October 1, 2025 • 10 mins
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- Federal government offically shut down after failed funding votes
- 8th anniversary of Las Vegas shooting at Route 91 music festival in which Kern County residents attended
- Suspected DUI driver appeared in court Tuesday on charges related to crash that killed a 6-year-old girl
- Allen Road off-ramp from westbound Hwy 58 to be closed Wednesday for landscape maintenance
- 1,200 pound bear, Chunk wins 'Fat Bear Week' contest
- 2025 Halloween events in Kern County
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, Kerrent County. This is the seventeen News at
Sunrise podcast, Your News on Your Schedule, presented by Rod
Riquez and associates.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let's take a.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Live look now at Capitol Hill. With no deal in
hand by the midnight deadline, the federal government is now
shut down as President Donald Trump and the Republicans are
locked in a fierce blame game with Democratic leaders. The
impacts of the shutdown will be widespread. More than two
million federal workers will go without pay, and the President
(00:36):
has threatened mass layoffs as well. NBC's Alice Barr as
the very latest from Washington.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
This morning, as the consequences of a government shutdown start
rippling across the country. On Capitol Hill, frustrated lawmakers starting
a new clock to reopen.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
It's time to end this and release the hostage.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Let's get back to Workblicans and Democrats trading blame after
two last ditch funding votes failed in the Senate Tuesday
night without the necessary seven Democrats crossing over to back it.
They're holding out to restore healthcare cuts and extend Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Fixed healthcare premiums, and spare Americans the calamity of skyrocketing
through the roof healthcare costs.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Republicans argue those discussions can wait, voicing pessimism about the
current standstill.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
There literally is nothing to negotiate.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
They're bringing in extraneous issues.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
They don't have anything to do at all with keeping
the government.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Open despite the shutdown, Social Security, Medicare, and VA benefits
will continue, along with student loans, but national parks could close,
and roughly seven hundred and fifty thousand federal workers could
be furloughed. Many more, including TSA agents, required to work
without pay until the shutdown ends.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
We're looking for bombs, weapons, stuff I got and you
can't mess right, So you don't want officers with added
stress of how am I going to pay my bills?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
President Trump raising the stakes, reiterating his threat of mass
layoffs while blaming Democrats.
Speaker 8 (02:12):
Cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like,
cutting programs that they like.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Democrats adamant those cuts are already happening, pushing for leverage.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Now they've got to sit down and negotiate with Democrats.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
As the nation waits for what's next. While we wait
to hear about negotiations, Several leading Republicans have said they
don't see a clear way out of this shutdown right now,
while the Senate Stop Democrat argue the American people are
learning how bad the nation's healthcare crisis is and will
put heat on Republicans to solve it. In Washington Alice
(02:49):
bar ANDBC News.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Meantime, our local congressmen are speaking out against the shutdown,
calling on Democrats to quote put Americans first. Representative Vispong
issued a statement last night that reads, in part quote,
Senate Democrats just voted against keeping the government open again,
putting Central Valley families and the essential services we rely
on at risk.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Congressman David Valdeo says the shutdown benefits no one, issuing
a statement that reads, in part quote, Unfortunately, Congressional Democrats
refused to act responsibly and instead forced a shutdown, wasting
taxpayer dollars, putting critical programs at risk, and hurting families
across the country just to score political points. And we
have a somber anniversary this morning. Today's the eighth anniversary
(03:36):
of the Las Vegas mass shooting at the Root ninety
one Harvest Music festival.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And dozens of people in Kern County were there when
shots were fired.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It happened at the Root ninety one.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Music Festival on the night of October first, twenty seventeen.
As people were enjoying the live concert, a gunman opened
fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Fifty
eight people were killed that night, including four Kern County residents.
Bailey Schweitzer attended the concert with her mother. She was
just twenty years old and the youngest victim, Jack Beaton,
(04:06):
and his wife, attended the concert for their anniversary. Jack
protected his wife during the shooting, sacrificing his life for
her safety. Victor Link was a Wasco native. He attended
the concert with his fiancee and Kelcey Meadows, a twenty
eight year old substitute school teacher in Taft. Nearly six
hundred others were hurt. Now, organizers are planning to build
(04:27):
a memorial to commemorate the tragedy.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Important to tell our story from all the perspectives. It's
important to remember and to honor the lives we lost
and everyone that was impacted.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
We all wish it would have never happened, but it did,
and we took the worst of that and turned it
into something beautiful and resilient, and we owe it to
all the people that were there and our community to
build something that portrays that.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Organizers say they hoped to open the memorial in time
for the tenth anniversary. Now to your seventeen court waunch
this morning, the driver in a suspected duy crash that
killed a six year old Bakersfield girl appeared in court yesterday.
Twenty year old Caesar mcgonia Mendoza pleaded not guilty to
charges of driving under the influence, speeding, and gross vehicular manslaughter.
(05:17):
The crash happened on East Panama Lane early Sunday morning.
Investigators say mcgonia Mendoza slammed into a Toyota camery carrying
a woman, the six year old girl, and an infant.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The girl was.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Taken to Orange County Children's Hospital, where she later died
that day.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The woman and infant were injured.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
A GoFundMe has been set up to support her family
that was launched a few days ago. You could find
a link to it on our website kget dot com.
Mcgonia Mendoza is expected back in court November eighteenth.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
And from our road work file this morning. If your
commute involves the West Side Parkway today and now's the
time to plan ahead. Cal Tran says the Allen Road
off ram from westbound Highway fifty eight will be closed
from nine o'clock this morning until about two o'clock this afternoon.
That so Cruz can perform landscape maintenance and expect culverts.
So if you're heading it through there later today, make
sure you slow for the cone zone and plan your
(06:10):
route around the closure.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
I'm proud to be part of the Bakershild community, the culture, the.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Arts, and the music.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
I'm so glad my parents taught me to speak Spanish
and to honor our heritage by singing traditional music. As
an attorney with Rodriguez and Associates, I'm proud to work
in harmony with our community, helping others and celebrating what
makes us unique at Rodriguez in Associates. When you need us,
(06:40):
we'll be here for you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Your sunrise forecast sponsored by mcre Hillcrest.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm really excited about the museum.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
This will be your guys' first year out there and
it's so much fun to see all of the creative
costumes and we will be dressed up as well.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We're not gonna tell folks what were need just yet.
Speaker 10 (07:03):
But let's just say it takes you back in time
a little bit to a very popular.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Show, I guess, and it's.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
A movie and it incorporates a dog cat. Okay, there's
a lot of shows. There's a lot of shows and
movies with dogs. And that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
No more hints, no more hints, no more hints.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It is gonna be a great time.
Speaker 10 (07:24):
You're gonna laugh hysterically when you see us, so hopefully
you'll join us out at the museum on that day.
And we've got some dog walking forecast uff to talk
about here in just a little bit. Because we also
we're gonna incorporate the pops. We have a costume contest
for them as well. I'll talk more about that at
five thirty. Let's take you outside, talk about what's going
on right now. We've got clear skies out there and
(07:45):
a temperature at sixty five degrees, a light winds out
of the north at five six point thirty nine will
be your sunset for tonight. We've got sixty in DELAYO
sixty one and shafter sixty five in armin and then
forties and fifties in the mountains right now currently to
have to be at fifty fifty nine out of Lake Isabella.
Skies are clear now. Yesterday we did see some low
lying clouds over the Grapevine. Not the case this morning.
(08:07):
You can see we've got clear skies out that direction.
We do have another round of rain moving through the north,
and that's what's going to be happening here the next
few days. So we're gonna get a little bit of
a warm up today, but as this trough pushes on through,
we're gonna fall into those seventies. So good news there.
I just wish some of that rain was headed our way,
but not the case. Here's a look at Tahoe this morning,
forty nine degrees, so a little chilly there. They're gonna
(08:28):
be right near fifty nine this afternoon. Sixty nine in
the Bay Area, eighty five in Fresno, and then we
got seventies down to the south into La and San Diego.
Still quite nice out of Las Vegas with a high
of ninety. As we take a look at the big picture,
this is the area of little pressure that we're tracking.
So we get the front to push through today into
tomorrow and then we get some cooler error on the
(08:48):
backside in terms of the rain northern California and up
in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Here's look at our air quality today.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
Gonna be a moderate AQI at sixty four and we'll
call for sixty nine in Fraser Park, little warmer and
Lebeck at seventy two sunny conditions.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And then for the valley Sunday.
Speaker 10 (09:02):
Today eighty four in Bakersfield eighty two and McFarland eighty
three in Wasco. Winds light out of the northwest, five
to ten for a mountain community, it's not a bad
day at all. Seventies seventy three and to hatch me,
Bear Valley are at seventy a northwest wind ten to
fifteen for the Curniber Valley today, winds picking up a
little bit in the afternoon, so if you're gonna be
on the lake, just look for some chop. We're looking
at eighty two at Weldon, seventy eight for Lake Isabella,
(09:25):
and then for the desert today Ridgecrest eighty eight, eighty
three in Mohave and winds gusting near thirty. Here's your
extended forecast tomorrow, sunny in eighty five and then on
the back side of that system, we'll get the cooler
air to move on excuse me to move on in
and we're in the seventies Friday Saturday, back in the
eighties on Sunday as we take a look at the
mountains Tomorrow seventy three, but then sixties for you Friday
(09:48):
d Saturday, lower seventies again by Sunday and into next week,
and then for the Curniber Valley tomorrow seventy eight, but
then you fall into those sixties on Friday, and then
back in the seventies saturd through the early part.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Of next week. So overall, a beautiful forecast. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
This has been the seventeen News at Sunrise podcast, presented
by Rodriquez and Associates, a production of KGET and Nexstar
Media Group. For more local news and weather, visit KGET
dot com.
Good morning, Kerrent County. This is the seventeen News at
Sunrise podcast, Your News on Your Schedule, presented by Rod
Riquez and associates.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let's take a.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Live look now at Capitol Hill. With no deal in
hand by the midnight deadline, the federal government is now
shut down as President Donald Trump and the Republicans are
locked in a fierce blame game with Democratic leaders. The
impacts of the shutdown will be widespread. More than two
million federal workers will go without pay, and the President
(00:36):
has threatened mass layoffs as well. NBC's Alice Barr as
the very latest from Washington.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
This morning, as the consequences of a government shutdown start
rippling across the country. On Capitol Hill, frustrated lawmakers starting
a new clock to reopen.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
It's time to end this and release the hostage.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Let's get back to Workblicans and Democrats trading blame after
two last ditch funding votes failed in the Senate Tuesday
night without the necessary seven Democrats crossing over to back it.
They're holding out to restore healthcare cuts and extend Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Fixed healthcare premiums, and spare Americans the calamity of skyrocketing
through the roof healthcare costs.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Republicans argue those discussions can wait, voicing pessimism about the
current standstill.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
There literally is nothing to negotiate.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
They're bringing in extraneous issues.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
They don't have anything to do at all with keeping
the government.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Open despite the shutdown, Social Security, Medicare, and VA benefits
will continue, along with student loans, but national parks could close,
and roughly seven hundred and fifty thousand federal workers could
be furloughed. Many more, including TSA agents, required to work
without pay until the shutdown ends.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
We're looking for bombs, weapons, stuff I got and you
can't mess right, So you don't want officers with added
stress of how am I going to pay my bills?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
President Trump raising the stakes, reiterating his threat of mass
layoffs while blaming Democrats.
Speaker 8 (02:12):
Cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like,
cutting programs that they like.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Democrats adamant those cuts are already happening, pushing for leverage.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Now they've got to sit down and negotiate with Democrats.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
As the nation waits for what's next. While we wait
to hear about negotiations, Several leading Republicans have said they
don't see a clear way out of this shutdown right now,
while the Senate Stop Democrat argue the American people are
learning how bad the nation's healthcare crisis is and will
put heat on Republicans to solve it. In Washington Alice
(02:49):
bar ANDBC News.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Meantime, our local congressmen are speaking out against the shutdown,
calling on Democrats to quote put Americans first. Representative Vispong
issued a statement last night that reads, in part quote,
Senate Democrats just voted against keeping the government open again,
putting Central Valley families and the essential services we rely
on at risk.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Congressman David Valdeo says the shutdown benefits no one, issuing
a statement that reads, in part quote, Unfortunately, Congressional Democrats
refused to act responsibly and instead forced a shutdown, wasting
taxpayer dollars, putting critical programs at risk, and hurting families
across the country just to score political points. And we
have a somber anniversary this morning. Today's the eighth anniversary
(03:36):
of the Las Vegas mass shooting at the Root ninety
one Harvest Music festival.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And dozens of people in Kern County were there when
shots were fired.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It happened at the Root ninety one.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Music Festival on the night of October first, twenty seventeen.
As people were enjoying the live concert, a gunman opened
fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Fifty
eight people were killed that night, including four Kern County residents.
Bailey Schweitzer attended the concert with her mother. She was
just twenty years old and the youngest victim, Jack Beaton,
(04:06):
and his wife, attended the concert for their anniversary. Jack
protected his wife during the shooting, sacrificing his life for
her safety. Victor Link was a Wasco native. He attended
the concert with his fiancee and Kelcey Meadows, a twenty
eight year old substitute school teacher in Taft. Nearly six
hundred others were hurt. Now, organizers are planning to build
(04:27):
a memorial to commemorate the tragedy.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Important to tell our story from all the perspectives. It's
important to remember and to honor the lives we lost
and everyone that was impacted.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
We all wish it would have never happened, but it did,
and we took the worst of that and turned it
into something beautiful and resilient, and we owe it to
all the people that were there and our community to
build something that portrays that.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Organizers say they hoped to open the memorial in time
for the tenth anniversary. Now to your seventeen court waunch
this morning, the driver in a suspected duy crash that
killed a six year old Bakersfield girl appeared in court yesterday.
Twenty year old Caesar mcgonia Mendoza pleaded not guilty to
charges of driving under the influence, speeding, and gross vehicular manslaughter.
(05:17):
The crash happened on East Panama Lane early Sunday morning.
Investigators say mcgonia Mendoza slammed into a Toyota camery carrying
a woman, the six year old girl, and an infant.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The girl was.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Taken to Orange County Children's Hospital, where she later died
that day.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The woman and infant were injured.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
A GoFundMe has been set up to support her family
that was launched a few days ago. You could find
a link to it on our website kget dot com.
Mcgonia Mendoza is expected back in court November eighteenth.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
And from our road work file this morning. If your
commute involves the West Side Parkway today and now's the
time to plan ahead. Cal Tran says the Allen Road
off ram from westbound Highway fifty eight will be closed
from nine o'clock this morning until about two o'clock this afternoon.
That so Cruz can perform landscape maintenance and expect culverts.
So if you're heading it through there later today, make
sure you slow for the cone zone and plan your
(06:10):
route around the closure.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
I'm proud to be part of the Bakershild community, the culture, the.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Arts, and the music.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
I'm so glad my parents taught me to speak Spanish
and to honor our heritage by singing traditional music. As
an attorney with Rodriguez and Associates, I'm proud to work
in harmony with our community, helping others and celebrating what
makes us unique at Rodriguez in Associates. When you need us,
(06:40):
we'll be here for you.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Your sunrise forecast sponsored by mcre Hillcrest.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm really excited about the museum.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
This will be your guys' first year out there and
it's so much fun to see all of the creative
costumes and we will be dressed up as well.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
We're not gonna tell folks what were need just yet.
Speaker 10 (07:03):
But let's just say it takes you back in time
a little bit to a very popular.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Show, I guess, and it's.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
A movie and it incorporates a dog cat. Okay, there's
a lot of shows. There's a lot of shows and
movies with dogs. And that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
No more hints, no more hints, no more hints.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It is gonna be a great time.
Speaker 10 (07:24):
You're gonna laugh hysterically when you see us, so hopefully
you'll join us out at the museum on that day.
And we've got some dog walking forecast uff to talk
about here in just a little bit. Because we also
we're gonna incorporate the pops. We have a costume contest
for them as well. I'll talk more about that at
five thirty. Let's take you outside, talk about what's going
on right now. We've got clear skies out there and
(07:45):
a temperature at sixty five degrees, a light winds out
of the north at five six point thirty nine will
be your sunset for tonight. We've got sixty in DELAYO
sixty one and shafter sixty five in armin and then
forties and fifties in the mountains right now currently to
have to be at fifty fifty nine out of Lake Isabella.
Skies are clear now. Yesterday we did see some low
lying clouds over the Grapevine. Not the case this morning.
(08:07):
You can see we've got clear skies out that direction.
We do have another round of rain moving through the north,
and that's what's going to be happening here the next
few days. So we're gonna get a little bit of
a warm up today, but as this trough pushes on through,
we're gonna fall into those seventies. So good news there.
I just wish some of that rain was headed our way,
but not the case. Here's a look at Tahoe this morning,
forty nine degrees, so a little chilly there. They're gonna
(08:28):
be right near fifty nine this afternoon. Sixty nine in
the Bay Area, eighty five in Fresno, and then we
got seventies down to the south into La and San Diego.
Still quite nice out of Las Vegas with a high
of ninety. As we take a look at the big picture,
this is the area of little pressure that we're tracking.
So we get the front to push through today into
tomorrow and then we get some cooler error on the
(08:48):
backside in terms of the rain northern California and up
in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Here's look at our air quality today.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
Gonna be a moderate AQI at sixty four and we'll
call for sixty nine in Fraser Park, little warmer and
Lebeck at seventy two sunny conditions.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And then for the valley Sunday.
Speaker 10 (09:02):
Today eighty four in Bakersfield eighty two and McFarland eighty
three in Wasco. Winds light out of the northwest, five
to ten for a mountain community, it's not a bad
day at all. Seventies seventy three and to hatch me,
Bear Valley are at seventy a northwest wind ten to
fifteen for the Curniber Valley today, winds picking up a
little bit in the afternoon, so if you're gonna be
on the lake, just look for some chop. We're looking
at eighty two at Weldon, seventy eight for Lake Isabella,
(09:25):
and then for the desert today Ridgecrest eighty eight, eighty
three in Mohave and winds gusting near thirty. Here's your
extended forecast tomorrow, sunny in eighty five and then on
the back side of that system, we'll get the cooler
air to move on excuse me to move on in
and we're in the seventies Friday Saturday, back in the
eighties on Sunday as we take a look at the
mountains Tomorrow seventy three, but then sixties for you Friday
(09:48):
d Saturday, lower seventies again by Sunday and into next week,
and then for the Curniber Valley tomorrow seventy eight, but
then you fall into those sixties on Friday, and then
back in the seventies saturd through the early part.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Of next week. So overall, a beautiful forecast. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
This has been the seventeen News at Sunrise podcast, presented
by Rodriquez and Associates, a production of KGET and Nexstar
Media Group. For more local news and weather, visit KGET
dot com.
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