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morning to you. Oh, get a great weekend. We had a great
weekend. But you know how you have best slaid plans and then they get
monkey wrenches thrown into them. We had a little monkey wrench that doesn't have
a name yet. My friend Amy was in town, Yes she's my best
friend, and we'd go out and me and Amy and we were going shopping
on Friday afternoon, and she lost her cat a few months ago. So
we were talking about maybe getting kiddies, what that might look like, and
I said, you know, why don't we just take a look at the
Pasadena Humane website see who's available. Well, by about six o'clock on Friday
night, we had a new kiddie. So shout out to the folks at
the Pasadena who means study so great. They're so great to work with,
and my friend and her husband now have a new forever friend. And then
we spent the rest of the weekend not only watching the cat run over a
run around and terrorize my little apartment, also trying to find a name.
It is as yet unnamed. Anyway, I hope your weekend was good and
eventful or uneventful if you wanted it to be. Here's what's ahead on the
wake up call. Four hundred firefighters have been out on the lines for a
more than fourteen thousand acre fire burning near Gorman. Evacuation warnings were in effect
for areas south of Pyramid Lake between Old Ridge Route and the La County line,
including the Paradise or Insist States. Officials say those living in that area
need to be prepared to leave. That's just one of the fires burning in
Socow. We're going to give you an update on all of them in just
a couple of minutes. The US will send another one point five billion dollars
in aid to Ukraine. Vice President Kamala Harris made the announcement over the weekend
at a global summit in Switzerland. Five hundred million dollars of it will go
towards repairing and protecting energy infrastructure damaged during the Russian invasion. We're going to
be talking with ABC's Tom Rivers more about Ukraine in just a minute, and
a peace summit this weekend. President Biden was not at that peace summit,
opting for a fundraiser in la instead, and it was a good one money
wise. The campaign raised about thirty million dollars at Saturday night's celebrity fundraiser in
downtown la Tickets range from two hundred fifty dollars to five hundred thousand dollars.
It was the largest Democratic fundraiser in history at six oh five. It's handle
on the news Prime Minister Netanya, who has disbanded his Inner War cabinet.
What that may signal in the Israel Hamas war. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Quick rundown
of the fires burning in southern California, and there's a bunch of them.
A brush fire in the Gorman area north of LA's burned more than fourteen thousand
acres. It started Saturday afternoon, Pushed by heavy gusty winds. The fire
led to the evacuation of the Hungry Valley State Recreation Area and Pyramid Lake was
closed. LA County Fires Craig Little says conditions are very dynamic. All of
the winds that we have going on right now are not consistent, so you
know, one hour we could have a lull and then the next hour we
could have roaring winds. The fire was only two percent surrounded as of last
night. A fire that's burned about eleven hundred acres in Hisperia is twenty percent
surrounded. It started Saturday evening along Arrowhead Lake Road. A spokeswoman for CalFire
San Bernardino said yesterday it looked like the fire was beginning to die down.
She said crews were able to prevent it from passing over a bluff and heading
toward the Arrowhead Equestrian Estates. The development was under an evacuation warning, which
means people were told to be ready to go. A wind driven fire in
Lancasters burned more than five hundred acres. At least one home was destroyed yesterday.
Some sheds and three RVs were also burned. The fire spread quickly because
of those strong wind gusts. Officials say forward progress of The fire was stopped
by six point thirty last night, and a brush fire in a remote area
east of Moreno Valley has burned close to nine hundred acres. It's twenty percent
surrounded. The fire was reported just after one yesterday in the area of Gilman
Springs Road and Alessandro Boulevard. CalFire says Cruise had to call in extra aircraft
because the area where the fire was burning was difficult to get to on the
ground. Six thousand Food for Less workers in Southern CA California, have overwhelmingly
voted to authorize a strike, and San Diego union president Todd Walters says if
they don't get a deal soon, workers could walk by midweek. We're hoping
today to get a deal. We're hoping to bargain where both sides may not
be happy with the deal, but as long as we get something close we're
comfortable with the will present itge the members. But if Kroger comes to the
table and continues to play games, we will hit the street for ready to
strike. Negotiations between the union and Kroger are expected to continue this morning after
talks broke down over the weekend. Time to say good morning to ABC's Tom
Rivers Tom. Seventy eight countries have participated in a conference in Switzerland over the
weekend. What were they talking about, Well, they're talking about trying to
formulate some kind of a piece, if you will, deal between Ukraine and
Russia. But the flies and the ointment. The big problem is Russia was
not invited and another principal, China, as you know, had been helping
with some of the trade with Russia, decided not to show up. So
yes, it's kind of a half full, half empty kind of a deal.
Zelenski was there. He said, well, maybe it could be seen
as the first step on the road to a settlement. But if you will,
if you're looking for concrete impact from this, you got zero, okay,
And so neither Russia or China, which are the two kind of protagon
or antagonists in all of this. Did they just talk about what they want
and then maybe who do they present it to though? If those two players
aren't even at the table. Well again, Putin on Friday outlined what he
would like to see happen, in essence, the withdrawal of all of all
Ukraine forces from the four provinces in the eastern side of Ukraine and the fact
that he says Ukraine then should become a neutral, a NATAL member. Down
the road, I took about ninety minutes. I was shot down by Jen
Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General in Brussels. So then they started this two
day conference in Switzerland just talking, just cheerleading, if you will, the
NATO side. So that's not going to get you what you want if you
really want a cessation of the violence and the killings in Ukraine as we speak,
and hasn't Putin kind of been saying that that's what he would be looking
for before or was this the first time that he's really articulated this. He's
kind of intimated it in the past, but yeah, he's kind of laid
it out the day before this two day conference, I guess fully expecting it
to be shot down and as I said, very very quickly by NATO headquarters.
So you know, never the Twain, she'll meet to very very different
points of view on how to move forward. Hence nothing changes, Hence the
war goes on. Yeah, kind of reminds me of what's going on with
Israel and MS where Mosco's here's what our plan is. But there's no way
Israel's going to go for it. So it's kind of like, okay,
whatever it was billed as a first step toward peace, is what's the next
step or is there a next step that we know? Wait, there may
may or not be. We don't know, Paul, you know, watch
your space. There could be a gallery again. You know some of the
participants as well, just didn't have a good feel about things. India,
Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Air Emirates, they sent foreign ministers,
not presidents or prime ministers, and as far as you know, signing up
to this thing, they said, now we're going to We're not going to
sign this. It's not worth the papers written on. Maybe one day it
will be, but at this stage, no, we're going to take a
pass. Okay. And you mentioned that not all the top top level officials
were there, and one of the top top level officials that was not there
was President Biden. Was there any kind of a pushback for that because he
headed back to LA for fundraising. Well, again, if you think back
a couple of months ago, this was kind of looking for some momentum and
thought this could be something. And then as the weeks waned on. It
looked more and more like a deflated balloon. And of course, you know,
the President has signed off for the US taxpayer more if you will funds
for the military side in Ukraine than all of the other coalition of the willing
participants have put together. So if it was it was really really important,
you would have thought that he would be there. But by sending you know,
Vice President Harris there the signal as well. Maybe something can come out
of this one day, but right here, right now, no, Okay,
Tom Rivers, thank you so much for the information. We'll keep watching
it. Take care all right, you too. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LAPDS
investigating the death of a little girl at Dockweiler Beach. Sources at the scene
told KFI News the girl accidentally struck in a campground parking lot in numerous police
cars could be seen, along with a white tent around the child's body.
The LAPD says around five forty five Saturday evening, officers were sent to the
twelve two hundred block of Vista del Mar after a nine to one to one
collar reported a car hit a pedestrian. Sources in the department told me the
two year old girl was hit while her mother was moving an RV and when
the mother heard a noise, she realized she'd hit the child. While it
appears the collision was an accident, detective say they will do a thorough investigation.
Steve Gregory ka if I News. A second man has been arrested for
a fight at Lax that knocked out an elderly woman who was checking her bag's
curbside. Jason Gibbn's senior was booked on Friday on suspicion of felony battery.
He allegedly rushed another man May thirty first and bumped into the woman, who
was knocked to the ground. The woman was taken to the hospital in critical
condition, but has since recovered. Israel's military has announced a pause in fighting
during daytime hours along a route in southern Gazita free up a backlog of humanitarian
aid deliveries. So called tactical pause applies to about seven miles of road in
the Rafa area. The army said the daily pause would begin at eight in
the morning and run through seven pm, and would continue until further notice.
Finally, a big movie for twenty twenty four. Inside Out two has opened
with one hundred and fifty five million dollars at the box office. Industry analysts
say that's the best opening of the year. Pixar's sequel to twenty sixteen's Inside
Out deals with the emotions of a now teenage little girl and features the voices
of Amy Poehler and Philip Smith, Diane Lane, Kyle McLaughlin, and others.
And so I know that Nick went and saw it on Thursday, and
Kono was taking the girls to see it over the weekend. So I wanted
to ask both of you because I think we're going to get different perspectives.
So Nick, first, what did you think of it? I thought it
was great. And now, granted we all talk about the hours that they
keep here, but I fell asleep three times during it. So even though
it's only nine eighty minutes, like we talked about with Jason Nathanson on Friday,
for me, it was a bit slow in areas, but I still
cried like a baby, So I mean, it still had all the fields,
yeah, exactly, and it had all the feels, so I mean
for me, but it also felt really really slow and some of the parts
just I could have done without. So okay, and you said it was
this is actually classic Disney. It was really an adult movie, yes,
one hundred percent of an adult movie. And the thing that I kept hearing
throughout the theater two things were the kids were running around and very, very
restless, and then a handful of times I kept hearing daddy, are you
are you sad? Why are you crying? Mommy? Are you okay?
And that's all I heard all around me. So you had kids running around
and were really restless, and then you had them checking in on their parents
who were crying. So, oh my god. Okay, So now Kono
went to the movie with kids. So what one would you think of it?
And what did the kids think of it? Oh? I thought the
same as Nick. Actually I felt like it was pretty slow in the beginning,
but they nailed it. They always nailed these emotions, which is I
loved the first one too, inside out and then Yeah, my daughter who
was three, it was her first theater experience with a massive screen and popcorn,
and she loved it, and she watched the entire thing. She was
yes and loved it. She took her bing bong, which she had from
the first episode in the first movie, and she thought bing Bong was going
to be in it, so she kept asking. She kept leaning over and
asking, where's bing Bong? Is bing Bong coming? And I'm like,
Hannah, just maybe he might be coming. But then the character. I
don't want to blow it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but there is
a character that I think distracted her from bing Bong and it might be her
new favorite. Okay, and what about your older daughter. The older daughter
I think related to a lot of the emotions more than an actual child.
So my older daughters seventeen and I can't remember the character's name, but it's
boredom, the actual care on Wei and I was like, they're the same,
Like that's a seventeen year old today. Yeah, that's funny. All
right. So you guys both liked it though it's both for you a little
bit slow in parts, but overall liked it. Yeah. I can't.
I like inside Out, all right, you know what. I am just
thrilled because it's like Jason and I were talking about on Friday. I think
that Disney's had their movies always look great, but I think they've had a
couple of misses, so I'm glad to hear that. You know, Inside
Out is getting good reviews and it made one hundred and fifty five million dollars
at the box office, so biggest movie of the year so far. So
I think it's great, and now I get to go see it, and
I will take your recommendations and do that. A smoke advisory remains in place
with the Santa Clarita Valley and Castaic because of the more than fourteen thousand acre
fire and near burning near Gorman. The South Coast. AQMD says northeasterly winds
are expected to continue pushing smoke from the fire toward the Santa Clarita and San
Fernando Valleys and parts of the La National Forest through this afternoon. Actually,
Angelus National Forests, not the La Forest Police, are asking for your help
in finding a man who escaped from the West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino
County. He got out yesterday during an outdoor recreation period. Deshaun Champs is
twenty nine, black, five eleven, one hundred and seventy pounds, with
green eyes, a shaved head, and tattoos on his neck and head.
He's been held on attempted murder charges. Both the Biden and Trump campaigns have
agreed to new rules for the first presidential debate. CNN announced. Both candidates
have agreed that Mike's will be turned off during the ninety minute debate except when
it's each candidate's turn to speak. We're going to find out more about the
ground rules with ABC Stephen portnoy Cima coming up in about ten minutes at six
oh five. It's handle on the news. Along with warnings on cigarettes,
the Surgeon General is now calling for warning labels on social media apps. Right
now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim is jaws lurking
off the beaches of the United States this summer. Yes, should we panic
about it? Should we stay away from the beach? No? But yeah,
they're always lurking out there in the water. They're always out there.
Fishing is what they're doing out there. Amy. They're not looking for you
or me or anybody else in particular except those little fish. So if you
go out to the beach along the Gulf Coast or over the Atlantic coast,
even on the California coast, I assume you know pay attention to those flags
that they post out there that the lifeguards have put up there. They talk
about the rip currents and the water conditions and all that, but they are
also flags that deal with the potential presence of sharks. So yeah, watch
out for that. Is there a shark sighting season? Yeah, and this
is a little early. You know, we had those two shark attacks last
week. Essentially, the two separate attacks that we yes on the Florida Panadle
might have been carried out by the same shark. That's what the experts are
thinking right now. There were small schools of small fish that were schooling around
that area at the time, and it's thought that shark was going in after
the fish bit this woman and she lost her hand, as I understand it,
but her life was saved by a doctor who happened to be on the
beach their sunning himself and was able to save her life. And then a
short time later, two teenagers were attacked not far away the same general beach
area there on the Panandle. But do you know where the shark bite capital
of the whole world is? Is it Hawaii? Is it Australia, Is
it the South Africa? South Africa. No, Felusia County, Florida.
Oh really, yes, Felusia County, Florida as the most confirmed unprovoked shark
attacks from eighteen eighty two to present, and in second place Brivarc County and
then Palm Beach County. So it's not it's not, but you know the
shore line there in Australia. It's not South Africa, it's Florida. But
yeah, so just watch yourself because it does occasionally happen. And if those
are the shark bite capitals of the world, how many shark bites do we
see per year on average? Do we know? Yeah? On average?
If you're looking at the worldwide total last year, what did we see?
We had one hundred and twenty alleged shark human interactions. I'm looking at the
International Shark Attack File. Yes, there is such a thing. The International
Shark Attack File started in nineteen sixty and they saw a sudden and extreme drop
off in shark attacks or shark sightings in nineteen sixty nine. Let's because funding
was cut to this this thing. This organization only came back and then they
started keeping up it. Anyway, last year sixty nine, unprovoked shark attacks,
shark bites on people. Twenty two provoked bites, So only twenty two
worldwide provoked shark attack. What is it provoked? I mean like you go
and you go in front of the shark, and I mean yes, kind
of yeah, provoked bites. Here's the definition. Provoked bites occur when a
human initiates the interaction with a shark in some way. It includes divers bitten
after harassing or trying to touch sharks, bites on spear fishermen who are underwater,
bite some people trying to feed sharks. Bites happening while unhooking or removing
a shark from a fishing net. So yeah, those are considered provoked bites.
The unprovoked ones are like we saw on the beach last week. People
are swimming mining loan business and they come into contact with a shark. Okay,
So I voted or not voted, but I said I thought it was
South Africa because I was talking to somebody probably when't we visited there a few
years ago that shark bites in South Africa had increased because they're doing like shark
tourism and they put in those they put people in those shark cages, and
then they chum the waters to try to track the sharks, and lo and
behold, the sharks are showing up. The sharks get chummy with those people,
don't they. Hey. Yeah, okay, So if you're going into
the water, is there anything you should do to make yourself less appetizing to
the sharks? Well, well, not really. I mean they're not really
going after you anyway, and they're going after those fish. And if there
are schools of fishing, they you should. You know, I don't know
who's going to be fishing or rather swimming early in the morning, like at
dawn or at sunset, but those are the times to avoid, really,
because that's when these fish are schooling. So the middle of the day is
your safest bet. Although those attacks in Florida last week happened in the middle
of the day, but yeah, restricted to middle of the day, early
afternoons something like that, that's going to be the highest sun exposure, but
your smallest shark exposure. Okay, and I know that the shark bite,
I mean, it's just terrifying the thought of it. Yeah, But if
you look at like just even the population of the United States of three hundred
and thirty some odd million and there were less than one hundred bytes, right,
right, And statistically you're okay, your statistically you're gonna be okay going
onto the beach, enjoy yourself. But you're right, I mean, there's
this visceral feeling. This there's a fish in this water with me that could
come over here and eat me or kill me, you know, or bite
me's And you're right, it's scary. It's it's frightening to think about.
After I saw Jaws, I didn't go in the pool at my house that
whole summer, all right, Jim, or you take a bath after that
movie. Well there's that too, Jim Ran, Thank you so much for
the information. Now we can feel better about going in the water. Just
do watch out for the warning flikes. Yes, all right, thanks Jim,
all right. A guy stuck in a chimney has been rescued in downtown
LA. The fire department says the guy got into the four story chimney yesterday
and an abandoned apartment building. Rescue crews had to break through a wall inside
to slide the man down to the ground floor. He was taken to the
hospital. A mountain lion's been found dead on the one on one Freeway and
a gore Hills close to where that wildlife crossing is being built. The Mountain
lion was found early Saturday in the slow Lane near Liberty Canyon Road. Construction
of the wildlife crossing began in twenty twenty two. It's expected to be done
late next year or by early twenty twenty six. Can't happen soon enough for
me. Researchers at u SEE, San Diego say nitrous oxide emissions have accelerated
climate change, with a growth of forty percent over forty years. The report
found agricultural production contributed to seventy four percent of human driven nitrous oxide from nineteen
eighty to twenty twenty, primarily through chemical fertilizers and animal waste on crop lands.
The study, released last week by fifty eight researchers at fifty five organizations
in fifteen countries, also found agricultural waste alone reached eight million metric tons in
twenty twenty, a sixty seven percent spike since nineteen eighty. Researchers say nitrous
oxide from farming has a global warming potential about three hundred times more powerful than
carbon dioxide Corbin Carson kf I News. Tonight, the Dodgers are in Colorado
to take on the Rockies. First pitch goes out at five forty. You
can listen to every play of every Dodger's game on AM five seventy LA Sports
live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and stream all the games NHD on
the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. The largest of four fires
burning in southern California has burned more than fourteen thousand acres near Gorman. Evacuation
warnings were in effect for areas south of Pyramid Lake between Old Ridge Route and
the LA County line, including the Paradise Ranch. Estate's officials say those living
in that area need to be prepared to leave. The fire is only about
two percent surrounded. The Mother our a mother has accidentally apparently run over and
killed her two year old at Dockweiler State Beach. LAPD says the mother was
moving an RV on Saturday. She says she heard a noise and realized she
had hit her two year old. The investigation is ongoing. Police are looking
for a group of kids who attacked several people while riding e bikes in West
Ventura. Willie say the kids kicked and stepped on a homeless woman on Saturday
night, through rocks another woman and spit on people they rode by at the
Crown Plaza Hotel. So far, just a thirteen year old has been arrested.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news, no surprise,
the Biden campaign has launched a fifty million dollar ad campaign calling out former President
Trump as a convicted criminal. At five point fifty, we're going to be
talking with the senior advisor on Wildlife Tracking for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Quite a mouthful, but it's about a new exhibit that you might see
at LAX next time you fly in or out. We'll tell you what it
is and why you're probably going to want to take a closer look. Really
interesting stuff. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy.
Stephen. In about a week and a half, the first presidential debate leading
up to the twenty twenty four election is going to be held. A lot
of planning going into it, So tell us what we know now, because
they've kind of put out some of the ground rules ground rules were released on
Saturday CNN, laying out the terms that the candidates have themselves agreed to.
Two men standing at podiums. The position on stage will be determined by a
coin flip. The mics will only be on when a particular candidate is recognized.
But I caution you amy to remember that in the elements of television production,
we have two people on a stage not terribly far away from one another,
and one man's mic is on and the other is off. It could
wind up sounding something like this if the other candidate is talking over the other,
which is to say that you might hear the other man off mike and
on the stage when one man is talking, you really can't tell that his
mic is on because they turn the studio monitors, that is, the speaker's
offs, to avoid feedback. So it's possible that if let's just say,
as happened in twenty twenty, Donald Trump tries to interrupt or talk over Biden,
that it'll distract Biden and knock him off his feet. Biden goes to
Camp David on Thursday to begin debate prep. There'll be no campaign staff all
out on stage during the two commercial breaks because this is a now a for
profit endeavor on the part of CNN, as opposed to a non partisan public
service put on by all the networks and the Commission on Presidential Debates. No
pre written notes or props, but candidates will be able to take notes during
the debate. It'll be a two minute opening answer, a one minute rebuttal,
one minute response to the rebuttal, and then an extra minute to be
used if necessary at the discretion of the moderator. So the idea is five
minutes per subject. Okay. Who are the motor moderators again, Jake Tapper
and Dana Bash of CNN. Okay, so not exactly a Trump friendly line
up there, which I'm sure they tell you not necessarily a Biden friendly line
up either, but yeah, nevertheless, Okay, So you mentioned that there's
no campaign staff allowed out on stage during those breaks in other debates. Has
there been well in other debates and the main debates in the fall with the
Commission on Presidential Debates. Uh huh, there is no break. Oh,
okay, and that's a key point. Also, no studio audience. But
we've talked about this before, Amy, and that is the idea that this
is this stereotype of these debates, the primary debates, the ones held prior
to the conventions, the ones were Democrats versus Democrats and Republicans versus Republicans.
Those have featured studio audiences because those again have been set up by individual television
networks, and they have had audiences in the fall. The debates that were
most used to in the general election, they have had audiences, but the
audience has been well healed corporate types and who have given their money donated to
the Commission and been admonished by the moderators not to show approval or disapproval of
any answer on stage, and that has been how it's been. There have
not been outbursts in the Commission on Presidential Debate debates or even rockus applause.
And yet that misperception has led to the much said about the idea that there's
no audience here. So fine, there's no audience, but we'll see how
that affects the dynamic. It'll just be a more intimate television production. I
think there have been more outbursts on stage than in the audience. One.
Certainly that was the case in twenty twenty. Look, yeah, the first
of the two debates in twenty two twenty where ugly. It was an ugly
scene because you had the two men on stage and Donald Trump would interrupt Joe
Biden and it really upset and frustrated Joe Biden. In the end, I
think you know, the main takeaway was it was an ugly night for Donald
Trump, and in the second debate he performed better, but in one and
rather handily when you look at it, certainly the national election results and in
the states where it mattered. So let's see how it all plays out.
What an early debate. This will be ten days from now, weeks before
Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, and more than a month and a half
before well, I mean Joe Biden gets his convention. The ideas the Democrats,
to avoid missing an Ohio deadline, are going to do some sort of
digital roll call that makes him the nominee. So there's no complication with the
state of Ohio's ballot deadline. Okay, And in the past, as we've
talked about that, it's just it's only on CNN. Can if the other
networks wanted to, could they rebroadcaster or does CNN have exclusive rights to the
whole thing for forever. CNN has decided to allow other broadcast outlets to simulcast
their debate live. ABC News will be among the networks carrying it on our
air. Okay, well that's good then. Like you said before, more
eyes right, tens of millions presumably will be watching next Thursday night, and
I will be one that one of them. I think it's going to be
kind of musty TV for us. So do you have the advantage of time
zone advantage that's good for you? Yes, exactly, and I can still
get to bed on time exact. Steven Portnoy, thank you so much for
the information. Like I said, I'm not missing it, and I bet
a lot of people are going to want to see what they have to say.
You bet. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Oh. Speaking of the presidential candidate's,
former President Obama and a whole bunch of celebrities turned out for a fundraiser in
downtown LA for President Biden. He warned supporters on Saturday to show up and
speak up now and through election Day Biden's campaigns as the event raised thirty million
dollars from day Democratic donors. Tickets for the event went from two hundred and
fifty dollars to his high as five hundred thousand dollars. Former President Trump was
in Detroit over the weekend. He told black voters politicians need to stop the
crime. He also repeated claims that the election process is rigged. A fire
near the Hollywood Bowl and the John Anson Ford Amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills has
been stopped at about three acres. The fire was reported shortly after two yesterday
afternoon. It took more than one hundred firefighters less than two hours to knock
it down. One firefighter was hurt. They were treated for what the fire
department called non life threatening medical problems. Some libraries in LA will double as
cooling centers on hot days this summer. The program would operate at West Valley
Exposition Park, San Pedro, Pacoima, and Chinatown. Yolena Zeltzer of the
Southeast Asian Community Alliance in Chinatown says she's glad her neighborhood branch was Joseph.
The seniors that use the library for cooling in the summer and heating in the
winter because they unfortunately have to make the choice to either pay rent by food
medication or pay for heating and cooling. The locations were picked based on heat
maps from UCLA and others. The city expects around eight extreme heat days during
the season, and libraries would offer water, heat education, and extended Sunday
hours if necessary. Michael Monks KFI News. A smoke advisory remains in place
for the Santa Clarita Valley and Castaic areas because of the more than fourteen thousand
acre fire burning near Gorman. The South Coast. AQMD says northeasterly winds are
expected to continue pushing smoke from the fire toward the Santa Clarita and San Fernando
Valleys and also parts of the Angelus National Forest through this afternoon. Saw the
sunset last night and it was one of those hazy, smoky ones. Thankes
for a pretty picture, not good for your lungs. Governor Newsom has ordered
flags at the state capital to fly at half staff in or honor of the
La County firefighter who was killed in the line of duty Friday. Andrew Ponchius,
a nineteen year veteran of the department, was killed when a front loader
exploded at a quarry in Little Rock, southeast of Palmdale. Celebrity chef Gordon
Ramsey says he's lucky to be alive after crashing his bike in Connecticut. He
says recovery has been brutal, but he's going to be okay. He posted
pictures on social media of his bruised and battered body and his tattered helmet,
so urged followers to always wear a helmet. We're just minutes away from a
handle. On the news this morning, the wildlife crossing on the one on
one can't open soon enough. A mountain lion has been found dead on the
freeway not far from the crossing in Agora Hills. Let's say good morning speaking
of wildlife to Sarah Walker, who is the senior advisor on wildlife Trafficking for
the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Good morning, Sarah, good morning,
how are you. I'm great. Your title is quite a mouthful. So
it's a very long title. Yes, yes, so before a very very
complex problem. Right, So before we jump in, can you tell us
just a little bit about your organization and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and
what it does. Absolutely so The Association of theoson Aquariums, also known as
AZA, is the a crediting body for more than two hundred and fifty facilities
zoos and aquariums around the world, really primarily here in North America, and
that includes facilities locally like the Los Angeles Who Aquarium of the Pacific, Cabrio
Marina Aquarium and others. Okay, and we love all those places. Yes's
kind of excellence. Please go visit. Yeah, so we're talking to you
today because there is a new exhibit from the La Zoo at the Tom Bradley
International Airport the travelers are going to see as they move through Terminal four.
And it caught my attention because I've been to Africa a couple of times,
and while I'm thrilled with the experiences and the animals and everything there, I
am also horrified by the fact that people are still poaching and selling off for
parts some of the most amazing animals in the world. Yes, many people
are surprised to learn just how big of a problem this is. Wildlife trafficking
is actually the fourth most profitable transnational crime in the world. It comes in
just behind human trafficking, the drug trade, arms trade. It's really a
conservation crisis and it's going to take all of us to stop it from happening.
And because consumer demand is really driving the crisis, the consumers are actually
the ones who hold the key to stopping the culting. Okay, So the
new exhibit at the airport is what's in that. Yeah, we're so excited
about it. It's part of our Eye Travel for Wildlife initiative. It's the
fourth exhibit that we've installed in the country. LAX were of course very excited
about since it's one of the busiest ports in the world roles and see the
high number of live animals and illegal products coming in daily. And it's an
interactive exhibit that educates people about wildlife trafficking in general, but also what products
they might encounter while traveling, which products to always avoid, which products to
maybe question and ask a few questions about where that product came from. And
also it's interactive and include several examples of actual products that have come illegally through
LAX. Okay, so let's talk about the products. Where you said that
there are products that are involved with wildlife trafficking, so it's not just smuggling
live animals in and out of the country. It's also parts. It's yes,
it's a bolt. It's quite a large problem. It's live animals to
fuel the exotic pet trade, but it's also parts which is then turned into
products, various products. They can be the trinkets that you pick up,
figurines, carvings become in the form of jewelry. You'll see them turned into
shoes, wallets, you name it, traditional medicines. There's just so much
out there as you're traveling the world that you will be exposed to and you'll
probably be offered for sale. And what we want the public to know is
just because it's for sale doesn't mean it's legal, okay. And when you're
talking about trinkets and that kind of thing, I mean immediately you go to
ivory because that was such a popular thing and leaving our elephant population decimated.
So there's still a lot of ivory going in and out. Yes, absolutely,
the elephants are recovering slightly because of conservation efforts, but we're still losing
them faster than they can reproduce, so elephant ivory is certainly still a problem.
We also see products made out of rhinohorn sea turtle shell, panglin skin.
Many people don't know what a pangle it is. What they look like,
Yeah, I know what they look like. They're weird looking things,
but very beautiful, yes, cute in a strange looking way. They're also
known as scaly ant eaters. That's what I was going to say with armorn,
that's right. And when scared they roll up into a ball and it
makes it very easy for coachers just to pluck them, put put them in
a bag, and then they're trafficked for a variety of products. But they're
actually Panglins are the most widely trafficked mammal on earth. Okay, so from
this exhibit, Sarah, what do you what are you hoping people are going
to take away? We hope people take away just a general understanding about wildlife
trafficking, but more importantly tips and tricks. We really hope people will take
to heart some of the things we're telling them to be on the lookout for
products to avoid. But most of all, we're hoping people walk away with
a sense of agency that their individual actions matter and that day as consumers and
travelers can actually stop this trade by not purchasing things to begin with, yeah,
and what you don't know, you don't know, so once you do
know, you can do better. Absolutely, absolutely, I think we had
our cut out a little bit. Sarah. If you're back, where can
we find more information about your organization and what's going on to stop illegal trafficking
for wildlife? Yes, thank you. You can visit I Travel for Wildlife
dot org and you can read about all of the information we have in the
exhibit. We of course hope you can visit it in person, but if
you can't, you'll find a lot of great information on the website. Okay,
great, Thank you, Sarah Walker, appreciate it so much. I'm
going to say your title once again because it's the longest that I've said in
a long time Senior advisor on wildlife trafficking for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
And you can get more information I Travel for Wildlife dot org. Thanks
again, Sarah, thank you. I just think that's such an important thing
because, like she said, you don't even realize some of the stuff that
you're buying or taking out because it's pretty in their little trinkets and they're mementos
of your travel, but they're also sometimes endangered species and the wildlife is too
spectacular. We need to just be better and be smarter. That's what I
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