October 27, 2025 • 37 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. Political Commentator Steve Roberts opens the show discussing the ongoing government shutdown stalemate. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers speaks on President Trump’s high-stakes Asia trip. 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 non-profits telling GoFundMe: Thanks, but no thanks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's
time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is your wake up call for Monday, October twenty seventh.
I'm Amy King. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It is Halloween week. You know, I love that music.
I hated the movie and I love that music.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I wish they could have heard you just like thirty
seconds ago.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What my diabolical little bit. You're diabolical, hey, you speaking
of diabolical things. You know, we go out and about
and do our boot previews. Guess what I did this
last weekend to do that thing?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Seventeenth door.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Holy crap, I can't wait to tell you about I'm
gonna be telling about it, telling you about it, I
think on either Tuesday or Wednesday, I'm not sure, but wow,
I've sort of recovered. Oh boy, such an adrenaline Russian.
Speaking of adrenaline rushes, how about those Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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and what a spectacular outing he had? Oh my god,
such a great game and of course the dot. I
got my Dodger blue on Dodgers back in town. Game
three is tonight, and can't wait to watch the boys
in blue. Yay, here's something else. Less than two months
till Christmas, just saying, just saying, And here's here's something
that I just saw. I was watching CNN.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So Halloween, you're buying your candy.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Candy prices went up and one thing we talked to
we talked to somebody about this. Last week, candy prices
went up four times the price of inflation. And I'm
telling you there's shrink flation too because the candy pieces
that I got are smaller, yep, and there's fewer pieces
in the bag.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
So it's sort of a triple threat. Yeah, that's annoying.
That's annoying. Reese's cups they're shrinking. They're smaller than they
used to be.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh yeah, I remember, were you here the day that
I brought in the little Reese's. It was supposed to
be a pumpkin. It looked like a little blob. They're tiny. Okay,
here's what's ahead on wake up Call. As I mentioned,
the Dodgers are back in LA and back in action
against the Blue Jays. In Game three of the World Series,
LA tied it up at one game apiece with a
five to one win in Toronto Saturday night that saw
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a pitcher Yashinobu Yamamoto, pitch a complete game for the
second time in a row. First pitch goes out at
five oh eight. You can listen to all the action
in World Series on a five seventy KLA see it's
a great way to listen to the game. A thirty
two year old man from north Ridge is schedule to
be sentenced today for trying to smuggle meth through Lax.
(03:05):
Prosecutors say the guy was trying to board a flight
to Australia when he got caught. The clothing he had
included a kamupajamo onesie that was caked with methamphetamine. He's
facing ten years to life in prison. President Trump's been
greeted by the Emperor of Japan as he continues his
trip to Asia. He's also going to be meeting with
Japan's new prime minister later this week. The President's expected
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to meet with China's President Shijingping in South Korea to
talk about a trade deal and a deal on TikTok
ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us at five
point twenty to tell us all about what else is
on the president's agenda in Asia. Today is day twenty
seven of the government's shutdown. ABC Steve Roberts is going
to join us in just a minute to tell us
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what or whether either side is showing any signs of
budgeting and who's going to win and lose when all
of this is over. Go fund Me did something that
could prove to be very lucrative for a lot of
nonprofit organization. But ABC's Jim Ryan's going to tell us
why the nonprofits not happy about what was done and
why all these GoFundMe pages that suddenly came up have
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been pulled back down again. Kind of interesting story and
I sent something sinister going on. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Flights to Lax affected by a shortage
of air traffic controllers. The FAA issued a temporary ground
stop yesterday morning because of a staffing shortage at an
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air traffic facility in SoCal. Staffing shortages also delayed planes
headed to Washington, Chicago, and Newark. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
is predicted that travelers are going to see more flights
delayed as the nation's air traffic controllers work without pay
during the shutdown. News brought to you by ruterhroo dot com.
Ex On Mobiles suing California over new climate disclosure laws.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The oil giant claims two state laws requiring companies to
report emissions and clim at risks violate its First Amendment rights.
Exon says the rules force it to speak on issues
it disagrees with and wants them blocked. State officials argue
the laws are vital for transparency and help investors and
the public understand corporate climate impacts. Brigida Augustino KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
The LAPD had to go on modified tactical Alert when
a crowd got out of control following a skateboarding event
in downtown LA. The LAPD says the event turned violent
on Saturday night. Some of the crowds smashed a robotaxi
with skateboards. Bottles and skateboard parts were thrown at officers
when they faced off against the group. One person was
detained after charging at officers on a skateboard. Officers were
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eventually able to clear the streets. At least one person
was injured. Former Vice President Harris has not ruled out
another run for president. She was as during an interview
with the BBC over the weekend whether she would run
again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I have lived my entire career a life of service,
and it's in my bones, and there are many.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ways to serve.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I've not decided yet what I will do in the future.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
She dismissed polls showing that she would face a steep
challenge to win her party's nomination, but she did say
she remains confident that a woman will one day be
electric president. Harris is currently promoting her memoir One hundred
and seven Days. Let's say good morning to ABC's Steve Roberts. So, Steve,
we're approaching the four week mark of the government's shutdown.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Where are we well, as you point out, as you
just reported, there are all sorts of ways in which
the shut down is really starting to affect real people.
They're traffic controllers, being one you just mentioned. By the
end of the week, food stamp aid will be will
run out, and there are millions of people, including many
in southern California who depend on a snap with the
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current name of food stamps to fill out their budgets
and feed their families. There are many ways at the
end of the week of subsident that were enacted during
COVID to help work in class folks afford healthcare. Those
are going to go away, and folks could face as
much as a thirty percent increase in their healthcare premiums.
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So there are many ways in which the government shutdown
is affected starting to affect daily life and Southern California
everywhere else. The problem is that both sides here in
Washington think they're winning the pr battle. Democrats say, look,
Trump runs Washington, he's the most powerful president in a
long time, and Republicans control both houses of Congress. It's
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his fault. But then the Republicans say, no, no, no,
it's the Democrats who are continuously voting down our efforts
to reopen the government. So look, they both can't be right, amy,
but they both think they have the political advantage, and
that's why they're such a steelman.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So I know that the Senate's expected to be back again.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They voted on this continuing resolution a dozen times times,
and I've asked other people this, and I wanted to
see if you had any idea why they're voting on
the same thing over and over again and nobody's changing
their votes.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Why are they doing it? Why even hold the vote?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Well, as I say, it's all performance, are it? Yeah,
you know, it's all pr it's all political maneuvering. It's
all trying to highlight the fact that they make the
argument that it's the Democrats who are holding things up,
so they keep holding these votes to try to dramatize.
But it's not real. It's all performance, it's all politics.
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But below the surface here amy is another very important factor,
and that's decline in trust between the two parties. I'm
not saying that Donald Trump is the only reason for this,
but you've got to Democrats, look at what he's done
in the first eight or nine months. He's closed government
departments which Congress created, He's fired government workers, he's clawed
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back billions. That's a be billions of dollars that the
Congress appropriated for various functions. And so the Democrats say, hey,
why should we believe them, even if we strike a
deal with Republicans in Congress, what evidence do we have
that Trump is going to keep his word, because he's
broken his word over and over and over again and
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reverse decisions Congress has made in the past. The absence
of trust is the real problem here. I've covered Congress
for many years. I covered the Congress for eight years
for the New York Times, and under the surface of
political differences, genuine significant differences, was a sense, Okay, in
the end, we can compromise. In the end, everybody understands it.
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In the legislature, no one gets everything they want, but
everybody gets something. That's not the mood in Washington today.
That's not the mood in the Capitol today. The mood
in the Capitol is you win or you lose, and
you don't trust the other side to keep their word.
And that's why the situation is so intractable. It's not
just that they disagree on policy. They don't believe in
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each other. And that's the real problem.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, and I think that that's been a problem for
a while. I mean, you're citing examples that made me
think of, you know, the compromise thing, and I've heard
that a lot, and I agree. I remember when Tip
O'Neil and President Reagan we'd go back and forth and
they go, hey, nobody gets one hundred percent. We come
to the middle, which nobody wants to do anymore. But
like when Obama Care was passed, the Republicans were certainly
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not on the conversation. So now it's the Democrats that
are locked out of the conversation. So, I mean, it
happens on both sides, and I think everybody looks bad.
All both sides look bad. I don't think anybody's going
to come out of this smell on like a rose.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's my thought.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I agree with you on that, But you know, there
are a lot of factors, and you can go back
in history where both sides have abused their power. But
right now, the single biggest problem is the last eight
or nine months. You have these very striking examples of
this president deliberately and consciously reversing and rejecting decisions that
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both parties in Congress have made in the past. You know,
and Senator Murkowski, who's a Republican from Alaska, US, you've
kind of a renegade Republican, she said the other day.
If you're a Democrat, you're looking at the situation saying,
why am I going to try to be helpful. If
Trump and the OMB is just going to do a
backdoor move and rescind what we've been working on. That's
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a Republican senator saying, the Democrats have a point because
of the way that Trump is operated. So I agree,
there's plenty of blame to go around in both parties,
and both parties have abused their power when they've had it.
But for the last eight months, almost all the power
has been in the hands of the Republicans, and the
Democrats look at this situation and say, why should we
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trust anybody? And as I say, I've covered Congress a
long time, and I'm not pretending that there was some
golden age, you know, and Tip O'Neil and Ronald Reagan
got together, and I covered the Congress during those years,
and I knew both of those men very well. I
covered Reagan when he was governor of California, and I
was the Los Angeles correspondent of the New York Times
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a long time ago. And even Reagan, as a hardline conservative,
still had a sense that he needed to cooperate with
the Democrats and needed to respect the Democrats, and that
word a me of respect along with trust is really
what's missing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I agree, Steve, and I wish we could talk about
this more because I think it's just it is fascinating
and frustrating all at the same time. And I appreciate
all of your insight, and we will talk to you
again soon anytime.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
All right. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I would have loved to talk to him more, but
he had to go because he had another interview to do.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
But really interesting stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four newsroom. For byteedance
to sell TikTok to a US companies expected to be
finalized this week when President Trump and Chinese President Hijinping
meet in Malaysia, actually their meeting in South Korea. Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessent says the details have been ironed out.
It's up to the two leaders to seal the deal.
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We're going to be talking more about the deal and
whether a broader trade deal with China could come out
of this week's meeting when we speak with ABC's Karen Travers.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's coming up. At five point twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Hurricane Melissa's intensified to a Category five storm as it
moves towards Jamaica. This storm is forecast to make landfall
on the island tomorrow and cross Cuba and the Bahamas
through Wednesday. ABC's Aiki Jachi says Haiti and the Dominican
Republic have already experienced catastrophic flooding.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Melissa already claiming multiple lives, including at least three in Haiti,
flooding streets and destroying homes.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No not Bis woman saying the seed took our house.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
We have no place to stay.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
In the Dominican Republic. Rain has caused landslides and floods
that have cut off communities and affected water supply systems
for more than a half million people, and French authorities
say they've arrested two men in connection with the heights
of the Priceless historic Jewels from the Louver. ABC's Marcus
Morris is one of the men was taken into custody
at Charles de Gaul Airport trying to fly to Algeria.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
We've learned from investigators that they believe that the two
that they have arrested live in the suburbs, one of
the northern suburbs of Paris.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They are just two of at least four people who
they are looking for.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Investigators say trace DNA from a helmet left at the
scene matched one of the men, allowing police to track
him by phone and by person. The FAA has lifted
a ground stop at lax. A spokesman confirmed the ground
stop lasted for about two hours yesterday because of staffing
shortages caused by the government's shutdown, which is into its
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twenty seventh day. Halloween parties turned deadly in the Puente
when sheriff's officials a man got into some sort of
a fight with another person at the party. It happened
around two thirty Sunday morning on Third Avenue.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Nothing spooky about this.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
The Powerball jackpot for tonight's drawing is up to three
hundred and fifty eight million dollars since no one matched
all six winning numbers from Saturday night. The Mega Millions
jackpots up too, to seven hundred and fourteen million dollars
for tomorrow night's drawing.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Now we're going to go to Karen Travers. I got
lost my place for a second.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. President
Trump is in Asia and it looks like he's helped
brokers another peace deal.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What's this one?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
This is something that the administration had already announced or touted,
I should say, of an agreement for a cease fire
between Cambodia and Thailand. The big issues I think we're
looking at from the weekend is the teeing up for
the president's meeting on Thursday with China's President g and
He had his Treasury secretary and trade officials meeting with
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senior Chinese officials in Malaysia over the weekend to set
the stage for this very high stakes meeting that the
president will be having on Thursday. The President says he
thinks it's going to be a successful transaction for both countries.
The Treasury secretary said over the weekend that there was
a substantial framework that was reached in.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Order to put that forward for the two.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Leaders to then discuss, negotiate, work out. We'll see what
that meeting looks like. But that is set for Thursday,
on the sidelines of a world leader meeting in South Korea.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, so Trump is hinting at a deal be since
says we've got a framework, but we won't know until after.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
We will not no details, no surprise, because I think
you know one. They want to keep this close and
they still have to meet, and things could go differently
after the meeting.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
So there are no details yet from.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
The administration publicly or the President, but they are expressing
optimism about how they feel going into this meeting. And
it's important to note we're in a trade truce right
now with China. The tariffs had been at that high
point of one hundred and forty five percent, lowered down
to thirty percent because of an agreement that the two
countries had reached on trade. But US has accused China
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going back on that agreement, and so the President had
threatened to put another one hundred percent additional tariffs and
Chinese goods starting on Saturday. And so this meeting is
very critical to sort of send off any potential changes
in this truth relationship right now.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And aren't soybeans a big sticking point. I've heard people
talking about soys.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
It's a very big deal. The Treasury Secretary alluded to
a potential deal on US soybeans because China stopped purchasing
them from the US as part of this ongoing trade war.
So the largest buyer of American soybeans, they were more
than fifty percent of our exports over the last two years.
They again did not give details of what that's going
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to look like.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Okay, thanks so much, jbc's Karen Travers.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
As always, we appreciate it. The Dodgers back.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
From Toronto and getting ready to host the Blue Jays
for Game three of the World Series tonight. Pitcher Tyler
Glasnew will start for LA and says he's staying focused.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You have to play each game for what it is
and not think about the future like three games from now.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Former Dodgers pitcher Max Scherzer gets the start for Toronto
World Series ted at one game apiece. That means the
Dodgers could claim the title if they win all three.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
In LA.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You can hear all the Dodger games on our sister
station KLA c AM five seventy again.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
First pitch goes out at five oh eight.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
The Feds are going to be watching polling places around
California leading up to the November fourth special election.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Federal monitors will be on site in five areas, including
Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside Counties, as voters way in
on Proposition fifty, a plan to redraw the state's congressional map.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says transparency at the polls translates
into faith in the electoral process, but some California election
officials say the state already has strong safeguards and doesn't
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need federal oversights. Brigidiadugustino O k if I.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Is California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell is demanding that potential
Democrat candidates for president in twenty twenty eight pledged to
tear down President Trump's White House ballroom, which is under construction.
Swalwell posted on x yesterday in his words, don't even
think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you
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pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom
on day one, or he says they could rename it
the Barack Obama Ballroom.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
He said that'd do the trick too.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Governor Newsom's confirmed that he is considering a presidential run
in twenty twenty eight. He said so when asked during
an interview with CBS News whether he'd been giving it
some serious thought.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Yeah, I'd be lying.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Otherwise I'd just be lying, and I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Newsom can't run for governor again next year. Because the
term limits. Over the weekend, former Vice President Harris told
the bb you See that she might make a run
for president again too. California may soon get another sanctuary city.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
At a recent city council meeting in South Lake Tahoe,
a resident there floated the idea of declaring the town
a sanctuary city for bears.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Maybe we go ahead and punish the people that allowed
them to get into the cabinets.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
The guy wants to punish people for not securing their trash,
which the bears in like Tahoe go after causing issues.
City says euthanizing bears happens on a rare occasion, and
a local nonprofit has officially presented the city with a proclamation,
hoping that it gets past Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I don't know, but this whole thing with the bears,
we were talking about this last week because there's being
spotted and there was that mom and her three cubs
in a neighborhood last week. We're in their territory. Yeah,
like they didn't like come looking for us, and we
just happened to have trash and stuff and they're like, hey,
free food. So I think we need to find a
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way to coexist better. Yeah, because it's not the Bears.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
It's just hungry. Yes they are, Yes, it's hungry. Everybody's hungry.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
American Airlines operations are going to move over to Terminal
four at LAX starting tomorrow. Is Demolition of Terminal five
is also set to begin tomorrow. Jet Blue and Spirit
Airlines have already moved to other.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Terminals for the construction project.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
The new terminals expected to be completed in time for
the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. A juvenile who Pollase
say was speeding when he crashed a Ford Mustang into
a power pole, killing his passenger in sam Pedro, is
facing vehicular manslaughter charges. The crash happened late Saturday night
on Harbor Boulevard near twenty second Street. The passenger killed
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was also under eighteen. The anime movie chainsaw Man is
cut out the rest of the competition, earning seventeen million
dollars at the box office. The horror movie Black Phone
two was second with thirteen million. The Bruce spring Steen
movie The Biopic may have been born to run, but
it opened with a crawl, finishing in fourth place. Just
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over nine million in ticket sales at six and five's.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Handle on the news.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
The framework for a deal is there, and President Trump
and China's Chi Jin Ping seal the deal.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
This week.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Bill's going to weigh in on that. Hey, it is
time for Dodgers World Series baseball. Tonight, the Dodgers take
on the Toronto Blue Jeen Blue Jeans, Blue Jeans, Blue
Jays for Game three of the World Series.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
First pitch goes out of five O eight.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You can listen to all the games on AM five
to seventy LA Sports and the iHeartRadio app from the
field to the worksite. Strauss Powers World Series coverage on
AM five seventy LA Sports. All right, here's somewhere of
the stuff coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Former California Governor al Arnold Schwarzenegger has criticized congressional redistricting
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across the US.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Schwarzenegger said lawmakers are trying to out cheat each other.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Let's open the Democrats and Republicans and one sad getting
left behind of the people.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Schwarzenegger appeared on CNN State of the Union. The redistricting
battle started months ago when Texas leaders redrew maps to
favor Republicans, followed by California's efforts to change maps to
favor Democrats, Several states have followed suit in an effort
to strengthen their position ahead of the twenty twenty six
midterm elections. I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Treasury Secretary Mark best sent says the federal government shutdown
is starting to have an impact on the economy. He
has called on moderate Democrats in the Senate to join
with Republicans in passing a clean spending bill to reopen
the government. Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona says President
Trump needs to telehouse Republicans to negotiate.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
When it comes to healthcare.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
He needs to get them back into Washington, get them
in the room. We can have a super If Scott Bessett.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Said it wouldn't do any good because of the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Well, he has no idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
The House Speaker said, there is nothing to negotiate. A
US warship is doctor in Trinidad and Tobago's capital as
the Trump administration increases military pressure on Venezuela and its president,
Nicholas Maduro. The USS gravely's arrival yesterday as in addition
to the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, which is
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moving closer to Venezuela. Maduro has criticized the move as
a US attempt to fabricate a new eternal war against
his country. San Jose has been named the safest big
city in the US. It ranked first on smart Assets
list of the safest major cities for twenty twenty five.
San Jose was ranked among the top ten on the
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Personal Finance website for every safety metric considered. It has
the third lowest number of violent crimes per one hundred
thousand people in the country and the fifth fewest property crimes.
Guess who came in second, Los Angeles? Really Okay, I
might start questioning these metrics. Long Beach was number eleven,
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San Diego was thirteenth, and Sacramento came back as fifteenth
on the list. Time to get in Your Business with
Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, as we do every morning at five
forty morning.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Denise, Hey, good morning, Amy, to see you had a
great weekend, especially Saturday.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Saturday night with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yes, absolutely, all right, let's get to business, shall we.
We know that beef prices have been going up. But
that's not the only meat that's going up.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah, amazingly, amy, consumer prices for lunch meats are now skyrocketing.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I've noticed that, seriously, four.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
In September one. I mean, you go to buy some
sliced turkey and you basically can't even see it on
the paper there when they cut it. You pick it
up in the package, weighs nothing, and you pay like
a bucks for it. Because we just saw the largest
monthly increase on record for lunch meat prices according to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Record high beef prices, a
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decline in domestic cattle and pig herds, and a work
shortage are driving up lunch meat prices. We all know
about turkey prices and the problems they're ready and prices.
Though some good news maybe could drop from here because
Trump administration is working on a definition of ultra processed foods,
part of this push by Robert F. Kennedy, Health Secretary
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to get us to eat less ultra processed food, which
includes packaged delimeats. Apparently some people are already eating less ham,
so people eat less than maybe prices will drop for
you and.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Me an ultra processed food.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You just you got me stuck on this Hamburger helper
thing and you're writing was so good for leftovers at breakfast.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
So so irresistible. Okay, it is the spooky season.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
We're five days away from Halloween, and apparently we're shelling
out for the insta perfect pumpkinscape.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
What in the I don't even know what that is?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Okay, So these are these holiday decorations that you're seeing
this year, with all these incredible pumpkins that people have
outside their homes and all the sculptures that they make.
But then people are paying porch stylists hundreds, sometimes thousands
of dollars to deck out their front steps with things
like pumpkins. Also the moms Halloween decorations. A one fall
(27:10):
stylist tells Wall Street Journal she's using enough pumpkins amy
to fill twenty four eighteen wheelers for her displays. And
this is a whole new seasonal micro economy. There's that
my Gourd package. It's introduced after one of the Kardashians
posted a muted cream colored pumpkin scape all filled with
white and neutral pumpkins. There's one reason, though, why people
(27:33):
are willing to spend so much for this. It's not
just that they're trying to follow the Kardashians.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
If you do.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Pumpkins, you can keep them up not only for Halloween,
for Thanksgiving as well.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
The house thinking you need to pay for two sets
of decorations, That's what I do.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Like I decorate for Halloween and then about half of
it comes down, but about half of it stays up
through the month of.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
U take down the blood and the skeletons, and you're also.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, okay. And then we got a couple of big
deals and two of them involve La Area company.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Novartis has agreed to buy San Diego based Avidity in
a twelve billion dollars biotech deal. Avidity is developing experimental
drugs to treat some diseases, including a neuromuscular illness called
mytonic distostrophe type one. Some of those drugs may launch
before twenty thirty, having multi billion dollar sales potential, so
we can see why Novartists would want that one. And
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Grinder shares West Hollywood right rising almost three percent in
the pre market today. They had a huge nineteen percent
rally on Friday. The dating app confirming the Special Committee
of the board has received a non binding, unsolicited take
private proposal from some large shareholders.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Question is, though, whether that deal will actually happen.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
We'll see a twenty percent jump in shares in one day.
That's pretty massive, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Yeah, and rising again this morning, So not too late
if you want to buy in.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
All right, getting in your business as we do every
weekday with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Thanks Denise. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Talk to you tomorrow, okay.
Governor Newsom says he'd.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Be lying if he says, see he's not thinking about
a run for the White House. Newsom's comments on CBS
came over the weekend, a day after former Vice President
Harris suggested that she could possibly run for president again.
Melissa has strengthened to a Category five storm as it
powers toward the Caribbean. Forecasters say the torrential rain could
(29:18):
unleash catastrophic flooding and mudslides when it makes landfall in
Haiti and Jamaica. The National Weather Services a storm could
dump between fifteen and thirty inches of rain on Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Shaquille O'Neil's one.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Hundred and eighty thousand dollars range Rover has been stolen
during transport from southern California to Louisiana. The range Rover
was sold to shack at Effortless Motors in Riverside. The
transport company says it was a targeted theft. Effortless Motors
is offering a ten thousand dollars reward for information leading
to the recovery of the range Rover. We're just minutes
(29:52):
away from Handle. On the news this morning, a lot
of people at LAX left stranded for a while yesterday,
and uh, apparently it's not going to get a whole
lot better as the government shutdown continues. Let's say good
morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, I wanted
to talk to you because on the surface, what you're
talking about looks like a pretty cool thing that GoFundMe
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is doing, but it might not be.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So tell us what's going on.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Yeah, maybe you could file this under no good deed
goes unpunished. Maybe maybe, but you might change your mind
by the end of this. So, a couple of weeks ago,
go fund Me decided to create nonprofit pages. That's what
they called it, nonprofit Pages. They went into IRS data.
They gathered up the names of one point four million,
five H one c three organizations and created pages one
(30:43):
for each of them. Right, one point four million, that's
a lot. So organizations out there started receiving these mysterious
contributions like where did this come from gofund me. Some
of the groups had never even heard of gofund me.
Other groups. There's a church in San Antonio, for example.
It collects donations through its own website, and the priest
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there is concerned that you know, parishioners, especially older parishioners
are going to be confused by this if they directly
get directed to the go fundme site instead of to
the church site. So that priest and others have said
please take this down. Go fundme has her complaints from
lots of organizations and now is changing the way that
those pages work.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, so all one point four million are down or just.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
Some of them, Well, they're invisible at this point. Now
the groups, you'll say, that church in San Antonio, it
could could contact go fund me and say, yeah, we
want we want to accept that. We're going to claim
that website or that page on GoFundMe so we can
collect the donation. That's not going to happen because the
priest is furious about this. So but and then the
the page would go live, it would be visible then
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to people making contributions. If not, it's going to stay invisible.
It will eventually disappear. I mean it'll go away all together.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So here's my question, Jim. Because I was reading about this,
I was like, well, that sounds like a great thing.
So why are people I can see where? Like you said,
it might confuse some people. But here's my thing. Can't
you make a cover the fees on go fund me.
Doesn't go fund me stand to make a ton of
money on this?
Speaker 10 (32:16):
Yes, okay, yes, two point two percent of every donation
to a nonprofit on one of these pages it goes
to go fund me plus thirty cents from each donation.
And then go fund me says after you make your donation.
Let's say you make a donation to the Friends of
the Los Angeles Public Library, then go fund me says, great,
(32:36):
thank you. Would you like to give a tip? Now,
It's just like at the coffee shop when they spin
the thing around and say, hey, may you want to
give a tip here? And you say, of course I do,
and you give you know anyway, so that's sort of
what this is doing as well. So yeah, go fund me.
There was that profit motive. Good intentions, sure, but motive
maybe I don't.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I think it's all ulterior motive. I think it. I mean, like,
if you look.
Speaker 10 (33:00):
At it, it's so cynical.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I know, and I hate that. I hate that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But I was like going, well, this sounds really cool,
and I went, wait a second, why would they go on?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Okay, Well, I'm glad that they're you know, if and
I think if they're going to do nonprofits, then maybe
just wave the fees.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
Wouldn't that be something? Well, what they have done is
that it's previously was an opt out situation, so friends
of the LA Public Library they had to opt out
of that page to make it go away. It's been
reversed now so that they have to opt in to
have that page go live. So that's the solution that
go fund me has come up with.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, so for most of your donations that you've been
making to directly to a company, keep doing that for now,
or to a charity or to a charity. That's what
I meant all right, ABC, Jim Ryan, thanks for bringing
this into the public light. See Amy, doesn't that kind
of make you mad? It did look like a good
idea on the surf, But two point two percent of
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one point four million companies, and that's if just one
person made a donation.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, let's go back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom
says Prop fifty isn't just about California, it's about the
United States.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Newsom told CBS this morning that the redistricting fight in
California is about writing wrong redistricting efforts in other states.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I think it's about the rule of law and not
the rule of dawn.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
He says.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
If Prop fifty passes, Trump is done. Newsom went on
to say that he fears another Republican administration.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
If you have a speaker Johnson, we may have a
third term of President Trump.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
I really believe that the fate of Prop fifty will
be revealed after the special election in California on November fourth.
Jason Campedonia KFI news.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Polling places are open.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Eleven hundred in person of voting places opened up over
the weekend. They're going to be open daily through election,
which again is November fourth. Top US officials say trade
talks with China getting closer to an agreement. US Trade
Representative Jamison Grier and Treasury Secretary Scott Descent met with
China's Vice premier on the sidelines of the Asian Summit
(35:16):
in Malaysia on Sunday. President Trump and China's President Xi
Jinping are scheduled to meet later this week. Russia's President
Putin says his country has tested a new nuclear capable
cruise missile and is moving closer to deploying it. The
missile has been in development for years. Putin claims it
(35:36):
has an unlimited range and can evade missile defenses, but
many experts say they are skeptical. One missile reportedly exploded
in twenty nineteen, causing fatalities and a brief spike in radioactivity.
It's week four of the government shut down. More than
half million federal workers have missed their first full paycheck,
(35:58):
and another seven hundhundred thousand plus are said to join
them this week. ABC's Alex purchasas those receiving food aid,
will also be impacted.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Starting next weekend. Federal snap Food Assistants.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
Benefits for some forty million Americans will run out.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
The USDA website now with this stark warning bottom line,
the well has run dry at this time. There will
be no benefits issued November first.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The Trump administration blames Democrats who say they won't support
reopening the government until Republicans agree to negotiate on expiring
healthcare subsidies and other spending. Polease in Southern California are
urging baseball fans to stay safe Fence Day well behaved
as the Dodgers look to win the World Series for
a second year in a row. The LAPD, LAKENNY Sheriff's Office,
(36:46):
and the CHP say they are committed to maintaining a
safe environment for all fans. They're urging watchers to designate
a driver, take public transportation, or use a ride share
if they plan to drink, and to be respect full
of others in crowds. Of course, The Dodgers and the
Blue Jays based off in Game three of the World Series. Tonight,
(37:08):
first pitch goes out at five oh eight at Dodgers Stadium.
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for
producer and and technical producer Kono, along with traffic specialist
Will I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call,
and if you missed any wake up Call, you can
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's
time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is your wake up call for Monday, October twenty seventh.
I'm Amy King. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It is Halloween week. You know, I love that music.
I hated the movie and I love that music.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I wish they could have heard you just like thirty
seconds ago.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What my diabolical little bit. You're diabolical, hey, you speaking
of diabolical things. You know, we go out and about
and do our boot previews. Guess what I did this
last weekend to do that thing?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Seventeenth door.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Holy crap, I can't wait to tell you about I'm
gonna be telling about it, telling you about it, I
think on either Tuesday or Wednesday, I'm not sure, but wow,
I've sort of recovered. Oh boy, such an adrenaline Russian.
Speaking of adrenaline rushes, how about those Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto
(01:31):
and what a spectacular outing he had? Oh my god,
such a great game and of course the dot. I
got my Dodger blue on Dodgers back in town. Game
three is tonight, and can't wait to watch the boys
in blue. Yay, here's something else. Less than two months
till Christmas, just saying, just saying, And here's here's something
that I just saw. I was watching CNN.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So Halloween, you're buying your candy.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Candy prices went up and one thing we talked to
we talked to somebody about this. Last week, candy prices
went up four times the price of inflation. And I'm
telling you there's shrink flation too because the candy pieces
that I got are smaller, yep, and there's fewer pieces
in the bag.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
So it's sort of a triple threat. Yeah, that's annoying.
That's annoying. Reese's cups they're shrinking. They're smaller than they
used to be.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh yeah, I remember, were you here the day that
I brought in the little Reese's. It was supposed to
be a pumpkin. It looked like a little blob. They're tiny. Okay,
here's what's ahead on wake up Call. As I mentioned,
the Dodgers are back in LA and back in action
against the Blue Jays. In Game three of the World Series,
LA tied it up at one game apiece with a
five to one win in Toronto Saturday night that saw
(02:45):
a pitcher Yashinobu Yamamoto, pitch a complete game for the
second time in a row. First pitch goes out at
five oh eight. You can listen to all the action
in World Series on a five seventy KLA see it's
a great way to listen to the game. A thirty
two year old man from north Ridge is schedule to
be sentenced today for trying to smuggle meth through Lax.
(03:05):
Prosecutors say the guy was trying to board a flight
to Australia when he got caught. The clothing he had
included a kamupajamo onesie that was caked with methamphetamine. He's
facing ten years to life in prison. President Trump's been
greeted by the Emperor of Japan as he continues his
trip to Asia. He's also going to be meeting with
Japan's new prime minister later this week. The President's expected
(03:28):
to meet with China's President Shijingping in South Korea to
talk about a trade deal and a deal on TikTok
ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us at five
point twenty to tell us all about what else is
on the president's agenda in Asia. Today is day twenty
seven of the government's shutdown. ABC Steve Roberts is going
to join us in just a minute to tell us
(03:48):
what or whether either side is showing any signs of
budgeting and who's going to win and lose when all
of this is over. Go fund Me did something that
could prove to be very lucrative for a lot of
nonprofit organization. But ABC's Jim Ryan's going to tell us
why the nonprofits not happy about what was done and
why all these GoFundMe pages that suddenly came up have
(04:11):
been pulled back down again. Kind of interesting story and
I sent something sinister going on. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Flights to Lax affected by a shortage
of air traffic controllers. The FAA issued a temporary ground
stop yesterday morning because of a staffing shortage at an
(04:32):
air traffic facility in SoCal. Staffing shortages also delayed planes
headed to Washington, Chicago, and Newark. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
is predicted that travelers are going to see more flights
delayed as the nation's air traffic controllers work without pay
during the shutdown. News brought to you by ruterhroo dot com.
Ex On Mobiles suing California over new climate disclosure laws.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The oil giant claims two state laws requiring companies to
report emissions and clim at risks violate its First Amendment rights.
Exon says the rules force it to speak on issues
it disagrees with and wants them blocked. State officials argue
the laws are vital for transparency and help investors and
the public understand corporate climate impacts. Brigida Augustino KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
The LAPD had to go on modified tactical Alert when
a crowd got out of control following a skateboarding event
in downtown LA. The LAPD says the event turned violent
on Saturday night. Some of the crowds smashed a robotaxi
with skateboards. Bottles and skateboard parts were thrown at officers
when they faced off against the group. One person was
detained after charging at officers on a skateboard. Officers were
(05:40):
eventually able to clear the streets. At least one person
was injured. Former Vice President Harris has not ruled out
another run for president. She was as during an interview
with the BBC over the weekend whether she would run
again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I have lived my entire career a life of service,
and it's in my bones, and there are many.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ways to serve.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
I've not decided yet what I will do in the future.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
She dismissed polls showing that she would face a steep
challenge to win her party's nomination, but she did say
she remains confident that a woman will one day be
electric president. Harris is currently promoting her memoir One hundred
and seven Days. Let's say good morning to ABC's Steve Roberts. So, Steve,
we're approaching the four week mark of the government's shutdown.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Where are we well, as you point out, as you
just reported, there are all sorts of ways in which
the shut down is really starting to affect real people.
They're traffic controllers, being one you just mentioned. By the
end of the week, food stamp aid will be will
run out, and there are millions of people, including many
in southern California who depend on a snap with the
(06:50):
current name of food stamps to fill out their budgets
and feed their families. There are many ways at the
end of the week of subsident that were enacted during
COVID to help work in class folks afford healthcare. Those
are going to go away, and folks could face as
much as a thirty percent increase in their healthcare premiums.
(07:12):
So there are many ways in which the government shutdown
is affected starting to affect daily life and Southern California
everywhere else. The problem is that both sides here in
Washington think they're winning the pr battle. Democrats say, look,
Trump runs Washington, he's the most powerful president in a
long time, and Republicans control both houses of Congress. It's
(07:34):
his fault. But then the Republicans say, no, no, no,
it's the Democrats who are continuously voting down our efforts
to reopen the government. So look, they both can't be right, amy,
but they both think they have the political advantage, and
that's why they're such a steelman.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So I know that the Senate's expected to be back again.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They voted on this continuing resolution a dozen times times,
and I've asked other people this, and I wanted to
see if you had any idea why they're voting on
the same thing over and over again and nobody's changing
their votes.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Why are they doing it? Why even hold the vote?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Well, as I say, it's all performance, are it? Yeah,
you know, it's all pr it's all political maneuvering. It's
all trying to highlight the fact that they make the
argument that it's the Democrats who are holding things up,
so they keep holding these votes to try to dramatize.
But it's not real. It's all performance, it's all politics.
(08:35):
But below the surface here amy is another very important factor,
and that's decline in trust between the two parties. I'm
not saying that Donald Trump is the only reason for this,
but you've got to Democrats, look at what he's done
in the first eight or nine months. He's closed government
departments which Congress created, He's fired government workers, he's clawed
(08:59):
back billions. That's a be billions of dollars that the
Congress appropriated for various functions. And so the Democrats say, hey,
why should we believe them, even if we strike a
deal with Republicans in Congress, what evidence do we have
that Trump is going to keep his word, because he's
broken his word over and over and over again and
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reverse decisions Congress has made in the past. The absence
of trust is the real problem here. I've covered Congress
for many years. I covered the Congress for eight years
for the New York Times, and under the surface of
political differences, genuine significant differences, was a sense, Okay, in
the end, we can compromise. In the end, everybody understands it.
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In the legislature, no one gets everything they want, but
everybody gets something. That's not the mood in Washington today.
That's not the mood in the Capitol today. The mood
in the Capitol is you win or you lose, and
you don't trust the other side to keep their word.
And that's why the situation is so intractable. It's not
just that they disagree on policy. They don't believe in
(10:06):
each other. And that's the real problem.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, and I think that that's been a problem for
a while. I mean, you're citing examples that made me
think of, you know, the compromise thing, and I've heard
that a lot, and I agree. I remember when Tip
O'Neil and President Reagan we'd go back and forth and
they go, hey, nobody gets one hundred percent. We come
to the middle, which nobody wants to do anymore. But
like when Obama Care was passed, the Republicans were certainly
(10:32):
not on the conversation. So now it's the Democrats that
are locked out of the conversation. So, I mean, it
happens on both sides, and I think everybody looks bad.
All both sides look bad. I don't think anybody's going
to come out of this smell on like a rose.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's my thought.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I agree with you on that, But you know, there
are a lot of factors, and you can go back
in history where both sides have abused their power. But
right now, the single biggest problem is the last eight
or nine months. You have these very striking examples of
this president deliberately and consciously reversing and rejecting decisions that
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both parties in Congress have made in the past. You know,
and Senator Murkowski, who's a Republican from Alaska, US, you've
kind of a renegade Republican, she said the other day.
If you're a Democrat, you're looking at the situation saying,
why am I going to try to be helpful. If
Trump and the OMB is just going to do a
backdoor move and rescind what we've been working on. That's
(11:34):
a Republican senator saying, the Democrats have a point because
of the way that Trump is operated. So I agree,
there's plenty of blame to go around in both parties,
and both parties have abused their power when they've had it.
But for the last eight months, almost all the power
has been in the hands of the Republicans, and the
Democrats look at this situation and say, why should we
(11:56):
trust anybody? And as I say, I've covered Congress a
long time, and I'm not pretending that there was some
golden age, you know, and Tip O'Neil and Ronald Reagan
got together, and I covered the Congress during those years,
and I knew both of those men very well. I
covered Reagan when he was governor of California, and I
was the Los Angeles correspondent of the New York Times
(12:17):
a long time ago. And even Reagan, as a hardline conservative,
still had a sense that he needed to cooperate with
the Democrats and needed to respect the Democrats, and that
word a me of respect along with trust is really
what's missing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I agree, Steve, and I wish we could talk about
this more because I think it's just it is fascinating
and frustrating all at the same time. And I appreciate
all of your insight, and we will talk to you
again soon anytime.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
All right. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I would have loved to talk to him more, but
he had to go because he had another interview to do.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
But really interesting stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four newsroom. For byteedance
to sell TikTok to a US companies expected to be
finalized this week when President Trump and Chinese President Hijinping
meet in Malaysia, actually their meeting in South Korea. Treasury
Secretary Scott Bessent says the details have been ironed out.
It's up to the two leaders to seal the deal.
(13:18):
We're going to be talking more about the deal and
whether a broader trade deal with China could come out
of this week's meeting when we speak with ABC's Karen Travers.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's coming up. At five point twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Hurricane Melissa's intensified to a Category five storm as it
moves towards Jamaica. This storm is forecast to make landfall
on the island tomorrow and cross Cuba and the Bahamas
through Wednesday. ABC's Aiki Jachi says Haiti and the Dominican
Republic have already experienced catastrophic flooding.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Melissa already claiming multiple lives, including at least three in Haiti,
flooding streets and destroying homes.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No not Bis woman saying the seed took our house.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
We have no place to stay.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
In the Dominican Republic. Rain has caused landslides and floods
that have cut off communities and affected water supply systems
for more than a half million people, and French authorities
say they've arrested two men in connection with the heights
of the Priceless historic Jewels from the Louver. ABC's Marcus
Morris is one of the men was taken into custody
at Charles de Gaul Airport trying to fly to Algeria.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
We've learned from investigators that they believe that the two
that they have arrested live in the suburbs, one of
the northern suburbs of Paris.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They are just two of at least four people who
they are looking for.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Investigators say trace DNA from a helmet left at the
scene matched one of the men, allowing police to track
him by phone and by person. The FAA has lifted
a ground stop at lax. A spokesman confirmed the ground
stop lasted for about two hours yesterday because of staffing
shortages caused by the government's shutdown, which is into its
(14:55):
twenty seventh day. Halloween parties turned deadly in the Puente
when sheriff's officials a man got into some sort of
a fight with another person at the party. It happened
around two thirty Sunday morning on Third Avenue.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Nothing spooky about this.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
The Powerball jackpot for tonight's drawing is up to three
hundred and fifty eight million dollars since no one matched
all six winning numbers from Saturday night. The Mega Millions
jackpots up too, to seven hundred and fourteen million dollars
for tomorrow night's drawing.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Now we're going to go to Karen Travers. I got
lost my place for a second.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. President
Trump is in Asia and it looks like he's helped
brokers another peace deal.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What's this one?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
This is something that the administration had already announced or touted,
I should say, of an agreement for a cease fire
between Cambodia and Thailand. The big issues I think we're
looking at from the weekend is the teeing up for
the president's meeting on Thursday with China's President g and
He had his Treasury secretary and trade officials meeting with
(16:01):
senior Chinese officials in Malaysia over the weekend to set
the stage for this very high stakes meeting that the
president will be having on Thursday. The President says he
thinks it's going to be a successful transaction for both countries.
The Treasury secretary said over the weekend that there was
a substantial framework that was reached in.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Order to put that forward for the two.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Leaders to then discuss, negotiate, work out. We'll see what
that meeting looks like. But that is set for Thursday,
on the sidelines of a world leader meeting in South Korea.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, so Trump is hinting at a deal be since
says we've got a framework, but we won't know until after.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
We will not no details, no surprise, because I think
you know one. They want to keep this close and
they still have to meet, and things could go differently
after the meeting.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
So there are no details yet from.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
The administration publicly or the President, but they are expressing
optimism about how they feel going into this meeting. And
it's important to note we're in a trade truce right
now with China. The tariffs had been at that high
point of one hundred and forty five percent, lowered down
to thirty percent because of an agreement that the two
countries had reached on trade. But US has accused China
(17:16):
going back on that agreement, and so the President had
threatened to put another one hundred percent additional tariffs and
Chinese goods starting on Saturday. And so this meeting is
very critical to sort of send off any potential changes
in this truth relationship right now.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And aren't soybeans a big sticking point. I've heard people
talking about soys.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
It's a very big deal. The Treasury Secretary alluded to
a potential deal on US soybeans because China stopped purchasing
them from the US as part of this ongoing trade war.
So the largest buyer of American soybeans, they were more
than fifty percent of our exports over the last two years.
They again did not give details of what that's going
(17:58):
to look like.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Okay, thanks so much, jbc's Karen Travers.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
As always, we appreciate it. The Dodgers back.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
From Toronto and getting ready to host the Blue Jays
for Game three of the World Series tonight. Pitcher Tyler
Glasnew will start for LA and says he's staying focused.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You have to play each game for what it is
and not think about the future like three games from now.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Former Dodgers pitcher Max Scherzer gets the start for Toronto
World Series ted at one game apiece. That means the
Dodgers could claim the title if they win all three.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
In LA.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You can hear all the Dodger games on our sister
station KLA c AM five seventy again.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
First pitch goes out at five oh eight.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
The Feds are going to be watching polling places around
California leading up to the November fourth special election.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Federal monitors will be on site in five areas, including
Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside Counties, as voters way in
on Proposition fifty, a plan to redraw the state's congressional map.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says transparency at the polls translates
into faith in the electoral process, but some California election
officials say the state already has strong safeguards and doesn't
(19:03):
need federal oversights. Brigidiadugustino O k if I.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Is California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell is demanding that potential
Democrat candidates for president in twenty twenty eight pledged to
tear down President Trump's White House ballroom, which is under construction.
Swalwell posted on x yesterday in his words, don't even
think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you
(19:27):
pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom
on day one, or he says they could rename it
the Barack Obama Ballroom.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
He said that'd do the trick too.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Governor Newsom's confirmed that he is considering a presidential run
in twenty twenty eight. He said so when asked during
an interview with CBS News whether he'd been giving it
some serious thought.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Yeah, I'd be lying.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Otherwise I'd just be lying, and I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Newsom can't run for governor again next year. Because the
term limits. Over the weekend, former Vice President Harris told
the bb you See that she might make a run
for president again too. California may soon get another sanctuary city.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
At a recent city council meeting in South Lake Tahoe,
a resident there floated the idea of declaring the town
a sanctuary city for bears.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Maybe we go ahead and punish the people that allowed
them to get into the cabinets.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
The guy wants to punish people for not securing their trash,
which the bears in like Tahoe go after causing issues.
City says euthanizing bears happens on a rare occasion, and
a local nonprofit has officially presented the city with a proclamation,
hoping that it gets past Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I don't know, but this whole thing with the bears,
we were talking about this last week because there's being
spotted and there was that mom and her three cubs
in a neighborhood last week. We're in their territory. Yeah,
like they didn't like come looking for us, and we
just happened to have trash and stuff and they're like, hey,
free food. So I think we need to find a
(20:56):
way to coexist better. Yeah, because it's not the Bears.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
It's just hungry. Yes they are, Yes, it's hungry. Everybody's hungry.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
American Airlines operations are going to move over to Terminal
four at LAX starting tomorrow. Is Demolition of Terminal five
is also set to begin tomorrow. Jet Blue and Spirit
Airlines have already moved to other.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Terminals for the construction project.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
The new terminals expected to be completed in time for
the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. A juvenile who Pollase
say was speeding when he crashed a Ford Mustang into
a power pole, killing his passenger in sam Pedro, is
facing vehicular manslaughter charges. The crash happened late Saturday night
on Harbor Boulevard near twenty second Street. The passenger killed
(21:41):
was also under eighteen. The anime movie chainsaw Man is
cut out the rest of the competition, earning seventeen million
dollars at the box office. The horror movie Black Phone
two was second with thirteen million. The Bruce spring Steen
movie The Biopic may have been born to run, but
it opened with a crawl, finishing in fourth place. Just
(22:02):
over nine million in ticket sales at six and five's.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Handle on the news.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
The framework for a deal is there, and President Trump
and China's Chi Jin Ping seal the deal.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
This week.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Bill's going to weigh in on that. Hey, it is
time for Dodgers World Series baseball. Tonight, the Dodgers take
on the Toronto Blue Jeen Blue Jeans, Blue Jeans, Blue
Jays for Game three of the World Series.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
First pitch goes out of five O eight.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You can listen to all the games on AM five
to seventy LA Sports and the iHeartRadio app from the
field to the worksite. Strauss Powers World Series coverage on
AM five seventy LA Sports. All right, here's somewhere of
the stuff coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Former California Governor al Arnold Schwarzenegger has criticized congressional redistricting
(22:52):
across the US.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Schwarzenegger said lawmakers are trying to out cheat each other.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Let's open the Democrats and Republicans and one sad getting
left behind of the people.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Schwarzenegger appeared on CNN State of the Union. The redistricting
battle started months ago when Texas leaders redrew maps to
favor Republicans, followed by California's efforts to change maps to
favor Democrats, Several states have followed suit in an effort
to strengthen their position ahead of the twenty twenty six
midterm elections. I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Treasury Secretary Mark best sent says the federal government shutdown
is starting to have an impact on the economy. He
has called on moderate Democrats in the Senate to join
with Republicans in passing a clean spending bill to reopen
the government. Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona says President
Trump needs to telehouse Republicans to negotiate.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
When it comes to healthcare.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
He needs to get them back into Washington, get them
in the room. We can have a super If Scott Bessett.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Said it wouldn't do any good because of the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Well, he has no idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
The House Speaker said, there is nothing to negotiate. A
US warship is doctor in Trinidad and Tobago's capital as
the Trump administration increases military pressure on Venezuela and its president,
Nicholas Maduro. The USS gravely's arrival yesterday as in addition
to the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, which is
(24:13):
moving closer to Venezuela. Maduro has criticized the move as
a US attempt to fabricate a new eternal war against
his country. San Jose has been named the safest big
city in the US. It ranked first on smart Assets
list of the safest major cities for twenty twenty five.
San Jose was ranked among the top ten on the
(24:34):
Personal Finance website for every safety metric considered. It has
the third lowest number of violent crimes per one hundred
thousand people in the country and the fifth fewest property crimes.
Guess who came in second, Los Angeles? Really Okay, I
might start questioning these metrics. Long Beach was number eleven,
(24:57):
San Diego was thirteenth, and Sacramento came back as fifteenth
on the list. Time to get in Your Business with
Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, as we do every morning at five
forty morning.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Denise, Hey, good morning, Amy, to see you had a
great weekend, especially Saturday.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Saturday night with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yes, absolutely, all right, let's get to business, shall we.
We know that beef prices have been going up. But
that's not the only meat that's going up.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah, amazingly, amy, consumer prices for lunch meats are now skyrocketing.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
I've noticed that, seriously, four.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
In September one. I mean, you go to buy some
sliced turkey and you basically can't even see it on
the paper there when they cut it. You pick it
up in the package, weighs nothing, and you pay like
a bucks for it. Because we just saw the largest
monthly increase on record for lunch meat prices according to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Record high beef prices, a
(25:57):
decline in domestic cattle and pig herds, and a work
shortage are driving up lunch meat prices. We all know
about turkey prices and the problems they're ready and prices.
Though some good news maybe could drop from here because
Trump administration is working on a definition of ultra processed foods,
part of this push by Robert F. Kennedy, Health Secretary
(26:17):
to get us to eat less ultra processed food, which
includes packaged delimeats. Apparently some people are already eating less ham,
so people eat less than maybe prices will drop for
you and.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Me an ultra processed food.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You just you got me stuck on this Hamburger helper
thing and you're writing was so good for leftovers at breakfast.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
So so irresistible. Okay, it is the spooky season.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
We're five days away from Halloween, and apparently we're shelling
out for the insta perfect pumpkinscape.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
What in the I don't even know what that is?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Okay, So these are these holiday decorations that you're seeing
this year, with all these incredible pumpkins that people have
outside their homes and all the sculptures that they make.
But then people are paying porch stylists hundreds, sometimes thousands
of dollars to deck out their front steps with things
like pumpkins. Also the moms Halloween decorations. A one fall
(27:10):
stylist tells Wall Street Journal she's using enough pumpkins amy
to fill twenty four eighteen wheelers for her displays. And
this is a whole new seasonal micro economy. There's that
my Gourd package. It's introduced after one of the Kardashians
posted a muted cream colored pumpkin scape all filled with
white and neutral pumpkins. There's one reason, though, why people
(27:33):
are willing to spend so much for this. It's not
just that they're trying to follow the Kardashians.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
If you do.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Pumpkins, you can keep them up not only for Halloween,
for Thanksgiving as well.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
The house thinking you need to pay for two sets
of decorations, That's what I do.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Like I decorate for Halloween and then about half of
it comes down, but about half of it stays up
through the month of.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
U take down the blood and the skeletons, and you're also.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah, okay. And then we got a couple of big
deals and two of them involve La Area company.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Novartis has agreed to buy San Diego based Avidity in
a twelve billion dollars biotech deal. Avidity is developing experimental
drugs to treat some diseases, including a neuromuscular illness called
mytonic distostrophe type one. Some of those drugs may launch
before twenty thirty, having multi billion dollar sales potential, so
we can see why Novartists would want that one. And
(28:22):
Grinder shares West Hollywood right rising almost three percent in
the pre market today. They had a huge nineteen percent
rally on Friday. The dating app confirming the Special Committee
of the board has received a non binding, unsolicited take
private proposal from some large shareholders.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Question is, though, whether that deal will actually happen.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
We'll see a twenty percent jump in shares in one day.
That's pretty massive, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Yeah, and rising again this morning, So not too late
if you want to buy in.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
All right, getting in your business as we do every
weekday with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Thanks Denise. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Talk to you tomorrow, okay.
Governor Newsom says he'd.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Be lying if he says, see he's not thinking about
a run for the White House. Newsom's comments on CBS
came over the weekend, a day after former Vice President
Harris suggested that she could possibly run for president again.
Melissa has strengthened to a Category five storm as it
powers toward the Caribbean. Forecasters say the torrential rain could
(29:18):
unleash catastrophic flooding and mudslides when it makes landfall in
Haiti and Jamaica. The National Weather Services a storm could
dump between fifteen and thirty inches of rain on Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Shaquille O'Neil's one.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Hundred and eighty thousand dollars range Rover has been stolen
during transport from southern California to Louisiana. The range Rover
was sold to shack at Effortless Motors in Riverside. The
transport company says it was a targeted theft. Effortless Motors
is offering a ten thousand dollars reward for information leading
to the recovery of the range Rover. We're just minutes
(29:52):
away from Handle. On the news this morning, a lot
of people at LAX left stranded for a while yesterday,
and uh, apparently it's not going to get a whole
lot better as the government shutdown continues. Let's say good
morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, I wanted
to talk to you because on the surface, what you're
talking about looks like a pretty cool thing that GoFundMe
(30:15):
is doing, but it might not be.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
So tell us what's going on.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Yeah, maybe you could file this under no good deed
goes unpunished. Maybe maybe, but you might change your mind
by the end of this. So, a couple of weeks ago,
go fund Me decided to create nonprofit pages. That's what
they called it, nonprofit Pages. They went into IRS data.
They gathered up the names of one point four million,
five H one c three organizations and created pages one
(30:43):
for each of them. Right, one point four million, that's
a lot. So organizations out there started receiving these mysterious
contributions like where did this come from gofund me. Some
of the groups had never even heard of gofund me.
Other groups. There's a church in San Antonio, for example.
It collects donations through its own website, and the priest
(31:04):
there is concerned that you know, parishioners, especially older parishioners
are going to be confused by this if they directly
get directed to the go fundme site instead of to
the church site. So that priest and others have said
please take this down. Go fundme has her complaints from
lots of organizations and now is changing the way that
those pages work.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, so all one point four million are down or just.
Speaker 10 (31:28):
Some of them, Well, they're invisible at this point. Now
the groups, you'll say, that church in San Antonio, it
could could contact go fund me and say, yeah, we
want we want to accept that. We're going to claim
that website or that page on GoFundMe so we can
collect the donation. That's not going to happen because the
priest is furious about this. So but and then the
the page would go live, it would be visible then
(31:49):
to people making contributions. If not, it's going to stay invisible.
It will eventually disappear. I mean it'll go away all together.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
So here's my question, Jim. Because I was reading about this,
I was like, well, that sounds like a great thing.
So why are people I can see where? Like you said,
it might confuse some people. But here's my thing. Can't
you make a cover the fees on go fund me.
Doesn't go fund me stand to make a ton of
money on this?
Speaker 10 (32:16):
Yes, okay, yes, two point two percent of every donation
to a nonprofit on one of these pages it goes
to go fund me plus thirty cents from each donation.
And then go fund me says after you make your donation.
Let's say you make a donation to the Friends of
the Los Angeles Public Library, then go fund me says, great,
(32:36):
thank you. Would you like to give a tip? Now,
It's just like at the coffee shop when they spin
the thing around and say, hey, may you want to
give a tip here? And you say, of course I do,
and you give you know anyway, so that's sort of
what this is doing as well. So yeah, go fund me.
There was that profit motive. Good intentions, sure, but motive
maybe I don't.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I think it's all ulterior motive. I think it. I mean, like,
if you look.
Speaker 10 (33:00):
At it, it's so cynical.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I know, and I hate that. I hate that.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But I was like going, well, this sounds really cool,
and I went, wait a second, why would they go on?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Okay, Well, I'm glad that they're you know, if and
I think if they're going to do nonprofits, then maybe
just wave the fees.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
Wouldn't that be something? Well, what they have done is
that it's previously was an opt out situation, so friends
of the LA Public Library they had to opt out
of that page to make it go away. It's been
reversed now so that they have to opt in to
have that page go live. So that's the solution that
go fund me has come up with.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, so for most of your donations that you've been
making to directly to a company, keep doing that for now,
or to a charity or to a charity. That's what
I meant all right, ABC, Jim Ryan, thanks for bringing
this into the public light. See Amy, doesn't that kind
of make you mad? It did look like a good
idea on the surf, But two point two percent of
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one point four million companies, and that's if just one
person made a donation.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, let's go back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom
says Prop fifty isn't just about California, it's about the
United States.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Newsom told CBS this morning that the redistricting fight in
California is about writing wrong redistricting efforts in other states.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I think it's about the rule of law and not
the rule of dawn.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
He says.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
If Prop fifty passes, Trump is done. Newsom went on
to say that he fears another Republican administration.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
If you have a speaker Johnson, we may have a
third term of President Trump.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
I really believe that the fate of Prop fifty will
be revealed after the special election in California on November fourth.
Jason Campedonia KFI news.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Polling places are open.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Eleven hundred in person of voting places opened up over
the weekend. They're going to be open daily through election,
which again is November fourth. Top US officials say trade
talks with China getting closer to an agreement. US Trade
Representative Jamison Grier and Treasury Secretary Scott Descent met with
China's Vice premier on the sidelines of the Asian Summit
(35:16):
in Malaysia on Sunday. President Trump and China's President Xi
Jinping are scheduled to meet later this week. Russia's President
Putin says his country has tested a new nuclear capable
cruise missile and is moving closer to deploying it. The
missile has been in development for years. Putin claims it
(35:36):
has an unlimited range and can evade missile defenses, but
many experts say they are skeptical. One missile reportedly exploded
in twenty nineteen, causing fatalities and a brief spike in radioactivity.
It's week four of the government shut down. More than
half million federal workers have missed their first full paycheck,
(35:58):
and another seven hundhundred thousand plus are said to join
them this week. ABC's Alex purchasas those receiving food aid,
will also be impacted.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Starting next weekend. Federal snap Food Assistants.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
Benefits for some forty million Americans will run out.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
The USDA website now with this stark warning bottom line,
the well has run dry at this time. There will
be no benefits issued November first.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
The Trump administration blames Democrats who say they won't support
reopening the government until Republicans agree to negotiate on expiring
healthcare subsidies and other spending. Polease in Southern California are
urging baseball fans to stay safe Fence Day well behaved
as the Dodgers look to win the World Series for
a second year in a row. The LAPD, LAKENNY Sheriff's Office,
(36:46):
and the CHP say they are committed to maintaining a
safe environment for all fans. They're urging watchers to designate
a driver, take public transportation, or use a ride share
if they plan to drink, and to be respect full
of others in crowds. Of course, The Dodgers and the
Blue Jays based off in Game three of the World Series. Tonight,
(37:08):
first pitch goes out at five oh eight at Dodgers Stadium.
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for
producer and and technical producer Kono, along with traffic specialist
Will I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call,
and if you missed any wake up Call, you can
listen any time. It's on the iHeartRadio app. You've been
(37:31):
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