July 11, 2023 • 40 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday morning, Free Slurpee and Amazon Prime Day! ABC's Ines De La Cuetara joins the show to talk about President Biden being in Lithuania for the NATO Summit. Then, ABC's Jim Ryan highlights the Tulsa Massacre and how the survivors of the historical event seek to keep the memory ripe. ABC News Correspondent Luke Barr talks about former U.S. gmynastics doctor Larry Nassar having been stabbed in prison. And ABC's White House Correspondent Karen Travers talks about the PGA defending its merger with LIV in front of Congress as many fear the joining of the two would create a monopoly.
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You're listening to wake Up Call ondemand from KFI AM six forty. It's
time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good morning.
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This is your wake up call forTuesday, July eleventh. Ooh, it's
seven eleven day. I'm Amy King. Here's what's ahead on the wake up
call. President Biden is at theNATO summit in Lithuania. He'll be having
a sit down with Ukrainian President Zelenski. More homes are in danger of sliding
down a hillside in Rolling Hills Estates. Meta is on fire, with one
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hundred million people signing up for itsnew social media platform Threads in just five
days. At six oh five,it's handle on the news. Turkey's good
to go. With Sweden joining NATO, we'll be talking about that. Here
are some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty for our newsroom.
With our heatwave hitting wildfires always adanger, three massive air tankers have returned
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to southern California for wildfire season.LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney says people
shouldn't be fooled by our wet winter. This vegetation will be dried out and
become explosive fuel. Which will resultin rapid wildfire spread. The double rotor
helicopters can carry three thousand gallons ofwater or retardened and will be stationed in
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Ventura, Orange, and LA Counties. A dozen homes have been red tagged
in Rolling Hills Estates, most ofthem continuing to crumble into a canyon because
of a landslide. Driveways were upended, garages were sideways. LA County
Supervisor Janis Han says a deep fisheror crack in the ground is sneaking in
between about a dozen homes. Wegave them about twenty minutes to evacuate.
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The movement started Saturday night. Thecracking, the popping that you heard every
single minute showed you that these homeswere going to go sooner than later.
Con says one homeowner had just closedescrow two months ago. In Rolling Hills
Estates, Corbin Carson kafinews. Thestate has approved the reopening of Padrino's Juvenile
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Hall in Downey. About two hundredand seventy five youth offenders will be relocated
after Juvie Holland Van Nuys was deemedunsafe by state inspectors. The county said
it had been trying to overhaul thejuvenile detention system, but critics, including
a number of probation officers, saythe county's long term hiring freeze affected minimum
save staffing levels and created a dangerousenvironment for both juveniles and staff. The
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twenty six acre Los Padrino's facility shouldbe ready by the end of the month.
In the San Gabriel Valley, SteveGregory k i I News LAPD says
a man accused of breaking into severalhomes in Rosita and sexually assaulting people inside
may have also heard others. Theman allegedly broke into Holmes on July first.
He was arrested on the fifth.Will he say they'd like to hear
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from anyone who may have been asalted a jail in My inmate in northern
California who ran away from a hospitalwhile in custody for homicide has been recaptured.
Glasser County Sheriff Wayne Woo says Ericabrillwas found just after twelve thirty yesterday
afternoon in Rockland, east of Sacramento, thanks to a tip an alert homeowner
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who was taking his dog out.The dog started barking he saw somebody moving
in that green Belt area, andin fact it was a brill Abrilla.
Is being held without bail on murder, aggravated kidnapping, and attempted murder on
a peace officer charges. The manwas first rested in April, when officials
say he shot a THHP officer andtwo hostages. One of them was killed.
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Governor Newsom assigned bills into law tospeed up clean energy infrastructure projects,
boost the state's water supply, andupdate transportation. We're selling a budget three
hundred and eleven billion dollar budget twohundred and twenty six billion dollar general Fund,
the largest budget of its kind anywherein the United States. Newsom also
signed parts of the twenty twenty threetwenty four state budget agreement. The full
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budget includes money for public education,healthcare, climate action, and homelessness.
A family in Chatsworth has offered athousand dollars reward for its fifteen foot pet
python that's been missing for a week. The owners put flyers up around the
neighborhood with a warning, let makesure that the smaller pets, you know,
chihuahua's cats, anything of that nature. You know, you want to
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be careful, I mean dangerous tohumans. I mean, yeah, she's
a constrictor, right, but shedoes like to coil and compress. Hey.
Hey, the snake named Big Mamaescaped last week when her cage wasn't
bolted. The owner says Big Mama'sprobably coiled up and hiding somewhere comfortable,
preserving her energy. Neighbors in Silmarare demanding the removal of a makeshift RV
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park. It's in the side yardof a home. This man says the
RV park puts out a foul smellthat neighbors have to deal with off order,
like decay, human waste. Idon't know if you have people that
go camping in the porta potties.It's like that on a hot summer day,
just rowing through and through the neighborhood. Residents say sewage has run down
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at least one neighbor's driveway. Elycity attorney has charged the property owner with
illegally having RVs on the property.Russia's war in Ukraine is at the top
of the agenda at the NATO summitin Lithuania, ABC's and As Delaquita President
Biden meeting with a non NATO memberwho really wants to become one right,
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Hey, good morning, that's right. Yeah. President Biden is going to
be meeting with the Ukrainian presidents.The Levski White House officials confirm that today
they will question those to whether zLevski would actually attend, but they did
confirm that he would and as Lubskihimself actually put out a statement moments ago
talking about her he was on hisway to the summit. Blunk has been
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pushing to join NATO for a whilenow, He said the last year urging
allies that tectically European ally is tolet Ukraine join NATO, but there has
been some reluctance. There's been somedisunity amongst NATO allies as to whether Ukraine
should join and as to you know, how quickly Ukraine should be allowed to
join. So we heard from PresidentBiden over the weekend. He said that
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he does not think now is theright time for Ukraine to join, that
Ukraine cannot join because it is currentlyat war with Russia and because of NATO's
Article five, which states that anattack on one NATO member country is an
attack on all of them. ShouldUkraine join now, that would draw all
NATO member countries into the conflict andwould essentially set off World War three,
so they want to avoid that.Of course, Zelenski seems to understand that
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he has said so, but hestill wants assurances, specific assurances from NATO
allies. He wants a timeline,and he wants some kind of positive,
positive signal showing that NATO is seriousabout letting Ukraine join. He doesn't seem
to think that that is what he'sgoing to be getting, or at least
according to the statement that he putout in the last hour he says.
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He says he's not happy with whathe's hearing that discussions are being held at
the NATO's summit about Ukraine's accession.I know those discussions are being held without
Ukraine. He says that he's seennothing kind of specific concrete coming out of
those discussions, and he says thatuncertainty is weakness, and then he plans
to talk about that when he getsto fill the units. Well, doesn't
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He sort of have to be carefulthough, because he's asking to come in,
but he doesn't want to take everybodyoff too much because they're going to
say no. I mean they're alreadysaying no, you know, but any
future hopes of getting in he kindof has to tell the line a little
bit. That's right. Now,He's in a tricky position. He you're
right, he wants to join,so he can't, you know, completely
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bash them, but he also wants, you know, and I think he
understands that he can't join while thewar is ongoing. So he's gonna be
asking for additional aid, additional supportor he's been getting lots of support from
NATO allies, and so yeah,he's gonna be walking this fine line of
urging them to let Ukraine join whileat the same time trying to get some
security assurances, some more aid.So so it's gonna be interesting to see
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what comes out of these Zlenski's visitand specifically of Zilenski's meeting with President bid
them. Before Russia invaded Ukraine,was Ukraine even kind of on the radar
to get into NATO, because Iknow Russia said it didn't want Ukraine to
get into NATO, But was thateven a thing before Russia invaded? So
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it's a great question. The ideaof Ukraine joining NATO was first floated in
two thousand and eight, which wasthe beginning, if you will, of
Russia's aggression in the region and sincethen. So they started talking about it
in two thousand and eight and thennothing really came of it. You know,
years went by and Ukraine was givenno kind of timeline, no progress
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was really aid, and the theUkrate's desire to join was kind of reignited.
UM. You know, I thinkwhen when when we saw that Russian
troop build up along Ukraine's border andthen when the war began, when when
Russia's invasion um actually happened, That'swhen Zelenski then, you know, forcelly
came out to say that Ukrate mustbe allowed to join. UM. But
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yeah, and you know there issome disagreement. There are some nations that
don't think Ukraine should be allowed tojoin. Uh, there are some that
that do. What we're hearing nowmore and more from NATO allies is that
they do think Ukrate should at somepoint be allowed to join. That Ukraine,
Ukraine's rightful place is to be partof NATO. But again they're not
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giving any kind of timeline. SoZlenski not thrilled with that. Okay,
Now there's another country that wants tobecome a NATO country, and that Sweden.
Turkey has been pretty much putting thekibosh on that, But now Turkey
appears to be okay with the idea. That's the other big headline out of
today. So NATO really putting ona show of force and unity here in
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letting Sweden joined. So it wasTurkey that had been holding up to Sweden's
bid, the issue being meant forany new country to join NATO, all
NATO member countries must unanimously agree tothat newcomer, and Turkey was accusing Sweden
of harboring Kurdish militants, which Turkeyviewed as terrorists. So Turkey wanted to
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see Sweden do more to crack downon these militants. Turkey had been blocking
Sweden's bid for close to a year, and Turkey does seem to be now
happy with the progress that's been made, and so they did announced last night,
as President Biden was touching down inLithuania actually that they would drop their
objections and so would clear the wayfor Sweden to join. So that's a
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big deal. Sweden would become thethirty second that NATO member states. That
is, you know, the polaropposite of what Vladimir Putin wanted when he
launched this war. He said hewas launching this invasion to to because NATO
posed an existential threat to Russia,because he was worried that Ukraine would would
join UM NATO and he got thevery thing that he dreaded, which is
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of course NATO expansion. Yeah,like NATO's stronger now booten good call,
right. Um, So yesterday thepresident was in UM was in the UK.
Do we know if he enjoyed histea with King Charles? Yeah,
so it's it's funny, it was, Yeah, it was. He met
he was on a weirlwin twenty fourhours in the UK. He met with
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the British Prime Minister Sunac and hedid head over to Windsor Castle and he
met with King Charles. They hadtea. It's all behind closed doors.
Um. They did come out totalk to business leaders and philanthropists to talk
about climate change. So we didget some images of that. Um.
They according to National security advisor JakeSullivan, Um, they did have,
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you know, a good time.They talked about climate change, they talked
about China, and then they exchangedstories from the past. I love it.
They had a good time talking aboutclimate change. Okay, And as
Dela Quintara, Thank you so much. We'll talk to you again soon.
Neighbors are being warned to keep aclose eye on cats and little dogs because
of a missing fifteen foot python inChatsworth. It is seven to eleven and
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seven to eleven is celebrating with freeslurpies to mark the convenience store's birthday.
At five thirty five, we're goingto find out from ABC's Luke Barr how
former US gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser isdoing after he was stabbed in prison.
At six oh five, it's handleon the news. The US Marines don't
have a leader for the first timein a hundred years. Right now,
time to check in with ABC's JimRyan. A judge in Oklahoma has thrown
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out a lawsuit that seat US wasseeking reparations for the Tulsa Race massacre in
nineteen twenty one. So Jim,who filed the lawsuit and what's next for
them? Well? Yes, itwas filed by three survivors, all of
whom are more than a hundre yearsold. Now filed by the historic Vernon
Amy Church, by other organizations therein Tulsa, the Tulsa African Ancestral Society.
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They were listed as the plaintiffs inthis lawsuit. And again three elderly
people one hundred years old, peoplewho were survivors of the Tulsa Race massacre
of nineteen twenty one, a littleknown event in history, maybe more so
in the last few years, buteven Oklahoma school children were not taught about
what happened those two days in earlyJune of nineteen twenty one. Now the
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stories have been told. This lawsuitwas filed in effort to try to gain
some compensation for people who were thereon that day and for others who say
that their families were never the sameafter that. Okay, so remind us
because again I've heard of the TulsaRace massacre, but not a whole lot
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about it. Like you said,it's not that well known. So what
happened during those two days? Yes? Well, this area of Greenwood,
Tulsa, Team Green was the neighborhoodthere. After World War One, it
became a center of black affluence.It was known as the Black Wall Street.
Businesses were thriving there in this AfricanAmerican section about thirty five square blocks
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of Tulsa On that day in nineteentwenty one, a man was writing an
elevator, a black man, awhite woman was on the elevator. He
either stepped on her foot or exchangewords or something. She went back to
her section of the city, thewhite, predominantly white section of the city,
told someone, and soon there wasa mom ripping through the streets of
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Greenwood, destroying essentially everything. Nobody'sreally sure how many people died that day.
The numbers run from as low asthirty five all the way to three
hundred Amy. Nobody's really quite sure. But this lawsuit was filed by people
who say that the insurance payouts assistancethat came into the city to help with
the restoration and the renovation of Greenwoodwent to different parts of Tulsa that they
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never were paid to the section ofthe city that was destroyed. That's why
that was the basis of their lawsuit. That it came out of the public
nuisance law. So was was Greenwoodrebuild? No, there's one building essentially
the standing, the church that wasthere on that day is about the only
building left, the historic Vernon AmyChurch. I've been to that building there
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and it's essentially by itself. Inthis neighborhood, you could tell where buildings
homes of others one stood, butessentially it's it's a lot of empty laws.
But this one church has become thecenter of Greenwood and the center of
activism't to try to get the communityrebuilt. So the lawsuit filed by the
three people who are now again overone hundred years old, did it ask
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for money for them or money torebuild the area and help the families in
the area. Not quite clear onwhat they were really looking for sure,
well, there was no dollar amountattached to this. It was again filed
under the Tulsa's nuisance law. Thepetition sought to quote remedy the ongoing nuisance
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caused by the nineteen twenty one Tulsamassacre in the Greenwood district and to obtain
benefits unjustly received by defendants based onthe massacre. The defense is in this
case were the city of Tulsa,other the state of Oklahoma places that benefited
from the payments that came into thecity after the massacre, but they did
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not go to Greenwood itself, Sothat was kind of the lawsuit. The
crux of the lawsuit filed under thenuisance laws of Tulsa and did the judge
say why he or she tossed it? She did not. Interestingly, though,
last year, when the defendants inthis case sought to dismiss the whole
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lawsuit, the same judge ruled thatit should go forward. She Judge Caroline
Walls, said that the case shouldgo ahead. Now she's dismissed that lawsuit
quote with prejudice, meaning that itcan't be refiled. But the survivors and
their attorneys say that they're moving pastthis judge and now going to the Tulsa
to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Meanwhile, these three survivors who are one hundred
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plus years old, I think theoldest is one hundred and nine years old.
You know they're they're waiting to seewhat happens next, and probably don't
have that long to wait. Imean, not to be mean or anything,
but this lasso was filed in twentytwenty and now twenty twenty three,
we finally have a ruling on thisportion of it. Why they wait so
long if it's happened in nineteen twentyone, so over a hundred years ago,
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and why wait this long? Isit? Because everything kind of came
bubbling up after the George Floyd thingand gave new attention to it. No,
you know, it essentially was sweptunder the rug in Tulsa. It
wasn't the point of pride, certainlyfor the community in that eastern part of
Oklahoma. Even kids in Oklahoma schoolsweren't taught much about that. It wasn't
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really a part of the history lessonsthere. I think that it was a
point of shame for Oklahoma, andso it was it was quietly pushed away,
pushed into the into the background.And then you know, over the
last couple of decades, there havebeen efforts to try to find the mass
graves where victims presumably were buried.Some victims were thought to have been thrown
into the Arkansas River that runs throughTulsa. UM, So you know that.
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I think it's just a matter ofawareness and trying now to go back
and determine what happened and why ithappened, and certainly with an eye toward
keeping in anything like that from happeningagain. Yeah, that's crazy. Well,
it'll be interesting to see what happensto it next. It certainly seems
like, I mean not seems likea lot of people were wronged it's how
do you make it better? Youknow? Yeah, right, And I
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think that if you if you've gota chance to go there, to the
Greenwood District of Tulsa, it's it'sit's eerie, it's haunting, but it's
also inspiring to see that the peoplethey want to see something happen with that
part of the city. Okay,well, thank you so much, Jim
Ryan for your time. We'll talkto you again soon. Thanks you.
Here's some others stories we're working on. The summer heats about to get hotter
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in SoCal. The National Weather Servicehas called it a significant heat event.
Temperatures in the valleys will begin risingtoday as high pressure builds and the marine
layer diminishes. An excessive heat watchwill go into effect tomorrow morning and remain
in place through Saturday night in theAntelope Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley,
and the western San Gabriel Mountains.News brought to you by Semper solaris.
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On the other side of the country, a slow moving storm has reached New
England after hitting parts of New Yorkand Connecticut. Rescue teams and local officials
across Vermont have prepared for more rainand flooding. The storm has also caused
devastating flooding in New York. Awoman in the Hudson Valley drowned as she
was trying to leave her home.Officials say the storm has caused millions of
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dollars in damage and caused hundreds offlights in New York and Boston to be
canceled. And slurpies at seven elevenare free today this July eleven to seven
eleven Get it huh to celebrate theconvenience store Chains ninety six birthday. Anyone
who stops in today can get afree small slurpie. I haven't had one
of those years. ABC is LukeBarr is here to give us an update
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on former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser, who has been stabbed in prison.
Thanks for having me so. LarryNasa, a former USA gymnastics team doctor,
has been stabbed in prison, oursources told us yesterday. Nasa was
stabbed six times in the back andthe neck on Sunday afternoon. According to
our sources, he was described ashaving substantial injuries, butting what appears to
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be a collapsed lung. Our sourceshave told the few's listed in stable condition
and is expected to make a recovery. Okay, so do we know what
happened? Why was he targeted?Was this just a fight in jail or
in prison or what? So thecircumstances surrounding the actual event our cylinder investigation.
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What we do know is there wasa sort of altercation that spawned this.
But I think it's worth noting thatnasa is in a unit at Coleman
in Florida where he's housed, thathas sexual assault offenders, pedophiles and the
like, so they're all together inone unit. Now that adds a wrinkle
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to the investigation because our sources havetold us that when there is an altercation,
especially with somebody of a Nasaar's staturebut also convicted of a crime against
children, they're often the first targeted. But because they were with sort of
everybody that was convicted of similar crimes, it's it's sort of up to Bop
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to figure actually what happened. Sohe's kind of hanging with the homies,
so they're not sure if that's oneof the guys who attacked him. Yeah,
And what we do know about aboutthe suspect was that it was an
inmate uh, you know, butthey're trying to determine if it was one
inmate or if there was sort ofa group of inmates that that sort of
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carried the saut okay. And thenthere was also some talk that this might
have happened because of staffing shortages,like there weren't enough people watching the prisoners.
Not only that, but the staffmembers that were watching the uh,
the inmates. At the time Nasterwas was stabbed, they had worked overtime,
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mandatory overtime. Uh, and alot of these a lot of these
cases in federal prison Uh. Youknow, it's because of the staffing shortages
that people have to work overtime.And obviously, when you work eighty hours
in a prison, uh, youknow it it obviously, you know,
makes it tired. And and thishas happened before, you know, if
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you remember what happened with Jeffrey Epstein, those officers worked overtime as well,
and they ended up falling asleep andsort of dozing off in some cases.
So it's not just in common whereNASA is, it's it's sort of a
Bureau of Prisons. Why the problem? So what's next? He's so he's
in like the infirmary or something.Now, does he just go back out
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into his group when he's done,or will they do make efforts to protect
him. Well, in other casessimilar to this, they usually put him
um in sort of special housing,uh sort of that way he can get
recovered from his injuries and then togo back to general population. But then,
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uh, you know what usually happensis somebody will be charged by the
FBI and the justice departments for thisassault. And that's probably when we'll learn
more details specifically about what happened.Okay, all right, Luke Barr,
thanks so much for the update onLarry Nasser. Well, here's some other
stories coming out of the KFI twentyfour hour news room. La County could
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pay three million dollars to a manwho wrongfully spent thirty seven years in prison
because of a prosecutorial misconduct. NationalRegistry of his Goneration's editor Barbara Ryan says
Samuel Bonner was convicted of the nineteeneighty three murder because a jailhouse snitch lied
to get a better deal for himself. We have a currently three three hundred
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thirty eighty gnerations, and those twohundred and thirty three involved the use of
jailhouse informants. The judge says everyonein Bonner's case knew the snitch was a
liar back in nineteen ninety six,but prosecutors hid the information. Bonner was
released in twenty nineteen. LA CountyClaims Board sent the settlement to county supervisors
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last week for approval. A smallplane has crashed nose first into the roof
of a hangar in Long Beach theface as The crash yesterday happened as the
pilot was practicing landings and takeoffs atthe airport. Pilot had to be extricated
from the wreckage and was treated atthe hospital for minor injuries. The LAPD
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says a teacher's suspected of committing lewdacts with a child under fourteen is now
in custody with bail set at amillion dollars. Martin Rys Junior was arrested
yesterday. He's from East LA,but police haven't released the name of the
school where he works. Protesters inIsrael of blocked highways to major cities during
countrywide demonstrations against the government's plan tooverhaul the judiciary. Police used a water
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cannon to clear protesters who blocked amain artery leading to Jerusalem and several other
and arrested several others. Hours earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Nettignah, who's parliamentary
coalition, gave initial approval to abill to limit the Supreme Court's oversight powers.
NATO has opened its summit in Lithuania, day after Turkey withdrew its objections
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to Sweden joining the alliance. NATOSecretary General Jens Stollenberg called it a historic
day as he announced the agreement presidentby going to see the leaders of Sweden
and Turkey at separate meetings today.Ukraine's president says he wants a roadmap for
his country to join NATO, butthe rules say no country can join if
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they're in a conflict, and obviouslyUkraine is in a conflict with Russia.
US National Secretary Advisor Security Advisor RatherJake Sullivan says that's one of the things
being talked about at the NATO summit. I think what comes out of Vilnius
in the Communica will be something thatUkraine will be able to embrace as a
positive signal with respect to the questionof Ukraine's future pathway towards membership. President
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Biden said yesterday that Ukraine is notready for membership in NATO. The President
is expected to meet with President Zelenskiwhile he's in Lithuania. The Apocalypse will
come as a double feature and itsname shall be Barbenheimer. AMC Theater says
it's already sold more than twenty thousandsame day tickets for the unlikely pairing of
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Barbie and Oppenheimer. The Yin andYang July twenty first opening weekend pairing,
with a total runtime of five hoursnine minutes, not including trailers, will
feature the bright bubbly doll story Storry, Margot, Robbie and Ryan Gosseling,
juxtaposing nicely with the nuclear bomb docudrama. Movie posters and t shirts have
even been created to commemorate the momentousmovie moment. Barbie's expected to pull double
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the ticket sales of Oppenheimer, Sothe only question for those doing the double
dip Barbenheimer movie trip is which flickdo you watch first? Michael Krozier k
if Ie news. For me,it's gonna be Barbie. What about you,
Tyler? It's Barbie, not notOppenheimer. Oppenheimer. I'll see eventually,
but I feel like, if I'mgoing to be making a trip to
the movies, it's going to befor Barbie. I'm totally gonna see Barbie.
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And I'm not going to see Oppenheimer. I don't want to. You're
not gonna see it at all.No, Downey Junior says, it's a
huge step in the right direction formovies, step in the right direction.
Yeah, what is it? Well, I think I personally, I feel
like movies have kind of just beenlately. But yeah, I like happy
movies. I like movies that bringme joy. I don't think Hoppenheimer's gonna
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bring it anybody. It's about theatomic bombs. It's exactly Okay, So
today is July eleventh. It isguess what else it is? It is
Prime Day. It is Prime Day. It's Prime Day, you know.
So it's like Christmas in July.Right, it's supposed to be these great
deals and I always go, oh, Prime Day, I'm gonna go check
out what's available on Prime, andthen it just takes you down a rabbit
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hole if you start looking around,Like I use Prime when I want to
buy something. I don't use Primewhen I'm I don't know, I just
don't peruse. You don't treat AmazonPrime the same way you would a Prime
Day. I should say, thesame way you would treat like a Black
Friday. It's what you're saying.Yeah, And because you can't go into
a store and wander around. Idon't know. I got Nick is also
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here. I don't know if Nick'sdoing Prime, but you know, like
it's not going to exactly a BlackFriday sale where you just go to the
store and you kind of cruise aroundand you look for cool Christmas presents and
stuff. Because for me, shoppingonline, it just I can't do it.
I have like a d D withthe computer or something. I don't
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like it. So here's one ofthe things that's always been interesting for Prime
Day, and I haven't seen ithappen quite yet. I've been keep an
eye on it. But if youwere a person of like me and it
was like the QBC kid and rememberseeing that actually today and tomorrow usually though
during Prime Days, they actually havea live stream on the app for you
to be able to kind of shoparound, so they'll actually have like a
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QBC style representation of this is what'savailable now, and this is what's happening
and you should check this out.So I kind of enjoy sticking around the
Prime app at least for Prime days, because you actually can see a better
representation of a lot of those productsthat, as far as we know,
just live a kind of on ashelf in a warehouse somewhere. So it's
like a blue light special exactly.Now that's a perfect way to put it.
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That would be kind of cool actuallyif they if they popped up and
they said, hey, this hourspecial is this, and this hour special
is that, then you could justkind of get a notification go yes,
I'm industried or no, I'm notright, because that's the whole thing.
If you're like our house is likethere's a lot of things. Either you
live in the Amazon the Alexa sorryI shouldn't say her name, but that
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Shamexa, that ecosphere, or youlive in the Google Home ecosphere and our
place is Amazon, and so that'swhere a lot of those deals are available
for you today. To really geta steal on some of the products that
are from Amazon, you know,because we've got like Eco pop and our
Echo pop system whatever, Like ourwhole thing is we've got speakers and everything
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else SMAXA is listening constantly at ourhouse of exactly what's going on. But
that's a great opportunity. But yeah, it's always something you can check out
and see a demonstration of a lotof those products. And while it is
a pop up and it will showup for you in the app, those
deals are not just available for onehour, which they are regularly, You'll
be able to check them out forthe entirety of Prime Days, which is
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kind of a nice little perk foryou if you're a Prime member. Okay,
and if you can't do it today, Prime Day is also tomorrow,
So just so you know, there'sgoing to be deals. And I did
peruse a few things and you seestuff with a dollar fifty off and you
go, what. Then there's someother stuff where it's a pretty substantial savings,
Like there's a Ge tilt head electricstand mixer. Who knew you save
one hundred and fifty bucks on it. So there are some good deals out
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there, but there's also some whatI would consider kind of crappy deals out
there. The heat waves here temptsare going to be hitting triple digits for
inland areas today and heating up toabout one thirteen for some areas by this
weekend. Neighbors are being warned tokeep a close eye on cats and little
dogs because of them missing fifteen footpython. In Chatsworth, it is seven
to eleven and seven eleven is celebratingwith a free slurpiece to mark the convenience
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Storre's ninety sixth birthday, where justminutes away from handle on the news.
This morning, Twitter traffic is tankingthanks to threads. Okay. Karen Travers,
the CEO of the PGA Tour,is going to be testifying in front
of the Senate Homeland Security and GovernmentalAffairs Committee about its merger with liv Golf.
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Why does Congress give a rip abouta golf merger? Yeah, I
mean because this is a significant businessdeal and the Saudis are the ones backing
live Golf. The money is beingdone by the Saudi royal family, and
there are a lot of questions aboutthe human rights record of the Saudis,
and critics say that this investment isbillions and billions of dollars. That's sportswashing,
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an effort to soften improve their globalimage. After the United States concluded
that the Saudi crumb prince approved anoperation to kill journalist jamal Ka Shogi,
and that there are other human rightsissues within the country. There's also issues
about antitrust in the business, themonopoly aspect of this that some senators are
going to raise, and this couldbe a pretty explosive hearing if senators really
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come in with a lot of questionsand tough questions for these PGA representatives.
Notably, it's not the head ofthe PGA or the head of Lift Golf
who will be testifying. They're sendingrepresentatives instead. But this is an announcement
a couple of weeks ago that caughta lot of people by surprise because the
PGA had been very openly critical ofthe Saudi Backlive Golf and then announced that
their one time rival would now becometheir partner. So it's interesting that they're
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saying that it could become a monopolyif Live Golf and PGIA merge, because
before Live Golf a couple of yearsago, there was only the PGIA,
so there already was a monopoly.Kind of yeah. Yeah, And you
know the question too about foreign influencein American sport, a country like that
gaining such a major foothold and acountry like Saudi Arabia in particular. That's
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also something that senators have raised concernsabout and will likely bring up. So
it's not just a sports story.It's a business story, it's a foreign
policy story, it's human rights story, the social story too. They're going
to be nine to eleven families whoare going to be hearing today or trying
to make their voices heard around thehearing, who say that they should be
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held accountable for their role in theattacks. And that's something I think you
can also expect that some senators mightbring up. Now, notably, senators
can have hearings, they can askquestions, they can do investigations, but
ultimately, you know, it's theJustice Department who's investigating this for antitrust violations,
and that's what would stop a potentialdeal if it does end up getting
blocked. See that's why we talkto you, Karen Travers, because now
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we know why Congress gives a ripabout a golf merger. Thank you so
much. There, you have agreat day. You two traffic cameras are
headed to Glendale. The city isinstalling cameras in school zones, areas where
many people have been injured and areaswith a history of street racing. State
Assembly Member Laura Friedman says, toomany people are being killed on roads across
California. We have seen an increasein street racing, reckless driving, and
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people driving with a wanton disregard forsafety and life. The cameras are being
installed as part of a statewide pilotprogram involving six cities, including LA.
Drivers will be worn before entering intoa zone with cameras like trolley k if
I news, lawmakers in California havebeen looking into human operators for autonomous vehicles
(35:07):
trucks driving on California roadways without ahuman sounds like a pretty concerning thing for
drivers in the state. Jason Robennowitz, who serves as the president of a
Teamster's Joint Council, says a newbipartisan bill prioritizes safety in San Francisco.
Right now, the driverless cars arewreaking havoc across the city. They're stopping
at green lights, They're causing accidents. Rebennowitz also says that the legislation requires
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a trained, live person in theautonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle industry argues
that AI drives more effectively than humans. Andrew Caravella k if I News.
The bill has already passed the stateAssembly and is said to be heard today
in the Senate Transportation Committee. Scientistshave blamed climate pollution for deadly flooding that's
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hit several countries all at once.India, Japan, China, Turkey,
and the US Northeast have all hadintense rain recently. To say, climate
pollutants, mainly carbon dioxide and methane, hold more heat in the atmosphere,
and a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which means more rain. A grand
jury being seated in Georgia will likelyconsider whether criminal charges are appropriate for former
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President Trump or his allies for effortsto overturn the twenty twenty election in Georgia.
The Fulton County DA has been investigatingsince shortly after Trump called Georgia's Secretary
of State to ask him to findenough votes to beat Biden. The Eli
County Sheriff's Apartment may have to providethermal underwear to any jail inmate who asks
(36:36):
for it. County supervisors are setto consider the requirement today. YEP,
this is real. The motion bysupervisor Hilda Silis says the latest Inspector General
report on Reform and Oversight uncovered whatSillis calls the Sheriff's Department's reprehensible practice of
not providing thermal undergarments to people incustody despite complaints of freezing temperatures in county
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jails. Okay. People in Silmarhave attended a neighborhood meeting to call for
the removal of a bunch of motorhomes to makeshift r V park lines of
residential street. Video footage has beentaken of what neighbors say is sewage running
down a driveway. This man sayshe hopes that people in the RVs are
given a new place to live andthe RV park gets dismantled. The people
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there are just down on their luckand they need help and somebody's taking advantage
of them. The La City Attorneyhas charged the property owner with illegally having
the RVs on their property. Acourt data is scheduled later this month.
Like trolley k if I news canjoin, sisters separated at Texas Children's Hospital
last month have been sent home.Ella and Eliza Fuller were borne by c
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section on March first, they werejoined at the abdomen and shared liver tissue.
A team of surgeons, nurses,and technicians performed the six hour surgery
on June fourteenth to separate the twins, and a month later they get to
go home. That's so cool.Okay. A couple of food updates for
you. McDonald's is ditching the mcalethe McCafe bakery, so they're going to
(38:06):
be taking out their blueberry muffin,their cinnamon roll, and their apple fritter.
I guess I'm very sad, eventhough I never tried it. But
the good news is, as Imentioned yesterday, they're bringing that the jalapeno
bacon cheeseburger. So except us,it's a quarter pounder with cheese with palepino
and bacon, So I guess it'sa good trade off. Also, I
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Hop has a new menu item.This actually sounds kind of interesting. You
know, like we love mashups,we like pizza, bagels, nacho fries,
cronuts. Well, now there's apancake taco and since this Taco Tuesday,
we thought we'd bring that up.So on July fifth, I Hop
announced new menu items and one ofthe questions is can a pancake be a
(38:51):
taco, and apparently it can be, because now they have fresh strawberry cheesecake
pancake tacos. It's the silver dollarpancake filled sliced strawberries and cream creamy cheesecake
moose, finish off with a sprinklingof chips of chocolate chips. Yummy.
There's a caramel banana pancake tacco.There's a breakfast pancake tacco that's got eggs
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and sweets, so it's like asweet savory one. Sounds kind of yummy.
And then the Okay, I wouldtotally get into this country chicken and
gravy pancake Tacco's silver dollar pancake filledwith crispy chicken, shredded hash browns and
sausage country gravy. If you're inthe mood for brine, you have the
option to top this taco with pickles. Okay, I think I'd leave the
(39:36):
pickles off, but other than that, it sounds pretty delicious. Okay.
So here's one last thing. PresidentTrump's or former president Trump's out campaigning,
and he went to where did hego? He was in Iowa, and
he went into a dairy queen andHere's what made some commentators on cable news
lose their minds. Ezzard okay,okay. So basically he buys the blizzards
(40:07):
for everybody who's in the store.And I was watching some cable news channels
and they're like, oh my gosh, can you believe he doesn't know what
a blizzard is? Who cares?He bought him for everybody. I'd take
that blizzard. We lead local livefrom the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
I'm Amy King. This has beenyour wake up call. You've been listening
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You're listening to wake Up Call ondemand from KFI AM six forty. It's
time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good morning.
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This is your wake up call forTuesday, July eleventh. Ooh, it's
seven eleven day. I'm Amy King. Here's what's ahead on the wake up
call. President Biden is at theNATO summit in Lithuania. He'll be having
a sit down with Ukrainian President Zelenski. More homes are in danger of sliding
down a hillside in Rolling Hills Estates. Meta is on fire, with one
(00:44):
hundred million people signing up for itsnew social media platform Threads in just five
days. At six oh five,it's handle on the news. Turkey's good
to go. With Sweden joining NATO, we'll be talking about that. Here
are some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty for our newsroom.
With our heatwave hitting wildfires always adanger, three massive air tankers have returned
(01:07):
to southern California for wildfire season.LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroney says people
shouldn't be fooled by our wet winter. This vegetation will be dried out and
become explosive fuel. Which will resultin rapid wildfire spread. The double rotor
helicopters can carry three thousand gallons ofwater or retardened and will be stationed in
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Ventura, Orange, and LA Counties. A dozen homes have been red tagged
in Rolling Hills Estates, most ofthem continuing to crumble into a canyon because
of a landslide. Driveways were upended, garages were sideways. LA County
Supervisor Janis Han says a deep fisheror crack in the ground is sneaking in
between about a dozen homes. Wegave them about twenty minutes to evacuate.
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The movement started Saturday night. Thecracking, the popping that you heard every
single minute showed you that these homeswere going to go sooner than later.
Con says one homeowner had just closedescrow two months ago. In Rolling Hills
Estates, Corbin Carson kafinews. Thestate has approved the reopening of Padrino's Juvenile
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Hall in Downey. About two hundredand seventy five youth offenders will be relocated
after Juvie Holland Van Nuys was deemedunsafe by state inspectors. The county said
it had been trying to overhaul thejuvenile detention system, but critics, including
a number of probation officers, saythe county's long term hiring freeze affected minimum
save staffing levels and created a dangerousenvironment for both juveniles and staff. The
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twenty six acre Los Padrino's facility shouldbe ready by the end of the month.
In the San Gabriel Valley, SteveGregory k i I News LAPD says
a man accused of breaking into severalhomes in Rosita and sexually assaulting people inside
may have also heard others. Theman allegedly broke into Holmes on July first.
He was arrested on the fifth.Will he say they'd like to hear
(02:58):
from anyone who may have been asalted a jail in My inmate in northern
California who ran away from a hospitalwhile in custody for homicide has been recaptured.
Glasser County Sheriff Wayne Woo says Ericabrillwas found just after twelve thirty yesterday
afternoon in Rockland, east of Sacramento, thanks to a tip an alert homeowner
(03:19):
who was taking his dog out.The dog started barking he saw somebody moving
in that green Belt area, andin fact it was a brill Abrilla.
Is being held without bail on murder, aggravated kidnapping, and attempted murder on
a peace officer charges. The manwas first rested in April, when officials
say he shot a THHP officer andtwo hostages. One of them was killed.
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Governor Newsom assigned bills into law tospeed up clean energy infrastructure projects,
boost the state's water supply, andupdate transportation. We're selling a budget three
hundred and eleven billion dollar budget twohundred and twenty six billion dollar general Fund,
the largest budget of its kind anywherein the United States. Newsom also
signed parts of the twenty twenty threetwenty four state budget agreement. The full
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budget includes money for public education,healthcare, climate action, and homelessness.
A family in Chatsworth has offered athousand dollars reward for its fifteen foot pet
python that's been missing for a week. The owners put flyers up around the
neighborhood with a warning, let makesure that the smaller pets, you know,
chihuahua's cats, anything of that nature. You know, you want to
(04:28):
be careful, I mean dangerous tohumans. I mean, yeah, she's
a constrictor, right, but shedoes like to coil and compress. Hey.
Hey, the snake named Big Mamaescaped last week when her cage wasn't
bolted. The owner says Big Mama'sprobably coiled up and hiding somewhere comfortable,
preserving her energy. Neighbors in Silmarare demanding the removal of a makeshift RV
(04:51):
park. It's in the side yardof a home. This man says the
RV park puts out a foul smellthat neighbors have to deal with off order,
like decay, human waste. Idon't know if you have people that
go camping in the porta potties.It's like that on a hot summer day,
just rowing through and through the neighborhood. Residents say sewage has run down
(05:12):
at least one neighbor's driveway. Elycity attorney has charged the property owner with
illegally having RVs on the property.Russia's war in Ukraine is at the top
of the agenda at the NATO summitin Lithuania, ABC's and As Delaquita President
Biden meeting with a non NATO memberwho really wants to become one right,
(05:33):
Hey, good morning, that's right. Yeah. President Biden is going to
be meeting with the Ukrainian presidents.The Levski White House officials confirm that today
they will question those to whether zLevski would actually attend, but they did
confirm that he would and as Lubskihimself actually put out a statement moments ago
talking about her he was on hisway to the summit. Blunk has been
(05:53):
pushing to join NATO for a whilenow, He said the last year urging
allies that tectically European ally is tolet Ukraine join NATO, but there has
been some reluctance. There's been somedisunity amongst NATO allies as to whether Ukraine
should join and as to you know, how quickly Ukraine should be allowed to
join. So we heard from PresidentBiden over the weekend. He said that
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he does not think now is theright time for Ukraine to join, that
Ukraine cannot join because it is currentlyat war with Russia and because of NATO's
Article five, which states that anattack on one NATO member country is an
attack on all of them. ShouldUkraine join now, that would draw all
NATO member countries into the conflict andwould essentially set off World War three,
so they want to avoid that.Of course, Zelenski seems to understand that
(06:40):
he has said so, but hestill wants assurances, specific assurances from NATO
allies. He wants a timeline,and he wants some kind of positive,
positive signal showing that NATO is seriousabout letting Ukraine join. He doesn't seem
to think that that is what he'sgoing to be getting, or at least
according to the statement that he putout in the last hour he says.
(07:03):
He says he's not happy with whathe's hearing that discussions are being held at
the NATO's summit about Ukraine's accession.I know those discussions are being held without
Ukraine. He says that he's seennothing kind of specific concrete coming out of
those discussions, and he says thatuncertainty is weakness, and then he plans
to talk about that when he getsto fill the units. Well, doesn't
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He sort of have to be carefulthough, because he's asking to come in,
but he doesn't want to take everybodyoff too much because they're going to
say no. I mean they're alreadysaying no, you know, but any
future hopes of getting in he kindof has to tell the line a little
bit. That's right. Now,He's in a tricky position. He you're
right, he wants to join,so he can't, you know, completely
(07:49):
bash them, but he also wants, you know, and I think he
understands that he can't join while thewar is ongoing. So he's gonna be
asking for additional aid, additional supportor he's been getting lots of support from
NATO allies, and so yeah,he's gonna be walking this fine line of
urging them to let Ukraine join whileat the same time trying to get some
security assurances, some more aid.So so it's gonna be interesting to see
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what comes out of these Zlenski's visitand specifically of Zilenski's meeting with President bid
them. Before Russia invaded Ukraine,was Ukraine even kind of on the radar
to get into NATO, because Iknow Russia said it didn't want Ukraine to
get into NATO, But was thateven a thing before Russia invaded? So
(08:35):
it's a great question. The ideaof Ukraine joining NATO was first floated in
two thousand and eight, which wasthe beginning, if you will, of
Russia's aggression in the region and sincethen. So they started talking about it
in two thousand and eight and thennothing really came of it. You know,
years went by and Ukraine was givenno kind of timeline, no progress
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was really aid, and the theUkrate's desire to join was kind of reignited.
UM. You know, I thinkwhen when when we saw that Russian
troop build up along Ukraine's border andthen when the war began, when when
Russia's invasion um actually happened, That'swhen Zelenski then, you know, forcelly
came out to say that Ukrate mustbe allowed to join. UM. But
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yeah, and you know there issome disagreement. There are some nations that
don't think Ukraine should be allowed tojoin. Uh, there are some that
that do. What we're hearing nowmore and more from NATO allies is that
they do think Ukrate should at somepoint be allowed to join. That Ukraine,
Ukraine's rightful place is to be partof NATO. But again they're not
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giving any kind of timeline. SoZlenski not thrilled with that. Okay,
Now there's another country that wants tobecome a NATO country, and that Sweden.
Turkey has been pretty much putting thekibosh on that, But now Turkey
appears to be okay with the idea. That's the other big headline out of
today. So NATO really putting ona show of force and unity here in
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letting Sweden joined. So it wasTurkey that had been holding up to Sweden's
bid, the issue being meant forany new country to join NATO, all
NATO member countries must unanimously agree tothat newcomer, and Turkey was accusing Sweden
of harboring Kurdish militants, which Turkeyviewed as terrorists. So Turkey wanted to
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see Sweden do more to crack downon these militants. Turkey had been blocking
Sweden's bid for close to a year, and Turkey does seem to be now
happy with the progress that's been made, and so they did announced last night,
as President Biden was touching down inLithuania actually that they would drop their
objections and so would clear the wayfor Sweden to join. So that's a
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big deal. Sweden would become thethirty second that NATO member states. That
is, you know, the polaropposite of what Vladimir Putin wanted when he
launched this war. He said hewas launching this invasion to to because NATO
posed an existential threat to Russia,because he was worried that Ukraine would would
join UM NATO and he got thevery thing that he dreaded, which is
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of course NATO expansion. Yeah,like NATO's stronger now booten good call,
right. Um, So yesterday thepresident was in UM was in the UK.
Do we know if he enjoyed histea with King Charles? Yeah,
so it's it's funny, it was, Yeah, it was. He met
he was on a weirlwin twenty fourhours in the UK. He met with
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the British Prime Minister Sunac and hedid head over to Windsor Castle and he
met with King Charles. They hadtea. It's all behind closed doors.
Um. They did come out totalk to business leaders and philanthropists to talk
about climate change. So we didget some images of that. Um.
They according to National security advisor JakeSullivan, Um, they did have,
(11:56):
you know, a good time.They talked about climate change, they talked
about China, and then they exchangedstories from the past. I love it.
They had a good time talking aboutclimate change. Okay, And as
Dela Quintara, Thank you so much. We'll talk to you again soon.
Neighbors are being warned to keep aclose eye on cats and little dogs because
of a missing fifteen foot python inChatsworth. It is seven to eleven and
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seven to eleven is celebrating with freeslurpies to mark the convenience store's birthday.
At five thirty five, we're goingto find out from ABC's Luke Barr how
former US gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser isdoing after he was stabbed in prison.
At six oh five, it's handleon the news. The US Marines don't
have a leader for the first timein a hundred years. Right now,
time to check in with ABC's JimRyan. A judge in Oklahoma has thrown
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out a lawsuit that seat US wasseeking reparations for the Tulsa Race massacre in
nineteen twenty one. So Jim,who filed the lawsuit and what's next for
them? Well? Yes, itwas filed by three survivors, all of
whom are more than a hundre yearsold. Now filed by the historic Vernon
Amy Church, by other organizations therein Tulsa, the Tulsa African Ancestral Society.
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They were listed as the plaintiffs inthis lawsuit. And again three elderly
people one hundred years old, peoplewho were survivors of the Tulsa Race massacre
of nineteen twenty one, a littleknown event in history, maybe more so
in the last few years, buteven Oklahoma school children were not taught about
what happened those two days in earlyJune of nineteen twenty one. Now the
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stories have been told. This lawsuitwas filed in effort to try to gain
some compensation for people who were thereon that day and for others who say
that their families were never the sameafter that. Okay, so remind us
because again I've heard of the TulsaRace massacre, but not a whole lot
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about it. Like you said,it's not that well known. So what
happened during those two days? Yes? Well, this area of Greenwood,
Tulsa, Team Green was the neighborhoodthere. After World War One, it
became a center of black affluence.It was known as the Black Wall Street.
Businesses were thriving there in this AfricanAmerican section about thirty five square blocks
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of Tulsa On that day in nineteentwenty one, a man was writing an
elevator, a black man, awhite woman was on the elevator. He
either stepped on her foot or exchangewords or something. She went back to
her section of the city, thewhite, predominantly white section of the city,
told someone, and soon there wasa mom ripping through the streets of
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Greenwood, destroying essentially everything. Nobody'sreally sure how many people died that day.
The numbers run from as low asthirty five all the way to three
hundred Amy. Nobody's really quite sure. But this lawsuit was filed by people
who say that the insurance payouts assistancethat came into the city to help with
the restoration and the renovation of Greenwoodwent to different parts of Tulsa that they
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never were paid to the section ofthe city that was destroyed. That's why
that was the basis of their lawsuit. That it came out of the public
nuisance law. So was was Greenwoodrebuild? No, there's one building essentially
the standing, the church that wasthere on that day is about the only
building left, the historic Vernon AmyChurch. I've been to that building there
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and it's essentially by itself. Inthis neighborhood, you could tell where buildings
homes of others one stood, butessentially it's it's a lot of empty laws.
But this one church has become thecenter of Greenwood and the center of
activism't to try to get the communityrebuilt. So the lawsuit filed by the
three people who are now again overone hundred years old, did it ask
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for money for them or money torebuild the area and help the families in
the area. Not quite clear onwhat they were really looking for sure,
well, there was no dollar amountattached to this. It was again filed
under the Tulsa's nuisance law. Thepetition sought to quote remedy the ongoing nuisance
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caused by the nineteen twenty one Tulsamassacre in the Greenwood district and to obtain
benefits unjustly received by defendants based onthe massacre. The defense is in this
case were the city of Tulsa,other the state of Oklahoma places that benefited
from the payments that came into thecity after the massacre, but they did
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not go to Greenwood itself, Sothat was kind of the lawsuit. The
crux of the lawsuit filed under thenuisance laws of Tulsa and did the judge
say why he or she tossed it? She did not. Interestingly, though,
last year, when the defendants inthis case sought to dismiss the whole
(16:51):
lawsuit, the same judge ruled thatit should go forward. She Judge Caroline
Walls, said that the case shouldgo ahead. Now she's dismissed that lawsuit
quote with prejudice, meaning that itcan't be refiled. But the survivors and
their attorneys say that they're moving pastthis judge and now going to the Tulsa
to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Meanwhile, these three survivors who are one hundred
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plus years old, I think theoldest is one hundred and nine years old.
You know they're they're waiting to seewhat happens next, and probably don't
have that long to wait. Imean, not to be mean or anything,
but this lasso was filed in twentytwenty and now twenty twenty three,
we finally have a ruling on thisportion of it. Why they wait so
long if it's happened in nineteen twentyone, so over a hundred years ago,
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and why wait this long? Isit? Because everything kind of came
bubbling up after the George Floyd thingand gave new attention to it. No,
you know, it essentially was sweptunder the rug in Tulsa. It
wasn't the point of pride, certainlyfor the community in that eastern part of
Oklahoma. Even kids in Oklahoma schoolsweren't taught much about that. It wasn't
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really a part of the history lessonsthere. I think that it was a
point of shame for Oklahoma, andso it was it was quietly pushed away,
pushed into the into the background.And then you know, over the
last couple of decades, there havebeen efforts to try to find the mass
graves where victims presumably were buried.Some victims were thought to have been thrown
into the Arkansas River that runs throughTulsa. UM, So you know that.
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I think it's just a matter ofawareness and trying now to go back
and determine what happened and why ithappened, and certainly with an eye toward
keeping in anything like that from happeningagain. Yeah, that's crazy. Well,
it'll be interesting to see what happensto it next. It certainly seems
like, I mean not seems likea lot of people were wronged it's how
do you make it better? Youknow? Yeah, right, And I
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think that if you if you've gota chance to go there, to the
Greenwood District of Tulsa, it's it'sit's eerie, it's haunting, but it's
also inspiring to see that the peoplethey want to see something happen with that
part of the city. Okay,well, thank you so much, Jim
Ryan for your time. We'll talkto you again soon. Thanks you.
Here's some others stories we're working on. The summer heats about to get hotter
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across Vermont have prepared for more rainand flooding. The storm has also caused
devastating flooding in New York. Awoman in the Hudson Valley drowned as she
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who stops in today can get afree small slurpie. I haven't had one
of those years. ABC is LukeBarr is here to give us an update
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on former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser, who has been stabbed in prison.
Thanks for having me so. LarryNasa, a former USA gymnastics team doctor,
has been stabbed in prison, oursources told us yesterday. Nasa was
stabbed six times in the back andthe neck on Sunday afternoon. According to
our sources, he was described ashaving substantial injuries, butting what appears to
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be a collapsed lung. Our sourceshave told the few's listed in stable condition
and is expected to make a recovery. Okay, so do we know what
happened? Why was he targeted?Was this just a fight in jail or
in prison or what? So thecircumstances surrounding the actual event our cylinder investigation.
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What we do know is there wasa sort of altercation that spawned this.
But I think it's worth noting thatnasa is in a unit at Coleman
in Florida where he's housed, thathas sexual assault offenders, pedophiles and the
like, so they're all together inone unit. Now that adds a wrinkle
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to the investigation because our sources havetold us that when there is an altercation,
especially with somebody of a Nasaar's staturebut also convicted of a crime against
children, they're often the first targeted. But because they were with sort of
everybody that was convicted of similar crimes, it's it's sort of up to Bop
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to figure actually what happened. Sohe's kind of hanging with the homies,
so they're not sure if that's oneof the guys who attacked him. Yeah,
And what we do know about aboutthe suspect was that it was an
inmate uh, you know, butthey're trying to determine if it was one
inmate or if there was sort ofa group of inmates that that sort of
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carried the saut okay. And thenthere was also some talk that this might
have happened because of staffing shortages,like there weren't enough people watching the prisoners.
Not only that, but the staffmembers that were watching the uh,
the inmates. At the time Nasterwas was stabbed, they had worked overtime,
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mandatory overtime. Uh, and alot of these a lot of these
cases in federal prison Uh. Youknow, it's because of the staffing shortages
that people have to work overtime.And obviously, when you work eighty hours
in a prison, uh, youknow it it obviously, you know,
makes it tired. And and thishas happened before, you know, if
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you remember what happened with Jeffrey Epstein, those officers worked overtime as well,
and they ended up falling asleep andsort of dozing off in some cases.
So it's not just in common whereNASA is, it's it's sort of a
Bureau of Prisons. Why the problem? So what's next? He's so he's
in like the infirmary or something.Now, does he just go back out
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into his group when he's done,or will they do make efforts to protect
him. Well, in other casessimilar to this, they usually put him
um in sort of special housing,uh sort of that way he can get
recovered from his injuries and then togo back to general population. But then,
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uh, you know what usually happensis somebody will be charged by the
FBI and the justice departments for thisassault. And that's probably when we'll learn
more details specifically about what happened.Okay, all right, Luke Barr,
thanks so much for the update onLarry Nasser. Well, here's some other
stories coming out of the KFI twentyfour hour news room. La County could
(24:00):
pay three million dollars to a manwho wrongfully spent thirty seven years in prison
because of a prosecutorial misconduct. NationalRegistry of his Goneration's editor Barbara Ryan says
Samuel Bonner was convicted of the nineteeneighty three murder because a jailhouse snitch lied
to get a better deal for himself. We have a currently three three hundred
(24:22):
thirty eighty gnerations, and those twohundred and thirty three involved the use of
jailhouse informants. The judge says everyonein Bonner's case knew the snitch was a
liar back in nineteen ninety six,but prosecutors hid the information. Bonner was
released in twenty nineteen. LA CountyClaims Board sent the settlement to county supervisors
(24:45):
last week for approval. A smallplane has crashed nose first into the roof
of a hangar in Long Beach theface as The crash yesterday happened as the
pilot was practicing landings and takeoffs atthe airport. Pilot had to be extricated
from the wreckage and was treated atthe hospital for minor injuries. The LAPD
(25:06):
says a teacher's suspected of committing lewdacts with a child under fourteen is now
in custody with bail set at amillion dollars. Martin Rys Junior was arrested
yesterday. He's from East LA,but police haven't released the name of the
school where he works. Protesters inIsrael of blocked highways to major cities during
countrywide demonstrations against the government's plan tooverhaul the judiciary. Police used a water
(25:30):
cannon to clear protesters who blocked amain artery leading to Jerusalem and several other
and arrested several others. Hours earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Nettignah, who's parliamentary
coalition, gave initial approval to abill to limit the Supreme Court's oversight powers.
NATO has opened its summit in Lithuania, day after Turkey withdrew its objections
(25:51):
to Sweden joining the alliance. NATOSecretary General Jens Stollenberg called it a historic
day as he announced the agreement presidentby going to see the leaders of Sweden
and Turkey at separate meetings today.Ukraine's president says he wants a roadmap for
his country to join NATO, butthe rules say no country can join if
(26:11):
they're in a conflict, and obviouslyUkraine is in a conflict with Russia.
US National Secretary Advisor Security Advisor RatherJake Sullivan says that's one of the things
being talked about at the NATO summit. I think what comes out of Vilnius
in the Communica will be something thatUkraine will be able to embrace as a
positive signal with respect to the questionof Ukraine's future pathway towards membership. President
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Biden said yesterday that Ukraine is notready for membership in NATO. The President
is expected to meet with President Zelenskiwhile he's in Lithuania. The Apocalypse will
come as a double feature and itsname shall be Barbenheimer. AMC Theater says
it's already sold more than twenty thousandsame day tickets for the unlikely pairing of
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Barbie and Oppenheimer. The Yin andYang July twenty first opening weekend pairing,
with a total runtime of five hoursnine minutes, not including trailers, will
feature the bright bubbly doll story Storry, Margot, Robbie and Ryan Gosseling,
juxtaposing nicely with the nuclear bomb docudrama. Movie posters and t shirts have
even been created to commemorate the momentousmovie moment. Barbie's expected to pull double
(27:17):
the ticket sales of Oppenheimer, Sothe only question for those doing the double
dip Barbenheimer movie trip is which flickdo you watch first? Michael Krozier k
if Ie news. For me,it's gonna be Barbie. What about you,
Tyler? It's Barbie, not notOppenheimer. Oppenheimer. I'll see eventually,
but I feel like, if I'mgoing to be making a trip to
the movies, it's going to befor Barbie. I'm totally gonna see Barbie.
(27:41):
And I'm not going to see Oppenheimer. I don't want to. You're
not gonna see it at all.No, Downey Junior says, it's a
huge step in the right direction formovies, step in the right direction.
Yeah, what is it? Well, I think I personally, I feel
like movies have kind of just beenlately. But yeah, I like happy
movies. I like movies that bringme joy. I don't think Hoppenheimer's gonna
(28:03):
bring it anybody. It's about theatomic bombs. It's exactly Okay, So
today is July eleventh. It isguess what else it is? It is
Prime Day. It is Prime Day. It's Prime Day, you know.
So it's like Christmas in July.Right, it's supposed to be these great
deals and I always go, oh, Prime Day, I'm gonna go check
out what's available on Prime, andthen it just takes you down a rabbit
(28:29):
hole if you start looking around,Like I use Prime when I want to
buy something. I don't use Primewhen I'm I don't know, I just
don't peruse. You don't treat AmazonPrime the same way you would a Prime
Day. I should say, thesame way you would treat like a Black
Friday. It's what you're saying.Yeah, And because you can't go into
a store and wander around. Idon't know. I got Nick is also
(28:49):
here. I don't know if Nick'sdoing Prime, but you know, like
it's not going to exactly a BlackFriday sale where you just go to the
store and you kind of cruise aroundand you look for cool Christmas presents and
stuff. Because for me, shoppingonline, it just I can't do it.
I have like a d D withthe computer or something. I don't
(29:10):
like it. So here's one ofthe things that's always been interesting for Prime
Day, and I haven't seen ithappen quite yet. I've been keep an
eye on it. But if youwere a person of like me and it
was like the QBC kid and rememberseeing that actually today and tomorrow usually though
during Prime Days, they actually havea live stream on the app for you
to be able to kind of shoparound, so they'll actually have like a
(29:32):
QBC style representation of this is what'savailable now, and this is what's happening
and you should check this out.So I kind of enjoy sticking around the
Prime app at least for Prime days, because you actually can see a better
representation of a lot of those productsthat, as far as we know,
just live a kind of on ashelf in a warehouse somewhere. So it's
like a blue light special exactly.Now that's a perfect way to put it.
(29:52):
That would be kind of cool actuallyif they if they popped up and
they said, hey, this hourspecial is this, and this hour special
is that, then you could justkind of get a notification go yes,
I'm industried or no, I'm notright, because that's the whole thing.
If you're like our house is likethere's a lot of things. Either you
live in the Amazon the Alexa sorryI shouldn't say her name, but that
(30:14):
Shamexa, that ecosphere, or youlive in the Google Home ecosphere and our
place is Amazon, and so that'swhere a lot of those deals are available
for you today. To really geta steal on some of the products that
are from Amazon, you know,because we've got like Eco pop and our
Echo pop system whatever, Like ourwhole thing is we've got speakers and everything
(30:36):
else SMAXA is listening constantly at ourhouse of exactly what's going on. But
that's a great opportunity. But yeah, it's always something you can check out
and see a demonstration of a lotof those products. And while it is
a pop up and it will showup for you in the app, those
deals are not just available for onehour, which they are regularly, You'll
be able to check them out forthe entirety of Prime Days, which is
(30:59):
kind of a nice little perk foryou if you're a Prime member. Okay,
and if you can't do it today, Prime Day is also tomorrow,
So just so you know, there'sgoing to be deals. And I did
peruse a few things and you seestuff with a dollar fifty off and you
go, what. Then there's someother stuff where it's a pretty substantial savings,
Like there's a Ge tilt head electricstand mixer. Who knew you save
one hundred and fifty bucks on it. So there are some good deals out
(31:22):
there, but there's also some whatI would consider kind of crappy deals out
there. The heat waves here temptsare going to be hitting triple digits for
inland areas today and heating up toabout one thirteen for some areas by this
weekend. Neighbors are being warned tokeep a close eye on cats and little
dogs because of them missing fifteen footpython. In Chatsworth, it is seven
to eleven and seven eleven is celebratingwith a free slurpiece to mark the convenience
(31:45):
Storre's ninety sixth birthday, where justminutes away from handle on the news.
This morning, Twitter traffic is tankingthanks to threads. Okay. Karen Travers,
the CEO of the PGA Tour,is going to be testifying in front
of the Senate Homeland Security and GovernmentalAffairs Committee about its merger with liv Golf.
(32:06):
Why does Congress give a rip abouta golf merger? Yeah, I
mean because this is a significant businessdeal and the Saudis are the ones backing
live Golf. The money is beingdone by the Saudi royal family, and
there are a lot of questions aboutthe human rights record of the Saudis,
and critics say that this investment isbillions and billions of dollars. That's sportswashing,
(32:28):
an effort to soften improve their globalimage. After the United States concluded
that the Saudi crumb prince approved anoperation to kill journalist jamal Ka Shogi,
and that there are other human rightsissues within the country. There's also issues
about antitrust in the business, themonopoly aspect of this that some senators are
going to raise, and this couldbe a pretty explosive hearing if senators really
(32:52):
come in with a lot of questionsand tough questions for these PGA representatives.
Notably, it's not the head ofthe PGA or the head of Lift Golf
who will be testifying. They're sendingrepresentatives instead. But this is an announcement
a couple of weeks ago that caughta lot of people by surprise because the
PGA had been very openly critical ofthe Saudi Backlive Golf and then announced that
their one time rival would now becometheir partner. So it's interesting that they're
(33:15):
saying that it could become a monopolyif Live Golf and PGIA merge, because
before Live Golf a couple of yearsago, there was only the PGIA,
so there already was a monopoly.Kind of yeah. Yeah, And you
know the question too about foreign influencein American sport, a country like that
gaining such a major foothold and acountry like Saudi Arabia in particular. That's
(33:39):
also something that senators have raised concernsabout and will likely bring up. So
it's not just a sports story.It's a business story, it's a foreign
policy story, it's human rights story, the social story too. They're going
to be nine to eleven families whoare going to be hearing today or trying
to make their voices heard around thehearing, who say that they should be
(34:00):
held accountable for their role in theattacks. And that's something I think you
can also expect that some senators mightbring up. Now, notably, senators
can have hearings, they can askquestions, they can do investigations, but
ultimately, you know, it's theJustice Department who's investigating this for antitrust violations,
and that's what would stop a potentialdeal if it does end up getting
blocked. See that's why we talkto you, Karen Travers, because now
(34:22):
we know why Congress gives a ripabout a golf merger. Thank you so
much. There, you have agreat day. You two traffic cameras are
headed to Glendale. The city isinstalling cameras in school zones, areas where
many people have been injured and areaswith a history of street racing. State
Assembly Member Laura Friedman says, toomany people are being killed on roads across
California. We have seen an increasein street racing, reckless driving, and
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people driving with a wanton disregard forsafety and life. The cameras are being
installed as part of a statewide pilotprogram involving six cities, including LA.
Drivers will be worn before entering intoa zone with cameras like trolley k if
I news, lawmakers in California havebeen looking into human operators for autonomous vehicles
(35:07):
trucks driving on California roadways without ahuman sounds like a pretty concerning thing for
drivers in the state. Jason Robennowitz, who serves as the president of a
Teamster's Joint Council, says a newbipartisan bill prioritizes safety in San Francisco.
Right now, the driverless cars arewreaking havoc across the city. They're stopping
at green lights, They're causing accidents. Rebennowitz also says that the legislation requires
(35:30):
a trained, live person in theautonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle industry argues
that AI drives more effectively than humans. Andrew Caravella k if I News.
The bill has already passed the stateAssembly and is said to be heard today
in the Senate Transportation Committee. Scientistshave blamed climate pollution for deadly flooding that's
(35:50):
hit several countries all at once.India, Japan, China, Turkey,
and the US Northeast have all hadintense rain recently. To say, climate
pollutants, mainly carbon dioxide and methane, hold more heat in the atmosphere,
and a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which means more rain. A grand
jury being seated in Georgia will likelyconsider whether criminal charges are appropriate for former
(36:15):
President Trump or his allies for effortsto overturn the twenty twenty election in Georgia.
The Fulton County DA has been investigatingsince shortly after Trump called Georgia's Secretary
of State to ask him to findenough votes to beat Biden. The Eli
County Sheriff's Apartment may have to providethermal underwear to any jail inmate who asks
(36:36):
for it. County supervisors are setto consider the requirement today. YEP,
this is real. The motion bysupervisor Hilda Silis says the latest Inspector General
report on Reform and Oversight uncovered whatSillis calls the Sheriff's Department's reprehensible practice of
not providing thermal undergarments to people incustody despite complaints of freezing temperatures in county
(37:00):
jails. Okay. People in Silmarhave attended a neighborhood meeting to call for
the removal of a bunch of motorhomes to makeshift r V park lines of
residential street. Video footage has beentaken of what neighbors say is sewage running
down a driveway. This man sayshe hopes that people in the RVs are
given a new place to live andthe RV park gets dismantled. The people
(37:20):
there are just down on their luckand they need help and somebody's taking advantage
of them. The La City Attorneyhas charged the property owner with illegally having
the RVs on their property. Acourt data is scheduled later this month.
Like trolley k if I news canjoin, sisters separated at Texas Children's Hospital
last month have been sent home.Ella and Eliza Fuller were borne by c
(37:42):
section on March first, they werejoined at the abdomen and shared liver tissue.
A team of surgeons, nurses,and technicians performed the six hour surgery
on June fourteenth to separate the twins, and a month later they get to
go home. That's so cool.Okay. A couple of food updates for
you. McDonald's is ditching the mcalethe McCafe bakery, so they're going to
(38:06):
be taking out their blueberry muffin,their cinnamon roll, and their apple fritter.
I guess I'm very sad, eventhough I never tried it. But
the good news is, as Imentioned yesterday, they're bringing that the jalapeno
bacon cheeseburger. So except us,it's a quarter pounder with cheese with palepino
and bacon, So I guess it'sa good trade off. Also, I
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Hop has a new menu item.This actually sounds kind of interesting. You
know, like we love mashups,we like pizza, bagels, nacho fries,
cronuts. Well, now there's apancake taco and since this Taco Tuesday,
we thought we'd bring that up.So on July fifth, I Hop
announced new menu items and one ofthe questions is can a pancake be a
(38:51):
taco, and apparently it can be, because now they have fresh strawberry cheesecake
pancake tacos. It's the silver dollarpancake filled sliced strawberries and cream creamy cheesecake
moose, finish off with a sprinklingof chips of chocolate chips. Yummy.
There's a caramel banana pancake tacco.There's a breakfast pancake tacco that's got eggs
(39:14):
and sweets, so it's like asweet savory one. Sounds kind of yummy.
And then the Okay, I wouldtotally get into this country chicken and
gravy pancake Tacco's silver dollar pancake filledwith crispy chicken, shredded hash browns and
sausage country gravy. If you're inthe mood for brine, you have the
option to top this taco with pickles. Okay, I think I'd leave the
(39:36):
pickles off, but other than that, it sounds pretty delicious. Okay.
So here's one last thing. PresidentTrump's or former president Trump's out campaigning,
and he went to where did hego? He was in Iowa, and
he went into a dairy queen andHere's what made some commentators on cable news
lose their minds. Ezzard okay,okay. So basically he buys the blizzards
(40:07):
for everybody who's in the store.And I was watching some cable news channels
and they're like, oh my gosh, can you believe he doesn't know what
a blizzard is? Who cares?He bought him for everybody. I'd take
that blizzard. We lead local livefrom the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
I'm Amy King. This has beenyour wake up call. You've been listening
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