Remembering 9/11, 22 Years Later

Amy King hosts your Monday Wake Up Call. Senior Investigative Reporter for ABC News Aaron Katersky comes on the show to discuss how the FDNY’s 9/11 death toll is continuing to rise, 22 years later. ABC White House Correspondent Karen Travers speaks on the President returning from Asia for the G20. Amy interviews the Wildlife Executive Director at the California Wildlife Center Dr. Jennifer Brent. The show wraps with ABC News Radio correspondent Tom Rivers talking about the standard American caver’s ascent to the surface.

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to kf I AM sixforty wake Up Call with me Amy King
on demand on the iHeartRadio apps KFIhand KOST HD two, Los Angeles,
Orange County. It's time for yourmorning wake up call. Here's Amy King.

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This is your wake up call forMonday, September eleventh. Good morning,
I'm Amy King. Hope you hada good weekend. Kono still in
a football coma. I got togo visit the California Wildlife Center on telling
you about that at five thirty five. But here's what's ahead on the wake
up call. The names of nearlythree thousand people killed will be read and

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bells will toll at the World TradeCenter Memorial in Manhattan to mark the twenty
second anniversary of the nine to eleventerrorist attacks. A man's been arrested in
connection with the deadly stabbing at ametro station in Los Angeles. Police say
the thirty one year old man wasarrested on Saturday night in Vermont, Nolls
and is being held on two milliondollars bail in connection with the stabbing.

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On September seventh, Russia and NorthKorea have confirmed that North Korean leader Kim
Jong UN will be visiting Russia inthe coming days. According to the Kremlin,
Russia wants weapons for its war inUkraine. North Korea wants the money
before we get started. I wantto take a look back at twenty two
years ago today, I remember exactlywhere I was at five forty six am,

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and it's twenty two years later andit's still emotional. Isn't it a
fun way to start the day gettingall emotional? But I mean, it
really did change our lives. Onthe morning of September eleventh, nineteen,
Al Kaita terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes. The first plane crashed into the North
Tower of the World Trade Center inNew York City. That was at five

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forty five am our time. Sixteenminutes later, the second plane hit the
South tower. A third plane smashedinto the Pentagon. The last plane likely
destined for the Capitol, but insteadit crashed into a field in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania, after passengers fought back andstopped the hijackers, losing their lives in

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the process. Almost three thousand peoplefrom ninety three company countries lost their lives
that day. It was the worstattack on US soil since Pearl Harbor in
nineteen forty one, and I mentionedI knew I was where I was.
I was sitting in a control roomat a radio station in Portland, Oregon,

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when the first plane hit and We'relike, oh wow, what was
that? Something crashed into the WorldTrade Center And immediate at my morning show
co host was like, it's aterrorist attack, and I was like,
no, let's not go there yet. It's probably just a small plane.
It was probably just a little accident. And in the next fifteen minutes,
then the second plane hit and thenwe went, Okay, something's really going

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on, and but we still didn'tknow. We were three thousand miles away.
And then we watched as the eventsunfolded throughout that morning and it was
just it was shocking and horrifying,and I'm I think that it brought us
together in a way that we haven'tbeen brought together in almost forever. And

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I wonder what would happen if theterrorist at attacks happened today? Would we
be able to come together like wedid at that time? And I know,
Kno, you were thirteen when thathappened, Yeah, about to be
thirteen twelve in eighth grade, soyou remember it, though because and you
have a very tight connection to Kfive on the day of those attacks because

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you heard about it and then youheaded off to school and then what happened.
Yeah, so we had to wakeup early. Where our middle school,
you know, it was like twentyfive thirty minutes away, four kids,
so we had to get up early. My brother was watching TV,
which the TV is never on thatearly in the morning. It was you
know, five forty five, sixo'clock in the morning. Yeah, so
and then in our head it's justlike, oh, something No, I

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don't want to dumb it down tolike a high speed chase, but like,
oh, something's happening on the news. But that's what it was.
I mean, we didn't know atthat point. We were like, oh,
what was it. Oh maybe it'sthe little cessna crashed into towers or
something like that. So then youknow, my mom gets us into the
car, get off to school,and about halfway there we're listening to KFI.
We weren't allowed to touch the radio, so it was on, of

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course, and he's the one thatlet us know that the towers fell.
Halfway through going to school and weI mean, at thirteen, I didn't
know them yeah, but my momwas letting us know, like, you
guys are gonna be hearing about thisall day. This is a very big
deal. So even getting to school, it was like it was just a

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weird, eerie feeling through like theteachers understood, right, So everything was
kind of it felt like a pause, like that day was paused in a
sense. Yeah, And because Iwas then, I was again. I
was up in Port Lenore and Iwasn't down where you guys are now,
but I was on the air thatwhole day because we just didn't know what
to do, and I worked fora country music station. We stopped the

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music and we just talked because everybodywas just so shocked. Were like,
how could this happen? What's goingon? And then, like you said,
watching and hearing about the tower,the first tower coming down, and
then watching as the second one camedown, and it just like rocked us
to our core, and it justit's frustrating because I think a lot of

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us have forgotten, or there's alot of people who were so young when
it happened, they don't know,they don't understand, and that concerns me.
Yeah, I do remember, ourteachers are actually a few of them,
we didn't do anything. They justhad the TV on. Yeah,
this is what we're doing today.Like made it a point to make sure
that this is important. I believe. I even have a paper that was

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maybe the day after, but itwas like a memorium of nine to eleven
where on the back of it theywanted us to write down like where we
were at at our age. SoI still have that of where we were
in our recollection at that age ofwhat actually happened and how it went down.
And I do still have that paperactually and hold on to it.
Yeah. It's one of those momentsthat you know, they say there are

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moments in your lives that you willalways remember exactly where you were, what
you were doing, and I'll that'sone of them. And I hope we
do remember. I think it's importantto remember because when we forgot, we
are destined to repeat. So we'regonna take a little break. It's not
all going to be. It's aday of memorial of the almost three thousand

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people lost that day, So wedo want to remember and look back,
but we also want to move forward. And before we get into some of
the stories that we're following, inthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of
course, we're talking about nine toeleven. It's twenty two years since that
day when our world's all changed,and we're still remembering, we're still honoring

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those lost that day. Several ceremoniesand remembrances are being held around the Los
Angeles area. LA Mayor baths andpolice chief more are going to ring ten
bells during a ceremony at nine amat the Frank Hodgkin Memorial Training Center near
Dodger Stadium in Long Beach. There'sgoing to be a last alarm tribute at

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fire Station one that'll start at nineeleven am. There's going to also be
ceremonies at all five of the SantaMonica fire stations, beginning at six forty
five. And sort of interesting,there's an artifact from the Ground Zero site
that's at fire Station one on SeventhStreet in Santa Monica. It is open
for viewing by the public on businessdays. There's also an informal ceremony this

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morning at Beverly Hills Fire Department.Hawthorne at City Hall is doing a ceremony
this morning. The Alhambra Fire andpolice departments are hosting a nine to eleven
remembrance at nine o'clock this morning.There's also a remembrance ceremony at nine at
the Antelope Valley Fallen Heroes Memorial atthe Antelope Valley Mall in Palmdale, and

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then in Corona, a civic remembranceservices is being held. It's already underway.
It started at five am at theHistoric Civic Center. City representatives and
others will be standing among a miniaturefield of flags representing the twenty nine hundred
seventy seven people killed on nine eleven, two thousand and one, and over
roughly the next three hours, attendeeswill be reading the names of all those

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who were killed on nine to eleven. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twentyfour hour newsroom. Russia and North Korea
have confirmed North Korean leader Kim JohnUn will visit Russia in the coming days.
South Korea media reported the meeting couldhappen as early as tomorrow. US
officials say Russian President Putin may belooking for weapons and ammunition to use in

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Ukraine. White House National Security spokesmanJohn Kirby says no one should be helping
Russia. There will be repercussions shouldNorth Korea decide to go ahead and consummate
this arms deal. Again, wehaven't seen them do that yet, but
if they move ahead, there willbe additional repercussions for North Korea. The
international community and the United States willlook for ways to hold them accountable for
that. Officials say North Korea couldbe looking for energy and food aid and

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also advanced weapons technologies. Smash andgrab robbers have hit the north Ridge Fashion
Center, Oh Boy another one.The group of five or six men stole
about twenty thousand dollars worth of perfumefrom the Macy's yesterday at about eleven o'clock
in the morning. At least saythe robbers ran in through the store doors
and used hammers to smash cases.They wore black hoodies. A black Infinity

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without a license plate was seen leavingthem all. Just a couple weeks ago,
a Macy's and Sherman Oaks was trashedand ropped, and arrest has been
made in connection with the deadly stabbingat a Metro red line station in downtown
LA. A guy named Randy Nashwas arrested on Saturday, the stabbing happened
Thursday afternoon. Police say it wasan unprovoked attack. A man has been

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shot while meditating on the Walk ofFame in Hollywood. Police say the man
was on the sidewalk just before threethirty yesterday morning when a guy walked up
and shot him at least once.The shooter ran off. The man injured
was taken to the hospital. Policethey say they believed the shooting was random
and that the guy shot was nothomeless. Police in Morocco how are people

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in Morocco rather have been sleeping inthe streets for three nights now because of
the magnitude six point eight earthquake thathit Marrakesh. ABC's and wins as soldiers
and international aid teams and trucks andhelicopters have begun to go into remote mountain
town's hit hardest by the earthquake.This father saying he and his family were

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at home when the earthquake hit,but his eight year old son never made
it out. At least seventeen aftershocks, including a magnitude four point five tremor
for their damaging buildings. More thantwenty one hundred people have been killed and
that number is expected to rise.We're going to check in now with ABC's

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Aaron Katurski. Good morning, Aaron. It's twenty two years after nine to
eleven, and people are still dyingfrom what happened that day. They sure
are in numbers that are greater thanthe toll on some of the first responders
that day. Three hundred forty threefirefighters were killed on nine eleven, three
hundred thirty one since in the twentytwo years since, so nearly the same

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twenty three police officers that day,three hundred and sixty in the last twenty
two years from nine eleven related illnesses, cancers, and long ailments. So
so the horror of the day,the terror of the day, is still
being lived and deeply felt by manyin the community, and New York City

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is commemorating those people as they passaway. Twenty two years later, on
I believe it was Friday, theyadded more names to the Trade Center memorial.
The Fire Department added names to itsits memorial wall, which is this
wall outside its headquarters in Brooklyn,and those names then added, you know,

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to the nine eleven memorial here becausetheir their deaths have been it's been
decided we're directly the result of whathappened here, and it's a weird So
you die so publicly on nine eleven, but then you know it's just been
an anguished death for many others whohave lived, you know, unable to

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properly breathe, or with cancers,and you know, not really knowing why.
And you hear these incredible stories ofhealthy young firefighters that just out of
nowhere suddenly became thick, and youknow, you realize it's because of what
they were breathing in as they foughtfuriously to try and find others, rescue

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others, or then you know,very quickly recover others in the wreckage of
what had been known as the pile. And that's going to that toll is
going to continue for many more yearsto come, and how long I remember
after everything came down. I thinkone of the most astounding things about nine
to eleven was we were talking aboutearlier how everybody just came together, and

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we don't even begin to understand theenormity of that here in Los Angeles,
because we weren't in New York City. As people rushed into help and and
that sort of political unit I thinkis probably unimaginable at this stage of our
you know, of our civic life. But there was uh, you know,
firefighters and police officers from all overthe country came here to try and

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help. And and and you know, the country really experienced an outpouring up
emotion. For New York and forthe country. Uh, baseball became a
thing, The Yankees became a thing. It was really it was an interesting
moment. And then a lot ofthat proved you know, rather fleeting as
as you know, other you know, political concerns took over and and but

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it did show the best of ourimpulses. In some cases, it may
have shown darker impulses too. Andand you know, our capacities for launching
wars that some believe were justified,some don't still a matter of debate.
So it's a really complicated day.But at bottom, it's at just the
data, remember the people, Andthat's why the ceremonies is so focused on

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the names and the family. Well, and I'm glad that they're doing that.
I hope we continue to focus onthose people who lost their lives and
continue to and I'm going to continuemy pledge to never forget thank you again.
Aaron Katurski for taking the time thismorning. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour news room. Of course, it is the twenty
second anniversary of the nine to elevenattacks on the World Trade Centers, the

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Pentagon, and of course the planethat went down in Shanksville, Tennessee.
It's being marked with several ceremonies aroundthe Southland, and of course in New
York City. The Macy's at NorthridgeFashion Centers become the latest target of smash
and grab robbers. Up to sixpeople with hammers wearing hoodies stole about twenty
thousand dollars worth of perfume yesterday morning, then hopped in a car and drove

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off before police got there. Abouttwenty five hundred people came out to celebrate
the Little League World Series champions fromEl Segundo. The parade through downtown El
Segundo yesterday wrapped up several celebrations thatincluded honors at Dodgers Stadium, Angel Stadium,
and at LA Memorial Coliseum. AtSaturday is USC Stanford Game. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's KarenTravers. We're gonna start with how President

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Biden is marking this nine to eleven. Then we'll backtrack to what he's been
up to for the past couple ofdays. What's he doing today, Karen,
Yeah, the President right now istraveling from Vietnam to Alaska, where
he's going to meet with and deliverremarks before more than a thousand service members,
first responders, and their families ata military base. That's going to
come up later this afternoon or earlyevening our time. Okay, and this,

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I know I've heard lots of talkabout that he's not in New York
City for the nine to eleven commemorations. Is a scheduling thing or do we
know why that decision was made.Presidents don't always go to New York City
for nine to eleven. In thepast, some have monthed at the White
House or at the Pentagon. Itraveled with President Trump to Pennsylvania to the

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Shanksville Memorial, So it's not alwaysa traditional thing every year to go to
New York City. The Vice presidentis traveling to New York today, show
mark the anniversary at the September eleventhmore in Lower Manhattan. Okay, So
now let's back up to what he'sbeen up to. For the past couple
of days he was at the Gtwenty summit. Anything interesting, revolutionary or

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shattering come out of that, youknow. The big thing I think was
the effort by the administration to tryto counter China's influence in the region.
A lot of talk about that.That was what most of the questions at
the president's press conference focused on,and the fact that China's President Gi was
not there. President did meet withhis number two, it's the deputy from
China who was at the summit.And then today yesterday in Vietnam, the

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President announcing a new partnership with theVietnamese government. Very significant, of course,
less than fifty years after the endof the Vietnam War. But there
are some critics who are pushing backbecause China is excuse me, Vietnam is
a one party communist state, inquestions about their human rights record, and
criticizing the administration for this new strategicpartnership and elevation of diplomatic ties. So

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is this the first like official partnershipwe've had with Vietnam. Ever, it's
just a changing of it, soof elevating them up the list to a
higher level of diplomatic relations. Okay. And and then I also I saw
the President talking about that he didn'tmeet with Shijing Paydon because he wasn't there,
and he said, it's okay,We'll be meeting soon. Yeah,

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And there's no date yet steps forthat. The White House has said that
it will come at some point.The President has he hopes to have it
happened soon. It maybe in thefall, maybe in November at its summit
in eight San Francisco of Asian Pacificleaders. But the President has said it's
not a crisis that the two arenot talking directly, that the two governments
have been engaged. It's not thatthere is a complete freeze out between the

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US and China, okay. Andit's probably too soon because we just got
this information that the Kremlin and NorthKorea have confirmed that Kim Jong un is
headed to Russia to meet with Putin. Has the White House made any statements
about that yet, not yet.Today. We've asked now that we have
confirmation about that meeting, that wewill have to get back to you guys
on that. Okay, thanks somuch for your time this morning, Karen,

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appreciate it as always, touch yousoon. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour newser
Memorials are being held across the USto mark the twenty two years since the
September eleventh attacks that killed nearly threethousand people in New York, Washington,
DC, and Pennsylvania. A ceremonyin Manhattan will include a moment of silence
at eight forty six am their timethis morning. It's five forty six hour

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time when the first hijacked plane hitthe North Tower of the World Trade Center.
ABC's Derek Wallace's Vice president Harris willbe there in place of President Biden.
He is marking the occasion in Anchorage, Alaska, at a military base
there. Last week, forty threenames were added to the World Trade Center
Memorial Wall, commemorating firefighters, paramedics, and civilian staff members who have died

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from illnesses related to rescue and recoveryefforts. The owner of a bicycle shop
in Irwindale says thieves have stolen aboutforty thousand dollars worth of merchandise. The
owners of Irwindale Cycles say the intrudersknew exactly what they were looking for when
they hit two weeks ago. Thebreaking happen in the early morning. Five
people in masks were seen using anangle grinder to cut through the steel security

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bag gate. The bicycles taken wereeach more worth more than seventeen hundred dollars.
Governor Newsom says he would not appointany of the candidates running to replace
Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein if she steppeddown before her term ends, which it's
completely unfair to the Democrats that haveworked their tail off. That primary is

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just a matter of months away.I don't want to tip the balance of
that. Newsom made the comments onMeet the Press. Supporters of Congresswoman Barbara
Lee, who's black, believed shewas Newsom's first choice to fill a potential
vacancy, but she's running for theseat. She's trailing in the polls behind
Democratic congress members Adam Schiff and KatiePorter. Spanish Soccer Federation president Louis ruby

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Alice has resigned for kissing a playeron the lips when Spain won the Women's
World Cup for the first time.Player Jenny Hermoso said it was without her
consent. Prosecutors presented their case forpotential criminal charges against ruby Alis on Friday
to Spain's National Court in Madrid.One of the most active volcanoes in the
world has begun to erupt after atwo month pause. The Hawaii Volcano Observatory

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says the eruption was seen yesterday afternoonat the summit of Kilauea. The volcano's
alert level was raised to warning statusand the aviation color code winter red as
scientists evaluate the eruption and related hazards. Kilauea erupted for several weeks in June.
When we come back, I wasout and about this weekend. I

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got to visit the California Wildlife Center. It rescues and rehabilitates thousands of injured
and orphan animals each year, andwe're going to tell you more about that.
This weekend, I was out andabout and with my buddy Nick Poliochini,
we got to visit the California WildlifeCenter. I got to catch up
with Jennifer Brandt. She's the executivedirector and the person we most need to

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talk to about this incredibly fabulous organizationthat I will tell you it's like this
secret, hidden place where they savelives and not lives of people. We're
talking about wild animals, so tellus what you do here as California Wildlife
Center, so we focus on therehabilitation and rescue of native California animals.
We have three main departments. Wehave Marine Mammals and they go out to

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the beaches in Malibu and rescue sealions, seals, turtles, pin of
heads, cetaceans. Then we haveour OCU which is where we are now,
which is all of our baby animals, and our i SU which is
where all our sick and injured animalsare. So if you find a native
animal who needs help, we arethe people to go to. Okay,
So if you find like an animalthat has been abandoned, or maybe it's

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been hit by a car or exactly, some of the most common reasons that
the animals come here is orphaned,that's the number one most common. But
hit by a car, suffering fromredenna side poisoning, being shot at unfortunately
is a common reason. Or caughtby a domestic animals so a cat or

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dog, okay. And behind uswe have the little squirrels, which are
absolutely adorable, but they are wildanimals. So when you come and you're
dealing with these animals, there's nota lot of like lovey human interaction with
them because you want them to bewild, right, that's one of the
challenges. I think it's the hardestthing for staff and volunteers is to not

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treat them like pets. So wedon't allow our staff or volunteers to speak
to them. We don't want themto make contact. It's very important that
these animals are not habituated, thatthey can be released back into the wild
and live a wild life. Absolutelyokay, And down in the is this
what did you call this? TheThis is the OUs Orphan care unit.
There are some pigeons and some arethere doubs down. Yeah, there's morning

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doves. There's bantil pigeons, whichare actually a native pigeon. They usually
live in the woodlands. Some housefinches, goldfinches, probably some mockingbirds. I
think there's a black headed cowbird overthere. So we actually in total care
for over one hundred and seventy differentspecies here. And last year, how
many animals did you we help?Slightly over four thousand. We receive about
thirty five thousand calls a year frompeople who find animals and need help,

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and we asked them to text aphoto because we want to make sure it's
a native animal, and then weeither accept the animal or we give them
resources if it's not an animal thatwe care for. Here, okay,
and I want to talk about rodentisidefor just one second, because I was
reading you sent a picture of theanimal of the week, and what was
happening is some of these animals,like you had a great horned owl,

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and the great hornell came in andwas very sick and not doing well and
is a success story because he lookslike he's doing great now, but what
happened to him? So what happensis people use rodentisides in their homes and
there's second generation rodenticides that are themost common right now, and they poison
the animal, but it doesn't killthem right away. It's not like a
mouse trap, so those rodents cango out of the house. They're weak,

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they're not as active as they normallybe, so they're great gray exactly.
So our owls are hawks, coyotes, bobcats, all of those animals
are picking up those the rodents andeating them, and then they get an
amalgamation of all those poisons in theirblood. It thins their blood because that's

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what a rodenna side does, andit's an anticoagulant, and even a tiny
scratch smaller than a millimeter, abird like a great horn owl could bleed
out. So when they come here, we're able to treat them and then
we release them. But we doask the people, not your rodenna sides,
that they practice exclusion. So thebest best way to get rid of

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rodents is to never have them inyour house. So that means sealing all
of the places that they might havecrawled in and planting thoughtfully and not letting
the rodents come in in the firstplace. Yeah. One of our tour
guides or educators that we were talkingto earlier said, what you guys focus
on is coexistence because we all livehere, we all got to short share

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the space. So how can peoplehelp because I'm sure that nobody. The
money doesn't grow on trees for you. Yes, right. We do not
receive any sustaining government funding. Okay, so of course we love donations.
We are open three hundred and sixtyfive days a year. We do not
charge for any of our services,so of course we love that, and
we also are always looking for newvolunteers. We are primarily volunteer run organizations.

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So we use volunteers for cleaning,for feeding, for caring for all
of these animals, and we couldnot do it without their help. Okay.
And if they want to make adonation get more information about the California
Wildlife Center, where do they go? They can visit our website see a
wildlife dot org. We have ourinstagram is at Sea Wildlife. We have
a TikTok, we have Facebook,all the regular socials. Okay, great

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saving lives. It's a wonderful thing. Thank you, thank you, Jennifer.
Yeah, it was a really reallycool experience. This California Wildlife Center
is kind of tucked away in thehills, so it's not really it's not
like there's a big sign saying heyhere's the California Wildlife Center and they take
in animals every single day. Wesaw a couple being dropped off as we

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were taking our tour of the facility, and you know, she was mentioning
they've got little tiny things. They'vegot squirrels and birds, and they also
had a bobcap up there, butagain we didn't get to see it because
they're rehabilitating it. They're keeping aneye on it. They have cameras on
and stuff, but they're rehabilitating itso it can be released back into the
wild and they have deer there.And then we did get to see the

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sea lions and if you want tocheck out one of the sea lions who
was totally trying to steal the showat Amy K King on my Instagram and
also at KFI AM six forty.That was very cool. They're very social,
so we were actually able to seethem, but again wild animals and
they're being released on a regular basis, which is great after their nurse back
to help or to health. Ifyou are interested in donating or volunteering again,

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they would love for you to getinvolved. It's c a Wildlife dot
org. When we come back,we're gonna be talking to again ABC's Tom
Rivers about that American stranded three thousandfeet down in a cave in Turkey.
But there is a development and itlooks like he's on his way up,
so we're going to find out thelatest on that. Let's say good morning

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now to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom. An American is stranded three thousand feet
down in a cave in Turkey,but there's some good news that he's finally
coming back up exactly. I mean, we've got our team on the ground
now in Turkey and this thing's beenboiling for a few days. It involves
this forty year old American Mark Dickie, expedition leader in the It's called the

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Mark Cave District in southern Turkey.It's it's part of the Taurus Mountains.
Down there, said to be thethird deepest cave in the world. H
and there we're down about three thousand, four hundred feet. He developed internal
bleeding. So then over the daysthat followed, he started coughing of blood.
On the second of September, theysent down medication, but he was

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prone and they didn't really know,you know, what to do. The
rescue teams thought about it for awhile and they said, we will stretch
him out, but it will takesome time. That began on Saturday,
and it's been a slow, laboriousprocess. The laced up day we've gotten
from Anchor from the state disaster Managementteam there is that he could possibly be

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out as early as later today.So keep watching that one. But it's
gonna be one heck of a storywhen he gets out, no kidding.
So he's been down there since Augustthirty first incorrect, He are they saying
what caused the internal bleeding? Isthat like an ulcer or they don't know
yet that they don't know yet,and you know, fingers crossed it.

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We have gotten reports now that hissituation is stabilized, but he can't obviously
use his own power to get out, so in essence that stretching every every
inch, he's being pulled up withpulleys and almost two hundred teams or excuse
me, two hundred members from teamsfrom eight countries are there to assist.
So it's it's a big, biggroup effort. But yeah, it's going

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to be one heck of a storywhen he gets out. The plan is
for him to get local metal medicalattention there and then probably be transferred over
to Istanbul for more complete examination andtreatment there. And this guy's he's an
experienced he's a cave diver. Idon't know what he's he's a caver,

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yeah, he's he's been around theblock. And but one of those things,
you know, if you if you, for whatever reason you get internal
bleeding and you can't move, whatare you gonna do? Over the weekend.
You know, we're following this thing, and uh said to be an
experienced individual with his own power downat thirty four hundred feet normally it would

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take you about fifty hours to getto the surface. And at that time
they said, look, we're gonnastretcher this thing. And the difficult thing
as well, there's some narrow passagesor you and I could crouch through and
work our way that no, no, no, out with a stretcher.
You gotta get these other rescue guysto chip away at the edges enough to
get the stretcher in him through thatyou know, narrow bottleneck if you will,

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and then proceed up up toward thesurface. But as I say,
the latest update nine hundred feet down, it seems like a lot, but
it's a lot better than it was. And that was an updated about two
or three hours ago. So whoknows. He may be filling the blank
seven hundred feet below the surface aswe speak. Okay, so you're giving
me the heeb gbs just talking aboutlike trying to get through those small spaces,

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just like my clustrophobia kind of kicksin exactly. Yeah, And so
he's got to do They take himoff the stretcher for certain areas, or
they literally are using tools to chipaway the side of the cave. We
we haven't got the detail work onthat. I think it's probably most more
of the latter. But if theydid find a place where they could not

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you know, or they felt itwas unsafe to move things, they may
well have to take them off thestretcher and then you know, somehow just
you know, without trying to doany more injury, get him through that
passage. We've fold up the stretcherand then uh, you know, deploy
it again on the other side ofthe bottleneck. But yeah, it's gonna
be It's gonna be a made forTV movie, I think down the road,

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that's exactly what I was thinking.I was like, you know that
it's reminding me of the Chilean thirtyor thirty three. Yep, that was
a fabulous movie. Just what astory that was. And then even baby
Jessica remember her, she got downthat well oh yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes exactly. I mean she
was like twenty feet down, soit's not quite as big, but it
kind of caught the world's attention.Yeah, the Chilean when when my former

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colleagues, Jeffrey Kaufman, was wascovering that for for many many days.
Yeah. So, yes, we'vewe've had precedents in the past, and
you want to just you know,crawl your fingers and say, let's get
let's get this guy to the surfaceand then everybody can breathe a sigh of
relief. No kidding. So yousaid that there's like two hundred people working
on it. How many people dowe know? How many people are actually
down in the cave? We don'tknow exactly. No, but again,

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it's a big effort from from eightdifferent countries. So and as I say,
this didn't happen overnight, they've hadweeks or actually more than a week
to plan this and saying, howare we going to do this? Okay,
this is the plan. How arewe going to deploy our personnel,
et cetera, et cetera, Andthen let's go for it. Let's and
that was it. The starting onSaturday, Saturday morning, they said,
okay, the process begins. Okay. And was he caving by himself or

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did he have a group with him? He was leading a group exactly,
Oh okay, and so has therest of the group come up or did
they stay down with him? Oh, that's a good question. I would
assume most of them probably got out, but again maybe a couple stayed around
until we've reached the point now wherethis is a large, large rescue operation
where you know, people of ofhigh quality of expertise are down there and

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they probably have the other explorers sayingokay, please leave right now while we
do our work. Well, Iagree. I think it's going to be
a made for TV movie and Ican't wait to hear all the details of
what happened and how they got himout. You got it, Amy,
And like I say, you know, like I said over the weekend,
is gonna take days. Hopefully,if there's no more bottlenecks, we get

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some good news and it'll happen lateron today. All right, thank you
so much, Tom Rivers for theinformation. Take care. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour news room.
This September eleventh anniversary ceremony at GrandsGround zero has begun with the tolling
of the bells. There has beena moment of silence twenty two years after

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the terror attacks, and from herethey're going to read all of the names
of the twenty nine hundred and seventyseven people killed on nine eleven, two
thousand and one. Ceremonies to markthe twenty second anniversary of the nine to
eleven attacks are happening in the Southland. In Corona, a remembrance services underway.
It's happening at the Historic Civic Centerwhere Corona Chamber of Commerce and Corona

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Rotary officials will be joined by cityreps and others to stand among a field
of miniature flags representing the people killedon nine to eleven, two thousand and
one. The names of all twentynine hundred seventy seven are being read.
That ceremony is expected to continue untilabout ten this morning. A grocery store
managers recovering after he was attacked tryingto stop a thief at his store.

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Sheriff's deputy say the Ralph's manager wasassaulted over the weekend at his store in
Temple City. Deputyc the manager wastrying to stop a guy with a knife
from stealing. The suspect punched themanager in the face, then tried to
get away, but was arrested bydeputies waiting outside the store. A man
who is in custody for the deadlystabbing on a metro train in downtown La

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Randy Nash, was arrested late Saturday. He's being held on two million dollars
bail. He's accused of pulling outa knife and stabbing another man last Thursday
on a subway train in Los Angeles. Officials say the stabbing happened without warning,
and that Nash and the person stabbeddon't appear to have known each other.

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Kaiser will pay more than forty ninemillion dollars for illegally dumping hazardous medical
waste and patients medical records in twolandfills in California if they don't follow the
law. If they're careless with dangerouswaste or sensitive information, the potential for
harm is enormous and its widespread.Attorney General Rob Banta says the settlement is
a result of an undercover inspection ofdumpsters at sixteen Kaiser facilities. Kayser is

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also going to be required to takesteps to prevent future unlawful disposals. The
Little League World Series champions have beenhonored with a parade and other festivities in
El Segundo. The parade on MainStreet yesterday included the El Segundo High School
marching band and cheerleaders. About twentyfive hundred people turned out to cheer on

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the team. The boys on theAll Star Team won five straight games last
month to get to the championship,and won that game with a walk off
home run. This is KFI andKOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
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