You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Good morning, This is your wake up call
for Monday, January twenty ninth. I'm Heather Brooker in for Amy King.
Hello, and I'm so happy to be here with you guys, But I
should warn you I'm losing my voice a little bit this morning, so just
bear with me, folks. I will try not to scare you all away
with my very extra deep, super gravelly voice this morning. But let me
say good morning to everybody who's here. Good morning to Tony and Ann.
Hello. All right, we have a lot of great things that we're going
to be talking about this morning. Amy King is off today, as I
mentioned, so let's get started, shall we. Here's what's ahead on wake
Up Call. President Biden says he will retaliate against the deadly attack on US
service members, and Jordan will get the latest on the growing conflict. The
International Court of Justice stops short of ordering Israel to cease fire against Palestine.
Instead, they're urging Israel to take steps to limit harm. They and the
Space Shuttle Endeavor is expected to make its final flight as it's lifted above the
California Science Center and Exposition Park so it can be lowered into police for its
vertical launch ready display, then at six oh five its handle on the news.
Six European countries have paused funds for the UN Palestine Refugee Agency after allegations
that some of its staff were involved in the October seventh Hamas attack on Israel.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. LA police are trying to figure out why a man in
Granada Hills killed his family and then himself. Police were called to a home
Saturday evening by a woman barricaded in a room. Officers had to force their
way into the home, where they found the bodies of an elderly couple and
their two adult children. The shooter has been identified as seventy nine year old
Rodrigo de Leon. A woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her four year
old daughter in East La. Sheriff's deputies were called to a business parking lot
late Thursday, where they found the child unresponsive in a vehicle. She died
at the hospital. The cause of death was reported as combined effects of strangulation
and sharp force. The mom was also found in the car. She was
later booked on suspicion of murder. Criminology experts at u SE Irvine Law School
have dropped a remix of a legal guide called rap Lyrics on Trial. Remember
What's the case that they you see? Irvine professor say the legal guide has
helped attorney's nationwide who are dealing with rap evidence in criminal proceedings from initial discovery
through trial and sentencing. The second edition, released last week, explores the
impact of cap and disclaimers and rap songs, adds caution to the use of
the term gangster rap, and examines a new state law that addresses rap lyrics
and the California Racial Justice Act. The rap Lyrics on Trial manual also discusses
implicit bias with the use of rap lyrics and rap videos in criminal prosecutions.
In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News Grossman Burn Center co founder Rebecca Grossman
is set to take the stand in Van Nuy's as testimony begins in her murder
trial. She's accused of killing two young brothers with her car in twenty twenty
as they crossed the street in Westlake Village. Grossman's lawyer claims she was not
the driver responsible for the deadly crash, which they say happened outside a crosswalk.
The mother of the eight and eleven year old brothers is also expected to
testify. Some zebras, camels, and miniature horses have been rescued from a
burning big rig in Indiana. The truck carrying the circus animals caught fire on
a highway early Saturday. The animals were treated for smoke inhalation, but they
were not hurt. Another truck later delivered the animals to their destination. President
Biden says the US shall respond, as you just heard, to the deaths
of three American soldiers killed in a drone attack on a base in northern Jordan
near the Syrian border. Biden held a moment of silence yesterday for the three
service members while at a church in South Carolina. Some members of Congress are
pressing Biden to take action against Iran for backing the militia that launched the deadly
drone strike. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A lawyer for former President Trump in New York
has promised to appeal a jury's verdict ordering him to pay more than eighty three
million dollars to write Ejen Carroll in her defamation lawsuit. Attorney Alena Haba said
Friday, Americans were seeing a violation of our justice system. This is wrong.
But we are in the state of New York. We are in a
New York jury and that is why we are seeing these witch hunts, these
hoaxes, as he calls them, and this is another one of them be
brought in New York. Carol called the verdict a great victory for every woman
who stands up when she's been knocked down. Now, as you heard earlier,
President Biden is promising retaliation for that deadly attack on American service members in
Jordan. ABC's Karen Travers joins us live from the White House. Good morning,
Karen, Good morning. All right, So let's talk about initially,
is there any new information that we know about the attack. No, we're
just hearing now from the National security spokes named John Kirby, who's just speaking
literally right now on ABC's Good Morning America, and he said that the president
is considering options for what a response would be and that he is weighing this,
he'll do it in a time and manner of his choosing, and that
he is considering different options from his national security team right now. No surprise,
John Kirby would not get into what those options would look like, whether
that would be striking inside Iran. Kirby would not get ahead of any of
the president's decisions, but he said he would have options to look at,
and that the US is not looking for a broader war in the region and
not looking at a broader conflict with Iran. So I understand some members of
Congress are calling for a strong response here, and will that draw the US
further into this conflict in the Middle East. That's certainly a big concern at
the White House and the President saying we will hold those responsible to account,
and the President also saying yesterday we shall respond. Then you have to then
ask, of course, then what comes now? And notably the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CQ. Brown, General c Q. Brown
did an interview with my colleague ABC's Martha Radditz just a couple of days before
this deadly attack, and this was one of the things they talked about.
She asked him what do you say to people who are saying that the US
is not being tough enough on these militants, that they're not being tough enough
on Iran and Brown. Now remember this is before this attack, he said,
he would say, do you want a broader conflict? Do you want
us in a full scale war? He said, the administration doesn't want to
go down a path of greater escalation that drives to a much broader conflict within
the region. That has been a big concern of the President and his team
over the course of the last couple of months with all of their response strikes
to these Iranian proxy attacks, because thus far they have been limited in their
response, largely striking storage facilities to try and hit these groups where they can
then no longer launch these types of attacks. So, how will this incident
impact US relations with Iran? Yeah, well, I mean they're obviously not
great at the moment. I think one of the other big questions too,
is how does this potentially impact the conversations that are taking place broadly in the
region over a ceasefire in Gaza, The conversations that the administration is very deeply
involved in to try and bring about a longer pause between Israel and Hamas,
and John Kirby was asked about this, you know, whether there are concerns
that any US retaliation could complicate those talks. I think that is something that
is certainly going to be talked about in Washington this week because of where those
conversations stand and reports that they're very close to striking a larger deal that could
potentially secure the release of hostages. Kirby said, you wouldn't get ahead of
those talks. That those conversations continue and they've been constructive, but they believe
that, you know, even despite these this weekend's events and this attacks,
those conversations need to go forward. Now. I know that Kirby wasn't wanting
to get ahead of the president. And there has to be some speculation as
to what the options are that President Biden has here for retaliation. What can
he do? And is it possible that it will be a smaller retaliation versus
like something more large scale. I'm not going to speculate. I'll just say
that, yeah, that is not my place to do, but I will
say exactly what the president is right exactly. I wish I knew, But
the Pentagon has long had options for striking Iran itself. I think it's also
notable though, that Iran is denying it had a role in this attack.
Iran is saying that these accusations are baseless and that the militan groups don't take
orders from Iran, and that Iran doesn't want to start a war and engage
in the conflict with the United States. John Kirby again this morning, was
saying like, look, we know that they are supporting them. We know
that they are giving them tacit approval to do these types of things, So
you know whether or not they are directing orders here, they are playing a
role in this. Karen Travers, thank you so much. And I apologize
that I'm losing my voice this morning. I promised next next time, next
time we speak, it will not be so gravelly and rough. I know
that feeling. I've been there all the time. Oh yeah, that's miserable.
Well, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it.
I have a great day you too. All right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. CIA
director William Burns is set to meet in Paris with Qatar's Prime minister and the
director of Israel's intelligence agency to try to break a deadlock in talks for a
new hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. ABC's Matt Gutman says negotiators are making
progress on a deal. It's rael A's Prime Minister benjam Minute Tanya who has
been under enormous domestic pressure to bring those hostages home. His office calling those
talks constructive and saying that the significant gaps that exist could be hammered out in
talks coming up this week. Gutman says the agreement would give Hamas a two
month cease fire in exchange for more than one hundred hostages. He says it
would have all in several stages, with women, the elderly and wounded released
first. Israel would also release Palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into Gaza.
The space shuttle Endeavor is expected to make its final flight as it's lifted above
the California Science Center in Exposition Park so it can be lowered in a place
for its vertical launch ready display. The final move could happen tonight or early
tomorrow, depending on the weather. Endeavor was retired from spaceflight thirteen years ago.
And has been on display horizontally at the Science Center for more than a
decade. A snowboarder has spent fifteen hours trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola
at a resort in Lake Tahoe. The woman says she caught the gondola at
Heavenly Ski Resort Thursday, expecting to ride it down the mountain, but the
lift stopped just minutes later. She says she yelled for help, but no
one heard her. She wasn't found until the lift started again on Friday.
That's terrifying. A man stabbed in Long Beach is in critical condition. Police
say the attack happened just before seven point thirty last night on Magnolia Avenue between
ninth and eleventh Street. Officers did first date until paramedics arrived, but the
attacker got away. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM
six forty. The Casey Chiefs will face the forty nine Ers in the Super
Bowl, but most people won't be watching the players on the field and will
tell you what they could be watching instead. The IRS says it has been
working hard to make filing taxes a more easy and smooth process. Climate activists
have tossed soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louver Museum in
Paris. The activists said that they want to draw attention to unsustainable food production
and hunger in France. And at six oh five, it's handle on the
news, A key negotiator and a possible border deal says that a deal could
be ready to go to the Senate in the coming days. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Tax season has started. Americans can start filing their twenty twenty three federal income
tax returns today. IRS Commissioner Danny Wirfol says the agency is ready to make
the filing's process as smooth as possible. IRS dot gov has been updated with
new tools for taxpayers, and our call and walk in centers are fully staffed
with trained as sisters ready to help those who call or who want face to
face help. He says. The IRS has been rewriting almost all of its
letters and notices and putting them into plane language, and they've been getting a
much better response from taxpayers. The White House says Iranian backed militants have killed
three US service members in a drone attack on a US base in Jordan near
the Syrian border. About three hundred and fifty US Army and Air Force Force
personnel are deployed at that base in Jordan that came under attack, but in
this case, air defenses failed to intercept the drone attack. ABC's m Wynn
says some members of Congress are demanding the White House do more to deter Iranian
aggression. Senator Lindsay Graham says he's calling on the Biden administration to strike targets
of significance inside Iran as deterrence against future aggression. Iran has denied any involvement
in the drone attack. The International Court of Justice is urging Israel to prevent
attacks of genocide against Palestinians. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says the
war against Hamas will continue. ABC's Jordana Miller is live in Jerusalem with more
details. Good morning, Jordana, Good morning. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
n'ataniel, as you said, is vowing that the war will go on.
He's been very critical of the International Court of Justices ruling. It stopped short
of calling for a cease fire, but even in its ruling that Israel has
to report back in a month, the Israeli Prime ministers said Israel's following international
law and almost everything the Court asked of Israel, it is already doing.
Natania was called that case a hypocritical, absurd what he calls another sign of
the upside down world, where Israel has been very clear that its aim is
to destroy and dismantle a terror group and not attack or wipe out part or
whole of the Palestinian population in Gaza. Now, why isn't the Court insisting
on a cease fire. Well, clearly the Court did not hear enough preliminary
evidence that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and therefore did not act in
an emergency measure calling Israel to halt its war. Now it said, there's
enough that was presented for a case that it will hear, which could take
could take years. But there was obviously nothing that was so desperately concerning to
the Court and Israel, it must be said, released dozens of secret documents,
declassified them and gave them to the court to show that the decisions made
at the highest level by the war cabinet always took into consideration civilian lives and
made it clear that its aims were against the terrors group Hamas. In other
words, the court had presented statements by far right leaders who were not involved
in the war, or just far right leaders in general, even though some
of them could be part of the government, who had made very extreme statements.
And in that case the Court said that Israel needs to punish those who
even incite to genocide. But again, Israel's Attorney General had already started to
put out warnings and start the process against some of the ministers in the government
who had made insightful comments like you know, let's drop a nuclear bomb on
Gaza for example. That was one minister who, by the way, was
suspended from the government and then will likely face legal charges as well from the
Attorney General. So what power does the court have to actually hold Israel accountable
if they don't follow these requests that they've made. Well, that's a good
question. The Court's rulings are binding, but not they can't really enforce the
rulings. So if Israel were, for example, to not hand in a
report in a month's time as it has been asked to then the issue could
be picked up by the UN Security Council and the UN Security Council could try
to pass sanctions on Israel. Likely they would almost certainly be letoed by the
US. But if Israel doesn't comply with the Court, then it can take
it would some of the of its rulings would go over to the UN Security
Council, where there would be some kind of punishment or accountability for not for
not listening to the Court. Okay, it seems like we're going to have
to be watching this closely to see if Israel does what's asked, and you
know what the next steps will be. So Jordana Miller, live in Jerusalem,
thank you so much for your time this morning. Thank you. All
right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Climate activists have tossed soup at the glass protecting the
Mona Lisa at the Louver Museum in Pairs. They also shouted slogans calling for
a sustainable food system. Farmers in France have been protecting protesting for days over
several issues, including low wages. They're using their tractors to set up roadblocks
and slow traffic across France to push for better pay for their produce, less
red tape and protection against cheap imports. France's Interior Ministry has ordered the deployment
of security forces around Paris. The wreckage of a plane appears to have been
found close to where Amelia Earhart was believed to have gone down after refueling in
Papua New Guinea. ABC's Allison Cossack says Tony Romeo with the exploration company deep
Sea Vision, recently searched across fifty two hundred square miles of the Pacific Ocean
floor using an unmanned submersible. In the final leg of the expedition, the
team captured a sonar image of what looks like an object shaped like an airplane
resting underwater within one hundred miles of Howland Island. Romeo says he was he
wasn't surprised to find the aircraft intact because he always felt Earhart would have made
every attempt to land the aircraft gently on the water. Princess Kate has been
released from a hospital in London. She's said to be making good progress following
abdominal surgery. CIA director William Burns is set to meet in Paris with Qatar's
prime minister and the new director of Israel's intelligence agency to try to break a
deadlock in talks for a new hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. ABC's Matt
Gutman says negotiators are making progress on a deal. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Atanyahu
has been under enormous domestic pressure to bring those hostages home, his office calling
those talks constructive and saying that the significant gaps that exist could be hammered out
in talks coming up this week. Gutman says the agreement would give Hamas a
two month ceasefire in exchange for more than one hundred hostages. He says it
would evolve in several stages, with women, the elderly and wounded released first.
Israel would also release Palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into Gaza. SpaceX
sent another twenty two Starlink Internet satellites into orbit, DIGNII mansions, Full Power
and lists of Go Falcon and Go Starling. The Falcon nine rocket launched from
VanderBurg Space Force Space just before ten last night. It was the ninth flight
for the first stage rocket boosters supporting the mission. It safely landed on a
drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. When we come back, we'll talk about
President Biden's approval numbers. Right now, Southland weather from KFI, Sunny highs
in the mid seventies for Metro La and oc hies will reach the low seventies
at the beaches, Sunny highs in the mid sixties, round seventy in the
Annealop Valley and i E with more sunshine and highs in the seventies coming on
Tuesday. Right now, it's fifty four in Burbank, fifty six in Redondo
Beach. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. This woman
has been arrested for allegedly killing her four year old daughter in East La.
Kate, the Princess of Wales, has been discharged from London hospital and is
making good progress after abdominal surgery, and the British government says it's going to
ban the sale of disposable vapes and limit their flavors to try to keep kids
from becoming addicted to nicotine. Then at six p'o oh five it's handled.
On the news, a snowboarder spent fifteen hours trapped over nine in the ski
lift gondola at Lake Tahoe Resort. We'll tell you how she survived. Then
at five point fifty, we're going to talk about the swift Bowl. All
right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. The White House says of running back to militants have
killed three US service members and a drone attack on a US base in Jordan
near the Syrian border. About three hundred and fifty US Army and Air Force
personnel are deployed at that base in Jordan that came under attack, but in
this case, air defenses failed to intercept the drone attack. ABC's m no
Winn says some members of Congress are demanding the White House do more to deter
Iranian aggression. Senator Lindsay Graham says he's calling on the Biden administration to strike
targets of significance inside Iran as deterrence against future aggression. LA police are trying
to figure out why a man in Granada Hills killed his family and then himself.
Police were called to a home Saturday evening by a woman barricaded in a
room. Officers had to force their way into the home, where they found
the bodies of an elderly couple and their two adult children. The shooter has
been identified as seventy five Rodrigo de Leon. A woman has been arrested for
allegedly killing four year old daughter in East LA Sheriff's deputies were called to a
business parking lot late Thursday night, where they found the child unresponsive in a
vehicle. She later died at the hospital. Cause of death was reported as
combined effects of strangulation and sharp force. The mom was also found in the
car. She was later looked on suspicion of murder. Criminology experts at UC
Irvine Law School have dropped a remix of legal guide called rap Lyrics on Trial
Murder. What's the Case that the u SE Irvine professor say The legal guide
has helped attorney's nationwide who are dealing with rap evidence in criminal proceedings from initial
discovery through trial and sentencing. The second edition, released last week, explores
the impact of capin disclaimers in rap songs adds caution to the use of the
term gangster rap and examines a new state law that addresses rap lyrics and the
California Racial Justice Act. The Rap Lyrics on Trial Manual also discusses implicit bias
with the use of rap lyrics and rap videos in criminal prosecutions in Orange County.
Corbin Carson KFI News. President Biden's approval rating is the second worst rating
by any of the eleven presidents who have served since Eisenhower took office. ABC's
Steve Roberts joins US Live from Washington with more on how the economy is to
blame. Good morning, Steve, Yes, you're absolutely right. The economy
is the single biggest reason why Biden's numbers are so miserable. There's been this
enormous hangover from the inflation and the other economic disruptions of the pandemic years,
and people are still feeling badly about the economy. Two thirds of Americans say
the country's headed in the wrong direction. Three out of five are negative about
Biden's handling an economy. But there's a big butt here. The latest economic
news shows a brightening stock markets that records a few weeks ago inflation is actually
much more under control than it's been. Economy's growing. Jobs are available,
and that means that looking forward and a possibility, that's all it is.
It's a possibility that a brightening economic outlook will have a significant effect on this
election because people start feeling more hopeful about the future, more hopeful about the
economy. This is going to help Joe Biden. If you look at the
latest figures from University of Michigan, they the best survey of consumer sentiment in
the country, and for two months now the index has gone sharply upward to
the point where Americans are now as hopeful as they were in July of twenty
twenty one when the pandemic really crushed the hard out of the economy. So
if that continues, it could be a very important factor in this election.
Now. How you know, people love to talk about the bad economy,
you know, and you know, I was just talking with a friend last
week who was saying, like, Oh, the economy is terrible, but
how bad is it really? Well, it depends on who you are,
right if you you know, if you if you have a job and you've
gotten a raised, the economy is good. If your kid got laid off.
The economy is bad, but in general the numbers show significant improvement.
That's why the stock market hit a record because the investors in Wall Street are
betting on a positive future. The Federal Reserve, in order to ring inflation
out of the economy, had to raise interest rates, you know, a
dozen times. But the big fear was that this would kick the economy into
recession. But it hasn't happened. They've had what sometimes of economists call a
soft landing. They've able to enable somehow to reduce inflation without triggering a recession.
And so people who are looking at the economy, economists, investors are
saying the outlook is bright. That the Federal Reserve is likely to start cutting
interest rates going into the new year, which will only trigger more economic activity,
makes it easier for people to borrow, easier for people to afford a
house. So the if that continues, I keep saying if, because there's
no guarantee, But the if, the if, the move that has been
so negative and so sour for years now, if that starts to brighten,
it can have a big impact on the election because you talk about all these
other issues, you talk about the border, you talk about immigration, you
talk about Ukraine, you talk about gossip. These are important issues to many
people, but they are abstractions in Los Angeles and everywhere else. The economy
is a real world, everyday issue for every family who's listening to us right
now, every family that lives in southern California. And that's why the economy
always trumps everything else. That's why inflation was so damaging to Biden for years
now. But the very mechanism, because the economy is so powerful, the
very fact that it hurt Biden so badly for two years, means it could
also help him if it turns up with and that's what we're looking starting to
see in some of these numbers. Well, it will definitely be something we'll
have to keep an eye and I'm curious to see how it changes over the
next several months. So thank you so much, Teve for taking the time
to talk with us this morning. Sure, anytime, All right, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Grossman Burns and her co founder Rebecca Grossman is set to take the
stand in Van NY's as testimony begins in her murder trial. She's accused of
killing two young brothers with her car in twenty twenty as they crossed the street
in Westlake Village. Grossman's lawyers claim she was not the driver responsible for the
deadly crash, which they say happen outside a crosswalk. The mother of the
eight and eleven year old brothers is also expected to testify. Some zebras,
camels, and a miniature horse have been rescued from a burning big rig in
Indiana. The truck carrying the circus animals caught fire on a highway early Saturday.
The animals were treated for smoke inhalation, but they were not hurt.
Another truck later delivered the animals to their destination. SpaceX has said another twenty
two Starlink Internet satellites into orbit. Dignician engines full power and list off.
Go Falcon and go Starling. The Falcon nine rocket launched from VanderBurg Space for
Space just before ten last night. It was the ninth flight for the first
stage rocket booster supporting the mission. It safely landed on a drone ship in
the Pacific Ocean. The CDC says healthcare workers should be on alert for cases
of measles because of a growing number of infections. There have been twenty three
confirmed cases since December one, including seven from international travelers, and two outbreaks
with five or more infections each. Cases of measles have been reported in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware, and the Washington DC area. President Biden says
the US shall respond to the deaths of three American soldiers killed in a drone
attack on a base in northeast Jordan, near the Syrian border. ABC's Martha
Raditz says the base is home to about three hundred and fifty Army and Air
Force troops. Three American service members killed, at least thirty four injured.
Eight of those injuries so serious the Americans were quickly evacuated to receive a higher
level of care. The Pentagon says the injuries include shrapnel wounds and possible traumatic
brain injuries. President Biden held a moment of silence yesterday while a church in
South Carolina. Some members of Congress are pressing Biden to take action against Iran
for backing the militia responsible for the deadly drone strike. Mexico is acknowledging that
at least two well known Mayan ruined sites are unreachable by visitors because of a
cartel violence or land disputes, but two tourist guides in the southern state of
Chappas says the routes to two other sites have been drug gang checkpoints and many
groups are avoiding trips there as well. You're listening to Wake Up Call on
demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Trump's lawyers in New York, A Trump's lawyer in New
York, has promised to appeal a jury's verdict ordering him to pay more than
eighty three million dollars to writer E. G. And Carroll in her defamation
lawsuit. Grossman Burn Center co founder Rebecca Grossman is set to take the stand
in Van Nuys as testimony begins in her murder trial. She's accused of killing
two young brothers with her car in twenty twenty as they cross the street in
Westlake Village. SpaceX has sent another twenty two Starlink internet satellites into orbit.
The Falcon nine rocket launched from VanderBurg Space Force Space just before ten o'clock last
night. We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning, measles
cases are on the rise, and the CDC says children are the most at
risk. All right, so I'm gonna I'm gonna recruit Tony and Ann to
help me with this next part because I am very excited. Are you guys
football fans? Are you? Did you watch any of the big games yesterday?
Yes? I did? Okay? Are you a Chiefs fan or forty
nine Ers? We shouldell everybody if you haven't heard yet, the Chiefs and
the forty nine Ers will be facing off in the Super Bowl. So Anne,
are you a Chiefs or a forty nine Ers fan? No? Absolutely
not. Tony? What about you? No, really, I'm just watch
games. You know you just watched that. And do you have a team?
Yes, I'm a huge Charger fan. Okay, all right, so
the Charge So your team is not in it? But what if? What
if? I think this is going to be the most watched Super Bowl ever
because of Taylor Swift. Yes, I know. NFL is so happy.
I'm sure happy that the chefs wan over the moon about it. So if
you don't know, Taylor Swift is dating Chiefs titan Travis Kelcey and all these
news stories have been coming out since yesterday, and my TikTok feed is filled
with people who are wondering if she will be able to make it to the
game because she has a concert in Japan the day before. And I literally
watch someone do like a diagram and a presentation on how Taylor Swift can make
it to this game. I think more people are excited to tune in and
see Taylor Swift than the actual game itself. So my next question, are
you, guys, Swifties, will you watch the game just to see if
Taylor makes it and her boyfriend wins? Again? Absolutely not. I'm going
to watch the game, of course, but I'm not a Swiftian. I
don't care, all right, sorry, but I know a lot of people
do. I'm in Yeah, I'm not the majority. Okay, fair enough,
Tony. Are you Swifty? No? And if I see one more
cutaway to her, I'll probably not watch the game, Honestly. You know
a lot of people, a lot of the fans are pretty are upset that
they keep doing that during so over it. Well, I'm not a Swift
but I love a good love story, you guys, So I am just
rooting for love, that's all. I used to live in the Kansas City
area when I first started out as a reporter, so just sort of buy,
you know location. I became a Chiefs fan when I lived in that
area. So I'm rooting for the Chiefs and I'm rooting for love. That's
all. That's all I want to say. All right, So this is
a really cool story that I want. I think it's so funny. So
there was a couple in Wisconsin that delivered their baby in a McDonald's parking lot,
and they gave their baby a nickname that was McDonald's themed. Any guesses
on what that might be? Did you read it already? No? I
didn't actually, but if I say it a little nugget, see, that
would be my first joy. Yes, no, they named it Tony.
You have any guesses? No, Tony, I can't hear you. All
right, we gotta get marked in here too. Mark Wheeler, are you
there? Do you have any guesses on what this couple might have na their
baby and the McDonald's parking lot? No, all right, I will tell
you it's little mcflurry. That's cute. But little Nugget is yeah, I
mean, little Nugget seems like the obvious choice, but little mcflurry is so
specific and unnecessary. But anyway, the baby is healthy and fine, all
right. So this kind of makes me sad, but it is not surprising.
Rent prices in California's largest cities are down yay everywhere except Los Angeles,
so according to rent dot com, we are still have the highest rent.
The average rent in LA is thirty five hundred dollars a month. It's just
so sad and frustrating. And I don't know how anybody is surviving out here.
Honestly, it's sometimes I don't know how I'm surviving. All right.
This is a debate that is happening for that keeps going on daylight savings time.
Some people have been trying for years to get rid of daylight savings time,
but I don't think that's ever going to happen. And now there's this
new like back and forth, you know, debate on whether or not someone
will actually get rid of daylight savings time. I just feel like we would
all be very confused if that happened. What time is it? We would
not I mean, we're so used to this daylight savings the system as we
know it, that if we got rid of that. I just feel like
we would all be so very lost. That's just my two cents. No
one asked, all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A lawyer for former President Trump
in New York has promised to appeal a jury's verdict ordering him to pay more
than eighty three million dollars to write her Egene Carroll in her defamation lawsuit.
Attorney Alina Haba said Friday, Americans, we're seeing a violation of our justice
system. This is wrong. But we are in the state of New York.
We are in a New York jury and that is why we are seeing
these witch hunts, these hoaxes, as he calls them, and this is
another one of them be brought in New York. Carol called the verdict a
great victory for every woman who stands up when she's been knocked down. CIA
director William Burns is set to meet in Paris with Qatar's Prime minister and the
director of Israel's intelligence agency to try to break a deadlock in talks for a
new hostage deal between Israel and Hamas ABC's Matt Gutman says negotiators are making progress
on a deal. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Atanyahu has been under enormous domestic pressure
to bring those hostages home, his office calling those talks constructive and saying that
the significant gaps that exist could be hammered out in talks coming up this week.
Gutman says the agreement would give Hamas a two months cease fire in exchange
for more than one hundred hostages. He said it would evolve in so stages,
with women, the elderly and wounded released first. Israel would also release
Palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into Gaza. A snowboarder has spent pardon me,
had a little bit of a cough. A snowboarder has spent fifteen hours
trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola at a resort in Link Tahoe. The
woman says she caught the gondola at Heavenly Ski Resort on Thursday, expecting to
write it down the mountain, but the lift stopped just minutes later. She
says she yelled for help, but no one hurt her. She was found.
She wasn't found until the lift started again on Friday. Tax season has
started and Americans can start filing their twenty twenty three federal income tax returns on
Monday, that's today. IRS Commissioner Danny Wirfol says the agency is ready to
make the filing process as smooth and easy as possible. IRIS do gov has
been updated with new tools for tax players, and our call and walk in
center are fully staffed with trained sisters ready to help those who call or who
want face to face help. He says. The IRS has been rewriting almost
all of its letters and notices and putting them into plane language and has been
getting a much better response from taxpayers. The Space Shuttle Endeavor is expected to
make its final flight as it's lifted above the California Science Center and Exposition Park
so it can be lowered into place for its vertical launch ready display. The
final move could happen tonight or early tomorrow, depending on the weather. Endeavor
was retired from spaceflight thirteen years ago and has been on display horizontally at the
Science Center for more than a decade. If you haven't seen it, it's
pretty incredible. Should definitely check that out. The wreckage of a plane appears
to have been found close to where Amelia Earhart was believed to have gone down
after refueling and pop on a Guinea. ABC's Alison Cossack says Tony Romeo with
exploration company Deep Sea Vision, recently searched across fifty two hundred square miles of
the Pacific Goshen Floor using an unmanned submersible. In the final leg of the
expedition, the team captured a sonar image of what looks like an object shaped
like an airplane resting underwater within one hundred miles of Howland Island. Romeo says
he wasn't surprised to find the aircraft intact because he always felt Earhart would have
made every attempt to land the aircraft gently on the water. The chief of
the Elmonti Police Department says he stands by his dispatchers and officers. Following the
ambush shooting of two officers. They had been called to a motel in twenty
twenty two about a woman stabbed. The woman's mother reported her daughter's husband was
on PCP and had a gun, but the dispatcher didn't pass that information to
the officers over the radio. She put it in the dispatch computer. Officer
Joseph Santana and Corporal Michael pared pedrascuse Me were killed in the ambush. A
third officer was hurt before the shooter killed himself. You've been listening to Wake
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