October 15, 2025 • 46 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC News journalist Jordana Miller joins the show live from Jerusalem to discuss Hamas reasserting control in a chaotic Gaza, posing a risk to the fragile ceasefire. ABC News tech reporter Mike Dobuski joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Mike talks about takes us inside IBM’s quantum computer. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s on It’ she reviews The Lost Bus starring Matthew McConaughey now streaming on Apple+. Denise Pellegrini from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a business and stock market update. The show closes with Amy talking with ABC National news reporter Jim Ryan talking about mysterious text messages.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI hand kost HB two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Wednesday, October fifteenth. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good day. If
you're a Dodger fan.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
One more?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How about those Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Two more?
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Got you?
Speaker 7 (00:45):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean one more after the first time?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
One more? Okay, yeah, one more after the first one
big win last night in Milwaukee. Action shifts back now
to Dodger Stadium, and in celebration of the Dodgers win,
if you'll step up your radios and take a look
dodgerr donuts. Oh hello from Dunkin Wait. You're on a diet.
Speaker 8 (01:08):
See if you diet and I see you there you go,
We'll help yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Brought those in celebration. They're so cute. I walked into
the dunkin yesterday and I go, do you have Dodger Donuts?
And she looked at me weird and was like, I
don't know, And then she said, did you ask for
doctor donuts? And I said, why would I ask for
doctor donuts? I would like DODGERR donuts. And she said, oh,
the blue and white ones. Yeah, we have those, okay,
doctor donuts. Anyway, they're adorable, and well I I got
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them yesterday afternoon and I can't just look at them.
They're delicious. You know what else today is It's October fifteenth.
It's tax day for La County residents. Again. We had
that six month delay. I did mine, got them out
of the way, but if you didn't, today is the day.
Another day, another big rig block in the freeway in
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the exact same spot at the five one thirty four split.
Speaker 9 (02:02):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
There was a big rig. It was on the five,
so like the one thirty four was fine. Actually everything
was detoured onto the one thirty four, but there was
this big rig that had jackknife spun out because the
roads are still wet, it's not raining anymore, but now
you got to deal with the aftermath and the suck.
They got rid of it though, good, yeah, good, But
I just thought it was weird. It was big rigs
both days and the like even the exact same spot.
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Here's what's ahead on wake up call because we got
a lot. All evacuation orders have been lifted and southern
California appears to have dodged a bullet from the heavy
rains that fell across the region. The storm has moved
out after dumping nearly five inches of rain in some areas.
Forcaster say, we'll return to sunny skies today with a
light Santa Ana wind event tomorrow and Friday, but that's
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not expected to do any damage. The government shutdown has
entered week number three. The Senate rejected a Republican backed
House past spending plan for an eighth time that would
have ended the shutdown. Democrats have repeatedly rejected the continuing Resolution,
saying they want Obamacare subsidies to be extended and funding
restored to Medicaid. Hamas has released four more bodies, but
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officials are saying that one of those bodies was not
a hostage. Hamas has yet to return twenty one dead hostages.
Seven have been released so far. We're going to get
the latest on that and what's happening in Gaza as
The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues We've got
ABC's Jordana Miller calling in from Jerusalem. Remember that show
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Quantum Leap. ABC's Mike Dubuski is going to join us
to talk about the next step in computing. It's quantum computing.
Try to wrap your head around that we're going to
do that. At five twenty. I have a feeling I'm
not going to understand a thing he has to say.
Want to go grab lunch? Seems like an innocent enough question,
but it could be just another attempt at pig butchering.
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ABC's Jim Ryan tells, it's going to tell us what
the heck it is and what we can do to
protect ourselves. Also, Amy's on it because Wednesday and this week,
I'm on a show that I was apprehensive to watch,
and I'll tell you why when we talk more about it.
And now that I've watched it, I was like, something
didn't add up, so I had to do a little digging.
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But it's a it's a show that is on Apple
TV Plus, and I had higher I had higher hopes
for it. We'll just say, but anyway, that's coming up
at the bottom of the hour. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The intense rain has caused a roof
of a film studio in North Hollywood to collapse. The
owner of JCC Studios La told NBC four she lost
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a lot of expensive equipment yesterday.
Speaker 10 (04:41):
Then tireof collapse.
Speaker 11 (04:44):
Exactly where my l eighty walls, all my props, my
space ship, everything there in the cameras, all the lights
are there.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
It hurts the.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Cities, says she only built the studio last year. She
does plan to rebuild. And speaking of studios and film production,
it's down again in LA.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Film Lay's latest report shows on location filming in the
LA area drop thirteen percent in the third quarter compared
to last year.
Speaker 12 (05:09):
By far, the biggest category to take a hit this
quarter was reality television.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Philip Sakolowski with Film LA says there are signs of
a rebound things to California's newly expanded film and TV
tax credit, which has already approved twenty two projects, most
of them set to film in the LA area.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
There hasn't been enough time for the tax credit to
take it back yet and to really be visible in
the data.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
Sakolowski says the impact of these incentives will take more
time to play out, but he says calls are already
coming in from productions and that's a positive sign for
Hollywood's recovery. Heather Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Daile County Board of Supervisors has declared a local state
of emergency in response to federal Immigration Enforcement raids. Supervisors
say the raids are stopping people from going to work
and making some businesses close. The La Tenants Unit Advocacy
Group has been pushing the board for weeks to do something,
saying the raids have made people afraid to go to work.
The La City Council's given final approval to a more
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than fifty percent increase in trash collection fees. That's the
first adjustment in seventeen years. Single family homes and duplexes
will pay about twenty dollars more per month. Three to
four unit apartments will see an increase of one hundred
and thirty percent. Officials say the hike is needed to
cover organic waste disposal, staff salaries, and equipment maintenance. If
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Mayor Bath signs it, the increases will kick in next month.
Time to say good morning to ABC's Jerdonna Miller in Jerusalem,
So Dona. We're just a few days into the ceasefire
between Israel and Hamas. Hamas released the living hostages. On Monday,
they released the bodies of four hostages who had died,
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and then they said they gave four more back yesterday.
But that's not quite.
Speaker 13 (06:50):
Accurate, right, that's not quite accurate. After the Israeli National
Forensic Institute at those bodies, only three of them matched
those of Israeli hostages, so that means that one may
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be a gosen it's unclear, but only three were positively identified,
and that means that of the twenty eight deceased hostages
that Hamas was supposed to turn over, and they indicated
they had about half of them and it would take
some time to locate the others, they've only turned over
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seven of twenty eight, right, so twenty one is still
in the gauze of strip. We understand from some sources
that there is a chance that Hamas is going to
turn over more bodies this evening on Wednesday PM local time,
So we'll be waiting and watching that. But you know,
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Hamas is now under tremendous pressure from the mediators each
and Cutter, the United States, Turkey to really come up
with those bodies. And you know, Hamas has kind of
done this in the past where they say, oh, we
don't know where that living hostage is or we don't
know where that body is, and then after you know,
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several hours and threats, those those hostages suddenly appear, right,
And that's what happened last night. The bodies were turned over,
but clearly more more need to be turned over.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Okay, well, well, hope that they do release and I'm
sure that it's got to be so hard for the families.
They know that their son or daughter or husband or
wife is already dead, but they are not giving them back,
which is part of the deal. And then we're also
hearing that Hamas is starting to try to take some
control back in Gaza. Right.
Speaker 13 (08:52):
Remember these really army redeployed, and so from controlling about
eighty percent of Gaza, they moved back and they control
maybe fifty percent of Gaza now, but the other fifty
percent parts of Gaza City, parts of the north, the
central area in mawassee, we see Hamas's police force and
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some of their fighters back on the streets trying to
reassert control and some say reassert a kind of reign
of terror. We've seen video and talk to people in
the Gaza Strip. We know that Hamas is executing and
killing anyone they believe cooperated with Israel and the Israeli
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defense forces during the two year war. They're doing it
sometimes publicly, shooting people they call collaborators. And that's being
done to you to wipe out any chance that a
local family could replace Hamas, either on a governing council
or as a security force. And it's it is going
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to test this ceasefire end of war agreement.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Okay, well, we will be watching and I'm sure that
we'll be getting updates from you. JERDONO Miller. Stay safe
and we will talk to you soon. Thank you, TUXI.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
President Trump has posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
to Charlie Kirk on what would have been his thirty
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second birthday.
Speaker 14 (10:29):
We're entering his name forever into the eternal roster of
true American heroes.
Speaker 15 (10:35):
He's a true American hero, an amazing person.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Kirk's widow, Erica, was at the ceremony. Yesterday at the
White House and said that the country will never forget
the contributions Charlie Kirk made. The Director of National Intelligence,
Tulsea Gabbard, called it a fitting tribute for the Christian
conservative activist. He was assassinated last month during a college
event in Utah. The Trump administration has revoked visas of
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six foreigners found to have made divisive comments or made
light of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 16 (11:03):
Administration and its supporters have targeted people for comments about Kirk,
leading to firings or other discipline, but it also raises
free speech concerns. The State Department says it reviewed social
media posts and clips about Kirk.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
ABC's Chuck Sievertson says the revoked visas were for people
from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Paraguay, Paraguay, and South Africa.
Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzkers, pushing back against President Trump's
consideration of invoking the Insurrection Act to send National Guard
troops into Chicago. He told ABC's This Week there is
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no ground to use the nineteenth century law. Attorney General
Pam Bondi disagrees.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
He absolutely has the right to do that the legal
authority to do that. We didn't have to do it.
In Los Angeles, they came in, they cleaned up the riots.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
You saw.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Look how much better LA is after the President brought
in the National Guard. But look at Portland, Look at Chicago.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
The Insurrection Act would allow active duty troops to be
deployed in US cities. It was last used during the
nineteen ninety two LA riots. Lifespans are finally getting back
to normal.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
New research shows life expectancy in the world has returned
to pre pandemic levels. Data shows in twenty twenty three,
life expectancy was seventy six point three years for women
and seventy one and a half years for men. That's
according to data published Sunday in the Journal the Lancet.
COVID was the leading cause of death in twenty twenty one,
but felt the twentieth in twenty twenty three. Death rates
among children and young adults have increased in some places
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in the world, including in North America. Mark Ronner KFI News, Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Big Dodgers Brewers series Milwaukee struck first blood last night
with a single run shot, and I was like, oh no,
oh no. Yamamoto what's going on. But it didn't last
long because then Taoscar hernandez stepped up to the plate.
Speaker 17 (12:49):
Hernandezle's one high in the air, left field, drifting back.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
This ball is gone.
Speaker 18 (12:56):
Tayo ties it up with a solo home run, no field.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And the dingers for the Dodgers were not done.
Speaker 17 (13:03):
It's waiting on one of those big Max Mounsey swings
another three to two pitch on the way. Monsey hits
one in the air, center field, free lick.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
He is at the wall.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
This ball is out of hair.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
There's that big swing.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And speaking of not being done, Yoshinoba Yoma Moto pitched
a complete game. A Dodger pitcher hasn't done that in
the playoffs since two thousand and four.
Speaker 17 (13:30):
Oh and two. On bomb pitch one to eleven coming
from Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 18 (13:37):
Strike three swinging, Yoshinobu Yamamoto goes the distance. In Game two,
the Dodgers win five to one and take a two
nothing series lead in this championship series.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Today they've got a day off there traveling back home.
Your world's champion Dodgers will be back at stadium to
take on the Milwaukee Brewers for Game three of the
National League Championship Series. First pitch tomorrow afternoon goes out
at three to oh eight. You can listen to all
the Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA Sports
live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth, and you can
stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app.
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Keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports can't wait. All
evacuation warnings and orders in the Palisades, Hearst, Sunset Eton
and Airport fire burn areas have been lifted. A lot
of rain fell but didn't produce the mud slides or
debris flows that forecasters had warned about over five inches
of rainfall in the San Gabriel Mountains. Most areas got
about one to one and a half inches of rain.
(14:38):
About thirty one thousand Kaiser Permanente workers in California, Oregon, Washington,
and Hawaii are off the job and on the picket
lines for the second day of a five day walkout.
More than five hundred facilities are impacted. It's over stalled
contract talks. At six so five, it's handle on the news.
Katie Porter is going to try to digger helf out
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of this one, do a little rebranding. Bill's going to
tell you about that. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Mike Debuski and Mike I've been telling a wake
up call listeners that we're going to have to try
to wrap our hands our heads around this one because
we're not only talking about computers, but we're talking about
quantum computing. What is it?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yes, that's right. So quantum computing really requires us to
understand how normal computing works. But it does have potentially,
I know, it does have potentially very big implications though,
so it is important to talk about. So have you
ever seen the matrix? You know, at the beginning of
the matrix, when the numbers come cascading down off the
top of the screen and they're ones or zero's, and
they're green. Those are bits and those are basically, to
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make a very complex story very short, the building blocks
of modern computing. Right, you arrange enough ones and zeros,
you arrange enough bits next to each other, and that
creates a photograph on your phone or a video game
on your desktop. Right, that is the building block upon
which we build our modern computing in for structure, quantum
computing uses different building blocks. It's a completely different thing.
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They use what are known as quantum bits or cubits
as they are colloquially known. Instead of being a one
or a zero. This is where it gets a little complicated.
They are kind of both one and zero and also
some percentage of the two right until you run a program.
They can exist in this quantum state where they are
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sort of both but also neither and maybe kind of
more of one and maybe kind of more of zero.
It's very complicated, but the bottom line is that creates
an extra level of variability for these computers, and that
means that the big takeaway from quantum computers is that
they are able to solve problems that are way more
complex than normal computers can handle, which opens up a
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lot of opportunity if these things eventually mature and become
part of the mainstream.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Okay, so when you say it can solve a lot
of things that regular computers can't, what kinds of things
are you talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's a great question, because up until recently this was
pretty theoretical. For example, last year, Google announced that they
got their quantum computer to solve a problem that would
have taken a classical computer ten septillion years, right, So
they were condensing the large longer than the known history
of the universe down to basically an instant But it
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was a pretty theoretical math problem, right. It was this
really complex, really niche thing that everyday people wouldn't normally encounter. Well,
last month HSBC the bank announced that they used IBM's
quantum computer to reduce the variability and unpredictability of the
bond trading market. They were able to predict bond trading
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and the price that bonds were able to go for
at thirty four percent more accuracy. And this was a
test it was in the European bond market. But if
IBM is to be believed, that is eventually going to
be your money that is being moved around with these
quantum computers and the algorithms that go along with them.
And then you consider the applications in things like drug
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development or artificial intelligence. Taking again a ten septillion year
long problem and condensing it down to the flip of
a switch or the snap of a finger, what could
that do to something like developing a cancer drug or
developing an artificial intelligence model. Shrinking that progress down dramatically.
It has really big implications.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Okay, and then here's here's my out of this world question.
So remember the show Quantum Leap, I mean, is are
they thinking about things like that too?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't think we're quite at the quantum leap level yet. Unfortunately,
you know, as much as we would like to leap
around time and space, you know that that future I
think is pretty far off, sir, reporting no teleporting. And
it's also worth mentioning that as much of this sort
of blue sky thinking about like AI and drugs and
financial trading and whatnot, is great, these computers are still
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in sort of an early stage. They still throw errors
at a point one percent rate, meaning one out of
every one thousand problems we give them, it returns an error.
It sounds like okay, but it's way higher than what
you would expect of a computer. And IBM says. I
was able to talk to some of the experts at
IBM earlier this week. They told me that by twenty
twenty nine they plan to get that down to a
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tolerance level, a fault level that is equitable with existing computers.
Bringing that down to make it throw errors less and
be a little bit more reliable as a computer. Interestingly enough,
these things, as complex as they are and as good
as they are at like solving really complex problems, they
still make mistakes, so we have to account for that
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going forward.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It sounds like AI like it's going to get better,
but right now it still makes a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I think it's also it's very comparable to AI in
the sense that, yeah, it's gonna get better, but a
lot of things need to happen for it to get better,
and there's increasing doubt that it will. Right this idea
that there's traditional computer advocates out there who say, we
actually shouldn't be investing all our time and efforts and
energy into quantum computing. Our traditional computers are able to do,
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buy and large a lot of these things, and if
we were to develop them more, they would be able
to do it more quickly. So there's this tension in
the high end computing world that kind of mimics what
we're seeing with AI, where it's just like, Okay, we're
spending a lot of money on this stuff and it's
taken up a lot of energy, and we're not seeing
a ton of practical applications that we can monetize just yet.
So will that portend a bad future for either of
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these industries. I think we're just going to have to
wait and see.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
All right, ABC's Mike Debuski, thanks for almost making that understandable.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Of course, I do my best.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
No, you did great. It's my brain that can't grasp it.
Thanks so much, Mike. Take Care, the Democratic front runner
and the race for California governor, says she regrets not
handling things better during an interview. A video the surface
last week shows Katie Porter getting short with a reporter
for asking too many follow up questions. The second video
shows are yelling at a staffer for accidentally getting in
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the camera shot behind her. Order tells Katla she knows
she's going to have to continue to convince voters about
her character.
Speaker 19 (20:57):
I have to answer every question and cloud I got
to to continue that interview and finish that interview and
answer all her questions.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And that's what I'm going to continue to do. Border
says she thinks people know she's able to handle tough
questions and values the work her staffers do. California's inmate
firefighters are getting a pay raise for their work on
the front lines. Of wildfires.
Speaker 15 (21:16):
Governor Newsom has signed new laws boosting pay for incarcerated
firefighters to the federal minimum wage of seven dollars and
twenty five cents per hour. That's up from as little
as five dollars and eighty cents a day. The package
also provides a fifty thousand dollars death benefit for those
who die in the line of duty. It also makes
it easier for former firefighting inmates to clear their criminal
records once they're released. Brigida Degastino k if I news.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Tamer Wallace has resigned as mayor of South Lake Tahoe
after she admitted to stealing money from a church where
she worked. She cites personal struggles, including recovery from a
suicide attempt, and has pledged to repay the stolen money.
She's also calling for pro tem Cody Bass to resign
following his arrest for alleged assault and threats at a
bar where he had been banned. He admits no wrongdoing.
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Hey have you picked out your Halloween costume yet? K
Pop Demon Hunters isn't only popular on the stream, It's
expected to be the most popular costume this Halloween. Google's
Freightgeist is tracking the hottest costumes for the season. The
top five most popular costumes are from K pop, Demon
Hunters and then Le Boo Boo, you know the little
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collectible dolls. I know that also ranks high for popular
costumes for kids and for dogs. Love the La Booboo dog.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
news here, and we're gonna be talking about that bus
in just a minute. The rain has moved out after
dumping more than five inches on the San Gabriel Mountains.
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Several freeways were flooded from the fast falling rain, including
the five and Sun Valley, but the hillsides in the
Burn areas pretty much held in evacuation Warnings and orders
have all been canceled. Former President Obama has jumped into
the fight over redistricting. He's featured in a new ad
urging Californians to vote yes on Prop fifty. Obama says
in the ad that democracy is in peril. The Democrat
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led measure, which voters will decide November fourth, would take
redistricting decisions away from an independent commission and give it
to lawmakers who would redraw lines to give Democrats the
advantage in the House. President Trump has posthumously a awarded
conservative activist Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. At
a ceremony at the White House, Trump said that Kirk
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helped him win the election. The medal was accepted by
Kirk's widow, Erica. The ceremony held on what would have
been Charlie Kirk's thirty second birthday, at six oh five.
It's handle on the news. Bill's going to be talking
about a state of emergency in the Los Angeles County area.
And why on it?
Speaker 15 (23:54):
Dami's it, Amy's on it.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
Dami's on it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Okay. So I'm on the stream checking out shows for you,
good ones, bad ones ones. You might have missed movies, documentaries,
TV series And this time I caught a movie. It's
got some hype stars Matthew McConaughey, Okay, America Ferrera. It's
called The Lost Bus on Apple TV. Inspired by a
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true story. I was hesitant to watch it because of
really the horrific nature of the movie. It's about the
campfire in twenty eighteen eighty five people were killed, right,
and also because of the fires that we just had
in January in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. I know it's
going to be hard to watch, right. So, Kevin McKay
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has moved back to the town of Paradise. He's a
new school bus driver. Everything in his world is coming apart.
He's not in a good place with his employer, his
mom's not doing well, he's got a strained relationship with
his son. His dog is dying. I mean, like literally,
he's not having a good day. And then the fire
starts and as we know, the fire tears through and
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wipes out the town of Paradise. I mean, it's an
amazing story of ingenuity and survival when you're faced with
impossible odds. Right. Unfortunately, it felt very contrived. So they
set up a conflict between Kevin McKay, the bus driver,
and the teacher who's on the bus. This is based
on a true story. Again, there was a school bus,
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twenty two kids on it, and the driver and a
couple of teachers. So I get that Hollywood needs to
create conflict. But this story was so powerful. I think
they could have told it without the fabricated drama. You know,
the story is harrowing, it's horrifying, and it is powerful
(25:47):
and you get sucked in. I mean I watched it
end to end and I was, you know, watching it,
and I got caught up. And they have the crescendo
music at certain points and that kind of stuff. But
in the I thought, something's off. This just doesn't look
so they're in this bus, the fires are burning all
around them. Something's off. So I went and did a
little digging. I said, is this a true story? And
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you'd say, oh, it's based on a true story. It's
inspired by a true story. So I thought i'd check
out the true story and I got a book called Paradise,
One Town's Struggle to Survive in American Wildfires by Lizzie Johnson.
And I just finished reading the book yesterday, and I'll
tell you that the story of Kevin McKay is nothing
like that story in the movie The Lost Bus. In fact,
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the Lost Bus doesn't show up until chapter eight in
the book, and it's only a couple chapters, and that
the kids are okay. It was harrowing, it was scary,
it was awful, But I think that the book did
a much better job of describing the horrors of that
wildfire and the eighty five people who were killed in it.
So Matthew McConaughey, love you, America Ferrera, love her. Didn't
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think that this movie hit the mark. It really missed it.
Maybe that's why I went right to the stream and
didn't go to theaters. So I was really disappointed. I
didn't think i'd come out of it going, oh, I
love that movie because it's not a happy movie, but
it's you know, it's we know that the kids are okay,
they made it through. That's great. So it's interesting. But
remember it's inspired by a true story. It's not a
(27:17):
true story, kind of fictional. It's not how this happened.
But anyway, that is what I was on this week.
It's the Lost Bus on Apple TV. Okay, time to
get in your business now with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrinny morning, Denise.
Speaker 20 (27:29):
Yeah, good morning to you.
Speaker 13 (27:31):
Hey me.
Speaker 20 (27:31):
Amazingly, the gold rush is back. But I'm not talking
about the rush to buy gold jewelry on eBay or
gold bars. I'm talking about the new gold fever sparked
by people on social media with strainers, pans, picks, and
even vintage relopment searching old maps. Yeah, they're trying to
figure out where in the US, you know, you can
still find gold. With gold at record high prices. I mean,
(27:54):
if I check right now, gold is at a record
four two hundred and two dollars an ounce.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's up almost sixty percent this year.
Speaker 20 (28:01):
And people, you know, they know without a job, if
they find a nice gold nugget, you know, they could
retire and sit pretty The big Thunder gold mine in
South Dakota is apparently being flooded with people looking for advice,
according to the Wall Street Channel. But got to say,
so far, the biggest money makers appear to be those
selling the equipment for others.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah for gold.
Speaker 20 (28:23):
Yeah, we're not finding any major you know, rocks yet,
but it could happen. And Jamie Diamond, CEO of JP
Morgan Chase, is really adding fuel to the fire of desire,
you might say, for this because with gold trading at
a record, Jamie Diamond says it could more than double.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Wow. Okay, Well, here's a fun fact. Denise Paradise, California,
which we were just talking about, that was the type
the town that was wiped off the map basically was
part of the gold rush. In eighteen fifty nine, a
gold nugget weighing fifty four pounds was discovered near Paradise.
Speaker 20 (28:57):
Yeah, it's incredible because you know, school kids still go
to some of these historic places, of course, not that one,
but to others nearby, and if they find a little
gold piece, they get to keep it. But the fact is,
with gold prices so high right now, I mean, all
you need to do is find one. And we all
know those people right who go out to the beach
with metal detectors.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Right, Yeah, there are going to be a lot of them. Okay,
So gold prices are way up. Crude oil prices are down.
Speaker 20 (29:26):
Yeah, that's another thing. They're up a little bit today,
but this week they hit a multi month low. Really
when you think about it, five month flow. As a
matter of fact. The thing is there's a glut in
crude oil prices. OPEC plus is really turning on the
tap a month after month. They've just been pouring out
the crude production under pressure from President Trump, and they're
(29:48):
doing it. We're seeing crude prices coming down.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
A lot.
Speaker 20 (29:51):
Execs from major oil trading houses say they see crude
prices falling even more from here. Some are saying the
surplus is here and that could mean lower pump prices
as well. As I mentioned, crude prices are a bit
higher this morning, but I just.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Went and looked it up. Amy.
Speaker 20 (30:07):
Do you remember how low crude prices and pump prices
got during the financial crisis?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, I do, because we were on the air and
we saw the price of crude oil actually drop below zero.
It was in negative territory one time. It was crazy negative.
Speaker 20 (30:22):
And the pump price. I remember I was in the
car with my kids and they were like, well, mommy,
it's a dollar something again.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
I'm like, that is not good.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And they're like, why is that not good?
Speaker 20 (30:31):
And I was like, I'll explain it later, but this
is scaring me good first that everything else okay.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah, Denise Pelogrini, thank you so much getting in your
businesses we do every morning at five point forty. We'll
talk to you tomorrow. See then all right, thanks. When
we come back, I want to go grab lunch. Seems
like an innocent enough question, right, but it could be
just another attempt at pig butchering. Aby C's Jim Ryan's
going to join us. I know he's going to join
us to tell us what the heck that is and
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Speaker 1 (37:52):
It's by fifty three on your Wednesday morning. You wake
up called good morning, I'm Amy King. Thanks so much
for starting your day with us. We're almost done. We
got handle on the news coming up at six o' five.
You know the kids aren't going to get to see
everything on Instagram anymore. Bill's going to tell you about that.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The first substantial storm of the fall is drenched the Southland,
dropping as much as five inches of rain. Bell Air
(38:15):
got two inches. Three and a half inches fell in
Supulvida Canyon. The storm prompted evacuation warnings and orders in
the burn areas, but didn't produce any of the feared mudslides, flooding,
or debris flows that forecasters had been warning about. On
location shooting in the LA areas declined by thirteen percent
from July through September. That continues a recent trend. Officials
(38:36):
with Film LA, which is tasked with promoting local production,
say they hope California is revamped seven hundred and fifty
million dollar tax credit program will bring production back to
the Southland. The Dodgers have taken another step toward be
coming back to back World Series champions They're headed back
to the Southland after beating the Brewers five to one
in Milwaukee last night. The Dodgers have a two games
(38:57):
to none lead in the best of seven Nation League
Championship Series. Game three is tomorrow afternoon Dodger Stadium. You
can listen to all the Dodger playoff action on AM
five seventy LA Sports. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Jim Ryan. Okay, So, Jim, you get a text
and it says, hey, what are you doing for lunch?
Or Hey do you want to grab a quick drink
(39:18):
after work? And you instinctually want to respond because it
might be a friend, or it might be somebody that
you just met, but it's probably somebody else.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Chances are yeah, it's good. Here's your vocabulary word for
the day, Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yes, shoohupon, shoe jupon, shoo jupon.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
It's a Chinese term. It means it roughly translates to
pig butchering. And if you answer that text message and
say hi, you must have the wrong. I don't know
who you are, but yeah, my weekend was fine or
I'm doing okay, and the person replies back, oh, I'm
sorry I had the wrong. Who are you, by the way,
You say, Oh, my name's Amy, and the guy says, oh,
nice to meet you, Amy. What do you you know?
(39:56):
They build this little friendship anything else, nothing to you
get in tech. A couple days later in the same person,
so how you been. They build a relationship. This is
a long con. Pig butchering involves fattening up a victim
for drawing them in over the long term weeks, months,
even years in some cases, and then introducing something new, saying, hey, Amy,
(40:19):
I've been investing in cryptocurrency. I make a lot of
money at this and i'd like to, you know, bring
you into my into my deal here. But you send
me some money and all invest it and I'll send
you back the returns. And you say okay, and you
send him one hundred dollars and he invests it, and
he sends you back one hundred and fifty dollars, okay,
and then you invest a little more and you know,
(40:39):
by the time this is all over, some people have
lost their whole life savings sending it to the perpetrators
of this. And it all started with that one stupid text,
how is your weekend?
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Okay? So, I mean it's pretty obvious. Just don't answer
text from people that you don't know, or if you do,
or shut them down.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It could be somebody that you know. It could be
somebody that you met who, like you had a nice
conversation with and they said, hey, let's go grab lunch.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
Yeah, possible. Yeah, you should have gotten their number, though,
how did they get your number?
Speaker 21 (41:11):
You know?
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Ah, think it out, but so yeah, the best advice
is just to delete it. I mean, we've become such
a paranoid society for a good reason. I guess if
it's not unjustified, it's not paranoia because people are losing
a lot of money to this. People are actually getting
caught though. That's kind of the good news here.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 6 (41:32):
Yeah, and that's how I got around to this. Yesterday,
federal authority seized fifteen billion dollars worth of bitcoin that
had been taking off victims around the world in one big,
you know, money laundering and bitcoin scheme, this kind of
investment scheme. Fifteen billion dollars. And there's a guy into indictment.
Now he's in Cambodia, and you know they're hoping to
(41:56):
get him at a custod He could face forty years
in prison for this. But the fifteen billion dollars, it's
probably not going to make it back out to the
people who lost it in these fake investments. But at
least it was taken away from the bad guys.
Speaker 21 (42:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
And here's to hoping that none of us becomes a
victim of shoohou.
Speaker 6 (42:11):
Pon, shoe, jupon, pig butchering.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
It's a great names, a great name, ABC's Jim Bryan,
thank you so much. See Amy Shooeshu pon, I do
like it in English, better, more descriptive. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Testimony is set to begin today
in the trial of the wrongful death lawsuit filed by
the widow and parents of the late Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs.
(42:39):
Skaggs died of a drug overdose on a road trip
six years ago. His family is suing the La Angels,
claiming the team knew about and enabled the drug use.
They're suing for one hundred and eighteen million dollars. News
brought to you by Seller's Advantage of thirty six year
old man's been arrested for allegedly stabbing a man on
a metro bus in Southgate. The stabbing happened shortly after
(42:59):
five Saturday night. The man was arrested early yesterday morning
at the Irwindale passenger station. The person stabbed is recovering
in the hospital. The Senate has again rejected a Republican
backed spending measure that would have ended the government shutdown.
Speaker 6 (43:11):
These are forty nine then theys A forty five, three
fifths of the Senate's due he chosen and sworn have
not having voted any infervative, the motion is not agreed to.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
It's the eighth time lawmakers have voted down the continuing Resolution,
which has already been approved by the House. President Trump
said yesterday that he's in the process of closing programs
popular with Democrats and will release a list of those
programs tomorrow. Democrats say they won't agree to reopen the
government until their demands for healthcare, Obamacare subsidies and other
(43:41):
projects are met. Some of La County's federal dollars could
disappear because of the government shut down.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
The county receives one hundred and twenty million dollars a
week from the federal government to support assistance programs. Jackie
Contreras with the Department of Public Social Services tells the
Board of Supervisors that money would be hard to make up.
Speaker 19 (43:58):
We are engaging in discussions with the CEO and the
Auditor Controller to determine what funding may be available to
replace the federal funding we would need to operate.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
The county uses the federal funds to support cash, food, housing,
and healthcare programs. Recipients are expected to receive notifications soon
about the potential loss of funds. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
News Governor Newsim assigned a new law that seeks to
place tougher restrictions on chatbots powered by artificial intelligence. State
Senator Steve Vidia says his bill protects children from dangers
posed by AI platforms.
Speaker 22 (44:31):
We need to look no further than Orange County teenager
Adam Rain, who took his life after a bot told
him not to seek help.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Under the new law, companies like open ai and similar
operations will have to remind their users that chatbots are
not real people. It also safeguards children from sexually explicit content.
People are headed back to the office, but they're not
necessarily working there.
Speaker 19 (44:55):
It's called coffee badging, where workers show up for required
attendance but they don't stick around for the full day.
A new study says more than half of hybrid workers
say they make it for their morning coffee, get that
imaginary badge, and then go home to work. Many reverse it,
going into work later to avoid morning traffic. Workers say
it gives them more control of their work life balance
(45:15):
and actually boosts productivity in the job. Researchers say men
and millennials are most likely to coffee badge, with baby
boomers least likely to show up late or leave early.
Michael krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Oh Krozier, I told you I love the stories that
he finds coffee badging. I don't think we can do that.
I was going to say that would that work for us?
From now cono you gonna try coffee badging, I don't
I don't like coffee guys. Oh, you don't drink coffee.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
So totally off the conversation with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
All right. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
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I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
And if you missed any of wake up call, like
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Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Wednesday, October fifteenth. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good day. If
you're a Dodger fan.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
One more?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
How about those Dodgers?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Two more?
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Got you?
Speaker 7 (00:45):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean one more after the first time?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
One more? Okay, yeah, one more after the first one
big win last night in Milwaukee. Action shifts back now
to Dodger Stadium, and in celebration of the Dodgers win,
if you'll step up your radios and take a look
dodgerr donuts. Oh hello from Dunkin Wait. You're on a diet.
Speaker 8 (01:08):
See if you diet and I see you there you go,
We'll help yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Brought those in celebration. They're so cute. I walked into
the dunkin yesterday and I go, do you have Dodger Donuts?
And she looked at me weird and was like, I
don't know, And then she said, did you ask for
doctor donuts? And I said, why would I ask for
doctor donuts? I would like DODGERR donuts. And she said, oh,
the blue and white ones. Yeah, we have those, okay,
doctor donuts. Anyway, they're adorable, and well I I got
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them yesterday afternoon and I can't just look at them.
They're delicious. You know what else today is It's October fifteenth.
It's tax day for La County residents. Again. We had
that six month delay. I did mine, got them out
of the way, but if you didn't, today is the day.
Another day, another big rig block in the freeway in
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the exact same spot at the five one thirty four split.
Speaker 9 (02:02):
This morning.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
There was a big rig. It was on the five,
so like the one thirty four was fine. Actually everything
was detoured onto the one thirty four, but there was
this big rig that had jackknife spun out because the
roads are still wet, it's not raining anymore, but now
you got to deal with the aftermath and the suck.
They got rid of it though, good, yeah, good, But
I just thought it was weird. It was big rigs
both days and the like even the exact same spot.
(02:26):
Here's what's ahead on wake up call because we got
a lot. All evacuation orders have been lifted and southern
California appears to have dodged a bullet from the heavy
rains that fell across the region. The storm has moved
out after dumping nearly five inches of rain in some areas.
Forcaster say, we'll return to sunny skies today with a
light Santa Ana wind event tomorrow and Friday, but that's
(02:48):
not expected to do any damage. The government shutdown has
entered week number three. The Senate rejected a Republican backed
House past spending plan for an eighth time that would
have ended the shutdown. Democrats have repeatedly rejected the continuing Resolution,
saying they want Obamacare subsidies to be extended and funding
restored to Medicaid. Hamas has released four more bodies, but
(03:10):
officials are saying that one of those bodies was not
a hostage. Hamas has yet to return twenty one dead hostages.
Seven have been released so far. We're going to get
the latest on that and what's happening in Gaza as
The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues We've got
ABC's Jordana Miller calling in from Jerusalem. Remember that show
(03:31):
Quantum Leap. ABC's Mike Dubuski is going to join us
to talk about the next step in computing. It's quantum computing.
Try to wrap your head around that we're going to
do that. At five twenty. I have a feeling I'm
not going to understand a thing he has to say.
Want to go grab lunch? Seems like an innocent enough question,
but it could be just another attempt at pig butchering.
(03:53):
ABC's Jim Ryan tells, it's going to tell us what
the heck it is and what we can do to
protect ourselves. Also, Amy's on it because Wednesday and this week,
I'm on a show that I was apprehensive to watch,
and I'll tell you why when we talk more about it.
And now that I've watched it, I was like, something
didn't add up, so I had to do a little digging.
(04:16):
But it's a it's a show that is on Apple
TV Plus, and I had higher I had higher hopes
for it. We'll just say, but anyway, that's coming up
at the bottom of the hour. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The intense rain has caused a roof
of a film studio in North Hollywood to collapse. The
owner of JCC Studios La told NBC four she lost
(04:39):
a lot of expensive equipment yesterday.
Speaker 10 (04:41):
Then tireof collapse.
Speaker 11 (04:44):
Exactly where my l eighty walls, all my props, my
space ship, everything there in the cameras, all the lights
are there.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
It hurts the.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Cities, says she only built the studio last year. She
does plan to rebuild. And speaking of studios and film production,
it's down again in LA.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Film Lay's latest report shows on location filming in the
LA area drop thirteen percent in the third quarter compared
to last year.
Speaker 12 (05:09):
By far, the biggest category to take a hit this
quarter was reality television.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Philip Sakolowski with Film LA says there are signs of
a rebound things to California's newly expanded film and TV
tax credit, which has already approved twenty two projects, most
of them set to film in the LA area.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
There hasn't been enough time for the tax credit to
take it back yet and to really be visible in
the data.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
Sakolowski says the impact of these incentives will take more
time to play out, but he says calls are already
coming in from productions and that's a positive sign for
Hollywood's recovery. Heather Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Daile County Board of Supervisors has declared a local state
of emergency in response to federal Immigration Enforcement raids. Supervisors
say the raids are stopping people from going to work
and making some businesses close. The La Tenants Unit Advocacy
Group has been pushing the board for weeks to do something,
saying the raids have made people afraid to go to work.
The La City Council's given final approval to a more
(06:01):
than fifty percent increase in trash collection fees. That's the
first adjustment in seventeen years. Single family homes and duplexes
will pay about twenty dollars more per month. Three to
four unit apartments will see an increase of one hundred
and thirty percent. Officials say the hike is needed to
cover organic waste disposal, staff salaries, and equipment maintenance. If
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Mayor Bath signs it, the increases will kick in next month.
Time to say good morning to ABC's Jerdonna Miller in Jerusalem,
So Dona. We're just a few days into the ceasefire
between Israel and Hamas. Hamas released the living hostages. On Monday,
they released the bodies of four hostages who had died,
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and then they said they gave four more back yesterday.
But that's not quite.
Speaker 13 (06:50):
Accurate, right, that's not quite accurate. After the Israeli National
Forensic Institute at those bodies, only three of them matched
those of Israeli hostages, so that means that one may
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be a gosen it's unclear, but only three were positively identified,
and that means that of the twenty eight deceased hostages
that Hamas was supposed to turn over, and they indicated
they had about half of them and it would take
some time to locate the others, they've only turned over
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seven of twenty eight, right, so twenty one is still
in the gauze of strip. We understand from some sources
that there is a chance that Hamas is going to
turn over more bodies this evening on Wednesday PM local time,
So we'll be waiting and watching that. But you know,
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Hamas is now under tremendous pressure from the mediators each
and Cutter, the United States, Turkey to really come up
with those bodies. And you know, Hamas has kind of
done this in the past where they say, oh, we
don't know where that living hostage is or we don't
know where that body is, and then after you know,
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several hours and threats, those those hostages suddenly appear, right,
And that's what happened last night. The bodies were turned over,
but clearly more more need to be turned over.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Okay, well, well, hope that they do release and I'm
sure that it's got to be so hard for the families.
They know that their son or daughter or husband or
wife is already dead, but they are not giving them back,
which is part of the deal. And then we're also
hearing that Hamas is starting to try to take some
control back in Gaza. Right.
Speaker 13 (08:52):
Remember these really army redeployed, and so from controlling about
eighty percent of Gaza, they moved back and they control
maybe fifty percent of Gaza now, but the other fifty
percent parts of Gaza City, parts of the north, the
central area in mawassee, we see Hamas's police force and
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some of their fighters back on the streets trying to
reassert control and some say reassert a kind of reign
of terror. We've seen video and talk to people in
the Gaza Strip. We know that Hamas is executing and
killing anyone they believe cooperated with Israel and the Israeli
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defense forces during the two year war. They're doing it
sometimes publicly, shooting people they call collaborators. And that's being
done to you to wipe out any chance that a
local family could replace Hamas, either on a governing council
or as a security force. And it's it is going
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to test this ceasefire end of war agreement.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Okay, well, we will be watching and I'm sure that
we'll be getting updates from you. JERDONO Miller. Stay safe
and we will talk to you soon. Thank you, TUXI.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
President Trump has posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
to Charlie Kirk on what would have been his thirty
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second birthday.
Speaker 14 (10:29):
We're entering his name forever into the eternal roster of
true American heroes.
Speaker 15 (10:35):
He's a true American hero, an amazing person.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Kirk's widow, Erica, was at the ceremony. Yesterday at the
White House and said that the country will never forget
the contributions Charlie Kirk made. The Director of National Intelligence,
Tulsea Gabbard, called it a fitting tribute for the Christian
conservative activist. He was assassinated last month during a college
event in Utah. The Trump administration has revoked visas of
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six foreigners found to have made divisive comments or made
light of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 16 (11:03):
Administration and its supporters have targeted people for comments about Kirk,
leading to firings or other discipline, but it also raises
free speech concerns. The State Department says it reviewed social
media posts and clips about Kirk.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
ABC's Chuck Sievertson says the revoked visas were for people
from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Paraguay, Paraguay, and South Africa.
Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzkers, pushing back against President Trump's
consideration of invoking the Insurrection Act to send National Guard
troops into Chicago. He told ABC's This Week there is
(11:35):
no ground to use the nineteenth century law. Attorney General
Pam Bondi disagrees.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
He absolutely has the right to do that the legal
authority to do that. We didn't have to do it.
In Los Angeles, they came in, they cleaned up the riots.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
You saw.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Look how much better LA is after the President brought
in the National Guard. But look at Portland, Look at Chicago.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
The Insurrection Act would allow active duty troops to be
deployed in US cities. It was last used during the
nineteen ninety two LA riots. Lifespans are finally getting back
to normal.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
New research shows life expectancy in the world has returned
to pre pandemic levels. Data shows in twenty twenty three,
life expectancy was seventy six point three years for women
and seventy one and a half years for men. That's
according to data published Sunday in the Journal the Lancet.
COVID was the leading cause of death in twenty twenty one,
but felt the twentieth in twenty twenty three. Death rates
among children and young adults have increased in some places
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in the world, including in North America. Mark Ronner KFI News, Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Big Dodgers Brewers series Milwaukee struck first blood last night
with a single run shot, and I was like, oh no,
oh no. Yamamoto what's going on. But it didn't last
long because then Taoscar hernandez stepped up to the plate.
Speaker 17 (12:49):
Hernandezle's one high in the air, left field, drifting back.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
This ball is gone.
Speaker 18 (12:56):
Tayo ties it up with a solo home run, no field.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And the dingers for the Dodgers were not done.
Speaker 17 (13:03):
It's waiting on one of those big Max Mounsey swings
another three to two pitch on the way. Monsey hits
one in the air, center field, free lick.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
He is at the wall.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
This ball is out of hair.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
There's that big swing.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
And speaking of not being done, Yoshinoba Yoma Moto pitched
a complete game. A Dodger pitcher hasn't done that in
the playoffs since two thousand and four.
Speaker 17 (13:30):
Oh and two. On bomb pitch one to eleven coming
from Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 18 (13:37):
Strike three swinging, Yoshinobu Yamamoto goes the distance. In Game two,
the Dodgers win five to one and take a two
nothing series lead in this championship series.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Today they've got a day off there traveling back home.
Your world's champion Dodgers will be back at stadium to
take on the Milwaukee Brewers for Game three of the
National League Championship Series. First pitch tomorrow afternoon goes out
at three to oh eight. You can listen to all
the Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA Sports
live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth, and you can
stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app.
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Keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports can't wait. All
evacuation warnings and orders in the Palisades, Hearst, Sunset Eton
and Airport fire burn areas have been lifted. A lot
of rain fell but didn't produce the mud slides or
debris flows that forecasters had warned about over five inches
of rainfall in the San Gabriel Mountains. Most areas got
about one to one and a half inches of rain.
(14:38):
About thirty one thousand Kaiser Permanente workers in California, Oregon, Washington,
and Hawaii are off the job and on the picket
lines for the second day of a five day walkout.
More than five hundred facilities are impacted. It's over stalled
contract talks. At six so five, it's handle on the news.
Katie Porter is going to try to digger helf out
(15:00):
of this one, do a little rebranding. Bill's going to
tell you about that. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Mike Debuski and Mike I've been telling a wake
up call listeners that we're going to have to try
to wrap our hands our heads around this one because
we're not only talking about computers, but we're talking about
quantum computing. What is it?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yes, that's right. So quantum computing really requires us to
understand how normal computing works. But it does have potentially,
I know, it does have potentially very big implications though,
so it is important to talk about. So have you
ever seen the matrix? You know, at the beginning of
the matrix, when the numbers come cascading down off the
top of the screen and they're ones or zero's, and
they're green. Those are bits and those are basically, to
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make a very complex story very short, the building blocks
of modern computing. Right, you arrange enough ones and zeros,
you arrange enough bits next to each other, and that
creates a photograph on your phone or a video game
on your desktop. Right, that is the building block upon
which we build our modern computing in for structure, quantum
computing uses different building blocks. It's a completely different thing.
(16:04):
They use what are known as quantum bits or cubits
as they are colloquially known. Instead of being a one
or a zero. This is where it gets a little complicated.
They are kind of both one and zero and also
some percentage of the two right until you run a program.
They can exist in this quantum state where they are
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sort of both but also neither and maybe kind of
more of one and maybe kind of more of zero.
It's very complicated, but the bottom line is that creates
an extra level of variability for these computers, and that
means that the big takeaway from quantum computers is that
they are able to solve problems that are way more
complex than normal computers can handle, which opens up a
(16:46):
lot of opportunity if these things eventually mature and become
part of the mainstream.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Okay, so when you say it can solve a lot
of things that regular computers can't, what kinds of things
are you talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's a great question, because up until recently this was
pretty theoretical. For example, last year, Google announced that they
got their quantum computer to solve a problem that would
have taken a classical computer ten septillion years, right, So
they were condensing the large longer than the known history
of the universe down to basically an instant But it
(17:16):
was a pretty theoretical math problem, right. It was this
really complex, really niche thing that everyday people wouldn't normally encounter. Well,
last month HSBC the bank announced that they used IBM's
quantum computer to reduce the variability and unpredictability of the
bond trading market. They were able to predict bond trading
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and the price that bonds were able to go for
at thirty four percent more accuracy. And this was a
test it was in the European bond market. But if
IBM is to be believed, that is eventually going to
be your money that is being moved around with these
quantum computers and the algorithms that go along with them.
And then you consider the applications in things like drug
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development or artificial intelligence. Taking again a ten septillion year
long problem and condensing it down to the flip of
a switch or the snap of a finger, what could
that do to something like developing a cancer drug or
developing an artificial intelligence model. Shrinking that progress down dramatically.
It has really big implications.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Okay, and then here's here's my out of this world question.
So remember the show Quantum Leap, I mean, is are
they thinking about things like that too?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't think we're quite at the quantum leap level yet. Unfortunately,
you know, as much as we would like to leap
around time and space, you know that that future I
think is pretty far off, sir, reporting no teleporting. And
it's also worth mentioning that as much of this sort
of blue sky thinking about like AI and drugs and
financial trading and whatnot, is great, these computers are still
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in sort of an early stage. They still throw errors
at a point one percent rate, meaning one out of
every one thousand problems we give them, it returns an error.
It sounds like okay, but it's way higher than what
you would expect of a computer. And IBM says. I
was able to talk to some of the experts at
IBM earlier this week. They told me that by twenty
twenty nine they plan to get that down to a
(19:13):
tolerance level, a fault level that is equitable with existing computers.
Bringing that down to make it throw errors less and
be a little bit more reliable as a computer. Interestingly enough,
these things, as complex as they are and as good
as they are at like solving really complex problems, they
still make mistakes, so we have to account for that
(19:33):
going forward.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It sounds like AI like it's going to get better,
but right now it still makes a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I think it's also it's very comparable to AI in
the sense that, yeah, it's gonna get better, but a
lot of things need to happen for it to get better,
and there's increasing doubt that it will. Right this idea
that there's traditional computer advocates out there who say, we
actually shouldn't be investing all our time and efforts and
energy into quantum computing. Our traditional computers are able to do,
(20:00):
buy and large a lot of these things, and if
we were to develop them more, they would be able
to do it more quickly. So there's this tension in
the high end computing world that kind of mimics what
we're seeing with AI, where it's just like, Okay, we're
spending a lot of money on this stuff and it's
taken up a lot of energy, and we're not seeing
a ton of practical applications that we can monetize just yet.
So will that portend a bad future for either of
(20:22):
these industries. I think we're just going to have to
wait and see.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
All right, ABC's Mike Debuski, thanks for almost making that understandable.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Of course, I do my best.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
No, you did great. It's my brain that can't grasp it.
Thanks so much, Mike. Take Care, the Democratic front runner
and the race for California governor, says she regrets not
handling things better during an interview. A video the surface
last week shows Katie Porter getting short with a reporter
for asking too many follow up questions. The second video
shows are yelling at a staffer for accidentally getting in
(20:51):
the camera shot behind her. Order tells Katla she knows
she's going to have to continue to convince voters about
her character.
Speaker 19 (20:57):
I have to answer every question and cloud I got
to to continue that interview and finish that interview and
answer all her questions.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And that's what I'm going to continue to do. Border
says she thinks people know she's able to handle tough
questions and values the work her staffers do. California's inmate
firefighters are getting a pay raise for their work on
the front lines. Of wildfires.
Speaker 15 (21:16):
Governor Newsom has signed new laws boosting pay for incarcerated
firefighters to the federal minimum wage of seven dollars and
twenty five cents per hour. That's up from as little
as five dollars and eighty cents a day. The package
also provides a fifty thousand dollars death benefit for those
who die in the line of duty. It also makes
it easier for former firefighting inmates to clear their criminal
records once they're released. Brigida Degastino k if I news.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Tamer Wallace has resigned as mayor of South Lake Tahoe
after she admitted to stealing money from a church where
she worked. She cites personal struggles, including recovery from a
suicide attempt, and has pledged to repay the stolen money.
She's also calling for pro tem Cody Bass to resign
following his arrest for alleged assault and threats at a
bar where he had been banned. He admits no wrongdoing.
(22:01):
Hey have you picked out your Halloween costume yet? K
Pop Demon Hunters isn't only popular on the stream, It's
expected to be the most popular costume this Halloween. Google's
Freightgeist is tracking the hottest costumes for the season. The
top five most popular costumes are from K pop, Demon
Hunters and then Le Boo Boo, you know the little
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collectible dolls. I know that also ranks high for popular
costumes for kids and for dogs. Love the La Booboo dog.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
news here, and we're gonna be talking about that bus
in just a minute. The rain has moved out after
dumping more than five inches on the San Gabriel Mountains.
(22:45):
Several freeways were flooded from the fast falling rain, including
the five and Sun Valley, but the hillsides in the
Burn areas pretty much held in evacuation Warnings and orders
have all been canceled. Former President Obama has jumped into
the fight over redistricting. He's featured in a new ad
urging Californians to vote yes on Prop fifty. Obama says
in the ad that democracy is in peril. The Democrat
(23:09):
led measure, which voters will decide November fourth, would take
redistricting decisions away from an independent commission and give it
to lawmakers who would redraw lines to give Democrats the
advantage in the House. President Trump has posthumously a awarded
conservative activist Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. At
a ceremony at the White House, Trump said that Kirk
(23:31):
helped him win the election. The medal was accepted by
Kirk's widow, Erica. The ceremony held on what would have
been Charlie Kirk's thirty second birthday, at six oh five.
It's handle on the news. Bill's going to be talking
about a state of emergency in the Los Angeles County area.
And why on it?
Speaker 15 (23:54):
Dami's it, Amy's on it.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
Dami's on it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Okay. So I'm on the stream checking out shows for you,
good ones, bad ones ones. You might have missed movies, documentaries,
TV series And this time I caught a movie. It's
got some hype stars Matthew McConaughey, Okay, America Ferrera. It's
called The Lost Bus on Apple TV. Inspired by a
(24:23):
true story. I was hesitant to watch it because of
really the horrific nature of the movie. It's about the
campfire in twenty eighteen eighty five people were killed, right,
and also because of the fires that we just had
in January in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. I know it's
going to be hard to watch, right. So, Kevin McKay
(24:44):
has moved back to the town of Paradise. He's a
new school bus driver. Everything in his world is coming apart.
He's not in a good place with his employer, his
mom's not doing well, he's got a strained relationship with
his son. His dog is dying. I mean, like literally,
he's not having a good day. And then the fire
starts and as we know, the fire tears through and
(25:06):
wipes out the town of Paradise. I mean, it's an
amazing story of ingenuity and survival when you're faced with
impossible odds. Right. Unfortunately, it felt very contrived. So they
set up a conflict between Kevin McKay, the bus driver,
and the teacher who's on the bus. This is based
on a true story. Again, there was a school bus,
(25:27):
twenty two kids on it, and the driver and a
couple of teachers. So I get that Hollywood needs to
create conflict. But this story was so powerful. I think
they could have told it without the fabricated drama. You know,
the story is harrowing, it's horrifying, and it is powerful
(25:47):
and you get sucked in. I mean I watched it
end to end and I was, you know, watching it,
and I got caught up. And they have the crescendo
music at certain points and that kind of stuff. But
in the I thought, something's off. This just doesn't look
so they're in this bus, the fires are burning all
around them. Something's off. So I went and did a
little digging. I said, is this a true story? And
(26:08):
you'd say, oh, it's based on a true story. It's
inspired by a true story. So I thought i'd check
out the true story and I got a book called Paradise,
One Town's Struggle to Survive in American Wildfires by Lizzie Johnson.
And I just finished reading the book yesterday, and I'll
tell you that the story of Kevin McKay is nothing
like that story in the movie The Lost Bus. In fact,
(26:31):
the Lost Bus doesn't show up until chapter eight in
the book, and it's only a couple chapters, and that
the kids are okay. It was harrowing, it was scary,
it was awful, But I think that the book did
a much better job of describing the horrors of that
wildfire and the eighty five people who were killed in it.
So Matthew McConaughey, love you, America Ferrera, love her. Didn't
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think that this movie hit the mark. It really missed it.
Maybe that's why I went right to the stream and
didn't go to theaters. So I was really disappointed. I
didn't think i'd come out of it going, oh, I
love that movie because it's not a happy movie, but
it's you know, it's we know that the kids are okay,
they made it through. That's great. So it's interesting. But
remember it's inspired by a true story. It's not a
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true story, kind of fictional. It's not how this happened.
But anyway, that is what I was on this week.
It's the Lost Bus on Apple TV. Okay, time to
get in your business now with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrinny morning, Denise.
Speaker 20 (27:29):
Yeah, good morning to you.
Speaker 13 (27:31):
Hey me.
Speaker 20 (27:31):
Amazingly, the gold rush is back. But I'm not talking
about the rush to buy gold jewelry on eBay or
gold bars. I'm talking about the new gold fever sparked
by people on social media with strainers, pans, picks, and
even vintage relopment searching old maps. Yeah, they're trying to
figure out where in the US, you know, you can
still find gold. With gold at record high prices. I mean,
(27:54):
if I check right now, gold is at a record
four two hundred and two dollars an ounce.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's up almost sixty percent this year.
Speaker 20 (28:01):
And people, you know, they know without a job, if
they find a nice gold nugget, you know, they could
retire and sit pretty The big Thunder gold mine in
South Dakota is apparently being flooded with people looking for advice,
according to the Wall Street Channel. But got to say,
so far, the biggest money makers appear to be those
selling the equipment for others.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah for gold.
Speaker 20 (28:23):
Yeah, we're not finding any major you know, rocks yet,
but it could happen. And Jamie Diamond, CEO of JP
Morgan Chase, is really adding fuel to the fire of desire,
you might say, for this because with gold trading at
a record, Jamie Diamond says it could more than double.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Wow. Okay, Well, here's a fun fact. Denise Paradise, California,
which we were just talking about, that was the type
the town that was wiped off the map basically was
part of the gold rush. In eighteen fifty nine, a
gold nugget weighing fifty four pounds was discovered near Paradise.
Speaker 20 (28:57):
Yeah, it's incredible because you know, school kids still go
to some of these historic places, of course, not that one,
but to others nearby, and if they find a little
gold piece, they get to keep it. But the fact is,
with gold prices so high right now, I mean, all
you need to do is find one. And we all
know those people right who go out to the beach
with metal detectors.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Right, Yeah, there are going to be a lot of them. Okay,
So gold prices are way up. Crude oil prices are down.
Speaker 20 (29:26):
Yeah, that's another thing. They're up a little bit today,
but this week they hit a multi month low. Really
when you think about it, five month flow. As a
matter of fact. The thing is there's a glut in
crude oil prices. OPEC plus is really turning on the
tap a month after month. They've just been pouring out
the crude production under pressure from President Trump, and they're
(29:48):
doing it. We're seeing crude prices coming down.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
A lot.
Speaker 20 (29:51):
Execs from major oil trading houses say they see crude
prices falling even more from here. Some are saying the
surplus is here and that could mean lower pump prices
as well. As I mentioned, crude prices are a bit
higher this morning, but I just.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Went and looked it up. Amy.
Speaker 20 (30:07):
Do you remember how low crude prices and pump prices
got during the financial crisis?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, I do, because we were on the air and
we saw the price of crude oil actually drop below zero.
It was in negative territory one time. It was crazy negative.
Speaker 20 (30:22):
And the pump price. I remember I was in the
car with my kids and they were like, well, mommy,
it's a dollar something again.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
I'm like, that is not good.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And they're like, why is that not good?
Speaker 20 (30:31):
And I was like, I'll explain it later, but this
is scaring me good first that everything else okay.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah, Denise Pelogrini, thank you so much getting in your
businesses we do every morning at five point forty. We'll
talk to you tomorrow. See then all right, thanks. When
we come back, I want to go grab lunch. Seems
like an innocent enough question, right, but it could be
just another attempt at pig butchering. Aby C's Jim Ryan's
going to join us. I know he's going to join
us to tell us what the heck that is and
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We come in after you.
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Speaker 1 (37:52):
It's by fifty three on your Wednesday morning. You wake
up called good morning, I'm Amy King. Thanks so much
for starting your day with us. We're almost done. We
got handle on the news coming up at six o' five.
You know the kids aren't going to get to see
everything on Instagram anymore. Bill's going to tell you about that.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The first substantial storm of the fall is drenched the Southland,
dropping as much as five inches of rain. Bell Air
(38:15):
got two inches. Three and a half inches fell in
Supulvida Canyon. The storm prompted evacuation warnings and orders in
the burn areas, but didn't produce any of the feared mudslides, flooding,
or debris flows that forecasters had been warning about. On
location shooting in the LA areas declined by thirteen percent
from July through September. That continues a recent trend. Officials
(38:36):
with Film LA, which is tasked with promoting local production,
say they hope California is revamped seven hundred and fifty
million dollar tax credit program will bring production back to
the Southland. The Dodgers have taken another step toward be
coming back to back World Series champions They're headed back
to the Southland after beating the Brewers five to one
in Milwaukee last night. The Dodgers have a two games
(38:57):
to none lead in the best of seven Nation League
Championship Series. Game three is tomorrow afternoon Dodger Stadium. You
can listen to all the Dodger playoff action on AM
five seventy LA Sports. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Jim Ryan. Okay, So, Jim, you get a text
and it says, hey, what are you doing for lunch?
Or Hey do you want to grab a quick drink
(39:18):
after work? And you instinctually want to respond because it
might be a friend, or it might be somebody that
you just met, but it's probably somebody else.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Chances are yeah, it's good. Here's your vocabulary word for
the day, Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yes, shoohupon, shoe jupon, shoo jupon.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
It's a Chinese term. It means it roughly translates to
pig butchering. And if you answer that text message and
say hi, you must have the wrong. I don't know
who you are, but yeah, my weekend was fine or
I'm doing okay, and the person replies back, oh, I'm
sorry I had the wrong. Who are you, by the way,
You say, Oh, my name's Amy, and the guy says, oh,
nice to meet you, Amy. What do you you know?
(39:56):
They build this little friendship anything else, nothing to you
get in tech. A couple days later in the same person,
so how you been. They build a relationship. This is
a long con. Pig butchering involves fattening up a victim
for drawing them in over the long term weeks, months,
even years in some cases, and then introducing something new, saying, hey, Amy,
(40:19):
I've been investing in cryptocurrency. I make a lot of
money at this and i'd like to, you know, bring
you into my into my deal here. But you send
me some money and all invest it and I'll send
you back the returns. And you say okay, and you
send him one hundred dollars and he invests it, and
he sends you back one hundred and fifty dollars, okay,
and then you invest a little more and you know,
(40:39):
by the time this is all over, some people have
lost their whole life savings sending it to the perpetrators
of this. And it all started with that one stupid text,
how is your weekend?
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Okay? So, I mean it's pretty obvious. Just don't answer
text from people that you don't know, or if you do,
or shut them down.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It could be somebody that you know. It could be
somebody that you met who, like you had a nice
conversation with and they said, hey, let's go grab lunch.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
Yeah, possible. Yeah, you should have gotten their number, though,
how did they get your number?
Speaker 21 (41:11):
You know?
Speaker 6 (41:11):
Ah, think it out, but so yeah, the best advice
is just to delete it. I mean, we've become such
a paranoid society for a good reason. I guess if
it's not unjustified, it's not paranoia because people are losing
a lot of money to this. People are actually getting
caught though. That's kind of the good news here.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 6 (41:32):
Yeah, and that's how I got around to this. Yesterday,
federal authority seized fifteen billion dollars worth of bitcoin that
had been taking off victims around the world in one big,
you know, money laundering and bitcoin scheme, this kind of
investment scheme. Fifteen billion dollars. And there's a guy into indictment.
Now he's in Cambodia, and you know they're hoping to
(41:56):
get him at a custod He could face forty years
in prison for this. But the fifteen billion dollars, it's
probably not going to make it back out to the
people who lost it in these fake investments. But at
least it was taken away from the bad guys.
Speaker 21 (42:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
And here's to hoping that none of us becomes a
victim of shoohou.
Speaker 6 (42:11):
Pon, shoe, jupon, pig butchering.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
It's a great names, a great name, ABC's Jim Bryan,
thank you so much. See Amy Shooeshu pon, I do
like it in English, better, more descriptive. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Testimony is set to begin today
in the trial of the wrongful death lawsuit filed by
the widow and parents of the late Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs.
(42:39):
Skaggs died of a drug overdose on a road trip
six years ago. His family is suing the La Angels,
claiming the team knew about and enabled the drug use.
They're suing for one hundred and eighteen million dollars. News
brought to you by Seller's Advantage of thirty six year
old man's been arrested for allegedly stabbing a man on
a metro bus in Southgate. The stabbing happened shortly after
(42:59):
five Saturday night. The man was arrested early yesterday morning
at the Irwindale passenger station. The person stabbed is recovering
in the hospital. The Senate has again rejected a Republican
backed spending measure that would have ended the government shutdown.
Speaker 6 (43:11):
These are forty nine then theys A forty five, three
fifths of the Senate's due he chosen and sworn have
not having voted any infervative, the motion is not agreed to.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
It's the eighth time lawmakers have voted down the continuing Resolution,
which has already been approved by the House. President Trump
said yesterday that he's in the process of closing programs
popular with Democrats and will release a list of those
programs tomorrow. Democrats say they won't agree to reopen the
government until their demands for healthcare, Obamacare subsidies and other
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projects are met. Some of La County's federal dollars could
disappear because of the government shut down.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
The county receives one hundred and twenty million dollars a
week from the federal government to support assistance programs. Jackie
Contreras with the Department of Public Social Services tells the
Board of Supervisors that money would be hard to make up.
Speaker 19 (43:58):
We are engaging in discussions with the CEO and the
Auditor Controller to determine what funding may be available to
replace the federal funding we would need to operate.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
The county uses the federal funds to support cash, food, housing,
and healthcare programs. Recipients are expected to receive notifications soon
about the potential loss of funds. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
News Governor Newsim assigned a new law that seeks to
place tougher restrictions on chatbots powered by artificial intelligence. State
Senator Steve Vidia says his bill protects children from dangers
posed by AI platforms.
Speaker 22 (44:31):
We need to look no further than Orange County teenager
Adam Rain, who took his life after a bot told
him not to seek help.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Under the new law, companies like open ai and similar
operations will have to remind their users that chatbots are
not real people. It also safeguards children from sexually explicit content.
People are headed back to the office, but they're not
necessarily working there.
Speaker 19 (44:55):
It's called coffee badging, where workers show up for required
attendance but they don't stick around for the full day.
A new study says more than half of hybrid workers
say they make it for their morning coffee, get that
imaginary badge, and then go home to work. Many reverse it,
going into work later to avoid morning traffic. Workers say
it gives them more control of their work life balance
(45:15):
and actually boosts productivity in the job. Researchers say men
and millennials are most likely to coffee badge, with baby
boomers least likely to show up late or leave early.
Michael krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Oh Krozier, I told you I love the stories that
he finds coffee badging. I don't think we can do that.
I was going to say that would that work for us?
From now cono you gonna try coffee badging, I don't
I don't like coffee guys. Oh, you don't drink coffee.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
So totally off the conversation with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
All right. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County, live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
And if you missed any of wake up call, like
what pig butchering is and quantum computing, we got it
all for you. You can anytime it's on the iHeartRadio app.
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