You're listening to KF I am six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King
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the Candy Cane Forest, past the scene of Swirly Twirly Gum drugs, and
then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County. Okay, people, Sama's coming to sup Oh, my god,
Santa's here. I know him. I know him, Sasine, It's
time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Twentieth anniversary of
Elf. Can you believe that movie has been around for twenty years? It
is like one of my absolute favorites. I think we're gonna go make some
elfspage later today. Sounds delicious that I disagree. Oh okay, this is
your wake up call for Tuesday, December fifth. Good morning, I'm Amy
King. Thanks for waking up with us today. I'm having a little sticker
shock today. First, I told you about my Christmas tree. Yesterday I
went and got it all in almost two hundred dollars for a six foot Christmas
tree, which by the way, is still not decorated. Well, then
here's my next one. I've never used grub hub myself or door dash or
anything like that. I've been at friends houses when they've ordered it, but
I've never paid for it. So we were thinking it sounded good to have
some chicken wings. So we ordered chicken wings, which I love. I
think we got it from Buffalo Wild Wings. Two like six packs of wings.
We got a half dozen of one and a half dozen and other.
By the time it got to me forty five dollars. Forty five dollars for
twelve chicken wings. But you didn't have to leave your house. Well,
I guess there's that. I just couldn't believe how expensive it was. It's
unbelievable. Yeah, the price we pay for convenience, right, Okay,
Well, here's what's ahead on wake up call today. A man has been
charged with murder in the desks of three homeless men in the La area.
Police say all three were sleeping alone on a sidewalk or in an alley when
they were killed. The thirty three year old was already in jail in connection
with the follow home robbery and killing of a man in San Demus last week.
Israel maybe planning to flood Hamas's network of tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip.
Reports are Israel's already built a system of large pumps to send seawater in from
the Mediterranean Sea and could have all of the tunnels flooded within weeks. One
big concern is it could harm the Gaza Strip's water supply. And then there
were four. The Republican National Committees's five people have qualified for the fourth Republican
Debate, but only four expected to show up. Chris Christy, Ronda Santis,
Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswami will be on the stage tomorrow night.
Donald Trump, who's leading the pack and polling, is skipping the debate.
At six oh five, it's handled. On the news, Jamie Fox is
finally talking. I remember that really bizarre health scare from a while back.
He Bill's going to tell you what Jamie Fox is finally saying. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. Hundreds of faculty members at cal Poly Pomona have walked off the job
in a rolling strike for a fair labor contract the unions. Doctor Nicholas von
Glahn says lecturers should never be food or housing insecure. We care about our
students. We want to be actually as at least disruptive as possible. This
is a demonstration that we can and will shut it down. You can see
from the parking lots. These parking lots would be full. The one day
strike in Pomona yesterday shutdown classes for hundreds of students. Faculty at other CSU
campuses are expected to walk out through Thursday. A woman with a knife has
been shot by La Kenny Sheriff's deputies in Lancaster. The Sheriff's Promis's deputies had
been sent out last night about a man and a woman fighting. They say
the woman threatened to hurt the man. Officials say the woman was shot when
she approached the man while holding the knife. She died at the hospital.
A guy with a yellow crowbar has damaged about thirty parked cars around Koreatown.
The vandalism happened between noon and three yesterday afternoon. The guy was wearing black
pants, black slippers, and a Dallas sweatshirt. Police say he is known
to be hostile towards bystanders. A crane has fallen onto a home in Loma
Linda. The family that lives there was able to get out before the heavy
machinery caused major damage to the house on Friday. The homeowners say they've lived
there for thirty seven years. So cal Edison had sent out an alert saying
it was replacing power lines in the area and residents should expect possible outages.
The damaged home has been yellow tagged, that means the safety of a building
is questionable and needs more inspection. Parents in the South Bay say Redondo Union
High School took two long to notify families about a teen with a loaded gun
on campus. Police were called to the school yesterday after ten thirty am,
where they found a tenth grader with a gun and a high capacity magazine.
This father says it took hours for the school to notify parents of the arrest,
and says he got updates from the media. They're really quiet about it.
My son didn't find out. He found out when he got home and
when he called his friends. They found out when they got home, so
they kept it pretty quiet. There was no lockdown. Some students I spoke
with had no idea. Another student took a loaded gun to school. Police
say the student is facing charges for having the gun but there was no evidence
of a planned threat. Chris Adler kaf I News. A small earthquake has
rattled Fullerton and some surrounding areas. The three point five magnitude quake hit just
after eight last night. Fullerton Police say there were no reports of injuries or
structural damage. A city official and Anaheim described the earthquake as brief but noticeable.
Was apparently even felt at Disneyland. Disney shut down dozens of rides following
the shaking as a precaution. And here's something earth shaking. The Barbie Movies
coming to Max the biggest movie of the year, will be available to stream
starting December fifteenth. Let's say good morning now to ABC White House correspondent Karen
Travers. Karen, as we were talking about yesterday, lawmakers are sounding the
alarm about Ukraine running out of money if they don't get more from the US.
What's the latest on that. Yeah, So, we had a visit
briefing yesterday by the National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who continued that pressure from
the White House on lawmakers to get funding paths for Ukraine. Sullivan had a
pretty blunt message. He said he believed that any number of Congress who doesn't
support funding for Ukraine. As he put it, they're voting for an outcome
that will make it easier for Putin to prevail. He said. A vote
against supporting Ukraine is a vote to improve Putin's strategic position. He says,
that's just an inn capable reality. You know, this follows what we talked
about with the budget director for the President sending a letter to congressional leader saying
without action by Congress by the end of the year, the administration will not
be able to send more equipment and resources to Ukraine. There is no magic
pot of funding that they can turn to to replenish stockpiles or send funding to
Ukraine. So this is dire right now from the administration in their view that
the timing is so critical they can't stretch things anymore past the end of the
year. So that's the message from the Whitehouse. On Capitol Hill, the
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made the first move to advance this supplemental bill to
bring it to the floor for a vote. But it's not clear what they're
going to have included in that on border provisions, because they still haven't negotiated
that they're still talking about it between Republicans and Democrats, and there's a little
bit of pessimism right now. Democrats say that Republicans are too dug in and
aren't compromising. Republicans say they're still at the table and willing to negotiate,
but the clocks ticking. They don't have a firm deadline of like they have
to do this by this day, but the pressure on the White House is
every day that they're not doing it, it gets more dire for Ukraine.
And you said, we don't know exactly when, but do they have sort
of a ballpark of when money might run out for Ukraine if we don't get
the funding passed. The White House is saying the end of the year,
so you know, basically they have to do this before Congress will go home
for the holiday season. They don't want us to dip into next year.
I think the other question, you know, and this is not something the
White House is willing or just hasn't engaged on, is okay, So if
that happens, if the US can't send funding, can't get it disapproved by
the end of the year, what happens in Ukraine? Like what type of
timeline are we looking at for how long Ukraine could hang on and not start
to lose territory, to not start to have major problems in their economy.
That's another big concern of the administration of the Ukrainian economy collapsing. How long
can they continue to pay civil servants, teachers, pension, things like that
that are really relying right now on foreign assistance. They're not willing yet to
say a timeline on that because they don't like to engage in hypotheticals and they're
hoping that the funding comes through. Okay, And then one last thing,
So Zelensky is going to talk to Congress today. Have you heard that he
is? He's yeah, He's going to give an address to senators via virtual
teleconference during a classified briefing today that's coming up in just a couple of hours.
That will be him making the case directly to lawmakers about what will happen
to Ukraine if that aid doesn't come through and essentially saying, you know,
you've got to do this with or without a deal on board of provisions.
This money is so critical to his country. Well, we'll see what if
Zelenska can sway the lawmakers. That's happening today. Karen Travers, thank you
so much for the information. Appreciate it. Have a great day. All
right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. The race to take the House seat held by Adam
Schiff just got more crowded. Pasadena area State Senator Anthony Portentino says he's running
for Congress. I was in Norwalk and I filed my papers to officially to
be on the ballot in this congressional race coming up the first Tuesday in March.
Portentino is the chair of the state Senate Appropriations Committee. He leads fundraising
in a crowded field of potential representatives. At last count, sixteen Democrats and
five Republicans had filed to run for the seat. White House officials say they
have every reason to believe that recent attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea
were fully enabled by Iran, even though the rockets were launched by Huthis Yemen.
The White House says it is consulting with allies on appropriate action to take
in response, and we're going to be talking to ABC's Matt Seiler about that.
In just about twenty minutes, real interesting to find out more about that.
More than one hundred hostages are still being held in Gaza, including more
than a half dozen Americans, and As de la Quaterra says, a top
Hamas official has said any negotiations for hostages are over until the war ends.
Hamas has offered an all for all deals, so they're offering to release all
of the hostages in exchange for all of the prisoners. They are anywhere from
six thousand to seven thousand Palasten prisoners being detained in Israeli prisons. These Raelis
have squarely rejected that the US is pressuring both sides to get back to the
negotiating table. Israel has continued expanding its offensive, saying it plans to remove
all Hamas rulers in Gaza. Hadid you buy a house recently? I know
that the buying and selling of houses has way, way, way slowed down
because of the high interest rates. Although my first house that I bought,
I think I bought it at seven and a half percent. I thought that
that was really good, and now everybody's got seven it's I think at seven
point three percent was the last check I got, and everybody's like, oh
my gosh, that's so high. But I guess when you're used to three
it does affect things. So prices are up for the eight month straight.
People are still buying homes. But here's here's something. Once you buy the
home, do you regret it? A recent study shows that ninety three percent
of home buyers are regretting their purchase. Most Americans believe now is not a
good time to buy a home, more than fifty three percent, and fifty
one percent saying now is not a good time to sell a home. And
fifty eight percent of people who have bought a home recently say they overpaid for
it. So it appears that scarcity in the housing market appears to be the
biggest reason for the regret because you don't get the house you want, you
pay too much for it, it's not in the location that you want.
But they're buying anyway because of it. It's a good investment. So we
shall see how those things shake out. Our interest rate drops in our future.
There was hints that it would start in the first quarter, but then
I was just watching a report that they said maybe not not until the fourth
quarter. Will the interest rates start falling again? Oh well, we'll just
say if you're gonna buy, you're gonna buy right. A good dog,
A really good dog to tell you about. A dog that fought off a
pack of coyotes has been nominated as the Farm Dog of the Year. The
Pyrenees from Georgia was severely injured by coyotes while he protected a flock of sheep
last year. Casper is three years old, has now bounced back after months
of recovery. The annual award by the American Farm Bureau comes with a year's
worth of free food and five thousand dollars. I think Casper benefits from the
food, not so much the five thousand. Tomorrow night, the Clippers take
on the Denver Nuggets at Crypto dot com with tip off at six o'clock.
You can listen to the game on AM five seventy LA Sports, Hollywood Park
Casino Elevate your game right now. Let's say good morning to the host of
How to Money on KFI. It's Joel lars Guard. Joel evs not so
popular anymore. Oh, they're falling out of favor just a little bit.
And there's a new Consumer Reports study about ev reliability, and essentially what Consumer
Reports found was that evs are not as reliable as their internal combustion engine counterparts,
and so like we're seeing based on the data, based on kind of
what's happening with evs, and based on the fact that like very few car
manufacturers are actually making money from electric vehicles right now, we're kind of seeing
a pullback in this space, which is interesting. It's kind of not what
politicians hope for, and it's not what a lot of people predicted. Well,
so why, Well, that's a good question. I mean, I
think there are these mandates. Right. For instance, in California, by
twenty thirty twenty thirty five, every new car sold in the state is supposed
to be supposed to be electric or some other sort of clean energy vehicle,
right, And so there's this push to make this a reality. But the
truth on the ground is that these car man factoris are used to creating,
making manufacturing cars that have gas engines, and it's taking a while for them
to figure out the manufacturing process of an electric vehicle and make it profitable.
And at the same time, we had those early adopters in California more than
anywhere else, something like twenty five percent of new vehicles sold or electric.
It's test less are everywhere here, yeah, which you don't see in other
areas. And it's understandable because of how high gas prices are that we're seeing
more adoption here than in many other places. But there's still the problem that
in a lot of other parts of the country we're not seeing people interested in
electric vehicles to the same extent. And I'm a fan of electric vehicles,
but it's also like people are going to decide whether or not this succeeds or
fails, and what people are actually finding across the country, what people want
more than electric vehicles is hybrid vehicles. They're more reliable, they're saving on
gas, and the truth is they might actually be cleaner for the environment.
How is that. Well, the manufacturing process to create those giant electric battery
passages are super super heavy too. Yeah, you can with the same materials,
you can make something like ninety hybrid vehicles for every six electric vehicles you
make, and so we're every hybrid that goes on the road might be doing
more good than an EV. Oh okay. The other thing about EV's that
concerns me is we're talking about how heavy the batteries are. The tires for
evs are super expensive because they have to be stronger because the cars are so
heavy. Well, yeah, and insurance costs is another thing people are figuring
out, because if an EV gets in a wreck and the battery pack needs
to be replaced, it's we're talking instead of like a few parts or something
like that. Think about the new cyber truck. I was talking about this
with the friend the other day. It's this unibody construction. What happens,
and granted it's stronger than most cars, but what happens if it does get
in a serious accident is the is the whole thing totaled? Whereas well a
lot of these other cars where it's like, oh no, you just have
to replace a few sections and a few parts. And with some of these
evs you're finding you're running into the fact that it costs a heck of a
lot more to replace them. I will say that as evs have fallen out
of favor just a little bit, we are starting to see price contractions.
We've talked about the Tesla price cuts. Those are obviously a big thing,
but for instance, the Chevy Bolt and the Chevy Bolt EUV, those are
like pretty solid electric vehicles, they get pretty good reviews, they have decent
range, and for a while you couldn't find one for MSRP. That was
a joke. If you called a dealer and you said, hey, listen,
can I get the manufacturer suggested price? They would just like like scoff
and hang up. And now we're actually seeing prices in that range. So
they've fallen something like fifteen to twenty percent in some places. So if you're
in the market for an EV and you're looking at the lower end and you
drive a lot, it can make a lot of sense. Still, Okay,
so then real quick, like give us like two or three things that
we really should be looking for if we are in the market for an EV
to make sure that we get a good deal. Yeah. Well, so
it's important to note that in January, that's when you're going to be able
to get the tax break up front. And so I think that's going to
incentivize a lot of people. That's going to grease the wheels and make it
a little bit easier to make that purchase. Right, And so for a
lot of people, if you make the purchase today, you're gonna have to
file your taxes and wait to get that tax credit back into your wallet.
And so I think for a lot of people, they're going to say,
oh, come January, maybe it is going to make it easier to buy.
But that actually might mean that now is a better time to buy,
and we might see prices start to tick back up. There was an article
in Bloomberg about why now is the best time to buy an electric vehicle,
and they might be right. This might be the sweet spot. I will
say, there's going to be in the coming years, there's going to be
a lot of progress. Maybe we're going to see, for instance, like
Toyota with solid state batteries. That's impressive technology that could completely be a game
changer in the EV space. And all of a sudden, your vehicle that
has a two hundred and twenty mile range pales in comparison to the one that
has a seven hundred and fifty mile range. But if it works for your
lifestyle right, and if it is actually going to save you money under a
total cost of ownership, if you're a heavy, heavy driver, then I
think it can make a lot of sense. And it especially makes sense if
you're looking at the lower end of the market, and especially man those Chevy
bolts are incredibly enticing because they're cheap and they're just as good as some of
those other evs that cost ten twelve thousand dollars more. Okay, So,
like everything else, just do your research on this one, one hundred percent.
Yeah, do your research. Look at consumer reports. There's a great
site called car gurus dot com that lets you really like shop prices on used
and new really well. So that's a great site, like a kind of
a third party aggregator site that lets you kind of look at the market as
a whole. Okay, the moving on TikTok has a shop and it's uh,
people are buying on it. Yeah. Yeah. There's an article in
the La Times and the title was so good. It said that TikTok is
dangerously good at making you spend money and and so of course, like everything
else, there's TikTok dominated the world. And now what they're trying to do
turn on the money spigot more and more. Creators on TikTok are selling goods
and their TikTok is trying to get consumers by the end of the year to
spend ten million dollars a day. That's so that's a lot of money,
like ten million a day. And it's funny because like what's old is new
again. QBC was the hot thing back in the day, right, it's
the old school version. And it feels like TikTok and even Amazon are using
that QBC model to their advantage to generate sales, and I it seems maybe
a little more authentic coming from your favorite TikTok creator. But just know they're
trying to make a buck to and it's really hard to decide whether or not
the thing that they're selling you is actually something that's going to help your life
or whether it's just a complete waste of money. And I would lean towards
the ladder in most cases. Okay. And it's similar to what's going on
on Instagram and Facebook because I see all these influencer videos going, oh,
I love this, I gotta try this out up. Yeah, So I
love the micro influencing community. Everyone trying to sell you something. It's it's
kind of frustrating as like a user, right as everything turns into instead of
like learning something or just making me laugh, now, it's all about selling
me stuff. Yeah, isn't it beautiful? It's all about making the buck
all right. It is American capitalism at it's finest. Uh huh. So
Joe Larsgard, is it really good? At me helping you save some bucks?
And you can listen to him on Sundays on KFI It's how to Money
with Joel Larsgard from noon to two. Thank you so much, Joel.
Also you can follow Joel on how to Money or at how to Money Joel.
Thank you, Amy, appreciate it all right, Touch to you next
week. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour News or. Members of SAG after are expected to wrap up
voting on the tentative deal that ended the actor's one hundred and eighteen day long
strike against the studios. The ballots close at five tonight. The tally could
be close since some members are urging a no vote over concerns about AI.
The tentative deal includes some constant consent and compensation guardrails on AI, a seven
percent increase in wages, benefits, and the creation of a streaming participation bonus.
The contract runs through June of twenty twenty six. Seniors and disabled people
in La County can get free lift rides for the rest of the year.
The rideshare app as partner with Southern California Resources for Independent Living in La County
to provide thousands of dollars in free ride credits. A code can also be
used on wheelchair accessible vehicles. LIFT officials say the program is designed to help
break down barriers some people face when traveling during the holidays. A man's been
charged with murder in the deaths of three homeless men in the La area Bilic
Sale. Three were sleeping alone on a sidewalk or in an alley when they
were killed. The thirty three year old was already in jail in connection with
the follow home robbery and killing of a man in Sandimus last week. Congress
must soon decide whether to approve more funding for Ukraine in its war with Russia.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has warned resources for Ukraine will run out soon
if Congress doesn't take action soon. Ukrainian President Zelenski will address Congress to make
his plea for funding later today. And then there were four. The Republican
National Committee says five people have qualified for the fourth Republican Debate. One is
skipping it. Chris Christy Rondaz Santas, Nikki Hayley, and if a vak
Ramaswami you are expected to take the stage tomorrow night. Former President Trump is
skipping it. At five point fifty, We're going to be talking with ABC's
Jim Ryan about why you may just want to smile because you're on candid camera,
whether you like it or not. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC News correspondent Matt Sailor Matt Yemen's Hootie rebels are getting more and more
aggressive. What is going on over there? Good morning, Amy, that's
right. So what we saw on Sunday was a prolonged series of attacks that
took place over about seven hours. These were missile attacks and attempted drone attacks
on commercial vessels that are sailing through these vital shipping lanes in the Southern Red
Sea. So there was also a US warship in the area. It responded
to the distress calls from a couple of those ships, and while it was
en route to go and check in on the cruise, witnessed drones fired by
those around that Houthi militants and Yemen they were heading towards it and some of
those other vessels and it took action shooting some of them down, but at
least three missiles hit three commercial vessels. Thankfully, there were no injuries reported,
just damage to those vessels. But it's of major concern because again there's
no guarantee when a missile is fired at a ship that it won't lead to
injuries or death. But it also disrupts a really important shipping lane. And
so for the US one, I know that some of the early reports had
come out saying that the USS Carney had been targeted, so it wasn't targeted.
That the other commercial ships were targeted and the Carney intervened to try to
protect them, right. That seems to be the case. So what Pentagon
officials are saying is that at this point, their initial assessment is that they
can't say that the carneye was the target of these attacks, rather that these
drones were heading in its direction. But it's very hard to tell the intent
of a drone because unlike a saabilistic missile, where you can sort of predict
where it's going to end up based on its trajectory and all that, a
drone is remotely piloted. It can change its direction. It's a little bit
less predictable, so you can't tell after you shoot it down exactly what it
is intending to hit. But it's also true that the Carnie was in the
vicinity of these other ships while it witnessed these drones coming, and so it's
not clear that it was a target rather than does. But it still makes
sense that a ship's captain would engage them because by the time you deliberate and
try to determine if this drone is going to target your ship, it's kind
of too late. They're very fast moving. So if a captain of a
ship witness is something like that, they're usually going to just take immediate action
and take that potential threat out. Okay, And it seems like these attacks
are coming. I know that on land there have been on the more than
seventy ati attacks on US bass or interests. What are options for the US
to respond because they've got to walk a pretty tight line on this. And
you're right, so we're talking about the hoo Thies here in Yemen, but
the common thread through all of this aggression in the region is Iran. According
to the US administration, the Hoothies are around backed. But then as you
mentioned in Iraq and Syria. They have been now seventy six attacks against US
troops there also by Iran backed militants in the region. Now, there's been
some limited strikes there against some of those attackers. A lot of them have
been on warehouses facilities storing some of their weapons used to launch those attacks.
There have been a few that were on command and control centers, killing a
few of those militants. But the US has shown a lot of restraints so
far, while at the same time saying that these proxy groups, while they're
the ones doing the attacks, ultimately Iran is responsible. Okay, and I
know you got to run, Matt. Is there is there anything the US
can do to shore up support? Do we already have supportive alleries or we
kind of walking alone on how we respond well. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan,
whom you mentioned just a minute before I was on, he spoke about
this yesterday, and especially with these shipping lanes, this involves a lot of
countries. He pointed out that this is a source of global concern and that
the US isn't alone on this, that it's going to work together and deal
with this challenge that the Hoothies present with the range of nations and take what
he called appropriate action in consultation with those others. Okay, well, let's
hope that all the allies stick together on this one. Matt's either thank you
so much for your time and information this morning. I appreciate it anytime.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four our newsroom. Cal Transit it has evaluated least spaces under freeways
in California. The state wide inspection was the result of that fire or the
ten Freeway last month in downtown Lammo. From Caltrans to Governor a Newsom on
November eleventh, identifies six hundred one sites statewide under freeways or viaducts. Of
those six hundred one sites, thirty eight where id'd is having some sort of
risk or warranted follow up. Inspectors also noted they found several sites had unauthorized
vehicle storage trailers and er sheds, but very few had any imminent fire risker
hazard. Officials also said tenants have been cooperative. The state Fire Marshal classified
the fire under the ten Freeway last month as arson. Steve Gregory KFI news
a USC forecasts apartment rents in southern California will go up two to four percent
a year through twenty twenty five. That's nowhere near the twelve to eighteen percent
a year rent increases during the pandemic. Economists say the pace of rent hikes
should increase after twenty twenty five. Amid a slowdown in apartment construction, hundreds
of faculty members at cal Poly Pomona have walked off the job and a rolling
strike for higher pay and better working condition. The faculty are asking for an
immediate twelve percent pay increase, and the CSU system says it's offered a fifteen
percent increase over three years. Through union's doctor Nicholas von Glahn says CSU faculty
need higher wages just to keep up with inflation. Our students are facing mental
health challenges like they've never before, and the fact is that they need mental
health counselors and we're fighting for that as well. Hundreds more faculty at other
campuses are expected to shut down classes through Thursday. CSU reps say they value
their faculty and are committed to negotiating in good faith. Chris Adler KFI News
California has landed on the CDC's top ten list of states with the highest rates
of influenza. The California Department of Public Health lists RSB at around twelve percent
infection levels and the flu at just over seven percent. Some medical professionals say
getting vaccinated for flu early makes sense, as it takes about two weeks for
protection to kick In Redondo Union High School, student's been arrested for allegedly bringing
a loaded gun to school. Police say students reported the fifteen year old had
a gun on campus yesterday. Police say the student was also carrying a high
capacity magazine. No evidence of any threats or planned a tech attacks against the
school. The Supreme Court has heard a Justice Department challenged to last year's six
billion dollars settlement with Purdue Pharma. The bankruptcy ruling shielded the Sackler family,
which controls the company, from future litigation. Families of OxyContin victims say they
deserve to be able to sue the Sacklers. Taylor, Swift, and Barbie
are on the short list for Time Magazines twenty twenty three percent of the year.
Also on the list that was released yesterday are Hollywood Strikers, Chinese president
Shijinping, open AI CEO Sam Altman and those prosecuting former President Trump. Times
Person of the Year will be revealed tomorrow. We're just minutes away from Handle.
On the news this morning, that guy who was arrested in the killings
of the homeless men around LA has now been charged with murder. Bill's got
the latest on that. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Well, Jim, at this point, we may just want to smile because
more and more we're on candid camera, or rather on traffic camera. Yeah.
Well, at least in some parts of the country, California among them.
Many states have done away with these all together. Texas outlawed them several
years ago, twenty fifteen, I think it was, But there are still
communities that grandfathered in and said we're going to extend our contract with the company
that provides the cameras for another several years. So it's sort of a spotty
kind of thing. But now the Governor's Highway Safety Association AMY is recommending that
more communities put their traffic cameras back up speed enforcement, red light enforcement,
school zone enforcement, putting cameras on school buses, on the stop arm that
extends when the bus is loading our unloading kids as a way to try to
cut into what the GHSA say has been a dramatic increase in the number of
roadway fatalities in the last decade, about thirty percent higher in the last ten
years. That's a lot, yeah, I mean it's gone from according to
the GHSA and using numbers based on National Law Enforcement third ninety three traffic fatalities
in twenty thirteen last year forty two thousand, seven hundred ninety five. So,
I mean a lot of things go into it. There are reasons behind
all of this, but this group, this National Safety group, says that
traffic enforcement cameras could help to cut into that number, regardless of the cause.
All right, and the people against them, let's look at what they
do. Not like this idea because they don't think it's really for law enforcement.
Right. They believe that it's mainly about raising revenue. And in a
lot of cases it's not even the local government that's making the money. It's
the private company that's been contracted with that local government. So if you get
a ticket, for example, from a red light camera, and you get
the piece of mail that tells you here's how you pay for it. You
don't send the check to you know, Los Angeles City Hall. No,
you send it to an office the private company that is contracted to collect the
bills or to run the cameras. Overall, I mean, there are lots
of reasons behind this, lots of arguments against it, but lots of arguments
in favor of it as well. In California is one of the few places,
I mean that's actually moving forward with putting up more of these cameras.
The recent legislation that was signed has they has several cities around California, including
Los Angeles, deciding to reinstate these cameras. Okay, so here's another question.
It's not only about revenue raising and law enforcement hopefully saving some lives,
but there's some privacy concerns as well. Yes, the privacy issues. You
know, people get a little bit nervous when they know that they're driving down
a highway and there are cameras that are capturing them and their car and their
license plate and storing information somewhere. So privacy advocates have had a problem with
this for quite some time. The supporters of the technology say that it's color
blind, that if if somebody's pulled over for speeding, it doesn't matter what
that person looks like, what race they are, with national alan, which
gender. You know that it's kind of a color blind and sort of the
kind of thing that doesn't see anything except to traffic violation. So yeah,
that's one of the pros and cons against it if you look at California specifically,
and I think that's why Gavin Newsom has gone ahead and signed the legislation.
You guys had forty two hundred traffic fatalities in the state in twenty twenty
one. That's a lot, you know, forty two hundred people. That's
you know, a good sized town in a lot of places. So I
think that's what was behind Gavin Nosm's efforts. And then this GHSA, the
Governor's Highway Safety Association, says it's another tool in the toolbox to try to
cut into these numbers. Is this just inevitable too? Like I know that
from in Gosh, where's my thought going? In England they have that it's
called the CCTV system or something like that. There's cameras everywhere, right,
Is that just sort of inevitable for here that that's coming. I mean we're
kind of already on that road, sure we are. Yeah, I think
you're right. I mean, you have a lot of law enforcement cameras that
are set up and in communities and neighborhoods and in downtown areas. Trying to
remember the case where a guy civilian or was beaten up and actually died after
a beating from police. It was all captured on a camera that was mounted
there in this neighborhood intended to stop crime. Well it did, and now
several police officers are custody. But this is different. These are cameras that
catch you speeding, that catch you violating school zones, catch you violating construction
zones. And interestingly, some communities are sort of dipping their toe in it
by mounting cameras on the stop arm on the school bus so that if a
car passes it, boom, You got them. Yeah, it's going to
have to be very careful because it sounds like big brothers with us, whether
we like it or not. I think you're right. Yeah, for better
or for words, these cameras are going out all right, Jim Ryan,
thank you so much for the information, and keep an eye out, put
out of the carburetor. All right, I have a good day. See
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