October 16, 2025 • 39 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers opens the show talking about the government shutdown and the programs President Trump is threatening to get rid of. Amy takes us ‘Out and About’ to the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pellegrini discussing how the markets are looking today. The show closes with Amy talking with ABC News national correspondent Jim Ryan speaking on the price of new cars soaring, so do delinquent car loans.
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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 (00:10):
Hi, Welcome to Midnight Fall.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's beautiful people.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Miss Midnight.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm Jill with a.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
G and we're with the La Haunted hay Ride.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And it's time for your morning wake up call with
a five o'clock straight up.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Midnight Falls. That's where the La Haunted hay Ride is set.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I didn't know that because I've never been, but this
week we're doing our boot preview.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
That's where we're going out and about.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
This is your wake up call for Thursday, October sixteenth.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Got my Dodger Blue on today and Will
has his Dodger cap on. We got Game three this
afternoon Dodger Stadium. Can't wait, ah wait, I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
You're gonna be there. I'm going to be up in
the sky above.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh that's right, you're flying over it.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
And you're going to be down in your fancy seats.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'll be down in my fancy expensive seats.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We're going to be there. So it's super excited about that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We got a little controversy bruin over the Marines two
hundred and fifty celebration. We'll tell you about that happening
at Camp Pendleton this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So much stuff going on, so let's get right to it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Here's what's ahead on wakeup called Tipega Canyon Boulevard has
reopened after a mud slide block the roadway.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The more than three.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Mile stretch of the road from Pacific Coast Higway to
Grand View Drive was shut down Yesterday's crews had to
clear the roadway.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Good news.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
They got it to cleared pretty quickly because they were
saying it would be closed indefinitely. For the ninth time,
the Senate has failed to pass a spending bill to
and the government shut down. The measure was voted down
yesterday after President Trump said he's gonna cut Democrat programs
and plans to release a full list of those targeted
programs tomorrow. ABC's Karen Traver's going to join us in
just a couple of minutes to see if there's any
(02:06):
sign that the shutdown might be coming to a close,
and also who's getting paid and who might get laid
off permanently. Ready to get all shook up. The Great
California Shakeout is this morning. More than ten million people
are expected to drop to their hands and knees, take cover,
and hold on until the shaking stops. The California Geological
Society said there are fifteen thousand earthquake faults in the
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state of California. We're going to do the drill during
Gary and Shannon's show this morning on CAFI. It happens
at ten sixteen. As I mentioned, we're going out and
about for our boot preview of a classic cont in La.
I've been driving by this place for years and have
never been so all aboard. We're checking out the La
Haunted Hay Ride that's coming up in about fifteen minutes.
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And if you've got an extra fifty thousand dollars sitting around,
you can buy a car.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But can you.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
ABC's Jim Ryan says, based on the number of delinquent
car loans, maybe you can't. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A federal grand jury has indicted the man
accused of starting what eventually became the Palisades Fire.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Jonathan Rinderneck, is charged in a three count indictment, one
count of destruction of property by means of fire, one
count of arson affecting property used in interstate commerce, and
one count of tender set of fire. If convicted as charged,
he could face between five and forty five years in
federal prison. He's expected to make his first appearance in
LA Federal Court in the coming weeks. Ailing Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Thirteen employees of La County been charged with fraudulently getting
unemployment benefits.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
The workers represent seven different county agencies and allegedly started
the unemployment fraud during the pandemic. LA County DA Nathan
Hofkman says while unemployment was boosted by the federal government
at the time, the county had to reimburse it.
Speaker 9 (03:55):
So this money actually came from the county itself to
county employees who are saying falsely that they were no
longer or had never been county employees.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
In total, the workers allegedly received more than four hundred
and thirty thousand dollars. They face up to three years
in state prison. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
The La City Council has approved using the city's trash
trucks to let people know their rights during the ongoing
immigration enforcement operations. The vote yesterday was thirteen nothing to
come up with a public awareness campaign. The effort is
expected to include informational stickers and posters that can be
attached on the sides of garbage trucks with know your
(04:37):
Rights messaging. The Marines say no public roadways are going
to be shut down as the Marine Corps celebrates its
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary at Camp Pendleton. Governor Newsom
has criticized the Trump administration over the celebration this weekend
and says there he might order a shutdown of the
five Freeway near the Marine base. The La Times is
(05:00):
that parts of the freeway could be closed beginning tomorrow
over concerns that Navy ships would fire live ordinance over
the freeway. The Marines say all training events will happen
unapproved training ranges and will meet established safety protocols. Vice
President in Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth are expected
to attend the Marine Corps anniversary celebration on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's five oh seven.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers at
the White House. So, Karen, the shutdown is in today's sixteen.
A lot of people not getting paid, but the President
says some government workers will be getting their paychecks.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Well, we knew that the military was going to get
paid yesterday. The administration had shifted eight billion dollars from research,
development and testing funds to cover paychecks the troops. Yesterday.
President said yesterday the FBI will get paid. He did
not indicate how that's going to happen. The White House
has not said how that is going to happen. So
we will see if that actually does play out. But
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the President was the FBI director when he made those comments,
and he was asked specifically about this. But there are
thousands and thousands of workers who are not getting paid,
you know, people who are on the job right now,
like PSA workers, air traffic controllers, and we're talking to
a lot of them, and they're certainly starting to feel
the pinch and the pain of this.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Okay, And.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Do we have any movement anywhere?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
No. They voted yesterday for the eight time I think
it was, and nope, ninth sorry to try to reopen
the government in the Senate, and it failed. They'll try
again today for the tenth time on what had already
passed in the House, that is of course expected to
not pass again. Sides are dug in. I mean, Democrats
aren't giving up their demands. Republicans are refusing to negotiate
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on those demands while the government is shut down. There's
just no indication where an off ramp would be.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Okay, And Karen, they're voting. Do you said they've voted
eight times they're expected to vote again today. Maybe they
voted nine times so far. They're just they keep voting
on the exact same thing, though they're not making any changes. Right,
it's the exact same bills. Both sides.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
They will know it's the Senate voting on the same thing.
The House has already passed this, right, but there isn't
here they've.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Right, but there's a there's the Continuing Resolution that's passed
by the House, and then the Democrats also have a
bill that they've put up. Is that correct they're voting
on two different bills or is it just the continuing resolution?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
So it's they I have to see if they've actually
even been voting on the Democratic one. But it's they're
voting on what the House had passed like, that's what
they're trying to get because the one that the House
did not pass, the Democratic Senate version, of course, because
they haven't gone forward on that. The Senate Republican leadership
is trying to put forward what has passed in the House.
(07:53):
The House has not been here for weeks at this point.
To shutdown. Is now on day sixteen. The Senate Republican
leadership up is saying, this is what has passed. This
will fund the government through that date in November, and
let's get this done. It has now failed nine.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Times, all right, and has anybody changed a vote? I mean,
does the vote count the same every time?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Every time?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It just seems like a big waste of time. It's like,
why even do it? That's my thought.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, all right, ABC's Karen Travers. We will continue to
follow this madness and see if anyone blinks.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Thank you, appreciate it, thank you, all right. It just
seems so.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Silly that they just keep voting on the same thing.
Nobody's changing, nobody's talking. Come on, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Hamas says it has handed over all
of the bodies of hostages that it can access. Only
nine of twenty eight remains expected under the ceasefire agreement
(08:57):
have been returned to Israel so far. Israel said yesterday
one of the bodies was not that of a hostage.
The Terror group says significant efforts and special equipment will
be needed to recover the remaining dead in Gaza. The
ongoing government shutdown has delayed the announcement of the annual
Social Security cost of living increase.
Speaker 10 (09:18):
This announcement is now set for October twenty fourth. It
was set to be announced yesterday. The delay effects millions
of beneficiaries who rely on these adjustments to plan their finances.
The Senior Citizens League and AARP are projecting a two
percent increase. Many retirees worry this won't cover rising costs.
Some lawmakers propose using a different index to calculate these increases,
(09:39):
since they don't factor in healthcare expenses. The agency plans
to notify recipients of their new benefits in December. Deborah
mark Koffive News Former Special Council Jack Smith has denied
accusations that his investigation into President Trump was politically motivated.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
The former Special Council defended the federal charges against Trump
in an interview with former prosecutor Andrew Weisman at University
College London, and asserted the idea that politics played a
role in who worked on that case or who got.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Chosen is ludicrous.
Speaker 11 (10:09):
Smith also expressed concern over the Trump administration's attacks unperceived
political enemies. Republican Congressman Jim Jordan has issued a letter
demanding that Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee. Mark
Mayfield Kofi News.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Temporary restraining orders blocking the deployment of National Guard troops
to Portland have been extended. A federal judge issued the
ruling yesterday, as the two orders were set to expire
this week. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is considering
a stay from the federal government that could allow the
troops to be deployed. The temporary restraining order has been
extended to October nineteenth, with the three day trials set
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for October twenty ninth. If the Court of Appeals rules
against the orders, they would be dissolved. Governor Jeff Laundry
says National Guard troops could be deployed to Louisiana as
soon as November dangerous city to drive in is not La.
We didn't even make the top ten.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
The study by Consumer Affairs used data from the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration to determine which cities were the
worst to drive in. Memphis came out on top, with
Knoxville at number two, Waterbury, Connecticut third, Aurora, Colorado, fourth, Tucson, Arizona, fifth,
and Kansas City, Missouri sixth. San Bernardino came in seventh. Billings, Montana,
Miami Gardens, Florida, and Charleston, South Carolina rounded out the
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top ten. The rankings were based on the number of
deaths related to crashes p one hundred thousand people. Memphis
has been number one the past three years. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
News see isn't it great to not be number one?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Finally? But San Bendino Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Hoity toity clubs are expanding to smaller cities.
Speaker 13 (11:45):
Private members only clubs like the Soho House in New
York and Los Angeles have catered to people in the
higher tax brackets looking for like minded others. The market
for the exclusive clubs has been expanding to mid sized
cities like Jacksonville, Florida, Bozeman, Montana, and Lexington, Kentucky, with
initiation fees and the thousands and monthly dues in the
hundreds two thousands. The Census Biro says high income people
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are moving more and more to the mid sized cities.
So the exclusive bennies like wine tastings, off the readings
and private restaurants give almost slice of the New York Apple,
even if it's not the big apple.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Michael Krozer KFI news.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Hey Gas is hitting the road today. Gary and Shannon
are taking their show to Huntington Beach. It's their latest
News and Bruise. It's happening from nine to one at
the Huntington Beach Bjys. It's on Beach Boulevard, Fun food Prizes.
I got to make it out to one of those
things they send these pictures. I mean, like hundreds of
people come out and everybody's having a good time. So
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it's News and Bruce with Gary and Shannon again at
the Bejys in Huntington Beach today from noon to one,
and the Great American Shakeout or the Great California Shakeout
happens at ten point fifteen tens sixteen to be precise,
and they're going to do it from there. So everybody
is going to have their beers practice an earthquake drill.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I bet that's going to be a party in and
out itself. Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
A resident of San Gabriel has come down with the
mosquito born case of danngay. Ella County Health officials say
this is the first case this year in the county.
The patient has no history of travel to areas where
dangay is commonly found and is said to be recovering.
Fourteen cases of dangay were reported last year in La County.
(13:26):
Authorities are looking for additional victims of a thirty year
old former USC grad student who is charged with drugging
and sexually assaulting three women. The man from China was
arrested back in August. He's accused of drugging women's food
or drinks and then assaulting them between twenty twenty one
and twenty four when he was studying at USC. The
Dodgers getting ready for Game three of the National League
(13:49):
Championship Series. The Boys in Blue are ahead of the
Brewers in the best of seven series two nothing. Two
more wins would send the team from La to the
World Series for a second straight year. Today's game at
Dodger Stadium set to start just after three. You can
hear all the Dodger games on our sister station k
LAC AM five seventy. This this week, we're going out and
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about to an iconic Halloween haunt in LA.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's the La.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Haunted hay Ride at Griffith Park and I've never been
to this one.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I've wanted to.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Go for years, but we got to catch up with
Jen Bendick with the Haunted hay Ride. So Jen tell
us about the frightening fun we'll find at the Haunted
hay Ride this year.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I can't believe, first of all, that you've never been here.
I know, how in the world have you missed this
iconic event that's been going on for seventeen years in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
I no a park.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's ridiculous and I like to thrive by on I
five and I go.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I gotta go to the.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Haunted hay Ride. Yeah, which is one of the reasons
we do are out and about the VOOP preview because
there's all these things going on and.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We kind of sort of sometimes forget about them.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, we want to bring them into the spot Yeah,
it's packed, So got the spotlights tonight.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Absolutely, we here in the town of Midnight Falls. We
are We have our iconic hay Ride, okay, and we
feature three mazes.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
So we have Elvira's takeover of Trick or Treat.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And that's a new one, the Ship.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Ye, that's the new that's the new maze this year.
So I don't know if you noticed there was a
house for sale in Midnight Falls. Yes, these are some
of our town characters here.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Do they live in midnight They all live in Midnight Falls,
and they wander around the ground.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
So they wander around the grounds, they take care of things.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They Yeah, that doesn't freak me out at all, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
So there was a house for sale in Midnight Falls
earlier this year, and it was purchased by none other
than Elvira herself.
Speaker 14 (15:47):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
So she has moved in. She's taken over Trick or Treat.
It's Elvira's Trick Treat mayhem, Okay. It is so fantastic
and so fun there are Elvira is all over the maze,
sot and then the scaring around this year has a
don't takeover, it's been it's a takeovernk her little dog
oh okay, yeah, So all of the horses are dressed
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up to look like her little dog and it's very adorable.
Then you move to the end of the block and
there's hell Billy and that is the Jasper family.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
They are absolutely terrifying, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
And every night they are on the hunt for a
victim that come out into town square with their chainsaws
and they go searching the grounds for the new victim.
They grab them and drag them back to the maze
where they are slaughtered.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Oh great, that sounds like fun for the whole family. Okay,
all right.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And then the hay ride itself, so you get on
the wagon and off you go.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Hay ride itself is absolutely fantastic. This year, we have
brought back some of our iconic scenes from years past. Okay,
if you remember the old hay ride, which you don't
because this is your first time here.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Because I'm just scared to do these. For those who
have been here.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
In the past, you will recognize some of the iconic scenes, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And then something else that's new this year is I
know we were talking about the food, and you've kind
of expanded the food offerings, so there's lots of things
like lots.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Of tasty treats this year.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Absolutely, the food is fantastic this year. We have themed
food booths throughout the entire park. So it really feels
like we are a Halloween festival.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
We are.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We are the Los Angeles Haunted hay Ride and Halloween Festival,
and it really does feel like that. You know, you're
on the grounds with the trees and it's so beautiful,
hey in the fall, and it's just it's a really
really nice way to celebrate the season.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Beautiful and spooky. So tell us when it is open
and where we get tickets.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Absolutely, so you can get your tickets at Los Angeles
Haunted Hayride dot com easy. We are open until November second,
select nights, so we're going to start to go into
those long weekends.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Okay, and get tickets early because you do sell out sometimes.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
We absolutely do sell out timeslots will sell out. The
event is open at seven pm every night that we
are open, so no matter what time slot you have,
you could still get here at seven and I recommend
it because that is when our opening Scaramonies takes place. Okay,
don't want to miss that all right, So again, if
you have a ten PM ticket still get here at
seven o'clock, right when the door's open at six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Five, because you can go and you can get yourself
scared and then you can get scared again.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You can if I get some food, you can get
some treats. You can go to our immersive cider mill. Okay,
it's really it's a it's adorable and the cider hot
apple cider and a donut. It's delicious, sounds delicious, and Jen,
I think that.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
We should kind of go in.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All right, let's do it, all right?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Are you going into the Pumpkin Tunnel? Are you brave
enough for now?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I'm gonna I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I'm going to do it all right, Jen Bendick, thank
you so much. Of course, the La Haunted hay Ride,
that's where we're out and about for our Boo preview
this week.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Come on, let's go. It was a lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun, and you can check
it out.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I'm going to post it on my Instagram at Amy
K King. It'll also be posted at KFI AM six
forty And of course I would invite you to follow me.
I would love that, but we give you a little
sneak peek at what it looks like. And it was
very cool though, and I love that there's the haunted
hay Ride, which is the iconic thing, and then also
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three scare houses. And Jen told me that, like the Alvira,
one is not super scary. There's some stuff, there's some
jump scares and stuff like that, but it's not super scary.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'm getting so brave. I didn't two at Dark Harbor too.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
That one actually looked really scary.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay, so there's one more that I'm looking at you guys,
and I want to tell you about it because I
don't know that I could do it. There are some
people from seventeenth Floor. I don't know if you've heard
of this one. I believe it's in downtown LA. And
they were listening and they said, hey, we heard so
you went to Dark Harbor. You want to come to
seventeenth floor. And I'm like, oh my gosh, that sounds great.
I'm so tough now and I can do these these
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haunted houses.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Well.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Then I reached out to Nick Poliochini, who is mister Halloween.
Oh yeah, and he said, oh no, that's not for you, Amy.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And then I was just talking to producer and and
she was telling me some of the stuff that they do.
And I know people love to be scared, and good ONNYA.
I don't think I can do this to talk to
them a little bit more, but it sounds terrifying, like
really terrifying. So anyway, seventeenth floor, go check it out.
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If you like to be scared, that one might be
the one for you. And like I said, I'm going
to see if we can set up an interview with them.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know that I can go through there.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
May so okay anyway at Amy K King on Instagram
and also we're going to post it at KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That was our BOO preview. A lot of fun. Go
check out the La Haunted Hay Ride.
Speaker 15 (20:32):
You start looking at San Francisco. I think we can
make San Francisco. There's one of our great cities ten
years ago, fifteen years ago, and now it's a mess.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
President Trump said San Francisco could be next on his
list of cities where he plans to send National Guard troops.
Speaker 15 (20:46):
I think we can make San Francisco. There's one of
our great cities ten years ago, fifteen years ago, and
now it's a mess, and we have great support in
San Francisco, so I'd like to recommend that for inclusion.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
San Francisco mayor and the District Attorney have responded to
the President's suggestion.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
They say they have the local situation.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Under control and can handle any challenges themselves. A man
from Long Beach has been sentenced to eight years in
prison for driving to Arizona to pick up a fourteen
year old runaway he met on the internet. Prosecutor say
Trayvon Langstaff took the teen across state lines to his apartment,
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where he had sex with her. Lang Staff pleaded guilty
last year. In Los Angeles Federal Court LAPED is trying
to find more possible victims of a former USC grad
student accused of being a serial rapist. Deputy Chief Alan
Hamilton says c Hey Wang is a thirty year old
Chinese national who was arrested in late August.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Evidence was recovered at Wang's residents that corroborated his involvement
in drug facilitated sexual assaults of multiple victims dating back
to twenty twenty one and continuing to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Police say they were tipped off about Wang by German authorities,
but they didn't give details. He pleaded not guilty to
charge his last month long beach. Health officials investigating an
unusual case of EMPOS. Officials say a resident has a
more severe strain of empocs, the first known case of
the disease in the country involving a patient that doesn't
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have any history of travel. The person is isolated and
recovering at home. A new mom in Tennessee just had
a record breaking baby.
Speaker 14 (22:33):
Shelthy Martin says she knew something was different during her
third pregnancy. Her baby was so large he was literally
pushing her hip out of its socket. Baby Cassian weighed
a stunning twelve pounds fourteen ounces, the biggest baby ever
born at TriStar Centennial Women's Hospital in Nashville. She says
doctors gasped when he arrived. Cassian spent ten days in
(22:55):
the NIKU with glucose issues, but is now healthy and thriving.
Brookerk Cafi news.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, that just sounds painful.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
No get her hip out of its joint, Oh my goodness.
A federal grand jury in LA has indicted a former
Pacific Palisades resident for allegedly starting the fire on New
Years that a week later became the deadly Palisades Fire.
Twenty nine year old Jonathan Rinderneck, who was arrested last
week in Florida, is now charged with destruction of property, arson,
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and setting timber on fire. Members of the US military
have received their paychecks this week despite the government shutdown.
The White House released a memo from President Trump directing
the Pentagon to use unspent funds to pay the military.
Those funds will be replenished once the shutdown ends. Speaker
Mike Johnson warned that the move was a temporary fix.
Governor Newsom assigned a law increasing child car safety regulations.
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Kids between eight and sixteen will now have to pass
a five step check to make sure they're using their
seat belts properly if they don't have a booster seat.
If drivers they don't pass the test, they could face
fines of almost five hundred dollars. Children under eight or
under four foot nine still have to use those booster seats.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news, the
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Trump administration has been blocked again from firing people. Bill's
get a weigh in on that got my Dodger blue
on and I'm ready for the big game this afternoon
as the Dodgers return to Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers are
up two games to none over the Milwaukee Brewers. And
if the Dodgers win today and tomorrow, they advanced to
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the World Series. Wouldn't that be nice? If they lose
one of the games, then we'll play again on Saturday,
still at Dodger Stadium. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Brewers.
It is Game three. First pitch goes out at three
to eight. And you can listen to all the Dodger
games on A five seventy LA Sports and stream all
the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app. It's a
great way to listen to a game. Keyword is AM
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five to seventy LA Sports. Get your game day meal
at Shakey's Pizza Parlor.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh God, I love Shakey's.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Order your Shaky's Pizza, Chicken and Moojo's Noow at Shaky's
dot Com. Here's what's coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The Port of La says it has
had its busiest quarter ever.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
The record was buoyed by July and August. In September,
there was actually more than a seven percent drop in
traffic compared to a year ago. Port's CEO Jen Soroca
says domestic trade policy is affecting what goes out of
the country.
Speaker 13 (25:24):
The agriculture sector is bearing the brunt of the trade conflict,
and although there are discussions about a relief package, that
may not be a long term solution.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Soroca says he's also worried about new tariffs on China,
especially on ships and machinery, since so many at the
port come from that country. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Bay County DA's office has announced charges against thirteen county
employees accused of unemployment fraud. DA Nathan Hochman says the
workers lied about being unemployed while they were still working
full time for the county.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
These thirteen individuals certified somewhere between a low of ten
of these certifications up to over fifty of these certifications
every two weeks to continue this sort of illegal siphoning
of money.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
He says.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The fraud happened between twenty twenty and twenty three. The
workers represent seven different county agencies and are accused of
fraudulently accepting more than four hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They face up to three years in state prison.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Restaurants in California will be the first in the nation
required to list food allergens on menus.
Speaker 16 (26:29):
Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Allergen Disclosure for Dining Experiences
Act this week. It requires restaurants in twenty twenty six
with twenty or more locations nationally to disclose the top
nine allergens on their menus. Those ingredients are milk, eggs, peanuts,
tree nettes, fish, shellfish, wheat, soy, and sesame. The California
Restaurant Association says it's concerned about the costs for businesses.
(26:50):
The nonprofit group Food Allergy Research and Education says the
law will help protect people with food allergies.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
I'm Sharon reardan.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Kind of interesting. A lot of restaurants are already doing it.
I know at Disneyland there's allergens listed everywhere.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Everywhere we went in Italy, every menu had like every
single allergy and it was a big thing there.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, I think that's probably a good thing, because anaphylactic
shock is no fun all right. Time to get in
your business with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, Denise, we got a
lot to get to today, so let's try to power
through these and start with China's being blamed for a
massive cipher attack.
Speaker 17 (27:24):
Yeah, we have sources telling us Amy that Chinese hackers
access classified UK computer systems for more than a decade
and also access confidential government documents, private communication IT networks
as well. China calls the accusations vilifications. Separately, sources say
Amy that hackers gained long term, persistent access to systems
(27:44):
of the Seattle based cybersecurity company F five. Hackers were
in F five's network for at least twelve months before
they realized the same.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And they're a hacking place.
Speaker 17 (27:58):
So yeah, cyber security company, and now all their customers
could be targeted.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
They're the nerve center. They went right for it. That's
interesting and at that's scared.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They didn't discover it, a cybersecurity place, didn't discover it
for twelve.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Months, Okay, maybe more than Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
A lot of folks looking for work or extra work
on the holidays.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Job platform.
Speaker 17 (28:20):
Indeed, Aby says search es for seasonal jobs rose twenty
seven percent at the end of September compared to a
year go, and search fifty percent from twenty twenty three.
Got to say, though, for some people, this isn't new.
I worked the overnight holiday shift at the post office
one year between high school and college. Almost all the
other people working that overnight shift, full time overnight shift
had day jobs as teachers, bus drivers, you name it
(28:43):
as well, working two jobs. So that's not new for
a lot of folks.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Got to get that extra cash for the holidays.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, K Pop Demon Hunters they did about what about
a month ago, they did a weekend sing along in theaters,
and now they're doing it again in.
Speaker 17 (29:00):
Yeah, it's a Halloween theme to sing along now though,
it'll be it, and it'll be at all three major
US chains a mc regal cinema on Halloween weekend. And
by the way, I mean, if you're thinking about going,
costumes are encouraged. I bet you've been working on your
version of Golden singing it.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't sing in public at all, Denise, nobody, nobody
likes it when I do.
Speaker 17 (29:24):
Trader Joe's is being sued by Smuckers Yeah, over its uncrustables,
saying their copycat Smuckers says the round Crustaliss sandwiches. The
Trader joe Cells have the same pie like crimp markings
on their edges that Uncrustables do. I was thinking about it, though,
I know you like Reese's peanut butter cups, so wouldn't
I look this up?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 17 (29:44):
You know, Trader Joe's has great peanut butter cups. They
so does Whole Foods, and they make like a dark
chocolate version, but they're really careful to put it in
a very different kind of packaging than.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Does hey trademark stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That's that's that's nothing to mess with, right, and don't
mess with my peanut buttercups because I love them, and
I like Trader Joe's has a dark chocolate version. It's
kind of a nice, nice change too. Jack in the
Box is selling Del Taco.
Speaker 17 (30:12):
They are, and this is interesting. Of course, there are
hundreds of them in California, right that Del Taco that
is The buyer is yadav Enterprises. It's an all cash
deal worth one hundred and fifteen million dollars there in
twenty three other states besides California.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
The deal is expected to close in January.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Okay, and then one last one. A couple of billionaires
are two of the investors who are backing a healthcare
company with a new way to treat tumors.
Speaker 17 (30:40):
Yeah, they want to treat cancerous tumors using sound waves.
And the two billionaires you mentioned involved Peter Teal and
Jeff Bezos and their company or Teal Bio and Bezos
Bezos Expeditions. They'll use a fresh two hundred and fifty
million dollar investment to expand the applications of its ultrasound
therapy devices to target growth in other areas including breast,
(31:02):
prostate and pancreas cancers. This is really kind of breaking technology.
Anytime you see companies pouring money into this, it's probably
a good thing for consumers, especially it's the very ProMED
ones or suffering from this.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Absolutely, okay, getting in your business like we do every
day at five forty with Denise Pellegrini.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Thanks so much, pleasure real all right.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Governor Newsom says he may call for a stretch of
the five between Orange and San Diego Counties to be
shut down. It would be because of the Marine Corps
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration that's happening Saturday at
Camp Pendleton. The La Times the same parts of the
freeway could be closed because of live ammo being fired
from ships that would affect up to eighty thousand people
(31:49):
who drive between San Diego and LA every day. The
Marines say no public highways or transportation routes are scheduled
to be closed. San Francisco leaders in law enforcement have
come out against President Trump's suggestion that he might send
federal troops to the city. Officials say they can handle
the city's challenges on their own. Salesforce's CEO and Elon
Muska both come out this week saying the city needs
(32:10):
National Guard troops to help fight drugs and crime in
the city. The number of homes sold in LA is up.
The California Association of Realters says sales were up five
percent from August to September and are up six point
six percent compared to last September. The median price for
a single family home in the state fell one point
seven percent to eight hundred eighty three thousand, four hundred
(32:34):
and fifty dollars. We're just a couple of minutes away
from Handle on the news. The Trump administration has been
blocked again. They're trying to fire workers. A judge says, no,
let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim
want a new car, it's gonna cost you. Oh, no,
(32:55):
fifty thousand dollars is the average price for a new car.
Speaker 18 (32:58):
Fifty thousand dollars was crazy. Fifty eighty is actually the number.
Oh okay, probably since I started talking. It's gone up
from that. Yeah, it's it's gone up quite dramatically in
just the last couple of years. I mean, prices have
been rising gradually for the last several decades, the price
of a new car, but they've got a pretty dramatically
(33:19):
in the last couple of years for a few reasons. First,
you've got to let technology packed into their right there.
The cars are safer and more fun to drive because
of all that stuff, the electronics and all the tariffs
have helped to push up the price of important cars.
And then you had the expiration of the EV credit,
the seventy five hundred dollars that you could get just
(33:40):
for buying an electric vehicle that's expired now, so that's
pushed up the average price as well. So ball it
all up, put it in the on the chats seats,
and you've got FI eighty dollars.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That is just that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And then the other thing that I know we were
talking to Joelar's Card about this is because of the
skyrocketing car price is people are getting even longer loans,
Like it was used to be very standard to get
a forty eight month maybe a sixty month loan, so
either four or five years, but now they're extending into
like seven years.
Speaker 18 (34:11):
Yeah, And the average interest rate on a sixty month
new car loan in August was seven point six percent.
Four years ago was four point six percent. But they've
been going up and down lately, you know, the interest rates,
and so you know, maybe time if you want to
get rid of your car, if you want to refinance
your car or buy a new one, to start shopping
(34:33):
around for loans because you may be able to.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Get a little better rate, like how much better?
Speaker 18 (34:40):
Not a whole lot better, but it's a little better
because you never know what's going to happen next month.
They could go up again, and they could go up
from there, they could drop it, and it's a gamble
really to try to pick and if you can get
a loan that will let you adjust at one time
after a couple of months. If the rates do go down,
you can go ahead and do that. But parting issue
is that, you know, we're so craving the next big thing.
(35:04):
We're so addicted that new car smell, that people are
willing to rush out now and buy a brand new car,
even if they still owe on their old car. Right
And last month, twenty eight point one percent of cars
that were traded in the owner owed more than the.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Car was worth.
Speaker 18 (35:22):
In other words, those cars are underwater, the notes are underwater.
That's that's the highest it's been in the last four years,
you know, And and the amount they owe is at
a record sixty nine hundred dollars on average. For those
folks taking a car into trade, might as well tack
that onto the price of that new car.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Are people doing that?
Speaker 5 (35:41):
They are, Oh yeah, so you.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Can write the loan for more than the car, so
you can pay off the old line.
Speaker 18 (35:47):
Well, they're going to roll that in, aren't they. They going
to take that to the six grand you still owe,
and they'll tack that onto the price of the new car.
So that fifty thousand eighty dollars car is going to
be fifty six thousand and eighty dollars potentially, and then.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
What if you have bad credit, You're going to.
Speaker 18 (36:03):
Pay much more than that. And you're talking about big
time of subprime loans that will cost you much more
to try to finance a car. You know, there are
ways to get around it. You know, you can refinance
your loan, try to wait and time it so that
rates are down, and refinance it just the way you
would with your home mortgage. You can make bigger payments,
same as you would with your home mortgage. Yeah, you know,
(36:25):
if you're paying five to fifteen months, why not pay
you six hundred a month. That'll get the thing paid
off more quickly. Or you can just maybe hold your
nose and not crave that new car smell. Just write
it out until you pay off your car and then
walk into that dealership with this, with the equity.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
That you have, go to the car wash, and when
you get the air freshener package, ask them for the
new car smell.
Speaker 18 (36:49):
Do they make that come?
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Really?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Absolutely? I think that's a that's a better.
Speaker 18 (36:56):
You can get pine, you can get orange, yeah, the
really nasty smell where you can get new cars? Okay?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Absolutely? Okay, nice ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 18 (37:04):
Thank you know what most of that new car smell is, right,
it's the formaldehyde in the carpet in the uphol stream.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Oh, but it smells so good, he does.
Speaker 18 (37:12):
I know, it's great.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
It's ridiculous. All right, Thanks Jim Ryan. We'll talk to
you again soon.
Speaker 12 (37:18):
See.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Hey, all right, let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Southern California is getting ready for the latest Great California Shakeout.
It is part of an international Shakeout Day. Millions of
people in the state are expected to drop cover and
hold on at ten sixteen this morning. We'll be participating
in that right here at CAFI. The goal is to
(37:40):
teach people how to reduce injuries in the event of
a real earthquake. The Geological Survey says that there are
fifteen thousand fault lines in California. Okay and Gary Shannon,
they're on location today at at BJ's in Huntington Beach
and they're going to do the shakeout from there too.
So that's going to be a party. But to ten sixteen,
(38:03):
get ready to drop cover and hold on. Public health
officials in La County have confirmed the first local case
of mosquito born danngay fever this year.
Speaker 7 (38:12):
The patient is a San Gabriel Valley resident with no
history of travel to areas where dingy is endemic. The
man developed symptoms in September and is now recovering. People
infected with the virus can develop flu like symptoms, while
severe cases can be life threatening. Preventing mosquito bikes and
mosquito breeding is the best way to stop transmission of dinghy.
Experts recommend using insect repellent, removing standing water around your home,
(38:35):
and using window and door screens to prevent mosquitos from entering.
Aileen Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Britney Spears is firing back at her ex Kevin Fetterline
It's Britney.
Speaker 14 (38:45):
In his new memoir You Thought You Knew, Kevin Federline
claims he feared for he and Spears' sons, describing disturbing
late night encounters involving Spears. Her rep tells People Magazine,
not Kevin and others are profiting off of her again
just after him do child support ended Fears, who detailed
her own struggles in her book, The Woman in Me,
says her only concern is her Son's Well Being Betterlines
(39:07):
book hits shelves October twenty first, at the Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I can't believe she said the B word before six am.
This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
If you missed any wake up call, you can listen
anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake
Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear
wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday
on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on
the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hi, Welcome to Midnight Fall.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's beautiful people.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Miss Midnight.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'm Jill with a.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
G and we're with the La Haunted hay Ride.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And it's time for your morning wake up call with
a five o'clock straight up.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Midnight Falls. That's where the La Haunted hay Ride is set.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I didn't know that because I've never been, but this
week we're doing our boot preview.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
That's where we're going out and about.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
This is your wake up call for Thursday, October sixteenth.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Got my Dodger Blue on today and Will
has his Dodger cap on. We got Game three this
afternoon Dodger Stadium. Can't wait, ah wait, I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
You're gonna be there. I'm going to be up in
the sky above.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh that's right, you're flying over it.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
And you're going to be down in your fancy seats.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'll be down in my fancy expensive seats.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
We're going to be there. So it's super excited about that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
We got a little controversy bruin over the Marines two
hundred and fifty celebration. We'll tell you about that happening
at Camp Pendleton this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So much stuff going on, so let's get right to it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Here's what's ahead on wakeup called Tipega Canyon Boulevard has
reopened after a mud slide block the roadway.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The more than three.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Mile stretch of the road from Pacific Coast Higway to
Grand View Drive was shut down Yesterday's crews had to
clear the roadway.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Good news.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
They got it to cleared pretty quickly because they were
saying it would be closed indefinitely. For the ninth time,
the Senate has failed to pass a spending bill to
and the government shut down. The measure was voted down
yesterday after President Trump said he's gonna cut Democrat programs
and plans to release a full list of those targeted
programs tomorrow. ABC's Karen Traver's going to join us in
just a couple of minutes to see if there's any
(02:06):
sign that the shutdown might be coming to a close,
and also who's getting paid and who might get laid
off permanently. Ready to get all shook up. The Great
California Shakeout is this morning. More than ten million people
are expected to drop to their hands and knees, take cover,
and hold on until the shaking stops. The California Geological
Society said there are fifteen thousand earthquake faults in the
(02:29):
state of California. We're going to do the drill during
Gary and Shannon's show this morning on CAFI. It happens
at ten sixteen. As I mentioned, we're going out and
about for our boot preview of a classic cont in La.
I've been driving by this place for years and have
never been so all aboard. We're checking out the La
Haunted Hay Ride that's coming up in about fifteen minutes.
(02:51):
And if you've got an extra fifty thousand dollars sitting around,
you can buy a car.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But can you.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
ABC's Jim Ryan says, based on the number of delinquent
car loans, maybe you can't. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A federal grand jury has indicted the man
accused of starting what eventually became the Palisades Fire.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Jonathan Rinderneck, is charged in a three count indictment, one
count of destruction of property by means of fire, one
count of arson affecting property used in interstate commerce, and
one count of tender set of fire. If convicted as charged,
he could face between five and forty five years in
federal prison. He's expected to make his first appearance in
LA Federal Court in the coming weeks. Ailing Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Thirteen employees of La County been charged with fraudulently getting
unemployment benefits.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
The workers represent seven different county agencies and allegedly started
the unemployment fraud during the pandemic. LA County DA Nathan
Hofkman says while unemployment was boosted by the federal government
at the time, the county had to reimburse it.
Speaker 9 (03:55):
So this money actually came from the county itself to
county employees who are saying falsely that they were no
longer or had never been county employees.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
In total, the workers allegedly received more than four hundred
and thirty thousand dollars. They face up to three years
in state prison. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
The La City Council has approved using the city's trash
trucks to let people know their rights during the ongoing
immigration enforcement operations. The vote yesterday was thirteen nothing to
come up with a public awareness campaign. The effort is
expected to include informational stickers and posters that can be
attached on the sides of garbage trucks with know your
(04:37):
Rights messaging. The Marines say no public roadways are going
to be shut down as the Marine Corps celebrates its
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary at Camp Pendleton. Governor Newsom
has criticized the Trump administration over the celebration this weekend
and says there he might order a shutdown of the
five Freeway near the Marine base. The La Times is
(05:00):
that parts of the freeway could be closed beginning tomorrow
over concerns that Navy ships would fire live ordinance over
the freeway. The Marines say all training events will happen
unapproved training ranges and will meet established safety protocols. Vice
President in Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth are expected
to attend the Marine Corps anniversary celebration on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's five oh seven.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers at
the White House. So, Karen, the shutdown is in today's sixteen.
A lot of people not getting paid, but the President
says some government workers will be getting their paychecks.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Well, we knew that the military was going to get
paid yesterday. The administration had shifted eight billion dollars from research,
development and testing funds to cover paychecks the troops. Yesterday.
President said yesterday the FBI will get paid. He did
not indicate how that's going to happen. The White House
has not said how that is going to happen. So
we will see if that actually does play out. But
(05:59):
the President was the FBI director when he made those comments,
and he was asked specifically about this. But there are
thousands and thousands of workers who are not getting paid,
you know, people who are on the job right now,
like PSA workers, air traffic controllers, and we're talking to
a lot of them, and they're certainly starting to feel
the pinch and the pain of this.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Okay, And.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Do we have any movement anywhere?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
No. They voted yesterday for the eight time I think
it was, and nope, ninth sorry to try to reopen
the government in the Senate, and it failed. They'll try
again today for the tenth time on what had already
passed in the House, that is of course expected to
not pass again. Sides are dug in. I mean, Democrats
aren't giving up their demands. Republicans are refusing to negotiate
(06:48):
on those demands while the government is shut down. There's
just no indication where an off ramp would be.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Okay, And Karen, they're voting. Do you said they've voted
eight times they're expected to vote again today. Maybe they
voted nine times so far. They're just they keep voting
on the exact same thing, though they're not making any changes. Right,
it's the exact same bills. Both sides.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
They will know it's the Senate voting on the same thing.
The House has already passed this, right, but there isn't
here they've.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Right, but there's a there's the Continuing Resolution that's passed
by the House, and then the Democrats also have a
bill that they've put up. Is that correct they're voting
on two different bills or is it just the continuing resolution?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
So it's they I have to see if they've actually
even been voting on the Democratic one. But it's they're
voting on what the House had passed like, that's what
they're trying to get because the one that the House
did not pass, the Democratic Senate version, of course, because
they haven't gone forward on that. The Senate Republican leadership
is trying to put forward what has passed in the House.
(07:53):
The House has not been here for weeks at this point.
To shutdown. Is now on day sixteen. The Senate Republican
leadership up is saying, this is what has passed. This
will fund the government through that date in November, and
let's get this done. It has now failed nine.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Times, all right, and has anybody changed a vote? I mean,
does the vote count the same every time?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Every time?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It just seems like a big waste of time. It's like,
why even do it? That's my thought.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, all right, ABC's Karen Travers. We will continue to
follow this madness and see if anyone blinks.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Thank you, appreciate it, thank you, all right. It just
seems so.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Silly that they just keep voting on the same thing.
Nobody's changing, nobody's talking. Come on, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Hamas says it has handed over all
of the bodies of hostages that it can access. Only
nine of twenty eight remains expected under the ceasefire agreement
(08:57):
have been returned to Israel so far. Israel said yesterday
one of the bodies was not that of a hostage.
The Terror group says significant efforts and special equipment will
be needed to recover the remaining dead in Gaza. The
ongoing government shutdown has delayed the announcement of the annual
Social Security cost of living increase.
Speaker 10 (09:18):
This announcement is now set for October twenty fourth. It
was set to be announced yesterday. The delay effects millions
of beneficiaries who rely on these adjustments to plan their finances.
The Senior Citizens League and AARP are projecting a two
percent increase. Many retirees worry this won't cover rising costs.
Some lawmakers propose using a different index to calculate these increases,
(09:39):
since they don't factor in healthcare expenses. The agency plans
to notify recipients of their new benefits in December. Deborah
mark Koffive News Former Special Council Jack Smith has denied
accusations that his investigation into President Trump was politically motivated.
Speaker 11 (09:55):
The former Special Council defended the federal charges against Trump
in an interview with former prosecutor Andrew Weisman at University
College London, and asserted the idea that politics played a
role in who worked on that case or who got.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Chosen is ludicrous.
Speaker 11 (10:09):
Smith also expressed concern over the Trump administration's attacks unperceived
political enemies. Republican Congressman Jim Jordan has issued a letter
demanding that Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee. Mark
Mayfield Kofi News.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Temporary restraining orders blocking the deployment of National Guard troops
to Portland have been extended. A federal judge issued the
ruling yesterday, as the two orders were set to expire
this week. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is considering
a stay from the federal government that could allow the
troops to be deployed. The temporary restraining order has been
extended to October nineteenth, with the three day trials set
(10:46):
for October twenty ninth. If the Court of Appeals rules
against the orders, they would be dissolved. Governor Jeff Laundry
says National Guard troops could be deployed to Louisiana as
soon as November dangerous city to drive in is not La.
We didn't even make the top ten.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
The study by Consumer Affairs used data from the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration to determine which cities were the
worst to drive in. Memphis came out on top, with
Knoxville at number two, Waterbury, Connecticut third, Aurora, Colorado, fourth, Tucson, Arizona, fifth,
and Kansas City, Missouri sixth. San Bernardino came in seventh. Billings, Montana,
Miami Gardens, Florida, and Charleston, South Carolina rounded out the
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top ten. The rankings were based on the number of
deaths related to crashes p one hundred thousand people. Memphis
has been number one the past three years. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
News see isn't it great to not be number one?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Finally? But San Bendino Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Hoity toity clubs are expanding to smaller cities.
Speaker 13 (11:45):
Private members only clubs like the Soho House in New
York and Los Angeles have catered to people in the
higher tax brackets looking for like minded others. The market
for the exclusive clubs has been expanding to mid sized
cities like Jacksonville, Florida, Bozeman, Montana, and Lexington, Kentucky, with
initiation fees and the thousands and monthly dues in the
hundreds two thousands. The Census Biro says high income people
(12:06):
are moving more and more to the mid sized cities.
So the exclusive bennies like wine tastings, off the readings
and private restaurants give almost slice of the New York Apple,
even if it's not the big apple.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Michael Krozer KFI news.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Hey Gas is hitting the road today. Gary and Shannon
are taking their show to Huntington Beach. It's their latest
News and Bruise. It's happening from nine to one at
the Huntington Beach Bjys. It's on Beach Boulevard, Fun food Prizes.
I got to make it out to one of those
things they send these pictures. I mean, like hundreds of
people come out and everybody's having a good time. So
(12:42):
it's News and Bruce with Gary and Shannon again at
the Bejys in Huntington Beach today from noon to one,
and the Great American Shakeout or the Great California Shakeout
happens at ten point fifteen tens sixteen to be precise,
and they're going to do it from there. So everybody
is going to have their beers practice an earthquake drill.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I bet that's going to be a party in and
out itself. Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
A resident of San Gabriel has come down with the
mosquito born case of danngay. Ella County Health officials say
this is the first case this year in the county.
The patient has no history of travel to areas where
dangay is commonly found and is said to be recovering.
Fourteen cases of dangay were reported last year in La County.
(13:26):
Authorities are looking for additional victims of a thirty year
old former USC grad student who is charged with drugging
and sexually assaulting three women. The man from China was
arrested back in August. He's accused of drugging women's food
or drinks and then assaulting them between twenty twenty one
and twenty four when he was studying at USC. The
Dodgers getting ready for Game three of the National League
(13:49):
Championship Series. The Boys in Blue are ahead of the
Brewers in the best of seven series two nothing. Two
more wins would send the team from La to the
World Series for a second straight year. Today's game at
Dodger Stadium set to start just after three. You can
hear all the Dodger games on our sister station k
LAC AM five seventy. This this week, we're going out and
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about to an iconic Halloween haunt in LA.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's the La.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Haunted hay Ride at Griffith Park and I've never been
to this one.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I've wanted to.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Go for years, but we got to catch up with
Jen Bendick with the Haunted hay Ride. So Jen tell
us about the frightening fun we'll find at the Haunted
hay Ride this year.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I can't believe, first of all, that you've never been here.
I know, how in the world have you missed this
iconic event that's been going on for seventeen years in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
I no a park.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's ridiculous and I like to thrive by on I
five and I go.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I gotta go to the.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Haunted hay Ride. Yeah, which is one of the reasons
we do are out and about the VOOP preview because
there's all these things going on and.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We kind of sort of sometimes forget about them.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, we want to bring them into the spot Yeah,
it's packed, So got the spotlights tonight.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Absolutely, we here in the town of Midnight Falls. We
are We have our iconic hay Ride, okay, and we
feature three mazes.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
So we have Elvira's takeover of Trick or Treat.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And that's a new one, the Ship.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Ye, that's the new that's the new maze this year.
So I don't know if you noticed there was a
house for sale in Midnight Falls. Yes, these are some
of our town characters here.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Do they live in midnight They all live in Midnight Falls,
and they wander around the ground.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
So they wander around the grounds, they take care of things.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They Yeah, that doesn't freak me out at all, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
So there was a house for sale in Midnight Falls
earlier this year, and it was purchased by none other
than Elvira herself.
Speaker 14 (15:47):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
So she has moved in. She's taken over Trick or Treat.
It's Elvira's Trick Treat mayhem, Okay. It is so fantastic
and so fun there are Elvira is all over the maze,
sot and then the scaring around this year has a
don't takeover, it's been it's a takeovernk her little dog
oh okay, yeah, So all of the horses are dressed
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up to look like her little dog and it's very adorable.
Then you move to the end of the block and
there's hell Billy and that is the Jasper family.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
They are absolutely terrifying, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
And every night they are on the hunt for a
victim that come out into town square with their chainsaws
and they go searching the grounds for the new victim.
They grab them and drag them back to the maze
where they are slaughtered.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Oh great, that sounds like fun for the whole family. Okay,
all right.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And then the hay ride itself, so you get on
the wagon and off you go.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Hay ride itself is absolutely fantastic. This year, we have
brought back some of our iconic scenes from years past. Okay,
if you remember the old hay ride, which you don't
because this is your first time here.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Because I'm just scared to do these. For those who
have been here.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
In the past, you will recognize some of the iconic scenes, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And then something else that's new this year is I
know we were talking about the food, and you've kind
of expanded the food offerings, so there's lots of things
like lots.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Of tasty treats this year.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Absolutely, the food is fantastic this year. We have themed
food booths throughout the entire park. So it really feels
like we are a Halloween festival.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
We are.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We are the Los Angeles Haunted hay Ride and Halloween Festival,
and it really does feel like that. You know, you're
on the grounds with the trees and it's so beautiful,
hey in the fall, and it's just it's a really
really nice way to celebrate the season.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Beautiful and spooky. So tell us when it is open
and where we get tickets.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Absolutely, so you can get your tickets at Los Angeles
Haunted Hayride dot com easy. We are open until November second,
select nights, so we're going to start to go into
those long weekends.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Okay, and get tickets early because you do sell out sometimes.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
We absolutely do sell out timeslots will sell out. The
event is open at seven pm every night that we
are open, so no matter what time slot you have,
you could still get here at seven and I recommend
it because that is when our opening Scaramonies takes place. Okay,
don't want to miss that all right, So again, if
you have a ten PM ticket still get here at
seven o'clock, right when the door's open at six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Five, because you can go and you can get yourself
scared and then you can get scared again.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You can if I get some food, you can get
some treats. You can go to our immersive cider mill. Okay,
it's really it's a it's adorable and the cider hot
apple cider and a donut. It's delicious, sounds delicious, and Jen,
I think that.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
We should kind of go in.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
All right, let's do it, all right?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Are you going into the Pumpkin Tunnel? Are you brave
enough for now?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I'm gonna I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I'm going to do it all right, Jen Bendick, thank
you so much. Of course, the La Haunted hay Ride,
that's where we're out and about for our Boo preview
this week.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Come on, let's go. It was a lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun, and you can check
it out.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I'm going to post it on my Instagram at Amy
K King. It'll also be posted at KFI AM six
forty And of course I would invite you to follow me.
I would love that, but we give you a little
sneak peek at what it looks like. And it was
very cool though, and I love that there's the haunted
hay Ride, which is the iconic thing, and then also
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three scare houses. And Jen told me that, like the Alvira,
one is not super scary. There's some stuff, there's some
jump scares and stuff like that, but it's not super scary.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'm getting so brave. I didn't two at Dark Harbor too.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
That one actually looked really scary.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay, so there's one more that I'm looking at you guys,
and I want to tell you about it because I
don't know that I could do it. There are some
people from seventeenth Floor. I don't know if you've heard
of this one. I believe it's in downtown LA. And
they were listening and they said, hey, we heard so
you went to Dark Harbor. You want to come to
seventeenth floor. And I'm like, oh my gosh, that sounds great.
I'm so tough now and I can do these these
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haunted houses.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Well.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Then I reached out to Nick Poliochini, who is mister Halloween.
Oh yeah, and he said, oh no, that's not for you, Amy.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And then I was just talking to producer and and
she was telling me some of the stuff that they do.
And I know people love to be scared, and good ONNYA.
I don't think I can do this to talk to
them a little bit more, but it sounds terrifying, like
really terrifying. So anyway, seventeenth floor, go check it out.
(20:11):
If you like to be scared, that one might be
the one for you. And like I said, I'm going
to see if we can set up an interview with them.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know that I can go through there.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
May so okay anyway at Amy K King on Instagram
and also we're going to post it at KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That was our BOO preview. A lot of fun. Go
check out the La Haunted Hay Ride.
Speaker 15 (20:32):
You start looking at San Francisco. I think we can
make San Francisco. There's one of our great cities ten
years ago, fifteen years ago, and now it's a mess.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
President Trump said San Francisco could be next on his
list of cities where he plans to send National Guard troops.
Speaker 15 (20:46):
I think we can make San Francisco. There's one of
our great cities ten years ago, fifteen years ago, and
now it's a mess, and we have great support in
San Francisco, so I'd like to recommend that for inclusion.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
San Francisco mayor and the District Attorney have responded to
the President's suggestion.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
They say they have the local situation.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Under control and can handle any challenges themselves. A man
from Long Beach has been sentenced to eight years in
prison for driving to Arizona to pick up a fourteen
year old runaway he met on the internet. Prosecutor say
Trayvon Langstaff took the teen across state lines to his apartment,
(21:27):
where he had sex with her. Lang Staff pleaded guilty
last year. In Los Angeles Federal Court LAPED is trying
to find more possible victims of a former USC grad
student accused of being a serial rapist. Deputy Chief Alan
Hamilton says c Hey Wang is a thirty year old
Chinese national who was arrested in late August.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Evidence was recovered at Wang's residents that corroborated his involvement
in drug facilitated sexual assaults of multiple victims dating back
to twenty twenty one and continuing to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Police say they were tipped off about Wang by German authorities,
but they didn't give details. He pleaded not guilty to
charge his last month long beach. Health officials investigating an
unusual case of EMPOS. Officials say a resident has a
more severe strain of empocs, the first known case of
the disease in the country involving a patient that doesn't
(22:23):
have any history of travel. The person is isolated and
recovering at home. A new mom in Tennessee just had
a record breaking baby.
Speaker 14 (22:33):
Shelthy Martin says she knew something was different during her
third pregnancy. Her baby was so large he was literally
pushing her hip out of its socket. Baby Cassian weighed
a stunning twelve pounds fourteen ounces, the biggest baby ever
born at TriStar Centennial Women's Hospital in Nashville. She says
doctors gasped when he arrived. Cassian spent ten days in
(22:55):
the NIKU with glucose issues, but is now healthy and thriving.
Brookerk Cafi news.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, that just sounds painful.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
No get her hip out of its joint, Oh my goodness.
A federal grand jury in LA has indicted a former
Pacific Palisades resident for allegedly starting the fire on New
Years that a week later became the deadly Palisades Fire.
Twenty nine year old Jonathan Rinderneck, who was arrested last
week in Florida, is now charged with destruction of property, arson,
(23:25):
and setting timber on fire. Members of the US military
have received their paychecks this week despite the government shutdown.
The White House released a memo from President Trump directing
the Pentagon to use unspent funds to pay the military.
Those funds will be replenished once the shutdown ends. Speaker
Mike Johnson warned that the move was a temporary fix.
Governor Newsom assigned a law increasing child car safety regulations.
(23:51):
Kids between eight and sixteen will now have to pass
a five step check to make sure they're using their
seat belts properly if they don't have a booster seat.
If drivers they don't pass the test, they could face
fines of almost five hundred dollars. Children under eight or
under four foot nine still have to use those booster seats.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news, the
(24:12):
Trump administration has been blocked again from firing people. Bill's
get a weigh in on that got my Dodger blue
on and I'm ready for the big game this afternoon
as the Dodgers return to Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers are
up two games to none over the Milwaukee Brewers. And
if the Dodgers win today and tomorrow, they advanced to
(24:33):
the World Series. Wouldn't that be nice? If they lose
one of the games, then we'll play again on Saturday,
still at Dodger Stadium. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Brewers.
It is Game three. First pitch goes out at three
to eight. And you can listen to all the Dodger
games on A five seventy LA Sports and stream all
the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app. It's a
great way to listen to a game. Keyword is AM
(24:54):
five to seventy LA Sports. Get your game day meal
at Shakey's Pizza Parlor.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh God, I love Shakey's.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Order your Shaky's Pizza, Chicken and Moojo's Noow at Shaky's
dot Com. Here's what's coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The Port of La says it has
had its busiest quarter ever.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
The record was buoyed by July and August. In September,
there was actually more than a seven percent drop in
traffic compared to a year ago. Port's CEO Jen Soroca
says domestic trade policy is affecting what goes out of
the country.
Speaker 13 (25:24):
The agriculture sector is bearing the brunt of the trade conflict,
and although there are discussions about a relief package, that
may not be a long term solution.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Soroca says he's also worried about new tariffs on China,
especially on ships and machinery, since so many at the
port come from that country. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Bay County DA's office has announced charges against thirteen county
employees accused of unemployment fraud. DA Nathan Hochman says the
workers lied about being unemployed while they were still working
full time for the county.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
These thirteen individuals certified somewhere between a low of ten
of these certifications up to over fifty of these certifications
every two weeks to continue this sort of illegal siphoning
of money.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
He says.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The fraud happened between twenty twenty and twenty three. The
workers represent seven different county agencies and are accused of
fraudulently accepting more than four hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They face up to three years in state prison.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Restaurants in California will be the first in the nation
required to list food allergens on menus.
Speaker 16 (26:29):
Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Allergen Disclosure for Dining Experiences
Act this week. It requires restaurants in twenty twenty six
with twenty or more locations nationally to disclose the top
nine allergens on their menus. Those ingredients are milk, eggs, peanuts,
tree nettes, fish, shellfish, wheat, soy, and sesame. The California
Restaurant Association says it's concerned about the costs for businesses.
(26:50):
The nonprofit group Food Allergy Research and Education says the
law will help protect people with food allergies.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
I'm Sharon reardan.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Kind of interesting. A lot of restaurants are already doing it.
I know at Disneyland there's allergens listed everywhere.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Everywhere we went in Italy, every menu had like every
single allergy and it was a big thing there.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, I think that's probably a good thing, because anaphylactic
shock is no fun all right. Time to get in
your business with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, Denise, we got a
lot to get to today, so let's try to power
through these and start with China's being blamed for a
massive cipher attack.
Speaker 17 (27:24):
Yeah, we have sources telling us Amy that Chinese hackers
access classified UK computer systems for more than a decade
and also access confidential government documents, private communication IT networks
as well. China calls the accusations vilifications. Separately, sources say
Amy that hackers gained long term, persistent access to systems
(27:44):
of the Seattle based cybersecurity company F five. Hackers were
in F five's network for at least twelve months before
they realized the same.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
And they're a hacking place.
Speaker 17 (27:58):
So yeah, cyber security company, and now all their customers
could be targeted.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
They're the nerve center. They went right for it. That's
interesting and at that's scared.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
They didn't discover it, a cybersecurity place, didn't discover it
for twelve.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Months, Okay, maybe more than Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
A lot of folks looking for work or extra work
on the holidays.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Job platform.
Speaker 17 (28:20):
Indeed, Aby says search es for seasonal jobs rose twenty
seven percent at the end of September compared to a
year go, and search fifty percent from twenty twenty three.
Got to say, though, for some people, this isn't new.
I worked the overnight holiday shift at the post office
one year between high school and college. Almost all the
other people working that overnight shift, full time overnight shift
had day jobs as teachers, bus drivers, you name it
(28:43):
as well, working two jobs. So that's not new for
a lot of folks.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Got to get that extra cash for the holidays.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, K Pop Demon Hunters they did about what about
a month ago, they did a weekend sing along in theaters,
and now they're doing it again in.
Speaker 17 (29:00):
Yeah, it's a Halloween theme to sing along now though,
it'll be it, and it'll be at all three major
US chains a mc regal cinema on Halloween weekend. And
by the way, I mean, if you're thinking about going,
costumes are encouraged. I bet you've been working on your
version of Golden singing it.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't sing in public at all, Denise, nobody, nobody
likes it when I do.
Speaker 17 (29:24):
Trader Joe's is being sued by Smuckers Yeah, over its uncrustables,
saying their copycat Smuckers says the round Crustaliss sandwiches. The
Trader joe Cells have the same pie like crimp markings
on their edges that Uncrustables do. I was thinking about it, though,
I know you like Reese's peanut butter cups, so wouldn't
I look this up?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 17 (29:44):
You know, Trader Joe's has great peanut butter cups. They
so does Whole Foods, and they make like a dark
chocolate version, but they're really careful to put it in
a very different kind of packaging than.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Does hey trademark stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That's that's that's nothing to mess with, right, and don't
mess with my peanut buttercups because I love them, and
I like Trader Joe's has a dark chocolate version. It's
kind of a nice, nice change too. Jack in the
Box is selling Del Taco.
Speaker 17 (30:12):
They are, and this is interesting. Of course, there are
hundreds of them in California, right that Del Taco that
is The buyer is yadav Enterprises. It's an all cash
deal worth one hundred and fifteen million dollars there in
twenty three other states besides California.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
The deal is expected to close in January.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Okay, and then one last one. A couple of billionaires
are two of the investors who are backing a healthcare
company with a new way to treat tumors.
Speaker 17 (30:40):
Yeah, they want to treat cancerous tumors using sound waves.
And the two billionaires you mentioned involved Peter Teal and
Jeff Bezos and their company or Teal Bio and Bezos
Bezos Expeditions. They'll use a fresh two hundred and fifty
million dollar investment to expand the applications of its ultrasound
therapy devices to target growth in other areas including breast,
(31:02):
prostate and pancreas cancers. This is really kind of breaking technology.
Anytime you see companies pouring money into this, it's probably
a good thing for consumers, especially it's the very ProMED
ones or suffering from this.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Absolutely, okay, getting in your business like we do every
day at five forty with Denise Pellegrini.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Thanks so much, pleasure real all right.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Governor Newsom says he may call for a stretch of
the five between Orange and San Diego Counties to be
shut down. It would be because of the Marine Corps
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration that's happening Saturday at
Camp Pendleton. The La Times the same parts of the
freeway could be closed because of live ammo being fired
from ships that would affect up to eighty thousand people
(31:49):
who drive between San Diego and LA every day. The
Marines say no public highways or transportation routes are scheduled
to be closed. San Francisco leaders in law enforcement have
come out against President Trump's suggestion that he might send
federal troops to the city. Officials say they can handle
the city's challenges on their own. Salesforce's CEO and Elon
Muska both come out this week saying the city needs
(32:10):
National Guard troops to help fight drugs and crime in
the city. The number of homes sold in LA is up.
The California Association of Realters says sales were up five
percent from August to September and are up six point
six percent compared to last September. The median price for
a single family home in the state fell one point
seven percent to eight hundred eighty three thousand, four hundred
(32:34):
and fifty dollars. We're just a couple of minutes away
from Handle on the news. The Trump administration has been
blocked again. They're trying to fire workers. A judge says, no,
let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim
want a new car, it's gonna cost you. Oh, no,
(32:55):
fifty thousand dollars is the average price for a new car.
Speaker 18 (32:58):
Fifty thousand dollars was crazy. Fifty eighty is actually the number.
Oh okay, probably since I started talking. It's gone up
from that. Yeah, it's it's gone up quite dramatically in
just the last couple of years. I mean, prices have
been rising gradually for the last several decades, the price
of a new car, but they've got a pretty dramatically
(33:19):
in the last couple of years for a few reasons. First,
you've got to let technology packed into their right there.
The cars are safer and more fun to drive because
of all that stuff, the electronics and all the tariffs
have helped to push up the price of important cars.
And then you had the expiration of the EV credit,
the seventy five hundred dollars that you could get just
(33:40):
for buying an electric vehicle that's expired now, so that's
pushed up the average price as well. So ball it
all up, put it in the on the chats seats,
and you've got FI eighty dollars.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That is just that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And then the other thing that I know we were
talking to Joelar's Card about this is because of the
skyrocketing car price is people are getting even longer loans,
Like it was used to be very standard to get
a forty eight month maybe a sixty month loan, so
either four or five years, but now they're extending into
like seven years.
Speaker 18 (34:11):
Yeah, And the average interest rate on a sixty month
new car loan in August was seven point six percent.
Four years ago was four point six percent. But they've
been going up and down lately, you know, the interest rates,
and so you know, maybe time if you want to
get rid of your car, if you want to refinance
your car or buy a new one, to start shopping
(34:33):
around for loans because you may be able to.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Get a little better rate, like how much better?
Speaker 18 (34:40):
Not a whole lot better, but it's a little better
because you never know what's going to happen next month.
They could go up again, and they could go up
from there, they could drop it, and it's a gamble
really to try to pick and if you can get
a loan that will let you adjust at one time
after a couple of months. If the rates do go down,
you can go ahead and do that. But parting issue
is that, you know, we're so craving the next big thing.
(35:04):
We're so addicted that new car smell, that people are
willing to rush out now and buy a brand new car,
even if they still owe on their old car. Right
And last month, twenty eight point one percent of cars
that were traded in the owner owed more than the.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Car was worth.
Speaker 18 (35:22):
In other words, those cars are underwater, the notes are underwater.
That's that's the highest it's been in the last four years,
you know, And and the amount they owe is at
a record sixty nine hundred dollars on average. For those
folks taking a car into trade, might as well tack
that onto the price of that new car.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Are people doing that?
Speaker 5 (35:41):
They are, Oh yeah, so you.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Can write the loan for more than the car, so
you can pay off the old line.
Speaker 18 (35:47):
Well, they're going to roll that in, aren't they. They going
to take that to the six grand you still owe,
and they'll tack that onto the price of the new car.
So that fifty thousand eighty dollars car is going to
be fifty six thousand and eighty dollars potentially, and then.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
What if you have bad credit, You're going to.
Speaker 18 (36:03):
Pay much more than that. And you're talking about big
time of subprime loans that will cost you much more
to try to finance a car. You know, there are
ways to get around it. You know, you can refinance
your loan, try to wait and time it so that
rates are down, and refinance it just the way you
would with your home mortgage. You can make bigger payments,
same as you would with your home mortgage. Yeah, you know,
(36:25):
if you're paying five to fifteen months, why not pay
you six hundred a month. That'll get the thing paid
off more quickly. Or you can just maybe hold your
nose and not crave that new car smell. Just write
it out until you pay off your car and then
walk into that dealership with this, with the equity.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
That you have, go to the car wash, and when
you get the air freshener package, ask them for the
new car smell.
Speaker 18 (36:49):
Do they make that come?
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Really?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Absolutely? I think that's a that's a better.
Speaker 18 (36:56):
You can get pine, you can get orange, yeah, the
really nasty smell where you can get new cars? Okay?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Absolutely? Okay, nice ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 18 (37:04):
Thank you know what most of that new car smell is, right,
it's the formaldehyde in the carpet in the uphol stream.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Oh, but it smells so good, he does.
Speaker 18 (37:12):
I know, it's great.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
It's ridiculous. All right, Thanks Jim Ryan. We'll talk to
you again soon.
Speaker 12 (37:18):
See.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Hey, all right, let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Southern California is getting ready for the latest Great California Shakeout.
It is part of an international Shakeout Day. Millions of
people in the state are expected to drop cover and
hold on at ten sixteen this morning. We'll be participating
in that right here at CAFI. The goal is to
(37:40):
teach people how to reduce injuries in the event of
a real earthquake. The Geological Survey says that there are
fifteen thousand fault lines in California. Okay and Gary Shannon,
they're on location today at at BJ's in Huntington Beach
and they're going to do the shakeout from there too.
So that's going to be a party. But to ten sixteen,
(38:03):
get ready to drop cover and hold on. Public health
officials in La County have confirmed the first local case
of mosquito born danngay fever this year.
Speaker 7 (38:12):
The patient is a San Gabriel Valley resident with no
history of travel to areas where dingy is endemic. The
man developed symptoms in September and is now recovering. People
infected with the virus can develop flu like symptoms, while
severe cases can be life threatening. Preventing mosquito bikes and
mosquito breeding is the best way to stop transmission of dinghy.
Experts recommend using insect repellent, removing standing water around your home,
(38:35):
and using window and door screens to prevent mosquitos from entering.
Aileen Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Britney Spears is firing back at her ex Kevin Fetterline
It's Britney.
Speaker 14 (38:45):
In his new memoir You Thought You Knew, Kevin Federline
claims he feared for he and Spears' sons, describing disturbing
late night encounters involving Spears. Her rep tells People Magazine,
not Kevin and others are profiting off of her again
just after him do child support ended Fears, who detailed
her own struggles in her book, The Woman in Me,
says her only concern is her Son's Well Being Betterlines
(39:07):
book hits shelves October twenty first, at the Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I can't believe she said the B word before six am.
This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
If you missed any wake up call, you can listen
anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake
Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear
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