You're listening to kf I A M. Six forty wake Up Call with me
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Los Angeles, Orange County. Happy then, everyone, just jo it's
time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King, and it is
a happy New Year. It's five o'clock. Good morning, January second,
twenty twenty four. I'm Amy King. Glad you're with us to get back
to regular We were here yesterday, but I think a lot of people were
sleeping it off after a fun New Year's and we were here. But we're
glad you're here today and ready to get going. I think it's going to
be a good year. I think it's going to be a crazy year,
but I think it's going to be a good year. Fingers crossed. Here's
what's ahead on wake Up Call. A large passenger plane has erupted in flames
after crashing into a Coast Guard plane as it tried to land at an airport
in Tokyo. The Coastguard crew was killed, but more than three hundred and
fifty passengers and crew on the other plane were able to escape. A large
group of demonstrators have gathered outside former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco,
calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza strip. The group says it wants
Pelosi to push for money being sent to Israel to fight its war against Tomas
to be used to help Bay Area residents in need instead. It isn't the
jackpot, but nothing to shake a stick at. One ticket with five of
the six winning powerball numbers was sold in Baker. That ticket is worth one
point two million dollars. Someone in Michigan matched all six winning numbers and starts
twenty twenty four as the winner of an eight hundred and forty two million dollar
powerball jackpot. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsrooms. Some shenanigans at the Rose Parade. A woman
has been arrested after police say she tried to rammerr car through a barricade along
the parade route. Pasadena City spokespirst In Lisa Jdarian says the barricades did their
jobs and that several parade watchers could have been injured if the woman, in
her twenties had been able to get through the barricade yesterday morning. Her car
has serious damage. Police say it happened just a few blocks away from a
pro Palestinian protest that briefly interrupted the parade, but that the two are not
related. More than ten people blocked the Rose Parade route right as the parade
was about to start yesterday morning. The group walked in front of the first
float and held up the parade for about fifteen minutes. Later in the day,
about sixty five people held a similar demonstration outside where the parade floats are
on display for the public. Police are looking for a shooter after two people
were killed at a New Year's Eve party in downtown LA. This uber driver
says he had just arrived to pick up four women from the party early Monday
morning. I could see inside the warehouse and the lights and the music and
all that stuff. It was clearly an underground like warehouse party, and there's
hundreds of people everywhere. He says. There was an argument, then the
shooting started. I see a man with a gun, star opening fire,
just wrap it. It's probably within twenty yards and there's shell case things flying.
People are starting to scatter. Several people were injured. At least three
were taken to the hospital. Five crew members have been killed in a fiery
plane crash on the runway of Tokyo's busiest airport during one of the busiest travel
days of the year. Airbus eight three point fifty, which is a large
plane, collide with that Japanese Coast Guard plane and burst into that fireball.
ABC's Matt Gutman says officials are investigating the entire airport. Three hundred and seventy
nine passengers on board and the pilot managed to escape. Officials in Japan are
assessing the damage and looking for survivors following a massive seven point six earthquake and
its aftershocks. Officials say at least forty eight people have been killed. This
tourist says he was visiting Toyama when the quake hits first. I just thought
it very slowly, and everybody kind of left it off, you know,
they thought, oh, this is kind of humorous, you know, on
New Year's Day, and then then it's just a violid shape. Japan's Prime
Minister says damage is widespread and casualties are likely to rise. Time Joey,
if you're already feeling a little behind in the New year, maybe an extra
day can help you. In twenty twenty four, there's a leap year,
so instead of three hundred and sixty five days in the calendar, we get
three hundred and sixty six. The day gets added to February every four years
to keep our dates in sync with the seasons. This year's bonus day,
of course, falls February twenty ninth. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Tom Rivers. Tom, I'm kind of putting you on the spot because you're
covering the earthquake in Japan. Do you have any updates on that plane crash
or collision at the Tokyo Airport for us? Yeah, let's start at the
top. Pretty horrific pictures you've seen now, and it's the main airport.
I've only gone through it once, but I remember quite modern, quite a
nice place. Jadina Airport, there a airbus eight three fifty coming down to
land jail flight domestic flight, and it clipped another plane on the runway on
the tarmac to be a Japanese Coast Guard plane that was preparing to deliver relief
a to the western part of Japan because of the earthquake on Monday. Bottom
line is the airbus plane went up very very quickly, but not before everybody.
Amazingly, three hundred and seventy nine people got off of that plane,
crew and passengers. As for the Dash eight, the smaller plane, sadly,
it looks like five of the six crew members there perished in the collision
and fire. So yes, tragic day on the airstrip in Tokyo. Yeah,
amazing that everybody got off because if you've seen any of the video from
this morning, that big passenger plane just erupted in flames. Yeah, it
started the very very back of the plane. You could see a couple of
windows where the fire was internal at that stage, and then were literally people
you know, got off of that clambered off the thing. And amazingly I
saw the pictures. He didn't know the story. You assumed a lot of
people died, but not the case. Good. Good to hear. And
I'll just take a minute to say thank you to the crew because they are
so well trained to get people off the planes in those situations. Oh very
much. And you know we're all guilty and you know, not paying attention
or if something happened, where is that exit door on your seat? It
makes sense because it happens once a milion, but nobody thought on that plane
would happen today, but it happened to that, all right. So then
you mentioned that that Coast Guard plane was there to bring aid to some of
the areas hit by the earthquake. It's been about twenty four hours since the
swarm of earthquakes at western Japan. There were tsunami warnings. But were there
any big waves? No, But I mean they've been through this, they
know the drill. Initially they were fearing there could be up to sixteen foot
ways, but that was ratcheted down over the subsequent hours, so that was
not the case. But the death roll sadly has been rising. The current
number is forty eight. And again if you've seen some of the pictures,
we've got crews there now. Some buildings have been destroyed, others are damaged,
and they're probably gonna, you know, sadly, it's gonna the death
toll is gonna rise. In some parts of western Japan. There's no water,
no power, no cell phones, et cetera, et cetera, and
officials say, look of your home, it's got some major faults with it.
Get out of there. There's places for you, schools, auditoriums,
et cetera. So yes, And of course the aftershocks about one hundred and
sixty now and some of them pretty severe. Indeed, that's scary. So
Japan is known for its big quakes, so they're better prepared for shaking like
this than we are in the US or in other parts, because like when
we recently had the was it Afghanistan or Pakistan, they had a big quake
and it was a similar size, but thousands of people died, oh very
much. It has to do with the history and also building codes. You
know, building codes mean life or death, and you know, some countries
you know it is what it is. And I will often see, for
instance, think back to last year in Turkey, some real, real tragic
stories coming out of there. But if you have correct building codes, you
got a fighting chance with something big like a seven point six come down the
road. Yeah, you know. And I was watching video of some of
the shaking, which is always so fascinating to watch people and their reactions.
And what I saw was it looked like it was inside a department store,
and you could see the shaking and some pretty severe jolts, and people were
just very calm and kind of they kind of hunkered down a little bit,
but they did run out into the streets or anything. I think that their
reaction, probably because they're used to the quakes, is so different than in
other areas of the world, I guess. So, you know, I
had an experience just once in Japan with an earthquake and happened to be the
Olympics in nineteen ninety eight in Nagano, and you know, I could see,
you know, in my bed, and the and the light on the
ceiling starts starts moving to and froing. So I just slowly got up and
got outside of that, out of the village. But talking to people that
came from your neck of the words, woulds they go that small potatoes top,
no big deal. Well, if you've never been there, you do
take notice. Put it that way absolutely. So you said that there's a
possibility the casualty numbers could rise. What is next? What do they do
now to start recovering from this? Yeah, well, let's you know,
here we go from you know, day one recovery, and that's going to
take months and months in layman's terms. Looking at some of these buildings,
they're going to have to be ripped down, and of course quake zones you
have to go through the rubble, and of course we're in the critical hours
now and trying to find may not be many, but you can find some
miraculous stories of people trapped for fill in the blank hours or days being pulled
out and then you go from there. Do we have any idea of the
number of people who are missing or unaccounted for. No, we don't have
that figure yet, but as I say, the officials are ramping up the
death numbers and they say be prepared for more. Yeah, all right,
Tom Rivers, thank you so much for the information. Appreciate it and appreciate
the update on that plane collision at the Tokyo Airport as well for you.
Take care, all right, take care. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Snow could be
coming to parts of La County. The National weathersit Service has issued a winter
weather advisory with three to eight inches of snow expected in the mountains. The
advisory is up from three Tomorrow morning until ten am Thursday for the San Gabriel
Mountains in Highway fourteen corridor it'll affect Pyramid Lake act in Warm Springs, Mill
Creek, Mount Wilson, Mount Baldy, Right Wood, and the Angelus Crest
Highway. Detectives say they're trying to figure out who shot five people in Hawthorne
and why. When Hawthorne police officers arrived on scene at a strip mall in
the fourteen one hundred block of Crenshaw Boulevard, they said they initially found a
man and woman who had been shot, but after La County Sheriff's investigators pitched
in to help with the case, they said they found out three others had
also been shot. The five were taken to various hospitals. The woman later
died, the man was in stable condition, and the status of the other
three is unknown. The shooting happened just after midnight Saturday. Steve Gregory k
off I News Taylor Swift Is kicked off twenty twenty four by breaking another chart
record. ABC's Jason Nathanson says Taylor's version of nineteen eighty nine top the Billboard
two hundred for a fifth non consecutive week, bringing her total number of weeks
at number one across all of her albums to sixty eight one, more than
the previous solo music act leader Elvis Presley. The King's last number one came
in two thousand and two. Only one band has beaten Elvis and Swift,
and that would be The Beatles. The Fab four has one hundred and thirty
two weeks at number one. California has become the first state to offer health
insurance to all illegal immigrants. Experts estimate providing health insurance for all two million
illegal immigrants in the state will cost Californians upwards of three billion dollars a year.
Police are looking for the shooter who opened fire on an underground New Year's
Eve party in downtown LA. Two people were killed early yesterday morning. Up
to eight others were heard. At least three had to be taken to the
hospital. Michigan will face Washington for the National College Football title on Monday.
The Wolverines earned their spot in the title game with a thrilling twenty seven to
twenty overtime win over Alabama at the Rose Bowl at six five. It's handle
on the news. Somebody in San Bernardino County has become an instant millionaire,
but someone in Michigan is almost a billionaire. Let's say good morning to the
host of How to Money Speaking of big Bucks on KFI, Joel Larsgard.
Good morning and happy New Year. Jowels, Happy New Year, Amy.
So, since it's the start of a new year, we thought we'd start
fresh and set some good money goals. That's a good idea. I mean,
I think there's a lot that people want to accomplish in twenty twenty four,
everything from maybe losing weight, getting a little more fit, and then
you know, paying off some debt or getting your money in order is just
another high priority on people's lists. And I think I have some tips that
I want to share with people, because one, I want people to live
in reality. The sometimes I don't know, if you've ever set a goal
that was too audacious and you fell flat on your face. That's going to
happen to so much many people. That is why February first, there are
half as many people at the gym as there are January second, right,
And so if you if you make it a goal to let's say, go
to the gym every single day, at some point you're gonna screw it up
and then you're gonna get demotivated pretty quickly. I would have already broken that
one, right, Yeah, exactly same here. So I just I want
people to have big goals and try to make big progress this year. But
if you try to overdo it, the chances are you're going to make slim
to no progress. Okay, So maybe baby steps is a better way to
go. Yeah, And I think it's exactly like work back from that big
goal and say, okay, is this actually feasible and break it up into
a bunch of smaller goals and a timeline too, timeline it out. One
of the things I want people to do is to write down those goals,
keep some sort of physical reminder in front of you. The bathroom mirror is
the perfect place to do this. Let's say you're trying to pay off a
lot of debt, right and you know those like thermometers that you can you
can fill in as like you're making progress and paying off debt or something like
that. Make it colorful, stick it somewhere you're going to see it every
day, so that so that that goal is not just kind of there in
the back of your mind, it's there in the forefront of your face most
day in and day out. Okay, So Joel I like this topic because
it's very relevant to me right now. So you've got a big chunk of
money that you need to pay off, right and like you said, it
sounds or it looks like if you just look at it on paper, you
go, that's too big. I can't do that. How do you make
that realistic? So you can take those bites out and not get discouraged because
I notice, like, if I can't pay off my credit card at the
end of the month, I get like, oh, I get stressed out
about it, like, oh, it's too big, it's too big,
Like, so, how do you kind of make it more palatable? Yeah,
well, you have to run the numbers, right, because again,
if it's pie in the sky and it's like, well, I think I
can pay off fifteen thousand dollars worth a credit card tet this year, but
you don't have anywhere close to that in additional additional money that you can sling
towards that credit card debt, then you have no chance of accomplishing it.
So you have to know the numbers. How much am I bringing in?
How much is going out? Can I cut back here and there? Can
I bring in more money over here somehow? And you got to just you
got to know that first, right, and so once you know the numbers,
it's going to be a lot easier. And then you also have to
give yourself some grace. Say listen, okay, and no I did find
that fifteen thousand dollars. It looks like through the course of twenty twenty four,
I'm going to have that money to pay towards credit card debt. But
it's going to be slow but sure, and even still there might be a
setback, right, you might get a nail in your tire, and so
you have to be gracious, be gracious about it, and say, listen,
I thought I was going to pay off fifteen K in credit card debt
this year. Looks like I only got to eleven or twelve. And that's
still a major win. Right. That got you a lot closer to where
you want to be than if you had just kind of sat on the couch
and not really given it a go. And I like the thing about have
some grace. It's just like it's with a diet plan. I mean,
you're going to screw it up. So the question is then do you get
right back on the horse and continue on your merry way? Or do you
let it completely derail your plan. Yeah. And by the way, and
when I said put it in front of your face, do something else.
Set a calendar event once a month for you, for you and your spouse,
your partner, whatever, to have money conversations. Do it with a
craft beer or a glass of wine or something like that. Make it fun.
I think so many times we try to make money conversations these like something
out of the Middle Ages, and they're they're you know, they're awful.
It's like I'm in I'm in some sort of like prison and we have to
talk about the subject that nobody wants to talk about. Man. I think
that if you could reframe the conversation, set it up to have a fun
monthly combo every every month about money as a topic. Because the truth is,
getting your money right is going to help fund the goals that you really
want. It's not just about debt payoff right, It's about the freedom that
comes with that. It's not just about saving up ten grand. It's about
being able to buy a car with cash, or about being able to take
that vacation you've always wanted to take your family on. So getting your money
straight has a lot of great potential consequences, but you've got to reframe it
and think about the good that you can accomplish with your money and not just
the bad stuff you're trying to overcome. Okay, now, speaking of money,
we had a really good end to the year in the stock market and
that probably is reflected in people's four oh one ks. But you're saying,
danger, Will Robinson, don't look too closely at those numbers. Yeah,
this, so this is something people usually talk about, not looking at your
four oh one k if the market is in a panic, right, if
it's like a twenty twenty two style year where the market's down something like twenty
percent, people are like, don't look at your four one K balance,
it's too scary. And guess what, you don't need that money for years
or decades anyway, so just tune it out. Well, crazy enough,
The same thing on the opposite end can be true about not looking at your
four to one K balance if it's up substantially and if you've been investing a
reasonable amount of dollars. I've seen over the past year a substantial increase in
your net worth, and yeah, it can actually inflate your ego. It
creates something called the wealth effect, and it's this behavioral economics term that says,
hey, you feel like you're richer even though you're not going to tap
those funds for years or decades. Maybe you become a little more flippant with
your eating out, or you decide to buy something that you otherwise wouldn't because
hey, I can do fine on paper, my net worth is increased.
And while I get I understand why people would do that, it's not a
good approach because it's not like you're tapping those funds yet. And so it's
great that your net worth is up. It's great that the stock market went
up significantly last year, no bones about that. But I just want people
to not be obsessed with the number and not be looking at it frequently.
Twice a year is plenty, and just kind of it's the set it and
forget it approach that I want people to take. That where they're sticking money
in like clockwork, and then what net worth is growing, but whether it's
going down in a given month or year or up in a given month or
year, for the most part, it just doesn't bother them because they care
about where that what that account's going to look like in ten or twenty years,
okay, And then just real quick, our producer and when we started
talking about what we were going to be discussing today, and we talked about
not looking at your four oh one k and she said, what about looking
at your credit score? Because now you can look at your credit score all
the time. Is it a good idea to look at it very often?
It's fun. I love that Ann does this, and I'm not trying to
harp on you, no worries you do you, but it's another one of
those things where you can obsess over that, right, And I'm all about
kind of getting familiar with how the credit scoring system works and checking in on
your credit score. There's an app called Credit Karma that does a really good
job and it offers like a scorecard to tell you where you can improve,
how you can beef up your credit score, which is really great. Let's
say you're trying to buy a house or something like that, you got to
get a mortgage. That credit score is super important. But you can overdo
that too, right, And so the truth is a lot of people are
aiming for that eight to fifty credit score. They want perfection. But the
credits scoring model is so convoluted it's pretty hard to hit perfection, and so
all you need to do good enough is good enough. It's like horseshoes here.
It's not something super precise. And so as long as you're in the
seven sixty range or higher, you're totally fine. If you're at seven eighty
and you're like obsessed with your credit score, stop chill, you don't and
why why are you overthinking it? It's good to be it's good to have
a great credit score. It's good to be familiar with the credit scoring system,
but you can also overdo it and turn something that you know. I've
never liked the credit scoring system anyway. I don't love the credit bureaus.
But this is like a necessary evil that we have to understand and get familiar
with. But you also, yeah, there's no need to look at it
every day. That's right. Thank you so much for this information to start
our new year, and Joel's going to have so much more for you coming
up this weekend on How to Money with Joel, and that is Sundays from
noon to two right here on KFI. Joel, Happy new Year, and
we look forward to getting lots and lots of good financial advice from you this
whole year. Yeah, I look forward to it too, Thanks adye.
All right, take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three people have been found dead
inside a home that caught fire in Arcadia, LA. Fire says the house
and attached garage were fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on scene on Tyler
Avenue or on one this morning. The people killed haven't yet been identified.
The FBI's investigating whether a crash in New York on New Year's Day was terrorism.
Police the two people were killed in five were hurt yesterday when a Ford
suv hit a car that was leaving a parking lot near the Kodak Center.
First Responders found at least a dozen gasoline canisters inside the Ford. It's unclear
why the driver was transporting so much gas. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says police around
the country have opped security over concern that the war between Israel and Hamas could
lead to violence in the US. Investigators say the driver went to the Syracuse
Airport before the crash to rent the suv. About one thousand people were at
Kodak for a concert. January Tewod is National Swiss Cheese Day. The Holy
Cheese was created in the thirteen hundreds in Switzerland. The cheese is a light
yellow, medium hard cheese with holes or what are referred to as eyes.
The Swiss consume about forty eight pounds of their famous cheese a year. That's
a lot of cheese. A large passenger plane is erupted in flames after crashing
into a Coast Guard plane as it tried to land at an airport in Tokyo.
The Coastguard crew was killed, but more than three hundred and fifty passengers
and crew on the other plane were able to escape. A large group of
demonstrators have gathered outside former House speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco, calling
for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The group says it wants Pelosi to
push for money being sent to Israel to fight its war against Tomas to be
used to help Bay Area residents in need. Instead. The makers of a
baby formula for babies with allergies to cow's milk or recalling the formula because of
possible bacteria contamination. The recall is for twelve point six and nineteen point eight
ounce cans of neutromagen with a used by date of January first, twenty twenty
five. Let's say good morning to ABC's ike aed Jachi. Good morning and
happy new year. Ike. Yes, happy new year to you too.
So, as we're looking into twenty twenty four, I know that like the
Biden administration's focusing on the economy, saying things are getting better, but Americans
don't necessarily want to talk about the economy. They're thinking we should, We
need to set a different priority for twenty twenty four. That's right, This
is one very new thing that Americans are starting to speak up about. Four
and ten US the Bodes meaned foreign policy topics as a focus for the US
government moving forward in twenty twenty four. Now they're pointing to two very recent
con conflicts. Israel Hamas war that's still feeding public anxiety. That conflict was
mentioned by five percent, well almost no one signed a year ago. It's
a nation that's dominated geopolitics since Israel to quar war in Hamas and gods after
that October seventh attack. And also four percent of the mentioned the conflict between
Russia and Ukraine. That's something their government should also focus on. Both parties,
they're listening foreign policy as gaining importance forty six percent of Republican thing it
that's up through twenty three percent last year, and thirty four percent Democrats list
foreign policy as a focal point compared to sixteen percent last year. But a
lot of this has an undertone of economic anxiety as well. If you look
at the Russia and Ukraine conflict, Russia constitutes a large portion of natural gas
production in the world. Look at Ukraine, they make up thirty percent of
the world's wheat production. Those two things greatly affected the Americans bottom line last
year. You can see that by the prices at the pump and even the
prices at the grocery store all across the board. They went up. So
we're seeing Americans right now tune in to this Israel Hamas war right now and
really move forward with anxiety their own bottom line. And we're starting to see
a little aspect of that now with how the United States has been shooting down
those drones in the sea, the Red Sea right there in the Middle East.
That's seed, that's trade that's affected. That's our major thoroughfare for a
lot of the world's commerce and trade routes. Those large cargo ships flew through
that area. That's affected, that's going to go into affects prices across the
board in all sectors of our economy. So now that it affects us,
we care about it for the most part. Right, ike, thanks so
much. We know you got to run, and we appreciate your time this
morning. Looking forward to talking to you many more times than twenty twenty four.
Likewise, take care, great, take care. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
man has been found shot to death in a car near a golf course in
Santa Clarita. People who live in the area had called nine to one one
to report hearing gunshots along Vista Fairways Drive, and when deputies arrived in the
early morning hours of Smiths Eve, they said they didn't see anything, but
another caller directed them down a little further to the twenty five to seven hundred
block, where they found a car stopped in the middle of the street inside
a man in the driver's seat unresponsive. He was pronounced dead later at a
hospital. Investigators say they have no leads and no motive Steve Gregory, King
of Fine News. Voters in California unaffiliated with a party can vote for a
presidential candidate in March no party preference. Voters have to request a crossover ballot.
Voters can request a mail in crossover ballot all the way through February twenty
seven. People voting in person can ask for a crossover ballot all the way
through election day on March fifth. A judge has denied a request to block
Huntington Beach from putting voter ID laws on the ballot in March. The measure,
Huntington Beach City attorney Michael Gates says, would increase the number of in
person polling places, allow dropboxes to be monitored with cameras, and require voter
ID at the polls. The city council said, let's let the people of
Huntington Beach decide to make sure things are done right and to build confidence in
the process and the system and the results. Frankly, a judge Thursday said
the temporary injunction was premature, but the lawsuit can resume if the proposal passes.
The lawsuit claims the measure is an unconstitutional attempt to make it harder for
people to vote in Orange County co Ben Carson kf I News no more than
two hundred lowriders have cruised the streets of East LA to celebrate a new law
lifting restrictions on lowrider cruising. This car fanatic says low riders are a staple
in Southern California. Cruising is our lifestyle, it's our culture, it's our
life. Governor Newsom signed a bill in October prohibiting lowrider bands and anti cruising
ordinances across the state. The law went into effect yesterday. The lowrider culture
was developed by Mexican Americans in southern California after World War II. The IDF
has started the year by withdrawing thousands of soldiers out of the Gaza Strip.
Israel says it still expects the war to last for of twenty twenty four.
The Prime Minister's office telling ABC News and Israeli team will head to Cairo this
week to discuss a potential hostage deal, but no breakthrough is eminent. ABC's
Marcus Moore says some residents in southern Israel near Gaza have gotten the ok to
go home, but life in those communities will never be the same. Ukraine's
two largest cities have been attacked by Russian ballistic missiles. Officials say at least
four people were killed and almost one hundred others were hurt. As the war
approaches its two year mark, Ukraine's President Zelensky says the cities were hit with
hypersonic missiles that fly ten times the speed of sound. Hospitals in southern California
have delivered their first babies of twenty twenty four. Javir entered the world yesterday
at one thirty eight am in Long Beach. His parents were gifted a first
baby basket in honor of having the hospital's first baby of the year. In
Lomalinda, baby Dove was born at two nine am at Lomlinda University Children's Hospital.
Theodore was born at three forty two at Ua Sea Verdugo Hills Hospital in
Glendale, and Nicholas was born in Panorama City at five five am at Kaiser
Permanente. The southern California coast is in for another round of big waves.
The National Weather Service expects the high surf to hit Wednesday and Thursday, and
then again Saturday and Sunday. LA County could see waves between four and six
feet high. Ventura County could see seven to twelve foot waves, and further
north, the central Coast is expecting ten to eighteen foot waves. Police are
looking for the shooter who opened fire on an underground New Year's Eve party in
downtown LA. Two people were killed early Monday morning. Up to eight others
were hurt. At least three were taken to the hospital. Michigan is going
to face Washington for the National College Football title on Monday. The Wolverines earned
their spot in the title game with a thrilling twenty seven twenty overtime win over
Alabama at the Rose Bowl yesterday. We're just minutes away from handle on the
news this morning, why Dave Chappelle walked off stage during the middle of his
set at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. Right now, let's say
good morning and Happy New Year to ABC's Steven Portnoy. Hi, Stephen,
Hey, good morning, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. So two
states have disqualified former President Trump from the ballot. What's next, Well,
next is the appeals and it's important that we as we can lump them together,
which is an easy way to think of it. But the really important
way to do it is to remember that the Colorado case is ripe for Supreme
Court consideration. The main case we heard about last week is not the main
Secretary of State issued for ruling that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and their force
disqualified. But the right course in Maine is to appeal that to the state
court, and that's what could start as soon as today. We expect that
Trump will file his appeal in Maine and then it'll wind its way through the
courts in Maine. But the Colorado case is already at the steps of the
Supreme Court, and we expect Donald Trump to file and appeal there today.
The Colorado Republican Party already has and separately from the Fourteenth Amendment cases that I've
discussed so far, there's the d C. Circuit Court of Appeals argument over
whether Trump enjoys absolute immunity from prosecution in the January sixth case that is set
for oral argument a week from today. It'll stream online soever we can all
listen together. But leading up to that, Trump's lawyers face an afternoon deadline
today to make one more filing on paper. They're legal brief to tee up
the oral arguments next week. She's keeping track of everything that's going on with
him in court. It's just got to be. It's kind of a daunting
task. It is a reason for being for me, giving me something to
do. But listen, you know, as hard as it is to follow
the bouncing ball of Trump's legal matters, think of that. It's also happening
during the political season and with a lot going on here in Washington, DC
as we cover Congress. So to follow that bouncing ball. We're two weeks
away, less than two weeks away from the Iowa caucus that's for thirteen days
away the Monday after next and we're three weeks away from the New Hampshire primary.
Is a government funding deadline about two and a half weeks from now,
with Congress kicking the can for a number of agencies for their funding to run
out on January nineteenth. There's the overall question of Ukraine and Israel AID tied
up in the discussion about border policy that is the subject of ongoing negotiations in
the Senate. No end to that just yet. So there's a lot to
keep on top of here. Yeah, and has in that the funding package
because we know that We talked about it quite a bit before the Christmas holiday,
that one hundred and six billion dollars they were just not getting to agreement
because it wasn't tied to border funding, and which kind of leaves both Israel
and Ukraine in limbo. Has there been any kind of movement, Are we
hearing any rumblings or just nothing? Well, the talks continued through the Christmas
New Year break and they have not resulted in an agreement. Yet they might
when Congress comes back next week. The point though, is that even if
there's by part of agreement in the Senate on border policy changes that are amenable
to Republican leaders in the Senate and to the White House, you're going to
have a problem with Republicans in the House signing onto this because they're going to
be inherently skeptical. They're going to argue it doesn't go nearly far enough.
They've passed a package that you've heard about, Hr. Two that I read
into this morning. It is an expansive bill that initiates restarts the construction of
the border wall. It severely curbs attempts to claim asylum, and Republicans say
this is necessary to curb the draw that has pulled migrants to the border in
these unprecedented numbers. They say that the law needs to be reformed so that
if people are coming to this country, even sneaking across the border, not
even lining up at ports of entry, but coming in, they should not
be able to make an asylum claim. Nearly ninety percent of the time these
assignment claims are rejected anyway, and it takes years for these cases to be
heard. So what happens in the meantime while these people come to the country
and they simply settle and have family here, and they are deemed by the
government or by society to be not deportable. So the idea is that the
Republicans argue that the law should be fundamentally changed, and that's what HR two
would do. I mean, it's a Republican wish list for immigration reform,
and it has been deemed extreme and unacceptable and by Democrats and immigration rights activists.
So any agreement that might come out of the border security talks in the
Senate is going to have a very difficult time in the House. Yeah,
and it'll be interesting to watch too, because, like you said that,
they're saying no it's just too extreme. But the way that our system is
set up now, everybody's not looking for compromise. They want the extreme,
or at least that's the appearance that they give, which makes it that much
harder to get anything done or to start reform because they're saying it looks like
it's an all or nothing. All you've heard for years is that the system
is broken. Yepttempts to fix it. There's no agreement on what would fix
it because to liberals and immigrant rights activists, the way to fix it is
to simply grant legal status and hope, you know, allow more people in
and grant them permission to stay. To Republicans, the the way to fix
the broken system is to patch what they see as holes in the process and
to make it harder for people to come. Okay, well, we're going
to be watching it and lee. As you mentioned. Then, backing up
to the Trump thing, we're expecting to see Trump's lawyers to appeal as soon
as today, and that would be appealing the main ruling. Well, there's
three separate things. So there's the main ruling, we expect an appeal in
state court. There's the Colorado case. We expect an appeal to the Supreme
Court. And in the d C Circuit here in Washington, d C.
There's a new filing. It's expected by the end of the day in the
absolute immunity case. Okay. And then along with all of that, there
are several other states who are still trying to get Trump off the ballot.
Well, that's right. I mean, you know, we'll wait until we
hear one way or the other from some sort of arbitrator in each of those
states. It's almost too much to keep track of. But the bottom line
is it's going to be up to the Supreme Court to decide the application of
an amendment to the Constitution that was drafted in eighteen sixty six in the immediate
aftermath of the Civil War, with expressed intent of those who wrote it to
apply to those took part in the war against States the Civil War itself.
But I've dug into some of the legislative history of the fourteenth Amendment, and
it was mentioned in eighteen sixty six that the way it was written, it
would apply not just to the Civil War, but to future rebellion or insurrection.
And in fact, in the early twentieth century, around the time of
World War One, there were a couple of attempts to try to invoke the
Fourteenth Amendment to prevent socialists from getting elected to Congress if they were aligned or
believed to be aligned with enemies of the United States in World War One.
And so if you have a couple of instances where since the Civil War the
fourteenth Amendment had been invoked, it stands to reason that it could apply to
Donald Trump if you believe, as the arbitrators or the arbiters in Colorado and
Main have the Trump engaged an insurrection. But a key question, how do
you know that he did? Who's to say that he did? Well?
The Supreme Court's going to have to dive into this to answer those questions.
All right, and we will be watching Steven port Ando. I thank you
so much for the information, and we're looking forward to getting all kinds of
great information from you this coming year. You bet. All right, Let's
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