September 24, 2025 • 25 mins
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- Parents say they feel safe at the Kern County Fair amid shooting investigation
- Escapee inmate to appear in court today
- Jail bed space listening session to be held today
- Jamison center clothing drive today at Compassion Corner from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Jimmy Kimmel back on air after comments about Charlie Kirk assasination
- Feed the Need day held Tuesday at Kern County Fair
- Fox Theater holding 95th birthday bash Saturday
- Non-stick pans to possibly be banned in California starting 2030
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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):
They began with your seventeen Crime Watch and a follow
up on a story we brought you yesterday. Parents tell
seventeen News they feel safe as ever bringing their families
to the Current County Fair. This after two separate shootings
outside the fairgrounds left a man dead and another injured,
all in the sixth day since the fair opened. Seventeen's
Connor Door has the latest on those investigations.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Tuesday was school day at the fair, and parents leaving
with their children say that they feel safe even when
they attend the fair in the evening.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
I don't feel any problems really, you know, as long
as you're kind of with a good group and you're
able to kind of watch everyone around you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I feel like the fair is always a good time.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
And one hundred percent I think there's plenty of security,
you know, driving around watching everybody.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
Yeah, I call that other street blocked offer here too.
Speaker 8 (01:01):
That's pretty nice.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Crime inside the fairgrounds has been limited due to the
extensive law enforcement presence. BPD says Twelve arrests have been
made since the fares opening, five of those being public
intoxication charges. Other arrests include domestic violence, violating parole, providing
a false identification, threatening a peace officer, two for disturbing
the peace, two for resisting, and one charge for dui. However,
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two shootings, one fatal, have occurred since the fairs opening day.
Bakersfield Police says they were called to Bell Terrace and
p Street for shooting around ten o'clock Monday night. Officers
found a nineteen year old man with at least one
gunshot wound. He was taken to Kerr Medical with injuries
described as moderate to major. He was in stable condition,
and BPD confirmed Tuesday there was no connection to the
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Kern County Fair. BPD hasn't said if any arrests have
been made or if there's any suspect information. And last Wednesday,
the opening night, Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the nine
hundred block of Vine Drive, just a short walk south
of the fairgrounds after getting a report of a shooting.
Forty year old Wilberto Hernandez was pronounced dead at the scene.
He has a case back in twenty fourteen, where he
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was charged with possessing a firearm and possessing a firearm
while being a gang member. He pled no contests to
the possession charge and the gang charges were dismissed well.
Both shootings are still under investigation and no suspects have
been named yet. BPD says they are continuing to work
hard to keep the fair ground safe. Connor Door seventeen News.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
In your seventeen Court Watch, an inmate who escaped custody
this week is set to face a judge later today
for charges related to that escape. In July, twenty three
year old Francisco Garcia was found guilty of attempted murder
and gang charges. He was facing eighty years to life
at his sentencing next week. A sheriff's office brought him
to Current Medical on Saturday for an appointment, but around
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eleven that nine, he ran.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Away from deputies.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Jail record show officers arrested Garcia around seven o'clock Monday
night at a home on Panama Road in Lamont. Two
other people, Jasmine Morales and Electra Espinosa, were also arrested
for charges including eating, an escape and accessory to a crime.
Garcia faces additional charges related to the escape.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Happening today, the City of Bakersfield is looking for solutions
to the lack of jail bedspace, which has long been
an issue here in Kerrn County, and you're asked to
weigh in. Suspects typically get released soon after they're arrested
because there just aren't enough jail beds. More than eighty
percent of those releases happen in less than twenty four hours,
So the City of Bakersfield wants to hear what you
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have to say. Is hosting a community listening session at
one point thirty on today at City Hall, North seventeenth.
Vincent de Monte is following this story and we'll have
an update in our evening newscasts.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Also happening today at Compassion Corner, KGET is teaming up
with Leadership Bakersfield to support the kids at the Jamison Center,
which provides temporary houses for children, and we need your help.
We're holding a clothing drive outside our studios at Compassion Corner,
the corner of twenty second and L Streets. We're collecting
gently used and new clothing for kids of all ages,
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along with new undergarments and hygiene products with an emphasis
on boys pants and sweatpants, girls jackets and sweaters. It's
all happening from seven this morning until seven to night
at Compassion Corner once again on the corner of twenty
second and L Streets in downtown Bakersfield. For a full
list of what these kids need, head to our website
at KGET dot com.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, and we'll be stopping by out there a couple
times today, So come out and see us, drop by
your donation.
Speaker 9 (04:44):
Almost one week after he was suspended, Jimmy Kimmel was
back on his ABC late night show last night. Parent
company Disney pulled the host off the air after he
made comments about the suspect who shot and killed Charlie Kirk,
prompting conservative outrage and react from the FCC chairman.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Though he's not back on air, he's not on all
the shows in the country. Two of the nation's largest
TV station owners, including kget's a parent company, next, are
are choosing not to run it. NBC's Alice Barr has
the latest details from Washington.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
From Hollywood. Jimmy Him Overnight the return of ABC's late
night host Jimmy Kimmel, who quickly addressed his comments about
the Republican response to Charlie Kirk's murder that had him
pulled off the air.
Speaker 10 (05:31):
You understand that it was never my intention to make
light of the murder of a young man.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (05:42):
I don't think there's anything running about it, nor was
it my intention to blame any specific group for the
actions of what it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Right before the show, President Trump slammed Kimmel and said
ABC told the White House the show was canceled, something
never publicly stated without evidence. He accused Kimmel of being
an arm of the Democratic National Committee and alluded to
another potential lawsuit against ABC, writing quote, last time I
went after them, they gave me sixteen million dollars. This
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one sounds even more lucrative. Kimmel referenced the free speech
firestorm his suspension touched.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
Off a government threat to silence a comedian the President
doesn't like is anti American.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Thanking those across the political spectrum who spoke out after
the FCC chairman suggested there could be action against ABC
stations that kept running the Kimmel show following his Kirk comments.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He threatens it.
Speaker 11 (06:40):
He says, we can do this the easy way.
Speaker 12 (06:44):
But we can do this the hard way. Yeah, And
I got to say that's right out of good fellows.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Kimmel's show is not airing everywhere, with station group owners
Next Star in Sinclair choosing to preempt the program in
dozens of ABC stations they own across the country. Another
wrinkle in this controversy right now, Next Star is seeking
approval for a six billion dollar merger from the FCC chairman,
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who applauded the station group's move to preempt Kimmel's show,
arguing that Democrats can't stand that local TV stations, for
the first time in years, stood up to a national
programmer in Washington. Allis BARNBC News.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
This Kerr County Fair update is brought to you by
Rodriguez An Associates.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
All right, welcome back to Sunriser Back now with an
update on the Great Kerr County Fair. The Fares that
Feed the Knee Day wrapped up last.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
Night and we want to thank everyone who gave in
the spirit of the Golden Empire. Admission was free to
anyone who brought six cans or more to donate to
the Community Action Partnership of Kerney yesterday.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Last year, the event.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Raised about twenty five thousand pounds of food for our
neighbors in need, and this year, organizers say they were
hoping to raise thirty three thousand. This coming as CAPCA
is facing funding cuts and the holidays are around the corner.
Speaker 13 (08:09):
This is like kind of the launch into our holiday frenzy.
We call it because we work with over one hundred
and fifty commodity pantry and locations throughout Comparanity, So that's
your local churches, that's Cshoe Bakersfield, Bakersfold College. All that
food is coming from us, So when you're giving to us,
you're giving to all of our partners.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
We do not have totals from last night's drive just yet,
but hope to have an update for you soon. Meantime,
school days are well underway at the fair. The first
one wrapped up yesterday. It's a perfect field trip for
students to learn, explore, and have fun outside the classroom.
Some came by today to see the animals, art exhibits,
food vendors.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
And entertainment like the Drumheads.
Speaker 13 (08:47):
Very important for the kids to see everything because it's
building them up for their future and their careers and
being a teacher and educating them that you know there
are these other career paths.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
It just kind of shows them everything available to them.
Today is the last day to take advantage.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Preschool to sixth grade students, their teachers and chaperones get
into the fair for free.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And there are just five days left. I know it's
going by so quick. To enjoy the fair, including today.
An admission is still a great deal, so get on in.
It is fifteen dollars for adults, ten dollars for seniors,
six dollars for children, and children five and under get
in free. Ticket prices are also discounted online. Those with
military ideas you get in for free, and parking is
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ten dollars.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
In other news around town, there's a party going on
Saturday night at the temporarily transformed Fox Theater, and you're invited.
It's a ninety five year birthday bash that might never
have happened if not for the dedication of a lot
of determined townsfolk thirty five years ago.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Seventeen's Robert Price has the story.
Speaker 14 (09:52):
This Saturday, Bakersfield celebrates the ninety fifth birthday of one
of its greatest civic treasures, the Fox Theater, one of
the relatively few surviving members of the Fox West Coast
Theaters chain of the late nineteen twenties and thirties that
are still actively fulfilling their original purpose. As graceful and
substantial as the Bakersfield Fox is, however, the story today
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really is about its survival against significant economic and logistical obstacles.
If not for a persistent band of nostalgic supporters, the
Fox might have been wiped from the ground thirty five
years ago, as has been the fate of other Foxes,
aged and decrepit, with an inattentive, non local owner uninterested
or incapable of investing in its rehabilitation. The local Fox
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was at one point a prime candidate for an incursion
of homelessness. Jim Darling is a former Fox Foundation board member.
Speaker 15 (10:44):
They're pigeons flying around inside the theater. It was terrible,
and we know what happens to buildings in downtown Bakersfield
that aren't secured, that become occupied by people that don't
have the means to have a place to live, and
they start campfires and things and worse, and that would
be the end of the theater.
Speaker 14 (11:01):
Enter the late Ed Moss, a downtown property owner with
the persuasive powers and civic passion to convince the la
based negotiation averse owner to part with the treasure for
half a million dollars to be raised by community donations
and shepherded by a local foundation, the Fox Theater Foundation.
And so this Saturday, the Fox celebrates its ninety fifth birthday,
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nine and a half decades since the winged cars of
the sci fi musical comedy Just Imagined first flew across
the screen on Christmas Day nineteen thirty. While Moss, who
died in two thousand and six, was instrumental in liberating
the Fox from the ravages of time and neglect, it
was the foundation, created in nineteen ninety that finished the job.
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Supporters like Phyllis Adams, Kathy Butler, and Peggy Darling, who
died in twenty twenty two, made restoration of the Fox
a priority. Jim Darling, Peggy darling step son, says, because
of their work and the financial support of people like
Cynthia Lake, the Fox has a bright future.
Speaker 15 (11:59):
Think I think those days are coming because artists love
to play old theaters that are in great shape like
this one, and it's fifteen hundred seats, it's the right
size they love to play to a full house.
Speaker 14 (12:12):
The Fox Theater will celebrate its ninety fifth anniversary with
a Golden Age Gala this Saturday at seven. The Art
Deco themed event will feature a murder mystery hosted bar,
heavy ordures, and a temporary ballroom set up over the
theatre's regular seating in Bakersfield. Robert Price seventeen News.
Speaker 16 (12:31):
I'm proud to be part of the bakershial community, the culture,
the arts, and the music. 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 In Associates,
I'm proud to work in harmony with our community, helping
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others and celebrating what makes us unique at Rodriguez In Associates.
When you need us, We'll be here for you.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
In a news around the Nation, President Trump criticized world
leaders for their immigration and energy policies at the UN
General Assembly meeting this week. He also shared new positions
on the war in Ukraine. Washington correspondent Matti beer Temple
reports in the president's remarks.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
The president's speech was largely critical of the United Nations,
but in other comments at the meeting, he said he
thinks Ukraine can take back its land loss to Russia
and said NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if
it violates their airspace's productive day. During a meeting with
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, President Trump praised the country in
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its war against Russia.
Speaker 14 (13:38):
Ukraine is doing a very good job of stopping his very.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Large army, the President suggested on truth social for the
first time, he thinks Ukraine quote is in a position
to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its
original form. The comments came as world leaders met at
the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, where the President said
he's prepared to put more tear off on Russia and
called on Europe to do the same.
Speaker 14 (14:02):
All of you are gathered here right now would have
to join us in adopting the exact same measures.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
He also called for allies to stop buying Russian oil,
something the European Union president says she agrees with.
Speaker 17 (14:16):
We're on it, and we have reduced already massively the
gas supply from Russia.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Meanwhile, war between Israel and Hamas was also top of mind,
as some allies now recognize of Palestinian state. The president
called that a reward for hamas.
Speaker 15 (14:30):
Those who want peace should be united with one message
released the hostages now.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
The President's speech also touted his role in conflict negotiations
around the world and said that the UN is not
living up to its potential. In Washington, I'm Mattie Beer Temple.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Meantime, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald
Trump at his Florida golf club last year has been
found guilty of all five charges against him. It took
a jury just two hours to convict Ryan Roath, who
represented himself. Federal prosecutors argued that Rhades spent weeks plotting
to kill Trump before aiming a rifle at him.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
After the verdict was.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
Read, Roath was visibly upset and attempted to stab himself
with a pen. He was tackled by US marshals and
removed from the courtroom. Roath faces life in prison. Sentencing
is set for December eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
President Trump now canceling a Thursday meeting with Democratic congressional
leaders aimed at preventing a partial government shutdown. Trump posting
online that Democrats were making quote on serious and ridiculous demands,
including a trillion dollars in new spending. House Minority Leader
Jeffreys responded, saying Trump always chickens out. The deadline to
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reach an agreement is midnight on.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
October first, just days since Governor Gavin Newsom signed a
bill to prohibit most law enforcement officers from wearing masks.
The federal government says it will not comply. The Department
of Homeland Security stated in a post that California does
not have the legal authority to enact or enforce as
state law directing federal officers how they can operate. Chris Mitchell,
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a lobbyist and law professor at the McGeorge.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
School of Law, agrees rights are left to the states,
but when we are dealing with law enforcement of the
federal government, those are subject to the whims and the
dictates of the federal government, not the states.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
However, Governor Newsom does not seem to think so. When
asked whether he believes his new state legislation can apply
to federal officers, he said.
Speaker 18 (16:41):
This the supremacy cause doesn't give blanket immunity to stay laws.
Quite the contrary. I'll give you just as an aside
an example, federal employees have to abide by traffic rules.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
HP is exempt from the legislation.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
As for federal officers, even if they do not comply,
local agencies will be required to This new bill takes
effect next summer.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Seventeen.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
News is your local election headquarters. We continue our coverage
of California's congressional redistricting ballot measure. The Dolores Where To
Action Fund rallied in front of Downtown's Liberty Bell yesterday
urging voters to vote yes on Prop fifty. Seventeen's Vincent
Demante reports how other groups feel about the measure.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Again again Yes.
Speaker 17 (17:34):
The downtown Liberty Bell was the site of a small
coalition holding blue and yellow signs and chanting cisupporde the
reason to urge voters to cast their ballot in favor
of Proposition fifty, or the Elections Rigging Response Act, And.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
This is an important response to what has been going
on in the state of Texas and what may be
happening throughout our states and throughout our nation. And it's
important for us to be able to push back and
to maintain our voices.
Speaker 17 (18:04):
Prop fifty allows California voters to decide whether to allow
mid decade redistricting in response to Republican redistricting efforts in Texas.
Since two thousand and eight, and independent Commission has been
responsible for drafting California's congressional map every ten years. If
Prop fifty passes, the Independent Commission would be disbanded and
the state legislature would draw and approve a new congressional
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map that would last until twenty thirty. Famous farm workers
right activist to Laures Huerta says that redistricting will help
Californians voice their thoughts better to the Trump administration.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
We know that this is a complicated measure. We have
more Democrats of the Congress that we can say the
money our tax dollars is going to go for services
for people and not to the billionaires, and not to
be used to torment our community the way the money.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Is now be used.
Speaker 17 (18:53):
Congressman Vince Vong criticized the ballot measure early Tuesday morning
on the State of Gold podcast.
Speaker 19 (18:59):
This is all designed to be a power graph for
Gavanese them to inflate his presidential ambitions at the expense
of all of us who are trying to ensure a
fair representation they're silencing the voice, the voices of people
that don't agree with the governor.
Speaker 17 (19:16):
In a four to one vote Tuesday afternoon, the Board
of Supervisors passed a symbolic motion against the re districting measure.
Chairwoman Latsia Perez was the sole dissenter. Members of the
board also voiced their thoughts on the ballot measure. But
we are not Texas, and if you don't like what
they're doing over there, the answer is not to turn
around and do the exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I would hope we are above playing political tit for
tat with people's representation.
Speaker 17 (19:40):
The measure requires a simple majority to be passed. Ballots
will begin to be mailed to Kern County voters October sixth,
and voters have until November fourth to cast their ballots.
Vincent Demante seventeen News.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Welcome back car repairers are up fifteen percent from a
year ago and five percent from just a month ago.
Speaker 12 (20:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Three things are leading to this increase tariffs, labor and
higher prices for new cars and to Rowan reports.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
For Joel Matteas at Lucero's tire shop in Plainville, the
rubber is meeting the road on tariffs. Their price for
tires now is quarter the front.
Speaker 20 (20:21):
A lot of tires coming overseas and they and the
tires that they make here in the United States, they're
way more expensive.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
It's not just tires feeling the pressure. Everything from filters
to lower motors are getting more expensive.
Speaker 21 (20:36):
From anywhere, from tariffs or transportation costs. There's a lot
of variables, but they're all contribute to it.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
At Anthony's Autocare, inventory is stalling some repairs that in
many cases already cost more.
Speaker 21 (20:49):
Breaks jobs used to be five hundred to six hundred
and now like six hundred to seven hundred.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
Car parks made outside the US are subject to a
twenty five percent tariff impact businesses like Superior Spring in
Hampden if they're not getting squeezed or getting crushed. State
Attorney General William Tong went to the business Tuesday to
tout his lawsuit against the Trump administration. And so now
we're two to zero on tariffs. Of course, there's a
looming battle in front of the Supreme Court, but we
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think we've got him pretty well boxed in. Meanwhile, Representative
Vincent Candelora says his own manufacturing business has lost out
to cheaper factories in China.
Speaker 20 (21:27):
If ultimately we could bring it back, that short term
pain might be worth it.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
But the minority leader says the effort of state leaders
is better spent elsewhere.
Speaker 20 (21:37):
We need to be focusing on the policies that we
could actually fix in Connecticut to make it more affordable.
Continuing to complain about what the federal government is doing
isn't going to help us here.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
That was Andrew Rowan reporting, if you know you need
a repair or your check engine light is on, do
not procrastinate.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Some parts could take extra time to get to the shop.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Nonstick pans could be soon banned in the state of California.
The state Assembly passed a bill to ban nonstick cookwaar
made with Quote Forever chemicals starting in twenty thirty. It
would also outlaile other products containing pfas by twenty twenty eight.
The chemicals have been used for decades and everything from
carpets to of course, pots and pans. Study show ninety
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seven percent of Americans have them in their bloodstream. They're
linked with higher cholesterol levels, thyroid disease, and certain cancers.
The bill goes back to the Senate before heading to
Governor Newsom, who hasn't said if he'll sign it.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Welcome back taking a look at sports.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
The Dodgers have entered the final week of their season,
taken on the Arizona Diamondbacks. Last night, LA entered a
z trying to win the series and its thirteenth Division
title in fourteen years. Dodgers opened up to a four
to nothing lead, but the bullpen gave it up again.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
Here comes the floor of the plain.
Speaker 12 (23:03):
It's none time the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Well, the Dodgers have seen this happen way too many times,
especially lately, the bullpen and once again blowing a lead
to lose the game, the latest coming last night when
Tanner Scott gave up a walk off single against the
Arizona Diamondbacks as the Dodgers lost the series opener five
to four. Tanner Scott his major league leading tenth blown save.
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Manager Dave Roberts says things in his bullpen need a
change in a hurry, But the postseason around the corner, I.
Speaker 22 (23:36):
Gotta find, you know, some guys that are being going
to pitch with conviction and go out there and compete.
Our starters can't go nine every night. You know, we're
We're looking for some guys to step up. We need it.
We need these guys.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
So the Padres won last night.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
So the Dodgers NL West Division lead is now down
to one and a half games with five remaining.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
The Magic Verse three Well.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Baseball players will soon have to argue balls and strikes
with the robot. Major League Baseball have proved an automatic
balls and strikes challenge system starting in the twenty twenty
sixth season, Each team will start the game with two challenges.
If a player does not like a call, they can
challenge and it will be reviewed by a new pitch
tracking technology that will automatically check if the ball is
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in the strike zone. The challenge can only be made
by the pitcher, catcher or batter at the plate. To
signal they are challenging, they have to just tap their
helmet or cap. The team keeps the challenge if it
is successful.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I mean, we're living in the future.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
That's crazy. It is pretty cool how they do it.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
They get it down to like the exact millimeter two stared.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
This has been the seventeen News at Sunrise podcast presented
by Rod Riquez and Associates, a production of KGET and
Nextstar 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):
They began with your seventeen Crime Watch and a follow
up on a story we brought you yesterday. Parents tell
seventeen News they feel safe as ever bringing their families
to the Current County Fair. This after two separate shootings
outside the fairgrounds left a man dead and another injured,
all in the sixth day since the fair opened. Seventeen's
Connor Door has the latest on those investigations.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Tuesday was school day at the fair, and parents leaving
with their children say that they feel safe even when
they attend the fair in the evening.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
I don't feel any problems really, you know, as long
as you're kind of with a good group and you're
able to kind of watch everyone around you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I feel like the fair is always a good time.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
And one hundred percent I think there's plenty of security,
you know, driving around watching everybody.
Speaker 6 (00:57):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
Yeah, I call that other street blocked offer here too.
Speaker 8 (01:01):
That's pretty nice.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Crime inside the fairgrounds has been limited due to the
extensive law enforcement presence. BPD says Twelve arrests have been
made since the fares opening, five of those being public
intoxication charges. Other arrests include domestic violence, violating parole, providing
a false identification, threatening a peace officer, two for disturbing
the peace, two for resisting, and one charge for dui. However,
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two shootings, one fatal, have occurred since the fairs opening day.
Bakersfield Police says they were called to Bell Terrace and
p Street for shooting around ten o'clock Monday night. Officers
found a nineteen year old man with at least one
gunshot wound. He was taken to Kerr Medical with injuries
described as moderate to major. He was in stable condition,
and BPD confirmed Tuesday there was no connection to the
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Kern County Fair. BPD hasn't said if any arrests have
been made or if there's any suspect information. And last Wednesday,
the opening night, Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the nine
hundred block of Vine Drive, just a short walk south
of the fairgrounds after getting a report of a shooting.
Forty year old Wilberto Hernandez was pronounced dead at the scene.
He has a case back in twenty fourteen, where he
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was charged with possessing a firearm and possessing a firearm
while being a gang member. He pled no contests to
the possession charge and the gang charges were dismissed well.
Both shootings are still under investigation and no suspects have
been named yet. BPD says they are continuing to work
hard to keep the fair ground safe. Connor Door seventeen News.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
In your seventeen Court Watch, an inmate who escaped custody
this week is set to face a judge later today
for charges related to that escape. In July, twenty three
year old Francisco Garcia was found guilty of attempted murder
and gang charges. He was facing eighty years to life
at his sentencing next week. A sheriff's office brought him
to Current Medical on Saturday for an appointment, but around
(02:59):
eleven that nine, he ran.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Away from deputies.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Jail record show officers arrested Garcia around seven o'clock Monday
night at a home on Panama Road in Lamont. Two
other people, Jasmine Morales and Electra Espinosa, were also arrested
for charges including eating, an escape and accessory to a crime.
Garcia faces additional charges related to the escape.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Happening today, the City of Bakersfield is looking for solutions
to the lack of jail bedspace, which has long been
an issue here in Kerrn County, and you're asked to
weigh in. Suspects typically get released soon after they're arrested
because there just aren't enough jail beds. More than eighty
percent of those releases happen in less than twenty four hours,
So the City of Bakersfield wants to hear what you
(03:43):
have to say. Is hosting a community listening session at
one point thirty on today at City Hall, North seventeenth.
Vincent de Monte is following this story and we'll have
an update in our evening newscasts.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Also happening today at Compassion Corner, KGET is teaming up
with Leadership Bakersfield to support the kids at the Jamison Center,
which provides temporary houses for children, and we need your help.
We're holding a clothing drive outside our studios at Compassion Corner,
the corner of twenty second and L Streets. We're collecting
gently used and new clothing for kids of all ages,
(04:17):
along with new undergarments and hygiene products with an emphasis
on boys pants and sweatpants, girls jackets and sweaters. It's
all happening from seven this morning until seven to night
at Compassion Corner once again on the corner of twenty
second and L Streets in downtown Bakersfield. For a full
list of what these kids need, head to our website
at KGET dot com.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, and we'll be stopping by out there a couple
times today, So come out and see us, drop by
your donation.
Speaker 9 (04:44):
Almost one week after he was suspended, Jimmy Kimmel was
back on his ABC late night show last night. Parent
company Disney pulled the host off the air after he
made comments about the suspect who shot and killed Charlie Kirk,
prompting conservative outrage and react from the FCC chairman.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Though he's not back on air, he's not on all
the shows in the country. Two of the nation's largest
TV station owners, including kget's a parent company, next, are
are choosing not to run it. NBC's Alice Barr has
the latest details from Washington.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
From Hollywood. Jimmy Him Overnight the return of ABC's late
night host Jimmy Kimmel, who quickly addressed his comments about
the Republican response to Charlie Kirk's murder that had him
pulled off the air.
Speaker 10 (05:31):
You understand that it was never my intention to make
light of the murder of a young man.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (05:42):
I don't think there's anything running about it, nor was
it my intention to blame any specific group for the
actions of what it was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Right before the show, President Trump slammed Kimmel and said
ABC told the White House the show was canceled, something
never publicly stated without evidence. He accused Kimmel of being
an arm of the Democratic National Committee and alluded to
another potential lawsuit against ABC, writing quote, last time I
went after them, they gave me sixteen million dollars. This
(06:14):
one sounds even more lucrative. Kimmel referenced the free speech
firestorm his suspension touched.
Speaker 10 (06:20):
Off a government threat to silence a comedian the President
doesn't like is anti American.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Thanking those across the political spectrum who spoke out after
the FCC chairman suggested there could be action against ABC
stations that kept running the Kimmel show following his Kirk comments.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He threatens it.
Speaker 11 (06:40):
He says, we can do this the easy way.
Speaker 12 (06:44):
But we can do this the hard way. Yeah, And
I got to say that's right out of good fellows.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Kimmel's show is not airing everywhere, with station group owners
Next Star in Sinclair choosing to preempt the program in
dozens of ABC stations they own across the country. Another
wrinkle in this controversy right now, Next Star is seeking
approval for a six billion dollar merger from the FCC chairman,
(07:09):
who applauded the station group's move to preempt Kimmel's show,
arguing that Democrats can't stand that local TV stations, for
the first time in years, stood up to a national
programmer in Washington. Allis BARNBC News.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
This Kerr County Fair update is brought to you by
Rodriguez An Associates.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
All right, welcome back to Sunriser Back now with an
update on the Great Kerr County Fair. The Fares that
Feed the Knee Day wrapped up last.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
Night and we want to thank everyone who gave in
the spirit of the Golden Empire. Admission was free to
anyone who brought six cans or more to donate to
the Community Action Partnership of Kerney yesterday.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Last year, the event.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Raised about twenty five thousand pounds of food for our
neighbors in need, and this year, organizers say they were
hoping to raise thirty three thousand. This coming as CAPCA
is facing funding cuts and the holidays are around the corner.
Speaker 13 (08:09):
This is like kind of the launch into our holiday frenzy.
We call it because we work with over one hundred
and fifty commodity pantry and locations throughout Comparanity, So that's
your local churches, that's Cshoe Bakersfield, Bakersfold College. All that
food is coming from us, So when you're giving to us,
you're giving to all of our partners.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
We do not have totals from last night's drive just yet,
but hope to have an update for you soon. Meantime,
school days are well underway at the fair. The first
one wrapped up yesterday. It's a perfect field trip for
students to learn, explore, and have fun outside the classroom.
Some came by today to see the animals, art exhibits,
food vendors.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
And entertainment like the Drumheads.
Speaker 13 (08:47):
Very important for the kids to see everything because it's
building them up for their future and their careers and
being a teacher and educating them that you know there
are these other career paths.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
It just kind of shows them everything available to them.
Today is the last day to take advantage.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Preschool to sixth grade students, their teachers and chaperones get
into the fair for free.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And there are just five days left. I know it's
going by so quick. To enjoy the fair, including today.
An admission is still a great deal, so get on in.
It is fifteen dollars for adults, ten dollars for seniors,
six dollars for children, and children five and under get
in free. Ticket prices are also discounted online. Those with
military ideas you get in for free, and parking is
(09:29):
ten dollars.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
In other news around town, there's a party going on
Saturday night at the temporarily transformed Fox Theater, and you're invited.
It's a ninety five year birthday bash that might never
have happened if not for the dedication of a lot
of determined townsfolk thirty five years ago.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Seventeen's Robert Price has the story.
Speaker 14 (09:52):
This Saturday, Bakersfield celebrates the ninety fifth birthday of one
of its greatest civic treasures, the Fox Theater, one of
the relatively few surviving members of the Fox West Coast
Theaters chain of the late nineteen twenties and thirties that
are still actively fulfilling their original purpose. As graceful and
substantial as the Bakersfield Fox is, however, the story today
(10:13):
really is about its survival against significant economic and logistical obstacles.
If not for a persistent band of nostalgic supporters, the
Fox might have been wiped from the ground thirty five
years ago, as has been the fate of other Foxes,
aged and decrepit, with an inattentive, non local owner uninterested
or incapable of investing in its rehabilitation. The local Fox
(10:36):
was at one point a prime candidate for an incursion
of homelessness. Jim Darling is a former Fox Foundation board member.
Speaker 15 (10:44):
They're pigeons flying around inside the theater. It was terrible,
and we know what happens to buildings in downtown Bakersfield
that aren't secured, that become occupied by people that don't
have the means to have a place to live, and
they start campfires and things and worse, and that would
be the end of the theater.
Speaker 14 (11:01):
Enter the late Ed Moss, a downtown property owner with
the persuasive powers and civic passion to convince the la
based negotiation averse owner to part with the treasure for
half a million dollars to be raised by community donations
and shepherded by a local foundation, the Fox Theater Foundation.
And so this Saturday, the Fox celebrates its ninety fifth birthday,
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nine and a half decades since the winged cars of
the sci fi musical comedy Just Imagined first flew across
the screen on Christmas Day nineteen thirty. While Moss, who
died in two thousand and six, was instrumental in liberating
the Fox from the ravages of time and neglect, it
was the foundation, created in nineteen ninety that finished the job.
(11:44):
Supporters like Phyllis Adams, Kathy Butler, and Peggy Darling, who
died in twenty twenty two, made restoration of the Fox
a priority. Jim Darling, Peggy darling step son, says, because
of their work and the financial support of people like
Cynthia Lake, the Fox has a bright future.
Speaker 15 (11:59):
Think I think those days are coming because artists love
to play old theaters that are in great shape like
this one, and it's fifteen hundred seats, it's the right
size they love to play to a full house.
Speaker 14 (12:12):
The Fox Theater will celebrate its ninety fifth anniversary with
a Golden Age Gala this Saturday at seven. The Art
Deco themed event will feature a murder mystery hosted bar,
heavy ordures, and a temporary ballroom set up over the
theatre's regular seating in Bakersfield. Robert Price seventeen News.
Speaker 16 (12:31):
I'm proud to be part of the bakershial community, the culture,
the arts, and the music. 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 In Associates,
I'm proud to work in harmony with our community, helping
(12:53):
others and celebrating what makes us unique at Rodriguez In Associates.
When you need us, We'll be here for you.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
In a news around the Nation, President Trump criticized world
leaders for their immigration and energy policies at the UN
General Assembly meeting this week. He also shared new positions
on the war in Ukraine. Washington correspondent Matti beer Temple
reports in the president's remarks.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
The president's speech was largely critical of the United Nations,
but in other comments at the meeting, he said he
thinks Ukraine can take back its land loss to Russia
and said NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if
it violates their airspace's productive day. During a meeting with
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski, President Trump praised the country in
(13:36):
its war against Russia.
Speaker 14 (13:38):
Ukraine is doing a very good job of stopping his very.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Large army, the President suggested on truth social for the
first time, he thinks Ukraine quote is in a position
to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its
original form. The comments came as world leaders met at
the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, where the President said
he's prepared to put more tear off on Russia and
called on Europe to do the same.
Speaker 14 (14:02):
All of you are gathered here right now would have
to join us in adopting the exact same measures.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
He also called for allies to stop buying Russian oil,
something the European Union president says she agrees with.
Speaker 17 (14:16):
We're on it, and we have reduced already massively the
gas supply from Russia.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Meanwhile, war between Israel and Hamas was also top of mind,
as some allies now recognize of Palestinian state. The president
called that a reward for hamas.
Speaker 15 (14:30):
Those who want peace should be united with one message
released the hostages now.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
The President's speech also touted his role in conflict negotiations
around the world and said that the UN is not
living up to its potential. In Washington, I'm Mattie Beer Temple.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Meantime, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald
Trump at his Florida golf club last year has been
found guilty of all five charges against him. It took
a jury just two hours to convict Ryan Roath, who
represented himself. Federal prosecutors argued that Rhades spent weeks plotting
to kill Trump before aiming a rifle at him.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
After the verdict was.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
Read, Roath was visibly upset and attempted to stab himself
with a pen. He was tackled by US marshals and
removed from the courtroom. Roath faces life in prison. Sentencing
is set for December eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
President Trump now canceling a Thursday meeting with Democratic congressional
leaders aimed at preventing a partial government shutdown. Trump posting
online that Democrats were making quote on serious and ridiculous demands,
including a trillion dollars in new spending. House Minority Leader
Jeffreys responded, saying Trump always chickens out. The deadline to
(15:45):
reach an agreement is midnight on.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
October first, just days since Governor Gavin Newsom signed a
bill to prohibit most law enforcement officers from wearing masks.
The federal government says it will not comply. The Department
of Homeland Security stated in a post that California does
not have the legal authority to enact or enforce as
state law directing federal officers how they can operate. Chris Mitchell,
(16:11):
a lobbyist and law professor at the McGeorge.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
School of Law, agrees rights are left to the states,
but when we are dealing with law enforcement of the
federal government, those are subject to the whims and the
dictates of the federal government, not the states.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
However, Governor Newsom does not seem to think so. When
asked whether he believes his new state legislation can apply
to federal officers, he said.
Speaker 18 (16:41):
This the supremacy cause doesn't give blanket immunity to stay laws.
Quite the contrary. I'll give you just as an aside
an example, federal employees have to abide by traffic rules.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
HP is exempt from the legislation.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
As for federal officers, even if they do not comply,
local agencies will be required to This new bill takes
effect next summer.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Seventeen.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
News is your local election headquarters. We continue our coverage
of California's congressional redistricting ballot measure. The Dolores Where To
Action Fund rallied in front of Downtown's Liberty Bell yesterday
urging voters to vote yes on Prop fifty. Seventeen's Vincent
Demante reports how other groups feel about the measure.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Again again Yes.
Speaker 17 (17:34):
The downtown Liberty Bell was the site of a small
coalition holding blue and yellow signs and chanting cisupporde the
reason to urge voters to cast their ballot in favor
of Proposition fifty, or the Elections Rigging Response Act, And.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
This is an important response to what has been going
on in the state of Texas and what may be
happening throughout our states and throughout our nation. And it's
important for us to be able to push back and
to maintain our voices.
Speaker 17 (18:04):
Prop fifty allows California voters to decide whether to allow
mid decade redistricting in response to Republican redistricting efforts in Texas.
Since two thousand and eight, and independent Commission has been
responsible for drafting California's congressional map every ten years. If
Prop fifty passes, the Independent Commission would be disbanded and
the state legislature would draw and approve a new congressional
(18:27):
map that would last until twenty thirty. Famous farm workers
right activist to Laures Huerta says that redistricting will help
Californians voice their thoughts better to the Trump administration.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
We know that this is a complicated measure. We have
more Democrats of the Congress that we can say the
money our tax dollars is going to go for services
for people and not to the billionaires, and not to
be used to torment our community the way the money.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Is now be used.
Speaker 17 (18:53):
Congressman Vince Vong criticized the ballot measure early Tuesday morning
on the State of Gold podcast.
Speaker 19 (18:59):
This is all designed to be a power graph for
Gavanese them to inflate his presidential ambitions at the expense
of all of us who are trying to ensure a
fair representation they're silencing the voice, the voices of people
that don't agree with the governor.
Speaker 17 (19:16):
In a four to one vote Tuesday afternoon, the Board
of Supervisors passed a symbolic motion against the re districting measure.
Chairwoman Latsia Perez was the sole dissenter. Members of the
board also voiced their thoughts on the ballot measure. But
we are not Texas, and if you don't like what
they're doing over there, the answer is not to turn
around and do the exact same thing.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I would hope we are above playing political tit for
tat with people's representation.
Speaker 17 (19:40):
The measure requires a simple majority to be passed. Ballots
will begin to be mailed to Kern County voters October sixth,
and voters have until November fourth to cast their ballots.
Vincent Demante seventeen News.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Welcome back car repairers are up fifteen percent from a
year ago and five percent from just a month ago.
Speaker 12 (20:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Three things are leading to this increase tariffs, labor and
higher prices for new cars and to Rowan reports.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
For Joel Matteas at Lucero's tire shop in Plainville, the
rubber is meeting the road on tariffs. Their price for
tires now is quarter the front.
Speaker 20 (20:21):
A lot of tires coming overseas and they and the
tires that they make here in the United States, they're
way more expensive.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
It's not just tires feeling the pressure. Everything from filters
to lower motors are getting more expensive.
Speaker 21 (20:36):
From anywhere, from tariffs or transportation costs. There's a lot
of variables, but they're all contribute to it.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
At Anthony's Autocare, inventory is stalling some repairs that in
many cases already cost more.
Speaker 21 (20:49):
Breaks jobs used to be five hundred to six hundred
and now like six hundred to seven hundred.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
Car parks made outside the US are subject to a
twenty five percent tariff impact businesses like Superior Spring in
Hampden if they're not getting squeezed or getting crushed. State
Attorney General William Tong went to the business Tuesday to
tout his lawsuit against the Trump administration. And so now
we're two to zero on tariffs. Of course, there's a
looming battle in front of the Supreme Court, but we
(21:17):
think we've got him pretty well boxed in. Meanwhile, Representative
Vincent Candelora says his own manufacturing business has lost out
to cheaper factories in China.
Speaker 20 (21:27):
If ultimately we could bring it back, that short term
pain might be worth it.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
But the minority leader says the effort of state leaders
is better spent elsewhere.
Speaker 20 (21:37):
We need to be focusing on the policies that we
could actually fix in Connecticut to make it more affordable.
Continuing to complain about what the federal government is doing
isn't going to help us here.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
That was Andrew Rowan reporting, if you know you need
a repair or your check engine light is on, do
not procrastinate.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Some parts could take extra time to get to the shop.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Nonstick pans could be soon banned in the state of California.
The state Assembly passed a bill to ban nonstick cookwaar
made with Quote Forever chemicals starting in twenty thirty. It
would also outlaile other products containing pfas by twenty twenty eight.
The chemicals have been used for decades and everything from
carpets to of course, pots and pans. Study show ninety
(22:21):
seven percent of Americans have them in their bloodstream. They're
linked with higher cholesterol levels, thyroid disease, and certain cancers.
The bill goes back to the Senate before heading to
Governor Newsom, who hasn't said if he'll sign it.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Welcome back taking a look at sports.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
The Dodgers have entered the final week of their season,
taken on the Arizona Diamondbacks. Last night, LA entered a
z trying to win the series and its thirteenth Division
title in fourteen years. Dodgers opened up to a four
to nothing lead, but the bullpen gave it up again.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
Here comes the floor of the plain.
Speaker 12 (23:03):
It's none time the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Well, the Dodgers have seen this happen way too many times,
especially lately, the bullpen and once again blowing a lead
to lose the game, the latest coming last night when
Tanner Scott gave up a walk off single against the
Arizona Diamondbacks as the Dodgers lost the series opener five
to four. Tanner Scott his major league leading tenth blown save.
(23:29):
Manager Dave Roberts says things in his bullpen need a
change in a hurry, But the postseason around the corner, I.
Speaker 22 (23:36):
Gotta find, you know, some guys that are being going
to pitch with conviction and go out there and compete.
Our starters can't go nine every night. You know, we're
We're looking for some guys to step up. We need it.
We need these guys.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
So the Padres won last night.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
So the Dodgers NL West Division lead is now down
to one and a half games with five remaining.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
The Magic Verse three Well.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Baseball players will soon have to argue balls and strikes
with the robot. Major League Baseball have proved an automatic
balls and strikes challenge system starting in the twenty twenty
sixth season, Each team will start the game with two challenges.
If a player does not like a call, they can
challenge and it will be reviewed by a new pitch
tracking technology that will automatically check if the ball is
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in the strike zone. The challenge can only be made
by the pitcher, catcher or batter at the plate. To
signal they are challenging, they have to just tap their
helmet or cap. The team keeps the challenge if it
is successful.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I mean, we're living in the future.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
That's crazy. It is pretty cool how they do it.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
They get it down to like the exact millimeter two stared.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
This has been the seventeen News at Sunrise podcast presented
by Rod Riquez and Associates, a production of KGET and
Nextstar media group. For more local news and weather, visit
kget dot com.
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