Morocco Quake & Kim Jong Un Meeting with Putin

Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller comes on the show to the Morocco earthquake where the death toll has risen to over 2,800. Host of ‘How to Money’ Joel Larsgaard joins Amy King to talk about the Mozilla car privacy report, which found that most new cars are spying on you in a creepy way. Joel also speaks on the value of college based on the new WSJ rankings. ABC Tom Rivers from ABC News talks about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un leaving to Russia to meet with Putin. The show wraps with ABC News radio correspondent Jim Ryan discussing employers stepping up return-to-work demands.

Episode Transcript

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Daddy ab King, this is yourwake up call for Tuesday, September twelfth.

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It is five am. I mademe King, good morning. Thanks
for waking up with us today.You know it's kind of muggy yesterday.
Did you feel that? I waslike, I can't even imagine living in
the South or the Midwest where it'ssuper humid all the time, but supposed
to be better today. We'll getyou your forecast in just a little bit.

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Lots going on today. Here's what'sahead on wake Up Call. The
Dodgers appear to be cutting ties withpitcher Julio Urias. Two murals at Dodger
Stadium that showed Urius are now outof public view. One was painted over,
another was covered with a large curtain. Before last night's game, of
course, Urias was arrested on domesticislands charges. September third, The FDA

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has approved updated COVID nineteen boosters fromFiser and Maderna. The CDC is going
to meet this week to vote onrecommendations for who should get the Booster.
Drew Barrymore is taking heat for resumingtaping of her talk show as the writers
strike rolls on. Drew says she'sin compliance with strike restrictions, but the
WGA says they're going to be picketingoutside the studio in New York all week

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At six oh five, it's handledOn the news, a five hundred million
dollar lawsuit has been filed against BeverlyHills Police will tell you why. Let's
get started with some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Police are looking for asuspected serial hit and run driver. In
Huntington Beach. Three bicyclists were hitby a black Toyota four door sedan Sunday

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night. One of them was killed. Based on the interviews conducted today,
are detectives do believe that they're related. Three cyclists were hit within a span
of forty five minutes, within ahalf mile radius on streets with bike lanes.
Believes they're looking for a man theysay set several fires at a property
in Corona. Firefighters responded to asuspicious fire near West sixth Street and Yorba

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Street back on September first, surveillancevideo shows a man setting several fires before
he walked away. He's been identifiedas Eduardo Bettencourt. He's Hispanic, five
foot nine, one hundred and seventypounds and has animal print tattoos on the
left side of his face. TheState Assembly has passed a bill to give
striking workers in California unemployment benefits.The bill goes to the Senate Labor Committee

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next, then would need to passon the Senate floor. The measure is
backed by the WGA and SAG afterwhose members are on strike. A study
released by the website based in Murrietasays kids across the US have lost two
hundred ten million dollars to online scamsin the last year. The types of
scams can range from sex, stortionand romance to video games and in app

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purchases. Co founder of Socialcatfish dotCom, Brian McLellan says scammers sometimes use
fake accounts to target people under twentyand so what scammers will do is trick
children into giving credit card information fornon existent rewards through fake ads and intern
the victim is unknowingly downloading malware.McLellan says kids have been scammed out of

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millions, but those numbers only reflectwhat has been reported. Chris Adler,
KFI News, South Korea's military saysNorth Korean leader Kim Jong oon has arrived
in Russia for a meeting with PresidentPutin. North Korea's official news agency says
Kim left for Russia on Sunday onhis personal armored train with some government and

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military person Hooton inviting Kim in thehopes of securing more artillery shells and other
munitions for the fight in Ukraine torefill Russia's depleted stockpiles. ABC's Martha Raditt
says in return, Kim's hoping toget advanced technology for his missile, satellite
and nuclear programs. We're gonna betalking more about the big meeting with ABC's
Tom Rivers at five thirty five,so stick around for that. Here's the

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story. The Brady House, Bunchand Studio City has been sold for three
point two million dollars. That's threehundred thousand less than HGTV paid for it
in twenty eighteen. The network renovatedthe inside of the house to look like
it did in the TV show.They even added a second story. It's
five zero six on your wake upcall. Let's say good morning now to

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ABC's Jordana Miller. Jordana, it'sbeen four days since the six point eight
earthquake rocked Morocco and things are justgetting worse. What's the latest. That's
right, really, the tragedy isjust getting magnified as rescue workers finally reach
some of those hardest hit rural areas, these villages in the Atlas Mountains that

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crumbled under the power of this quakelate late Friday night, mostly because they
were built of mud and wood,not concrete and steel, and that has
left in some of these villages fiftyto eighty percent of the inhabitants believed to
be buried underneath the rubble. Expertsof course, telling us that it is

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so much more difficult to find survivorsalive under these kinds of structures because everything
collapses and becomes like dust, leavingvery few air pockets. So today,
on day four, not a lotof optimism from rescuers who are reaching some
of these villagers villages, British andSpanish rescue teams saying, you know,

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they're doing the best they can,but they are not hopeful. Unlike what
we saw in Turkey, were therewere miraculous rescue stories to report on day
four or five and six, they'rejust we're not hearing any of those in
this case. And the King ofMorocco still has not allowed war health in

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that's raising some criticism at home about, you know what it's seen as a
sluggish and ineffective response to this naturaldisaster which has now claimed the death holds
just about up at up to twentynine hundred. Why is there any signals

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or reasons why he's not letting morehelp in that. The Interior Minister of
Morocco pushed back on some of thecriticisms, saying they didn't want to overwhelm
the area. They thought it mightcreate a lack of coordination or cooperation.

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But we arguing reports that the streetsand the winding roads that lead up into
the Atlas Mountains, they are notheavily you know, there's not a lot
of congestion there. I mean,there are residents who are sending help to
friends and relatives further up in themountains, but any kind of backup or

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backlog of rescue teams does not seemto be the case, which indicates that
there was certainly room for more rescueteams on the ground. At this point,
they're just as we said, rescueteams from Spain, Britain, the
United Air of Emirates and Qatar,and some smaller NGOs, an Israeli Emergency

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Solid team is they're working in Marrakesh. But overall it appears that there really
could have been more help. They'vecould have left more help in and perhaps
saved some lives. And the USisn't being allowed in at all, is
it that's correct? I mean,present Bithing was pretty quick to say that

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the United States is ready and willingand able to get help into Morocco,
whether that was actual aid. Imean, there's people freezing at night,
right, they need blankets, theyneed tents, any sleeping bags, along
with rescue teams to pick through therebel and having machinery there. But you
know, the King of Morocco,who does essentially call all the shops in

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the kingdom, has not let theAmerican has not let America into help.
The French are also anxiously waiting tohelp. They have a long history of
you know, ties with Morocco,but they are not in yet. So
it's you know, it's really itleaves one wondering, you know it is.

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It's puzzling, especially since we justsaw earlier this year what a difference
the international rescue teams and they hadmade in that horrible earthquake in Turkey,
right and the death hole there wasmuch much higher, but at least there
were a lot of people that werepulled out of the rubble and people who
were suddenly you know, homeless,had at least the minimum minimum supplies they

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needed to get through you know,the days and the nights. So we'll
have to see how this plays out, but it doesn't reflect very well on
the policies of King Mohammad the sixthhis effective leadership. Do we have,
Like is the Red Cross there?Doctors Without Borders, those kind of groups,
are they there? The International RedCross has now started a campaign to

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raise a little over one hundred milliondollars, But they're not. They're not
on the ground there except their localchapters or there, but not you know,
Rescuers Without Borders, a UN backedgroup that had about thirty five hundred
people who could have come in,they're not there. Those are a huge

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chunk those are you know, rescueteams from various European countries that were just
on hold waiting at airports. That'sjust that's so disturbing. Okay, well
it is. I mean, it'sso it's frustrating too, because like,
you know, we like to helpand whether we're sending money to the Red
Cross or something like that, butit sounds like, you know, they're

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like going, we don't really wantyour help, and so it just kind
of leaves you feeling even more helpless. I can't even imagine what it's like
for the people sitting in Morocco,you know. Yeah, it's terrible,
as I have to say. Youknow, even the King of Morocco hasn't
addressed the people since this tragedy.Either isn't gone on the airways, whether
it's TV, radio, anything viralto say, you know, we're going

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to get through this, and it'syou know, he did declare what today
is the last day of a threedays national morning period. He sent the
Prime Minister to address the people,and they said we're going to work on
and rebuild, but it's clear it'sgoing to take many months and billions of
dollars to do that. Okay,Jordana Miller, thank you so much for

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your insight. I wish, Iwish you had better news for us this
morning. I do too, Allright, take care. So let's get
back to some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour news
from State lawmakers have passed legislation thatwould force major corporations to disclose their greenhouse
gas admissions. The legislation, passedyesterday would require thousands of public and private

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companies that operate in California and makemore than a billion dollars annually to report
their direct and indirect emissions. DemocraticState Assemblyman Chris Ward says we're out of
time on addressing the climate crisis.He says this will absolutely help us take
a leap forward to hold ourselves accountable. An a jewel thief from Beverly Hills
is doing federal court in La.Jobs into Castro allegedly stole nearly two million

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dollars worth of jewelry, clothing,and other items from a couple staying at
a luxury hotel and took off toFlorida to sell the stuff. Two million
dollars in federal funding for Santa Annais meant to replace crime along Sant Santiago
Creek with science exhibits by Discovery CubeOC. We've turned it into a waste
place. Congressman Luke Carea says theproperty next to Discovery Cube has been plagued

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with drug use and homelessness. Transformingit from a challenge to a positive for
this community. Discovery Cubes EEO JoeAdam says the project includes new native plants,
a butterfly garden, and watershed exhibits. The Santiago Creek brings water from
this area all the way down tothe ocean. We want to help explain
the kids, how does this allwork? He says. The multi year,
roughly fifteen million dollar expansion will alsoprovide more space for sold out exhibits

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such as Bubblefest at Discovery CUBO C. Corbin Carson k if I needs.
We just saw that fast food companieshave been spending a lot of money to
try to defeat a worker protections law. So they've agreed over the weekend to
pull that referendum from the ballot nextyear in a move that is going to

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give employees a twenty dollars an hourminimum wage. The California legislature as until
Thursday of this week to approve theagreement, which would avoid a big battle
with the unions. But you gotto think about this. So twenty bucks
for a fast food worker. AndI'm not diminishing anybody making money, but

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people with degrees sometimes come out ofcollege and are making that to break into
business, and they've got like alot of education. So I'm thinking that
as this goes, even though there'snot going to be this big fight with
the with the labor unions, I'mthinking that we're going to see more kiosks
at fast food restaurants and probably eventuallyburger flipping robots. Just a thought.

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We'll have to wait and see howthat plays out. Let's say good morning
to the host of How to Moneywith Joel lars Guard on KFI. It's
Joel lars Guard. Good morning,Joel, Good morning Amy. So we
were just talking about how workers aregoing to be make fast food workers are
going to make twenty bucks an hourin California, and coming out of college,

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some people are not making that much. So tell us about college and
the value of it and whether it'sworth it. Oh yeah, this question
has got become more fraught over theyears, right, And there was a
recent survey of Americans and more thanhalf of Americans now are firmly in the
camp that college is not worth it, that the value is just not quite

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there. So some like fifty sixpercent of people say no, I don't
think a college degree is worthwhile,at least not to the same extent that
it was. And so much ofthat has to do with ballooning the ballooning
price of college and then the subsequentstudent loans that so many people are buried
underneath after they graduate. The realityis a little murkier than that, right

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when you look at some of thestats. Actually, a college degree does
provide value over time still for thevast majority of people who get that,
who complete their education. The peoplewho are actually in the first possible spot
are people who go to college fora few years, take on a bunch
of debt, and then don't actuallyfinish, don't get the degree. Well,
you know, and this has beena thing of mine for a long

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time, because I don't think everybodyshould have to go to college. I
mean, like the way that it'spushed now is everybody should go to college.
Everybody go But I know a lotof people who don't want to go
to college, And so then Ithink that's when you get those those people
who, like you just mentioned,they go to college for a few years,
they kind of figure, they kindof don't excel, they don't really

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want to be there, and theyjust rack up all this debt and they
don't really get anything out of it. Yeah, and that's where the narrative
kind of crosses lines with individual personality, right. And it's the same thing
with homeownership. That we've sold abill of goods in this country and it's
like everybody should own a home.That is the path of financial success.
And it's like, well, itis definitely the place where most people have

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the bulk of their net worth becauseof the forced method of savings that buying
a home can do for you overthe years, but doesn't mean it's the
best path forward. And the samething with college, it's it's certainly the
best path forward for a decent chunkof people, but it's not for everybody.
And I think you're right. Weprobably should put more emphasis on apprenticeships.
We should put more of an emphasison blue collar work and entrepreneurship,

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and there are certainly people who aremore built for that than going and getting
a traditional four year degree. It'sI mean, I think it's there is
still a lot of value to behad for a lot of a lot of
young adults coming up graduating high school. But it also isn't just we shouldn't
take this one size fits all approach. It seems to be prevalent. Okay.

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So, as a money guy andwanting to make sure that you're investing
your money wisely, what are thingsthat like parents should talk to their kids
about when they're saying is it timeto go to school or do you go
into a technical trade? Or whatare you going to do? Like what's
some of your recommendations for that?Sure, Yeah, those conversations they should
start early, and often that's onething. And then when you're talking about

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with your child what it looks like, like where are we going to go
to school? I know it canbe a tough thing to have because there's
emotion and finances tied up in theseconversations. But for some people it's like,
well, this is my dream school, I have to go there.
But finances have to be a partof the equation. And maybe you're the
kind of parent who's been saving upand you're like, listen, I am
paying for their college no matter what, and you can afford to send them

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to their dream school. That's great, I guess, But for a whole
lot of people, they have totalk about the trade off between the money
right that it's going to cost afinance that education, and the hopes and
dreams of that young child. Andso, actually, the Wall Street Journal
just came out with their rankings ofcolleges, and I love what they did
because they put an emphasis on acouple of specific things in their rankings,

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which were like, Hey, howlong is it going to take for kids
to go to this school to graduate? And then how much are they going
to earn after graduation? Those aretwo really important questions that you as a
potential student or you as a parent, should have on your mind. So
I love that those are the onesthat the Wall Street Journal was tackling and
how they were ranking their colleges.Really, are they actually going to help

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me graduate? And are they actuallygoing to help me go out there?
Am I prepared for the real worldenough in order to make a decent salary
once I do graduate? So Ithink those are some of the important questions
to have. And again, itcan be a fraud conversation because there is
so much emotion tied up in it. But we've seen it's not terribly difficult
for parents to be able to pointto how much student loans are impacting graduates

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negatively for years and decades to come. And so you want your you want
your child to avoid that at allcosts, to limit as much as possible
the student loans that they're taking onabsolutely. Okay, let's shift gears.
You're spending new cars spying on you. Oh yeah, that's a weird one,
right, And I'm actually surprised thatthis story hasn't gotten more coverage because

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it's like super freaky and basically Mozilla, which had the Firefox browser that used
to be so popular back in theday, they just released yeah, right,
and nobody uses Mozilla Firefox anymore.Sadly, it was a great It
was a great while it lasted.But they have this, They dropped this
new report about privacy in your car. And most of us don't think that

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our car might be spying on us, or might be, you know,
digging up information and then selling thatinformation on us. But it turns out
that many new models are, andso Mozilla looked at the privacy policies of
like twenty five different car manufacturers,and it turns out they're all collecting data
on you via the technology that comesstandard on a whole lot of the models
that they sell. So think thinkabout all the smart equipment that's in a

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car now, like microphones and camerasand touch screens and stuff like that,
and so a lot of the Ithink Nissan's was the worst because it's they're
finding out apparently your sexual preferences.I know, I don't even know how
it is that they're getting this information. I guess that's a good question,
Like I would love to know more. Nissan's kind of mums the word,

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Oh what are you talking about?But I hope these car makers get held
accountable and that they have to answerfor the for the privacy, for the
information they're digging up on us.And it's not just that they're digging it
up and they're keeping it in adatabase somewhere. They're willing to sell it
and you're signing on the dotted linewhen you buy one of these newer models
that they have that ability. Canyou opt out? Not that I know

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of, right, So that's what'sfreaky too, is is I haven't seen
a place where you can opt outof their ability to collect this information.
And it's interesting, Like, Iguess I think we probably all feel like
our data is kind of out there. Right. If you've joined Facebook ten
years ago, Instagram TikTok, ifyou've got a smartphone, it feels like
our data is flooding around everywhere.The Equifax data breach of twenty seventeen,

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I believe it was. It justkind of feels like, oh man,
everyone has access to a bunch ofmy information. But a car is one
of those places where you're having sensitiveconversations. It's almost like the Alexa in
your home too, right, Likeyour car could be listening to that same
extent. So in my mind,it's just one more reason to drive an
older model car that's a little dumber. I got that, okay. So

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I mean like I've got one ofthose older cars, So yeah, you
should, right, And so thenyou know, hey, I'm saving money,
the insurance costs less, and thenat the same time, the thing
isn't digging up all my deepest,darkest secrets. All right, So invest
your money in an older model carmaybe, all right, Joel lards Guard,
thank you so much for your timethis morning and your insight. Always
good to get your recommendations on howto spend our money and you can find

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out how to Money, how toMoney more on Sunday from noon to two
with Joel. You can also followJoel at how to Money Joel on Instagram.
Thanks Joel, Thanks Amy. Here'swhat we're following in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Police are lookingfor the driver of a black Toyota four
door sedan, who they say intentionallyhit three bicyclists and Huntington Beach, killing

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one of them. All three werehit Sunday night within a span of forty
five minutes within a half mile radius. The Dodgers appear to be cutting ties
with pitcher Julio Ureus. Two muralsat Dodgers Stadium that depicted Ureus are now
out of public view. One waspainted over, the other was covered by
a large curtain before last night's game. The Biden administration has issued a waiver

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to allow the transfer of six billiondollars in frozen Iranian oil funds in exchange
for the freedom of five Americans.Five Iranians detained in the US will also
be released in the deal. Atsix oh five, it is handle on
the news and looks like cal Statestudents maybe paying more for tuition. We'll
dive into that at fifty we're gonnabe talking with ABC's Jim Ryan about how

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employers want workers back at the officeand whether that's going to happen. But
right now, let's say good morningto ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom. North
Korea's Kim Jongoon has taken a slowtrain to Russia exactly, and we've been
tracking this. It was telegraphed afew days ago across the border. We

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thought that possibly because there's an economicsummit going on in a lot of Ostock
as we speak, a meeting mightbe held there between Putin and Kim bought.
It looks like that train we've beentracking it is now heading north to
the Vastoshny Space Center, so theymay hold their meetings there. But there
are some pretty high heavyweight North Koreanmilitary personnel on there. The person in

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charge of missile development, he's onthe train. The person in charge of
the North Korean Navy he is onthe train as well. So yes,
everyone thinks that they're going to betalking obviously about the possibility of maybe supplying
some ammunition, our tellery shells,maybe bullets to Russia for the for the

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war in Ukraine. So we haveto see how that plays out. At
this stage, it looks like signalsfrom Moscow, Dmitri Peskov saying at this
stage, we don't expect there tobe a press conference after the meeting between
the two, but we'll have towait and see. It could could change
at the last minute. Okay,and our Putin and Kim gonna actually meet

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again. We think it's well,it's granted, it's it's it's delegation to
delegation. We think there will beface to face time between Putin and and
Kim, but even that has notbeen released publicly. Put it that way,
okay, and okay, So weknow that Russia wants ammunition because they've
been in this war with Ukraine foreighteen months and they need resupplies. Probably

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well, they're doing pretty good.I mean, you look at the Western
supplies, they're pretty pretty thin.Why is the US throwing into the mix
depleted uranium cluster munitions, et cetera. Because the factories in the US and
in Europe are can't keep up withthe demand for Ukraine. Similar situation,

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but not quite as bad as faras Russia goes. They've been doing pretty
well. And again it will bepretty pretty low level compared to some of
the some of the latest Western,if you will, promises of weaponry heading
to keep. Okay, and sowhat does North Korea want? Obviously they
want money, they want economics,they want a technical support. Hence the

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importance of this missile development Chief's I'msure he's got he's got a wish list
that he's going to be bringing withhim. The navy as well. They're
they're always trying to launch a varietyof missile types from they used to have
one submarine and some naval vessels aswell. So yeah, it's gonna be,

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you know, a wish list,more so on that North Korean side
than the Russian side. But againwe'll see exactly what comes out, maybe
a couple of days, okay.And the US has said, hey,
guys, you shouldn't be doing anykind of these deals, but we don't
have any leverage against either one ofthem at this point, right, You've
got zero leverage and it's a proxywar, you know. And Russia says

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you shouldn't be using depleted uranium notonly for combatants, but it's going to
affect civilians for many, many decadesto come. You shouldn't use cluster munitions,
but you know, it is whatit is. So for for you
know, Washington to say we don'tthink that you should sell a bullet to
to Russia. In fact, Pescoffhad to rest that as well today in

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a briefing, saying, Washington isin the old position when it comes to
our bi lateral relations with another country. So put that in your pipe and
smoke it. Yeah, okay.And then just I don't know if it's
a lighter note, but we playedthe Darth Vader theme heading into this segment
because Kim's train it looks a littlelike a Darth Vadery Star Wars kind of

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thing. Do you know anything aboutit? Yeah? I miss everything is
pretty old and it's in as bulletprofit as heavy. But yeah, that's
the way he likes to travel.And again he has but again again you
look at the problem with with thesanctions on North Korea, similar situation that

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we had with with Iran. Theyhad like a very very aging fleet and
you couldn't get parts. So it'slike it's like you don't want to fly
on Iranian airlines. You don't wantto fly on airlines from North Korea.
Eat it? Okay, Well,we'll be watching that train and see where
it stops and see what happens.Thanks so much, Tom Rivers, appreciate
your insight this morning. Take care. Let's get back to some of the

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stories coming out of the KFI twentyfor our newsroom. Elementary school teachers in
Orange County are using memorials to teachstudents. About nine to eleven students at
Orangethorpe Elementary had a front row seatto a September eleventh tribute outside the home
of a firefighter honoring all who havedied from the attacks. Teacher Nancy Carter
says her students weren't alive when theTwin Towers fell, and nas Annuel Memorial

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is the perfect opportunity to teach,and we teach it the way that they
can understand, and it's really meaningfulto them and they look forward to this
field trip we come every single year. Seven year old Mea Valencia is one
of the students who was able totell me what happened on September eleventh,
twenty two years ago. It meanslike of day when people died from two
towers to airplane's dad crashed at towers. The homeowner says he's held the memorial

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in Fullerton for twenty two years toteach children about the past and to make
sure those who died are not forgotten. Chris Adler, KFI News love that
never forget. Officials in Libya sayten thousand people are missing in coastal towns
hit by unprecedented flooding. Heavy rainfalland floods caused by Mediterranean Storm Daniel broke

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dams and washed away entire neighborhoods overthe weekend. As many as two thousand
people are believed to have been killedin just the city of Derna. Officials
in the North African countries say sevenhundred people killed in the flooding have been
buried so far. UNISEF says onehundred thousand children have been impacted by the
six point eight magnitude earthquake that hitMorocco and it came from USAID on the

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ground here in Marrakesh, ready todeploy into the mountains if they get the
green light from the Moroccan governments.ABC's Tom Sufie Burridge says rescuers are just
beyond the seventy two hour golden windowsto find survivors. The earthquake Friday killed
more than twenty eight hundred people andhas injured more than twenty five hundred.

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Those numbers expected to go up.Lawyers for former President Trump have asked the
federal judge in Washington, DC torecuse herself from an election related case against
him. They say her past publicstatements about Trump and his connection to the
January sixth riot at the Capitol callinto question whether she can be fair.
McDonald's is phasing out self serve sodafountains. Apparently more customers are opting for

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takeout instead of dining in. Thefast food chain says the self serve drink
change is intended to create a consistentexperience for customers and workers. Okay,
those expecting or hoping to experience amagic key pass, that's the annual pass
at Disneyland. Those are on hold. If they were, they were on

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and then they were off, andthen they were on and then they're off
again. Following that nine and ahalf million dollars settle of the class action
lawsuit over what has been described asdeceptive magic Key blockout dates or blackout dates,
as you might want to say.So if you're looking to buy a
magic Key pass, hold on.I don't even know if you can renew
them at this point. I renewedmine last month, so I'm good to

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go. And that settlement, we'llsay thank you to the person who filed
the class action lawsuit and probably ismaking a mess of the whole magic Key
program. In that whole nine anda half million dollars settlement, annual pass
holders are going to get sixty sevendollars. I hope it was worth it
for all the headaches that you've causedbecause the woman didn't know how to read

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the exclusions and the blackouts. Ididn't have any trouble with it. I've
been a pass holder. I gotto go when I wanted, and now
we don't get to go on certaindays because of it. And for a
lot of people, you're not goingto be able to renew your pass at
least for now. Hopefully they'll reopenthat soon. Right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.Jim, more than three years after the

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pandemic, there are still a lotof people working from home, but it
appears employers have had enough of that. Well, yeah, a lot of
them have, at least to manyof them are telling you you better get
back to the office or else facethe possibility of losing your job or at
least having a factor into your performancereview. That's what's going on at Google
right now. Amy. If workersdon't want to come back in, that's

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fine. You can still work forus. But you might not get that
raise, you might miss out onthat promotion. There could be some implications
down the road. But yeah,yeah, and the sudden uptick in COVID
cases around the country may be complicatingthose return to work policies that so many
employers are putting into a place.There was a recent survey done by resume

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builder a thousand business leaders. Ninetypercent of them plan to put return to
office policies in place by the endof next year. But what if COVID
cases are still rising? What ifthey're up where they were two years ago?
The end of next year, theend of twenty twenty four, Nothing
like slow vote? What's the thingslow boat to China? Except today we're

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talking about a slow train to Russia, So that something else. But so
the employers, what kind of leveragedo they have. I mean, it
used to be that you'd say,hey, we need you to be in
the office, and people go okay, And now they're like, nope,
they've lost some of that leverage becauseof how the marketplace, how the work
environment is right now where you've guess, you know, nearly twice as many

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open positions as people willing or ableto work those positions, which means you
want to quit your job, it'seasy to go out and find another one.
That puts extra pressure on employers tokeep employees happy. So some of
these companies are demanding that you comeback into work at their own peril,
and yet some are still saying,you know, it's worth it. We

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need to get people back face toface, get them collaborating, get them
working more efficiently across the desk fromeach other, and that that's the only
way to do it. You can'tdo it, they say by video conferencing.
I just as a person who workedthrough the whole pandemic, except for
in those initial lockdowns, for likewhenever it was like three weeks or six

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weeks or something, I've been inthe office and at the station the whole
time. So it's still very foreignto me. Yeah, And it kind
of depends upon the style of workyou do. If you work, if
you're sitting in front of a microphone, or you can't do it at home,
then obviously you have to go intothe office. But what about the

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support staff, what about the salespeople? Should the salespeople be forced to
come into the radio station? Orwhat about accounting or you know, there
are other functions that could possibly workfrom home, but it's a lot of
tech companies that are requiring people tocome in. And the Jassy over at
Amazon, for examples, says,you know, it's easier to learn and

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to model and to practice strengthen theculture within the office if you're sitting there
face to face. He says,that's exactly what he wants to have happen.
Yeah, and I think that thatthat's one of the big arguments too.
And in the radio station, andthey talk about how you don't have
those hallway conversations where you're collaborating onthings and coming up with great ideas and

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just kind of happening to meet peoplealong, you know, throughout the day
and that kind of thing, andthat that is a piece that's missing now
in the workplace, sure, andit might be missing forever. Something like
two percent of employers say they neverplan to bring their people back into the
one hundred percent remote. The othercompanies are demanding that you come back to

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work full time in the office.Google is there. But I think most
companies are somewhere in the middle.You know. Some are saying that we'll
be flexible with you. We'll letyou work one or two days from home.
We want you in the office therest of the time. But again,
I think this recent uptick and thenew strains of COVID nineteen may change
the dynamic again. Yes, weget to wait and see on this one.
All right, ABC's Jim Ryan,thank you so much. See well,

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let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The FDA hasapproved updated COVID nineteen vaccines from Fiser and
Maderna. The next step is forapproval by the CDC, which is expected
in the coming days. ABC's KarenTravers says a CDC advisory panel is set
to issue recommendations today on who mostneeds the updated shots. Vaccinations could start

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later this week. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission is voted to regulate nursing pillows.
The proposed requirements are in response todozens of infant deaths since two thousand
and seven. Most had been placedto sleep on or with the pillows.
A convicted killer who escaped from aprison in Pennsylvania has been spotted again,
more than twenty miles away from theprison. An alert was put out last

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night from Chester County nine one onesaying Danello Cavalcante may now have a weapon.
The alert asked people in the areato lock their doors and stay inside.
We expect to catch them as soonas soon as possible, but we're
not going to put our ducks ina row and say, hey, we're
going to have him by this Thursday. Remember last week they thought they had
him and then he escaped that perimeterthat they set up. Deputy US Marshall

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Robert Clark says they are preparing forthe long game. A twenty five thousand
dollar rewards been raised for information leadingto Cavalcante's capture. He escaped from a
county prison thirteen days ago. UnitedAutoworkers says it's made some headway in labor
talks with the Detroit three automakers,but a strike involving one hundred forty six

(36:28):
thousand union members could happen this weekas an agreement still has not been reached.
If this strike does happen, whichI believe it will, and they
don't have a resolve within thirty days, maybe even sooner, there's going to
be a lot of people laid off. Auto parts supplier Anthony Messina said yesterday
he works for a company that reliesheavily on business from the Big Three.

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The current four year labor deal expireson the fourteenth. An American explorer stuck
in a cave about three thousand feetdown has been rescued. It's been one
hell of a crazy, crazy adventure. But I'm on the surface safely.
I'm still alive. Mark Dickie saysthere was a point where he thought he

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wasn't going to make it. Hespent more than a week thousands of feet
underground since he became sick during anexpedition. It took rescuers days to get
him to the surface on a stretcher, and they got him up there last
night. Okay, I have totell you about a baby beaver and why
this could this little baby beaver couldsave the world. So in Palo Alto,

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they've been watching this creek bed andapparently a little baby beaver was spotted,
and you're like, okay, what'sthe big deal with A big deal
is that beavers have not been inthat area for quite a while, and
it's apparently a big thing because thatmeans that a beaver colony may have taken
up residence which is south of theSan Francisco Bay, and they were hunted

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and they were harassed for hundreds ofyears and they stop doing what beavers do
best, and that is make dams. So apparently it's a big deal that
they're back in this area because thebeavers make the dams and they help like
make ecosystems work and that kind ofstuff. They've they've been seen as a

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nuisance because they would block block creekbeds and that kind of stuff, but
they really do a lot to helpwith the climate. And so the appearance
of this little baby beaver is supposedto be a good thing. So we're
going to watch the beavers, andbeing an Oregon State beaver, I always
like to say, let's go beavers. This is KFI and KO st HD,

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two Los Angeles, Orange County.Want to make sure I get those
letters right. We lead local livefrom the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
I'm Amy King. This has beenyour wake up call, and if you
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