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Yep, here I am. This is your wake up call for Friday,
January fifth. It's five o'clock, straight up. I'm Amy King.
Glad you've decided to start your day with us today. It's a short week.
We're already at the weekend. Isn't that fun? I think that we're
five days into the new year. The Christmas stick is gone. That was
my tree turned into a stick. It's time for Christmas to come down this
weekend. I gotta draw the line somewhere. As much as I love all
the Christmas decorations. Hey, did you catch the town hall on CNN last
night? It was Ronda Santis for like an hour, and then it was
Nikki Hayley for an hour. I thought it was really interesting because instead of
the candidates attacking each other, although they did, they really focused on the
questions that were being asked of them, so there was obviously no back and
forth. And I was thinking to myself you know what, this could be
a really good, interesting race for the Republican nomination if Donald Trump wasn't in
it. I mean, they're so far behind. Unless something really big happens,
do they even have a chance. We'll have to wait and see.
There's going to be an actual debate next Wednesday. It again will be on
CNN. And as I've told you before, I'm a junkie for these things.
I love watching them, so I'll be watching. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call. The Lieutenant governor of California has become the latest victim of
a swatting attack. Someone called nine to one to one last week to report
a fake emergency at her home in San Francisco. Elenie Cuna Lacus believes she
was targeted just days after trying to remove former President Trump from the March primary
ballot. He is going to be on the ballot. President Biden's going to
hold a campaign event today marking the third anniversary of the US capital attack.
The White House is Biden will argue that democracy is on the line in this
year's presidential election as he head towards a likely rematch with Donald Trump because of
California's high home prices, people are waiting longer than ever to buy a first
home. The average age for first time home buyers in the state is forty
nine. Home prices have doubled in the last ten years. Incomes are up
to fourteen percent. Forty four percent of Californians own their homes, compared to
fifty percent in the year two thousand. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news, a new year, a new high school shooting, better
than it could have been, but worse than what we first heard when it
happened yesterday afternoon. We'll give you the latest on that. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A foot of fresh snow has in the Sierra Nevada U see Berkeley Central Snow
Lab. Lead scientist, doctor Andrew Schwartz says more's coming. We are looking
at two upcoming storms, one in Saturday into Sunday and one next week around
Wednesday. That should bring some more snowfall, but it looks like they're going
to be cold storms and that that snowfall is going to be relatively dry.
The snowpack is at thirty eight percent of normal for this time of year compared
to last year, when the snowpack was at about one hundred and eighty five
percent. Last year was a bit of the anomaly you know who. He
don't expect massive snowfalls of sixty three feet every year. Schwartz says, We're
going to need to see more snow in the next four to six weeks to
have a decent water year. A father of four remains in the ICU after
being shot in a road raided shooting on the five Freeway in Santa Fe Springs.
Family members say the man honked and exchanged words with someone who had swerved
into his lane in Norwalk. The other driver apparently followed the man, his
wife, daughter, and niece, then fired two shots into the car.
No arrests have been made. The LAPD says it's looking for a homeless man
who shot and killed a poppy in front of its owner in downtown, LA.
Investigator say on the morning of January tewod David Sumlin was having an argument
with the dog's owner. During the exchange, someone held a pillow over the
four month old puppy and pointed a gun into the pillow, then told the
owner it's either you or the dog. Moments later, someone shot two rounds
into the pillow. Someone took off, but officers say he hangs around the
area of Seventh Street in Stanford Avenue in downtown LA. He's black with black
hair, brown eyes, six foot seven and weighs two hundred pounds. Steve
Gregory Kafine News. Previously sealed court documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
are continuing to be released. The first batch of forty documents was released Wednesday,
revealing the names of powerful people associated with Epstein. Yesterday's nineteen detailed how
underaged girls were recruited to his home in Florida. Two hundred and fifty documents
are expected to be unsealed. Epstein killed himself in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial
on sex track ficking charges. Paralympic gold medalists Oscar Pistorius has been released from
prison in South Africa. Vistorius will now be on parole. He'd been in
prison since late twenty fourteen for shooting and killing his girlfriend, Reva Steinkamp on
February fourteenth, twenty thirteen. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller
in Jerusalem. Good morning, Jordana. We talked yesterday that some troops were
being pulled out, which could signal a shift in focus in the war against
Hamas, and now Israel's Defense minister has shared some details of that shift.
So what did we find out? That's right, He essentially put out a
document sending some details to what he called stage three, in stage four of
the war. And in stage three he talks about how in the northern Gaza
strip where we've seen thousands of troops coming out of there, pulling them out,
sending out the forces that in that area now there will be targeted rates,
special ops and lower level you know, we should say military operations instead
of the massive air assaults that we've seen and the intensity of tanks and troops.
This is going to be in northern Gaza. Vis is going to operate
in targeted rates against what's left of Kamas. Having said that, in the
south, he said that the fighting will still remain very intense and there hasn't
been a change there. But it took a little more than two months for
Israel to crack through and break much of Hamasa's lines and military infrastructure in the
north, and they have just started the campaign in the South, so it
appears that you know, Israel would likely transition him south as well to this
lower intensity war, but just not right now. It may take another six
or eight weeks. Okay, So Sunday marks three months since the war started.
Tell us more about some of the other progress that has been made.
Well, you know, we did in three months there were you know,
dozens over one hundred hostages who came out of the Gozla strip. That was
some some of the good news over the three months. But you know there's
still one hundred and thirty two hostages. There were three Israelis that were designed
as missing and they are now considered hostages after a lot of different forensic analysis,
et cetera, et cetera. So you know, there's still many are
hoping after this three month mark that talks for a hostage deal and the seafire
will come, you know, the parties will come back to the table.
The assassination blamed on Israel as that a top of a month's leader has kind
of put those talks on hold. But we do anticipate the cectery of State
Anthony Blincoln's visit next week. One of the things you will focus on is
getting those hostage deal talks back on track, as well as trying to boost
humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. And in that capacity, we may see
Israel open the Aras crossing. That's a northern a crossing in the north of
Gaza, a crossing that was damaged on October seventh, but it is a
direct entry into the northern Gaza strip, and we may see that open and
see trucks and aid go straight into Gaza that way, which would really help
because still even with two crossings open, the Caram Shalom and the Rafa,
only about two hundred trucks are getting in. So maybe this would increase it
to three hundred left, you know, maybe some of the better news we'll
see after this three month mark. It is three hundred trucks a day about
what was getting in before the war started and that supply chain was cut off.
It's still less than was what was getting in the war before the war.
About four hundred trucks we're getting in a day. You know, the
Gaza Strip doesn't have an economy that really functions, so almost two thirds of
gousens were dependent on some kind of UN aid. That's why we've seen,
you know, quite rapidly just but you know, with the war and the
displacement, you know that people are you know, in a situation where they
can't get enough food, et cetera, as they were already not in a
position to be self proficient. So you know, this is for gozens.
You know, this war has been an absolute nightmare. Unless be on the
second passport, you can't get out. And no safe is no place is
really safe. Even though these Raeliers are trying to designate areas, we hear
from people on the ground that they're still bombing campaigns, you know, so
you know, as soon as you know, the war gets pulled back into
the second phase. I mean, one of the major assumptions is that it
will be a safer place for civilians, if not safe, but safer than
when there's a full force ground you know, incursion. Now Jordan, I
don't know if you have the answer to this, but you were talking about
how there really isn't a self sustaining economy in the Gaza strip and they millions
of Palestinians rely on UNAID just for their survival. Has there been any talk
about once the war is over and the Palestinians take control of it without Hamas
about changing that so the Gaza Strip could become more self sufficient or is that
too early to even start talking about. Well, I'm sure that that will
be, you know, on the list of hopes and goals for the Gaza
Strip. I mean, when you think about how many billions, not even
millions, billions of dollars was able to siphon off of all the international help
that came to the Gaza Strip and instead of that money going in to build
you know, institutions for governance and a viable economy that went to build you
know, tunnels and safe houses and weapon factories. You know, one would
hope that after this war, the Palestinians that take over and are running the
Gaza Strip will finally start to build a thriving economy in the Gadza Strip.
I mean, it is possible, all right. And then I have one
other, just sort of random question, because I know that we just celebrated
New Years and I'm sure that New Year's Eve in Israel was different than any
other year. So what was the kind of feeling as they entered the new
year? Did people celebrate or was it just complete? Was everybody really subdued
because what's going on. I'm just wondering what the feeling is inside Israel.
I think New Year's Eve was certainly dimmed by what's happening. And you know,
right as we hit you know, midnight and the New Year began,
Hamas fired about thirty rockets on Israel from the south all the way to Tel
Aviv's. The sirens were going off. Obviously Hamas linding Israel in the world,
but it still has some long range missile capabilities and that it is still
putting up a fight in the Gossleel Strip. So I don't know, you
know, how much time there was to you know, it wasn't much of
a respite the celebrations. In general, the mood here has been heavy ever
since October seventh, and even three months out, there's still a lot of
trauma here and a lot of anxiety and a lot of fear, and still
worries about what might happen in the North. Is you know, is this
the break between the wars? Is there going to be a front in the
North that will open up in the coming month, you know, And a
lot of even though they've pulled out thousands of troops. There's still you know,
a lot of they called it three hundred and thirty thousand troops for this
war, so there's still there's you know, close to two hundred thousand troops
and people who are just entering the army in training. So everybody knows somebody
that it still feels like we're in you know, war mode. Yeah,
all right, Jerdana Miller, thank you so much for the information, and
we will look forward to following closely with you to find out the latest.
Take care. Yeah, thanks, good to join you. Bye. All
right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. And La Metro bus driver has been brutally attacked at
a bus station in downtown Burbank. The attack left the bus driver in the
ICU, but he is now recovering at home. This metro driver says he
personally has been attacked on the job more than ten times, all people through
half coffee, of my face, speak on my face, point through my
face. Well, Leisa. The driver was inspect a bus when he was
attacked. A thirty two year old homeless man has been arrested in connection with
the attack, which happened the day after Christmas, but wasn't announced by Burbank
police until yesterday. One student has been killed five others hurt in a shooting
at a high school in Iowa. One student says he saw the shooter in
the bathroom yesterday right before the shooting, which was traumatizing because honestly, he
could have just killed me then and there, and I wouldn't be here.
I know, WILLI say. The seventeen year old shooter killed a sixth grader
who was on campus for a school breakfast program. They say he killed himself
after shooting five others, including the school principal. Officers also found an improvised
explosive device on campus. The US says an unarmed and unmanned surface vessel launched
by Hoothy Rebels got within a couple miles of US Navy and commercial ships in
the Red Sea before it detonated. The launch came just hours after the White
House issued a joint and final warning yesterday. The statement ordered the group to
stop attacks or face possible military action, and a mom in San on one.
Campistrano is given more than two hundred e bike riders free safety lessons as
popularity in the bikes and also hospital visits grow if we don't talk about it,
like kids are going to get hurt. Ey bike lady Jennifer Robbin says
she started giving people who hit her up on Facebook the one hour course two
years ago. E bike writers in general are going from sidewalk to street,
to a crosswalk, and then back into a traffic turn lane, all within
thirty seconds, and that makes them really unpredictable to traffic around them, and
that's how accidents are happening. Robin says she loves the freedom her own kids
get from e bikes, but teaching teens not to do wheelies in traffic or
anything else the car does not do, could save lives. In Orange County,
Corbin Carson k if I need La County public health officials are urging residents
to get tested if they have COVID nineteen symptoms as transmission levels continue to increase.
Officials say free at home COVID nineteen tests remain readily readily available throughout the
county at food banks, senior centers, and pharmacies, and by mail from
the federal government. Former President Trump will spend the third anniversary of the Capitol
Riot at two campaign rallies in Iowa's he continues his bid to win back the
White House. President Biden meantime, will be in Pennsylvania today near Valley Forge
and will highlight Trump's role in the January sixth riot that supporters say we'll give
him a chance to lay out the stakes of this year's election. Forty stolen
iPhones have been found dumped near a freeway off ramp in East LA. A
CHP officer found the pile of phones yesterday. Investigators say several of the phones
belong to people who attended the recent countdown to New Year's Invasion event in San
Bernardino. Some people have already been able to get their phones back from the
CHP. At six oh five, It's handle on the news new plans for
a Disney style monorail through the Supulvida Pass, but even efforts to talk about
it got derailed. We'll tell you about that. Let's continue our conversation now
with CNN's Hero of the Year, doctor Kwan Stewart. Yesterday we told you
how doctor Stewart where started his mission to provide veterinary services to homeless pets.
He travels around to areas with his bag full of medical supplies and heads out
to impoverished areas mostly around southern California, including skid Row, treating hundreds and
hundreds of pets. The program started twelve years ago and has expanded to six
cities and now, along with Project Street Vet, doctor Stewart has launched a
new program. It's a food pantry for dogs. Yeah, I know that
was That was an idea I've been sitting on for a while, and through
the years of doing this one thing, I realized that, yeah, I'm
giving free medical care, but I'm sort of neglecting the nutrition side. And
as we know more than ever, nutrition is important for total health. It's
an important component for total health. And I will tell people that just to
dispel this myth, these dogs are, for the most part, very well
cared for. It's rare that I come across a skinny, moulnurished dog,
a sickly dog. I see a lot of the same conditions I see in
clinic in hospital. It's a lot of skin issues, ear infections, flea
and tick. That's what California is known for. And it's the same out
in the streets. But you know, these owners will sacrifice their own meal
for their dogs. So it's all that they have for a lot of them
in my bad, it's it's their family, mem Yeah, and they they
do everything they can to keep their dog and as good health as they can.
And so but having said that, they still, you know, they
struggle to get you know, things like food for their dog. A lot
of good Smaritans will drop off a bag and they see someone on a corner
with a dog. There are other services will come through the town the city
and offload you know, dog food from a flatbed truck. But it's tap
hazard, it's not consistent. I said, these dogs ultimately need they need
consistent nutrition. So what can I do? So I just came up with
this idea. I'm going to put a shed. It's basically just a closet.
It's a it's a it's a dog food shed and any one living in
that area on how it can come by any time. It's on the honor
system and the food is free. They just open it up and take what
they need. That's amazing, so important to take care of the babies,
the little fur babies. So then tell us, doctor Stewart, how'd you
get see Ann's attention? I guess just doing the work over the years,
I got nominated. And that's how it works. If anybody can nominate anybody
for doing this. So if you know of somebody out there doing good in
the world, you can nominate them for scene it in Hero. And apparently
they're over. I was told here at the end they're over ten thousand nominations
and they whittle it down. They just narrowed the field, you know,
more and more of the course of six or eight months, and there was
a very intense vetting process along with it. But I find myself in the
top thirty, and then in the top thirty you can actually call yourself a
scene in Hero and you can put it on your resume, and then the
top thirty go to ten and then they crown the Hero of the year.
And somehow I was able to beat up topee off the field and win it
all. But I think this is probably one of the reasons, doctor Stewart,
after you got word that you had won, you immediately moved forward and
said, I want to split this prize. See you got me all choked
up, doctor Stewart. I mean, like, that's so big of you,
because how big is It's like one hundred thousand dollars, right, yeah,
I had. The winner got one hundred thousand for their mission. And
what Doctor Stewart did as he immediately said, I want to split this between
all of the top ten finalists. I did. Yeah, that's a time.
It felt right in the moment. What people should know is prior to
the gala, a few days leading up to the gala, I was hanging
out the other nine on our ease, and we really got to know each
other and our missions, our sacrifices to the years. I thought about my
own, you know, ten twelve year journey and some of them of fifteen
twenty years of doing what they've been doing and reaching into their own pocket,
and I just I was, I was honored to know them. And in
that moment, I just, you know, I've gotten here in part because
I've been willing to share, and I thought so have they, and we
should all celebrate together. And I wouldn't change it. I think that's just
a testament to you. So, Doctor Stewart, what's next? More of
this? I guess I funny part of the early early story when I,
you know, after the day I found that man outside of seven eleven,
I started doing the work very quietly, and by quietly I almost mean secretly.
I didn't tell anybody for six years what I was doing. I would
evenings or occasional weekends, and I had true time. I would just go
out and search these people and find their pets, treat their pets. It
was just a way for me to heal. Going back to the shelter days,
I didn't want to. It wasn't really anything I wanted to talk about
or share. I didn't want to be judged myself. I didn't want to
be in a group of people and have someone say, why are you helping
them? They don't deserve help. I didn't want to hear it. I
just wanted to go out and do it. So that was the first six
years of the Little Adventure, and then it started to gain attention in favor
and I just never dreamed it would be me walking sort of in the shadows
find these people. To now we're in six cities. We just launched in
New York City, and so the plan is just to keep moving on,
to move on to the next big city, the next big city, and
I think if I can get into twelve to fifteen of the largest cities in
the country. I will cover a good seventy five percent of our homeless population
and their pets. That's amazing. And doctor Stewart, you can't do it
on your own, So how can people donate? They can go to Projects
Treatment dot org and our website shares all the information they would need and stories
and content and updates and a way to volunteer. And you know, I'll
just tell people sometimes it's messages of support to myself and my team. I
volunteer my time to do the work I still to this day. My veterinarians,
my technicians, my assistants who come on board, who volunteer across the
country, who reach out to me, they give their time freely and willingly.
And yeah, just the comments, the warm comments we get on Instagram
or on the website, those two are nice. There you have at Cann's
Hero of the Year, and after just a short conversation with you, we
can certainly see why I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Oh,
thank you, doctor Kwon Stewart out of San Diego. Wow, that's impressive.
Projectstreet vet dot org is how you can help by donating money or find
out how you could volunteer to help with Project Street Vet. Now, if
you want to hear the complete interview, because we played half of it yesterday,
half of it today, you can hear the whole thing on the wake
Upcall page at KFI AM six forty dot com. Makes you feel really inadequate,
doesn't it. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Now, let's hear from Chris Adler.
It's finally her turn. Looters have been taking items from a home in Boil
Heights that caught fire and killed two people. Video shows several people walking into
the burned home and coming out with bags and boxes. This neighbor says the
woman who died in the fire had lived in the home for sixty years and
says she was lovely. In fact, they just brought me to Molly's for
the holidays the weekend before this happened. She says, it's devastating to see
the family lose two family members and their home to the fire that broke out
just days after Christmas, and then the looting. LA City Fire says the
investigation is still ongoing, but there was no sign of smoke detectors in the
home. Chris Adler KFI News, the mayor of New York City, has
filed a lawsuit against seventeen charter companies that have busted migrants into the city.
The seat suit seeks more than seven hundred million dollars to cover the cost of
caring for the migrants who were sent to New York from Texas in the last
twenty months. This comes a week after Mayor Eric Adams issued an emergency order
restricting migrant bus arrivals. It stopped pretty hard. Everybody jumped up trying to
look around, se who was going on our train? Like kind of filtered
to the side, and then everyone side a panicky. At least two dozen
people have minor injuries following a subway crash in New York City. Officials say
a work crew was moving a disabled train that had been vandalized yesterday when it
got bumped by another train. They say fortunately it was a low impact collision.
About three hundred riders had to be evacuated from the trains. Tesla has
added more than one point six million cars to its recall list. Model S
X three and y electric vehicles exported to China have been recalled to fix problems
with their automatic assisted steering functions and door latch controls. China's State Administration for
Market Regulations as Tesla motors in Beijing and Shanghai, would use remote upgrades to
fix the problems. The recall follows one in the US from last month of
more than two million Tesla evs. The Lieutenant governor of California has become the
latest victim of a swatting attack. Someone called nine one to one last week
to report a fake emergency at her home in San Francisco. Of course,
a big police presence turned out. Ellenie Kunlakis believes that she was targeted just
days after trying to remove former President Trump from the March primary ballot. He
will be on the ballot in California. And evacuation order has been issued for
a South Korean island after North Korea fired more than two hundred rounds of artillery
shells off the island's coast, about five hundred forty miles west of Soul.
South Korea's Joint chiefs of Staff said the shelling this morning didn't do any damage,
but it threatens peace on the Korean peninsula and raises tensions. Because of
California's high home prices, people are waiting longer than ever to buy a first
house. The average age for first time home buyers in the state is forty
nine. Home prices have doubled in the last ten years, incomes are up
just fourteen percent. Forty four percent of Californians owned their homes, compared to
fifty percent in the year two thousand. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. Verizon customers may be getting some cash thanks to a class
action lawsuit. We'll tell you what it is and who could benefit. At
five point fifty, we'll be checking in with ABC's Jason Nathanson. New Year,
New Movies, Old awards show with maybe a new look. Right now,
let's say good morning to the house whisperer Dean Sharp. Good morning,
and happy news, New year, Dean, Happy new Year to you.
Amy. So you just heard me say that people are waiting longer than ever
to buy homes. The average first time home buyer is forty nine in California.
Isn't that crazy? It is crazy, but you know it's understandable.
The economy is not in bad shape, but home prices in California are just
so high. It takes so much to get started and to get into it.
It's kind of it's kind of understandable. Yeah, and once you do
find one of those homes and you buy it, you're going to buy one
of four types of homes. Well, now, yes you are. Yeah,
you know, most people think there are hundreds of architectural styles. There
are thousands of variations on those style, tens of thousands of details. But
in the end, there are really only four kinds of houses out there.
If you go down any neighborhood in any town in America, three of them
are going to be competing for your attention. The fourth will not. And
this is how it kind of works out. This is my list. By
the way, this is an exclusive house whisper perspective on home Sean Sharp exclusive.
Yes, I can't wait. The three houses that when you drive down
through any neighborhood and this will resonate with you, that are going to get
your attention are thus the house of neglect. This is the house that you
know it well. The pain is peeling, the lawns overgrown, right,
wood is starting to fall off. There may be missing tiles from the roof.
You don't really expect to see a car in the driveway. But you
do, and then you think, wow, for all practical purposes, even
though it's being lived in, this house has been abandoned, and if somebody
doesn't intervene, it's probably not going to survive the sale or the transfer of
ownership. It just is falling apart too fast. I always get sad when
I see those, because you like, go you can tell, like on
a lot of houses, you go, oh, the bones of that house
are good, but it just needs a little TLC. Yeah, exactly.
And the truth of the matter is it's really hard to destroy a house.
It really is a difficult thing. But if you let it go long enough,
it's not about the fact that it is destroyed. It's about the idea
that now the cost for repairing it might overwhelm the justification for putting the money
in. So okay, that's the house of neglect, right, This is
the funnest one, the house of bad ideas. Okay, okay, this
is a house that's going to grab your attention. You've seen them, you've
driven past them, you've stared at them. It's not suffering from neglect,
although you kind of wish it was. Because the owners are putting a lot
of passion into it, but in all the wrong ways. The color is
weird. There's maybe some Greek statue. I have one right around the corner
from me. There are Greek statues, columns. It's a thirteen hundred square
foot house, okay, but they've gotten overblown it into some Greek temple.
There's a fountain so big in the front yard of this house around the corner
from me that you can't even see the front door. So the idea is
this, now, Believe me, I do custom homes for a living,
that's all we do. And I am all about letting your freak flag fly
right. I want this house to really reflect you. But there are rules.
There are some basic rules that everybody should follow in order to get your
design really firing on all pistons, like rules of scale, maybe exactly.
So these are the houses in which the owners, for what reason or another,
have broken the rules, ignored the rules, and it has not turned
out well for them. So that's the house of bad ideas, okay.
And those are things that could be fixed, maybe with you know, a
little reevaluation, like instead of having the ginormous fountain, maybe scale it down.
A little bit. Absolutely. This is a house that's suffering from what
I call post traumatic design disorder. All right, all right, and then
I'm smiling. Now, yeah, house that makes you smile, the best
one of all, the house that makes you smile. This is the house
on your street that gets your attention for all the right reasons. It's not
just well cared for, but it's lovely. Right. It doesn't have to
be grand, doesn't have to be onspiring, but there's something special about it,
a little bit of romance to it. It makes you want to see
more. You've thought about this house, You've thought the question like, I
wonder what it looks like on the inside. I wonder how they're living in
there. It's the kind of house that just makes you smile every time you
see it, because it is done right. I like those houses. These
are the three houses that get your attention when you drive down the street.
Now, what about all the others. That's the fourth style that you don't
really notice, and that is a filler house. The fourth kind of house,
especially in southern California, in the land of tracked home developments, is
the most common. It's the one that most likely you and our listeners,
and it's that we all live in Okay. There are ten of millions of
these houses. There's nothing special about them. There's nothing especially bad, nothing
especially good, nothing revolting, nothing particularly inspiring. They just sort of fill
the spaces in between the attention getters. And I would say that if you
give a house a personality and emotions, this is the house that really truly
suffers from longing because it's so close, it's so close to being something extraordinary,
it would take so little to push it over the line, and yet
there it sits. So maybe it's also the house with the greatest potential.
Right absolutely. Now, I would say that all of these houses have great
potential, but this is the one that has the greatest potential in the least
number of moves. And since most of our listeners live there, that's what
we want to inspire them toward in twenty twenty four. So we're going to
be rounding up every homeowner to give them help, insight, and hope for
this new year. We'll talk on Saturday and Sunday about each of these homes
in death, and we're going to offer a path forward. I love that
and I know that now I'm going to be walking around my neighborhood going,
well, that's a filler house. Well, that's a house of bad ideas,
that's a house of neglect, because once you kind of get it on
your radar, you start noticing it exactly. All right, Dean Sharp,
thank you so much, and happy New Year. We look forward to finding
out so many fun things about homes this year. Thanks Amy, take care.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. And assemblyment has introduced a bill to have California pump the
brakes on giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants. More than seven hundred thousand immigrants
became eligible for free healthcare on the first Assemblyman bill. A. Saley says,
one of his concerns is that offering free healthcare will entice immigrants to flock
to California. We cannot create an incentive structure that rewards illegal immigration, Sale
says. With the state facing a sixty eight billion dollar budget deficit, it's
unconscionable the state would spend money on immigrants before taking care of its own people.
Governor knew some set earlier this week. The state can afford the benefits.
Blake Trolley kaf I News, a former Capitol police officer who defended the
US capital from a mob on January sixth, says he's running for office.
Harry Dunn has kicked off his campaign in Maryland's third congressional district on the eve
of the anniversary of the January sixth attack. He says, it's clear how
much of a threat the extinction of our democracy is. Dunn has spent years
sharing a story of January sixth, when he was attacked by the mob,
which also yelled racial slurs at him. A new law in California has opened
up telehealth options for pets. The law, which went into effect Tuesday,
lets pet owners meet with vets virtually to talk about symptoms the pet may have
and different treatments in certain situations. It allows vets to prescribe medications via video
chat without having to do full in person exams. LA County public health officials
are urging residents to get tested if they have COVID nineteen symptoms as transmission levels
continue to go up. Officials say free at home COVID nineteen tests are still
readily available throughout the county at food banks, senior centers and pharmacies and by
mail from the federal government. Israel's Defense Minister has outlined proposals for the future
governance of Gaza. He says Hamas will no longer run the territory and that
the Palestinians will be in charge, with the condition that there will be no
hostile actions or threats against the State of Israel. Disneyland's Magic Key annual passes
are going back on sale next week. The theme park offers four different tiers.
Each key gives guests access on select dates, along with different discounts on
food and pictures, and merchandise and parking. All of the passes also offer
up to twenty percent or not up to but twenty percent off Genie Plus that's
the one you pay extra and get to skip the lines. I love the
Genie Plus. We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning.
It's been years in the making, but a suicide prevention net is finally up
under the Golden State or a Golden gate bridge. Right now, Let's say
good morning to ABC's entertainment guru Jason Nathanson. Happy New Year, Jason,
Hey, Happy New Year. The first Big Awards show is upon us.
It is the Golden Globes on Sunday Night, and it'll be interesting to see
kind of what happens because it's a new it's a new era for the Golden
Globes. First of all, it'll be on CBS. Normally on NBC,
which you know, we had Ricky Travais and tinaf and Amy Polar hosting in
the past. This year we have Joe Coy, comedian, funny guy.
We'll see how this is his first gig hosting an awards show, so we'll
see how he does. And he was kind of picked at the last minute
too, wasn't it, because like nobody wanted to do it. Well,
it was that, but they were also very late in getting in and getting
a deal with CBS and everything, and nobody really knew what was happening because
remember the Hollywood Foreign Press Association actually, which was the group that put on
the Golden Globes for years vote that was their show. They disbanded last year
because of scandal and financial irregularities and all this stuff. Dick Clark Productions bought
the show, took it over, and some people we weren't sure if there
would actually be a Golden Globes if they would continue, But so now they
are. The HFPA is gone. There are about fifty holdover voting members from
the HFPA that are voting on this show, but another two hundred and fifty
that they've added in journalists from all over the world who write about entertainment in
Hollywood. And of course it's much more equitable because one of the things that
was a problem with the Foreign Press Association says that there are always a bunch
of white people. Yeah. Well yeah. It was revealed in this La
Times article from a couple of years ago that got the sole scandal ball rolling.
One of the things that they had no black members, and of the
eighty or so members who were voting, a lot of them didn't actually do
anything anymore. They just had these kind of emeritus positions where they were just
voting on this stuff and they weren't writing articles or really doing interviews. So
these are now three hundred working journalists from all over the world, and we
don't know their tastes, we don't know how they're necessary going to vote.
The Golden Globes were always good for throwing a surprise in here or there,
because it was so the voting body was so eclectic, so we'll see if
there are any surprises this year. One of the new things to kind of
watch out for there is a new category called Cinematic in Box Office Achievement,
and this was meant to nominate the films that made a lot of money at
the box office but didn't necessarily get the awards attention. But the funny thing
is they brought this in in a year where Barbie and Oppenheimer are two of
the highest grossing films of last year. Yeah, and they're the two highest
the two films with the most nominations already. So for like in another year,
maybe like Star Wars, which nominated for something like this because it was
a blockbuster, but didn't get any nominations for acting or anything. Right,
So in this category you also have John Wick Chapter four, Mission Impossible,
Dead Reckoning Part One. Those are films that probably wouldn't have gotten nominations.
But then you also have, and this is a very Golden Globes, an
old Golden Globes thing, you have Taylor Swift Aristour Movie nominated as well,
which sure did well at the box office, but that means Taylor Swift is
going to be there on Sunday, and that's good for ratings and that's good
for eyeballs. The Golden Globes is always good about nominating things to get the
big stars there. Okay, hold on, does that mean she's not going
to be at the Chargers game on Sunday because they're playing Kansas City on Sunday,
So that's a good question. We've been told that Travis Kelcey will not
be at the Golden Globes with her on the red carpet. There's a thought
that he would play at the game and then maybe scoot over to Beverly Hills
to be at the show with her, but we're told that that's not going
to happen and he's going to go back with the team that night. Could
she be at the game? It's possible. All of it's happening in Los
Angeles, and she can certainly get around the city easier than a lot of
people, so she could possibly do both. I mean, the show doesn't
start until five what times, I think it's in one occun day one kickoff.
Yeah, so you know it's possible. But then also to get for
an award show takes a lot of time and you know, a couple hours
of makeup and clam and things like that. So we'll have to just wait
and see. Okay, before we let you go, we do have a
couple of new movies coming out. We've got Good Grief. Is this a
Charlie Brown movie? It is not a Charlie Brown movie. This is quite
the opposite of a Charlie Brown movie. This is from Dan Levy, the
guy who behind s Creek. I don't know if I can say the whole
title or not. Okay, fine, but you know some stations it depends.
But and so this is his feature directorial debut. He stars as a
guy who loses his husband right at the top. You know, no spoilers
there. We know that, and then he's got to deal with the grief
of that, and this is about how he deals with that and his friends.
It's kind of a comedy because you know, he does he does do
comedy stuff, but it's it's mostly drama. And it's okay, you know,
it's you know, it's on Netflix, so oh okay, so it's
streaming. It's streaming, so you don't have to spend money to go out
and see it. So and what about Anatomy of a Fall. Let's another
one that is in theaters, but it's also you can rent it. You
can buy for digital rental. This is when getting a bunch of awards attention.
It has a bunch of nominations at the Golden Globes on Sunday because it
is a very international film. It's about a woman whose husband dies. This
is a theme now we have really depressing me. We have dead husbands is
the theme this week. But this is about he dies tragically and they have
to kind of figure out was it murder or was it something else? And
everybody's kind of a suspect. And it turns into a very psychological drama that's
big on talking. And it's nominated for Golden Globes and I've never heard of
it before today. Yes, it's nominated for four for Best Picture, Best
Director, Actress, and Screenplay. I believe. Okay, weish and it'll
get more awards attention as time goes on. Yeah, all right, Jason
Nathanson, thank you so much. Appreciate it. All right, take it
all right, talk to you soon. Let's go back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A sixth grader on
campus for a breakfast program, has been killed in a shooting at a high
school in Iowa. The lyse five others were also hurt yesterday, including four
students and the school principal. They say the shooter was a seventeen year old
student who killed himself at the campus. They say an improvised explosive device was
also found. A lawsuit alleges California Attorney General Rob Bonta used his official role
to insert personal bias into a transgender notification policy ballot measure. The policy,
first adopted by school districts in southern California, was called Protect Kids of California
Act, but the AG changed it to restricts rights of transgender youth. Mister
bonto wants teachers and schools to socially transition children behind their parents' backs. Protect
Kids California's Aaron Friday says, despite those views, Bonta's legally required to be
fair. Mister Bonta's title and summary is prejudicial, partial, and inaccurate.
The AG's office says it can't comment on a particular ballot measure. Corbin Carson
k if I News and one final note the twenty twenty four Minnesota Ice Festival
has been canceled. It was supposed to run from today to February eleventh at
Vikings Lake in Egan, Minnesota. It would have included the world's largest ice
maize structures and sculptures, but it was canceled this year because of warm weather.
They didn't think it would be safe to have all that. Ice Festival
plans to return next year. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County, live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy
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