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Does anybody set their clocks anymore? My clocks all do it automatically, except
for the one in the bathroom. That's an old little you know, with
the hands and stuff a clock with the hands. It's a novel thing.
This is your wake up call for Friday, November three. I'm Amy King.
Thanks for getting up with us this morning. Got lots planned for you
this morning, so we hope you'll stick around and get your day started with
US. US Secretary of State Antony Blincoln is back in Israel, this time
to push for humanitarian pauses in Israel's war against Tamas and for the Israeli government
to protect more civilians in the Gaza Strip. Israel says its military has surrounded
Gaza City and it's moving in the fire in Riverside County that's burned about twenty
five hundred acres is now forty percent surrounded. Full containment of the fire could
come by at least next Wednesday. The fire in Aguanga that started Monday didn't
grow yesterday. Evacuations and road closures are still in effect. Federal regulators have
accused Amazon of using a secret algorithm that raised prices of online purchases by over
a billion dollars. The claim was made public yesterday. It's part of the
FTC's anti trust suit against Amazon. A spokesperson for the company said the ft
grossly mischaracterizes the pricing tool and says the company stop using it several years ago.
Aha, So they were using it then at six oh five. It's
handle on the news. The House has passed a plan to provide billions in
aid to Israel, but the Senate says it's dead on arrival. Bill's going
to tell you why. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Israeli military says its ground operation
in Gaza is expanding. ABC's Justin Finch says troops have encircled Gaza City and
report being locked in face to face bottles battles with Hamas militants, a senior
US official telling ABC News the US is also flying unarmed MQ nine Reaper drones
over Gaza to assist Israel with locating more than two hundred hostages Hamas is holding
captive. Finch says the air assaults on Hamas targets and Gaza are also demolishing
densely populated areas. Israel says its air strikes are aimed at Hamas militants and
accused this is the group of using crowded residential areas for cover. The House
has approved that fourteen and a half billion dollars in military aid for Israel's I
just mentioned. It passed yesterday on a vote of two twenty six to one
ninety six. ABC Stephen Portnois says twelve Democrats crossed the aisle to support the
measure, despite a White House threat to veto it. Most Democrats opposed the
bill, citing its lack of humanitarian aid for Palestinians, as well as the
pay for provision taking funds from the IRS investigators. Portnois says the bill is
dead on arrival in the Senate, where leaders aim to pass a bigger bill
that offers support for Ukraine, Taiwan and border security as well. The LAPED
is investigating vandalism at the famous Canter's Delhi on Fairfax. Investigators say they're trying
to see if any surveillance cameras in the area will show them something. Captain
Kelly Muni says the hate crimes case was reported Wednesday morning and they've increased patrols
in areas deemed to target of anti Semitic behavior and reaching out to our Jewish,
Muslim and Arab community to ensure that Angelino's of all fease pieces are feeling
safe. Since the war in Israel started, the LAPED says there's been a
two hundred percent increase in hate crimes against the Jewish communities in downtown La Steve
Gregory k if I knows customers at Canter's Delhi have shown up in support of
the owner and the Jewish restaurant. A man who's been going to Canters since
the nineteen seventies says it's shocking people would target the deli because of politics.
The owner says customers have been calling and reaching out to him to make sure
he's okay. He says what happened is unfortunate, but he will keep on
serving the community. Tens of thousands of hotel workers in Las Vegas have set
a deadline to strike if they don't get a new contract. ABC's Alex Stone
says employees from cooks to bartenders, bellman, laundry workers and kitchen staff could
walk off the job next Friday. In October, the thirty five thousand workers
picketed demanding better wages and working conditions. Stone says workers at eighteen casino resorts
in Las Vegas, including MGA, Caesars, and Win would be impacted if
there is a strike. Note to self cancel trip to Las Vegas. Let's
say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim. The CDC says there are
positive signs when it comes to kids trying tobacco. Yeah. Absolutely. In
fact, among high school students, the number fell off quite dramatically in the
past year. This amy comes out of the twenty twenty three National Youth Tobacco
Survey let's put together by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and finds that
current tobacco use dropped among high school students from about sixteen and a half percent
of those kids down to twelve point six percent of those kids. About five
hundred and eighty thousand fewer high school students reported using e cigarettes during that time.
But this is a classic good news bad news story, Amy, because
while high school student use of tobacco products of all kinds has been dropping off,
middle school students are using tobacco products more. Ooh yeah, that number
rose in the last year about four and a half percent up to six point
six percent. Now, so these public awareness campaigns, the PSAs, the
efforts to try to get kids to quit using tobacco products seem to be working
on high school kids, not so much among middle schoolers. Okay, And
is there anything to suggest to that, because like less parents are smoking,
that less kids are smoking because I think, you know, when I was
growing up, some of my friend's parents who smoked, we could just go
steal a cigarette. Oh yeah, it was that easy, and it could
be I think that now tobacco, the cigarettes are being replaced by vey products,
and in fact, that is the tobacco product of choice among those younger
kids. You know, about two point eight million students who reported using tobacco.
Of them two point one million, we're using e cigarettes, so that
remains the hot heigh amount there with you. Yeah, the world has changed.
You'd slip a cigarette out of your parents pack and smoke that. I
mean, my high school had a smoking area. That tells you how different
things are now. We did too. We had an area and we called
it. We called the people who went across the street to smoke the tree
frogs. They went and hung out under a tree. Well, yeah,
you know, there was a whole part of the culture back then. But
that culture has changed and now dramatically fewer kids are using cigarettes dramatically if you
are using chewing tobacco. But we're continuing to see these nagging numbers regarding vape.
Now I'm thinking back to high school and like I said, there was
the group of students who'd crossed the street. So in my high school,
like smoking wasn't cool. Has has it become kind of cool or is it
still just like, yeah, it's not something really that people think are well,
I think, you know, pure pressure has always been a part of
it, right, the desire to fit in somehow or to be cool.
And you know, but once you've tried it. According to the National Youth
Tobacco Survey in the CDC, once you've tried it, you introduced nicotine into
your body, and then you introduce more. Because it's an addictive substance,
Absolutely an addictive substance. And so whether it's cool or not, you're going
to keep using this stuff. And so that's that's part of the issue here.
Once a kid is hooked, you know, they're they're through doing damage
to their brains. Doctors say they're becoming more isolated from kids who don't use
these products. So, yeah, there is evidence that this is a harmful
thing, and and yeah, yeah, you're right at some point, whether
it's cool or not, that you're going to be using these products because they're
hooked on the nicotine. Yeah, okay. So also Jewel was accused of
marketing to kids and a lot of that with the flavors and all of that
kind of thing, and they settled a lawsuit. How much was that settlement
for, Oh, it was in the hundreds of millions, And in fact,
now checks are being written to school districts that were a part of that
class action lawsuit. That's what I was going to ask you is where's that
money going. It's going out to school districts or communities. Some are putting
it into school programs, others into smoking cessation efforts programs like that. Some
are putting it back into their general fund. So they are seeing this windfall
coming out of that. But despite that, if you look at that,
so Jewel is the one that's paying out all these massive settlement checks. But
this past year, among students reporting current e cigarette use, those who are
still using them, eighty nine point four percent, we're using flavored products,
and the most commonly reported brands there's one called elf Bar, there's one called
Escobar, View views rather, and Jewel remains one of the most popular among
young kids. I think we banned the flavored stuff here, didn't we?
I think, yeah, there were moves to do that, but they're still
out there and kids are still using those products. And you know, the
reasoning being that what adult who uses VAP products is using flavored you know,
bubblegum flavor, fruit flavor. Right, who's doing that? It seems to
be And at least the CDC and health and public health officials are saying that
this stuff was squarely marketed toward kids. Yeah, here's the one thing that
kind of ticks me off about the settlement, Like you said that it's going
to some smoking cessations, but that some are just using it for the general
fund. That money should all go to stop kids from smoking, all of
it. It shouldn't be going into paying for other things. That's my humble
opinion. But otherwise, I mean, like, if they're not if they're
not actually going to prevent smoking, then why are they paying the money?
That's all I'm thinking. Yeah, Well, I mean school districts are strapped,
right, they have trouble keeping teachers much less. You know, we're
running PSA's and trying to run programs like this. But and you're right,
this is still a big debate among school boards and city councils and whatever government
body has received this check now is trying to decide what to do with it.
Okay. Oh, and I have my local researcher, it's our traffic
guy, Nick Poliochini. And in August twenty twenty, Senate Bill seven ninety
three was passed in California, prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products except for
those used in premium cigars, hookahs, or loose leaf forms, there always
an exception, all right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for the
good news and the bad news this morning. Yeah me, all right,
have a good weekend. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Van Nuys High School is adding extra
security because of a stabbing on campus. An LAPD officer will now be stationed
on campus. Five people were injured, Two of them were stabbed in a
brawl in the quad Wednesday. Four students had to be taken to the hospital.
Three students were detained. The LA School District has agreed to pay a
nearly twenty million dollars settlement to fourteen kids sexually abused at an elementary school.
The girls reported being molested by a teacher's eight at Oxnard Street Elementary School,
where they say the man touched them with and without teachers being present. Attorney
Michael Correo says the man was hired at the school in North Hollywood in twenty
ten. We have information that he was abusing kids starting twenty thirteen, and
that continued on until approximately twenty nineteen. The man was convicted of molesting the
girls in twenty twenty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. A judge's
schedule to rule on the approval of the settlement next week. Chris Adler kf
I News Officials in West Hollywood are looking for a woman wanted for at least
two burglaries tied to Romanian crime theft groups. The La Sheriff's Department said the
woman stole jewelry and credit cards from lockers at a hotel, spa, and
yoga studio. The woman has a counterfeit Washington State ID, black hair,
brown eyes. She weighs about one hundred pounds. Officials says she is known
to travel the country committing similar crimes. A body's been found in the surf
at Point Magoo Beach. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department says call yesterday requested an
ambulance for a person who wasn't breathing. The department says when paramedics got there,
they found a man dead in the water. FTX founder Sam Bankman Freed
has been found guilty on all charges in his fraud and conspira trial in New
York. He was convicted in a scheme that cheated customers out of at least
ten billion dollars. In an interview last year, bankman Freed says, see
screwed up. I really deeply wish that I had taken like a lot more
responsibility for understanding what the details were. Bank Ben Freed also denied the collapse
of FTX was similar to other fraudulent investment scams. He'll be sentenced in March.
DoorDash is sending out a message to customers. If you don't tip,
you may have to wait longer to get your food. The pop up disclaimer
is on the app. Doordash's drivers get to choose which orders they want to
pick up and deliver, so they tend to accept the ones that pay the
most. This guy says he may not use DoorDash anymore because of this.
I feel like we're already paying a lot, and the prices basically have been
increasing. I've been using it for maybe like seven eight years, and slowly
it's always just been increasing. So I don't know. Maybe if you want
drivers to be tipped, there should be other incentives. The advisory is part
of a pilot program, but only in some service areas. No word on
if it's going to become permanent. Congress has overwhelmingly approved resolution condemning support for
Hamas and any other terrorist organization on US college campuses, saying the campus is
that it may lead to the creation of a hostile environment for Jewish students,
faculty, and staff. The vote was three ninety six to twenty three.
Parents of elementary school students in Norwalk are pretty ticked off about a man they
say has been recording their kids as they leave campus for weeks now. The
man has apparently been sitting in his parked suv recording the kids outside New River
Elementary. Police say they can't prove that the man committed a crime. Okay,
remember that big rainstorm during Burning Man. About two inches of rain remnants
from Hurricane Hillary were dumped on the area in just twenty four hours. And
guess what it left behind. A big lake. A salty lake two miles
wide and four miles long has formed in Death Valley National Park. Death Valley
one of the hottest and driest places on Earth. It's only a few inches
deep, apparently at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Secretary
of State Anthony Blincoln has arrived in Israel. He'll be pushing for humanitarian pauses
in the war. Let's now go to Israel and say good morning to ABC's
Geordana Miller. Jordana, I know we have a Hesbolah leader. He's going
to be speaking publicly today. Tell us about that and why it's significant,
right, It's a very important issue. In about an hour local time,
the head of Hezbola, the Iranian Bakshie group that sits on Israel's northern border
there in southern Lebanon, a group that has been launching attacks against Israeli positions
now for more than two weeks. The leader, Hassan Nostralla, will give
a speech today and everyone will be listening very very carefully, trying to parse
out if he intends to join this war in any significant way. So far,
he has been given the firepower that Hasbala has over one hundred thousand missiles.
They've been just, i would say, carrying out pinpoint smaller attacks,
but they have the capability of course to bomb cities all across Israel. So
everyone will be listening to see if they are going to join this war that
Israel is fighting against Tumas, and that of course brings the danger of the
conflict widening to become a regional conflict. Okay, and this guy he hasn't,
like you said, it's considered significant because he hasn't been seen in public
for years. That's right. Howson Esrala speaks from a bunker. It's believed
he's been in hiding. He mostly most of the time he's in hiding,
but of course when there are major conflicts with Israel, you know, he
stays out of sight for fear that he might get assassinated. And this is
the first time that he's actually speaking since since the war broke out here more
than three weeks ago, so you know everyone will be listening, including the
White House. Is there any hope that he's going to say, hey,
we're not getting involved or do is there any insight into that? That's a
great question. I think in all likelihood he will leave things ambiguous and keep
Israel in the West guessing about whether he's going to get involved or not.
I think that's probably the most likely outcome. I think it's very low chances
that he'll say, you know that he's not going to be part of this
conflict. In a sense, he has to be part of it on a
low level, which is what we've been saying in the last few weeks because
he has to. You know, he shares some sympathy with Hamas, the
terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, although it's important to say there's a big
difference. Hamas is a Sunni group and Husbala is a Shiite group really backed
and bankrolled and much larger than Hamas and banquoed by Iran, whereas Hamas has
some other funders as well. So you know, it's clear to military evalences
that are looking at this conflict that should it widen out, Israel would probably
really devastate Hasbala's position and presence in southern Lebanon, even in Syria where they're
now operating. You know. So there's been even politicians in Lebanon saying,
you know, we don't want to be a part of this, you know,
has Bala. I hope they're not leading us down a path that will
bring Lebanon into an even more chaotic situation. I mean, Lebanon is a
barely functioning state as it is for various other reasons. Okay, So basically
you're saying that Israel's ready to fight on two fronts if they had to.
Asrael's been, They've been prepared and willing to fight on two fronts if they
need to. I mean, they're staying on the highest alert in the north
in case they need to. They've been training soldiers here for that two front
war. I mean, Israel is focusing on Kamas and the fight inside Gaza
City now even circle to Gaza City. That's what they're going to focus on.
But they've said for two weeks already that the worst case scenario is a
two front war, and they're preparing for that. And you know it appears
that the White House and the Defense Department are also preparing for that should that
happen. That's why you know there are two warships off the coast of Israel.
That's why you know President Biden has just asked for all this additional aid,
and why everyone's watching the regions so closely. Okay, let's go down
to the Rafa crossing. We know that some more Americans got out yesterday.
How is that going? That's going slowly. I mean each day we get
the list, and you know, it's supposed to be six hundred people or
eight hundred people that cross over and per day and the total is only at
about eight hundred now for two days. Today you know, there are more
than three hundred names on the list of people eligible to leave Americans today and
I we're gonna have to wait till the end of the day to see who
actually makes it over the crossing, you know. And there's eight trucks that
are coming in. Yesterday we saw the highest number around the eighty and so
for a single day, still way below normal levels of you know, three
hundred or it's four hundred trucks. So you know, the humanitarian situation in
the Gaza strip is getting very very desperate. You know, they're running low
on all kinds of supplies. It is well admitted that there, you know,
the Gazza shrip needs medications. They brought in truckloads of medications yesterday.
But you know, it gooses you know, one of the worst places to
be today. If you're if you don't own another passport, if you're not
a citizen of another country, you can't leave. You're stuck in an increasingly
dangerous environment with you know, especially in the north where you know, there
are bombings from the sea, from the sky and now troops are inside Gaza
City and even though these are all asked civilians to leave, and probably half
of the population around gas of city left, there's still five hundred thousand civilians
there. Well, that just sounds scary and awful in her horrific. All
right, thank you so much, Jordana Miller. Stay safe. We'll talk
to you hopefully soon, and we'll be watching for the husband a leader and
what he has to say, and not too long from now. Yep,
all right, thanks Jordan. All right, here's what we're following in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. US Secretary of State Antony Blincoln is back in
Israel, this time to push for humanitarian pauses in Israel's war against Thomas and
for the Israeli government to protect more civilians in the Gaza Strip. As you
just heard Jordana Miller telling US, Israel says it's military has surrounded Gaza City
and is moving in. Police are looking for a man who shot another guy
outside the Arawon grocery store near the Grove in the Fairfax District. A group
of men were seen on surveillance video arguing before one of them pulled out a
gun, shot the man and drove off in a black Lamborghini. The man
shot drove himself to the hospital and his unstable condition. Elon Musk says artificial
intelligence will eventually put everyone out of a job. At an event in London,
the Tesla owner said AI has the potential to become the most disruptive force
in history. Musk, by the way, recently formed his own AI startup
company. At six oh five a haandle on the news, the founder of
FTX is going to pay he was found guilty of embazzling billions of dollars from
customers. If I poin fifty, we're gonna be talking to ABC's Jason Nathanson
about the darker side of Elvis Presley and all the light we cannot see.
Time to wake up with the house whisper and say good morning to the host
of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp, Good morning, Good morning Amy.
Speaking of light and warmth, is there still a place for a fireplace
in our homes? Yeah, that's a tricky question. Well, I guess
maybe it's not a tricky question in my mind because I automatically say yes,
me too, there, Yes, absolutely yes. Well you got the right
answer, so I guess we're done. All right, it's nice talking to
you. No, it's tricky, you know, because here's the thing.
A lot of people have weird feelings about their fireplaces. Number One, a
lot of people live in older homes and they've got old masonry fireplaces. They
don't know quite what to do with them. Or maybe you're not really a
fireplace person. They don't use it a lot, they don't know what shape
it's in. That's a consideration and a concern. And number two, the
state of California, you know, is not making it too easy these days
to get a really nice fireplace in your major remodel or new construction, because
if you have been labeled a major remodel, then you have to fall under
new construction rules, which means only a direct vent fireplace, a gas fireplace
is what can be installed in the house. So wait, what's a direct
vent fireplace? Yeah, exactly what is a direct vent? Direct vent fireplace?
Is a gas fireplace? Okay, it's a gas log set inside,
but it's completely sealed and closed so it doesn't open up. There's no doors
on it. It's a sealed appliance unit. You've undoubtedly seen them. You'll
see them at restaurants, sometimes out in public or other places. They're really
really great at making long linear kind of contemporary fire lines. Yes, I
love the look of those things they have they Yes, they're beautiful. They're
beautiful. Now they're a little bit trickier in trying to get a traditional looking
fireplace, but they've come a long way. But the point is this,
that is now the only kind of fireplace that you can install in new construction
or a major remodel, not even just a gas log set. So if
you got a fireplace pre existing, hang on to it. That's my point,
because now I will grant you this. Fireplaces are you know, they're
kind of like an appendix. They are technically a you know, a vestigial
organ. The whole reason they exist is is has nothing to do with twenty
first century life. We don't cook food in them, we don't use them
to heat houses anymore. You know, they are obsolete in that sense.
But but as a design element and as a lifestyle element. That's why I
think you and I love them so much, because the dancing of a flickering
flame is evolutionarily ingrained in US two million years of firelight ingrained in the human
physiology. And I say this the University of Alabama did a study not too
long ago trying to get to the bottom of this. And it's true.
When we stare at a at a fire, our blood pressure goes down.
I don't mean a wildfire that's threatening your home. I mean a contained fire.
Our blood pressure drops, our muscles relax. All of this happens involuntarily.
Actually, it is. It actually is hypnotic. When you think about
the elements of hypnosis, right, you know, you think about the psychologists
holding like the watch swing back and forth, so a rhythmic movement that has
your full attention against a dark background, so all of your other thoughts kind
of push away. It is literally hypnotic, and it's just a it's a
beautiful thing. Fires have meant so much to us as human beings, and
I push my clients when we can. Please please don't purge firelight from your
home. We don't have to use it to heat the house or cook dinner,
but don't purge it from your home. You know, it's even goes
along with like real candle flames. And I know you got to be careful
with real candles and all that, but I have real candles in my home
and I have the fake candles, and there's just something about that flame.
There is. There is. It simply is tied into you know, the
back end of your brain. There is, and there's no faking it.
There's really no faking it. You can fake the crackle sound of a fireplace,
which I strongly recommend. By the way, for those of you who
have gas log sets, you have a relatively silent fire because you're not burning
real wood. I figured this out, believe me. We've been working on
it for years. But I'm satisfied now. I figured this out about the
three or four years ago. I found online and anybody can do this now
a little Bluetooth speaker, I mean a mini Bluetooth speaker. It's about we're
talking about the size of a jumbo marshmallow. In fact, I call ours
the little marshmallow. And you charge it up and you can set it not
in the fire please, but you can set it right at the corner of
the firebox. And you know what all you have to do then is pull
it up on your phone and stream to it one of those twenty four hour
live YouTube video fire videos and it and you'll get all the crackling and the
popping coming from your firebox and as you sit near it or across the room.
Boom there. It is one full experience. I love it, and
you know it is as you come up to the holiday season. They have
the yule log video that you were just talking about, and I was just
thinking about that the other day because I was like, I don't have a
fireplace in my apartment. I need something that looks like it. So I'm
going to be pulling that up. So say you have a fireplace, but
you're not a fireplace person, and real quick, because I know we're running
out of time, but say, if you have a fireplace and you don't
want to burn fire in it, what are some other things that you can
do real quick to make them part of your home? Well real quick.
You know, I treat fireplaces like I treat swimming pools. Even if you
love fires, you're not burning a fire in the most of the time.
So you got to look at your fireplace, no matter who you are,
as a visual feature and a treat in the room. So if you're not
going to burn fires in there, let's put plants inside it. Let's stack
books inside it. I've seen clients use their fireplace for terrariums as an aquarium.
One of the most creative things. Of course, you use the firebox
to slide an aquarium in there. They're gorgeous. You can do so many
creative things. A pet bed. If your pet is looking for a place
to hang out, why not set up the fireplace as their little indoor house.
There are a little alcove for him, or exactly exactly, there's one
hundred things you can do with a fireplace. Just don't neglect it because wherever
it is in your home, it's meant to be a feature that really means
something to the room, So take advantage of it. So I think that
we've come to the conclusion there is a place by a fireplace, and this
is one of the things you're going to be talking about this weekend on Home
with Dean, and that is happening on Saturday from six to eight am and
on Sunday from nine to noon. So we encourage you to give a listen
absolutely to thank Sharon. Could light up your life. No, all right,
thanks Dean. Thanks. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour news from President Biden and the First Lady
are headed to Lewiston, Maine to pay their respects to the families of the
eighteen people killed and those hurt by a mass shooter. The White House says
the bidens will grieve with families and community members, and the President will meet
with first responders, nurses, and others on the front lines of the response
to the shooting. ABC's Karen Travis says, according to the White House,
this type of trip by the President has become all too familiar. A State
Department of Justice report has found criminal charges are not appropriate for four Anaheim police
officers who killed a man holding a water bottle. The report found that bottle
was in a black bag, which caused police to yell gun as Brandon Lopez
exited a stolen car shortly after gas was deployed. A family member had also
told police during the hours long standoff in twenty twenty one that Lopez wanted cops
to kill him. Anaheim spokesman Mike Lister says, the report is confirmation that
our officers acted lawfully and with intent to protect themselves and the public. The
AG did recommend Anaheim PD review policies including use of force, de escalation,
and use of chemical agents in Anaheim. Corbin Carson Cass. The FDA has
proposed pulling its authorization for the nationwide use of brominated vegetable oil, or BVO,
as an additive in food. The decision comes after California banned the ingredient
last month by passing the California Food Safety Act. California was the first state
in the US to ban BVO. The additive is already banned in Europe and
Japan. Seventy four more Americans have crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says more US citizens will leave the Strip in
the coming days. Parents of elementary school students in Norwalk are pretty mad about
a man they say has been recording their kids as they leave campus for weeks.
The man's apparently been sitting in his parked SUV recording kids outside New River
Elementary School. Police say they can't prove he's committed a crime. Here's something
you don't see every day. A big lake is now covering part of the
driest and one of the hottest places on Earth. A salty lake, two
miles wide and four miles long has formed in Death Valley National Park. How
did it form? Remnants of Hurricane Hillary dumped two inches of rain on the
area in just twenty four hours and left behind a lake. Let's check in
now with our very own entertainment guru, ABC's Jason Nathanson. Good morning,
Jason, say, good morning. So Elvis is back in the building.
He is in this new biopic called Priscilla, which is based on the relationship
explosively, relationship between Priscilla and Elvis, which you know was partially in the
movie last year, Elvis, but really that was more about Elvis in his
journey. This is much more about Priscilla and her journey and their journey together,
and it paints a very different picture of this than last year's biopic,
which was kind of the hero version. Yeah, it was dark and you
know, showed some moartz, but it was mostly glowing. This one shows
Elvis as a manipulator, a gaslighter, an adulter or a pill pusher,
and a guy who got involved with Priscilla when she was fourteen and he was
twenty four, which definitely would not fly today. So it's interesting because Priscilla
at Presley is involved in this one. It's based on her memoir that she
wrote in nineteen eighty five and she's been out there talking about it, supporting
it, and she was also out there talking about and supporting last year's Elvis
as well, which again is a very different picture. So it'll be interesting
to see how this is received, especially by those who really liked last year's
film. This one shows a much darker version of him and their relationship.
So historically, which one was he? Was he the manipulative pill pusher that
she's described as in this movie. I mean, this is based on her
memoir, so and again she's involved in this and has been involved from the
beginning. So I think this is, you know, what she expect experienced,
and I think, you know, there can be several versions of a
person that people see, right, and this is the one that she experienced.
And the film makes it very clear that, you know, yeah,
their relationship was tender and nice at times, but it was also very very
rocky, and you know, ultimately they got divorced. Now, there was
an article yesterday in Variety where we got Lisa Marie Presley's thoughts on it.
She was very unhappy about the early version of the script that she had read
before she died. She, according to the article, sent an email to
director of Sophia Coppola and said that the film, or what she wrote or
what she read was shockingly ventral and contemptuous. She says her father only comes
across as a predator and manipulative, and if this film comes out, she's
going to be put in a terrible position of having to speak against it and
her own mother, because she knows her mother was supporting the film, but
she also feels that her mother was being taken advantage of as well, and
didn't really understand how a film like this could tarnish Elvis's image. So again,
well, it'll be interesting to see how this is received. For me,
I wish they would just let it go. You know. I thought
a little bit about that too going into it. I was not necessarily looking
for another Elvis film, especially after the overexposure I think last year. Yeah,
it was enough, you know, and I got it and done.
Okay. I'd love to see some stuff on some other artists, because I
do love the genre and I do love learning about music artists, but you
know, I was kind of done with Elvis, so going into this I
didn't necessarily I wasn't looking for it, but I did find it very interesting
also, interesting. By the way, the estate would not allow them to
use any Elvis music in this, which is again normally that's a death sentence
for me for any kind of biopick. There was a Jimmy Hendrix one a
couple of years ago which also was not allowed to use the music. And
you can't do a Jimmy Hendrix's biopick using Jimmy's music. I think that just
doesn't work. But because this is not about Elvis and his music making,
it's about their relationship. Yeah, it's fine, and I actually didn't notice
that there was no Elvis music in it. Okay, interesting, and I
mean I would be interesting to see more, but I just you know,
he was he was the king, and I just kind of feel like,
leave the king alone. That's what I said something. I think we need
to see the full view of every you know, there's no reason to build
up these celebrities if they're not who we think they are. Well, I
think most of the time they're not who we think they are, right,
So I want to be the real version. I want to know. I
want to know the truth, and you know, I don't want to build
anybody up just because you know, he swiveled his hips and sold a lot
of songs. If you know, if their relationship was weird, and apparently
it was, you know, I think it's worth knowing about. Okay,
so a little bit dark, but you like the movie, yes, overall,
did like the movie. Okay, great. There's an other show that's
starting streaming. It's called All the Light We Cannot See And it only has
my attention because my best friend read the book and she keeps telling me how
fabulous it is, and she's like, you got to read it, you
got to read it. I haven't, but I was like, oh,
well, now the show's out, so I can do it that way.
Yeah. Although At Light we Cannot See is on Netflix. I did not
get a chance to see it, but one of the reviews that I read
said, if you like the book, read the book, don't. The
mini series is fine, but really it's the book that that's much better.
This is a World War two set novel. You have Mark Ruffalo and Hugh
Laurie Starr. Oh and yeah, so you have a good cast there,
so you know you might want to check it out. Certainly, Netflix is
pushing this hard. They've been everywhere really selling this one. So I think
they think they have something prestige on their hands and it'll be you know,
we'll see how that shakes out. And a couple of big names in it.
So yeah, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction is tonight. Can
we watch it? Is it airing? You can? Well, for the
first time, you can actually watch it live, I think for the first
time ever. Usually they have the show and then they edit it down and
they put it on HBO a couple of weeks or a month or so later,
and you get to see the edited version, which is yeah, you
miss some stuff, but it's a much tighter thing. This is a four
or five hour show. I've covered these, you know, for many years,
and it is it is a long night and between the performances and everything,
you know, yeah, some good fun stuff happens. But also I
remember last year someone's lawyer went on for like forty five minutes giving a speech
and it was the one of the most boring things ever and we were all
like waiting for him to get off the stage because get to the music.
And so it'll be interesting to see how that's received by people as they have
to watch that full thing tonight. But also This is on Disney Plus,
which the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony is known for a lot of
cursing and blue stories, things that are not necessarily Disney friendly, so it'll
be interesting to see. I guess we're going to see all of that warts
and all, which is part of what makes it fun. And who are
some of the people coming in? Getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame is Cheryl Crow, George Michael Kate Bush, Willie Nelson, Rapper,
Missy Elliott, Rage Against the Machine, and the iconic R and B vocal
group the Spinners. Those are the performers getting in, and we'll see performances
from Cheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Elton, John Adam Levine and Sia and
more. All Right, there you go Disney Plus tonight. Jason Nathanson,
thank you so much for your time. Have a lovely weekend. You're very
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