September 7, 2023 • 37 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC National News Correspondent Steven Portnoy joins the show to discuss prosecutors seeking new indictment for Hunter Biden before end of September. Amy speaks with ABC Crime and Terrorism Analyst Brad Garrett about our fascination with jailbreaks – inside the mind of escapees and how to catch them. On the latest edition of “Amy’s On It,” she reviews Hulu original ‘Dopesick’ featuring Michael Keaton and Kaitlyn Dever. The show wraps with ABC White House Correspondent Karen Travers talking about President Biden not wearing a mask after a release stated he would for 10 -days after his wife tested positive.
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You're listening to a wake up callon demand from kf I AM six forty
KFI and kost HD two, LosAngeles, Orange County. It's time for
your morning wake up call. Here'sAmy King. This is your wake up
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call for Thursday, September seventh,Lucky Number seventh. I'm Amy King.
Good morning. Thanks for waking upwith us this morning. Here's what's ahead
on wake up call. A fortyeight year old former Orange County girls basketball
coach has been sentenced to one hundredand fifty years to life in prison for
sexually assaulting six of his players overa span of several years. Carlos Warez
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coached for club basketball teams as wellas at Major Day Aliso, Niguel,
Tustin, and Costa Mesa High schools. Federal prosecutors planned to indict Hunter Biden
by September twenty ninth on gun charges. The President's son had a plea agreement
that would have kept him out ofjail, but that fell apart in July.
The Dodgers Julio Urius has been benchedby Major League Baseball after he was
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arrested on domestic abuse charges. Hefaced similar allegations in twenty nineteen. That
case ended with deferred prosecution and domesticviolence counseling. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of theKFI twenty four hour newsroom. Air pollution
experts have testified people are suffering frombloody noses, nausea, and asthma attacks
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in recent months, tied to afoul smell coming from a landfill in Castaic.
At a meeting of the South CoastAir Quality Management District, experts said
the amount of noxious gases being releasedfrom the Chiquita Canyon landfill has been increasing.
The AQMD voted to order the landfillto make improvements to try to stop
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the stink. It also can keepoperating as long as it meets forty different
conditions required for improvements. Three menhave been charged with the murder and robbery
of a man at a scenic turnouton the Angelus Crest Highway in Pasadena.
The La County District Attorney's office saysthe man was shot several times in July
after he and a female passenger wererobbed. The Pasadena Police Department previously said
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they thought the killing was connected tothe murders of two other people in a
car in Rancho Palace, forties.An admitted thief is facing two decades in
federal prison for robbing eight gas stationsaround La County. Samir Green says that
one gas station, he pointed ababy gun at a clerk and demanded money.
The clerk, who thought the gunwas real, gave Green seven hundred
dollars. US attorneys Kieran McAvoy saysGreen also admitted in a plea deal yesterday
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to robbing gas stations in Whittier,Pomona, and Culver City. He further
admitted to the April fifteenth cardjacking ofthe owner of a twenty cordwhile armed with
a baby gun, and Green hasbeen in federal custody since April eighteenth.
Green is facing up to twenty yearsin prison. His sentencing is set for
November. Blake Trolley k if IKnews. Dozens of business owners in West
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Hollywood have signed a letter asking thecity to hold off on future minimum wage
increases. The city has the highestminimum wage in the country at just over
nineteen dollars an hour. People livingin the city say they're still struggling despite
the increases. Some business owners saythey might have to shut down if the
wage increases continue. A second groupof officers is suing LAPD and the city
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over the release of photos to ananti police website. The officers say they
feel the release of their department headshotsput them in a state of constant stress,
which they didn't have prior to thenegligent and reckless photo release. The
photos were sent to the website inMarch is part of a public records lawsuit,
but the undercover identities were not redactedby the LAPD. The undercover officers,
current and retired, were assigned tothe Major Crimes Division, the ATFS
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Gun Violence Reduction Task Force, theGames of Narcotics Division, and Human Trafficking,
all of which are high risk assignmentsrequiring undercover identities. Steve Gregory k
if I knew Mexico has ended itsfederal ban on abortion. The Supreme Court
decision yesterday requires the Federal Public HealthService to offer the procedure to anyone who
asks for it, but the Court'sdecision leaves in place a patchwork of varying
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state restrictions. Three sailors whose boatwas attacked by chart sharks while they traveled
to Australia have been rescued. Theywere able to send a distress signal earlier
this week EMI speaking absolutely side theylost. It enabled the rescue Coordination center
to identify the precise location. JoeZella with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority says
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when the rescuers got to the sailorsin the Coral Sea, they found both
holes of the boat had been damagedby sharks. He says all three men
aboard are healthy and were obviously veryhappy to be rescued. Let's say good
morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, this was kind of a surprise.
A special council was just appointed acouple of weeks ago, and now it's
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been announced that federal prosecu tutors willlikely seek a granjury indictment of President Biden's
son Hunter, to the extent thatit's a surprise we have. Essentially prosecutors
are closing in on Hunter Biden withrespect to one charge, and that is
related to his purchase of a pistolin twenty eighteen at a time that he
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admits he was a drug user.On the form before you buy a handgun,
you have to certify that you arenot a drug user or addicted to
drugs. Hunter Biden signed the form. He ticked the box no. He
acknowledges it was a lie. Andthis was all part of a plea agreement
that hunter Biden thought he had withprosecutors earlier this summer, where he would
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plead guilty to two tax related misdemeanorsfor failing to pay his taxes in twenty
seventeen and twenty eighteen, and inexchange, prosecutors would set aside or defer
the felony gun possession charge. Butwhen that deal started to unravel an open
court in late July, when thejudge siding over the matter started asking questions
about the scope of the immunity thatprosecutors were going to grant and what it
all covered and what it didn't andwhat hunter Biden's understanding of the deal was,
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it all fell apart, and inthe intervening weeks a couple of things
have happened. One, prosecutors havestated in writing that they believe that they're
at impass with the defense team.And two, David Weiss, who is
the US attorney in Delaware who's beenoverseeing this matter for the last five years,
got authority from the Attorney General herein Washington to become a special counsel,
which gives him a bit more autonomyon a day to day basis within
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the Justice Department, particularly when itcomes to charging decisions. So yesterday's court
filing, Why yesterday and what doesit all mean? Well, if prosecutors
are going to go to trial onat least that felony gun possession charge,
and I say at least for areason, they have to comply with the
terms of the Speedy Trial Act,which had certain deadlines, and one of
those deadlines for the felony gun possessioncharge happens to be the end of September,
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the end of this month, andso the prosecutors have put both parties
and the judge on notice that they'regoing to proceed with that fell in the
possession charge. In order to doso, they need to get an indictment.
They say they're going to do it, and they're going to beat the
deadline, which is the end ofthe month. So that's all we know
at the moment. The bigger questionis what else might be out there.
And at that plea agreement hearing earlierthis year as part of the reason it
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unraveled. The judge asked the prosecutorsa very pointed question, are they interested
in pursuing other matters? Are theyinvestigating Hunter Biden for whatever work he did
for overseas piece over the last tenyears as possible violations of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act FARA? And when theprosecutor said yes to that question, it
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really put Hunter Biden in his defenseattorneys on their heels because he thought that
they with this plea agreement, theywere done and there wouldn't be anything else
that they'd go after him. That'sexactly right. He thought he was tying
up all the loose ends. Atthe end of five years, the investigation
was completely over, that he wasessentially going to be cleared of any possible
wrongdoing. And when the prosecutors said, no, we're still investigating, well,
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then it all came apart. Sothe two sides were impass because Hunter
Biden and his defense attorneys insist thatnot only did he not break the law
and that in those other respects,but that they thought they had a deal.
It was in writing, they hadthe Probation Office sign off, and
they want that agreement enforced now onthe prosecution by the court. I think
it's unlikely, given the fact thatthe judge herself looked at the deal and
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said she didn't understand it and atthe two sides didn't agree on what it
all meant, how could it possiblybe enforceable. So we'll see what happens
next. But the deadline that wasrevealed yesterday in court papers as the end
of the month. The prosecutors saythey're gonna beat it and they're gonna bring
that one fell at a gun possessioncharge at least, okay. And then
so when the deal fell apart,he did plead not guilty. So does
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that still go forward or is thisis it separate or is it still the
same case. Well, he pleadednot guilty to the two tax related misdemeanors.
Okay, And so I think youknow, all we know at the
moment is the prosecutor say they're goingto move forward on that text sorry,
on that gun charge. It's confusing, yes, yes it is, and
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so so. But but what wehave to wait for is is really see
what happens next, because we haveprosecutors might they might move on a charge
just to put a placeholder down,And as we know, there are things
called superseding indictments where they can amendthe charges at new charges. And remember,
in the last several weeks, DavidWeiss has gotten approval to become a
special counsel. What's he going todo with that authority? We didn't know
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the answer yet. Okay, sowe're gonna be watching for September twenty nine.
I'm sure we're going to be talkingto you on that day. Thank
you so much for your time,Stephen, appreciate it. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four our newsroom.
A judge has temporarily blocked a ChinoValley School District policy making staff tell parents
if their kid identifies as trans oftransgender, or suicidal. Chino Valley School
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District lawyer Tony DeMarco says the policyonly applies to students who make official name
and gender changes to access facility.Of these are sports that are segregated by
sex. Fifty six percent reported toprevious suicide, yet professional educators are allowed
to tell parents stop. Deputy agDelbert Tran says school board comments make the
intent of the policy clear. Saidthe purpose of the policy was quote to
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put a stop to transgenderous A.G rob Bonsa says the judges ruling yesterday
upholds LGBTQ right by immediately halting theboard's forced outing policy. San Bernardino Superior
Court Judge Tom Garza also brought upschool board comments that these students were under
a delusion or suffering from a mentalillness, and before ruling, he said,
I don't know what the purpose ofthis policy is. I don't know
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why this policy came up to singleout this class of individuals. Court resumes
next month at San Bernardino Superior Court. Corbin Carson Ko Fight News. Only
four of more than one hundred thirtyfive business owners in Monterey Park who applied
for a federal SBA disaster loan havebeen approved. Loan applications were open to
any business owner who claimed a hardshipfollowing that mass shooting in January that killed
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eleven people. Disaster loans are usuallyonly available to those who lost business in
events like a fire or flood,but local lawmakers lobbied the SBA for help
on this one. The Long BeachDepartment of Health and Human Services has started
handing out drink safety test kits thatcan detect illegal substances in beverages. Mayor
Rex Richardson says the city is takingproactive steps to prevent drink spiking. The
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kits are available to bars, restaurants, and community based organizations. A number
of Californians say they're dealing with hugeincreases on car insurance American Property Casualty Insurance
Associations. Bob Passmore says inflation isto blame. When the class of everything
that turns past war is going up, then there's only one potential. There's
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only one result that it can happen, is that autominteranceperience are going to go
up too. Passmore claims every carinsurer in California is losing money, so
they need to rates. LA residentAngela Gould says she has a perfect driving
record, but her premium just wentup nearly thirty percent. I don't really
know what the solution is going tobe, but somebody's going to have to
step in and do something. TheDepartment of Insurances all rate increases have to
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be justified by state law and thatthey thoroughly review applications to make sure drivers
only pay what's required. California's InsuranceCommissioner has recently approved a billion dollars in
rate increases. San Francisco is lookingfor ways to save the city's historic Fisherman's
Wharf, which has attracted tourists forgenerations. Officials say the pandemic arise in
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crime, homelessness, and empty storefrontshave caused the area to lose its luster
and money too. Local developers haveproposed adding an event space, a seafood
oriented food hall, interactive phishing tradeexhibits, and a small fish processing facility
to try to revamp the area.They say they're shifting focus from maintaining a
tourist attraction to preserving the wharf's legacy. A man has been killed in a
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shootout with SWAT officers in rialto afterpolice say he deliberately crashed into a Chino
motorcycle officer who was trying to pullhim over. Former President Trump is on
track to sweep all the delegates atdelegates at next year's Republican Convention in California.
Latest bowls suggest he continues to holda commanding lead over Florida Governoronda Santis
and the pack of other candidates.Are you ready for some football? The
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NFL kicks off? It's twenty twentythree season tonight with the Super Bowl champion
Chiefs hosting the Detroit Lions in KansasCity at six oh five. It's handled
on the news Hunter Biden could befacing a federal indictment. We'll dig into
that, but right now, let'ssay good morning to ABC's crime and terrorism
expert Brad Garrett, the guy whogets in the bad guy's heads. Good
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morning, Good morning. The manhunt for an escaped murder in Pennsylvania continues.
Danello Cavalcante escaped a week ago fromthe Chester County Prison, which is
west of Philadelphia, and Brad,we seem to be so how fascinated when
bad guys break out of jail?What's our attraction? So it's the thrill,
it's the excitement, it's the intrigue, it's the danger. I mean,
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amy, think about it this way. If you're watching some crime drama
on the streaming service, they alwayshook you with the intrigue of somebody about
to be killed, about escaping ina car chase. Prison escapes with the
same profile. Obviously, it's adaring thing to break out of Princeton.
It's dangerous, but it's also exciting. How did he do it, How
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did he get out? Where ishe going to go when we get caught?
What's going on in his own headto hopefully help him not get caught?
All of these things people are drawnto. I mean, it was
a lead story on GMA this morning, a prison break. Okay, so
that gives you an idea the audienceattraction. Well, and this guy is
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I mean super bad guy. Rightshot and killed his girlfriend in front of
her children, and then got awaywhile he was being transferred from one prison
to another. Right or before thathappened, but they were talking. There
was talk about him like scaling awall like Spider Man or something when he
was trying to get out. Sowhat he did. In May of this
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year, in the same prison,a guy escaped exactly the same way.
The only difference is I think hewent up the same wall. Did that
catwalk up the wall and through somerazor wire and then ends up in a
prison yard and then eventually escapes fromthere. The May guy was caught by
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a guy in the tower, seeshim, calls it out, and within
ten minutes they catch him. Thisguy wasn't spotted for who knows what reason.
He had an hour head start untilthey had count. An hour later,
they realized he was gone. Butthe problem in all of these prison
escaped with a few that have plansbeyond once they get out, who's going
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to help me? Is they don'thave any help. They don't have any
money, they don't have any means, and so they go on and run.
You know, this is a typicallocation of a prison in the US
that's in the middle of nowhere,so wooded area. I think there are
a number of probably summer homes wherepeople go. So in other words,
the point being, there will behomes someone lives in that he could break
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into. He's been seeing with abackpack of their clothing, so he's gotten
into somebody's house. Well, anddid you hear about the one guy that
he the guy came home and heardnoises in his house and flipped on a
light switch on and off. Andthen apparently the escaped man flipped a light
switch on and off like to say, dude, I'm in your house.
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That's freaky. Well, and that'salso very dairy. It sort of goes
right with the profile of somebody thatwould do something like this. I mean,
this the whole idea you're willing torisk everything, and in his case,
I mean, you know, hegot sentenced to life. He's wanted
for a murder in Brazil. Imean, this guy's got literally nothing to
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lose. So if you got tokill me, kill me. But I'm
going to get out of here andsee how far i can get. So
it doesn't surprise me. He gotinto a light switch challenge with the owner
of the house. Yeah, okay, so he's been out on the loose
for like a week. He's stillin the area. They're saying that he's
within about three miles of the prison. So, like you said, he
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doesn't have a plan to get out. So how are they ultimately going to
catch him, Because obviously you haveto eat, you have to sleep,
and those two things tend to getyou caught. Let's say he's broken into
a house and no one has shownup yet, and the police don't obviously
know he's there. There might bea limited food in the house, or
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he may see feel that a neighbormay have spotted him or something like that,
and so he moves. When hemoves to find food or shelter or
try to steal a car, he'snow touched society basically, His picture obviously
is all over the board in thispart of Pennsylvania, and that's what gets
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you caught. Movement, food,shelter, get you caught. And my
guess is that's what eventually we'll gethim caught. So as much as we
would like it to happen right now, it's sort of it's a waiting game.
To wait for him to make mistakes, that's it, or get a
lucky tip. Yeah. In otherwords, somebody has a summer home,
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they are, you know, pullingtheir driveway, they see a window open,
lights are on, and they callthe police something like that, and
he gets caught. All right.Well, so we'll we'll be watching for
it, no doubt, all right, And I'm just glad that it didn't
happen here. Brad Garrett, thankyou so much for your time and insight
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this morning. I appreciate it aton. You're welcome, take care of
Amy. You two talk to yousoon. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour newsroom. A man in
Long Beach has been arrested in connectionwith a series of car fires around the
city. Police arrested one person inconnection with five separate fires along Seaside Way
where cars were torched and parking structures. Long Beach Fire Chief Dennis Buchanan says
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tips from the community helped investigators makethe arrest. This investigation is ongoing for
details will be limited to not compromisethe integrity of this investigation. Police say
the man was booked yesterday on suspicionof arson and possession of a concealed dirk
or dagger. Officials are investigating whetherothers were involved. Chris Adler KFI News.
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Federal prosecutors say they're planning to aska grand jury to indict President Biden's
son Hunter by the end of themonth. Court documents appeared to show allegations
related to a gun possession possession chargein which he was accused of having a
gun while being a drug user.US Attorney for Delaware, David Weiss,
referred to seeking an indictment before Septembertwenty ninth in a status report required by
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the judge. Lee is now ahurricane. It's in the Mid Atlantic,
heading west northwest and gaining strength.Lee is expected to reach major hurricane status
by Saturday, with winds up toone hundred and fifty miles per hour.
Forecasters say it could become the firstCategory five storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Did Jornou has released its most divisivepizza yet. The Pineapple Pickle Pizza
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promised to be the most controversial pizzaon the market, featuring a hand tossed
crust and garlic sauce, with ahalf topped with pineapple and the other with
pickles. The company offered a limitednumber of pizzas online for free, but
they were gone within just a couplehours. Did Jorneau hasn't said if more
will be produced or if the PineapplePickle Pizza will ever hit grocery store shelves.
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Well, the spell has been cast. Halloween Time is back at the
Disneyland Resort and now k if Iwants to give you a chance to get
in on the celebration. This isso cool. Halloween Magic is returning to
both Snee California Adventure Park and DisneylandPark with Fiendish Family Fund. It'll be
a real treat now through October thirty. First, keep listening to KFI and
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a wake up call for your chanceto win a four pack of one day
one park tickets. Right now,What am I on I'm on streaming stuff,
movies, TV shows, documentaries,sometimes network, but of course with
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the actors and writers strikes, there'snot going to be a whole lot of
network stuff coming up. So we'regoing to focus on streaming. This week,
I'm going to focus on Dope Sickat the recommendation of our very own
Kno, because like my whole thingis, there's so much content out there,
you don't know what to watch,and how do you pick what to
watch? And I will tell youthere's something I'm watching right now, then
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I'll probably tell you about next week. With them, I just want to
save your time. But uh,but last week we were talking about the
show called pain Killer, which starsMatthew Brodrick, and it's about the whole
opioid epidemic and the Sackler family andand Kono said, hey, if you
watched Dope Sick, which is alsoabout the opioid epidemic, And so I
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immediately went got on my couch andwatched it. So it's based on real
stories of Americans who have suffered duringthe opioid epidemic. Stars Michael Keaton,
who is a small town doctor ina rural area in Coal Country, which
was really heavily hit by the opioidepidemic. It's on Hulu and the whole
series is out. It's like sixor seven episodes. So the premise is
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that MS Cotton is a drug andit's patented and it's about to expire,
and so the Sackler family that runsPerdue Pharma is freaking out because twenty five
percent of its sales are at stake, So they want to come up with
a long term pain medication that thecompany says is not addictive, and it's
being pushed by farmer reps as thissafe, miracle drug. So the story
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I think is really well acted.Like I liked it a lot better than
Painkiller. I think Painkiller seemed moresensationalized. This one was too, and
to a certain extent, but Ithink this one was more real. And
with Michael Keaton at the helm,I just think he was fabulous. But
it bounces back and forth between thesmall town that's affected as people start to
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get on the OxyContin, and thenalso the investigators and prosecutors and how they
start making the connection that oxy wasbeing marketed as something that it wasn't.
It portrays, it's portrayed as thatthey need to get these doctors to push
the drugs on their patients at prettymuch any cost. And that was a
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common theme between Dopsic and Painkiller,but I think that this one was done
more realistically. It was more likeit's all a big party, and you
know that the reps are just stupidpeople who are devoid of any ethics or
anything like this. This the repin this guy and it's Oh, I
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don't know the actor's name, buthe was in He was in the Marvel
movies. He was in Guardians ofthe Galaxy three and he was the gold
guy. I can't remember the actor'sname, but anyway, the Sackler,
the guy who plays Sackler is portrayedas desperate to make more money and it's
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all about the money, so likePainkiller, and he is just a nasty,
nasty guy. And the sad partabout this is that drugs can be
life saving, but that's not howthis is portrayed. And if this is
how everything really went down, likethe Sackler family really is evil, like
they are portrayed that way, andwhether that's an accurate depiction because they say
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it's fictionalized, if it's real,they deserve a lot more than the billions
of dollars in fines that they got, because nobody is serving any time for
this, but they got slapped witha huge amount of fines. But it
also portrays the doctors as kind oflemmings who don't listen to their patients,
and it disregards that doctors can bevery adept at prescribing drugs on a short
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term basis than getting off of beforethey become addictive. And so but it
had to have happened in some regardbecause this thing got so out of control
and probably and still is an issue. So I think that this was a
really really good show, And likeI said, it's six or seven episodes
and you really want to find outwhat happens even though you know what happens,
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which I'm always fascinated by these showsthat you know what the outcome is,
but you can't wait to see howthey get there. So Dope Stick
on Hulu. Highly recommend it.And then just a quick mention on a
completely different kind of show, VirginRiver season six five. The next season
a Virgin River, which is likea Hallmark movie, but the whole series
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that comes out today. Can't waitto watch that. It's sort of a
nice little escapism. And then TheLittle Mermaid, the live action just came
out on Disney Plus, so it'snow included. You don't have to rent
it. It's included on your DisneyPlus. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour newsroom. The Fire Department
in New York has added forty threenames to the World Trade Center Memorial Wall.
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The firefighters died of illnesses related totheir rescue and recovery efforts on September
eleventh and a ground zero, andthey embodied what it means to be a
member of the FDNY. Chief JohnHodgen says this is the second largest group
of names added to the wall sinceit was created in twenty eleven. He
says the number of firefighters lost tonine to eleven related illnesses more than two
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decades later, is almost as manyas those who died on nine to eleven.
The State Assembly has passed a billthat would make California the third state
to decriminalized psychedelic drugs for personal use. A broader version of the bill obviously
passed the state Senate, and thefinal versions expected to pass next week.
The measure will then go to GovernorNewsom for a final approval. He has
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to sign it. If he does, Californians twenty one and up would be
allowed to ingest, possess, cultivate, or transport small amounts of psychedelic drugs
like hallucinogenic mushrooms. Two people whoowned garment industry businesses in South LA have
been charged in an alleged wage theftcase. It was filed by a new
unit in the DA's office that willspecialize in businesses in which workers are being
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underpaid. The business owners had agreedin twenty eighteen to pay settlements to former
workers for underpaying them. President Biden'son his way to the G twenty summit
in India. He set to flyout of Joint Base Andrews this afternoon.
After the summit, Biden is scheduledto visit Vietnam. White House Press Secretary
Karine Jean Pierre says Biden tested negativefor COVID again yesterday. First Lady Jill
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Biden tested positive earlier this week.The Biden administration is canceled the remaining seven
oil and gas leases in Alaska's ArcticNational Wildlife Refuge The administration has also proposed
stronger protections against development on thirteen millionacres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Bruce Springsteen and E Street Ban havepostponed all performances for this month,
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starting with tonight's show in New York. Springsteen is being treated for symptoms of
peptic ulcer disease. That doesn't soundfun, and medical advisers urged him to
cancel the shows. His statement yesterdaysaid he is sad to have to postpone,
but they'll be back. He alsothanked fans for their understanding and support.
Have you ever gotten one of thosetexts that says, oh, hey,
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it's your bank. You need tocall us right now because there's something
screwy with your account, or we'reclosing your account, or you won't have
access to your account until you contactus. Well, the Federal Trade Commission
recently revealed that the most reported textmessage scam is bank impersonations. They apparently
have jumped to twenty times the numberreported in twenty nineteen in just last year,
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so lots more are going out therebecause obviously the bad guys are figuring
out that they can get money.Consumers have reported losses of more than three
hundred and thirty million dollars in textmessage scams in twenty twenty two. So
the FTC says, there's a coupleof things you should do, so I'm
just going to let you know whatthey are. One that text message scammers
make you feel like you have todo something right now or you're going to
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lose your money, So they saydon't make any money moves under pressure.
So if you get anything that says, oh, call us now, or
your bank's going to be cut offor you're not gonna have access to your
accounts, that's a warning sign foryou. If you get a text message
that you're not expecting, also bewary of that, especially if it looks
like it might be from your bank. And then don't click on the links
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the links from any unsolicited message.If you do get a message, maybe
go on to the website where yourbank account is and reach out to their
customers service people there or call yourbanks to find out if it's a legitimate
message. Also, just as youdon't click on a link that's texted by
someone you don't know, don't clickon or dial a phone number that you
get in a text so even againwhen i'd say call your bank, don't
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use the phone number that you getin the text message. Go actually to
the bank's website or call, youknow, go to the directory or something
and find what your bank's phone numberis, and don't call the number that's
texted to you. And if youdo fall victim, there are a couple
of things you should do. One, tell your bank about it, to
report the scam to local law enforcement, and three file a complaint with the
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FTC. And I hope you don'tget scammed, because it is scary.
You get that message, you go, oh no, I'm going to be
cut off. I have to dosomething. Don't. Let's say good morning
to ABC White House correspondent Karen Travers. Karen, the president's people said he
was going to wear a mask forten days after first Lady Jill tested positive,
but apparently kind of missed the memoyesterday. Yeah, you know,
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he had it on yesterday when hecame into an event with union dockworkers and
port executives. But you know,again, it seemed a little briskly about
it. He walked in, hehad masked, he took it off,
he said, let me explain tothe press. I've been tested again today.
I'm clear across the board, butthey keep telling me, because it
has to be ten days or something, I gotta keep wearing it. But
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don't tell him I didn't have iton when I walked in, trying to
make the points that he was followinga protocol out on his way into the
room. But you know, itdidn't seem really eager to embrace mask wearing
again, And you know, maybethat kind of fits with what many people
around the country would be feeling.Too keen a while since he's worn a
mask consistently. We think it wasabout a year when we went back and
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look at some video. But hehas to based on the CDC guidance.
The White House was said they're followingthe CDC guidance to mask up for ten
days since that close contact with thefirst lady who tested positive on Monday.
But you know, he has beena little inconsistent with wearing it, coming
into a room, not wearing itduring a speech, not wearing it when
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he was very close to that Vietnamveteran the other day giving him a medal.
And I asked yesterday if that wasan oversight, was a mistake was
he supposed to put it back onthe White House wouldn't call it that,
but emphasize that you know he isdoing it trying to follow the CDC guidance,
is us they can well. Andwhen that kind of stuff happens,
it kind of puts Carinjon Pierre ina tough spot because she has to say,
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of course, we're doing everything wecan, and then everybody's going,
uh, didn't you just watch this? He literally didn't have the mask on
and he was right behind the Medalof Honor recipient right like breathing in his
face there yesterday, And you know, they had said that when he was
at a close distance that he wouldbe masked. And he's gonna be going
into G twenty sun at tonight travelingto India, a very well trip to
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get there. But he'll have meetingstomorrow evening in India and then all day
Saturday, and he'll be around alot of people and he'll be in close
contact with people. So I asked, if you know there'll be any changes
to his behavior, like should weexpect for him over these next couple of
days, And they said he'll bemasked during these next few days while he's
traveling, and that he'll be testedregularly and working in consulication with his doctor
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monitoring symptoms. But you know,I think it's something that you might not
be thrilled a valve because the valuesone on one face to face diplomacy.
But it's gonna look a little differentfor him. Yeah, okay. And
and in the meantime, you justmentioned he tested negative again yesterday or last
night. So he's going on theplane today to G twenty. And then
how the Jill's okay, yeah,but what House said, she's feeling fine
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yesterday. But the president will testagain today. Everybody will that's getting on
air Force one. And that actuallywould have happened even if the firstly he
had not tested positive. All theydo that for every trip. Anybody getting
on Air Force one. Okay,Karen. Travelers say, oh, are
you going? Do you get totravel with him? I am not,
I am not. My two colleaguesare already there though we got two people
on the ground. I think they'dlanded by now. They actually might not
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be there yet. It's that longof a trip to get there. Well,
the good news for us is whenwe still get to talk to you
while they're over there exactly, allright, thanks so much. All right,
thanks Karen. Let's get back tosome of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour. Newsfrom Major League Baseball has placed Dodgers pitcher
Julio Urias on administrative leave following hisarrest for domestic violence. He was arrested
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Sunday near BMO Stadium in LA.The Dodgers say the team is fully cooperating
with the league's investigation. They're alsoreplacing the September twenty first Urius bubblehead giveaway
with what they call a giveaway ofselect premium bubbleheads leftovers. A new law
pushed by an assemblyman from Fullerton allowscounties to share data to stop an increase
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in homeless deaths. Just in OrangeCounty this last month, we had forty
seven deaths on the street. AssemblyWoman Sharing Quarksdilla says, the one hundred
thirty thousand people on the street inCalifornia are dying twenty years younger than everyone
else. We may not be solvinghomelessness. We may be dying our way
out of this. She says.Sharing data between healthcare, law enforcement,
and other agencies will help spot trends, whether it's increases in some type of
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viruses, cold exposure getting people intoshelters. The governor this month signed the
bill into law in Fullerton. CorbinCarson Kofy News. A judge in Georgia
has denied requests to sever the casesof two people charged along with former President
Trump in an election interference case.Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee yesterday denied the
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motions by lawyers of Kenneth Cheeseborough andSidney Powell. The first trial is set
for October twenty third. The judgesaid he is skeptical of the DA's plan
to start a trial for all nineteendefendants at the same time. I mean
and Florida has been arrested for allegedlytrying to run across the Atlantic Ocean to
London in a human sized hamster wheel. He was intercepted back on August twenty
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six. The Post Guard says thatGuy's homemade hydropod was put together with wiring,
and Booie's officials say it was notthe Ultra marathon runners first attempt at
the voyage. He was rescued bythe Coast Guard in twenty fourteen, twenty
sixteen and twenty twenty one trying todo the same thing. The charge this
time is operating an unregistered vessel okay, and this guy probably should not have
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been operating anything. A man inNebraska apparently called nine one one the other
night to report that another driver wasdriving on the wrong side of the highway.
Well, Lancaster County Sheriff's office dida little digging and they listened to
the nine one one call said I'mon Highway seventy seven going north. Somebody
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is on the wrong side of theroad and almost ran me off of the
road. So they went out toinvestigate. When authorities got there, it
became very clear that the caller himself, the guy who called nine one one,
was the one driving on the wrongside of the road and he was
drunk. Nice job. This isKF High and KOSTHD two, Los Angeles,
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Orange County. We lean local livefrom the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
I'm Amy King. This has beenyour wake up call, so glad
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KFI and kost HD two, LosAngeles, Orange County. It's time for
your morning wake up call. Here'sAmy King. This is your wake up
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call for Thursday, September seventh,Lucky Number seventh. I'm Amy King.
Good morning. Thanks for waking upwith us this morning. Here's what's ahead
on wake up call. A fortyeight year old former Orange County girls basketball
coach has been sentenced to one hundredand fifty years to life in prison for
sexually assaulting six of his players overa span of several years. Carlos Warez
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coached for club basketball teams as wellas at Major Day Aliso, Niguel,
Tustin, and Costa Mesa High schools. Federal prosecutors planned to indict Hunter Biden
by September twenty ninth on gun charges. The President's son had a plea agreement
that would have kept him out ofjail, but that fell apart in July.
The Dodgers Julio Urius has been benchedby Major League Baseball after he was
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arrested on domestic abuse charges. Hefaced similar allegations in twenty nineteen. That
case ended with deferred prosecution and domesticviolence counseling. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of theKFI twenty four hour newsroom. Air pollution
experts have testified people are suffering frombloody noses, nausea, and asthma attacks
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in recent months, tied to afoul smell coming from a landfill in Castaic.
At a meeting of the South CoastAir Quality Management District, experts said
the amount of noxious gases being releasedfrom the Chiquita Canyon landfill has been increasing.
The AQMD voted to order the landfillto make improvements to try to stop
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the stink. It also can keepoperating as long as it meets forty different
conditions required for improvements. Three menhave been charged with the murder and robbery
of a man at a scenic turnouton the Angelus Crest Highway in Pasadena.
The La County District Attorney's office saysthe man was shot several times in July
after he and a female passenger wererobbed. The Pasadena Police Department previously said
(02:20):
they thought the killing was connected tothe murders of two other people in a
car in Rancho Palace, forties.An admitted thief is facing two decades in
federal prison for robbing eight gas stationsaround La County. Samir Green says that
one gas station, he pointed ababy gun at a clerk and demanded money.
The clerk, who thought the gunwas real, gave Green seven hundred
dollars. US attorneys Kieran McAvoy saysGreen also admitted in a plea deal yesterday
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to robbing gas stations in Whittier,Pomona, and Culver City. He further
admitted to the April fifteenth cardjacking ofthe owner of a twenty cordwhile armed with
a baby gun, and Green hasbeen in federal custody since April eighteenth.
Green is facing up to twenty yearsin prison. His sentencing is set for
November. Blake Trolley k if IKnews. Dozens of business owners in West
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Hollywood have signed a letter asking thecity to hold off on future minimum wage
increases. The city has the highestminimum wage in the country at just over
nineteen dollars an hour. People livingin the city say they're still struggling despite
the increases. Some business owners saythey might have to shut down if the
wage increases continue. A second groupof officers is suing LAPD and the city
(03:27):
over the release of photos to ananti police website. The officers say they
feel the release of their department headshotsput them in a state of constant stress,
which they didn't have prior to thenegligent and reckless photo release. The
photos were sent to the website inMarch is part of a public records lawsuit,
but the undercover identities were not redactedby the LAPD. The undercover officers,
current and retired, were assigned tothe Major Crimes Division, the ATFS
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Gun Violence Reduction Task Force, theGames of Narcotics Division, and Human Trafficking,
all of which are high risk assignmentsrequiring undercover identities. Steve Gregory k
if I knew Mexico has ended itsfederal ban on abortion. The Supreme Court
decision yesterday requires the Federal Public HealthService to offer the procedure to anyone who
asks for it, but the Court'sdecision leaves in place a patchwork of varying
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state restrictions. Three sailors whose boatwas attacked by chart sharks while they traveled
to Australia have been rescued. Theywere able to send a distress signal earlier
this week EMI speaking absolutely side theylost. It enabled the rescue Coordination center
to identify the precise location. JoeZella with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority says
(04:34):
when the rescuers got to the sailorsin the Coral Sea, they found both
holes of the boat had been damagedby sharks. He says all three men
aboard are healthy and were obviously veryhappy to be rescued. Let's say good
morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, this was kind of a surprise.
A special council was just appointed acouple of weeks ago, and now it's
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been announced that federal prosecu tutors willlikely seek a granjury indictment of President Biden's
son Hunter, to the extent thatit's a surprise we have. Essentially prosecutors
are closing in on Hunter Biden withrespect to one charge, and that is
related to his purchase of a pistolin twenty eighteen at a time that he
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admits he was a drug user.On the form before you buy a handgun,
you have to certify that you arenot a drug user or addicted to
drugs. Hunter Biden signed the form. He ticked the box no. He
acknowledges it was a lie. Andthis was all part of a plea agreement
that hunter Biden thought he had withprosecutors earlier this summer, where he would
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plead guilty to two tax related misdemeanorsfor failing to pay his taxes in twenty
seventeen and twenty eighteen, and inexchange, prosecutors would set aside or defer
the felony gun possession charge. Butwhen that deal started to unravel an open
court in late July, when thejudge siding over the matter started asking questions
about the scope of the immunity thatprosecutors were going to grant and what it
all covered and what it didn't andwhat hunter Biden's understanding of the deal was,
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it all fell apart, and inthe intervening weeks a couple of things
have happened. One, prosecutors havestated in writing that they believe that they're
at impass with the defense team.And two, David Weiss, who is
the US attorney in Delaware who's beenoverseeing this matter for the last five years,
got authority from the Attorney General herein Washington to become a special counsel,
which gives him a bit more autonomyon a day to day basis within
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the Justice Department, particularly when itcomes to charging decisions. So yesterday's court
filing, Why yesterday and what doesit all mean? Well, if prosecutors
are going to go to trial onat least that felony gun possession charge,
and I say at least for areason, they have to comply with the
terms of the Speedy Trial Act,which had certain deadlines, and one of
those deadlines for the felony gun possessioncharge happens to be the end of September,
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the end of this month, andso the prosecutors have put both parties
and the judge on notice that they'regoing to proceed with that fell in the
possession charge. In order to doso, they need to get an indictment.
They say they're going to do it, and they're going to beat the
deadline, which is the end ofthe month. So that's all we know
at the moment. The bigger questionis what else might be out there.
And at that plea agreement hearing earlierthis year as part of the reason it
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unraveled. The judge asked the prosecutorsa very pointed question, are they interested
in pursuing other matters? Are theyinvestigating Hunter Biden for whatever work he did
for overseas piece over the last tenyears as possible violations of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act FARA? And when theprosecutor said yes to that question, it
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really put Hunter Biden in his defenseattorneys on their heels because he thought that
they with this plea agreement, theywere done and there wouldn't be anything else
that they'd go after him. That'sexactly right. He thought he was tying
up all the loose ends. Atthe end of five years, the investigation
was completely over, that he wasessentially going to be cleared of any possible
wrongdoing. And when the prosecutors said, no, we're still investigating, well,
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then it all came apart. Sothe two sides were impass because Hunter
Biden and his defense attorneys insist thatnot only did he not break the law
and that in those other respects,but that they thought they had a deal.
It was in writing, they hadthe Probation Office sign off, and
they want that agreement enforced now onthe prosecution by the court. I think
it's unlikely, given the fact thatthe judge herself looked at the deal and
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said she didn't understand it and atthe two sides didn't agree on what it
all meant, how could it possiblybe enforceable. So we'll see what happens
next. But the deadline that wasrevealed yesterday in court papers as the end
of the month. The prosecutors saythey're gonna beat it and they're gonna bring
that one fell at a gun possessioncharge at least, okay. And then
so when the deal fell apart,he did plead not guilty. So does
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that still go forward or is thisis it separate or is it still the
same case. Well, he pleadednot guilty to the two tax related misdemeanors.
Okay, And so I think youknow, all we know at the
moment is the prosecutor say they're goingto move forward on that text sorry,
on that gun charge. It's confusing, yes, yes it is, and
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so so. But but what wehave to wait for is is really see
what happens next, because we haveprosecutors might they might move on a charge
just to put a placeholder down,And as we know, there are things
called superseding indictments where they can amendthe charges at new charges. And remember,
in the last several weeks, DavidWeiss has gotten approval to become a
special counsel. What's he going todo with that authority? We didn't know
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the answer yet. Okay, sowe're gonna be watching for September twenty nine.
I'm sure we're going to be talkingto you on that day. Thank
you so much for your time,Stephen, appreciate it. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four our newsroom.
A judge has temporarily blocked a ChinoValley School District policy making staff tell parents
if their kid identifies as trans oftransgender, or suicidal. Chino Valley School
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District lawyer Tony DeMarco says the policyonly applies to students who make official name
and gender changes to access facility.Of these are sports that are segregated by
sex. Fifty six percent reported toprevious suicide, yet professional educators are allowed
to tell parents stop. Deputy agDelbert Tran says school board comments make the
intent of the policy clear. Saidthe purpose of the policy was quote to
(10:15):
put a stop to transgenderous A.G rob Bonsa says the judges ruling yesterday
upholds LGBTQ right by immediately halting theboard's forced outing policy. San Bernardino Superior
Court Judge Tom Garza also brought upschool board comments that these students were under
a delusion or suffering from a mentalillness, and before ruling, he said,
I don't know what the purpose ofthis policy is. I don't know
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why this policy came up to singleout this class of individuals. Court resumes
next month at San Bernardino Superior Court. Corbin Carson Ko Fight News. Only
four of more than one hundred thirtyfive business owners in Monterey Park who applied
for a federal SBA disaster loan havebeen approved. Loan applications were open to
any business owner who claimed a hardshipfollowing that mass shooting in January that killed
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eleven people. Disaster loans are usuallyonly available to those who lost business in
events like a fire or flood,but local lawmakers lobbied the SBA for help
on this one. The Long BeachDepartment of Health and Human Services has started
handing out drink safety test kits thatcan detect illegal substances in beverages. Mayor
Rex Richardson says the city is takingproactive steps to prevent drink spiking. The
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kits are available to bars, restaurants, and community based organizations. A number
of Californians say they're dealing with hugeincreases on car insurance American Property Casualty Insurance
Associations. Bob Passmore says inflation isto blame. When the class of everything
that turns past war is going up, then there's only one potential. There's
(11:50):
only one result that it can happen, is that autominteranceperience are going to go
up too. Passmore claims every carinsurer in California is losing money, so
they need to rates. LA residentAngela Gould says she has a perfect driving
record, but her premium just wentup nearly thirty percent. I don't really
know what the solution is going tobe, but somebody's going to have to
step in and do something. TheDepartment of Insurances all rate increases have to
(12:13):
be justified by state law and thatthey thoroughly review applications to make sure drivers
only pay what's required. California's InsuranceCommissioner has recently approved a billion dollars in
rate increases. San Francisco is lookingfor ways to save the city's historic Fisherman's
Wharf, which has attracted tourists forgenerations. Officials say the pandemic arise in
(12:35):
crime, homelessness, and empty storefrontshave caused the area to lose its luster
and money too. Local developers haveproposed adding an event space, a seafood
oriented food hall, interactive phishing tradeexhibits, and a small fish processing facility
to try to revamp the area.They say they're shifting focus from maintaining a
tourist attraction to preserving the wharf's legacy. A man has been killed in a
(13:00):
shootout with SWAT officers in rialto afterpolice say he deliberately crashed into a Chino
motorcycle officer who was trying to pullhim over. Former President Trump is on
track to sweep all the delegates atdelegates at next year's Republican Convention in California.
Latest bowls suggest he continues to holda commanding lead over Florida Governoronda Santis
and the pack of other candidates.Are you ready for some football? The
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NFL kicks off? It's twenty twentythree season tonight with the Super Bowl champion
Chiefs hosting the Detroit Lions in KansasCity at six oh five. It's handled
on the news Hunter Biden could befacing a federal indictment. We'll dig into
that, but right now, let'ssay good morning to ABC's crime and terrorism
expert Brad Garrett, the guy whogets in the bad guy's heads. Good
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morning, Good morning. The manhunt for an escaped murder in Pennsylvania continues.
Danello Cavalcante escaped a week ago fromthe Chester County Prison, which is
west of Philadelphia, and Brad,we seem to be so how fascinated when
bad guys break out of jail?What's our attraction? So it's the thrill,
it's the excitement, it's the intrigue, it's the danger. I mean,
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amy, think about it this way. If you're watching some crime drama
on the streaming service, they alwayshook you with the intrigue of somebody about
to be killed, about escaping ina car chase. Prison escapes with the
same profile. Obviously, it's adaring thing to break out of Princeton.
It's dangerous, but it's also exciting. How did he do it, How
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did he get out? Where ishe going to go when we get caught?
What's going on in his own headto hopefully help him not get caught?
All of these things people are drawnto. I mean, it was
a lead story on GMA this morning, a prison break. Okay, so
that gives you an idea the audienceattraction. Well, and this guy is
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I mean super bad guy. Rightshot and killed his girlfriend in front of
her children, and then got awaywhile he was being transferred from one prison
to another. Right or before thathappened, but they were talking. There
was talk about him like scaling awall like Spider Man or something when he
was trying to get out. Sowhat he did. In May of this
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year, in the same prison,a guy escaped exactly the same way.
The only difference is I think hewent up the same wall. Did that
catwalk up the wall and through somerazor wire and then ends up in a
prison yard and then eventually escapes fromthere. The May guy was caught by
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a guy in the tower, seeshim, calls it out, and within
ten minutes they catch him. Thisguy wasn't spotted for who knows what reason.
He had an hour head start untilthey had count. An hour later,
they realized he was gone. Butthe problem in all of these prison
escaped with a few that have plansbeyond once they get out, who's going
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to help me? Is they don'thave any help. They don't have any
money, they don't have any means, and so they go on and run.
You know, this is a typicallocation of a prison in the US
that's in the middle of nowhere,so wooded area. I think there are
a number of probably summer homes wherepeople go. So in other words,
the point being, there will behomes someone lives in that he could break
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into. He's been seeing with abackpack of their clothing, so he's gotten
into somebody's house. Well, anddid you hear about the one guy that
he the guy came home and heardnoises in his house and flipped on a
light switch on and off. Andthen apparently the escaped man flipped a light
switch on and off like to say, dude, I'm in your house.
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That's freaky. Well, and that'salso very dairy. It sort of goes
right with the profile of somebody thatwould do something like this. I mean,
this the whole idea you're willing torisk everything, and in his case,
I mean, you know, hegot sentenced to life. He's wanted
for a murder in Brazil. Imean, this guy's got literally nothing to
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lose. So if you got tokill me, kill me. But I'm
going to get out of here andsee how far i can get. So
it doesn't surprise me. He gotinto a light switch challenge with the owner
of the house. Yeah, okay, so he's been out on the loose
for like a week. He's stillin the area. They're saying that he's
within about three miles of the prison. So, like you said, he
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doesn't have a plan to get out. So how are they ultimately going to
catch him, Because obviously you haveto eat, you have to sleep,
and those two things tend to getyou caught. Let's say he's broken into
a house and no one has shownup yet, and the police don't obviously
know he's there. There might bea limited food in the house, or
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he may see feel that a neighbormay have spotted him or something like that,
and so he moves. When hemoves to find food or shelter or
try to steal a car, he'snow touched society basically, His picture obviously
is all over the board in thispart of Pennsylvania, and that's what gets
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you caught. Movement, food,shelter, get you caught. And my
guess is that's what eventually we'll gethim caught. So as much as we
would like it to happen right now, it's sort of it's a waiting game.
To wait for him to make mistakes, that's it, or get a
lucky tip. Yeah. In otherwords, somebody has a summer home,
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they are, you know, pullingtheir driveway, they see a window open,
lights are on, and they callthe police something like that, and
he gets caught. All right.Well, so we'll we'll be watching for
it, no doubt, all right, And I'm just glad that it didn't
happen here. Brad Garrett, thankyou so much for your time and insight
(18:52):
this morning. I appreciate it aton. You're welcome, take care of
Amy. You two talk to yousoon. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour newsroom. A man in
Long Beach has been arrested in connectionwith a series of car fires around the
city. Police arrested one person inconnection with five separate fires along Seaside Way
where cars were torched and parking structures. Long Beach Fire Chief Dennis Buchanan says
(19:14):
tips from the community helped investigators makethe arrest. This investigation is ongoing for
details will be limited to not compromisethe integrity of this investigation. Police say
the man was booked yesterday on suspicionof arson and possession of a concealed dirk
or dagger. Officials are investigating whetherothers were involved. Chris Adler KFI News.
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Federal prosecutors say they're planning to aska grand jury to indict President Biden's
son Hunter by the end of themonth. Court documents appeared to show allegations
related to a gun possession possession chargein which he was accused of having a
gun while being a drug user.US Attorney for Delaware, David Weiss,
referred to seeking an indictment before Septembertwenty ninth in a status report required by
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the judge. Lee is now ahurricane. It's in the Mid Atlantic,
heading west northwest and gaining strength.Lee is expected to reach major hurricane status
by Saturday, with winds up toone hundred and fifty miles per hour.
Forecasters say it could become the firstCategory five storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Did Jornou has released its most divisivepizza yet. The Pineapple Pickle Pizza
(20:25):
promised to be the most controversial pizzaon the market, featuring a hand tossed
crust and garlic sauce, with ahalf topped with pineapple and the other with
pickles. The company offered a limitednumber of pizzas online for free, but
they were gone within just a couplehours. Did Jorneau hasn't said if more
will be produced or if the PineapplePickle Pizza will ever hit grocery store shelves.
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Well, the spell has been cast. Halloween Time is back at the
Disneyland Resort and now k if Iwants to give you a chance to get
in on the celebration. This isso cool. Halloween Magic is returning to
both Snee California Adventure Park and DisneylandPark with Fiendish Family Fund. It'll be
a real treat now through October thirty. First, keep listening to KFI and
(21:08):
a wake up call for your chanceto win a four pack of one day
one park tickets. Right now,What am I on I'm on streaming stuff,
movies, TV shows, documentaries,sometimes network, but of course with
(21:32):
the actors and writers strikes, there'snot going to be a whole lot of
network stuff coming up. So we'regoing to focus on streaming. This week,
I'm going to focus on Dope Sickat the recommendation of our very own
Kno, because like my whole thingis, there's so much content out there,
you don't know what to watch,and how do you pick what to
watch? And I will tell youthere's something I'm watching right now, then
(21:53):
I'll probably tell you about next week. With them, I just want to
save your time. But uh,but last week we were talking about the
show called pain Killer, which starsMatthew Brodrick, and it's about the whole
opioid epidemic and the Sackler family andand Kono said, hey, if you
watched Dope Sick, which is alsoabout the opioid epidemic, And so I
(22:18):
immediately went got on my couch andwatched it. So it's based on real
stories of Americans who have suffered duringthe opioid epidemic. Stars Michael Keaton,
who is a small town doctor ina rural area in Coal Country, which
was really heavily hit by the opioidepidemic. It's on Hulu and the whole
series is out. It's like sixor seven episodes. So the premise is
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that MS Cotton is a drug andit's patented and it's about to expire,
and so the Sackler family that runsPerdue Pharma is freaking out because twenty five
percent of its sales are at stake, So they want to come up with
a long term pain medication that thecompany says is not addictive, and it's
being pushed by farmer reps as thissafe, miracle drug. So the story
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I think is really well acted.Like I liked it a lot better than
Painkiller. I think Painkiller seemed moresensationalized. This one was too, and
to a certain extent, but Ithink this one was more real. And
with Michael Keaton at the helm,I just think he was fabulous. But
it bounces back and forth between thesmall town that's affected as people start to
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get on the OxyContin, and thenalso the investigators and prosecutors and how they
start making the connection that oxy wasbeing marketed as something that it wasn't.
It portrays, it's portrayed as thatthey need to get these doctors to push
the drugs on their patients at prettymuch any cost. And that was a
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common theme between Dopsic and Painkiller,but I think that this one was done
more realistically. It was more likeit's all a big party, and you
know that the reps are just stupidpeople who are devoid of any ethics or
anything like this. This the repin this guy and it's Oh, I
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don't know the actor's name, buthe was in He was in the Marvel
movies. He was in Guardians ofthe Galaxy three and he was the gold
guy. I can't remember the actor'sname, but anyway, the Sackler,
the guy who plays Sackler is portrayedas desperate to make more money and it's
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all about the money, so likePainkiller, and he is just a nasty,
nasty guy. And the sad partabout this is that drugs can be
life saving, but that's not howthis is portrayed. And if this is
how everything really went down, likethe Sackler family really is evil, like
they are portrayed that way, andwhether that's an accurate depiction because they say
(24:55):
it's fictionalized, if it's real,they deserve a lot more than the billions
of dollars in fines that they got, because nobody is serving any time for
this, but they got slapped witha huge amount of fines. But it
also portrays the doctors as kind oflemmings who don't listen to their patients,
and it disregards that doctors can bevery adept at prescribing drugs on a short
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term basis than getting off of beforethey become addictive. And so but it
had to have happened in some regardbecause this thing got so out of control
and probably and still is an issue. So I think that this was a
really really good show, And likeI said, it's six or seven episodes
and you really want to find outwhat happens even though you know what happens,
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which I'm always fascinated by these showsthat you know what the outcome is,
but you can't wait to see howthey get there. So Dope Stick
on Hulu. Highly recommend it.And then just a quick mention on a
completely different kind of show, VirginRiver season six five. The next season
a Virgin River, which is likea Hallmark movie, but the whole series
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that comes out today. Can't waitto watch that. It's sort of a
nice little escapism. And then TheLittle Mermaid, the live action just came
out on Disney Plus, so it'snow included. You don't have to rent
it. It's included on your DisneyPlus. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour newsroom. The Fire Department
in New York has added forty threenames to the World Trade Center Memorial Wall.
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The firefighters died of illnesses related totheir rescue and recovery efforts on September
eleventh and a ground zero, andthey embodied what it means to be a
member of the FDNY. Chief JohnHodgen says this is the second largest group
of names added to the wall sinceit was created in twenty eleven. He
says the number of firefighters lost tonine to eleven related illnesses more than two
(26:44):
decades later, is almost as manyas those who died on nine to eleven.
The State Assembly has passed a billthat would make California the third state
to decriminalized psychedelic drugs for personal use. A broader version of the bill obviously
passed the state Senate, and thefinal versions expected to pass next week.
The measure will then go to GovernorNewsom for a final approval. He has
(27:07):
to sign it. If he does, Californians twenty one and up would be
allowed to ingest, possess, cultivate, or transport small amounts of psychedelic drugs
like hallucinogenic mushrooms. Two people whoowned garment industry businesses in South LA have
been charged in an alleged wage theftcase. It was filed by a new
unit in the DA's office that willspecialize in businesses in which workers are being
(27:30):
underpaid. The business owners had agreedin twenty eighteen to pay settlements to former
workers for underpaying them. President Biden'son his way to the G twenty summit
in India. He set to flyout of Joint Base Andrews this afternoon.
After the summit, Biden is scheduledto visit Vietnam. White House Press Secretary
Karine Jean Pierre says Biden tested negativefor COVID again yesterday. First Lady Jill
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Biden tested positive earlier this week.The Biden administration is canceled the remaining seven
oil and gas leases in Alaska's ArcticNational Wildlife Refuge The administration has also proposed
stronger protections against development on thirteen millionacres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Bruce Springsteen and E Street Ban havepostponed all performances for this month,
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starting with tonight's show in New York. Springsteen is being treated for symptoms of
peptic ulcer disease. That doesn't soundfun, and medical advisers urged him to
cancel the shows. His statement yesterdaysaid he is sad to have to postpone,
but they'll be back. He alsothanked fans for their understanding and support.
Have you ever gotten one of thosetexts that says, oh, hey,
(28:40):
it's your bank. You need tocall us right now because there's something
screwy with your account, or we'reclosing your account, or you won't have
access to your account until you contactus. Well, the Federal Trade Commission
recently revealed that the most reported textmessage scam is bank impersonations. They apparently
have jumped to twenty times the numberreported in twenty nineteen in just last year,
(29:06):
so lots more are going out therebecause obviously the bad guys are figuring
out that they can get money.Consumers have reported losses of more than three
hundred and thirty million dollars in textmessage scams in twenty twenty two. So
the FTC says, there's a coupleof things you should do, so I'm
just going to let you know whatthey are. One that text message scammers
make you feel like you have todo something right now or you're going to
(29:27):
lose your money, So they saydon't make any money moves under pressure.
So if you get anything that says, oh, call us now, or
your bank's going to be cut offor you're not gonna have access to your
accounts, that's a warning sign foryou. If you get a text message
that you're not expecting, also bewary of that, especially if it looks
like it might be from your bank. And then don't click on the links
(29:51):
the links from any unsolicited message.If you do get a message, maybe
go on to the website where yourbank account is and reach out to their
customers service people there or call yourbanks to find out if it's a legitimate
message. Also, just as youdon't click on a link that's texted by
someone you don't know, don't clickon or dial a phone number that you
get in a text so even againwhen i'd say call your bank, don't
(30:15):
use the phone number that you getin the text message. Go actually to
the bank's website or call, youknow, go to the directory or something
and find what your bank's phone numberis, and don't call the number that's
texted to you. And if youdo fall victim, there are a couple
of things you should do. One, tell your bank about it, to
report the scam to local law enforcement, and three file a complaint with the
(30:37):
FTC. And I hope you don'tget scammed, because it is scary.
You get that message, you go, oh no, I'm going to be
cut off. I have to dosomething. Don't. Let's say good morning
to ABC White House correspondent Karen Travers. Karen, the president's people said he
was going to wear a mask forten days after first Lady Jill tested positive,
but apparently kind of missed the memoyesterday. Yeah, you know,
(31:00):
he had it on yesterday when hecame into an event with union dockworkers and
port executives. But you know,again, it seemed a little briskly about
it. He walked in, hehad masked, he took it off,
he said, let me explain tothe press. I've been tested again today.
I'm clear across the board, butthey keep telling me, because it
has to be ten days or something, I gotta keep wearing it. But
(31:22):
don't tell him I didn't have iton when I walked in, trying to
make the points that he was followinga protocol out on his way into the
room. But you know, itdidn't seem really eager to embrace mask wearing
again, And you know, maybethat kind of fits with what many people
around the country would be feeling.Too keen a while since he's worn a
mask consistently. We think it wasabout a year when we went back and
(31:44):
look at some video. But hehas to based on the CDC guidance.
The White House was said they're followingthe CDC guidance to mask up for ten
days since that close contact with thefirst lady who tested positive on Monday.
But you know, he has beena little inconsistent with wearing it, coming
into a room, not wearing itduring a speech, not wearing it when
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he was very close to that Vietnamveteran the other day giving him a medal.
And I asked yesterday if that wasan oversight, was a mistake was
he supposed to put it back onthe White House wouldn't call it that,
but emphasize that you know he isdoing it trying to follow the CDC guidance,
is us they can well. Andwhen that kind of stuff happens,
it kind of puts Carinjon Pierre ina tough spot because she has to say,
(32:28):
of course, we're doing everything wecan, and then everybody's going,
uh, didn't you just watch this? He literally didn't have the mask on
and he was right behind the Medalof Honor recipient right like breathing in his
face there yesterday, And you know, they had said that when he was
at a close distance that he wouldbe masked. And he's gonna be going
into G twenty sun at tonight travelingto India, a very well trip to
(32:51):
get there. But he'll have meetingstomorrow evening in India and then all day
Saturday, and he'll be around alot of people and he'll be in close
contact with people. So I asked, if you know there'll be any changes
to his behavior, like should weexpect for him over these next couple of
days, And they said he'll bemasked during these next few days while he's
traveling, and that he'll be testedregularly and working in consulication with his doctor
(33:14):
monitoring symptoms. But you know,I think it's something that you might not
be thrilled a valve because the valuesone on one face to face diplomacy.
But it's gonna look a little differentfor him. Yeah, okay. And
and in the meantime, you justmentioned he tested negative again yesterday or last
night. So he's going on theplane today to G twenty. And then
how the Jill's okay, yeah,but what House said, she's feeling fine
(33:36):
yesterday. But the president will testagain today. Everybody will that's getting on
air Force one. And that actuallywould have happened even if the firstly he
had not tested positive. All theydo that for every trip. Anybody getting
on Air Force one. Okay,Karen. Travelers say, oh, are
you going? Do you get totravel with him? I am not,
I am not. My two colleaguesare already there though we got two people
on the ground. I think they'dlanded by now. They actually might not
(33:59):
be there yet. It's that longof a trip to get there. Well,
the good news for us is whenwe still get to talk to you
while they're over there exactly, allright, thanks so much. All right,
thanks Karen. Let's get back tosome of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour. Newsfrom Major League Baseball has placed Dodgers pitcher
Julio Urias on administrative leave following hisarrest for domestic violence. He was arrested
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Sunday near BMO Stadium in LA.The Dodgers say the team is fully cooperating
with the league's investigation. They're alsoreplacing the September twenty first Urius bubblehead giveaway
with what they call a giveaway ofselect premium bubbleheads leftovers. A new law
pushed by an assemblyman from Fullerton allowscounties to share data to stop an increase
(34:42):
in homeless deaths. Just in OrangeCounty this last month, we had forty
seven deaths on the street. AssemblyWoman Sharing Quarksdilla says, the one hundred
thirty thousand people on the street inCalifornia are dying twenty years younger than everyone
else. We may not be solvinghomelessness. We may be dying our way
out of this. She says.Sharing data between healthcare, law enforcement,
and other agencies will help spot trends, whether it's increases in some type of
(35:06):
viruses, cold exposure getting people intoshelters. The governor this month signed the
bill into law in Fullerton. CorbinCarson Kofy News. A judge in Georgia
has denied requests to sever the casesof two people charged along with former President
Trump in an election interference case.Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee yesterday denied the
(35:27):
motions by lawyers of Kenneth Cheeseborough andSidney Powell. The first trial is set
for October twenty third. The judgesaid he is skeptical of the DA's plan
to start a trial for all nineteendefendants at the same time. I mean
and Florida has been arrested for allegedlytrying to run across the Atlantic Ocean to
London in a human sized hamster wheel. He was intercepted back on August twenty
(35:51):
six. The Post Guard says thatGuy's homemade hydropod was put together with wiring,
and Booie's officials say it was notthe Ultra marathon runners first attempt at
the voyage. He was rescued bythe Coast Guard in twenty fourteen, twenty
sixteen and twenty twenty one trying todo the same thing. The charge this
time is operating an unregistered vessel okay, and this guy probably should not have
(36:13):
been operating anything. A man inNebraska apparently called nine one one the other
night to report that another driver wasdriving on the wrong side of the highway.
Well, Lancaster County Sheriff's office dida little digging and they listened to
the nine one one call said I'mon Highway seventy seven going north. Somebody
(36:35):
is on the wrong side of theroad and almost ran me off of the
road. So they went out toinvestigate. When authorities got there, it
became very clear that the caller himself, the guy who called nine one one,
was the one driving on the wrongside of the road and he was
drunk. Nice job. This isKF High and KOSTHD two, Los Angeles,
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Orange County. We lean local livefrom the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
I'm Amy King. This has beenyour wake up call, so glad
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