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September 29, 2025 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller joins the show live from Jerusalem to discuss Netanyahu signaling openness to Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan. Amy recaps the Union Rescue Mission’s Over the Edge fundraising event that raised $25,948 last night and raising $1.9MIL total to help bring people home. Bloomberg Media’s Courtney Donohoe shares the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with Amy talking with ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy about congressional leaders being at an impasse as a shutdown nears.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Ok Fi and KOST HD two Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
And Orange County and Amy Okay, good morning, It's five o'clock,

(00:33):
straight up.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is your wake up call for Monday, September twenty ninth.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
National Coffee Day. As far as I'm concerned, every day
is National Coffee Day. I'm already like two or three
cups in always need an extra little boost on Monday mornings.

(00:56):
And I left the house this morning. I don't know
what's going on all with my brain. I was putting
something in the trunk of my car, hit my head
on the trunk of my car, got into the car
and realized that I forgot my lunch box because I'd
bring lunch every morning. So I had to go back
in the house. And I'm hoping that this is not
a sign of the way things are going to go today,

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but we shall wait and see. Hope you had a
fabulous weekend. It was a fun one for me. Well,
it was really relaxing after Friday was over. We'll tell
you about going over the edge in just a bit.
Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. Patrols around churches
in LA have been increased after the deadly shooting at
a Mormon church in Michigan. LA Mayor Bath said the

(01:38):
LAPD will boost patrols out of an abundance of caution,
and the LA County Sheriff's Department says it's doing the
same thing. The twenty two year old man charged with
assassinating Charlie Kirk is scheduled to have a virtual court
hearing today, where he and his newly appointed legal counsel
will decide whether they want a preliminary hearing to have
the judge determine if there's enough evidence to move forward

(02:00):
with the trial. Tyler Robinson's charged with murder. The Dodgers
will take on the Cincinnati Reds in the National League
Wildcard Series. It gets underway tomorrow at Dodger Stadium. Both
teams finish the season eighty three and seventy three. The
best of three series will be played all in LA.
The Wildcard Series winner will then face the Eastern Division

(02:21):
champion Philadelphia Phillies. Well, we've been here before. There could
be a deal to end the war between Israel and Hamas.
ABC's Geordana Miller joins us from Jerusalem with the latest
as Prime Minister Natanyahu heads to the White House today.
We've been here before. I think I just said that, well,
because we've been here before on this one too. Two

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days left until a possible government shutdown is either side budging.
ABC Stephen Portnoy's going to join us to tell us
what has to happen to keep the proverbial lights on
in Washington, d C. As you know, we went over
the edge for the Union rescue mission must have been
successful because I'm here today and so is Neil Sevadra.

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We're going to tell you all about that, how much
we raised and gosh, you guys were just rock stars.
I appreciate all the donations for that. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. At least four people have been
confirmed dead in an attack on a Mormon church in Michigan.
Eight people were hurt in the attack yesterday. Officials are

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still looking through the debris and say that several people
are unaccounted for. Police said the attacker rammed through the
front doors of the church with his truck, then got
out and started shooting. This man says he and others
were barely able to escape.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
He pointed his gun at our car and fired three shots.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Two of them went through our windshield and just missed me.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
The attacker also set the building on fire. He was
killed in a shootout with police in the parking lot
a few minutes later. The land in Rancho Palace Verdes
is moving again. A three to four hundred foot section
of the bluffs gave way Saturday night, impacting at least
three homes. County Fire says the slide extends about one
hundred feet into people's backyards. The affected homes are along

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Marguerite Drive. The area is about four miles away from
the boundary of the ongoing Portuguese Bend landslide. The Trump
administration is investigating alleged anti semitism at all twenty two
campuses of the cal State University System. Chancellor Mildred Garcia
told the CSU community Friday that the Federal Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission had subpoenaed the university to provide personal phone

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numbers and email addresses of every employee to ask them
about their experiences. The investigation stems from campus protests last
year against Israel's war in Gaza. California officials are speaking
out after a federal prosecutor was fired.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Michelle Beckwit lost her job just hours after warning border
patrol agents that a court order barred arrests without probable
cause in the state. In response, Governor Newsom posted on
social media, wake up America. Democracy is on the brink,
Sacramento Assembly Member Maggie Krell Beck with the gold standard.
The Justice Department has not commented on the firing. Brigia
Diugostino O k if I News four.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Three two one dignician and lift off.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
A SpaceX rocket launch has lit up the night sky
in southern California. The Falcon nine rocket took off from
Vandenburg's Vandenberg Space Force Space just after seven last night,
and the white contrail was illuminated by the setting sun.
It could be seen in La Orange, Venturis, Santa Barbara,
and San Luis Obispo counties. The rocket took a set

(05:34):
of Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit time to
say good morning to Abc'sana Miller in Jerusalem, so Jordana
We've been here before, but maybe this time is their
hope that we finally might have a deal that'll stop
the fighting in Gaza.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
We have been here before, Amy, and you know, I
think it's still there's still a lot of work ahead
of us to get, you know, to cross the finish
line with this. I'll tell you what's different this time.
It's the first time that the President and his team
have put a deal on the table that would end

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the war, not just pause it, and one that would
even look forward to, for example, reviving direct peace talks
between Israelis and Palestinians. It looks at what post war
Gaza would look like with the establishment of a civilian,
technocratic government, no role for Hamas. It asks Hamas to demilitarize,

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turnover its weapons, destroy its terrorist infrastructure above end below ground,
that is the tunnels as well, and it also asks
hard things of the Israelis. Right, So, first of all,
no annexation in the West Bain of any kind, no
annexation of the Gaza strip, and no forceable, this forceable force,

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the ful displacement of Palestinians.

Speaker 7 (07:13):
Right.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
We heard the President talk a couple months ago about
oh Palestinians gossins. Everybody has to get out because it'll
be so unlivable. Right that no longer seems to be
the case, right, Gossins are not being asked to leave
the strip, which is what of course the Arab regional
partners wanted, and of course the Palestinians wanted. Also, there'll

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be a limited role for the Palestinian authority in the
Gaza Strip. That'll be hard for the Israelis to swallow.
We're not so Having said all of that, a kind
of overview of what the deal includes, the Israelis are
still negotiating over some of the details. Hamas hasn't even
really seen the deal yet, based off to respond there

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may be some input from Cutter and the egypt So
we're not there. We're not on the presipice of the deal.
But President Trump does deserve credit for getting everyone back.
It appears at the table with a deal that could
be a framework to move forward and maybe will bear
fruit in a few weeks and finally end this war.

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Right right as we come upon the two year anniversary, hard.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
To believe it's been two years and Netanyahu's meeting with
President Trump today at the White House. They but they
it sounds like they've kind of already got the business done.
Is this just a formality?

Speaker 5 (08:42):
I mean, the Israeli Prime Minister has spent hours behind
closed doors with the President's advisor Wit Cough with Jared Kushner, right,
both on Saturday night, on Sunday today, he will meet,
you know, the Israeli Prime minister will we meet with
President Trump. But they already have hammered out a lot

(09:03):
of the details. We understand. There's only you know, a
couple outstanding issues, for example, the timeline and pace of
the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip, right, and the
timeline and pace of Hamas's disarmament, right they're turning over
their weapons. You know, there's still details that have to

(09:25):
be hammered out, but I think these really Prime Minister
made it clear yesterday when he spoke to American media
right that he is hoping, you know, that this will
get a go and he's working on it with the President.
So he clearly supports moving through this and coming up
with a compromise. And he appears to be on board.

(09:47):
And we heard just a short while ago that the
Egyptian president and the Katari leaders are on board.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
As well.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
So that's all good signs.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
All right. ABC's j're Donna Miller in Jerusalem. Thank you
so much for the information. We'll keep our fingers crossed
on this one. We will, all right, Amy, Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. The federal government is
set to shut down tomorrow unless Congress agrees on a
spending plan. President Trump will be meeting with congressional leaders

(10:18):
today in an effort to keep things running. House Minority
Leader Hakim Jeffrey says they need to keep political bias
out of it.

Speaker 8 (10:25):
We want to find bipartisan common ground to find a
spending agreement that avoids a government shutdown and actually meets
the needs of the American people.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
There was a thirty five day government shut down during
the first Trump administration, the longest in US history. The
governor of Oregon says she has explained to President Trump
that there is no national security threat in Portland and
the city is safe and calm. ABC Selena Waning says
Trump plans to send National Guard troops there in response
to protests.

Speaker 9 (10:54):
The Department of Homeland Security claims protesters have repeatedly attacked
and laid siege to a nice processing center in Portland.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Police in Portland say the protests that the site are peaceful.
Violent protests over the last few years in downtown Portland
have forced dozens of businesses to leave the area. Most
big companies are waiting to see how the Trump administration's
new H one B work visa policy plays out. The
White House's announcement of a one hundred thousand dollars fee
initially caused some panic among employers and workers, particularly in

(11:25):
the tech sector, which uses it to bring in trained
engineers and programmers. A separate proposal released last week would
overhaul the annual lottery for H one B visas, giving
applicants with higher paying job offers a better chance of
being chosen. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanize has finally locked
in a meeting with President Trump after repeatedly being put off. Apparently.

(11:49):
Professor of political science at Australia's Griffith University Paul Williams
tells KFI one reason could be Australia's now pretty low
on Trump's totem pole.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Coupled with Australia making foreign policy and trade decisions that
don't necessarily along with Donald Trump's world view. Yes, that
would just push Astrida further out of America's allbit in
Trump's thinking.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Trump will formerly host Albanize at the White House October twentieth.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has dropped out of
the race. He announced on social media yesterday that he
is suspending his campaign. Adams blamed media speculation and the
campaign finance Board's decision to withhold funds for undermining his
ability to continue. He was pretty far behind in the

(12:30):
polls behind front runner Zo Ron, Mom Donnie, former Governor
Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Charlotte police say the
body of a stowaway has been found in the landing
gear of an American Airlines flight from Europe. The body
was found yesterday at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North
Carolina while the plane was being serviced.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Bad Bunny's going to right the twenty twenty six Super
Bowl halftime show. The game is going to be played
February eighth at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, the home
of the San Francisco forty nine ers. The Puerto Rican
superstar put out a statement saying that what he's feeling
goes beyond himself. He says it's for his people, his culture,
and their history. Bad Bunny took part in the halftime

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show in twenty twenty as part of a special guest
during Jennifer Lopez's and Shakira's performance. Hey, It's Halloween Time
at the Disneyland Resort. K I AM six forty wants
to give you a chance to experience the frightful fun
plus the added excitement of the Disneyland Resort seventieth celebration,
which has gone on all year long. Happiest Halloween has

(13:42):
brought spooky thrills and chills to both Disney California Adventure
Park and Disneyland Park now through October thirty First, it
is so fun to see the Disneyland Resort during Halloween time.
Both parks completely decorated, and if you haven't been to
cars Land, what they do to cars Land for Halloween
is so fun. Keep listening for your chance to win
a four pack of one day, one park tickets to

(14:04):
Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure from kfi AM six
forty and we will have a pair of tickets or
actually a four pack of tickets to give to you
on wake up call. This week, one person has been
killed and at least three were seriously injured when a
pickup truck plowed into two parked cars and Boil Heights.

(14:25):
LA Fire says the crash happened around four to twenty
yesterday afternoon at North Chicago and First Streets. The jaws
of life were used to get the driver out of
the pickup. He then ran off. He got arrested a
couple hours later following a standoff. Six people on a
boat off the coast of San Diego have been taken
into custoday. The US Coast Guard says four of the six,
including a child, were illegal immigrants from Mexico. The thirty

(14:48):
six foot sail boat was intercepted Saturday in Mission Bay.
Two Americans apparently own the boat. They were also detained.
The boat was seized by the Coastguard. Strong rip currents
and big waves are expected to pa on the coastlines
of La Orange and San Diego Counties for the next
couple of days. The National Weather Service has issued a
beach hazard statement until Tomorrow night at eleven. It is

(15:09):
warning people to stay out of the water and says
even those who don't go in can get washed off
beaches and rocks by big waves. At six o five,
it's handled all the news. Yep, Bill Handle is back
and President Trump is meeting with congressional leaders two days
ahead of a possible government shutdown. So as you have heard,
if you listen to Wake Up Call or the Handle

(15:32):
show at all, you know that we went over the
edge for Union Rescue Mission Wow. So we repelled down
a twenty five story building. It was the Universal City
Hilton that you can see from the one oh one Freeway,
and they did it for two days. They had a

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couple hundred people actually did it anyone who donated one
thousand dollars or more. And of course we were raising
money to go over the edge and raise money for
an organization that actually helps people find their way home,
helps people get off the street, doesn't just throw money
at the program. And so it is something that both
Nil Savator and I really wanted to get behind and

(16:14):
we did. And I thought maybe it'd be a little
bit easier this year because they did it last year.
But I can tell you you're up and you're you're
standing up on the top of the building and you're
on the roof, so it's fine, and then they make you.
You're all strapped in and you have harnesses, and you've
practiced and you've got people around and everything, but the
moment you step over that safety railing and turn your

(16:37):
back and then they tell you to sit down, well
there's nothing there to catch it. I mean, there's the
ropes and stuff and the harness, but like there's no
chair to sit on, and below your butt is about
two hundred and fifty feet of air and it is

(16:57):
unnerving and a little bit terrifying, but it's also so
like I kept telling people, it's terrifying and exhilarating, and
that's exactly what it is, because it's just like it's
such a cool, cool experience, and it's kind of a
bucket list thing. I mean, it's not like the thing
the kind of thing that I would normally do. So

(17:18):
I do it once a year and it was for
a good cause. And like I said, the folks at
Union Rescue Mission are so amazing and the things that
they do to get people off the street when so
much money is being thrown at the whole most problem
and it doesn't seem to be getting better. They got
a thousand people off the street and graduated their program,
and that means that then they end up back in housing,

(17:42):
but in a permanent way because they also help them
train for jobs and get jobs and get GEDs and
go through rehab and put their lives back together, so
they're prepared to have the homes. They don't just stick
them in a hotel room for a month and then
say okay, you're on your own again. So the folks
at Union Rests Commission really do great work. And you
guys did great work. Neil and I were a little

(18:05):
bit short of the goal for Team KFI on Friday,
and you guys stepped up and we so appreciate it
because at last look, we were at almost twenty six
thousand for our little team, and that's we're just thrilled.
So thank you, thank you, thank you. If you still
want to donate, you can it's RM dot org slash ote.

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They are privately funded. They don't get federal money, and
it's because they are faith based and they're a dry house.
They don't allow people going through their program to be
on drugs and alcohol like the people who want help,
who really want to make a difference and get their
lives back on track and find their way home. As
Union Rescue Mission would say, also, if you want to

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take a look, it's on my Instagram at Amy Kking
and you can see me go over the edge. And yeah,
it was a lot of fun. It was a lot
of fun. And I hope that we get to do
it next year because these folks, they're the real deal.
And so thank you to Union Rescue Mission, Thank you
to you for donating. One person has been killed in

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a fire that tore through a two story home in
Mission Viejo. Crews were called out to the fire around
two thirty yesterday morning on Athena. Took a few hours
to get the fire out. The rest of the family
was able to get out of the home safely. The
cause of the fires being investigated. La County is starting
a cash assistance program for small businesses affected by recent

(19:30):
immigration enforcement. The Office of Supervisor Hilda Salas says the
fund will provide up to five thousand dollars in direct
relief to eligible small businesses across the county. Details are
expected to be announced latter this morning. Camp Pendleton, the
largest undeveloped stretch of southern California's coast could see some
big changes coming.

Speaker 9 (19:50):
The Department of Defense is wanging whether it should open
parts of the one hundred and twenty five acre Camp
Pendlton Marine Base for commercial leasing. Daily Times reports no
decisions have been made, but the move could bring in
revel for the federal government. City leaders in Oceanside and
San Clementy have expressed concern for local communities and marines
who rely on the basis rugged terrain for training. They
say any developments could reshape the region's economy, environments, and

(20:12):
Camp Pendleton's long held mission.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Other Brooker Kfi News tech companies say bills passed by
California lawmakers to make AI chatbots safer for teenagers will
actually hold back innovation. Parents who alleged chatbots encourage their
kids to hurt themselves before committing suicide have sued tech
companies and want more regulation. Governor Newsom has until mid
October to decide whether to sign the bills passed by

(20:37):
lawmakers into law. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has
suspended his re election campaign. Announced his decision in a
video posted on x yesterday and warned about political violence.

Speaker 7 (20:48):
Too often, the city's forces use local government to advance
the visive agendas with little regard for how it hurts
everyday New Yorkers.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Adam says he will serve out the rest of his
term in office. The election is November fourth. Zooran mamdani
Is has a pretty commanding lead over anybody else running.
The seven members of the twenty twenty sixth Rose Court
are going to be announced this morning. The girls are
among twenty eight finalists from schools in the Pasadena area.
Rose Court members will serve as ambassadors for the Tournament

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of Roses, representing the organization at community events. On New
Year's Day, they will ride in the one hundred and
thirty seventh Rose Parade and attend the one hundred and
twelfth Rose Bowl Game. As the Dodgers wrapped up their
regular season, guests who did not disappoint Mister Shohei O Tommy.

Speaker 10 (21:41):
Two swung on in hammer deep the Center. This one's
heading back toward the wall.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
At Don Run number fifty five.

Speaker 11 (21:54):
Showtime in Seattle, Old Tony fifty fifth of the year
hit at the slight left center and the Dodgers now
with a five.

Speaker 10 (22:07):
Nothing lead, got four.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
One hundred and twelve feet on the home run by
Old TOWNNY, and even that may have been overshadowed as
Clayton Kershaw got his final career start of the regular season, ring.

Speaker 10 (22:20):
Two swung on him, miss strike three, striking him out
with a slider. Seven strikeouts and what a day for Kershaw.
Now and here comes Freddy Freeman is coming out of
the dugout and he is going to take Kershaw out

(22:43):
of the game. Freddy's clapping people realizing what's happening. There's
a hug on the mound right now between Freeman and Kershaw.
Folks all over this ballpark on their feet. Not a
soul is sitting as Kershaw gets hugs from all of
his teammates individually, and another one for Freeman is Freeman

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was given the honor today of taking out Clayton Kershaw.
Listen to him here in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Pretty sweet, pretty sweet. Tomorrow, the Dodgers take on the
Cincinnati Reds for Game one of the National League Wildcard Series.
First pitch goes out at six point eight. Kershaw's not
in the lineup for the Wildcard Series, maybe saving him
for the n LDS. Maybe he's done. I'm curious about
this one anyway. You can listen to all the Dodger

(23:37):
games on a five to seventy LA Sports live from
the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth and stream all games n
HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five to seventy
LA Sports. At least four people have been killed eight
others injured at a church in Michigan. Grand Blanc Police
Chief William Rainey says the shooter, Thomas Stanford, drove his
vehicle through the front doors of the Mormon church and

(23:59):
started shooting inside Yesterdaylissa. The shooter also set the church
on fire. The church is fifty miles north of Detroit.
There are still people who are unaccounted for. Sandford was
shot and killed by police in the parking lot. A
sixty eight year old woman has survived to jump from
the third floor of a high rise in downtown LA
during a fire. LA Fire says a fire on Main

(24:20):
Street may have been sparked by an electric bike yesterday morning.
The woman jumped from the fire escape. She was taken
to the hospital with a leg injury. Wow third floor
and she made it okay. Marvel Icon stan Lee has
appeared at LA's Comic con as a hologram Stan Lee,
of course, the co creator of superheroes like Spider Man,

(24:41):
The X Men, and more. He died in twenty eighteen.
Fans had the opportunity to speak with the comic pioneer
through AI at the Immersive Hologram Experience at the LA
Convention Center over the weekend at six oh five at
tandle on the News Oregon Official State, President Trump is
out a line for calling up the National Guard to
protect against Antifa protesters. Bill's going to weigh in on that,

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and as you may notice, Bill is back from vacation.
Here's what's coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A man who set up a camp on private property
in Laverne and then started a fire on it has
been arrested. Laverne Pde says the camp on San Demus
Canyon Road was cleared out following the fire on September eighteenth.

(25:22):
The guy who allegedly set the fire was arrested Fridays,
being charged with reckless burning and trespassing on private property.
A man who admitted to landing a small plane on
a Navy airstrip on San Clemente island without permission twice.
Is set to be sentenced in federal court. Andrew White
also pleaded guilty to stealing a Navy truck in twenty
twenty three and using it to ram through gates on

(25:44):
the island, causing thousands of dollars in damage. White's been
in custody since he cut off an ankle monitoring bracelet
earlier this year. He could get more than ten years
in federal prison. Vice President jad Van says Russia needs to,
as he put it, wake up and accept responsibility. He
said yesterday that it is time for Russia to come
out or come to the table and to talk peace.

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He said Moscow needs to realize they're killing a lot
of people and losing a lot of people while refusing
to find a way to stop the fighting. Paul McCartney
kicks off his Got Back Tour tonight in Palm Desert, so.

Speaker 9 (26:20):
Trying the old Beatles legend will play some more than
eleven thousand fans at Akorscher Arena before huading to stops
across the US and Canada, wrapping up in Chicago this November.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Star are the two surviving members
of the Beatles. Their first hit, Love Me Doo, came
out in nineteen sixty two, and McCartney's first solo album
came out in nineteen seventy one, featuring the classic maybe
I'm Amazed. Well, if you want to be amazed, there

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are some tickets left that range from four hundred to
five thousand dollars.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
The Brooker.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Okay, if I news, I'm amazed that tickets cost that much.
But I will tell you I've seen a lot of shows,
and Paul McCartney is I would say, hands down, the
best show I've ever scene. It was spectacular. So if
you get a chance to see him, I think he's
just amazing. It's just and a lot of it's just
Paul McCartney and his piano, at least the show that

(27:10):
I saw a few years ago, and it was just
so great. So great time to get in your business
with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, who is back after pneumonia. Yes,
oh man, what a rough go Oh lost your voice?

Speaker 7 (27:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Well I did?

Speaker 8 (27:25):
And it was funny because I called my mom and
to tell her I lost my voice. So of course
I'm whispering, and what does my mom do? She starts
whispering back at me.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
So if I sat there, it's like, Mom, that's.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
Just me you. So, yeah, it's been it's been a
rough go for two weeks, and as I said, I
might be letting out a call for two throughout this report.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Okay, well we'll try not to get you too excited,
but let's talk about the big changes on the way
for a video game giant.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah, you can.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
Whisper that to me because it's actually breaking news. This
is pretty exciting. Electronic Arts coming a private company, so
they agreed to sell itself to a group of investors.
It includes Saudi Arabia's public investment Fund, its largest leverage
buyout on record. So Electronic Arts. You probably want to
know what games they have if you're not following the

(28:15):
video gaming industry, But they have matt An NFL Battlefield
and also the SIMS. But growth has slowed significantly in
that industry because remember we have big spending in the
twenty tens, and also through the pandemic, everybody home playing
video games.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay, let's talk about peloton Speaking of the pandemic, a
lot of people got on Pelotons and they had business
was booming, and then it dropped off, and now what's
a Peloton doing to try to get business back online.

Speaker 8 (28:45):
Well, they were a darling during the pandemic. Years since,
so many people have returned to exercising outdoors. They've been
going to the gym, So they're attempting a comeback. They're
launching their biggest product update in years this week. They're
trying to shave themselves into an artificial intelligence focused health
and wellness company. Peloton, sorry about that. Peloton yet rolling

(29:09):
out a refresh for a vast majority of its bikes.
It's treadmills, it's rowing equipment. But the changes will include
the low end bike is going to get a rotating screen,
and some of the premium versions of its products they're
going to have more personalized artificial intelligence capabilities.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Any deals or are they just upgrading? Probably not.

Speaker 8 (29:29):
They're trying to They did have some deals for a
while because they were struggling to get some things out there,
but they said, you know what, if we're going to
make these changes, they're probably going to sell it at
full price to try to get more money in there.
Because it's true they have struggled for a long time
and this is their second comeback.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Attempt. Okay, and speaking of artificial intelligence, Open ai is
rolling out parental controls. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
It lets parents limit the way teenagers use the chatbot.
They'll also receive alerts off CHATCHBT determines that a teenager
may be in distress. It also enables parents to set
up the hours when a child can't use the service.
So it comes in the wake, has had so many pressure,
so much pressure on it to make changes to the chatbot.
And you have to keep in mind there are now

(30:16):
seven hundred million users since it's launching late twenty twenty
twenty two. But these tools they're going to be pushed
out to all users today.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay. We keep hearing that airline travel is doing good,
but apparently not for one European airline.

Speaker 8 (30:31):
Yeah, LUVTANSA they're planning to lay off four thousand workers.
And again it's artificial intelligence. They say profound changes brought
on by AI will lead to greater efficiency in its business.
So read between the lines. Basically, it's using AI to
review which job functions will no longer be necessary for
the future. But it's the latest move for the company

(30:52):
for the German carrier to rein in their costs okay.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
And speaking of jobs and stocks, how are things looking
this way down?

Speaker 8 (31:00):
We got the jobs report coming up on Friday, but
that could be delayed if the government shutdown happens. Now.
The data is expected to show that the economy added
fifty thousand jobs in September. That would be in line
with the average of the past three months, but not
as good as what we've had before that. But Dow
futures people are forgetting about the government shutdown. We're looking
at our futures up one hundred and eighty points.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Okay, getting in your business like we do every weekday
at five point forty and today we got our very
own Bloomberg. Courtney Donahoe back from being sick. We're happy
you're back.

Speaker 8 (31:32):
I missed you guys, and look forward to talking to
you all week this week.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
All right, take care, Courtney, We'll talk soon, see you later.
Backyards of at least three homes have been damaged in
Rancho Palace Verdes when a coastal bluff slipped. Official say
a three to four hundred foot stretch of the slope
dropped down over the weekend. No one was hurt. It's
not clear what caused this latest slippage. Major slides damaged
the Portuguese ben neighborhood about four miles away, following heavy

(31:57):
spring rains a couple of years ago. As big storms
like Hurricane Almbarto that is currently a Category five storm
churn in the Atlantic, California is sending five urban search
and rescue experts from Orange County riverside in the Sacramento
Fire Department. Governor newsances California stands with fellow Americans in
times of need, just as our fellow Americans have done

(32:19):
for us. A SpaceX rocket is put on quite a
show in the evening sky. A rocket launched from Vandenberg
Space Force Base last night shortly after seven. It lit
up the southern California sky with a long white streak
of light. The Falcon nine rocket carried a couple dozen
Starlink satellites into orbit. We're just minutes away from handle
on the news this morning. Of course, handle back from

(32:42):
Vacation Team USA wasn't able to bring home the ryder cup,
and nasty US fans had something to say about that. Huh,
we're so well behaved. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy, Good morning, Stephen were potentially two days
away from a government shutdown. We've been here before.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
We have been here before, and we'll see what happens
today as the President meets with the congressional leadership of
both parties, sitting down for what could be a last
chance opportunity to work out some sort of deal that
would stave off a government shutdown on Wednesday. Look, Democrats
have drawn a line in the sand here. They say
they want to draw attention to what they're calling a
healthcare affordability crisis in the country. Republicans are not interested

(33:24):
in what Democrats are demanding. They say that they've already
passed in the House a clean extension of government funding
through November twenty first, and that the Senate should accept that.
And Democrats are saying, no, no, no, you don't understand.
There are these healthcare tax credits that are expiring that
will affect the premiums of people pay on the Obamacare exchanges,
if you're on healthcare dot gov. And they say that

(33:47):
it's time to reverse the Medicare changes that have just
been made by Congress and the passage of the One
Big Beautiful Bill, And Republicans say, no, that was a
clear intent to root out what they can say or waste,
fraud and abuse, and limit access to the program by
people in the country illegally. Democrats say, no, no, no,

(34:08):
What you're really doing is you're taking money from rural
hospitals and they're going to close and it's going to
affect a lot of people. Just you wait and see.
So that's the dynamic going into what is increasingly likely
to be a government shutdown on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Ah, so you're thinking there is going to be one,
but just because they're both they've kind of drawn their
lines in the sand, as you say, and neither side's budget.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
And there's no discussion of any other kind of option.
I mean, look, the House has already done its cr
thing and is not expected to come back until tomorrow.
And so you know, to avoid the shutdown, you'd have
to have both sides agreeing on something that the Democrats
wouldn't filibuster in the Senate. You have to pass it
in the House, presumably with Democratic votes if it were

(34:50):
a bipartisan thing, because a lot of Republicans might reflexively object.
And so you know, I think at this point, barring
some sort of La Minute handshake to let's just say,
give another week or two for negotiations, which could happen.
I think that we're sort of heading straight for what
would be an iceberg, But I think that ultimately, you know,

(35:12):
the country has seen a shutdown before. What'll be interesting
to see is if in a shutdown now, the federal
government is serious about doing what Russ Vote, the leader
of the Office Management Budget, wants, which is for federal
agencies to plan for permanent reductions in force, permanent layoffs
as opposed to a temporary furlough.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah. I was going to ask you about that because
normally we say or not we say, but they say, okay,
we're going to shut down, and that just means that
people are going to be temporarily furloughed or you're not
going to get your paycheck for probably you know, during
the shutdown, but then you'll get that pay back once
everything reopens. This one's different because, like you just mentioned,
they're talking about actually reducing the workforce.

Speaker 6 (35:50):
Right, and that's new. You know, the last time we
had an extended government shutdown was a record one in
twenty eighteen into early twenty nineteen that lasted more than
a month, and that was sort of a you know,
inventional shutdown, it was a time of divided government, or
we were going into divided government where you know, you know,
Democrats were making demands I had to do with a
border wall, and the Republicans weren't willing to go along,

(36:12):
and ultimately things got resolved in the end. Now you
have a circumstance where there's a totally different operating philosophy
within the executive branch and there's a desire to thin
the ranks of the bureaucracy, and Democrats say that that's
an empty threat, that any kind of layoffs could be
challenged in court, or ultimately the Trump administration could turn around,

(36:33):
as they have over the last few months, and say,
you know what, we made a mistake in firing these people.
Let's bring them back. We'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Okay, Then one last question before we let you go,
because you've been covering this kind of stuff for a
few years now. Did lawmakers used to have longer term
budgets or has it always been this way and it
just wasn't as widely publicized.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
Well, you know, to the extent that people are tuned in,
it's been this way for a long time. The annual
appropriations process that we now operate under has dated to
the early nineteen seventy so it's been about five decades.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
So do we do this every year where we're going, oh, budgets, Oh,
government shutdown, government shutdown. Why don't they just pass like
a four year budget.

Speaker 6 (37:15):
Well, because they don't. That's not what the law calls for.
And ultimately, you know, you have what's supposed to happen
is you have both sides agreeing on full year appropriations
packages that are passed in advance of October first, and
they're supposed to. I mean, that was the idea of
Congress when it created the Budget Act in nineteen seventy four.
Was the idea that you know, Congress would be positioned

(37:39):
to make a full year plan in advance, like you
know states and cities do. But in this case, Congress,
you know, with increased partisanship and polarization and frankly just
overall political dysfunction, it kicks the can and extends government
funding in these stopgap measures. So often, you know, even

(37:59):
in a time of unified government like we have now
with Republican in control of the White House, in both
Houses of Congress, you still have this difficult political dynamic,
and it's particularly acute in off years where you know,
politicians are not facing voters immediately. This is an opportunity
for both sides, frankly, to posture. Democrats are posturing when

(38:20):
they want to draw attention to what they're considering a
health care affordability crisis, and Republicans are saying that they're
going to stand on principle that they're not going to
be you know, point in a particular direction by the
minority party in the Senate that they have passed what
Democrats have traditionally clamored for, which is a clean extension
of government funding. And you know, if the Democrats want
to draw this line in the stand and try to

(38:41):
draw attention to health care affordability, they can do it.
But also they're standing on behalf of a minority, a
distinct percentage of the population. Those people who are on
the Affordable Care Act, those are generally speaking, people who
are in between jobs, work part time. And they also
the Republicans point of the fact, we have a thirty
seven trillion dollar national debt, and you know, there's a
cost to an extension of tax credits. In this case,

(39:03):
the CBO estimates the ten year projection of a permanent
extension of these tax credits is three hundred and fifty
billion dollars. Well, Republicans are not about to raise taxes
to cover that cost to pay for us, you know,
subsidized healthcare in the open market for a relatively small
percentage of the population, about twenty to maybe thirty million people.
Most people get health insurance through work, and they frankly

(39:24):
wouldn't be affected by any of this.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
All right, Well, we'll be watching and I'm sure we'll
be talking to you about it on whether we get
a deal or don't get a deal in what happens next.

Speaker 6 (39:33):
You bet?

Speaker 1 (39:34):
All right, Thank you, ABC. Stephen Portnoy. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. At least four people killed in
an attack on a Mormon church in Michigan by a
man who crashed his truck into the building and started
shooting people. Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Reuben Coleman
says the attacker also started a fire yesterday.

Speaker 10 (39:53):
All indications on this investigation are this aspect using accelerant
of some sort, we believe gasoline and lit the church.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Umpire officials say several people are still unaccounted for and
crews are looking through the rubble. The shooter was killed
by police in the church parking lot. Three people have
been killed and five others hurt when a man on
a boat started shooting at a crowded pier in North Carolina.
This man says people had nowhere to run on Saturday night.
He was, you know, really was shooting fish in a barrel.

(40:26):
The forty year old alleged shooter was spotted pulling a
boat from the water at a public ramp on Oaks
Island and was arrested. Police say he's facing three counts
a first degree murder and five counts of attempted murder.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is headed to the Wiltern
in LA. She's said to speak tonight about her book
One hundred and seven Days, which is about her failed

(40:46):
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Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty four
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with traffic specialist Michael. I'm Amy King. This has been
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