August 1, 2023 • 41 mins
On this morning's Wake Up Call; Hunter Biden's former business partner testifies, and GOP House Committees launch an inquiry into that failed plea deal. President Biden says US Space Command HQ will stay in Colorado. Meanwhile, in Haiti, Hatians take to the streets to protest the kidnapping of an American nurse and her daughter, and are you living paycheck to paycheck? Most Americans are.
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K f I am six forty.You're listening to wake Up Call on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. I've hadso many people just in the last day
going, oh my god, canyou believe July is already over and it's
only five months still Christmas. Itdoes seem like the years going by fast.
Okay, got my coffee, gotyour coffee ready to go. Here's
what's ahead on the wake Up Call. LA City officials continue to push their
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message that help is available to keeppeople in their homes. Renters in LA
are facing a deadline today to repayback rent from the first eighteen months of
the pandemic or face eviction. Aninvestigation continues following the discovery of a man's
body in a fifty five gallon drumon a beach in Malibu. A whopping
one point five billion dollars Mega Millionsjackpot is up for grabs tonight. It's
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the seventh largest lotto jackpot in UShistory. Before you get your hopes up,
the odds of winning are one inthree hundred two point six million.
I'm trying anyway. Let's start withsome of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty for our newsroom pandemic relatedback rent from March of twenty twenty to
September of twenty twenty one is due. Rent from October of twenty twenty one
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to January of this year's due nextFebruary. Mayor Basses proposed using funds from
a new luxury real estate tax tocreate a more than eighteen million dollar fund
to pay landlords up to six monthsin back rent. The mayor says she
wants the city to allocate twenty threemillion dollars for an eviction defense program to
address this problem. You need toprotect the tenants, but you also need
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to protect the landlords as well.The mayor says she wants to allocate another
more than sixteen million dollars for otherprograms to protect tenants in La Blake Trolley
k if I News. The Cityof San Diego has begun enforcing its ban
on homeless camps on public property.City council Member Stephen Whitburn says signs have
been posted alerting the homeless community thatcamping is no longer allowed. Police are
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going to be enforcing the ordinance,initially in areas where there are particular concerns
around public health at safety. Forthat woman within two blocks of schools,
within two blocks of homeless shelters insome of our parks. The new rules
band camping on all other public propertywhen shelter space is available. An LA
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City firefighter has been hurt during afire that burned a three story home on
a hillside in Lincoln Heights. LAFire says the firefighter came into contact with
electricity as they put it. Thefire started around two this morning. It
took fire crews almost an hour anda half to put it out. A
body stuffed into a barrel has beenfound at Malibu Lagoon State Park. It's
not immediately known how the barrel gotthere. La County Sheriff's Lieutenant Hugo Rainaga
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says the black plastic barrel was firstspotted Sunday afternoon, floating in the middle
of the lagoon at about apm.There's a high tide here, and there's
a possibility that the container could havecome in from the ocean and then got
stuck in the lagoon, but wedon't know for sure. By yesterday morning,
a lifeguard spotted it, brought itto shore and found the body.
Rainauga says, based on the foothe saw inside, there was no severe
decomposition at the Malibu Lagoon State Park. Steve Gregory I News. A police
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officer shot during a traffic stop inWhittier is said to be in good spirits.
Investigators say the officer was hit twicein the legs last night. Police
had been watching a suspected murderer whenthey stopped him on Pickering Avenue near Penn
Street. They say the shooting happenedafter the guy got out of his car
and ran between two apartment buildings.He was shot in the hand. Russia
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has accused Ukraine of another drone attackon Moscow. One of the drones today
hit the same building in the capitalthat was damaged by a drone in a
similar attack early Sunday. Ukraine's presidenthas not claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The State Department has refused to saywhether demands have been made in the kidnappings
of two Americans doing humanitarian work inHaiti. The mother and daughter were taken
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Thursday. ABC Stephanie Ramos says theState Department has only said it's aware and
working with officials to find the woman. The State Department now ordering families of
US government employees to evacuate and advisingAmericans not to travel there. Local officials
estimate eighty percent of Porta Prince iscontrolled by rival gangs. Ramos says the
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violence has created a humanitarian crisis,displacing tens of thousands of people. HBO
drama series Euphoria has paid tribute toAngus Cloud, the actor who played Fezco
on the show, who died.A statement says the cast is incredibly saddened
by Cloud's passing. It says hewas immensely talented and a beloved part of
the Euphoria family. Cloud's family sayshe was open about his battle with mental
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help and hopes his passing can bea reminder to others that they are not
alone. The Oakland County Fire Departmenthas not determined a cause of death.
However, Cloud was twenty five yearsold. This is kind of a weird
little story. NASA has lost communicationswith Voyager two. Okay, so Voyager
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two launched in nineteen seventy seven.It's the little probe that's carrying the Golden
Record, that has all the greetingsgreetings from Earth, that kind of thing.
So they've been it's been tooling along, heading out into deep space.
So what is that like fifty yearsalmost. Apparently they did some routine commands
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back on July twenty first, whichtriggered a two degree change in Voyager two's
antenna orientation, and that was enoughto knock it out of alignment with other
satellites, and so they don't havecontact with it anymore. NASA says it's
hopeful the technical glitch is only temporaryand that it will reset its orientation in
October, So that's supposed to happenon October fifteenth. NASA says it expects
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the spacecraft will remain on its plannedtrajectory until then. And how far away
is a Voyager two twelve point orbillion miles from Earth? Coming up?
In just a minute, we're gonnabe talking with ABC's Stephen Portnoy about what
Hunter, Biden's former friend had tosay to Congress yesterday and what it all
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means. It is five oh sevenon your wake up call. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Steve Portnoy. Steve Hunter, Biden's former business partner,
had a little sit down with lawmakersyesterday. What did he have to
say, Well, it was severalhours of closed door testimony from Devin Archer,
former business partner of Hunter Biden,co founded Rosemont Seneca Partners, was
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a board member of Barizma alongside HunterBiden. And what he said yesterday leads
both parties to point to it andsay, aha, this proves our case
at least bolsters our argument that eitherthe former that Hunter Biden did corruptly engage
his father, the former vice presidentand now sitting president in his business dealings,
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or he did not. And onething that both parties are pointing too
is the testimony from Devin Archer thaton twenty occasions over the span of a
decade, Hunter Biden put this phoneon speaker phone and handed the phone to
his father to have Joe Biden engagein direct conversation with Hunter Biden's clients.
Now, well, what did hesay in those calls? Well, according
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to Democrats, it was pleasantries,how you doing, how's the weather?
But nothing when it comes to subsidentmatters of business, and Republicans aren't making
that allegation because they can't point toit, but they do say that what
it proves is that Hunter Biden wasselling the Biden brand, the connection with
his father, and trying to profitsubstantially on the work that Joe Biden did
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in the government of the United States, and ultimately this is a political father
more than anything. But it allowsboth sides to say that Devin Archer advanced
their argument. Where it goes fromhere is an open question. But for
Devin Archer, it means he's soonto wind up in federal prison, not
having anything to do with his testimonyyesterday, but he's a convicted felon.
He was convicted of a tax violationfor trying to defraud a Native American tribe
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out of sixty million dollars, andhe's due to report in the coming months
to federal prison. How long doeshe get to spend in federal prison?
My understanding is it's a year sentence, Okay. So is there potential criminal
activity if Hunter handed the phone tohis dad and had him talk to them.
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I see no evidence of it here. But it's a political liability for
the President because he has repeatedly insistedthat he was not engaged in his son's
business. The White House has saidthat Joe Biden was not in business with
Hunter Biden, and as late asJune twenty six, the reporter in the
East Room of the White House caughtthe President before he exited the room and
said asked him, did you lieabout speaking with Hunter about his business deals?
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And the President sharply answered no.But now there's the testimony from Devin
Archer that he personally witnessed several occasionsin which the President was on the phone
with Hunter Biden's business partners. Sothe President, I think, owes the
country a bit more explanation, okay, And I know that you've got to
run to one last quick question.Does this warrant the impeachment? Impeachment investigation
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that how Speaker Kevin McCarthy has talkedabout. That's not for me to say.
Okay, there you go, StevePortner, thanks for your time this
morning. I appreciate it a ton. You bet. All right, let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. LADWP customers can go backto watering yards three days a week.
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They were limited in just two dayswhile a drought rule was in effect.
Customers whose addresses end in odd numberscan now water before nine am or after
four pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Customers with even addresses can water Sunday,
Tuesday, and Thursday. Other restrictionslike no watering down sidewalks or driveways
still in place. Food gardens andtrees can continue to be handwatered as needed.
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A fire that has burned more thantwenty three hundred acres in and around
koea Indian reservation in Riverside County,is now thirty percent surrounded. The steep,
rough terrain has made it more difficultfor firefighters to get lines around the
fire. The fire has been burningsince Thursday afternoon. There's another fire that
we haven't heard a whole lot about, but it's a big one. It's
burning in the Mojave Desert. Infact, it's California's biggest wildfire of the
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year and it's burning through Joshua treeforests along the California Nevada border. The
fire has burned through seventy seven thousandacres as of yesterday, and there are
no lines about it around it nocontainment. The fire was first spotted on
Friday. It's spreading mainly across theMojave National Preserve in eastern San Bernardino County,
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but it recently jumped into western Nevadaand fire prediction predictors are and park
rangers in the Majave Preserve are sayingthat this is not an unexpected kind of
fire because of the wet weather thatwe had. So like in the higher
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elevations, forecasters had been calling fora less active fire season because the forests
are more dense, but they areremaining moist from the wet winter. But
at the lower elevations, the rainshelped more grasses grow, and then we've
had all that hot, hot weather, and so that's caused all those grasses
to dry out and basically priming themfor wildfire fuel. So again that one's
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burned a lot, seventy seven thousandacres and it is not at all surrounded,
so it could be burning for awhile. Santa Anna has put up
a six hundred thousand dollars reward foractually not a reward, but put up
six hundred thousand dollars for police officerhiring bonuses. But the police chief says
he will not drop hiring standards.This is the most noble of professions.
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San Anna Police Chief David Valentine saysnew hires get ten thousand dollars fifteen for
veterans or applicants with a bachelor's degreeand twenty thousand runs with a bachelor's degree.
It comes with a level of authorityresponsibility like no other. You can
take someone's freedom or phone's life.Valentine says, quality applicants have shied away
from becoming police in part because ofthe defund police movement, which he says
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somehow went from protesting bad officers tovilification of all police officers. In Santa
Anna Corbin Carson KFI News, agiant X put up on top of the
Twitter building in San Francisco has beentaken down almost as fast as it went
up. About two dozen people wholive in the area filed complaints about the
bright light that stroves at night.The city said yesterday the sign had been
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put up without a permit. Whenwe come back, we're going to check
him with ABC's Karen Travers about plansto move US Space Command headquarters to Alabama
and how those plans are, well, they've been scrapped. You're listening to
Wake Up Call on Demand from KFIAM six forty. I mean me King.
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Here are some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four our
newsroom and giant X sign on topof the San Francisco headquarters of the former
Twitter building has been removed. FormerPresident Trump is predicted he'll be indicted any
day now as part of the investigationinto his efforts to stay in power after
the twenty twenty election. The USwomen's national soccer team is heading to the
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round of sixteen at the Women's WorldCup. They went scoreless last night against
Portugal. That's a draw and sothey advanced. Team USA will play again
early Sunday morning. Don't know forsure who it's going to be, but
it'll probably at least this is whatsports analysts are saying, will probably be
Sweden. At five thirty five,we're gonna be talking to ABC's Tom Rivers
about why people in Haiti are takingto the streets and how it's tied to
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the US. At six oh five, it's handled on the news and illegal
medical lab has been discovered that includesbio engineered mice and infectious agents. Oh
goody, Right now, let's saygood morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Hey,
Karen, good morning, Good morning. So the plan was to move
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US Space Command headquarters to Alabama,but now that's not happening. Yeah,
So this was a plan that wasput in place by the previous administration.
Space Command was established back in twentynineteen and temporarily headquartered in Colorado's Springs,
and then Donald Trump decided in hisfinal days in office to say, let's
make the permanent move to Alabama Huntsville, Alabama. There was a review of
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this though, and questions about whetheror not that that move should happen.
The Defense Department the Air Force werelooking into this and presented President Biden with
data and analysis and options. Yesterday, he didn't announce that he is deciding
to keep Space Command headquarters in Colorado'sSprings, but Whitehouse says that this is
in the best interest of national securityand reflects the President's commitment to ensuring peak
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readiness in the space domain. Theysay this means no disruption to the mission
and personnel of Space Command and avoidsthe transition that could really hurt things at
a critical time with challenges that theUS is facing in space. But not
everybody's happy, as you can imagine. It's Washington and it's politics. But
the lawmakers from Alabama are very upsetabout this, saying that this is politics
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at play for Red State losing toa blue state, they say, and
they're vowing to try insplight this,but this decision from the administration will toll
this final Okay, And how muchmoney is at stake? I mean,
because I would imagine that Alabama isgoing to lose a ton of money and
jobs. Yeah, yeah, Imean it's a lot of jobs that would
be implemented if this were to moveto Alabama. Colorado would lose out on
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those jobs. And you know that'sa big factor too. It also would
cost a lot of money, ahefty figure to move everything right now,
and that was also something that wasconsidered to move the actual physical headquarters,
to move personnel. That was somethingthat they took into accounts, and there
were concerns about disruptions. One administrationofficials said moving would have had a transition
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period of the mid twenty two twentiesto early mid twenty thirties. It would
have taken that long to complete theprocess, and they just thought that that
was way too long. And wasn'tthere some political battle with leadership in Alabama
too about well yeah, and that'sa big yeah. So you've got Alabama
as the home of Senator Tommy Tubberville, Republican who is blocking the confirmation of
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all of the President's current military nominationsbecause of the Pentagon's policy about abortion related
benefits for service members. Asked theHouse about this yesterday. They denied that
had anything to do with the decision, saying that this to the President came
down to operational readiness and national security. Okay. And so the Uspace Command
in Colorado Springs. Is it atNORAD or is it a separate facility?
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I don't I'm not sure the actualphysical location of it. It's been temporary,
but I don't know the address ofit, but it will now be
permanently in Colorado Springs, which isalso of course home to the Air Force
Academy, right, and there's there'sseveral military bases. I used to live
in Colorado Springs, and so noraAD is it's a whole base inside a
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mountain in Cheyenne Mountain, and it'son these ginormous rollers that's built to withstand
direct attacks potentially even like a nuclearattack. So I'm wondering if it's there
or at A because there's also PetersonAir Force Base in Colorado Springs. So
don't know, but it seems likeit makes sense. Not to move it,
like you said, it'd be ahuge expense and a lot of time
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to get it done. So sojust moving forward where status quo they're going
to move forward with. It's stickingthere and that probably is not going to
change. Yep, staying there,that's the decision from the president. Awesome,
Karen Travis thinks, so much foryour time this morning. Have a
great day, all right, Touchto you soon. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out ofthe KFI twenty four hour news room now.
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The La City Council's returning from athree week summer recess. Who knew
they were gone? On the agendatoday is certifying the results of the sixth
district special election and welcoming Emelda Pidiaas a voting member. The council will
also consider three million dollars in spendingfour projects in Boil Heights, Mission Hills,
Panorama City, North Hills, andSoutheast La. An investigation into political
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corruption in Anaheim has been made public. It found a potential criminal conspiracy regarding
one and a half million dollars inCOVID nineteen relief funds. The three hundred
and fifty three page report was releasedlast night by the Laguna Niguel investigative firm
JL Group. It alleges the city'sformer mayor and the ex head of the
Anaheim Anaheim Chamber of Commerce participated ininfluence peddling. The former mayor, who
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has resigned, has not been criminallycharged and has denied any wrongdoing. A
person has been stabbed in the chestnear a restroom building on the beach in
Santa Monica. Police recalled yesterday afternoonabout an assault with a deadly weapon.
The injured person was taken to thehospital. Three of the six gang members
accused of robbing and murdering a manon Angelus Crest Highway have been released Asadina
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Police say. The other you havebeen booked on robbery charges, including robberies
that happened days before the man wasshot and killed at a scenic overlook.
Investigators say keeping the three in custodygives them more time to investigate the murder
of the thirty two year old man. Detectives with Pasadena pede Or working with
homicide detectives at the La County Sheriff'sDepartment, who are investigating the murder of
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a couple in a car at Raneof Palace. Verdi's officials say the two
crimes are connected. Steve Gregory CatofineNews Wayward voters and drones have been asked
to steer clear of areas in AnaheimBay which are patrolled by the Navy Seal
Beach Naval Weapons Stations. Greg Smithsays there's been a recent uptick in voters
floating into restricted areas that's prompts asecurity response, similar to like a traffic
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stop, where a security boat wouldpull over the voter that's entering the restricted
area. Voters can keep to theright where a new civilian channel leads to
Huntington Bay. A one hundred fiftyfive million dollar project for a new munitions
pier is said to be complete nextsummer. The pier will help expand the
name val stations service of the majorityof the Pacific Fleet to include small aircraft
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carriers. Prosecutors are urging a judgein Santa Fe, New Mexico, not
to throw out involuntary manslaughter charges againsta movie weapons supervisor in the twenty twenty
one shooting death of a cinematographer byAlec Baldwin during rehearsals for the film Rust.
And an online hearing, which isscheduled for today. Defense attorneys for
Hannah Gutiera's read are going to counterthat the charges should be dismissed after accusing
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the prosecution of sloppy work and publicgrandstanding that violate their clients' rights. A
man in New York City is suingTaco Bell for false advertising. He says
it's because he's not getting enough beefand beans in his Mexican pizza. The
lawsuit has been filed in federal court. It claims the menu items at Taco
Bell don't have the same amount offillings compared to pictures of the food used
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in ads. The plaintiff is seekingclass action status so anyone else disappointed in
their food can get in on it. Southland weather from KFI mostly cloudy and
hot again, with a twenty percentchance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and
evening. I will be in theeighties at the beaches, around ninety for
Metro La and Inlando c nineties inthe valleys I E and Annalo Valley.
A couple degrees cooler tomorrow through Friday, then heating up again as we head
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into the weekend. It's seventy fourin Diamond Bar seventy one in Steel Beach.
You're listening to Wake Up Call ondemand from KFI AMZI forty. Good
morning, I'm Amy King. Didyou know there's a full moon? First,
you can't see us because it's cloudy. I saw it yesterday when I
was driving in. It was very, very beautiful, almost full. Apparently
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it's full tonight, but or thismorning. A good luck on seeing it.
Here are some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. LA City officials continue topush their message that help is available to
keep people in their homes, asAngelino's face a deadline today to repay back
rent that accrued during the first eighteenmonths of the pandemic. An investigation continues
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following the discovery of a man's bodyin a twenty five or a fifty five
gallon drum on a beach in Malibu. A whopping one point five billion dollar
megallions jackpot is up for grabs tonight, but before you get your hopes up,
the odds of winning are one inthree hundred two points six million at
six oh five. It's handled onthe news. Paul Rubens, best known
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as Pee Wee herman has died aftera secret six year battle with cancer.
Right now, let's say good morningto ABC's Tom Rivers. So, Tom,
Haitians have taken to the streets.They're protesting because an American was kidnapped.
But who is it and why dothe Haitians care? Yeah, well,
it's one of literally hundreds that havebeen kidnapped over the past few years
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there. It's going from bad toworse in Haiti. And we're focusing on
because an American, a nurse andher daughter been taken from a kind of
a non profit Christian minute stree slashschool there in a hard hit part of
Porta Prince. She was taken orthey both were taken on Thursday. If
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there is a demand, usually there'sa ransom demand made. The State Department
isn't acknowledging that or not. Atthis stage, they're saying they're working through
local law enforcement on Haiti. Sowe'll see what shakes out in the next
few days. But yeah, veryvery worrying. Indeed, and again a
lot of the other groups, doctorswithout Borders, for example, who worked
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just about everywhere, they pulled outof one of their hospitals there after a
situation. Last month, gunman cameup there and pulled somebody out of that
hospital and they said, look enoughand we're not gonna no, it's not
worth it. We're getting out ofthis hospital. So yeah, it's getting
pretty bad, and Haiti needs doctorswithout borders. I mean had He's a
mess still, isn't it. It'sbeen a mess for decades upon decades,
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and just as I say, it'sgotten even worse maybe for the past two
years with the assassination and President Moise. It needs a lot, it needs
money, but that alone won't solvethe problem. It needs a joined up
thinking kind of a plan to helpto help Haiti. But again that's something
that has been tried piecemeal over theyears. Nothing really is stuck. Okay,
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so you said that hundreds have beenkidnapped and it's just getting worse.
Do they get them back? Youknow, yeah, generally they do,
and generally off the radar. Somekind of a payment is usually not always,
but usually made. In a caselike this, you might say,
look, this is from an organizationthat is a nonprofit and he kind of
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if you will appeal to their bettersentiments to release these people. But again,
this is something that will not happenmaybe overnight, could take weeks,
maybe even months in some cases.And for this person who was taken.
Some people full are saying that thethe kidnappers have asked for a million dollars
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in ransom. We don't know thatfor sure, but is that a common
amount, that's a that's kind ofa common thing there. Yeah, andegotally
somebody in the clinic when they wereabducted said, someone shouted out, they
want a million. But yeah,that's kind of the ballpark value. I
guess they start with and they tryit on see if they can get it.
If they can't, they might acceptsomething substantially less. But yeah,
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that's become part and parcel part ofthe world. They're in port A prints
today, sadly, sadly indeed.But do they like negotiate down and end
up with like twenty thousand dollars ordo I don't know how far down they
go, but I think I thinkthey you know that that might be an
option, um saying you know,we're a nonprofit. You know, we
don't have any money. You knowwe can we can you know, slam
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together ten grand if that'll help you. But see, see if that that
that works in this case. Yeah, did they know it was an American
they were taking or do do weknow if they were targeting? We don't
know that. We don't know that. The State Department has been very very
um, if you will, generalin their comments and not wanting to get
into the nitty gritty of the details, other than to state the bear bear
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facts that you and I know.Okay, and you had said that that
Haitians were protesting, so they're they'retaking to the streets saying stop kidnapping people.
Yeah, exactly, but you knowit was matured in the hundreds.
But yeah, and again I don'tknow what. Probably there's been no polls
on this in Haiti. What isthe cut? How many people are so
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fed up that they're willing, despitethe violence, to good on those streets
and protests protests, I don't know. But again, this latest protest was
literally numbered in the hundreds. Maybethere's a whole lot more people that have
the same sentiments but are afraid toget out of their doors. Yeah.
I would think that you would bescared to go out in protest because you're
not protesting against the government necessarily,you're protesting against the gangs that have taken
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over, right exactly, So yougot it, you got it. So
yeah, so you got to yougotta know who's on your block. You
know who, you know these peoplemay or may not be and it might
keep a low profile. Okay.Now, the State Department has issued do
not travel advisory in response to thekidnapping. Well, it happened the same
day, and some are saying it'scoincidence. Some are saying, you know,
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it looks like it probably is acoincidence in this case. But as
I say, the situation has beengoing down and that was issued last Thursday,
and basically do not travel and fornon essential staff there, consular staff,
they're saying, you know, youshould get out too. So yes,
it kind of shows you the temperatureof the place right now. Okay,
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so they do not travel advisory.Though, Is anybody going there for
tourism now, because because like wewere talking about it, it's such a
mess there. Yeah, not thatI know of, but yeah, if
if you're planning on going there,you might want to think twice, that's
for sure. Okay. And isthere anything the US can do? I
mean, like who takes who fightsback and gets the gang under control because
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the president was assassinated, So isthe government corrupt too or every Yeah,
there's a lot of corruption to goaround. And you know, you can
go in, you can have aprogram, you can go in and say,
well, we'll train the police andthat can help somewhat. But of
course they need food and they have, you know, these other security concerns
and issues. So it has tobe an all encompassing, if you will,
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whole solution for the island. Andat this point, the UN and
nobody down from there has come upwith something viable and willing to turn things
around. Is the US helping itall or trying to or are they just
kind of hands off they have inthe past this particular case, as I
say, they're leaning on the authoritiesthat are there right now doing the best
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that they can and saying, look, let's try to get as much information
detail as we can to work withand try to get these two people out.
And then you can go onto thenext chapter and say, what can
possibly done the international community to helpto help Haiti all inclusively? Okay,
Well, in the meantime, we'regoing to help that alex Door Sainville and
her daughter are released and you cango wherever you want, but I certainly
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wouldn't recommend going to Haiti right now, you got it. I think that's
a great, great advice. Yea. All right, Tom Rivers, thanks
so much for the time in theInsight this morning. I appreciate it.
Be here. All right. Hey, when we come back, we're going
to check in with ABC GM Ryanand find out why so many Americans are
having trouble making ends meet. Allright, now, let's check in with
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom andpublic health officials in La County have issued
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an ocean water use warning for ninelocal beaches, so when it's nice and
hot, stay out of the water. People are being advised to avoid swimming,
surfing, or playing in the waterbecause of high bacteria levels. The
beaches are in the South Bay,Santa Monica, and Malibu. A record
thirty one days of temperatures of atleast one hundred ten degrees in Phoenix have
ended. The historic heat started inJune and all the way from Texas,
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New Mexico and Arizona into California's desert. The streak broke yesterday afternoon when the
high end Phoenix, Arizona was onlyone hundred eight degrees. State media in
China says at least twenty people havebeen killed and twenty seven are missing in
flooding around Beijing. The flooding followeddays of heavy rain. A former super
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typhoon swept over China Friday. Militaryhelicopters have been sent to deliver supplies to
stranded train passengers. The National Institutesof Health has started studying possible treatments for
long COVID. The announcement from theNIH's one point one five billion dollars Recover
project comes amid frustration from patients who'vebeen struggling for months or even years with
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sometimes disabling health problems. A doctorfrom Washington University says the studies are a
year or two late, but stilla step in the right direction. Scientists
don't yet know what causes long COVID. It's the term for about two hundred
varying symptoms. You're listening to WakeUp Call on Demand from KFI AM six
forty. About to wrap it up, but we got more stuff to share
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with you before we hit it.Heading to handle on the news at six.
Here are some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Firefighters have been able toget lines around more of the twenty three
hundred acre fire burning southeast of Temeculain Riverside County. It is now thirty
percent surrounded. Former President Trump ispredicting he'll be indicted any day now as
part of the investigation into his effortsto stay in power after the twenty twenty
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election. The US women's national soccerteam heading to the round of sixteen at
the Women's World Cup after a scorelessdraw against Portugal. The game started at
midnight, and it's wonky hours becausethey're playing in New Zealand. Team USA
will play again early Sunday morning.As I mentioned, we're just minutes away
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from Handle on the news this morning, LADWP has loosened water rules now that
we're out of the drought, Sostart watering your law a little bit more
again. Right now, let's saygood morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So,
Jim, employment is strong, unemploymentis low, inflation is slowing,
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and consumer confidence is growing. Butstill Americans don't have any money. Well
they've got money, but barely enoughmoney. According to a survey that's been
done, they do this every monthand some four thousand people around the country.
How you doing, how's your moneyholding out? Every month and this
month the same month as last year, the same numbers as last year.
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Ending Club which did this report fileon that sixty one percent of us are
having trouble making ends meet. Infact, we're living paycheck to paycheck sixty
one percent. That's the same asJune of last year, when it looked
as though the country was headed intoa reception. So now despite these positive
economic numbers, we're still finding thatpeople are having trouble making ends meet,
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Adamy. And so we know thatone percent are saying paycheck to paycheck.
Yeah, do we know what thosenumbers were like before the pandemic, Well,
things got worse during the pandemic.They were slightly higher than where they
are right now and maybe climbing again. But I think that analysts were surprised
to see that there was no changefrom last year to this year because of
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the changes in the economy. Andit's not just people who make under fifty
thousand dollars. Course, they're hithardest by this because a larger percentage of
their paycheck has to go into groceriesand transportation and housing. But even if
you look at people who make overone hundred thousand dollars, forty five percent
of them say that they're living paycheckto paycheck. And somewhere in the middle
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folks, middle income people fifty toone hundred thousand dollars, they too,
about sixty five percent of them arehaving trouble making ends. To me,
it's just it's funny to see thatall this comes against the backdrop of this
apparently improving economy. Well, yeah, I mean, all the economists and
of course the White House is toutingthis great ecoy and that unemployment numbers are
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dropping and is and everything great,and wages are going up, but people
aren't feeling that. Well, you'reright, and they're spending more. You
know, their credit card bills aremounting because they're having to put some of
those essentials on credit. The familiesand couples are they've logged credit card bills
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of seventy two hundred dollars. That'sthe credit card balance now for folks who
have family seventy two hundred dollars,and they're not just not able to whittle
that away very much. Sharing expenses, if you live with a partner or
a spouse, you're still finding thatit's difficult to make ends meet. And
what's more, I thought this wasfascinating. Thirty four percent of parents share
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an account with their kids share abank account. So the kids who are
out on their own, you know, they've they've been through school, they've
been whatever. They're out living ontheir own, but they still get into
trouble, financial trouble, trouble frequentlyenough that their parents are there to kind
of backs up them. My parentsnever backstuffed me. Yeah I didn't either,
actually, But well I think youand I were lucky, you know,
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because we're finding now that about athird of people. I will tell
you that my kids, now thatthey're out on their own, yeah,
well I've got to kind of helpedthem out a little bit here and there.
And that's what this survey seems toshow. Okay. So the other
thing that I think plays into it, and tell me if this is right,
it says, you know, everybody'ssaying inflation is slowing. Oh isn't
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it great? But it's still Imean, prices are up like ten fifteen,
twenty percent from where they were before. Even though the rate is slowing
down, the actual prices are stillway higher. Than they were two years
sure, and especially for some categories. I talked to my brother yesterday.
He lives in San Francisco, hadjust gassed up and paid something like five
and a half bucks a gallon,and so, man, that's way above
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where it was not long ago.Cash prices generally have gone up here recently,
and so yeah, we're spending morefor gasoline, even if we're spending
a little less for things like eggsand bread. It all sort of offsets
and the result, the net resultthen is that we just can't set much
aside in savings. And is thereany like, is there any way to
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save for a rainy day when youknow, like you're saying paycheck to paycheck,
that that doesn't leave any room forsaving. No, you're right,
and that's that's kind of the toughspot here. If and of course,
you know, the Fed raised inflationor raised interest rates again this past week
by a quarter percent, and sothat may slow things I think eventually,
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if if that all stabilizes, ifwe're paying less to borrow money, maybe
not having to borrow as much,then savings can start to rise. But
saving rates are just not worth theywere twenty thirty years ago. Yeah,
and then getting back to the inflationthing, if you do the math where
they're saying, oh, two percentis our goal, Well, shouldn't negative
two percent be our goal to getthe prices back down to before these huge
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inflation numbers. Don't think it's goingto happen. So that's never gonna happen.
No, there's just no way toto you know, the genies out
of the bottle. Fine, youknow oil is coming in from elsewhere and
they're not gonna It's all dependent onother people. It's not just the US.
So why why is the White Houseso tone deaf on this? I
mean, they keep saying that everythingis great, but you just are up
inflations down. But if that's notwhat's actually happening, I mean, I
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guess they get frustrated with them sayingthe same thing over and over again.
But you said, sixty one percentare living paycheck to paychecks, So why
don't they just fess up to it. Well, that's a good point,
you know, and that I thinkthat these numbers, those objective numbers on
first time unemployment claims for example,or you know, the consumer pricing decks,
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those are all objective numbers. Theylook at hard numbers and throw it
together into a into a pot likethis. But you know, down at
the household level, those numbers don'tmatter much if you can't make enough to
keep food on the table or toset aside something in savings. Are barely
making enough to keep gas in thecar, but not enough to to chip
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away at your credit card debt.So I mean both both things can be
true, and it seems that boththings are true. Yeah, And it's
kind of frustrating too, because whenyou're when you're saying that you're just barely
making it, saving becomes more difficultbecause even taking like if you say,
I'm going to take twenty dollars apaycheck or fifty dollars a paycheck or and
set that aside. Sometimes when Ithink about doing that, even if it's
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one hundred dollars, I think,oh, it's not very much. It's
not worth it. If I can'tset aside five hundred dollars, why do
it in the first place? Ohyeah, I mean that's the mentality that
by the time you're fifty nine,sixty sixty one, you're wishing that you
had done that way back in theday. So, oh yeah, might
as well. Bite the bullet intoit now. Yeah, all right,
Jim Ryan, thank you so much, and let's hope that things get better.
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I'm voting for negative inflation. Don'thold your breath, I know.
Okay, Hey, here's some goodnews if you love to nap, which
I have not been napping for thelast few years, but I am going
to guess that I will start nappingagain with an early morning start. And
if you're up in Adam already,you may need the nap too. But
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there's a study that was published inthe Sleep Health Journal. It says regular
napping is linked to larger brain volumeand that could indicate anti aging properties.
It's estimated that one in three adultsdon't get enough sleep, which you're supposed
to get seven to eight hours,and about eighteen percent of Americans have a
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sleep disorder. But they say evenif you do like power naps on a
regular basis, that can be goodfor you. And the way that they're
gauging this is by literally studying thesize of your brain. So like when
somebody goes, hey, check outthe big brain on him, they're being
serious about it. Because brain volumehas been a measure of overall brain health
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and researchers have estimated that the sizeof the brain of those people who have
napped was protective against the equivalent oftwo and a half to six and a
half years of age and aging.So as you get older, your brain
shrinks. So if you nap,apparently it gives your brain some room to
breathe. So I'm going to takethat as as good advice to myself to
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take a nap. Also wanted tojust mention as as you've probably heard,
Paul Rubens, best known as PeeWee Herman, has died at the age
of seventy and this is how Iremember pee Wee Herman. Why didn't you
take a picture of a Lafe lagerha ha ha, Yeah, seventy years
(40:39):
old. Paul Ruben's rest in peace. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los
Angeles, Orange County. You've beenlistening to Wake Up Call. You know
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Okay, got my coffee, gotyour coffee ready to go. Here's
what's ahead on the wake Up Call. LA City officials continue to push their
(00:22):
message that help is available to keeppeople in their homes. Renters in LA
are facing a deadline today to repayback rent from the first eighteen months of
the pandemic or face eviction. Aninvestigation continues following the discovery of a man's
body in a fifty five gallon drumon a beach in Malibu. A whopping
one point five billion dollars Mega Millionsjackpot is up for grabs tonight. It's
(00:45):
the seventh largest lotto jackpot in UShistory. Before you get your hopes up,
the odds of winning are one inthree hundred two point six million.
I'm trying anyway. Let's start withsome of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty for our newsroom pandemic relatedback rent from March of twenty twenty to
September of twenty twenty one is due. Rent from October of twenty twenty one
(01:07):
to January of this year's due nextFebruary. Mayor Basses proposed using funds from
a new luxury real estate tax tocreate a more than eighteen million dollar fund
to pay landlords up to six monthsin back rent. The mayor says she
wants the city to allocate twenty threemillion dollars for an eviction defense program to
address this problem. You need toprotect the tenants, but you also need
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to protect the landlords as well.The mayor says she wants to allocate another
more than sixteen million dollars for otherprograms to protect tenants in La Blake Trolley
k if I News. The Cityof San Diego has begun enforcing its ban
on homeless camps on public property.City council Member Stephen Whitburn says signs have
been posted alerting the homeless community thatcamping is no longer allowed. Police are
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going to be enforcing the ordinance,initially in areas where there are particular concerns
around public health at safety. Forthat woman within two blocks of schools,
within two blocks of homeless shelters insome of our parks. The new rules
band camping on all other public propertywhen shelter space is available. An LA
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City firefighter has been hurt during afire that burned a three story home on
a hillside in Lincoln Heights. LAFire says the firefighter came into contact with
electricity as they put it. Thefire started around two this morning. It
took fire crews almost an hour anda half to put it out. A
body stuffed into a barrel has beenfound at Malibu Lagoon State Park. It's
not immediately known how the barrel gotthere. La County Sheriff's Lieutenant Hugo Rainaga
(02:37):
says the black plastic barrel was firstspotted Sunday afternoon, floating in the middle
of the lagoon at about apm.There's a high tide here, and there's
a possibility that the container could havecome in from the ocean and then got
stuck in the lagoon, but wedon't know for sure. By yesterday morning,
a lifeguard spotted it, brought itto shore and found the body.
Rainauga says, based on the foothe saw inside, there was no severe
decomposition at the Malibu Lagoon State Park. Steve Gregory I News. A police
(03:00):
officer shot during a traffic stop inWhittier is said to be in good spirits.
Investigators say the officer was hit twicein the legs last night. Police
had been watching a suspected murderer whenthey stopped him on Pickering Avenue near Penn
Street. They say the shooting happenedafter the guy got out of his car
and ran between two apartment buildings.He was shot in the hand. Russia
(03:23):
has accused Ukraine of another drone attackon Moscow. One of the drones today
hit the same building in the capitalthat was damaged by a drone in a
similar attack early Sunday. Ukraine's presidenthas not claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The State Department has refused to saywhether demands have been made in the kidnappings
of two Americans doing humanitarian work inHaiti. The mother and daughter were taken
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Thursday. ABC Stephanie Ramos says theState Department has only said it's aware and
working with officials to find the woman. The State Department now ordering families of
US government employees to evacuate and advisingAmericans not to travel there. Local officials
estimate eighty percent of Porta Prince iscontrolled by rival gangs. Ramos says the
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violence has created a humanitarian crisis,displacing tens of thousands of people. HBO
drama series Euphoria has paid tribute toAngus Cloud, the actor who played Fezco
on the show, who died.A statement says the cast is incredibly saddened
by Cloud's passing. It says hewas immensely talented and a beloved part of
the Euphoria family. Cloud's family sayshe was open about his battle with mental
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help and hopes his passing can bea reminder to others that they are not
alone. The Oakland County Fire Departmenthas not determined a cause of death.
However, Cloud was twenty five yearsold. This is kind of a weird
little story. NASA has lost communicationswith Voyager two. Okay, so Voyager
(05:03):
two launched in nineteen seventy seven.It's the little probe that's carrying the Golden
Record, that has all the greetingsgreetings from Earth, that kind of thing.
So they've been it's been tooling along, heading out into deep space.
So what is that like fifty yearsalmost. Apparently they did some routine commands
(05:27):
back on July twenty first, whichtriggered a two degree change in Voyager two's
antenna orientation, and that was enoughto knock it out of alignment with other
satellites, and so they don't havecontact with it anymore. NASA says it's
hopeful the technical glitch is only temporaryand that it will reset its orientation in
October, So that's supposed to happenon October fifteenth. NASA says it expects
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the spacecraft will remain on its plannedtrajectory until then. And how far away
is a Voyager two twelve point orbillion miles from Earth? Coming up?
In just a minute, we're gonnabe talking with ABC's Stephen Portnoy about what
Hunter, Biden's former friend had tosay to Congress yesterday and what it all
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means. It is five oh sevenon your wake up call. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Steve Portnoy. Steve Hunter, Biden's former business partner,
had a little sit down with lawmakersyesterday. What did he have to
say, Well, it was severalhours of closed door testimony from Devin Archer,
former business partner of Hunter Biden,co founded Rosemont Seneca Partners, was
(06:34):
a board member of Barizma alongside HunterBiden. And what he said yesterday leads
both parties to point to it andsay, aha, this proves our case
at least bolsters our argument that eitherthe former that Hunter Biden did corruptly engage
his father, the former vice presidentand now sitting president in his business dealings,
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or he did not. And onething that both parties are pointing too
is the testimony from Devin Archer thaton twenty occasions over the span of a
decade, Hunter Biden put this phoneon speaker phone and handed the phone to
his father to have Joe Biden engagein direct conversation with Hunter Biden's clients.
Now, well, what did hesay in those calls? Well, according
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to Democrats, it was pleasantries,how you doing, how's the weather?
But nothing when it comes to subsidentmatters of business, and Republicans aren't making
that allegation because they can't point toit, but they do say that what
it proves is that Hunter Biden wasselling the Biden brand, the connection with
his father, and trying to profitsubstantially on the work that Joe Biden did
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in the government of the United States, and ultimately this is a political father
more than anything. But it allowsboth sides to say that Devin Archer advanced
their argument. Where it goes fromhere is an open question. But for
Devin Archer, it means he's soonto wind up in federal prison, not
having anything to do with his testimonyyesterday, but he's a convicted felon.
He was convicted of a tax violationfor trying to defraud a Native American tribe
(08:07):
out of sixty million dollars, andhe's due to report in the coming months
to federal prison. How long doeshe get to spend in federal prison?
My understanding is it's a year sentence, Okay. So is there potential criminal
activity if Hunter handed the phone tohis dad and had him talk to them.
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I see no evidence of it here. But it's a political liability for
the President because he has repeatedly insistedthat he was not engaged in his son's
business. The White House has saidthat Joe Biden was not in business with
Hunter Biden, and as late asJune twenty six, the reporter in the
East Room of the White House caughtthe President before he exited the room and
said asked him, did you lieabout speaking with Hunter about his business deals?
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And the President sharply answered no.But now there's the testimony from Devin
Archer that he personally witnessed several occasionsin which the President was on the phone
with Hunter Biden's business partners. Sothe President, I think, owes the
country a bit more explanation, okay, And I know that you've got to
run to one last quick question.Does this warrant the impeachment? Impeachment investigation
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that how Speaker Kevin McCarthy has talkedabout. That's not for me to say.
Okay, there you go, StevePortner, thanks for your time this
morning. I appreciate it a ton. You bet. All right, let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. LADWP customers can go backto watering yards three days a week.
(09:33):
They were limited in just two dayswhile a drought rule was in effect.
Customers whose addresses end in odd numberscan now water before nine am or after
four pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Customers with even addresses can water Sunday,
Tuesday, and Thursday. Other restrictionslike no watering down sidewalks or driveways
still in place. Food gardens andtrees can continue to be handwatered as needed.
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A fire that has burned more thantwenty three hundred acres in and around
koea Indian reservation in Riverside County,is now thirty percent surrounded. The steep,
rough terrain has made it more difficultfor firefighters to get lines around the
fire. The fire has been burningsince Thursday afternoon. There's another fire that
we haven't heard a whole lot about, but it's a big one. It's
burning in the Mojave Desert. Infact, it's California's biggest wildfire of the
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year and it's burning through Joshua treeforests along the California Nevada border. The
fire has burned through seventy seven thousandacres as of yesterday, and there are
no lines about it around it nocontainment. The fire was first spotted on
Friday. It's spreading mainly across theMojave National Preserve in eastern San Bernardino County,
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but it recently jumped into western Nevadaand fire prediction predictors are and park
rangers in the Majave Preserve are sayingthat this is not an unexpected kind of
fire because of the wet weather thatwe had. So like in the higher
(11:03):
elevations, forecasters had been calling fora less active fire season because the forests
are more dense, but they areremaining moist from the wet winter. But
at the lower elevations, the rainshelped more grasses grow, and then we've
had all that hot, hot weather, and so that's caused all those grasses
to dry out and basically priming themfor wildfire fuel. So again that one's
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burned a lot, seventy seven thousandacres and it is not at all surrounded,
so it could be burning for awhile. Santa Anna has put up
a six hundred thousand dollars reward foractually not a reward, but put up
six hundred thousand dollars for police officerhiring bonuses. But the police chief says
he will not drop hiring standards.This is the most noble of professions.
(11:50):
San Anna Police Chief David Valentine saysnew hires get ten thousand dollars fifteen for
veterans or applicants with a bachelor's degreeand twenty thousand runs with a bachelor's degree.
It comes with a level of authorityresponsibility like no other. You can
take someone's freedom or phone's life.Valentine says, quality applicants have shied away
from becoming police in part because ofthe defund police movement, which he says
(12:13):
somehow went from protesting bad officers tovilification of all police officers. In Santa
Anna Corbin Carson KFI News, agiant X put up on top of the
Twitter building in San Francisco has beentaken down almost as fast as it went
up. About two dozen people wholive in the area filed complaints about the
bright light that stroves at night.The city said yesterday the sign had been
(12:35):
put up without a permit. Whenwe come back, we're going to check
him with ABC's Karen Travers about plansto move US Space Command headquarters to Alabama
and how those plans are, well, they've been scrapped. You're listening to
Wake Up Call on Demand from KFIAM six forty. I mean me King.
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Here are some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four our
newsroom and giant X sign on topof the San Francisco headquarters of the former
Twitter building has been removed. FormerPresident Trump is predicted he'll be indicted any
day now as part of the investigationinto his efforts to stay in power after
the twenty twenty election. The USwomen's national soccer team is heading to the
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round of sixteen at the Women's WorldCup. They went scoreless last night against
Portugal. That's a draw and sothey advanced. Team USA will play again
early Sunday morning. Don't know forsure who it's going to be, but
it'll probably at least this is whatsports analysts are saying, will probably be
Sweden. At five thirty five,we're gonna be talking to ABC's Tom Rivers
about why people in Haiti are takingto the streets and how it's tied to
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the US. At six oh five, it's handled on the news and illegal
medical lab has been discovered that includesbio engineered mice and infectious agents. Oh
goody, Right now, let's saygood morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Hey,
Karen, good morning, Good morning. So the plan was to move
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US Space Command headquarters to Alabama,but now that's not happening. Yeah,
So this was a plan that wasput in place by the previous administration.
Space Command was established back in twentynineteen and temporarily headquartered in Colorado's Springs,
and then Donald Trump decided in hisfinal days in office to say, let's
make the permanent move to Alabama Huntsville, Alabama. There was a review of
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this though, and questions about whetheror not that that move should happen.
The Defense Department the Air Force werelooking into this and presented President Biden with
data and analysis and options. Yesterday, he didn't announce that he is deciding
to keep Space Command headquarters in Colorado'sSprings, but Whitehouse says that this is
in the best interest of national securityand reflects the President's commitment to ensuring peak
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readiness in the space domain. Theysay this means no disruption to the mission
and personnel of Space Command and avoidsthe transition that could really hurt things at
a critical time with challenges that theUS is facing in space. But not
everybody's happy, as you can imagine. It's Washington and it's politics. But
the lawmakers from Alabama are very upsetabout this, saying that this is politics
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at play for Red State losing toa blue state, they say, and
they're vowing to try insplight this,but this decision from the administration will toll
this final Okay, And how muchmoney is at stake? I mean,
because I would imagine that Alabama isgoing to lose a ton of money and
jobs. Yeah, yeah, Imean it's a lot of jobs that would
be implemented if this were to moveto Alabama. Colorado would lose out on
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those jobs. And you know that'sa big factor too. It also would
cost a lot of money, ahefty figure to move everything right now,
and that was also something that wasconsidered to move the actual physical headquarters,
to move personnel. That was somethingthat they took into accounts, and there
were concerns about disruptions. One administrationofficials said moving would have had a transition
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period of the mid twenty two twentiesto early mid twenty thirties. It would
have taken that long to complete theprocess, and they just thought that that
was way too long. And wasn'tthere some political battle with leadership in Alabama
too about well yeah, and that'sa big yeah. So you've got Alabama
as the home of Senator Tommy Tubberville, Republican who is blocking the confirmation of
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all of the President's current military nominationsbecause of the Pentagon's policy about abortion related
benefits for service members. Asked theHouse about this yesterday. They denied that
had anything to do with the decision, saying that this to the President came
down to operational readiness and national security. Okay. And so the Uspace Command
in Colorado Springs. Is it atNORAD or is it a separate facility?
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I don't I'm not sure the actualphysical location of it. It's been temporary,
but I don't know the address ofit, but it will now be
permanently in Colorado Springs, which isalso of course home to the Air Force
Academy, right, and there's there'sseveral military bases. I used to live
in Colorado Springs, and so noraAD is it's a whole base inside a
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mountain in Cheyenne Mountain, and it'son these ginormous rollers that's built to withstand
direct attacks potentially even like a nuclearattack. So I'm wondering if it's there
or at A because there's also PetersonAir Force Base in Colorado Springs. So
don't know, but it seems likeit makes sense. Not to move it,
like you said, it'd be ahuge expense and a lot of time
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to get it done. So sojust moving forward where status quo they're going
to move forward with. It's stickingthere and that probably is not going to
change. Yep, staying there,that's the decision from the president. Awesome,
Karen Travis thinks, so much foryour time this morning. Have a
great day, all right, Touchto you soon. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out ofthe KFI twenty four hour news room now.
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The La City Council's returning from athree week summer recess. Who knew
they were gone? On the agendatoday is certifying the results of the sixth
district special election and welcoming Emelda Pidiaas a voting member. The council will
also consider three million dollars in spendingfour projects in Boil Heights, Mission Hills,
Panorama City, North Hills, andSoutheast La. An investigation into political
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corruption in Anaheim has been made public. It found a potential criminal conspiracy regarding
one and a half million dollars inCOVID nineteen relief funds. The three hundred
and fifty three page report was releasedlast night by the Laguna Niguel investigative firm
JL Group. It alleges the city'sformer mayor and the ex head of the
Anaheim Anaheim Chamber of Commerce participated ininfluence peddling. The former mayor, who
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has resigned, has not been criminallycharged and has denied any wrongdoing. A
person has been stabbed in the chestnear a restroom building on the beach in
Santa Monica. Police recalled yesterday afternoonabout an assault with a deadly weapon.
The injured person was taken to thehospital. Three of the six gang members
accused of robbing and murdering a manon Angelus Crest Highway have been released Asadina
(18:57):
Police say. The other you havebeen booked on robbery charges, including robberies
that happened days before the man wasshot and killed at a scenic overlook.
Investigators say keeping the three in custodygives them more time to investigate the murder
of the thirty two year old man. Detectives with Pasadena pede Or working with
homicide detectives at the La County Sheriff'sDepartment, who are investigating the murder of
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a couple in a car at Raneof Palace. Verdi's officials say the two
crimes are connected. Steve Gregory CatofineNews Wayward voters and drones have been asked
to steer clear of areas in AnaheimBay which are patrolled by the Navy Seal
Beach Naval Weapons Stations. Greg Smithsays there's been a recent uptick in voters
floating into restricted areas that's prompts asecurity response, similar to like a traffic
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stop, where a security boat wouldpull over the voter that's entering the restricted
area. Voters can keep to theright where a new civilian channel leads to
Huntington Bay. A one hundred fiftyfive million dollar project for a new munitions
pier is said to be complete nextsummer. The pier will help expand the
name val stations service of the majorityof the Pacific Fleet to include small aircraft
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carriers. Prosecutors are urging a judgein Santa Fe, New Mexico, not
to throw out involuntary manslaughter charges againsta movie weapons supervisor in the twenty twenty
one shooting death of a cinematographer byAlec Baldwin during rehearsals for the film Rust.
And an online hearing, which isscheduled for today. Defense attorneys for
Hannah Gutiera's read are going to counterthat the charges should be dismissed after accusing
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the prosecution of sloppy work and publicgrandstanding that violate their clients' rights. A
man in New York City is suingTaco Bell for false advertising. He says
it's because he's not getting enough beefand beans in his Mexican pizza. The
lawsuit has been filed in federal court. It claims the menu items at Taco
Bell don't have the same amount offillings compared to pictures of the food used
(20:51):
in ads. The plaintiff is seekingclass action status so anyone else disappointed in
their food can get in on it. Southland weather from KFI mostly cloudy and
hot again, with a twenty percentchance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and
evening. I will be in theeighties at the beaches, around ninety for
Metro La and Inlando c nineties inthe valleys I E and Annalo Valley.
A couple degrees cooler tomorrow through Friday, then heating up again as we head
(21:15):
into the weekend. It's seventy fourin Diamond Bar seventy one in Steel Beach.
You're listening to Wake Up Call ondemand from KFI AMZI forty. Good
morning, I'm Amy King. Didyou know there's a full moon? First,
you can't see us because it's cloudy. I saw it yesterday when I
was driving in. It was very, very beautiful, almost full. Apparently
(21:36):
it's full tonight, but or thismorning. A good luck on seeing it.
Here are some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. LA City officials continue topush their message that help is available to
keep people in their homes, asAngelino's face a deadline today to repay back
rent that accrued during the first eighteenmonths of the pandemic. An investigation continues
(21:59):
following the discovery of a man's bodyin a twenty five or a fifty five
gallon drum on a beach in Malibu. A whopping one point five billion dollar
megallions jackpot is up for grabs tonight, but before you get your hopes up,
the odds of winning are one inthree hundred two points six million at
six oh five. It's handled onthe news. Paul Rubens, best known
(22:22):
as Pee Wee herman has died aftera secret six year battle with cancer.
Right now, let's say good morningto ABC's Tom Rivers. So, Tom,
Haitians have taken to the streets.They're protesting because an American was kidnapped.
But who is it and why dothe Haitians care? Yeah, well,
it's one of literally hundreds that havebeen kidnapped over the past few years
(22:45):
there. It's going from bad toworse in Haiti. And we're focusing on
because an American, a nurse andher daughter been taken from a kind of
a non profit Christian minute stree slashschool there in a hard hit part of
Porta Prince. She was taken orthey both were taken on Thursday. If
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there is a demand, usually there'sa ransom demand made. The State Department
isn't acknowledging that or not. Atthis stage, they're saying they're working through
local law enforcement on Haiti. Sowe'll see what shakes out in the next
few days. But yeah, veryvery worrying. Indeed, and again a
lot of the other groups, doctorswithout Borders, for example, who worked
(23:29):
just about everywhere, they pulled outof one of their hospitals there after a
situation. Last month, gunman cameup there and pulled somebody out of that
hospital and they said, look enoughand we're not gonna no, it's not
worth it. We're getting out ofthis hospital. So yeah, it's getting
pretty bad, and Haiti needs doctorswithout borders. I mean had He's a
mess still, isn't it. It'sbeen a mess for decades upon decades,
(23:53):
and just as I say, it'sgotten even worse maybe for the past two
years with the assassination and President Moise. It needs a lot, it needs
money, but that alone won't solvethe problem. It needs a joined up
thinking kind of a plan to helpto help Haiti. But again that's something
that has been tried piecemeal over theyears. Nothing really is stuck. Okay,
(24:18):
so you said that hundreds have beenkidnapped and it's just getting worse.
Do they get them back? Youknow, yeah, generally they do,
and generally off the radar. Somekind of a payment is usually not always,
but usually made. In a caselike this, you might say,
look, this is from an organizationthat is a nonprofit and he kind of
(24:42):
if you will appeal to their bettersentiments to release these people. But again,
this is something that will not happenmaybe overnight, could take weeks,
maybe even months in some cases.And for this person who was taken.
Some people full are saying that thethe kidnappers have asked for a million dollars
(25:03):
in ransom. We don't know thatfor sure, but is that a common
amount, that's a that's kind ofa common thing there. Yeah, andegotally
somebody in the clinic when they wereabducted said, someone shouted out, they
want a million. But yeah,that's kind of the ballpark value. I
guess they start with and they tryit on see if they can get it.
If they can't, they might acceptsomething substantially less. But yeah,
(25:26):
that's become part and parcel part ofthe world. They're in port A prints
today, sadly, sadly indeed.But do they like negotiate down and end
up with like twenty thousand dollars ordo I don't know how far down they
go, but I think I thinkthey you know that that might be an
option, um saying you know,we're a nonprofit. You know, we
don't have any money. You knowwe can we can you know, slam
(25:48):
together ten grand if that'll help you. But see, see if that that
that works in this case. Yeah, did they know it was an American
they were taking or do do weknow if they were targeting? We don't
know that. We don't know that. The State Department has been very very
um, if you will, generalin their comments and not wanting to get
into the nitty gritty of the details, other than to state the bear bear
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facts that you and I know.Okay, and you had said that that
Haitians were protesting, so they're they'retaking to the streets saying stop kidnapping people.
Yeah, exactly, but you knowit was matured in the hundreds.
But yeah, and again I don'tknow what. Probably there's been no polls
on this in Haiti. What isthe cut? How many people are so
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fed up that they're willing, despitethe violence, to good on those streets
and protests protests, I don't know. But again, this latest protest was
literally numbered in the hundreds. Maybethere's a whole lot more people that have
the same sentiments but are afraid toget out of their doors. Yeah.
I would think that you would bescared to go out in protest because you're
not protesting against the government necessarily,you're protesting against the gangs that have taken
(26:57):
over, right exactly, So yougot it, you got it. So
yeah, so you got to yougotta know who's on your block. You
know who, you know these peoplemay or may not be and it might
keep a low profile. Okay.Now, the State Department has issued do
not travel advisory in response to thekidnapping. Well, it happened the same
day, and some are saying it'scoincidence. Some are saying, you know,
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it looks like it probably is acoincidence in this case. But as
I say, the situation has beengoing down and that was issued last Thursday,
and basically do not travel and fornon essential staff there, consular staff,
they're saying, you know, youshould get out too. So yes,
it kind of shows you the temperatureof the place right now. Okay,
(27:40):
so they do not travel advisory.Though, Is anybody going there for
tourism now, because because like wewere talking about it, it's such a
mess there. Yeah, not thatI know of, but yeah, if
if you're planning on going there,you might want to think twice, that's
for sure. Okay. And isthere anything the US can do? I
mean, like who takes who fightsback and gets the gang under control because
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the president was assassinated, So isthe government corrupt too or every Yeah,
there's a lot of corruption to goaround. And you know, you can
go in, you can have aprogram, you can go in and say,
well, we'll train the police andthat can help somewhat. But of
course they need food and they have, you know, these other security concerns
and issues. So it has tobe an all encompassing, if you will,
(28:23):
whole solution for the island. Andat this point, the UN and
nobody down from there has come upwith something viable and willing to turn things
around. Is the US helping itall or trying to or are they just
kind of hands off they have inthe past this particular case, as I
say, they're leaning on the authoritiesthat are there right now doing the best
(28:47):
that they can and saying, look, let's try to get as much information
detail as we can to work withand try to get these two people out.
And then you can go onto thenext chapter and say, what can
possibly done the international community to helpto help Haiti all inclusively? Okay,
Well, in the meantime, we'regoing to help that alex Door Sainville and
her daughter are released and you cango wherever you want, but I certainly
(29:12):
wouldn't recommend going to Haiti right now, you got it. I think that's
a great, great advice. Yea. All right, Tom Rivers, thanks
so much for the time in theInsight this morning. I appreciate it.
Be here. All right. Hey, when we come back, we're going
to check in with ABC GM Ryanand find out why so many Americans are
having trouble making ends meet. Allright, now, let's check in with
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom andpublic health officials in La County have issued
(29:36):
an ocean water use warning for ninelocal beaches, so when it's nice and
hot, stay out of the water. People are being advised to avoid swimming,
surfing, or playing in the waterbecause of high bacteria levels. The
beaches are in the South Bay,Santa Monica, and Malibu. A record
thirty one days of temperatures of atleast one hundred ten degrees in Phoenix have
ended. The historic heat started inJune and all the way from Texas,
(30:00):
New Mexico and Arizona into California's desert. The streak broke yesterday afternoon when the
high end Phoenix, Arizona was onlyone hundred eight degrees. State media in
China says at least twenty people havebeen killed and twenty seven are missing in
flooding around Beijing. The flooding followeddays of heavy rain. A former super
(30:21):
typhoon swept over China Friday. Militaryhelicopters have been sent to deliver supplies to
stranded train passengers. The National Institutesof Health has started studying possible treatments for
long COVID. The announcement from theNIH's one point one five billion dollars Recover
project comes amid frustration from patients who'vebeen struggling for months or even years with
(30:45):
sometimes disabling health problems. A doctorfrom Washington University says the studies are a
year or two late, but stilla step in the right direction. Scientists
don't yet know what causes long COVID. It's the term for about two hundred
varying symptoms. You're listening to WakeUp Call on Demand from KFI AM six
forty. About to wrap it up, but we got more stuff to share
(31:07):
with you before we hit it.Heading to handle on the news at six.
Here are some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Firefighters have been able toget lines around more of the twenty three
hundred acre fire burning southeast of Temeculain Riverside County. It is now thirty
percent surrounded. Former President Trump ispredicting he'll be indicted any day now as
part of the investigation into his effortsto stay in power after the twenty twenty
(31:30):
election. The US women's national soccerteam heading to the round of sixteen at
the Women's World Cup after a scorelessdraw against Portugal. The game started at
midnight, and it's wonky hours becausethey're playing in New Zealand. Team USA
will play again early Sunday morning.As I mentioned, we're just minutes away
(31:52):
from Handle on the news this morning, LADWP has loosened water rules now that
we're out of the drought, Sostart watering your law a little bit more
again. Right now, let's saygood morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So,
Jim, employment is strong, unemploymentis low, inflation is slowing,
(32:12):
and consumer confidence is growing. Butstill Americans don't have any money. Well
they've got money, but barely enoughmoney. According to a survey that's been
done, they do this every monthand some four thousand people around the country.
How you doing, how's your moneyholding out? Every month and this
month the same month as last year, the same numbers as last year.
(32:35):
Ending Club which did this report fileon that sixty one percent of us are
having trouble making ends meet. Infact, we're living paycheck to paycheck sixty
one percent. That's the same asJune of last year, when it looked
as though the country was headed intoa reception. So now despite these positive
economic numbers, we're still finding thatpeople are having trouble making ends meet,
(32:55):
Adamy. And so we know thatone percent are saying paycheck to paycheck.
Yeah, do we know what thosenumbers were like before the pandemic, Well,
things got worse during the pandemic.They were slightly higher than where they
are right now and maybe climbing again. But I think that analysts were surprised
to see that there was no changefrom last year to this year because of
(33:17):
the changes in the economy. Andit's not just people who make under fifty
thousand dollars. Course, they're hithardest by this because a larger percentage of
their paycheck has to go into groceriesand transportation and housing. But even if
you look at people who make overone hundred thousand dollars, forty five percent
of them say that they're living paycheckto paycheck. And somewhere in the middle
(33:39):
folks, middle income people fifty toone hundred thousand dollars, they too,
about sixty five percent of them arehaving trouble making ends. To me,
it's just it's funny to see thatall this comes against the backdrop of this
apparently improving economy. Well, yeah, I mean, all the economists and
of course the White House is toutingthis great ecoy and that unemployment numbers are
(34:01):
dropping and is and everything great,and wages are going up, but people
aren't feeling that. Well, you'reright, and they're spending more. You
know, their credit card bills aremounting because they're having to put some of
those essentials on credit. The familiesand couples are they've logged credit card bills
(34:21):
of seventy two hundred dollars. That'sthe credit card balance now for folks who
have family seventy two hundred dollars,and they're not just not able to whittle
that away very much. Sharing expenses, if you live with a partner or
a spouse, you're still finding thatit's difficult to make ends meet. And
what's more, I thought this wasfascinating. Thirty four percent of parents share
(34:45):
an account with their kids share abank account. So the kids who are
out on their own, you know, they've they've been through school, they've
been whatever. They're out living ontheir own, but they still get into
trouble, financial trouble, trouble frequentlyenough that their parents are there to kind
of backs up them. My parentsnever backstuffed me. Yeah I didn't either,
actually, But well I think youand I were lucky, you know,
(35:07):
because we're finding now that about athird of people. I will tell
you that my kids, now thatthey're out on their own, yeah,
well I've got to kind of helpedthem out a little bit here and there.
And that's what this survey seems toshow. Okay. So the other
thing that I think plays into it, and tell me if this is right,
it says, you know, everybody'ssaying inflation is slowing. Oh isn't
(35:29):
it great? But it's still Imean, prices are up like ten fifteen,
twenty percent from where they were before. Even though the rate is slowing
down, the actual prices are stillway higher. Than they were two years
sure, and especially for some categories. I talked to my brother yesterday.
He lives in San Francisco, hadjust gassed up and paid something like five
and a half bucks a gallon,and so, man, that's way above
(35:52):
where it was not long ago.Cash prices generally have gone up here recently,
and so yeah, we're spending morefor gasoline, even if we're spending
a little less for things like eggsand bread. It all sort of offsets
and the result, the net resultthen is that we just can't set much
aside in savings. And is thereany like, is there any way to
(36:12):
save for a rainy day when youknow, like you're saying paycheck to paycheck,
that that doesn't leave any room forsaving. No, you're right,
and that's that's kind of the toughspot here. If and of course,
you know, the Fed raised inflationor raised interest rates again this past week
by a quarter percent, and sothat may slow things I think eventually,
(36:34):
if if that all stabilizes, ifwe're paying less to borrow money, maybe
not having to borrow as much,then savings can start to rise. But
saving rates are just not worth theywere twenty thirty years ago. Yeah,
and then getting back to the inflationthing, if you do the math where
they're saying, oh, two percentis our goal, Well, shouldn't negative
two percent be our goal to getthe prices back down to before these huge
(36:57):
inflation numbers. Don't think it's goingto happen. So that's never gonna happen.
No, there's just no way toto you know, the genies out
of the bottle. Fine, youknow oil is coming in from elsewhere and
they're not gonna It's all dependent onother people. It's not just the US.
So why why is the White Houseso tone deaf on this? I
mean, they keep saying that everythingis great, but you just are up
inflations down. But if that's notwhat's actually happening, I mean, I
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guess they get frustrated with them sayingthe same thing over and over again.
But you said, sixty one percentare living paycheck to paychecks, So why
don't they just fess up to it. Well, that's a good point,
you know, and that I thinkthat these numbers, those objective numbers on
first time unemployment claims for example,or you know, the consumer pricing decks,
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those are all objective numbers. Theylook at hard numbers and throw it
together into a into a pot likethis. But you know, down at
the household level, those numbers don'tmatter much if you can't make enough to
keep food on the table or toset aside something in savings. Are barely
making enough to keep gas in thecar, but not enough to to chip
(38:04):
away at your credit card debt.So I mean both both things can be
true, and it seems that boththings are true. Yeah, And it's
kind of frustrating too, because whenyou're when you're saying that you're just barely
making it, saving becomes more difficultbecause even taking like if you say,
I'm going to take twenty dollars apaycheck or fifty dollars a paycheck or and
set that aside. Sometimes when Ithink about doing that, even if it's
(38:25):
one hundred dollars, I think,oh, it's not very much. It's
not worth it. If I can'tset aside five hundred dollars, why do
it in the first place? Ohyeah, I mean that's the mentality that
by the time you're fifty nine,sixty sixty one, you're wishing that you
had done that way back in theday. So, oh yeah, might
as well. Bite the bullet intoit now. Yeah, all right,
Jim Ryan, thank you so much, and let's hope that things get better.
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I'm voting for negative inflation. Don'thold your breath, I know.
Okay, Hey, here's some goodnews if you love to nap, which
I have not been napping for thelast few years, but I am going
to guess that I will start nappingagain with an early morning start. And
if you're up in Adam already,you may need the nap too. But
(39:07):
there's a study that was published inthe Sleep Health Journal. It says regular
napping is linked to larger brain volumeand that could indicate anti aging properties.
It's estimated that one in three adultsdon't get enough sleep, which you're supposed
to get seven to eight hours,and about eighteen percent of Americans have a
(39:28):
sleep disorder. But they say evenif you do like power naps on a
regular basis, that can be goodfor you. And the way that they're
gauging this is by literally studying thesize of your brain. So like when
somebody goes, hey, check outthe big brain on him, they're being
serious about it. Because brain volumehas been a measure of overall brain health
(39:49):
and researchers have estimated that the sizeof the brain of those people who have
napped was protective against the equivalent oftwo and a half to six and a
half years of age and aging.So as you get older, your brain
shrinks. So if you nap,apparently it gives your brain some room to
breathe. So I'm going to takethat as as good advice to myself to
(40:13):
take a nap. Also wanted tojust mention as as you've probably heard,
Paul Rubens, best known as PeeWee Herman, has died at the age
of seventy and this is how Iremember pee Wee Herman. Why didn't you
take a picture of a Lafe lagerha ha ha, Yeah, seventy years
(40:39):
old. Paul Ruben's rest in peace. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los
Angeles, Orange County. You've beenlistening to Wake Up Call. You know
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