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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
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Orange County and your Amy.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, it is five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Thursday, October two. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good day to
be a Dodger fan. Got my Dodger Blue on. You
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know what. I listened to the game last night on
AM five seventy k LAC. Actually I listened on the
iHeartRadio app because I can't watch the game on TV.
I don't get it. It's on ESPN. I don't have ESPN.
It's not on National TV. I think the next series
is on TBS, and I think that my Sling package
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has TBS, so hopefully I'll get to actually watch the game.
But listening to the game, oh my god, I love it.
It's so great to hear Charlie Steiner and Rick Monday
just they do such an amazing job calling the game
and it makes it so much fun to listen to.
So while I couldn't watch it, I was there in
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spirit and now I'm a little bit bummed because I'm
so excited, because of course the Dodgers are moving on,
headed to the Division series against Philadelphia on Saturday. But
I had tickets to tonight's game, Game three, and so
my friend Amy and I were both sitting there going, God,
I hope we don't have to go to the game
tomorrow night. Wait a second, we really want to go
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to the game. But I'm better that we're not. It's
all good. It's all good. Here's what's ahead on wake
up call. The federal government shutdown for a second day
after the Senate could not pass Democratic or Republican funding
measures for a second time. Lawmakers held procedural votes on
two bills yesterday to stop the shutdown. Both failed. The
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shutdown is likely to last until at least tomorrow, as
senators have left town in observance of the Jewish holiday
Yam Kapoor. Two people have been killed three others hurt
when a car plowed into a crowd and a man
got stabbed outside of synagogue in the UK. It happened
this morning around nine to thirty local time on Yam Kapur,
the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. In the Greater
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Manchester area. Police say they believe the attacker has been killed.
Champion for Chimpanzees, Jane Goodall has died. The Jane Goodall
Institute says she died of natural causes while she was
here in California. She was supposed to speak yesterday in
Pasadena to a thousand students from Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and
LA schools. Goodall has been studying chimpanzees in the wild
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since nineteen sixty. She was ninety one. What a beautiful soul.
As I mentioned, it's day two of the shutdown. Are
some of the furloughs going to turn into firings. ABC's
Karen Travers is going to join us to start that
out cold and flu season is upon us. ABC's Jim
Ryan's gonna join us to tell us about how the
common cold is becoming even more common. What's up with that?
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We'll be talking to Jim a little bit later this hour. Also,
we're going out and about to a place that I
didn't even know existed until a couple of weeks ago.
It's the Big Bear Alpine Zoo. Let's start to the zoo. Yes,
let's go to the zoo. We're going to go to
the zoo at about five twenty. Amazing place. Amazing place.
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Even if you're not a fan of zoos. I'm cool
with zoos. But even if you're not a fan, I
think you're gonna be able to throw your support behind
this one. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. LA
City Council has express support for a ban on city
workers finding extra work work with federal immigration agencies.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
The council voted to have the city attorney draft a
new ordinance prohibiting that line of work. Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez
says it's needed to help maintain trust in local government.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Particularly at a time when our federal government has made
it quite clear they have absolutely zero intention in shoring
up and strengthening people's trust in their government.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
City workers are typically allowed to have outside work with permission,
but this would expressly prohibit immigration enforcement jobs if the
laws adopted. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ice agents are said to attend the twenty twenty six
Super Bowl at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara. Department of
Homeland Security Advisor Corey Lewandowski said yesterday, there is nowhere
that you can provide safe haven to people in this
country illegally. Bad Bunny has been announced as the halftime
performer for the game. He told him magazine last night
that he's not performing in the US during his upcoming
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world tour, partly because of concerns over ICE raids at
his concerts. ICE is deported about fifty five hundred people
in California in the first seven months of this year.
That's a seventy eight percent increase from roughly three thousand
deportations during the same period last year. The Deportation Data
Project at UC Berkeley says another nine hundred have voluntarily
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left the country. Nationally, ICE deported one hundred and forty
three thousand people from January to July, which is actually
about fourteen percent lower than last year. During the same time,
teens at Esperanza High School in Anaheim have staged a
walkout because female students have come forward saying they don't
feel safe with transgender girls in the girls' restrooms. Leander
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Blades with the Placentia Yorberlinda School District joined the students yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Our females not feel.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Safe in bath rooms, Our females not sold feel safe
on the.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Fladfield Blades, says she backs the students and wants to
raise awareness. She goes on to say that the issue
at Esperanza has gotten bigger to the point where there
are no longer Kings or Queen's at homecoming. The district
says it follows state law allowing by iological males to
participate in girls' sports. Let's say good morning now to
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ABC's Karen Travers. Okay, Karen, we're into day two of
the shutdown. Thousands of workers are being furloughed. But are
they going to lose their jobs permanently?
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:16):
The White House is indicating yes, there will be layoffs coming.
I think the question is when and who is going
to be targeted, and that answer is not clear yet.
There were mixed messages coming from the White House yesterday.
Vice President Vance was at the briefing and said that
no final decisions have been made and said if this
drags on for days or weeks, we're going to have
to lay people off. But just minutes later at the
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exact same podium, Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said that the
layoffs will be imminent, very soon and said they could
begin within two days, but she wouldn't say who is
going to be targeted in this, what departments, what agencies,
what percentage of federal workers. So this is very much
uncertain right now, and even House Republicans who are briefed
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by the White House Budget Director didn't get more answers
on what this is going to look like. There isn't
even really a solid reason on the why behind this.
This hasn't happened before in a government shutdown. Workers aren't
getting paid right now, but they do get paid once
the funding comes through. They get back pay for you know,
the times that they miss paychecks. But the the Vice
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President said yesterday that because they are concerned about essential
services continuing, they feel they need to do layoffs to
make sure that that all continues.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
But you know, again, workers aren't.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Getting paid right now, so that's an important thing to remember.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's going to be interesting to see how that plays out.
And interesting too that, like you were just saying that,
what the Vice President said and then what Caroline Lovett
said moments later, we're completely different things, and you wonder, like, Okay,
which message is right, And it seems like a sort
of it happens a lot in this administration. And I
don't know if it's because things are moving so fast
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or what, but don't you haven't you found that that
happens a lot.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
It does, And it's tough to square that when it's
the Vice president saying one thing and then minutes later
it is the Press secretary who speaks for the president.
But I think we've also heard from the President himself
in an interview saying that there will be firings, and
he said it's Democrats faults for the fact of firings.
They're also targeting programs too. The White House had said
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yesterday they're going to be freezing energy projects in sixteen states,
all states that voted for Democrats in the last election.
And they're targeting a project, a big, significant infrastructure project
in New York, which of course is the home to
Chuck Schumer and King Jeffries, the Democratic leaders in the
House and Senate.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay, and where are lawmakers there all at home now
because it's young good for right?
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Well, the Senate still is here essentially, they're just taking
the day off, but they're expected to be back tomorrow
and we'll see what the expectation is then for tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
In terms of votes.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
They really weren't negotiations happening yesterday, so we'll see if
they're back at it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
All right, ABC's Karen Travers at the White House. Thanks
so much. He Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the k f I twenty four
hour newsroom. Police in England say two people have been
killed and three hurt in an attack outside a synagogue
in Manchester on what is considered the holiest day on
the Jewish calendar. Police say a car was driven at
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members of the public and a man was stabbed outside
the synagogue. The man who did it was shot by police.
British Prime Minister Kir Starmer, who is at a summit
of European leaders in Copenhagen, said in a post on
x that he was appalled by the attack. Israel's defense
ministers ordered all remaining Palestinians to leave Gaza City and
says anyone who stays will be considered a militant supporter
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and face the full force of Israel's latest offensive. President
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Etanne, who recently agreed
on a plan to end the war a senior Hamas
official says there are some points in the proposal that
are unacceptable and must be amended. He didn't say which ones.
The Israeli navy has intercepted a flotilla of humanitarian aid
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headed to Gaza.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
The Israeli navy has begun intercepting boats of the Gaza
flotilla and detaining hundreds of activists on board. The Israeli
navy used water cannons, and activists say one boat was rammed,
but no injuries have been reported. The activists are being
taken to the port of Ashdod to be processed and deported.
Turkey's Foreign ministry called the interception an act of terrorism,
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and Columbia's president said that he would expel Israeli diplomats
and break off a free trade agreement if the Israeli
military intercepted the flotilla. Blake Sifton Tel Aviv.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The FBI is ending its partnership with the Anti Defamation League.
In a post yesterday, FBI director Cash Pttel accused the
Jewish advocacy group of spying on Americans. He also claimed
former FBI had James Comy wrote what he called love
letters to the Anti Defamation League and embedded FBI agents
with the ADL has been criticized by Republicans recently because
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it included Charlie Kirk's organization Turning Point USA in its
glossary of extremism. South Korean workers in the US are
getting a pass for now.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
The United States has agreed to allow South Korean workers
on short term visas or a visa waiver program to
help build industrial sites in America. The announcement yesterday comes
weeks after South Korea flew home more than three hundred
of its nationals who had been detained in a massive
immigration rate at a battery factory being built on Hyundai's
auto plant campus near Savannah, Georgia.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Deborah Mark KFI News Walmart has announced changes to the
ingredients in the food itself.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
It's removing synthetic dies and over thirty other ingredients from
its private label brands. These ingredients include some preservatives and
fat substitutes. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy had already announced plans
to phase out eight synthetic food dies from the US
food supply.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
ABC's Brian Clarks's. Walmut will roll out the changes over
the coming months and should be complete by January of
twenty twenty seven, streaming is trickling down.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
Streaming services, food delivery perks, and other digital subscriptions are
being cut back dramatically. New data says the average household
has trimmed its number of paid subscriptions thirty two percent,
from more than four to less than three in just
the last year. Subscribers say the price heights are too
much and what you get for the money is not
worth it. ESPN plus was the number one streamer for
people who say they don't use it and plan to
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cancel it, while caviare is the most unused food delivery
service researchers in nearly three quarters of subscribers are actively
trimming their digital expenses. Michael Krozer, kf I News.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So how about those Dodgers. No dingers last night? There
were like four or five the night before, but lots
of hits for the boys in blue.
Speaker 13 (12:46):
Wine fairball down the left field line, have a night.
Mookie bets Rojas, gonna Trotten in score all Tony held
up at third, Wookie bets four for five with three doubles.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Woo, and he's knocked in four runs.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
And then, of course, the final call of the game
last night, which I stayed up late. I didn't get
enough sleep because I had to listen to the whole game.
Speaker 13 (13:13):
Dodgers eight Bread's four bas is empty, two outs of
the ninth, nothing in two on hayes okay, Sassaki sets
and fires soft Lander to short bets is there?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
That's so?
Speaker 13 (13:27):
In for relay. The Dodgers are going to the National
League Division Series. The Dodgers are going to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yes they are so. The Dodgers win the National League
Wild Card and next is the National League Division Series.
Starts on Saturday afternoon three point thirty start our time,
and you can listen to all the action on our
sister station, AM five seventy KLAC. Charlie Steiner and rickmunder
do such a great job. A fifty four year old
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man's expected to please guilty today to taking over and
robbing a bank in Anaheim, a day after he got
out of state prison. Prosecutors say Eric Gray wandered around
the lobby for a while, then jumped over the counter
and grabbed about two thousand dollars cash During the robbery.
He then held the tellers and manager in a storage
room before he let them go and surrendered to police.
The La City Council's voted fourteen to nothing to move
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forward with an ordinance to ban city workers from taking
outside jobs with federal agencies who are conducting immigration enforcement.
The council says it is critical to maintaining community trust.
Mookie Betts went four for five and racked up three
RBIs to help lift the Dodgers to an eight to
four win over the Reds at Dodgers Stadium. The win
advances LA to the National League Division Series against the Phillies.
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The teams headed to Philadelphia today. The best of five
series gets underway Saturday afternoon at six oh five. It's
Handle on the news. Of course, as I mentioned, Handle
is out, Neil is in, and could lawmakers actually be
working to get the government back open? Hm wa wait
here she said, Oh my dad died. My mom took
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me kid zoo. No wait wait, because I want to
tell you more about my dad.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Well we start to the zoo.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, it's one of my favorite scenes. Jerremgier speaking of
the Zoo this week, wake up Call is out and
about to a place that I did not even know
existed until a couple of weeks ago. So I had
to go check it out. We are at the Big
Bear Alpine Zoo. Christy McGivern is the assistant curator. She's
been with the Alpine Zoo for thirty years. Christy, tell
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us what we're going to see at your zoo and
rehabilitation center.
Speaker 14 (15:41):
We're going to get to see a lot when you
come here, Like wolves, like our wolves.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Check out the wolves. Oh my gosh, oh gorgeous.
Speaker 14 (15:47):
Our zoo started in nineteen fifty nine up here in
Big Bear as a home to animals that were displaced
during a fire, and then in nineteen sixty the county
took it over, bought the land which is like less
than a mile up the street here, and started taking
and all kinds of animals that needed assistance, and we've
just kind of blossomed from that. One of our main
goals is to rehabilitate animals. So when we get animals in,
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we take them up to our animal care center, see
what they need. Sometimes it's just like they need a
night of rest or some extra food. Sometimes they need
surgery or a little longer care. We get them whatever
they need, and then our main goal is to get
them back out to the wild if for some reason
we noticed that they're not going to be able to
take care of themselves in the wild. They can't protect
themselves the or hunt for food. Then we find them
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a home here with us, which is although animals that
you see out here are permanent residents. So all of
these guys are here for one reason or another and
can't go back out.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And some of those reasons because you just to go over.
Like one of the things that you showed us is
we saw some of the birds, like some of them
had been.
Speaker 14 (16:47):
Some animals people tried to make pets out of and
found out that having a wild animal is not a
good idea. Some come from other zoos where they just
weren't working out what the animals they lived with, and
they needed to find another home for them. So if
we have room, we'll take them. Some are confiscations fish
and wildlife. Sometimes will get a call and they'll go
to someone's house and find out they have, you know,
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an animal that they shouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So for example, there is that there are bobcats and
they are so beautiful, and tell us about the bobcats.
Somebody thought it was a kitten.
Speaker 14 (17:16):
The one bobcat we have Shakespeare, Yeah, he was found
in a lady's backyard. Her dogs found him under a
tree and brought him into the house, and she thought
they'd found a little kitten, so she took it in
and it didn't take too long to notice. But his
sounds that he was making, even with his eyes closed,
were not regular housecats sounds. So then they called around
and tried to find a home that could take him,
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but his eyes were still closed when he came, so
because his eyes were closed, he imprinted on he heard people.
And so you can't release apex predators when they have people.
They think people are friends. So usually if they come
with their eyes open, they already know what they are.
Like they he would know he was a bobcat, but
because his eyes were closed, he just assumed we were
his caretakers. And so he gets to stay here with
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us and live out a happy little.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I love and it's different. Like I know that there
are people who don't like zoos personally, I'm not one
of them. I think they're important for education, but this
one is especially special. And I love that you're rescuing
animals and then helping them because they couldn't be in
the wild exactly and.
Speaker 14 (18:14):
Rehab is my favorite portion of doing this job because
it's such a good feeling to give an animal a
second chance. Like today we're going to be going to
release a hawk that came in that had some injuries
and now he's feeling better, so today we're going to
take him out and set him free back where he
came from. And it just feels good to let them
do that. And then for the ones that are here,
they get the best of care they get en Richmond,
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the best of food, healthcare. I mean, they're very well
taken care of.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Okay, and then tell me too, because we have eagles
and everybody, if you have ever listened to Wake Up Call,
you know, have a soft spot for the eagles. And
you do have a bald eagle who is one of
the permanent residents and it's because she can't see. So
she can't Yeah, she has cataracts.
Speaker 14 (18:53):
And so she was basically found starving at a nearby lake,
not on our mountain, but the next mountain over, and
they noticed that she was on the ground a lot
and not hunting, and when they caught her up, she
was really thin, and then that's when they discovered her eyes.
So she had to be pulled or else she would
end up starving to death out there, and so she
came here to.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Live with us. I love that. And then as you
mentioned the rehab, there's also a golden eagle who is
just here for a short time.
Speaker 14 (19:15):
Yes, we got in a golden eagle this year when
we had some really bad windstorms up here that shut
the power off. He was found off the just on
the back side of our mountain here and so he
probably got blown out of his nest during that time
and just kind of walked his way down to this
facility and was sitting there, and it was at one
of the Mitsubishi plants, and they kept driving back and
forth past him and thought, well, he's not moving, so
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something must be wrong. So they caught him up and
threw a whirl wind of making calls. He ended up
up here. And so now we've got him strong, he
can fly back and forth. We're teaching him to hunt
right now. So once he officially learns how to hunt properly.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
And we ca.
Speaker 14 (19:53):
Yeah, he's a little challenge, but he's getting there, Okay.
Then once he's strong enough, yeah, he's ready go back
out and that'll be a great day when he gets
to go, it'll be a great video.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yes, absolutely, this is so amazing. So when can people
come and see this?
Speaker 14 (20:07):
So we're open three hundred and sixty four days a year.
We are closed on Christmas. We're still here feeding and
cleaning and medicating, but the zoo is closed so that
the staff can go home and be with their families.
But we're open from ten to four every.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Day during the summer ten to five and then in
the winter time, so even when it snows and stuff,
you can still come see them.
Speaker 14 (20:25):
Yes, and it's very fun because a lot of these animals,
because of their thick coats, during the winter is their
time to shine. So like the wolves, the snow leopards,
all of them are very active and out where you
can see them. During the sunny days, they're going to
be hiding in the shady spot. So come early morning
or late towards closing.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And lets you going to the wolves because they're just
hanging out.
Speaker 14 (20:43):
Well, if it's an overcast day, you get a good
day too.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Awesome.
Speaker 14 (20:47):
But also this during October, we're doing twilight tours where
we come in at night and do tours with people
so they can see some of the nocturnal animals out
and about, and then we're also this year will be
our first year.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I think we're doing Christmas lights here, so it'll be
very exciting. We didn't even get a chance to talk
about the foxes and the snow leffers, so it might
be worth to try or a trip up for you
to come see them. It's the Big Bear Alpine Zoo. Christy,
thank you so much for your time and you're welcome.
It's such an amazing thank you guys for coming. That's
where we're out and about this week on wake Up Call.
And yeah, the snow leopards and the foxes are so
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beautiful and I did get some video of them, so
you can check out my whole interview and also take
a look at some of the amazing animals that call
the Alpine Zoo home. It's on my Instagram at Amy
K King. Also on Kfi's Instagram at KF. I am
six forty. I'm going to post that in just a
couple of minutes. But really a cool place, and I
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love the work that they do that they try to
get as many animals as they can back out into
the wild, and the ones that can't they get to
live out their lives and be taken care of. So
I think that they're doing really good work at the
Alpine Zoo in Big Bear or.
Speaker 15 (21:54):
Start to the Zoo.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
A student at cal State San Marcos has been arrested
for allegedly threat need to kill Riverside County Sheriff and
Republican candidate for governor, Chad Bianco.
Speaker 16 (22:04):
The female student was arrested last Thursday after authority said
she made an online threat. The intributings that the student
has not been identified or charged and has posted bail.
The threat came after Bianco posted about the attack on
an immigration facility in Texas while he was in Dallas
for a national Sheriff's meeting. Bianco says it's the second
person to be arrested for threatening his life. Now is
a protection detail. Jack cronin ka FI News.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Two people are suing the Rose Bowl Stadium over a
beating that got caught on camera during a concert in August.
Attorney Andrew to Lebi says the stadium operator had a
responsibility to remove violent people.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
They're not looking in the right areas, They're not intervening
to the point where a brutal assault can take place.
For around ten minutes, and nobody's coming to your aid.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He says his clients were badly beaten when they accidentally
spilled beer on a man. That guy has been charged
and pleaded not guilty. He's also being sued by the couple.
A dog that's been sniffing out arson for years is retiring. Freedom,
the laborator Labrador retriever, is a member of the Orange
County Fire Authorities Accelerant Detection Team. He celebrated yesterday on
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National Fire Pup Day. Freedom spent years detecting ignitable liquids
to help investigators figure out what caused fires. In twenty nineteen,
Freedom was the only canine certified to detect accelerants by
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco on, Firearms and Explosives in
the county and just one of three in the state.
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There are just fifty nine in the whole US. The
department says Freedom will now transition from an arson investigator
into a family pet and will spend his days playing fetch, napping,
and soaking up a whole lot of love well deserved.
Speaking of things we love, it's Halloween time at the
Disneyland resort k if I am six forty wants to
give you a chans to experience the Frightful Fund plus
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the added excitement of the Disneyland Resorts seventieth celebration that's
going on all year Halloween Time. Goes on through October
thirty first at both the Disney California Adventure Park and
Disneyland Park and it is fabulous. Love it. Keep listening
for your chance to win a four pack of one day,
one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure
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Park right here on KFI Am six forty and I
can tell you we've got a four pack to give
you on wake up call before the end of the week.
That's a little tease for you. One hundred and ninety
thousand federal employees in California could be furloughed during the
government's shutdown. The American Federation of Government Employees representing TSA
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agents and other federal workers has filed a lawsuit in
San Francisco against the Trump administration over threats of permanent layoffs.
A lawsuit filed by the man pictured as a naked
baby over thirty years ago on the cover of the
groundbreaking Nirvana album never Mind has been dismissed. Spencer Elden
sought millions of dollars in damages, claiming child sexual ex exploitation,
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but a federal judge in LA denied those claims and
called the iconic image akin to a family photo of
a child bathing. Authorities have declined to file criminal charges
against Breaking Bad actor Raymond Cruz, who was arrested for
allegedly spraying water on some women that he claimed were
harassing him as he washed a car outside his home
in Silver Lake. Cruz played meth trafficker Tuco Salamanca on
(25:33):
Breaking Bad and of course it's spin off. Better call
Saul at six o five, It's Handle on the news
day two of the shutdown, some of the furloughs could
become firings. Handle is out, Neil is in and he'll
be telling you more about that. Here's what's coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA and other
local authorities have filed another lawsuit against the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Elie City attorney Heidie Feldstein's Soto says the suit against
the Department of Homeland Security and Trump administration officials is
to protect federal funding for disaster relief and Emergency Assistants
LA joined San Francisco and other cities in southern California,
Lake Santa Monica, and Pasadena in this lawsuit. They claim
the White House has placed unconstitutional conditions on federal funds
from FEMA and other DHS grants unless those cities get
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on board with the president's domestic policy goals that includes
the deportation of illegal immigrants. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
A federal charge has now been filed against amand from
Alabama accused of making threats against a Catholic abbey in
Orange County. Joshua Richardson is charged with traveling across state
lines with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate
another person. Investigators say a threat was made by email
in August. Then Richardson drove across the country to Saint
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Michael's Abbey in Silverado Canyon. He allegedly also made threatening
remarks during a mass. He was arrested two days later
in Santa Monica. A python that slithered forty five miles
away from home has been returned to its owners in
the ie.
Speaker 17 (27:01):
Sarry Hooker with the Pasadene Humane Society tails KTLA that
The four pound snake was turned in by a fast
food worker who found the python at her job.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
It's a very curious set of circumstances.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
Monday, late afternoon, we had somebody who brought in a
straight python.
Speaker 14 (27:17):
Claimed that they found it at an in and out
drive through in Monrovia.
Speaker 17 (27:20):
But it's not at all clear how the python got
to Monrovia. It had escaped its cage dozens of miles
away in San Bernardino back on August eleventh. The owners
have been looking for their pet ever since. Tammy Trio
KF I knew. Thanks Tammy, that is.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's a weird one for a snake to slither forty
miles away. Glad he's back home. A new report on
book bands in US schools finds Stephen King as the
author most likely to be censored.
Speaker 18 (27:47):
Pan America's Banned in the USA tracks over sixty eight
hundred instances of books being pulled for the twenty twenty
four and twenty twenty five school year. This numbers down
from over ten tho twenty twenty three and twenty four.
Around eighty percent of the bands originated in Florida, Texas,
and Tennessee. Meanwhile, states including Maryland and New Jersey have
laws limiting book removals, Hen says. Stephen King's books were
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censored two hundred and six times, with Kerry in the
stand among the most affected. King blasted the bands on
social media and suggested people read his books to see
what all the moaning is about. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Okay, so football is underway, Baseball is in the playoffs,
and now basketball is back. The NBA preseason tips off
in Abu Dhabi today between the seventy six Ers and
the Knicks. Both teams will stay in the United Arab
Emirates and then we'll play against Saturday. The LA Lakers
kick off their preseason against the Phoenix Suns tomorrow night
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in Palm Springs. Time to get in your business now
with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, Morning, Courtney, good morning. Okay. So
McDonald's just isn't big enough. It's got to go bigger.
Speaker 15 (28:49):
Yes, they're supersizing their store down pretty much.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Well.
Speaker 15 (28:53):
The fast food giant aims to have fifty thousand locations
around the globe. This would add almost ten thousand to
its calendar over the next years. So they're trying to
zero in on places where they've fallen behind in population growth.
One of the places where they don't have as many
in certain places is Texas.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
So they have.
Speaker 15 (29:12):
Been offering meal deals, they have been tweaking their menu,
but McDonald's is still struggling to get people through the doors.
So they're hoping that all these new restaurants that they're
going to have out there is going to bring in
more customers into the chain.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
More customers.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Wait, is it trying to go by volume? Yeah, as
opposed to price. Okay, you still got that cough from
your little about with pneumonia? Huh it's never ending. Yeah,
and man oh man, well it'll eventually get better and
at least you're feeling better. Serena Williams is given a
big boost to a telehealth company.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Yes, so.
Speaker 15 (29:49):
Serena Williams recently revealed in an ad campaign that she
lost more than thirty pounds on a weight loss shot
that she got through the telehealth company Row.
Speaker 11 (29:57):
So.
Speaker 15 (29:57):
The ad campaign started airing in AWE and now ro
says it's seen a spike in web traffic and a
sharp increase in new customers. So Roe is one of
dozens of these telehealth firms out there that have become
so popular with people because they're looking for more affordable
weight los shots they get rejected by their insurance company
for whatever. But ro says expect to see more between
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them and Serena Williams because they have a multi year
partnership between the two of them.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, Apple is pausing plans to improve the Vision Pro headset.
Speaker 15 (30:32):
Yeah, they've basically shifted their vision on the Vision Pro
so they've been developing a cheaper, lighter version of the
gadget for release in about two years from now. But
sources are telling us that Apple's moving staff from that
project to work on smart glasses that can rival some
of the products that are coming out right now from
Meta So smart glasses, they've really emerged as this critical
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area for tech companies because some of these future designs
could eventually challenge smartphones as the must have technology that
we all have, and Apple wants to be ready. They
were kind of behind the ball when it came to
artificial intelligence, so they're trying to change the game on
all of that.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So instead of carrying a phone, we might just put
on a pair of glass exactly and.
Speaker 15 (31:16):
It would have everything.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, do I know how I feel about that. I
don't like it, yes, but it's interesting though, because that
vision Pro headset is a pretty big, bulky thing, and
I think it's like think Rich Damiro was telling us,
they're like thirty five hundred bucks or something crazy y.
Speaker 15 (31:33):
So my favorite things are those America's funniest home videos
of people in the Vision Pro had sets. I'm falling
all over the place because they don't know where they are.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Employers are dialing back, they're hiring plans, but they're also
not cutting as many jobs.
Speaker 15 (31:49):
Yeah, so it seems like things have really just stagnated
in the jobs market. So companies announced plans to add
a little more than one hundred and seventeen thousand jobs
last month. That's down seventy one percent from a year ago.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
What a drop.
Speaker 15 (32:03):
Challenger Grand Christmas came out with these figures and they
say that this is the weakest September for hiring plans
in fourteen years. But they did say that company revealed
plans to cut jobs by more than fifty four thousand,
but that's down almost twenty six percent from a year ago.
So it's this low hiring, low firing sort of market
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that we're seeing right now when it comes to jobs.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Okay, and how how are we feeling about the government shutdown?
Speaker 15 (32:31):
On Wall Street, everybody is saying, yeah, they're shrugging it
all off because they're looking at open Ai. Open ai
has vaulted over SpaceX to become the world's largest startup.
You know, they own chat ept. They completed a deal
to help employees sell shares of the company. So open
ai is now valued at an eye popping five hundred
billion dollars. So this is making tech investors pretty excited.
(32:54):
This morning, we're seeing S and P futures up seventeen points.
Nasdaq futures seeing the biggest gain. That's the Tech Heavy index.
They're up one hundred and thirty five points.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
All right, getting in your business like we do every
morning with Bloomberg's Courtney donaho. We'll do it again tomorrow.
How about that?
Speaker 15 (33:09):
Only see later if I'll keep coughing.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
All right, go get a cough drop, thanks Courtney. One
hundred and ninety thousand federal employees in California could be
furloughed during the government shutdown, which is in its second day.
The American Federation of Government Employees representing TSA agents and
other federal workers has foiled a lawsuit in San Francisco
against the Trump administration over the threat of permanent layoffs.
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Primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, who died yesterday, was in
California to speak to a thousand students in Pasadena. She
was supposed to address an assembly at ef Academy to
honor local students who are going to be planting more
than five thousand trees in the Palisades and Altadena areas
in the wake of the fires. The event went on
in her absence, and organizers showed a video in Goodall's memory.
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The Dodgers fly to Philadelphia today to get ready for
Game one of the National League Division Series against the Phillies.
The Dodgers won their spot within eight to four win
over the Cincinnati Reds last night at Dodger Stadium show
Hey o Tani gets the start for the Boys in
Blue Saturday. Thrilled that they're going, but kind of half
bummed because I had tickets to tonight's Game three. Obviously
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they don't have to play that. We're just minutes away
from Handle. On the news this morning, Handle is out,
Neil is in, and what's worth taking your clothes off
for a woman in northern California did it at a
school board meeting. Neil's going to tell you why. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, kids
are back in school, cold weather's on the way, and
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here comes cold season.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Yeah, and we are seeing this Upjeck. The CDC says
that about one in three tests for the cold taken
by Dante's round the country is positive for the cold.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And so, yeah, I didn't know there was a test
for a cold.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
They just got a cold, that's what the I mean,
that's what the CDC is saying. But they test for
things like rhinovirus or you know, the things that enterovirus.
These are sort of what the cold more formally is
known as. And those tests are coming up positive and
it comes So we've seen the highest rate of positive
tests since twenty twenty two, so about three years. It's
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really took off. Now again, you know, Steven and I
were discussing during the pandemic, you saw numbers fall back
quite dramatically because people were staying home, kids were not
in school. We were watching our hands, for heaven's sake,
and wearing masks out in public. So a lot of
those things, a lot of those guidelines are coming back,
and doctors are saying, you know, you're not feeling well.
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If you just think it's a common cold, stay home
anyway so that you're not spreading that around. And if
you don't feel well after two or three days, and
if you start running a fever, then it's time to
go see a doctor.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Okay. I just think it's so counterintuitive to even think
about going to see a doctor for a cold.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Well. True, but if it lasts for two or three days,
it could be something more serious. Yeah, and this cold,
the spike in cold cases comes at the same time
and I mean cold cases like unsolved crimes, but bad
cold cases. It comes at the same time that flu
season starts, the traditional start of the flu season this
October first. So you know, if you're not feeling well
after two or three days, and if you start running
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a fever, then it's time to go get checked out.
Make sure that you don't have the flu or something
more serious cauld be COVID.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Even that's a reminder to go and get your flu shots.
I think we have a clinic coming up at the office,
so I got to go get that this year.
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Yeah, it's a good idea, you know. That's and by
the way, you should probably the rule of thumb is
that you get your flu shot two weeks before Halloween,
at least two weeks, because it takes about two weeks
for it to fully take effect.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Okay, I did not know that little tip, so yes.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
You haven't say wash your hands, do you know what?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I still wash my hands, just crazy amounts.
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Not OCD stock not well.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Maybe maybe a little bit. You've got Neil Savader laughing,
and you know, no, you don't know Amy is OCD.
But I still do the washing my hands, and I
still sing the Birthday song and that kind of stuff
to wash them because I know that there's still a
lot of germs out of there. But I don't use
anti bacterial soap.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
I still use that. I'm going to keep it in
the car and every time I go somewhere, I'm squeezing
that stuff, you know, go get gas, squeezing it in
the hand, get gas, you know, try to keep that
going at least, because that's a good stop gap, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, but some germs are good, Jim.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
No, no, this is true. All right, Hey, we want
to immunize yourself against everything.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Right, ABC's Jim Ryan bless you, bless you, have a
great day. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
See you.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the kf I twenty four hour newsroom. Congress remains
at a standstill in reopening the government as we head
into day two of a shutdown. The Senate met yesterday,
but Democrats blocked a House past stopgap funding bill to
reopen the federal government until November twenty first. Democrats are
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demanding any bill to reopen the government include an extension
of enhanced health insurance subsidies that are expiring at the
end of the year. Republicans say they're willing to have
talks about health care, but not now. A student at
cal State San Marcos has been arrested for allegedly threatening
Riverside County sheriff and candidate for governor Chad Bianco. Authority
(38:23):
say she made an online threat to kill Bianco last Thursday.
She hasn't been named or charged and has posted bail.
Bianco says this is the second death threat he's received
and he now has a protection detail. More immigrant families
in California are preparing for the unexpected.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
That includes undocumented immigrants being suddenly detained or deported.
Speaker 18 (38:43):
This is going to be a disaster for any family
if one or both parents are taking into custody.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
Los Angeles family lawyer Alphonse Provinciano says parents should plan
ahead with legal papers, they give trusted relatives authority over
children and finance as if this happens, so.
Speaker 12 (38:58):
Those children can be forced into CPS or foster cares.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
He says ICE is no longer abiding by a rule
to not separate families, and he recommends talking to a
lawyer who could help.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Legally solidify your wishes.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
The Brooker KFI News the.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
National Guard has arrived in Portland. President Trump says he
had no choice but to deploy troops, even though protesters
and local officials say they're not needed. Trump referred to
the city as a never ending disaster. The state of
Oregon and the city of Portland have sued the administration
to block the deployment of the two hundred troops to
the city. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt says his state is
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open for business and is actively working to attract companies
from other states like California. He highlighted legislation in Oklahoma
aimed at putting more money in people's pockets, cutting taxes,
and increasing transparency.
Speaker 7 (39:47):
It's amazing the difference.
Speaker 13 (39:49):
I think we're about four hundred percent cheaper and housing
than California.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
So yeah, we just we're top ten right now, and
people move into our state four.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Hundred percent cheaper. In August, it says his administration had
cut a total of a billion dollars in state taxes
since he took office in twenty nineteen. Berkshire Hathaway is
expected to spend about ten billion dollars to acquire the
chemical division of Occidental Petroleum. Oxycam makes basic chemicals like chlorine,
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sodium hydroxide, and vinyl products. The deal would be Berkshire's
biggest since it acquired Allegheny the Alleghany Corporation in twenty
twenty two for thirteen point seven billion dollars. One person
has been injured when two Delta Regional jets collided at
LaGuardia Airport. Air Traffic Control said the right wing of
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one plane collided with the nose of the other plane
while both were taxing yesterday. One of the windshields was
also damaged. Maxwell House is changing its name after more
than one hundred and thirty years in the coffee business.
Speaker 10 (40:50):
The company says it will be known as Maxwell Apartment.
The reason stems from the fact that nearly a third
of Americans are currently renting versus buying a home. In
the coffee giant one to reflect that stat with its
temporary rebrand. The head of Coffee North America at the
Kraft Heinz Company said in a statement that two thirds
of American adults drink coffee every day, which can add
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up quickly, especially these days, implying that drinking Maxwell Apartment
at home can help consumers save up to buy a
house more quickly.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Depor Mark KOFFI News Maxwell Apartment. I think that might
be a bit of a stretch, just my thought. Men
are not getting taller, but their shirts are getting shorter.
Speaker 12 (41:30):
The prices aren't going down, but the hand lines of
men's shirts are going up. Designers from lower price brands
to Louis Vatan are cutting the bottoms off shirts to
in some cases above the belt line. The fad was
around in the nineteen nineties. Think Brad Pitt's shirt and
fight Club barely covering as sexy midriff. There are home
hemming tutorils all over the internet if you want to
do it yourself. It's being called a proportional balance to
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men's pants, which have been inflating for years. Designers say
showing a bit of belly, soft toned or in between
is capturing focus as a male erogenous zone. Michael Krozer,
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
I think crop tops should be done selectively on both sexes.
Just my thought, and I will not be in a
crop top anytime soon. This is KFI and kosd HD
two Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your
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