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KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake
up call. Here's Amy King. Good morning. This is your wake up
call for Wednesday, November First. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting up
with us today. So Halloween is over. I don't have a candy hangover
because I gave most of my candy away yesterday at the office. I did
reverse trick or treating around the office. So very happy that I'm not on
a continued sugar high. But now that Halloween is over, it's on Christmas,
just around the corner, eight weeks away, three weeks till Thanksgiving.
Thanks Giving feels sort of like a speed bump between Halloween and Christmas. Hey,
and I just when I woke up this morning, I pet my little
cat, Alexander the Great and realized it's it's his birthday. Not really his
birthday. I think he was born in May, but I got him on
November first, ten years ago, so it's it's his birthday to me.
Happy birthday, little alex I can just imagine I'm sitting by the radio right
now. Hope you have a fabulous day. Let's get started and see if
we can make it a good one. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Dozens of people have entered the Rafa border crossing from Gaza to Egypt.
It's the first time foreign passport holders have been allowed to leave the Gaza strip
since the start of the Israel Humas War more than three weeks ago. We're
gonna be talking with ABC's Jordana Miller in Israel at five point twenty to see
who's getting out, who's not, and also the Israeli air strike that hit
a refugee camp. The head of the FBI says the threat of terrorism in
the US has hit a whole other level because of Hamas's attack on Israel.
Director Christopher Ray said terrorist organizations have renewed calls to attack the US. Threats
against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab communities have increased since the war started between
Israel and Amas. Gas prices in La County are down almost a dollar a
gallon in just the last thirty three days. The average cost for regular unleaded
is down to five thirty five a gallon. It dropped for its thirty third
street day. Prices in Orange County are also down to five sixteen a gallon
at six oh five its handle. On the news, Harvard is fighting back
against anti Semitism on campus. Bill's going to be talking about that. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The Hamas run government in the Gaza Strip says an Israeli air strike
has hit residential buildings in a Gaza refugee camp for a second day. It
says there are lots of casualties. Israel says it did strike the refugee camp
earlier this week because Hamas Lee was hiding there. Israel says he was killed.
The LAPED says hate crimes against Jewish people in the city continue upward.
In fact, Assistant Chief Robert Marino says, since the war in Israel began,
there's been a two hundred percent increase in hate crimes against members of the
Jewish community, and from this time last year, overall anti Jewish hate crimes
were up thirty two versus thirteen, one hundred and forty six percent. Angry
Marino told the Police Commission yesterday that hate crimes and hate incidents against members of
the Arab and Muslim communities have also spiked. He says a hate crime involves
physical violence or vandalism, whereas a hate incident is more like hate speech.
Steve Gregory kapin News, the LAPED is looking for a driver who hit and
killed a homeless bicyclist in bally Glenn. The man was run over while riding
his bike southbound on Van Nuys Boulevard when the car hit him and dragged him
over a mile. Detective Lissett Pointe says the driver made a U turn to
try to get the man out from under the car, and when the body
was dislodged, the driver took off. This person at this moment is facing
a felony charge of for felony hit a run. Police say the driver was
in a light colored sedan and hit the man just after eleven pm Monday night.
Detectives are asking anyone with information to come forward. Chris Sadler kea Fine
News. The search is underway for two men who robbed a Wells Fargo bank
in Northridge. Police say they responded yesterday afternoon to reports of shots fired and
thousands of dollars in stolen property. ABC says the guys got away with at
least thirty thousand dollars. One person was hurt, but police say that was
not related to the shooting. Tesla has won its first trial overclaims its self
driving car caused a death. A lawsuit filed in California says the Tesla autopilot's
system made the car drive off the highway and hit a palm tree going sixty
five miles an hour. The driver was killed, two passengers were injured.
The suit sought four hundred million dollars or more in damages. Tesla has denied
liability. A jury yesterday says they found the car did not have a manufacturing
defect. The company is facing several other lawsuits and investigations over the autopilot.
Actor Christopher Tyler, known for playing Nicholas on General Hospital, has died.
His co star Maurice Bernard says the actor died yesterday after a cardiac event at
his home in San Diego. Bernard says Christopher was an advocate for mental health
and substance use abuse or a substance use treatment, and openly spoke about his
struggles with bipolar, depression and alcohol. He was also on Days of Our
lives Tyler Christopher was fifty. Let's now say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Good morning, Jim. So we're kind of shrinking, yes, well,
we're not growing as we were before. This comes out of statistics from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from the Census Bureau. It all adds
up to one thing, and that is a declining birth rate, AMY down
by about twenty three percent between two thousand and seven and twenty twenty two last
year. It's a huge drop. Huge wow. You know what California,
it's even more pronounced, a thirty one percent decline in the birth rate.
Californians are giving birth at a rate of ten point seven per one thousand people.
That's among the lowest in the whole country. And do they know why.
I mean, we know why, but on a basic level, yes,
but on a broader level not really. I mean, there are all
sorts of theories about this people. You know, the economists. Some economists
say that let's say you're doing well, you got a lot of money in
the bank, and you're feeling comfortable about the future. You might not have
kids because you don't feel you need kids to take care of you when you're
old. If you don't have a lot of money. Let's say you're having
financial problems, you won't have kids because you can't afford them. And there
are other theories. This one I think is fascinating. You know, to
have kids, you got to have a partner. To have a partner,
you need to have a relationship with somebody. Well, polars are suggesting that
political polarization makes it unlikely that people will cross over ideological barriers or political barriers
to date or to marry. Yet crazy, Yeah, it has affected things.
I mean, we have to be honest about that. But like you
know, twenty years ago, you had friends. You didn't care if they
were liberal or if they were conservative. It didn't matter. It didn't even
come up in conversation because you could still be friends. But now it really
is a polarizing thing. Yeah. Only seven percent of people in committed relationships
or in marriages say that their partner is of a different party affiliation. Only
seven so thirty ninety three percent. That means are they think pretty much the
same, They're the same ideologically, They're more likely to date or marry somebody
of a different race or religion than of someone from a different political party anyway,
This is kind of off the beaten path. But yeah, it's suffice
to say that birth rates are down, not just in the US but all
over the world. Amy, okay, And was there sort of a baby
boom during or shortly after the pandemic? Very short that. Yes, one
year showed kind of a slight uptick, and people looked at that and said,
well, maybe this thing is turning around. Well, No, twenty
twenty two showed that it was back down again, and the number continues to
decline. The birth rate does. So, yeah, I think there were
all sorts of theories about what would happen because people were cooped up at home.
Would they fall in love again or would they drive each other insane and
not have any kids? Seems to be the latter. Oh my gosh,
that's funny. Okay, So what are the short term implications and then maybe
some of the long term implications of a birth rate that's going down that fast.
Well, it's almost all long term sort of stuff because this trend really
started back in the seventies, you know, this kind of decline in the
birth rate, and it's only increased over the last few years. And depending
upon how you look at this, it's either the worst thing that could ever
happen, that is that our birth rate is declining. There won't be enough
people to support older people once those young folks come of age. On the
other hand, some say, with fewer people, you've got less stress on
the environment. The resources that are dwindling now won't be in such short supply.
Those who are still here will live a little bit better than those if
we were overcrowded. So, you know, the long term effect is either
really good or really bad, depending upon how you look at this. Yeah,
I think what's interesting is that even though the birth rates are down,
and you said it's not only in the US but all around the world,
but the population is still exploding. I mean we're up to like eight billion
people, yes, seven point six I think billion people across around the world.
And the US population continues to climb too. So what's happening? Why
is it rising? A lot of it has to do with immigration, people
coming into the country, And if you look at the map, that sort
of bears true here as well. Here in Texas, for example, the
birth rate is down about twenty four percent. We have thirteen berths per thousand
people here in Tech. Look at a place like Idaho, fifteen hundred miles
to the northwest, the birth rate is down thirty percent over two thousand and
seven. So yeah, you see, because immigration is so much more a
factor of the population here in Texas, more people moving in and settling down.
What's the state with the largest decline Utah, Utah, Utah. That's
so, I mean because the Mormon population is still huge in Utah. It
is, and not to be too general, but they do tend to have
a lot of kids. Well that's true, but even in Utah the birth
rate has been declining. Their birth rate is down thirty six percent since two
thousand and seven. But that whole southwest here California, Nevada, Utah,
New Mexico, and Arizona and Idaho, they're all above thirty two thirty three
percent in terms of the decline. Look to a place like North Dakota,
the birth rate decline is only nine point three percent. Yea, they only
have like ten people who live. Yeah, right, that's a lot of
burden on those folks to keep the place populades. That is an amazing number.
Okay, thank you, it's amazing to look at it. It's fun
to ponder, it's it's interesting to think about the reasons for it and then
the potential impact of it all. But at some point it's going to be
a reality that we're all dealing with. Yep, something we'll watch along with
everything else. Thank you so much, ABC stim Ryan appreciate it, Jemy.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Thousands of people in Riverside County are under evacuation orders over
a wind driven fire that's burned nearly twenty five hundred acres. The fire started
actually not yesterday afternoon, but Monday afternoon in the Iguanga area, about sixty
miles southwest of Palm Springs. Around thirteen hundred homes were evacuated. At least
six buildings have been damaged. More than three hundred firefighters are working to stop
the spread of the wildfire. It's about ten percent surrounded. Prosecutors in Long
Beach have requested the La County DA's office reconsider filing felony charges against a homeless
man who attacked a woman. City Prosecutor Doug Holbert says the DA is the
only person who can charge someone with a felony. In La County, we
have all the misdemeanor tools and we're more than ready to take this case to
the fullest extent and try to get the longest incarceration that we can get for
a case like this. If it comes to that the man was captured on
camera last week exposing himself and grabbing the woman from behind, he's being held
on seventy five thousand dollars bail. Jails in San Bernardino County are working to
get body scanners so officials can detect fentanyl. Sheriffdiker says people have been sneaking
the drug into the jail system through their rectums. The sheriff says his department
has created an overdose response team, and what their primary purpose is is not
just looking at as simply as an overdose, but tracking it back so we
track it back to the inmate that brought it in and even if if we're
able to track it all the way back to the dealer. Three inmates have
died this year from fentanyl overdoses. The sheriff says the body scanners will be
helpful as physical cavity searches require warrants, Blake Trolly, kaf I News.
A new study from the Department of Agricultures, it's forty four million people in
the US lack reliable access to food. The Salvation Armies Captain Kelsey Moreno says
she's already preparing more Thanksgiving boxes than normal this year. Beneed has definitely increased.
But people are so grateful when they're struggling to put regular groceries on the
table all year long. You know they don't. They don't want to be
in a position to have to sacrifice that Thanksgiving tradition. The report shows the
largest single year increase since two thousand and eight Great Recession. It says the
number of kids in food insecure homes jumped by forty four percent. That's crazy,
all these crazy statistics this morning. Here's something a little bit crazy.
Speaking of Thanksgiving and food, De Giorno has a new pizza out. It's
a Thanksgiving pizza. Yep, it's a Detroit style pizza, so it's square,
thick, chewy. It may of creamy gravy sauce, diced sweet potatoes,
green beans, cranberries, and obviously sliced turkey. It's topped with mozzarella
and cheddar cheese and crispy onions. I know that sounds really bizarre, but
to me, it sounds really delicious. And so Dejorno's doing this promotional thing
leading up to Thanksgiving, and it's going to be sold online only every Wednesday
starting today through November twenty second, so you only have three weeks or three
wednesdays to get it. The pizza will cost you eleven twenty three eleven twenty
three November twenty three. Pizzas are being sold on a first come, first
serve basis in its wild supplies. Last talks between sag After and the Hollywood
Studios apparently went well yesterday. Both sides say they're cautiously optimistic about resolving the
one hundred eleven day old actors strike. More talks are scheduled for today.
Donald Trump Junior is expected to testify in the Trump Organizations two hundred and fifty
million dollars civil fraud trial. The family business of the former president is accused
of inflating Trump's net worth to secure better loans and insurance deals. As I
mentioned well, I mentioned Christmas is eight weeks away. Thanksgiving is three weeks
away. The big dinner won't be any less expensive than last year, even
though inflation has eased up a bit. Turkey prices are down thirteen percent,
but ham is up five percent and canned cranberries. I love canned cranberries up
sixty percent. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. Some
students who have cheered on Hamas could get kicked out of the US. They
will tell you what's going on with that one. Let's say good morning now
to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Good morning, Jordana. We knew as
this war intensified that it was going to get ugly, and it has.
An airstrike has hit a refugee camp, apparently for a second time. Well,
we're hearing reports that there may be a second strike in the Javalia refugee
camp, the largest one in the Gaza Strip in the northern section of the
Strip. Yesterday, Israel confirm that it struck the camp several times in a
targeted assassination. As Al says it killed the top Hamas leader that was one
of the terrorists that led the October seventh massacre that left so many Israelis killed
and two hundred and forty hostages abducted. You know, there were reports of
initially dozens killed in the Javalia refugee campig yesterday. Now we're getting a little
bit of a clear picture. It looks like about fifty civilians were killed.
And that is the ugly truth of this war, that civilians are going to
die, and many of them are going to die because not only because civilians
always died during war, but because of Hamas's specific strategy of embedding itself near
civilian facilities with ordinary gosins. And this is you know, what many people
call the kind of dark strategy that Hamas employed, using civilians as human shields,
and is there's still evidence that Hamas is blocking civilians from leaving. Well.
Today, the good news is that Egypt finally opened the rough border crossing
and there are about four hundred foreign passport holders, foreign nationals that are exiting
the Gaza shrip for the first time since the war began. On the list
are five Americans who worked for NGOs. We believe it will also include the
US diplomatic staff in Gaza numbered over two dozen. We're still waiting for confirmation
of that from the embassy here in Jerusalem, but these are foreign nationals who
you know, some of them in Gaza to help the people of Gaza through
various NGOs or political work, and they've been trapped there four weeks, so
each OFT's finally letting some of them out. It appears to be connected to
the US and Israel's commitment to bring more aid into southern Gaza. That may
be one of the reasons Egypt finally allowed people to leave. Today, we
hope to see maybe one hundred trucks of eight going in. Still not enough.
In peacetime, thousands of three hundred tracks of eight come in a day.
This is a population, two thirds of which relies on some form of
UN handouts. So you know it's not going to meet the needs, but
it's certainly better than a few days ago when only twenty five for getting in
and still no fuel. And you mentioned that that there are a few people
getting out, but those are the foreign nationals. They're not letting people who
live in Gaza on a regular basis out Right, there's not going to be
any kind of mass exodus into Egypt. Right, Egypt will not allow you
know, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Gazans to set up camp
in the Sinai Desert. They're not interested in helping them, hosting them temporarily
permanently. It's just not an option that's on the table. And Egypt has
some good reasons for that. First of all, Hamas is also their enemy,
and Hamas has attacked Egyptian soldiers, and they don't want to provide any
kind of new base or Hamas outside of the Gaza Strip. And you know,
many in the region they don't want to see a huge displacement of Palestinians
of the Gaza Strip, nor to the Israelis, you know, because it
does no one. You know, this isn't this isn't a war about population
transfer to get the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip. This is a war
against Fama Setara group. And Israel's been very clear about that. You know,
who will run the Gaza Strip after that's an open question. But Israel's
not interested in holding the Gaza Strip or repopulating it, or moving Palestinians to
Egypt. So for now, you know, there is no safe place really
to go to in the Sinai Desert. Okay, all right, Jordana Miller,
thank you so much for your information today. We always appreciate it and
look forward to our next conversation. Thanks so much, tux In. All
right, hey, the housing market, as you know, is tough.
We just got some new statistics. The median price for a Southern California home
is actually down. It's a bargain now. Just the median price is now
seven hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. That's for all of southern californ too,
and we know that, you know, Orange County is way way higher
than that. So that's a little bit good that the rate is down one
point four percent from August. The other downside of all of this is home
sales have fallen to about the lowest level in thirty six years. Thirteen thousand
or just over thirteen thousand homes were bought and sold in the last month.
That's a twenty two percent drop from the year before and down almost seventeen percent
from August levels. So you would think with the home sales down and maybe
the price coming down a little bit, that it could signal some good news.
But Stephen Thomas, with Reports on Housing, says home prices are not
going to plunge, so don't expect him to get way better anytime soon.
He says. With interest rates as high as they are now, there is
extra pressure to get the prices down, so the values may come down a
little bit, but not a lot. On Itami's on it? What am
I on? I'm on streaming shows, movies, documentary series. And you
know, with so much content out there, it's hard to pick what are
you going to watch? There are there are some new shows I'm getting staying
caught up on the morning show Invasion. There's some shows like that, But
then there's some shows that you miss that are still out there, and they
were very popular at the time. I never watched Suits, and Cono and
I were having a conversation and he's like, you gotta watch Suits. You
gotta watch Suits, and I'm like, why, because it didn't. It
just didn't really interest me. But it's a lawyer show, and so I
dive in, and when I dive in, I dive I've been binging this
show for about three weeks now, so Suits, in case you did miss
it, I'm going to say, go watch it. It's about a law
firm in New York with very ambitious lawyers. In fact, I'm gonna I'm
gonna bring the theme to it. No, that's not it. There it
is. So they've got Jessica the managing partner, totally together steers the ship,
keeps kind of harmony in the office as much as you can. There's
Lewis, who has so many insecurities that it's comical at times. He's sweet,
he's nasty, he sometimes seems a little bit delusional. He's kind of
the comic relief of the show, but he's also sometimes just horrible and is
the center of some really cringe worthy moments. And then there is Harvey.
He's really kind of the star of the show. He's the man who has
all kinds of mommy issues, but he's powerful, he's in control, and
he's super cute, and he doesn't lose, never has. So it's the
story of these three initially, and the players come in and out all.
What I like about the show is all the characters are distinct, they all
have their own personalities, they all have their own demons. What they all
have in common is that they are all pretty much ruthless. And then the
supporting staff, actually one of the co stars then is Mike. He he
comes into the he comes into the picture because he's this wicked, smart guy
with a photographic memory, and he ends up in front of the senior partner,
Harvey, looking for who's looking for an associate, and like weasels his
way into the law firm, and then they hire him to practice law even
though he doesn't have a license, which I'm gonna say, I think that
that's probably the biggest stretch. It's the kind of overarching arc. But they're
not going to hire a lawyer who doesn't have a law degree. It just
doesn't happen. But you have to suspend your disbelief a little bit and go
into that, and it really makes for some fun little stories as they go.
And of course there's one of my favorite characters is the secretary Donna.
She's Harvey's secretary. She's the one who has sort of a sixth sense.
She knows everything, she can get anything done around the office. And again,
like I said, all these characters are distinct. And what I love
about the show is I love the writing. I like the storylines, the
NonStop power plays and struggles, how the characters kind of wrestle with right and
wrong. They're sometimes ruthless most of the time and other times they do show
their humanity, And that's another thing I like about the show because as opposed
to like Succession, which I loved, but I hated everybody on the show,
like the actors hated their characters, like you were looking for redeeming qualities
and you could never quite find them. On Succession, you can in Suits.
These people do give you somebody to root for in spite of their sometimes
deplorable actions. So what I don't love about the show, but maybe it's
part of what I do love, is that the conflict is NonStop, like
NonStop. One second they're like, you're the best guy in the world,
and then the next second you're the worst in the world, and I hate
you and you're just useless and can't do anything. I mean, there's a
lot of that push and pull on power. But again, I started watching
it about two or three weeks ago and I'm into season seven. So,
like I told you, when I commit to something, I commit to something.
So it suits. It's an old show, but it's a really good
show. You haven't seen it, and I know a lot of people who
were not familiar with it. It's on Netflix, and the only character that
I knew was Megan Markle. I think that's kind of why it got popular,
because Markle, because it did, like you said, it is older.
It came out like in twenty eleven, but it was re released on
Netflix this year and then it broke Netflix's streaming record for twenty six billion minutes
watched in the first six weeks, beating out like Stranger Things. Yeah,
in brand new series because no one really watched it back then. Yeah,
So it's an old show, but I do like and it's a good sign
about the show that it's contemporary. So you know, one of the things
that I like, it lacks the me too. It lacks the righteous indignation
at lack the social justice references that you find getting rammed down your throat on
all the current shows, and I find that kind of refreshing. So anyway,
suits on Netflix highly recommend it. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The South Coast Air
Quality Management District has issued a wildfire smoke advisory for areas to the west and
southwest of Aguanga. The fire burning in the area has spread to nearly twenty
five hundred acres. Marietta has the highest potential to direct smoke impact. The
advisory for dry windy conditions is in effect until tomorrow. A man from Coast
to Mesa has pleaded guilty to raising seventeen million dollars by promising up to ten
percent returns for a house flipping scam was basically through a Ponzi scheme. US
Attorney LA spokesman Kiiran Macaboy says several of the investors duped by Brett Barber were
seniors. He told several eyes that National American Capital had been business for twenty
years. He had just founded that year that had owned ten parcels of land
in Laguna Beach it did not, and it had purchased property in Newport Beach
and turn it into a four plex it had not. Barbara pleated guilty Monday
to two counts of wire fraud and one count of criminal contempt. Sentencing is
set for March. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI news. At least
one person has been taken to the hospital following a multi car crash in Hollywood.
The scent a truck flying into a pizza shop. LA Fire says Cruise
responded around nine thirty last night night two Rafalo's Pizza near Librea. They found
two cars in a t bone position and the truck fully lodged inside the building
wall. Lafd's Urban Search and Rescue team was also dispatched to evaluate and stabilize
the building to see if it can be open. More than twenty miles of
Angelus Press Highway have reopened following storm repairs. Caltran says it has been closed
for most of the year because of excessive storm damage from southern California's historic wet
winter. There are still some sections that are going to be closed into first
quarter of twenty twenty four. Detours can be found online. Hey, we
have an update on Mary Lou and remember a few weeks ago her oldest daughter
put out an announcement on Instagram that her mom was in the ICU fighting for
her life, wasn't able to breathe, and that they didn't have health insurance.
So now Mary Lou Rutton is back home. She's recovering. She posted
her first message on Instagram just two days ago. She said she's staying positive
as she goes through the long, slow process of recovering from a rare form
of pneumonia. Her daughter I mentioned that she didn't have health insurance, but
they did an online fundraising campaign and they raised more than like four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. I'm still just in shock that Mary lou Rutton did not
have health insurance. I just think that there's got to be something more to
this story. But we of course wish her well and boy which she is
like an amazing woman. She won five medals in an eighty four Summer Games
in Los Angeles. She was the first American woman to win Olympic gold in
the all around petition, and she was the first woman on the cover of
Wheaty's or on a Wheati's box. Go Mary Luke. She says she's going
to give us more information on a medical medical condition as her recovery progresses.
Good to hear. Right now, though, let's say good morning to the
executive director of best Friends Animal Society. It's a big weekend for best Friends
and could be a big weekend for you if you're thinking of adopting pets.
So good morning to Britney Thorn. Thanks for getting up with us, getting
up with us this morning. Absolutely, thank you for having me. Okay,
so you have a super adoption event this weekend. Tell us all about
it. Yes, we are hosting the Best Friends Super Adoption Event this weekend.
So that's Saturday and Sunday, November fourth and fifth, from ten am
to four pm at LA Historic State Park. It is going to be such
an amazing event. Family Friendly is just about a thousand animals who are looking
for their forever homes. So you're going to have a thousand animals on site.
Yes, we're going to have about a thousand animals. I know we're
a little bit crazy, but it is so much fun. And we're actually
going to have those animals from two different shelter systems. So LA Animal Services
will be there, LA County will be there, and then about twenty other
rescue organizations. So really there's something for everyone. Okay, Brittany, Why
is now a great time to think about adopting a pet? Actually not thinking
about it, but doing it. Yes, now is the best time.
The shelters are really struggling right now. We've seen a huge increase in intake.
We know that the shelters are overcrowded and they really need our support.
So if you have been thinking about adopting an animal or even fostering an animal.
Now is definitely the time to do it, Okay, And I want
to talk about Best Friends Animals Society just a little bit, because you are
different than some other animal organizations. What's the mission of best Friends? Yeah,
best Friends is a national animal welfare organization and our goal is really to
end the killing of dogs and cats in America's shelters by twenty twenty five.
Okay, And for some of the shelters, it's a heart wrenching decision because
I've talked to some of the people of the shelters and they're like, there's
nothing else we can do. They're packed to the rafters because they have so
many animals, and at some point they don't have a choice. So your
goal is to make it so they do have a choice. Absolutely, it's
a heart wrenching decision for all of the shelters. You know, no one
wants to do this, and so that's why it's so important for us to
support the shelters, support the staff members that are there making those tough decisions,
and help them get to a point where they don't have to make that
choice anymore. Okay, So let's go back to the super adoption event.
So what kind of animals are we going to find? They're just dogs and
cats or do you have some other stuff up for do you what do you
got? What do we got? We got dogs, cats, kittens,
tiny baby kittens. Will actually be doing some bottle baby demos, so come
out and check that out. Fostering, adopting, food trucks, vendors,
something for everyone. So bring the family and come out and meet some of
these animals. Okay, And can people take the pets home that day?
Yes? Absolutely. They can also bring their dogs to meet the new potential
family members so we can make sure that it's a good fit. And yeah,
they can take an animal home that day. Oh I love this.
Okay, Brittany, tell me why you have such a passion for this.
It's the best I have the best job in the world. You know,
we're speaking for animals who don't have a voice, and we're speaking for the
people that care for them as well. So you know, normally people get
into animal welfare because they love animals. Takes a little bit of time for
us to realize this is actually a people job. We need to be supporting
people otherwise we can't support the animals. Okay, so tell us again dates
and times for the super Adoption Event, which is back after it was You
didn't hold it for like four years because of the pandemic, right right,
So the last time we did it was twenty nineteen, so we are looking
to come back with a bang. It is this Saturday and Sunday, November
fourth and fifth, from ten to four at La Historic State Park. Is
a free event, so we'd love to see everyone there. Okay, a
thousand potential pets for you. And I'm going to tell you I think having
pets home for the holidays is the coolest thing. I was talking earlier that
I adopted my Alexander the Great, my cat, ten years ago today.
Got him from a shelter and I loved having him in the home. I
loved having him around for the holidays. I love having him around every day,
but it's especially fun around the holidays. So if you're thinking about it,
maybe now it's the time you could become a superhero at the Super Adoption
Event. Thank you so much for your time, Brittany appreciate it. Thank
you. I highly recommend a pet for anybody can have them. They just
make life a little bit better. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Foreign nationals have been allowed
to leave the Gaza Strip into Egypt as the war between Israel and Hamas continues
into a fourth week. ABC's Ian Pannell says this comes as American citizens are
still struggling to leave the war zone. Most of the American passport holders have
not been given permission yet to go to that border. The Americans are going
to cross our age workers together with a lot of people who've been injured.
Israel expanded its ground operations in Gaz over the weekend, which marks a new
stage in the ongoing conflict that has killed nearly ten thousand people on both sides.
Two point two million people are stuck since the war starting. The head
of the FBI says there's an increased threat of terrorism in the US because of
the Hamas attack on Israel. While testifying before a Senate panel yesterday, FBI
Director at Christopher Ray revealed terrorist organizations have renewed calls to attack the country and
its interests. He says the most immediate concern is that violent extremists will draw
inspiration from the conflict in the Middle East and will target Americans. This comes
amidst a spike in threats against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab communities in recent
weeks. We want to wrap things up on wake Up Call by saying it's
the end of an era at the Disneyland resort. The husband and wife team
who you hear every single day when you go to the park making announcements throughout
the park, They're leaving. They're out. Disneyland park announcer Bill Rogers and
Disney California Adventure park announcer Camille Dixon will no longer be the voices that you
hear as you wander through the parks. Rogers has been the voice of Disneyland
for the last thirty two years. Dixon, Camille Dixon has been the voice
of Disney California Adventure for eleven years. So Disneyland's going to move on with
new voices for park announcements. And it's just, you know, another sign
that things are always changing. And I can tell you as having done voiceover
a thirty two year run at one thing is a really good run. So
things are changing. But I'm sure that Disney's going to do it upright.
Either way. This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This
has been your wake up call, and if you missed any of wake Up
Call, whether it was for the best Friend's super adoption event, or talking
to Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, or maybe my review of suits in our Amy's
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