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Here's Amy King. This is your wake up call for Tuesday, August eighth.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. Had a little extra coffee this morning.
Stayed up a little late last night because went to the Grammy Museum yesterday.
We're going to tell you about that at five thirty. Kind of a
cool little experience. It has to do with what everybody's talking about these days.
Taylor Swift. I can tell the Tyler's very excited about that. Two
more days of shows for Taylor. Four down, two to go. Here's
what's ahead on the wake up call. As many as eleven thousand city workers
they're going to walk off the job for twenty four hours to protest us what
they say is the city's refusal to bargain in good faith. The LAPD's staffing
level is at its lowest levels since the nineteen nineties. There are just under
nine thousand officers as of July thirtieth. The All Star team from El Segundo
has won its first two games in the West Region tournament. Go Team and
we'll play Friday for a berth in the Little League World Series at six oh
five. It's handled on the news. We're going to find out what voters
are deciding today and how it could preview the politics of abortion in twenty twenty
four. Of course, the election's not here, it's in Ohio, but
could affect us here. Let's start with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA's mayor says the city will not shut
down despite a strike by more than eleven thousand city workers. The workers plan
to walk off the job today for a one day strike. The sanitation workers,
heavy duty mechanics, traffic officers, engineers, and others will be picketing
at several locations, including Hall and Lax. Trash pickup will be delayed.
City pools could be closed. The workers' union says the city's been negotiating a
new contract in bad faith. A woman shot by a security guard at a
Rouph's in Hollywood has died. The woman had assaulted the guard with a fire
extinguisher. The guard says the woman also had a screwdriver. Two of the
three people killed in that midair helicopter collision in Riverside County worked for a local
Cowfire team, CalFire, says Assistant Chief Josh Bishop and Captain Tim Rodriguez were
not pilots, but coordinators for tactical aerial firefighting and were directing air traffic for
five other aircraft when the accident happened. The third person killed was a contract
pilot from northern California. Officials say the air attack was ordered after flames from
a house fire Sunday night spilled into a nearby field of dry brush. About
an hour later, the bell for OH seven with Bishop and Rodriguez collided with
a Sikorski skycrane. The skycrane had a hard landing, but both pilots were
uninjured. Steve Gregory Kophy News, a Navy sailor from Monterey Park accused of
taking bribes in exchange for sending sensitive military information to a Chinese intelligence officer,
is due in federal court in la He wants to be released until his trial.
Petty Officer when Heng Zao pleaded not guilty last week to federal charges of
conspiracy and receipt of a bribe by a public official. Garden Grove police have
found more than thirty five pounds of party drugs, including thousands of figs,
anis adderall and MDMA PILLSMA is that we call an ecstasy. The term is
three four methylene doxymeth and fetam. Garden Grove Police Sergeant Nick Jensen says the
concern is the already dangerous street drug is now being mixed with deadly drugs like
fentanyl. Actually C pills you know the size of like an eminem almost,
so nineteen pounds of that, that's a lot of pills. Investigators last week
also found two pounds of coke when you start combining different ingredients. Obviously,
drugs are bad and they have a bad effect on you, but you never
know what you're really taking. In Garden Grove, Corbin Carson if I News,
a woman from Corona has been hit with a two year prison sentence for
a scheme to steal money from state benefits on debit cards with Cala Barksdale cooked
up a scheme with Toya Hunter, a mail carrier, to steal the money.
They use Hunter's position as a mail carrier to steal mail carrying unemployment insurance
debit cards. US Attorney's kier In Macavoy says Hunter would trade the debit cards
to Barksdale for cash and gifts. Barksdale would then use people's social security numbers
to activate the cards. The scheme resulted in more than two hundred thousand dollars
stolen from Bake of America from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty. The mail carrier
was sentenced to a year in prison. Blake Trolley k if I News.
President Biden's on a Western swing aimed at showcasing his work on conservation, clean
energy, and veterans benefits. He left Washington last night for a three night
trip to Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah's he expected to announce a new
national monument in Arizona to protect land and limit uranium mining. He'll be talking
about clean energ in New Mexico and veterans benefits in Utah. I just love
that music. It's I know it's eerie because it's tied to the Exorcist,
but it's such a cool theme. The Oscar winning director known for films like
The Exorcist and The French Connection, has died. William Friedkin was also approached
to produce Mash and Star Wars movies, but turned them down. He said
he couldn't see the potential in them. Friedkin died yesterday in La. He
was eighty seven. NASA technologies helping winemakers fight against crop sickness. Through NASA's
airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer, scientists are able to detect early signs of
grape and vine diseases before physical signs appear. That gives winery owners a chance
to treat the crops before they failed. It's being used now grape disease caused
mold and wrought rooting bacteria that stroys up to thirty percent of harvests each year.
That results in three billion dollars in damages annually to the California wine economy.
Let's say good morning to ABC's Mike Debusky. Good morning, Mike,
Good morning. How yeah, I'm good. So we've got a ghost kitchen
company called Virtual Dining Concepts, and it's sued a guy known as Mister Beast.
And if you haven't heard of mister Beast, apparently you're one of the
only ones because he has more than one hundred and seventy four million YouTube subscribers,
almost thirty nine million followers on Instagram, and nearly twenty two million on
x so he's being sued for one hundred million dollars tell us about it.
Yeah, that's right. So first thing we got to talk about here is
ghost kitchens, which is kind of a new concept. It really took off
during the pandemic. A ghost kitchen is basically a kitchen with no front of
house. It's a kitchen with no storefront or dining area or waiters or waitresses
or anything like that. It's just a kitchen. And they exist solely on
apps like grub Hub or Uber Eats. So this can be a building with
a bunch of different kitchens in it that serve a bunch of different sort of
virtual storefronts on those apps, or it can be an existing brick and mortar
your Applebee's or your Buffalo Wild Wings that kind of do this in their own
kitchen but on the side, right. So that's kind of how these ghost
kitchens work. And one of the delivery only pretty much yets exactly so.
And one of the ways that these companies make their money is they contract out
with big names, and as you alluded to there, one of the biggest
names in the influencer game is mister Beast He's actually a guy named Jimmy Donaldson.
Is his real name. Yeah, and it's it's a weird thing to
say because later this conversation I have to say the words mister beast Burger.
But we'll get to that. Okay, No, but his real name is
Jimmy Donaldson. He's twenty five. He lives in North Carolina, and he
makes these hugely popular YouTube videos. Right, just a recent smattering of titles
of YouTube videos that he's put out Hydraulic Press versus Lamborghini, one thousand blind
people see for the first time, I paid an assassin to try and kill
me, and squid Game in real life. That's the type of content that
he puts out onto YouTube. And each of these videos, all of those
ones that I just listed, have more than one hundred and fifty million views.
The squid Game one in particular, has four hundred and seventy five million
views, and just as a point of comparison, the Super Bowl last year
only one hundred and thirteen million measly viewers. So this guy regularly puts out
YouTube videos that net above the Super Bowl in terms of eyes and ratings.
Well, okay, so he's got he's got some influence. He certainly does,
and it's estimated that he is the highest earner on YouTube. He is
certainly the most followed creator on that platform. And obviously, in addition to
making YouTube videos, he has a number of other businesses and one of those
is a contract with this virtual dining company called Virtual Dining Consps or VDC.
Well, yesterday, in the Southern District of New York, that company sued
Donaldson for failing to honor his contractual obligations. This comes in response to Donaldson
suing Virtual Dining Concepts last week. He says he's looking to terminate his deal
with the company. He says that the food that they put out under his
name, he's heard from his fans, and he says that they've reported it
to be disgusting, revolting, and inedible. Those are direct quotes from this
lawsuit. And it's just a hamburger, and it's it's a hamburger. You
can also get fries. It's kind of your standard fast food sort of fair.
And he took to Twitter and said, or his x I should say,
and he said that he wants to get out of his deal. One
of his memorable quotes during this sort of period was miss young Beast signed a
bad deal, so he's you know, unhappy with this company that he's contracted
with. Well, VDC says that his lawsuit from last week is meritless and
that actually he's attempting to renag on his contractual obligations and that his comments on
social media, given his influence, actually damaged their brand. So that's why
they're now seeking one hundred million dollars in damages from this very popular YouTuber.
Dude. Did they have a case, really, that's a good question.
I think it's still an open question exactly who has the upper hand here,
because there's one way to look at this as well, this guy signed a
bad deal. He is up front and admitted that right like he you know,
signed this deal back in twenty twenty. You know, he's a young
guy. As I said, he's twenty five now, so he's twenty two
back when he signed this contract. Maybe you should have read the fine print
a little bit more. One of the risks that you run with things like
ghost kitchens are that you are essentially contracting out not with one major franchise,
but with a variety of different kitchens across the country, and the quality control
across that range of different kitchens can be pretty suspect at times. I actually
got the opportunity. In the interest of thorough journalism, I ordered burger.
Yes, so I felt like I couldn't tell this story without actually getting my
hands on one of these things. So I ordered one last night to my
apartment, and I gotta say it was pretty average. It was not the
worst burger I've ever had in my entire life, but it was like pretty
middling when it comes to like a fast food burger, right, so wait,
tell us about what is it? Is it just a regular burger?
What's on it? How's it looked? I went for the classic. There's
a couple different options, but I got mister beast Style or beast style as
they call it. So I think that's a special sauce. But like you
gotta think in terms of like this is this is like a big Mac,
right, It's it's, you know, a fast food burger. It has
a special sauce on, it's got onions. I had pickles on it.
It was it was pretty tasty. I would say the worst part of it
was the bun. It was I would have appreciated like a toasted bun or
something like that. But but beyond that, again, like I said,
it was, it was pretty mediocre. One thing I will say it was
ten dollars, which was too much, I would say for a piece of
fast food at the end of the day. And on top of that,
you know, I had to have it delivered and there were fees and all
that sort of thing, Whereas like I feel like I could just go to
McDonald's around the corner if I really wanted to scratch that particular witch. But
yeah, that was the Mister Beast Burger. But I mean that speaks to
this idea that you know, these ghost kitchens, the quality control is really
hard to pin down. But on the other hand, this guy signed a
contract and you know, the company is saying that he's not honoring that contract.
So I think it's still pretty up in the air. What ultimately this
comes down to is the fact that it's a real lot of money that they're
looking for. But as we kind of alluded to, mister Beast seems like
he can afford it. So the ghost kitchen is saying that they have lost
a ton of money because he came out and said these suck. They're disgusting,
right, and I went out of my deal. So right, Okay,
And how many do we know? How many Ghost Kitchens virtual dining concepts
has around the country. Is it just like the one or two or is
it a bunch? Well, they have many. I I don't have an
exact number in front of me, but I mean they are across the country,
and I mean that is also you gotta think it's not like their physical
locations. They're just kind of like, you know, one ghost Kitchen can
conceivably support many different brands on these these social apps, and you know they
partner up with with local chains, you know, your McDonald's, your Applebe's
and that sort of thing as well. But they do have one physical location,
which I think is interesting in New Jersey. But that is at this
point the only Mister Beast branded piece of brick and mortar that you can walk
into. I did not, I did not go that far. I do
live in New York City. I'm not that far away from it. But
I'm like, you know, we gotta we gotta cut our losses at some
point. Well, I appreciate you being the in depth reporter and going and
trying that burger Mike Debuski. Thanks so much. It's going to be interesting
to see how this all plays out because it could have huge implications for other
influencers as we move forward. Very true, all right, thanks so much.
Swimming pools, trash pickup, and some services at LAX all expected to
be impacted. Is up to eleven thousand LA City workers started twenty four hours
straight today. Voters in Ohio head to the polls today in a special election
that could affect the future of abortion rights in the state. The Megamillions lotto
jackpot of one point five five billion dollars is on the line for tonight's drawing.
No winner from last night's Powerball drawing, so that jackpot goes up for
tomorrow to one hundred and seventy million dollars. At five thirty five, we're
gonna be talking with the curator of the I Can See You Taylor's Version pop
up exhibit at the Grammy Musician Museum. It's for those of you or your
daughters who just can't get enough Taylor Swift. It's kind of cool. At
six oh five, it's handled on the news. Part of the Malholland Highway,
closed for a couple of years, could be reopening. But right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, kids are heading
back to the classrooms soon, sum and so Cal are already back like San
Bernardino schools. So what are parents being asked by health experts to do to
get them ready for it? Easy? Does it? Take it slow?
Take it easy, but do it make sure that the kids are acclimated and
ready to go back into the classroom. Consider the shaving. The rich teenager
at thirteen to eighteen years old spends eight hours thirty nine minutes every day on
his or her device. That's that's yeah, eight hours and thirty nine minutes,
and that's probably a pretty good summertime average. Of the tweens, the
eight to twelve year olds, they're spending about five hours and thirty three minutes
every day on their devices. Now, once they get into the classroom,
it's time to put the things away. Put away the phone, the iPad,
whatever device is their preferred method. But you know teachers aren't going to
stand for that. So if you can wean them off of that early before
the school year begins, you'll have a kid who's better prepared to sit down
and learn without that pediatrician say, kids actually going to go through a sense
of withdrawal. You know, they're suddenly their devices taken away, their anxious,
their fagitty, They can't concentrate, So easing them into the loss of
that device at least part of the day is the best way to go.
I think it's so interesting that there's literally physical and mental like repercussions of taking
away a phone. But now in schools they are learning more like on iPads
and that kind of thing, So maybe that helps ease the transition because they're
not being completely taken away from their electronics. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah.
I think that in most classes, certainly big city classes, they do some
of their learning on laptops or on tablets, you know, maybe even some
cases on their phone, So that may ease that anxiety just a bit.
But yeah, but they're not doing what they would normally be doing, and
that is scrolling through social media. The most popular social media sites among teenagers
and preteens no surprise there, TikTok, Snapchat is up there on the list.
Facebook is still on that list, and Pinterests. Believe it or not,
my mom loves Pinterest. So when it comes to their phones, their
tablets, like the parents that you're saying, kind of ease them out of
that, But how do you do that? Like, if so, if
they're spending eight and a half hours on it, how do you get them
out that? Because I can see a lot of teenagers throwing temper tantrums right
now saying I just want my phone, like and getting them to interact when
they're mad is tough, it is, And you're right, it takes kind
of biting the bullets. So if they're on the average, if they're they're
like the average kid who's looking at a device eight and a half hours a
day, back at down to eight hours and fifteen minutes one day, and
then eight hours, so then just it's a matter of scaling it back down.
And at the same time, you're trying to build back into a sleep
schedule too, Right, So if the kids stays up until ten o'clock on
a summer night and they need to get to bed by eight thirty for school
the next day, back them down fifteen twenty minutes a day, depends really
upon the date of your school starting. Yeah, it reminds me of when
when I was a kid, Mom and dad limited TV time, So I
guess it's sort of sort of the same thing. What do the schools have
bands on phones in classrooms? Well, certainly a lot of them. Do
you know many of them are implementing these little lock bags now that some you
have to use it some concerts. Right, if you go into a concert
and the artist doesn't want you shooting video, you have to put your phone
into this little lockbox or a little lock bag and carry that with you.
You can't get at your phone. Some schools are using that same sort of
device to make sure that the kids aren't using their phones that way. They
have it available to them, they can get to it if they absolutely need
it, but they're not in the habit of just grabbing it and scrolling.
I think we had to do that when we went to visit the US Capitol.
I bet you did the same kind of thing. Well, it'll be
interesting to see how many you know, how how kids moods are leading up
to school. Yeah, I said, pediatricians are seeing that, though I
was a little surprised at that that, you know, can a kid I
actually go through withdraw Well, if you've if you've been around a child and
they're they're at a restaurant or something. Their parents say, Okay, time
to put the device away. It can cause a physical reaction in that kid.
You know, they want that thing the same way an adult smoker wants
a cigarettes. Well, they've talked about the addictive nature of the social media
and how the algorithms suck you in and you know, the reward you get
when you do certain things and when you get texts and you hear that ping,
ping, and like that actually stimulates your brain. I wonder if TikTok
does that on purpose? You think really maybe? Yes? All right,
Jim, thank you so much. Appreciate your time this morning. Mom and
dad, good luck. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Federal prosecutors have recommended a six year
prison sentence for former city Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas, citing public corruption and abuse
of power and privileges while in office. He was convicted in March of bribery,
fraud, and conspiracy for allegedly steering county contracts toward the USC School of
Social Work in exchange for a one hundred thousand dollars contribution to an organization run
by his son and other benefits. Ridley Thomas has denied any wrongdoing. Sentencing
set for August twenty. First News brought to you by American Vision Windows.
The Chino Valley's School District is under investigation by the state Attorney General over a
new policy regarding transgender kids. The rule, approved last month, requires schools
to tell parents when students ask to use a name or pronoun different than what's
on official records. A. G. Banta says the policy may violate state
law. He says it could also lead to students being abused by family members
who don't accept them. I think it's absolutely embarrassing that they're assuming the parents
are dangerous for them to straight out just assume that to begin with, without
any kind of process or do process. School board president Sonja Shaw says the
policy is legal and was reviewed. She says she thinks the AG is trying
to scare other districts to keep them from adopting similar rules. Hurst Castle in
San Simeon is giving people a chance to swim in Neptune's pool. Members of
the foundation at Hurst Castle can book a reservation for a thousand dollars. That's
an expensive swim. The first event, the Hollywood at Hurst Castle Neptune Pool
Swim, will be hosted August nineteenth. No more than fifty people will be
allowed in. Proceeds from the event will benefit the foundation that helps restore the
castle. Many of the eleven thousand city workers are going to walk off the
job for twenty four hours to protest what they say is the city's refusal to
bargain in good faith. I'm in from Sam Pedro, schedule to be sentenced
today for a virtual kidnapping scam in which he got family members to pay thousands
of dollars in ransom for people who hadn't actually been kidnapped. The All Star
team from El Segundo has won its first two games at the West Region Tournament.
They'll play Friday for a birth in the Little League World Series coming up
at six oh five. It's handled on the news. The judge in the
Trump Classified Documents case has had a few choice words for federal prosecutors. Will
tell you about that now. In celebration of Taylor Swift's six sold out shows
at so far, she's done four of them. She's got two more,
one tonight, one tomorrow. And for those who either can't get enough of
Taylor or maybe didn't get to go to the show. The Grammy Museum has
created a special exhibit the Grammy Museum at LA Live Downtown LA and we got
to catch up with the curator of the I can see you Taylor's Version exhibit
at the Grammy Museum. It's Kilcy Gills. We decided that since Taylor's here,
she still has a couple more shows to do. She's got one tonight
Tuesday and then again on Wednesday. But we've got this Taylor Swift exhibit going
on until mid September. So tell us what happens when we come to the
museum and how are our tailor fans going to go Berserko and what are they
going to say? Oh my gosh, this is like Taylor Paradise. So
we, like you said, we have this now through September. You can
either walk up or get tickets online at our website and then coming too the
Grammy Museum, you'll see Taylor merch and our lobby retail store. I saw
that first thing. Yeah, you'll come all the way to the fourth floor
where we have to pop up exhibit. So in the room next to us
here we have two display cases full of speak Now era wardrobe. So it's
stuff that she wore in music videos, for some photo shoots and on stage
during this speak Now era. Okay, and tell me how what are costumes
like? Are they pretty spectacular? There are spectacular? Yeah, So she
was wearing a lot of vintage back then. You have some like a beaded
flapper dress. You'll see a banjo and a guitar and then some awesome stuff
you are on stage and like tons of sequence because you know she likes to
catch the light when she's performing. Absolutely, But it's all about the I
Can See You music video. So she's breaking those pieces out of the vault,
breaking her old album out of the vault, and it all is that
rerecording of speak Now Taylor's brocheck. Yeah. And then there's a special video
that you have playing right, So that's the music video. So you can
see all these outfits in the video and you can see her, Joey King
and Taylor Lautner breaking her out of the vault, running past all the mannequins
and it's a good time. Yes, Okay, So after we see the
video, then we head downstairs for a little red carpeting. Yes, yes,
so we we have Taylor's twenty twenty three Grammy red carpet. Look,
it's a navy blue beaded, beautiful, full down custom for her, and
then her shoes that go with it, so you can see how high her
heels were now, so it's just dazzling under the light, all the bead
work. And then our second floor has even more stuff. Okay, we
have a Songwriter's Hall of Fame exhibit. She happens to be an honoree because
she's an amazing songwriter. Wasn't she just inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame
or something. She bought a special award back in a few years back,
so I'm sure she's been inducted into a lot of hall of Fames at this
point. But we have some facsimiles of her handwritten lyrics, so they're so
precious. We don't have the real thing, but it's really nice to see
these copies and look at her handwriting, her creative process, and just how
she kind of came up with these lyrics everybody loves so much. Okay,
super and then intermixed with all the tailor stuff when you come into the Taylor
Swift exhibit. You can also wander around and see everything else that is the
Grammy Museum. We saw the Michael Jackson some of his jacket City wore.
Oh my gosh, they're so cool. Yeah, I mean it's the Grammy
Museum. So she's here amongst so many giants you mentioned Michael Jackson. Peggy
Lee is up here as well, and then downstairs you'll see Harry Styles,
Shania Twain, Shakira, and on the Songers Hall of Fame exhibit floor you'll
see like John Legend, Lionel Ritchie, Smokey Robinsons, something for everybody,
okay, and then you can cap off your I can see you now Taylor's
virgin experience by going to the Mike Curb Cafe. We saw that there's some
yummy little treats. And remember last week we went to the Barbie the cafe
land Word for the Barbie stuff and we had a pink latte. Well for
Taylor, they have a lavender latte and some hummus, and there's a there's
a couple of different U sliders like look, kids sliders are fun. Yeah,
and also a buffalo chicken wrap that sounds have so many delicious or end
our day. That way sounds good. Okay, what are what are the
hours of the museum? So we are eleven am to five pm on the
weekdays and m to six pm on the weekends. Okay, we're usually closed
on Tuesdays, but we're staying open because there's a soapy show and I want
people to be able to come and see Taylor, so absolutely we'll be here
all week. Okay, there you have it. You can get a sneak
peek at what you'll see at the Grammy Museum for the I can see you
Taylor's version exhibit on my Instagram at Amy K King and also on our website
kfi am six forty dot com slash wake Up Call. It's really kind of
fun and her outfits are so spectacular, and then just everything you see at
the Grammy Museum if you haven't been, it's like eighteen bucks and it's a
way to spend a few hours. And although they have they have tailor merchants,
she mentioned, so if you need your your tailor merchant you didn't get
to get into the show, you can get it there. Although it's different
than what's it this show. Here are some more of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two of the three people who were
killed in that midair helicopter collision in Riverside County, we're well known in the
Inland Empire. Assistant Chief Josh bish Off and Captain Tim Rodriguez were assigned to
Calfire's Riverside unit and were well respected in the agency. The third person killed
was a contract pilot from Northern California. Bishop and Rodriguez were in a Bell
four oh seven helicopter directing traffic for an aerial fire attack when it collided with
a Sikorski skycrane. LA County Sheriff's detectives say they're still looking for those responsible
for the murder of a man found inside a barrel, and Malibu County's medical
examined or determined Jovante Murphy was shot in the headge stripped, naked, and
then stuffed into a plastic barrel and dumped somewhere in the ocean. The barrel
was found last week by a lifeguard. Over the weekend, it was reported
that Murphy's brother was tied to the murder of rapper Pops Smoke, but was
quickly cleared. It was suggested that two murders or somehow connected. So when
asked about the connection, a source close to the case replied, investigators dispelled
that rumor immediately and are looking for clues in the opposite direction. Steve Gregory
King if I News. A woman in Corona has been sentenced to two years
in prison for stealing money off eed D debit car Prosecutors say the woman cooked
up the scheme with an ex mail carrier. US attorney Saren Maca voices the
woman stole from people who were struggling. They needed unemployment benefits to pay their
rent, to pay their grocery bills, maybe pay off credit card bills,
whatever the heck they needed it for. So what happened is the mail carrier
stole the unemployment debit cards between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty and then sold the
cards to the woman from Corona. The carrier was sentenced to one year in
prison. A judge in la has dismissed all claims against the county in a
lawsuit by a former assistant sheriff who claims she was demoted for complaining about the
alleged involvement of a deputy in the beating of an inmate, Robin Lemon was
suing for intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and violations of the Public
Safety Officer's Bill of Rights. Lemone was one of the deputies accused of taking
photos of Kobe Bryant when his helicopter went down in Calabasas twenty A doctor in
New York's been charged was sexually assaulting six women, including a teenager. Da
Melinda Katz says she believes there may be others assaulted by doctor g Allan chengg.
She says video found in his apartment shows him abusing drugged women in a
hospital in his apartment in different states and overseas. He's facing fifty criminal charges
and multiple life sentences. A senior US diplomat says COUPS leaders in Niger have
refused to allow her to meet with the country's democratically elected president. Acting Deputy
Secretary of State Victoria Newland says the military officers have been unreceptive to US pressure
to return the country to civilian rule. Leaders of West Africa's regional blocks say
they will meet later this week to discuss next steps. The last former Minneapolis
police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd
has been sent to nearly five years in prison too. Tao was holding back
a crowd of people in twenty twenty when Floyd was killed. The officer was
convicted of aiding and abetting second degree manslaughter. He's already serving a three and
a half year sentence on a federal civil rights violation. And A community landmark
in Burbank has announced its closing its doors for good. You probably recognize this
one. Pickwick Bowl has been around for more than sixty years. The owners
say the decision to shut down next week comes after years of legal battles with
the developer, who wants to turn the property into an apartment complex. Neighboring
Pickwick Gardens, which offers weddings, banquets and an ice rink, will continue
to operate as usual. The La Kings acquired the rink in twenty eighteen and
will still run the facility. A powerful storm system moving through the East has
killed two people and left nearly four hundred thousand homes and businesses without power,
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jackpot ever. Right now, let's say good morning to five thirty eight dot
COM's senior election analyst, Nathaniel ray Kage. Good morning, Nathaniel, Good
morning. Hey, voters in Ohio, they're going to vote on Issue one
today. I would imagine polls are just about to open in Ohio. On
the surface, it appears to be a measure that would require a sixty percent
majority to pass an amendment to the state's constitution. But then there's another more
volatile issue lingering below the surface. Yeah, exactly. So it is a
measure that would raise the threshold for passing future custshi amendments to sixty percent.
But the reason is so controversial is that it's widely seen to be targeting a
November ballot measure on abortion rights. So liberals have put this measure on the
ballot in November that would basically guarantee abortion rights in Ohio where currently it's under
dispute. And so, you know, the basically Republicans put today's measure on
the ballot in order to make it harder to pass that future one, thinking
that it's a sixty percent Okay, So if the measure in November would basically
codify abortion rights in the state, is that correct? Exactly right? And
right now, if you want to pass a measure in the state, it
just needs a simple majority, exactly right. And if Issue one passes today,
henceforth it would acquire sixty percent. For that includes the abortion ballot measure,
it would need to get sixty percent to pass if Issue one passes today.
Okay. I have found from past things that sometimes ballot measures are worded
a little confusing or they you know, they don't really talk about the underlying
issues. And the big underlying here is that November ballot measure for on codifying
abortion. So do you think voters in Ohio really understand what they're voting on
today and the implications. So yeah, you know, I think we have
a couple of signs of that. First is that the campaign adds you know,
all of the advertising has been focused on issues of abortion and kind of
other reproductive issues. So maybe we'll confuse at first when you know, the
abortion is at stake in August, but wait, it's not about abortion.
But I think that most people are you know, have been educated to that
point on the us that you've seen really high turn out for this space,
which bically is unusual in the middle of the summer in an odd year,
and so I think that, Okay, it's all kind of procedural change.
Nathaniel. Unfortunately, we're having such a hard time hearing you. You're cutting
out real bad, So we're we're gonna cut this a little bit short.
But thank you for sharing the information. We'll be watching it. The polls
are going to be open any second now and and we'll see what happens.
But it is interesting, Like I know that I've read ballot measures before and
maybe you guys have to that you think it's one thing, but it's really
not, and the way that it's presented can be very misleading. So uh
be interesting to see what the turnout for this is and also the implications for
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