You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio appt and our Soggy Day started. Actually, the drive
in this morning was better than yesterday. It was still raining, but I
didn't have the same amount of standing water. Not sure what it's going to
be like in your area, because obviously LA is a very large area,
but it was better today. So there was still people going too fast,
though I'm going to say that as I shake my finger at you, which
I don't mean to do, is just we want everybody to be safe out
there. Sad Day also woke up to news that Toby Keith has died.
And I am a huge, huge country music fan and worked in country radio
as a news director on a morning show on a couple of them actually for
four years. And Toby Keith was just one of those people who really,
you know, affected the whole genre and his music is so great and I
am just very sad about that. And we're going to play little snippets of
some Toby Keith music throughout the wake Up Call. Here's what's ahead on wake
Up Call this morning, and evacuation warning has been issued for the Upper Crest
neighborhood in Culver City. Mudflows have already been reported behind a couple of homes,
and emergency shelters been opened at the Culver City Veterans Memorial Complex. More
than ten inches of rain has fallen in some areas of LA just since Sunday.
A lot of students stayed home from school in LA. It's the bomb's
cyclone moved through southern California. Attendance yesterday was at sixty three percent across LAUSD
It's normally ninety two percent. Officials say most faculty and staff still showed up
for work. A vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcis could come as
early as today. A Republican led House Rules Committee voted yesterday to send the
measure to the full House for a vote. Lawmakers accused Mayorcis of refusing to
uphold his oath of office by failing to enforce immigration laws. At six oh
five, It's handle on the news bills back today, Republicans continue to push
back on the new bipartisan border bill in the Senate. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
storm has done a lot of damage. Mud and debris flows have damaged homes
in Studio City, Tarzana, Beverly Glen, and Baldwin Hills. Rocks and
boulders fell overnight on parts of Malibu Canyon Road, and flooding has been reported
in several areas. This man in Long Beach says a tree fell on his
house late Sunday. I believe it was the rain. It softened the soil
out there, and it was the tree was unbalanced and it just slowly ripped
up Fellow the house. He says he's working with his insurance company to see
if it is going to cover the damage. President Biden is called Mayor Bass
to offer a helping hand to the city of La as it prepares to clean
up after the huge winter storm. There's anything more you need from us,
from my FAMENT director, We'll had any help on the way as soon as
you guys requested, So just let me know. That's why I'm calling,
he says. Biden called Mayor Bass during her storm briefing last night. Bass
held her cell phone up to a microphone so everyone could hear Biden's offering.
FEMA helped to La and the rest of California. The mayor is going to
do another storm update this morning. Of course, we will bring you all
of the information from that as soon as it comes in. About one hundred
and fifty thousand people in northern California are in the dark because of the storm.
At the beak of the storm, more than a million Kgen customers were
without power. PG and E's Paul Moreno says the high winds have left Cruise
scrambling with this widespread storm. We have many, many hundreds of thousands of
cases of trees in the power lines or tree branches of the power lines,
down poles as well as power line. Morenos's Cruise are working as fast as
they can, but PG and E is telling customers it may be Thursday before
their power is back on. Let's head out and see what's going on on
the roadways. And welcome back Nick Poliochini back from vacation. So nice to
have you back with us. Nick. We got to crash in Linwood on
the one oh five. Good to be with you as well, Amy and
checking out the driver for folks are making their west und right now along the
one o five. Ed, you make me through the Linwood area before Long
Beach Boulevard. It's erect that has the right lane shut down and it looks
like it's a silicar spin out car hydroplane there and it's a mess for your
drive right now on the westbound side of the one oh five from what before
the seven to ten and single is continuing for you for their westbound on the
one o five as you make way into south light heading toward the one ten.
Now, unlike Amy's experience getting into the studio this morning, mine was
insane here in Long Beach. Really standing water is crazy. Amy. In
fact, the front entrance to get into the facility, we couldn't even get
into our building, so we had to go to an alternate exit around the
or entrance around the back. So it's really crazy. So, as Amy
said, your neighborhood may be great, your neighborhood may not be the best.
So give yourself extra time wherever your travels are taking you this morning,
heading back to the ninety one as an alternate to the one five one,
I spound that's looking slow going for you right now as you're coming away from
about oh let's say a lake Wood, North Long Beach and Bellflower from before
Lake boulevards make way toward the seven ten. Okay, if I in the
sky, help skids you there faster. I'm Nick Poliokeemi, thank you Nick.
It's five oh five on your wake up call. Let's now say good
morning to ABC's Tom Rivers in London. So Tom, a pretty surprising and
announcement from Buckingham Palace yesterday. The King has cancer. Yeah. Yeah,
it was a shocker. We kind of caught when something was up toward the
end of the day here in the bureau and the six pm local time,
it'd be a bit dark, kind of a kind of a gloomy day and
coming forward with a news that was very very unexpected. Twelve days after he
underwent a procedure for an enlarged prostate. At that time they said there was
no cancer. We find out that upon closer examination the prostate was not cancerous,
but another organ was rus So he's begun treatment now, I actually began
yesterday. We don't have details on what form of cancer. We don't have
details on what stage he's at, and all we know is that he's starting
treatment, so that's chemo or radiation, but it's being done outpatient and according
to the Prime Minister here. They say that they've caught it pretty darn early,
so that's a good sign. Yeah. So, and we don't know
what kind of treatment, which might kind of help point to. So generally
the monarchy is kind of clothes lipped about a lot of these things. They
chose to come out and talk about this, But are you expecting them to
share more details or is it going to be like this Princess Kate thing where
they say, oh, she's having surgery, but they won't say what it
is. Yeah, I don't expect play by play. We'll see how this
story plays out, though, I mean, you know, if his health
takes a turn for the worst, they're going to have to become at least
a bit more forthcoming. But compare and contrast to the old way things were
done. Even a year or so before the Queen died, she spent a
night in the hospital, and of course the palace uttered not a syllable in
that particular instance, until tabloids here caught wind of it. Then they had
to react to it. So charges Charles had taken a very different approach,
more proactive, saying, look, I've had in the first instance, prostate
procedure and now with cancer, and he's saying, look, people of a
certain age may well develop this, so let's get it out there. If
you're feeling symptoms, then get screened. So it's a very different approach.
Well, I think that that's a positive shift, especially because I know that
testing is so important for getting catching and treating cancers. How are the bridge
it's reacting to all of this, you know, it's it's interesting if you've
kind of on an average day here he got a third of the country that
loved the Royals, a third of the country don't like the Royals, and
a third in the middle are pretty indifferent. Having said that, because of
many families have gone through cancer, the vast, vast majority of Brits are
getting behind him right now saying look, we're not royals. We can't imagine
your life, but we have gone through this and it can be pretty nasty.
So yeah, he's got great support at this stage from the country and
is probably getting you know, some of the best care in the world.
So and then Ice, Oh but yeah, I heard rumblings that Prince Harry
was spotted or for him, is he still Prince Harry? That Harry was
spotted at l A X not too long ago, so he's headed there.
Yeah, well that's a that's a that's a that's a good tip for me.
We were told that he would be coming over by himself within the next
day or two. And again, Megan is not coming, the kids are
not coming, and of course, you know we've talked about this in the
past. They're not viewed in the best light over here in the UK.
So he's gonna have to play this one, probably pretty low key. And
uh and remember that this is not the Harry Show, is all about the
king. Yeah, and if something happens to King Charles, William is next
in line, right, yep. You got William and then you got George,
and then you got Charlotte, then you got Louis and then the fifth
in the batting lineup it is it is Harry. Oh so William's kids would
take the throne thrown before Harry. Yep, exactly. And the change you
know, this has change about I don't know five six years ago, Charlotte
would never have been in the in the in the lineup, in the running.
No, it doesn't matter exactly. It says if your man or woman
doesn't matter now we're in the twenty first century, so she gets a place
above. He used to be just the males went down the list, but
now comes in order and whoever's next male or female will be in line.
Okay, well, Tom Rivers, thank you so much for the update.
And of course we certainly wish or Prince Charles king Charles well, as you
know with anybody, we all say that, well he was the prince for
so long. He's only been king for eighteen months, right exactly, and
you're absolutely right, and he goes into history books as the longest heir to
the throne in the thousand year history of the British monarchy. So yeah,
that's a distinction. All right, Tom Rivers, thanks again. If you
want to follow Tom, you can follow him at Tom Rivers ABC. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. A man has been sentenced for sneaking into a plane or onto a
plane in Denmark than flying into lax without a passport, a visa or even
a plane ticket. A federal judge gave Serge O Chaigaba ninety three days time
served and ordered him to repay Scandinavian Airlines for the ticket. The man was
not carrying his Russian or Israeli passports when he was arrested. Prosecutors say in
November, the man snuck into a terminal in Denmark, then waited till the
next day to sneak onto a flight bound for Lax. However, the flight
crew noticed o Chaigaba kept switching between unassigned seats and alerted border patrol. The
judge, after sentencing yesterday, ordered the man to be turned over to Ice
for deportation proceedings. Corbin Carson KFI News. The LA City Council is considering
rescinding a so called no street vending zone they've been around since twenty eighteen.
They banned vendors from popular spots like the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Hollywood
Bowl, Dodgers Stadium, and the LA Live Area. City Council is also
considering lowering the cost of street vending permits from five hundred and forty one dollars
a year to just over twenty seven dollars per year. All I know is
that in Inglewood they must not have this zone, because when we went to
the Chargers game a few weeks ago there were street vendors with fabulous smelling bacon
wrapped hot dogs like every ten feet. They were kind of everywhere. Senate
Majority Leader or Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has recommended Republican senators vote against a bipartisan
immigration bill in its first procedural vote that's supposed to be held tomorrow. Senate
negotiators released the text of the one hundred and eighteen billion dollar package on Sunday.
It includes new border enforcement policy and billions of dollars in funding for Ukraine,
Israel, and other US allies. Speaker Mike Johnson has said the bill
is dead on arrival in the House. A suspected Yemen who they rebel drone
has attacked a ship making its way through the Southern Red Sea. The cargo
ship is from the UK. The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations says
a projectile caused slight damage to the ship's windows on the bridge. No group
immediately claimed responsibility. Secretary of State Antony Blincoln has met with Egyptian leaders to
help work on a possible cease fire in the Israel Hamas war and the release
of hostages. Egypt Is trying to make sure the fighting doesn't push Palestinians across
its border. Blincoln has repeatedly said Palestinians must not be forced out of Gaza.
We're gonna be talking more about this with ABC's Shannon Crawford coming up in
about thirty five minutes. At five point fifty, we'll raise up our glasses
against evil force. This second whisked for My Man, Beer for My Horse.
Country music start Toby Keith has died. His family says he passed away
in his sleep last night. He's known for songs like beer for My Horses,
courtesy of the Red, White and Blue and my personal favorite should have
been a Cowboy. Keith worked in the oil feeds fields of Oklahoma as the
Man, then played semi pro football before he launched his career as a country
music singer. He'd been battling stomach cancer for the past couple of years.
Toby Keith was sixty two when we come back, Getting your paycheck early sounds
like a good thing, But Joel Larsgard is going to tell us why it
might not be Plus sharing your streaming. Another company is cracking down on that.
Hey, before we head to traffic, I want to check in with
Nick Poliochini, because as I was telling you as I came in this morning,
the roads were pretty good. It's just light rain falling, and Nick
said, not so much here, so tell us again what's going on in
Long Beach. So it's funny. I just did poke my head outside to
make sure that I gave you the most up to date information of what the
skies look like down here. And there's about thirty to forty miles difference between
Burbank and Long Beach. But it has seemed to dissipate at least for the
rain right now, so it's gone from pouring over the last ninety minutes or
so, add to not being too crazy bad, although the standing water down
here on the coastal portion of La County is really pretty crazy, so make
sure to give yourself the extra time wherever your travels may be taking you.
But it looks like things that lightened up a little bit and long we've definitely
still sing a lot busier drive already first thing this morning, even more so
than yesterday. Fabulous, Thank you for that update. We got people all
over the place. We got Blake trolley heading out to the ie this morning.
He's going to check in on some of the storm damage there, so
don't go anywhere. You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI Am
six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom to
Panga Canyon, bell Air and Woodland Hills have received nearly a foot of rain
since Sunday. That's about a month's worth of rainfall in just two days.
More than more rain is on the year. That's actually a year's worth of
rain in two days. More rain is on the way, but most of
the heavy rain today's expected. A little further east in the Inland Empire,
about two dozen people have been evacuated from their homes because of the mud and
debris flow in the Beverly Glen and Beverly Crest areas. At least seven homes
are affected, and residents are reporting rooms, garages, and pools filled with
mud. Crews also responded to a in nearby bel Air. Democratic Senator Scott
Wiener and Republican assembly Member Marie Waldron will be introducing a bill today to allow
twenty one people twenty one and up to use hallucinogens like magic mushrooms and MDMA
to treat depression, anxiety, and PTSD. The bill does not allow for
personal use of the drugs. The proposal comes after Governor knew some veto to
bill last year that would have decriminalized psychedelics. At six oh five, it's
handle on the news some migrants picked up in Arizona, maybe the same guys
who attacked an NYPD cop a few days ago. Bill's gonna take a look
into that. Let's say good morning now to the host of How to Money
on KFI. It's our very own Joel Larsgard. Joel, you're saying that
the services that you're seeing about getting your paycheck early might sound good, but
let the buyer beware. On that jewel we had Joel, Tony is furiously
pushing buttons trying to reconnect with Joel. Is he still on the line,
Okay, Nope, Okay, we're going to try to reconnect with Joel.
Well, shoot, I want to hear about this because I've seen the ads
for the early paychecks. Oh, get your paycheck a couple of days early.
But Joel is saying it's not a good idea, and we're going to
ask him about that when we reconnect, right now let's get back to some
Oh we got him. Oh good, because I didn't want to wait any
longer. Joel, good morning. Maybe Okay, so I already did your
big intro, so we're going to dive right into it. So we talked
about getting your paycheck early. Sounds like a good thing. We've seen the
ads for it, but not so much. Yeah, wouldn't it be?
It sounds so lovely. It's like, yeah, I'll get paid on Wednesday
instead of Friday. And or you know certain gig apps now that you get
paid the day that you render services, the day that you give those rides,
boom, the money goes into your account. But if your employer is
paying you early, that's one thing, and I don't necessarily hate it.
But there are now apps that allow you to claw that paycheck. You make
sure you get paid earlier than you otherwise would, but often with a cost
right so it's called earned wage access or it's in the amount of money you
might owe these companies for the privilege of getting paid early could be significant.
Some people have called it payday lending on steroids because it could be like four
hundred percent loans, and the only way that these apps are able to skate
the laws is because they make it seem like it's a voluntary thing, like
it's oh, it's just a tip, right, it's this friendly thing.
I'm just helping the app out because they're helping me out. In this voluntary
tipping model. Is what's allowing these apps like Dave and earn in to get
essentially skirt these rules and charge people exorbitant interest rates to just the privilege of
getting access to your money early. Okay, So it's basically a super short
term loan. So they're advancing you the money, but then you pay for
that Yep, exactly, okay. And this is of course, I mean,
you know, in the era of you know, fifty plus percent of
Americans living paycheck to paycheck, this seems like water in the desert. This
seems like a great solution to the fact that I don't have quite enough money.
But the real solution is to cut back on spending. Dare I say,
to increase your savings so that you don't need the paycheck early so you're
not paying fees. It's just like getting your when you had a physical check
and you go to one of those cash check cashing locations and you pay a
fee for that service, and it's better to have a real relationship with a
bank, right, so you can avoid those extra fees. If you have
to pay money to get your pay that's a problem. Okay. And just
so we're talking dollars and cents, you say that it's like a four hundred
percent interest rate, so on a short term loan, like, is that
fifty bucks or I mean yeah, okay, And often they're like suggested tips,
right, so it might be ten bucks on getting two hundred bucks early.
But it's one of these things that it just it becomes this cycle for
people. They get used to getting their money early, and because of that,
they're living even more on the financial precipice than they were before. Okay,
streaming services, I just saw I got I got the note from Hulu,
hey no more sharing? Yeah yeah, So I think the reason Disney,
Hulu, ESPN Plus, which are you know, all in the same
family, the reason that they are going in this direction is because they've seen
Netflix do it with so much success. So Netflix said, hey, guess
what, no more password sharing. Subscriber accounts skyrocketed, profitability went up,
and so the folks over at Disney Hulu are saying, oh, what if
we take this same playbook and we prevent you know, you sharing your password
with your aunt, your uncle, your mom, your dad, your sister,
your brother. And because of that, we're going to have force some
of these people essentially to create new accounts. It's probably gonna work. It's
annoying as a consumer, but also I don't fault these streaming services for doing
this. Like Netflix used to it the very origin of their service. They
kind of lauded password sharing. They've made it seem like, oh, that
was like the loving thing to do is to share your password, and now
they don't want you to do that anymore. And I get it because it
does impinge on their ability to make revenue and create the shows they want to
create, and to grow at the scale they want to grow. But you,
as an individual need to remember, okay, cool, does this mean
I need to sign up for my own Disney Plus or Hulu account or do
I just not need that service anymore? And these are the perfect times to
reconsider what you're paying for on a monthly basis. And you know, if
you don't want that ten twelve fourteen dollars monthly streaming bill in your life.
Then just say no to Hulu, say no to Disney Plus. I don't
want that streaming bill, but I want the streaming Easier said than done,
right, I know my kids love Disney Plus too, so it's one of
those things we or wait, here's the thing. I know you're gonna be
waiting a while. But Black Friday they had such good deals on streaming services,
and so maybe maybe you maybe you pay for one month and you skip
a month for now, and then once you get to Black Friday, that's
when you sign up for the sweet deal like two bucks month or whatever for
Disney Plus the adversion of course, but that's that's probably gonna be when you
see the best streaming deals typically. Okay, so maybe do some bingeing,
cancel your service for a while, and then wait and then all the stuff
is pretty much there when you come back. Yeah, that's exactly it.
I mean, I think people are like they keep paying it in perpetuity and
set a calendar in mind to remind yourself, like, listen, cool,
this is the month where I'm going to catch up on my favorite Marvel show.
And then I'm going to cancel and then guess what when the next favorite
Marvel show or whatever comes out in you know, April May something like that.
That's when I'll sign back up. That's really you figure out what is
it that I love about the service and how often does that mean that I
actually need it? Like when Squid Games comes out season two, I'll be
on Netflix, but right now I'm not on Netflix, and I want people
to think about their streaming services that way. There's no contracts, unlike the
you know, former relationship with the cable company. So that's the beauty of
it. Just make sure you actually do cancel and resubscribe. You're not missing
out on anything in the in between. Okay. Joe Larscard such great advice
as always, And if you want to hear more great money tips and investing
and how to take care of your money. How to Money with Joel Larscard.
You can listen every weekend noon to two on Sundays right here on KFI
and you can follow Joel at how to Money. Joel. Thank you,
Joel, Thanks Amy. All Right, this Sunday afternoon catch the action of
the Big Game between Kansas City and San Francisco. Kickoff is at three point
thirty. You can listen to all the action at your radio home for the
NFL AM five seventy LA Sports presented in part by Rotolo Chevrolet. See what
all the fun is about at Rotolo Chevrolet. When we come back, we're
going to get the latest on the storm, the damage and the cleanup with
ABC's Alex Stone. Southland Weather from KFI. Rain continues off and on chance
of thunderstorms today, Tonight and tomorrow. Daytime highs in the fifties to about
sixty just forties for the Analope Valley. Showers are possible on Thursday, and
then we're going to get a little bit of a break for a while,
thirty percent chance of showers. Friday. We'll be back to mostly sunny skies
with highs in the mid sixties for the weekend. You're listening to Wake Up
Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Here's what we're following in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And evacuation warning has been issued for the Upper
Crust neighborhood in Culver City. Mudflows have already been reported behind two homes,
and emergency shelter has been opened in the Culver City Veterans Memorial Complex. More
than ten inches of rain has fallen in some areas of LA since Sunday.
The city of La has reported three hundred and seven mud slides, thirty five
incidents where buildings needed to be checked out. Five buildings have been red tagged,
seven have been yellow tagged. Flash flood warnings remained in place for Santa
Monica, West, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Calabasas. Actually
those just expired. They were in effect until five am. Good News.
A vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorchis could come as early as today.
Republican led House Rules Committees members voted yesterday to send the measure to the
full House for a vote. Lawmakers accused Mayarcus of refusing to uphold his oath
of office by failing to enforce immigration laws. At six oh five, it's
handled on the news. The latest count of homeless around the country may have
missed its mark by a mile. Right now, let's say good morning to
ABC's Alex Stone. Alex the rain stuff for a while yesterday, Yeah,
at least it lightened up, But now let's gonna be stuck in my head.
I like talking about you, you you you usually I'm gonna be singing
that all day now, I know you. I woke up singing. Should
have been a cowboy. I know, red solo cop I love this bar.
How do you like me? Now? I mean there's so many of
them courtesy of the Red, White and Blue. Remember that after nine to
eleven? Oh that was put a boot in your you know what? Yep,
yeah, anyway, uh yeah, it did lightened up a little bit.
But here this is that's live outside right now. You know, it's
it's still coming down and today it's gonna be more rain, probably another one
to three inches is what's expected, and then kind of moving out. But
it's going to be the backside of this thing, Amy where it's the thunderstorms
now with the downpours and as you mentioned, over three hundred mud slides and
oh boy, you know, the ground can't take any more water, and
then the potential of something major think Lo con Cheetah years ago or Montecito a
couple of years ago, where then just a huge area gives way. So
today that everyone's going to be at least in the LAFD world in La County
Fire and Ventura and Santa Barbara watching alt Freddy signs movement just because there's so
much water in the ground, and christ and Crowley, the LAFD chief,
saying this last night. As the storm continues, there are many water soaked
hill sides that have the potential to slide, and kind of so far,
the biggest one has been the one in Beverly Crest, the one that,
you know, one home that was unoccupied, paying goodness, was blown apart
as the mud came down and ended up in the road and sixteen people had
to be evacuated in homes around it. And that's kind of been the extent
of it. For all of the rain that we have received, Thank goodness,
there hasn't been something far worse, whether flooding or mud slides or power
outages then what we've dealt with. But we're not done yet, and we've
got this backside of the storm with the thunderstorms and then several days of what
could be periods of heavy rain. So it's not over yet. But today
it feels like if we can get through this then kind of, you know,
a little bit of relief and kind of be done with it. As
we begin to see sunny skies over the next couple of days and then do
we have more storms coming in next week or are we pretty much done after
things? We're done for a while at least. What our meteorologist has been
telling us in the briefings that they do every morning is that then there is
nothing on the horizon right away. I'm sure there's something that they could be
out there in a while, but no should be done at that point.
Okay, So Alex, I have a question for you, because once the
rain stops, the road or the hillsides are still just super super saturated.
So how long does that risk of mudslides continue. It's going to be a
while. In fact, I'm trying to remember in Lock and Cheetah when I
covered that, and I think two thousand and five when that one went between
Ventura and Santa Barbara and a bunch of people were killed. It hadn't been
raining in a while, and finally the hillside turned into liquid and it went
down. So it's going to be a while that risk, And with three
hundred of them in the last two days, there's going to be at least
a few days where there are more, and hopefully they're all small, but
it's not going to go away right away. Of course, we need to
stop raining for it to go away, so the risk will go down pretty
quickly just when the rain stops, but the risk is still going to be
there. Okay. And then what about the burn scars. I know that
there were a lot of evacuation warnings in the burn scars, but are those
is that where the slides are happening. I mean, I know you mentioned
the ground is weak and it's bare there. What's amazing to me is some
of the evacuations, like in Ventura County that they've been in the Thomas Burn
Scar. That was so many years ago that the ground is still that week.
But you think what happened in Montecito and twenty eighteen I believe where that
gave way and it was so dangerous and so deadly. So there's a lot
of just being careful with these. And we haven't seen a lot of movement
there in Latuna Canyon or any of the other areas that they've done the evacuations.
It's been more in kind of the Hollywood Hills and Beverly Crest neighborhood,
and the area is more above kind of the valleys around La But the hope
will be that today that we get to tonight and tomorrow morning and say,
all right, there wasn't a lot of movement and we're kind of done with
it and we've got sunshine on the way for the weekend. Yeah, we
have that to look forward to. Alex Stone, thank you so much for
your time this morning. I love this bar, my kind place, Alex
sing it out. Thanks. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LA School District says Vindale
College Preparatory Academy in Sun Valley and Topanga Elementary charter schools will remain closed because
of the rain. Vindale students are reporting to Glenwood Elementary again today, while
Topanga students will go to Woodland Hills Academy. All other LA unified campuses remain
open. Village Christian School in sun Valley also closed because of local evacuation orders
and road closures. News brought to you by American Vision Windows. LA police
have arrested two men for allegedly selling cocaine at a homeless camp in the Westlake
District. A search weren't served in Hollywood last week led investigators to an RV
parked on South Beacon Avenue. Pollice say its only purpose was for illegal drug
sales and consumption. A man in LA has been sent to twenty six years
in prison for supplying the fentanyl that killed two people I feed say. William
Fulton was also charged in the five count indictment with being a felon in possession
of two nine millimeter ghost guns despite having been convicted of two dozen felony since
two thousand and four. Fulton admitted to selling the fentanyl at hotels in Redondo
Beach on consecutive days in twenty twenty, which caused the two people to fatally
overdose. The man was also ordered yesterday to pay more than twelve thousand dollars
in restitution. Corbin Carson KFI News Jersey Shore Star Mike the situation and his
wife have saved their little boy from choking. It happened as a family was
eating dinner on Thursday. Mike Sorrentino picked up his son, tapped him on
the back until that Nyoki had choked on dislodged, and it was all caught
on the family's ring camera. Which is a good thing because when I first
read this story, I thought, oh my gosh, they were video like
they pulled out their phones while their son was choking, but that's not the
case. Apparently was caught on the ring camera. Sorrentino posted the video on
social media over the weekend and said he and his wife are going to sign
up for CPR lessons. Good idea. You're listening to Wake Up Call on
demand from KFI Am six forty finding out that country star Toby Keith has died
and being in country music for a very long period of time, he made
a huge impact on the industry and such a talented man. Sorry to see
him leave this earth. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Three people have been killed by falling trees knocked over by the high
winds came along with the bomb's cyclone storm. Two were crushed when trees came
down in their backyards. Another man was in his house. In Santa Cruz,
a five year old girls survived a tree crashing into her house. It
landed within inches of her on the couch. About two dozen people have been
evacuated from their homes because of the mud and debris flow in the Beverly Glen
and Beverly Crest areas. At least seven homes are affected, and residents are
reporting rooms, garages, and pools filled with mud. Crews also responded to
a gas leak in nearby bell Air. Democratic Senator Scott Wiener and Republican assembly
Member Marie Waldron are planning to introduce a bill today that would allow people twenty
one and up to use hallucinogenic things like magic mushrooms and MDAMA to treat depression,
anxiety, and PTSD. The bill does not allow for personal or recreational
use of the drugs. The proposal comes after Governor Newsom veto to bell last
year that would have decriminalized psychedelic We're just minutes away from Handle on the news
this morning. Former President Trump has sent a letter to the Supreme Court saying
that taking him off the ballot is anti democratic. I'm sure Bill's going to
have something or two to say about that. Right now, let's check in
with ABC's State Department correspondent Shannon Crawford. Shannon, Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln
is in the Middle East again. He's racking up a lot of frequent flyer
miles, that's right, Amy, And if it's starting to feel a little
bit like Groundhog Day here. It's because it is Secretary of Blincoln's fifth trip
to the Middle East since the war in Gaza began, and each time he's
gone over to the region with a similar sort of goals escalation, ramping up
baid, things like that. Now, what's different this time is that negotiators
could be on the brink of the deal that would see all hostages Romanian Gaza,
and of course US forces have been carrying out counter strikes into separate theaters
in the Middle East, so the risk that the conflict could flare into a
regional war is really greater than ever. Okay, so you said that they
might have a deal on the hostages, which would be a pretty major thing
because Hamas has said, we're not releasing the hostages, is it until the
war or the fighting stops, and Israel says we're not stopping until his until
the hostages are released. That's right, But what we've seen publicly stated and
what's happening behind the scenes is a little bit different. Now. Of course,
as you point out, you're absolutely right, Hamas and Israel still appear
to be diametrically opposed on this, but we do know that behind the scenes,
Israel has pretty much signed on to a framework that each of the Cutter
in the US have also endorsed, something they hashed out really more than a
week ago. But the ball is in Hamas's court now. We've seen a
lot of optimism from Cutter. They say that, hey, we think Hamas
will eventually this keyword I guess being eventually there because the group have not publicly
weighed in on that that framework so yet they're still waiting to to see what
they come back with, and they are expecting it will be a counter So
these negotiations are going to press on. Okay, And who all is he
meeting with? He's not only going to one place, right, He's kind
of hopping around in the Middle East, that's right. Like we've seen,
it's multiple stops, meeting after meeting. He's already been to Saudi Arabia where
he's met with the crown Prince and the fact a ruler Mohammed bin Salman that
are known by MBS his initials. And then he went to Egypt where he
had a rather tense meeting with President al Sisi there and now he is basically
as we speak, he's landing in Cutter, Okay, And what's the feeling
at the State Department about how the war with Israel, with Israel and Hamas
is going. Are they still kind of full throttle support or is that wavering.
I think that since the beginning we have seen a real spectrum of approaches
from the State Department from people who, you know, maybe the more vocals,
the officials who are out at the forefront, you know, endorsing Israel's
things, to stand behind them in the wake of this horrific terror attack.
But of course there have also been officials who have been very cautious's been very
nervous and aware of the civilians and Goza that have been so dearly impacted by
Israel's retaliation. So really, you know, it's covered the map, and
if there's one thing that unites them all, it's this apprehension that this conflict
is going to drag on and only prove to be more escalatory over time.
Just what we're seeing now is that Israel's campaign is continuing. It's pressing perhaps
into areas close to Russa where a lot of civilians have thought shelter, and
that Hamas still retains control over large swaths even areas where Israel's bombardment has been
the most intense. There really doesn't appear to be a finish line here,
and there are a lot of issues with no easy solutions. Yeah, and
then Shannon, as you're talking about things escalating. As we know, the
US attacked eighty six targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday and then hit the
Hooti rebels in Yemen on Saturday, and everybody in that area is saying,
hey, we're doing this because of the Israel Humas war. That's right.
US officials have said that this shouldn't be escalatory, that none of those actions
really should come to surprised to anyone in the region, because they've said that
if the attacks on commercial shipping and the Red Sea continue, if attacks on
US forces, including events like that deadly drone strike in Jordan, if does
press on, that the US is going to hit back and hit back hard.
But still we've seen even in partners like Iraq, a lot of outrage
really over what they say is a violation of its character oriel sovereignty because the
US did not give them forewarning of those strikes that we saw over the weekend.
They contacted them immediately afterwards, but they didn't give them a heads up
right away. Okay, well, we'll be watching lots at stake here.
Shannon Crawford, thank you so much for all your information and the update this
morning. Absolutely thank you. All right, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. LA Fire has
warned additional flash flooding is possible as the storm continues. Chief Kristin Crowley says
city services will continue to identify and mitigate hazards to ensure that all of our
city residents are safe, and we will restore the city back to normalcy,
and we will do this as quickly as possible. She says. The public
can help by not calling nine to one one unless it's an emergency, and
calling three to one one to report non emergencies. As we continue to navigate
the effects of this storm together, please continue to prioritize safety, slow down
if you must travel, and take care of each other. The rain's expected
to continue over the next couple of days, but should start drying out by
the weekend. Oh Winter storm watches up through late tonight for the eastern San
Gabriel Mountains forecasters are predicting two to three feet of snow above seven thousand feet,
as much as twenty inches as low as six thousand feet, and eight
inches at five thousand feet. LA County Sheriff's deputies have been searching river beds
for homeless people during the storm. For years, the homeless have set up
living spaces amongst the shrubbery and bushes along dry river beds, but when there's
rain in the forecast, the department's Homeless Outreach Services Team responds. Our main
focus is to warn those that are in and around the waterways of the impending
storms and the dangers that those bring. Captain Jeff Diedrich says they've been focused
on the San Gabriel River, the Rio Hondo River, the Arcadia Wash in
the Walnut Creek area, and since Monday they've only made contact with fourteen people.
That's way lower than years past. Steve Gregory kata Fine. At least
one hundred and twenty three deaths have now been report in Chile, where wildfires
have burned through neighborhoods. Volunteers in Central Chile have been trying to remove charred
metal, broken glass, another debris in areas destroyed by the forest fires.
The fire started on Friday. Hundreds of people are still missing. The House
is expected to vote later today on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcis.
ABC's Stephen Portnoy says the measure contains two articles of impeachment. The first
alleges that in releasing migrants into the country, Alejandro Majorcis has violated the law.
The second article claims he has breached the public trust falsely testifying before Congress
that the border is secure and that Afghan war refugees had been fully vetted.
The Biden administration calls the charge baseless. The Senate may try to dismiss the
charges to avoid a long trial. This is KFI and kost HD, two
Los Angeles, Orange County Southlide weather from KFI showers with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Could see some heavy rain at times highs around the sixty at the
beaches Metro LA and INNDO, C fifties in the valleys, and i E
forties for the high desert. Showers continue off and on tonight and tomorrow,
with daytime highs tomorrow in the fifties. We'll get a bit of a break
Thursday before some more rain rolls in through Friday, and then we should be
dry with sunny skies and highs in the mid sixties. This weekend, it's
fifty three in bray Of, fifty one in Lake Forest, fifty two in
Whittier, fifty two in Studio City. We lead local live from the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. Thanks so much for joining us.
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