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This is your wake up call for Thursday, January twenty fifth. Good morning,
I'm Amy King. It's five o'clock straight up. Time to get up,
get going, get your coffee, get dressed, got another day on
your way. It's a good thing, right, I mean, the option
is not great. What option if you didn't wake up? Oh yeah,
there's that. And hey, we got all kinds of stuff coming up on
wake up call. Can't wait to tell you all about it. Gonna get
you all caught up on what's been going on. We got it. We
had some shaking. Did you feel it, Cono, I see that your
eyes got really big. Yeah. It was about three miles from my house.
The episode. Oh so you got a pretty good jolt. Oh yeah,
definitely a generalin rush. Yeah. Did it last very long? No,
but it was not like a roller. It was like like a house.
Yeah. It was loud and yeah, it was a good reminder if
we have earthquakes You guys should have seen Cono's face. Right when I said
it. His eyes got like the biggest, biggest saucers. Yeah, it
was sorry. It was the saddest thing. My three year old. It
was her first earthquake, so her pupils were so dilated of fear that you
couldn't even see the brown of her eyes. Oh, it was so sad.
She'll get used to it well, hopefully. Yeah. We live in
southern California. Chargers got a new coach, Jim Harbaugh, coming back to
the Bolts Max nine planes could be flying soon. We're gonna dig a little
deeper into that. And surprise, it's raining. I woke up this morning.
I was like, wait a second, the rain was supposed to be
gone. But the good news is it's supposed to end and we have a
beautiful weekend on the way. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. As
I just mentioned, a little shaky in the Southland. A four point two
earthquake rattled sam Bernardino last night, shortly before eight, not far from a
quake that hit the area less than three weeks ago. The US Geological Survey
says it was felt in La and Orange Counties, centered two miles from Sam
Bernardino about three miles from Cono's house. A lawmaker in California has asked the
DEA to make the so called zombie drug a controlled substance. Amazing that it
isn't already, He says, the designation of the drug that goes by the
street named Trank would give police power to make arrests and restrict the drugs trafficking.
He stresses that more needs to be done to get Trank off the streets
you think. John Stewart is returning to the Daily Show. He'll be hosting
Monday nights through the twenty twenty four elections, starting next month. The Daily
Show's been using guest hosts as it continues to look for a permanent replacement for
Trevor Noah he retired in twenty twenty two. Stuart left the show in twenty
fifteen at six oh five. It's handle on the news, Alabama has been
given the ok to try something new with an execution. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Investigators
in San Bernardino still working to identify the six people killed in the high desert
near Adalanto. Five of the bodies were found along a dirt road Tuesday night,
near cars or in cars. The sixth was discovered yesterday morning. A
retired FBI agent says the level of violence speaks to a broader criminal network,
possibly drug or cartel related. He says it appears they were shot and set
on fire. One of the two cars found with the bodies in it had
its windows blown out. LAPD Chief mor says twenty twenty three was a much
safer year for the city than the year before. Morsays there were three hundred
and twenty seven homicides last year. That's down seventeen percent from the year before.
The Chief gave his final year in crime report yesterday alongside mere baths,
So it was much more work to be done, and I'm proud of the
measure will results that has been achieved, but I also recognized that the perception
of safety remains a concern across this great city. More says violent crime went
down significantly, but property crime remains a problem. Moore retires next month.
A mayor Bass said she's proud of Moore's accomplishment. Coming in as mayor,
I was very clear that my number one job was keeping Angelinos safe at LAPD
headquarters. Steve Gregor king if I News Hollywood Burbank Airport is about to break
round on construction of a new passenger terminal. Officials say the replacement terminal will
have fourteen gates and will resolve some long standing safety and accessibility issues with the
current terminal. The project is known as Elevate bur or Burbank. State and
local government officials, airport authority commissioners, and airport staff are going to be
in Burbank this morning for the groundbreaking ceremony. I was just there yesterday.
I love that airport. Alaska Airlines says it plans to get some of its
Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine planes back in the air following rigorous inspections.
ABC's Andy Field says United Airlines Max nine should return to scheduled service starting Sunday.
The FAA releasing instructions for all airlines to ensure their Max nine planes are
safe as well, the agency telling Boeing it cannot expand that model's production rate
while it continues its safety investigation. The planes are grounded for inspections when a
door plug fell off in Alaska flight in air last month. The FAA says
this must never happen again. We're going to be talking to ABC's Sam Sweeney
more about this, coming up in about fifteen minutes. NASA remembers those who
lost their lives in their quest to explore space. The annual Day of Remembrance
ceremony is happening today at the Kennedy Space Center. NASA will commemorate the crews
of Apollo one and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says,
while it's a solemn day, we should be forever thankful that those fallen
heroes shared their spirit of exploration with NASA, our country, and the world.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Geordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana,
a new Seaspire maybe in the works. You know, from the media reports,
it would seem the New Seasfires in the works. But here on the
ground in Jerusalem and in the region, it doesn't look that way. We're
getting all kinds of signs that the sides are still very far apart. Hamas
even sending word to mediators last night, messages that ran on Israeli primetime news
that they have hardened their position. They don't want to discuss any release of
hostages until the end of the war, which they've said before, but now
they want their leadership intact their rule over the Gaza Strip maintained, every Israeli
soldier out of every inch of the Gaza Strip. You know, these are
non starters from the Israeli point of view, and it tells us that Hamas
feels like they have the stronger hand right now. They are down, you
know, keeping those hostages in tunnels deep underground, and there's fear fighting going
on in southern Gaza still and apparently they're they're waiting it out. Yeah,
it's interesting when you were saying that and you said that Hamas is feeling strong,
and my initial reaction when you're saying that that they're digging in their heels
and saying that, it's like, wow, it sounds like they're kind of
getting desperate to me and you know way better than me. I'm just that
was my initial take on it. So right, they are actually Hamas thinks
they're in a position of strength because there's so much pressure here by the families
of the hostages that it appears Seymour and Hamas are waiting for Israel to stop
the military operation, the war in southern Gaza, to call it off and
then say, okay, we've stopped fighting, let's discuss the hostage release,
let's discuss it now, and that it's not going to happen. I believe
in that. But that's what Hamas is banking on. Every day they wait.
They think that the government comes under more pressure, they might cave.
It's each side is waiting for the other to cave. Newel Nataniel thinks that
if scenewar can hear the tanks rolling above him, he'll start to get really
panicked and maybe he'll cave. So we're in a you know, we're in
a waiting period, I think, and not so close to a deal.
Yeah, And as those talks sort of continue, the fighting continues. And
we're just getting word today too that like a dozen people were killed in a
strike in a shelter in Gaza. Have you heard anything about that one?
Absolutely I have, because it was initially, you know, initially the head
of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency implied that it was Israel, saying that tank
fired hit the UN building where there are thousands of gossins. Sheltering at least
twelve dead fifteen others we hear in critical condition. But as it turns out,
after Israel looked at all of its operational information and did a review,
the Israeli Army said last night, no, we did not, We weren't.
We didn't fire tanks on that un position, we didn't hit it with
any air strikes. And Israel said, this is likely a case of errant
Hamas rocket fire or errant Hamas RPG fire and not the Israeli Army. So
you know, this is what happens in war, and there's always mistakes that
Hamas makes and rockets that don't make it to southern Israel. And then just
in this war, we're finally we're seeing it because of the intensity of the
war and the length of the war. But in all the other conflicts I
can tell you that I reported on, there were also always cases of rockets
that didn't make it into Israly territory. And I think Israel has some street
cred on this one because when they do make mistakes, they mess up to
them. They're like, oh my gosh, yes we did do that,
And that's happened a couple of times so I would tend to believe them when
they're like, that's right, now, this wasn't us. And there have
I remember from our conversations a month or two ago, where there have been
some Hamas rockets that didn't quite hit their target and landed and killed civilians the
right, I mean, the greatest, the biggest example was that hospital that
was hit in the very early days of the war. You know that immediately
everyone assumed it was Israel, but it was a Aaron Tomas rocket. Yeah,
okay. So and again, while this all goes on, we know
that Africa went to the UN Court of Justice and they're demanding a ceasefire,
along with a bunch of other people. But they went to the Court of
Justice to do to make their case. When are we expecting a decision on
that? Well, Israel is bracing itself for that decision, which is supposed
to come down tomorrow Friday at one o'clock local time in the Hague. That's
two o'clock Israeli time, even o'clock seven am Eastern, and everyone's going to
be watching this ruling. It is a very important ruling. They've been asked
to put in a provisional injunction, in other words, imposing calling on Israel
to hold its fire and imposing a cease fire to prevent the claims of genocide,
which, by the way, Israel in the United States and many people
call a bogus charge in any case. But the court will rule whether it
can put a provisional injunction to stop the war, and if it does,
it's a serious it's a serious case because then it will likely go to the
UN Security Council and Israel will be looking for the United States to veto it.
But the court could actually say something in between nothing and that order.
The Court could say, Hey, we're calling on Israel to put in you
know, to allow in two hundred more trucks of eight to day. We're
calling on Israel to allow gosins in the south to go north. We're calling
in on Israel to sin out their troops or they may do something in a
grayer area to protect Palestinian lives instead of calling for the war to actually,
you know, pause. So everyone's going to be watching. And then Israel's
Prime minister is holding several meetings today to prepare for different responses. Okay,
and then my other question regarding that is if the UN Court of Justice comes
out and says, hey, you got to do a cease fire? Is
there anything binding does Israel? I? Mean? What would the repercussions be
if Israel says nope, We're continuing our efforts. So the ruling is legally
binding but not enforceable. So that's why the court would then go to the
UN Security Council, which is both binding and enforceable. Right, and that's
so so the more the most crucial ruling would really come from the OUN Security
Council, but they're unit would likely use its veto, so it's but it
still would be you know, it still would be an important ruling because it
would go it would you know, pave a pathway to go to the UN
Security Council. Okay, so it's it is a critical ruling, Okay,
so we'll be watching for that tomorrow morning. Okay, all right, right
An Jordana Miller, thank you so much for your insight and information. Uh.
You always give us the best information and we appreciate it because a lot
of times it's hard to get good information. So thank you, thanks so
much. All Right, we'll talk to you soon. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Amtrak
and Metrolink service between Orange and San Diego Counties has been suspended again after another
landslide in San Clementy. Our entire slope is unstable and we're going to continue
to deal with hillside risk if we don't figure out like an overall solution to
the instability of the slope. Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley says more slides could
happen. It's just a sandy soil hillside and it's not there's enough bed rock
in the hillside to make sure that it stays secure. The landslide late yesterday
covered the tracks with boulder and debris. It's not clear when service between Irvine
and Oceanside will be restored. Neighbors say they're fed up with wild parties hosted
by squatters at a home in Beverly Hills. People living in the area have
called the police several times since last October when the squatters allegedly took over.
Franz Solomon owns the property next door and says her tenants have had to suffer
through the late night parties and they have a pitbull that sometimes ends up wandering
into the streets. There are children in this neighborhood. There are children and
grandchildren. Lapd says the home has been abandoned for months and when the police
respond to the nuisance calls, the people inside are able to show proof of
residency. Police said in a statement yesterday the lender will have to go through
a formal eviction process to get the tenants out. Chris Adler KFI News.
Delta's been named the top airline in twenty twenty three by The Wall Street Journal.
It's the airline's third consecutive win on the annual list. Alaska is the
runner up, not including the Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine grounding. This
month, Allegiant Air jumped to number three, south West ranked fourth, and
Jet Blue came in last. The list ranks airlines by on time arrivals,
cancelations, delays, baggage handling, and complaints. Getting home insurance in California
going to be even tougher now that the Hartford has announced it will no longer
offer new homeowners policies starting next month. Existing policies will be renewed. Seven
of the top twelve insurers in California have stopped offering new policies. Many have
said it's because of state regulations and the risk of wildfires. Former President Trump's
defamation trial resumes today in New York. He's expected to be there, not
sure if he's going to testify. The trial was delayed because of concerns at
a juror one of Trump's lawyers had been exposed to COVID. This trial is
to determine how much money author Ejen Carol will get, if any, after
Trump was found liable of defaming her. Carol is asking for ten million dollars.
The Los Angeles Chargers have a new coach. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh,
fresh off a National Championship win, is headed back to the NFL. He
coached the forty nine Ers from twenty eleven to twenty fourteen. Harbaugh was also
a quarterback for the Chargers in the nineties. At six oh five, It's
handled on the news. The Supreme Court says border agents can take down razor
wire along the Texas border with Mexico, but Texas isn't giving up the fight
just yet. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Transportation Unit correspondent Sam Sweeney.
Sam, you know it's serious when you end up on Capitol Hill,
tell us what's going on with Boeing. J Calhoun requested meetings with senators on
Capitol Hill. This is a CEO who is on damage control and he's facing
tough questions from these senators who are going to call for public hearings in the
wake of this disaster for Boeing. But we've learned overnight that the FAA has
now come up with a plan that is from Boeing and signed off by the
FAA that will allow these planes to get back into the air. Alaska Airline
says their seven thirty seven Max nine will be back in the air by tomorrow,
and United Airlines says that their Max nines will be back in the air
by Sunday. So certainly good news for airlines there. Yeah, and I
saw that with Alaska, and I've had some friends talk to me about saying,
oh, I don't know if I'm going to fly Alaska, And I
was thinking now is probably the best time to fly Alaska because they had to
probably go through these planes, you know, from nose to tail and really
make sure that everything's as it should be. Yeah, they are checking these
planes They're not taking any chances, and the FAA even said, look,
speed is not going to determine when these planes get back in the air.
It's all based on safety. And the essay has their inspectors in rent in
Washington looking over the equality you know, assurance issues that they now assume that
caused this problem. You know, this is a brand new airplane that just
started flying in November. Maintenance workers at Alaska hadn't even looked at this part
of the plane. It wouldn't normally be looked at until it went through a
heavy maintenance check in roughly two to three years. The airlines also have their
own auditors at Boeing and today at Renton, Washington, where the seven thirty
seven Max is produced, they are shutting down all operations and they're having a
day where employees can meet with executives and the safety teams to go over you
know, quality assurance practices to make sure that this type of issue stops,
no corners are being cut, and that these planes that are leaving the factory
or space okay. And then what are the things is Boeing do doing.
I know that you mentioned that the CEO, Dave Calhoun, you know was
in Washington, d C. Yesterday. But what kinds of things has Boeing
done or will they be doing to try to repair this reputation that has I've
really taken a tough hit because not only the door popped off, but then
they had a wheel fall off, and they had a seven forty seven had
to turn back. I mean, they've had several several issues come up in
just the last couple of weeks. Yeah, this is going to be tough.
Boeing has to earn the trust of the American public and their customers back.
And you know, we've heard an earnings call this week that airlines are
having second thoughts about placing more orders with boone. You think about it,
if your entire company is based on these planes, you know, you look
at the airlines and maybe huge orders from Boeing and they get them, and
then a year or two in they have to ground them and cancel all these
flights and they're losing millions of dollars. Do you want to put that risk
there or do you want to say, hm, maybe we should take a
look at Airbus or another company and we can you know, have a little
bit more assurance that our operation is going to be smooth, and that's what
they're looking at. You know, United hasn't canceled or none of the airlines
have canceled their orders yet, but they are certainly coming up with contingency plans
in the case that they do look elsewhere. Okay, but the good news
in this is the FA has its guidelines on how to check them, and
Alaska is saying they're pretty much wrapping up their safety checks and their planes are
going to be flying again very soon. That's the good news, all right,
Sam Sweeney, thank you so much. If you'd like to follow Sam,
you can follow him at Sweeney SWEE n E Y ABC. Thanks again
for taking the time. Thanks Amy Sia. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Four point two magnitude earthquake has jolted San Bernardino County and our very own KNO.
The US Geological surveyces the quake last night was less than two miles away
from the city center a depth of almost ten miles. Many people in the
Inland Empire said it was a strong, short quake. People as far away
as San Diego reported feeling the earthquake. Family members of a man fatally hit
by an LAPD car say they want the officer to face charges. Family of
Luisa Spinosa's file a claim against LA. Attorney Michael Correo says the officer's lights
and sirens were on when she hit Espinosa, even though she was not responding
to an emergency. Furthermore, career alleges the officer was speeding. This officer
needs to be held accountable for her actions. Espinosa was jaywalking when he was
hit last month. He died at a hospital. The DIA's office said yesterday
that the case is under review. Blake Trolly k if I News. The
Supreme Court has ruled Alabama can execute a death row inmate with nitrogen gas.
ABC's Steve Osinsami says it'll be the first attempt to use a new execution method
since lethal injection was introduced in nineteen eighty two. Issue is that states are
having trouble getting the medications they need to perform lethal injections. Both Oklahoma and
Mississippi are allowing the use of nitrogen, but neither have tried again. Alabama
claims the nitrogen will be humane, but critics call it cruel and experimental.
Kenneth Smith is scheduled to die tonight for the murder for higher killing of a
woman in nineteen eighty eight. Saw this come out just yesterday. I think
it's another example big brothers striking again. California lawmakers are looking at a plan
to require governors be put on vehicles, and we're talking about speed governors,
so you put the pedal to the medal and it's only going to go so
fast. A bill is making its way through the state legislature that would require
the governors to be installed on all new vehicles, and the result of it
would be basically that a car couldn't go faster than eighty if there was a
seventy mile per hour zone, and that's on new cars. And Ann and
I started talking about this yesterday because I was just like going, you know,
I mean, you shouldn't go more than ten miles per hour, but
darn it if I need to. You know, I don't think that the
government should be restricting me. And the other thing, you'd start thinking about
the practical result of this. So this would be on all new vehicles,
so they'd have to have sensors on them and they'd have to be tied to
every single speed sign in the state. So think about the infrastructure that would
have to go into that to replace every single speed sign in the state to
make sure that the cars would be, you know, talking to the speed
signs and then restricting your how fast you could go. I just think this
is another case of huge overreach. It does have initial support from lawmakers,
so I think we should be watching this one. This is just ugh,
it's just infuriating, and I don't think Sammy Hagar would like it either.
Cono got it, okay. Amtrak and Metrolink service has been suspended between Irvine
and Ocean Side because of a landslide in San Clementy that covered the tracks with
mud and debris and boulders as well. Buses were used to get passengers around
the slide. A pedestrian bridge above the tracks is also closed because officials say
the hillside is unstable. It's not clear when the tracks will reopen. A
lawmaker in California has asked the DEEA to make the so called zombie drug a
controlled substance. He says the designation of the drugs that goes by the street
name trank because it has horse tranquilizer in it would give police the power to
make arrests and restrict the drugs trafficking. The lawmaker stresses more needs to be
done to get it off the streets. John Stuart coming back to the Daily
Show. He'll be hosting Monday nights through the twenty twenty four elections, starting
next month. The Daily Show's been using guest hosts since it lost permanent host
Trevor Noah in twenty twenty two. Stuart left the show in twenty fifteen.
At six oh five, Tandle on the news forget everything you've heard because crime
is down in LA. At five point fifty, Tom Rivers has something salty
for tea lovers. But right now, let's say good morning to ABC's crime
and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, Now, they're coming after our digital
money. It's not digital money, but they're coming after our Venmo and our
and our cash app and our Zell. What's going on? So think about
it this way that everyone that you just mentioned, among some others are tied
to banks typically like Zell for example, is tied to my Wells Fargo accounts.
So it's supposed to be safe exactly, and so, and I think,
let's start with I think by and large it is safe. Okay,
However, it's also an attractive target. And the reason why is because hundreds
of millions of US on a given day use one of these apps. I
mean, the FTC said that two point six billion dollars was stolen from US
through fraud off these apps. Now, so how do you how do they
go about this? What typically happens is the following that they send out a
text message representing either one of the app companies, let's say Zel, PayPal,
et cetera, and saying there's a complication or a potential fraud issue with
your account and we'll be contacting you shortly. So then someone calls and then
they represent either the bank or the app, uh, you know, Zell,
et cetera. And so what happens is they say there's an issue,
we want to correct it, and so they you know, they smooth talk
you for a period of time, and they either already have your account number
because they've they've gotten it through a breach previously, or they talk you into
whatever reason in authenticating your account to give them your account number, which I
can't imagine anyone doing. But apparently it happens. But the real key here
maybe is that they need two factor authentication to actually get into your bank account.
Like you know, when you make a PayPal payment, for example,
they send you to your phone a six digit code and then you put it
in and then you know it goes through and you've paid for whatever life goes
on. They can convince them, apparently some people that to test this out
to see if they can figure out they being Zell et cetera, that there's
fraud occurring, that they want you to go onto your account, get the
two factor authentication, give it to them like them right, yes, okay,
right, And so again I can't imagine this happening, but apparently it
happens thousands of times. Two points. You give a billion dollars worth the
times, there is no doubt and so they get it. They go into
your account and they wipe your account so they can get it all out of
them. So you can see, if you are persistent and you have a
good story that you're going to find. You know, maybe older folks,
folks that you know aren't really thinking about you know, is this real?
Is it not real? Or folks that are in a hurry. Apparently they
end up targeting the young folks. Young adults that are in a hurry,
you know, are tech driven. I got to get to a meeting and
I get to get online, and they get these calls and they you know,
they're thinking, well, I pay so many different people with my Venmo
account and I can't have it down or can but it's in a pain.
And so what happens is that they sort of bite on the roots and that's
all they need. You know, you could work off of percentages if you're
the bad guy, and that happens with all sorts of scams. It's all
about volume and if they can get X number of us to bite. I
mean, you know, if you can get billions of dollars doing it,
why wouldn't you if that's what you're inclined to do. Yeah, and it's
so crazy because they're actually getting your help to steal your money. Well,
I mean that happens in a legitimate settings too. Let's let's be it just
happens. But yeah, smooth talking folks and folks that don't think through.
You know, my advice is if you get a text message saying there of
the bank or Zell, delete it, don't even deal with it. If
they call you know, there's nothing wrong with your account, saying I'm not
talking to you, you're a fraud. Hang up, and then call Bank
of America, Wells Fargo, whomever it might be, and say, did
you discontact me because of issues with my Zell account? And the bread the
other thing with that that I was just going to ask you about that.
When you call your bank, but call a published number to your bank,
don't call a number that they give you their Oh, you could reach out
to us at this number, don't call that number. Call go to the
website or go to your bank statement or whatever and find the actual real number.
Well that's right. In fact, if they send you an email,
for example, or even in a text message where they say Bank of America,
and they may give a legitimate address for let's say a location for Bank
of America, the phone number won't match the bank. It'll be to somebody
impersonating the bank when you call it. So but people bite on that wore
They get an email that you know, with a letterhead in the email that
looks very much like let's say, Bank of America's logo yep, and then
adding a level of legitimacy, like, well, that's that's got to be
them, that's their little flag or whatever it might be that they use,
and of course it's not them at all, and now they've got you.
Yeah, and I just in the last week have getten received like three different
notifications from what looks like PayPal, and I actually think it was PayPal because
somebody's requesting money. Yeah, and then and then PayPal catches it, and
then they go, oh, we canceled the request. You don't need to
take any action, and you can go in and look, and they actually
do request the money and then PayPal cancels it. So they're catching it.
But it's just scary because like what if they don't catch it and then you've
got nine taken out? Well, that's that's exactly right. And you know,
and this occurs in other arenas obviously. Every day, people sending you
to surveys on things like, you know, the water in Los Angeles.
You know, we're doing a study on the water, and you know,
it's a way to get malware on your computer and then steal all your credentials.
I mean, it's just it's almost like you don't. You don't have
time to work. You have to monitor your computer and phone all day long
to make sure you don't get scammed. I know. Okay, So just
a couple other quick tips on ways to protect yourself. Okay. So the
key is, like I said, anything in a text message, absolutely delete,
okay, phone calls, emails, and you know, and you think
in your own mind, okay, well I used zel last week that went
through. It's to you know, the guy who cuts my lawn, whomever
it might be. And you have to stop and think about, well,
how could there be a discrepancy because I know about all the payments you think.
You have to think skeptically. That you got to you got to train
yourself to think skeptically. And then, as I mentioned earlier, don't deal
with folks over the phone, don't deal with folks with text messages, and
then turn around and call the bank or just ignore it saying this is just
absolutely blowney and go on with your life. I mean that's what I do.
I just delete all of it and keep going because I know it's it's
not true. Yeah, I do that too. I go through and I
delete stuff and then I go I hope that wasn't real, you know,
Well, if it's real, If it's real, though, I mean,
they'll actually you'll figure out a way. There'll be a more legitimate way,
and it'll be a number that you know, it'll be somebody at the bank,
you've talked, it'll be all those things that click into it's real.
Okay. So the takeaway is just be careful, be alert, and you
have to be more cynical because there's bad guys out there trying to take your
money every day, at every angle. Unfortunately. Yeah, and thanks to
you, Brad, hopefully some people are not going to get scammed because we
know what to look for. Now. Appreciate your We can only hope,
we can only hope. So you got it. Thank you so much,
Brad. Talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of the stories.
All right, take care, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Jurors have to decide if
second degree murder or voluntary manslaughters appropriate for a man charged with shooting a six
year old boy in Orange. Both lawyers used Marcus the Reza's video confession to
shooting Aiden Laos in twenty twenty one because the boy's mom flipped him off.
Senior Deputy da Dan Feldman says the guy admitted intent and implied malice. This
is a trained gun owner who brought his gun to deal with what he thought
the threat was a woman's finger. But Senior Public Defender Randall Bethune said yesterday,
Areez repeatedly tells police he doesn't know why shot the gun, so no
malice or intent. There is no evidence whatsoever that misteries knew the child was
in car. The difference is twenty five or forty years to life in prison
at the OC Superior Court. Corbin Carson k if I News. At least
twelve people have been killed in a strike on a crowded shelter in Gaza.
Dozens of people were hurt. The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees did not
directly blame Israel. The Israeli military says it has ruled out that the strike
was carried out by its aircraft or artillery, but they're still investigating. It
says the building might have been hit by a hamas. Russian media says investigators
have found the flight recorders of a Russian military transport plane that crashed in a
border region near Ukraine, killing all seventy four people on board. Russia claims
Ukrainian missiles shot down the plane yesterday, which was carrying sixty five Ukrainian prisoners
of war. Ukraine's president has demanded an international investigation. Apple has rolled out
at update to its operating system, and users are being urged to turn it
on immediately. The update includes a feature called Stolen Device Protection. It makes
it harder for thieves to access key functions and settings. This way, they
can't lock people out of their Apple accounts, delete their photos, or empty
their bank accounts. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate the deaths
of six people found in and around two cars in a remote desert area.
They were found near El Mirage Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Authorities aren't saying
what killed them, but video shows and suv riddled with bullets. Three of
the bodies also appear to have been burned. Former President Trump's defamation trial resumes
in New York. It was delayed because of concerns adjuror and one of Trump's
lawyers had been exposed to COVID. This trial is to determine how much money
author E. Gen Carrol will get if any after Trump was found liable of
defaming her. Carol wants ten million dollars. The LA Chargers have a new
coach. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, fresh off his National Championship win, is
headed back to the NFL. Harbaugh coached the forty nine Ers from twenty eleven
to twenty fourteen. He also used to play for the Chargers. He was
the team's quarterback in the nineties. We're just minutes away from Handle. On
the news this morning, President Trump is picking up lots of endorsement, but
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders are not among them. Right
now, let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers. So next time you
ought to a spot of tea, will the server say to you, would
you like salt with that? Exactly? What a controversy? And Britz and
the Yanks here in London are having fun with this. What's the seed of
this rhetorical dispute? A chemistry professor by the name of Michelle Frankel at the
Brinnmar College went into the origins of humans consuming tea going back to China,
going back a thousand years basically and going into a level that you and I
can only contemplate. And she said that a little bit of salt is the
kicker, which makes tea better. And of course what in the front of
the Brits. Basically her contention, exactly, her contention is the sodium ions
in salt block the bitter receptors in our mouths. And she says, it's
not enough to even taste, but you put a little bit in there,
and the Brits are aghast. They're saying, you're you're out to lunch.
So it's kind of had. It's gone up to the level of the loma.
See the US Embassy put out a tweet yesterday saying basically, in this
particular battle, uh, the US is not have an official position, but
adding adding salt to the wound. They said that the best way to make
tea, of course, was is to put it in the microwave. And
again the hair exactly, the hair back on the back of the necks of
Brits who say no, no, no, no, no no, you
make you you boil water, you put it in a kettle and then you
pour the tea into a mug and then you add the milk. So they're
uh yeah, they're they're they're having fun with this thing, and it's going
back and forth. Even the Cabinet uh at ten Downing Street has kind of
put its its weight into this, saying no, no, no, no,
no, microwave is out, kettle is the only way to go.
So uh this this is a good twenty four hour fun little back and forth
between the US and the UK, and with everything going on in the world,
I'm okay with a little bit of fun. So if you think about
the salt thing, right, you said that they're saying to put salt in,
but just like a few granules, because you don't want to actually taste
it, right, No, you don't want to if you have a sore
throat and your gargle with salt water. No no, no, we're not
talking about that. We're talking about just so much that you can't even taste
it. So she may have something there, or you might just say,
you know, this doesn't taste any different, but but it is what it
is. She's come out with a book. Guess what, she'd probably sell
a few copies based upon this h doing and froing, if you will.
So think about the thought process behind there. Okay, so I got to
spark a controversy. I got to get people's attention and do something really weird
so I can sell books. I think she might have done it. I
think she's yeah, she's she's ticked all the boxes and good luck to her.
Yeah. So here's another thing that I thought about when I when I
got that you were going to be talking about this, I was like,
so, salt is actually a flavor enhancer. Our Fork reporter Neil Sevager talks
about this all the time. How like pepper changes the taste, salt enhances
the flavor. And so if you like tea and you did drop in just
a shmidge of salt, maybe it enhances the flavor of tea. I think
maybe you're gonna have to try it next time you have a cup of tea.
Just try it, and we can circle back next time we chitch you
out and find out how how it does for you and how it does for
me. I guess I can try. But I'm sort of like in camp
ted Lasso on this. I think it tastes like, you know, a
wet paper bag. Well, I'm still. I'm still. I drink tons
of coffee here. I drink maybe a cup of tea maybe once a month,
not very often. But I they're really they look at me because they
think I'm a barbarian because when I have tea, I just have black tea
and they go without milk. Yeah, oh my god, Tom, what
are you doing? What planet are you f Oh yeah, exactly exactly.
I love that. Well. I hope that you don't get ridiculed too much,
and please do try the sault in the tea because I want to.
I want to find out your take on it. All right, thank you
so much for your time and for lightening our load this morning. A bit.
There you go. You take care. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I love the
tea talk. A man wanted for allegedly killing three people in Harbor City and
San Pedro in September and injuring a one year old has been arrested. Two
of the people killed were in a car when they were shot, the other
was at a party. Charges are expected to be announced today. The Lakt
Sheriff's Department is looking for more people who may have been sexually assaulted by a
man on parole in Lancaster. Registered sex offender allegedly lured women off of social
media and assaulted them in a vacant home. Sergeant Joseph Mesa says the department
has received at least four reports of assault and the man has been arrested for
two. Anyone with information please call crime Stoppers at one eight hundred two two
two eight four seven seven or email specially Victors Bureau at LSD dot org.
Mesa says the accusers and the other two reports that came in late last year
have not come forward. A photo of the man can be seen on our
website at KFIAM six forty dot com slash suspect Chris Adler KFI News love hearing
stories like this. Imagine how life changing this could be. Doctors at Boston's
mass General Hospital have helped deaf children here. They've used gene therapy to restore
hearing in five of six children in an experimental trial. Several US, Chinese,
and European researchers have seen promising results in treating genetic forms of deafness.
ABC's Andy Field says the kids have a rare genetic defect in a gene.
Within weeks, the kids who were born deaf started to hear. The oldest
was able to speak. Mass Jen says one point five billion people in the
world have some form of hearing loss. I bet that number or more have
some form of sleep loss or not getting enough sleep. But guess who's not
one of them? Rob Lowe. So Rob low is fifty nine years old
and you see him all over the place. Still he looks fantastic, like
ageless, right, So either he's got good genes or has cracked the code,
or has a good plastic surgeon one of the two or three. I
guess that was three. But he says that part of his secret to staying
young, staying in shape is getting lots and lots of sleep. He says
he gets an embarrassing amount of sleep. He says, it's not twelve hours
a day, but if there were ever twelve hours to be had, he
would take it. And apparently he's a napper too, because he says in
his suv the seats recline all the way so he can just catch a knap
there. He says, put on a little mask, put on his headphones,
and he is good to go, so seems to be working and you're
gonna be able to see him again in the next season of Netflix's com Unstable,
It's Really Fun. Season two is coming out this fall. He plays
a tech billionaire who is Yeah, he's a little unstable. Very fun to
watch, though makes me sleepy. This is KFI and KOST HD two Los
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