to be.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (29:40):
Shares down eleven percent after yesterday's closing, Lulu boosting its
full year earnings, though per share guidance reporting that early
holiday performance was encouraging. Cheaper knockoffs and quality missteps have
plagued Lululemon, leading to a sales slow down and shares
falling fifty percent this year.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Separately, the company said the.
Speaker 13 (29:57):
CEO, Calvin McDonald, he was stepping down at the end
of January.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
That seems reasonable if you've lost fifty percent of your
market share. Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And the FDA looking to put a black box warning
on some vaccines.
Speaker 13 (30:12):
Yeah, COVID nineteen vaccines, specifically Amy and CNN reporting that
the food and Drug Administration preparing to do that. Black
box warning is the strongest caution for prescription drugs that
is usually a reserve for alerting patients to possible adverse
reactions that could lead to death or serious injury. Bloomberg
reported earlier this week that the FDA was currently investigating
(30:32):
whether COVID nineteen vaccines caused death in adults.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yikes, okay, ABC or not ABC?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Sorry, Bloomberg's Erica Hrstkowitz, thank you so much. We get
in your business every day at five point forty, well
except on weekends. We'll do it again Monday. Have a
good weekend. Hey, Dean Sharp and I. We're talking earlier
about decluttering your home, getting it ready for like the
in laws to come visit, and we had someone weigh
(30:58):
in on talkback.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Dean and Amy, good morning. I cannot believe people are
renting storage to declutter because the in laws are coming
or whatever. It's like, get rid of it, donate it.
It's the end of the year. You're going to get
a tax right off. Other people can use the stuff
(31:20):
that you don't use. Oh, humans, that's why California is
the way it is. People vote that way. Blah, blah
Mike blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Voice sounds like somebody who works here. Ooh, maybe it
is they colin all inc Meatium. It's a good point, though,
like renting a whole storage unit to make room for
somebody to come visit, you might be a little excessive.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A pro housing group pursued Governor Newsom for restricting duplex
construction in the Palisades and Eaton Burn areas. SB nine,
which took effect in twenty twenty one, allows homeowners to
split single family lots into as many as four properties,
but new has restricted that law. San Francisco based Yimbie
(32:03):
Law says that's a constitutional overreach and violates the California
Emergency Services Act. The son of Grammy nominated opera star
Jubilant Sykes has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing
his father to death at the family's home in Santa Monica.
Micah Sikes appeared in court yesterday. His arraignment has been
delayed until after the new year. He remains in jail.
(32:24):
The state Supreme Court has refused to review an appellate
court ruling requiring the City of Huntington Beach to build
affordable housing in the city. Governor Newsom applauded the decision, saying,
in his words, no more excuses.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
You lost again. It's time to get building.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Hey, got a lot of nice comments on the talk
about and on my Instagram about Shelby, my lovely little
kitten who she's not a kitten, she's like thirteen years old,
but she spent the day at the vet er and
also fifteen hundred dollars at the vet er to find
out that she has asthma.
Speaker 18 (32:56):
My Amy Kim from Lake Forest. Sorry deligrit like that.
Glad to hear you found out what's going on. I
had a cat with asthma as well. Let you know,
you can also use your prescription for asthma to get
the meds and it's a lot less. Same exact prescription
RX that you use, you can use on your kiddy.
(33:19):
Just to heads up, to save some money, have a
good day.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I would be all about saving money. That's a great recommendation.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
And actually it is it's people Inhaler's that she has
to she has to take and she has to have
this little contraption because you can't just do an inhaler
into a cat's mouth.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Is it a nebulizer.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
It's not a nebulizer.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It's like the contraption that you put on the end
of the inhaler, like you plug it into it and
then you stick it the contraption over their nose, so
then they'll breathe in whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
It is, almost like an oxygen mask.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, kind of like that. I'll bring it in and
show it to if you want to see it. It's
it was a bargain on Amazon, just like fifty or
sixty dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Anyway, she's doing okay.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
She was actually she was breathing really good last night
and overnight, so I was thrilled. But she's getting her
inhaler twice a day, and then they just put her
on steroids.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
We went.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back to the vet, and then of course they said, well,
we want to do more tests, and I'm like, why
do we have to do a test? They wanted to
test for fungus that if it's fungus, they can treat it.
And I said, what's the likelihood of her getting fungus
if she's an indoor cat and she hasn't been walking
around in the dirt or on grass or doing any
kind of outside activities. They said, well, you might track
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it in, so we did a fungus test. So the
running tally is now over two thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
But I love her. I love her.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Okay, there's something new that's all the rage at seven eleven,
and I was like, after we got done with a vet,
I went, oh, there's a seven eleven. I got to
go grab this because I've been meaning to grab it
and try it. So it is it's an egg salad sandwich.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
What egg salady?
Speaker 19 (35:04):
Yes, So apparently it's all the rage in Japan, and
so now it's available at seven eleven, and I thought, wow,
I'm going to go into the seven eleven.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I wonder if I'm gonna be able to find it.
There's signs on the door about it, like ooh, here's
the egg salad sandwich.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
So it's called.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
The Japanese style egg salad. Imagine that. And this is
what they say in the news release. It's made with
soft and fluffy milk bread and rich and creamy egg
salad crafted with QP mayonnaise. It's Japan's original egg yolk
only mayo, known for its umami packed flavor. The Japanese
style egg salad sandwich is equal parts comfort food and
(35:46):
culinary icon.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
So I got them. I will tell you. It's a
pretty little sandwich. Cono, Did you try yours?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I add some questions.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
No, just try it.
Speaker 20 (35:55):
No, because it's from seven eleven. I've grown up eating
from seven eleven. Is this was this prepackaged? Or is
this just sitting there?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
No, it's pre packaged.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Is there a date best Buy?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Yes? I got a best buye Saturday of twelve thirteen.
Speaker 20 (36:11):
Okay, because I'm wearing about my eggs. That's all I
want to eat eggs.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
They're mass marketing and I are going to be like
a head in the bathroom at the other show.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
We try it, okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Okay, So it is. It is fluffy white bread, and
it does it's very pretty. I mean for a salad
that comes in a plastic container, or eggs solad that
comes in plastic container, it is good. Is it so
that the trick is supposed to be the QP mayonnaise?
It's ooh, mommy packed.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
It almost has uh what's the sweet mayonnaise.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Miracle whip?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, it almost has a miracle whip.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Oh taste well anyway, it's white bread, it's eggs salad.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
It's good. It's good. It's very fluffy bread too.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
It is very fluffy remove fluffy bride.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
It reminds me of a high tea at the Empress
Hotel because you know they have those little sandwiches, like
little tomato sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
I'm not that sophisticated.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh all right, so anyway, that's that's what it is.
It's it's very exciting. Yeah, it's six dollars. It's okay,
is it all? Is it worth it? I mean like
it's going viral.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
And they had a bunch of them because, like I said,
I thought, I'm like, oh, are we going to be
able to get them? Will they be sold out of
the day For the day, they had.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
A ton of them. They've actually whipped the egg concoction
into it. There's no structure to it. Yeah, it's just
light and buffy. It's like a it's like a deviled
egg kind of yeah, but there's no chunks of like
the egg whites or anything. It's smooth.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
There you go give it a try. Let just know
what you think.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Got to finish chewing.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The City of La has opened a holiday donation drive
for families affected by immigration enforcements.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Their drop off locations at City Hall and Downtown La
and the City Hall buildings in South La. Van NICs
Eagle Rock, West La, and San Pedro Merbas says it's
important for the city to show its true spirit of
being united, compassionate and caring. The city is asking for
all new items toys, gifts, books, sports equipment, warm winter coats,
grocery cards or even Metro tap cards. The driver is
(38:25):
open through next Wednesday. Michael monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Thieves have burrowed into a business in Woodland Hills, allegedly
stealing about thirty thousand dollars worth of trading cards. The
owner of Cards and Coffee says the thieves first broke
into Mendocino Farms yesterday, which is next door, then made
a hole in the wall and got into the card store.
They got away with Pokemon and sports memorabilia, including Kobe
(38:49):
Lebron and Michael Jordan trading cards.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
They were only in the place for a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Utility crews had already shut off the flow of gas
before a powerful explosion blew up a house in the
Bay Area. Six people were injured in the explosion and
fire in Hayward yesterday. Several other homes were damaged. A
spokesperson for PG and E says construction crews damaged multiple
gas lines just after seven point thirty. The gas company
(39:16):
turned off the gas by nine to twenty five. The
explosion happened about ten minutes later. Indiana's Republican led Senate
has decisively rejected a re drawn congressional map that would
favor their party. President Trump has been urging Republicans across
the country to redraw congressional maps in an unusual campaign
to help the party maintain its thin majority in the
(39:37):
House of Representatives. The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on
three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicholas Munduro, plus six tankers
suspected of transporting Venezuelan oil. ABC's Martha Radit says it
comes after the administration seized an oil tanker off the
coast of Venezuela.
Speaker 21 (39:55):
Officials say that tanker was transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela
and Iran as part of an illicit oil shipping network
supporting foreign terrorist organizations.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
The ship is being guided to a port in the US.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
This Christmas season may not be quite as merry because
of money. A new poll shows American shoppers have been
dipping into their savings and scouring for bargains because of
high prices on everything from groceries to electricity to gifts.
A new ap nork Pole says Americans think the economy
is stuck in a rut under President Trump. About half
of those polls say it's harder than usual to afford presidents,
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and about the same numbers say they're delaying big purchases
or cutting back on non essential items. The president says
the US economy is booming and has expressed frustration that
the public feels differently. He said on Truth Social when
will people understand what is happening? People, by the way,
felt similarly dismal about holiday shopping and the economy when
(40:54):
President Biden was president in twenty twenty two. This is
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KFI twenty four hour newsroom. For producer and and technical
producer Kono along with traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King.
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