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This is your wake up call for Thursday, January eighteenth. I'm Amy King.
Thanks for getting your day started with you with us today. I've got
my coffee, hope you have yours. I think I'm gonna need it today.
Got another storm brewing, although it doesn't sound like it's going to be
a big one, but we do have some rain coming on coming in for
the weekend. That looks like chance rain Saturday Sunday. Best chance for rain
is Monday. But good news as we need it, and the other good
news is that it's just rain. I was talking to some friends up in
Portland yesterday and literally they can't leave their homes because there's just a sheet of
ice covering kind of everything because they had freezing rain. So when the rain's
really cold, it freezes when it hits, so it weighs down trees,
breaks branches, all kinds of things. Like that, and my friend Debbie
said she walked out onto her front porch and about bit it because the whole
thing is just a sheet of ice. So lots of people working from home,
kids not in school. I'll take some rain in southern California. It's
not so bad. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Governor Newsom has
broken with his party and he says he'll veto a bill that bans tackle football
for kids under twelve. The bill has been making its way through the state
legislature, but with the veto threat, it's essentially dead. Newsom SA's parents
should have the freedom to decide which sports are most appropriate for their kids.
The US has launched another round of air strikes against Iranian backed Hoothi rebels who've
been attacked king ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for weeks.
US officials say the Navy used Tomahawk missiles to target fourteen Hoothy missile launchers.
Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been detained in Germany after he arrived there on a
flight from la He was held for about three hours, apparently for not declaring
a luxury watch he was wearing. The terminator Star says he's selling the watch
at a charity auction in Austria. He apparently had to pay thirty eight thousand
dollars including taxes and penalties before he was released at six oh five. It's
handle on the news. Texas is refusing to comply with the federal government at
the border. Hmm, that's going to set up an interesting showdown. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. A teenager in Riverside County's been arrested for allegedly taking a loaded gun
to school. A Sheriff's deputy assigned to Paris High School was notified yesterday about
a teenager with a gun on campus. Officials say the boy was taken into
custody and a search turned up a loaded firearm were made towards students or staff.
The OC Sheriff is asking for help to identify additional women who may have
been attacked by a guide tied to for sexual assault. A case in Stanton
was able to be tied by OC Sheriff's investigator Austin Jones to an older case
in the same city, which then led to cases in La and Long Beach
twenty eighteen was the earliest case I could find. Jones says Sieveya was arrested
last week for the alleged sexual assaults that date all the way up to last
November. We have charges of kidnapping with the intent to commit sexual assault,
forced oral population. We have a charge of raid, and there's also charges
of assault with the Dudley weapon. He says, any info reported could help
keep the alleged attacker off the street. In Orange County, Corbin Carson k
if I knew Yally City Council is working to improve the city's response to a
toxic algae bloom that has sickened or killed more than one thousand marine animals along
the coast of southern California. The toxic algae largely affects sea lions and dolphins.
The city's motion focuses on providing resources to the marine mammal caress. I'm
a center in San Pedro so it can respond to future algae blooms. Former
President Trump followed a day in court in New York with a rally in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. He told supporters the defamation case against him in New York
and his multiple indictments are just political attacks. Every time the radical left,
Democrats, Marxists, communists, and fascists indict me, I considered a great
badge of honored. You know, I've been indicted more than al Capone.
Trump urged voters yesterday to support him by a wide margin, so the other
side can't cheat. New Hampshire's primary is Tuesday, January twenty third. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, Congressional leaders met yesterday.
So what did they talk about and did they accomplish anything? Well,
I can tell you what they talked about. They accomplish anything. We'll figure
that out over the next couple of days, maybe weeks, but no.
Leaders came out of the meeting with the President at the White House and called
it productive and positive. So, you know, a nice little spin on
it from both sides, Republicans and Democrats, and the White House had said
going into the meeting it was about Ukraine. The President brought them all down
to the White House to talk about Ukraine, to stress the urgency of getting
aids Ukraine approved and to talk about what is at stake now. The group
that was there, I mean these were the leaders from both parties, Democrats,
Republicans from the House and Senate, but also the top members on the
Armed Services Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Intelligence committees. These
are people that understand the stakes in Ukraine. Certainly, these are not the
folks that are negotiating any border changes. Those members were not included in yesterday's
meeting, and that was pretty notable that that's the sticking point right now,
getting some big changes to border policy to unlock Republican support for Ukraine AID.
That was not the White House plan yesterday to have this be a border negotiation,
but no surprise, it was a big part of the conversation based on
what lawmakers said afterwards, and that's because House Speaker Mike Johnson made it very
clear for Republicans that's still the deal breaker. Even a minority leader, Mitch
McConnell, was saying, you know, we still are insisting that this is
a big part of it. So do they accomplish anything, Well, they
said that there's progress. The President afterwards said he was cleansed with how negotiations
are going, but in terms of a deal yet to unlock that Ukraine AID
and reaching a deal on border security that hasn't happened yet. I think it's
interesting that they're doing this. I mean, I understand they want to hammer
the point home that Ukraine needs attention, but with the Republicans and the Republican
leadership saying it's got to have border security tied to it, it kind of
wasn't even on the table yesterday. It seems like, what's the point of
it. They're not going to change their mind on that. It was a
lot of the questioning at the White House briefing yesterday of why is the President
doing this? If you know what the sticking point is right now, you
know, why is he bringing them here to have this conversation about Ukraine when
Mitch McDonald has said he understood, he fully supports aid to Ukraine, even
how Speaker Mike Johnson has said, they want to get aid to Ukraine,
but it's how you do it, and that is not something that the President's
been involved in. He's not part of the border negotiations. It's taking place
in the Senate. Now. The other interesting part of this is that,
as I just said, it's taking place in the Senate. Bipart is in
border negotiations. House members Republicans have made it clear they're not just going to
take whatever agreed to in the Senate and say great, we're going to not
pass this because they haven't been involved in this and they want something that's far
more conservative. But senators Republicans who are involved in this say like they're just
going to have to deal because that's just how Washington is working right now.
There's divided governments and it can't just be what the Republicans in the House want
to get done. Yeah, and I thought Chuck Chumer, the Majority leader,
yesterday came out and he said that he said, if we pass thing,
it's going to have to be bipartisan. We can't do it any other
way. And also it was hopeful on his party said, I think we
have about a fifty percent chance of passing something, which he said is the
is the most positive he's been in a while, which is decent. I
guess we like those odds fifty you see at this point, I guess it's
a decent chance, you know, and think for the president. Afterwards,
the White House said, you know, one thing that the President really impressed
on them is that they got to do this quickly. You know, they
were trying to do this before the end of the year. The White House
was saying, you know, the White House, the Administration would run out
of funding to give equipment supplies aid to Ukraine. At the end of twenty
twenty three. That came and went and there was no new funding from Congress.
The US has sent the last aid package of security assistance that they can
to Ukraine and they don't have the ability to send more until Congress approves more
funding. Okay, So now I have a question for you, technical question,
just to make sure because it's so convoluted. Okay, So the government
it runs out of money on Friday, But did they pass that continuing resolution?
And is that one hundred and six billion dollars part of that or is
that a whole different ballgame. I'll start with the second one. It's not
part of it. It's a whole different ball game. Those are completely different
negotiations. That's separate than backing up. The Senate is expected to pass the
continuing Resolution today and get it maybe kind of fast tracked it yesterday and get
it over to the House today and then the House would take it up as
quickly as possible. They have until midnight tomorrow night into Saturday. But we
haven't some bad weather coming tomorrow, I mean bad for us, like maybe
two inches of snow in DC. But that's going to cause some issues.
So the sense is the House might want to get this done today so lawmakers
can get out of town tonight or at least earlier tomorrow. Two inches of
snow come on, that's not something we have, like one snowplow in all
of DC. We had four inches of snow the other day and my street
never got plowed. So it just doesn't happen. Okay, well, we'll
be watching. Thank you for clearing that up again. It's there's so many
little pieces and cogs and all of that stuff, and we so appreciate that
you're there to help us sort it out. Thank you. All right,
Thanks Karen, we'll talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La City Fire
is actively preparing for earthquakes in southern California. Thirty years after the deadly six
point seven magnitude earthquake hit Northridge, firefighters are training for the next big one.
Captain Eric Scott says that includes using canines for live rescues and heavy machinery
first responders didn't have in nineteen ninety four. They will break and breach,
meaning that they're going to cut apart all that concrete. They're gonna make holes
to be able to effect a rescue. That's the first thing. Firefighters held
rescue demonstrations yesterday using camera scopes with a three sixty view that can squeeze into
tight spaces to see if anyone's trapped. LA City Fire says it's crucial for
community members to get themselves prepared. Chris Adler KFI News, a man from
Santa Monica who used his cryptocurrency Cash Extente exchange business to illegally launder millions of
dollars, has been sentenced to four months in federal prison. He'll be on
supervised release for two years after that. The US Attorney's Office says from twenty
seventeen to twenty one, the man operated a company offering non regulated crypto exchange
services through kiosks around southern California. The Feds say he took steps to conceal
the large transactions from the government. GOP US Senate candidate and Major League Baseball
legend Steve Garvey says what he learned on the Diamond prepared him to be California's
next US senator. BIP teams and played for great players and managers, won
world championships, and learned how to work with people. And I think that's
so important that we just don't see that I by our elected officials. The
former Dodger toured homeless camps in Sacramento yesterday, saying we need to know where
all the money for the homeless is going. Garvey is running for the seat
held by the late Diane Feinstein. He says too many politicians are more concerned
about running for the next job than doing the one they were elected for.
California starts voting by mail in a few weeks for the March fifth primary.
The US has carried out a new retaliatory strike against Huthi targets in Yemen.
The Pentagon says the air strike destroyed missiles that were posing a threat to ships
in the Red Sea. It's the fourth time the US military has targeted the
Huthis in less than a week. ABC's m Wins says the strike happened hours
after the Pentagon said a Huthi drone attacked a US cargo ship about seventy miles
off the coast of Yemen. The Huthis say the attacks will stop when Israel
stops its offensive in Gaza. Pakistan's air force has launched retaliatory strikes in Iran.
Pakistan's foreign affairs spokesperson says the strikes were in response to Iran's attack on
Pakistani soil Tuesday that killed two children. Pakistan undertook a series of highly coordinated
and specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts and Sista Ano Blushistan province Offan.
The strikes early this morning killed at least nine people and further raised tensions
between the two countries. They also raised the threat of violence spreading in the
Middle East. The Tustin Animal Shelter has relaxed some of its rules in hopes
of getting more pets adopted. That's always a good thing. Since the pandemic,
Orange County Animal Care has required people to view pets online and then make
an appointment. If they wanted to meet a potential pet in person, you
could just walk in well. The relaxed rules will once again allow people to
walk through the kennels anytime without an appointment seven days a week. Former Meta
Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg will be leaving the company's board of directors. She
posted on Facebook yesterday that she will not be seeking reelection to the post in
May. Sandberg joined Facebook now Meta back in two thousand and eight after spending
seven years at Google. California is one of twelve states offering the iris's new
direct file. It's different from the current free file program because it's open to
taxpayer of all incomes. The test program allows taxpayers to submit federal returns for
free starting January twenty ninth, and then redirects them to a site on how
to file state returns At six o five. It's handle on the news.
You might want to think twice before going out for oyster appetizers. Bill will
tell you why. But right now, let's say good morning too, the
host of Rich on Tech right here on KFI KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro,
Good morning, Rich, Good morning to you. Amy. Okay, so
you have a new piece of tech gear that you say could be life changing
in the entertainment world. Yeah, well I don't have it just yet.
I wish I had one, But you've seen it one of the one of
the chosen few to get to go to Apple's headquarters and check out this new
Apple Vision Pro. This was my second time trying it out. And this
too, right, what's that You saw it at CES two? Right?
No? Apple, Well, I saw a lot of these similar devices,
but this is you know, Apple doesn't go to CES. They're too good
for that. Come on, they do their own thing. And so you
know they've been inviting some media into take a second look, or maybe a
third look or a fourth look, depending on who you are at this Vision
Pro headset. This is launching pre orders tomorrow morning, goes on sale for
thirty five hundred dollars. Available next week or sorry, in two weeks,
I should say February. Second. And you know it's this headset that is
a VRAR headset, and they are positioning it as a spatial computer. But
I will tell you my big takeaway from this is that this is an entertainment
device. It is really incredible. I watched movies in three D, I
looked at pictures in three D, videos in three D, and I took
a part in f one car. So there's like learning capabilities in this thing.
It's really really cool. I just think it's a very tough sell for
the average person to spend four thousand dollars including tax on something that is completely
unproven and more expensive than a computer. Yeah, okay, So I want
to talk a little bit more about what it does, because you said,
like you watched a movie on it. So do you put the headset on
and you don't need a movie screen or are you watching it and it turns
the movie that you're watching on a screen into three D? Yeah? So
basically, it's a headset that is fully enclosed, okay, and there's two
little like screens inside. Each one is like the equivalent of a four K
TV screen, but you know, they're really close up to your eye,
and so your eyes kind of merge them together and giving you this three D
spatial effect, which means you can look all around and everything is you know,
made make belief. Now, you can also see the world around you.
That's the augmented reality part. So it's a little complicated because you can
either see stuff superimposed on the world around you, or you can completely shut
out the outside world and just sit there and watch, you know, a
movie on a giant screen in three D and it really wasn't oppressive. It's
very clear, it's snappy. If the operating system is familiar, you control
everything just with your fingers by like moving them, pinching them. Kind of
very minority reports ish. So Apple's done their homework and they've done a really
good job, and this is an incredibly transformative device. Again, it's just
very expensive but a super fun toy. I want to sit there. I
was like, I could just sit here every day for an hour and just
sit inside this thing and watch movies, watch YouTube, whatever. And I
was trying to justify it. I'm like, well, TV is expensive,
but not this expensive. And this is, by the way, for one
person at a time. Yeah, that's the other thing. You can't share
it with anybody else. It's very isolating. Yeah, exactly, you got
to one head in there at a time, and I'm sure the family would
be fighting over who gets to be in there, especially if you have teenage
kids. Okay, so speaking of isolating apples, apples poor I Watch is
isolate because they're pulling it off store shelves. Again, Well, this is
where it gets so complicated. So it's the Apple Watch series nine and the
Ultra two. They have this blood oxygen technology that is in a patent dispute
with this Irvine based company Massimo. And you know, it's back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth. Apple will not let down on
this thing. They won't settle. And so now again, starting today,
it is banned from sale in the US. This is the Ultra nine and
the Ultra two. But really it's only banned for that one feature. So
what Apple is going to do is still ship the same watch, just it's
going to have a software. The software is different, and the software keeps
you from using the blood oxygen sensor. So if you try to, if
you buy one of these watches today, they're still available at the stores.
If you buy one today, if you open up the blood Oxygen app,
it will say the blood Oxygen app is no longer available. Learn more in
the health app. If you have an existing Apple Watch, apparently you're not
impacted, and so the only applies to new sales. At this point,
the dispute is ongoing. Apple is trying to do their best to keep these
watches, which are very popular, on sale, but also satisfy the requirements
of this band until they settle somehow. Okay, and you said Apple is
basically not backing down, doesn't want to settle, but so massimode, do
they just want to pay out? Do we know? You know, I
think that the company actually has pretty reasonable intentions. They truly feel that Apple
stole or somehow took this technology from them. Apple apparently hired all whole bunch
of their workers and engineers, and so there's more to the story than just
Apple came out with a very similar feature to what they make. But again,
you know, that's for the courts to decide, not me, okay,
And in the meantime, does Apple have several watches, several different models,
just like they do with the phones, like you can you can still
get like an iPhone twelve, But well, it's interesting usually with Apple,
they with the iPhones, yes, they will sell different versions. With this,
they're only actually actively selling those two main models and then the Apple Watch
SE so you can get third party you know that the earlier models through like
a Verizon or an AT and T or a best Buy, but Apple officially
through their website only sells the Ultra to the Series nine and the Apple Watch
SE. Of course, you can get the other models through any other third
party website. That still sell them. Okay, and then let's talk about
going incognito. Yeah, so apparently going incognito is not as private as many
people believed, and so okay, so first of all, what is it?
Yeah, so incognito is a feature that was made popular on the Chrome
web browser that you can open up a window that is called an incognito window.
And basically, most people were led to believe that this does not save
your browsing history and anything you do inside that window. As soon as you
close it, no one can see that. Well, it turns out the
way this actually works is that your computer does not keep a record of what
you're doing, but the websites can still see who you are, and they
can still track you, and they can still crosstrack you, and they can
and even Google knows what you're doing on these other websites. And so this
comes as a surprise to many people, and of course Google is settling a
lawsuit related to it, and now they're going to change the wording. It
looks like when you open up an incognito browser, it will say, look,
you know, the stuff you do here can still be seen by other
people. It's just not saved to your computer, and so you just have
to be very careful with privacy related things, because you know, not everything
nothing you do on the web is truly private. Let's say that way.
I would add one thing, amy, if you're going to use incognito mode,
I would toggle on the setting that says block third party cookies. That
will definitely help some of your activity become less tracked across various websites. Okay,
but I'm going to go off of your last comment that just assume if
you're on the Internet, it's not private pretty much. I mean, it's
really really tough to remain private on the Internet. I mean, there are
ways, but it's tricky. All right. Well, I'm gonna let you
go, so you can go find yourself in an Apple Vision Pro and go
play with it for a while. We I will never leave. If I
buy one, you will never see me again. All right. Well,
then I hope you don't buy one, because we want to talk to you
again this week and next week. And then of course, you can always
listen to KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro and host of Rich on Tech right here
on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two. You can also follow Rich do you
have some fun videos of the vision pro Are they letting you take pictures of
it yet? Yeah? I got I got myself in a picture, so
you can comment on what you think. How dumb I look at it?
Oh? I love it? Okay. So that's on Instagram at rich on
tech and his website is rich on tech dot tv. Thanks so much,
Rich all right, thanks Amy. All right, let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom
says he's going to veto a bill that would ban kids under twelve from playing
tackle footballs. He is deeply concerned about the health and safety of young athletes,
but an outright ban isn't the answer. He says. Youth football should
be safe while encouraging parents have the freedom to decide which sports are most appropriate
for their kids. Now. That bill has been making its way through the
state legislature, but with the governor threatening to veto, it's essentially dead.
Pasadena and La County are offering money for tips to stop copper wire theft.
Twenty thousand dollars in reward money has been made available to combat the rising issue.
Pasadena's had six and a half miles of copper wires stolen in the last
year. Police Chief Jean Harris says six arrests have been made, but it
just keeps on proliferating. I think the word has gotten out and it is
our job to kind of put a stop to that and we will take care
of that. Pasadenas had to repair three hundred and sixty street lights and two
traffic signals because of the thefts. The repairs have cost the city more than
fifty thousand dollars in Pasadena Blake Trolley kaf I news Immigration has divided California Democrats.
According to a new UC Berkeley poll, it shows just over half of
Democratic voters say the border is secure, thirty percent say it is not.
They're also split on the question of whether illegal immigrants create a burden for the
country. Republicans a lot more unified, with eighty percent saying the border is
not secure compared to eight percent who say it is. Governor Newsom has broken
with his party says he will veto a bill that bans tackle football for kids
under twelve. The bill's been making its way through the legislature, but with
the veto threat, it's essentially dead Newsom says parents should have the freedom to
decide which sports are most appropriate for their children. The US has launched another
round of air strikes against Iranian BacT Houthi rebels who've been attacking ships in the
Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. US officials say the Navy used Tomahawk missiles
to target fourteen hoy missile launchers. The strikes came just hours after the US
said that it would be designating the Houthis once again as an official terrorist group.
Open AI bans the apps, but people are still searching the apps in
the new chat GPT store for girlfriends. In the US. Data dot ai
shows seven of the thirty AI chatbots app chatbot apps downloaded last year from the
Apple or Google store were related to AI friends, girlfriends, or companions.
Gonness Dad. At five point fifty, we're going to get the latest on
two of the royals being out of commission for a little bit. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Good
morning, Brad. It sounds like Washington, DC's kind of like California.
People are leaving in droves, and maybe not for the same reasons, but
clearly it's become an issue here. Amy. There was a recent article on
the Wall Street Journal. We talked about a number of restaurant owners packing up
and moving to Maryland or Virginia, and mainly because I mean, if you
look at you know, the homicide rate, the national average is six point
three per hundred thousand. In the District of Columbia, it's forty per hundred
thousand, oh like, so five times higher than the normal, the national
average exactly. I mean, I have to take you to l Salvador and
Honduras to come up with potentially a higher homicide rate than that. So you
start with that, then you overlay that with almost a thousand and I'm saying
a thousand carjackings in DC last year, of which they've only sold maybe one
hundred and seventy of them. And so you know, I mean, it
erode your tax base. I mean, I'm actually concerned about the DC in
that regard. Homicides had become an unbelievable problem. When I first came to
DEC in nineteen ninety, it was a lot higher than it is now,
and we figured out a way to get it down. You know, some
of the units that I worked with back then are still there, some of
them aren't. And it's a combination. When you look at crime, it's
all driven by, you know, the following where is it concentrated, Where
are the offenders concentrated? Who do you have in those communities? You know,
a place like Los Angeles obviously is so diverse. You know, who
do you have that can work in certain neighborhoods? For the violence is going
on From a language relationship standpoint, I mean, it gets complicated, but
you have to have dedicated units like gang units, gun units, repeat offender
units, and they all have to work together, and so they're all in
the same sheet of music. Then you have to have the prosecutor and the
courts you know, also at least with the same drum beat. And that's
what gets out of whack between the city council here who make the laws.
Now Congress could overrule them, but they make the laws. You know,
they've liberated stuff in recent years that some people believe it's coming back to bite
us, liberalizing bail laws, et cetera. Didn't They also reduce penalties for
carjacking recently, well they did in the past. But the thing about carjackings
is that it's a federal crime also, so which you know, the DC
Council can't control. That's you know, that's federal. It's being prosecuted federally.
The problem obviously is that a huge chunk of that one thousand number I
said are juveniles and young teenagers, so which can be more complicated to prosecute
federally because they don't have the facilities for federal folks. But now they're finally
talking about that some of these super violent carjackers they need to prosecute them as
adults, which I think most people agree with. But you know, it's
a pen some one that will swing back to a better side. But it's
going to take a while, but it's certainly going to take a coordinated effort,
of which at this point I don't see what would it take. When
you say a coordinated effort, like, what would it take to really focus
on getting these numbers down. You'd have to get the DC police, which
I think at this point have their own morale problems. They're down hundreds of
officers, so they're having a retention problem, they're having a recruitment problem.
So you start with that, and how do you remedy that that's tricky.
You know, the number of people who want to be cops detectives' agents today
are less than they were years ago. And that's not DC only, that's
like everywhere. Well, I'm sure it's an issue in California. Yeah,
it. I mean, it's just because people see what happened after George Floyd.
They have their own reality or perception of what that is or is not
as far as law enforcement and how law enforcement was treated after that occurred,
and it sours people. And I think many people believe that the system will
hang you out to dry if you get involved in a shooting or some you
know, legitimate action where because the reality is, if you're a street cop
in some place like La or La County or even here in d C,
you know you're going to have to pull your gun with maybe not regularity,
but you're gonna have to You're gonna have to have tense situations with people that
may result in somebody getting shot. And I mean that's just part of this
job. But you know, getting people to say, well that's okay,
but then I'm going to get prosecuted. You know, it's not okay now,
granted, I mean George Floyd's probably a bad example, and that that's
just sort of a no brainer about who gets prosecuted there. Shootings, you
know, can kind of go when you look at them one way or the
other. But many times they're they're correct. The police didn't really have a
choice, and so yeah, that's part of the part of the problem.
But all I'm suggesting is you do have to have this coordinated effort. It
has to you know, fit your demographics. Yours, you d or LA
are clearly different than what we have in Washington, d C. Yes,
but it does sound a lot like San Francisco, where there's just rampant crime.
Businesses are leaving, they're boarded up because it's so bad, and it's
just become this cesspool because the crime rate has just gotten so crazy out of
control. Yeah. Yeah, And I'm only going to suggest that if you
let it go too far, you're going to have trouble bringing it back.
I mean, to your point, A number of experts have suggested that San
Francisco is probably maybe gone too far. I hope not. It's a great
place, but it's a big concern. So what can be done now to
start reversing the trend? Brad. So every city, and obviously we're talking
about DC in particular, yep is you have to look at, for example,
when I was working homicides here, you know, a large chunk of
the homicides occurred in a certain part of town, and it's just the reality.
The same thing will be true in LA And so you have to figure
out through intelligence, through sources, through whatever means, through the FEDS of
who you're actually looking for another is looking for, not saying you can charge
them at this point, but clearly are the primary suspects and X number of
homicides, x number of car jackings, and you have to have a unit,
which DC used to call I'm going to still call it that a repeat
offender unit that basically can go after people who repetitively commit violent crime, our
street crime, and just work it until you get a decent case against them,
because you're going to get one if you work it, because they're going
to keep committing violent crime. There's things like that. So the overlay is
you get all these units to work together, you get the prosecutors they're willing
to prosecute them, and the judges that are willing to sentence them. That
all has to come into play, and it looks like to me at least
in DC that's out of whack. Yeah, lots of spokes on the wheel
and a lot of things have to kind of fall into place. But hopefully
DC will get exact together. I think, you know, in southern California
they're trying, they're cracking down on retail thereafts, they're doing some stuff because
it has gotten out of control here too. So hopefully we'll see the trend
rivers where you are as well. Brad Garrett, thank you so much for
your time and your insight. If you'd like to follow Brad, you can
do that on Instagram at Brad Investigate. Have a great day, bread Thank
you. Ge Amy. All right, let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The protesters who shut
down the Bay Bridge calling for a ceasefire in the Israel Hamas war have asked
San Francisco's DA to drop the charges. They say the charges against them from
the November incident are egregious, but they doubled down on their mission so that
no business happens as usual during a genocide and during the death and destruction of
a whole people and a population. The group faces six months in prison if
convicted on the five charges against them that include false imprisonment. The protesters say
they're being held to a different standard than other protesters around the country. They'll
be in court again next month. Alt right hate group hackers have been blamed
for flooding uc irvine chat rooms with gory content that included mutilated corpses. The
reaction to this has been understandably pretty severe. You see Irvine Student online Community
coordinator Elena Kim says the bloody videos and images included animals and children. I've
heard reports of studtudents who were reportedly hospitalized as a result of excessive vomiting,
panic attacks, traumatic responses. Kim says three thousand students were impacted during the
attack last week that lasted for four days. She says the group responsible wants
attention so will not be named publicly. A student was able to build a
bot that automatically deleted the hacker profiles at UC Irvine. Corbin Carson kf I
News NBA player Josh Giddy will not face criminal charges over an alleged relationship with
an underage girl Newport Beach Police say they completed their investigation into the accusations against
the twenty one year old player, who is playing with the Oklahoma City Thunder,
and found no corroborating evidence. The department says it is committed to ensuring
accurate information is passed onto the public while also making sure the rights of all
those involved are upheld. The In and Out Burger has been named one of
the best places to work in a study by Glassdoor. The local Burger change
a chain rather ranked sixth on Glassdoor's twenty twenty four best places to work.
In and Out employees say pay, benefits, and flexibility make the company a
great employer. In and Out ranked higher than Google, Microsoft, and Apple.
Business business consulting firm Bain and Company was number one and probably pays a
little bit better. Kevinor Newsom will be in Orange County today to give an
update on efforts to end homelessness. He says more than fourteen thousand affordable homes
are being built in California, and that's just through the Homekey program. Last
month, five more communities got money to convert former hotels, motels, and
office space into housing. Former Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is going to
be leaving the company's board of directors, she posted on Facebook yesterday. She
will not be seeking reelection to the post in May. Sandberg joined Facebook now
Meta back in two thousand and eight after spending seven years at Google. California
is one of twelve states offering the IRS's new direct file program. It's different
from the current freele free file program because it is open to taxpayers of all
incomes. The IRS plans to eventually put the program in place nationwide. For
now, it's in California and eleven other states, and will allow taxpayers to
submit federal returns for free starting on January twenty ninth. We're just minutes away
from handle on the news this morning. Hope you'll stick around for it.
Governor Newsom has broken with his party. He says he'll kill a bill that
would tackle football in California for kids under twelve. Actually wouldn't tackle football.
It would ban tackle football in California for kids under twelve. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers in London. Tom, a couple
of Royals are going to be out of commission for a bit. Yeah,
this was kind of a shocker, you know, they say you wait for
buses and never come and then two come along, one behind the other,
and that's kW of it played out. Yesterday got the word first that Kate,
Princess of Wales actually had an operation on Tuesday. All they're saying it
was abdominal surgery. But she's going to be at the hospital at the London
Clinic for about ten days to fourteen days, so something pretty serious. And
then when she gets out she's going to recoup that home for about two to
three months. So we called over to the palace, Kensington Palace today and
they said, you know, she's doing well. Prince William was visiting her
in hospital about two three hours ago and as they say as well very importantly
it is not not cancerous, so a lengthy recovery but fingers crossed everything fine
for her. And then about an hour and a half after disclosure yesterday,
find out that the King Charles is going to be going in for a procedure
that's the word they're using for an enlarged prostate next week. So yeah,
two big medical stories on the royal front here and King I know that Charles
said, or the spokesperson said, oh, you know, this is a
really common thing, so they're downplaying that as well. Yeah, you know
they're downplaying that. In fact, you know, we're kind of used to
the first story with Kate with the palace, not disclosing a whole lot,
keeping a pretty broad stroke. But Charles told his people get it out there,
because he said, look, a lot of guys over fifty have problems
with enlarged prostate. Get it out there, he says, to tell them
that I'm going in for something and if they have any symptoms, people should
go. The guys should go out there and get checked out. So a
very different approach from him. Well, yeah, and actually I think that
is a good thing. And after having the big C myself, colon cancer,
I mean that's my mission now, is like you guys, get out
there and get checked because it can help you. It can save your life.
It can you know, stop the like for the prostate. For him,
it can probably stop it from becoming something worse. Yeah, you're absolutely
right. So yes, I'm kind of a different approach. You know,
back in the old days here and covering this for decades, you know,
the Royals kept this kind of information very close to their chest thing back to
the times, the various hospital engagements will say Prince Philip, but now kind
of a change. And as we saw with the case with Charles, now
if it's something that he says can help others, yeah, let's put that
information out there. It can't hurt me, but it certainly can help others.
Yeah, okay, And so I want to go back to Kate for
a minute. So we don't know because they're not saying anything beyond abdominal surgery.
So are there people they're prognosticating about what they think it could be.
I mean, like I immediately do it could be a hysterectomy, but that
wouldn't keep me in the hospital for two weeks exactly exactly. You're hearing it
in every newsroom and you're hearing it over every garden fence. Hysterectomy is one
of the one of the words being uttered here. But we don't know.
But you're absolutely right. If you're a normal person, you go in hysterectomy,
you're not probably going to be in for two weeks unless there are complications.
So yeah, who knows, But if I guess eventually you probably will
get a leak, but at this stage we're none the wiser. Okay,
and the royals both announced that they will not be doing public appearances for the
for a while, and I think Kate said it might be till Easter before
she goes back and starts doing public appearances. Yeah, you kind of comb
to the calendar after her her time at home, which could take three months.
You're looking at, you know, post Easter time. So she's going
to be out of the lineup. Charles will probably be coming back much much
quicker, but he'll be out for who knows fill in the blank a week
or two. And William he visited, as I say Kate earlier today,
he's kind of running the kids to school and doing domestic y kind of stuff.
So the lineup is pretty thin on the ground. So Princess Anne,
she's taken over some of the royal engagements, royal duties. Edward and Sophie,
uh, they're coming out of the dugout, they're doing some they're doing
some swinging to the plate too, So yeah, kind of a different,
different royal complexion over here, as I say, for the next few weeks,
maybe in the next few months, and real quickly, I mean I
know it's a it's a much bigger thing over there, although we do have
this weird fascination with the royals, but like, how many public appearances do
they do typically in a week? Are they out every single day doing they
basically they are every day. You get to the end of the year and
then they actually have they have it down to the to the specific numbers.
So yeah, it can be down to literally, you know, some days
you haven't multiple engagements, other days you skip. But it's usually, you
know, if you're senior royal, expect to do something every day. So
in the list, it's usually about their hundred sixty five engagements for the year,
that kind of thing, everything from opening libraries to open you know,
maybe a remodeled train station, all those kinds of things. But yeah,
they're out and about. Okay, well they're not going to be out and
about for a little while, Tom Rivers, thank you so much for your
information. And then you have to call us immediately when we find out what
the surgery is for. I shall do that, okay, thank you so
much. Have a good bank care. All right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four Hour newsroom and ex
Cohn, who allegedly shot and killed his ex girlfriend's poppy during an argument in
downtown LA has pleaded not guilty to charges of animal cruelty and criminal threats.
David Sumlin was arrested Monday. He's also charged in a criminal complaint filed in
federal court in LA with being a felon in possession of ammunition. Several people
in Pasadena have gotten sick from eating oysters, so we're investigating this as potentially
being the neuro virus. Pasadena's Lisa Juderien says there've been at least six cases
in the last few days. She says they are linked to several restaurants,
although the city isn't naming them. Pasadena's cases com as. Health officials in
La County recently said they're investigating more than twenty five oyster related illnesses. Three
people in Portland, Oregon, have been killed by a power line when it
fell on a car during an ice storm. Please say they believe the people
were electrocuted yesterday when they got out of the vehicle. A baby in the
car was hurt. Southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon were under warnings for as much
of as an inch of ice. The National Weather Service had freezing rain could
possibly return to the region today and tomorrow. As I mentioned earlier, I
got some friends there and they say it was nasty and just super slick.
Just everything's covered in a sheet of ice. Researchers have found the oldest black
hole ever observed using the James web Space telescope. The team made the announcement
yesterday, saying the discovery is thought to be over twelve billion years old.
Researchers say it has changed what they initially believed about black hole development, calling
their findings a giant leap forward. Still makes my head explode. Hey,
if you're going to Las Vegas, you should know about this new law that's
passed. It was passed by Clark County's Board of Commissioners unanimously. So you
know how the Las Vegas Strip has those pedestrian bridges so you don't have to
cross the strip on the street level and you can just go up and down
and around. So they've passed a new law went into effect yesterday that bans
people from stopping, standing or engaging in activity that causes another person to stop,
like stopping to take a picture. Along the pedestrian bridge. You're not
allowed to do that. Also, you can't stop people from moving on the
escalators or the stairways, and apparently they say it's just to keep the flow
of pedestrian traffic movie moving. If you get caught and in trouble for it,
a thousand dollars fine is on the line or even up to six months
in prison. So next time you go to Vegas, keep it moving,
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