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Here's any King. This is your wake up call for Monday, August
twenty feet. I'm Amy King. Good morning, nice saggy one for us
driving in had some standing water on the freeway. So my advice to you
if you're out and about today, because it looks like the the you know,
the storm's kind of tapering out, go a little bit slower because,
especially until it gets light, you don't really see where there's standing water,
and you don't know about it until you kind of hit it and start hydroplaning.
My fun thing that I saw on the way in this morning on Riverside
Drive with sprinklers going full force. I thought that was fun, Like,
you know, maybe they should have turned those off for today. For the
most part, I know that there was some flooding. I know that there
has been a lot of rain, but for where I was yesterday, it
was just rain. I had the doors open all day. It was like
seventy five degrees and at my house I got no wind. I don't know
if you guys got wind, but I got no wind. And then I
just slept like a baby because having the rainfall. It was like one of
those sleep machines. So hopefully you had a good experience. It wasn't a
great experience for everybody. We got a lot going on today. We're gonna
give you the latest on the storm. We're gonna let you know what else
is going on in the world. So get your coffee. Buckle up years
so it's ahead on the wake up call. Hillary has been downgraded to a
post tropical cyclone as it continues to dump on the Southwest. Hillary's maximum sustained
wind to fall into thirty five miles per hour. Kids in La public schools
get the day off. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says the move is being made out
of an abundance of caution as Hillary moves through the region. Burbank and Pasadena
schools are also closed. Anaheim schools are closed to Palm Springs is under a
state of emergency after seeing its heaviest hourly rainfall total on record. Dozens of
cars became trapped in the floodwaters. Indio has also declared a state of emergency.
So let's get started. With some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hillary has been soaking the Southland. One to
four inches of rain has fallen across the valleys and more in the deserts and
mountains. Saugus got about five and a half inches of rain as of last
night. Officials in LA reported more than a dozen cases of flooding across the
city and more than five thousand l A DWP customers lost electricity yesterday, with
boil Heights in Hollywood among the hardest hit areas. There were also reports of
power lines, down, trees down, debris flows. Lake County Board of
Supervisor's chair Janice hansigned an emergency declaration yesterday to speed up any state and federal
assistance well because of that flooding. Five cars in Sun Valley got stuck on
a road. Firefighters had to help at least one person get out of their
car last night on Sherman Way at Hershey Drive. Nobody was hurt. Hurricane
Hillary warnings may have kept most people away from Huntington Beach, but one surfer
headed straight into the storms. Sweet there'll be some swell Finally, this surfer
says she wants to experience God's nature. The wind in the drifts just much
more powerful. She said yesterday, she's staying out even as Hillary rolled in.
The tide should be dropping. It should be good. It's high tide
right now, so they'll get better. So you're going back out there,
yes. Ocy Sheriff Don Barnes says mudslide danger in canyon areas will be monitored
even after the rain stops, the Jessica Canyon and Silverado Canyon, and that's
because of the debris flow potential as a result of the recent bonfire in Silverado
Canyon Corbin. A bunch of colleges have canceled in person classes today because of
Hillary. That includes cow State, Long Beach, cal State, LA,
and all LA Community College District campuses. The nine impacted community colleges are going
to do classes remotely or canceled them all together. Normal operations are expected again
tomorrow. Some of southern California's desert communities could get a year's worth of rain
in about a day because of what was Tropical Storm Hillary. That includes Death
Valley, where some flooding was reported. The storm will undoubtedly set an August
rainfall record for LA. As we told you we got lots of rain in
the city. It's historically the driest month in the region. Average rainfall total
for the month is zero inches. And as if a hurricane wasn't enough,
at least seventeen after shocks have followed the magnitude five point one earthquake that hit
Ventura County. The main quake at yesterday afternoon centered four miles southeast of o
High. The after shocks range between magnitudes two point eight and three point six.
This is the first time we've had a magnitude five since nineteen thirty two
in exactly this location. That's quake expert doctor Lucy Jones. She says the
earthquake was probably not caused by all the rain. She called it a coincidence.
And now let's say good morning to ABC's Alex Stone. Alex, we
got a hurt quake. Oh man, it wasn't it crazy? It was
so did you feel it? I didn't, you know. I was on
the phone or like my best friend yesterday afternoon who was up in Oregon,
and we're talking about the rain, and we're all like, oh yeah,
and it's not so bad. And then I get this alert that says we've
got a quake detected in your areas, stop drop roll or whatever, and
you thought, oh, they got that wrong, and my storm in the
area. I know, that's exactly what I thought. Then I checked my
quake feed, and then I grabbed my cats and made sure that they were
safe. But I didn't feel it at all. Yeah, we were in
Santa Clarita and everything started shaking, and kids came running downstairs yelling, earthquake,
earthquake, and then by that point then the shakiler was going off and
everything else. And then overnight there was one probably around eleven o'clock one of
the aftershocks that woke me up that you could hear the house moving and knew
immediately what it was. So it's it's been nuts. But on the Hillary,
it is now a post tropical cyclone sitting over central Nevada, so it
is moved on. This double whammy should be clearing out today. I mean,
as folks are getting out about right Nowaday, they know that there's still
some rain that that's lingering, but for the most part it's now gone.
And the flooding levels in the areas like Palm Springs where there was a little
bit that's beginning to to Colm down, so we should be in the clear
now. Things should be better today with school many of the schools canceled today.
Hopefully clean up, let you know, everybody's nerves come back together,
and then get to get back to routines tomorrow. But the bread missing out
of the stores they will restock today. The bottled water that everybody loaded up
on that hopefully this is a kind of the end of it, hopefully the
aftershocks, and we heard from this lady in Ohi. She was right at
the epicenter and she definitely felt it. There was a big jolt and my
house started shaking, and I heard a crack which turned out to be the
tile on my porch, and I jumped up and then it was over.
Yeah, that's kind of how quick it it felt where I was as well.
I know a lot of people was shake alert. That was kind of
the first time it seemed to have worked, and they depending on how far
you were away from the epicenter. That folks actually got warnings before the shaking
started, and Santa Clarita was kind of simultaneous because we were so close to
Ohi. But that it did work and people got you know, half a
second, a second before they actually felt it. But it seems a courting
to Lucy Jones, total coincidence, but a what a crazy twenty four hours?
Yeah, and then crazy too. Like you mentioned, there was the
jolt last night that woke you up. But after that first five point one,
then they just kept coming in and kept coming out. Oh my gosh,
there's another one. Oh, there's another one, and a lot of
them were twos, but they were like up to three point six and you
can definitely feel that if you're close to it, so that it was just
sort of a surreal, freaky thing yesterday. I mean the timing because it's
been I don't know, I think since Crested earthquake that we've felt anything.
I don't know about you, but it's been years since we've felt an earthquake,
and for this to come on the same day, and then, you
know, Lucy Jones points out there's a one in twenty chance and this was
a four shock to something bigger that we know now that there were four shocks
on Saturday to yesterday's quake, and that there could highly unlikely, but there
could be this. There might be a four shock to something in the next
couple of days. So that's always in the back of the mind of what
if, will we be ready and maybe just have the plan ready to go
in case it is a four shock to something. But there were a lot
of aftershocks, and they were coming in hot and heavy well, and they're
continuing. There was one at four twenty two this morning. At two point
three, there was a two point one they're waking up with. That was
not maybe the end of it. Yeah, I mean these are Oh and
then at twelve fifty one this morning there was a three point zero, so
you might have felt that one. Jeez, I'm sure that's normal, but
five point one isn't that big. This seems like a lot of aftershocks,
but maybe not. Yeah, it's so when you got the quake alerk,
you said it, it happened almost instantly that and then you felt a jolt.
Yeah, it was simultaneous. I mean the shaking started and I would
say maybe two or three seconds later than my phone went off. But some
colleagues who lived down in like Long Beach and more towards the south, they
before they felt any shaking and they got it pretty minor there, but that
they had gotten the alert before. So it did work. And I don't
remember it ever going off and working before, but it but it did work.
Well, it didn't work for me because well, I mean it did.
I got the quake alert. I didn't feel it, but you know
what I didn't do. I didn't stop and take cover, well nor did
I. I mean I just stood there and went oh, and I,
like I said, I went for the cats to make sure that they were
okay. But if there had been a big quake, I gotta pay better
attention to that. And because these are kind of a new thing that we
get this little yeah. But also and then you we got the flash flood
warnings, which I got another one at like three o'clock this year this morning.
Yeah, so there that's an effect until eight o'clock this morning for La
County, and I think nine o'clock for a yeah, and then we should
be done at that point, I think. But on the quake, yeah,
I mean, and our kids came running downstairs, We're like, that's
probably not what you're supposed to do either. I'm yelling screaming down the stairs.
I ran to the microphone. I guess that's what the news person does,
or you don't take cover, you run to the mic. And so
I don't think any of us did what we're told to do. Yeah,
okay, So up in the desert, they were saying pretty much historic rainfall,
like they got a year's worth of rain. Have we had any of
the big flooding mud slides. No, and you know, palm springs at
Eisenhower Medical Center they had some flooding. City Hall had a little bit of
flooding. But I gotta say for what we experienced yesterday, and there were
some areas the reported eleven inches of rain, which that's a lot of rain,
especially in the desert in the summertime, that we didn't have any major
power outages. I know there were a few, but I think that that's
the lack of wind in that it wasn't like a Santa Ana event. Yeah,
I didn't have any wind at my house. No, And there was
a little bit overnight, but it wasn't knocking out power. There wasn't major
flooding. There. There was you know, some debris flow here and there.
And I know there's worry about today, but out in the desert and
you know, no major injuries that we know of, no major damage.
This is pretty incredible. We had her a quake or whatever we're gonna end
up calling it, and that there weren't any major dis options of any kind,
and you know, people just kind of rode it out. There have
been more minor storms that in the end, there's major power outages and there's
mud slides all over and yeah, people are evacuating out of their homes and
we didn't get a lot of that, and thank goodness. And there are
are areas and people are gonna say, yeah, but we had fill in
the blank. But but generally speaking, major stuff, no, at the
end of this, not a lot of it. Yeah, well that that
makes me happy. So I'm glad we were prepared. I'd rather be over
prepared than underprepared, so, you know, hopefully, but it was nuts.
I think everybody's nerves are fried today. Yeah, good thing schools around
because everybody just needs to gotta chill, you know, watching Netflix, go
for a run in the in the sunshine this afternoon and just say we did
it all right, Thanks so much, Alex. Don't appreciate it. You
got it. Thanks heavy. Here's some of the stories. You're waking up
to a flash flood warning for La Glendale Santa Clarita, Thousand Oaks, Semi
Valley, and Oxnard still in effect until eight this morning. Leona Valley got
more than six inches of rain in the storm. Burbank got about three and
a half inches. Orange County is also under a flash flood warning until nine
am. Flash flood warnings have expired for Apple Valley and the Inland Empire.
At least seventeen aftershocks have rumbled under OHI following a five point one earthquake yesterday
afternoon at two forty five. Five of those aftershocks happened hours later between nine
forty five and ten thirty, and there's even been some this morning at five
thirty five. We're gonna be talking to ABC's Karen Travers as the President First
Lady head to Hawaii to get a firsthand look at Lahinah. But right now,
let's say good morning to Rory O'Neill at the iHeart Hurricane Center. Good
morning, Rory, hey Amy, good morning, Good morning. So you
know all about hurricanes, so let's talk about this one now that it's a
post tropical cyclone. Did she did she perform the way that they expected?
It seems like we kind of got off easy on this. Yeah, well
you also lucked out on the track of the storm. You know. A
few days ago when they were looking at this the hurricane forecasters in South Florida
were concerned that this storm may have had a bit more of a westerly track,
and if it did, San Diego and La would have been hit much
harder. Instead, the center of the storm passed to the east, and
that's good because the toughest part of these storms is always on the eastern side.
So that's where a lot of the moisture came down, and that's where
we saw some of the strongest wins. Didn't really get much significant storm surge
in La or San Diego. So if the area has to be hit by
a tropical storm once every hundred years or so, that was a pretty good
path for this storm to take. Yeah, and we really with hurricanes.
You have an idea, But are we better at forecasting him now or do
we just still not quite know and they could kind of change track at any
time. Well, no, they still do change track. And what the
forecasters are particularly bad at is forecasting hurricane intensity. That is, whether or
not it's a tropical storm or if it stays a category one hurricane or a
two, or balloons all the way up to a category five like Hurricane Katrina.
So that's what they're pretty bad at. But they were pretty accurate with
this one. As the storm approached, you know that seventy two hour to
forty eight hour timeline, They had it right on as passing just to the
east of the major metropolitan areas, but still dumping a lot of rain.
And we're still seeing these reports in places like Death Valley getting record amounts of
rainfall or ten months worth of rain in a single day, and it's we're
still waiting to see what the effects are when it comes to rock slides or
mud slides, because the effects of this are not over yet, Okay.
And when you say that the Death Valley could get a year's worth of rain
or almost a year's worth of rain in a single day, is that still
only a couple of inches because they usually don't get any it is, so
it's still only three or four inches. We saw that in Palm Springs as
well. I think they got about three and a half inches of rain,
but they only get normally about four and a half inches of rain. But
the roads just aren't designed for it. The drainage system just isn't ready for
that, and the ground just doesn't handle rain as well. I'm in Florida.
We get three inches of rain every other day in these seamy summer months.
But we are a swamp, so there are plenty of places for that
water to go. That's not the case in these desert communities where the ground
just doesn't absorb the water like it does here. Okay, And a couple
of days ago, when its strengthened to a Category four storm, I think
that's when everybody really went, oh wow, this could really be bad.
Even the forecasters. It said, when it hits the water as it heads
north, it hits the cooler water, that would weaken it, and it
did, so did anything. You go ahead? You had the little water
hitting it, and then you also have the center of the storm passing over
the Baja Peninsula as well. That really robs it of its power. These
things are fed by warm ocean waters. And if you've probably seen the map
today, the forecasters are talking about what's happening in the Atlantic Ocean right now.
We've got three name storms, two more on the verge of being named.
So suddenly someone flipped a switch, and with all the hot temperatures,
the hotter than ever temperatures recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, they're really gearing up
for a heck of a hurricane season. The next couple of weeks are going
to be interesting. When is this typical hurricane season or are we late or
early this year? So the hurricane season is six months long, but it
does tend to peak from mid August through mid October, and really the peak
day I think is September tenth is on average the day when we see the
most storm activity. So we really are now getting into the heart of the
hurricane season. And to have so many suddenly churn up after what had been
a relatively quiet season, we're also buckled up here saying, oh, here
we go. But at the same time, you know, Hillary is bringing
flash flood watches into Idaho, which just is remarkable that somebody made Mother Nature
very angry this week. Okay, so, now, not having been through
a hurricane or a tropical storm, since we're in southern California and we haven't
seen them for years and years, I thought it was really interesting that yesterday
when the rain was falling, you felt those bands because it would rain and
then it would stop, and then it would rain and then it would stop.
And is that pretty typical of a hurricane or is it more NonStop?
No, very much. That's how these go. These bands are rain and
it's sort of heads and flows and you sort of oh, that was a
bad one, and you go, okay, Oh that one wasn't so bad.
Was that the worst of it? Oh nope, nope, this one
is. So it does sort of keep you on edge. You know,
you were lucky in that this hit on a Sunday, so so many people
got to be home from work and just spend time with the families. And
that it was so fast moving. You know, typically these hurricanes move around
twelve fourteen miles an hour. This woman's going twice as fast. So it
helped to speed it along into the interior portions and that would help reduce the
total amount of rainfall. That's something else that the Hurricane Center had to adjust
along the way, just how fast the storm was moving. But that really
wasn't blessing. All right, Well, next time we have a hurricane,
Rory, I hope we get to talk to you again. Well I'll have
to wait eighty four more years. We'll talk to you then, Okay,
thank you so much. Rory O'Neil. He is at our hurricane desk,
our national correspondent for iHeartRadio. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's
Karen Travers as SoCal deals with heavy rain and flooding from Hillary. President Biden
and the First Lady are headed to Hawaii to tour damage from another disaster.
Good morning, Karen, Yeah, they are, Good morning. They're gonna
be traveling to Maui today to meet with emergency responders, survivors, community members,
and state and local officials. There's a the federal officials that are on
the ground to help with the recovery efforts. They're first going to receive an
aerial tour before they even touch down on the ground to take a look from
above at the impacted areas, then the land in Lahinah into a part of
that historic town to see the wildfire damage first hand. The President tonight will
deliver remarks and announce that a top FEMA official, Bob Sentin, will serve
as the chief Federal Response Coordinator to oversee what the White House says will be
a long term, coordinated federal recovery effort. Officials say that he is one
of the nation's most experienced disaster response and recovery officials, and that Sentin has
been on the ground in Hawaii since the wildfire started, so he knows the
area, he knows this current disaster very well, and he is somebody that
will lead them through the short, medium, and long term recovery because it's
going to be a big one. They have a lot of needs there right
now and it's going to be a big building efforts and housing is of course
a very big concern going forward. Well, they basically have to start where
that whole town is gone. Yeah, and you know they're talking now about
where things stand in terms of moving people into something sort of more permanent.
The number of survivors, according to the White House, that are in shelters
was reduced by fifty percent late last week, and the Red Cross, they
say, expects to move all survivors who are in shelters into hotel rooms by
next week. So giving something a little bit more permanent, swimming and maybe
feels a little bit better. But you're right, I mean, the decimation
is just staggering, and those building it's going to take some time to give
people back what they lost. But that's something that the President will likely hear
from people today when he sits down later this evening. Their last event is
what the White House calls a community engagement, where they'll meet with people who
have gone through so much and hear their stories. I mean, this is
where presidents do that consoler and chief comforter and chief role, giving out hugs
and also just listening, hearing firsthand what they've been through and what they need.
So on the ground, he's going to go and see Lahinah or what
is left of it, but then actually he will be sitting and talking to
some of the residents. He will be that's the last thing that they'll do,
and we're expected to see some of that, but I think a lot
will take place behind closed doors where the president can just sit and hear from
people. A week so I ca'll meet with some of the families who rock
loved ones, but also a lot of this is really focused to on what
the emergency needs are right now and what the rebuilding efforts will be like going
forward. Okay, Karen Travis, thank you so much for checking in.
Good to know that the President is there and going to be assessing stuff and
that a lot of money is coming in to help the people in Hawaii have
a great day. So, as we were talking about, Lahinah was devastated
destroy it. You've seen the pictures. Have you seen the picture of the
Miracle Home in Lahinah. I was talking to a friend yesterday who sent me
a picture of it. There is one house in this whole neighborhood that is
still standing, and you can see it. It looks like it might have
been photo shopped in, but it's not. It's actually a house on front
Street, which is right up against the water. But then you see all
these just piles of rubble. Every other house is gone in the whole neighborhood,
and they're trying to figure out why this one was spared. It's interesting
because there were some fires in Colorado a few years ago and my friend David,
his neighborhood was affected and like every house in his neighborhood was burned to
the ground except his. So it's another one of these just really odd situations,
and they're trying to figure out why this one house was spared. I
mean, it looks almost unscathed, and one of the reasons would be that
possibly when they remodeled the house. They put a red roof on it,
and it's a metal roof so it couldn't burn. And then officials also said
the other thing that may have saved it was that they cut all the brush
away from the house, so they have like a it's called a zone zero
or an ember ignition zone. They dug out the existing landscaping around the house
and replaced it with river stones. Well, they did it because they said
they wanted the drainage and that kind of stuff, so they did it for
a very practical reason. But the effect of it is that it may have
just saved their home, but every other house just absolutely devastated. But I
think if you google the Miracle House in Lahino you'll see it. It's pretty
amazing. Several firefighters narrowly escaped a mud slide in San Bernardino County. Mud
boulders and trees came rushing towards a group of firefighters from behind fire Station ninety
nine in Forest Falls yesterday. The firefighters saw the mud slide racing toward them
after they went out to investigate a loud noise. Forest Falls is in the
Eldorado Fire burn scar and is under a shelter in place order until the storm
passes. News brought to you by American Vision Windows Showers going to continue into
today before the precipitation begins to taper off. LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said
as if yesterday afternoon, there hadn't been any reports of injuries or major damage
from the storm, but there were more than a dozen reports of flooding across
the city and about five thousand DWP customers lost electricity. Boil Heights and Hollywood
were among the hardest hit areas. Some power lines are down. A pair
of debris flows were reported in the Sherman Oaks area. Residents of an apartment
building in Koreatown reported a partial roof collapse. Several schools have joined the La
School District inclosing schools for the day because of what was Tropical Storm Hillary.
Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says because the storm hit hardest to overnight, the district needed
time to make sure that it would be safe for students to return as early
as five thirty six am. We have students usually walking to school would out
the ability to inspect schools or the access to schools. We cannot determine if
there are power lines down or three limbs down. The Anaheim, Englewood and
Paramount school districts have also announce school closures. All schools are expected to reopen
tomorrow. Palm Springs has issued a local emergency declaration because of inundated roadways.
The City of India did the same, saying the storm threatened local infrastructure and
public health and safety. Palm Desert also reported a series of road closures because
of flooding, which caused a stretch of the ten to be closed in both
directions. Yesterday. Governor Newsom issued a state of emergency over the weekend for
much of southern California to support storm response and recovery efforts. First it was
the West coast, now it's the East coast. Turn. One of several
storm systems in the Atlantic Ocean has become tropical storm Emily. The National Hurricane
Center said yesterday it was far from land, moving west in the open Ocean.
Tropical Storm Franklin has formed in the Eastern Caribbean, and tropical storm watches
have been issued for the southern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The
first of three memorial services is being held for men of the three men killed
in a midair helicopter collision during a brushfire in Cabazon. The service for Cowfire
Captain Tim Rodriguez will be this morning at the Ontario Convention Center. A memorial
for fire Assistant Chief Josh Bischoff will be Thursday at the Toyota Arena, also
on Ontario. Funeral services for contract pilot Tony Susa will be held Friday.
In northern California, Orange County Sheriff's deputies have shot a man suspected of stabbing
two people at an apartment complex in Lake Forest. Officials stay they found two
women with multiple stab wounds yesterday. One of them died. Police confronted a
man outside the complex where he was shot. He and one of the people
stabbed were taken to the hospital. Officials say they believe the man is related
to the two women. Firefighters are working to put out a fire in that's
burning several semi trucks and at least four of their vehicles in Wilmington. Lay
Fire says the fire is burning in a dismantling yard on North Sanford Avenue.
Former President Trump is confirmed he will not be attending the first Republican presidential primary
debate in Milwaukee. ABC Selena Wang says that doesn't necessarily mean Trump won't be
heard from Wednesday evening courses, telling ABC News that former President Donald Trump has
already prerecorded a sit down interview with Tucker carls It. Wang says the interview
is intended to be counter programming to the debate. So far, eight candidates
have met the rnc's polling and donor threshold to participate in the debate, and
an all star baseball team from El Segundo is four wins away from winning the
Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. They're playing a team from Texas
this afternoon. The game will be televised on ESPN two go El Segundo.
Flash flood warnings have expired for Apple Valley and the Inland Empire. At least
seventeen aftershocks have rumbled under OHI following a five point one earthquake yesterday afternoon at
two forty five that was felt in several areas around the Southland. I personally
didn't feel it. Five of them happened hours later, between ninety five and
ten thirty last night, and then there have been a few more early this
morning, let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy, because Hillary isn't the
only thing going on in the world today. There could be more tough news
for former President Trump because of his chief of staff. Good morning, Stephen.
Hey, good morning to you Amy. And we are watching the developments
with Hillary here in Washington, DC. So best to everyone in the south
Land. As we monitored the rain, hope everybody made it through. And
with the earthquake too, I know we had a herriqua. Yeah. Well,
in the other news here in Washington, d C. We are monitoring
developments with prospective Mark Meadows. Because this has to do with what he is
said to have told Special Council investigators. We broke the news yesterday morning that
Mark Meadows has told the Special Council's team that he has no memory, no
memory of Donald Trump issuing any kind of declassification order for the documents that Donald
Trump took with him from the White House tomorrow lago. This doesn't have to
do with January sixth as much as it has to do with the classified documents
case that Trump faces in South Florida in the federal court. The case brought
by the Special Council. Remember, Donald Trump has accused of obstructing justice in
his retention of classified materials and the efforts that he allegedly undertook with his body
man, with his maintenance man to prevent the government from recapturing those public papers
and having them properly stored in government facilities at the National Archives. Trump is
accused of hiding those documents, even from his own attorneys, so that the
attorney would attest in writing that all the classified papers were turned over. Mark
Meadows says that he has no memory to back up Trump's public defense. Trump's
lawyers have not been in court arguing this in their filings, but Trump himself
has been on television, He has been on a social media platform talking about
this idea that he had the power to declassified material and he used it.
Well. If his senior aide in the White House at this time has no
memory of Trump issuing such an order, it really does make you wonder whether
such an order ever existed. So would an order like that have to go
through Mark Meadows. All power in the Constitution in Article two is vested in
the President of the United States. When it comes to the presidency, it's
all in his person, and all the power that is derived from the president
when it comes to the handling of classified material goes up to the president and
flows down from him. In theory, and I say in theory because it's
a theory, because it's never been tested before. Ray, well, it's
never been tested before. And ultimately the end of the day, to the
extent that it is, all of the cases and there have been so many
cases where people have been brought before judges and juries and thrown in prison for
violating these laws. In theory, all the power in this area vests in
the president himself. But when papers are declassified, when the government says that
this is a secret that is fit for public consumption, there is a process,
and that process traditionally involves bringing in the agencies that created the secret document,
talking with the leaders, making sure that they are on board with public
release of this information. They call this the equities of the various agencies.
They listen. They don't have the final say. The president always has the
final say, but when it's been used by Donald Trump and other presidents,
it's always gone through this process. Now, the theory holds at the president
the United States himself has the ultimate authority and the President of the United States.
The former president claims he used it, but when he's senior most aid
says he has no memory of Trump actually using it. Well, that's a
compelling argument that the prosecutor is going to make that the former president never used
it. And in addition to Mark Meadows not having any memory, you also
have that audio tape. That audio tape that's been obtained by ABC News and
other news organizations in which someone who's writing a book for Mark Meadows is sitting
with Donald Trump at Bedminster, New Jersey in twenty twenty one. They're discussing
this paper that Trump presents that is trying to He's trying to make an argument
that Mark Millie, the chief of the Joint Chiefs Chairman, had this idea
of attacking Iran. And here's the paper. See it's marked secret. I'm
paraphrasing the former president is he and I shouldn't have it and you shouldn't see
it because it's secret. I had the power to declassify it, but I
didn't, and now I don't have that power anymore. When you match that
audio tape from twenty twenty one with Mark Meadows saying he has no memory of
Trump power to declassify in his final days of the presidency, and it just
you put those two things together, it contradicts Trump's public statements since that he
did have the power and he used it. Ultimately, a jury is going
to be asked to weigh this question, and they'll be asked, who do
you believe. Do you believe Donald Trump on tape and his former aide,
or do you believe Donald Trump what he says when he's not under oath outside
of court. Okay, then one other question for you, is it possible
that they could argue, well, donald Trump declassified those things, he just
didn't tell anybody about it. He was the president. He could do it
at anytime. They could argue that, but they have not argued that.
Donald Trump has been saying it at interviews, He's been saying it on social
media. But his attorneys when they have been representing their case so far and
the hearings that have taken place in South Florida, they've not argued that.
And it's probably because, if you had to guess, they have no evidence
to back it up. Okay, it just keeps getting curious there and curious
there, doesn't it stay tuned. Remember, by the end of the week,
Donald Trump has to turn himself in in Fulton County, Georgia, Y
January sixth, Yes, in that January sixth case. Just you know,
sometimes I'm paid to keep track of this stuff. Sometimes it's time. The
former presidents expected to turn himself into the Fulton County jail for booking. The
arraignment will happen, we expect after Labor Day, so and everybody. There's
nineteen people total, including the former president, that have to do that.
Has anybody gone down to Fulton County yet, not that I'm aware of.
I don't know if it's going to be coordinated. The Fulton County Authorities put
out a statement last week that reminded all nineteen codefendants that the jail is open
twenty four to seven whenever they're ready. Okay, maybe see Stephen Portnoy.
Thank you so much, appreciate it. You bet. I'm sure we're going
to be talking to Stephen again very very soon. Hey, if you had
a flight affected by Hillary, some nice news for you. The airlines are
issuing waivers. So more than a thousand flights have been canceled, and that
was just yesterday. More than forty five hundred were delayed as of nine o'clock
or actually six o'clock hour time last night. So make sure you call your
airlines if you were affected, because what they're basically letting you do is change
your flights, and they're not charging you those fees. I know the fees
went away during the pandemic, but they're back so and looking through this list,
it looks like everybody's doing it. America and Alaska, Delta, Hawaiian,
Frontier, Jet Blue, Spirit Southwest, and I guess YEP, United's
on that list too. So if you were affected, make sure you reach
out to your airlines and make sure that they don't charge you. We are
going to be We're going to be with Handle on the news in just a
moment, and I'm sure we're going to get lots more about what was hurricane
and then tropical storm and now post tropical cyclone. Hillary, we lead local
live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has
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