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Here's Amy King. This is your wake up call for Monday, August fourteenth.
I'm Amy King. Good morning, Thanks for waking up with us.
Have good weekend? Ready to do this? I don't know that I'm quite
ready. I had actually had a really cool weekend, did a lot of
stuff. I had a friend come into town. We went to the Orange
County Fair, got to check out some Chicken Charlie's. You know, we
talked to Chicken Charlie a couple of weeks ago, so I was just dying
to go down and get something. And we tried the Maui Chicken, which
is like his bestseller, and unfortunately you can't go get it unless you go
to to his restaurant in San Diego because the fair is over. But it
served in half a pineapple and it's like teraake chicken and pineapple chunks and rice.
Delicious and relatively healthy. Who knew? And then of course went to
the Dodger game on Saturday. Saw the Boys in Blue Wind, which was
a big thing for my best friend is also Amy, So I'm not talking
about myself in third person when I say that Amy and I went to the
game, but we tend to lose the lot when Amy and I go.
So we've won the last two games that we've been to, so we're hoping
that we've broken the curse. Anyway, time to get at it. Get
your coffee, start putting on your makeup. Blow dry your hair. Course,
you can hear the radio if you blow dry on your hair. But
let's get on with us. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call.
The director of Femus as Hawaii's wildfires are like a scene from an apocalyptic movie.
Ninety six people are now confirmed dead, but a lot of people are
still unaccounted for, and that number is expect to go up. Officials say
vandalism is behind a cell phone and internet disruption in Victorville and Apple Valley over
the weekend. Damaged lines left customers cut off from their tech for hours yesterday.
Barbie continues to dominate at the box office, earning another thirty three point
seven million dollars in its fourth week in theaters. It has It has now
topped five hundred million dollars in the US alone. Let's start with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The number of
people killed in the fires in hawaiis I just mentioned has gone up to ninety
six and Governor Josh Green says it's expected to go higher. And West Maui,
twenty two hundred structures have been destroyed or damaged. Eighty six percent are
residential. Officials say only a small fraction of the burned buildings have even been
searched so far. Officials on Maui are warning people it's too early to return
to some parts of the island because of toxic particles. The fire that destroyed
Lahina melted metals and plastics from cars, homes, and gas stations, leaving
behind a stench of noxious fumes, toxic debris, and particulate matter. Officials
and scientists say that particulate matter could require substantial clean up and poses health hazards
that could last for weeks or even months. Dock workers in southern California and
in the Bay Area have been taking donations to send to Maui. They've been
collecting everything from clothes and toys to pet food and toiletries. The goal is
to fill massive containers by Friday get them on the water. It'll take about
two weeks to get there, but helps on the way. Nordstrom at the
Westfield to Panga Mall in Kanoga Park has become the latest target of flash mob
robbers. As many as fifty people in masks and hoodies rated the store on
Saturday afternoons, stealing high end clothing worth up two one hundred thousand dollars.
Police say security guards who confronted the robbers were attacked with bear spray. LAPD
Deputy Chief Allen Hamilton says it was likely the work of an organized ring,
but there's no doubt that there's a lot of criminal organizations behind this. Some
of it involves gang members, some of it involved people that are would you
would identify as professional retail thieves. The Gucci store in Century City was robbed
by a large group of thieves earlier this month. Last week, it was
the Eve Saint Laurent store at the Americana in Glendale. Police have shot and
killed a suspected car thief in South la The guy was found in a car
early yesterday and someone's driveway. Police officers saw the man had a gun.
They did not give details of the shooting. A woman found unresponsive insider car
on the four of five Freeway in Englewood has died. A person had reported
the car was stalled out last night in the Hov Lane. Firefighters tried to
revive the woman but could not. Irvine has received a million dollars state grant
to protect Bomber Canyon Preserve from wildfires. The multi year project involves restoring a
heavily visited forty nine acre portion of the preserve south of Shady Canyon Drive to
create a fire resistant landscape. The area has been overrun with non native asses
and weeds, which dry up and can readily ignite, posing a fire hazard.
Starting this month, Cruise will put up fencing, modown weeds, and
install irrigation to accelerate grow and kill cycles to deplete weed seeds in the soil,
then grow native shrubs, trees, and wildflowers. The project's expected to
be complete by twenty twenty six. In Orange County, Corbin Carson, k
if I News. Let's say good morning now too, Alex Stone. Alex
starting things off on a rather grim note this morning, the aftermath of that
massive wildfire, the destroyed historic Lahinah. What's the latest number on people that
we've lost or are missing? Well, Amy, good morning. Yeah,
so it went up overnight, well a couple hours ago. It's two in
the morning here right now, and late in the evening here the Governor's office
putting out that now up to ninety six who are confirmed dead, and you
know they're saying at least ninety six because they really don't know. We know
that more bodies are being found, more human remains. There are daver dogs
that are arriving LA Counties Search and Rescue or have been. Search and rescue
team arrived last night. They are going to begin their work today with cadaver
dogs. Nevada, Riverside County. Other departments up and down the West coast
have or are sending in teams to begin doing that work. But there's still
a long missing list here of hundreds of people who have not turned up.
And while many of them probably are going to end up just having been out
of communication or being a misunderstanding that, there are concerns that a lot of
those people may have not made it through this fire. So the warning from
the governor is that they are going to likely find a lot more In fact,
this is the governor saying, we know that the teams are in an
ongoing fashion discovering other tragedies. Other tragedies being more bodies that they are finding.
They've only searched, I mean, about three percent of the buildings.
Most of the bodies that they have found were people who are running away in
the streets and they're only now getting into the buildings. And not to get
too graphic, but you know, they got that they need to use the
cadaver dogs to find the people who were in those burning buildings, and that
can be slow, and that can be difficult, and so LA County and
others are going to begin doing that today. But this is an island that
is just you know, it's cliche to say in shock, but but they
really are that vacationers are now out of here. There is a feeling of
the pandemic again on Maui. Flying in, the flights in are empty,
you know, as me and a couple other people and that flight crew was
turning around and doing an evacuation flight and full taking people out. And you
go through the airport, nobody is in the rental car center. Nobody is
on the rental car bus the road leaving the airport totally silent. The resorts
are quiet right now. That's what they need at this moment. But there's
also concern on this island because they get so much of their income from tourism.
They barely made it through the pandemic. The restrictions in Hawaii were very
very tight, and now they're gonna have to deal with this, and they're
worried about monetarily what this is going to mean, And there is a debate.
There are a lot of people who are saying, still there are too
many tourists who are not leaving. There are I know at the hotel that
we're at a lot of European tourists who are still enjoying their holiday and around
the pool and having drinks and having food. But in the long term,
the hotels are saying, yeah, they rely on that money and they're going
to need it. It sounds just sort of morbid that people are still there.
A tourist, absolutely, yeah, I mean, I don't disagree with
you at all on that. That ian why Leia and some other areas and
over by the airport on the eastern side of the island, that there are
people who are enjoying their vacation and going on with it. Now, most
people have bailed out. They've been told they got to go. If they
were in Katapali, where the other you know, there's Wyland, then Kannapoly.
Up in Kannapoly, which is just north of Lahinah, there is no
power, there is no cell phone service. They emptied those resorts out.
Nobody is allowed to stay there except for now search and rescue teams LA County,
I believe, is staying in that area even though they have no power.
They do have running water, we understand, and they're going to be
staying in those resorts where tourists were taken to the airport and pretty much dropped
off there and told you got to go home. But in other areas of
the island, the resorts are open. And you know, even though the
people have been told they need to go, if they're just here on vacation,
not everybody is. Most people are, but but not everybody is.
And they were saying earlier that they were going to need a couple of thousand
rooms for people. I mean, how do we know how many rooms are
on Malley? You know, I'm sure I'm sure they do. They have
a number. The tourism folks have numbers, but I don't know what that
number is. The I would assume Kannapoly alone, it's probably pretty close to
that. That just had the mega resorts that are there. That those have
got to have hundreds of rooms in every resort, and so Canna Poly may
be able to handle a lot of that, but they can't shut down Canna
Poly forever. You know, the the huge west end that's there, the
big high end that's there, the big Sheridan that's there. You can't say
we're common during this for the next decade while we rebuild Lahinah. So they've
got to figure it out. And what that long term plan is going to
be, nobody knows. So one of the things that I think is so
weird and interesting about fires is that they sweep through and wipe out completely to
the ground some areas and then there's like a line of trees and right after
that everything seems fine. And are you seeing that in or in Lahinah or
adjacent to it. Oh, yeah, for sure. Because this was a
wind driven fire. When it's wind it's usually long and skinny because the wind
is pushing it along a path. And that's exactly what this hit. This
was not a large fire. You know in Paradise in twenty eighteen, that
one was a very large fire, and that one killed a lot of people.
This is now eclipse that this is now the deadliest in the US in
at least a century. But that one was a big fire, and yes,
Sonoma County, those were big fires when they went through Coffee Park and
other areas and killed a lot of people. The ones when Santa Ana winds
are blowing in southern California, those are usually very big fires. This was
about twenty five acres. This was one that would not have been a blip
on anybody's radar had it not gone racing through Lahina out to the ocean.
And even though technically there's some flare ups here and there, for the most
part it is now out and was pretty quickly after went running through Lahinah and
doing its damage. It is where it hit and the wind in that moment
that wherever it sparked, and they're still investigating exactly how they think downpower lines.
But however it was in that wind going a mile a minute. People
could not get away from it, and it went straight through the heart of
Lahinah, wiping it out as it went through. So yeah, it is,
it's very specific. The power is out, cell phone services out in
a bigger area, but for the fire itself, it was just a strip
right through Lahinah. That's just so crazy and so devastating, and future devastation,
you know, is just around the corner, because it sounds like it's
there's a very strong likelihood of a one two punch where they've already suffered this
devastation and now there's still with hundreds of people missing, the potential for a
lot more absolutely, and they've got a lot of days left to go here
of search and rescue, just beginning to figure it out. A lot of
questions being asked about warning systems. Was their time? The governor says,
they've got to investigate. Cell service immediately went down, so push alerts were
not an option. Activating the as system with broadcasters who are mainly over on
Oahu, they do have sirens, tsunami sirens, why weren't those activated?
They say they're going to look into that. But it just all unfolded so
quickly, just like we've seen over and over again, and the fires in
California where there is no warning because they just can't get to it. You
know, I think the Captain Amy flying in it kind of brought it to
the two or three people on our entire plane flying in brought a tear to
our eyes when I just want to play it for you when he said this,
mord a kind of a somber flight to Maui. This is the first
time in thirty years I've been dreading flying to Maui. Yeah, he went
on about he's been an aviator for three decades and always loves flying into Maui.
And then now this is very somber. That they're going in to do
an evacuation flight on Delta Airlines and to get people off of Maui is just
unbelievable to the flight crew, and that they're doing evacuations. Well, Alex,
thank you so much. I know that it's going to be tough for
you to be over there as well, but thank you so much for letting
us know what's going on and painting that picture for us today. Absolutely,
you got it. Thanks heavy, all right, and remember if you want
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slash wake up call. In fact, I think we've got him posted on
all the host pacers pages, so very easy to find. The search continues
for up to fifty masked and hoodie wearing thieves who ransacked a Nordstrom at the
Westfield to Panga Mall in Canoga Park. The smash and grab flash mob got
away with about one hundred thousand dollars worth of clothes and other items. Saturday
afternoon, nearly a half million students in the La School District are returning to
classes to begin the twenty twenty three twenty four school year. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo
says they'll focus this year on accelerating the success of every student. At five
thirty five, we're gonna be talking to ABC's Steve Portnoy. All eyes are
on Georgia with a possible fourth Trump indictment looming, and at six o five
is handled on the news a possible hepatitis A exposure in La County at Panda
Express. All right, now, let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers.
So, Tom, what's Russia up to in the Black Sea? Good
morning, Amy, Yeah, there's kind of a development carrying on from last
month when Russia said we're going to pull out of the grain deal to get
tons and tons of grain out of Ukraine took places like the Middle East,
Africa, etc. The reason why, they said, because part of that
deal that was signed up to by the West was to allow Russia back into
the swift payment program to get rid of there excess grain exported around the world.
And they say, basically the West dropped the ball on that. Hence
the change of tune and a new chapter. Shots fired across the bow of
a cargo ship southwestern part of the Black Sea over the weekend. Russia said
they on the open channel. They said, we want to come aboard and
inspect because they were anecdotally stories of ammunition maybe weapon systems being smuggled into Ukraine
that way. No response from the ship, so the Russian patrol boat came
alongside boarded inspect that they've found nothing and allowed the ship to go on its
on its merry way. But I guess we're going to see more and more
of this in the coming weeks now with Russia controlling that waterway in a way
that the US has done similar kinds of things over the years in the Persian
Gulf. So they're calling the shots right now. And if there's any possibility
of getting weapons into Ukraine that way, this will shut it down pretty quick.
Do we know if possibly weapons are getting to Ukraine that way or have
in the past, or is that just a guess? Yeah, we've know,
we're not a guess. We've seen some pictures again, not confirmed,
but we have seen some pictures in the past of said to be humvees and
other American trucks in some of those grain storage sites in the Descent, And
obviously they were not there to confirm it, but they looked like the real
deal. So yeah, there have been certainly rumors to that effect going back
months now. And is this a sign that Russia is getting a little more
desperate or just another tactic during the war. Well, again, if the
West plate ball and said yes, we're gonna, you know, allow you
to get rid of your grain too, and that was part of the deal,
we wouldn't be talking about this right now. But because you know,
the US and others have not allowed Russian ships into port. Has to do
with insurance, has to do with swift payment, that has not been lived
up to so Russia says, no, sorry about that, but we're not
gonna We're not gonna play ball anymore on this part of the deal with regard
to the grain, Okay, future implications. Does this escalate stuff or is
this just part of the part of what's going on, just part of what's
going on. It's again, we look at what's happening right now. The
counter offensive, which is which began actually in early June, is going,
is going nowhere. We're seeing the occasional, if he will, diversionary Ukrainian
drone heading into Russian territory, not strategically important, but you know, freaking
out the locals in those neighborhoods. And that's where it is right now.
And we're waiting to see exactly what's going to be shaken out now. Will
Russia go forward, will there ever be any peace talks, Will Zelinsky be
in power a year from now? All of those things need to be looked
at. And again, follow the bouncing ball. This thing is a lot
more chapters to be written, and we follow it each and every day here
on the desk. Okay, Tom Rivers, thanks so much for filling us
in and letting us know what's up on the waters and so many questions to
be answered, So I'm sure we'll be talking to you again soon. Take
care. All right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some very special dogs from the La
County Fire Department have been sent to Maui to do a very difficult task.
The three Black Labs are highly skilled at one thing and one thing only.
What are they trained specifically to do? To find human remains? Firefighter n
Bar talent Is two colleagues are part of a nationwide deployment of cadaver dogs being
sent to Maui to help search for missing people caught in that tragic wildfire last
week. We're trained on cremations, different stages of deceased, so we're we're
the right dogs for the for the right job. How many of these types
of disasters have these dogs been through? So we get local call outs at
least once a month for burned out buildings and things like that for searches.
I met up with the team at Lax yesterday just before they boarded their flight.
In fact, I happened to be on the same flight aboard the five
and a half hour trip was also a cadaver dog team from Texas. Bartel
says, even though these dogs are highly trained, fire scenes like the one
in Maui can be dangerous. We're going into a little burned out area,
there's gonna be tons of car synogens and the smells. They're not gonna particularly
like. It's not good for them. No, So it's not something we've
tried to do all the time, but as needed. Just like you don't
want to go into a building that's been burned out. It's not good for
you. All the off gassing and things like that at all. It's cancer
causing. There are eighteen canine teams in the department that work various parts of
search and rescue. So yeah, all of ours are labs. We also
have Belgian Malinois on the team as well and some German shepherds. But as
far as the human remains detection dogs, we have four total. All four
of them are black labs. Only three of them here today. And what
is their success rate? Are they pretty good at what they do? They're
very good at though what they do. Yeah, they've been trained since puppies
to find just one target odor and that's human remains detection. They're not training
on anything else. That's all they do. Martels is, even though these
daunts are among the best in the business, getting them to perform is pretty
easy. And they do everything for a toy, so just a ball toy,
everything that's They work and work and work all day every day, just
for a toy reward doesn't take much for him. Their labradors and I love
toys, so it's it's fun to see. The canine teams were requested by
FEMA and joining other teams from around the country on the island of Maui for
wake Up Call. I'm Steve Gregory KFI News and we've got Steve as you
just heard on Maui. He's going to be checking in, you know,
regularly and has already provided us a lot of really great information and we'll be
sharing that with you as well. I want to say congratulations to El Segundo.
The eleven and twelve year olds have qualified for the Little League World Series
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. So they beat San Ramon in the West Regional championship
game Friday night in sam Bernardino. So El Segundo was the final team to
get a berth in the Little League World Series, and we'll start playing on
Thursday against the Great Lakes Regional champion and then the championship game happens on August
twenty seven. It'll be on ABC. But congratulations again. El Segundo headed
to the Little League World Series. Dock workers in La in the Bay Area
have been taking donations of everything from closed toys to pet foods and toiletries,
and they're planning to fill a massive container and ship it off to Maui on
Friday. Officials say vandalism is behind a cell phone and internet disruption in Victorville
and Apple Valley. Damage to lines left customers cut off from their tech for
hours yesterday. Barbie continues to dominate at the box office, earning another thirty
three point seven million dollars in its fourth week in theaters. If fifty,
we're going to be talking with Jim Ryan about how women are catching up to
men and not in a good way. But right now, let's say good
morning to ABC's Steve Portnoy. Good morning, Steve, Good morning to you,
lucky number four on the horizon. Haha. Former President Trump had said
he needed just one more indictment to lock up the election. Looks like that
could be coming pretty soon. This could be the most sweeping indictment facing the
former president yet. The District Attorney here in Fulton County, Georgia is set
to present a grant to a grand jury evidence of the former president at a
raft of co conspirators committed racketeering in the state of Georgia, unduly pressuring state
officials here to overturn the election results in twenty twenty, filing false statements,
making false testimony, convincing Trump electors to meet corruptly in the State House here
in Atlanta, to sign and fix their signatures to pieces of paper that said
that day were the duly elected representatives of the popular will of the State of
Georgia, not the electors for Joe Biden. And that presentation is expected to
begin before a grand jury this morning. Fannie Willis spend eight months collecting testimony
in many respects against the wishes of those that she called to testify, who
were compelled under court order to come here to offer testimony to a special grand
jury. In the end, that special grand jury, which was not empowered
to hand up an indictment, made recommendations to Fannie Willis and recommended according to
reports, that more than a dozen people face charges. The grand jury that
Fannie Willis is going to be presenting to this morning is empowered to bring criminal
charges, and her task is to convince more than half of them that probable
cause exists to bring those charges against the former president and others. So are
we thinking that you said up to a dozen? Does it appear likely to
a dozen? Oh? Could be more than that. So not just the
former president there on that. And she's calling some witnesses, apparently to the
grand jury before they make a final decision, even though she's had all a
bunch of information and a bunch of evidence gathered. Who's who's going to be
talking with the grand jury this week that we know of. A couple of
witnesses have been told that they may be asked to testify, and they have
said so publicly. Who we're talking about The former state Senate president and Lieutenant
Governor Jeff Duncan, who's a Republican who says that what happened here it was
a terrible thing, and he is prepared to tell the grand jury about the
pressure that he and other lawmakers were under from the former president to take away
the popular will and award the state's electors to Donald Trump. There's an independent
journalist, a blogger essentially, who stumbled into the meeting of the Trump electors
as they secretly huddled in the state capital here to fix their signatures to the
documents that said that they were the duly elected representatives of the state of Georgia
when they weren't. And these people have been told that they may be asked
to testify, and they should appear on Tuesday if that testimony is necessary.
In the past, when Fonnie Willis has brought racketeering charges, it's only taken
her two days to make a presentation to the grand jury. The most famous
example was a case here in Atlanta involving corruption in the school system where there
was a scheme from the top to have tests in the schools. Essentially,
there was cheating and it was orchestrated, according to the grand jury and the
prosecutor, by the superintendent. So racketeering charges were brought against all of these
public education officials. The presentation only takes a short while because so much of
this evidence she already has in sweign testimony, So all she has to do,
according to experts, is convinced the panel grand jury, with whom she's
already been working on a number of other unrelated cases, that she has enough
evidence in this case and that they should bring charges. And so is this
one This is different than the federal charges because there's been so much speculation saying,
well, if Trump was convicted and then if he got elected, technically
he could pardon himself, or he thinks he could, or that might be
one of the play. But these are state charges. So there's no way
to get rid of those. Right in the state of Georgia, because of
an age old scandal decades ago involving allegations that the pardon power was corruptly used
by the governor, the people of the state of Georgia years ago took the
pardon power away from their governor and it's now vested in a board that the
governor appoints. The law here says that you can't be pardoned until you've already
served your sentence and spent five years living a law abiding life. Okay,
And so you said that the grand jury could be wrapped up quickly, and
then so if there is going to be indictment, which it seems like there
will be. It could be before the end of the week. We could
hear by the end of the day. Oh okay, well then I'm sure
that if that's the case, we're going to be talking to you again very
very soon. Thank you so much. Steve Portnoy or Stephen Portnoy. Do
you go by Steve or do you go by Stephen's. Okay, well then
I'll mix it up a little bit. Stephen Portnoy, Thanks again for taking
some time with us this morning. Okay, have a little tip for disney
fans why it might not be a good idea to go to Disneyland for the
next couple of weeks. I mean, it's always a good idea to go
to Disneyland, but right now they're saying that mice chat, which is like
a blogger, is saying that they're expecting a crowd crush and have even kind
of warned employees to brace for traffic delays as they're getting into work because as
kids go back to school, ticket prices tend to go down and pass holders
who've been blocked out, so there's different tiers of passes, and so some
people buy the passes that are blocked out for the summer. Those restrictions have
been lifted, So Disney is saying, yeah, it could be or actually,
Disney's not saying it except to warn their employees, but it could be
very, very busy at the park for the next probably a couple of weeks.
So something to keep in mind. Okay, America's favorite TV family?
Any guesses? Maybe the Simpsons, Tyler, Who's America's favorite TV family?
Brady Bunch? What about the Modern What's the Modern Family? Oh? I
love them. I don't even remember their name. So I was sparking my
favorite shows. Okay, a little bit old through the Bundees. Yeah,
now, let me give you a guess. They're they're creepy and they're spooky.
The Adams Family, exactly. It's not the Simpsons. Oh I put
the Simpsons. The simpson It wasn't the Simpsons. I put the wrong the
wrong music in there. Nope, the Simpsons got edged out the American The
Adams Family is America's favorite on screen family. Who knew just a little factor
has a lot to do with Wednesday, I'd imagine, Oh gosh, I
can't wait for the next season a Wednesday. Did you watch. I watched
season one. Yeah, I totally binged. It can't wait for the next
one. Hawaii's governor, Josh Green says he fears the wildfire death toll will
rise as search and recovery efforts continue on Maui. At least ninety six people
are confirmed dead. The search continues for up to fifty masked and hoodie wearing
thieves who ransacked in Nordstrom at the Westfield to Panga Mall in Canoga Park.
Smash and grab flash mob got away with about one hundred thousand dollars worth of
items Saturday afternoon. Nearly a half million students in the La School District returned
to classes today to start the twenty twenty three twenty four school year. Superintendent
Alberto Carvallo says they'll focus this year on accelerating the success of every student.
We're just minutes away from handling the news this morning. Hollywood writers are going
to be taking a closer look at a counter proposal from studios after their first
round of talks in like one hundred days. But right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, women are catching up to men,
but this is not something to be celebrated. Yep, it's not.
This is the drinking statistic amy during the pandemic, and this wasn't a big
surprise. Starting in twenty twenty, the number of days that women reported drinking
two excepts, that is, four or more drinks in just a few hours
during a single day rose significantly about forty one percent compared with the same period
of year earlier, and men's drinking problem drinking during the pandemic stayed about where
it was. These statistics then continued after the pandemic in twenty one twenty two,
but so well, men stayed relatively stable, women's drinking continued to increase.
According to studying their Journal of the American Medical Association National Institutes of Health
has been looking at this and has verified that in fact, women are drinking
more than they were before, and drinking two accepts in some cases. So
suddenly the women had nothing to do, so they started drinking more, and
the men already didn't do anything, so they just drink the same amount.
That's a pretty accurate oversimplification. I suppose that this is not just a US
issue. It's around the world too, and I am surprised to see this
statistic in twenty sixteen, fifty four percent of males and thirty two percent of
females were drinkers. That's worldwide because in this country it's higher than fifty four
percent of men and higher than thirty two percent of women. And internationally there
are differences in numbers. The drinking ratio in so in the United States about
it's about two and a half men to one woman in terms of drinking them
In New Zealand it's one to one. You have the male to female ratio
of drinking of drinking, is it about one to one? In Norway it's
one to one. In India it's twelve point three men to every woman who
drink twelve point three men to one woman in India. So, I mean
there are cultural differences, There are societal differences gender rules in different countries,
but in the United States falls somewhere in the middle of all of that.
Well, I'm wondering if in some countries like India, and I don't know,
but like, because you said there are cultural differences, is it just
that maybe the women don't admit to it because it's frowned upon more Well,
that's I mean, when you do surveys like this, and when you do
studies, you try to be as accurate as possible, and you account for
people's honesty or dishonesty, I suppose, but you try to get to the
bottom of it and form the questions in such a way that people are willing
and comfortable with answering honestly. But also I suspect that in India you have
a lot more men out of the workforce, right, so they're out drinking
after work or whatever. Women are at home and they may or may not
have alcohol available at the house. But you know, it's kind of interesting.
In the US, more males than females drink each year, and we're
also seeing the number of problem drinkers rising, and women, it turns out,
have a greater susceptibility to the kind of health problems that come with over
drinking. Liver problems, you know, a cardiovascular disease, high pretension,
the things they come with too much drinking affect women more broadly than they do
men. And so the numbers went up in the US and around the world.
The numbers went up during the pandemic, and they haven't showed any signs
of slowing or going down. I mean like they're just continuing to go out.
Well they are for women, that's thing. The men's numbers stayed fairly
stable after the pandemic, but the women's number continued to rise, you know,
and at some point they may catch may or take men in terms of
drinking. So yeah, it's it's, it's it's that's the statistics here that
we're looking at is the pandemic post pandemic, where women are are and where
men are and women continue to drink more. Okay, then here's a question.
Does the study show whether it's more the younger generation or older people or
does it delineate that. That was interesting to me that in terms of binge
drinking, they binge drinking among pre twenties. Okay, from sixteen to twenty
years old, among that age group of females dropped off somewhat. You know,
there's this kind of the social statement related to beinge drinking has gone down
over the years, I suppose. But among that group, the sixteen to
twenty year old women, it dropped off bene drinking dead statistically once they hit
twenty. That's when the numbers start to really rise. What happens during that
period they go off to college. Okay, well, here's a little fast
fact go ahead. That somebody told me that when you go to your doctor
and you know how, they ask you how you know, how much do
you drink? How much do you drink? When do you drink? That
kind of stuff when you fill that out. I have heard, with no
scientific evidence to back this up, I have heard that the doctors will take
what you write and say the actual numbers probably double because we all we tend
to underestimate or under disclose possibly, you know. But it's what the doctor
does with that information. They can't for you know, because of hip and
regulations related to privacy that stays in your file or in your chart. You
know, it may be useful information. But I think you're right. People
sometimes are honest about stuff like that. Sometimes they're not. Mmmm. Okay,
well, thank you so much, Jim Ryan. It's one of those
in tears, I was gonna say, it's one of those things where women
are gaining ground on the men, but not in a good way. Yeah.
Yeah, the agenda gap is closing, but it's not in a way
that you hope. All right, thanks so much, Jim, will be
talking to you again soon. Some of the stories coming out of the KFI
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fire August sixth, near Morongo Casino. A woman in Arcadia has been shot
by police. The woman's mom called police Saturday night saying her daughter had a
knife. Officials say an officer ordered the younger woman to show her hands,
but then she just kept advancing toward them and pulled a kitchen knife out of
her pocket. They say the woman then ran toward the officer with the knife
raised above her shoulders, holding it in a stabbing position. She was shot
once and is in the hospital. A man convicted of robbing three banks over
six days on supervised release for bank robbery is about to be sentenced in LA.
He's doing federal court this afternoon. The plea agreement says Ricky Lewis,
who's in his fifties got just over four thousand dollars from the robberies. He's
looking it up to twenty years in federal prison for each count charged. Okay,
remember last week we told you that San Francisco had just approved Actually wasn't
San Franciscos. The California Public Utilities Commission had approved the expansion of robotaxis around
San Francisco, that they were going to be allowed to start charging fairs,
and so you would literally have taxis buzzing around the city with no drivers.
The Public Utilities Commission voted three to one, and so it's four Crews,
which is owned by GM and Weymo, which is owned by Google's Alphabet.
Crews says it plans to deploy thousands of robotaxis around San Francisco. So guess
what happened one day, one day after that was approved, on Friday night,
at about eleven o'clock, about ten Crews driverless taxis just stopped. They're
on the streets. They blocked two narrow streets in the center of the North
Beach bar and restaurant district. All the traffic came to a standstill because they
were just there, like big rocks sitting in the middle of the road.
The cars sat motionless with parking lights flashing for fifteen minutes, and then they
woke up and started driving again. Crews blames cell phone carriers for the problem,
but this is one of the things that the people who are against the
driverless taxis have been talking about. It's that what happens if something like this
happens on a massive scale and there, you know, there's a fire and
first responders can't get to them. The city's fire department in San Francisco has
logged more than fifty five cases of robotaxes interfering with first responders, and there
are plans to roll this service out not only in San Francisco, but good
chance it's coming into La two. So this is going to be something definitely
that we want to watch because apparently it was a little frustrating for the people
in San Francisco and a day after it got approval, we lead local live
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