November 20, 2025 • 39 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy opens the show talking about a judge weighing in on whether to dismiss Comey indictment. ABC News reporter Jim Ryan speaks on NASA sharing new images of the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pelegrini discussing how the markets are looking today. The show closes with Amy talking with the founder and executive director of HIT Living Foundation Heather Crowe about their 2nd annual Winter Holiday Market.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
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Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Thursday, November twentieth. Yep, that means
we're one month and five days from Christmas. Yes, I
guess what. I got my first Christmas card. By the way,
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Got my first Christmas card from Florida. I am bound
and determined to do Christmas cards this year. I've I've
been a total slacker the last cup of years. But
isn't it great getting Christmas cards and you hang them
up And even if that's the only time you hear
from those people, it's nice to know that they thought
of you around the holidays. Okay. I am also Wicked.
(01:14):
Ready going to see Wicked this afternoon. Wicked for good.
I'll tell you all about it, or you can tell
me about it. Hey, if you want to weigh in
anytime on the talk back on the iHeartRadio app. It's
a little microphone in the upper right hand corner of
the screen. You have something to say, we'd love to hear,
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love to hear what you think of Wicked. In fact,
I watched Wicked last night, the first movie, so it's
all fresh in my brain. Yes, and I'm wearing pink.
Wearing pink. I was gonna wear green, but I don't
have anything green. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
A Delta Airlines flight from Hawaii to Salt Lake City
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had to land in LA after the pilots shot down
an engine over the Pacific Ocean. They say there was
an issue serious enough that it had to be turned off.
The crew then declared an emergency and landed at lax.
All the passengers were put on new flights to Salt
Lake City. Yeah, would you want to fly after that?
I'm like, I might stay in LA for a couple days.
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La County DA Nathan Hakman says his office is investigating
allegations that some of the hundreds of claims of child
sexual abuse by juveniles in county facilities may be false.
Hawkman says people who filed bogus claims who voluntarily come
forward could be offered amnesty if they cooperate. President Trump
assigned the bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. The
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bill was signed following near unanimous approval from the House
and Senate. This week, Department of Justice lawyers may have
messed up big in the case against former FBI director
James Comey. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's going to join us in
just a couple of minutes to tell us what they
didn't do that could get the case dismissed. NASA had
a little show and tell session for the three i atlasts.
(03:02):
ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us at five twenty
tell us the latest about the mysterious comet that's hurtling
through space and heading in our general direction. Celestials speaking,
Will's screaming, spaceship and aliens. We all celebrate the holidays, Well,
you know what, why don't you have your pets celebrate too?
(03:24):
I think actually a lot of us probably do have
our pets celebrate with this. Well, we've got a great
way for you to celebrate with your pet. You can
do a little shopping and maybe have a brew or two,
and help save animals all at the same time. What
could be better? Than that, we'll tell you it's coming
up a little bit later on wake Up Call. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Another round of rain
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is on the way.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The next round of stormy weather is set to strike
today and into Friday, bringing moderate rain and mountain snow.
Authorities will again watch recent burn areas for possible debris
and mudflow, particularly with the ground already saturated from recent rain.
In the past five days, National Weather Services Downtown LA
got three point four to seven inches of brain, East
Pasadena got four point four to three inches, and Mount
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Baldi got six point five eight inches. Calmer, dryer weather
is expected during Thanksgiving Week. Eileen Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
News brought to you by ruterhiroo dot com. UC regents
have voted to hike tuition for new students. The Tuition
Stability Program, voted on yesterday allows for tuition hikes of
up to five percent a year, but it locks in
the tuition cost for the incoming students for up to
six years. The Board of Regents approved the Tuition Stability
Plan in twenty twenty one. It took effect in twenty
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twenty two. Lots of protests at UC campuses yesterday, but
that did not change the regent's minds. The man accused
of driving under the influence while on probation for two
DUIs and killing a thirteen year old boy in Dana
Point Is Ding court today. The boy was hit Tuesday
morning while walking to school with his little brother. The
alleged driver, Bradley Funk, was booked on suspicion of hit
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and run, driving under the influence, and second degree murder.
Because of his prior to UI convictions, LA County could
provide legal defenses to employees if they get charged over
an immigration enforcements.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Supervisors makes it clear this isn't about employees who go
to protest or who antagonize federal agents. Supervisor Holly Mitchell
says the plan is to protect employees who act in
good faith and without violence while on the job and
when immigration agents show up there.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Immigration enforcement activities create fear, anxiety, chaos, and concern among
both residents as well as our employees.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Supervisors expressed worries about immigration actions interfering with county business
at government, medical and other facilities, and say they want
to have workers backs Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's five oh seven on your Thursday morning wake up call.
Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy. So, Stephen,
the Justice Department has brought charges against former FBI Director
James Comey. But is that case unraveling?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, it certainly seems to be hanging by thread.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Amy.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
I mean, what happened yesterday was really remarkable. District Court
judge and Alexandria, Virginia, just south of Washington, d C
asking very critical questions about how this has all come about. Remember,
Comy is accused by prosecutors of lying to Congress more
than five years ago when he reiterated earlier testimony in
which he said he never authorized anyone inside the FBI
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to leak to reporters. The US Attorney acting US Attorney
nor for Virginia, woman named Lindsay Halligan, who's never been
a prosecutor before, was an insurance lawyer by trade and
an advisor to President Trump in the White House, most
recently tasked with routing out alleged inappropriate content at the Smithsonian.
Was handpicked to be installed as the prosecutor for Virginia.
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Everywhere from northern Virginia and the DC suburbs all the
way down to the Hampton Roads area which includes Norfolk, Virginia,
where Lindsay Halligan also has indicted Letitia James, the New
York State Attorney General. Now in the Coombe case, Halligan
went into the grand jury room and what she wrot
revealed yesterday is as she was talking to the twenty
three members of the grand jury, they voted on the
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three counts that she recommended against Komi. The grand jury
rejected one of those counts, but they approved the other two. Now,
what she revealed yesterday is that when she handed up
the indictment, she had two copies. One had the three
counts and the other had two counts. She says that
the grand jurors themselves only reviewed the three count indictment.
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One of the charges was rejected and the other paper
the four persons signed and one other grand juror saw,
but the other members of grand jury didn't see. And
that was a revelatory moment that led to murmurs in
the courtroom yesterday because it suggests that that indictment wasn't
properly presented to the court. Because if you have the
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grand jury not actually reviewing the paper that they apparently
have voted on. It calls into question whether they knew
what they were voting on.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So I'm a little confused on why would they vote
for it if they didn't review it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Well, the argument is they reviewed the broader three count draft,
and so the argument is, well, your honor, and I'm
paraphrasing your honor, they knew what they were voting on,
They saw all three counts, they rejected one of them.
So what difference does it make the four person signed
a shorter one that had that first count removed? Isn't
that okay?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They knew what they were voting on? Well, maybe or
maybe not. Did something get changed?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yes, the first count was right, the first count was removed, well, right?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But did the other two stay the same.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
As far as we can tell? But that's again, that
would be you'd have to find those facts. You'd have
to I don't know what the process is. You bring
all twenty three members of the grand jury and ask
them whether they knew what they were voting on. The
idea here is that the judge is going to have
to determine whether that's enough to throw out the indictment.
There are other reasons by the way that the judge
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may decide to throw out the indictment. There's the argument
that it's a selective and vindictive prosecution coming at the
direction of the President himself.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
There is the argument that Lindsay Halligan wasn't properly appointed
because there was a nominee for that job who the
President ousted and he installed Halligan instead. One issue came
up yesterday in court as to whether the Justice Department
would put forward the recommendation from the Attorney US Attorney's
office that this prosecution not be brought, and the Justice
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Department lawyer said, your honor, I'm under instructions by the
Deputy Attorney General not to answer questions about that in
this courtroom, which also was a pretty remarkable thing to
have happened.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, I know you got a run. Do we know
when we're expecting a decision? We do not know, Okay, ABC.
Stephen Portenoy, thanks so much for all the information you bet.
Like I always say, Stephen is so good at helping
us kind of sort through this kind of stuff because
things on the surface seem pretty simple, but boy, there's
a lot of details to dig into. Let's get back
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to some of the stories coming out of the K
twenty four hour news room. President Trump has signed the
bill ordering the Justice Department Department to release the Epstein files.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says her department will now work
with any new information that pops up.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
We will continue to follow the law again while protecting victims,
but also providing maximum transparency.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
The DOJ has thirty days to release all the files. Well,
looks like we have a plan. President Trump has apparently
signed off on a twenty eight point Russia Ukraine peace plan.
The plan's been in the works for weeks, with US
officials Special Envoy Stephen Witkoff, Vice President Vance, and Secretary
of State Marco Rubio talking with both Russian and Ukrainian representatives,
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and American delegations now in Kiev to meet with Ukrainian officials.
Funeral services for former Vice President Dick Cheney are being
held this morning at Washington's National Cathedral. More than a
thousand people are expected to be there, including former Presidents
Joe Biden and George W. Bush. There are reports it's
that neither President Trump or Vice President Advance were invited.
(11:05):
Janey was a strong critic of Trump. Following the January
sixth riot at the Capitol, the Food and Drug Administrations
pushing for a recall of all by heart infant formula
products following the illness of dozens of babies.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
The FDA says thirty one infants have been hospitalized across
fifteen states with suspected or confirmed botulism and linked to
buy hard whole nutrition infant formula products.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
ABC's Michelle Franzen says the recall includes all unexpired lots
of formula cans and single serve anywhere pack sticks. TSA
agents say there's still coming across flyers who don't have
a real ID or a passport. Those are now required
to fly. ABC Sam Sweeneys's to help solve that problem
(11:51):
in the TSA's proposed a new fee for those passengers.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
TSA is proposing a new rule where passengers would face
a fee of eighteen dollars. Passengers will have their identity
verified on a new biometric KIOSK system before they're permitted
to pass through the security screening checkpoint.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The TSA says the current system is outdated and this
new plan will streamline the process. A new study has
named the best states for on time flights ahead of
Thanksgiving travel. California is in the top ten that's studied
by travel insurance marketplace. Square Mouth analyzed flight delays and
cancelations and found Hawaii is number one. Delayed or canceled
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flights there are at thirteen percent. California checks in at
number nine on the list with almost twenty percent of
flights affected. After two centuries and another movie reboot, reboot,
Frankenstein is still more science fiction than fact.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
The new adaption of Mary Shelley's gothic Frankenstein on Netflix
has people asking if an assembled body could ever breathe, bleed,
or think. And Adamus say electricity can make muscles twitch,
while limb and organ transplants had become more successful since
Frankenstein was written in eighteen eighteen. But sewing together entire
bodies and making the pieces work is more like simulating life,
not creating or restoring it. As far as the thinking part,
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connecting a brain to a new body, including the spinal cord,
the circulation, peripheral nerves, and everything else, is still too
far beyond our current capability.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Michael Krozer KFI News. Another storm's rolling into SoCal forecasters
say it'll bring light to moderate rain through tomorrow. Up
to an inch of rain could fall at lower elevations.
Up to two inches are possible in the foothills and mountains.
Three to six inches of snow is possible above about
sixty five hundred feet. California Democratic state Senator Scott Wiener
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has introduced a bill that would allow people to sue
the government if ice agents violate constitutional rights like free speech,
unlawful searches, or racial profiling. Wiener says his legislation would
protect Californians from the lawless overreach of the Trump administration
and its cronies. EA agents in La County have seized
(14:02):
a massive cash of an animal tranquilizer that's made its
way into the illegal narcotics trade. The Feds say the
drugs are typically used on elephants. Six hundred and twenty
eight thousand so called car Fentanel pills receives last month.
One person was arrested. Agents say the seizure, in their words,
mitigated a catastrophic danger. At six oh five, it's handle
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on the news. Students protested, but you see regents didn't listen.
Tuition's going up again, let's say good morning to ABC's
Jim Ryan. So, Jim, NASA gave us a little look
at the mysterious three I Atlas comment. We've been hearing
so much about what did we see.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Kind of blurry images? First of all, would you look
through the window there and see if Cono was wearing
an aluminum foil hat?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Kno, are you worried about this? I just it's alien.
So that's what I think. You think it's alien? Okay?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Three Well, NASA says it didn't. So and that's I
think part.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Of what course NASA says it is.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Well, of course, right, they want to keep the secret
right from the rest of us. Well, according to NASA
and the European Space Agency, three I Atlas is a
comment they recognized that early on, right after it was
detected in July, early July. It's only the third and
there are lots of reasons that there would be speculation
about it. And then I can I can understand how
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you know, rumors would start going around. It's only the
third object from beyond our own solar system that we've
as a human race, have ever been able to detect, right,
and it is acting strangely and it is large, and
it's very fast. One hundred and fifty three thousand miles
per hour. You know when we send rockets up there
going about one hundred and or seventeen thousand miles per hour,
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So this is almost ten times that speed.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
So this one feels like it's being like there's propulsion
that it would be going that.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Fast, right, that's what that's what folks are saying. But
again I mean and NASA response by saying this came
from we don't know where it came from, way way
out there beyond our solar system, is billions of years
old potentially, and it's been zooming along at that speed
for all that time. So yeah, there are the anomalies
that come with it, the unusual minerals that it appears
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to be giving off the tail originally, so that all
has has filed into this. So I think that really
was the elephant in the room yesterday when NASA started
the news conference, and so NASA tried at the very
beginning to address that, get in front of it and
say yeah, and we understand we're as fascinated by this
as a lot of people are. We want to find
life out in the universe, somewhere. But they're saying that
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three I at lists, just isn't it okay?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And you said it's very large? How big is it?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Between fourteen hundred feet and three and a half miles.
I mean it's still tens and tens of millions of
miles away, So it's hard to get a beat on
that precisely how big the thing is. But yeah, so
somewhere between fourteen hundred feet three and a half miles
or about the size of Manhattan, will it hit the Earth.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
No.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
The geniuses there have done the calculations. They say it'll
pass about one hundred and seventy million miles away from
the Earth on December nineteen eighteenth.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And that one hundred and seventy million miles.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Away one hundred and seventy million miles away.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Is that considered a close call? Celestially it is yes.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
To me.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
What's fascinating amy is that human beings, maybe we're not
as dumb as we look, because we have figured out
ways to look at something one hundred and seventy million
miles away right, to get some detail of it, to
photograph it, then to send those photographs back to Earth.
These the satellites with telescopes are fixed or flying around Mars,
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and they're out there in the universe and they're taking
a look at this stuff. To me, that's what's amazing
is that human beings have figured out how to look
at something like that and figure out what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, are they using the James Web telescope to look.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
At this the James Web, they're using Hubble, even they're using.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Pictures should be clearer. I mean, they have pictures of
the galaxy that look like they're just crystal.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
They're beautiful, absolutely, and Web has been able to pick
this thing out among all those those millions billions of
stars out there. But it's still a long long way away,
so I'm not too surprised that the images are still
kind of fuzzy. They should be better once after December
nineteenth and we can see exactly what it looks like.
Some of the pictures that have been posted on the
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Internet from folks who say they know what it looks like.
It sort of looks like a fleet of spaceships zooming around.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So, but those are those fake pictures. Those are fake pictures, right,
you think they are? Well, who has better pictures than NASA?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
People who have these pictures that look like the starship Enterprise.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know that's that would be cool.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
No, I know that would be that would be cool.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, do we know what where it's headed next? Does
it leave our Solar system or does it it does
catch gravity and slow down and buzz around, it.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Won't Apparently that's one thing that the folks on the
Internet were saying that, well, it passed around the Sun,
but the Sun's gravitational pull didn't seem to affect it's
trajectory very much. And NASA says that's true. But the speculator,
the expectation is that it's gonna once it got past
the Sun, it comes past Mars and then comes past
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the Earth and then just continues its lonely voyage back
out the other side of our stars system.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, I have one more question for you, because we're
talking about propulsion and everybody's like, oh, it's an alien spaceship.
And when I was listening to some reports on it
yesterday and they were talking about the jets that are
on this, I'm like, what are the jets? I mean, like,
if it has jets, obviously something's going on, but they're
naturally occurring jets, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Events that come off this thing that shoot out different
minerals and apparently nickel and some others that are unusual
for that. These are anomalies, and NASA says this came
from we don't know where. It's not too unusual that
it would be doing things that a comet from within
our solar system would not be doing. So, yeah, these
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We're going to learn a lot about this thing over
the next few years, and especially as it gets close
enough for us to get a better look.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All Right, December nineteenth is the big day. All right,
ABC's Keyes on the Skies, Keep your eyes on the skies.
Thanks Jim, we'll talk to you soon. Figure La Mayor
Bath says wildfire survivors need more time to get back
on their feet, and she's asking banks to step up.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
Bass wants mortgage lenders to give wildfire survivors an extra
three years of breathing room. Under a California law signed
by Governor Newsom back in September, people who lost homes
in the January wildfires can pause their mortgage payments for
up to one year. That deadline and the anniversaries of
both the Palisades and Eaton fires is now less than
two months away. Bass says that's nowhere near enough time
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for families still dealing with insurance delays, rebuilding costs, and displacement.
She's urging banks to voluntarily stretch that relief to a
full four years of forbearance, giving survivors more stability while
recovery drags on. Pergida di Augustino kaaf I News.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The family of a fourteen year old girl reported missing
in Bellflowers asking for help. Amethyst Garcia was last seen
Monday afternoon. Family members say they have no idea where
she may have been headed when she disappeared. The teen
is Hispanic, five foot one, about one hundred twenty five pounds,
with brown hair, red hair, actually brown eyes, and her
red hair has blue highlights. She was wearing jeans and
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a black T shirt. Police in Orange County say burglars
are using high tech to steal cars from right under
owner's noses.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
Criminals are using tablets meant for locksmith's to target higher
end vehicles. Anaheim Police Department officials say recently happened in
Anaheim Hills, and surveillance video shows it happened very quickly.
Chris says he watched them drive away in his twenty
twenty Silverado truck.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's can't have been there longer than three.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
To five minutes, please say thieves.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
He used Santana's in another case to intercept the Kilith
entry FOP signal from inside the house that allowed them
to unlock the vehicle and drive away. Sharon Ruden KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Billionaire Tom Steyers entered the race for governor of California.
He says, if elected, he'll fight President Trump all the way.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Styer says he's the candidate to stand up for our
rights against the Trump administration. Trump is making things worse
and he's picking on California. He says, Trump is nothing
but broken promises.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
If he wants to cooperate, great, but what I'm expecting
is more of the same.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Styre joins a crowded democratic field and is going against
the likes of former California Attorney General Javier Bessera, former
O C. Congresswoman Katie Porter, and former Los Angeles Mayor
Antonio Via Ragosa Jason Campadonia k FI News.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Okay, So Jim Ryan was telling us about the three
I at Liasson. He mentioned that some of the pictures
look like the Starship Enterprise, and that reminded me that
I wanted to congratulate a couple of people who won
the book written by Adam Nimoy, who's Leonard Nimoy's son.
We talked to him yesterday. If you missed that interview,
it's going to be up on the CAI website. It's
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also yeah, it's going to be up on the KFI website.
But you can also listen to the podcast, the Wake
Up Called Podcast, and it of course is there. But
congratulations to Michelle Feldman from Canyon Country and Gina Lowry
from Apple Valley. They both won an autographed copy an
autograph copy of the book The Most Human Reconciling with
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my father, Leonard Nimoy. And if you want to get
a copy of the book and possibly meet Adam, he's
going to be out at Book Soup in West Hollywood
tomorrow at seven. He's doing a book signing and going
to be talking about the book. Really an interesting guy
in a fun interview. Again, if you want to hear
the interview, if you missed it, it's on the iHeartRadio
(23:45):
app on the Wake Up Called podcast. You can listen
at any time with a ground already saturated from the
rain over the last week. Forecasters say a new round
of rain could cause mud and debrief flows in the
recent burn areas. Up to an inch of rain is
expected at lower elevations, with up to two inches possible
in the foothills and mountains. The rains expected to fall
through tomorrow, with clearing this weekend. Former US Treasury Treasurer
(24:10):
Larry Summers has taken leave from teaching at Harvard University,
where he once served as president. It's because of recently
released emails showing that he maintained a friendly relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein. He's also resigned his position at Open AI.
President Trump signed a bill last night to release the
Epstein documents. California State university presidents could be getting raises
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while other areas see funding cuts. CSU trustees voted to
eliminate salary caps caps for campus presidents and other senior executives,
and also to allow for up to fifteen percent bonuses.
Unionized staff and students are against it, saying it comes
as CSU faces layoffs, budget and program cuts. At six
(24:56):
oh five, It's handle on the news, someone brought a
meat cleaver onto a delta flight. What could have possibly
gone wrong? There? Guess what time it is? It's time
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be live at the Smart and Final this Friday from
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and fifty people to show up get a special gift
bag from Smart and Final. And then on Saturday, our
very own Fork reporter Neil Savader is going to be
broadcasting his show live two to five at the Wendy's
in Mission, Vaho. Again, Pastathon just around the corner. We
couldn't do it without you, so thank you in advance.
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Let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.
Good morning, Denise, Hey, good morning to you Amy. How'd
you going doing good? What you got on jobs? Well?
Speaker 8 (26:56):
I mean, if you hear some noise behind me, it
could be the champagne corks popping. Because that September jobs
report that was delayed by the shutdown, it just came
out way more jobs than expected were created, and we
also have stronger than expected results from Nvidia and Walmart,
So that means stock futures are really on fire right now,
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especially Nasdaq futures. So you know, investors could change their
minds and decide this is bad for the prospect for
an interest rate cut for the Fed next month, but
right now they're partying on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
How many jobs and how many were they expecting and
how many did we see?
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Almost twice as many as what we were expecting. So
if you look at the actual number of sorry, if
you look at the non farm payrolls, number one hundred
and nineteen thousand jobs were created month on month, estimate
was something like fifty one thousand amies, So it's actually
more than twice what was expected.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Okay, well, that's good.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
And of course you know this is all magnified and
the impact of it because investors waited so long to
get at this report because of the shutdown, and of course,
you know, if you wait and you don't know, there's
a lot of angst, you know, worrying about what you
don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yes, okay, let's talk about new details about Netflix's offer
to buy Warner Brothers. Discovery.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Yeah, today is deadline day, and sources are telling us
that Netflix has told Warner Brothers Discovery it would keep
releasing the studios films in theaters if it wins the
bidding war. This is very important because up to now
Netflix has resisted distributing its movies in theaters, but Warner
Brothers has all those contractual obligations.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Right. Oh, you think Netflix would change its mind after
K Pop demons. Yes, that is also true.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
And you know, I think they were sort of staying
in their lane and trying not to spend on that
kind of expansion, but now they must be salivating at
what they can do when they do.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Okay, let's talk about credit scores and how it might
soon be measured.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
Right, So you maybe have experienced this and some of
your listeners as well, where you go to apply for
something like a new credit card and you feel your
credit's pretty good. You know, you're paying your bills and
you've got some money in the bank, but they say, uh,
we're not given it to you because generally they look
at things like, you know, your.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Debt to equity ratio and stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
Well, now Plaid is teaming up with Fair Isaac for
this new way of measuring a credit score that includes
your real time cash flow, you know, I mean Trevlo. Yeah, No,
not necessarily, because if you're paying your loans somehow, then
it doesn't you know, they might just look at and
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I'm not talking about you in particular, of course, but
they might just look at you know, how much you're
making from your job, right and what your costs are.
But maybe you're you know, selling designer shoes or something
on eBay and you are managing to pay all those bills.
That's what really matters is you know whether you're paying
all those bills, not whether on paper you should be
able to or not.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
All right, getting in your business as we do every
day with Bloomberg's Denise Hellegreen. And nice to have you back.
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Talk to you tomorrow. We'll
talk about little dogs tomorrow. Oh okay, we always love
talking about dogs. La Mayor Bass has asked banks to
offer another three years of mortgage relief to wildfire survivors.
Under California law, survivors of the January wildfires can delay
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their mortgage payments for up to a year while that
deadline and the anniversary of the Palisades and Eaten Fires
is now less than two months away. The UC Board
of Regents has voted to hike tuition in spite of
protests outside their meeting at UCLA and at all nine
UC undergraduate campuses. Tuition is going to go up by
just under six hundred dollars per year for the next
six years. The plan also sets aside forty percent of
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tuition revenue for financial aid, which is down from the
current forty five percent. LA County health officials have confirmed
the first flu related death of the season. Officials say
the person had not been vaccinated against flu this year
and had underlying health health conditions. We're just minutes away
from handle on the news this morning. September's jobs report
has dropped, and it was a jaw dropping report. Let's
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say good morning now to the CEO and co founder
of the Hit Living Foundation, Heather Crow.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Good morning, Heather, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
So we've got something really fun for you to do
with your pup this weekend to get them into the
mood for the holidays and maybe get you in the
mood too, So please tell us about the second annual
Winter Holiday Market.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Oh, I would be delighted to It's going to be
so much fun. There are so many markets, not just
in LA but nationwide that are specifically curated for people,
and unfortunately, dogs aren't even allowed to most of them.
This is an event incredibly special because it is a
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dog for dog centric market for dog lovers and those
who believe in and want to support our mission. It's
about dogs for the dogs, and through and through. It's
really a community event to help kick off the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, and where is it happening.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
It is happening this Sunday, November twenty third, at Santa
Monica Brewerks from twelve to three pm.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay, so brewworks. So it's at a brewery it.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Is, yep, the Santa Monica Brewerks.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Okay, great, yeah, So tell us about this winter wonderland
for dogs and they're humans.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
This might be my favorite question of the whole interview.
My team and I have been incredibly thoughtful about the
curation of this holiday market since our first holiday market
back in twenty twenty four. Guests can expect a holiday
centric market where activities are for the dogs and our
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vendors are for the dogs and their families. It's going
to be fun for all ages and guests can expect
to see a variety of local La vendors retailing everything
from high quality pet accessories and grooming products, organic dog treats.
We'll have an award winning pet portrait studio. There will
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actually have a local La coffee roaster, Unbound Bruce, who
we partnered with to launch our own coffee label called Coffee,
which is a one hundred percent organic blend. Yes, we
love a good dog Ton plus much more, and of
course our hit holiday market activities. Guests can expect to
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see Santa. Of course there will be photos with Santa.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
We'll have a.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Tree covered in cookies from Cookie Goods of Santa Monica,
a ball pit just for the dog toy and more
all for the dogs.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, so can the dogs go in one at a
time to the ballpit or is it like a is
it like a dog park and they all just go
and jump in.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Oh, it's one at a time. We will actually have
extra volunteers stationed at the dog pit, so our volunteer
can either photograph your dog while you are throwing the
balls and playing with your dog, or our volunteer can
throw can toss the balls while you're taking all the
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photographs to get those perfect ballpit shops.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Okay, and then that sounds like so much fun. Heather,
Now tell us that this is not only for fun
for you and your pet, it's also to help out
your organization, the Hit Living Foundation. Tell us what you
guys do to save animals?
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Of course, Yeah, we are a rescue started back in
twenty eighteen, and we work with local shelters. We pull
at risk dogs from euthanasia. We pull a lot of
extreme medical cases and we provide them some of LA's
best medical care possible. So it's for us. It's really
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about rescue, rehabilitation and being very thoughtful about our adoption
applicants and making sure that we're matchmaking our dogs with
the right homes and of course vice versa.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And being an animal lover, I know that it's so
important that we get these animals out of shelters. Bill Handle,
I can see him right now, he's holding his new Doxie.
So we love the pets. Yeah, we love the pets here,
and we love that what you're doing is not only
going to be fun, but it's also for a good cause. Heather,
is there somewhere they can go to get more information
about the Winter Holiday Market.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Of course, yes, they can go directly to our website
Hit Livingfoundation dot org.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Hit Living Foundation. We'll see go ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Dot yes, and they'll see a link to RSVP to
our market this weekend for free.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Okay, perfect. I love it. Heather, Thank you so much
for sharing your information about the second annual Winter Holiday
Market happening this Sunday noon to three at Santa Monica
brew Works. Sounds like a lot of fun. Have a
great day, Heather.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
It will be thank you you as well.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. New
allegations of surfaced over the Palisades fire.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
A legal complaint has been filed against the state, alleging
that a state park official may have hindered lafd's operations
to mop up the Lochman burnscar area that reignited into
the deadly Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
The La Times reports an attorney claims.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
LAFD could not bring a bulldozer to the area to
cut a line around the fire and could not dig
up around native plant species. Lawyers representing victims of the
Palisades Fire are working to depose LA firefighters to address
the allegations, and have yet to provide direct evidence that
park officials interfered with firefighting efforts.
Speaker 9 (36:56):
Ailing Gonzalez k if I News.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
The Lakeunny DA's offices it's investigating potentially fraudulent claims of
sex abuse.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Thousands of claims have been filed against La County, which
settled for four billion dollars. LA County DA Nathan Hockman
says he'll prosecute anyone who filed a fake claim.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
We're going to go after that.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
We're going to go after them aggressively. We're going to
go after them to put them behind bars.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
An investigation by The La Times found some claimants admitting
that they were paid by a law firm to say
they were abused by county employees. The claims in the
case stretch over decades. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
The passage of a state law has been celebrated by
officials in LA for expanding protections for victims and witnesses
to crimes. Assembly Woman piev Or Sorry Chavo says the
Victim and Witness Protection Act closes a loophole from an
earlier law.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
It ensures that survivors are protected during and after prosecution
when retaliation is most common.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
The new law clarifies that intimidating witnesses or victims before
or after charges are brought, or at any point during
a trial, is a crime. Violators could face up to
a year in jail. The late Chadwick Boseman is going
to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame today. Boseman rose to fame his breakout role
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as Jackie Robinson in forty two Great Movie. It was
launched into superstardom as King T'Challa. He'll always be remembered
as the Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Boseman
died of colon cancer in twenty twenty. He was forty three.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
(38:43):
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
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KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
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Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Thursday, November twentieth. Yep, that means
we're one month and five days from Christmas. Yes, I
guess what. I got my first Christmas card. By the way,
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
(00:51):
Got my first Christmas card from Florida. I am bound
and determined to do Christmas cards this year. I've I've
been a total slacker the last cup of years. But
isn't it great getting Christmas cards and you hang them
up And even if that's the only time you hear
from those people, it's nice to know that they thought
of you around the holidays. Okay. I am also Wicked.
(01:14):
Ready going to see Wicked this afternoon. Wicked for good.
I'll tell you all about it, or you can tell
me about it. Hey, if you want to weigh in
anytime on the talk back on the iHeartRadio app. It's
a little microphone in the upper right hand corner of
the screen. You have something to say, we'd love to hear,
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love to hear what you think of Wicked. In fact,
I watched Wicked last night, the first movie, so it's
all fresh in my brain. Yes, and I'm wearing pink.
Wearing pink. I was gonna wear green, but I don't
have anything green. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
A Delta Airlines flight from Hawaii to Salt Lake City
(01:57):
had to land in LA after the pilots shot down
an engine over the Pacific Ocean. They say there was
an issue serious enough that it had to be turned off.
The crew then declared an emergency and landed at lax.
All the passengers were put on new flights to Salt
Lake City. Yeah, would you want to fly after that?
I'm like, I might stay in LA for a couple days.
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La County DA Nathan Hakman says his office is investigating
allegations that some of the hundreds of claims of child
sexual abuse by juveniles in county facilities may be false.
Hawkman says people who filed bogus claims who voluntarily come
forward could be offered amnesty if they cooperate. President Trump
assigned the bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. The
(02:39):
bill was signed following near unanimous approval from the House
and Senate. This week, Department of Justice lawyers may have
messed up big in the case against former FBI director
James Comey. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's going to join us in
just a couple of minutes to tell us what they
didn't do that could get the case dismissed. NASA had
a little show and tell session for the three i atlasts.
(03:02):
ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us at five twenty
tell us the latest about the mysterious comet that's hurtling
through space and heading in our general direction. Celestials speaking,
Will's screaming, spaceship and aliens. We all celebrate the holidays, Well,
you know what, why don't you have your pets celebrate too?
(03:24):
I think actually a lot of us probably do have
our pets celebrate with this. Well, we've got a great
way for you to celebrate with your pet. You can
do a little shopping and maybe have a brew or two,
and help save animals all at the same time. What
could be better? Than that, we'll tell you it's coming
up a little bit later on wake Up Call. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Another round of rain
(03:45):
is on the way.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The next round of stormy weather is set to strike
today and into Friday, bringing moderate rain and mountain snow.
Authorities will again watch recent burn areas for possible debris
and mudflow, particularly with the ground already saturated from recent rain.
In the past five days, National Weather Services Downtown LA
got three point four to seven inches of brain, East
Pasadena got four point four to three inches, and Mount
(04:06):
Baldi got six point five eight inches. Calmer, dryer weather
is expected during Thanksgiving Week. Eileen Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
News brought to you by ruterhiroo dot com. UC regents
have voted to hike tuition for new students. The Tuition
Stability Program, voted on yesterday allows for tuition hikes of
up to five percent a year, but it locks in
the tuition cost for the incoming students for up to
six years. The Board of Regents approved the Tuition Stability
Plan in twenty twenty one. It took effect in twenty
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twenty two. Lots of protests at UC campuses yesterday, but
that did not change the regent's minds. The man accused
of driving under the influence while on probation for two
DUIs and killing a thirteen year old boy in Dana
Point Is Ding court today. The boy was hit Tuesday
morning while walking to school with his little brother. The
alleged driver, Bradley Funk, was booked on suspicion of hit
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and run, driving under the influence, and second degree murder.
Because of his prior to UI convictions, LA County could
provide legal defenses to employees if they get charged over
an immigration enforcements.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Supervisors makes it clear this isn't about employees who go
to protest or who antagonize federal agents. Supervisor Holly Mitchell
says the plan is to protect employees who act in
good faith and without violence while on the job and
when immigration agents show up there.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Immigration enforcement activities create fear, anxiety, chaos, and concern among
both residents as well as our employees.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Supervisors expressed worries about immigration actions interfering with county business
at government, medical and other facilities, and say they want
to have workers backs Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
It's five oh seven on your Thursday morning wake up call.
Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy. So, Stephen,
the Justice Department has brought charges against former FBI Director
James Comey. But is that case unraveling?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, it certainly seems to be hanging by thread.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Amy.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
I mean, what happened yesterday was really remarkable. District Court
judge and Alexandria, Virginia, just south of Washington, d C
asking very critical questions about how this has all come about. Remember,
Comy is accused by prosecutors of lying to Congress more
than five years ago when he reiterated earlier testimony in
which he said he never authorized anyone inside the FBI
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to leak to reporters. The US Attorney acting US Attorney
nor for Virginia, woman named Lindsay Halligan, who's never been
a prosecutor before, was an insurance lawyer by trade and
an advisor to President Trump in the White House, most
recently tasked with routing out alleged inappropriate content at the Smithsonian.
Was handpicked to be installed as the prosecutor for Virginia.
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Everywhere from northern Virginia and the DC suburbs all the
way down to the Hampton Roads area which includes Norfolk, Virginia,
where Lindsay Halligan also has indicted Letitia James, the New
York State Attorney General. Now in the Coombe case, Halligan
went into the grand jury room and what she wrot
revealed yesterday is as she was talking to the twenty
three members of the grand jury, they voted on the
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three counts that she recommended against Komi. The grand jury
rejected one of those counts, but they approved the other two. Now,
what she revealed yesterday is that when she handed up
the indictment, she had two copies. One had the three
counts and the other had two counts. She says that
the grand jurors themselves only reviewed the three count indictment.
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One of the charges was rejected and the other paper
the four persons signed and one other grand juror saw,
but the other members of grand jury didn't see. And
that was a revelatory moment that led to murmurs in
the courtroom yesterday because it suggests that that indictment wasn't
properly presented to the court. Because if you have the
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grand jury not actually reviewing the paper that they apparently
have voted on. It calls into question whether they knew
what they were voting on.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So I'm a little confused on why would they vote
for it if they didn't review it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Well, the argument is they reviewed the broader three count draft,
and so the argument is, well, your honor, and I'm
paraphrasing your honor, they knew what they were voting on,
They saw all three counts, they rejected one of them.
So what difference does it make the four person signed
a shorter one that had that first count removed? Isn't
that okay?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They knew what they were voting on? Well, maybe or
maybe not. Did something get changed?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yes, the first count was right, the first count was removed, well, right?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But did the other two stay the same.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
As far as we can tell? But that's again, that
would be you'd have to find those facts. You'd have
to I don't know what the process is. You bring
all twenty three members of the grand jury and ask
them whether they knew what they were voting on. The
idea here is that the judge is going to have
to determine whether that's enough to throw out the indictment.
There are other reasons by the way that the judge
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may decide to throw out the indictment. There's the argument
that it's a selective and vindictive prosecution coming at the
direction of the President himself.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
There is the argument that Lindsay Halligan wasn't properly appointed
because there was a nominee for that job who the
President ousted and he installed Halligan instead. One issue came
up yesterday in court as to whether the Justice Department
would put forward the recommendation from the Attorney US Attorney's
office that this prosecution not be brought, and the Justice
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Department lawyer said, your honor, I'm under instructions by the
Deputy Attorney General not to answer questions about that in
this courtroom, which also was a pretty remarkable thing to
have happened.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, I know you got a run. Do we know
when we're expecting a decision? We do not know, Okay, ABC.
Stephen Portenoy, thanks so much for all the information you bet.
Like I always say, Stephen is so good at helping
us kind of sort through this kind of stuff because
things on the surface seem pretty simple, but boy, there's
a lot of details to dig into. Let's get back
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to some of the stories coming out of the K
twenty four hour news room. President Trump has signed the
bill ordering the Justice Department Department to release the Epstein files.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says her department will now work
with any new information that pops up.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
We will continue to follow the law again while protecting victims,
but also providing maximum transparency.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
The DOJ has thirty days to release all the files. Well,
looks like we have a plan. President Trump has apparently
signed off on a twenty eight point Russia Ukraine peace plan.
The plan's been in the works for weeks, with US
officials Special Envoy Stephen Witkoff, Vice President Vance, and Secretary
of State Marco Rubio talking with both Russian and Ukrainian representatives,
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and American delegations now in Kiev to meet with Ukrainian officials.
Funeral services for former Vice President Dick Cheney are being
held this morning at Washington's National Cathedral. More than a
thousand people are expected to be there, including former Presidents
Joe Biden and George W. Bush. There are reports it's
that neither President Trump or Vice President Advance were invited.
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Janey was a strong critic of Trump. Following the January
sixth riot at the Capitol, the Food and Drug Administrations
pushing for a recall of all by heart infant formula
products following the illness of dozens of babies.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
The FDA says thirty one infants have been hospitalized across
fifteen states with suspected or confirmed botulism and linked to
buy hard whole nutrition infant formula products.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
ABC's Michelle Franzen says the recall includes all unexpired lots
of formula cans and single serve anywhere pack sticks. TSA
agents say there's still coming across flyers who don't have
a real ID or a passport. Those are now required
to fly. ABC Sam Sweeneys's to help solve that problem
(11:51):
in the TSA's proposed a new fee for those passengers.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
TSA is proposing a new rule where passengers would face
a fee of eighteen dollars. Passengers will have their identity
verified on a new biometric KIOSK system before they're permitted
to pass through the security screening checkpoint.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The TSA says the current system is outdated and this
new plan will streamline the process. A new study has
named the best states for on time flights ahead of
Thanksgiving travel. California is in the top ten that's studied
by travel insurance marketplace. Square Mouth analyzed flight delays and
cancelations and found Hawaii is number one. Delayed or canceled
(12:29):
flights there are at thirteen percent. California checks in at
number nine on the list with almost twenty percent of
flights affected. After two centuries and another movie reboot, reboot,
Frankenstein is still more science fiction than fact.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
The new adaption of Mary Shelley's gothic Frankenstein on Netflix
has people asking if an assembled body could ever breathe, bleed,
or think. And Adamus say electricity can make muscles twitch,
while limb and organ transplants had become more successful since
Frankenstein was written in eighteen eighteen. But sewing together entire
bodies and making the pieces work is more like simulating life,
not creating or restoring it. As far as the thinking part,
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connecting a brain to a new body, including the spinal cord,
the circulation, peripheral nerves, and everything else, is still too
far beyond our current capability.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Michael Krozer KFI News. Another storm's rolling into SoCal forecasters
say it'll bring light to moderate rain through tomorrow. Up
to an inch of rain could fall at lower elevations.
Up to two inches are possible in the foothills and mountains.
Three to six inches of snow is possible above about
sixty five hundred feet. California Democratic state Senator Scott Wiener
(13:39):
has introduced a bill that would allow people to sue
the government if ice agents violate constitutional rights like free speech,
unlawful searches, or racial profiling. Wiener says his legislation would
protect Californians from the lawless overreach of the Trump administration
and its cronies. EA agents in La County have seized
(14:02):
a massive cash of an animal tranquilizer that's made its
way into the illegal narcotics trade. The Feds say the
drugs are typically used on elephants. Six hundred and twenty
eight thousand so called car Fentanel pills receives last month.
One person was arrested. Agents say the seizure, in their words,
mitigated a catastrophic danger. At six oh five, it's handle
(14:22):
on the news. Students protested, but you see regents didn't listen.
Tuition's going up again, let's say good morning to ABC's
Jim Ryan. So, Jim, NASA gave us a little look
at the mysterious three I Atlas comment. We've been hearing
so much about what did we see.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Kind of blurry images? First of all, would you look
through the window there and see if Cono was wearing
an aluminum foil hat?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Kno, are you worried about this? I just it's alien.
So that's what I think. You think it's alien? Okay?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Three Well, NASA says it didn't. So and that's I
think part.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Of what course NASA says it is.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Well, of course, right, they want to keep the secret
right from the rest of us. Well, according to NASA
and the European Space Agency, three I Atlas is a
comment they recognized that early on, right after it was
detected in July, early July. It's only the third and
there are lots of reasons that there would be speculation
about it. And then I can I can understand how
(15:23):
you know, rumors would start going around. It's only the
third object from beyond our own solar system that we've
as a human race, have ever been able to detect, right,
and it is acting strangely and it is large, and
it's very fast. One hundred and fifty three thousand miles
per hour. You know when we send rockets up there
going about one hundred and or seventeen thousand miles per hour,
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So this is almost ten times that speed.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
So this one feels like it's being like there's propulsion
that it would be going that.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Fast, right, that's what that's what folks are saying. But
again I mean and NASA response by saying this came
from we don't know where it came from, way way
out there beyond our solar system, is billions of years
old potentially, and it's been zooming along at that speed
for all that time. So yeah, there are the anomalies
that come with it, the unusual minerals that it appears
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to be giving off the tail originally, so that all
has has filed into this. So I think that really
was the elephant in the room yesterday when NASA started
the news conference, and so NASA tried at the very
beginning to address that, get in front of it and
say yeah, and we understand we're as fascinated by this
as a lot of people are. We want to find
life out in the universe, somewhere. But they're saying that
(16:41):
three I at lists, just isn't it okay?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And you said it's very large? How big is it?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well?
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Between fourteen hundred feet and three and a half miles.
I mean it's still tens and tens of millions of
miles away, So it's hard to get a beat on
that precisely how big the thing is. But yeah, so
somewhere between fourteen hundred feet three and a half miles
or about the size of Manhattan, will it hit the Earth.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
No.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
The geniuses there have done the calculations. They say it'll
pass about one hundred and seventy million miles away from
the Earth on December nineteen eighteenth.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And that one hundred and seventy million miles.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Away one hundred and seventy million miles away.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Is that considered a close call? Celestially it is yes.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
To me.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
What's fascinating amy is that human beings, maybe we're not
as dumb as we look, because we have figured out
ways to look at something one hundred and seventy million
miles away right, to get some detail of it, to
photograph it, then to send those photographs back to Earth.
These the satellites with telescopes are fixed or flying around Mars,
(17:43):
and they're out there in the universe and they're taking
a look at this stuff. To me, that's what's amazing
is that human beings have figured out how to look
at something like that and figure out what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, are they using the James Web telescope to look.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
At this the James Web, they're using Hubble, even they're using.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Pictures should be clearer. I mean, they have pictures of
the galaxy that look like they're just crystal.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
They're beautiful, absolutely, and Web has been able to pick
this thing out among all those those millions billions of
stars out there. But it's still a long long way away,
so I'm not too surprised that the images are still
kind of fuzzy. They should be better once after December
nineteenth and we can see exactly what it looks like.
Some of the pictures that have been posted on the
(18:25):
Internet from folks who say they know what it looks like.
It sort of looks like a fleet of spaceships zooming around.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So, but those are those fake pictures. Those are fake pictures, right,
you think they are? Well, who has better pictures than NASA?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
People who have these pictures that look like the starship Enterprise.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know that's that would be cool.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
No, I know that would be that would be cool.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, do we know what where it's headed next? Does
it leave our Solar system or does it it does
catch gravity and slow down and buzz around, it.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Won't Apparently that's one thing that the folks on the
Internet were saying that, well, it passed around the Sun,
but the Sun's gravitational pull didn't seem to affect it's
trajectory very much. And NASA says that's true. But the speculator,
the expectation is that it's gonna once it got past
the Sun, it comes past Mars and then comes past
(19:20):
the Earth and then just continues its lonely voyage back
out the other side of our stars system.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Okay, I have one more question for you, because we're
talking about propulsion and everybody's like, oh, it's an alien spaceship.
And when I was listening to some reports on it
yesterday and they were talking about the jets that are
on this, I'm like, what are the jets? I mean, like,
if it has jets, obviously something's going on, but they're
naturally occurring jets, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Events that come off this thing that shoot out different
minerals and apparently nickel and some others that are unusual
for that. These are anomalies, and NASA says this came
from we don't know where. It's not too unusual that
it would be doing things that a comet from within
our solar system would not be doing. So, yeah, these
(20:07):
We're going to learn a lot about this thing over
the next few years, and especially as it gets close
enough for us to get a better look.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All Right, December nineteenth is the big day. All right,
ABC's Keyes on the Skies, Keep your eyes on the skies.
Thanks Jim, we'll talk to you soon. Figure La Mayor
Bath says wildfire survivors need more time to get back
on their feet, and she's asking banks to step up.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
Bass wants mortgage lenders to give wildfire survivors an extra
three years of breathing room. Under a California law signed
by Governor Newsom back in September, people who lost homes
in the January wildfires can pause their mortgage payments for
up to one year. That deadline and the anniversaries of
both the Palisades and Eaton fires is now less than
two months away. Bass says that's nowhere near enough time
(20:50):
for families still dealing with insurance delays, rebuilding costs, and displacement.
She's urging banks to voluntarily stretch that relief to a
full four years of forbearance, giving survivors more stability while
recovery drags on. Pergida di Augustino kaaf I News.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
The family of a fourteen year old girl reported missing
in Bellflowers asking for help. Amethyst Garcia was last seen
Monday afternoon. Family members say they have no idea where
she may have been headed when she disappeared. The teen
is Hispanic, five foot one, about one hundred twenty five pounds,
with brown hair, red hair, actually brown eyes, and her
red hair has blue highlights. She was wearing jeans and
(21:27):
a black T shirt. Police in Orange County say burglars
are using high tech to steal cars from right under
owner's noses.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
Criminals are using tablets meant for locksmith's to target higher
end vehicles. Anaheim Police Department officials say recently happened in
Anaheim Hills, and surveillance video shows it happened very quickly.
Chris says he watched them drive away in his twenty
twenty Silverado truck.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's can't have been there longer than three.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
To five minutes, please say thieves.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
He used Santana's in another case to intercept the Kilith
entry FOP signal from inside the house that allowed them
to unlock the vehicle and drive away. Sharon Ruden KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Billionaire Tom Steyers entered the race for governor of California.
He says, if elected, he'll fight President Trump all the way.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Styer says he's the candidate to stand up for our
rights against the Trump administration. Trump is making things worse
and he's picking on California. He says, Trump is nothing
but broken promises.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
If he wants to cooperate, great, but what I'm expecting
is more of the same.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Styre joins a crowded democratic field and is going against
the likes of former California Attorney General Javier Bessera, former
O C. Congresswoman Katie Porter, and former Los Angeles Mayor
Antonio Via Ragosa Jason Campadonia k FI News.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Okay, So Jim Ryan was telling us about the three
I at Liasson. He mentioned that some of the pictures
look like the Starship Enterprise, and that reminded me that
I wanted to congratulate a couple of people who won
the book written by Adam Nimoy, who's Leonard Nimoy's son.
We talked to him yesterday. If you missed that interview,
it's going to be up on the CAI website. It's
(23:01):
also yeah, it's going to be up on the KFI website.
But you can also listen to the podcast, the Wake
Up Called Podcast, and it of course is there. But
congratulations to Michelle Feldman from Canyon Country and Gina Lowry
from Apple Valley. They both won an autographed copy an
autograph copy of the book The Most Human Reconciling with
(23:23):
my father, Leonard Nimoy. And if you want to get
a copy of the book and possibly meet Adam, he's
going to be out at Book Soup in West Hollywood
tomorrow at seven. He's doing a book signing and going
to be talking about the book. Really an interesting guy
in a fun interview. Again, if you want to hear
the interview, if you missed it, it's on the iHeartRadio
(23:45):
app on the Wake Up Called podcast. You can listen
at any time with a ground already saturated from the
rain over the last week. Forecasters say a new round
of rain could cause mud and debrief flows in the
recent burn areas. Up to an inch of rain is
expected at lower elevations, with up to two inches possible
in the foothills and mountains. The rains expected to fall
through tomorrow, with clearing this weekend. Former US Treasury Treasurer
(24:10):
Larry Summers has taken leave from teaching at Harvard University,
where he once served as president. It's because of recently
released emails showing that he maintained a friendly relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein. He's also resigned his position at Open AI.
President Trump signed a bill last night to release the
Epstein documents. California State university presidents could be getting raises
(24:34):
while other areas see funding cuts. CSU trustees voted to
eliminate salary caps caps for campus presidents and other senior executives,
and also to allow for up to fifteen percent bonuses.
Unionized staff and students are against it, saying it comes
as CSU faces layoffs, budget and program cuts. At six
(24:56):
oh five, It's handle on the news, someone brought a
meat cleaver onto a delta flight. What could have possibly
gone wrong? There? Guess what time it is? It's time
for Postathon fifteenth Anuel KFI Pastathon is upon us Chef
Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club provides more than twenty five thousand
meals every single week to kids in need in Southern California.
(25:19):
And how does he do it? He does it with
your generosity. We'll be doing our broadcast at Pastathon at
the Anaheim White House all day December second, Giving Tuesday,
from five am starting with wake up call, all the
way through until eight pm. There are things you can
do to start helping today, and that is you can donate.
(25:40):
Donate anytime at KFIAM six forty dot com, slash Postathon
or find pasta and sauce drop off locations. You can
go to any Smart and Final and donate any amount
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go to any Wendy's in restaurant in Southern California and
if you donate five bucks or more to Cana's Club,
you'll get a coupon book. Ninety five percent of your
(26:03):
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at the Kiosk, it'll ask you if you want to
donate your change. Just say yes. Then pick Katerina's Club
from the four options that pop up. Super super easy,
and don't forget you can join Conway. He's going to
be live at the Smart and Final this Friday from
(26:23):
four to eight in Your Belinda. The first two hundred
and fifty people to show up get a special gift
bag from Smart and Final. And then on Saturday, our
very own Fork reporter Neil Savader is going to be
broadcasting his show live two to five at the Wendy's
in Mission, Vaho. Again, Pastathon just around the corner. We
couldn't do it without you, so thank you in advance.
(26:44):
Let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.
Good morning, Denise, Hey, good morning to you Amy. How'd
you going doing good? What you got on jobs? Well?
Speaker 8 (26:56):
I mean, if you hear some noise behind me, it
could be the champagne corks popping. Because that September jobs
report that was delayed by the shutdown, it just came
out way more jobs than expected were created, and we
also have stronger than expected results from Nvidia and Walmart,
So that means stock futures are really on fire right now,
(27:16):
especially Nasdaq futures. So you know, investors could change their
minds and decide this is bad for the prospect for
an interest rate cut for the Fed next month, but
right now they're partying on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
How many jobs and how many were they expecting and
how many did we see?
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Almost twice as many as what we were expecting. So
if you look at the actual number of sorry, if
you look at the non farm payrolls, number one hundred
and nineteen thousand jobs were created month on month, estimate
was something like fifty one thousand amies, So it's actually
more than twice what was expected.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Okay, well, that's good.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
And of course you know this is all magnified and
the impact of it because investors waited so long to
get at this report because of the shutdown, and of course,
you know, if you wait and you don't know, there's
a lot of angst, you know, worrying about what you
don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yes, okay, let's talk about new details about Netflix's offer
to buy Warner Brothers. Discovery.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
Yeah, today is deadline day, and sources are telling us
that Netflix has told Warner Brothers Discovery it would keep
releasing the studios films in theaters if it wins the
bidding war. This is very important because up to now
Netflix has resisted distributing its movies in theaters, but Warner
Brothers has all those contractual obligations.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Right. Oh, you think Netflix would change its mind after
K Pop demons. Yes, that is also true.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
And you know, I think they were sort of staying
in their lane and trying not to spend on that
kind of expansion, but now they must be salivating at
what they can do when they do.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Okay, let's talk about credit scores and how it might
soon be measured.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
Right, So you maybe have experienced this and some of
your listeners as well, where you go to apply for
something like a new credit card and you feel your
credit's pretty good. You know, you're paying your bills and
you've got some money in the bank, but they say, uh,
we're not given it to you because generally they look
at things like, you know, your.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Debt to equity ratio and stuff like that.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
Well, now Plaid is teaming up with Fair Isaac for
this new way of measuring a credit score that includes
your real time cash flow, you know, I mean Trevlo. Yeah, No,
not necessarily, because if you're paying your loans somehow, then
it doesn't you know, they might just look at and
(29:41):
I'm not talking about you in particular, of course, but
they might just look at you know, how much you're
making from your job, right and what your costs are.
But maybe you're you know, selling designer shoes or something
on eBay and you are managing to pay all those bills.
That's what really matters is you know whether you're paying
all those bills, not whether on paper you should be
able to or not.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
All right, getting in your business as we do every
day with Bloomberg's Denise Hellegreen. And nice to have you back.
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Talk to you tomorrow. We'll
talk about little dogs tomorrow. Oh okay, we always love
talking about dogs. La Mayor Bass has asked banks to
offer another three years of mortgage relief to wildfire survivors.
Under California law, survivors of the January wildfires can delay
(30:23):
their mortgage payments for up to a year while that
deadline and the anniversary of the Palisades and Eaten Fires
is now less than two months away. The UC Board
of Regents has voted to hike tuition in spite of
protests outside their meeting at UCLA and at all nine
UC undergraduate campuses. Tuition is going to go up by
just under six hundred dollars per year for the next
six years. The plan also sets aside forty percent of
(30:47):
tuition revenue for financial aid, which is down from the
current forty five percent. LA County health officials have confirmed
the first flu related death of the season. Officials say
the person had not been vaccinated against flu this year
and had underlying health health conditions. We're just minutes away
from handle on the news this morning. September's jobs report
has dropped, and it was a jaw dropping report. Let's
(31:09):
say good morning now to the CEO and co founder
of the Hit Living Foundation, Heather Crow.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Good morning, Heather, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
So we've got something really fun for you to do
with your pup this weekend to get them into the
mood for the holidays and maybe get you in the
mood too, So please tell us about the second annual
Winter Holiday Market.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Oh, I would be delighted to It's going to be
so much fun. There are so many markets, not just
in LA but nationwide that are specifically curated for people,
and unfortunately, dogs aren't even allowed to most of them.
This is an event incredibly special because it is a
(31:59):
dog for dog centric market for dog lovers and those
who believe in and want to support our mission. It's
about dogs for the dogs, and through and through. It's
really a community event to help kick off the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, and where is it happening.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
It is happening this Sunday, November twenty third, at Santa
Monica Brewerks from twelve to three pm.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay, so brewworks. So it's at a brewery it.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Is, yep, the Santa Monica Brewerks.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Okay, great, yeah, So tell us about this winter wonderland
for dogs and they're humans.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
This might be my favorite question of the whole interview.
My team and I have been incredibly thoughtful about the
curation of this holiday market since our first holiday market
back in twenty twenty four. Guests can expect a holiday
centric market where activities are for the dogs and our
(33:03):
vendors are for the dogs and their families. It's going
to be fun for all ages and guests can expect
to see a variety of local La vendors retailing everything
from high quality pet accessories and grooming products, organic dog treats.
We'll have an award winning pet portrait studio. There will
(33:25):
actually have a local La coffee roaster, Unbound Bruce, who
we partnered with to launch our own coffee label called Coffee,
which is a one hundred percent organic blend. Yes, we
love a good dog Ton plus much more, and of
course our hit holiday market activities. Guests can expect to
(33:48):
see Santa. Of course there will be photos with Santa.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
We'll have a.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Tree covered in cookies from Cookie Goods of Santa Monica,
a ball pit just for the dog toy and more
all for the dogs.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, so can the dogs go in one at a
time to the ballpit or is it like a is
it like a dog park and they all just go
and jump in.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Oh, it's one at a time. We will actually have
extra volunteers stationed at the dog pit, so our volunteer
can either photograph your dog while you are throwing the
balls and playing with your dog, or our volunteer can
throw can toss the balls while you're taking all the
(34:33):
photographs to get those perfect ballpit shops.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Okay, and then that sounds like so much fun. Heather,
Now tell us that this is not only for fun
for you and your pet, it's also to help out
your organization, the Hit Living Foundation. Tell us what you
guys do to save animals?
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Of course, Yeah, we are a rescue started back in
twenty eighteen, and we work with local shelters. We pull
at risk dogs from euthanasia. We pull a lot of
extreme medical cases and we provide them some of LA's
best medical care possible. So it's for us. It's really
(35:15):
about rescue, rehabilitation and being very thoughtful about our adoption
applicants and making sure that we're matchmaking our dogs with
the right homes and of course vice versa.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And being an animal lover, I know that it's so
important that we get these animals out of shelters. Bill Handle,
I can see him right now, he's holding his new Doxie.
So we love the pets. Yeah, we love the pets here,
and we love that what you're doing is not only
going to be fun, but it's also for a good cause. Heather,
is there somewhere they can go to get more information
about the Winter Holiday Market.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Of course, yes, they can go directly to our website
Hit Livingfoundation dot org.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Hit Living Foundation. We'll see go ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Dot yes, and they'll see a link to RSVP to
our market this weekend for free.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Okay, perfect. I love it. Heather, Thank you so much
for sharing your information about the second annual Winter Holiday
Market happening this Sunday noon to three at Santa Monica
brew Works. Sounds like a lot of fun. Have a
great day, Heather.
Speaker 7 (36:20):
It will be thank you you as well.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. New
allegations of surfaced over the Palisades fire.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
A legal complaint has been filed against the state, alleging
that a state park official may have hindered lafd's operations
to mop up the Lochman burnscar area that reignited into
the deadly Palisades fire.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
The La Times reports an attorney claims.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
LAFD could not bring a bulldozer to the area to
cut a line around the fire and could not dig
up around native plant species. Lawyers representing victims of the
Palisades Fire are working to depose LA firefighters to address
the allegations, and have yet to provide direct evidence that
park officials interfered with firefighting efforts.
Speaker 9 (36:56):
Ailing Gonzalez k if I News.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
The Lakeunny DA's offices it's investigating potentially fraudulent claims of
sex abuse.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Thousands of claims have been filed against La County, which
settled for four billion dollars. LA County DA Nathan Hockman
says he'll prosecute anyone who filed a fake claim.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
We're going to go after that.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
We're going to go after them aggressively. We're going to
go after them to put them behind bars.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
An investigation by The La Times found some claimants admitting
that they were paid by a law firm to say
they were abused by county employees. The claims in the
case stretch over decades. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
The passage of a state law has been celebrated by
officials in LA for expanding protections for victims and witnesses
to crimes. Assembly Woman piev Or Sorry Chavo says the
Victim and Witness Protection Act closes a loophole from an
earlier law.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
It ensures that survivors are protected during and after prosecution
when retaliation is most common.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
The new law clarifies that intimidating witnesses or victims before
or after charges are brought, or at any point during
a trial, is a crime. Violators could face up to
a year in jail. The late Chadwick Boseman is going
to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame today. Boseman rose to fame his breakout role
(38:22):
as Jackie Robinson in forty two Great Movie. It was
launched into superstardom as King T'Challa. He'll always be remembered
as the Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Boseman
died of colon cancer in twenty twenty. He was forty three.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
(38:43):
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
This has been your wake up call. If you missed
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