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This is your wake up call for Thursday, September twenty eight. Did you
watch the debate last night? What do you think We're gonna be talking about
this a little bit more with Alex Stone in just a few minutes. I
want to dig into it. I just thought there was there was a lot
of yelling and screaming and talking each other over each other, and I think
Dana Perino threatened to turn off their microphones at one point, and I was
like, why don't you just stop it? Act like adults. But I'm
fascinated by debates either side, don't care. I love watching them. So
yeah, I was glued to my TV set last night. Here's what's ahead
on wake up Call. As I just mentioned, the second presidential debate has
been held without frontrunner Donald Trump. Two of the seven candidates took shots at
him. Former or Florida Governor Ronda Santas said Trump was missing in action,
and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Trump would rather hide behind his golf
clubs than defend his record. Two of the candidates are hanging around to do
fundraisers in SOCl. Former Vice President Mike Pence is holding a fireside chat and
reception at the Lost World of State in Anaheim, and former South Carolina Governor
Nicky Hayley, also former UN ambassador, is hosting an event in Beverly Hills.
The La City Council's committed thirty million dollars to adding and replacing bus shelters
in underserved communities. The shelters or overhangs at bus stops that provide protection from
the sun and the rain. The funding improved yesterday will pay for two hundred
eighty shelters. Hey, we've got your BOO preview coming up at five thirty
five. What's spooky place are we visiting this week? Stick around if I
know. At six oh five, it's handling the news. Gas prices have
taken another huge jump in La County. Bill's going to dig into why and
what's next. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Sag Aftra has announced it will restart the long
stalled negotiations with the Hollywood studios next week. The next bargaining session is scheduled
for Monday. The Writers Guild says it will continue to support actors on picket
lines as a deal between the WGA and studios moves to be finalized. Writers
called an end to their labor strike that lasted nearly five months and cost the
economy and estimated three billion dollars. Writer and director Monique store And says she's
elated the strike is over, but will remain on picket lines in solidarity with
the actors. We didn't get everything that we wanted, but we got so
much, and I do think negotiations are about ultimately compromising. Writers will have
to ratify their deal with studios in a formal vote in October. Sagafter says
it will continue to strike until an agreement is approved for its members. Chris
Adler KFI News Pelisamiriette have arrested a youth football coach for attacking a player on
an opposing team. Officers responded Saturday to reports of a fight at a local
high school involving coaches, players and parents. They say the fifty year old
coach punched a fourteen year old from the other team in the face, causing
an injury to a s eye and a concussion. The boy's mom says he
was unconscious for two minutes and had a seizure. The federal government appears headed
for a shutdown as lawmakers have been unable to reach agreement on a spending plan.
The two sides are still very far apart. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says
he does plan to bring his proposal to the floor of the House for a
vote on Friday, but as of now, he still does not have the
votes. ABC's Rachel Scott says hard right Republicans in the House want deep cuts
and more border security. The shutdown will begin Sunday if Congress doesn't come up
with a funding plan. Federal agencies will stop all actions deemed non essential,
and millions of federal employees won't be getting paid. The Army private who ran
across the border into North Korea and then was thrown out has been returned to
Texas. ABC's Jim Ryan says the plane carrying Travis King arrived this morning.
King's fate is unclear. The Army considered him a wall after he darted through
the demilitarized Zone into North Korea on July eighteenth. The White House said yesterday
King's return was organized with the help of Sweden and China. Kitty, a
ten week old kitten that caused a three car crash on the Coronado Bridge and
San Diego, has been taken to a shelter and will be available for adoption
as soon as tomorrow. Apparently a driver stopped to try to help the kitten
yesterday on the bridge that caused a three car crash and snarled traffic for a
couple hour. One person was taken to the hospital, two cars had to
be towed off the bridge, and firefighters rescued the kitten, who was not
hurt. I think whoever adopts the kitten should name it Crash. Just a
thought. Let's stay Good morning to ABC's Alex Stones. So, Alex,
the goal was to break through gain momentum because they're all trailing in the polls
by forty points. So during the debate last night, did any of them
do it? I mean, did they? I think everybody The one thing
everybody's talking about today was the one moment where we all went, oh,
this line my wife isn't a member of the teachers union, but I gotta
admit I've been sleeping with a teacher for thirty eight years. We all looked
at each other in the room and went, no, Mike, you're not
allowed to say that. He's just not a Mike Pence thing. No,
out of everybody on stage, you're not the one that can say that.
No. I mean, it was a chaotic debate. Is it gonna move
the needle at all and change anything? I don't think so. Yeah.
The thing is that Donald Trump is forty points ahead in our latest pulling to
his closest competitor being Ron De Santist, and he doesn't even have to show
up. After debate number one, his numbers went up and he wasn't even
there. So it doesn't do him any good to be there. And except
for Ron de Santists and Chris Christie, nobody was really willing to go after
Trump last night. They took him on. I mean, they had a
couple of lines. You know. There was the line about Donald duck because
of Trump ducking the debates came from Chris Christie. That was a stretch though.
Yeah, I mean, it really didn't get in it before I got
it any reaction either in the room. He waited for it, and there's
a little bit like nervous laughter in the in the room. But most of
what they were doing was going after each other. And you know, is
that gonna do anything when the leader is who they're they're trying to go after.
You know that that's something that that's tactic for debate and whether Yeah,
they talked about guns, immigration, and abortion, but there were no new
rous sponsores. There was nothing there that you said, oh wow, that
really stands out now. And I asked a University of Michigan director of debate,
Aaron call who studies debate, he teaches debate. He's always in the
room with us, and I asked him, this, give me a grade
on this debate if you were giving it a letter grade A D, this
D this overall debate, I don't know. I thought the moderators let things
get out of hand. Yeah, I mean he says that the candidates want
to take on Trump. They got to take on Trump. But yes,
it is dangerous because Trump is so popular among Republican primary voters that if you
go against him, you know, others have seen their polling numbers take a
hit. The people are you know that the Trump supporters are appalled that you
would go after him, and then he goes after you as well and starts
calling you names and whatnot. But Aaron Call is saying, going after each
other on that stage, that none of their numbers are high enough to matter.
And then it's all white noise, and still the leader continues to lead.
So he says, if they want to be the candidate for the Republican
Party, they got to take down the leader. And he said, every
question you need to pivot to kind of attacking him, contrasting him, and
realizing that he's the major enemy that all the candidates need to deal with,
not those fellow ones on the stage actually showing up to debating. He's still
the one leading by far, and so that those contrasts even more importantly than
the actual candidates and stage have to be with Trump, who still has a
runaway leading this racing. He says, just kind of debate one oh one
that you know, you know, the people who aren't leading, don't go
after each other. You go after you cut the head off of the snake
on this thing and try to take that spot. But Trump's team is already
saying Amy that he will not attend the third GOP debate in November. They're
saying no way, and in fact they're saying, now cancel all future debates.
He's already won. And you know, we'll see I did. They're
probably going to have the debate in November. We'll see. Maybe he did
get bated into it last night by Chris Christie and Ron De Santis. Maybe
we will end up showing up. But the field was so big last night,
and even some were left out because the rules. The rules will tighten
going into November, so probably just naturally there will be fewer people on stage,
but also fundraising is going to start to run out. Money is not
going to come in to those with extremely poll low polling numbers and on the
fringe of the stage. Last night, the highest polling candidate is in the
middle and then it goes out from there. So Mike Pence on one end
and Doug Bergham on the other end, they're polling numbers are not great,
and likely the money is going to go away as well. That donors are
going to say, why am I giving you money when you're you know,
not polling very well? So can they make it to November? You know,
then none of them are showing signs that they're getting ready to drop out,
but that may be coming. Yeah. Well, so Doug Bergham,
who is the governor of North Dakota, I think he made some good points,
but he's so far back and nobody's really listening to him. Like when
he said stuff, I was like, oh, yeah, that's a good
point. Yeah, and nobody. Yeah, it's just not a known name
for most people. And he complained afterwards that he wasn't able, and it
did seem like it was a little unfair. At times. He would try
to jump in and they would say, Nope, we're going to shut off
your mike if you keep talking, and he was like, what the heck,
I'm over here, And he was like they did want to hear and
maybe, you know understandably so that you want to hear more from those who
are polling better, and that that people want to hear from Ron De Santis,
Niggi Haley, Tim Scott, the vic Ramaswamy and that those on the
fringes. But Mike Pence was able to speak quite a bit and and Bergham
said he just wasn't able to get it in there. You know. The
other thing in the spin room, the biggest celebrity in the spin room who
hadn't been up on stage debating was Governor Newson last night. And I was
standing there as we were all asking questions, and you know his take,
and he said that that he thinks that Ronald Reagan would have been appalled by
what he heard last night. And you know, most of what he was
saying, they were the Democrat talking points and talking about Biden and everything,
but talking you know, what is he doing? Is it a shadow campaign?
Is it? What? What he is it? Now? We know
he's gonna be debate de Santists maybe in November. They've set a date to
do it in Georgia. But he was It was unusual to see him in
that room last night, in the spin room, in spinning, but he
was there. Yeah. So here's what I There were some interesting things,
like Tim Scott surprised me last night because I liked Tim Scott and I'd like
his story, but but he just keeps repeating that story and I'm like,
come on, you got to move past your story of your upbringing, which
is lovely and beautiful yeah, but you got it, and then he told
it again in the interviews in the spin room afterwards. Yeah, I think,
you know, it's what he's got. It's it's the relatable you heard
de Santists everything was, you know, I met this person and you know
it's the old political Oh you know that three people came up to me this
week and said, wow, gas prices are high, and you know,
one's name was Judy and she told me, you know, and you wonder
is it really even a Judy like and like, did that really happen?
Or is this a story that's being told not just from him, but from
every candidate who you know, tells very personal stories and so there is a
lot of that. They're kind of crutch as everybody goes back to. And
for Tim Scott it seems like it's the growing up, you know, in
his childhood, and for Desantists, it's the pre rehearse stories of the person
that he met and what they told him, and it's all meant to relate
to us as we're listening to it, But you know, sometimes it's just
kind of oh, it's, you know the same thing we've heard over and
over. Yeah, and so you were talking about how going after Trump is
a dangerous proposition, but I think the VEG is doing it well. He
didn't score a lot of points when when Nicky brought up the some ties to
China. But the vegu doesn't attack Trump, he said, he kind of
says we need to move on for him from him. So he doesn't like
tick off Trump supporters. Yeah, but at the same time, he also
seems like the biggest Trump supporter up there on stage. You know, maybe
is he trying to get a job maybe? Look, and I mean there's
a lot of support for the former press it in coming from him, and
in most of his views, they're exactly the same as the former president.
So if you were going for the former president, if you support those views,
why would you go for Swamy versus Trump? You know, it seems
like it's the same person, at least views wise, So that's going to
be a hard distinction to make that. Yeah, you may have the same
supporter who likes both of them, wouldn't they then go with Trump instead of
him? Yeah? Overall, again, I'm mesmerized by these things. I
love watching them, but it was disappointing and all the just the talking over
each of wee. I was like, what you know a lot? Yeah,
it was over and over again and again that's all just bickering amongst themselves
and not going anywhere. So here's my my, my Maldia with my last
thought, Alex, I think that they should do brackets, like an NC
double a bracket and like one person does one debate, and whoever wins that
one moves on to the next one. Been who votes? How do we
know who won? Well, there's that I don't know. I remember a
couple of years ago, they tried to do two debates. It was back
to back nights, and that didn't really work because they had the front runners
and then they had the secondary ones and nobody cared about the secondary debate.
And then they tried to do like three hours. Last time we were at
the Reagan Library and twenty sixteen that those were three and a half hours,
and I remember those, Man, your butt hurt at the end of that.
It was like you had been sitting there for so long. And yeah,
so they tried to draw them out to give everybody more time, and
so they keep trying to get creative. This time they've gone back to doing
it the old way and you know, maybe that's maybe that's the best way.
I guess. Well, were you to see it again in November?
Right, yep, a couple more months. We'll see if Trump shows up.
All right, thanks, remember that Penn's joke? All right, how
can we forget? All right? Take care. When we come back,
we're gonna be talking with ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett, not about
crime and terror, but about the possible government shutdown and the tie in between
the two. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom,
sag After and Hollywood Studios. They're going to return to the negotiating table next
week. Actors have been on strike since July fourteenth. They're demanding better pay
and protections against the use of AI. House Republicans will hold the first public
hearing in their impeachment investigation of President Biden today. The Oversight Committee chairman claims
to have evidence that Biden abused his public office as Vice president and as president
for his family's financial gain. Illegal immigrants have been taking advantage of some construction
on the border wall near the Ocean and San Diego. Video shows them running
over a fallen chain link Finch and through a construction site right on into the
US at six o five. It's handled on the news. More Democrats are
piling on for Senator Bob Menendez to quit. Bill's going to tell you what's
next for him. But right now, let's say good morning to ABC Crime
and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, we know that if a spending plan
isn't passed, the government shuts down on October first. Now we think of
people who won't be working and how that could affect millions of people potentially.
But Brad, you say a shutdown could actually pose a threat to our safety
and even national security. So lemy, look at it this way. Let's
just use the FBI for example. Many of them would be essential employees.
They would continue to work as I have done in the past for shutdowns with
no pay, at least temporarily. But it's the underpinning under the agents,
the support employees, the people who do surveillance, who keep tech support and
cybersecurity up. Some of them may be affected. So what I'm suggesting is
that ripples across the government, into the military, into the intelligence community,
and if you think about the number of contractors the federal government uses at super
sensitive levels that they may not be considered essential by some person's definition, and
they won't be at work. They also won't get paid. You know,
the federal employees will get back paid at some point. Contractors maybe not think
about if you're in the middle of a sensitive munition systems for the new F
thirty five, thinking about the military national security, maybe have to stop working
on that. I mean, think about the FBI and some of the supersensitive
criminal violent cases they're working, and national security esmionas slash terrorist cases they're working.
If you start diminishing their capacity through all these support organizations and entities,
it's a huge problem. And of course the biggest one is morale. If
you go from days to weeks, people are going to get upsets, They're
going to get angry. I mean, in past shutdowns, the TSA has
had more people call in sick. It's going to slow down potentially your ability
to get on a plane. It may slow down the number of air traffic
controllers to also slow you in getting onto a plane and leaving. So the
ripple effect of these things and then the cost of shutting the government down and
then starting it back up, I mean, the Treasury Department says it costs
about twelve billion dollars for Treasury to restart the fiscal side of the government.
If you can imagine, why don't they just up and work, Well,
you can't just show up and start work. You have to shut down all
of these systems. If you're going to shut the government down, you then
have to restart all of them. You have to restart programs, you have
to restart you have to reconnect the money aspect of the government. I mean,
it is a huge, huge deal, and I don't think people really
understand that. Yeah, and then you also said that it's going to affect
the border patrol. You know, we've got yesterday it was eleven thousand people
across the border and they just did a story about how they're running through a
construction site in San Diego where they're building border wall and just running across the
border. How does it affect border patrol? So border patrol would be considered
essential. So the border patrol agents out conducting to rest like the obviously we're
yesterday and every other day, but the support system behind them, how will
it be affected the places where they house immigrants, where they process immigrants,
where they clean. Can you imagine just keep it up with a hygiene and
sanitation of dealing with thousands of people temporarily. I mean, it's all that
going to stay in place. And those are some of the lowest paying jobs
that probably are in the Border patrol or inn the other agency, and those
folks will live paycheck to paycheck. They may leave and go to another job.
It's because they have to survive. I mean it. It just goes
on and on about the ripple effect. And I just don't understand why people
I'm not talking about folks are listening to us, but politicians would even allow
that to happen. Just get your job done, guys and gals. Right,
well, thank you, that's it. I mean, it's it's you're
right. I think people don't realize how far reaching it could be. And
they've got today, tomorrow and Saturday to come up with a deal. We'll
see, all right. Thank you so much, Brad Garrett. Always appreciate
your insight. You're welcome to cure amy you two. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
man from la has pleaded guilty in Boston to federal charges of running a large
scale marriage fraud scheme that arranged hundreds of fake marriages for immigration status. He's
the seventh person to plead guilty in the case. Prosecutors see the guy prepared
and submitted false petitions, applications, and other documents last year to prove the
marriages were legit. They say the man's business charged clients twenty to thirty thousand
dollars in cash. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine
of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Police in Baltimore have arrested the man
they say killed a tech startup CEO. Alex Prochet from ABC says officers found
the woman dead Monday in an apartment. They say she showed signs of blunt
force trauma. A deputy US Marshall says Jason Billingsley was caught at a train
station in Maryland. More details at the arrest are expected to be released later
this morning. Police had said Billingsley was wanted for first degree murder, assault,
reckless endangerment, and other charges. And a NASA astronaut has broken the
record for the longest US space flight. Frank Rubio surpassed the record of three
hundred fifty five days at the International Space Station after his capsule was hit by
a tiny meteoroid. It had a coolant leak that required a replacement craft being
set up. That's what caused the delay. NASA's Rubio spent three hundred and
seventy one days in orbit, setting a lot of things, including how space
flight affects the human body, both physically and psychologically. ABC Sherry Prestons's Rubio
returned to Earth in Kazakhstan yesterday. He came back with two Russian cosmonauts who
rocketed into space with him last September. Right now, it's time for your
Boo preview. So what we're doing is we're going out to fun, spooky,
haunting places around southern California as we head into Halloween. This week,
we got to go to not Scary Farm. I got to catch up with
event producer Chris Doe, who oversees all of the scariness. So, Chris,
when people come to Notts Scary Farm this year, what are they going
to find? So not Scary Farm. This year, we are celebrating our
fiftieth Anniverse. We're incredibly excited about that and We have ten mazes that we
have this year, three of them being brand new. We have some returning
favorites are brand new maze that we have this year. We have Room thirteen
that sounds scary just the name of its scary. It is a nineteen twenties
Prohibition style of maze and it takes you through the archive hotel. Is this
beautiful art deco hotel. You've always been told don't go to Room thirteen.
So we're gonna do thirteen, you know it. So that's one of our
brand new mazes. We also have Cinema Slasher, which is another one of
our brand new mazes. Okay, so I have to tell you this little
inside Baseball. Yeah that Chris just gave us a little mini tour of that
particular maze, and I only said I would go through lights on. So
it's so cool. I know, you don't want to give away any secrets,
can you tell us just a little sneak peek of what they're going to
see? Yes, So for Cinema Slash or that one we just walked through,
uh, you know, it's gonna pay tribute to all of your you
know, classic Cinema Slasher. You know, tropes that you have, whether
it be you know you're going through the you know, the camp, you're
in the sorority house, or of course you know you're seeing one of your
big slasher films that you have there, all of a sudden you find that
you may be our subjects next or you maybe our next victim that we have.
Now, so you know, you think you're going inside movie, but
the next thing you know, you know you're part of this adventure. So
that's going to be cinema slasher another one of our brand new mazes. Okay,
and the whole park is taken over. This is a separate ticketed event
at night. Yes, so, uh, they're wondering around the park.
Are the rides are still going? The rides are still going. We still
have our attractions and our rides are open. Uh. And then of course
we have a couple of our are overlays that we have on some of our
rides as well. That will be great. And then as you travel from
locational location, whether it be from our mazers to our rides, you're going
to of course encounter our scare zones that we have. Of course we are
what what is a scare zone scar Zone. So as you're traveling, you
know, through ghost Town or boardwalk, you can you may encounter some of
our wonderful clowns that we have in Carnival. You may see our ghost Town.
They're the happy, smiley kinds of clowns. I mean, they're happy
to see you. Maybe I don't know if you'll be happy to see over
ghost we have some other monsters that we have there as well. And then
over in the we have the Goring Twenties uh, and we have this beautiful,
wonderful band you're taking back to the nineteen twenties. Is It's really fun,
lively kind of area, but also scary as well. And then we
have our brand new scare zone as well, the Gauntlets, which will be
it's a fan favorite that we brought back for the fiftieth anniversary. That will
be over kind of the Camp Snoopy area. Okay, perfect, Now you
mentioned Snoopy. So I'm going to go to a something that's maybe a little
more my speed, and that is during the days starting tomorrow. Yes,
we have Spooky Farm, Yes, so tell us about that. Starting tomorrow,
we have a spooky Farm, not spooky Farm, and there's a family
friendly event for you know, families like everybody, and you know the park's
been taken over. Is this wonderful kind of Halloween time celebration. You know
you'll see our wonderful Peanuts characters in their Halloween best. You'll be able to,
you know, enjoy some of our shows. We have a wonderful show.
We partner with a Bob Baker Marinette Theater, a southern California classics,
and they bring their wonderful Halloween show here on select days. On the weekends,
we have a costume cavalcade. We encourage our guests of all a just
come dress up. They can trick a treat here. They can walk away
with some great candy and of course treat. We'll have locations kind of all
over the park that our guests can trick or treat in as well. Okay,
and real quick, we have special treats and tasty things during the Halloween
Sea my goodness. Yes, so during the daytime we have a plenty of
wonderful, sweet, yummy treats. But then and scary farm we want you
to take some chances. We had the return of the blood bags, which
are delicious and good drinks. Yes, bloodbags, no alright. We good.
So we have some wonderful adult beverages that are available to purchase. But
of course we want you to take a chance. So we have things like
camel stew that you can have camel stew, that is correct, you heard
me, run all right. We have frog, we have ostrich, we
have all these different fun you know, concoctions that our chef has come up
with for Not Scary Farm. We want you to take a chance. Try
it out. It's a it's quite delicious. I've had a chance to try
some of it and I really like it. Okay, So Not Scary Farm
going on now. Not Spooky Farm starts tomorrow, goes through Halloween fun for
the whole family. Christo, thank you so much, absolutely wonderful chatting with
you. I'm glad you didn't scare me. I didn't, he didn't,
But so I don't like to be scared. Nick poly o'keany, on the
other hand, loves to be scared. And so you actually have been now
to Not Scary Farm during the night time. We went through that maze during
the day and that still was a little freakish to me. So what's it
like at night? Just real quick, it's really impressive and no in really
quick. If you're ever been to Not Scary Farm, this was where dark
Ride used to be, and there's some homages to that, but it's really
a lot of fun and as Amy reference, there's a lot of scary things
with the lights on. It's even scary at night. And there's a special
cinema monster that may be tracking you throughout so as you're pushing through the screen
throughout the through the specific maze. So for a cinema slasher, there are
some creatures that are tracking you throughout the park. And if you've ever been
a ghost town, or if you want to go I get scared through the
scare zones, ghost Town really does come alive with some very classic, you
know, ghost town style characters that are running around. Okay, just real
quick, tell me with the scare zones that Chris was talking about, So
there are certain areas of the park where monsters just jump out at you,
right, And so that's the whole thing. And I think the one thing
that we didn't touch on is boo necklaces. So these are the areas,
especially the no scare zone things, so you cannot go into amaze with these.
But what it is is it's a fifteen dollars purchase and you can actually
go through the scare zones and the monsters will avoid you there, but you
can really I mean, if you have a fear of clowns. The boardwalk
and Carn't Evil is one of the scariest places because they are just everywhere,
so your nightmares will come alive. All right, So not Scary Farm Mine
Mine is not Spooky Farm that opens tomorrow and then it goes through Halloween.
And remember the Not Scary Farm is a separate, separate Tickett event only at
night. Yes, all right, so but yeah, now go Snoopy and
his friends all in their Halloween costumes. That's the thing that we didn't talk
about. Super super cute. Absolutely And next week we're going to be out
and about again. We've got another Boo preview for you. We've got some
really cool stuff. We've we've been to Disneyland, now we've been to Not
Scary Farm. We're going to find some maybe a little maybe off the beaten
path or a little bit smaller kitchy events and they're really really cool for Halloween.
So you'll want to stick around for that. Right now, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. The mother of a murdered La Kenny sheriff's deputy, says she was
not pleased with the DA's handling of charges against her son's killer. Kim Clinton
Brumer says the first time she and her family heard about George Gascone pursuing life
without parole against Kevin Salazar was when they were standing behind Gascon at last week's
press conference. As a taxpayer, it just seems that the district attorney wants
to spare a life when he didn't spare my son's life. Gascon said at
the press conference. The death penalty is not a deterrent to stopping crime,
and going after the death penalty wouldn't have brought back her son Ryan Steve Gregory
Canfine News. Scientists at UC Irvine have analyzed smoke particles to uncover what fuels
are contributing to the severity of wildfire. The smoke particles collected during a ninety
acre fire in the Sequoia National Four show wildfires are being put out so fast
now that smaller trees and plants are flourishing, causing more fire fuel Uci researcher
Audrey Odwar says the solution is dealing with the dead trees collected over decades plus
thinning out new plant growth. Once we cut the trees down, get them
out of the forest, burned down the remaining fuels. In theory, that
creates less potential for more severe wildfires. She says, the smoke particles identify
which plants to target for wildfire fuel treatments. In Orange County, Corbin Carson,
k if I News, and a man is recovering from a vicious attack
by a rabid otter. Please say. The man was feeding ducks in a
pond by his home when the otter bid him forty one times on the legs,
arms, and hands. They say the otter also attacked a neighbor's dog
That same day. Animal control was able to catch the otter. It was
euthanized because it had tested positive for rabies. Hey, let's say good morning,
tk ifi's very own fork reporter Neil Savader. We got you up early
today because you had something going on this weekend. We want to tell you
about Amy King. You old so and so. You called the old thanks
a lot. No, it's an old it's a term. It's it's it's
fun. It's old timey. Oh gotcha like the cats me out that kind
of thing. I know, Neil, I missed working with you on Saturdays.
Likewise, everybody misses you when you're not there, and the listeners are
not shy about telling me so. But now they get you to themselves for
an hour every single morning and throughout the handle show. Yeah, except now
we're going to share the spotlight with you because you're going to be out and
about, and I know you. You don't get to get out and about
as much as pre pandemic. So I'm excited for you for this weekend.
I am too. It's really a great opportunity. You know, we used
to do the the Thanks grilling. Now this is not that it's not this
massive event, but it is a really cool opportunity to come out and and
check out the Big Green Egg. They've been a new partner, and I'm
to be broadcasting live this Saturday from Barbecue's Galore in Valencia. There are two
of them, so I want to give the address. Of course, two
to five is going to be the show. Two five five five zero North
the Old Road and come enjoy the life broadcast will be giving away a minimax
Big Green Egg. It is the only portable Big Green Egg and it's a
thing of beauty. Must be present to win. We're gonna be grilling,
teaching some grilling and baking tips. There will be eating. We always have
food going. Yeah, I just want to make sure doing at least some
try tip and things like that. There. These are beautiful, beautiful cooking
vessels. And the cool thing is they don't go on sale often, and
when they do you often can't tell anybody. We got permission that there will
be special discounts throughout the day they're in the store. But all so the
Big Green Eggs will be on sale with a ten percent discount. Very rare
for that to happen, and when it does happen, you almost never hear
about it. We got special permission to tell everybody about it. And if
you've ever thought about getting a Big Green Egg, or if you have one,
have questions, come out and I'll have you know, some fork report
swag and cutting boards and some other stuff. It'll be good fun. You
gave me one of those cutting boards for Christmas. One right, you've got
a personalized one. Now, I love it. That's very rare. You
have a big green egg because I've heard you talking about it. What's your
favorite thing to cook on it? You know? I baked on it recently.
I made corn muffett. Oh, it's fantastic for baking. It is
really insane aiming because it is so versatile. You can roast on I roasted
an entire chicken on it a few weeks ago, and I did corn muffins
on it. I've done hot dogs and your day to day. But you
can bake on it, easy, peasy. You can do pizzas on there,
no problem. It's just a it's a it's a one of the most
fun cooking apparetti I've ever worked on. It looks like so I'm looking at
pictures of it and it's like you said, you did a chicken in there.
It's got a turkey in there. I mean. So it's like an
outdoor oven, which makes cooking more fun. Yeah, it'll do. It'll
do anything, and it holds my fear. That the reason why I never
moved to one. I had two fears. It's going to take too long
to heat up, and it was going to have too big of a learning
curve and both were wrong. It heats, I can heat it up probably
in the same amount of time I heat up my gas grill. So it's
just it is super fun to cook on Okay, and you can come out
and you can see Neil doing some cooking and do some tasting. And again,
what's the address in time and stuff on Saturday? Two to five this
Saturday, And the address is two five five five zero North the Old Road,
and it's the barbecues Galore there. I think they have two of them,
so make sure you go to the right one. But we'll be given
away stuff. They'll be all kinds of cool things and special discount in store
that I can't even give today. I love secret secrets deal. Yeah,
so it'll be it'll be great fun. I'm only doing two of these,
this one and then i'll do one in October in Torrance. But I'd really
love to meet people, because I, like you said, I haven't been
out in a while. Okay, super and Neil come back again another time.
I know, I would love to have you come visit us. More
off for Amy King for peace sakes. I appreciate the I appreciate the invitation.
I really do, my friend, Thanks Neil, thank you. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
news room. The second Republican debate's been held at the Ronald Reagan Library and
Semi Valley. All the candidates from the first debate last month were there,
except for former Arkansas govern Or Asa Hutchinson, who fell short of qualifying earlier
this week. Former President Trump, of course, wasn't there. He didn't
show up for the first debate either. He gave a speech in Detroit instead.
The La County Board of Supervisors has approved a motion to help support the
entertainment industry. The motion would reduce the county's barriers for developmental space, offer
tax incentives, and provide fee waivers for low budget productions. Supervisor Katherine Barger
proposed the motion because she says it's vital to keep the film industry in La
We're gonna look at what we can do within the county's bureaucracy, but also
working with our state representatives where needed. Barger says if productions aren't filmed in
La County, she doesn't want it to be because of financial burdens. The
board unanimously passed the motion Tuesday, Chris Adler ka FI News, and as
we close out wake Up Call, want to leave you with one thing before
we head into handle in the news, and that is too bad, Senator
John Fennerman. So the Senate unanimously yesterday passed a formal dress code requiring business
attire on the chamber floor, including a coat, tie and slax. Four
men all. Poor John Federman. He can't show up in his hoodie and
shorts like he did when he met the head of Ukraine last week. So
they introduced a plan to in to put the formal dress policy in place.
I think it's ridiculous that they had to do it in the first place.
But Senator Romney, set of senators, we should demonstrate a high level of
reverence for the institution in which we serve, and our attire is one of
the most basic expressions of that respect. I agree. This is KFI and
kost HD to Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wakeup call. You've been
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