WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.679 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:12.560 demand on the iHeartRadio apps. It's time for your morning wake up call. 3 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:28.519 Here's Amy King. This is your wake up call for Monday, August fourteenth. 4 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:32.840 I'm Amy King. Good morning, Thanks for waking up with us. 5 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:38.240 Have good weekend? Ready to do this? I don't know that I'm quite 6 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:40.679 ready. I had actually had a really cool weekend, did a lot of 7 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.320 stuff. I had a friend come into town. We went to the Orange 8 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:48.719 County Fair, got to check out some Chicken Charlie's. You know, we 9 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:51.200 talked to Chicken Charlie a couple of weeks ago, so I was just dying 10 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:55.479 to go down and get something. And we tried the Maui Chicken, which 11 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:59.759 is like his bestseller, and unfortunately you can't go get it unless you go 12 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:03.640 to to his restaurant in San Diego because the fair is over. But it 13 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:11.280 served in half a pineapple and it's like teraake chicken and pineapple chunks and rice. 14 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:15.640 Delicious and relatively healthy. Who knew? And then of course went to 15 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.400 the Dodger game on Saturday. Saw the Boys in Blue Wind, which was 16 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:23.319 a big thing for my best friend is also Amy, So I'm not talking 17 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.480 about myself in third person when I say that Amy and I went to the 18 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.719 game, but we tend to lose the lot when Amy and I go. 19 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.000 So we've won the last two games that we've been to, so we're hoping 20 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.680 that we've broken the curse. Anyway, time to get at it. Get 21 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:44.000 your coffee, start putting on your makeup. Blow dry your hair. Course, 22 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:45.719 you can hear the radio if you blow dry on your hair. But 23 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.319 let's get on with us. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call. 24 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.640 The director of Femus as Hawaii's wildfires are like a scene from an apocalyptic movie. 25 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.640 Ninety six people are now confirmed dead, but a lot of people are 26 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.719 still unaccounted for, and that number is expect to go up. Officials say 27 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:07.359 vandalism is behind a cell phone and internet disruption in Victorville and Apple Valley over 28 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:12.879 the weekend. Damaged lines left customers cut off from their tech for hours yesterday. 29 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.120 Barbie continues to dominate at the box office, earning another thirty three point 30 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:21.719 seven million dollars in its fourth week in theaters. It has It has now 31 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.840 topped five hundred million dollars in the US alone. Let's start with some of 32 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:29.919 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The number of 33 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.159 people killed in the fires in hawaiis I just mentioned has gone up to ninety 34 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:37.800 six and Governor Josh Green says it's expected to go higher. And West Maui, 35 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:42.319 twenty two hundred structures have been destroyed or damaged. Eighty six percent are 36 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:49.199 residential. Officials say only a small fraction of the burned buildings have even been 37 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.199 searched so far. Officials on Maui are warning people it's too early to return 38 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.400 to some parts of the island because of toxic particles. The fire that destroyed 39 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:02.199 Lahina melted metals and plastics from cars, homes, and gas stations, leaving 40 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:07.319 behind a stench of noxious fumes, toxic debris, and particulate matter. Officials 41 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:15.319 and scientists say that particulate matter could require substantial clean up and poses health hazards 42 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:20.039 that could last for weeks or even months. Dock workers in southern California and 43 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.879 in the Bay Area have been taking donations to send to Maui. They've been 44 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:28.319 collecting everything from clothes and toys to pet food and toiletries. The goal is 45 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.360 to fill massive containers by Friday get them on the water. It'll take about 46 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:36.800 two weeks to get there, but helps on the way. Nordstrom at the 47 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.759 Westfield to Panga Mall in Kanoga Park has become the latest target of flash mob 48 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:45.919 robbers. As many as fifty people in masks and hoodies rated the store on 49 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:50.360 Saturday afternoons, stealing high end clothing worth up two one hundred thousand dollars. 50 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:54.400 Police say security guards who confronted the robbers were attacked with bear spray. LAPD 51 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.800 Deputy Chief Allen Hamilton says it was likely the work of an organized ring, 52 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.080 but there's no doubt that there's a lot of criminal organizations behind this. Some 53 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.199 of it involves gang members, some of it involved people that are would you 54 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:11.000 would identify as professional retail thieves. The Gucci store in Century City was robbed 55 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.319 by a large group of thieves earlier this month. Last week, it was 56 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:18.079 the Eve Saint Laurent store at the Americana in Glendale. Police have shot and 57 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.000 killed a suspected car thief in South la The guy was found in a car 58 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:28.800 early yesterday and someone's driveway. Police officers saw the man had a gun. 59 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.800 They did not give details of the shooting. A woman found unresponsive insider car 60 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:36.600 on the four of five Freeway in Englewood has died. A person had reported 61 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:41.680 the car was stalled out last night in the Hov Lane. Firefighters tried to 62 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:46.639 revive the woman but could not. Irvine has received a million dollars state grant 63 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.360 to protect Bomber Canyon Preserve from wildfires. The multi year project involves restoring a 64 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:55.839 heavily visited forty nine acre portion of the preserve south of Shady Canyon Drive to 65 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:00.279 create a fire resistant landscape. The area has been overrun with non native asses 66 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.040 and weeds, which dry up and can readily ignite, posing a fire hazard. 67 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.160 Starting this month, Cruise will put up fencing, modown weeds, and 68 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:12.199 install irrigation to accelerate grow and kill cycles to deplete weed seeds in the soil, 69 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.519 then grow native shrubs, trees, and wildflowers. The project's expected to 70 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.000 be complete by twenty twenty six. In Orange County, Corbin Carson, k 71 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:24.600 if I News. Let's say good morning now too, Alex Stone. Alex 72 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:28.120 starting things off on a rather grim note this morning, the aftermath of that 73 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:32.639 massive wildfire, the destroyed historic Lahinah. What's the latest number on people that 74 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.800 we've lost or are missing? Well, Amy, good morning. Yeah, 75 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:40.360 so it went up overnight, well a couple hours ago. It's two in 76 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:45.759 the morning here right now, and late in the evening here the Governor's office 77 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.680 putting out that now up to ninety six who are confirmed dead, and you 78 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:54.800 know they're saying at least ninety six because they really don't know. We know 79 00:05:54.959 --> 00:06:00.839 that more bodies are being found, more human remains. There are daver dogs 80 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.639 that are arriving LA Counties Search and Rescue or have been. Search and rescue 81 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:09.839 team arrived last night. They are going to begin their work today with cadaver 82 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:15.240 dogs. Nevada, Riverside County. Other departments up and down the West coast 83 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:21.360 have or are sending in teams to begin doing that work. But there's still 84 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:27.319 a long missing list here of hundreds of people who have not turned up. 85 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.920 And while many of them probably are going to end up just having been out 86 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:35.160 of communication or being a misunderstanding that, there are concerns that a lot of 87 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:41.519 those people may have not made it through this fire. So the warning from 88 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:46.160 the governor is that they are going to likely find a lot more In fact, 89 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.560 this is the governor saying, we know that the teams are in an 90 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:57.480 ongoing fashion discovering other tragedies. Other tragedies being more bodies that they are finding. 91 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.680 They've only searched, I mean, about three percent of the buildings. 92 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:03.600 Most of the bodies that they have found were people who are running away in 93 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:09.079 the streets and they're only now getting into the buildings. And not to get 94 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.800 too graphic, but you know, they got that they need to use the 95 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.040 cadaver dogs to find the people who were in those burning buildings, and that 96 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.639 can be slow, and that can be difficult, and so LA County and 97 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:23.199 others are going to begin doing that today. But this is an island that 98 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:28.199 is just you know, it's cliche to say in shock, but but they 99 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.920 really are that vacationers are now out of here. There is a feeling of 100 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:36.480 the pandemic again on Maui. Flying in, the flights in are empty, 101 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:42.120 you know, as me and a couple other people and that flight crew was 102 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:46.079 turning around and doing an evacuation flight and full taking people out. And you 103 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:50.759 go through the airport, nobody is in the rental car center. Nobody is 104 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:56.480 on the rental car bus the road leaving the airport totally silent. The resorts 105 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:00.519 are quiet right now. That's what they need at this moment. But there's 106 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:05.160 also concern on this island because they get so much of their income from tourism. 107 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.360 They barely made it through the pandemic. The restrictions in Hawaii were very 108 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.720 very tight, and now they're gonna have to deal with this, and they're 109 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.000 worried about monetarily what this is going to mean, And there is a debate. 110 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.240 There are a lot of people who are saying, still there are too 111 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:22.160 many tourists who are not leaving. There are I know at the hotel that 112 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.079 we're at a lot of European tourists who are still enjoying their holiday and around 113 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.959 the pool and having drinks and having food. But in the long term, 114 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.080 the hotels are saying, yeah, they rely on that money and they're going 115 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.840 to need it. It sounds just sort of morbid that people are still there. 116 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.919 A tourist, absolutely, yeah, I mean, I don't disagree with 117 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:46.000 you at all on that. That ian why Leia and some other areas and 118 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.759 over by the airport on the eastern side of the island, that there are 119 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:56.000 people who are enjoying their vacation and going on with it. Now, most 120 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.000 people have bailed out. They've been told they got to go. If they 121 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.080 were in Katapali, where the other you know, there's Wyland, then Kannapoly. 122 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:05.960 Up in Kannapoly, which is just north of Lahinah, there is no 123 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.759 power, there is no cell phone service. They emptied those resorts out. 124 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:15.240 Nobody is allowed to stay there except for now search and rescue teams LA County, 125 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.039 I believe, is staying in that area even though they have no power. 126 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.320 They do have running water, we understand, and they're going to be 127 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:26.679 staying in those resorts where tourists were taken to the airport and pretty much dropped 128 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:30.039 off there and told you got to go home. But in other areas of 129 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.120 the island, the resorts are open. And you know, even though the 130 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.039 people have been told they need to go, if they're just here on vacation, 131 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:41.039 not everybody is. Most people are, but but not everybody is. 132 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.879 And they were saying earlier that they were going to need a couple of thousand 133 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.519 rooms for people. I mean, how do we know how many rooms are 134 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.120 on Malley? You know, I'm sure I'm sure they do. They have 135 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.720 a number. The tourism folks have numbers, but I don't know what that 136 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:01.799 number is. The I would assume Kannapoly alone, it's probably pretty close to 137 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:07.279 that. That just had the mega resorts that are there. That those have 138 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.879 got to have hundreds of rooms in every resort, and so Canna Poly may 139 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.279 be able to handle a lot of that, but they can't shut down Canna 140 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.559 Poly forever. You know, the the huge west end that's there, the 141 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.320 big high end that's there, the big Sheridan that's there. You can't say 142 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.120 we're common during this for the next decade while we rebuild Lahinah. So they've 143 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:28.720 got to figure it out. And what that long term plan is going to 144 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:33.720 be, nobody knows. So one of the things that I think is so 145 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:41.000 weird and interesting about fires is that they sweep through and wipe out completely to 146 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:45.279 the ground some areas and then there's like a line of trees and right after 147 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:52.799 that everything seems fine. And are you seeing that in or in Lahinah or 148 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.480 adjacent to it. Oh, yeah, for sure. Because this was a 149 00:10:54.519 --> 00:11:00.360 wind driven fire. When it's wind it's usually long and skinny because the wind 150 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.399 is pushing it along a path. And that's exactly what this hit. This 151 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.919 was not a large fire. You know in Paradise in twenty eighteen, that 152 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.039 one was a very large fire, and that one killed a lot of people. 153 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:15.039 This is now eclipse that this is now the deadliest in the US in 154 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.519 at least a century. But that one was a big fire, and yes, 155 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:24.080 Sonoma County, those were big fires when they went through Coffee Park and 156 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.679 other areas and killed a lot of people. The ones when Santa Ana winds 157 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.320 are blowing in southern California, those are usually very big fires. This was 158 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.799 about twenty five acres. This was one that would not have been a blip 159 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.639 on anybody's radar had it not gone racing through Lahina out to the ocean. 160 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.840 And even though technically there's some flare ups here and there, for the most 161 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.600 part it is now out and was pretty quickly after went running through Lahinah and 162 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.759 doing its damage. It is where it hit and the wind in that moment 163 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.159 that wherever it sparked, and they're still investigating exactly how they think downpower lines. 164 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:03.320 But however it was in that wind going a mile a minute. People 165 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:07.240 could not get away from it, and it went straight through the heart of 166 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:11.039 Lahinah, wiping it out as it went through. So yeah, it is, 167 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.600 it's very specific. The power is out, cell phone services out in 168 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:18.519 a bigger area, but for the fire itself, it was just a strip 169 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:24.600 right through Lahinah. That's just so crazy and so devastating, and future devastation, 170 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.000 you know, is just around the corner, because it sounds like it's 171 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.279 there's a very strong likelihood of a one two punch where they've already suffered this 172 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:37.320 devastation and now there's still with hundreds of people missing, the potential for a 173 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:43.879 lot more absolutely, and they've got a lot of days left to go here 174 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.639 of search and rescue, just beginning to figure it out. A lot of 175 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:52.240 questions being asked about warning systems. Was their time? The governor says, 176 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.039 they've got to investigate. Cell service immediately went down, so push alerts were 177 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.879 not an option. Activating the as system with broadcasters who are mainly over on 178 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:07.000 Oahu, they do have sirens, tsunami sirens, why weren't those activated? 179 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:11.080 They say they're going to look into that. But it just all unfolded so 180 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:13.600 quickly, just like we've seen over and over again, and the fires in 181 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:18.360 California where there is no warning because they just can't get to it. You 182 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:24.039 know, I think the Captain Amy flying in it kind of brought it to 183 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.600 the two or three people on our entire plane flying in brought a tear to 184 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.360 our eyes when I just want to play it for you when he said this, 185 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.639 mord a kind of a somber flight to Maui. This is the first 186 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.639 time in thirty years I've been dreading flying to Maui. Yeah, he went 187 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:43.960 on about he's been an aviator for three decades and always loves flying into Maui. 188 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.279 And then now this is very somber. That they're going in to do 189 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.120 an evacuation flight on Delta Airlines and to get people off of Maui is just 190 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:56.159 unbelievable to the flight crew, and that they're doing evacuations. Well, Alex, 191 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:58.720 thank you so much. I know that it's going to be tough for 192 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.240 you to be over there as well, but thank you so much for letting 193 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:05.919 us know what's going on and painting that picture for us today. Absolutely, 194 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:07.960 you got it. Thanks heavy, all right, and remember if you want 195 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:13.159 to do anything to help, there is a lot of organizations taking donations. 196 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:18.679 You can find a list of those at our website KFIAM six forty dot com 197 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:20.200 slash wake up call. In fact, I think we've got him posted on 198 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.759 all the host pacers pages, so very easy to find. The search continues 199 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:30.279 for up to fifty masked and hoodie wearing thieves who ransacked a Nordstrom at the 200 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.879 Westfield to Panga Mall in Canoga Park. The smash and grab flash mob got 201 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:39.039 away with about one hundred thousand dollars worth of clothes and other items. Saturday 202 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.279 afternoon, nearly a half million students in the La School District are returning to 203 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:48.919 classes to begin the twenty twenty three twenty four school year. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo 204 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:54.320 says they'll focus this year on accelerating the success of every student. At five 205 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:58.399 thirty five, we're gonna be talking to ABC's Steve Portnoy. All eyes are 206 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.039 on Georgia with a possible fourth Trump indictment looming, and at six o five 207 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:07.480 is handled on the news a possible hepatitis A exposure in La County at Panda 208 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:11.720 Express. All right, now, let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers. 209 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:15.360 So, Tom, what's Russia up to in the Black Sea? Good 210 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.440 morning, Amy, Yeah, there's kind of a development carrying on from last 211 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:22.080 month when Russia said we're going to pull out of the grain deal to get 212 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.799 tons and tons of grain out of Ukraine took places like the Middle East, 213 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:31.759 Africa, etc. The reason why, they said, because part of that 214 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.919 deal that was signed up to by the West was to allow Russia back into 215 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:41.559 the swift payment program to get rid of there excess grain exported around the world. 216 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.080 And they say, basically the West dropped the ball on that. Hence 217 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.919 the change of tune and a new chapter. Shots fired across the bow of 218 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:56.000 a cargo ship southwestern part of the Black Sea over the weekend. Russia said 219 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.240 they on the open channel. They said, we want to come aboard and 220 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:06.679 inspect because they were anecdotally stories of ammunition maybe weapon systems being smuggled into Ukraine 221 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:11.159 that way. No response from the ship, so the Russian patrol boat came 222 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:15.440 alongside boarded inspect that they've found nothing and allowed the ship to go on its 223 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.399 on its merry way. But I guess we're going to see more and more 224 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:25.120 of this in the coming weeks now with Russia controlling that waterway in a way 225 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:29.279 that the US has done similar kinds of things over the years in the Persian 226 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:33.519 Gulf. So they're calling the shots right now. And if there's any possibility 227 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.159 of getting weapons into Ukraine that way, this will shut it down pretty quick. 228 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:42.519 Do we know if possibly weapons are getting to Ukraine that way or have 229 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.399 in the past, or is that just a guess? Yeah, we've know, 230 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.440 we're not a guess. We've seen some pictures again, not confirmed, 231 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:55.399 but we have seen some pictures in the past of said to be humvees and 232 00:16:55.480 --> 00:17:00.639 other American trucks in some of those grain storage sites in the Descent, And 233 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.000 obviously they were not there to confirm it, but they looked like the real 234 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.759 deal. So yeah, there have been certainly rumors to that effect going back 235 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.079 months now. And is this a sign that Russia is getting a little more 236 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.960 desperate or just another tactic during the war. Well, again, if the 237 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:21.000 West plate ball and said yes, we're gonna, you know, allow you 238 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:23.160 to get rid of your grain too, and that was part of the deal, 239 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:29.240 we wouldn't be talking about this right now. But because you know, 240 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:34.559 the US and others have not allowed Russian ships into port. Has to do 241 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:41.000 with insurance, has to do with swift payment, that has not been lived 242 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:45.680 up to so Russia says, no, sorry about that, but we're not 243 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.480 gonna We're not gonna play ball anymore on this part of the deal with regard 244 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:53.640 to the grain, Okay, future implications. Does this escalate stuff or is 245 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:57.440 this just part of the part of what's going on, just part of what's 246 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:00.920 going on. It's again, we look at what's happening right now. The 247 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:06.759 counter offensive, which is which began actually in early June, is going, 248 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:12.000 is going nowhere. We're seeing the occasional, if he will, diversionary Ukrainian 249 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:18.559 drone heading into Russian territory, not strategically important, but you know, freaking 250 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.559 out the locals in those neighborhoods. And that's where it is right now. 251 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.839 And we're waiting to see exactly what's going to be shaken out now. Will 252 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:33.480 Russia go forward, will there ever be any peace talks, Will Zelinsky be 253 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.880 in power a year from now? All of those things need to be looked 254 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.920 at. And again, follow the bouncing ball. This thing is a lot 255 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.759 more chapters to be written, and we follow it each and every day here 256 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:47.839 on the desk. Okay, Tom Rivers, thanks so much for filling us 257 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.200 in and letting us know what's up on the waters and so many questions to 258 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:52.920 be answered, So I'm sure we'll be talking to you again soon. Take 259 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:55.920 care. All right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out 260 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.200 of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some very special dogs from the La 261 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.960 County Fire Department have been sent to Maui to do a very difficult task. 262 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.640 The three Black Labs are highly skilled at one thing and one thing only. 263 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.839 What are they trained specifically to do? To find human remains? Firefighter n 264 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.960 Bar talent Is two colleagues are part of a nationwide deployment of cadaver dogs being 265 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:18.000 sent to Maui to help search for missing people caught in that tragic wildfire last 266 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:25.160 week. We're trained on cremations, different stages of deceased, so we're we're 267 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:26.960 the right dogs for the for the right job. How many of these types 268 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:32.880 of disasters have these dogs been through? So we get local call outs at 269 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:36.640 least once a month for burned out buildings and things like that for searches. 270 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.119 I met up with the team at Lax yesterday just before they boarded their flight. 271 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:42.240 In fact, I happened to be on the same flight aboard the five 272 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:45.839 and a half hour trip was also a cadaver dog team from Texas. Bartel 273 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.359 says, even though these dogs are highly trained, fire scenes like the one 274 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:55.119 in Maui can be dangerous. We're going into a little burned out area, 275 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:59.680 there's gonna be tons of car synogens and the smells. They're not gonna particularly 276 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.920 like. It's not good for them. No, So it's not something we've 277 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.079 tried to do all the time, but as needed. Just like you don't 278 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.480 want to go into a building that's been burned out. It's not good for 279 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.160 you. All the off gassing and things like that at all. It's cancer 280 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.960 causing. There are eighteen canine teams in the department that work various parts of 281 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.839 search and rescue. So yeah, all of ours are labs. We also 282 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:25.079 have Belgian Malinois on the team as well and some German shepherds. But as 283 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:29.279 far as the human remains detection dogs, we have four total. All four 284 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:30.480 of them are black labs. Only three of them here today. And what 285 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.599 is their success rate? Are they pretty good at what they do? They're 286 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:36.480 very good at though what they do. Yeah, they've been trained since puppies 287 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:40.920 to find just one target odor and that's human remains detection. They're not training 288 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:42.400 on anything else. That's all they do. Martels is, even though these 289 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:47.200 daunts are among the best in the business, getting them to perform is pretty 290 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:51.240 easy. And they do everything for a toy, so just a ball toy, 291 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:53.799 everything that's They work and work and work all day every day, just 292 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.119 for a toy reward doesn't take much for him. Their labradors and I love 293 00:20:57.160 --> 00:21:00.160 toys, so it's it's fun to see. The canine teams were requested by 294 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:04.079 FEMA and joining other teams from around the country on the island of Maui for 295 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:10.000 wake Up Call. I'm Steve Gregory KFI News and we've got Steve as you 296 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:12.359 just heard on Maui. He's going to be checking in, you know, 297 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:18.680 regularly and has already provided us a lot of really great information and we'll be 298 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:22.640 sharing that with you as well. I want to say congratulations to El Segundo. 299 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:26.680 The eleven and twelve year olds have qualified for the Little League World Series 300 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:33.680 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. So they beat San Ramon in the West Regional championship 301 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:37.960 game Friday night in sam Bernardino. So El Segundo was the final team to 302 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:41.400 get a berth in the Little League World Series, and we'll start playing on 303 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:48.799 Thursday against the Great Lakes Regional champion and then the championship game happens on August 304 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:52.680 twenty seven. It'll be on ABC. But congratulations again. El Segundo headed 305 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:56.759 to the Little League World Series. Dock workers in La in the Bay Area 306 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.920 have been taking donations of everything from closed toys to pet foods and toiletries, 307 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:04.279 and they're planning to fill a massive container and ship it off to Maui on 308 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:10.039 Friday. Officials say vandalism is behind a cell phone and internet disruption in Victorville 309 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:14.799 and Apple Valley. Damage to lines left customers cut off from their tech for 310 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:18.359 hours yesterday. Barbie continues to dominate at the box office, earning another thirty 311 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:25.000 three point seven million dollars in its fourth week in theaters. If fifty, 312 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.079 we're going to be talking with Jim Ryan about how women are catching up to 313 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:32.039 men and not in a good way. But right now, let's say good 314 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:36.799 morning to ABC's Steve Portnoy. Good morning, Steve, Good morning to you, 315 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:40.960 lucky number four on the horizon. Haha. Former President Trump had said 316 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.400 he needed just one more indictment to lock up the election. Looks like that 317 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:48.200 could be coming pretty soon. This could be the most sweeping indictment facing the 318 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:51.799 former president yet. The District Attorney here in Fulton County, Georgia is set 319 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:55.640 to present a grant to a grand jury evidence of the former president at a 320 00:22:55.799 --> 00:23:00.640 raft of co conspirators committed racketeering in the state of Georgia, unduly pressuring state 321 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:07.119 officials here to overturn the election results in twenty twenty, filing false statements, 322 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:12.160 making false testimony, convincing Trump electors to meet corruptly in the State House here 323 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:18.039 in Atlanta, to sign and fix their signatures to pieces of paper that said 324 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:21.680 that day were the duly elected representatives of the popular will of the State of 325 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:26.440 Georgia, not the electors for Joe Biden. And that presentation is expected to 326 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:33.160 begin before a grand jury this morning. Fannie Willis spend eight months collecting testimony 327 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:37.400 in many respects against the wishes of those that she called to testify, who 328 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:42.720 were compelled under court order to come here to offer testimony to a special grand 329 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:47.519 jury. In the end, that special grand jury, which was not empowered 330 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:52.440 to hand up an indictment, made recommendations to Fannie Willis and recommended according to 331 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.279 reports, that more than a dozen people face charges. The grand jury that 332 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:00.359 Fannie Willis is going to be presenting to this morning is empowered to bring criminal 333 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.839 charges, and her task is to convince more than half of them that probable 334 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:08.759 cause exists to bring those charges against the former president and others. So are 335 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:14.960 we thinking that you said up to a dozen? Does it appear likely to 336 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:18.359 a dozen? Oh? Could be more than that. So not just the 337 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:23.240 former president there on that. And she's calling some witnesses, apparently to the 338 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:27.240 grand jury before they make a final decision, even though she's had all a 339 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:32.119 bunch of information and a bunch of evidence gathered. Who's who's going to be 340 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:34.240 talking with the grand jury this week that we know of. A couple of 341 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:38.480 witnesses have been told that they may be asked to testify, and they have 342 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:45.039 said so publicly. Who we're talking about The former state Senate president and Lieutenant 343 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.880 Governor Jeff Duncan, who's a Republican who says that what happened here it was 344 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:52.720 a terrible thing, and he is prepared to tell the grand jury about the 345 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:57.440 pressure that he and other lawmakers were under from the former president to take away 346 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:04.839 the popular will and award the state's electors to Donald Trump. There's an independent 347 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:11.000 journalist, a blogger essentially, who stumbled into the meeting of the Trump electors 348 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.039 as they secretly huddled in the state capital here to fix their signatures to the 349 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:19.319 documents that said that they were the duly elected representatives of the state of Georgia 350 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:23.960 when they weren't. And these people have been told that they may be asked 351 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:29.079 to testify, and they should appear on Tuesday if that testimony is necessary. 352 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:33.480 In the past, when Fonnie Willis has brought racketeering charges, it's only taken 353 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.880 her two days to make a presentation to the grand jury. The most famous 354 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:44.160 example was a case here in Atlanta involving corruption in the school system where there 355 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:51.880 was a scheme from the top to have tests in the schools. Essentially, 356 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:56.079 there was cheating and it was orchestrated, according to the grand jury and the 357 00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:00.519 prosecutor, by the superintendent. So racketeering charges were brought against all of these 358 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:06.920 public education officials. The presentation only takes a short while because so much of 359 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:10.880 this evidence she already has in sweign testimony, So all she has to do, 360 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.519 according to experts, is convinced the panel grand jury, with whom she's 361 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:17.839 already been working on a number of other unrelated cases, that she has enough 362 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:21.759 evidence in this case and that they should bring charges. And so is this 363 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:26.079 one This is different than the federal charges because there's been so much speculation saying, 364 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:30.799 well, if Trump was convicted and then if he got elected, technically 365 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:33.839 he could pardon himself, or he thinks he could, or that might be 366 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:37.319 one of the play. But these are state charges. So there's no way 367 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.759 to get rid of those. Right in the state of Georgia, because of 368 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:48.759 an age old scandal decades ago involving allegations that the pardon power was corruptly used 369 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:51.480 by the governor, the people of the state of Georgia years ago took the 370 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:55.480 pardon power away from their governor and it's now vested in a board that the 371 00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:59.960 governor appoints. The law here says that you can't be pardoned until you've already 372 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:06.200 served your sentence and spent five years living a law abiding life. Okay, 373 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:10.880 And so you said that the grand jury could be wrapped up quickly, and 374 00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:15.599 then so if there is going to be indictment, which it seems like there 375 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.839 will be. It could be before the end of the week. We could 376 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.880 hear by the end of the day. Oh okay, well then I'm sure 377 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:25.759 that if that's the case, we're going to be talking to you again very 378 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:29.799 very soon. Thank you so much. Steve Portnoy or Stephen Portnoy. Do 379 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:36.759 you go by Steve or do you go by Stephen's. Okay, well then 380 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:40.599 I'll mix it up a little bit. Stephen Portnoy, Thanks again for taking 381 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:45.640 some time with us this morning. Okay, have a little tip for disney 382 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:48.319 fans why it might not be a good idea to go to Disneyland for the 383 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:52.039 next couple of weeks. I mean, it's always a good idea to go 384 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:56.839 to Disneyland, but right now they're saying that mice chat, which is like 385 00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:02.079 a blogger, is saying that they're expecting a crowd crush and have even kind 386 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:07.400 of warned employees to brace for traffic delays as they're getting into work because as 387 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:14.880 kids go back to school, ticket prices tend to go down and pass holders 388 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:18.559 who've been blocked out, so there's different tiers of passes, and so some 389 00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:22.640 people buy the passes that are blocked out for the summer. Those restrictions have 390 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:27.000 been lifted, So Disney is saying, yeah, it could be or actually, 391 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:32.440 Disney's not saying it except to warn their employees, but it could be 392 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:36.920 very, very busy at the park for the next probably a couple of weeks. 393 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:41.559 So something to keep in mind. Okay, America's favorite TV family? 394 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:48.160 Any guesses? Maybe the Simpsons, Tyler, Who's America's favorite TV family? 395 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:56.000 Brady Bunch? What about the Modern What's the Modern Family? Oh? I 396 00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:57.559 love them. I don't even remember their name. So I was sparking my 397 00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:02.519 favorite shows. Okay, a little bit old through the Bundees. Yeah, 398 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:07.119 now, let me give you a guess. They're they're creepy and they're spooky. 399 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:12.839 The Adams Family, exactly. It's not the Simpsons. Oh I put 400 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:21.279 the Simpsons. The simpson It wasn't the Simpsons. I put the wrong the 401 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:25.680 wrong music in there. Nope, the Simpsons got edged out the American The 402 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:32.680 Adams Family is America's favorite on screen family. Who knew just a little factor 403 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:34.480 has a lot to do with Wednesday, I'd imagine, Oh gosh, I 404 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:37.519 can't wait for the next season a Wednesday. Did you watch. I watched 405 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.880 season one. Yeah, I totally binged. It can't wait for the next 406 00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:45.480 one. Hawaii's governor, Josh Green says he fears the wildfire death toll will 407 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:51.480 rise as search and recovery efforts continue on Maui. At least ninety six people 408 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:56.000 are confirmed dead. The search continues for up to fifty masked and hoodie wearing 409 00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:00.279 thieves who ransacked in Nordstrom at the Westfield to Panga Mall in Canoga Park. 410 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.759 Smash and grab flash mob got away with about one hundred thousand dollars worth of 411 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:10.119 items Saturday afternoon. Nearly a half million students in the La School District returned 412 00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:14.960 to classes today to start the twenty twenty three twenty four school year. Superintendent 413 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.839 Alberto Carvallo says they'll focus this year on accelerating the success of every student. 414 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:22.440 We're just minutes away from handling the news this morning. Hollywood writers are going 415 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.400 to be taking a closer look at a counter proposal from studios after their first 416 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.440 round of talks in like one hundred days. But right now, let's say 417 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.839 good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, women are catching up to men, 418 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.279 but this is not something to be celebrated. Yep, it's not. 419 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:42.039 This is the drinking statistic amy during the pandemic, and this wasn't a big 420 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:47.119 surprise. Starting in twenty twenty, the number of days that women reported drinking 421 00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:49.000 two excepts, that is, four or more drinks in just a few hours 422 00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:55.359 during a single day rose significantly about forty one percent compared with the same period 423 00:30:55.359 --> 00:31:00.240 of year earlier, and men's drinking problem drinking during the pandemic stayed about where 424 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:04.839 it was. These statistics then continued after the pandemic in twenty one twenty two, 425 00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:11.240 but so well, men stayed relatively stable, women's drinking continued to increase. 426 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:15.960 According to studying their Journal of the American Medical Association National Institutes of Health 427 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:21.160 has been looking at this and has verified that in fact, women are drinking 428 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:26.279 more than they were before, and drinking two accepts in some cases. So 429 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.359 suddenly the women had nothing to do, so they started drinking more, and 430 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:34.640 the men already didn't do anything, so they just drink the same amount. 431 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:41.759 That's a pretty accurate oversimplification. I suppose that this is not just a US 432 00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.599 issue. It's around the world too, and I am surprised to see this 433 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:49.920 statistic in twenty sixteen, fifty four percent of males and thirty two percent of 434 00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:56.119 females were drinkers. That's worldwide because in this country it's higher than fifty four 435 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.960 percent of men and higher than thirty two percent of women. And internationally there 436 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:07.640 are differences in numbers. The drinking ratio in so in the United States about 437 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:12.759 it's about two and a half men to one woman in terms of drinking them 438 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:17.440 In New Zealand it's one to one. You have the male to female ratio 439 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:22.200 of drinking of drinking, is it about one to one? In Norway it's 440 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:28.480 one to one. In India it's twelve point three men to every woman who 441 00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:31.279 drink twelve point three men to one woman in India. So, I mean 442 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:37.119 there are cultural differences, There are societal differences gender rules in different countries, 443 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:39.079 but in the United States falls somewhere in the middle of all of that. 444 00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:43.559 Well, I'm wondering if in some countries like India, and I don't know, 445 00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:46.839 but like, because you said there are cultural differences, is it just 446 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:52.359 that maybe the women don't admit to it because it's frowned upon more Well, 447 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.759 that's I mean, when you do surveys like this, and when you do 448 00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:59.359 studies, you try to be as accurate as possible, and you account for 449 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:02.559 people's honesty or dishonesty, I suppose, but you try to get to the 450 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.519 bottom of it and form the questions in such a way that people are willing 451 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:13.119 and comfortable with answering honestly. But also I suspect that in India you have 452 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.000 a lot more men out of the workforce, right, so they're out drinking 453 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.480 after work or whatever. Women are at home and they may or may not 454 00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:24.160 have alcohol available at the house. But you know, it's kind of interesting. 455 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:29.599 In the US, more males than females drink each year, and we're 456 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:34.000 also seeing the number of problem drinkers rising, and women, it turns out, 457 00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:37.000 have a greater susceptibility to the kind of health problems that come with over 458 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:42.079 drinking. Liver problems, you know, a cardiovascular disease, high pretension, 459 00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:45.839 the things they come with too much drinking affect women more broadly than they do 460 00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:51.880 men. And so the numbers went up in the US and around the world. 461 00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:55.079 The numbers went up during the pandemic, and they haven't showed any signs 462 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:58.839 of slowing or going down. I mean like they're just continuing to go out. 463 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:00.839 Well they are for women, that's thing. The men's numbers stayed fairly 464 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:06.000 stable after the pandemic, but the women's number continued to rise, you know, 465 00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.199 and at some point they may catch may or take men in terms of 466 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:14.199 drinking. So yeah, it's it's, it's it's that's the statistics here that 467 00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:17.440 we're looking at is the pandemic post pandemic, where women are are and where 468 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:22.519 men are and women continue to drink more. Okay, then here's a question. 469 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.039 Does the study show whether it's more the younger generation or older people or 470 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.559 does it delineate that. That was interesting to me that in terms of binge 471 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:36.920 drinking, they binge drinking among pre twenties. Okay, from sixteen to twenty 472 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.199 years old, among that age group of females dropped off somewhat. You know, 473 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.760 there's this kind of the social statement related to beinge drinking has gone down 474 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.960 over the years, I suppose. But among that group, the sixteen to 475 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:52.119 twenty year old women, it dropped off bene drinking dead statistically once they hit 476 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:57.000 twenty. That's when the numbers start to really rise. What happens during that 477 00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:01.280 period they go off to college. Okay, well, here's a little fast 478 00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:06.440 fact go ahead. That somebody told me that when you go to your doctor 479 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:08.000 and you know how, they ask you how you know, how much do 480 00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:10.559 you drink? How much do you drink? When do you drink? That 481 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:15.920 kind of stuff when you fill that out. I have heard, with no 482 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.559 scientific evidence to back this up, I have heard that the doctors will take 483 00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:22.920 what you write and say the actual numbers probably double because we all we tend 484 00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:30.000 to underestimate or under disclose possibly, you know. But it's what the doctor 485 00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:31.559 does with that information. They can't for you know, because of hip and 486 00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:38.280 regulations related to privacy that stays in your file or in your chart. You 487 00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:40.880 know, it may be useful information. But I think you're right. People 488 00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.920 sometimes are honest about stuff like that. Sometimes they're not. Mmmm. Okay, 489 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.599 well, thank you so much, Jim Ryan. It's one of those 490 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:52.599 in tears, I was gonna say, it's one of those things where women 491 00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:55.360 are gaining ground on the men, but not in a good way. Yeah. 492 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:59.719 Yeah, the agenda gap is closing, but it's not in a way 493 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:01.159 that you hope. All right, thanks so much, Jim, will be 494 00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:05.000 talking to you again soon. Some of the stories coming out of the KFI 495 00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:09.119 twenty four hour newsroom. Separate memorial services have been announced for three men who 496 00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:14.440 died in a helicopter collision while fighting a brush fire in Cabazon earlier this month. 497 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:19.480 Fire Assistant Chief Josh Bischoff, fire Captain Tim Rodriguez, and contract CalFire 498 00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:24.840 pilot Tony Susa were killed when two CalFire helicopters collided mid air working on the 499 00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:30.760 fire August sixth, near Morongo Casino. A woman in Arcadia has been shot 500 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.480 by police. The woman's mom called police Saturday night saying her daughter had a 501 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:38.679 knife. Officials say an officer ordered the younger woman to show her hands, 502 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:43.360 but then she just kept advancing toward them and pulled a kitchen knife out of 503 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.880 her pocket. They say the woman then ran toward the officer with the knife 504 00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:51.440 raised above her shoulders, holding it in a stabbing position. She was shot 505 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:55.440 once and is in the hospital. A man convicted of robbing three banks over 506 00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:00.360 six days on supervised release for bank robbery is about to be sentenced in LA. 507 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:04.840 He's doing federal court this afternoon. The plea agreement says Ricky Lewis, 508 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:08.039 who's in his fifties got just over four thousand dollars from the robberies. He's 509 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:14.719 looking it up to twenty years in federal prison for each count charged. Okay, 510 00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:19.719 remember last week we told you that San Francisco had just approved Actually wasn't 511 00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:28.280 San Franciscos. The California Public Utilities Commission had approved the expansion of robotaxis around 512 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:31.039 San Francisco, that they were going to be allowed to start charging fairs, 513 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:37.760 and so you would literally have taxis buzzing around the city with no drivers. 514 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:44.800 The Public Utilities Commission voted three to one, and so it's four Crews, 515 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:49.880 which is owned by GM and Weymo, which is owned by Google's Alphabet. 516 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:53.800 Crews says it plans to deploy thousands of robotaxis around San Francisco. So guess 517 00:37:53.880 --> 00:38:00.760 what happened one day, one day after that was approved, on Friday night, 518 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:07.440 at about eleven o'clock, about ten Crews driverless taxis just stopped. They're 519 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.559 on the streets. They blocked two narrow streets in the center of the North 520 00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.480 Beach bar and restaurant district. All the traffic came to a standstill because they 521 00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:19.239 were just there, like big rocks sitting in the middle of the road. 522 00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:23.679 The cars sat motionless with parking lights flashing for fifteen minutes, and then they 523 00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:30.280 woke up and started driving again. Crews blames cell phone carriers for the problem, 524 00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:34.599 but this is one of the things that the people who are against the 525 00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:38.559 driverless taxis have been talking about. It's that what happens if something like this 526 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:45.039 happens on a massive scale and there, you know, there's a fire and 527 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.000 first responders can't get to them. The city's fire department in San Francisco has 528 00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:53.679 logged more than fifty five cases of robotaxes interfering with first responders, and there 529 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:58.440 are plans to roll this service out not only in San Francisco, but good 530 00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:02.400 chance it's coming into La two. So this is going to be something definitely 531 00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:07.119 that we want to watch because apparently it was a little frustrating for the people 532 00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:10.880 in San Francisco and a day after it got approval, we lead local live 533 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:15.079 from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been 534 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.840 your wake up Call. If you missed any of wake Up Call, you 535 00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:22.639 can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake Up Call 536 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.400 with me Amy King. You can always hear wake Up Call five to six 537 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:34.000 am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app