December 5, 2025 • 39 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. The show opens with ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy discussing a Grand Jury rejecting DOJ’s attempt to revive fraud case against NY AG James & SCOTUS allowing Texas to use a congressional map favorable to GOP in 2026. ABC News journalist Mason Leath talks about this week in viral news from drunk racoons to stolen chickens. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Erica Herskowitz who speaks on what the markets are looking like as the week comes to a close. The show closes with ABC News entertainment correspondent Will Ganns with the ‘Entertainment Report.’ Today, Will talks ‘Knives Out,’ ‘Missing Kids,’ and Melissa McCarthy returning to SNL.
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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.
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KFI hand kost HB two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is your wake up call for Friday, December fifth.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good morning, early risers. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Speaking of the
radio app, if you have something to say to wake
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Be nice. That's all I ask. That's all I ask.
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It's a happy Friday. I can feel it actually, cause
it's going to be a good day.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm actually you know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
We go out and about to southern California sleigh ride
locations and we're going to do a couple of them
this weekend. And producer AND's going with me for one
of them. I O, buddy, Nick's going with me for
another one. So we will be reporting back on some
of those things at a future date. But here's what's
ahead on this date. On wake up call, the National
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Weather Services big waves and mild Santa Ana winds are
rolling through southern California, win US up to about twenty
five miles an hour expected in some areas.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
King tides the coast could.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Generate more than seven foot waves, and some coastal flooding
from San Diego up to Ventura Counties possible through tomorrow.
Lawmakers in the classified briefing on US strikes on suspected
Venezuelan NARCO boats say there was no kill order given.
Connecticut Democratic Congressman Jim Hines confirmed that Navy Admiral Mitch
Bradley said there were no such orders by Department of
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth, as claimed by the Washington Post.
Lebron James NBA record streak of twelve hundred and ninety
seven consecutive double digit scoring games in the regular season
is over. The NBA's career points leader was held to
just alle eight points in the LA Lakers one twenty
three one twenty went over the Raptors. President Trump wins
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one in Texas and loses one in Virginia. ABC Stephen
Portnoy's going to join us to tell us about the
rulings and what they mean. And with all the darkness
and nastiness, we're going to lighten it up. I told
you it's going to be a happy Friday. We've got
ABC's digital reporter Mason Leith joining us. New words, drunk raccoons,
dogs who take a dip in the ocean, and a
chicken stealing activist.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
All that coming up. That's at five twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And if you're on the couch this weekend, ABC's Willgans
has some ideas on what to watch and get your
knives out. There's a new movie in theaters. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County Sheriff's Deputies has
shot a man in Paramount. It happened just before ten
last night on Alhambra Avenue near Mission Road. A woman
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had reported her boyfriend was outside with a gun. It's
not clear what led to the shooting. ABC seven reported
the man was armed and had a child standing nearby
when deputies shot him. News brought to you by Ruterhroo
dot Com. A rebuilt home in West Altadena is about
to become the first since the Eaten Fire to get
a certificate of occupancy.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
We've been looking forward to this for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Holme owner John Dyson tells NBC four he wasn't sure
he was going to be able to be rebuilt after
he lost his home in January.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
When I started to look at the cost of rebuilding
and to meet the new codes that are required, and
I looked at the lovel.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Of insurance we had, I knew that it was going.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
To be a lot, but he made it happen, He says.
The new home looks like wood, but it's concrete, so
it's not going to burn. Dyson helped build the original
home with his father almost fifty years ago. Earlier this week,
the first person in Altadena got a certificate of occupancy.
Love to hear that people are starting to move back in,
even though this process is so slow. California Insurance Commissioner
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Ricardo Laura's facing backlash for failing to fully disclose details
about trips he took the La Times reports Laura took
at least thirty two trips in the first six months
after he took office in twenty nineteen. Payment records for
two thirds of his trips remain unreported or incomplete. That
includes failing to disclose who paid for five star hotels,
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premium airline seats, and fine dining. He's now facing an
investigation for potential campaign finance and ethics violations. The US
Geological Survey has quickly retracted a report of a five
point nine magnitude earthquake near Lake Tahoe. The quake was
reported shortly after eight am yesterday in Dayton, Nevada. But
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it was actually a faulty automatic detection system that triggered
a shake alert that was then sent out to people
in state line South LA or a South Lake Tahoe
rather and the Bay area.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
No shaking actually happened. That's always good news.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
President Trump has got to be unhappy about this. What
decision came down from a federal grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
The grand jury in Norfolk declined to resurrect charges against
Letitia James New York State's Attorney General, who had been
charged by a grand jury in Virginia in October with
mortgage fraud. She has fiercely denied that she'd ever did
anything wrong. And the purchase of a home in Norfolk
for her niece, which her niece has apparently occupied for years,
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and which you know, this is dispute about whether she
bought it as an investment property, but she's never really
rented it out. There's you know, the indictment back in
October only suggested that she only made brought took in
one thousand dollars and rent from her niece, hardly profit.
And so yesterday the grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia declined
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to resurrect the charges, which had been dismissed almost two
weeks ago. You may remember, Amy, we talked about it
just before Thanksgiving. A judge who reviewed Lindsay Halligan's appointment
as the acting US Attorney found that appointment was illegal
and that the indictments that she brought against the Tisha
James and James Comy both had to be dismissed, but
that the Justice Department could try again. Now in the
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case of the Titsha James. They tried again and failed.
And the question is there a ham sand Which problem
at the Justice Department? Or I should say, is there
a constitutional problem at the Justice Department, because you know
the old saying, is it a grand jury will indict
a ham Sandwich? You now, I got you right?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, Friday, Yeah, okay, So Stephen, was the decision not
to indict based on merits or was it because of
the disqualification of Lindsay Halligan?
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Well, it has nothing to it, right, So what you
need to understand is that what happens behind the closed
doors of a grand jury we don't know. But but
but it wouldn't have anything to do with Lindsay Halligan
because the evidence would be presented cleanly, you'd imagine. Okay,
now here's a question.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
All right.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
We don't know how Halligan presented the Letitia James case
to a grand jury, but we have a sense of
how she presented the Comy case to a grand jury,
and that was the subject of some significant court revelations
and papers and all this from a federal magistrate judge
who examined the transcript of how Halligan presented the King
the Comy case and He accused her of violating Comy's
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constitutional rights. He accused her of violating a normal practice
for a prosecutor in a grand jury, and suggested that
perhaps the chargers could be dismissed on that basis. Ultimately,
the case was dropped on a completely different legal basis.
But it raises questions of you know, how did Halligan,
who'd never been a prosecutor, never talked to a grand
jury before, how did she comport herself? What did she
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say or do that may have jeopardized you know, each
of these cases we don't know. But the fact that
you have to remember how Eligan was appointed after the
previous acting US Attorney was forced out by President Trump
because he was upset, clearly and publicly so that the
Justice Department wasn't acting fast enough to go after his
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political rivals, including Letitia James and James Comby, whom he named. Now,
there was an argument made privately inside the US Attorney's
office that the case against Comy wasn't strong enough, the
case against Letitia James wasn't strong enough. And yesterday you saw,
well the constitutional check on prosecutors take hold. You know,
there's a reason we have grand juries and that is
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so that charges come from the people, but also so
that there's some amount of a you know, it's a
low bar, right, you only need half. I mean a
majority majority is half plus one. Thirteen out of twelve
out of the twenty three members of the Grand Jury
have to agree to move forward with an indictment if
they find probable cause. But that's meant to be a
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check on the power of prosecutors, and yesterday that check
box the prosecutors in.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, all right, and then I know you have to
leave us in just a few seconds. But on the
flip side, Trump's got to be happy about the Supreme
Court ruling of the Texas redistricting.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Not a huge surprise. The Justices, by a six to
three vote, are allowing the redistricting in Texas to take hold,
rejecting for now the argument that it's unconstitutional or illegal
racial racial jerrymander based on the race of people in
Texas and that they carved out Hispanics to because they
believe them to be Democrats. The Justices yesterday six to
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three held that it's partisan, not necessarily racial, and the
partisan jerrymandering is as old as jerry mannering itself and
perfectly constitutional and appropriate in the process. Really, the question
is what does this mean for California and other states
that are now taking countermeasures. I'd imagine that that too
would stand, even though the Justice Department has filed a
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lawsuit alleging the California's redistricting is a racial jerry mander.
I guess we'll have to see, but for now, the
Texas change stands, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
ABC, Stephen Portner, thanks so much. Sorry to keep you long.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Today, h you two ticket.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
The family the.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Guy accused of putting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters
of the Republican and Democratic National Parties just before the
January sixth attack in Washington, d C. Speaking out ABC's
Peter Thomas is the man has been identified as Brian Cole,
Junior of Virginia.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Cole's grandmother telling ABC News the family is completely shocked
and that her grandson quote wouldn't her to fly.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Cole faces up to twenty years in prison if convicted.
Lawmakers in DC have received a closed door briefing from
Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley on the controversial strikes on an
alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September. ABC's Martha
Raddit says there were two survivors after the first strike,
and more were ordered that killed him.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Democrats and Republicans given very different versions of what happened,
and again President Trump says he will release the entire
video for the American public to see.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Admiral Bradley says the vote still posed a threat and
he stands by his actions. A vote by a CDC
advisory panel on whether newborns should still get the hepatitis
B vaccine has been delayed again. It was supposed to
happen yesterday. The vote was put off until today because
of confusion on the exact wording of the questions the
committee was set to vote on. The hepatitis B vaccine
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has been universally recommended for newborns in the US since
nineteen ninety one. A jaguar has been spotted in Arizona.
The University of Arizona Arizona Wildcat Research and Conservation Center
says it's the fifth big cat in the last fifteen
years to be spotted in the area. After crossing the
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US Mexico border. The animal was caught by a remote
camera when it was at a watering hole. Researchers are
now collecting scat samples for genetic analysis to figure out
the jaguar sex and what it likes to eat, hopefully
little things. I mentioned that if you wanted to call
in and say hi, weigh in on the talkback, you
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could do that and we got I think it's a
former longshoreman.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Hey, there for.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
For shipyard worker.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Way to get us warehouse and if Harper's approached, stay.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, okay, I love that. Stay positive. Hey, you know what,
we're early risers.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
We have to.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
We have to.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Also, the video of my SoCal sleighride to Notts Mary
Farm is up on my Instagram. You can go check
it out at Amy Kkan also at KFI AM six
forty Get a little get a little sample of what's
going on at Knotsberry Farm. It's so beautiful this time
of year. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. In what La Mayor Bass calls and
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historic milestone, the LEDWP has stopped using its last coal
power electricity as of last week. DWP stopped coal fueled
energy from the interm In Power Project in Utah.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
The city has pledged to only use clean power by
twenty thirty five.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
A grand jury's decided not to indict New York Attorney
General Letitia James after being asked to look into mortgage
fraud claims against her for a second time. Initial charges
were thrown out ten days ago. She has denied any wrongdoing.
Five wild birds found in parts of La County have
tested positive for H five bird flu. Officials say the
risk of being affected for humans still remains very low.
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The birds were discovered last month in Van Eyes, Manhattan Beach, Malibu,
San Pedro, and Palace Vertees. Let's say good morning Now
two ABC's digital reporter Mason Leith.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Good morning, Mason, good morning.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Thank you so much for having me on your show. Amy.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I know, I think this is the first time that
we've talked, so welcome to wake Up Call.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, of course, because you're you're going to talk about
fun stuff. When we've decided it's going to be a
happy Friday. With all the nastiness darkness in the world,
we thought we might lighten it up a bit have
some fun. So first off, let's talk about words and
Oxford University Press's word of the year.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
Yeah, so the word of the year from Oxford University
Press is kind of alluding to exactly what you just mentioned,
which is that their word of the year for twenty
twenty five is the word rage bait, which basically they
define as any sort of content that people can create
on social media accounts or anything online with the intended
effect to create anger that then increases engagement on their
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social media post or anything of that nature.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh so it's the app it's the opposite of happiness
and joy.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Okay, So what are some of the other words that
got flagged by Oxford University Press.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
So they had a top three finalist rage baiting number one,
and the other two were or of farming and biohack.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Okay, I don't know what there one of those are, so.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
I'll fill you in because I did not know about
either of these as well. But oor farming is basically
defined by Oxford as doing things to kind of increase
your public persona, increase your mystique, your mysterious sort of
public facing personality, to kind of, I don't know, make
you a little bit seem like cooler. And then bio
hack is kind of in a similar vein of personal
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improvement in that with your physical and emotional wellness, it's
doing anything like taking supplements, having a better gym routine,
doing something you know, cosmetic to just makes you look
better and feel better about yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Okay, I think I need to do both aura farming
and biohacks.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
This was probably my favorite story of the week because
we're talking about stuff that's going viral and that kind
of and it's the masked bandit that got into a
liquor store, and we have pictures.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Exactly, so we have some adorable photos coming out of
a liquor store in Virginia, a mass bandit exact to
what you said. He basically broke into this liquor store,
knocked a bunch of bottles over on the shelves, the
bottles spilled out, he started lapping up this multiple types
of alcohol, and then he passed out next to a
toilet in the bathroom of the alcohol store, and people
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came to investigate and plot twist. The mass bandit was
indeed a little tiny.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Raccoon, and so they took the raccoon.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
They took him back to I guess the animal drunk tank,
and they kept him overnight while he sobered up, and
then in the morning he seemed like he was doing
better and they released him into the wild.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
There's so many questions like how did he end up
in the bathroom? Was he thirsty or did he say
was he just really smart and said I'm going to
throw up, I better get into the toilet.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
You know, I think it was instinctual.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
I think, you know, hopefully maybe he had not been
there before, but he just had a feeling that he
was having a long night. No one was there to
hold his hair, and he just.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Passed out right next to the toilet.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
All right. The pictures are priceless, Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And then there's the chicken liberating animal rights activist exactly.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
This is coming out of California and you know where
you guys are, And there's a woman. Her name is
Zoe Rosenberg. She's an animal rights act to this, she's
twenty three and she's done some pretty amazing animal rights
I guess, like public facing movements where she wants change
herself to an NBA basketball hoop.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
At a playoff game, she wants dressed up as a
Chick fil.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
A employee and talk to customers and the drive through
line the dangers of eating chicken. And then she basically
stole four chickens from a factory farm and she was
arrested and she has to go to prison now for
ninety days.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh my gosh, ninety days for four chickens. I wonder
what happened to the chickens.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
There's still I guess with her somewhere, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We have more to talk about, but I know that
you've got a heart out, So Mason Leith, I think
we should check in with you more often because I
like this happiness stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Definitely. I'd love to come back.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
All right, thanks so much, ABC News Digital Reporter, Mason Leath,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You sh'd take care.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
The story that we didn't get to was the one
about Sadie that happened in San Diego that you may
have heard of, and that is that a dog disappeared.
I think it was during a football game and Sadie
escapes from the house, runs off. They can't find her,
but they've got one of those air tags. So they're
walking up and down the beach because that's where the
air tag is saying she is. And they find her
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like a half mile out in the water yet and
they almost gave up the search for her. And then
I think lifeguards on a sea dooo or something spotted
her and they were able to go get her and
bring her back to shore. And she's okay. But how
did she get that far out? She must have got
stuck in a rick current herself. Lucky dog, that is
one lucky dog. But we're happy to hear that Sadie
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is okay. A long time lobbyist Greg Campbell has pleaded
guilty in a sweeping political corruption case tied to Governor
Newsom's former chief of staff and former HHS Secretary Xavier Bessera.
Investigators say Campbell helped Dana Williamson, that's the Armer chief
of staff, and Sean McCluskey divert two hundred twenty five
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thousand dollars from Bessera's inactive campaign account into McCluskey's personal
bank account. He also helped Williamson in falsifying documents during
an investigation into her taking improper pandemic era business loans.
Campbell's facing up to ten years in federal prison and
a half million dollars in fines when he sentenced. The
man accused of killing an al Hamber police officers pleaded
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not guilty to murder and other charges.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Stephen Arazapata was ordered to remain jailed in lieu of
just over four million dollars bail. The twenty seven year
old was allegedly behind the wheel of a stolen Hyundai
SUV when he collided with the patrol cruiser driven by
officer Alex Sanders. He died from the crash, as did
forty two year old Gabriella Moreno, who was a passenger
in Hyundai. The Elmondi managed charged with two counts each
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of murder and fleeing a peace officer's motor vehicle causing death.
He also faces a single count of reckless driving on
a highway causing a specified injury. Mark Mayfield, Kofi.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
News and online vigilante, is working to flush out pedophiles
in the Southland.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
He goes by Big Bad Wolf online and sets up
fake accounts posing as a teen as bait.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Both times they just say, oh well, if you can
keep it a secret, then it's okay with me.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Recently, Big Bad Wolf was part of a sting that
landed a pastor at South Bay Church of God in
Torrance behind bars.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
It got sexually like would send a couple of messages,
he says.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Out of the four hundred possible predator pedophiles that he's
come in contact with online, about two hundred have been
convicted of sex crimes. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
New hotlines available for people to report suspected child abuse
committed by LA County employees.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
This comes after settlements of thousands of childhood sex abuse
claims under a state law. People can now call two
to one one or make a report online. Reports will
be automatically flagged for a senior county team to deal
with claims and expedite investigations. The two one one LA
hotline and website reporting tools are not intended to replace
the Child Protection hotline. This is just for reporting the
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actions of county workforce members, including employees, contractors, and volunteers.
Debor Mark KIFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Monterey Park has put a pause on a proposal to
build a massive data center. Several residents voice their concerns
about environmental impact of the project at this week's city
council meeting. The plans call for converting a vacant office
building and property into a two hundred and fifty thousand
square foot data center. The Monterey Park City Council will
revisit the proposal in January. A twelve person committee from
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the Catholic Church that includes five women has recommended against
women presiding over baptisms and funerals. ABC's Britt Clennant says
the recommendation was made to pop Leo.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
This is the second study into this debate at the
request of Pope Francis, who opened the conversation after a
twenty sixteen request from the Rome based Umbrella group representing
the world's Catholic scissors and nuns.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
She says there's a push within the church for women
to be allowed to become deacons who can preside at weddings, baptisms,
and funerals. Police have waited patiently for six days and
now they've recovered a James Bond inspired Faberge egg pendant
that was swallowed by a jewelry thief.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
New Zealand police say they were covered it without medical intervention.
They released a photo of the pendant and Chaine and
it's thirty three thousand dollars price tag intact and hopefully
rinsed off. Cops busted the suspect in an Auckland jewelry
store November twenty eighth, shortly after the alleged theft, and
had been watching him ever since, waiting for the jewelry
to re emerge. The green and amel and gold pendant,
encrusted with diamonds and sapphires, was inspired by nineteen eighty
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three's Octopussy, But as Bond said, and diamonds are forever solving.
The case was parliamentar doctor Leta Ronner Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
It's so gross.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Stood off.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Coming up next on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
We have new postathon totals and there is still some
time for you to donate to those. Get those dollars
to show with Bruno so he can keep feeding twenty
five thousand children a week.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
The numbers are good, they're good. We're not done yet.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The La County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs will
soon begin accepting applications for emergency rent relief to residents
impacted by January's wildfires and federal immigration crackdowns. The application
period for the Emergency rent Relief program will run From
December seventeenth through January twenty third, a twenty four hour
hotline is being launched to take reports of suspected child
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sexual abuse committed by LA County employees, contractors, and volunteers. Victims, families,
and witnesses of suspected abuse can called two to one
one One Battle after another and Sinners, along with TV's
adolescents and the studio, have been named as AFI Award honorees.
The honors, presented by the American Film Institute recognize films
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and TV programs that are deemed, in its words, culturally
and artistically representative of this year's most significant achievements in
the art of the moving image. The moving image, that
would be movies. Okay, gotcha, six oh five, it's handle
on the news. The FBI has arrested a suspect in
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the DC pipe bombing from five years ago. We'll talk
about that, Okay. The money, the pasta, the sauce, it's
still coming in. As of yesterday afternoon, you have helped
us raise one point one million dollars for the KFI
Pastathon and ninety two thousand pounds of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
And we're not done yet.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You can go to Wendy's through Sunday night and for
that five dollars donation you get a coupon book that's
worth way more than that to get some great Wendy's treats.
We don't have that total yet, and you can still
make a donation at the checkout at all Smarten Finals
in SoCal, Nevada and Arizona. So we'll have final numbers
next week. If you haven't donated yet, we still would
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so appreciate it if if you do it this weekend
at Wendy's and Smart and Final. But right now we're
at over one point one million dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Amazing. You guys are amazing. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
President Trump and First Lady Milania have done the honors
lighting the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse just south
of the White House. Trump delivered a message of peace
and thanked first responders, police, ice and service members.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Thank you to the men and women of the United
States Military, including the brave ears of our National Guard
here in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Last night's event also featured performances by The Beach Boys,
Christian music singer Matthew West, and country artist Gabby Barrett
A former Wells Fargo banker has pleaded guilty in LA
to fraudulently obtaining nearly two point seven million dollars in
COVID nineteen relief funds and small business loans, partly by
using stolen identities of developmentally disabled persons who lived in
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long term care facilities.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
A company from Italy is recycling internet.
Speaker 13 (26:00):
Please Bending Spoons has just bought event Bright. You know
event Bright because you probably have emails from them in
your junk mail folder. The event and ticketing website will
join other websites, including Vimeo and AOL that are getting
scooped up by the company based in Milan. Bending Spoons
was a scrapbook app twelve years ago, but it's pivoted
to acquiring and rebuilding digital businesses that have seen better days,
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in part by laying off lots of employees. Event Bright
was valued at one point seven six billion dollars in
twenty eighteen, but Bending Spoons just got it for half
a billion. Bending Spoons value is now at eleven billion dollars.
Michael Krozier kf I News Time to.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Get in your business now with not Dennise Pellegrini. Today
we have a stand in It's Erica herschowet's good morning Erica.
Speaker 14 (26:43):
Good morning Amy. Yeah, big deal this morning coming down
the world's dominant paid streaming service buying one of Hollywood's
oldest and most revered studios. Netflix has agreed to purchase
Warner Brothers Discovery in a cash and stock deal said
to be worth seventy two billion dollars under this del
Under the announcement amounts today, Warner Brothers shareholders will receive
twenty seven to seventy five a share in cash and
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stock in Netflix, and prior to the closing of the sale,
Warner Brothers will complete that plan spinoff of cable channels
including CNN, TBS, and TNT. This acquisition works a dramatic
strategic shift for Netflix, which becomes owner of the HBO
Networks and Warner Brothers assets and not included its studios
and a vast film and TV library.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Amazing, So I is wasn't somebody else trying to buy
Warner Brothers for a while?
Speaker 14 (27:31):
Oh for sure, Yeah, Paramount Skydance was in on IT
comcasts or a bunch of bidders, But it seems that
Netflix has emerged. So this is a really big deal.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Okay, and then TikTok is getting sued again. How come?
Speaker 14 (27:45):
Yeah, Hawaii? This time Amy's latest to sue TikTok for
contributing to the youth mental health crisis, The state's attorney
general claiming that the platform was deliberately designed to exploit
kids underdeveloped brains, and its features like live streaming and
endless scrolling are meant to be addictive and expose children
to inappropriate materials. TikTok denies this claim and says it's
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implemented robust safety measures to support the well being of
its community.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
M okay, we normally think of gold and silver as
things to invest in, but copper is also getting in
the game.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (28:21):
Well, gold and silver are high right now, but copper
now rising to a record traders anticipating a shortage caused
by stockpiling in the US, and ANALYSTID City Group predictable
average thirteen thousand dollars a ton next year, a key
component in pipes, power cables, and electric vehicles. The metals
being hoarded in anticipation of import tariffs next year.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I like copper, so there, and I know it's very
popular with the thieves too, So okay.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
I don't wear it though, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I actually have some.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Little cute little copper things that I got at the
Sawdust festival.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I think.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
Oh me.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Anyway, So cloud Flare, Oh, they had their big outage
last week. What's going on with them?
Speaker 14 (29:02):
Yeah, well, they fixed the new problem that's led to
the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom, and LinkedIn to
go down this morning. A major outage at cloud fair
a cloud Flare last month, like you just mentioned, disrupted
several social media sites and chat GPT for hours. Shares
in cloud Flare are dropping as much as six percent
in pre market trading.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Okay, and then well your notes say just ahead of
the busy shopping center.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
But I think we're in it, So we are in it.
What's going on with al To Beauty. They're having a
good year.
Speaker 14 (29:32):
Yeah, yeah, people are still buying their beauty products, hair products.
All to Beauty raising its full year outlook after reporting
better than expected results in the third quarter. It's a
sign that consumers are overcoming any reluctance to spend money
and still buying makeup and hair supplies. The company now
expects comparable sales to be up as much as four
point seven percent for the current fiscal year.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Either that or we're tired of looking tired and so
we're just making sure that we're buying our makeups that
we look better.
Speaker 14 (29:58):
Okay, different times, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Thank you so much, Erica, with Bloomberg getting in your
business like we do every weekday. Have a great weekend,
you too. A rapper and social media influencer has been
arrested for allegedly inviting two women to a vacant home
in Pacific Palisades that he claimed was his, and then
sexually assaulting them. Thirty two year old Clinton Adams was
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arrested on November nineteenth. The LAPD is asking other potential
victims to come forward. The Trump administrations made good on
a promise to get more water to California farmers in
the state's Crop Ridge Central Valley, but California officials and
environmental groups have blasted the move, saying sending significantly more
water to farmlands could threaten water delivery to the rest
of the state and would harm salmon and other fish.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Speaking of water, don't go in it.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
That's the warning from the National Weather Service, as abnormally
high surf caused by king tides is forecast from Venturrea
to San Diego. Waves of over seven feet and coastal
flooding are possible through tomorrow morning. Let's say good morning
Now two ABC's multi platform reporter Willgans Marty will Hey.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Good morning Amy.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Happy Friday, Happy Friday. Get your knives out if you're
going to the theater. Wait, that sounds wrong.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Yes, or at least prepare to watch knives out Maybe
leave your actual not Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the
third installment in the Ryan Johnson franchise, So this knives.
That movie is called Wake Up dead Man, and Daniel
Craig is back as Ben wa Blanc, solving yet another murder,
as he would say, And this cast is stacked. Josh
O'Connors in it, Josh Brol, Glenn.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Close, Kerrie Washington, you name it, they're in it. And
it is so fun.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
This is like absolutely in my top one or two
or three movies of the year. It's about a small
town in upstate New York and Catholic parish and the
priest is one of the people who is killed, so
they're trying to figure out which of the parishioners may
have done it.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Why gee, that sounds fun.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yes, it's funny. It's fun, it's great, it's it's a
it's listen.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
I know it's it sounds dark, but you know these movies,
they're silly and they're you know, twists and turns and
Agatha Christie level uh, you know, mystery. So I had
a ton of fun watching this in theaters and great
news if you don't want to go to the theater.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
It comes to Netflix on the twelfth, so a week
from today.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Okay, wait, it's going to be out already.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
So I think they're doing the limited theatrical release thing
just so that way it can be considered for awards
become awards season, because that's one of the stipulations.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
But it is a Netflix movie.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, So the other ones didn't go to the movie theaters,
did they they were on Netflix or did they correct? Okay,
so that's what I was thinking. I was like, I
don't remember this being a movie theater movie.
Speaker 14 (32:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
So I think they've they've figured out the formula to
where they can have the best of both worlds.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Nice. Okay, well I'm gonna have to check that out
because I haven't seen any of them. But and I
do remember I know right.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I remember people saying, oh, this is so good and
I never watched them, so I'm going to have to
go catch up.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yeah I love this one.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Okay, so real quick.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We did talk about this on my Amy's on It
segment this week, all her faults with Sarah Snook.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I loved it.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Yeah, I mean, this is great.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
She's incredible.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
This is Sarah Snook, who a lot of people may
remember from Succession and so she won awards for that
and she's back in this show. And it's about a
mom who drops her kid off for a playdate and
when she goes to pick him up, she finds out
that the whole thing was a setup and now that
her kid is missing, and there's a small group of people,
mostly related to her, that she thinks may be involved.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
And it's up to her and the police to figure
out who did it and why.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
And you know, the acting's great, the writing is nice
and soapy for anyone who likes a sensational drama. And yeah,
all eight episodes are streaming on Peacock.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Now, yeah, I think it's torturous, like but in a
good way, Like it's riveting and engaging and all that stuff,
but just to see Sarah Snook. I mean, she's just
in pain the whole movie, and she does such a
good job just being absolutely coming apart, distraught.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Yes, compelling.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Yeah, she's so good.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah okay. And then on the other side, if you
want to, we could use a good laugh. It is
happy Friday after all.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
What you guys exactly.
Speaker 8 (34:28):
Melissa McCarthy returns to host snlmorrow. This is her sixth
time doing it, her first since twenty seventeen, and in
my opinion, I mean, in the modern era, she is
the best SNL host there is. She's just she commits
every single time, whether she's playing an older man or
a child, she's just amazing. So that that's tomorrow, and
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being that it is her sixth time, they usually bring back,
you know, people once they cross that five five hosting mark,
so I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
If she shows up with a couple of special guests
as well.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Oh okay, I'm gonna put that on my list. I
don't always watch SNL, but I love Melissa McCarthy. And
did you finally go see Wicked? You know?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I did? Yeah? Yeah I did, and and I loved it.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
Listen had the bar was set so high by the
first one, and you know, I still think maybe the
first one is the slightly better of the two, but
it's just, yeah, it was. It was still great, and
the two of them are fantastic. And you know, I
think Golden Globe nominations come out Monday. I think we're
gonna hear Wicked for Good over and over and over again. Really, yeah,
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I think so. I like the acting nominations, Directing and
then you know, Best Comedy of Musical.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Yeah, I think we'll hear it a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I know that I need to go see it again
because it's so it's just there's so much going on that,
you know, and and everybody says, oh, there's all these
Easter eggs in it, and I know that, you know,
that's in the first movie too, And I watched the
first movie over and over and go, oh, I didn't
see that the first time.
Speaker 13 (36:00):
Oh, so.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
We're seeing again.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, okayod ABC's multi platform reporter Willgans, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
We'll talk to you.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Neant you all right, sound Amy, take care?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
All right, Happy Friday, because it is a happy Friday.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. No more coal
in LA's stocking. The city has dropped its last tie
to coal power. LADWP stopped getting coal based electricity from
the inter Mountain Power Project in Utah earlier this week.
That facility has switched over to a mixture of natural
gas and hydrogen power. LA Mayor Bass said yesterday at
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a news conference that, in her words, LA's coal divestment
is not just about discontinuing the use of coal power
to our city. It's about building a clean energy economy
that benefits every Angelina Bass added that LA plans to
keep investing in solar, wind and other renewable resources. Video
circulating online shows a woman in Florida being dragged from
her car by ice agents.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
ABC's Victor A.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Kendo said she's heard screaming for help and trying to
explain that she's an American citizen.
Speaker 13 (37:04):
The woman was driving her boyfriend's car, who was an
undocumented immigrant. The Department of Homeland Security stating she was
removed from the vehicle and briefly held while her identity
was confirmed.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
The woman was released once agents confirmed her identity. A
federal judge in LA has heard arguments but has not
made an immediate ruling on a Trump administration moved to
dismiss a lawsuit brought by protesters, legal observers, and journalists
against the Department of Homeland Security. The suit alleges they
were attacked in violation of their constitutional rights to protest
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and report on government actions during immigration raids over the summer.
Texas Governor Abbott says the Supreme Court decision upholding the
state's midterm redistricting is a win for Texas voters. ABC's
Devin Dwyer says the court will allow Texas to go
ahead with a newly redrawn congressional map for the twenty
twenty six midterms.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
The Supreme Court's conservative majority overruling that judge who had concluded,
after a nine day trial three thousand pages of evidence
that the new Texas maps were racially jerrymandered.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
The Supreme Court says that conclusion was likely wrong because
it didn't account for the good faith on the part
of the map draws. In Texas, and Old Bay is
bringing back the tin can for its Chesapeake Bay seasoning.
The company says Old Bay is a symbol of heritage, flavor,
and Baltimore pride. And the return of the tin is
their way of honoring generations of fans who have made
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Old Bay a staple for decades. The tins are set
to hit store shelves this month. Ooh, just in time
to make a commemorative collective thing for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Right Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for
producer and a technical producer Cono, along with traffic specialist
Will I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call,
and if you missed any wake up call, you can
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI hand kost HB two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
This is your wake up call for Friday, December fifth.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good morning, early risers. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Speaking of the
radio app, if you have something to say to wake
up call, we'd love to hear from you, weigh in yes,
and as Will just said without turning on his microphone.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Be nice. That's all I ask. That's all I ask.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But if you want to weigh in on the talk back,
there's the little microphone in the upper right hand corner
when you're listening on the Heart Radio app. Loved it
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It's a happy Friday. I can feel it actually, cause
it's going to be a good day.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm actually you know.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
We go out and about to southern California sleigh ride
locations and we're going to do a couple of them
this weekend. And producer AND's going with me for one
of them. I O, buddy, Nick's going with me for
another one. So we will be reporting back on some
of those things at a future date. But here's what's
ahead on this date. On wake up call, the National
(01:34):
Weather Services big waves and mild Santa Ana winds are
rolling through southern California, win US up to about twenty
five miles an hour expected in some areas.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
King tides the coast could.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Generate more than seven foot waves, and some coastal flooding
from San Diego up to Ventura Counties possible through tomorrow.
Lawmakers in the classified briefing on US strikes on suspected
Venezuelan NARCO boats say there was no kill order given.
Connecticut Democratic Congressman Jim Hines confirmed that Navy Admiral Mitch
Bradley said there were no such orders by Department of
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth, as claimed by the Washington Post.
Lebron James NBA record streak of twelve hundred and ninety
seven consecutive double digit scoring games in the regular season
is over. The NBA's career points leader was held to
just alle eight points in the LA Lakers one twenty
three one twenty went over the Raptors. President Trump wins
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one in Texas and loses one in Virginia. ABC Stephen
Portnoy's going to join us to tell us about the
rulings and what they mean. And with all the darkness
and nastiness, we're going to lighten it up. I told
you it's going to be a happy Friday. We've got
ABC's digital reporter Mason Leith joining us. New words, drunk raccoons,
dogs who take a dip in the ocean, and a
chicken stealing activist.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
All that coming up. That's at five twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And if you're on the couch this weekend, ABC's Willgans
has some ideas on what to watch and get your
knives out. There's a new movie in theaters. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County Sheriff's Deputies has
shot a man in Paramount. It happened just before ten
last night on Alhambra Avenue near Mission Road. A woman
(03:13):
had reported her boyfriend was outside with a gun. It's
not clear what led to the shooting. ABC seven reported
the man was armed and had a child standing nearby
when deputies shot him. News brought to you by Ruterhroo
dot Com. A rebuilt home in West Altadena is about
to become the first since the Eaten Fire to get
a certificate of occupancy.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
We've been looking forward to this for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Holme owner John Dyson tells NBC four he wasn't sure
he was going to be able to be rebuilt after
he lost his home in January.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
When I started to look at the cost of rebuilding
and to meet the new codes that are required, and
I looked at the lovel.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Of insurance we had, I knew that it was going.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
To be a lot, but he made it happen, He says.
The new home looks like wood, but it's concrete, so
it's not going to burn. Dyson helped build the original
home with his father almost fifty years ago. Earlier this week,
the first person in Altadena got a certificate of occupancy.
Love to hear that people are starting to move back in,
even though this process is so slow. California Insurance Commissioner
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Ricardo Laura's facing backlash for failing to fully disclose details
about trips he took the La Times reports Laura took
at least thirty two trips in the first six months
after he took office in twenty nineteen. Payment records for
two thirds of his trips remain unreported or incomplete. That
includes failing to disclose who paid for five star hotels,
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premium airline seats, and fine dining. He's now facing an
investigation for potential campaign finance and ethics violations. The US
Geological Survey has quickly retracted a report of a five
point nine magnitude earthquake near Lake Tahoe. The quake was
reported shortly after eight am yesterday in Dayton, Nevada. But
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it was actually a faulty automatic detection system that triggered
a shake alert that was then sent out to people
in state line South LA or a South Lake Tahoe
rather and the Bay area.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
No shaking actually happened. That's always good news.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
President Trump has got to be unhappy about this. What
decision came down from a federal grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
The grand jury in Norfolk declined to resurrect charges against
Letitia James New York State's Attorney General, who had been
charged by a grand jury in Virginia in October with
mortgage fraud. She has fiercely denied that she'd ever did
anything wrong. And the purchase of a home in Norfolk
for her niece, which her niece has apparently occupied for years,
(05:43):
and which you know, this is dispute about whether she
bought it as an investment property, but she's never really
rented it out. There's you know, the indictment back in
October only suggested that she only made brought took in
one thousand dollars and rent from her niece, hardly profit.
And so yesterday the grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia declined
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to resurrect the charges, which had been dismissed almost two
weeks ago. You may remember, Amy, we talked about it
just before Thanksgiving. A judge who reviewed Lindsay Halligan's appointment
as the acting US Attorney found that appointment was illegal
and that the indictments that she brought against the Tisha
James and James Comy both had to be dismissed, but
that the Justice Department could try again. Now in the
(06:27):
case of the Titsha James. They tried again and failed.
And the question is there a ham sand Which problem
at the Justice Department? Or I should say, is there
a constitutional problem at the Justice Department, because you know
the old saying, is it a grand jury will indict
a ham Sandwich? You now, I got you right?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, Friday, Yeah, okay, So Stephen, was the decision not
to indict based on merits or was it because of
the disqualification of Lindsay Halligan?
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Well, it has nothing to it, right, So what you
need to understand is that what happens behind the closed
doors of a grand jury we don't know. But but
but it wouldn't have anything to do with Lindsay Halligan
because the evidence would be presented cleanly, you'd imagine. Okay,
now here's a question.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
All right.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
We don't know how Halligan presented the Letitia James case
to a grand jury, but we have a sense of
how she presented the Comy case to a grand jury,
and that was the subject of some significant court revelations
and papers and all this from a federal magistrate judge
who examined the transcript of how Halligan presented the King
the Comy case and He accused her of violating Comy's
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constitutional rights. He accused her of violating a normal practice
for a prosecutor in a grand jury, and suggested that
perhaps the chargers could be dismissed on that basis. Ultimately,
the case was dropped on a completely different legal basis.
But it raises questions of you know, how did Halligan,
who'd never been a prosecutor, never talked to a grand
jury before, how did she comport herself? What did she
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say or do that may have jeopardized you know, each
of these cases we don't know. But the fact that
you have to remember how Eligan was appointed after the
previous acting US Attorney was forced out by President Trump
because he was upset, clearly and publicly so that the
Justice Department wasn't acting fast enough to go after his
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political rivals, including Letitia James and James Comby, whom he named. Now,
there was an argument made privately inside the US Attorney's
office that the case against Comy wasn't strong enough, the
case against Letitia James wasn't strong enough. And yesterday you saw,
well the constitutional check on prosecutors take hold. You know,
there's a reason we have grand juries and that is
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so that charges come from the people, but also so
that there's some amount of a you know, it's a
low bar, right, you only need half. I mean a
majority majority is half plus one. Thirteen out of twelve
out of the twenty three members of the Grand Jury
have to agree to move forward with an indictment if
they find probable cause. But that's meant to be a
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check on the power of prosecutors, and yesterday that check
box the prosecutors in.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, all right, and then I know you have to
leave us in just a few seconds. But on the
flip side, Trump's got to be happy about the Supreme
Court ruling of the Texas redistricting.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Not a huge surprise. The Justices, by a six to
three vote, are allowing the redistricting in Texas to take hold,
rejecting for now the argument that it's unconstitutional or illegal
racial racial jerrymander based on the race of people in
Texas and that they carved out Hispanics to because they
believe them to be Democrats. The Justices yesterday six to
(09:33):
three held that it's partisan, not necessarily racial, and the
partisan jerrymandering is as old as jerry mannering itself and
perfectly constitutional and appropriate in the process. Really, the question
is what does this mean for California and other states
that are now taking countermeasures. I'd imagine that that too
would stand, even though the Justice Department has filed a
(09:55):
lawsuit alleging the California's redistricting is a racial jerry mander.
I guess we'll have to see, but for now, the
Texas change stands, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
ABC, Stephen Portner, thanks so much. Sorry to keep you long.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Today, h you two ticket.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
The family the.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Guy accused of putting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters
of the Republican and Democratic National Parties just before the
January sixth attack in Washington, d C. Speaking out ABC's
Peter Thomas is the man has been identified as Brian Cole,
Junior of Virginia.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Cole's grandmother telling ABC News the family is completely shocked
and that her grandson quote wouldn't her to fly.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Cole faces up to twenty years in prison if convicted.
Lawmakers in DC have received a closed door briefing from
Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley on the controversial strikes on an
alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September. ABC's Martha
Raddit says there were two survivors after the first strike,
and more were ordered that killed him.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Democrats and Republicans given very different versions of what happened,
and again President Trump says he will release the entire
video for the American public to see.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Admiral Bradley says the vote still posed a threat and
he stands by his actions. A vote by a CDC
advisory panel on whether newborns should still get the hepatitis
B vaccine has been delayed again. It was supposed to
happen yesterday. The vote was put off until today because
of confusion on the exact wording of the questions the
committee was set to vote on. The hepatitis B vaccine
(11:25):
has been universally recommended for newborns in the US since
nineteen ninety one. A jaguar has been spotted in Arizona.
The University of Arizona Arizona Wildcat Research and Conservation Center
says it's the fifth big cat in the last fifteen
years to be spotted in the area. After crossing the
(11:46):
US Mexico border. The animal was caught by a remote
camera when it was at a watering hole. Researchers are
now collecting scat samples for genetic analysis to figure out
the jaguar sex and what it likes to eat, hopefully
little things. I mentioned that if you wanted to call
in and say hi, weigh in on the talkback, you
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could do that and we got I think it's a
former longshoreman.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Hey, there for.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
For shipyard worker.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Way to get us warehouse and if Harper's approached, stay.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, okay, I love that. Stay positive. Hey, you know what,
we're early risers.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
We have to.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
We have to.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Also, the video of my SoCal sleighride to Notts Mary
Farm is up on my Instagram. You can go check
it out at Amy Kkan also at KFI AM six
forty Get a little get a little sample of what's
going on at Knotsberry Farm. It's so beautiful this time
of year. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. In what La Mayor Bass calls and
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historic milestone, the LEDWP has stopped using its last coal
power electricity as of last week. DWP stopped coal fueled
energy from the interm In Power Project in Utah.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
The city has pledged to only use clean power by
twenty thirty five.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
A grand jury's decided not to indict New York Attorney
General Letitia James after being asked to look into mortgage
fraud claims against her for a second time. Initial charges
were thrown out ten days ago. She has denied any wrongdoing.
Five wild birds found in parts of La County have
tested positive for H five bird flu. Officials say the
risk of being affected for humans still remains very low.
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The birds were discovered last month in Van Eyes, Manhattan Beach, Malibu,
San Pedro, and Palace Vertees. Let's say good morning Now
two ABC's digital reporter Mason Leith.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Good morning, Mason, good morning.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Thank you so much for having me on your show. Amy.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I know, I think this is the first time that
we've talked, so welcome to wake Up Call.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, of course, because you're you're going to talk about
fun stuff. When we've decided it's going to be a
happy Friday. With all the nastiness darkness in the world,
we thought we might lighten it up a bit have
some fun. So first off, let's talk about words and
Oxford University Press's word of the year.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
Yeah, so the word of the year from Oxford University
Press is kind of alluding to exactly what you just mentioned,
which is that their word of the year for twenty
twenty five is the word rage bait, which basically they
define as any sort of content that people can create
on social media accounts or anything online with the intended
effect to create anger that then increases engagement on their
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social media post or anything of that nature.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh so it's the app it's the opposite of happiness
and joy.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Okay, So what are some of the other words that
got flagged by Oxford University Press.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
So they had a top three finalist rage baiting number one,
and the other two were or of farming and biohack.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Okay, I don't know what there one of those are, so.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
I'll fill you in because I did not know about
either of these as well. But oor farming is basically
defined by Oxford as doing things to kind of increase
your public persona, increase your mystique, your mysterious sort of
public facing personality, to kind of, I don't know, make
you a little bit seem like cooler. And then bio
hack is kind of in a similar vein of personal
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improvement in that with your physical and emotional wellness, it's
doing anything like taking supplements, having a better gym routine,
doing something you know, cosmetic to just makes you look
better and feel better about yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Okay, I think I need to do both aura farming
and biohacks.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
This was probably my favorite story of the week because
we're talking about stuff that's going viral and that kind
of and it's the masked bandit that got into a
liquor store, and we have pictures.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
Exactly, so we have some adorable photos coming out of
a liquor store in Virginia, a mass bandit exact to
what you said. He basically broke into this liquor store,
knocked a bunch of bottles over on the shelves, the
bottles spilled out, he started lapping up this multiple types
of alcohol, and then he passed out next to a
toilet in the bathroom of the alcohol store, and people
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came to investigate and plot twist. The mass bandit was
indeed a little tiny.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Raccoon, and so they took the raccoon.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
They took him back to I guess the animal drunk tank,
and they kept him overnight while he sobered up, and
then in the morning he seemed like he was doing
better and they released him into the wild.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
There's so many questions like how did he end up
in the bathroom? Was he thirsty or did he say
was he just really smart and said I'm going to
throw up, I better get into the toilet.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
You know, I think it was instinctual.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
I think, you know, hopefully maybe he had not been
there before, but he just had a feeling that he
was having a long night. No one was there to
hold his hair, and he just.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Passed out right next to the toilet.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
All right. The pictures are priceless, Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And then there's the chicken liberating animal rights activist exactly.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
This is coming out of California and you know where
you guys are, And there's a woman. Her name is
Zoe Rosenberg. She's an animal rights act to this, she's
twenty three and she's done some pretty amazing animal rights
I guess, like public facing movements where she wants change
herself to an NBA basketball hoop.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
At a playoff game, she wants dressed up as a
Chick fil.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
A employee and talk to customers and the drive through
line the dangers of eating chicken. And then she basically
stole four chickens from a factory farm and she was
arrested and she has to go to prison now for
ninety days.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh my gosh, ninety days for four chickens. I wonder
what happened to the chickens.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
There's still I guess with her somewhere, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We have more to talk about, but I know that
you've got a heart out, So Mason Leith, I think
we should check in with you more often because I
like this happiness stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Definitely. I'd love to come back.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
All right, thanks so much, ABC News Digital Reporter, Mason Leath,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You sh'd take care.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
The story that we didn't get to was the one
about Sadie that happened in San Diego that you may
have heard of, and that is that a dog disappeared.
I think it was during a football game and Sadie
escapes from the house, runs off. They can't find her,
but they've got one of those air tags. So they're
walking up and down the beach because that's where the
air tag is saying she is. And they find her
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like a half mile out in the water yet and
they almost gave up the search for her. And then
I think lifeguards on a sea dooo or something spotted
her and they were able to go get her and
bring her back to shore. And she's okay. But how
did she get that far out? She must have got
stuck in a rick current herself. Lucky dog, that is
one lucky dog. But we're happy to hear that Sadie
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is okay. A long time lobbyist Greg Campbell has pleaded
guilty in a sweeping political corruption case tied to Governor
Newsom's former chief of staff and former HHS Secretary Xavier Bessera.
Investigators say Campbell helped Dana Williamson, that's the Armer chief
of staff, and Sean McCluskey divert two hundred twenty five
(19:02):
thousand dollars from Bessera's inactive campaign account into McCluskey's personal
bank account. He also helped Williamson in falsifying documents during
an investigation into her taking improper pandemic era business loans.
Campbell's facing up to ten years in federal prison and
a half million dollars in fines when he sentenced. The
man accused of killing an al Hamber police officers pleaded
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not guilty to murder and other charges.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Stephen Arazapata was ordered to remain jailed in lieu of
just over four million dollars bail. The twenty seven year
old was allegedly behind the wheel of a stolen Hyundai
SUV when he collided with the patrol cruiser driven by
officer Alex Sanders. He died from the crash, as did
forty two year old Gabriella Moreno, who was a passenger
in Hyundai. The Elmondi managed charged with two counts each
(19:48):
of murder and fleeing a peace officer's motor vehicle causing death.
He also faces a single count of reckless driving on
a highway causing a specified injury. Mark Mayfield, Kofi.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
News and online vigilante, is working to flush out pedophiles
in the Southland.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
He goes by Big Bad Wolf online and sets up
fake accounts posing as a teen as bait.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Both times they just say, oh well, if you can
keep it a secret, then it's okay with me.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Recently, Big Bad Wolf was part of a sting that
landed a pastor at South Bay Church of God in
Torrance behind bars.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
It got sexually like would send a couple of messages,
he says.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Out of the four hundred possible predator pedophiles that he's
come in contact with online, about two hundred have been
convicted of sex crimes. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
New hotlines available for people to report suspected child abuse
committed by LA County employees.
Speaker 11 (20:40):
This comes after settlements of thousands of childhood sex abuse
claims under a state law. People can now call two
to one one or make a report online. Reports will
be automatically flagged for a senior county team to deal
with claims and expedite investigations. The two one one LA
hotline and website reporting tools are not intended to replace
the Child Protection hotline. This is just for reporting the
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actions of county workforce members, including employees, contractors, and volunteers.
Debor Mark KIFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Monterey Park has put a pause on a proposal to
build a massive data center. Several residents voice their concerns
about environmental impact of the project at this week's city
council meeting. The plans call for converting a vacant office
building and property into a two hundred and fifty thousand
square foot data center. The Monterey Park City Council will
revisit the proposal in January. A twelve person committee from
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the Catholic Church that includes five women has recommended against
women presiding over baptisms and funerals. ABC's Britt Clennant says
the recommendation was made to pop Leo.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
This is the second study into this debate at the
request of Pope Francis, who opened the conversation after a
twenty sixteen request from the Rome based Umbrella group representing
the world's Catholic scissors and nuns.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
She says there's a push within the church for women
to be allowed to become deacons who can preside at weddings, baptisms,
and funerals. Police have waited patiently for six days and
now they've recovered a James Bond inspired Faberge egg pendant
that was swallowed by a jewelry thief.
Speaker 10 (22:17):
New Zealand police say they were covered it without medical intervention.
They released a photo of the pendant and Chaine and
it's thirty three thousand dollars price tag intact and hopefully
rinsed off. Cops busted the suspect in an Auckland jewelry
store November twenty eighth, shortly after the alleged theft, and
had been watching him ever since, waiting for the jewelry
to re emerge. The green and amel and gold pendant,
encrusted with diamonds and sapphires, was inspired by nineteen eighty
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three's Octopussy, But as Bond said, and diamonds are forever solving.
The case was parliamentar doctor Leta Ronner Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
It's so gross.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Stood off.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Coming up next on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
We have new postathon totals and there is still some
time for you to donate to those. Get those dollars
to show with Bruno so he can keep feeding twenty
five thousand children a week.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
The numbers are good, they're good. We're not done yet.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The La County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs will
soon begin accepting applications for emergency rent relief to residents
impacted by January's wildfires and federal immigration crackdowns. The application
period for the Emergency rent Relief program will run From
December seventeenth through January twenty third, a twenty four hour
hotline is being launched to take reports of suspected child
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sexual abuse committed by LA County employees, contractors, and volunteers. Victims, families,
and witnesses of suspected abuse can called two to one
one One Battle after another and Sinners, along with TV's
adolescents and the studio, have been named as AFI Award honorees.
The honors, presented by the American Film Institute recognize films
(23:53):
and TV programs that are deemed, in its words, culturally
and artistically representative of this year's most significant achievements in
the art of the moving image. The moving image, that
would be movies. Okay, gotcha, six oh five, it's handle
on the news. The FBI has arrested a suspect in
(24:15):
the DC pipe bombing from five years ago. We'll talk
about that, Okay. The money, the pasta, the sauce, it's
still coming in. As of yesterday afternoon, you have helped
us raise one point one million dollars for the KFI
Pastathon and ninety two thousand pounds of pasta and sauce.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
And we're not done yet.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You can go to Wendy's through Sunday night and for
that five dollars donation you get a coupon book that's
worth way more than that to get some great Wendy's treats.
We don't have that total yet, and you can still
make a donation at the checkout at all Smarten Finals
in SoCal, Nevada and Arizona. So we'll have final numbers
next week. If you haven't donated yet, we still would
(24:59):
so appreciate it if if you do it this weekend
at Wendy's and Smart and Final. But right now we're
at over one point one million dollars.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Amazing. You guys are amazing. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
President Trump and First Lady Milania have done the honors
lighting the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse just south
of the White House. Trump delivered a message of peace
and thanked first responders, police, ice and service members.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Thank you to the men and women of the United
States Military, including the brave ears of our National Guard
here in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Last night's event also featured performances by The Beach Boys,
Christian music singer Matthew West, and country artist Gabby Barrett
A former Wells Fargo banker has pleaded guilty in LA
to fraudulently obtaining nearly two point seven million dollars in
COVID nineteen relief funds and small business loans, partly by
using stolen identities of developmentally disabled persons who lived in
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long term care facilities.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
A company from Italy is recycling internet.
Speaker 13 (26:00):
Please Bending Spoons has just bought event Bright. You know
event Bright because you probably have emails from them in
your junk mail folder. The event and ticketing website will
join other websites, including Vimeo and AOL that are getting
scooped up by the company based in Milan. Bending Spoons
was a scrapbook app twelve years ago, but it's pivoted
to acquiring and rebuilding digital businesses that have seen better days,
(26:21):
in part by laying off lots of employees. Event Bright
was valued at one point seven six billion dollars in
twenty eighteen, but Bending Spoons just got it for half
a billion. Bending Spoons value is now at eleven billion dollars.
Michael Krozier kf I News Time to.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Get in your business now with not Dennise Pellegrini. Today
we have a stand in It's Erica herschowet's good morning Erica.
Speaker 14 (26:43):
Good morning Amy. Yeah, big deal this morning coming down
the world's dominant paid streaming service buying one of Hollywood's
oldest and most revered studios. Netflix has agreed to purchase
Warner Brothers Discovery in a cash and stock deal said
to be worth seventy two billion dollars under this del
Under the announcement amounts today, Warner Brothers shareholders will receive
twenty seven to seventy five a share in cash and
(27:06):
stock in Netflix, and prior to the closing of the sale,
Warner Brothers will complete that plan spinoff of cable channels
including CNN, TBS, and TNT. This acquisition works a dramatic
strategic shift for Netflix, which becomes owner of the HBO
Networks and Warner Brothers assets and not included its studios
and a vast film and TV library.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Amazing, So I is wasn't somebody else trying to buy
Warner Brothers for a while?
Speaker 14 (27:31):
Oh for sure, Yeah, Paramount Skydance was in on IT
comcasts or a bunch of bidders, But it seems that
Netflix has emerged. So this is a really big deal.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Okay, and then TikTok is getting sued again. How come?
Speaker 14 (27:45):
Yeah, Hawaii? This time Amy's latest to sue TikTok for
contributing to the youth mental health crisis, The state's attorney
general claiming that the platform was deliberately designed to exploit
kids underdeveloped brains, and its features like live streaming and
endless scrolling are meant to be addictive and expose children
to inappropriate materials. TikTok denies this claim and says it's
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implemented robust safety measures to support the well being of
its community.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
M okay, we normally think of gold and silver as
things to invest in, but copper is also getting in
the game.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (28:21):
Well, gold and silver are high right now, but copper
now rising to a record traders anticipating a shortage caused
by stockpiling in the US, and ANALYSTID City Group predictable
average thirteen thousand dollars a ton next year, a key
component in pipes, power cables, and electric vehicles. The metals
being hoarded in anticipation of import tariffs next year.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I like copper, so there, and I know it's very
popular with the thieves too, So okay.
Speaker 14 (28:46):
I don't wear it though, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I actually have some.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Little cute little copper things that I got at the
Sawdust festival.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I think.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
Oh me.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Anyway, So cloud Flare, Oh, they had their big outage
last week. What's going on with them?
Speaker 14 (29:02):
Yeah, well, they fixed the new problem that's led to
the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom, and LinkedIn to
go down this morning. A major outage at cloud fair
a cloud Flare last month, like you just mentioned, disrupted
several social media sites and chat GPT for hours. Shares
in cloud Flare are dropping as much as six percent
in pre market trading.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Okay, and then well your notes say just ahead of
the busy shopping center.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
But I think we're in it, So we are in it.
What's going on with al To Beauty. They're having a
good year.
Speaker 14 (29:32):
Yeah, yeah, people are still buying their beauty products, hair products.
All to Beauty raising its full year outlook after reporting
better than expected results in the third quarter. It's a
sign that consumers are overcoming any reluctance to spend money
and still buying makeup and hair supplies. The company now
expects comparable sales to be up as much as four
point seven percent for the current fiscal year.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Either that or we're tired of looking tired and so
we're just making sure that we're buying our makeups that
we look better.
Speaker 14 (29:58):
Okay, different times, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Thank you so much, Erica, with Bloomberg getting in your
business like we do every weekday. Have a great weekend,
you too. A rapper and social media influencer has been
arrested for allegedly inviting two women to a vacant home
in Pacific Palisades that he claimed was his, and then
sexually assaulting them. Thirty two year old Clinton Adams was
(30:20):
arrested on November nineteenth. The LAPD is asking other potential
victims to come forward. The Trump administrations made good on
a promise to get more water to California farmers in
the state's Crop Ridge Central Valley, but California officials and
environmental groups have blasted the move, saying sending significantly more
water to farmlands could threaten water delivery to the rest
of the state and would harm salmon and other fish.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Speaking of water, don't go in it.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
That's the warning from the National Weather Service, as abnormally
high surf caused by king tides is forecast from Venturrea
to San Diego. Waves of over seven feet and coastal
flooding are possible through tomorrow morning. Let's say good morning
Now two ABC's multi platform reporter Willgans Marty will Hey.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Good morning Amy.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Happy Friday, Happy Friday. Get your knives out if you're
going to the theater. Wait, that sounds wrong.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Yes, or at least prepare to watch knives out Maybe
leave your actual not Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the
third installment in the Ryan Johnson franchise, So this knives.
That movie is called Wake Up dead Man, and Daniel
Craig is back as Ben wa Blanc, solving yet another murder,
as he would say, And this cast is stacked. Josh
O'Connors in it, Josh Brol, Glenn.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Close, Kerrie Washington, you name it, they're in it. And
it is so fun.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
This is like absolutely in my top one or two
or three movies of the year. It's about a small
town in upstate New York and Catholic parish and the
priest is one of the people who is killed, so
they're trying to figure out which of the parishioners may
have done it.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Why gee, that sounds fun.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yes, it's funny. It's fun, it's great, it's it's a
it's listen.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
I know it's it sounds dark, but you know these movies,
they're silly and they're you know, twists and turns and
Agatha Christie level uh, you know, mystery. So I had
a ton of fun watching this in theaters and great
news if you don't want to go to the theater.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
It comes to Netflix on the twelfth, so a week
from today.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Okay, wait, it's going to be out already.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
So I think they're doing the limited theatrical release thing
just so that way it can be considered for awards
become awards season, because that's one of the stipulations.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
But it is a Netflix movie.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, So the other ones didn't go to the movie theaters,
did they they were on Netflix or did they correct? Okay,
so that's what I was thinking. I was like, I
don't remember this being a movie theater movie.
Speaker 14 (32:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
So I think they've they've figured out the formula to
where they can have the best of both worlds.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Nice. Okay, well I'm gonna have to check that out
because I haven't seen any of them. But and I
do remember I know right.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I remember people saying, oh, this is so good and
I never watched them, so I'm going to have to
go catch up.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yeah I love this one.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Okay, so real quick.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We did talk about this on my Amy's on It
segment this week, all her faults with Sarah Snook.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I loved it.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Yeah, I mean, this is great.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
She's incredible.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
This is Sarah Snook, who a lot of people may
remember from Succession and so she won awards for that
and she's back in this show. And it's about a
mom who drops her kid off for a playdate and
when she goes to pick him up, she finds out
that the whole thing was a setup and now that
her kid is missing, and there's a small group of people,
mostly related to her, that she thinks may be involved.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
And it's up to her and the police to figure
out who did it and why.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
And you know, the acting's great, the writing is nice
and soapy for anyone who likes a sensational drama. And yeah,
all eight episodes are streaming on Peacock.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Now, yeah, I think it's torturous, like but in a
good way, Like it's riveting and engaging and all that stuff,
but just to see Sarah Snook. I mean, she's just
in pain the whole movie, and she does such a
good job just being absolutely coming apart, distraught.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Yes, compelling.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Yeah, she's so good.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah okay. And then on the other side, if you
want to, we could use a good laugh. It is
happy Friday after all.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
What you guys exactly.
Speaker 8 (34:28):
Melissa McCarthy returns to host snlmorrow. This is her sixth
time doing it, her first since twenty seventeen, and in
my opinion, I mean, in the modern era, she is
the best SNL host there is. She's just she commits
every single time, whether she's playing an older man or
a child, she's just amazing. So that that's tomorrow, and
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being that it is her sixth time, they usually bring back,
you know, people once they cross that five five hosting mark,
so I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
If she shows up with a couple of special guests
as well.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Oh okay, I'm gonna put that on my list. I
don't always watch SNL, but I love Melissa McCarthy. And
did you finally go see Wicked? You know?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I did? Yeah? Yeah I did, and and I loved it.
Speaker 8 (35:14):
Listen had the bar was set so high by the
first one, and you know, I still think maybe the
first one is the slightly better of the two, but
it's just, yeah, it was. It was still great, and
the two of them are fantastic. And you know, I
think Golden Globe nominations come out Monday. I think we're
gonna hear Wicked for Good over and over and over again. Really, yeah,
(35:38):
I think so. I like the acting nominations, Directing and
then you know, Best Comedy of Musical.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Yeah, I think we'll hear it a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I know that I need to go see it again
because it's so it's just there's so much going on that,
you know, and and everybody says, oh, there's all these
Easter eggs in it, and I know that, you know,
that's in the first movie too, And I watched the
first movie over and over and go, oh, I didn't
see that the first time.
Speaker 13 (36:00):
Oh, so.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
We're seeing again.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, okayod ABC's multi platform reporter Willgans, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
We'll talk to you.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Neant you all right, sound Amy, take care?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
All right, Happy Friday, because it is a happy Friday.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. No more coal
in LA's stocking. The city has dropped its last tie
to coal power. LADWP stopped getting coal based electricity from
the inter Mountain Power Project in Utah earlier this week.
That facility has switched over to a mixture of natural
gas and hydrogen power. LA Mayor Bass said yesterday at
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a news conference that, in her words, LA's coal divestment
is not just about discontinuing the use of coal power
to our city. It's about building a clean energy economy
that benefits every Angelina Bass added that LA plans to
keep investing in solar, wind and other renewable resources. Video
circulating online shows a woman in Florida being dragged from
her car by ice agents.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
ABC's Victor A.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Kendo said she's heard screaming for help and trying to
explain that she's an American citizen.
Speaker 13 (37:04):
The woman was driving her boyfriend's car, who was an
undocumented immigrant. The Department of Homeland Security stating she was
removed from the vehicle and briefly held while her identity
was confirmed.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
The woman was released once agents confirmed her identity. A
federal judge in LA has heard arguments but has not
made an immediate ruling on a Trump administration moved to
dismiss a lawsuit brought by protesters, legal observers, and journalists
against the Department of Homeland Security. The suit alleges they
were attacked in violation of their constitutional rights to protest
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and report on government actions during immigration raids over the summer.
Texas Governor Abbott says the Supreme Court decision upholding the
state's midterm redistricting is a win for Texas voters. ABC's
Devin Dwyer says the court will allow Texas to go
ahead with a newly redrawn congressional map for the twenty
twenty six midterms.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
The Supreme Court's conservative majority overruling that judge who had concluded,
after a nine day trial three thousand pages of evidence
that the new Texas maps were racially jerrymandered.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
The Supreme Court says that conclusion was likely wrong because
it didn't account for the good faith on the part
of the map draws. In Texas, and Old Bay is
bringing back the tin can for its Chesapeake Bay seasoning.
The company says Old Bay is a symbol of heritage, flavor,
and Baltimore pride. And the return of the tin is
their way of honoring generations of fans who have made
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Old Bay a staple for decades. The tins are set
to hit store shelves this month. Ooh, just in time
to make a commemorative collective thing for Christmas.
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Right Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
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