You're listening to KFI Am six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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for Friday, November seventeenth. Oh it's my best friend's birthday. Happy birthday,
Debbie. I'm Amy King. Lots going on today, lot's going on
for the weekend, less than a week until Thanksgiving. Very excited. I
have some fun things planned. In fact, we'll be on the air on
Thanksgiving morning. As you may know, Neil Savedra, our FOURK reporter always
comes on and does his own personal turkey talk line and answers lots of fun
questions as you're getting up and getting your Thanksgiving feast put together. And we've
got a little ahead of Neil Savedra feature. I don't even know what to
talk about it, but it's it's gonna be fun. So if you're up
and starting to cook early on Thanksgiving morning, we hope you'll join us,
and we're happy that we that you joined us today on this Friday morning.
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. It's days, not weeks. That's
how long. Governor Newsom says it's going to take two Get the damaged ten
Freeway in downtown La reopened. He announced yesterday that work continues around the clock
and all find five lanes in both directions will be open again by Tuesday,
before Thanksgiving. Israel is apparently getting closer to a deal with Hamas that would
allow fifty women and children hostages to be freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and
a three day pause in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip. In fact,
we're going to be talking with Jordana Miller in Jerusalem in about fifteen minutes,
so stick around for that. She's got the very latest from Israel.
Round two of our big storm of the season expected to roll into southern California
tonight and we'll continue through tomorrow. It's going to bring gusty winds and one
to three inches of rain. Another smaller band of rain could move through Sunday
night, but forecasts nour saying by Sunday night, we hopefully will be back
to clear skies. At six oh five, it's handle on the news more
than four hundred patients may have been exposed to hepatitis and HIV at a hospital.
Bill's going to let you know what went wrong. On this one.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. As I just mentioned, Governor Newsom says the ten Freeway in
downtown LA will reopen no later than Tuesday of next week. That is a
significant improvement on the basis of our original timeline three to five weeks. Newsom
says it could even be sooner, but they don't want to overpromise. Officials
say it's great news that all five lanes in both directions will be ready to
go ahead of the busy holiday travel season. Police in southern California say crash
and grab robbers are on the rise. One robbery happened on the ten Freeway
in mid City LA last month. Thieves robbed a jeweler after crashing into his
car and forcing him off the road. A similar robbery happened this month on
the four h five at Beach Boulevard in Orange County. Investigators say the appear
to be connected to the jewelry industry. The Israeli military says the bodies of
two people taken hostage by Hamas have been found near the Alshifa Hospital in Gaza,
where Israeli troops have been looking for militants. ABC's Patrick Reevel says one
was a sixty five year old woman. As far as we know, this
is the first body of a hostage that has been found by the IDEF.
This is coming just as these talks are starting to show perhaps some signs of
progress that maybe towards freeing these hostages. The body of a nineteen year old
soldier taken hostage was also near the hospital where the Israeli military says it has
discovered hamas weapons. You see. Students from across the state have gathered at
UCLA to call for an end to anti Semitism. The students called on elected
officials to stand strong against Jewish hate. This U see Santa Barbara, Jewish
student, says his own classmates have been calling for the eradication of his people.
Today. We're terrified. I am terrified, Terrified because a Jewish man
was murdered ten days ago in La Terrified because my family, who was once
hiding in an attic, is now hiding in the bomb shelter. The students
were joined by survivors of the October seventh Tomas attacks on Israel, who spoke
about the fear that comes with just being Jewish, Some students said they're avoiding
going to their campuses. Chris Adler KFI news. OC Animal Care needs part
time foster families for hundreds of dogs stuck indoors because of a fire that destroyed
a World War two hangar. The test and hanger is actually directly across the
street from the animal shelter oh See Animal Cares Alexa Pratcess families will get everything
dogs would need for a couple weeks of sleepovers away from asbestos air quality concerns.
The dogs are used to getting walked. They're used to being able to
go on the grass and play and throw the ball around. The Navy's expected
to provide testing with a million dollars for initial cleanup. Demolition of the remnants
of the seventeen story tall, three football field long hangar is expected once a
contractor is chosen in Orange County. Corbin Carson KFI news. President Biden has
signed the latest continuing resolution to keep the government open. ABC's Andy Field says
it'll keep things running at least through January aason, stead of buying themselves another
two months until they face the same crisis in January, this time with a
two tier possible shutdown, some funding expiring before the rest. The measure does
not include aid for Ukraine or Israel. A man in Costa Mesa has pleaded
not guilty to abusing a month's old baby. The man is charged with four
felon accounts of child abuse, with a sentencing enhancement for causing great bodily injury
to a child under five. The baby is still in the hospital following last
month's attack. The man's being held on a million dollars bail. The Festival
of Trees is returning to Riverside for its thirty fourth year. The two day
event at the Riverside Convention Center features fifty trees, each hand decorated for the
holidays with different themes. There's also a holiday marketplace, who I Love Holiday
market Places, live performances, and opportunities to meet the Jolly old elf himself,
Santa. The festival is free to attend starting next Friday, November twenty
fourth. It's five h six on your wake up call. Let's say good
morning to ABC's national correspondent Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, things aren't looking too good
for New York Representative George Santos. No, they're not not in the wake
of yesterday's scathing, damning report by the House Ethics Committee, a conclusion of
an investigation that's been underway all year long, perhaps the most damning report ever
issued by the House Ethics Committee, accusing the gentleman from New York of violating
campaign finance law, deceiving his donors, stealing his campaign funds, lying about
his background, and calling the integrity of the House into question. These things,
according to the Committee, bring the House into severe disrepute, and it
is essentially they're going to be the call this morning from the Chairman of the
House Ethics Committee to expel George Santos, who has survived to prior expulsion.
But we can get into some of the dynamics about that in just a second.
Let's first talk about what's in this report. It alleges that the Long
Island Republican blatantly stole from his campaign, set up shell companies, and transferred
campaign funds with loans, and use the money to pay for things to benefit
himself, purchases at Firagamo and er Maze, botox and spa treatments, weekends
in the Hampton's and Atlantic City, and even according to the report charges on
the adult website OnlyFans. The report is, as I say, scathing and
includes evidence, according to its authors, that even federal prosecutors might not have
had. And so the committee has decided to transfer its evidence to federal prosecutors
who are already bringing charges against George Santos in federal court twenty three counts involving
wirefraud and identity theft allegations, which Santos denies, and the hope of the
MIDI is that that indictment will be padded with additional allegations as a result of
the committee's investigation. So even though he has not admitted to this stuff,
I mean, like you just rattled off a laundry list of stuff his kind
of stances. Hey, the voters elected me, and I'm staying where I
am. Yeah, basically. And but look what he's saying is the allegations
aren't true, and you have to prove they're true, and that he was
sent to Congress to do the work of the people, and he intends to
focus on the work. And he says that the allegations the report against him
is biased and a political smear, but the political impact of it all is
real and look, all year there have been people calling for this man to
step down. He has refused those calls. It's his fellow New York Republicans
who have moved most recently for his ouster. And earlier this month there was
a vote on whether to expel George Santos, and it failed to achieve even
a simple majority, never mind the two thirds majority provided for an Article one
of the Constitution to expel a member of the House. There were due process
concerns. The House Ethics Committee, for one, had not completed its review
at the time it now has. And the other issue is, and this
is going to be one that will come up in about ten days when this
motion comes up on the floor for a vote, is he hasn't been convicted
of a crime. These are allegations, they remain for the moment unproven.
Santos denies them. He hasn't had his day in court. And perhaps it's
a bit precipitate for the House to expel Santos at this point. You'd have
to go back in history, really far back to the earliest days of the
Civil War to find an example of the House of Representatives expelling a member who
had not first been convicted a trial. The most recent example of an expulsion
was Jim traffickan from Ohio, and about twenty years ago he was convicted of
crimes and ultimately expelled. He was a flamboyant man who used to say the
things like beam up on the floor of the house when he finished his speeches.
I think that there'll be an avalanche of votes to expel George Santos when
the vote is called in the wake of this scathing Ethics Committee report. Yeah,
it does not look good for him now if they expelled him, can
he appeal that or is it just done deal? Nope, there's no appeal.
Oh, okay, all right. And he did announce though that he
is not going to run for reelection. Before he had said he was going
to, but yesterday didn't day He's not going to that's right, Okay,
Well, we shall see. And do we know or have any kind of
idea when they might call for a vote, probably right after the Thanksgiving break?
Okay, well, let him eat his jerky and then throw him out
of Congress. We shall see. Stephen Portney, thank you so much for
your information. We'll be watching it. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The man charged with
attacking the husband a former house speaker, Nancy Pelosi at their house in San
Francisco has been convicted of attempting kick napping, an assault. The Pap showed
no emotion in federal quarter as a verdict was read. He's attorney put her
hand on his shoulder to comfort him. ABC's Alex Stone says the federal jury
deliberated for about eight hours before finding David Depap guilty yesterday. De Pap admitted
during the trial that he broke into the Pelosi home last year, intending to
hold Nancy Pelosi hostage and break her kneecaps. He also admitted to hitting Paul
Pelosi with a hammer. He's facing up to fifty years in prison. CalFire
says a sagging so Col Edison power line ignited a deadly fire near Hemnt last
year. Calfire's investigatory report was released this week in response to a subpoena from
attorneys for people impacted by the fire. They've sued Edison, claiming negligence by
the public utility was responsible for the twenty eight thousand acre fire that destroyed twenty
two homes and killed two people. Rapper Ditty has been accused of rape and
abuse by his ex Singer Cassie filed a report in Manhattan saying Diddy raped and
physically abused her by punching, beating, kicking, and stomping on her over
the course of their relationship, which was about ten years. The complaints as
Cassie endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands. A lawyer
for Diddi rejected the accusations, calling them offensive and outrageous. The son of
comedian Dana Carvey has died from an accidental drug overdose. Dana Carvey and his
wife Paula announced on social media they suffered a terrible tragedy. They say their
son, Decks, was a beautiful person whom they will miss forever. They
also wrote to anyone struggling with addiction or who knows someone struggling with addiction,
you are in our hearts and prayers. Dex was just thirty two years old.
Okay, we know that dogs are good, right, but they're not
only wonderful for people, they're also wonderful to other pets. We uh just
heard about this hound ogue. He has helped sniff out a lost cat that
was stuck a lot one hundred feet down a mine shaft. This happened in
Cromwell, England. So the cat's name is Mowgli. Her owner, Michelle
Rose, said that she had almost given up hope of finding her missing pet,
but then Daisy the hound dog found her. Mowgli and another kitten named
Blue were adopted in last December, and Daisy the hound dog became like the
protector of the kittens as they grew up and apparently learned to love them.
And so when Mowgli went missing, Daisy started going berserk. A few days
after that, and Michelle Rose says that Daisy led her to an old opening
in a mine shaft. They called in animal rescue. They came out to
the mines, they spotted Mowgli, who was one hundred feet down and amazingly
uninjured. Well, they had to wait for a little bit because it was
dark, but then they eventually pulled Mowgli to safety and the kitten was greeted
by its compatriots, a relieved donor and the good dog Daisy. Dogs are
amazing, hey. The thirteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here. Chef Bruno's charity,
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Latest Out of Israel with ABC S Jordana Miller about a possible deal between Israel
and Hallmas to release some of the hostages, and also what the IDF is
found in and under the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza. You're listening to wake
Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Can just hear that the
promo for Christmas Music. I will tell you. We were out and about
last night for one of our Christmas features, which we'll be sharing with you
in the next week or two, and we heard Christmas music and it was
kind of the first time I had heard a bunch of Christmas music for an
extended period of time, and I was like, ah, I like this,
Ask me in mid December, but right now I like it. Here's
what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Governor Newsom says all
five lanes of the ten Freeway in downtown LA in both directions are going to
be open by Tuesday, instead of in three to five weeks is first estimated.
Crews continue to work to repair support pillars that were damaged in a fire
under the freeway almost a week ago. Involuntary manslaughter charges have been filed against
a man accused of killing a Jewish protester doing dueling Israel Palestine rallies in one
thousand Oaks. The fifty year old man is a professor at more Park College.
Angels Superstar Show Hey Otani has been named the American League's Most Valuable Player
for a second time. The vote unanimous. The pitcher and hitter is a
free agent and could get the richest contract in MLB history if he signs with
a new team in the offseason. At six oh five's handle on the news.
Some toys should not be under the Christmas tree this year. Bill was
going to tell you about what some of those are. Right now, let's
say good morning to ABC's Geordana Miller with us from Jerusalem. Jordana, we're
hearing more rumblings that a deal toket dozens of hostages out of Gaza is getting
closer. There are sources here in Drusalem that are confirming the talks are progressing
advancing. There still is some dispute over the number of hostages. It seems
the baseline number is fifty that would include women and children and the elderly,
and the baseline of a seafire would be three days, so it could be
four or five or six days. But there seems to be good faith on
all sides to try to work on this deal and get those hostages released.
Israel, on its part, would be releasing jailed Palestinians here, women and
miners, maybe some men over the age of fifty, and Israel would also
agree to let in more AID trucks and more fuel. Today Israel announced that
it will allow two trucks with tons of fuel each day into the Gaza strip.
Now that is a big change because Israel said it would not allow any
fuel in fearing that Hamas would take it and steal it. But the situation
has become so dire in southern Gaza, where they're just is in fuel for
communication systems or hospitals or desalination plants or even for the trucks that deliver the
aid that Israel you know, really changed its policy and is going to let
fuel in and you know that should alleviate some of the of the difficulty,
okay. And they're letting those in when they do that because as you mentioned,
they're worried that Hamas is just going to take them and use them and
they're not actually going to be used for humanitarian purposes. Are there any protections
with it or do they just have to kind of take their chances on this
one because the crisis is getting so bad. Well, no, Israel's going
to be watching it. It'll be delivered into the hands of the UN agency
that oversees aid for the Palestinians, what's called Umrah, and they will distribute
the fuel accordingly. Israel has said if it finds that this fuel or other
aid that's been coming in gets into the hands of Humas, you know,
they'll take actions, you know, whatever that means. Okay. And then
also the other thing that we wanted to talk to you about today was the
fighting at the Al Shifa hospital, and the Idea forces have said pretty much
since the start that Hamas is operating out of or under the hospital. What
kinds of things have they found now that they're inside the hospital? Right,
So this is day three of Israel's operation inside the Al Shifa complex, and
they've already found the newest things they found yesterday later Journam that we found out
about were first of all, the first tunnel shaft inside the complex, which
indicates clearly some tunnels underneath the hospital. They also found a car, a
truck filled with explosives and ammunition and weapons, you know, given them the
model of the truck, they say, you know, it looks like maybe
it was one of the trucks that was supposed to be part of the October
seventh attack, but possibly it's now you know, being it had been maybe
converted into a weapon storage center. But that was also found at the hospital.
And there, you know, they've found several laptops, a one we're
told has unseen video of the hostages after October seventh. Uh, And they're
you know, essentially uh, you know, gleaning any you know, going
through floor by floor to find any weapons, evidence of operations, and you
know, try to glean also intel on the hostages. Israel's Prime minister told
CBS that intel has strong indications that the hostages were at some point held at
Al Shifa. We're waiting to hear more about the evidence on that, but
you know, they've already uncovered a lot of a lot of things that should
never be at a hospital, you know, which seemed to back up their
claims that Hamas was using the hospital for operations. And this is even before
they get to the underground facilities. Okay. And there is something else that
they found and I'm not sure that it was it wasn't It was in the
hospital complex complex, and that is the body of one of the hostages,
right. They actually found two two bodies of Israeli hostages in two residential buildings
right next to the Al Shifa medical complex, so not inside. We're told
that both of them were found infrigerators, which indicates, you know, they've
been probably killed for some time. Both of those bodies now in Israel.
One, a nineteen year old has been laid to rest. This young girl
was actually in one of the Humus propaganda videos a few days ago where they
said that she was dead. And her name is Noah, Noah Marciano,
and she has been laid to rest in a city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
called Modine. The other is a sixty five year old Israeli peace activist.
Her husband was killed on the day of the attack in Berie, a community
right on the border. She was taken captive and now she will be buried
next to her husband. Okay, all right, well don't it's not good
news. I don't know if that tells people some closure or what. But
Jordana, thank you so much for the information, and we'll be checking in
with you again, and I'm sure that you'll have an update for on Monday
about the hopeful deal for to get the hostages out or at least some of
them. Yes, all right, thank you so much. Have a good
weekend. We'll talk to you soon. Hey. The Clippers are taking on
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your wake Up Call. Thanks so much for joining us this Friday morning.
I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Well, it's going to be days, not weeks. That's how long
Governor Newsom says it's going to take to get the damage ten Freeway in downtown
La open to traffic. He announced yesterday work continues around the clock and that
all five lanes in both directions are going to be open again by Tuesday.
Israel apparently getting closer to a deal with Hamas that would allow fifty women and
children hostages to be freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and at least a three
day pause in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip. Boreal Mountain Resort near
Lake Tahoe is opening this morning. It's one of the first in the state
this season. Officials say they have a solid twenty four inch base thanks to
more than a dozen snow guns. The other two ski areas that had planned
to open today have had to delay openings because of warmer than expected weather.
At six oh five, it's handled on the news. Police have made an
arrest in the death of a sixty nine year old Jewish man who died after
getting into a scuffle during dueling Israeli Palestinian protests in Thousand Oaks. At five
point fifty, we're going to be talking to ABC's Jason Nathanson. He'll tell
us if the odds are ever in our favor of getting a really good at
Hunger Games sequel. Let's say good morning right now to the host of Home
on KFI. It's our house whisper Dean Sharp Dean. Last week we started
talking about decorating for the holidays, and now, with Christmas just days away,
or at least the Christmas season, let's talk about some of the fun
things we can do to make our homes holiday ready this year. Good morning,
Amy, Yeah, it is time. It is. Well, here's
an interesting fact for those of you who are itching to get started at your
holiday decorating. I was a little surprised, Well maybe I wasn't so much
surprised. I was surprised by the number fifty five percent of households that are
decorating this year have now already begun decorating before Thanksgiving. Fifty's a lot,
so over half of the people who are playing. And by the way,
it's a large, large number. About eighty percent of households in the United
States are going to be doing some kind of holiday decoration this year, tree
or the house, or both, or one or the other. You know.
So yeah, if you're feeling the itch, it is absolutely acceptable.
You're in the majority of people to get started early on your house. And
since everybody else is doing it, you should do it too, of course,
because that always yields the best things in life, I know. Okay,
so before we talk about holiday or Christmas holiday, I want to back
up because last week you gave me grief for skipping over Thanksgiving, so I
want to go back to Thanksgiving for just one thing. And Thanksgiving is the
gatherings of groups, which means lots of settings, lots of place settings at
your Thanksgiving table and tables notoriously don't match up. So you've got that big
bump when you put the tables together, and then you have the one table
that one leg is shorter than the other. So how are we going to
fix that so we have a nice, pristine Thanksgiving table. I had never
thought of this. I love this idea. Yeah, well it's a kind
of a frustrating thing when you think about it, because if you've gone into
the investment of getting yourself a really nice dining room table, I mean,
how many of us have perch just a dining room table that seats fifteen,
right, I mean we just don't. And yet here is arguably, arguably
the most elegant, important dinner of the year for some families, and your
dining room table is not enough. It just isn't enough. And so you
know, you've got the classic solutions, which is, you know, you
put the kids at the card table, you know, sit at the kids
table in the family room. But if you really want to get everybody together,
and you've got another table available, any kind of table, a folding
table, a rented you know, party store table, a patio table from
outside roughly the same dimension, but maybe it's a little bit wider, or
maybe it's a little narrower, maybe it's a little bit shorter. It's very
very simple. There are these shims that you can buy, soft leveling shims.
If your table doesn't have self leveling legs, and if it does,
then you put the two together and you level the one up until it reaches
the level of the other. Get them level with the each other. But
don't worry, it's not the end. You may have a difference in with
or just in general appearance. This is where we have a trick. Here
at the house. We have two sheets of masonite. Masonite is kind of
a everybody's seen it. It's very slick, it's about You can buy it
an eighth or quarter inch thick sheets at the hardware, at the lumberyard,
at the lows. You can have them split in two so that they're easy
to store. But masonite sheets can be cut to basically bridge over both tables.
Cover both tabletops completely, all at the same level and the same with
Okay, so cover them both, and then your big tablecloth or series of
tablecloths over all of it. And as people come in and look, all
they see is one giant, even contiguous table. The tablecloth becomes very important
at this point. It really yeah, oh, the table cough is key
because it's it's covering the whole show. It's covering the Yeah, yeah,
you do not don't stop with the masonite. They're like, well, this
is fascinating what you've done to the table this year. Yeah, you want
to hide everything, you want to hide all your tricks. But once you
do, uh, you've got a great spread in front of me. I
love that idea. Yeah, it's those it's those little things that you don't
think about that you go, oh, that just so makes sense. I
mean I've thought I use shims all the time, like for shelving and that
kind of stuff, but I never thought of using it another table. Okay,
So as we move into the big holiday and we're talking big, a
lot of people are going big when we talk about blow up stuff. Oh
yeah, this is the year. Well, well you noticed it with Halloween,
right everybody was purchasing those fifteen foot tall skeletons from Home Depot or lows
and so everybody's just going big, big, big right now. Now,
it's gonna be a pretty investment here. You're going to spend somewhere between seven
and nine hundred dollars for this, but you can end up with these,
I mean, giant inflatables. If you don't want to do any other decorating
except this, If it's worth it, to you to decorate your entire house
and be the show off in the neighborhood and only do it in like thirty
minutes. Yep. Then you buy a twenty eight foot tall inflatable Santa that
is like towering over your house. You could put it in the backyard and
he would be peeking over the roof. Okay, from perspective, I want
to you have you sent me a picture, so you're talking about twenty eight
feet tall, So I'm looking at it and literally you can walk between his
legs to the front door because he's that tall. Yes, he is that
tall. I mean he is way way He's huge. He's twice the height
of a one story house. Okay, yeah, and he's and he rivals
the ridge top of a of a two story hall. I mean he's huge.
He's huge. It would be fun. You better stay came down really
well too. Oh yeah, about eight or nine hundred bucks. Well you
think about it, You're like, wow, that's expensive, and yet all
the money that we've spent on lights and this and this through the year's end,
specifically, you know, you take him outside, you stake him down,
you plug him in, and he's done. Half hour later, you're
sitting inside and now you're the big show off in the neighborood. I love
that. Okay, so we kind of don't have time to talk about trees,
but I want to talk about one thing because this gets me every year.
I found the probably best Christmas tree stand I've ever had, and it
makes putting my tree up easy, and you can put it up straight and
you don't have to screw the little things into the base. It's fabulous,
except the water reservoirs really small, and oh well that's always yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm so excited about By the way,
I'm going to show this to you on Sunday when you come for the live
audience show, because I'm going to have it there to show everybody. I
just think this is fantastic. I got one of these, the Ho Ho
ho h two O tree filler. It is a resume. You know,
Filling a natural tree is a hassle, no matter how big it is because
by the time you got presence underneath, you're like, how do you get
to it? And in the past we've used like these law funnel things.
There's all these gadgets. This is the best. It is a plug in
electric pump reservoir that pumps water out of its own tank two and a half
gallon tank into the Christmas tree. So that's cool enough. Okay. There's
a little sensor that you put in the bowl that detects when the water gets
low, and then it pumps more water in. You don't have to worry
about it for days and days and days. And when you refill it,
you don't refill the bowl, You just refill the reservoir, which is sitting
off to the side. But the best thing is the whole thing comes disguised
as a Christmas present, so it's sitting under the tree. Nobody knows that
that's the tree filler. It looks beautiful and perfect and it's easy to get
to, and it's got rain deer and Santa paper on it, and one
of the reindeer, the Rudolph, on top. When the reservoir gets low,
his light his nose lights up. Read. I don't care how much
this in costs. I'm getting it because crawling down on my hands and knees
and putting in a cup of water at a time drives me bananas, exactly.
And sometimes you spill it on presents. It's just a hassle and you
knock over ornaments. It's you know, yeah, this is such a good
idea. It's about ninety dollars, but it's got a great warranty. It's
gonna last years and years and years. Okay, just have to find a
place to start. Okay, So you mentioned that Sunday morning you're gonna have
a live show, So let's talk about that before we let you go.
Well, we're doing first one since before COVID. We are doing a live
audience show right up on the fifth floor here at Ihearts Studios. It's our
holiday home show. It's sponsored by al Deck Home. Afterwards, we're gonna
go over to Aldaktan hang out for a couple hours. But it's gonna be
fun. We're gonna have swag a live studio audience. We're gonna talk about
Christmas decort. We're also going to have some of our favorite KFI personalities drop
in, including one Miss Amy King, the Monarch of the Mornings, The
Monarch of the Mornings. Okay, yeah, I think I'm gonna be there
in the nine o'clock hour, and Conway's coming through the whole gang probably and
yeah, Neil Sevadri is going to drop by, So it's going to be
a great time. It wouldn't be a party without the VOK reporter, all
right, exactly. And your show you'll be on Saturday from six to eight
am, and then of course Sunday the live show from nine to noon,
and you're going to be talking holidays. Yes, ma'am, I love it.
Thank you so much, Dean Sharp, Thanks Amy. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
our newsroom. Relatives of three people killed in Riverside by a sheriff's deputy from
Virginia are suing the department that hired him. The attorney for the Wayanak family
says the twenty eight year old deputy, who posed online as a seventeen year
old boy, drove from Virginia to Riverside to be with a fifteen year old
girl, and he murdered her mom and her grandparents. He set the house
on fire, and he fled with her and kidnapped her. David Ring says
the deputy ended up killing himself during a shootout with deputies from the San Bernardino
County Shares Department. Ring says agencies in Virginia have refused to give answers about
the deputy. Officials did admit the deputy should have never been hired because of
his mental health history. Steve Gregory Ie News. A state appeals court in
New York has temporarily lifted a gag order against former President Trump, who was
barred from publicly commenting on court staff in a civil trial against him, and
a palette judge yesterday raised concerns over free speech. The ruling also disputed the
trial judges claim that restricting Trump's speech was necessary to protect his staff's safety.
Amazon customers can start adding cars to their carts next year. Hyundai will be
the first brand offered. Amazon says customers will be able to see available cars
in their area and check out when their chosen payment and financing options are available.
People can either pick the car up but a local dealer or have it
delivered. I mean it is Amazon, after all. You're listening to Wake
Up Call on Demand from KFI AM six forty. I'm Amy King. Good
morning, Thanks for getting up with us today. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom's all five lanes of the ten
Freeway in downtown LA, and both directions are going to be opened by Tuesday
instead of in three to five weeks is first estimated. Crews are continuing their
work to repair support pillars that were damaged in the fire under the Fruway almost
a week ago. TikTok is cracking down on influencers promoting Osama bin Laden's anti
American letter released after the nine to eleven attacks. The platform has banned videos
promoting the letter to America. It resurfaced this week during the Israel Hamas War.
Snoop Dogg says he's decided to give up smoke. The perpetually smoking pothead
says he's talked with his family, did that before he made the decision,
and then also asked fans to please respect his privacy. At this time,
we're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning. That designer handbag
you got may not be what you think it is. Bill's going to be
telling me about that right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jason Nathans,
and Jason made the odds be ever in your favor. Oh, thank
you very much. And that is a hunger Games reference because The Hunger Games
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is up there this weekend. That is the
preview or the prequel to the original series, which came out the first film,
by the way, ten years ago this month, and made Jennifer Lawrence
a start. It wasn't her first thing. Winter's Bone was her first movie
that people like really knew her for. And then she was on I forget
the name of the sitcom, but she was on a sitcom for a little
bit, so she wasn't a household name. This Hunger Games made her a
household name. And then of course she went on too Oscars and everything,
and you know, she fell into our hearts. But this is the So
this takes place sixty four years before we meet her character Cat and has Evererdeen,
so it has nothing to do with her character. This is all about
the President Snow character who was played by Donald Sutherland in the movies, and
he's played by Tom Blythe here as a don't know, seventeen eighteen year old
who is in school, kind of finishing school at the Capitol, and the
Hunger Games themselves. I think we're about ten years in so it's not an
origin story to the Hunger Games necessarily, but an origin story to President Snow
and where he started. And then in this version, unlike the original trilogy
or for films, everybody from the district who is in the Hunger Games they
get a mentor. So that's where you have Snow, who is a mentor
now to Rachel Zegler's character, who is a tribute from District twelve. And
that's where things kind of go from there. And if you're a fan of
the Hunger Games, you learn about origin story stuff which you might have read
if this is based on a book as well, so you might have read
this, or you might not have, but I didn't, and so I
got, you know, I get some backstory to the Hunger Games themselves,
a new ish version of the Hunger Games, and I really I kind of
like that for the first two hours. Then it goes on for another forty
five minutes. Oh too long? Huh A little bit. Yeah, I
wasn't so much interested in what happened after. And there's a very there's a
clear demarcation of where this movie kind of shifts into the next part of it.
The next part of it I think maybe could have been part of the
next film, and I think there's the plans are for a sequel here,
although we'll see how it does this weekend. It's it's gonna win the weekend.
It's expected to make around fifty million dollars, but each of the first
four films opened to well over one hundred million dollars. I think the first
film was like one hundred and fifty million in its debut. So this is
quite different from ten years ago. And you didn't read the books, right
I read the original Triokgy, Yeah, I read. In fact, I'm
rereading Snakes and Songbirds right now because I know the book's always better than the
movie, so I'm reading that to go into it. Gotcha, And I
think, you know, I think they the plan here was when I talked
to the filmmakers that they wanted to make a movie that would stand on its
own if you had not read the books, or you hadn't even seen the
original trilogy, which because this is a prequel, and do that. But
I also think there's a lot in here, a lot of Easter eggs,
and you know, things that if you're a fan of the franchise, you
know stuff that I did not remember from the first time around that they get
into relationships and things like that and how they formed, so you know,
there's interesting stuff. All right, Well you've convinced men, I'm gonna go
see it. Okay, good. I think it's worth seeing if you're a
fan, if you really liked the books and the first films. Okay.
And we of course are out of time, which I hate. We never
have enough time to talk to you, Jason. But it is Thanksgiving weekend
and if you want to be horrified, go see Thanksgiving. A new horror
film from Eli Roth, which is a lot of fun. Is fun.
I'm not a huge horror movie fan. This is a very nostalgic eighties feeling.
You know, you got a bunch of kids trying to solve mystery,
you know, a bunch of high school kids trying to solve a mystery,
and they're getting picked off one by one. The kills are gruesome. This
is from Eli Roth, who originally made this as a trailer for the film
Grindhouse in two thousand and seven. This was a fake movie trailer that they
made and people for years asked them, well, whond are you actually going
to make the actual movie? And so that's what we have now okay,
perfect lead into the holidays, right and nicely threw some horror movie hundred percent
all right, Jason Nathanson, thanks so much. They go. Hey,
this is KFI and kosd HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland.
Weather from KFI. A twenty percent chance of some showers today, otherwise partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper sixties at the beaches, low to mid seventies
for Metro LA and in Lando c sixties to low seventies for the valleys,
and i E. Fifties and sixties in the Annealo Valley. The rains expected
to start tonight and it's going to continue right on through tomorrow. Overnight lows
in the forties and fifties. Highs tomorrow just in the sixties. We'll become
sunny again on Sunday with highs in the sixties to low seventies and then pretty
much sunny skies right on through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend or actually week not weekend.
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