August 21, 2025 • 44 mins
5:05 - The Menendez brothers are up for parole. Brad Garrett joins Amy to discuss the case.
5:20 - Rory O'Neil talks Texas gerrymandering districts, and California's subsequent response.
5:35 - Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman goes into the latest financial news.
5:50 - Peter Charalambous joins Amy to talk about why the DOJ request for Epstein Grand Jury records were denied.
5:20 - Rory O'Neil talks Texas gerrymandering districts, and California's subsequent response.
5:35 - Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman goes into the latest financial news.
5:50 - Peter Charalambous joins Amy to talk about why the DOJ request for Epstein Grand Jury records were denied.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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App kf I hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is your wake up call for Thursday, August twenty first.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Of course, if you have anything to say to us
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can just hit us up on the talkback. It's a
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your show is really depressing. It was a bummer. It
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was horrible, all bad news. So we tried to make
it good news. I think we had a little bit
of fun. We're going to try it again today. Even
when there's bad news, we can have fun, right, Okay,
I guess it would help if I turned up your microphone.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How well keeps me turned down?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I know, keeping you under control?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Lots coming up on wake up call, so let's get
right to it. Here's what's ahead. National Weather Service forecasters
say temperatures today are going to be three to six
degrees hotter than yesterday. With the hot weather continuing right
on through the weekend. Forecasters say highs will easily top
triple digits and may even break some records. At the coast,
it'll be cooler, but still five to ten degrees above normal.
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I think I'm going to head to the coast this weekend.
In fact, I know I am, Yes, for sure. LAPD
has made a major cargo theft bust. Investigators say stores
in Montabello and Huntington Park sold millions of dollars worth
of goods that had been stolen from ports and trains.
A man from Montabello has been arrested for allegedly reselling
millions of dollars in stolen name brand merchandise like electronics, tools,
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e bikes, appliances, and outdoor equipment. The Jeffrey Epstein grand
jury records not going to be unsealed. A judge denied
the Justice Department's request to unseal the records that led
to Epstein being indicted on sex trafficking charges. This was
the third denial by a judge. We're going to find
out more about what happens next with kfi's national correspondent
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Rory O'Neill. That's coming up at five point twenty. Also,
the much anticipated parole hearings for Eric and Lyle Menendez
get underway today. ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett
is going to join us in just a couple of
minutes to talk about whether they're likely to get that
parole and whether they should be paroled after more than
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two week delay because Democrats left the state. The Texas
House has passed redistricting plans. Kfi's national correspondent Wait okay
so I said that Rory O'Neil was going to be
talking about Epstein. It's not Rory ONEA. Peter Harrlumbus is
going to be talking about Jeffrey Ebstein. Rory O'Neill is
going to talk to us about the Texas redistricting. So
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many guests it's hard to keep them straight, I know,
and they're also smart, okay, And we're going to be
talking about that and whether Texas's actions are going to
create a domino effect around the country. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Former La City fire chief Kristin
Crowley's filed a claim against the city and the mayor
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over her firing.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Probably is claiming Mayor Karen Bass orchestrated a campaign of misinformation, defamation,
and retaliation in the aftermath of the deadly Palisates fire.
Ledges the mayor used Crowley as a scapegoat to deflect
criticism over the handling of the fire. Crowley also accuses
Bass of trying to hide the extent to which she
undermined public safety with cuts to the fire department's budget.
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Jim rope Kfi News.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
A lawyer for Mayor Bass, says there will be no
comment on the ongoing personnel claim and that the mayor
is focused on helping residents during the current heat wave
and potential fire danger. Six US citizens are suing Ice,
saying they were racially profiled and abused during raids in
La over the summer. Their attorney claims the operation's targeted race,
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not crime. The lawsuit accuses agents of civil rights violations
and excessive force, with each plaintiff seeking a million dollars.
A once popular home store will not be doing business
in California when they reopen. Three hundred stores around the US.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Bed Bath and Beyond execs have decided it's not in
their best interest to operating California anymore. Marcus Leminis, the
executive chairman of bed Bath and Beyond, claims overregulation, higher taxes,
higher fees, and higher wages have made it impossible for
businesses to succeed here. The strategy for California will be
to instead offer products directly through their website with twenty
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four to forty eight hour delivery.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Eileen gonzalezk I News. I gotta be real with you.
I miss bed Bath and Beyond.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
It was you'd walk in for a twenty dollars thing
and there'd be five hundred dollars worth of stuff in
your cart by the time you life.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh yeah, and like every single kitchen gadget and fun thing. Yeah,
I loved it. So said that they're not coming back
to California, but understandable. Welcome to bear skin robins.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
A black bear has been found behind the counter of
an ice cream shop in South Lake Tahoe, not serving customers,
but eating from an ice cream container. At the ice
cream shop at Camp Richardson. Wildlife officials say there's a
trend of bears entering homes and businesses for food, but
they say attacks are rare. Officials euthanized a bear last
month for break ins and increasingly aggressive behavior. Another bears
being monitored for entering homes in the Tahoe Keys. Officials
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say people should secure trash and avoid leaving food in cars.
Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I think we need to come up with some sort
of solution because I saw the picture of the bear
in the ice cream shop and it was absolutely adorable,
apparently like the strawberry. But I mean, we're going into
their territory. We gotta figure a way to coexist. We
can't just kill them.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
No, they're too just swimming pool in front of a bear.
It's like, hey, it's a bath, I know.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And then even like with the with the mountain lions,
you know that we're they're creating that wildlife crossing, which
I think is fabulous, is going to be done sometime
next year to save the mountain lions so they can
cross over and they can you know, go in between
areas and find new mates and all that stuff. And
then a mountain lion gets into a home and they
go kill it. But I mean, what do you where's
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the balance there? I hope we find it, hope we
figure it out. I hope you figure out how you're
going to get where you're going. Oh good, we have
will Culture Cole Striper here to help us. We got
a cone zone slowing you down in Riverside. I'm two fifteen.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
It's not a place that's usually bad to begin with,
and it's even worse this morning.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Northbound side of the two fifteen.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
At least two lanes closed there run around the central
MLK area. It's all supposed to open up right now
as we speak, so hopefully that'll be out of your
way shortly. But traffic stop from al Assandro on that
northbound two fifteen, and you tried to get through there, okay,
each pound one to eighteen. I saw this in the
CHP log each pound one eighteen at DeSoto vehicle versus
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the mountain and I have a feeling the mountain one.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So that's all on the right shoulder.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
May see some activity there also northbound seven to ten
at Florence Solo vehicle crash there it spun out.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's on the right shoulder as well. With Southern California's
most accurate traffic Reports. I'm Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Thank you very much. Will.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Crime and Terrorism
analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, the long awaited parole hearings for
Lyle and Eric Menndez get underway today and tomorrow. So first,
can you explain to us what happens during a parole
hearing and then we'll get into sort of the nitty
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gritty of what's going on.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
So obviously they fall into a category of being eligible
for parole, because as you well know, I mean to
get a re sentenced to fifty years to life instead
of life without parole, So you start with that. But
they're going to look at a number of factors. First
of all, seriousness of the crime. Is thirty five years
enough time for the heinous sort of violent nature and
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overkill aspects of this double homicide. We're going to look
at that. They're also going to look at safety in
the community, in other words, is there any issues of
them being violent or criminal if they were released, how
do they do in prison? They'll be testimony I assume
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from family members. Clearly your district attorney or one of
his reps will be there to voice their position in
this case. So they'll take all those factors you know together. Now,
obviously this case has a profile all of its own.
I mean, I've talked about double homicides for forty years
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and I've never seen one to get the profile that
this one has. You know, it has all that, let's see,
attractive guys there, young parents, are rich, it happens in
a Beverly Hills mansion. You know, all that gives it
a bigger profile. But I think that may change the
reality a little bit of what people do, whether it
be the pro board or in particular your governor, who
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will has the ultimate decision as to whether they get out,
don't get out, or something in between. So so we'll see.
But you know, they each get a separate hearing, so
one is today and the other is tomorrow, and so
we'll see what they end up. Also may recommending.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, and will Lyle and Eric directly address the parole
borders that I'll done through their lawyers.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
That's their choice. I'm going to assume that they will.
You know, one of the sticking points, at least for
your district attorney, and rightly so, is that they never
actually you know, freely admitted that they did this and
there was no excuse for them doing it. Now they
done that now, So I suspect they're just kind of
want to fall on their sword in front of the
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parol board, you know, of what they did and how
horrible it was, and you know, and then you know,
spent thirty five years of their life in prison. But
they've done all these you know, they've both got college degrees,
they've worked with internal inmates, they both got married. One
of them has been married twice apparently while in incarcerated,
and that they've pulled their life together and the thirty
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five years is enough, and so we'll see if that's
enough to sway them.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And then Brad, I know that you were a Federal
Probation and Parole officer for like ten years before you
join the FBI.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
So what are what are some of the things like
that you're looking for?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I mean, you're you're saying, are they going to be
a threat to this community and stuff? But I know
that one of the things that has come up when
the DA has talked about it, or some of his
team has talked about it, is the remorse factor, right.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
And I think that I'm not sure how they've addressed
that they've admitted that they did it. I don't know
about the remorse factor. We'll we'll have to see about that.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
You know.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
The real key for me if I were going to
have them under supervision is that you know a lot,
you know, laying out some early plain ground rules. I mean,
I wouldn't be surprised if they do get released that
they'll put electronic monitors on them, at least for a
period of time so that par old folks can keep
track of where they're going. There'll be restrictions on travel
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to a certain extent, and you know, regular reporting. You know,
I used to do a lot of just pop in
sort of checking on people, particularly the ones I was
concerned about what they might be up to. But you know,
some version of that may happen with them, and what
we'll see how they do under that sort of those guidelines.
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The problem to mean is that when you've been locked
up for so many years, you know, you don't really
know how function in the outside world. And one of
the reasons inmates do so well is that they don't
have all the pressures that you have in existing out
here in the free world, and so it's sort of
easy to get a college degree. I mean, nobody wants
to be locked up. But the point being, your life
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is pretty stressed free to it based on what the
rest of us put up with every day. So we'll
see how they do with that, and the PURL board
will take that into consideration of will they be able
to function if and when they're released.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well then, and like talking about functioning like they have
the support of I think every member of the family
except maybe one who's saying no, But the family I
would imagine would come into play in that regard to saying, hey,
we can help them because we're going to be there
for them.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Well, that's right. Support system is a big deal. I
mean it's a huge deal actually, and it was one
of the feelings of so many people I sent back
to prison because and I would be honest with them saying, look,
your track record is a really bad. If you go
back to the small town where you were originally arrested,
I'm going to have to end up arresting you again.
So let's be clear. I don't want to do that.
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I don't think you want to do that, but it's
going to happen. And invariably in their cases, they would
go back into these communities, hook up the bad people again,
get caught again, and they not have to lock them up.
So do I think that is a big variable in
this case. It doesn't seem that way on the surface
that they would be a crime and or safety risk
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if released. I think this is really going to boil
down to does the system think they've served enough time?
And will there be any issues if in fact they're released.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Okay, ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett has always
thanks so much for the info.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
You're welcome. Take care, Amy.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Texas Houses approved new congressional districts, giving Republicans a good
chance of picking up an extra five seats in the
House in the next round of elections. The redistricting is
launched a national battle over voting districts and prompted Governor
nws Him to spur on lawmakers in California to redraw
lines to give Democrats five more seats. State Assemblymen Carl
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Demayo and other Republican lawmakers are calling for a federal
investigation into the governor's redistricting plan.
Speaker 11 (14:20):
Tomyo alleges that some politicians engaged in vote trading to
shape districts to their advantage.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Working behind closed doors with powerful special interests, manipulating the
lines of maps and trading votes.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Allegedly, lawmakers are urging the US Department of Justice to
investigate the alleged illegal activities amongst state legislature members. Demayo
says the state constitution prohibits politicians from handling redistricting powers.
He suggests that federal laws may have been violated through
backroom deals over maps. Tammy Triheo KFI News.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals is cited with
the Trump administration and halted for now a lower or
to order that had kept temporary protections in place for
about sixty thousand migrants from Central America and Nepal. The
administration can now move forward with removing about seven thousand
from Nepal, whose temporary protected status expired on August fifth.
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Protections for thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans expire September eighth,
and California is pushing to Nope, We're not going to
do that.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
One.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
If you're afraid of spiders, how about let's do this one.
If you're afraid of spiders, this is not going to help.
Speaker 12 (15:28):
Scientists say at least one kind of spider uses its
puke to marinate its prey. Researchers say the Uluboridae spider
does not have a venomous bite. It was known to
wrap its prey in hundreds of meters of silk and
then throw up on them, but they only recently found
out that the puke had very strong toxins. They say,
marinating their meal alive and then eating it is the
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spider's evolutionary way of surviving. The next step is looking
into whether other animals, like lizards, had the acid puke
in their guts. Michael Krozier kf I News.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Nice, nice the breakfast. I know right hey.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Angel City FC has taken on the reigning nws L
champions Marta and the Orlando Pride. That's happening tonight. You
don't want to miss this matchup at Bemo Stadium. Tickets
are available at angelcity dot com and you can listen
to all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app.
Keyword angel City FC. When we come back after a
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more than two week delay because Democrats left the state.
The Texas House has passed those rediction districting plans. Kfi's
national correspondent Rory O'Neil's going to join us to talk
about the new districts, what they mean, and whether it's
going to start a domino effect five two on your
Thursday morning wake up call. And if you're just joining us,
you may have missed Michael Kroser's story about spider puke.
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Great way to start your day, and somebody wanted to
weigh in about that on the talk back.
Speaker 13 (16:55):
Hey there, Amy King Ella, I believe that's who's who?
Who is on the radio at five in the morning.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, it's me.
Speaker 13 (17:03):
Listen. Is it the AP who is forcing you guys
to do news items on spiders? Is that just to
scare the public? I mean, please don't do that. That's
horrible for everybody who has a rack and aphobia, myself included.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I'm sorry if you're scared of spiders. Hey, you know
what think about this. Spiders are good. They're creepy and
crawley and stuff, but spiders overall are good. We didn't
mean to wreck your breakfast, but very interesting how spiders
throw up to on their prey to eat them delicious. Okay,
five twenty two, here's what we're following in the KFI
(17:45):
twenty four hour newsroom. On the day after the thirty
sixth anniversary of the day Eric and Lyle Menendez murdered
their parents and their home in Beverly Hills, the brothers
are going to try to earn parole. Eric appears virtually
before the parole panel today, lyles tomorrow. If the board
recommends parole, it'll be up to Governor Newsom to grant
it or not. Friends of a woman whose body was
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found in the Angelus National Forest over the weekend say
she recently asked her husband for a divorce. Her friends
say Shila Cabrera was in an abusive relationship. Surveillance video
shows her husband dragging a large object outside their apartment.
He has since left the country with their three kids.
No One matched all six winning powerball numbers from last
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night's drawing. That pushes the jackpot for the next drawing
on Friday up to seven hundred million dollars. I think
that might be worth a two dollars investment. At six
oh five, It's handle on the news we've got heat,
we've got earthquakes, we've got floods, and now we've got
the plague practically in our own backyard.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Bill's going to tell you more about that. Let's say,
good morning now.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Two kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neil Okay. So, Rory, the
Republicans in Texas have pushed forward, or pushed through that
plan to shift voting districts that are going to give
Republicans a five seat advantage for the next election. Nothing guaranteed,
but they have the advantage. What does this vote set
in motion?
Speaker 9 (19:09):
Right?
Speaker 14 (19:09):
So, the House passed things last night along a party
line vote. This was the vote that finally happened two
weeks after Texas Democrats House members fled the state to
deny them a quorum. But they returned earlier this week
and had the vote last night. Now it goes to
the Senate and they're expected to rubber stamp this quickly,
sending it off to the governor again redrawing the congressional
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maps in Texas so that they would favor Republicans with
five additional seats. Of course, now we're seeing how California responds.
A much higher bar to clear to try to add
five Democratic seats there, and other Democratic led states are
trying to do the same.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
But we've also got some other.
Speaker 14 (19:48):
Republican states like Ohio and Missouri and Indiana that might
also try to redraw the maps. It just shows you
how tightly controlled, or how tight and small the margin
is with Republicans control.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Of the House right now.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, and so you said that, you know the other states,
both Republican and Democrat, are like, hey, we're going to
do it next. We're going to do it next. When
does this insanity stop? Is there any effort to just
stop it?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Not particularly because.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Nobody really likes jerry mandering, at least they say they don't,
although everybody does it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
No, nobody likes it when the other party does it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Get a good point, and.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
That's what you know.
Speaker 14 (20:27):
Illinois would love to do more redistricting to get the
more seats there, but it's been so jerry mandered already.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
They can't do much.
Speaker 14 (20:34):
Same with places like Massachusetts, so they don't think they
can squeeze a lot more Democrats from those Democratic rich states.
But whether or not this is going to be stopped,
you know, this is supposed to happen every ten years anyway.
What's different is, of course, the narrow margin Republicans have
in the House, and the difference that this is all
being done in sort of these off years. Typically this
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has done more in direct response to a census. Even
in Florida, the governor there says, hey, you know what,
in the last census, you didn't count enough Floridians who
moved here from places like New York and Texas. We
deserve to have more seats than we got. So he's
fighting to have more House members in the state.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Overall.
Speaker 14 (21:16):
Of course, that would lead to redrawing maps again favoring Republicans,
and you'd have to see which state up north, probably
New York, maybe Rhode Island might lose a representative to
give one to Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Okay, And for now we as you mentioned California, the
lawmakers in Sacramento are expected to vote on the plans
for redistricting today and then ultimately it's up to voters
on whether to approve that. But the state legislature is
probably going to push that through and most likely today.
Kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neil, thanks so much. Thanks Amy,
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A man from Pico Rivera has been indicted for allegedly
blocking ICE agents from detaining a janitor.
Speaker 15 (21:55):
On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted twenty year old
Adrian Martinez, who is a US citizen. He is charged
with conspiracy to impede federal agents and will be arraigned today.
Martinez was arrested on June seventeenth after allegedly interfering when
a janitor was being detained by ICE agents at a
shopping center in Pico RIVERA. US Department of Justice says
See and other people parked their vehicles to block the
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agents from leaving. Martinez could face up to six years
in prison if he's convicted as charged. Daniel Martindale CAFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Detainees at a federal detention center in Riverside, where large
numbers of illegal immigrants are housed until they're deported, will
now have the right to confidential phone calls with their
attorneys from now on.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Apparently they had been monitored.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It's part of a settlement of a civil rights lawsuit
between the ACLU and the Department of Homeland Security. The
Lakenty Sheriff's Department has announced dozens of arrests during a
street takeover in Carson. Most of the people busted on
Sunday were spectators. Carson Station Sheriff's deputies also towed twenty
five cars. The operation was the latest in a series
of efforts targeting street racing, street takeofvers, and illegal vehicle modifications.
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Officials say the takeovers are dangerous and criminal. California's High
Court is staying out of the state's redistricting fight.
Speaker 16 (23:10):
The California Supreme Court denied a request from some state
Republicans to intervene and slow down the democrats hard push
for redistricting legislation. The plan is expected to pass the
state legislature this week, and that could happen as early
as today. If the plan goes through and voters approve
in a special election slated for November five, Republicans could
get squeezed out from areas including Orange in San Diego
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Counties and the Central Valley farm belt. Republicans say they
will continue to fight despite being shot down in court.
Jason Campadonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Neither the California Secretary of State nor the Department of
Finance has come out with a figure on how much
it's going to cost for a special election to change
the state's redistricting rules. The last time California had a
special election, it was to recall Newsom in twenty twenty one.
That one cost two hundred million dollars. County elections officials
want the state to fit the bill for the next one,
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or foot the bill rather for the next one if
it happens, and the reported plan is to give them
the money up front rather than to reimburse them. Two
buildings described as the last standing links to a once
thriving fishing village on Terminal Island are now LA Historic
and Cultural Landmarks. Their designation has been approved. The Japanese
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American Commercial Fishing village was a hub for the community
until President Roosevelt ordered the internment of more than twelve
hundred people following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Still to come,
Judge says no, you can't see secret grand jury files
tied to Jeffrey Epstein. What's the next step and what's
the difference between grand jury files and the rest of
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the files the DOJ has ABC's Peter Harlambus is going
to join us before the top of the hour to
tell us Southland weather from KFI. A heat advisory remains
into effect until Saturday evening for inland areas, and excessive
heat warning goes into effect at eleven this morning. It's
going to be sunny and hot, hives in the mid
eighties at the beaches, mid nineties for Metro la And and
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Lindo c up to one ten in the valleys, one
oh seven for the Ie one oh five in the
Analope Valley. The heat continues through the weekend, with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoons Tomorrow and Saturday.
Seventy one in Mission via Ho. It's seventy in Irvine.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Am six.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Forty five thirty six on your Thursday morning wake Up Call.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Chargers Niners. I do like the Chargers, but I'm a
Niners girl.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Sorry, La.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
When when's the regular season start? September fourth?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So this is still just preseason, all right, So I
don't have to be a rabbit about my support for
the Niners until after September fourth. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Today is expected
to be the hottest day of the five day heat wave.
In southern California. The National Weather Service temperatures will easily
top one hundred degrees in the valleys and deserts and
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could break records. Downtown LA is expected to be in
the nineties eighties at the beaches, which is still five
to ten degrees above normal.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Eric and Laa.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Menendez will appear before a parole board today and tomorrow
asking to be granted parole. Yesterday was the thirty sixth
anniversary of the day the brothers murdered their parents in
their home in Beverly Hills. The parole board will make
a recommendation. The ultimate authority rests in the hands of
Governor Newsom. A mail carrier who grabbed a garden hose
to help keep a house fire in Glendale from jumping
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to another home along his route in is going to
receive the Postmaster General Hero Award. It's a ceremony today
the Glendale main post Office. The one hundred year old
house was destroyed in February, but the mail carrier was
able to help keep that fire from spreading to other
homes and nobody else.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
No other homes were damaged.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
At six oh five, It's handle on the news the
first stages of an assault on Gaza City have apparently begun.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
THO was going to have the latest on that.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Hey, don't forget to join Gary and Shannon today starting
at nine am.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
They're going to be live for News and Bruce.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
At Bjay's Restaurant and brew House in Huntington Beach. It's
at one sixty sixty Beach Boulevard. Come by, have a byte,
check out the live broadcast, maybe have a beverage or two.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And Gary and Channon.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Are going to have Dodgers tickets and Charger tickets and
some gas swag and pretty much guaranteed to be a
whole lot of fun. That's at the News and Bruce
at Bjay's Restaurant and brew House in Huntington Beach with
Gary and Shannon. That starts at nine am. Here are
some stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A woman who apparently shot an arrow at a person
walking a dog on a beach in Malibu has been
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arrested following a nine hour standoff at a beach front home.
The woman was finally taken into custody after deputies forced
their way into the home last night near Pepperdine University.
Video of the home shows piles of trash scattered on
the sand, and towels and other things on a balcony.
A man from Long Beach to schedule to be arraigned
today on federal charges of sending a dozen payments to ISIS,
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and he also is being charged for keeping what appears
to be a homemade bomb inside his home. Prosecutors say
he communicated on social media with two ISIS fighters in
the Middle East and talked about his support for ISIS
and offered to send money to support their activities. A
vigil has been held for a woman from Lancaster allegedly
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murdered by her husband.
Speaker 15 (28:28):
The body of Sheila Cabrera was found in the Angelus
National Forest last Saturday. Friends say the mother of three
was in an abusive relationship with her husband, Hosi Mar Cabrera.
Surveillance footage from earlier this month shows him dragging a
large object wrapped in fabric outside of their apartment. His
wife's body was found in similar fabric. Investigator say Cabrera
fled to Peru with the couple's three children last Saturday,
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then dropped them off with their grandparents. A new report
says he was briefly detained after lending in Peru, but
was later released. Daniel Martindale CAFI News.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
THELAPD he has arrested a man accused of stealing millions
of dollars worth of merch moving through the ports and
railways in Los Angeles. Police Chief McDonald's his search warrants
were served Thursday and this week at businesses in Montabello
and Huntington Park.
Speaker 17 (29:15):
The investigation targeted DJ General Tool and Wire, identified as
a major storefront fencing operation. During the search, detectives recovered
an estimated four point five million in stolen property.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
The guy lives in Montabello and is accused of operating
storefronts to resell the items. He's facing charges of receiving
stolen property, which includes tools, appliances, and ebank e bikes.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
LA City Hall has moved.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Forward with possible change in the number of stairwells and
exits that are required in apartment buildings.
Speaker 18 (29:47):
Supporter see requiring residential developments up to six stories only
to have one stairwell and one exit would make building
cheaper and easier. Councilman Tracy Park was the only vote
against the idea. She says she's worried about fire safety
in those buildings.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Smoke and fire rises through stairwells, so if there's only
one stairway, it can become unusable for all of the
floors above.
Speaker 18 (30:09):
The city council voted to have a draft ordnance written
for later consideration. Housing advocates say the change would bring
much needed apartments online more quickly. Michael Monks, KFI News.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We're getting word into the KFI newsroom that the LAPD
has asked for a canine unit to assist them. They're
looking for two brothers in the Vermont Square neighborhood. The brothers,
who were are ten years old and two years old,
had previously been reported missing in the Westlake district. We'll
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get you more information on that as we get it.
Now it's time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Dan Schwartzman, who's in for Courtney all week.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Morning.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Dan, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, So Walmart just came out with their earnings report
for the second quarter, and surprise, it was a good one.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It was.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
But don't look at it like that.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 19 (31:02):
So they had higher sales, which is great, of course,
but their second quarter profit did miss expectation that's happening
for the first time in three years now. Their adjusted
earnings per share AMY came in at six cents lower
than Wall Street expected. The retail giants cited arise in
insurance claims, legal charges, and restructuring costs as factors weighing
down its profit. Walmart shares right now have fallen a
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little over three percent in early trading, so they're selling more,
but their profit is less because they have higher costs.
So it was a mixed bag and Wallstreet was not impressed.
Down three percent right now?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Okay, fine, why are all eyes going to be on
Jackson Hole, Wyoming?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
There's no snow there at summertime.
Speaker 19 (31:41):
Yeah, no snow, no skiing, But investors aren't paying attention
to what's happening there. As the Federal Reserves Annual Symposium
opens later today, FED shair Drone Pal is going to
address the gathering tomorrow with Wall Street hoping for guidance
on the path for interest rates AMY. Meanwhile, minutes from
the feds July Polse meeting were released ahead of that symposium.
The indicate that most central bankers were more concerned about
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inflation than about signs of softness in the job market.
So when Powell speaks, the markets will react, and I
think many of us are crossing our fingers hoping that
they will be lowering interest rates starting in September.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, So they're just having meetings today, but they don't
have the FED meetings for the decisions until next month.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
So why why do they get together now?
Speaker 19 (32:22):
Because who does want to go to Jackson wholewayom you
sing time?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Right?
Speaker 19 (32:25):
Yeah, I'm sure the food's great, the you know, everything's
great there. No, I think it's you know, it's it's
And Bloomberg of course has massive coverage there in Wyoming.
But I think a lot of it has to do
with the facts of you know, conversations, discussions before they
hold the meeting and decide okay, let's cut rate, so
let's keep them steady.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Okay. So they're just hashing it out a bit.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah why not?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So Visas in a little bit of trouble because somebody
says they don't have enough competition.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
That's right.
Speaker 19 (32:51):
They got some bad news a federal judge ruling that
at twenty nineteen to five point six billion dollars settlement
over cards wipe fees does not apply.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It's a new.
Speaker 19 (33:00):
Anti trust case filed by merchants against the credit card company.
The new case, Amy accuses Visa of monopolizing the debit
card market. Unlike the previous case, which also named MasterCard
as a defendant, this time around, Visa is the only
one being sued. So they ready lost five point six billion.
Let's see what they're gonna lose on this anti trust case, okay.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And what are we looking for in the market's history.
We kind of had a mixed day yesterday.
Speaker 19 (33:24):
Today it's not shaping up to look good. We're less
than an hour before the opening bell. The Dow is
down one hundred and fifty five points, a drop of
a third to one percent. The NASZAC down sixty two points,
a drop of a quarter of a percent. SMP is
down close to nineteen points, a drop of three tenths
of one percent, So more red Amy is the expectation.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Markets opening in about forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And we're also just seeing that job jobless applications rose
to two thirty five last week, two hundred and thirty
five thousand.
Speaker 19 (33:55):
That is correct, that just came out and it's the
highest level since June. Can you inclaims climbing as well,
just showing us Amy, the labor market is slowing in
the US right now.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, getting in your business like we do every morning
with our favorite Bloomberg people.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
It's Dan Schwartzman this week. Thanks Dan. We'll talk to
you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Talk to you tomorrow. Amy.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Okay, when we come back.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
A judge says, no, you cannot see the secret grand
jury files tied to Jeffrey Epstein. I think we all
knew that. Well, what's the next step and what's the
difference between grand jury files and the rest of the
files that the DOJ has in its possession. We're going
to be talking to ABC's Peter Holm Harlamboos to talk
about that. Coming up next from the Southern California Toyota
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Dealers Traffic Center, Save more at the pump with Toyota's
full lineup of fuel efficient vehicles.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
It is five point fifty one.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
On your Thursday morning wake up call. My, the time
flies when you're having fun. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Nearly three hundred LA
City employees will not be getting pink slips thanks to
deals with two major unions. Budget cuts had layoffs looming,
but the cities come up with plans to allow some
workers to take days off in exchange for overtime and
(35:05):
others to take unpaid vacation days to save those jobs.
A former corrections officers expected to plead guilty today to
smuggling drugs, alcohol, and phones into a federal detention center
in downtown LA in exchange for cash, bribes and a
Chevy Tahoe. Samuel Morales was arrested back in June when
a vial of cocaine was found on him during a
security screening. The new bed Bath and Beyond is a
(35:28):
bust when it comes to California. The company's CEO says
California is overregulated and too expensive, and says it's too
risky to open a store here. Bed Bath and Beyond
filed for bankruptcy in twenty twenty three and closed all
of its stores. It's now planning to open three hundred
stores in the US, none of them in California.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
We're just minutes away from Handle.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
On the news this morning, what happens when you pay
for a window seat but your seat doesn't actually have
a window.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Well, it's a problem and it's led to a lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter Haralumbus.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Good morning, Peter.
Speaker 10 (36:04):
Good really, Amy, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Yeah, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
So a federal judge says, no, you can't see what's
in those secret federal grand jury files tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Yeah, I mean, at this point, the Department of Justice
is over three with these requests, three different judges, one
in Florida, two in New York at this point basically
saying that the Department of Justice is asked here to
release these grand jury transcripts is a diversion that if
the Department of Justice truly wanted these documents released, they
already have them in their possession and they could very
well do so. According to this judge who issued his
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decision yesterday, he basically has seventy pages of documents. The
Department of Justice has one hundred one hundred thousand of them,
and he basically put the onus on the DOJ to
take action here rather than asking the courts to step in.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Okay, So this was the third judge that ruled against
releasing the secret grand jury files. I stressed secret grandjeary files.
Can it be appealed again or is it done now?
Speaker 10 (37:05):
Technically it's a decision that could be appealed, but at
this point the Department of Justice hasn't signaled any intention
to do that. They haven't filed notice notice of appeals
in any of these three decisions. And if anything, the
story is going away to a certain degree. The tension
has moved a bit, and if anything, the highest likelihood
have actually seen these documents enter the public life might
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actually come from Congress rather than the courts. We understand
that the House Oversight Committee as issue of subpoena for
these records, and the spokesperson for that committee says that
they hope to release them publicly with necessary reactions. So
to the extent that these records do get out, it's
likely to come from Congress, not the courts.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Okay, So I'm going to back up for just a
second before we move forward. So was the ruling of
surprise at all? Since they are secret and you're not
allowed to release grand jury files. I mean, that's like
everybody kind of knows that, and even I know that.
Speaker 10 (38:02):
Yeah, I mean, it was not surprising in a number
of ways. Yes, totally. These are secret records. Not only
are they secret, they're highly sensitive in terms of the
number of victims who are named in them. And beyond that,
the Department of Justice, in their actual papers pushing for
these documents to be released, didn't articulate a particularly compelling reason,
at least as far as the law is concerned, why
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the judge should make this decision, why they should override
all these considerations when it comes to grand jury secrecy
and all the sensitive things that go on with the
grand jury to release them for a political reason. So
it's not surprising, and I think that's why we saw
such a unanimous string of decisions here, you know. And
these are touches from across the political spectrum here who
(38:44):
are basically agreeing that this is a ploy. This is
the version. And at the end of the day, the
DJ's asked was if anything inappropriate?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Okay, so this is what This is my take on this, Peter,
and tell me if you think I'm tracking right. And
this is all speculation, but I think that the president
called for those files to be released. He doesn't really
want the Epstein files out there, but he said, oh,
release the grand jury files, knowing full well, that their
secret grand jury files, and there's no way that a
(39:12):
judge or a court's going to say, yes, go ahead
and release him.
Speaker 10 (39:16):
I think that's exactly right, and I think the judges
agree with you in this case. Two different judges in
this case are basically saying that this was all a diversion,
that the Trump administration knew that what they were asking
for wasn't really feasible. Beyond that, even if these transcripts
were released in the best case scenario, according to these judges,
they contained no new information about the case. They would
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not shed new light on what happened here. They would
not answer the questions that everyone in DC and in
New York are asking about who is in these files?
What is the extent of these crimes. So I think
it was employee. It was the diversion, according to these judges,
and I think that's really one of the main reasons
these judges came back with such kind of aggressive, scathing
(40:00):
decisions that critique the Trump administration's approach here.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Okay, and what happens next, We'll just have to wait
and see and then we'll check in with you again.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Peter Harralumbus with ABC. Thanks so much for the info.
Speaker 10 (40:12):
Thanks so much, Jamie, are right, take care.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LAPD officers are
trying to find two brothers reported missing in the city's
Westlake area. The boys are ten and two years old.
They were last seen overnight. The search has led to
a neighborhood in South la This morning. Police have asked
for the help of a canine unit to do a
grid search. Of course, we'll bring in the latest on
(40:35):
this search when we get it into the KFI newsroom.
Parole Board panels in San Diego are about to hear
from the Menendez brothers. Eric Menendez will present his case first.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
We hearing today is expected to go for hours.
Speaker 15 (40:49):
He and his legal team will try to prove he
has reinvented himself over the decades and that he is
not a threat to the public any longer.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
ABC's Alex Stone says the hearing for Lyle Menendez will
happen tomorrow. If the parole board recommends the brothers be released,
Governor Newsom could still say no. It's going to be
up to him to make the final decision. The brothers
were sentenced to life in prison for murdering their parents
in nineteen eighty nine. They were re sentenced in May,
which made them eligible for parole. La County's DA says
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the brothers have not taken responsibility for the murders. The
thirty sixth anniversary of those murders was yesterday. Former La
Fire Chief Kristin Crowley has filed a damage's claim against
the city and Mayor Bass. The more than three hundred
page claim, which is the first step in filing a lawsuit,
claims that she was made a scapegoat for the Palisades
(41:37):
fire by Mayor Bass. Crowleys's Bass publicly repeated lies about
the chief's actions before and during the fire to defect
deflect criticism over her being out of the country when
the fire started. The Santa Ana City Council has approved
a plan to keep up or clean up homeless camps
in the city. It's going to allow city crews to
(41:58):
clear camps and clean up trash and graffiti along major
freeway ramps and underpasses along the five and fifty five corridors.
A court hearing for the man accused of killing two
people in their home in Encino has been suspended.
Speaker 15 (42:12):
Raymond Boudarian appeared in court on Wednesday. On July tenth,
he allegedly broken to the home of American Idol music
supervisor Robin Kay and her husband Thomas de Luca, and
shot them to death with their own gun. He is
facing two counts of murder and one count of residential
burglary with special circumstances. Boudarian was not arraigned and was
instead ordered to mental health court on September. Three witnesses
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in the courtroom say he was staring off during the
hearing and was not responding to the judge. Daniel Martindale
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
A tick born illness is spreading fast among pets in California.
Speaker 20 (42:45):
Cases of anaplasmosis and dogs have tripled in recent years,
and more than half of California counties are now considered
high risk. The disease carried by ticks can cause fever, fatigue,
weight loss, and, in severe cases, nosebleeds or seizures. That
say it's treatable with antibiotics, but prevention is key. Experts
warn the rise and tick activity could also pose a
risk to people, not just pets. Pregidia Degassino KFI News this.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland.
Weather from KFI. Yeah, it's going to be hot today.
It's going to be the hottest of the heat wave. Sunny,
with highs in the mid eighties at the beaches, low
to mid nineties for Metro La and in the Orange County,
one oh one to one ten in the Valleys, up
to one oh seven for the Inland Empire, up to
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one oh five in the Antelope Valley. Overnight loads in
the sixties and seventies. But tomorrow let's go look a
lot like today, just to maybe a degree or two cooler,
eighties at the coast, nineties for the metro areas, low
one hundreds to one oh nine in the valley's ie
and av with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon and evening. It's going to start to school.
Cool down just a bit on Sunday, with some gradual
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cooling as we had into next week. Sixty six right
now in Anaheim's, seventy two in Studio City, seventy in
Redondo Beach, and seventy four in Rancho Cuckamonga. Live from
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This
has been your wake up call, and if you missed
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
App kf I hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is your wake up call for Thursday, August twenty first.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Of course, if you have anything to say to us
and want to share, we'd love to hear it. You
can just hit us up on the talkback. It's a
little microphone in the upper right hand corner of your screen. Yesterday,
we had a very nice man call and say, hey,
your show is really depressing. It was a bummer. It
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was horrible, all bad news. So we tried to make
it good news. I think we had a little bit
of fun. We're going to try it again today. Even
when there's bad news, we can have fun, right, Okay,
I guess it would help if I turned up your microphone.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How well keeps me turned down?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I know, keeping you under control?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Lots coming up on wake up call, so let's get
right to it. Here's what's ahead. National Weather Service forecasters
say temperatures today are going to be three to six
degrees hotter than yesterday. With the hot weather continuing right
on through the weekend. Forecasters say highs will easily top
triple digits and may even break some records. At the coast,
it'll be cooler, but still five to ten degrees above normal.
(01:40):
I think I'm going to head to the coast this weekend.
In fact, I know I am, Yes, for sure. LAPD
has made a major cargo theft bust. Investigators say stores
in Montabello and Huntington Park sold millions of dollars worth
of goods that had been stolen from ports and trains.
A man from Montabello has been arrested for allegedly reselling
millions of dollars in stolen name brand merchandise like electronics, tools,
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e bikes, appliances, and outdoor equipment. The Jeffrey Epstein grand
jury records not going to be unsealed. A judge denied
the Justice Department's request to unseal the records that led
to Epstein being indicted on sex trafficking charges. This was
the third denial by a judge. We're going to find
out more about what happens next with kfi's national correspondent
(02:26):
Rory O'Neill. That's coming up at five point twenty. Also,
the much anticipated parole hearings for Eric and Lyle Menendez
get underway today. ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett
is going to join us in just a couple of
minutes to talk about whether they're likely to get that
parole and whether they should be paroled after more than
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two week delay because Democrats left the state. The Texas
House has passed redistricting plans. Kfi's national correspondent Wait okay
so I said that Rory O'Neil was going to be
talking about Epstein. It's not Rory ONEA. Peter Harrlumbus is
going to be talking about Jeffrey Ebstein. Rory O'Neill is
going to talk to us about the Texas redistricting. So
(03:11):
many guests it's hard to keep them straight, I know,
and they're also smart, okay, And we're going to be
talking about that and whether Texas's actions are going to
create a domino effect around the country. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Former La City fire chief Kristin
Crowley's filed a claim against the city and the mayor
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over her firing.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Probably is claiming Mayor Karen Bass orchestrated a campaign of misinformation, defamation,
and retaliation in the aftermath of the deadly Palisates fire.
Ledges the mayor used Crowley as a scapegoat to deflect
criticism over the handling of the fire. Crowley also accuses
Bass of trying to hide the extent to which she
undermined public safety with cuts to the fire department's budget.
(03:54):
Jim rope Kfi News.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
A lawyer for Mayor Bass, says there will be no
comment on the ongoing personnel claim and that the mayor
is focused on helping residents during the current heat wave
and potential fire danger. Six US citizens are suing Ice,
saying they were racially profiled and abused during raids in
La over the summer. Their attorney claims the operation's targeted race,
(04:18):
not crime. The lawsuit accuses agents of civil rights violations
and excessive force, with each plaintiff seeking a million dollars.
A once popular home store will not be doing business
in California when they reopen. Three hundred stores around the US.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Bed Bath and Beyond execs have decided it's not in
their best interest to operating California anymore. Marcus Leminis, the
executive chairman of bed Bath and Beyond, claims overregulation, higher taxes,
higher fees, and higher wages have made it impossible for
businesses to succeed here. The strategy for California will be
to instead offer products directly through their website with twenty
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four to forty eight hour delivery.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Eileen gonzalezk I News. I gotta be real with you.
I miss bed Bath and Beyond.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
It was you'd walk in for a twenty dollars thing
and there'd be five hundred dollars worth of stuff in
your cart by the time you life.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh yeah, and like every single kitchen gadget and fun thing. Yeah,
I loved it. So said that they're not coming back
to California, but understandable. Welcome to bear skin robins.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
A black bear has been found behind the counter of
an ice cream shop in South Lake Tahoe, not serving customers,
but eating from an ice cream container. At the ice
cream shop at Camp Richardson. Wildlife officials say there's a
trend of bears entering homes and businesses for food, but
they say attacks are rare. Officials euthanized a bear last
month for break ins and increasingly aggressive behavior. Another bears
being monitored for entering homes in the Tahoe Keys. Officials
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say people should secure trash and avoid leaving food in cars.
Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I think we need to come up with some sort
of solution because I saw the picture of the bear
in the ice cream shop and it was absolutely adorable,
apparently like the strawberry. But I mean, we're going into
their territory. We gotta figure a way to coexist. We
can't just kill them.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
No, they're too just swimming pool in front of a bear.
It's like, hey, it's a bath, I know.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And then even like with the with the mountain lions,
you know that we're they're creating that wildlife crossing, which
I think is fabulous, is going to be done sometime
next year to save the mountain lions so they can
cross over and they can you know, go in between
areas and find new mates and all that stuff. And
then a mountain lion gets into a home and they
go kill it. But I mean, what do you where's
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the balance there? I hope we find it, hope we
figure it out. I hope you figure out how you're
going to get where you're going. Oh good, we have
will Culture Cole Striper here to help us. We got
a cone zone slowing you down in Riverside. I'm two fifteen.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
It's not a place that's usually bad to begin with,
and it's even worse this morning.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Northbound side of the two fifteen.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
At least two lanes closed there run around the central
MLK area. It's all supposed to open up right now
as we speak, so hopefully that'll be out of your
way shortly. But traffic stop from al Assandro on that
northbound two fifteen, and you tried to get through there, okay,
each pound one to eighteen. I saw this in the
CHP log each pound one eighteen at DeSoto vehicle versus
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the mountain and I have a feeling the mountain one.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
So that's all on the right shoulder.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
May see some activity there also northbound seven to ten
at Florence Solo vehicle crash there it spun out.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's on the right shoulder as well. With Southern California's
most accurate traffic Reports. I'm Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Thank you very much. Will.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Crime and Terrorism
analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, the long awaited parole hearings for
Lyle and Eric Menndez get underway today and tomorrow. So first,
can you explain to us what happens during a parole
hearing and then we'll get into sort of the nitty
(07:44):
gritty of what's going on.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
So obviously they fall into a category of being eligible
for parole, because as you well know, I mean to
get a re sentenced to fifty years to life instead
of life without parole, So you start with that. But
they're going to look at a number of factors. First
of all, seriousness of the crime. Is thirty five years
enough time for the heinous sort of violent nature and
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overkill aspects of this double homicide. We're going to look
at that. They're also going to look at safety in
the community, in other words, is there any issues of
them being violent or criminal if they were released, how
do they do in prison? They'll be testimony I assume
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from family members. Clearly your district attorney or one of
his reps will be there to voice their position in
this case. So they'll take all those factors you know together. Now,
obviously this case has a profile all of its own.
I mean, I've talked about double homicides for forty years
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and I've never seen one to get the profile that
this one has. You know, it has all that, let's see,
attractive guys there, young parents, are rich, it happens in
a Beverly Hills mansion. You know, all that gives it
a bigger profile. But I think that may change the
reality a little bit of what people do, whether it
be the pro board or in particular your governor, who
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will has the ultimate decision as to whether they get out,
don't get out, or something in between. So so we'll see.
But you know, they each get a separate hearing, so
one is today and the other is tomorrow, and so
we'll see what they end up. Also may recommending.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Okay, and will Lyle and Eric directly address the parole
borders that I'll done through their lawyers.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
That's their choice. I'm going to assume that they will.
You know, one of the sticking points, at least for
your district attorney, and rightly so, is that they never
actually you know, freely admitted that they did this and
there was no excuse for them doing it. Now they
done that now, So I suspect they're just kind of
want to fall on their sword in front of the
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parol board, you know, of what they did and how
horrible it was, and you know, and then you know,
spent thirty five years of their life in prison. But
they've done all these you know, they've both got college degrees,
they've worked with internal inmates, they both got married. One
of them has been married twice apparently while in incarcerated,
and that they've pulled their life together and the thirty
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five years is enough, and so we'll see if that's
enough to sway them.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And then Brad, I know that you were a Federal
Probation and Parole officer for like ten years before you
join the FBI.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
So what are what are some of the things like
that you're looking for?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I mean, you're you're saying, are they going to be
a threat to this community and stuff? But I know
that one of the things that has come up when
the DA has talked about it, or some of his
team has talked about it, is the remorse factor, right.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
And I think that I'm not sure how they've addressed
that they've admitted that they did it. I don't know
about the remorse factor. We'll we'll have to see about that.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
You know.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
The real key for me if I were going to
have them under supervision is that you know a lot,
you know, laying out some early plain ground rules. I mean,
I wouldn't be surprised if they do get released that
they'll put electronic monitors on them, at least for a
period of time so that par old folks can keep
track of where they're going. There'll be restrictions on travel
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to a certain extent, and you know, regular reporting. You know,
I used to do a lot of just pop in
sort of checking on people, particularly the ones I was
concerned about what they might be up to. But you know,
some version of that may happen with them, and what
we'll see how they do under that sort of those guidelines.
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The problem to mean is that when you've been locked
up for so many years, you know, you don't really
know how function in the outside world. And one of
the reasons inmates do so well is that they don't
have all the pressures that you have in existing out
here in the free world, and so it's sort of
easy to get a college degree. I mean, nobody wants
to be locked up. But the point being, your life
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is pretty stressed free to it based on what the
rest of us put up with every day. So we'll
see how they do with that, and the PURL board
will take that into consideration of will they be able
to function if and when they're released.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well then, and like talking about functioning like they have
the support of I think every member of the family
except maybe one who's saying no, But the family I
would imagine would come into play in that regard to saying, hey,
we can help them because we're going to be there
for them.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Well, that's right. Support system is a big deal. I
mean it's a huge deal actually, and it was one
of the feelings of so many people I sent back
to prison because and I would be honest with them saying, look,
your track record is a really bad. If you go
back to the small town where you were originally arrested,
I'm going to have to end up arresting you again.
So let's be clear. I don't want to do that.
(13:08):
I don't think you want to do that, but it's
going to happen. And invariably in their cases, they would
go back into these communities, hook up the bad people again,
get caught again, and they not have to lock them up.
So do I think that is a big variable in
this case. It doesn't seem that way on the surface
that they would be a crime and or safety risk
(13:31):
if released. I think this is really going to boil
down to does the system think they've served enough time?
And will there be any issues if in fact they're released.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Okay, ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett has always
thanks so much for the info.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
You're welcome. Take care, Amy.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Texas Houses approved new congressional districts, giving Republicans a good
chance of picking up an extra five seats in the
House in the next round of elections. The redistricting is
launched a national battle over voting districts and prompted Governor
nws Him to spur on lawmakers in California to redraw
lines to give Democrats five more seats. State Assemblymen Carl
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Demayo and other Republican lawmakers are calling for a federal
investigation into the governor's redistricting plan.
Speaker 11 (14:20):
Tomyo alleges that some politicians engaged in vote trading to
shape districts to their advantage.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Working behind closed doors with powerful special interests, manipulating the
lines of maps and trading votes.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Allegedly, lawmakers are urging the US Department of Justice to
investigate the alleged illegal activities amongst state legislature members. Demayo
says the state constitution prohibits politicians from handling redistricting powers.
He suggests that federal laws may have been violated through
backroom deals over maps. Tammy Triheo KFI News.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals is cited with
the Trump administration and halted for now a lower or
to order that had kept temporary protections in place for
about sixty thousand migrants from Central America and Nepal. The
administration can now move forward with removing about seven thousand
from Nepal, whose temporary protected status expired on August fifth.
(15:15):
Protections for thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans expire September eighth,
and California is pushing to Nope, We're not going to
do that.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
One.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
If you're afraid of spiders, how about let's do this one.
If you're afraid of spiders, this is not going to help.
Speaker 12 (15:28):
Scientists say at least one kind of spider uses its
puke to marinate its prey. Researchers say the Uluboridae spider
does not have a venomous bite. It was known to
wrap its prey in hundreds of meters of silk and
then throw up on them, but they only recently found
out that the puke had very strong toxins. They say,
marinating their meal alive and then eating it is the
(15:49):
spider's evolutionary way of surviving. The next step is looking
into whether other animals, like lizards, had the acid puke
in their guts. Michael Krozier kf I News.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Nice, nice the breakfast. I know right hey.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Angel City FC has taken on the reigning nws L
champions Marta and the Orlando Pride. That's happening tonight. You
don't want to miss this matchup at Bemo Stadium. Tickets
are available at angelcity dot com and you can listen
to all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app.
Keyword angel City FC. When we come back after a
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more than two week delay because Democrats left the state.
The Texas House has passed those rediction districting plans. Kfi's
national correspondent Rory O'Neil's going to join us to talk
about the new districts, what they mean, and whether it's
going to start a domino effect five two on your
Thursday morning wake up call. And if you're just joining us,
you may have missed Michael Kroser's story about spider puke.
(16:49):
Great way to start your day, and somebody wanted to
weigh in about that on the talk back.
Speaker 13 (16:55):
Hey there, Amy King Ella, I believe that's who's who?
Who is on the radio at five in the morning.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, it's me.
Speaker 13 (17:03):
Listen. Is it the AP who is forcing you guys
to do news items on spiders? Is that just to
scare the public? I mean, please don't do that. That's
horrible for everybody who has a rack and aphobia, myself included.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I'm sorry if you're scared of spiders. Hey, you know
what think about this. Spiders are good. They're creepy and
crawley and stuff, but spiders overall are good. We didn't
mean to wreck your breakfast, but very interesting how spiders
throw up to on their prey to eat them delicious. Okay,
five twenty two, here's what we're following in the KFI
(17:45):
twenty four hour newsroom. On the day after the thirty
sixth anniversary of the day Eric and Lyle Menendez murdered
their parents and their home in Beverly Hills, the brothers
are going to try to earn parole. Eric appears virtually
before the parole panel today, lyles tomorrow. If the board
recommends parole, it'll be up to Governor Newsom to grant
it or not. Friends of a woman whose body was
(18:06):
found in the Angelus National Forest over the weekend say
she recently asked her husband for a divorce. Her friends
say Shila Cabrera was in an abusive relationship. Surveillance video
shows her husband dragging a large object outside their apartment.
He has since left the country with their three kids.
No One matched all six winning powerball numbers from last
(18:28):
night's drawing. That pushes the jackpot for the next drawing
on Friday up to seven hundred million dollars. I think
that might be worth a two dollars investment. At six
oh five, It's handle on the news we've got heat,
we've got earthquakes, we've got floods, and now we've got
the plague practically in our own backyard.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Bill's going to tell you more about that. Let's say,
good morning now.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Two kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neil Okay. So, Rory, the
Republicans in Texas have pushed forward, or pushed through that
plan to shift voting districts that are going to give
Republicans a five seat advantage for the next election. Nothing guaranteed,
but they have the advantage. What does this vote set
in motion?
Speaker 9 (19:09):
Right?
Speaker 14 (19:09):
So, the House passed things last night along a party
line vote. This was the vote that finally happened two
weeks after Texas Democrats House members fled the state to
deny them a quorum. But they returned earlier this week
and had the vote last night. Now it goes to
the Senate and they're expected to rubber stamp this quickly,
sending it off to the governor again redrawing the congressional
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maps in Texas so that they would favor Republicans with
five additional seats. Of course, now we're seeing how California responds.
A much higher bar to clear to try to add
five Democratic seats there, and other Democratic led states are
trying to do the same.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
But we've also got some other.
Speaker 14 (19:48):
Republican states like Ohio and Missouri and Indiana that might
also try to redraw the maps. It just shows you
how tightly controlled, or how tight and small the margin
is with Republicans control.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Of the House right now.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, and so you said that, you know the other states,
both Republican and Democrat, are like, hey, we're going to
do it next. We're going to do it next. When
does this insanity stop? Is there any effort to just
stop it?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Not particularly because.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Nobody really likes jerry mandering, at least they say they don't,
although everybody does it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
No, nobody likes it when the other party does it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Get a good point, and.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
That's what you know.
Speaker 14 (20:27):
Illinois would love to do more redistricting to get the
more seats there, but it's been so jerry mandered already.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
They can't do much.
Speaker 14 (20:34):
Same with places like Massachusetts, so they don't think they
can squeeze a lot more Democrats from those Democratic rich states.
But whether or not this is going to be stopped,
you know, this is supposed to happen every ten years anyway.
What's different is, of course, the narrow margin Republicans have
in the House, and the difference that this is all
being done in sort of these off years. Typically this
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has done more in direct response to a census. Even
in Florida, the governor there says, hey, you know what,
in the last census, you didn't count enough Floridians who
moved here from places like New York and Texas. We
deserve to have more seats than we got. So he's
fighting to have more House members in the state.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Overall.
Speaker 14 (21:16):
Of course, that would lead to redrawing maps again favoring Republicans,
and you'd have to see which state up north, probably
New York, maybe Rhode Island might lose a representative to
give one to Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Okay, And for now we as you mentioned California, the
lawmakers in Sacramento are expected to vote on the plans
for redistricting today and then ultimately it's up to voters
on whether to approve that. But the state legislature is
probably going to push that through and most likely today.
Kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neil, thanks so much. Thanks Amy,
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A man from Pico Rivera has been indicted for allegedly
blocking ICE agents from detaining a janitor.
Speaker 15 (21:55):
On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted twenty year old
Adrian Martinez, who is a US citizen. He is charged
with conspiracy to impede federal agents and will be arraigned today.
Martinez was arrested on June seventeenth after allegedly interfering when
a janitor was being detained by ICE agents at a
shopping center in Pico RIVERA. US Department of Justice says
See and other people parked their vehicles to block the
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agents from leaving. Martinez could face up to six years
in prison if he's convicted as charged. Daniel Martindale CAFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Detainees at a federal detention center in Riverside, where large
numbers of illegal immigrants are housed until they're deported, will
now have the right to confidential phone calls with their
attorneys from now on.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Apparently they had been monitored.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
It's part of a settlement of a civil rights lawsuit
between the ACLU and the Department of Homeland Security. The
Lakenty Sheriff's Department has announced dozens of arrests during a
street takeover in Carson. Most of the people busted on
Sunday were spectators. Carson Station Sheriff's deputies also towed twenty
five cars. The operation was the latest in a series
of efforts targeting street racing, street takeofvers, and illegal vehicle modifications.
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Officials say the takeovers are dangerous and criminal. California's High
Court is staying out of the state's redistricting fight.
Speaker 16 (23:10):
The California Supreme Court denied a request from some state
Republicans to intervene and slow down the democrats hard push
for redistricting legislation. The plan is expected to pass the
state legislature this week, and that could happen as early
as today. If the plan goes through and voters approve
in a special election slated for November five, Republicans could
get squeezed out from areas including Orange in San Diego
(23:31):
Counties and the Central Valley farm belt. Republicans say they
will continue to fight despite being shot down in court.
Jason Campadonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Neither the California Secretary of State nor the Department of
Finance has come out with a figure on how much
it's going to cost for a special election to change
the state's redistricting rules. The last time California had a
special election, it was to recall Newsom in twenty twenty one.
That one cost two hundred million dollars. County elections officials
want the state to fit the bill for the next one,
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or foot the bill rather for the next one if
it happens, and the reported plan is to give them
the money up front rather than to reimburse them. Two
buildings described as the last standing links to a once
thriving fishing village on Terminal Island are now LA Historic
and Cultural Landmarks. Their designation has been approved. The Japanese
(24:23):
American Commercial Fishing village was a hub for the community
until President Roosevelt ordered the internment of more than twelve
hundred people following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Still to come,
Judge says no, you can't see secret grand jury files
tied to Jeffrey Epstein. What's the next step and what's
the difference between grand jury files and the rest of
(24:44):
the files the DOJ has ABC's Peter Harlambus is going
to join us before the top of the hour to
tell us Southland weather from KFI. A heat advisory remains
into effect until Saturday evening for inland areas, and excessive
heat warning goes into effect at eleven this morning. It's
going to be sunny and hot, hives in the mid
eighties at the beaches, mid nineties for Metro la And and
(25:06):
Lindo c up to one ten in the valleys, one
oh seven for the Ie one oh five in the
Analope Valley. The heat continues through the weekend, with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoons Tomorrow and Saturday.
Seventy one in Mission via Ho. It's seventy in Irvine.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Am six.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Forty five thirty six on your Thursday morning wake Up Call.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Chargers Niners. I do like the Chargers, but I'm a
Niners girl.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Sorry, La.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
When when's the regular season start? September fourth?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So this is still just preseason, all right, So I
don't have to be a rabbit about my support for
the Niners until after September fourth. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Today is expected
to be the hottest day of the five day heat wave.
In southern California. The National Weather Service temperatures will easily
top one hundred degrees in the valleys and deserts and
(26:03):
could break records. Downtown LA is expected to be in
the nineties eighties at the beaches, which is still five
to ten degrees above normal.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Eric and Laa.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Menendez will appear before a parole board today and tomorrow
asking to be granted parole. Yesterday was the thirty sixth
anniversary of the day the brothers murdered their parents in
their home in Beverly Hills. The parole board will make
a recommendation. The ultimate authority rests in the hands of
Governor Newsom. A mail carrier who grabbed a garden hose
to help keep a house fire in Glendale from jumping
(26:33):
to another home along his route in is going to
receive the Postmaster General Hero Award. It's a ceremony today
the Glendale main post Office. The one hundred year old
house was destroyed in February, but the mail carrier was
able to help keep that fire from spreading to other
homes and nobody else.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
No other homes were damaged.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
At six oh five, It's handle on the news the
first stages of an assault on Gaza City have apparently begun.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
THO was going to have the latest on that.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Hey, don't forget to join Gary and Shannon today starting
at nine am.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
They're going to be live for News and Bruce.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
At Bjay's Restaurant and brew House in Huntington Beach. It's
at one sixty sixty Beach Boulevard. Come by, have a byte,
check out the live broadcast, maybe have a beverage or two.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And Gary and Channon.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Are going to have Dodgers tickets and Charger tickets and
some gas swag and pretty much guaranteed to be a
whole lot of fun. That's at the News and Bruce
at Bjay's Restaurant and brew House in Huntington Beach with
Gary and Shannon. That starts at nine am. Here are
some stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A woman who apparently shot an arrow at a person
walking a dog on a beach in Malibu has been
(27:42):
arrested following a nine hour standoff at a beach front home.
The woman was finally taken into custody after deputies forced
their way into the home last night near Pepperdine University.
Video of the home shows piles of trash scattered on
the sand, and towels and other things on a balcony.
A man from Long Beach to schedule to be arraigned
today on federal charges of sending a dozen payments to ISIS,
(28:05):
and he also is being charged for keeping what appears
to be a homemade bomb inside his home. Prosecutors say
he communicated on social media with two ISIS fighters in
the Middle East and talked about his support for ISIS
and offered to send money to support their activities. A
vigil has been held for a woman from Lancaster allegedly
(28:27):
murdered by her husband.
Speaker 15 (28:28):
The body of Sheila Cabrera was found in the Angelus
National Forest last Saturday. Friends say the mother of three
was in an abusive relationship with her husband, Hosi Mar Cabrera.
Surveillance footage from earlier this month shows him dragging a
large object wrapped in fabric outside of their apartment. His
wife's body was found in similar fabric. Investigator say Cabrera
fled to Peru with the couple's three children last Saturday,
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then dropped them off with their grandparents. A new report
says he was briefly detained after lending in Peru, but
was later released. Daniel Martindale CAFI News.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
THELAPD he has arrested a man accused of stealing millions
of dollars worth of merch moving through the ports and
railways in Los Angeles. Police Chief McDonald's his search warrants
were served Thursday and this week at businesses in Montabello
and Huntington Park.
Speaker 17 (29:15):
The investigation targeted DJ General Tool and Wire, identified as
a major storefront fencing operation. During the search, detectives recovered
an estimated four point five million in stolen property.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
The guy lives in Montabello and is accused of operating
storefronts to resell the items. He's facing charges of receiving
stolen property, which includes tools, appliances, and ebank e bikes.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
LA City Hall has moved.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Forward with possible change in the number of stairwells and
exits that are required in apartment buildings.
Speaker 18 (29:47):
Supporter see requiring residential developments up to six stories only
to have one stairwell and one exit would make building
cheaper and easier. Councilman Tracy Park was the only vote
against the idea. She says she's worried about fire safety
in those buildings.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
Smoke and fire rises through stairwells, so if there's only
one stairway, it can become unusable for all of the
floors above.
Speaker 18 (30:09):
The city council voted to have a draft ordnance written
for later consideration. Housing advocates say the change would bring
much needed apartments online more quickly. Michael Monks, KFI News.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We're getting word into the KFI newsroom that the LAPD
has asked for a canine unit to assist them. They're
looking for two brothers in the Vermont Square neighborhood. The brothers,
who were are ten years old and two years old,
had previously been reported missing in the Westlake district. We'll
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get you more information on that as we get it.
Now it's time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Dan Schwartzman, who's in for Courtney all week.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Morning.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Dan, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Okay, So Walmart just came out with their earnings report
for the second quarter, and surprise, it was a good one.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
It was.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
But don't look at it like that.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 19 (31:02):
So they had higher sales, which is great, of course,
but their second quarter profit did miss expectation that's happening
for the first time in three years now. Their adjusted
earnings per share AMY came in at six cents lower
than Wall Street expected. The retail giants cited arise in
insurance claims, legal charges, and restructuring costs as factors weighing
down its profit. Walmart shares right now have fallen a
(31:24):
little over three percent in early trading, so they're selling more,
but their profit is less because they have higher costs.
So it was a mixed bag and Wallstreet was not impressed.
Down three percent right now?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Okay, fine, why are all eyes going to be on
Jackson Hole, Wyoming?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
There's no snow there at summertime.
Speaker 19 (31:41):
Yeah, no snow, no skiing, But investors aren't paying attention
to what's happening there. As the Federal Reserves Annual Symposium
opens later today, FED shair Drone Pal is going to
address the gathering tomorrow with Wall Street hoping for guidance
on the path for interest rates AMY. Meanwhile, minutes from
the feds July Polse meeting were released ahead of that symposium.
The indicate that most central bankers were more concerned about
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inflation than about signs of softness in the job market.
So when Powell speaks, the markets will react, and I
think many of us are crossing our fingers hoping that
they will be lowering interest rates starting in September.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, So they're just having meetings today, but they don't
have the FED meetings for the decisions until next month.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
So why why do they get together now?
Speaker 19 (32:22):
Because who does want to go to Jackson wholewayom you
sing time?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Right?
Speaker 19 (32:25):
Yeah, I'm sure the food's great, the you know, everything's
great there. No, I think it's you know, it's it's
And Bloomberg of course has massive coverage there in Wyoming.
But I think a lot of it has to do
with the facts of you know, conversations, discussions before they
hold the meeting and decide okay, let's cut rate, so
let's keep them steady.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Okay. So they're just hashing it out a bit.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah why not?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So Visas in a little bit of trouble because somebody
says they don't have enough competition.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
That's right.
Speaker 19 (32:51):
They got some bad news a federal judge ruling that
at twenty nineteen to five point six billion dollars settlement
over cards wipe fees does not apply.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
It's a new.
Speaker 19 (33:00):
Anti trust case filed by merchants against the credit card company.
The new case, Amy accuses Visa of monopolizing the debit
card market. Unlike the previous case, which also named MasterCard
as a defendant, this time around, Visa is the only
one being sued. So they ready lost five point six billion.
Let's see what they're gonna lose on this anti trust case, okay.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
And what are we looking for in the market's history.
We kind of had a mixed day yesterday.
Speaker 19 (33:24):
Today it's not shaping up to look good. We're less
than an hour before the opening bell. The Dow is
down one hundred and fifty five points, a drop of
a third to one percent. The NASZAC down sixty two points,
a drop of a quarter of a percent. SMP is
down close to nineteen points, a drop of three tenths
of one percent, So more red Amy is the expectation.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Markets opening in about forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
And we're also just seeing that job jobless applications rose
to two thirty five last week, two hundred and thirty
five thousand.
Speaker 19 (33:55):
That is correct, that just came out and it's the
highest level since June. Can you inclaims climbing as well,
just showing us Amy, the labor market is slowing in
the US right now.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, getting in your business like we do every morning
with our favorite Bloomberg people.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
It's Dan Schwartzman this week. Thanks Dan. We'll talk to
you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Talk to you tomorrow. Amy.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Okay, when we come back.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
A judge says, no, you cannot see the secret grand
jury files tied to Jeffrey Epstein. I think we all
knew that. Well, what's the next step and what's the
difference between grand jury files and the rest of the
files that the DOJ has in its possession. We're going
to be talking to ABC's Peter Holm Harlamboos to talk
about that. Coming up next from the Southern California Toyota
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Speaker 4 (34:41):
It is five point fifty one.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
On your Thursday morning wake up call. My, the time
flies when you're having fun. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Nearly three hundred LA
City employees will not be getting pink slips thanks to
deals with two major unions. Budget cuts had layoffs looming,
but the cities come up with plans to allow some
workers to take days off in exchange for overtime and
(35:05):
others to take unpaid vacation days to save those jobs.
A former corrections officers expected to plead guilty today to
smuggling drugs, alcohol, and phones into a federal detention center
in downtown LA in exchange for cash, bribes and a
Chevy Tahoe. Samuel Morales was arrested back in June when
a vial of cocaine was found on him during a
security screening. The new bed Bath and Beyond is a
(35:28):
bust when it comes to California. The company's CEO says
California is overregulated and too expensive, and says it's too
risky to open a store here. Bed Bath and Beyond
filed for bankruptcy in twenty twenty three and closed all
of its stores. It's now planning to open three hundred
stores in the US, none of them in California.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
We're just minutes away from Handle.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
On the news this morning, what happens when you pay
for a window seat but your seat doesn't actually have
a window.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Well, it's a problem and it's led to a lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter Haralumbus.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Good morning, Peter.
Speaker 10 (36:04):
Good really, Amy, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Yeah, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
So a federal judge says, no, you can't see what's
in those secret federal grand jury files tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 10 (36:17):
Yeah, I mean, at this point, the Department of Justice
is over three with these requests, three different judges, one
in Florida, two in New York at this point basically
saying that the Department of Justice is asked here to
release these grand jury transcripts is a diversion that if
the Department of Justice truly wanted these documents released, they
already have them in their possession and they could very
well do so. According to this judge who issued his
(36:39):
decision yesterday, he basically has seventy pages of documents. The
Department of Justice has one hundred one hundred thousand of them,
and he basically put the onus on the DOJ to
take action here rather than asking the courts to step in.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Okay, So this was the third judge that ruled against
releasing the secret grand jury files. I stressed secret grandjeary files.
Can it be appealed again or is it done now?
Speaker 10 (37:05):
Technically it's a decision that could be appealed, but at
this point the Department of Justice hasn't signaled any intention
to do that. They haven't filed notice notice of appeals
in any of these three decisions. And if anything, the
story is going away to a certain degree. The tension
has moved a bit, and if anything, the highest likelihood
have actually seen these documents enter the public life might
(37:26):
actually come from Congress rather than the courts. We understand
that the House Oversight Committee as issue of subpoena for
these records, and the spokesperson for that committee says that
they hope to release them publicly with necessary reactions. So
to the extent that these records do get out, it's
likely to come from Congress, not the courts.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Okay, So I'm going to back up for just a
second before we move forward. So was the ruling of
surprise at all? Since they are secret and you're not
allowed to release grand jury files. I mean, that's like
everybody kind of knows that, and even I know that.
Speaker 10 (38:02):
Yeah, I mean, it was not surprising in a number
of ways. Yes, totally. These are secret records. Not only
are they secret, they're highly sensitive in terms of the
number of victims who are named in them. And beyond that,
the Department of Justice, in their actual papers pushing for
these documents to be released, didn't articulate a particularly compelling reason,
at least as far as the law is concerned, why
(38:23):
the judge should make this decision, why they should override
all these considerations when it comes to grand jury secrecy
and all the sensitive things that go on with the
grand jury to release them for a political reason. So
it's not surprising, and I think that's why we saw
such a unanimous string of decisions here, you know. And
these are touches from across the political spectrum here who
(38:44):
are basically agreeing that this is a ploy. This is
the version. And at the end of the day, the
DJ's asked was if anything inappropriate?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Okay, so this is what This is my take on this, Peter,
and tell me if you think I'm tracking right. And
this is all speculation, but I think that the president
called for those files to be released. He doesn't really
want the Epstein files out there, but he said, oh,
release the grand jury files, knowing full well, that their
secret grand jury files, and there's no way that a
(39:12):
judge or a court's going to say, yes, go ahead
and release him.
Speaker 10 (39:16):
I think that's exactly right, and I think the judges
agree with you in this case. Two different judges in
this case are basically saying that this was all a diversion,
that the Trump administration knew that what they were asking
for wasn't really feasible. Beyond that, even if these transcripts
were released in the best case scenario, according to these judges,
they contained no new information about the case. They would
(39:37):
not shed new light on what happened here. They would
not answer the questions that everyone in DC and in
New York are asking about who is in these files?
What is the extent of these crimes. So I think
it was employee. It was the diversion, according to these judges,
and I think that's really one of the main reasons
these judges came back with such kind of aggressive, scathing
(40:00):
decisions that critique the Trump administration's approach here.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Okay, and what happens next, We'll just have to wait
and see and then we'll check in with you again.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Peter Harralumbus with ABC. Thanks so much for the info.
Speaker 10 (40:12):
Thanks so much, Jamie, are right, take care.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LAPD officers are
trying to find two brothers reported missing in the city's
Westlake area. The boys are ten and two years old.
They were last seen overnight. The search has led to
a neighborhood in South la This morning. Police have asked
for the help of a canine unit to do a
grid search. Of course, we'll bring in the latest on
(40:35):
this search when we get it into the KFI newsroom.
Parole Board panels in San Diego are about to hear
from the Menendez brothers. Eric Menendez will present his case first.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
We hearing today is expected to go for hours.
Speaker 15 (40:49):
He and his legal team will try to prove he
has reinvented himself over the decades and that he is
not a threat to the public any longer.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
ABC's Alex Stone says the hearing for Lyle Menendez will
happen tomorrow. If the parole board recommends the brothers be released,
Governor Newsom could still say no. It's going to be
up to him to make the final decision. The brothers
were sentenced to life in prison for murdering their parents
in nineteen eighty nine. They were re sentenced in May,
which made them eligible for parole. La County's DA says
(41:17):
the brothers have not taken responsibility for the murders. The
thirty sixth anniversary of those murders was yesterday. Former La
Fire Chief Kristin Crowley has filed a damage's claim against
the city and Mayor Bass. The more than three hundred
page claim, which is the first step in filing a lawsuit,
claims that she was made a scapegoat for the Palisades
(41:37):
fire by Mayor Bass. Crowleys's Bass publicly repeated lies about
the chief's actions before and during the fire to defect
deflect criticism over her being out of the country when
the fire started. The Santa Ana City Council has approved
a plan to keep up or clean up homeless camps
in the city. It's going to allow city crews to
(41:58):
clear camps and clean up trash and graffiti along major
freeway ramps and underpasses along the five and fifty five corridors.
A court hearing for the man accused of killing two
people in their home in Encino has been suspended.
Speaker 15 (42:12):
Raymond Boudarian appeared in court on Wednesday. On July tenth,
he allegedly broken to the home of American Idol music
supervisor Robin Kay and her husband Thomas de Luca, and
shot them to death with their own gun. He is
facing two counts of murder and one count of residential
burglary with special circumstances. Boudarian was not arraigned and was
instead ordered to mental health court on September. Three witnesses
(42:34):
in the courtroom say he was staring off during the
hearing and was not responding to the judge. Daniel Martindale
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
A tick born illness is spreading fast among pets in California.
Speaker 20 (42:45):
Cases of anaplasmosis and dogs have tripled in recent years,
and more than half of California counties are now considered
high risk. The disease carried by ticks can cause fever, fatigue,
weight loss, and, in severe cases, nosebleeds or seizures. That
say it's treatable with antibiotics, but prevention is key. Experts
warn the rise and tick activity could also pose a
risk to people, not just pets. Pregidia Degassino KFI News this.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland.
Weather from KFI. Yeah, it's going to be hot today.
It's going to be the hottest of the heat wave. Sunny,
with highs in the mid eighties at the beaches, low
to mid nineties for Metro La and in the Orange County,
one oh one to one ten in the Valleys, up
to one oh seven for the Inland Empire, up to
(43:28):
one oh five in the Antelope Valley. Overnight loads in
the sixties and seventies. But tomorrow let's go look a
lot like today, just to maybe a degree or two cooler,
eighties at the coast, nineties for the metro areas, low
one hundreds to one oh nine in the valley's ie
and av with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon and evening. It's going to start to school.
Cool down just a bit on Sunday, with some gradual
(43:51):
cooling as we had into next week. Sixty six right
now in Anaheim's, seventy two in Studio City, seventy in
Redondo Beach, and seventy four in Rancho Cuckamonga. Live from
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This
has been your wake up call, and if you missed
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