You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app k f I and KOST HD two Los Angeles and
Orange County. And you haste Amy. Okay, it's five o'clock. Good
morning. This is your wake up call for Tuesday, November twenty, first
two days to Thanksgiving. I think today is supposed to be the busiest travel
day of the years. People are leaving early, hitting the road, and
of course Triple A has been saying they're expecting record travel. But you know
what I noticed, You know when the ten is now open again, thank
goodness, the downtown, but it was closed for eight days and so you
know, they were encouraged people to take public transit or work from home.
And I will tell you that when I leave the station, I usually hit
traffic on the five, which is between eleven and twelve thirty. When I
head home, I usually hit traffic. But last week there was like no
traffic as a headed tourd down to town. So people were heating the warning.
And then yesterday the freeways open and guess what, back to the traffic.
So we got to do something really fun yesterday. You know, that
we're doing Pastathon at the Anaheim White House next Tuesday. I'm giving Tuesday,
the twenty eighth, So we went down there to talk to Chef Bruno and
some of the people involved, because you know, the whole station is involved.
We're going to be broadcasting live at the Anaheim white House all day starting
at five am on Tuesday. I hope you'll join us for that. But
we went down there and Chef Bruno was doing something yesterday. It's called snow
Day, such a cool thing. So it's eighty degrees out and Bruno trucked
in snow into the back parking lot and he brings some of the kids from
the boys and Girls clubs that he feeds every day for a party. So
they got a meal at the white House. I mean, like oh,
and it was a nice meal because I tasted just a little of the pasta,
but they had like full Thanksgiving meal. And then the kids had bounce
houses and they got to play and they got to go sledding, and it
was so cool because, like I said, it was eighty degrees and there's
snow, and Bruno was telling us that some of these kids have never seen
snow like in real life. You know, seen it on TV, so
it was really cool and it's just one of the many really great things that
Chef Bruno does as he manages to feed twenty five thousand children a week with
Katerina's Club, So very cool experience. We hope that you will join us
for pasta than we'll tell you more about that in just a little while.
And again, it's going to be a big day, but we couldn't do
it without you, so do join us. Here's what's ahead on wake up
call. Strong sant Ana wins expected to blow through southern California through midday.
GUS between forty five and sixty five miles per hour expected in Mountain Valley and
coastal areas. Augusta in the Santa Clarita Valley yesterday was clocked at one hundred
and thirty miles per hour. The head of hamasa's political bureaus is the two
the group is nearing what it's calling a truce. The response delivered to officials
in Qatar who've been mediating for the release of hostages between Israel and the United
States. Any possible deal is expected to include the exchange of hostages for Palestinians
held in Israeli prisons. Some environmentalists are fighting efforts to plant thousands of sequoia
seedlings in areas burned by wildfire in National parkland in the southern Sierra Nevada.
No wahi would that do that well? They filed the lawsuit, saying that
the replanting would be done in designated wilderness areas where human intervention is banned.
They also say the groves of sequoias destroyed in the fire can regenerate on their
own. At six oh five, it's handle on the news a surprise visit
to Quisve from the US Secretary of Defense. Why he'd go there and what
Ukraine gets out of it. Let's get started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. We're just getting warned that two
LAPED officers have been hit by a vehicle on the northbound fifty seven freeway in
Fullerton. Both were taken to hospitals. We'll get more details to you as
more comes in. Massive excavators and water trucks have begun deconstructing a seventeen story
tall World War two blimp Hager in Testin that was destroyed by five This is
going to be sort of longer process than I think a lot of folks expect.
Tustin Mayor Austin Lombard says the first step is clearing debris from office complexes
that line the hangar, then deconstructing the huge hangar doors. We're going to
take them apart, piece by piece, so you're not going to see a
sort of wrecking ball out there knocking these things down. But the massive stone
pillars could remains a sentiment among the community of trying to keep some sort of
monument to the hangar. We thought the concrete pillars could be a nice touch,
he says. The water trucks are meant to keep the asbestos out of
the air. The fire started two weeks ago in Orange County. Corbin car
and kf I News. White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby says the administration
is working hour by hour on a deal to free hostages held by Hamas and
Gaza. We believe we're closer than we've ever been, so we're hopeful,
but there's still work to be done, and nothing is done until it's all
done, so we're going to keep working on this. He wouldn't give details
about negotiations. He said, the less the better. Two Israeli sources have
said a deal could be announced as early as today. The UC system is
dedicated seven million dollars to combat extremism on its campuses. It says the intent
is to fight what it calls the alarming acts of bigotry, intolerance, intimidation,
including anti Semitism and Islamophobia. The money will go toward emergency mental health
resources for students and staff, educational programs, and faculty training with an emphasis
on academic freedom, diversity, and equity. Now, ABC's Mike Debuski,
Mike sam Altman was fired from Open Air on Friday. The CEO immediately quit,
and now there could be a mass exodus. Yeah, it seems that
way. So at last count, more than seven hundred of open AI's employees
have now signed onto this letter threatening to resign if the board of that company
does not itself resign, so essentially saying we're going to quit if you don't.
And of course this comes in light of a really climactic few days at
open Ai. As you mentioned, sam Altman was fired. The CEO of
that company was fired on Friday by the company's board that board, saying that
Altman had not been consistently candid with them no longer. That is the huge
question hanging over all of this. No one really seems to know an answer
as to why Sam Altman was fired beyond this sort of cryptic and vague blog
post. In fact, Saxia Nadella, who is the CEO of Microsoft,
who yesterday announced that they were planning to hire Sam Altman to run an AI
division within that company, he did a round of interviews and said he didn't
know why Sam Altman was fired. The CEO of Microsoft, a major investor
in open Ai, no idea why he was let go and why he was
let go in the way that he was. Again, this was a very
sudden and very unexpected move from the board of open Ai. Let a lot
of people in the tech world with their jaws on the floor because open i
had been doing really, really well. They're the makers of chat GPT,
which is just about a year old as we're speaking right now. Two million
developers are building things with their tools. Ninety two percent of Fortune five hundred
companies use its products. One hundred million people use chat gpt every week.
This was a company that was a rocket ship. But suddenly that rocket ship
was left without a pilot Amy, and it left a lot of people asking
the question of why we still just don't have a really good answer for that.
I think it's a pretty impressive sign about Altman and maybe his leadership that
that many employees they're saying, yeah, bring him back or we're gone.
So our best guess is that about seven hundred and seventy people in total worked
at open Ai. So this is the wo'sty of this company. Yeah,
it's pretty much everybody. And so yesterday Microsoft announced that they were planning to
hire Sam Altman, and as part of the round of interviews that the CEO
of Microsoft was doing, Satinnadella was doing, he said that there's room at
Microsoft for these employees to come over if they want to. Essentially, the
takeaway from Satia Nadella's speaking yesterday was that he's cool either way, right,
He's fine if Sam Altman joins Microsoft and brings the rest of the company with
him, he's cool. If they renegotiate and Sam Altman goes back to open
Ai, you know, with some changes, because again these two companies are
pretty closely linked, and you know from Satinnadella's perspective, he is either acquiring
pretty much ninety five percent of the company without you know, really raising a
finger, without a hospital takeover, without a hostile takeover, without billions of
dollars and months of negotiations and you know, figuring out anti trust problem like
he's just essentially hired them, or you know, he goes back sam Altman,
goes back to open Ai and they continue their partnership as normal. So
you know, Mic is up kind of in the best position here, it
seems like. But again it's it's really interesting some corporate maneuvering. Going on.
Another detail I'll share with you Amy, is that on that list of
employees who you know are calling on the board to resign is this guy,
Ilia Sutskifer, who many thought led the charge at open Ai to get rid
of Sam Altman. Now he's signing on to this letter saying if the board
doesn't resign, he's going to quit and go join sam Altman. Okay,
this is furthering my conspiracy theory because if the guy who was trying to get
him out apparently is mad that he's trying to get him out and wants the
board gone and nobody knows why, and they're using this ambiguous language. My
thought is that Ai I actually fired him and is taking over. That was
what I was saying yesterday. Again, you know this is a joke,
but you know that's that's you know, chat GPT has become self aware and
like we're just trying to cover it up. Yeah. I watched the new
Mission Impossible last night. It's affecting my thinking here, I think. But
yeah, that's that works. No word on whether they asked chat GPT what
to do, though, I guess we'll have to just wait and see.
All Right, Wow, this is crazy. Okay, well we're going to
keep watching it. Thanks for letting us know what's up. That's craziness,
of course, Amy, take care, all right, you too. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The HPECE organized retail theft task Forces. It has recovered more than
sixty thousand dollars in stolen merchandise and three stolen cars during a state wide operation.
One hundred and thirty seven people were arrested during the large scale operation that
happened on November third. The operation included police from southern California, the Bay
Area, the Inland Empire, and parts of the Central Valley. Police have
shot and killed a man who had barricaded himself in a house in up Well,
and the standoffs started yesterday when deputies tried to serve a search warrant at
the home. The guy inside refused to come out and took some shots at
deputies. A SWAT team was called and people in surrounding homes were ordered to
get out. Thought of my neighbor right across the street from me, because
I know, yes, small children who were probably home because Thanksgiving. Thanks
Giving a weekend. I got a hold of him. I told him to
come to my house and try to get all my neighbors out. I knew
you'd madly something was wrong. Hours later, the house caught fire and explosion
was heard. The man then came out of the house with a gun and
that's when he was shot. A woman's been arrested on suspicion of murdering her
seventy eight year old mother in Huntington Beach. Police responded to a nine to
one one call at a home early last Friday morning where a woman was standing
at the door. Police found her mother dead inside. The daughter was booked
on one count of murder. Detectives would not give details on how the elderly
woman died or who called nine to one one. LA City Councilman Kevin Daleone
has set up a resource center for businesses impacted by the closure around downtown La
on the ten. Business Owners who go to the center can connect with different
city and county agencies to get help. Director of the La Downtown Industrial Business
Improvement District, the Stella Lopez, says the impact area is home to many
food distribution centers. It was a logjam through here and you had these enormous
trucks that were stuck because of the closure. So this area just ground to
a halt. Official say they'll use feedback from business owners at the resource center
to consider a possible grant program in La Blake Trolley. K if I News.
The CDC's issued a warning involving fruits from a farm near Fresno. ABC's
Alex Stone says a lasteria outbreak has been documented in seven states, including California,
because of peaches, nectarines, and plums from HMC farms. The CDC
reports to eleven infections and one death. The CDC says the products are no
longer for sale in stores, but people should check their kitchen or their freezers.
HMC Farms recalled fruits sold between May first and November fifteenth, when the
FDA found the bacteria in the peaches. Okay. New report out on car
theft not good news. Remind you to not leave anything in your car and
lock your doors. In just the last month, two three hundred and ninety
four cars and trucks and SUVs were reported stolen in the city of La That's
the highest monthly total since at least twenty ten. Car theF started rising in
LA shortly after the pandemic started, and then they might have reduced a little
bit, but didn't really dramatically come back down. Through October thirty first of
this year, the count of stolen cars twenty one thousand and forty three.
What cars are being taken, it's the old standards. There's the twenty fifteen
Kia Optima. There's Hondas and also Hyundais along with Chevy Silverado's crazy Fifty three
percent of the car stolen in California were taken in southern California and in La
Orange Riverside, San Bernardino and San San Diego counties. Oh and just so
you know, the most most stolen vehicles per neighborhood, Downtown LA is number
one, Westlake is two, Boyle Heights is three. Van Nuss four in
Koreatown is five. So again, lock your doors. Not that that's going
to help. I don't know what's going to help at this point, because
that's a lot of cars. Man. Police are searching for a group of
robbers who ransacked a Nike community store in South la Seventeen people between the ages
of fifteen and twenty were involved in the flash mob robbery. They got away
in five different getaway cars on Sunday night with about twelve thousand dollars with the
merchandise Carthf's in La as we were just talking about, have hit their highest
level in almost fifteen years. Last month, almost twenty three hundred ninety four
cars were stolen in the city. That's the highest monthly total since twenty Circle
k is offering a forty percent off gas discount this afternoon, just in time
for the Thanksgiving holiday rush. The company says it's their way of giving thanks
to their customers. The fuel Day pop up is happening from four to seven
this afternoon forty percent off, and car washes are also half off all day.
At six oh Five's handle on the news, Qatar's hinting a deal for
the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas will be announced soon,
could happen as soon as today. We'll keep you posted on that one.
Let's say good morning to the host of How to Money on KFI, Joel
Larsgard. Joel. With the holidays, we need your advice and insight more
than ever. Hey, I'm here. However I can help, I'll do
it well. Black Fridays three days away, So let's start with that.
I mean, everybody's waiting for deals, but I'm seeing like they're like Target
has already started offering them, and Walmart has already started offering them. So
what are we going to find as far as great deals this year? Oh?
Yeah, Like so I'm actually doing a Black Friday special here on the
station. But the truth is, so many of the deals really are already
here. And Black Friday used to be a day, right, and then
it bled into Thanksgiving, and now it's this season long deal's extravaganza. And
that's both good and bad because you don't have to go in the store anymore,
which is nice, but you're also tempted to spend for weeks on end
it deals continually pulling at your wallet. So it's like this, It's this
double edged sword where yeah, you can find some great deals right now and
you don't have to leave the comfort of your own home, but at the
same time, you just have to be careful because it's easy. It's so
much easier to overdo it when Black Friday turns into a week's long extravaganza.
Okay, so should we fall back to what you and I have talked about
before that with heading into the holidays, you should probably set your budget now.
So even though there are those great deals that go, eh, am
I gonna blow everything on this deal? Or do I wait? Or how
should we best prepare for this? Yeah? I mean, for sure you
should have a list. I don't think you need to feel compelled to buy
for every single person in your family and who you haven't seen in twelve years
or something like that, who you're randomly going to get together with this year.
I think sometimes people feel obligated or guilty about the amount of folks they
need to show up for and how much they need to spend. And the
truth is, there are all sorts of ways to show you care by spending
a little or by spending nothing at all, but just make sure you kind
of have that budget laid out, because the truth is something like one in
four people are still paying, like we talked about last week, I think,
for what they spent on the holiday season last year, which is just
a scary place to be. And the truth is, there's just so many
ways to enjoy the holidays without spending bukoos of dollars. And I think we
put all this pressure on ourselves and we fail to enjoy the season for what
it is. Too. All this money and spending and stuff gets in the
way of kind of the real deal what actually matters about this tiny year.
Well, I agree with you, but we still do want to talk about
this stuff. Yeah, you still want to get the deals right, So
I think that's really important to mention you do now is the time to buy
the stuff if you want a deal. And so I want to mention a
couple of sites that I think are the best for tracking deals. There's one
called deal News, There's one called slick Deals, and those are the two
tops in my opinion. And the great thing is if you're looking for something
in particular, they have a search bar or categories right so you can drill
down and see, Okay, what are the best tech deals right now?
Or I'm actually looking for an Apple Watch and you can type that in and
so you can kind of or I'm looking for a Nintendo Switch and you know,
the disc We haven't seen a lot of discounts on that, but we
have seen bundles which you're adding at least you're getting games included and stuff like
that. So if you know what you're looking for, these sites can be
incredibly helpful. And even if you're just kind of browsing, they can be
helpful for that too. But yeah, like we're seeing discounts on Apple gift
cards and stuff like that. Some of the gift card deals are actually pretty
strong right now. And Target always when you wait, if you wait till
December, second and third, you're gonna get ten percent off Target gift cards.
So those are sites kind of on if you're looking to keep up to
speed on where the deals are and how good they are. Okay, and
I just ran across this one and I don't know that it would give it
to somebody or maybe keep it. Maybe it's a good deal for yourself.
But Max has a Black Friday sale. The streaming service, yeah yeah,
they cut their rates seventy per month for six months. This is one of
my favorite things actually to tell people to consider because we've seen massive inflation on
what streaming costs right like so much it's not even funny. And the deals
on streaming and on cell phone. So if you're like I was gonna sign
up for Hulu anyway or Max or whatever or Disney Plus, the deals right
now on those are really really good, Like you were talking significant amount of
So Hulu it's ninety nine cents a month for a whole year, and then
you can add on Disney Plus for two bucks. So you're talking about three
dollars a month for two of the main streaming services. That is a really
good deal, and that's going to save you a bundle versus what you'd normally
pay. Another great deal that most people are probably overlooking is like cell phone
service. I love, Like, if it's something you're gonna buy anyway,
but you can just get it at a much cheaper price now is the perfect
time to do that. And so like mint Mobile, which is one of
my favorites, they're like basically the cheapest anyway. But they have their Black
Friday sale going on right now, which means if you sign up for Mint
Mobile, you're buying three months and you're getting three months free. And so
given how cheap those plans are already to begin with, this is like a
slam dunk significantly awesome deal that most people. If you're paying more than twenty
five bucks a month for cell phone service, you should totally look into it.
Twenty five bucks a month and paying like six times that I know.
Well, so the new stats came out about how much the average cell phone
bill is. It's one hundred and nineteen dollars a month. I was shocked
to see it because from where I'm sitting, I'm always seeing these discount cell
phone providers that are known as mv and o's Mobile Virtual Network Operators, and
so I'm looking at these guys and they keep cutting prices, but it turns
the big guys keep raising prices, and so there's a bigger gap than ever
between what people are paying and what you can pay. It's kind of like
the high old savings account thing where most people just kind of inertia bias,
they stick with the big bank when what they should have done was moved to
one of my favorite online banks. And so there's just a massive gap between
what people can earn and what most people are earning. Well, the same
is true in the cell phone space, and so if you are paying north
of one hundred bucks, I mean, think about how significant the savings are
if you move down to fifteen or twenty a month, and most people think,
oh man, I'm going to be giving up so much to go with
the discount cell phone service. Well, the New York Times had a ride
up this week and they're finally getting on board. I've been talking about this
for like close to a decade, and the New York Times finally said,
no, these services are just as good as the other ones. And it's
true. They are. They have been, and so for most folks who
are nervous. The great thing is there's free trial periods for these nbnos.
So you can try Mint Wireless for free for seven days and you don't even
have to cancel your old service. You can literally just like get the e
sim on your phone, try it out and if it doesn't work, if
you're like, wait a second, no, this service isn't as good and
I'd rather pay full price with one of the big guys, then you can
stay put. But if it works, you're just going to save a ridiculous
amount of money. And think of all the money that you save that you
could spend on holidays. See, and then you can feel a little bit
better even about buying that deal for yourself, right, not as much guilt
over your head to save money. In another way, Yeah, because my
cell phone is around that average. And if I can get meant for twenty
bucks or thirty bucks or even forty bucks a month and get the same service,
why wouldn't you Well, I will say this, they don't charge forty
bucks a month. I'm sorry, Amy, that's that's a little too rich
for their blood. Really. Oh yeah, no, So their cheapest plan
is fifteen bucks a month. You pay for three months or a year in
advance, but it's only going to save you a ridiculous amount of money.
I'm on the cheapest plan there, which is the fifteen dollars a month five
gigs a month plan. But if you need more data, you can go
to the twenty dollars a month, fifteen giga month gigabyte plan. So,
and I'm telling you it works just as good as the regular the regular Cel
phone providers, the big ones that you see advertising all over TV. So,
and you can keep your phone number. Yeah, keep your phone now
a me. It's easy, it's a switch, it's twenty minute, sort
of an ordeal. It's pretty chill. Okay, you've convinced me. Joel
d thank you so much, love all the information that you share. And
like you mentioned, we're going to do a special feature with you on Black
Friday. And of course you can listen to Joel Sundays from noon to two
right here on KFI. You can follow him on Instagram at how to Money
Joel. Thank you, Joel. Happy Thanksgiving, Thanks Amy, Happy Thanksgiving
to you all right. Strong sant Ana wins expected to blow through southern California
through about midday. Gus forty five to sixty five miles an hour may be
seen in Mountain Valley and coastal areas. Augusta in the Santa Clarita Valley yesterday
was clocked at one hundred thirty miles per hour. The head of Hamas's political
Bureau is saying the group is nearing a truce that means a deal to exchange
hostages that were taken by Hamas for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons could be close.
Guitar is hinting that an announcement could be made as soon as today.
We'll be watching. Researchers in California are expanding their mission to find aliens.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in Mountain View was just given a two hundred
million dollar grant to see if they can find any form of life beyond Earth.
At six oh five at Tendl on the News, gas prices could hit
their lowest level in years this Thanksgiving at five point fifty. If you just
can't bear the thought of cooking a Thanksgiving dinner, there is still time to
get someone else to do it for you. We'll tell you about that right
now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Inez de la Quittera. Good morning,
Inez. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a surprise visit to Ukraine yesterday and
came bearing gifts. Hey, good morning. That's right, yeah, So
Defend Secretary Lloyd Austin making a surprise visit to Kiev wrapping up his surprise visit
to Ukraine. Clear just what he would be doing there, the PENTAGONA had
said he would be meeting with Ukrainian officials and reemphasizing the US's support for Ukraine,
and we did see him meeting with the Ukrainian President of Velenski saying that
the message he was bringing was that the US would stand with Ukraine and would
remain with Ukraine for the long haul. And this of course comes as the
US has also been busy with everything going on in Israel, but often they're
essentially telling Zelenski that Ukraine has not forgotten that the US continues to stand with
Ukraine. And like you say, the big headline was that he announced a
new security package for Ukraine, a new package of one hundred million dollars.
It's worth pointing out though, that that is actually one of the smallest packages
received by Ukraine to date. The White House has been saying that money for
Ukraine is beginning to run out as Congress grows increasingly divided over whether to continue
providing more aid for Ukraine. And what is this aid package going to provide?
Yeah, so as far as where the money is going to go.
We understand it's going to be so it's going to be used to send one
high mobility artillery rocket systems and known as a high MARS system. There's going
to be additional ammunition as well, a Singer anti aircraft so several Singer anti
aircraft missiles as well as cold weather gear as we head in, two winter
demolition munitions to clear obstacles, and more than three million rounds of small arms
ammunition, amongst other things. That those are probably the highlights here. And
yeah, so this is you know, I think it's interesting to note that
some of this is specifically geared towards winter, and also that there's more than
three million rounds of small arms ammunition also interesting and seems to indicate that the
fighting in Ukraine has maybe changed a little bit over the last few months.
Yeah, and it's so crazy because we just don't hear much about it,
and that war rages on, but everybody's got their focus on is and so
it's like Ukraine, we just forget because it's not top of mind. And
as I was curious about the aid package because one of the concerns of a
lot of like lawmakers, any in general people are saying, well, we're
giving Ukraine all this money and we don't specifically know what it's being used for.
This one hundred million dollars sounds very specific. Is that? Is that
always how it is? Or is it in the past we've just said it
said, here's the money, allocated, how you want it, or have
we been directing how it's used. We've been a concern that that, you
know, it's unclear exactly where the money goes, and it's unclear how much
longer we can kind of keep this up for. But in this case,
yeah, you're right, it is very uh specific. They have announced you
know, everything that that's going to be provided as part of this package.
Often you know, also said that he does see bipartisan support in both chambers
of Congress for Ukraine. He says he knows there's things that they need to
work through to get supplement mental requests approved, but that they're going to continue
to do that. They're going to continue working with members of Congress to answer
all their questions. But yeah, I I mean, that's a that's a
great question. It might be I hadn't you know so much picked up on
that, but maybe it is, you know, in response to to the
criticism from lawmakers that they're now being very specific when they make those announcements regarding
these these aid packages. Okay, And one last question is the one hundred
million dollars that Austin announced yesterday. Is that part of the one hundred and
six billion the Biden administration wants for Ukraine and Israel and border in Taiwan or
is this a separate thing. So we know that the White House is going
to be pushing for for additional aid to Ukraine. But as you know,
again this issue with the divisions in Congress some lawmakers you know, debates over
over spending bills, that they're having a hard time getting those additional requests approved.
And the White House, you know again had said that that many for
Ukraine is beginning to run out, so they're certainly pressuring lawmakers to try and
free up more money there for Ukraine. So you know they're going to keep
working on that, but for now that an additional one hundred million dollars that
is part of this money is that is eventually running out. Yeah, okay,
And as dealer Quizira, thanks so much for all the information, and
we look forward to talking to you again soon have a happy Thanksgiving. Thank
you you too. All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As we told you a
little bit ago, two LAPD officers have been hurt in a crash. A
little more detail. It happened during a chase on the northbound fifty seven freeway
in Fullerton and Nick, Pauliochinni and I were chatting and he said, why
we're laped officers down so far south? It may be because they were involved
in the chase. Well, we're waiting for confirmation on that, but the
chase started in South la. The officers have been taken to the hospital.
Pro Palestinian protesters have thrown fake blood in front of Vice President Harris's in Brentwood.
They also put red handprints on the ground. Before Harris arrived home yesterday
for a campaign fundraiser, cars blocked the street while about two dozen protesters chanted
Free Palestine and you can't hide your committing genocide. The State Attorney General's Office
is it is looking into the actions of a CHP officer who shot and killed
a man on the one O five freeway. Video posted online shows what appears
to be the officer fighting on the pavement with a man. Then it looks
like a bullet ricochetes off the pavement. The officer stands up, steps back
and opens fire on the man who remains lying down on the pavement. The
shooting happened Sunday afternoon on the westbound side of the freeway near the Wilmington Avenue
exit. The officer was sent to the scene after drivers called nine to one
one to report the man walking in and out of traffic. Early radio transmissions
suggested the man had fired a taser at the officer. Steve Gregory kyf I
News. Strong winds have apparently caused in historic brick building to collapse in Riverside.
The collapse happened yesterday on mission In Avenue near the ninety one, about
a half mile from the Mission in Hotel. The street was closed for a
while because of debris and the roadway. A spokesman for the city says the
building caught fire a few years ago and the winds damaged it even more.
Ozzy Osbourne's wife, Sharon, has warned people not to give ozembic to teenagers
because she says it's too easy to become addicted to the weight loss. Osbourne
says she has lost forty two pounds by taking the drug. It was first
developed to treat type two diabetes. She says she can't afford to lose any
more weight. She weighs less than one hundred pounds. She says she's starting
to appear gaunt and is struggling to put weight back on. The thirteenth annual
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are searching for a group of robbers who ransacked a Nike community store in South
la Seventeen people between the ages of fifteen and twenty were involved in the flash
mob robbery Sunday night. They got away in five different getaway cars with about
twelve thousand dollars in merchandise. Three people have been injured at Disneyland when a
lamppost was knocked down by those strong Santa Ana Wins. It happened yesterday morning
along Main Street. One person was taken to the hospital series injuries. Two
others have minor injuries. Circle k is offering forty percent off gas this afternoon,
just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday rush. The company says it's their
way of giving thanks to valued customers. All you have to do to participate
is show up for the Fuel Day pop up. It's from four to seven
this afternoon. Car washes are also half off all day. We're just minutes
away from Handle. On the news this morning, a mass exodus may be
on the way for Open Ai following the firing of founder Sam Altman. Bill
will tell you all about that. So Thanksgiving just two days away, and
if the idea of cooking a big Thanksgiving dinner has got you too stressed to
think straight, there are some places that can help. Of course, it
comes at a price, but lots of restaurants have ready made Thanksgiving And I'm
I actually think this is a great idea because sometimes you just don't feel like
cooking in the you know, it's a daunting task. It's an all day
thing, and if you just you've been working really hard and you go,
nope, not doing it. Martha Stewart's not cooking a turkey this Thanksgiving.
She said, she's going to go to friends' houses. But here are some
places that you can go to. And I know that Nick has been researching
this too, and it's not all traditional Thanksgiving too, But like Buca di
Beppo is an Italian place, but they sell both heat and serve and ready
to serve traditional turkey dinners. You can also add on things like spicy Italian
stuffing, baked zd and meatballs if you want to switch it up just a
little bit. And the prices range from like one hundred and five dollars for
three people to one hundred sixty for six, So if you do one hundred
and sixty for six, that's like thirty thirty five bucks a person. Seems
high, but they're doing all the cooking, they're taking care of it for
you. Another one black angus they have to go Turkey dinners that started one
hundred and three dollars and ninety five cents for a family of four, and
they go up to almost up to twelve people, and you pick it up
up like the day before, and then you reheat it and present it on
the day. I think some of them have Thanksgiving Day pickups, but a
lot of them have you picking up before. And a lot of these meals
you do need to order in advance. And I think Nick and I were
talking yesterday and you said the deadline for a lot of them is today,
correct, So if you at least get the order intoday, you can usually
do a pick up some of them because some of the businesses are closed on
Thanksgiving themselves, so they have to be picked up tomorrow. But yeah,
you usually sometime around noon today. But I mean there's so many places on
top of everything you've talked about. Amy. Even some of our local little
more family chains like Polly's Pies has them. Did they have a whole dinner
or is it just desserve? Yes, no, you can do the whole
thing. So Polly's Pies not only has all your baked good needs, but
you can also take a heat and serve meal with them. There's a couple
of locations, some of them have closed, but they're still available. Hoffs
Hut. There's still some of those locations that are available. Even Cracker Barrel
out in Fontana, you can still get ahead if you want to do something
for that, you can swing by and get a heat and serve meal for
up to ten people. Kids can still be done. So yeah, there's
a lot locally, there's a lot. And have you have you guys tried
Corkis. I've only been to the one in Rancho Kukumonga because it was down
the street from where my best friend lived and on certain Sunday mornings, we
go screw it, we're not cooking. We're going to Corkys. They make
a massive breakfast and the place is always packed. I bet their Thanksgiving is
fabulous and they are one of the ones offering it, so they've got a
heat and serve turkey dinner. It's one hundred and twenty five bucks for six
people, so that's less than twenty five bucks a person. You do need
to get it ordered like by today, because they're saying forty eight hours in
advance, so I'm hoping that that gives you some time. And then a
couple other places, Cocoa's Bakery Restaurant has it Dicky's Barbecue Pit, and they
have good well and they have some options for you, including like a ten
to twelve person feast, and instead of just regular traditional delicious turkey, you
can have smoked turkey, cage and turkey, or you can get ham in
prime rib if you're just not a turkey person, and one more real quick
amy to throw in there. Even a fast food places, Popeyes, they
have a Cajun style turkey that you can pick up as well as all the
sides all right, And of course at KFI Our favorite place or a takeout
on Thanksgiving is Tali Ran, which is right down the street in Burbank,
and management always they're really generous and for the staff who has to work on
Thanksgiving, they generally provide us with the Thanksgiving meal and we always get it
at tali Ran and they've got stuff that you can just go pick it up
on the day of, So lots of options if you don't feel like cooking.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. So cal Edison says so far this year, scammers have
stolen more than a quarter million dollars from customers. Official say it works like
this. Scammers email or text someone threatening to cut off service unless they make
an immediate payment, and because most people are caught off guard, they usually
click the included link or QR code and send payment. So Cal Edison says
it never demands payment by text, nor does it accept payment from bitcoin,
prepaid visa cards, gift cards, or cash apps like Venmo and Z.
Officials say they've logged more than twenty seven hundred fraud cases, totaling two hundred
and twenty nine thousand dollars. Steve Gregory tay if I News, That's a
lot of money. TV host Wayne Brady has been involved in a two car
crash on PCH in Malibu. The l Kenis Sheriff's Sperman says Brady was hit
by another car near Las Flores Canyon Road on Sunday night, possibly during a
fight with another driver. That guy ran away after the crash, but was
caught and arrested for misdemeanor hit and run, battery, and DUI charge has
been filed against a man who allegedly pointed a gun at a school administrator in
West Hollywood. Prosecutors say Vahi Arman drove on the campus of Larchmont Charter Elementary
Thursdays kids were being dropped off. They say he took out what looked like
an assault rifle, pointed it at the administrator, and took off. Police
later recovered the gun. It turned out to be a replica. Arman is
being held on five million dollars bail. I'm giving up smoke rapper Snoop Dogg
obviously wasn't talking about weed when he posted on social media. Of course,
he took us all, we all bit into it, he said, he
was giving up smoke. The words were posted over an image of Snoop with
his hands in a prayer like position, even us for privacy during this time,
and he followed it up with a new post this week, done with
the call for I'm a close smelling all sticky ichy, I'm going smokeless.
It's clothes smelling all sticky ichy. Ye. So the new post has been
pitching a smokeless fire pit. Snoop is the official smokesman for the solo stove
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