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October 20, 2025 40 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers speaks on President Trump cutting aid to Columbia as tensions rise. ABC News reporter Jordana Miller joins the show live from Jerusalem to discuss Hamas and Israel accusing each other of violating the ceasefire. Bloomberg Media’s Denise Pellegrini shares the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with Amy talking with ABC News national correspondent Jim Ryan about Halloween prices hitting record highs.
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And his name is Amy k.

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Here's Amy King.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
This it is five o'clock, straight up.

Speaker 6 (01:04):
This is your wake up call.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
For Monday, October twentieth. Good morning, I'm Amy King. I
hope you had a great weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:11):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
The weather was absolutely perfect. A lot of people turned
out for the No King's protest. I'm just against.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
The No King's protest because of the word Yeah. It's like, yeah,
I get it, Yeah, I don't like it.

Speaker 8 (01:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
And of course we're gonna find out later today who
the Dodgers are going to play in the World Series,
because boy, those Toronto Blue Jays looking strong their last
three games. They really well, yeah, I guess they've really
just poured it.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
On and uh gosh, what else. Oh, it's night game Friday,
night was just ridiculous.

Speaker 9 (01:51):
I've never seen anything like it.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I know, we're still just like everybody was just awestruck,
at least in my little game were I was Disneyland and.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
I'm like, we gotta watch the games. I've walked around.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, we watched part of the game having dinner, and
then I was like, well, we can't just sit here
for three hours, So I just had my phone on
and watched the game as I was wandering around the
park and got to see the end of it, and man,
show hey, I said, he's in a slump, and I'm
sure I'm not the only one who set it, but
everybody's like, oh, maybe he's not going to live up

(02:22):
to everything. And like people go in slumps, they come
out of him. He came out in a very we're
very bold fashion. That was what a great what a
great game. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. Millions
of Americans have hit the streets to protest the Trump
administration and no King's protests across the country. The LAPD
had to use tear gas on a crowd in downtown

(02:43):
La Saturday night after protesters refused orders to disperse, but
for the most part, they were pretty positive, pretty happy.
I saw a lot of happy people. More than thirty
thousand Kaiser Permanente workers have ended a five day strike.
The union says it's headed back to the bargaining table.
Employees are protesting what they say are unsafe staffing, stagnant wages,

(03:05):
and deteriorating patient care conditions. Workers won a twenty five
percent pay raise, Kayser's off at twenty one percent over
four years. Negotiations set to resume Wednesday again, the Dodger's
going to have to wait till later today to find
out who they'll be playing in the World Series. Toronto
beat Seattle six to two yesterday. That forces a series
deciding Game seven this afternoon. If the Mariners win, LA

(03:27):
gets home field advantage off the Blue Jays win, the
World Series would start Friday in Toronto. Things are heating
up between the US and Colombia as President Trump accuses
Columbia not doing enough to stop the flow of drugs.
ABC's Karen Travers going to join us in just a
couple minutes to tell us what Trump is threatening to do.
The fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel appears to be
cracking as both sides launch attacks on the other over

(03:48):
the weekend. ABC's Jordana Miller and Jerusalem's going to get
us the latest from the Middle East. That's come on
up at five twenty with cocoa prices getting downright scary.
ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us before the top
of the hour to tell us how we'll be paying
a lot more to keep the trick or treaters happy
this Halloween. I spent my Saturday in Altadena. It was

(04:10):
a fun, festive, delicious, and also sobering experience. I'm going
to tell you about that coming up. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A one hundred and fifty five
millimeters shell has prematurely detonated during a live fire demonstration
at Camp Pendleton.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
It reportedly sent fragments into a HP vehicle in motorcycle
assigned to Vice President J. D. Vance's protective detail. The
incident happened during an event marking the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Marine Corps. No officers were injured,
though shrapnels struck a parked patrol car and the motorcycle
on a closed ramp on Interstate five. Governor Newsom ordered
the seventeen mile freeway closure, opposing military plans to fire

(04:48):
over the open highway despite officials saying it would be safe.
Tammy Triheo KFI News.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health workers have ended their five
day strike in California and Hawaii.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
Also in Washington and Oregon.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Union and company officials say they're going to get back
to the bargaining table Wednesday and Thursday. Kaiser says its
facilities are back to normal operations. The union says the
strike showed strong support for better staffing and fair pay.
Kaiser says wages are the key issue and it's offering
more than twenty one percent in raises over four years.
And investigations underway into what caused the windshield to crack

(05:24):
on a United plane that was headed to lax from Denver.
It happened last Thursday on a Boeing seven thirty seven
Max eight. United says the plane landed safely. Passengers were
flown to LA on another flight. The National Transportation Safety
Board says the multi layered windshield is designed to work
even if one of the layers is damaged. Looks like
something hit the plane right above the cockpit. Today's the

(05:47):
last day to register if you want to vote in
the November fourth special election. The state wide election is
being held solely to decide Proposition fifty. If passed, it
would bypass California's independent Redistricting Commission and Democrats to redraw
congressional districts to favor Democrats. More than a million mail
in ballots have already been returned. Let's say good morning

(06:07):
now too. ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, things heaten up between
the US and Columbia. What's the most recent development here.

Speaker 10 (06:16):
Yeah, this is all stemming from these strikes that the
administration has carried out in the Caribbean region. There have
been seven so far thirty two alleged traffickers that have
been killed. But the administration has said we're attempting to
traffic drugs. The administration that has provided a few details
about this and no evidence to back up these claims

(06:37):
about these alleged traffickers. But the President of Columbia, President Petro,
is taking significant issue with a strike last month that
he says killed an innocent fisherman in the Caribbean Sea.
He says the US officials have committed murder and have
violated sovereignty in territorial waters. He says that the boat

(06:57):
was a drifted and had its distress signal up due
to engine failure. That strike is one of seven recent
deadly attacks on these alleged drug boats. The most recent
came on Friday and three people were killed, and this
was according to the Defense Department, they were targeting a
Colombian insurgency group. So this is now very significantly escalated

(07:19):
with the President accusing the president of Colombia being an
illegal drug dealer, threatening the cut off any remaining aid
to the country, and also to impose more tariffs on Columbia.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
Okay, do we know how, like do we send a
lot of money to Columbia.

Speaker 10 (07:34):
They had, they were one of the largest recipients of aid,
specifically because of trying to help with drug trafficking and
trying to help them in the fight against drugs. But
because of the administration significant cuts to foreign aid, that
money was dramatically decreased and it was not clear then
if they were going to get what they had been

(07:56):
getting even with the cuts at the start of next year.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
And then Karen, I have a question for you, because
we've seen a lot of pictures that they've released when
they attack these boats, but like you said, they haven't
shown evidence. So are they not scooping up any of
the drugs and saying here this is what we found,
or just saying this.

Speaker 10 (08:18):
The boat the boats are blown up. So we've asked
questions about this and they, like I said, have not
been able to provide the evidence to back up the
claim that this is what the boats were doing.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Okay, and so right now we're looking is there what
it's looking to escalate on Columbia side, Like I know
that Trump is saying we're going to cut off AID.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
What's Columbia saying they might do? Or are they you.

Speaker 10 (08:42):
Know, they're pushing back. I think they're just very upset
about this. But in terms of what they can do,
I mean, it's the president who's making the threats aimed
at the Columbia side right now.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Okay, ABC's Karen Travers, thanks so much for the update.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Have a great day, all right you too.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the K four hour newsroom. A manhunt continues in
France for four men who stole Emperor Napoleon's crown jewels
from the Louver Museum in Paris. The thieves wore construction
uniforms to get in. Museum expert Anthony A. Moore says
daytime thefts like yesterday's are not all that unusual.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
These sort of smash and grab type crimes are, unfortunately,
rather typical.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
The thieves open the jewelry displays with small chainsaws. Officials
are saying it took them less than ten minutes and
they took off on motorbikes. The Senate will reconvene today.
On Day twenty. If the federal government shutdown, senators are
expected to vote on a bill that would end it.
But House Minority Leader Democrat Hakeem Jeffrey says no negotiations

(09:48):
are planned with Republicans.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
We haven't heard anything from Donald Trump or the Republicans
over the last few weeks.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
They have gone radio silent.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
He says.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Healthcare premiums are going to go way up unless Congress
reverse healthcare cuts that were approved this past summer. China
has expanded its export rules on rare earths, requiring foreign
firms to get approval for exporting products containing even small
amounts of the materials that come from China. The move
mirrors the US Foreign Direct Product Rule, which restricts China's

(10:19):
access to certain US technologies. US consumer demand has slowed.
Economists say shoppers dialed back on buying things like furniture, electronics,
and appliances last month. Credit card data from Bank of
America also shows cooler demand, and a CNBC National Retail
Federation retail monitor shows sales slowed on a monthly basis

(10:41):
in September. As the Trump administration continues to deport people
who are in the country illegally, some are leaving the
country on their own. ABC's Matt Rivers has his family
made that decision.

Speaker 11 (10:52):
Fidell and Jennifer just celebrated their seventeenth wedding anniversary, but
Fidel is undocumented, coming to the US from Mexico in
nineteen ninety five, and together they have now made the
agonizing decision for Fidel to self deport.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Rivers says, according to the Department of Homeland Security, Fidel
will be joining about one zero point six million people
who have already self deported. Former Congressman George Santos says
he is humbled by his experience in prison. He was
serving a seven year sentence for fraud and identity theft,
but he was released on Friday. He says he's not

(11:28):
concerned about what he calls the pearl clutching of critics
upset that President Trump granted him clemency. Santos told CNN
yesterday that if Trump had pardoned Jesus Christ off the Cross,
he would have had critics. Bass Player Sam Rivers of
the band Biscuit has died. His bandmates posted on social

(11:52):
media that he died on Saturday. They didn't say how
or where, but praised Rivers as pure magic and the
soul in the sound. The band's lead singer, Fred Durst,
posted a video talking about how they met at a
club in Florida when he was putting the group together.

Speaker 12 (12:06):
There, Sam was on the stage with his band killing
it on the base and I went, oh, my gosh,
this guy's amazing.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Sam Rivers was forty eight. Police are asking for the
public's help in finding three hit and run drivers who
killed three pedestrians over the weekend. The first one happened
after midnight yesterday on Van Uys and Sherman Oaks. A
second was hit and killed around five thirty yesterday morning
on Arlita Avenue in Arlita, and then a third person
was killed last night, hit by a white Silverado pickup

(12:38):
in Pacoma. More than a dozen people have been arrested
in a drug bust at a club in West Hollywood.
The Elkanna Sheriff's Department says it was doing an undercover
operation in response to ongoing complaints about pickpocketing, drug sales
and other criminal activities at the famous bar. Staff of
the Abbey were among those arrested on Friday. Americans are
expected to spend a record thirteen point one billion dollars

(13:00):
on Halloween this year. The National Retail Federation says of
that three point nine billion will be spent on candy,
four point three billion will be spent on costumes. Part
of the increase due to higher candy prices, which have
jumped eight percent in the last year.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
At six oh five, it's handle on the news.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
A piece of shrapnel fell onto a HP car during
the Marine's two hundred and fiftieth celebration.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
Tell you more about that.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana,
that's fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems even more
fragile than ever today.

Speaker 8 (13:38):
Well, I think it faced its first major test over
the weekend. AAMI on Sunday, Hamas militants fired on an
Israeli position, carried out a kind of surprise attack, if
you will, on Israeli soldiers in the yellow zone that's
the agreed upon redeployment area for the Israeli Army. Killed

(14:00):
two Israeli soldiers and then Israel responded quite aggressively with
air strikes across the Gaza strip. Those air strikes from
the south around the Rafe area all the way to
the north Gaza city and Bet Leahia beth Hanun killed
about forty four people over the course of the day. Also,

(14:25):
aid deliveries trucks were prevented from entering Gaza during this
clash or flare up, so essentially aid during the day
did not enter or get distributed. And Israel had threatened
to keep the crossings closed even today Monday, but after
pressure from the US administration, Jerusalem backtracked on that, and

(14:50):
we've seen the Eid crossings open all day today from
Karen Shalom in the south and to some of the
other crossings in the north, and by about nine pm
local time Sunday, Israel announced that their reprisal or response
to the killing of two Israeli soldiers was over and

(15:12):
that they were once again abiding by the ceasefire. Hamas
also said they were abiding by the ceasefire and that
they have no intention of breaking it. But I think
we're going to see amy over the coming weeks, these
intermittent flare ups between Israel and Hamas because we're in

(15:32):
a kind of very dangerous interim period here. The war
has ended, but a new period of kind of stabilization
of Gaza has not taken hold yet. Right, there's so
many things that have to be planned and implemented. A
new government, a new security force. Hamas is expected to
turn over its arms, and some remaining tunnels and other

(15:56):
weapon factories they're supposed to be destroyed. There's a lot,
and the Israeli armies supposed to pull out further. Right,
they're sitting on fifty percent of the Gaza strip right now,
There's so much that needs to be done before we
really can fully see a kind of stability take hold
in Gaza, and so I think we're going to see

(16:18):
more of these without the seasire necessarily breaking.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
And do we know what sparked that attack yesterday?

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Was there something that happened or did it was just
sort of a random Hamas well.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
You know, there have been some back and forth between
Hamas and Israel over the last several days and these
early armies that Hamas has been trying for several days
to carry out attacks on its positions. This one on
Sunday morning turned very deadly and was quote unquote successful.

(16:56):
I think that's why you saw the Israelis carry out
air strikes for the time really since the ceasefire took place.
There had been some tank fire and gunfire between Israel
and Hamas over the last several days, but nothing to
this at this level where we saw air strikes again.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Okay, and then you mentioned the humanitarian aid which they
stopped for a while yesterday. Has overall has that been
getting in since the ceasefire took hold?

Speaker 8 (17:26):
It has been getting in. You know, the UN has
been reporting about five hundred trucks a day coming in
and we do expect that number even to go up
this week. Right during the ceasefires previously we saw somewhere
between six to seven even to eight hundred trucks of

(17:48):
aid going a day. We're not quite at that level yet,
but we could get there this week. Remember we're only
we're only really a week into the ceasefire. The hostages,
all the living hostages were released exactly a week ago today,
and then the aid started to come in. So I

(18:09):
think overall, the aid is coming in and we have
not seen reports of deaths by starvation in several days already.

Speaker 6 (18:20):
That is good news. So we will hope that that continues.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
And as you mentioned, it appears that in spite of
what happened yesterday, both sides are still saying we're in this.
The ceasefire continues, so let's hope that that holds. Thank
you so much. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem appreciated it as always.

Speaker 8 (18:39):
Soon Amy, All right, take care, Yip Tuck.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. A
new law in California is going to require lawmakers to
tell if they're looking for a new gig.

Speaker 13 (18:51):
California lawmakers now have to disclose any job offers they
get while still in office. Governor Knewsom signed to the
measure after a cal Matters investigation found there were no
rules requiring lawmakers to reveal potential new employers, even those
that could pose conflicts of interest. The law requires officials
to report who offered the job, when, and what the
company does. It passed unanimously after concerns that many lawmakers

(19:14):
line up new gigs before leaving office. Brigida Augustino KFI News.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
The Secret Service says it has discovered a hunting stand
near Palm Beach International Airport. It had a direct line
of sight to where President Trump exits Air Force one.
The agency says the stand was found during advanced security
preparations last week before the Palm Beach arrival, which included
the use of technology and comprehensive physical sweeps. No one

(19:39):
was in the stand. The FBI's investigating trial is said
to start today in Illinois for a former sheriff's deputy
charge with killing a woman in her home after she
reported a prowler. ABC's Olivia Rubin says the deputy's lawyers
claimed he fired in self defense last year when the
woman threatened to throw a pot of boiling water on him.

Speaker 13 (19:57):
Sean Grayson, the former deputy accused of killing Sonia Massey,
and a case prosecutors say revolves around body camera footage.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Grayson was fired and charged with first degree murder. County
officials agreed to a ten million dollars settlement with Massey's
family earlier this year. A new study shows a recommendation
to give babies peanets to prevent allergies has led to
about sixty thousand children not getting the potentially life threatening reaction.
The study and the Medical journal Pediatrics found that peanut

(20:25):
allergies in children three and younger fell by more than
twenty seven percent after the guidance was first issued in
twenty fifteen, and by more than forty percent after it
was expanded in twenty seventeen. A cargo plane is skidded
off a runway in Hong Kong, crashing into a security
patrol car and then falling into the sea.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
Two people in the car were killed. This morning.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Four crew members on the plane were rescued. The flight
was arriving from Dubai. The crash closed one runway, but
two others were not affected and operations remained normal at
one of Asia's busiest airports. People in southern California going
to be able to see a rare, green, glowing comet
streaking across the sky.

Speaker 14 (21:04):
NASA says Comet Lemon will make its closest approach to
Earth on Tuesday, coming within about fifty five million miles away.
Viewers in the LA area should look shortly after sunset
toward the western sky comet maybe right enough to be
seen with the naked eye. Those city lights may hinder visibility.
Binoculars or a small telescope are recommended, along with viewing
from dark areas outside the city for the best view.

(21:27):
Mark Mayfield, k you fin news.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Okay, So we're supposed to look toward the western sky
and it's a green comet, And isn't there a line
from Wicked about looking toward the western sky?

Speaker 6 (21:40):
The song yeah? And is it alphable?

Speaker 10 (21:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (21:44):
If you care to find me, look towards the western sky. Okay,
don't believe I just knew that and said that down.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well, you know, Wicked for Good comes out soon, So
maybe it's a whole celestial event, just saying maybe, maybe
an interesting interest coincidence. The CHP says a parked vidrial
car and a motorcycle were slightly damaged when an artillery
shell prematurely detonated during a live fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton.
It happened during the Marine's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary

(22:14):
celebration Saturday. During the celebration, Governor Newsom ordered the five
Freeway to be completely shut down, even though the Marines
said it wasn't necessary. No officers were hurt by that shrapnel.
A man has been killed in a wrong way crash
on the five Freeway and Burdbank. The CHP says the
car was headed south in the northbound lanes at Alamedia
Alameda Avenue shortly before four am yesterday when it slammed

(22:36):
into another car, which was then hit by a third vehicle.
The freeway was shut down for about five hours. CHP
says alcohol was a factor. Loto jackpots on the rise.
No one matched all six winning numbers in either the
Powerball or Mega Millions drawings over the weekend. The next
Powerball drawing tonight is going to be worth more than
three hundred million dollars. Tomorrow night's Mega Millions drawing has

(22:57):
grown to six hundred fifty Okay, so on Saturday, I
mentioned that there was the Alta Arts and Crafts Fair
in Alta. Dina and so I thought that sounded like
a really cool thing, local vendors, artists, artisans, and thought
that maybe I should go check it out. And so

(23:18):
we went to Alta Dina on Saturday, and it's the
first time I'd been there since the fires, and I
was kind of wondering what it was going to be like,
what the vibe was going to be like. And you
can still tell, I mean, like where we went. It
was like at the Eagles Lodge.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
So the town looks very normal.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
And so we went to this arts and crafts fair
and it was very cool and you could tell that
everybody was just you know, Alta Dina strong. There was
lots of signage for that. A lot of the artists
had created artwork for that. One woman had a display.
She was selling things and they were all things that
she recovered from the fire, like they were in her

(23:59):
art studio. There's ulptures, and they were things that she
was able to sift out of the rubble, and so
she kind of repurposed them and was selling those. So
I got some cool Christmas presents, got a little jump
start on that. And oh, by the way, Kat's macarons
macaroons delicious, So they had a couple of little they

(24:19):
had just a lot of a lot of very cool,
artsy things, and so I was so excited to support
them for that. So it got me thinking though, as
we were driving to lunch, which I went to where
will Cole Schreiber Oh recommended.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Then that was El Patron right, good little business that
survived yep on Lake Avenue, And so we went there
for lunch.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
And as I was on my way to lunch, I
was like, I wonder if I'm going to see where
the burn area is, because if you don't know where
it is, you don't know where it is. And I
don't know where it is. And so I was driving
up and then I'd go, hmm, there's an empty lot.
There's an empty lot. Oh wow, there's there's something that's
just the charred remains of something. And they were dotted

(25:04):
in this area, but it wasn't like whole neighborhoods. And
I was like, okay. So we went and had a
fabulous lunch, and then I was talking to my brother
and he said, you want to go see where my
house used to be because he used to rent a
house in Altadena. And I said okay, yeah, So I
followed him and his girlfriend and we went and that's
when we saw just street after street after street after street,

(25:27):
just cleared lots, and it was and every once in
a while you'd see like a chimney standing and then
you'd see a random house surrounded by blocks of nothing.
I mean, it was crazy, how just you know, some
houses survived and the rest of the block was completely
wiped out.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
There were a few houses being rebuilt.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
I think I probably saw a half dozen out of
the eight thousand that were destroyed. There were palm trees.
They were just completely blackened, but you can dellitly survived
or they are trying to survive patches of green and
what otherwise is just a scarred, charred, cleaned up, sanitized landscape.

(26:11):
So it was very weird. And I don't know how
many of you have gone to Altadena, but I highly
recommend it. Just go and support the businesses there. Yeah,
I like going to that arts and crafts fair. We're
supporting the artisans who were there, and I felt, you know,
makes you feel good about it. So if you get
a chance, go to Altadena, support the businesses because I
bet they're still struggling. Because it was not busy in

(26:32):
the area that yeah, that I was driving around.

Speaker 9 (26:35):
Altadena was very different from the Palisades in that right
after the fire, you could literally you could walk in
there and see it all where Palisades really got kind
of closed off.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (26:45):
Very interesting.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, So and it was a powerful reminder that this
is not over. So I saw, like I said, I
saw the T shirts and the signs and stuff, the
Altadena strong and let's help Altadena get strong and support them.
So thanks for a really great satur Altadena, appreciate it.
All right, let's get in your business, shall we and
say hello to Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Hello, Denise, Yeah, good

(27:10):
morning to you.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Amy. I'm so glad you were out there in Altadena.
We had a house fire back in nineteen ninety nine.
Our whole building burnt down. We had three little kids.
We were out for three years and it was just
that one building. But we're still trying to recover from.
I mean, nothing compared to what Alta, Dina experienced, but
you know, our passports were lost, family photos gone, you know,

(27:33):
we had to reconstruct everything. I can only imagine what
those people are going through, especially with the whole neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, it's you times eight thousand, mm hmm. I mean,
I think about that war zone. Crazy crazy, It's.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
An absolute war zone, and it's so great that you're
out there supporting them. It's very moving to listen to that.
I wanted to talk a little bit about Amazon Web
Services they run out. Yeah, they had that massive disruption.
I mean, I was just looking at the list you've
been talking about this. I was looking at the list
of companies impacted. It was a regional gateway here on

(28:06):
the East Coast, so financial firms disrupted. Robin Hood among them.
They say they're up and back, but let's look at
this Coinbase, Alexa, Fortnite, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Disney Plus, the
McDonald's app, Reddit, United Airlines, AT and T roadblocks also impacted.

Speaker 6 (28:24):
I mean, it's just such.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
A reminder of how dependent we are on this and
kind of sobering this morning. Although they do say things
are up and running again and doesn't look like it
was a cyber attack, so that's sort of life confirming.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I guess, well, yeah, that's good news, and that they're
back up and running. Okay, this is bad news if
you work for paramounts.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
Guidance.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, sorry to start out Monday with some more bad news.
Broadcuts of around two thousand people amy in the US
at Paramounts Guidance are coming next week. According to Variety
talk about the cuts were circulating even before, but the
size is huge, you know. Under their new leader, David Ellison,
his team is targeting slashing more than two billion dollars

(29:06):
in costs. And they're also, in addition to that two
thousand I mentioned, they're laying off some people internationally. So
nobody is safe. That's got to be the mood right
now in the entertainment business, okay.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
And antidepressants are becoming even more popular thanks to TikTok.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah you're hearing things like girls, come on, take your
crazy pills. Street Journal says the antidepressants have gotten a
huge makeover thanks to all the influencers touting the benefits
on social media, especially TikTok followers inspired to order happy
pills online after Millennial and gen Z influencers really rave
about the drugs like Lexapro with hashtags like live laugh, Lexapro,

(29:47):
lexi ho even in Zoloft Gang. The report says one
side about antidepressants got more than one point three billion views,
and they apparently tend to kind of downplay the negative
side effects, although hymns and hers as it's nurse practitioners
and doctors only prescribe medicine when necessary, and to be fair,
some on social media do complain and commiserate about some

(30:08):
of the side effects, like a drop in sexual desire
or weight gain, some things that might kind of get
you a.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Little too well, so you gain some weight, but you've
taken your drugs, so you're not you don't care well.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
And also I shouldn't you know, I don't want to
seem like I'm making light of this because for some people,
antidepressants are clearly a lifeline. But the story is about
people who don't necessarily really need them, but.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
Yes they should.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Just don't want to be happy or part of something
on you know that's happening on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Okay, here's what's happening with iPhone seventeen's they're a hit.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
Yeah they are.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Counterpoint research says the model outsold the iPhone sixteen series
by fourteen percent over the first ten days of sales
in the US and China, with the standard iPhone seventeen
in much higher demand than last year's base model. The
iPhone seventeen promacs. It's also seeing strong demand in the
unics and Counterpoints says, people who got their last iPhone

(31:05):
during the pandemic are finally looking to upgrades. So that's
why we're seeing such a resurgence. I just dropped my
phone and cracked it, so I'm gonna be one. You're
heading that direction too well.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Our very own rich Dimiro, who's our tech guy and
host of rich on Tech, was saying, if you're going
to upgrade, the seventeen is the one to do because
there's several things that it's worth the upgrade where you
may have passed on some other one, so we shall
I mean.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
The memory, the camera, and the AI functions, right are
sort of irresistible. There you go, I'm there, But you know,
I mean, these phones they can cost upwards of what
three thousand bucks, So even if I'm paying, you know,
a monthly fee, that's a lot to It's a lot
to take on.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yes, it is getting in your business every day, like
we do with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
Thanks Denise, my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Alright, A five day strike by more than thirty thousand,
Kaiser Permanente Health Workers has ended. Union officials have agreed
to resume argaining with Kaiser on Wednesday. Kaiser says it
has offered a twenty one percent pay raise for workers
over four years. Workers want twenty five percent. French police
are continuing their search for the thieves who pulled off
a brazen daytime jewelry heist at the Louver. Police say

(32:15):
France's Crown jewels were stolen early Sunday morning, shortly after
the museum opened. French police say thieves got in through
an upstairs window using a mechanical lift and then got
away on motorbikes. Today's the last day to register if
you want to vote in the November fourth special election.
The statewide election is being held solely to design Proposition fifty,

(32:37):
which would redraw the congressional districts to favor Democrats. More
than a million mail in ballots have already been submitted.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim,
Halloween less than two weeks away, and if you're going
to be handing out candy, it's going to cost you.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
This is Halloween. Halloween. Yeah, about eight percent more for
Halloween candy this year. That's the line.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
It seems like a lot more than that. When I
go to the store, it seems a lot higher than that.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Well that's the average because chocolate prices are way up.
But the price of other things like skittles and nerds,
you know, the non you know, the gummies, the stuff
that doesn't contain chocolate, that's got up too, but not
nearly as much. So average it all out, you get
about an eight percent increase in Halloween candy this year
in the price. So yeah, chocolate of course produced in

(33:30):
places like West Africa, the Cote de Delvrie, the gone
up places where they grow cocoa beans. They've had terrible
drought then mixed in with horrible flooding and it just
has wiped out those crops and driven up the price
dramatically for us who eat chocolate.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Okay, and then do tariffs come into play too?

Speaker 3 (33:50):
They do, because then you've got the decorations, the costumes,
the other stuff, the paraphernalia that comes with Halloween that
comes in many cases from China and from other countries
that ship the stuff here, and much of its subject
to tariff. So yeah, I'll bat it all up and
you're going to have a more expensive Halloween this year.
Does that mean that people are not going to participate?

(34:12):
Doesn't mean that at all. Amy Americans are going to
spend in a record thirteen point one billion, not billion,
thirteen point one billion dollars this year according to the
National Retail Federation.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
That's a that's a whole lot of candy.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
And that's not all candy, that's part candy, park costumes,
part decorations, all that.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
So is there an.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Argument, Jim that the whole tariff thing, Oh, except that
you're talking about tariffs on more like costumes and stuff
rather than on the coco right, correct?

Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yeah, okay, because I was.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Going to say, hey, Coco can't change where the cocoa
beans can be grown.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
So no, you're right, And unfortunately, you know, at least
for the economy, you can't change the place where you
buy your costumes. From when I was a kid, everything
was made in Japan. Now it seems everything is made
in China and everything is shipped that direction. So you know,
if you have import fees that are being charged on
those things, then naturally you'll be paying more for it

(35:06):
because so much of it does come from Asia.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Okay, so the big question is what candy is being
handed out at the Ryan household.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
You know, I haven't really even decided yet. It'll be
chocolate because I like chocolate. So if there's any leftover,
then your guy here gets toated. What about costumes? Are
you dressing up? Fifty one percent of adults are actually
gonna dress up, believe it or not.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
I have a couple of costumes, but I'm traveling, so
putting a costume in my little suitcase is going to
be problematic.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
So we're not a hundred.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
I mean I just wear it on the plane.

Speaker 6 (35:38):
Yeah, that'll go over good. All right, ABC's Jim Ryan thinks.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
So, by the way, can I tell you something else?

Speaker 6 (35:44):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (35:46):
So kids. The most popular costume for kids spider Man,
according to Natural Retail Federary for adults, which for pets,
it's a pumpkin. Dressing your pet up, it's a pumpkin.
Eight hundred and sixty million dollars will be spent this
year on pet costumes.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Okay, so you know what else is supposed to be
very popular for the pets is the Luboo Boo.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
That's a good one. Pumpkins, hot dogs, bumblebee, ghosts, bats, dogs,
witches and labuovo.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
And La Booboo. All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much.
We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
All right, se Ya, all.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Right, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom
has criticized the Trump administration for holding what he called
a vanity parade at Camp Pendleton to celebrate the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Marines and the US Navy.
Newsom shut down a section of the five Freeway between
San Diego and Orange County Saturday.

Speaker 6 (36:34):
Because of the event.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Ordnance later fired over the highway prematurely detonated and a
little piece of it hit a CHP vehicle that was
part of Vice President Vance's detail.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
No one was hurt.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
It is day twenty of the federal government shutdown. Speaker
Mike Johnson says, there's a reason the House is still
in recess and hasn't been brought back into session yet.

Speaker 14 (36:53):
I refuse to allow us to come back and engage
in anything until the garment's reopen when the Democrats do
the right thing for the peak.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
The government funding bill is due to be voted on
for the eleventh time today when the Senate reconvene convenes,
this flu season could be a doozy after last.

Speaker 7 (37:09):
Year's record breaking flu season. Health experts warn the US
may face another tough winter as early surges hit the
UK and Japan, but a CDC data gap caused by
job cuts and the government's shutdown could leave health officials
flying blind. Doctors are urging everyone to get vaccinated now
before cases spike in November. Heather Brooker KFI News.

Speaker 6 (37:31):
Okay, so we've been talking about the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
They're waiting to find out who they're going to play
in the World Series. Since Toronto won yesterday, it sets
up a game seven. The series is tied at three
and three, but it doesn't matter who they play. Friday
Night's performance by one show hey Otani was one for
the books.

Speaker 12 (37:51):
Full count and now Kintana's record books. Right old Tani.

Speaker 15 (37:56):
Tays off date by field, so held one of one.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Nice way to start the game.

Speaker 12 (38:06):
And then now when the driver's seat three balls in
one strike, the right hander Patrick deals and Oltani towering.

Speaker 15 (38:15):
Wall high drive right field. He's done it again, show
hey Otani to the top of the pavilion in right
field four hundred and sixty nine feet, the longest home

(38:38):
run at Dodgers Stadium this year.

Speaker 6 (38:40):
Oh wait, we're not done, so Otani has to take time.

Speaker 12 (38:44):
He steps back in one ball, in two strikes, the
big Righty McGill SATs on the mounta, here's the pitch,
and o'tani tries.

Speaker 15 (38:53):
One left center field.

Speaker 10 (38:55):
Dig you gone?

Speaker 5 (39:01):
So hey?

Speaker 12 (39:02):
Oh Tony, the stuff of.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Legend Absolutely like a legendary game. Plus he pitched and
pitched scoreless. I mean like it was just phenomenal. It
was just so fun to see, even though I was
watching it on my phone at Disneyland, but it was
still super fun to watch it. Game seven between Toronto
and Seattle is at five o eight this afternoon, and

(39:25):
after that game we'll know who the Dodgers face in
the World Series. The Mariners win, the series starts at
Dodger Stadium on Friday. If the Blue Jays win, it'll
start in Toronto. And of course, you can listen to
all the Dodger games on our sister station, k LAC
AM five seventy. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles,
Orange County live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.

Speaker 6 (39:48):
I'm Amy King.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
This has been your wake up call, and if you
missed any wake up call, you can listen anytime on
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