August 18, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Brian Clark opens the show talking about the ongoing saga in the Texas House of Representatives. ABC News national reporter Steven Portnoy speaks on more states sending National Guard to DC. Bloomberg Media’s Courtney Donohoe shares the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with Amy talking with KFI White House correspondent John Decker about Ukrainian President Zelenskyy headed to the Oval Office.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI had KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are we sure? Are we sure? It's time? Oh? Yep,
it is five o'clock straight up, that's the time. This
is your wake up call for Monday, August eighteenth. I'm
Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Getting
back to it. Hope you had a great weekend. I
had the weirdest weekend. It was like a polar opposites weekend.
I had a friend in town, so we went to
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Disneyland on Friday, and if you're a Disney fan and
you hate crowds, Friday was the day to be there.
It was crazy, crazy how short the lines were and
there were rooms. There was room at the restaurants. We
were trying to figure out what it was. It might
have been because it was back to school right after
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that and right before Oogie Boogie Bash, because Halloween time
arrives at Disneyland, I believe on the twenty second, and
so maybe people are saving up or something. But it
was great for visitors. I don't know how much money
Disney made that day. And then on Saturday we went
to a Midsummer Scream, So from Disney woo oooh, Happy, Happy,
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Joy Joy Halloween to like the ghouls and the demons
and all the dark side of Halloween and it was
fabulous at the Long Beach Convention Center. Had a great
time and posted a couple of videos on my Instagram
at Amy K King if you want to go check
it out. But it was so cool. They had like
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all these like the haunted houses of a lot of
the places that are going to be presenting haunted houses
this ball and there was like twenty two of them
or something, and so it was crazy and everybody in
the makeup and everybody was dressed up and they had
like just everything Halloween and horror. Like the co founder
told us last week, it was sort of like the
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comic con of Halloween and it was really cool. So
Midsummer Screen again. You can get a sneak peek at
any K King Do you want to check it out
on my Instagram. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
European and NATO leaders are joining Ukrainian presidents of landscape
the White House for talks with President Trump on ending
the war in Ukraine. Leaders from France, Britain, Germany, Italy
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and Finland are rallying around the Ukrainian leader after he
was excluded from the meeting on Friday between Trump and
Russia's president Putin. A teenager's been shot and killed at
a house party in Covena. Police say the fight started
Saturday night at the back to school swim party and
escalated the gunfire. A sixteen year old was shot and
taken to the hospital where he died. An adult who
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lived that the house was there at the time. Police
say the party had been advertised on social media. A
family in Laverne had a rather unwelcome visitor. A mountain
lion walked right in through the front door and into
the dining room of the home on Saturday afternoon. Jeff
Tenney says he locked eyes with the big cat, which
apparently scared it off. The lion ran out, jumped into
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the pool, popped a pool float in the process, and
then jumped over a fence. Texas allmakers are making their
way back to the state. What's next in the battle
to redraw congressional districts. ABC's Brian Clark's going to join
us in just a couple of minutes. The National Guards
patrolling in the streets of DC, but apparently what the
President ordered isn't enough. ABC's Stephen Portinoy's going to tell
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us why more troops are headed to the Capitol and
who's sending them and if five point fifty kfi's White
House correspondent John Decker was in Alaska. Now he's back
in DC with his take on the politics of peace.
As President Trump gets ready for that sit down with
Vi Lensky today, let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour News.
Federal agents have shot at a man who allegedly tried
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to run them down in San Bernardino.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It happened on Saturday morning during an attempted traffic stop.
US Customs and Border Protection says a man drove towards agents,
hitting two of them. They were injured, but the nature
of their injuries is unclear. Officers then opened fire on
the truck, which had three people inside.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
A driver drove off and gone away.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The Family and Science says that federal agents refused to
explain what was going on, and smashed one of the
truck's windows before hitting the driver in the head, then
shooting at them.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Mark Mayfield Kofi.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
News News brought to you by Sit and Sleep. Governor
Newsom's office says it is submitting a Freedom of Information
Act request to find out why ICE agents were outside
the governor's press conference on redistricting while in La. Newsom
has accused the Trump administration of misusing federal agents last week,
saying the operation intended to intimidate those defending a fair
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electoral process. The Border Patrol said one person was detain
and suggested they didn't know that Newsom was at the
Japanese American National Museum that day. La Mayor Bass called
the operation a provocative act. A back to school party
in Covenas turned deadly.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I wanted to go swimming.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
That was it.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Yeah, we come and there's like a bunch of like
cops here.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Video shows dozens of teen partygoers running in the streets
away from the house party on Camellia Drive Saturday night.
Witnesses said a home there was hosting an open invite
back to school swimming party.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And apparently there was like are shooting here.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Covina police say a sixteen year old boy was shot
and later died. No one else was hurt, and police
are still looking for the shooter. Other Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Brian Clark. So, Brian,
we've got redistricting front and center in Texas again today
because the Democrats who took off to avoid allowing a
vote are headed back to the state. What happened over
the weekend, Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
We expect to see them back in Austin today for
the second special legislative session. A lot of them were
in the Chicago suburbs. That's where they went when they
left Texas to break forum, and we saw a lot
of them appearing at a rally in Chicago over the weekend.
It was called, you know, the stop to Takeover rally.
And now we're going to see what happens because it
seems like these Democrats have made a pretty vocal point, certainly,
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but the Republicans they have not shown any appetite to
give up this redistricting fight. We have foreseen Governor Gavin
Newsoman in California say that he's going to pursue redistricting
in California to balance this out. But this is maybe
the end of one chapter, but it's certainly not the
end of the story.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, So, Brian, when they go back and in the
new session, the Republicans have the votes, so it's going
to be.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
They I mean, if everybody you know goes by party line. Yes,
the Republicans have the majorities, they have the votes, and
they would be able to do this in Texas.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Okay. And is there any indication that maybe there might
be a defector or two and they would vote against
making changing the maps.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
So far, there's no indication of that, and there's no
indication that they're going to give up this fight. They
have been adamant that they're going to go after this.
It seems like the biggest if they don't go forward
with this, it's just because, Okay, what kind of Pandora's
box is open elsewhere? With California of course being a
prominent example, but we've also seen other states controlled by
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Republicans say they're going to take up redistricting in their
regular session this fall. We saw Florida, the House speaker
came out and said that, I think last week or
the week prior. So it's an issue that is percolating
in a lot of different state houses around the.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Country, so it could just start a whole domino effect.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
That's yeah, that's what it seems like Governor Newsom is
trying to do and just say that, Okay, if Texas
does this, well, then here we can act and flip
it this way. Of course, this only works in terms
of a domino effect when it's a state that's reliably
Republican or reliably democratic and you need to figure out
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those districts would be. It wouldn't work in a swing district.
Of course, Texas thinks they have it where they can
easily make it more favorable for Republicans. Governor Newsom of
course came out with that map that he says will
flip I think five of the nine remaining Republican districts
in California. So we time will tell how this plays out.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Okay, then another question for you, Brian, even if Texas
passes the new districts, it's not a guarantee or is
it or is it a guarantee? Like they just know
where those voters are and can draw those lines so
specifically that they can pretty much guarantee those seats.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
Yeah, I think it's the second one. It's that they have,
you know, tailored this to a point that they'll be
able to draw these lines consistently. And this seems like
what Gavin Newsom is saying he could do in California,
just going the other way that they know, you know
where the people are, they know the borders, and they
know how to draw these districts, so it's most favorable
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to whichever party they're representing.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Okay, any repercussions for the Texas Democrats who bailed out
of the state for a couple of weeks or did
they just come back in its business as usual.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
They've been fined five hundred dollars a day for every
day they were out in causing the quorum break. So
they've got financial fines. They the Texas Speaker on Friday
when the first session adjourned, he said they were going
to seek reimbursement just for how much extra this took.
They're saying that Texas taxpayers aren't going to pay for this.
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It's going to be those Democrats. We'll see how they
calculate that amount, but there are certainly financial penalties for
these Democrats who left the state.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Okay, ABC's brand Clark, thanks so much for bringing us
up to speed. We'll see what happens next. Appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ukrainian
President Zelenski will meet today with President Trump in Washington,
d C. He says the war with Russia must end
and the US, Ukraine and Russia must have a trilateral meeting.
Zelenski says they need to talk about Russia's demand for
the Dedetsk region, among other things.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
Odin has many demands, but we do not know all
of them, and if there are really as many as
we wore them, it will take time to go through
them all.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Leaders from the UK, France and Germany also some other
countries are going to be in DC for those meetings today.
The US State Department is stopping approvals of visitor visas
for people from Gaza. On Saturday, the Department announced it
was conducting a full and thorough review of the visa process,
specifically for people seeking temporary medical visas. The State Department
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has allowed a small number of Gozens to travel to
the US for medical attention since the Israel Hamas War began.
Hurricane Aarin has pelted parts of the Caribbean as a
category four storm packing one hundred and thirty mile per
hour winds. Erin has been downgraded to a category three her,
but it regained strength over the weekend. The storm's not
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expected to directly hit the US East Coast, but it
is threatening North Carolina's outer banks. Emergency officials have ordered
an evacuation of low lying Hatteras Island starting today. US
Steele says it has an idea about what caused the
explosion at one of its plants last week in Pennsylvania.
ABC's Brian Clark says two people were killed and ten
others were heard.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
US Steel says build up in a gas valve ahead
of routine maintenance may have been the cause of Monday's
deadly explosion at a facility in Clareton, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He says the United Steel Workers Union hasn't commented on
US Steele's thoughts about the cause. The CDC says er
hospital visits by children typically double between the summer and
the fall. Pediatrician doctor Darien Sutton says back to school
anxiety affects kids as they transition back into the classroom
after summer break.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
A recent study shows that nearly thirty two percent of
adolescents experienced some level of anxiety. That's nearly one out
of three for children. For example, it can often present
as physical symptoms constant stomach aches that are unexplained.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
He says. Other signs can be headaches that are unexplained
and frequent trips to the nurse. While at school, I
used to take frequent trips to the nurse, but it
was because I wanted to get out of math class. Okay.
The actor who played Superman's nemesis, General Zod has died.
(12:30):
Terrence Stamp had a lot of credits, but he's best
known as General Zod and Superman one and two. He
had said at one point that he kept his standards
high as an actor, saying, I don't do crappy movies
unless I haven't got the rent. Terrence Stamp was eighty seven.
The Dodgers Erbacks in first place in the National League
West after a sweep of San Diego topped off by
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a five to four win over the Patres at Dodger
Stadium yesterday. Freddie Freeman got it all started for the
Boys in Blue.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And two from Darvish coming the pitch and Freeman swings.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
It's a drive to right center fielding date this pap back,
this pop home run, Freddy Freeman a three.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Run shot and the Dodgers strike first.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Three nothing on LA Is It Colorado? Tonight you can
listen to all the action on a five to seventy
LA Sports live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth, or
stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio WAP
again that keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Two men
have been shot, one of them killed while trying to
stop three guys from stealing a car in an alley
in South la. It happened around nine thirty Saturday night
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on South Hooper Avenue. Sheriff's officials say the men heard
their car alarm and confronted the robbers. A fourth man
shot the two men. All four took off in a
red or burgundy car. Several ice rates have been carried
out in Whittier over the weekend, one of them at
a car wash, the Euclid Car Wash. City officials say
this is the third time the car wash has been
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targeted by federal agents. Since July thirteenth, Air Canada has
suspended plans to resume flights after striking flight attendants refused
a government order to return to work. The airline had
announced plans to resume operations yesterday, but the union representing
ten thousand flight attendants refused. The airline is now working
to accommodate ticket holders. Apparently President Trump has told President
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Zelenski that Ukraine is not gonna get crimea back and
will not be a NATO member. Those maybe the topics
on the table when the two leaders sit down today
six oh five. Handle on the news. Bill's gonna tell
you more about that. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy, So, good morning, Stephen. President Trump called
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up the National Guard to crack down on crime and
homelessness in DC. But apparently what he called up wasn't
enough because more are headed to DC.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, it's hard to see exactly why this is happening.
The idea here is that governors from states such as
West Virginia, Ohio, and South Carolina, led by Republicans, are
offering hundreds of National Guard troops to come to DC.
What it is they're going to be doing here, what
the mission is, is not entirely clear but if you
turn on your favorite cable news channel, undoubtedly you'll see
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pictures of the armored vehicles lined up along the National Mall,
in front of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, relatively
low crime, high traffic, high tourist areas of the city
that are already protected by the US Park Police, and
now you'll have the presence of the National Guard. Look,
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DC is a violent city. There's no dressing it up.
You could talk about how the crime rates are declining,
which is true according to the statistics. And even if
you argue that, well, the statistics are fudge, the murder
rate is going down. It's hard to hide dead bodies.
You could dress it up and say, oh, this is
a larcening and that it's a misdemeanor. We can make
a little adjustment there to make the picture look better.
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That's the allegation. At least it's happening. But it's hard
to do that with a homicide rate. Suffice it to say,
there are questions about what exactly the purpose of this
show of force is except to be a show of force.
The National Guard troops are at the moment unarmed, but
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could be armed. Some of these units particularly from Ohio
that are being offered or military police officer, so at
least they are trained in how to make arrests. But
your typical National guardsman receives training on civil disturbances, not
you know, doing police work, and that's not the objective here.
It seems you have the federal assertion of control over
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the DC Police, which is the subject of a court
hearing on Friday where the judge essentially said that the
administration was vastly overreading its authority in the Home Rule Act,
and she had the two sides get in a room
and agree to kind of sort of take the temperature
down and leave the DC Police chief in charge of
Then you have the ramped up enforcement of federal law
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by federal law enforcement agencies such as ICE here in
the city, and some of those ICE actions are taking
place in the middle of brunch hour, where young professionals
are stunned to see it, and they're increasingly outraged and
taking to the streets because they didn't expect this sort
of thing to happen in their city where they are
just enjoying time. The app Open Table reports that reservations
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for the restaurants in the city are dropping by double
digit percentages because people are very suddenly now not interested
in coming out to dinner because of the presence of
the law enforcement activity, which is meant, according to the President,
to make people feel safer. It seems the opposite is
happening to a measurable extent.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Okay, so you said that they're unarmed. They're hanging out
by the Washington Mall and other areas like high profile areas,
so they're not making arrests.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
At this point, the National Guard is not making arrests.
You have the stepped up presence of federal law enforcement agencies.
It's all part of a complicated picture that's meant to demonstrate,
you know, ramped up law enforcement activity of the National
guardsmen of fatigues who are just basically standing there. Then
you have and I don't mean to mean that, I
mean that's what they're doing. Then you have the presence
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of federal law enforcement agencies such as ICE, wearing masks
and not identifying themselves except by in some sort of
insignia which may not include the name of the agency,
setting up checkpoints on streets such as Fourteenth Street. So
imagine I'm trying to use an analog that you'd appreciate
something maybe in the middle of Sunset Boulevard, right, high
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crime and sorry, not a high crime area, but certainly
a high traffic, high tourist area where lots of young
people go out at night on the weekends especially.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, are they patrolling in other areas too, or really
just in these high profile areas?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You know, there are parts of southern cal which are
high crime areas. Imagine if the show of force were
merely at Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And Vine, well that's turned into a high crime area.
But that's all other stories.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
All right, But it doesn't solve the problem, does it.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Right, And so they're not in other areas. They're really
just kind of concentrated in areas where they're being.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Seen, as we can tell as best we can just
discern it at this early stage. It's only been a
week since the President had his news conference in the
briefing room and announced this stepped up, ramped up federal effort.
We have not seen or heard of patrols in what
are routinely known as the higher crime, nitty gritty areas
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of the city. Which is not to say that crime
never happens in the high tourists just as you describe
it Hollywood and Vine. But nevertheless, when we think, and
it may just be a stereotype, but it's also borne
out by the statistics when we think of the high
crime areas, you know, there are people who live in
those areas who would love to see their streets. That's
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not where this is because it's not where it's not
where the media is focused. It's not where the young
professionals live. And it seems as though for now a
lot of what's gone on is in those areas that
will attract the attention of the professional class and the press.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, and then one other question for you before you go, Steve,
I know you gotta head out. Are they clearing out
the homeless? That wasn't that one of the goals.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
They have cleared out homeless encampments. What's going to come
of the happy to those people? Nobody knows. The White
House suggested that they'd be offered space and shelters, but
the reporting has been that the shelters are already at
capacity and that that was why people wound up on
the street. Otherwise they would be offered some sort of
addiction treatment or they have just to go somewhere else,
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and so look, homelessness is a serious problem in the
United States, and it's only going getting worse as rents
get more expensive and people wind up falling on hard times,
staying in extended stay hotels, or wind up being evicted
and then have a black mark on their credit report,
and then they can't properly rent an apartment for anyone
who checks a credit rating, and it becomes hard And
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that's the case in the Southland, and it's the case
in Washington, d C. But here in DC there's all
of a sudden no tolerance for the encampments, which are
a blight and a quality of life concern. The President
is cleaning it up.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Okay, Steven Portnoy, thanks for the information. We'll be checking
in with you again. You bet all right. Two men
from New York have been arrested for a home invasion
robbery and Redondo Beach police were called early yesterday about
someone pointing a gun at another person inside a car,
but the caller hung up telling police where. Police say
the location was traced to a home on Matthews Avenue.
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The intruders ran before police got there, but officers were
able to chase and arrest the alleged robbers. Two men
and a woman have been child to death in a
vacant lot in Lancaster. The shooting was reported yesterday afternoon.
Investigators say the men were in an essay and the
woman was in a car directly behind them. The Sheriff's
department says the shooter approached in another vehicle, shot the
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three and took off. Video from the scene showed a
white Sedan with bullet holes in the driver's side window
and a red suv in front. The San Bernardino County
Sheriff's Department says the parents of a seven month old
boy reported kidnapped and u Kaipa are no longer cooperating
with investigators. They also say there are inconsistencies in the
mom's story. She told reporters last week that she was
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in a parking lot about to change the baby's diaper
when someone came up behind her, said hello in Spanish
and punched her. And I couldn't even turn and that
was this. I don't remember nothing. I got up off
the floor. I didn't see my child.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Someone took them from me.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The child's grandmother says. Investigators asked Rebecca Harrow to take
a lie detector test, but her husband, Jake, refused until
they had a lawyer present. She says the couple would
not hurt the baby. The father was convicted of child
cruelty in twenty twenty three related to an arrest in
hemet in twenty eighteen. More than a half billion dollars
is on the line for tonight's powerball drawing. There was
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no winner from Saturday's lottery drawing, so the jackpot tonight
is up to an estimated six hundred and five million dollars.
The Queen Mary and Long Beach has launched a new
program that could leave guests feeling a little like royalty.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
If you're feeling fancy, you can join the Royal Fun
on the Sea, Officials say. The Queen Mary membership offers
fans year round access, exclusive events and perks like free admission.
Memberships range from one hundred and forty nine dollars to
nearly two thousand, with top tier packages including tickets to
holiday celebrations and behind the scenes experiences. One level even
features paranormal overnights in the ship's most haunted stateroom. The
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ship is also inviting visitors to support restoration through its
Adopter rivet program other Brooker Kfi News.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I've been to that haunted stateroom stateroom. It's very creepy.
I was not haunted, there was nothing going on, although
the person who was giving us the tour did jump
out and scare me, so that was fun, but it
is a little creepy. You know, Dark Harbor's coming up
at Queen Mary. That's one of my favorite haunts for
Halloween time. Just something to kind of put in the
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back of your brain as we get as we start
heading toward Halloween, which seems like it's coming earlier and
earlier every year. An elementary school in Tarzana has been
vandalized with swastika and anti Semitic graffiti. A banner on
the fence around Wilbur Charter Elementary was spray painted over
the weekend. Security camera footage shows a person doing it
before taking off in a car. Similar images were spray
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painted on walls near the Israeli American National Headquarters in
Woodland Hills a week ago. The first witness in house
investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case will be William Barr.
Bill Barr, the former Attorney General you're scheduled to testify
today before a closed Doorhouse committee. Republican James Comer has
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also subpoenaed former President Clinton and former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton. Show Hey Otani's three hundredth career home run
ball is sold at auction four more than thirty six
thousand dollars. Otani hit the home run against the Rockies
at Corsefield in Denver June twenty fourth. A fan caught
the ball and then decided to sell it thirty six
(25:15):
thousand sounds like kind of a bargain for a show,
Hey Ball. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. That
heat wave. I mentioned it's headed for southern California. Triple
digit temperatures, low humidity, and gusty winds that increase the
fire danger should hit southern California by Thursday and Friday,
and looking at the forecast for seeing temperatures up to
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one ten in the valleys and inland Empire. California's proposed
new congressional map as sparked a redistricting showdown over future
control of the US House if it's approved.
Speaker 12 (25:46):
A Democrat, Ami Bearra may have to face off against
Republican Kevin Kylie, who won reelection last year by eleven points.
That's because the plan would shift parts of Behra's district
into Kylie's. Kylie says the redistricting effort goes against the
will of Californians.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
For our voters intentionally took the power to do this
away from politicians and put it in the hands of
nonpartisan citizens.
Speaker 12 (26:07):
Lawmakers have until the end of the week to approve
the new map. Brigitia de Gastino KAFI News.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The Coastguard is stopped a twenty foot boat that was
taking on water off Newport Beach and found seven suspected
illegal immigrants in it. The boat was towed in Saturday night.
It had five men and two women aboard. They were
turned over to Homeland Security. A mom and her eight
month old daughter who disappeared weeks ago after a doctor's
visit in Fresno, have been found dead in an suv
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that was discovered pinned beneath a bridge in a canal.
The two had last been seen on July fifteenth. The
mom's suv was found yesterday by volunteer divers with Adventures
with Purpose, which is a group that helped search for
missing people. They used Sonard pinpoint the location of the vehicle.
The HP is investigating how the suv ended up underwater.
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A hand soap sold across the US and Puerto Rico
has been recalled because of a dangerous bacterial contamination. The company,
Derma Right Industries, says that bacteria could lead to serious
and life threatening infections in people who are on immunocompromised.
They say the infection is more likely to spread into
their bloodstream, which could lead to life threatening sepsis. The
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recall includes Derma Clee, Derma Sera, Clean Foam, and Paragene soaps.
If you have an old Rolex sitting around, now might
be a good time to sell it. The market for
used luxury time pieces has just had its best half
year performance since early twenty twenty two. Two watches that
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are in high demand are Rolex's Gold Daytona and Ptec
Philip's Aquanat. Never heard of them, probably because I cannot
afford a Rolex in the first place. New or used
time to get in your business now with the Bloomberg's
Dan Schwartzen Schwartzman, who's in We're Courtney all week Good morning, Dan.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Good morning, and I join you cannot afford a rolex
or a pat sech fleep. I can though, get you
on those fifteen dollar rolex as though, if you want
send it to you.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh yeah, my parents went to China one time and
they brought me a fake rolex.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
As long as there's a sweeping hand, it looks real.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
That's the big that's the secret for it.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
That's the tell. Okay, good to know, Good to know.
So Dan, let's get in your business. Foreigners once again
liking the American real estate markets.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's right, Amy, They are buying a lot of real
estate in the US. According to report by the National
Association of Realtors, sales of existing US real estate to
non citizens hit fifty six billion dollars in the year
through March. That's up thirty three percent from the same
period the year before. Now it's a first increase in
eight years, Amy, But the numbers are still far below
the peak that was back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Okay, but we're still not buying houses. So somebody's got
to buy him, right.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
You know what. They're being built, and I don't know
who can afford him.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Here but apparently people are buying him because they're building
more and more so.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So going to one of the other big investments that
people make. If you want to lease a car right now,
and EV maybe the way to go.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, it's your second biggest investment after your house is
a car, and the EV makers as well as dealers
are offering cheaper leases before losing federal tax credits valued
up to seventy five hundred dollars, as well as to
move current inventory. According to Deadman's on average, EV leases
are cheaper than gas powered cars. The average EV lease
right now six hundred and twenty four dollars a month,
compared to six hundred and seventy dollars for gas cars
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and trucks. For instance, Amy, you can get a Mercedes
EQB SUV back in July for just over three hundred
and fifty dollars a month.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Not bad.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Wow, that's not when you mentioned an average of six
hundred and twenty. I still it's just crazy that people
are paying that much for cars.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's insane. I mean, the average car price I believe
now for a new car is like forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
You can't buy one of those company.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Remember like Kakhanda Civic used to be like seventeen thousand dollars,
little two door non powered windows or anything. Can't get
those anymore, No one's building them.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Okay. Air Canada still dealing with a labor strike in
spite of their plans to start flying again.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, don't head to the airport right now if you
have tickets for them. More trouble as their flights remain
grounded by that flight attendant strike. Despite a back to
work order from the government, the Canadian Labor Minister attempting
to force an end to the walkout and impose binding
arbitration to reach a new contract. Now the union, though,
has defied the order, with it not yet clear how
exactly that order would be enforced. Air Canada today amy's
(30:27):
suspending its guidance through the end of this year due
to that.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Strike, suspending suspending what till the end of the year.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
They're guidance.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So usually they'll say, okay, so we forecast will make
this much money in this much per share, And they
can't do that because obviously this is hurting them, you know,
significantly in the wallet. So they can't tell us what
they think their earnings are going to be because right
now they're not really earning anything, just losing a ton
of money every day that this work stoppage goes on.
And right now there's no end in sight unless you know,
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this government's trying to get involved in Right now, the
Union saying now we're not going to listen.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
To you, okay and take a can we take a
quick look at what we're expecting in the markets as
we start this week?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, right now, it's not looking tremendous. Right now, the
TAO is down twelve points, Nasdaq's down forty five points,
SMP is down eight and a half points. There's the
angst about what's going to happen with Ukraine, the big
meetings stay at the White House, as well as what
the indications will be from the Fed in terms of
interest rates, will they actually lower them in September? So
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right now uncertainty at the markets heading into this week.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But still they're so high, like the Dow Jones is
sitting over forty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It we're sitting here going how like, you know, it's
not like the economy is in that great shape, and
yet the markets haven't exactly been in line because they
continue to rise right then, as that hitting another record
last week and the Dow as you said, forty five
thousand smps, you know, closing in on sixty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I mean, these numbers just keep rising.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh well, good for my four oh one k. Thank you,
Dan Schwartzman in for Courtney all week, getting in your
business with Bloomberg. We'll do it again tomorrow, absolutely all right,
thanks Dan. Two men from New York have been arrested
in connection with an armed home invasion robbery in Redondo Beach.
Pillase say two people had been tied up and held
for hours during the break in early yesterday morning at
the house on Matthews Avenue. The man arrested or the
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men arrested rather are being held on one million dollars bail.
Ukraine could get NATO like protections in a peace deal
with Russia. US Envoy Steve whitcoff S's Russia's President Putin
has agreed to that part of a peace deal, though
no deal was reached during a summit on Friday. Ukraine's
President Zelenski's at the White House day to meet with
President Trump and European allies. We're going to be talking
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to kfi's white House correspondent John Decker with more on
that in just a minute. A family in Laverne has
had a rather unwelcome visitor. A mountain lion walked right
in through the front door and into the dining room
the family's home on Saturday afternoon. Jeff Tenny says he
was at his mom's house when it happened. He says
he looked into the eyes of the big cat that
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apparently scared it off. The lion ran out of the house,
jumped into the swimming pool and popped a pool float,
then jumped over the fence. We're just minutes away from handle.
On the news this morning, sheriff's officials say there's something
off about a mom's story about her baby being kidnapped
from a parking lot in you Kaipa. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
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twenty four hour newsroom. The second of two men believed
to be part of a South American crime tourism group
is expected to be sentenced today in the armed robbery
of a one million dollar emerald encrusted watch. It was
stolen from a tourist sitting on the patio at the Beverly,
Wilshire Hotel. The nineteen year old pleaded guilty to charges
in March. He's getaway driver from Columbia was sentence last
(33:43):
month to two and a half years in prison. Investigators
are still working to figure out how the two men
got their hands on a gun that was once registered
to Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer who killed four
people and triggered her a massive manhunt that ended with
his death in Big Bear twelve years ago. A mother
who says her seven month old was kidnapped in Yukaipa's
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no longer cooperating with detectives.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
The woman claimed her son was kidnapped on Thursday night
after a man assaulted her and knocked her unconscious outside
of a store. Authorities say the woman stopped cooperating with
them on Saturday after detectives found inconsistencies in her story.
Authority say the woman's husband, who has a prior conviction
for child cruelty, has also been uncooperative. The National Uvalne
(34:27):
Foundation for Kids has called off its independent search for
the boy and canceled the five thousand dollars reward it
was offering for information to help find him. Mark Mayfield
KOFI News.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
A federal judge in Miami is hearing arguments today about
who's in charge of the so called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
Former federal prosecutor David Weinstein says the venue issue must
be decided first.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
Does the case belong in the Southern District of Florida
and the defense in this case have argued that it
doesn't that the facility itself is primarily located on land
in Collier County.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
Once that's decided, the judge will issue a ruling on
who's running the migrant detention center. Attorneys for the ASL
YOU have filed suit saying at least one hundred detainees
have been deported without due process. Tammy Triho kf I News.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Two police officers have been killed in a shooting during
a domestic violence call in Utah. Brigham City Police Detective
Crystal Beck says a sheriff's deputy who also responded yesterday
was hurt and is in the hospital.
Speaker 14 (35:29):
Upon arrival, they immediately began taking fire. They requested additional
units and then stopped answering their radio.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Police say bystanders persuaded the shooter to put down his
gun and the guy was arrested. President Trump has posted
on social media that he's going to lead a movement
to get rid of mail in ballots and voting machines,
which he says are highly inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial.
He says the US is the only country in the
world world that uses mail in voting and claims other
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countries gave up on it because of fraud. He wrote
this morning that the Republican Party will, as he put it,
fight like hell to bring honesty and integrity back to
our elections. Air Canada has suspended plans to restart operations
because the union representing ten thousand striking flight attendants has
decided to defy a return to work order. The Canada
(36:23):
Industrial Relations Board ordered staff back by yesterday afternoon, but
the union refused. Its leaders called the order unconstitutional. The
shutdown began early Saturday, causing the airline to cancel hundreds
of flights. Ill let's say good morning too, kfi's White
House correspondent John Decker, Who's been a very busy man
buzzing around the globe. First a trip to Alaska, now
(36:46):
back to DC. Morning, John, Hey, good morning to you.
Speaker 13 (36:50):
Amy good to be back in Washington.
Speaker 15 (36:52):
Big day in Washington, just a few days after the
President's meeting with President Putin. As you point out, I
was in Alaska for that. Now today I'll be in
the Oval Office when the President meets with President Zelenski
as well as other European leaders, the leaders of Germany, France,
the UK, NATO, and the European Union. The focus making
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certain that the United States is unified with the European
approach to trying to end the war in Ukraine, which
has been going on now since February of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Okay, So, John, after watching what happened in Alaska and
then getting ready for today, what are some of your
takeaways about what's been going on.
Speaker 15 (37:38):
My main takeaway is that Amy, I believe the dynamic
has changed since the President met with President Putin on
Friday in Alaska.
Speaker 13 (37:47):
Your America recall.
Speaker 15 (37:48):
Leading up to that meeting, the President had a video
conference with these same leaders that will be at the
White House today, and it seemed as if everybody was unified,
had the same approach to dealing with Russia. Now it's
a little different, and I think today's meeting is in
some respects Amy. Even more important than the President's meeting
(38:11):
that he had on Friday with President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska.
It's important to see whether the US is still unified
with the European approach, whether it still has Ukraine's back
in terms of dealing with Russia, and whether or not
the US is still insistent upon Russia making concessions, making
(38:34):
concessions to bring about an end to this war.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Okay, we're hearing that two of the things that Trump
is going to push Zelenski for is that you're not
getting Crimea back and you're not going to be part
of NATO. That those are two of the big things
that may possibly Putin may have agreed to a ceasefire
or a peace deal if those two things happen.
Speaker 15 (38:58):
Is that what you're hearing, Well, to me, it's a
head scratcher. Why should Russia, of all countries, dictate to
NATO who should be members of NATO. If NATO wants
to have Sweden and Finland, for instance, the latest members
to be added to the Defense Alliance, to be members
of the NATO Defense Alliance, then that's what they want
to do. If they want to have I don't know
(39:19):
I don't know. I can't speak for all thirty two
members of NATO, but if if there's unanimity in having
Ukraine becoming a member of NATO, Russia should have no
say in that whatsoever. So to me, that's why this
meeting is so important to hear what these European leaders,
members of NATO, allies of the United States have to
say about that particular idea, that particular concession that the
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president's speaking about.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Okay, and is Zelenski still saying we're not giving up
anything because we've got what it's about. Well, yes, twenty
percent of the country that Russia.
Speaker 15 (39:51):
Has ever say that, amy, I mean yeah, yeah, I mean, look,
if you're a leader, you're not going to give something
up before you've even had a conversation.
Speaker 13 (39:59):
You're not going to go sheets something away. So he
has to say that publicly.
Speaker 15 (40:02):
Now, I don't know if he's saying the same things
behind closed doors. I don't know if he's saying the
same things, you know, when he's meeting in the Oval Office,
when we're not there with President Trump and when you
know European leaders are there. But that's what he's saying publicly.
And also you know, look.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
Russia didn't agree to a ceasefire.
Speaker 15 (40:20):
That was something the President had been seeking when he
was meeting with Putin on Friday, and the president, unfortunately,
President Trump came away empty handed on that regard, and
that's unfortunate. The President said, if there's no ceasefire, there
would be severe consequences for Russia, and we're not seeing that. So,
you know, I mean, if you're any leader, if you're
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President Obama and you talked about red lines and you
don't do anything.
Speaker 13 (40:43):
If you know, Siria jumps over those red lines.
Speaker 15 (40:46):
And if you're President Trump and you you know, you
threaten serious consequences and you don't follow through with that,
then you know, leaders are adversaries, do not take those
threats seriously.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Well, we'll have to be watching that. And for the
meeting in the Oval, you guys go in before they
really sit down and hammer stuff out.
Speaker 13 (41:05):
Right, that is correct. It's at the very top of
their meeting, that is correct.
Speaker 15 (41:10):
So essentially we come in moments after the President has
welcomed in whatever counterpart the President is welcoming. And so
that will be the case today when we are heading
into the Oval office, when President Zelenski will already be
sitting down right beside President Trump and the Oval Office.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, and we'll be watching kfi's White House correspondent John Decker.
Thanks so much for your info and your insight. We'll
talk to you soon.
Speaker 13 (41:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
All right. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Are we sure? Are we sure? It's time? Oh? Yep,
it is five o'clock straight up, that's the time. This
is your wake up call for Monday, August eighteenth. I'm
Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Getting
back to it. Hope you had a great weekend. I
had the weirdest weekend. It was like a polar opposites weekend.
I had a friend in town, so we went to
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Disneyland on Friday, and if you're a Disney fan and
you hate crowds, Friday was the day to be there.
It was crazy, crazy how short the lines were and
there were rooms. There was room at the restaurants. We
were trying to figure out what it was. It might
have been because it was back to school right after
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that and right before Oogie Boogie Bash, because Halloween time
arrives at Disneyland, I believe on the twenty second, and
so maybe people are saving up or something. But it
was great for visitors. I don't know how much money
Disney made that day. And then on Saturday we went
to a Midsummer Scream, So from Disney woo oooh, Happy, Happy,
(01:32):
Joy Joy Halloween to like the ghouls and the demons
and all the dark side of Halloween and it was
fabulous at the Long Beach Convention Center. Had a great
time and posted a couple of videos on my Instagram
at Amy K King if you want to go check
it out. But it was so cool. They had like
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all these like the haunted houses of a lot of
the places that are going to be presenting haunted houses
this ball and there was like twenty two of them
or something, and so it was crazy and everybody in
the makeup and everybody was dressed up and they had
like just everything Halloween and horror. Like the co founder
told us last week, it was sort of like the
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comic con of Halloween and it was really cool. So
Midsummer Screen again. You can get a sneak peek at
any K King Do you want to check it out
on my Instagram. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
European and NATO leaders are joining Ukrainian presidents of landscape
the White House for talks with President Trump on ending
the war in Ukraine. Leaders from France, Britain, Germany, Italy
(02:37):
and Finland are rallying around the Ukrainian leader after he
was excluded from the meeting on Friday between Trump and
Russia's president Putin. A teenager's been shot and killed at
a house party in Covena. Police say the fight started
Saturday night at the back to school swim party and
escalated the gunfire. A sixteen year old was shot and
taken to the hospital where he died. An adult who
(02:59):
lived that the house was there at the time. Police
say the party had been advertised on social media. A
family in Laverne had a rather unwelcome visitor. A mountain
lion walked right in through the front door and into
the dining room of the home on Saturday afternoon. Jeff
Tenney says he locked eyes with the big cat, which
apparently scared it off. The lion ran out, jumped into
(03:20):
the pool, popped a pool float in the process, and
then jumped over a fence. Texas allmakers are making their
way back to the state. What's next in the battle
to redraw congressional districts. ABC's Brian Clark's going to join
us in just a couple of minutes. The National Guards
patrolling in the streets of DC, but apparently what the
President ordered isn't enough. ABC's Stephen Portinoy's going to tell
(03:41):
us why more troops are headed to the Capitol and
who's sending them and if five point fifty kfi's White
House correspondent John Decker was in Alaska. Now he's back
in DC with his take on the politics of peace.
As President Trump gets ready for that sit down with
Vi Lensky today, let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour News.
Federal agents have shot at a man who allegedly tried
(04:03):
to run them down in San Bernardino.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It happened on Saturday morning during an attempted traffic stop.
US Customs and Border Protection says a man drove towards agents,
hitting two of them. They were injured, but the nature
of their injuries is unclear. Officers then opened fire on
the truck, which had three people inside.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
A driver drove off and gone away.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
The Family and Science says that federal agents refused to
explain what was going on, and smashed one of the
truck's windows before hitting the driver in the head, then
shooting at them.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Mark Mayfield Kofi.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
News News brought to you by Sit and Sleep. Governor
Newsom's office says it is submitting a Freedom of Information
Act request to find out why ICE agents were outside
the governor's press conference on redistricting while in La. Newsom
has accused the Trump administration of misusing federal agents last week,
saying the operation intended to intimidate those defending a fair
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electoral process. The Border Patrol said one person was detain
and suggested they didn't know that Newsom was at the
Japanese American National Museum that day. La Mayor Bass called
the operation a provocative act. A back to school party
in Covenas turned deadly.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I wanted to go swimming.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
That was it.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Yeah, we come and there's like a bunch of like
cops here.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Video shows dozens of teen partygoers running in the streets
away from the house party on Camellia Drive Saturday night.
Witnesses said a home there was hosting an open invite
back to school swimming party.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
And apparently there was like are shooting here.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Covina police say a sixteen year old boy was shot
and later died. No one else was hurt, and police
are still looking for the shooter. Other Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Brian Clark. So, Brian,
we've got redistricting front and center in Texas again today
because the Democrats who took off to avoid allowing a
vote are headed back to the state. What happened over
the weekend, Yeah.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
We expect to see them back in Austin today for
the second special legislative session. A lot of them were
in the Chicago suburbs. That's where they went when they
left Texas to break forum, and we saw a lot
of them appearing at a rally in Chicago over the weekend.
It was called, you know, the stop to Takeover rally.
And now we're going to see what happens because it
seems like these Democrats have made a pretty vocal point, certainly,
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but the Republicans they have not shown any appetite to
give up this redistricting fight. We have foreseen Governor Gavin
Newsoman in California say that he's going to pursue redistricting
in California to balance this out. But this is maybe
the end of one chapter, but it's certainly not the
end of the story.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, So, Brian, when they go back and in the
new session, the Republicans have the votes, so it's going
to be.
Speaker 9 (06:39):
They I mean, if everybody you know goes by party line. Yes,
the Republicans have the majorities, they have the votes, and
they would be able to do this in Texas.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Okay. And is there any indication that maybe there might
be a defector or two and they would vote against
making changing the maps.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
So far, there's no indication of that, and there's no
indication that they're going to give up this fight. They
have been adamant that they're going to go after this.
It seems like the biggest if they don't go forward
with this, it's just because, Okay, what kind of Pandora's
box is open elsewhere? With California of course being a
prominent example, but we've also seen other states controlled by
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Republicans say they're going to take up redistricting in their
regular session this fall. We saw Florida, the House speaker
came out and said that, I think last week or
the week prior. So it's an issue that is percolating
in a lot of different state houses around the.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Country, so it could just start a whole domino effect.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
That's yeah, that's what it seems like Governor Newsom is
trying to do and just say that, Okay, if Texas
does this, well, then here we can act and flip
it this way. Of course, this only works in terms
of a domino effect when it's a state that's reliably
Republican or reliably democratic and you need to figure out
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those districts would be. It wouldn't work in a swing district.
Of course, Texas thinks they have it where they can
easily make it more favorable for Republicans. Governor Newsom of
course came out with that map that he says will
flip I think five of the nine remaining Republican districts
in California. So we time will tell how this plays out.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Okay, then another question for you, Brian, even if Texas
passes the new districts, it's not a guarantee or is
it or is it a guarantee? Like they just know
where those voters are and can draw those lines so
specifically that they can pretty much guarantee those seats.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
Yeah, I think it's the second one. It's that they have,
you know, tailored this to a point that they'll be
able to draw these lines consistently. And this seems like
what Gavin Newsom is saying he could do in California,
just going the other way that they know, you know
where the people are, they know the borders, and they
know how to draw these districts, so it's most favorable
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to whichever party they're representing.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Okay, any repercussions for the Texas Democrats who bailed out
of the state for a couple of weeks or did
they just come back in its business as usual.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
They've been fined five hundred dollars a day for every
day they were out in causing the quorum break. So
they've got financial fines. They the Texas Speaker on Friday
when the first session adjourned, he said they were going
to seek reimbursement just for how much extra this took.
They're saying that Texas taxpayers aren't going to pay for this.
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It's going to be those Democrats. We'll see how they
calculate that amount, but there are certainly financial penalties for
these Democrats who left the state.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Okay, ABC's brand Clark, thanks so much for bringing us
up to speed. We'll see what happens next. Appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ukrainian
President Zelenski will meet today with President Trump in Washington,
d C. He says the war with Russia must end
and the US, Ukraine and Russia must have a trilateral meeting.
Zelenski says they need to talk about Russia's demand for
the Dedetsk region, among other things.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
Odin has many demands, but we do not know all
of them, and if there are really as many as
we wore them, it will take time to go through
them all.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Leaders from the UK, France and Germany also some other
countries are going to be in DC for those meetings today.
The US State Department is stopping approvals of visitor visas
for people from Gaza. On Saturday, the Department announced it
was conducting a full and thorough review of the visa process,
specifically for people seeking temporary medical visas. The State Department
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has allowed a small number of Gozens to travel to
the US for medical attention since the Israel Hamas War began.
Hurricane Aarin has pelted parts of the Caribbean as a
category four storm packing one hundred and thirty mile per
hour winds. Erin has been downgraded to a category three her,
but it regained strength over the weekend. The storm's not
(11:03):
expected to directly hit the US East Coast, but it
is threatening North Carolina's outer banks. Emergency officials have ordered
an evacuation of low lying Hatteras Island starting today. US
Steele says it has an idea about what caused the
explosion at one of its plants last week in Pennsylvania.
ABC's Brian Clark says two people were killed and ten
others were heard.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
US Steel says build up in a gas valve ahead
of routine maintenance may have been the cause of Monday's
deadly explosion at a facility in Clareton, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He says the United Steel Workers Union hasn't commented on
US Steele's thoughts about the cause. The CDC says er
hospital visits by children typically double between the summer and
the fall. Pediatrician doctor Darien Sutton says back to school
anxiety affects kids as they transition back into the classroom
after summer break.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
A recent study shows that nearly thirty two percent of
adolescents experienced some level of anxiety. That's nearly one out
of three for children. For example, it can often present
as physical symptoms constant stomach aches that are unexplained.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
He says. Other signs can be headaches that are unexplained
and frequent trips to the nurse. While at school, I
used to take frequent trips to the nurse, but it
was because I wanted to get out of math class. Okay.
The actor who played Superman's nemesis, General Zod has died.
(12:30):
Terrence Stamp had a lot of credits, but he's best
known as General Zod and Superman one and two. He
had said at one point that he kept his standards
high as an actor, saying, I don't do crappy movies
unless I haven't got the rent. Terrence Stamp was eighty seven.
The Dodgers Erbacks in first place in the National League
West after a sweep of San Diego topped off by
(12:52):
a five to four win over the Patres at Dodger
Stadium yesterday. Freddie Freeman got it all started for the
Boys in Blue.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And two from Darvish coming the pitch and Freeman swings.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
It's a drive to right center fielding date this pap back,
this pop home run, Freddy Freeman a three.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Run shot and the Dodgers strike first.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Three nothing on LA Is It Colorado? Tonight you can
listen to all the action on a five to seventy
LA Sports live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth, or
stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio WAP
again that keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Two men
have been shot, one of them killed while trying to
stop three guys from stealing a car in an alley
in South la. It happened around nine thirty Saturday night
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on South Hooper Avenue. Sheriff's officials say the men heard
their car alarm and confronted the robbers. A fourth man
shot the two men. All four took off in a
red or burgundy car. Several ice rates have been carried
out in Whittier over the weekend, one of them at
a car wash, the Euclid Car Wash. City officials say
this is the third time the car wash has been
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targeted by federal agents. Since July thirteenth, Air Canada has
suspended plans to resume flights after striking flight attendants refused
a government order to return to work. The airline had
announced plans to resume operations yesterday, but the union representing
ten thousand flight attendants refused. The airline is now working
to accommodate ticket holders. Apparently President Trump has told President
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Zelenski that Ukraine is not gonna get crimea back and
will not be a NATO member. Those maybe the topics
on the table when the two leaders sit down today
six oh five. Handle on the news. Bill's gonna tell
you more about that. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy, So, good morning, Stephen. President Trump called
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up the National Guard to crack down on crime and
homelessness in DC. But apparently what he called up wasn't
enough because more are headed to DC.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, it's hard to see exactly why this is happening.
The idea here is that governors from states such as
West Virginia, Ohio, and South Carolina, led by Republicans, are
offering hundreds of National Guard troops to come to DC.
What it is they're going to be doing here, what
the mission is, is not entirely clear but if you
turn on your favorite cable news channel, undoubtedly you'll see
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pictures of the armored vehicles lined up along the National Mall,
in front of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, relatively
low crime, high traffic, high tourist areas of the city
that are already protected by the US Park Police, and
now you'll have the presence of the National Guard. Look,
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DC is a violent city. There's no dressing it up.
You could talk about how the crime rates are declining,
which is true according to the statistics. And even if
you argue that, well, the statistics are fudge, the murder
rate is going down. It's hard to hide dead bodies.
You could dress it up and say, oh, this is
a larcening and that it's a misdemeanor. We can make
a little adjustment there to make the picture look better.
(16:02):
That's the allegation. At least it's happening. But it's hard
to do that with a homicide rate. Suffice it to say,
there are questions about what exactly the purpose of this
show of force is except to be a show of force.
The National Guard troops are at the moment unarmed, but
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could be armed. Some of these units particularly from Ohio
that are being offered or military police officer, so at
least they are trained in how to make arrests. But
your typical National guardsman receives training on civil disturbances, not
you know, doing police work, and that's not the objective here.
It seems you have the federal assertion of control over
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the DC Police, which is the subject of a court
hearing on Friday where the judge essentially said that the
administration was vastly overreading its authority in the Home Rule Act,
and she had the two sides get in a room
and agree to kind of sort of take the temperature
down and leave the DC Police chief in charge of
Then you have the ramped up enforcement of federal law
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by federal law enforcement agencies such as ICE here in
the city, and some of those ICE actions are taking
place in the middle of brunch hour, where young professionals
are stunned to see it, and they're increasingly outraged and
taking to the streets because they didn't expect this sort
of thing to happen in their city where they are
just enjoying time. The app Open Table reports that reservations
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for the restaurants in the city are dropping by double
digit percentages because people are very suddenly now not interested
in coming out to dinner because of the presence of
the law enforcement activity, which is meant, according to the President,
to make people feel safer. It seems the opposite is
happening to a measurable extent.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Okay, so you said that they're unarmed. They're hanging out
by the Washington Mall and other areas like high profile areas,
so they're not making arrests.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
At this point, the National Guard is not making arrests.
You have the stepped up presence of federal law enforcement agencies.
It's all part of a complicated picture that's meant to demonstrate,
you know, ramped up law enforcement activity of the National
guardsmen of fatigues who are just basically standing there. Then
you have and I don't mean to mean that, I
mean that's what they're doing. Then you have the presence
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of federal law enforcement agencies such as ICE, wearing masks
and not identifying themselves except by in some sort of
insignia which may not include the name of the agency,
setting up checkpoints on streets such as Fourteenth Street. So
imagine I'm trying to use an analog that you'd appreciate
something maybe in the middle of Sunset Boulevard, right, high
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crime and sorry, not a high crime area, but certainly
a high traffic, high tourist area where lots of young
people go out at night on the weekends especially.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, are they patrolling in other areas too, or really
just in these high profile areas?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You know, there are parts of southern cal which are
high crime areas. Imagine if the show of force were
merely at Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And Vine, well that's turned into a high crime area.
But that's all other stories.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
All right, But it doesn't solve the problem, does it.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Right, And so they're not in other areas. They're really
just kind of concentrated in areas where they're being.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Seen, as we can tell as best we can just
discern it at this early stage. It's only been a
week since the President had his news conference in the
briefing room and announced this stepped up, ramped up federal effort.
We have not seen or heard of patrols in what
are routinely known as the higher crime, nitty gritty areas
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of the city. Which is not to say that crime
never happens in the high tourists just as you describe
it Hollywood and Vine. But nevertheless, when we think, and
it may just be a stereotype, but it's also borne
out by the statistics when we think of the high
crime areas, you know, there are people who live in
those areas who would love to see their streets. That's
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not where this is because it's not where it's not
where the media is focused. It's not where the young
professionals live. And it seems as though for now a
lot of what's gone on is in those areas that
will attract the attention of the professional class and the press.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, and then one other question for you before you go, Steve,
I know you gotta head out. Are they clearing out
the homeless? That wasn't that one of the goals.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
They have cleared out homeless encampments. What's going to come
of the happy to those people? Nobody knows. The White
House suggested that they'd be offered space and shelters, but
the reporting has been that the shelters are already at
capacity and that that was why people wound up on
the street. Otherwise they would be offered some sort of
addiction treatment or they have just to go somewhere else,
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and so look, homelessness is a serious problem in the
United States, and it's only going getting worse as rents
get more expensive and people wind up falling on hard times,
staying in extended stay hotels, or wind up being evicted
and then have a black mark on their credit report,
and then they can't properly rent an apartment for anyone
who checks a credit rating, and it becomes hard And
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that's the case in the Southland, and it's the case
in Washington, d C. But here in DC there's all
of a sudden no tolerance for the encampments, which are
a blight and a quality of life concern. The President
is cleaning it up.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Okay, Steven Portnoy, thanks for the information. We'll be checking
in with you again. You bet all right. Two men
from New York have been arrested for a home invasion
robbery and Redondo Beach police were called early yesterday about
someone pointing a gun at another person inside a car,
but the caller hung up telling police where. Police say
the location was traced to a home on Matthews Avenue.
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The intruders ran before police got there, but officers were
able to chase and arrest the alleged robbers. Two men
and a woman have been child to death in a
vacant lot in Lancaster. The shooting was reported yesterday afternoon.
Investigators say the men were in an essay and the
woman was in a car directly behind them. The Sheriff's
department says the shooter approached in another vehicle, shot the
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three and took off. Video from the scene showed a
white Sedan with bullet holes in the driver's side window
and a red suv in front. The San Bernardino County
Sheriff's Department says the parents of a seven month old
boy reported kidnapped and u Kaipa are no longer cooperating
with investigators. They also say there are inconsistencies in the
mom's story. She told reporters last week that she was
(22:28):
in a parking lot about to change the baby's diaper
when someone came up behind her, said hello in Spanish
and punched her. And I couldn't even turn and that
was this. I don't remember nothing. I got up off
the floor. I didn't see my child.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Someone took them from me.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The child's grandmother says. Investigators asked Rebecca Harrow to take
a lie detector test, but her husband, Jake, refused until
they had a lawyer present. She says the couple would
not hurt the baby. The father was convicted of child
cruelty in twenty twenty three related to an arrest in
hemet in twenty eighteen. More than a half billion dollars
is on the line for tonight's powerball drawing. There was
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no winner from Saturday's lottery drawing, so the jackpot tonight
is up to an estimated six hundred and five million dollars.
The Queen Mary and Long Beach has launched a new
program that could leave guests feeling a little like royalty.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
If you're feeling fancy, you can join the Royal Fun
on the Sea, Officials say. The Queen Mary membership offers
fans year round access, exclusive events and perks like free admission.
Memberships range from one hundred and forty nine dollars to
nearly two thousand, with top tier packages including tickets to
holiday celebrations and behind the scenes experiences. One level even
features paranormal overnights in the ship's most haunted stateroom. The
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ship is also inviting visitors to support restoration through its
Adopter rivet program other Brooker Kfi News.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I've been to that haunted stateroom stateroom. It's very creepy.
I was not haunted, there was nothing going on, although
the person who was giving us the tour did jump
out and scare me, so that was fun, but it
is a little creepy. You know, Dark Harbor's coming up
at Queen Mary. That's one of my favorite haunts for
Halloween time. Just something to kind of put in the
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back of your brain as we get as we start
heading toward Halloween, which seems like it's coming earlier and
earlier every year. An elementary school in Tarzana has been
vandalized with swastika and anti Semitic graffiti. A banner on
the fence around Wilbur Charter Elementary was spray painted over
the weekend. Security camera footage shows a person doing it
before taking off in a car. Similar images were spray
(24:34):
painted on walls near the Israeli American National Headquarters in
Woodland Hills a week ago. The first witness in house
investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case will be William Barr.
Bill Barr, the former Attorney General you're scheduled to testify
today before a closed Doorhouse committee. Republican James Comer has
(24:54):
also subpoenaed former President Clinton and former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton. Show Hey Otani's three hundredth career home run
ball is sold at auction four more than thirty six
thousand dollars. Otani hit the home run against the Rockies
at Corsefield in Denver June twenty fourth. A fan caught
the ball and then decided to sell it thirty six
(25:15):
thousand sounds like kind of a bargain for a show,
Hey Ball. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. That
heat wave. I mentioned it's headed for southern California. Triple
digit temperatures, low humidity, and gusty winds that increase the
fire danger should hit southern California by Thursday and Friday,
and looking at the forecast for seeing temperatures up to
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one ten in the valleys and inland Empire. California's proposed
new congressional map as sparked a redistricting showdown over future
control of the US House if it's approved.
Speaker 12 (25:46):
A Democrat, Ami Bearra may have to face off against
Republican Kevin Kylie, who won reelection last year by eleven points.
That's because the plan would shift parts of Behra's district
into Kylie's. Kylie says the redistricting effort goes against the
will of Californians.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
For our voters intentionally took the power to do this
away from politicians and put it in the hands of
nonpartisan citizens.
Speaker 12 (26:07):
Lawmakers have until the end of the week to approve
the new map. Brigitia de Gastino KAFI News.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The Coastguard is stopped a twenty foot boat that was
taking on water off Newport Beach and found seven suspected
illegal immigrants in it. The boat was towed in Saturday night.
It had five men and two women aboard. They were
turned over to Homeland Security. A mom and her eight
month old daughter who disappeared weeks ago after a doctor's
visit in Fresno, have been found dead in an suv
(26:35):
that was discovered pinned beneath a bridge in a canal.
The two had last been seen on July fifteenth. The
mom's suv was found yesterday by volunteer divers with Adventures
with Purpose, which is a group that helped search for
missing people. They used Sonard pinpoint the location of the vehicle.
The HP is investigating how the suv ended up underwater.
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A hand soap sold across the US and Puerto Rico
has been recalled because of a dangerous bacterial contamination. The company,
Derma Right Industries, says that bacteria could lead to serious
and life threatening infections in people who are on immunocompromised.
They say the infection is more likely to spread into
their bloodstream, which could lead to life threatening sepsis. The
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recall includes Derma Clee, Derma Sera, Clean Foam, and Paragene soaps.
If you have an old Rolex sitting around, now might
be a good time to sell it. The market for
used luxury time pieces has just had its best half
year performance since early twenty twenty two. Two watches that
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are in high demand are Rolex's Gold Daytona and Ptec
Philip's Aquanat. Never heard of them, probably because I cannot
afford a Rolex in the first place. New or used
time to get in your business now with the Bloomberg's
Dan Schwartzen Schwartzman, who's in We're Courtney all week Good morning, Dan.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Good morning, and I join you cannot afford a rolex
or a pat sech fleep. I can though, get you
on those fifteen dollar rolex as though, if you want
send it to you.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh yeah, my parents went to China one time and
they brought me a fake rolex.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
As long as there's a sweeping hand, it looks real.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
That's the big that's the secret for it.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
That's the tell. Okay, good to know, Good to know.
So Dan, let's get in your business. Foreigners once again
liking the American real estate markets.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's right, Amy, They are buying a lot of real
estate in the US. According to report by the National
Association of Realtors, sales of existing US real estate to
non citizens hit fifty six billion dollars in the year
through March. That's up thirty three percent from the same
period the year before. Now it's a first increase in
eight years, Amy, But the numbers are still far below
the peak that was back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Okay, but we're still not buying houses. So somebody's got
to buy him, right.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
You know what. They're being built, and I don't know
who can afford him.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Here but apparently people are buying him because they're building
more and more so.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So going to one of the other big investments that
people make. If you want to lease a car right now,
and EV maybe the way to go.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, it's your second biggest investment after your house is
a car, and the EV makers as well as dealers
are offering cheaper leases before losing federal tax credits valued
up to seventy five hundred dollars, as well as to
move current inventory. According to Deadman's on average, EV leases
are cheaper than gas powered cars. The average EV lease
right now six hundred and twenty four dollars a month,
compared to six hundred and seventy dollars for gas cars
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and trucks. For instance, Amy, you can get a Mercedes
EQB SUV back in July for just over three hundred
and fifty dollars a month.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Not bad.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Wow, that's not when you mentioned an average of six
hundred and twenty. I still it's just crazy that people
are paying that much for cars.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's insane. I mean, the average car price I believe
now for a new car is like forty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
You can't buy one of those company.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Remember like Kakhanda Civic used to be like seventeen thousand dollars,
little two door non powered windows or anything. Can't get
those anymore, No one's building them.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Okay. Air Canada still dealing with a labor strike in
spite of their plans to start flying again.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, don't head to the airport right now if you
have tickets for them. More trouble as their flights remain
grounded by that flight attendant strike. Despite a back to
work order from the government, the Canadian Labor Minister attempting
to force an end to the walkout and impose binding
arbitration to reach a new contract. Now the union, though,
has defied the order, with it not yet clear how
exactly that order would be enforced. Air Canada today amy's
(30:27):
suspending its guidance through the end of this year due
to that.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Strike, suspending suspending what till the end of the year.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
They're guidance.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So usually they'll say, okay, so we forecast will make
this much money in this much per share, And they
can't do that because obviously this is hurting them, you know,
significantly in the wallet. So they can't tell us what
they think their earnings are going to be because right
now they're not really earning anything, just losing a ton
of money every day that this work stoppage goes on.
And right now there's no end in sight unless you know,
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this government's trying to get involved in Right now, the
Union saying now we're not going to listen.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
To you, okay and take a can we take a
quick look at what we're expecting in the markets as
we start this week?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, right now, it's not looking tremendous. Right now, the
TAO is down twelve points, Nasdaq's down forty five points,
SMP is down eight and a half points. There's the
angst about what's going to happen with Ukraine, the big
meetings stay at the White House, as well as what
the indications will be from the Fed in terms of
interest rates, will they actually lower them in September? So
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right now uncertainty at the markets heading into this week.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But still they're so high, like the Dow Jones is
sitting over forty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It we're sitting here going how like, you know, it's
not like the economy is in that great shape, and
yet the markets haven't exactly been in line because they
continue to rise right then, as that hitting another record
last week and the Dow as you said, forty five
thousand smps, you know, closing in on sixty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I mean, these numbers just keep rising.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh well, good for my four oh one k. Thank you,
Dan Schwartzman in for Courtney all week, getting in your
business with Bloomberg. We'll do it again tomorrow, absolutely all right,
thanks Dan. Two men from New York have been arrested
in connection with an armed home invasion robbery in Redondo Beach.
Pillase say two people had been tied up and held
for hours during the break in early yesterday morning at
the house on Matthews Avenue. The man arrested or the
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men arrested rather are being held on one million dollars bail.
Ukraine could get NATO like protections in a peace deal
with Russia. US Envoy Steve whitcoff S's Russia's President Putin
has agreed to that part of a peace deal, though
no deal was reached during a summit on Friday. Ukraine's
President Zelenski's at the White House day to meet with
President Trump and European allies. We're going to be talking
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to kfi's white House correspondent John Decker with more on
that in just a minute. A family in Laverne has
had a rather unwelcome visitor. A mountain lion walked right
in through the front door and into the dining room
the family's home on Saturday afternoon. Jeff Tenny says he
was at his mom's house when it happened. He says
he looked into the eyes of the big cat that
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apparently scared it off. The lion ran out of the house,
jumped into the swimming pool and popped a pool float,
then jumped over the fence. We're just minutes away from handle.
On the news this morning, sheriff's officials say there's something
off about a mom's story about her baby being kidnapped
from a parking lot in you Kaipa. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
(33:21):
twenty four hour newsroom. The second of two men believed
to be part of a South American crime tourism group
is expected to be sentenced today in the armed robbery
of a one million dollar emerald encrusted watch. It was
stolen from a tourist sitting on the patio at the Beverly,
Wilshire Hotel. The nineteen year old pleaded guilty to charges
in March. He's getaway driver from Columbia was sentence last
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month to two and a half years in prison. Investigators
are still working to figure out how the two men
got their hands on a gun that was once registered
to Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer who killed four
people and triggered her a massive manhunt that ended with
his death in Big Bear twelve years ago. A mother
who says her seven month old was kidnapped in Yukaipa's
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no longer cooperating with detectives.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
The woman claimed her son was kidnapped on Thursday night
after a man assaulted her and knocked her unconscious outside
of a store. Authorities say the woman stopped cooperating with
them on Saturday after detectives found inconsistencies in her story.
Authority say the woman's husband, who has a prior conviction
for child cruelty, has also been uncooperative. The National Uvalne
(34:27):
Foundation for Kids has called off its independent search for
the boy and canceled the five thousand dollars reward it
was offering for information to help find him. Mark Mayfield
KOFI News.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
A federal judge in Miami is hearing arguments today about
who's in charge of the so called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida.
Speaker 8 (34:46):
Former federal prosecutor David Weinstein says the venue issue must
be decided first.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
Does the case belong in the Southern District of Florida
and the defense in this case have argued that it
doesn't that the facility itself is primarily located on land
in Collier County.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
Once that's decided, the judge will issue a ruling on
who's running the migrant detention center. Attorneys for the ASL
YOU have filed suit saying at least one hundred detainees
have been deported without due process. Tammy Triho kf I News.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Two police officers have been killed in a shooting during
a domestic violence call in Utah. Brigham City Police Detective
Crystal Beck says a sheriff's deputy who also responded yesterday
was hurt and is in the hospital.
Speaker 14 (35:29):
Upon arrival, they immediately began taking fire. They requested additional
units and then stopped answering their radio.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Police say bystanders persuaded the shooter to put down his
gun and the guy was arrested. President Trump has posted
on social media that he's going to lead a movement
to get rid of mail in ballots and voting machines,
which he says are highly inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial.
He says the US is the only country in the
world world that uses mail in voting and claims other
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countries gave up on it because of fraud. He wrote
this morning that the Republican Party will, as he put it,
fight like hell to bring honesty and integrity back to
our elections. Air Canada has suspended plans to restart operations
because the union representing ten thousand striking flight attendants has
decided to defy a return to work order. The Canada
(36:23):
Industrial Relations Board ordered staff back by yesterday afternoon, but
the union refused. Its leaders called the order unconstitutional. The
shutdown began early Saturday, causing the airline to cancel hundreds
of flights. Ill let's say good morning too, kfi's White
House correspondent John Decker, Who's been a very busy man
buzzing around the globe. First a trip to Alaska, now
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back to DC. Morning, John, Hey, good morning to you.
Speaker 13 (36:50):
Amy good to be back in Washington.
Speaker 15 (36:52):
Big day in Washington, just a few days after the
President's meeting with President Putin. As you point out, I
was in Alaska for that. Now today I'll be in
the Oval Office when the President meets with President Zelenski
as well as other European leaders, the leaders of Germany, France,
the UK, NATO, and the European Union. The focus making
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certain that the United States is unified with the European
approach to trying to end the war in Ukraine, which
has been going on now since February of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Okay, So, John, after watching what happened in Alaska and
then getting ready for today, what are some of your
takeaways about what's been going on.
Speaker 15 (37:38):
My main takeaway is that Amy, I believe the dynamic
has changed since the President met with President Putin on
Friday in Alaska.
Speaker 13 (37:47):
Your America recall.
Speaker 15 (37:48):
Leading up to that meeting, the President had a video
conference with these same leaders that will be at the
White House today, and it seemed as if everybody was unified,
had the same approach to dealing with Russia. Now it's
a little different, and I think today's meeting is in
some respects Amy. Even more important than the President's meeting
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that he had on Friday with President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska.
It's important to see whether the US is still unified
with the European approach, whether it still has Ukraine's back
in terms of dealing with Russia, and whether or not
the US is still insistent upon Russia making concessions, making
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concessions to bring about an end to this war.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Okay, we're hearing that two of the things that Trump
is going to push Zelenski for is that you're not
getting Crimea back and you're not going to be part
of NATO. That those are two of the big things
that may possibly Putin may have agreed to a ceasefire
or a peace deal if those two things happen.
Speaker 15 (38:58):
Is that what you're hearing, Well, to me, it's a
head scratcher. Why should Russia, of all countries, dictate to
NATO who should be members of NATO. If NATO wants
to have Sweden and Finland, for instance, the latest members
to be added to the Defense Alliance, to be members
of the NATO Defense Alliance, then that's what they want
to do. If they want to have I don't know
(39:19):
I don't know. I can't speak for all thirty two
members of NATO, but if if there's unanimity in having
Ukraine becoming a member of NATO, Russia should have no
say in that whatsoever. So to me, that's why this
meeting is so important to hear what these European leaders,
members of NATO, allies of the United States have to
say about that particular idea, that particular concession that the
(39:42):
president's speaking about.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Okay, and is Zelenski still saying we're not giving up
anything because we've got what it's about. Well, yes, twenty
percent of the country that Russia.
Speaker 15 (39:51):
Has ever say that, amy, I mean yeah, yeah, I mean, look,
if you're a leader, you're not going to give something
up before you've even had a conversation.
Speaker 13 (39:59):
You're not going to go sheets something away. So he
has to say that publicly.
Speaker 15 (40:02):
Now, I don't know if he's saying the same things
behind closed doors. I don't know if he's saying the
same things, you know, when he's meeting in the Oval Office,
when we're not there with President Trump and when you
know European leaders are there. But that's what he's saying publicly.
And also you know, look.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
Russia didn't agree to a ceasefire.
Speaker 15 (40:20):
That was something the President had been seeking when he
was meeting with Putin on Friday, and the president, unfortunately,
President Trump came away empty handed on that regard, and
that's unfortunate. The President said, if there's no ceasefire, there
would be severe consequences for Russia, and we're not seeing that. So,
you know, I mean, if you're any leader, if you're
(40:40):
President Obama and you talked about red lines and you
don't do anything.
Speaker 13 (40:43):
If you know, Siria jumps over those red lines.
Speaker 15 (40:46):
And if you're President Trump and you you know, you
threaten serious consequences and you don't follow through with that,
then you know, leaders are adversaries, do not take those
threats seriously.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Well, we'll have to be watching that. And for the
meeting in the Oval, you guys go in before they
really sit down and hammer stuff out.
Speaker 13 (41:05):
Right, that is correct. It's at the very top of
their meeting, that is correct.
Speaker 15 (41:10):
So essentially we come in moments after the President has
welcomed in whatever counterpart the President is welcoming. And so
that will be the case today when we are heading
into the Oval office, when President Zelenski will already be
sitting down right beside President Trump and the Oval Office.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, and we'll be watching kfi's White House correspondent John Decker.
Thanks so much for your info and your insight. We'll
talk to you soon.
Speaker 13 (41:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
All right. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
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