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my donut. Doesn't taste like spaghetti. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Twelve more hostages have been released by Hamas as part of an extent did
ceasefire deal with Israel. This is the last day of the six day ceasefire.
About one hundred and seventy people are still being held hostage by HAMAS.
A homeless woman's been arrested after a philanthropist was shot and killed inside his home
on the Miracle Mile. Police see the woman broke into Lead with Love CEO
Michael Latt's home on Monday night. The woman was arrested at the home and
is being held on three million dollars bail. Cyber Monday numbers are in and
they're big. Sales are up ten percent over last year. According to Adobe
Analytics, twelve point four billion dollars was spent online. Analysts say prices are
up because of inflation, so people may not have actually bought more stuff.
They also say more people are using credit cards and buy now, pay later
plans, so they're going to hit with those charges next month. At six
o five, it's handle on the news. Talks are on to extend the
ceasefire that ends today between Israel and Hamas. Bill will give you the latest
on that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police say a man fatally shot while eating at
a restaurant at La Live was killed by somebody who knew him. Realise say
the shooter walked into Fixon's Soul Kitchen last night and shot the man. A
woman with him was grazed by a bullet. Policer trying to find the shooter.
Police in Burbanks say they're looking for a homeless man who's been committing hate
crimes. Officials say the man painted anti Semitic graffiti like swastik is an iron
cross in the ss Nazi symbol in places like a Jewish temple on Glen Oaks,
an underground parking garage on Cyprus Avenue, and a nearby city utility box.
A bulletin sent out by police identifies the man as thirty two year old
Clinton Dion, a white man with a faint tattoo above his left eye.
Police didn't say whether Dion is armed or considered dangerous, but he's known to
frequent burbank La Elsa Gundo, Pasadena, and Glendale. Steve Gregory KAFI News.
You can see a photo of the guy on our website KFI AM six
forty dot com slash suspect. At least one person a border US military aircraft
has been killed in a crash off the coast of southwestern Japan. Eyewitness reports
indicate that the aircraft's left engine was on fire as it descended. ABC's Anthony
Trotter says the Coastguard has been searching for the other five people aboard the osprey.
Debris believed to be from the aircraft has been found off the eastern coast
of Yakoshima. An empty inflatable life raft was also found in the area.
Hamas and Israel have released more hostages and prisoners under terms of a ceasefire that
held for a fifth day. Yesterday's swap was the latest since the ceasefire began
on Friday. No American hostages were released during that exchange. We don't have
perfect visibility on where they are. We know Hamas can get to all the
hostages if it wants to, and it has the ability to do that.
Now, we'll keep pressing to get these Americans out as much as we can.
The National Security Council's John Kirby says the ceasefire is the best way to
see all of the hostages freed. Israel says ten of its citizens and two
people from Thailand were freed by Hamash yesterday. Israel released thirty palace in prisoners
in exchange. Now, let's say good morning to ABC's White House correspondent Karen
Travers. Karen, a little problem with the National Christmas Tree yesterday. Yeah,
this was really something like straight out of Clark Griswold's National Enterance Bersas Vacation.
Okay, so this is not a small Christmas tree. You know,
you maybe sell the pictures and videos of the First Lady welcoming in Christmas tree
to the White House right before Thanksgiving. That's the Christmas tree that goes inside
the White House, a lovely tree that goes in the Blue Room. This
one, however, goes out on the ellipse behind the White House, south
of the White House, kind of like way far south of the south lawn.
It is forty feet tall, so it is massive. And we had
some really strong winds yesterday in DC and the White House was you could feel
it in the windows and it was about forty some miles an hour yesterday.
And where that is, it's kind of just like open grass, open space
down there. And at some point the tree, which already had lights and
things on it, just toppled over. They had to bring in a crane
to always the thing back up. It took a couple of hours, but
the Park Service said the show must go on. They are planning for everything
to be full steam ahead tomorrow night, Thursday for the official annual tree lighting
ceremony, that's the one that the President First Lady attends. Dion Warwick is
going to be singing there. It's a really lovely event. It's a big,
big deal in Washington. But I think they're a little nervous today about
how the tree is going to hold up because it might be still a little
bit windy. But so it's quite a project yesterday to get the tree back
up and standing. And they're actually planted. It's kind of crazy. They're
what I was going to ask you about. Yeah, so when it comes
to sixteen seventies, they're not just displayed in tree stand I think because maybe
can't because they're so huge. They're planted on the ellipse. And this was
a new one. So the previous tree have been planted two years ago,
but it was just cut down like two weeks ago because there was an infection
in the tree. So they had to get rid of that one bring this
one in. So it's only been there for about two and a half weeks,
and maybe that just wasn't long enough for it to take and the poor
thing fell down. You know. We had some Santa Ana wind events not
too long ago, and same thing where they had recently planted some trees out
in front of our building and I came into work and they were all blown
down. They were planted, but they were blown down, So now I
mean yeah, you know, anybody that's put one up in their house and
seen it wobble, can just imagine the Park Service stretch yesterday if that's that
big sucker coming down. Oh yeah, and the panic because they're doing the
Christmas tree lighting ceremony. So it's back up. Yes, I'm guessing that
it's got cables folding it and all of that stuff. Now, yeah,
we are assured that they are feeling good about it being secured. We're going
to get some further updates today according to the Park Service, but they are
hopeful that the tree lighting ceremony tomorrow night down there at the Ellipse will go
forward. And it's a lovely event. The President always attends, no matter
the administration makes a little quick motorcade down from the White House. Traffic is
a nightmare in Washington for that hour that the President is down there. But
it's a great event. Okay, So the First Lady also unveiled Christmas decorations
at the White House. Yes, yes, they're very lovely this year.
There's a whole theme is like Christmas in the Holidays through a child's eyes,
So it's all very playful, very elaborate, lots of you know, candy
kind of themes that of course the famous gingerbread house that's in the State dining
Room. There are different themes for the pets of the first family. They're
cats, there's dogs. They have displays for them, and it's just a
very delightful decorations that she unveiled on Monday. And so they'll do open houses
for guests if you get tickets over the next couple of weeks. In addition
to the private parties that they host for members of Congress, ambassadors, donors,
you know, military, there's two different press parties. They're basically hosting
a party every night starting this week. Well why wouldn't you? Oh my
goodness, you got a lovely house like that, you want to show it
off? Have you seen? It's exhausting too, though I have not yet.
I will get to see them on Friday. Okay, we might have
to check in and see if you get any scoop on it. Hey,
here's a gingerbread house, Yes, a regular gingerbread house. Or is it
the White House's gingerbread It's the White House's Gingerbread. Yeah, and it's real.
It's really pretty too. Okay, Well, glad they got the tree
back up. Thank you so much for the update. We'll talk to you
day all right, you too. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom and Florida Governor
Ron DeSantis are getting ready to face off in the great Red versus Blue state
debate. Republican Congressman Kevin Kylie says he wants a debate to focus on the
realities of California. Approximately five. That is not it. Let's try this
one more time. Here's Congressman Kevin Cutie. When it comes to homelessness,
when it comes to crime, when it comes to education, when it comes
to the cost of living, Kylie sis Governor Newsom is going to have a
tough time defending his record in the state. We have the second highest unemployment
in the country. We were dead last in the country last year in terms
of wage growth. People are wages are stagnating here more than in any other
state. The debate is tomorrow night at six on Fox News. Sean Hannity
is the moderator. Weather experts are warning people in Malibu to get ready for
the potential impacts of El Nino I would put my money on relatively wet winter
in southern California. Noah says there's a ninety five percent chance El Nino conditions
will continue through the winter. UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain tells KTLA they can't
rule out any possible outcomes. What Almino really is doing is tilting the odds.
Malibu says people should look out for sloped areas with signs of erosion,
cracks and slumping. Free sand bags are available at several La County fire stations.
Murder charges allege a woman from Westminster drown her nine year old daughter,
who had cerebral palsy and was confined to a wheelchair. Orange County DA spokeswoman
Kimberly Ed says the girl was also unable to call for help because she couldn't
speak. Mother left her little girl's body in the bathtub for several days,
rotting, while she claims that she attempted suicide several times over the Thanksgiving holiday.
It says the girl's father called for a welfare check when he received concerning
text messages from his ex wife. Police found the girl's body Friday and arrested
the woman at a grocery store in Aliso Via Ho. Irvine police are getting
thirteen new electric vehicles to help patrol the Great Park, which is getting a
thirteen hundred acre expansion approximately five point seven million visitors annually. Urvine Mayor Farrakahn
says almost one million dollars in state funding will help Irvine PD patrol those current
and upcoming attractions, plus six ev charging stations at the Great Park where ipd's
use. Irvine Police Chief Michael Kin says they're getting the Ford Lightning Truck,
Mustang mock E, Polaris Ranger, and ATVs. The remainder of these funds
we'll go towards the purchase of police radios and accessories, as well as software
and other equipment for the creation of our new real time crime center at the
Great Park in Irvine. Corbin Carson KFI needs well, You're going to be
paying more for your Christmas tree this year. The American Christmas Tree Associations's prices
are up ten percent. Lame it on inflation, higher gas prices, transportation
costs, and trees lost to wildfires. Subin tay Foot Doug for their one
hundred dollars, we actually grow our own pine trees as Christmas trees. You
could get a nice d eight foot tree for just sety bucks. Tyler Stokes
with the Family Christmas Tree Farm and Alcohol says most trees are shipped in from
Family farms in Oregon and Washington. The most popular day to buy a Christmas
tree is the first Saturday in December. Yeah, that's this Saturday. I
think I'll be one of those people getting a tree on Saturday. At least
one service member has been killed in the crash of a US Osprey aircraft.
It crashed into the sea off the coast of western Japan. The Coast Guard
says six people were on board. There are reports that three people have been
found in the water by fishermen, but not clear if they're alive. The
NYPD is preparing for potential protests during the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony tonight.
Pro Palestinian organizers have posted on social media for their supporters to flood the
ceremony in support of Gaza. You're gonna pay more for your Christmas tree this
year. The American Christmas Tree Association says prices are up ten percent. You
can blame it on inflation, higher gas prices, transportation costs and trees lost
to wildfires. At six oh five, its handle on the news, Nikki
Haley just picked up a very rich endorsement. Bill's gonna tell you who it
is and what it means. Right now, let's say good morning to the
host of Rich on Tech right here on KFI and KTLA tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Good morning, Rich, Happy after Thanksgiving week US. Good morning to
you, Amy. Okay, so we got a new iPhone and there are
some issues with something new on that iPhone. Well, this is a really
interesting occurrence. So basically, over the weekend, law enforcement agencies around the
US started posting to their social media about a new feature on the iPhone called
name Drop, and they said, this is really scary because basically, if
you walk past someone else's iPhone, you could exchange your contact information with them,
or a stranger could steal your information. And I was kind of scratching
my head because a lot of people started emailing me these warnings and I said,
wait, really, I don't think that's true. And so after a
bunch of testing and after talking to some security experts, it turns out the
warnings were kind of not real. So this does not work in that way.
The feature is called name drop. It's meant to let you tap two
iPhones together to exchange your contact information. Your phone has to be unlocked.
Nothing gets exchanged unless you say share, and a stranger can't just walk by
you and grab your information. Oh okay, so that's I remember we talked
about this a couple of months ago, because it's sort of like what the
BlackBerry used to do, like twenty years ago. Yes, we were talking
about, you know, tapping two phones together, and you know, Apple
just made it easier. You've always been able to air drop from one iPhone
to another. Now they just made it so that you can tap those two
phones together to sort of pair them. But if you're still concerned about this,
if you want to read all of the information, I put it on
my website, rich on tech dot tv. I explain the feature exactly how
it works, and you can decide if you want to turn it off.
You can turn this off. Just keep in mind if you do that,
you'll still be able to air drop, you just won't be able to tap
two iPhones together to air drop. Okay, so you don't need This is
something that isn't as bad as what was initially thought. So that's good,
right, Yeah, a little bit of a little bit of fear mongering going
on, but which I don't really I think. I think the police stations
were looking for like an easy win on social media because it's you know,
it's interesting. You're like, wait, what, I got some good information
and then it turns out it's just really not true. Okay, well that's
good, all right. So speaking, since we're still talking about Apple,
what are they doing. They're ending their partnership with Goldman Sacks. Yeah,
so a lot of people have this Apple Card. It's it's basically a credit
card that you sign up for and manage through your iPhone. And what people
like about it is it gives you two percent or three percent cash back or
one percent depending on you know what, your how You're buying things right on
your phone, and it does it immediately. So they call it like daily
cash, and so people like this and that daily cash can earn interest if
you put it into a savings account. Long story short, Apple partnered with
Goldman Sachs on this program, which they had not really done a large credit
card program like this before either company. And it turns out from all the
reports that it just was not a winner for either of them. People.
I guess they don't charge any fees on this card. People default, it's
charge interest. I mean, it's a whole big thing. And so long
story short on that, Goldman Sachs is our one of them is canceling this.
And so now the question remains for all these Apple iPhone users that have
this card, what's going to happen? Is the card going to go away?
Or is another company going to swoop in, buy up the debt and
continue to manage this. We don't know if that's the case, but I
would say, Amy, since money is at stake here, someone's going to
come in and buy up these accounts. Okay, do we have any idea
like when that's going to happen. Can we still use the Apple card or
you can still use the card. This is twelve to fifteen months that we're
looking at, so it's not something that's going to happen overnight over the holidays.
But my advice just use your debit card. Don't even worry about this.
You know, you know who cares. Just get rid of the cash
back. It's not that much anyway. There you go, Okay, and
then Ikea is swooping in and making smart homes cheaper. I just wanted to
say the three names of ikea new smart home devices. Okay, you can
never pronounce the stuff at Aikia, I can't. But they have three new
smart sensors. One is called the valhorn. You've got the parasol and the
bad Ring. Maybe it's a drain, I don't know, but these are
sensors that can help you control your smart home things. One is for doors
and windows, notifies you if they're open or closed. One is a motion
sensor that can activate lights and of course lets you customize your smart lights.
And then the bad ring is actually pretty cool. It's actually pretty good.
It detects water leaks and if you've ever had one in your house amy like
I did, I'm talking tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage when you
don't know if you have a water leak. So if you don't have some
sort of sensor in your home that alerts you by your washing machine or buy
your water heater, please invest. These are ten dollars. There's many many
others out there that are similar priced or maybe a little bit more expensive.
Twenty thirty dollars. It can save you tens of thousands of dollars by alerting
you when that water hits the floor before it becomes a giant flood. I
didn't realize they were so inexpensive. I thought all this stuff was super spendy.
Well, this is part of the appeal of these Ikea ones. They
are extremely cheap, so we don't have the exact pricing yet here in the
US. Over in Europe they're about ten dollars each, so we have no
reason to believe they would be much more expensive over here. But under twenty
dollars for these things, it's just you know, people are going to be
in Ikea see them and say, oh, that's kind of cool. I
can get an alert on my iPhone when you know, when a door is
opened in my house. I'll buy one of these, and it just,
you know, it just makes these things more prevalent in homes everywhere. It
makes good sense. It's like having a smoke detector in your house, you
know. Yeah, And it's fun. Like you'll just find new uses,
like for your garage, Like people think they leave their garage open all the
time. If you have one of these little sensors, you can actually look
at your phone and no without walking outside. Okay, and before I let
you go, I just saw that Cyber Monday numbers were in and sales are
up like ten percent over last year to twelve point four billion. Are there
still out there or they do? They go away? After Monday? A
lot of them went away. I'm seeing like kind of a little bit of
remnants of some deals. Sports stuff is supposedly going to be on sale in
the next week or so, so if you're looking like sports equipment for your
kids, but a lot of the things that I was tracking, I would
say about fifty percent of them, the prices just jumped right back up.
But you know, we'll see. I think people spent a lot of money,
so retailers might give it another go before the holiday because they see that
people are willing to spend money, so they're saying, you know what,
let's do one more discount. But I don't think the discounts are going to
be as great as they were on Cyber Monday. They really are the best
on that day. And I didn't spend a time. Okay, oh you
didn't. Good for you, Rich Demiro, Thank you so much for spending
some time with us today. This is KTLA tech reporter Rich Demiro. In
case you didn't know, he's also the host of rich on Tech right here
on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two. Lots and lots of great tech advice
for you, and you can follow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech his
website rich on Tech dot tv. Thanks so much, Rich, we'll talk
to you next week. Thank you. Amy. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The family
of a man shot and killed by a CHP officer on on one O five
Freeway and Lynn Wood says the man was having mental health issues. The family
of Jesse Deminguez filed a claim against the CHP earlier this month. An officer
responded to reports that Dimingez was walking on the freeway. The CHP says Diminguez
used a taser on the officer during a struggle. Attorney Michael Correo says the
family has yet to see proof Dimingez had a taser. We can't depend on
the cchp's word. We want to see the evidence. Attorneys say the officer
should have called in more resources and should not have shot Demingez they're calling on
DA Gascone to prosecute the officer. Blake Trolli KFI news talks continue to extend
the pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas, who allowed for the release of
more hostages and Palestinian prisoners. The original four day ceasefire was extended by two
days on Monday, when it was first set to a spire, and now
it's expected to expire today. Billionaire Mark Cuban has announced next year will be
his last on Shark Tank, while he reportedly works on a deal to sell
a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks. ABC's Alex Stones's. Cuban is looking
to sell the stake in the NBA franchise to a family that runs casinos in
Las Vegas. Mark Cuban would remain in control of all day to day basketball
decisions despite selling much of the team worth billions of dollars. The Adelson family
said yesterday was selling two billion dollars of its shares in the Las Vegas Sands
Corporation to buy an unspecified professional sports team. Twelve more hostages have been released
by Hamas as part of an extended ceasefire deal with Israel. This is supposed
to be the last day of a six day ceasefire. About one hundred and
seventy people are still being held hostage by Hamas. A homeless woman has been
arrested after a philanthropist was shot and killed in his home on the Miracle Mile.
Police say the woman broke into Lead with Love CEO oh Michael Latt's home
on Monday night. The woman was arrested at the home and is being held
on three million dollars bail. Former First Lady Roslynd Carter will be buried in
her hometown of Plains in South Georgia today. All living First Ladies, former
President Clinton and President Biden, along with President Carter, attended a service held
for Roslind Carter yesterday in Atlanta at Emory University. At six oh five,
It's handle on the news. Mayor Bath says she has housed eighteen thousand homeless
people. But the big question now is will they stay that way? At
five point fifty why the skies could soon smell a little like French fries.
It'll make sense, I promise. Sami's on it. Dami's on It's on
it, Dami's on it. What am I on I am on a plethora
of streaming shows because there's documentaries, there's series, there's movies. There's so
much to see. How how do you know what to see? And so
lots of times they take recommendations from my friends, my family. They have
good recommendations most of the time. Right now, we're going to check out
Lessons in Chemistry. It's on Apple TV stars Brie Larson. It was being
released weekly as Apple does, but now the full season is out, so
if you want to binge it, you can. So. Bree Larson plays
a chemist who, because she's a woman in the nineteen fifties, really struggles
with it because she can only be a lab tech because women don't they can't
be lead scientists in the nineteen fifties. The chemist she works with kind of
treat her more like a secretary. She does make a mean cup of coffee
because she's a chemist after all. It's a good character for Bree Larson.
She is stoic, she's unemotional yet scientifically incredibly curious, and you it's really
great because I think she does. She's such a good actress. She does
a really good job with this role. So you see her fall, you
see her get up. You see her grow, and you see her evolve,
and I always like when they do that with a character arc, like
the character doesn't stay the same throughout the series, and she definitely does some
evolving. It follows her journey from the lab to the kitchen, where she
ends up posting a TV show called Supper at Six, which we know from
the very first episode because they launch it with her on TV, So I'm
not spoiling anything for you. Probably won't be another season. The show pretty
much comes to a satisfying and that it was based on a book, so
it kind of encapsulates the book. I would imagine. I have not read
the book. If they wanted to do another season, I think they probably
could, but from what I'm hearing, there aren't any talks right now to
see it. But definitely worth the watch. Thought that was a really good
one. And then, as I tend to do when I start streaming stuff,
then I start searching around and I dive down rabbit holes. And I
did it yesterday because after I got done watching the last episode of Lessons in
Chemistry, I found Hannah Waddingtons home for Christmas, and of course Hannah Wattington
was Rebecca on ted Lasso, and so she does this Christmas special. It
again is on Apple TV. It's only forty five minutes, so it's a
pretty quick watch. And I will tell you that one is a good one.
If you want to feel good about the Christmas season and just you know,
feel happy and joyous, this is the one to watch because her excitement
enthusiasm comes through in spades, and she's just beautiful and boy can she sing.
And then it was really fun too, because it was like the whole
cast of ted Lasso was there for the show. It was a live show
in London at a theater and it was really good. And then, as
I mentioned, I went down that rabbit hole and then went, you know
what, I really loved the Christmas episode of ted Lasso. So I went
and found that and watched that, and it reiterated my belief that ted Lasso
is probably the best show on TV in the last ten years. It's fabulous.
If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it. If you have
watched it, watch it again because again I watched the Christmas episode last night
and it still just made me smile. And if you need to feel good
and you want to be Happy. Ted Lasso's The Way to Do It Again
on Apple TV. That's what I'm on this week. Now, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. Irvine is looking to ban single use plastics in local businesses. The
city's Adam Cavici says the first year of the ordinance would be dedicated to giving
businesses time to make the changes they need to give businesses time to run down
their existing stock for city staff to connect them to alternative products that replace the
plastic ones that were prohibiting right now. The ordinance would prevent the sale of
small plastic water bottles and require restaurants to use compostable or compostable utensils for takeout.
A man has been shot and killed outside a house in San Dimas Sheriff's
deputies were sent to the home just before seven last night following a medical rescue
call. Lieutenant Art Spencer says they found the man had been shot in the
upper body. We're canvassing the uh location for any surveillance videos, for processing
the scene for evidence, and we'll be conducting witness interviews as well. No
description of the shooter's been given or a reason for the shooting. A man
from Lake Forest has been convicted a first degree murder for beating his longtime girlfriend
to death. The couple shared adult children and a twenty year relationship, but
Dora Moreno called it quit seven months before the murder, then four days before
the killing. In twenty twenty one, Omar Velasquez Oar found out about a
new boyfriend. The man hid his car and ambushed Moreno on her way to
work, beating her with a tire iron in the back of the head.
Jurrors Monday rejected a special circumstance allegation of lying in wait. The man faces
twenty six years to life in prison without parole at sentencing set for January in
Orange County. Corbin Carson kf I News did he has temporarily stepped down as
chairman of his cable TV network, Revolt, amid multiple sexual abuse allegations.
Revolt announced the rapper's decision on social media yesterday. The network says it'll help
ensure that Revolt stays focused on its mission to create meaningful content for the culture
and amplify the voices of black people. Earlier this month, Diddy's former girlfriend
accused him of raping and beating her during their decades long relationship, but then
they settled the lawsuits. Don't know what that settlement was. Google Maps is
taking some heat for guiding travelers down a desert road to nowhere. Drivers heading
back to Los Angeles from Las Vegas earlier this month apparently attempted to bypass a
dust storm in the Mojave Desert. Well, Google Maps told them to head
down that road. More than a dozen travelers ended up on this really rough
dirt road in the middle of the desert. One woman who made it back
to Vegas says her car was damaged during the rough ride and she had to
take it in for tire and alignment repairs. Millions of Californians would be getting
a special Christmas gift from Disney. Disneyland is slashing ticket prices to seventy five
dollars for people who live in the southern part of the state. Yeah,
that's us. Anyone living within the zip codes between nine zero zero zero zero
two nine three five nine nine can visit either park three times on select days.
The discount is good from January second to June second, and will let
families take part in several festivities, including Lunar New Year that happens in February.
At least one service member has been killed in the crash of a US
Osprey aircraft that went down in the waters off western Japan. The Coastguard says
six people were on board the Osprey. Witnesses say it looked like an engine
was on fire as the Osprey went down. The NYPD is getting ready for
potential protests during the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony tonight. Pro Palestinian organizers
posted on social media for their supporters to flood the ceremony in support of Gaza.
You're going to pay more for your Christmas tree this year. The American
Christmas Tree Association says prices are up ten percent. You can blame it on
inflation, higher gas prices, transportation costs, and trees lost to wildfires.
Most Christmas trees come to us from Oregon and Washington. I always buy mine
from Oregon. Reminds me of home. We're just a couple of minutes away
from Handle. On the news this morning, a key Fed official is hinting
at not another interest rate hike, but a cut, and it could be
coming soon. Right now, let's say hi and good morning to ABC News
correspondent from the Transportation Unit, Sam Sweeney. Good morning, Sam, Any,
Good morning are you. I'm I'm doing great. So I'm hearing that
the skies could smell soon like French fries. You could say that a big
milestone. Yesterday, a Virgin Atlantic seventy seven dream Liner with Richard Branton on
board, flu from London to New York and they used what's known as one
sustainable aviation fuel, which is made of of used cooking oil or animal waste
and corn waste of farm by products, and it's about seventy percent cleaner than
traditional petroleum jet, a fuel that we normally use in planes. There weren't
paying passengers on board. This is purely a test, one little step and
a long journey to help roll this out more mainstream. Okay, so you
said it was made up of processed cooking oil and waste animal fat. They
have to have a lot of fuel to fly across the ocean. Where'd they
get it all? Well, there's a couple of companies that are making this
and they use a number of different sources, but it is a lot of
form farm waste, even sugar water. And there's a company called Yron.
It's in based in Wisconsin. One of the company's marathon also working to create
safas fuel. And the problem is with this, what you just pointed out,
is getting it to scale and getting it to the airports. Actually the
transportation of it. You know, we have infrastructure that moves aviation fuel from
you know, processing plans to the airports, but getting this fuel there is
challenging. And it's also more expensive to buy this fuel. It's about three
to five times the cost. So the airlines aren't inclined to purchase it,
which means the manufacturers aren't inclined to produce it at a mass scale. So
they need the government and private dollars to come in and subsidize this to get
it to scalability so that we can put it in more planes. And right
now, the FAA is only certifying staff for up to fifty percent of fuel
per plane, but we're still nowhere near that number. You and I are
not going to be on a plane with fifty percent staff at any time soon,
but we are on planes right now where it is blended in, especially
in Los Angeles. Las is a big airport that uses safas fuel and they
blend it into that petroleum jet, a fuel that we know now to help
make it just a little bit cleaner. Who knew. I had no idea
about that. So you said that the transportation is problem. I mean,
if they made the switch, could they just use existing lines and infrastructure and
just switch it over to the renewable fuel. You could, And that's the
best part about the staff fuels that's considered tropped in, which means you don't
need to change anything. You don't need to change the engines on the planes,
you don't need to add any new technology or equipment to make it work.
But these fuel lines that have been built over decades, you know,
come from you know, the Gulf Coast or the ports in Los Angeles.
They don't come from these facilities that are producing saff right now. So it's
going to be a logistical challenge. We're going to have to get some infrastructure
set up and of course get it to scale and make it worthwhile for everyone
to use. But there's a major push to make aviation greener right now.
Greenhouse gases from airplanes are about two percent of overall global emissions, so big
push to get them to be a little bit cleaner. Okay, And you
said subsidies may be a way to bring it up to scale, but I
know that like in California, they're saying, hey, it has to be
all electric cars for any new cars after like twenty thirty five. I can't
remember what the year is, but are there rumblings within the government they might
start cracking down on the airlines and say, hey, you've got to make
this switch. There are goals. You know, there's no limits right now
because we just don't have the technology, but the airlines want to be you
know, carbon neutral by twenty fifty. It's an ambitious goal. And you
know, as far as saf goes, some are saying that we could be
a ten percent by twenty thirty. Some experts say that's ambitious. It's more
like twenty thirty five, twenty forty. But there are a number of new
technologies that are rolling out, but it takes time. And like you just
mentioned electric cars, there are subsidized and nose with seventy five hundred dollars text
credits. You know, there are manufacturer credits to incentivize you know, getting
electric cars, and there are benefits electric cars, you know, require less
maintenance. But they also you know, the tires on electric cars turn out
quicker. So there are drawbacks. There are negatives and positives, but just
like that, we need the investment to bring it to scale. All right,
Well, we've got to start super interesting and so this guys aren't going
to smell like French frise anytime soon, not anytime sooner. We'll get there,
all right, Great, Sam Sweeney, thanks so much for your information
today. Appreciate it. Thank you. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three agencies on Maui
have been hit with subpoenas over that fatal wildfire back in August. Hawaii's Attorney
General says the Mali Emergency Management Agency, the Mali Department of Public Works,
and the Mali Department of Water Supply. We're supposed to provide documents to the
Fire Safety Research Institute, which was hired by the Attorney General to investigate the
events leading up to and during the fires. Officials say at least ninety county
employees have already been interviewed and hundreds of documents have been reviewed. The fire
killed at least one hundred people and destroyed the historic town of Lehina. Steve
Corregory kf I News. A military plane from the US carrying fifty four thousand
pounds of food and medical supplies for people in Gaza has landed in Egypt.
The plane is the first of three aimed at helping with the humanitarian crisis during
the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The US Agency for International Development said yesterday.
The supplies will be transported on the ground to Gaza and distributed to Palestinians
by the United Nations. The Hamas controlled region has been sealed off by Israel
since the group's surprise attack on Israeli border towns last month. A new study
has found a super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning
rapidly and altering space time around it. Hard to wrap your head around that.
Space time is the four dimensional continuum that describes how people see space,
fusing one dimensional time and three dimensional space together to represent the space fabric that
curves in response to celestial bodies. Yeah, my head's exploding right now.
A team of scientists or physicists rather studied the black hole, which is twenty
six thousand light years from Earth. They said last month, the spinning black
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