Safe Stop: A New Traffic Stop Video App

Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News National Correspondent Steven Portnoy joins the show to talk about Menendez saying he is not going anywhere, and the cash was from his ‘personal savings.’ ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers speaks on Biden standing with UAW strikers, “he is standing with them to make sure they get a fair share.” Amy interviews LASD Captain Bill Moulder regarding Safe Stop. the new traffic stop video chat app in West Hollywood. ABC News Tech Reporter Mike Dobuski wraps the show sharing the BIG update with Windows 11.

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to wake Up Call ondemand from kf I AM six forty KFI
and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your
morning wake up call. Here's anyKing Good Morning at five o'clock on the

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dot. This is your wake upcall for Tuesday, September twenty sixth.
I'm Amy King, got my coffeeready to go. But I am sad
today because I just found out thatit's National Pancake Day. I didn't plan
for it, so I have voteme on not pancakes. That doesn't mean
you couldn't make pancakes for breakfast.You probably still have time. Also,

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I'm very excited today because I wokeup with a text message saying, hey,
you won, And it wasn't froma scammer. It was from a
person that I'm involved with a witha football pool four. So I won
my football pool for the week.And I can tell you that I've been
playing this football pool for like morethan twenty years and one year I finished

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dead. Last one year I finishedfirst in the group and we had like
fifty people and I have not wona single week of this football pool for
probably six years. So I waslike whoa. I mean it's you know,
one hundred and eighty dollars. ButI'm still in the I'm still in
the hole because it's like eighty fivedollars a year and I have one for

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like five or six years. Buthey, that's two tanks of gas.
That's a that's a good score.Well, except with gas prices right now,
it might be just one and ahalf. Yeah, you're right,
yeah, up again, gas pricesup again. I think it's six thirteen
a gallon in La County. Gottalove it. Here's what's a head on?
Wake up call? Right? WritersGuild members could get a look at
the tentative deal reached between the unionand Hollywood Studios today. If WGA leaders

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accept the terms of the deal,they could call for an end to the
strike today, and that would allowthe writers to get back to work before
the contract is actually voted on andratified. President Biden will join picket lines
today in Michigan as UAW workers continueto strike for fewer work days, more
pay, and pensions against the Bigthree automakers. A sixteenth bus full of

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migrants has arrived in Los Angeles fromTexas. The group included both adults and
children, mostly from Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, and Honduras. The Coalition
for Human Immigrant Rights in La sayssome on the bus hadn't eaten for several
days. At six oh five,we've got handle on the news. Former
President Trump says, maybe a governmentshutdown is just what we need, but

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that's going to play well on CapitolHill. Let's start with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twentyfour hour newsroom. Actors in Hollywood say
they will remain on picket lines asthe Writers Union works to finalize a tentative
deal with studios. Writers are expectedto vote on a deal reached with major
studio heads, and unless it getsthe majority of approval, it won't be

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official. Actor Mario Ponce says mostactors are highly underpaid and hopes the writers
deal puts something in motion for actors. We would definitely get law bought in
this game. So many times,so many for me to say. The
Writers Guild says the new deal willgo to the Council for approval and then
to its members for a vote.Writers have been on strike since May,

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and we're joined by the actors.In July. Chris Adler KFI News SAG
after members could possibly hit the picketlines against ten major video game companies.
Vote results announced last night show morethan ninety eight percent of the nearly thirty
five thousand members who cast ballots votedin favor of authorizing a strike. The
guild's last strike against gaming companies wasin late twenty sixteen. It lasted for

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about six months. Negotiations resumed today. If no agreement has reached over the
next few days, a strike couldfollow. A flight instructor and a student
have been critically injured in a smallplane crash in San Pedro. So I
ran to the plane. I wasable to open it up the windows.
She was responsive. I was inthe female. The male wasn't bringing at

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all. This man was the firstperson to go to the plane after it
made a hard landing on a soccerfield yesterday. Within minutes, there was
five other people here where they're ableto help me take a wind off the
female. We were able to gether on the ground. The mail was
sitting in there. We left himthere because the paramics were coming, so
they removed him. Some fuel leakedon the ground, but there was no

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fire. No one else was injured. The NTSB and FAA are investigating the
crash. Sales of Travis Kelsey footballjerseys have exploded. Guess why because he
was spotted with Taylor Swift at theKansas City Chiefs game against the Bears.
Swift was seen Sunday watching the gamefrom Kelsey Suite with his mom, and
then less than twenty four hours later, he was listed as one of the
top five selling NFL players with afour hundred percent increase in Jersey sales.

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It happened as rumors swirl of apossible romance between the two. It is
five zero six on your wake upcall. Time to say good morning to
ABC's national correspondent Stephen portnoy So.Stephen, despite what appears to be from
pictures we've seen from prosecutors a mountainof evidence, Senator Bob Menendez or Melendez

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is defiant and says he's not steppingdown and expects to be exonerated. Bob
Menendez says he's going to remain NewJersey Senior Senator. He's not answering whether
he's going to run for reelection nextyear, but already faces a primary challenger
in the form of a Democratic Housemember from New Jersey Andy Kim and increasing
calls for his resignation. Last night, a former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi added

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her name to the list of topDemocrats who are saying that Menendez should step
down. So far muted calls fromSenate Democrats. Just a handful of Menendez's
colleagues and the Upper Chamber have saidthat he should step down. Menendez said
yesterday that he is going to beexonerated, and the prosecutors make mistakes,
and he knows that because a fewyears ago he beat a rap. The

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Justice Department refused to retry a case, a separate case completely unrelated to the
charges now that he was engaged ina bribery scheme and a jury did not
return an unanimous verdict, and theJustice Department ultimately dismissed those charges. So
Menendez is going to beat this raptoo. But he has not offered a

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full explanation to the public for whatis alleged in the indictment, which he
says is written in the most salaciouspossible way and essentially mischaracterizes the facts.
But here's what the indictment says.The indictment says that Bob Menendez and his
younger wife, Nadine, worked withfriends Egyptian businessmen and other businessmen in New

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Jersey to do their bidding in Washingtonso that they would be enriched by these
benefactors to the tune of hundreds ofthousands of dollars in cash, gold bars,
Mercedes Benz mortgage payments. The onlyexplanation we heard for about any of
this yesterday from Menendez was related tothe cash that investigators pulled out of the

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house dollars worth right right, Yeah, some of it sewed into embroidered jackets
that the Senator now, he saidyesterday, that is a son of Cuban
refugees. He knows the risk ofgovernment confiscation, and so to keep cash
on hands for emergencies, he hasover the years withdrawn thousands of dollars from

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his own personal savings accounts. Butthe indictment says that some of this cash
happens to have the fingerprints and DNAof his alleged benefactors in the bribery scheme,
and also no explanation for the goldbars. The acusations in the indictment
are that Menendez applied pressure on administrationofficials in the executive branch and on state

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prosecutors in New Jersey on behalf ofthe people who are giving him all this
money, and those are the officialacts that prosecutors will allege Menendez did.
Now, Menendez is going to arguethat all the things he did were in
keeping with his constitutional role and responsibilityas a US senator. It would be
a very interesting defense in front ofa jury. Yeah, and he not
only defended his position with Egypt,but he went on to talk about all

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the other good things that he's donein office. As I get back to
it, dude, get back toit, because he was wandering off of
that. So what's next for him, Well, ultimately he'll have to answer
to these charges, but the immediatequestion is whether his Democratic colleagues in the
Senate will join the calls for hisouster and whether there'll be any kind of
motion to expel Bob Menendez. Andthat can happen. But look, there

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are two separate storms Menendez. There'sthe legal one that he's going to try
to mount a defense against and maywell survive. I mean, you know,
it looked he was able to avoidan unanimous verdict in the last round,
and there have been various appeals courtcases, and even a Supreme Court

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case that limits prosecutor's ability to bringcorruption and bribery counts against sitting officeholders.
And then there's the political aspect ofit, which is a much harder challenge
I think from Menendez to convince NewJersey ands to send him back for another
six year term. In the midstof all, this gonna be fun to
watch. Thanks Stephen Portnoy for yourtime this morning. I appreciate it.

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Be Let's get back to some ofthe stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. People on Mauiare finally being allowed to return to their
property following deadly wildfires last month.Johnny officials have set up a system to
allow some residents and property owners tosurvey damage. Yesterday, two dozen parcels
in North Lahina were opened and thefirst group of people were escorted in for
a specific time period. People wereencouraged to wear protective gear and were asked

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not to sift through the ashes forfear of stirring up toxic dust. The
movie is part of the county's reentrying rebuilding program. Officials say two thousand
homes and buildings were destroyed and atleast ninety seven people were killed. Steve
Gregory camef I News a debate hasbeen set between Governor Newsom and Florida Governor
Ronda Santis. Even though Newsome hasrepeatedly said he is not running for president,

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His face to face showdown with DeSantis has been debated for some time.
Newsom spokesperson saying we've agreed to thedebate provided there is no cheering section,
no hype videos. We want areal debate, not a circus.
ABC's Lionel Moisey says the two willmeet November thirtieth. The debate will be
ninety minutes long and moderated by SeanHannity on Fox News. De Santis's campaign

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says whether Newsome or Biden is theDemocrat nominee in twenty twenty four, they
both offer the same failed, dangerousideology for America. The mountain towns of
Crestline, Angelus and Forest Falls aregetting new heavy equipment to help recover from
natural disasters. Stay lawmakers have givenSan Bernardino County two and a half million
dollars, which county officials say willbe used to buy four large front end

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loaders amid size loader four industrial snowblowers. The equipment will help with debris removal
after snowstorms, floods, mudslides,and earthquakes. All of the equipment will
be stored close enough to be deployedat a moment's notice. As many as
four million workers could lose pay ifthe government shuts down. Willie Joe Price

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has worked in the cafeteria the Libraryof Congress for forty two years and says
there are lots of people just likeher who are going to suffer living paycheck
to paycheck and can't afford to doanything, you know, and then the
government's shut down, and like Isay, the government will go back and
they're gonna get paid. We're notgoing to get anything. Price says she's
concerned she will fall behind on herbills. The federal government is set to

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shut down October first if lawmakers don'treach a deal. This week, the
UCLA Blood and Platelet Center started acceptingblood donations from gay and bisexual men,
previously restricted by federal guidelines. Campusblood recruiter Tom King says it's a big
moment for the gay community. Peoplefelt it wasn't just, but you can
make a difference and I think people'svoices helped to make a difference, and

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I've said to other people now there'sother issues within the LGBTQ plus community that
still need our attention. King says, every person donating, we'll be individually
screamed, regardless of gender or sexualorientation. The actor who played doctor Donald
Millard or Duckie Oh maybe it's Mallardon the TV show NCIS has died.

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David McCallum was also known for hiswork on The Man from Uncle in the
nineteen sixties. CBS announced yesterday McCallumwas surrounded by family when he died of
natural causes at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He was ninety. Okay, so
I don't know about you, butnow with the writers strike appearing to be
over, or at least very closeto it, I'm very happy because Dancing
with the Stars is going on.So if you'll remember, they announced the

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cast and I was pleasantly surprised becausethey actually had some stars on Dancing with
the Stars, including Oscar winner MiraSorvino and How I Met Your Mother actor
Alison Hannigan, also VEEP star MattWalsh. And then they said, wait
a second, we're not sure ifthis is going to go on because of

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the strike, because there was worriedthat some of the people who were participating,
even though it wasn't scripted, thatthey were maybe strike busting or something
like that. In fact, MattWalsh from VEEP, who's one of the
dancers, said I'm going to puta pause on this and said in solidarity
with the unions, I'm not goingto perform. But now ABC is confirmed

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that it's all a go again.Dancing with the Stars will debut as originally
planned tonight at eight and I haven'twatched the show for years, but I
might tonight. It would be fun. I'm so glad the writer's strike is
almost over. Of course, thenthe sag after video game strike might start
and the other sag stripers still continuing. Never a dull moment. In La

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gas prices are up for the twentiethtime in twenty two days in La County,
up to six fifteen a gallon.That's seventy four cents higher than the
last or in the last twenty twodays. Orange County prices are also up
to six eleven a gallon. It'sfive ninety eight in the IE at six
oh five is handle on the newsabout fifty thousand eviction notices had been filed
since COVID renters protections ended in LA. Right now, let's say good morning

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to ABC's Karen Travers. Check itin with the President, who's about to
be carrying a picket sign. Yeah. The President, well, we don't
know that. The White House wouldnot say that specifically. Yesterday there were
questions about it, but the Whitehousesays that he wants to be the most
pro union president in history, andtoday he's going to show a supportant person
to UAW autoworkers who are on strikein Michigan. This is the storic move

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by the president because it thought tobe the first time that a sitting president
has joined a picket line. Yesterday, he was asked if he specifically supports
the demands that the UAW is askingfor the forty percent pay raise, the
thirty two hour work week, andbetter benefits. And the President wouldn't get
into that specifically, you know,and the White House is also doing the
same thing, not a numbers,not talking about the negotiations exactly, but

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he said that the auto workers gaveup an incredible amount. In his words,
when the auto industry was sailing,and that now they should reap the
benefits of a turnaround in the industry. He said, you know, look
at the executive compensation, the salariesfor executives, the growth in the industry.
They should get some of the benefitof that. You know, a
lot of semantics yesterday with the WhiteHouse of does he side with the workers

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now? Is he taking their sidein this dispute with the auto companies?
And Karine Jean Pierre would only sayhe is standing with the workers, and
everybody said, well, yes,we know that because you're finally going to
be there with them today. Butin terms of you know, putting a
thumb on the scale, what doesthis all mean? She just kept saying,
he wants to show his support forthe UAW. Okay, so he's

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showing a support for the U AWU. Is he going to meet with
the heads of the big three automakersor anybody with them, or is he
only going for the workers today.I asked that question yesterday because we know
he had head conversations. Yes,there you go, ask them, you
shall receive. He had talked toauto executives earlier this month, before he

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had traveled to India a couple ofweeks ago, but we have not heard
of any new conversations, at leastsince the strike had started. That the
president has not engaged with the autoexecutives. I asked if they had invited
him to a meeting today or ishe going to talk to them. Corene
would not say if there was aninvitation from the Auto executives any of the

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companies, or if the President wouldhave any engagement with them today. Something
we're keeping an eye on to seewhether or not there's a phone call with
anybody from one of those companies.Well, he's going to be in town,
I mean it might as well.Yeah, all right, thank you
so much. Does be on camerathing with the workers and does a phone
call with the executive, So we'llsee, stay tuned. I want him
to carry a picket signed personally.I don't think it's probably gonna happen,

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but that's okay. Thank you somuch for your time here, and we'll
talk to you again soon. Ihave a great day, Thanks you too.
Let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour news room. Orange Countyhas suspended advanced sales of burial plots until
a new county cemetery opens for thefirst time in more than one hundred twenty
five years, so that will haveenough space to help out neat families up

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until the point that our new cemeteryis open. OH ce Cemetery District GM
Tim Deutsch says the county six hundredforty remaining spaces would run out by twenty
twenty five, at least a yearbefore the new cemetery is complete, unless
they also expand. There's a roador two within the cemetery grounds that we're
going to be able to convert itto more space that will provide us another,
you know, four to five hundredspaces. He says. The new

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eighty eight or cemetery in Gypsum Canyonwill be next to the first veteran cemetery
for Orange County in Orange County,Corbin Carson KFI News Governor Newsom assigned a
bill to ban school boards from rejectingtextbooks based on teachings about people from different
racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, andgender identities. Newsom says the law passed
yesterday takes effect immediately, and simmonsCalifornia's role as the true freedom state.

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California labor organizations have voiced their displeasureover Governor Newsom's veto of a bill that
would require people to be inside autonomousvehicles for at least the next five years.
It's extremely disappointing the governor chose statecorporations over working people and the will
of California voters. The Teamsters PeterFinn says the union's going to be doubling

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down on its efforts to put guardrailson the use of a v autonomous vehicle
technology. Newsom's offices the bill isnot necessary and says sting law provides enough
authority over autonomous vehicles. A formerRiverside County Sheriff's correctional deputy has pleaded not
guilty to a pair of felony drugcharges. The Riverside County Day's Office says

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Jorge Osagara Rocha was caught with morethan a hundred pounds of fentanyl and a
gun when he was pulled over Septemberseventeenth. He could get up to ten
years in prison if he's convicted.Another bus carrying migrants from Texas has arrived
in La. The Coalition for HumaneImmigrant Rights confirmed yesterday's arrival on X formerly

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known as Twitter, saying the groupincluded twenty three adults and fifteen kids from
Columbia, Ecuador, Honduras, andVenezuela. It's the sixteenth bus load of
migrants to arrive since June. TheLa City Council approved motion earlier the summer
to formally establish La as a sanctuarycity. A Fizer plant in North Carolina
damaged by a tornado has restarted production. The plant's roofs were ripped open and

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pallets of medicine were strewn around inJuly when the tornado touched down. Weiser
says getting a majority of manufacturing linesat the facility back up and running is
a proud achievement. Well, skeetershave achieved something. They are bugging us
right into fall. And if you'rewondering if it seems like there are more

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skeeters this year, there are.And the little bugs are called eighties.
I believe where did I put thelittle pronunciation of it? But they're the
ankle biters. There's the skeeters areout and they're biting your ankles. I
personally been pretty lucky, but Ihaven't been near like wet lands areas or

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near the beach or anything like that. But you might want to keep the
calumine lotion handy because bug people aresaying, because of all the rains we
had, including Tropical Storm Hillary orwhat was left of her, it's like
perfect environment for not only the bugs, but also critters to be out and
about. So you might have seenmore critters wandering around. And then La
landed first on Orkand's Top fifty mosquitocities this year. Yeah, we're number

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one, and the ankle biting mosquitohas been I've heard people talking about it
more and more, and apparently it'shere to stay. The good news is
in all of this is that allof this really wet weather was unusual.
So some experts are saying that thisis sort of a singular year and we
should be back to normal Skeeter levelsnext year. We'll see. Right now,

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let's say good morning to La KennySheriff's Captain Bill Moulder. The reason
we wanted to talk with Captain Moulderis because of a new pilot program that's
been launched in West Hollywood. It'san app. It's called safe Stop.
So please tell us what it isand how it's going to be used.
Safe Stop is a program an appwherein when somebody, a driver who has

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the app is pulled over by lawenforcement. In this case it will be
in West Hollywood with our West HollywoodEpic deputies, that they could engage the
app and then have a two wayvideo conversation with the deputy before the deputy
makes an approach. So it's atool for us in law enforcement to why
seeing, for us to promote asafer and more effective stop, and also

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for the driver to allay any concernsabout being stopped. Everybody always has concerns
when they're being you know, pulledover. Okay, so let's walk this
through it. I'm driving along andI'm speeding, not that I would ever
do that, and you pull meover. So as I'm sitting there in
my car, how do I knowthat I can talk to you before you

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approach the car. So how thesystem is set up is that it if
you have the app, then we'llhave the app too. So if you
press the button on the app,it calls for the officer for the deputy,
then it will ring in the deputy'spatrol vehicle and then they could you
know, the call, have avideo little quick video conference if you will,

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with the driver, and then makethe approach only. And again it's
optional. If it's you know,the situation allows for that to occur,
then we can do that, okay. So it's basically like face timing or
even like a video walkie talkie becauseit's going to connect you directly with the
with the deputy who pulled you over. It will connect, yeah, connect

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directly. The technology is such thatit will recognize the same the same r
app in the deputy's police vehicle withinlike twenty or so feet, so it
will do a direct connecting. Yes, it's exactly like a FaceTime or video
call. Okay. And so weknow that it's a stressful thing when you

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get pulled over, mainly because youalready know that you did something wrong and
you just got busted for it.But it's a stressful time for the officers
too. How does this help theofficers and make sure that they are safe
as well? So the officer thedeputy too. It's very helpful to first
engage the individual via the video callto determine how many people are in the

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car and the demeanor of the driverand all that is traffic stops are one
of the most dangerous situations for lawenforcement, and so any tool that we
can try out or add to makeit safer for us and for the community

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to we serve the better, thebetter the outcomes I think will be with
those stops. Yeah, and Ilove this idea because, again going back
to just my experience, I knowthat when I get pulled over, I
just start like, my heart startspounding, and I'm like again, usually
I know that I've done something wrong, but sometimes you get pulled over and
you don't, and so you're kindof freaking out. So I think that
would be really helpful that you connectto the call and the officers. They're

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going, hey, I'm going tocome up to the car. Take a
deep breath. I'm going to beright there. So you've already established the
communication exactly. The authors could introducethemselves. You know, I'm Deputy Moulder.
I stopped because you were speeding.I know amy number speed, but
in this case, you did it, so we're gonna come up and just
chat with you about that. SoI think it's real good on both ends
to allay any fears about or concernsregarding running the traffic stop. How do

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they find the safe Stop app?Is it just in the app store?
So yeah, I think if anthe app store, you can go on
and put it in safe Stop vehiclestop and search for it downloaded. It's
pretty simple. There's just a littlebit of information have to put in.
I think the type of card youhave, you know, the make and
model, and and that's it andyou're ready to go. So if you
are stopped, and again it's apilot program is going now, Yeah,

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yes, we've just ramped it upand we've just started it, so okay
stopping app, so we appreciate yourcoverage. That will kind of get the
message out there and people can downloadthe app. Sounds like a really cool
program. So hopefully it'll help everybodybe safer and don't speed in the first
place, and you won't get pulledover right exactly, you know, obey
those traffic laws. You won't.But in the case that something happens,

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you do this can be I thinkcertainly help making the initial contract. Thanks
so much, Captain Molder. Again, it's an app called safe Stop and
it's being pilot programmed in West Hollywoodright now. So if you're going to
be in the area, driving throughthe area, maybe download the app.
I wouldn't say go and then speedand try to get pulled over to see

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if it works. But I thinkit's it's kind of a cool thing and
hopefully it'll, you know, calmeveryone down a little bit more as those
are very very stressful times. Iwould say that from my personal experience.
Let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A single engine planehas crashed on a soccer field in Wilmington's
injuring two people. The planes builledfuel onto field of Dreams, but Lle

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City Fire Captain Adam Van Gerpin says, fortunately there was no fire, there
was significant damage to the aircraft andone of those patients did have to be
execated by our firefighters. LA CityCouncilman Tim McCosker says hundreds of kids were
on the field just twenty four hoursbefore the crash yesterday. We have a
butane storage facility that's a short distanceaway. The accident, though tragic,

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could have been much more tragic,he says. The FEDS are now investigating
the crash of the plane, whichtook off from Torrents in Wilmington. Corbin
Carson k if I News Former ArkansasGovernor Asa Hutchinson has fallen short of qualifying
for the second Republican debate. TheRepublican National Committee says to qualify, candidates
need a unique donor threshold, aminimum polling requirement, and signed pledges that

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include supporting the party's eventual nominee.The seven candidates who were at the first
debate last month. We'll be backon stage tomorrow at the Reagan National Library
in Simi Valley. Okay, Soif you're wondering what the actors and writers
are striking about, I'm thinking thatmaybe the broadcasters should be in on this

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strike. In the Philippines, there'sthe GMA network. So it's not our
Good Morning America, it's the GMAnetwork. In the Philippines, they have
introduced the country's first artificial intelligence generatedsportscaster, actually sportscasters. They premiered on
Sunday, so two days ago.And what are they Well, their names

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are Maya and Marco. They're generatedby artificial intelligence using image generation, text
to speech AI, voice synthesis andgeneration, and deep learning face animated technology.
So they're sportscasters, and they're goingto bring the news on NCUBA season
ninety nine, as well as updateson local and international sports station stories that

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feature Filipino athletes and GMA integrated News, says the big wigs say. It
aligns with our mission to serve allcommunities within the nation and promote inclusivity in
our reporting. Yeah, inclusive ofeverybody except humanity. Maya and Marco the
first AI generated sportscasters. I'm scaredright now. Let's say good morning to

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ABC's tech reporter Mike Dobusky. Goodmorning, Mike. We've been talking AI
all morning, and Microsoft has bignews on AI as well. Yeah,
that's right, Amy. So they'rebringing a big update to Windows eleven,
their flagship computer operating system, todayand the big sort of update is Copilot,
which is this AI system AI toolthat they've cooked up that is baked

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directly into this operating system. Now, if you rewind a couple of months,
you might remember Microsoft added some AIfunctionality to Being, which is as
search Engine. Was a really bigstory in the tech world. It kind
of got people to rethink how wesearch for things online. It provided some
really interesting and help full answers andsolutions to some people, and then it

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provided some occasionally very wrong and verystrange answers to other people. But Microsoft
says in the months since then,it has sort of refined this technology,
put some guardrails on it, andnow it's baking it directly into Windows,
which is a very popular brand,very popular product for them. It's on
a lot of computers, a lotof PC's, and a lot of enterprise
systems as well. So that theidea here is that you can press a

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small shortcut command control C. Itwill launch a sidebar in your computer and
you can have a conversation with this. There's a little text box. You
can ask this AI questions, youcan give it simple commands, and it
will respond to you in what Microsoftsays is very human sounding, naturalistic language.
Of course, the caveat here isthat you know, these things still

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do get things wrong occasionally. Itmight be very convenient, but that that
is the risk that you run forthat level of convenience. Okay, So
it sounds like what Microsoft is doingis just what I was mentioning about chat
GPT, that it can hear andspeak spoken words and you can opt into
voice conversations with it, so thatfunctionality has been baked into being. It's

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sort of unclear you know how that'sgoing to show up in the actual operating
system in Windows, but you're right. Yes, yesterday Open Ai had this
very big announcement some big updates comingto Chat GPT, which interestingly enough,
is built on the same large Languagemodel GPT four as BING and Microsoft's sort
of AI efforts. So this isall really one thing that we're talking about

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here. Microsoft kind of gives itits own flavor, maybe put some different
sort of rules around it, butessentially the core engine here is the same.
And yeah, the voice capability throughchat GPT, you have five different
voices that you can choose from.You can speak to chat EPT and it
will talk back to you. Thatwas a really interesting thing. Interestingly enough,

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they also had a sort of imagecapabilities integrated into that system as well
yesterday as part of Open Aiyes announcement. Be interesting to see that make the
leap over to Microsoft systems. Wehaven't really seen that yet, but it
could be coming down the line.I think we're just gonna have to wait
and see. Have you had achance to use it yet or is it
just because it's being unveiled today.You haven't seen it yet. I have

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not. I mean we we sawsort of them demonstrate this last week at
their event here in New York Citywhere they also showed off some hardware products.
But yeah, no, it's justthis morning it got announced and I
have not updated it on my computeryet, and not to reveal too much
about the systems here at ABC NewsRadio, but we still do use Windows
ten, at least on the computerthat I'm talking to you on now,

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so you know, there is someupdates that need to be done. It
is a free update, and youdon't have to opt in, right if
you don't really want, you know, to interface with this new system.
If you're uncomfortable with AI, youcan remain on sort of the existing version
of Windows eleven. Other security updateswill come sort of later on. That's
kind of how Microsoft likes to stagger. It's it's you know, system updates.

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But eventually you have to update becausethey'll stop doing the updates to the
older versions like that, which Istill think seven was like one of the
best versions. Yes, I agree. Yeah, No, Windows you know
does occasionally sunset or need to sunset. It's sort of existing systems, and
a lot of this just comes backto the fact that they need to keep
their security systems current, right thescammers and hackers out there. Their systems

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evolve in much the same way thatthe sort of consumer facing technology evolves.
That means that, you know,it's always important to sort of update your
systems, make sure that your devicesare on the latest technology, the latest
stable version of the operating system thatis available, and you know that really
does protect you against sort of theevolving cyber threats out there. But again,

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you know, this is sort ofmeant to be a sort of digital
assistant from Microsoft's perspective. That ostensiblymeans that it won't be in your life,
you know, in an unavoidable way. It'll kind of just be there
on the side. Though. Itis worth mentioning amy this technology is cophigh
as they call it is coming tomore than just the Windows eleven operating system.
It's going to show up in Edge, which is their web browser.

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It's going to show up an outlook, even Microsoft Paint, which is an
app that we have not heard Microsofttalk about in a very long time.
He's getting some AI functionality as well. I love him draw me a Picasso.
Right, Well, it's kind oflike a little image generator sort of
idea photos also getting some AI capabilities, the ability to blur background stow years
younger. Yeah, well, youknow, I mean one day, I

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think. But the idea is that, you know, this is sort of,
you know, a technology that Microsoftsees as the future. It's these
is unavoidable. I think. Reallywhere Microsoft's head at head is at here
is enterprise technology. They announced thatCope Cope Copilot is coming to Microsoft three
sixty five, which is there sortof like business focused technology, and you

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know that's going to give you know, people who you know subscribe to this
technology the ability to summarize documents usingAI. They can draft emails. They
had this really interesting demo where theAI was able to go into your calendar
and your emails and then draft atext message for you, which is kind
of interesting. You can see avariety of different applications there. That particular

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version, the enterprise version, isgoing to be available in November starting at
thirty bucks a month. As Imentioned, the sort of more consumer facing
version of Windows eleven with the Copilotinstalled, that's available for download today.
Yeah, and then AI is goingto go in and it's going to check
my calendar and go, oh,you have an appointment, and it's going
to send out a text message andit's not going to tell me I'm gonna
still miss my appointment. Well,you know, in the demo, you

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do look at the text before itgets sent. They don't actually, you
know, do any of the sendingyou. There's still sort of an approval
process, but you know you cansee down the line, you know,
in an effort to make things moreconvenient, that could be a thing that
happens. But as of right now, all text messages or all sort of
digital assistants really do defer to theuser. You see this with things like

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Sirie, things with Alexa, thereis like an approval process. They don't
they won't go out and buy somethingfor you. They won't send you a
text. But you know it couldhappen. It could happen, but I
would just say they try to bakeit in. You're just scar I know
that it's supposed to be this coolthing. I still am very leary of
it, and I know I'm probablytime. I don't think you're alone.

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I think many people are still tryingto kind of get their heads around this
AI technology. A lot of peopleare making the argument that we don't really
need this, right, search engineswork just fine. Yeah, but you
know, again, the tech worldis at this state of flux right now,
where you know, we're not buyingcomputers every year, we're not buying
new phones every year. The oneswe have kind of work, and we're
revaluating our relationship with social media andyou know, cryptocurrencies and all these other

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metaverse technologies. The tech world kindof needs a hit. It seems like
this year they really want AI tobe that hit. But there's a lot
of other concerns and and and sortof lingering, you know, problems with
the technology before it really takes off. Well, you just nailed it on
the head. You said, we'renot buying computer. Now the AI is
going to go, hey, yourcomputer is not working, let's go buy
you a new one. Right,It's like, hey, this is do

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a surface device that I All right, Mike Debosky, thank you so much
for your time and all the informationabout the new program. Of course,
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