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your day and your work week with us. Four more mondays till Christmas.
Right. I got my Christmas tree this weekend. Saturday was supposed to be
the busiest day for getting Christmas trees of the whole year, and of course
that's the day we went to get it. And one hundred and eighty dollars
later. I know Kano's face, just look one eighty They had five to
six foot trees were one hundred and thirty five and six to seven foot trees
were one fifty five plus tax plus then you know you need to get the
bag to get rid of it at the end. Oh then plus a twenty
dollars tip, So it was more like two hundred dollars. I know,
unbelievable. They said that tree prices were up ten percent this year. That's
a lot more than I spent. And I almost didn't do it. I
thought, do I really need a tree and I don't have room to get
it? Well, I'm I am not an artificial tree person, so I
knew that wasn't going to be an option. But I was just like,
Oh, that's a lot of money for a tree. I'm sorry, I'm
gonna sat looking at three to four foot trees. Those prices, you could
get a little teeny try. Yeah, they had two and three foot trees
for fifty bucks. Anyway, the house looks beautiful and the decorating process will
now begin. It is a process. It takes me a couple of days.
Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Israel's military has called for mass
evacuations in the southern Gaza strip in the town of Communists. Tens of thousands
of people have sought refuge there in recent weeks. The Israeli army bombarded about
two hundred hamas targets in Gaza in the last twenty four hours. A thirty
three year old man Polis Say, killed three homeless men in four days around
La has been arrested and charged with murder. The guy was already in jail
in connection with that follow home murder of a man in his garage in San
Deimus last week. Cal Poly Pomona faculty will walk off the job today.
It's a one day strike, part of a limited strike in the cal State
system as the union fights for a twelve percent pay increase, among other things.
Cal State says it can't afford that big a jump in pay. Faculty
at cal State LA will walk out for one day on Wednesday. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A man has been shot to death at a gas station in the Vermont
Knowles area of LA. The station is at the corner of Hoover Street and
Manchester Avenue. Security video shows two people drive up to the man's car late
last night. They got out, shot him several times, then drove away.
Smash and grab robbers have hit a store in the Santa Anita Mall in
Arcadia. Police say four guys in hoodies and masks used hammers yesterday to smash
display cases at the Rebag store. It's a high end resale store. Some
people in the mall say they thought the noise was from gunshots. The thieves
grabbed wallets, watches, and purses and drove off in a white Infinity Sedan.
The Israeli defense forces are now fighting in every part of Gaza. Operations
have expanded as Israel targets Hamas leaders. ABC's Tom Sufi Burridge tells Or says
that Israel has been criticized over the high number of civilian deaths. Israel,
promising it will make the maximum effort to safeguard Gaza's civilian population. Israel's militaries
called for more evacuations in southern Gaza. The Help Ministry in Gaza, which
is run by Hamas, says the death toll in the territory's topped fifteen thousand
since October seventh, when Hamas attacked Israel, but they do not differentiate between
civilian and militant deaths. A former American diplomat who served as US ambassador to
Bolivia has been arrested in Florida. Manuel Rocha is accused of serving as an
agent of Cuba. He was arrested Friday. Prosecutors are expected to give us
some more details about that today. If Queen Bee reigns at the box office,
Renaissance, a film by Beyonce, opened in first place this weekend.
It earned twenty one million dollars. AMC Theaters thanked Beyonce for taking the film
directly to her fans, saying to see it do so well on a weekend
that's notoriously slow as a testament to her immense talent. It's the first time
a film has opened with more than twenty million dollars in ticket sales during the
first weekend of December in twenty years. Now, let's say good morning to
ABC's Tom Rivers. Hey, Tom, HOOTI rebels have said that they're the
ones behind the attacks on some ships in the Red Sea. Can you tell
us what happened over the weekend? Yeap, very much so. We had
American assets in that part of the world. In the Red Sea, the
USS Carney coming to the aid of one of three bulk carriers that came under
attack in these missile attacks, and none of them were serious and no injuries.
All the crews are accounted for. But the Carnee came alongside one of
the ships, a Unity Explorer, which is flagged in the Bahamas, and
at that point they knocked down the USS Carney knocked down three drones that came
in the vicinity. So yes, tensions are rising in that part of the
world. Two other bulk carriers as well. Kin kind of we're in the
area and missiles are directed it in their direction. Put it that way,
Panamanian flagged carriers number nine and Sophie. That's two. So yes, it's
it's pretty tense right now. Where is this in go? The US doesn't
want escalation, but we have assets there. Uh. And of course the
war grinds on in Gaza today, the rhetoric increasing, the president of Turkey
and Istanbul saying that Netan Yahoo should be tried in a criminal court for war
crimes, just as Molossovitch did in Bosnia. So that kind of shows you
the temperature of some of the countries surrounding Israel. Uh. And unless tensions
are diffused one way or another, this thing's boiling up and getting stronger and
stronger. Okay, Tom, tell us you said that the US carney is
there, or the USS karney is there. But the carney wasn't actually attacked,
right, It was the other ships corrected and these three that had not
down these drones, they're saying it was in their direction. Now, was
going for for instance, the Unity Explorer? Was it going for the destroyer?
You can't tell. But again the bottom line is at this stage,
no major real problems. But again, what could happen next time, We
don't know, So that's the worrying concern. Okay, And the Carnie knocked
down the drones, so did they hit anything? No, no, okay,
the drones were disabled. Okay. And the ships that were targeted or
where the drones were headed in that general direction, what's on those ships,
Well, we don't got the bull carriers, so we don't know. If
it was things like iron ore, we don't really know. But again it's
it's something that you know, you got to watch closely. And that's a
very very as you well know, a very very important shipping route. And
you know, if the Huti's want to want to create problems in that part
of the world, they're going nowhere. So that means you might have to
reposition more naval assets down the road, rotate them in and out. And
for a variety of reasons, you know, you're already supplying weaponry to Ukraine.
You've got to course your eyes on the South China Sea, three troubled
areas in the world. For that very reason, the US doesn't want anything
escalating in that part of the world. Right. And then just for clarification,
the Hootie rebels are backed by her Irans, so they're like the Iran
proxy, so Iran can't doesn't have to say, oh, yeah, we're
doing this right, Well, Satis are doing it. You know how long
of the American has been and the UK been supplying bombs to Saudi Arabia in
Yemen many many years, and they're they're dropping on the Houties and the civilians
in Yemen. So there's absolutely zero love loss between the Hooties and they see
his American targets in the Red Sea. Okay, wow, this is just
all It's crazy. And is the US expected to retaliate for this one?
I know that like US US facilities have been targeted like more than seventy times
since this whole thing started. Are we expected to respond to this one?
Well, they're trying to downplay the Pentagon because they don't want escalation. They're
spread pretty thin right now, as I say, in three locations around the
world. But they're saying, you know, in consultation with the allies,
we may take appropriate action. So you know, take that as a threat
to Tehran or take that as a form of saying, for now, we're
not going to do anything, you know, at this stage. Again,
this one came off without any real major major issues, but the next one
could be much more severe and then action will by definition have to be taken.
Yeah, it's just this very slippery slope that we're walking and I just
can't even image and having to make those decisions on do we fight back,
do we sit and wait until something happens? Well, and who's taking this?
Is Biden taking the decisions? I don't know. Is it the Pentagon,
is it the State Department? Is it the National Security Council. That's
the last time Biden talked about this. That's a good point, all right,
ABC's Tom Rivers will be watching. Thank you so much for your information.
Take care, appreciate it. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The bodies of two people
have been found inside a burned house in Silmar, La. Fires is a
fire early yesterday overheated ammunition in the home, which triggered explosions. This neighbor
says it sounded like someone was shooting off a gun. Well, it's sleeping
and then all of a sudden, you're like, bang bang bang bang.
Bank. I realized that someone's shooting because you could hear it and you could
hear the like there's like time in between like shots. Several automatic weapons and
a rifle were found inside the house. The body of a dog was also
found. The bus strike in Santa Clarita is over. Buses are back on
the streets. Is drivers, dispatchers, and others are presented by the Teamsters
overwhelmingly approved a new contract. The strike was on for about two months,
actually more than two months. The union says it includes significant wage and training
premium increases and protects health coverage without additional out of pocket expenses. Texas Governor
Greg Abbott says his state will file another appeal in the fight over buoys on
the Rio Grande meant to prevent illegal immigration. ABC's Jim Ryan says an appeals
court last week ordered Texas to remove the buoys, which were installed without permission
from the FEDS. That comes days after a separate court allowed federal agents legally
to cut sections of the razor wire that Taxes has unrolled across long stretches of
its border with Mexico. Governor Abbott says the appeals court used an outdated law
when it upheld the ruling regarding the buoys. Four people, including two kids,
have been shot and killed or actually been fatally stabbed in Queens, New
York. NYPD Chief Jeff Madri says two officers were also stabbed yesterday, but
they survived. Mail draws a knife on offices. She stabs one officer in
the neck chess area. She strikes the second officer in the head. Matters
says the officers were the first to respond to a nine to one one call
from a woman who said her cousin was killing her family. He says the
man stabbed everyone in the house, including a fifth person who's in critical condition,
before setting the couch on fire. One of the officers shot and killed
the man. Florida Governor and presidential candidate Ron Desanta says he'll announce his new
healthcare plan soon, probably in the spring. We'll roll out a big proposal.
I've got a lot of input that's been coming in from a lot of
good people around the country. He says. He plans to replace President Obama's
healthcare plan with a better one, Obamacare promise, lower premiums, that didn't
deliver that we know we need to go in a different direction. Desanta says
he will focus on lowering prices and protecting people with pre existing conditions, so
as we head into the holiday season, we're kind of in full force of
it right now. One of the things I went and did this weekend,
which was really fun, is I went to a couple of different holiday markets.
The first one we went to was the Harvest Festival out of Pomona Fairplex.
Haven't gone to that one since before the pandemic, and then after the
pandemic, I think it was shut down, so it's reopened and that was
a lot of fun. Unfortunately it was just last weekend, so you can't
go to that one. And then also we went to Unique La at the
California Market Center, which is in downtown, and that was also very cool,
very spindy, but there were some really cool, unique gifts, and
so I was thinking, if you know, if you want to you have
somebody on your list and you're not sure what you want to get them,
but you want to get them something interesting and unique, you might find it
at one of these holiday markets. I found the coolest thing for my brother
and can't tell you what it is because well, in the event that he's
listening right now, I don't want to spoil Christmas. So but those two
were just for one weekend, so they're not ongoing. But there are lots
of holiday markets coming up, and of course who would know better about everything
going on then the guy who has a show called This Weekend with Nick or
a segment called This Weekend with Nick on later with Mo Kelly, and that's
Nick Pauliochini. So Nick, we have a couple more coming up this weekend.
Yeah, we do. In fact, what's even cooler is there's always
been Sugar Plumb and it was in Buyna Park until recently. It just moved
over to Westminster Mall, just off the four h five. But they had
their Hanukkah Christmas New Year's Market on the twenty ninth of November through December second,
so pretty much last week, but starting to Wednesday, it will actually
be the sixth through the seventeenth of this month that you can check out their
Christmas store, so that's over at Westminster Mall. You can also go to
Patchwork Show, which is one of my favorites. They're usually in Long Beach.
They already did their show for Long Beach for the holiday season, but
they are in sam Pedro this weekend, so that's another opportunity for you to
check out Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles is where you can go for
that, Okay. And then the final one is Burbank Jacko Loobe. Burbank
will be happening this weekend and that is another really cool indie festival happening both
days Level five. Yeah, Jacko Loobe, it's really really fun. And
knowing it's two ladies that started it out, they have festivals around the country
and they really love being in Pasadena and Burbank as well as in the Southland.
So all three of those are totally worth your time. On top of
Unique La which already passed as you said, and yeah, some Harves's festival.
It's really cool to be back. And do you have that up on
your Instagram? I will put it up on my Instagram here in a little
bit. Okay. So that's this weekend with Nick, and he's got lists
of all the cool things that are going on. So that's just a few
of them. Thanks so much. Nick. The Iranian mac Hoothies have claimed
responsibility for attacks on three commercial ships in the Red Sea. The USS Carnee
shot down several drones that officials say were launched from Houti controlled parts of Yemen.
Residents of Conyunis say they heard air strikes and explosions in and around the
city overnight after the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning people to relocate farther south towards
the border with Egypt. A lot of Palestinians have ignored the calls to move
out, saying they don't feel any safer in other areas. Actor Michael B.
Jordan has crashed his Ferrari into a parked car in Hollywood. The crash
happened late Saturday night. Police the crash was not DUI related. At six
oh five it's handled on the news. The sag After contract is about to
become official, but not everyone loves the new deal. Right now, let's
say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, you'd think his companies made
advancements in technology that sell service would get better, but apparently that's not the
case. Well, technology is one thing, but growing populations, more people
jumping on to the band with the limited band with amy, the less reliable.
It all becomes JD Power has taken a look at this, finding that
this year, eleven times out of one hundred when you tried to make a
phone call or send a text or stream data or something you couldn't get through.
At least not on the first time. Just a couple of years ago
the number was nine out of one hundred. So it's going up. In
other words, reliability is getting lower still. I mean, in ninety percent
is pretty good, right, But when you make a call, you expect
that call to go through. It's the fault or the result of a lot
of things, including population growth and the inability of companies to keep up with
cell tower construction and bandwidth purchases and band with purchases. So there's more and
more people loading onto the existing cell towers, and they're not making them fast
enough, right, right, And part of this goes into Nimby right.
Not in my backyard, yep. You ever seen a cell tower there,
ugly and the efforts to try to camouflage them or try to disguise them to
look like pine trees, they don't really work. I mean, it doesn't
the cell tower works. But here's a weird seventy foot pine tree standing in
the middle of no where you can kind of guess what it is. Yeah,
we have palm trees in California. Yeah, exactly, and you know
so right. I mean, it's a lot of things that play into this,
but this the the bandwidth, its issue is one that isn't going away,
and in fact, it may get worse. In the same way that
Los Angeles has a certain number of AM radio stations, let's say, because
there's a certain space within the bandwidth that a certain number of radio stations can
occupy. The same is true with the cell companies, the providers. Verizon
has a certain segment at and T has a certain segment, Sprint has you
know, the companies have their own allocated segments. And if your company hasn't
purchased enough bandwidth beating on it from the federal government, then you could be
out of lock. Okay, And is it you mentioned a few of the
carriers. Is it pretty much across all carriers or is there one that's worse
than the others? Well, Verizon kind of held behind because they thought,
you know what, we don't need to purchase this bandwidth in this particular spectrum,
at the high range spectrum, the high frequency, so they say,
yeah, we'll just concentrate on building more towers and deal with our lower frequency
situation. Well, now they're having to pay like sixty billion dollars to try
to catch out fifty three billion dollars to build this midband spectrum back up that
they kind of let fall by the wayside. So now they're all the companies
that are having issues. Individual companies have different issues. Okay, And are
there any indications that the companies are actively working to fix itators just something that
we're going to have to get used to. Well, they are. They
are trying to build more cell towers. They are trying to camouflage the cell
towers, for example, putting them up where they can and making these bandwidth
purchases. What can consumers do well, not a lot, rely, as
much as you can on Wi Fi in your home and in your office instead
of using your cellular data, because that's going to be a much more reliable
way to get through and if you're home, if you're in an and by
the way, in the same way that AM frequency doesn't get through big thick
walls, well, some cell band doesn't get through thick walls either, so
you may have to put a mesh situation or you know, or built out
a sort of mesh network within your house just to ensure that you do get
coverage. All right, Well, it sounds like one of those things where
we get to say thank you, sir, May I have another bye some
more? All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for the information.
Have a great day. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour news from the LAPD says a guy who
killed three homeless man was already in custody for a fatal follow home robbery in
San Dimas. See Moore says, Jared Powell was arrested by Beverly Hills PD
during a traffic stop and while detained, investigators connected the dots between Powell's car,
the scene in San Dimas and the three separate scenes in La Bar was
one of the elements that brought together. And but I really think what brought
together was the use of the aggressive work of the homicide detectives within the Sheriff's
department. More said over the weekend, Powell killed a homeless man last Sunday,
than one on Monday, another on Wednesday. And it appears Powell killed
Nick Simbolin in San Dimas on Tuesday. Steve Gregory tayaf I News is brought
to you by Ruder Hero. Faculty members at cal Poly Pomona are expected to
hold a one day strike. Similar strikes are set for this week at San
Francisco State, cal State LA on Wednesday, and Sacramento State University. The
California Faculty Association said in a statement last week they're fighting for twelve percent wage
hikes this academic gear, plus other concessions including better parental leave, workload support,
and health and safety rights. The cal State system says it's ready to
meet some of the union's demands, but the twelve percent general salary increase is
not sustainable. Space a final Frontier a rocket is getting ready to launch with
some precious cargo. This is a very interesting story to me. So they're
going to be launching the Vulcan Centaur rocket. It's scheduled to lift off from
Cape Canaveral on December twenty fourth, and on board the rocket will be the
remains in DNA samples of three hundred and thirty eight people, including some members
of the original Star Trek TV series. So they started doing these flights like
in nineteen ninety seven, and you might remember that the first mission had Star
Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, or at least a little tiny bit of his remains
on board. So now they take these little mini capsules and they range in
size from like a lipstick container to about a half a watch battery, so
some of them can be pretty small, and they attach them to commercial space
space flights that have some extra room or extra capacity available. So Celestis is
the company, and this latest rocket launch is going to have the remains of
Michelle Nichols, Lieutenant O'Hara, DeForest Kelly, doctor Leonard Bones McCoy, and
James Douhan Scotty from the original Star Trek series. Costs to be rocketed into
space run up to thirteen thousand dollars for a lunar landing or a deep space
launch. So apparently it's going to go out into space like one hundred million
miles in orbit around the Sun. But before it gets to deep space,
it's going to drop off a lunar lander that's going to be doing studies of
the Moon, and seventy of the capsules will be on that lander, so
you could look up in the sky and say, look, part of my
grandma is there. I just think it's kind of fun and cool. Israel's
military is called for mass evacuations in the southern Gaza Strip town of Conunis.
Tens of thousands have sought refuge there in recent weeks. The Israeli army bombarded
up to two hundred AMAS targets in Gaza in the last twenty four hours.
We're going to talk to me to ABC's Jordana Miller in just one moment with
more about this. A thirty three year old man police say killed three homeless
men in four days around La has been arrested and charged with murder. The
guy was already in jail in connection with that follow home murder of a man
in his garage and San Dimas last week. The state's twenty nine water agencies
are only going to get ten percent of the water they requested. The Department
of Water Resources says if more storms arrived this winter, that number could go
up. Very little snow and rain has fallen in the last couple of months,
but most reservoirs in the state are still above average for this time of
year at six oh five. It's handled on the news. Police didn't have
to look too far for the man accused of killing three homeless men in four
days. As I just mentioned, he was already behind bars. Bill's going
to take a closer look at that. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's Geordana Miller. Jordana, some of the money requested by the administration
would go back to Oh, that doesn't make sense, old, I was
going to say, the Biden administration, and we're going to be talking to
Karen Travers about that military aid package and some of that money is going to
Israel's war if it gets past. But the fighting is going full force again,
so can you tell us the latest on that. That's right, Israel's
war has moved now from the north down to the south. Hanyunis is a
major Hama stronghold, and Israel is turning its focus there today for a second
day in a row, in tense air strikes in Hanyunis, as well as
tanks and troops moving closer to the city. There still are some fights going
on in central Gaza, so we don't expect a large ground defensive in Honyunas
for several more days. But it's clear Israel is headed there and complicating the
battlefield for Israel militarily morally are the one point eight million Gazans who are in
southern Gaza, not necessarily in Hanyunis, but to the east, to the
north, to the south, closer to the Rafa border crossing. They've been
in these areas, taking well in safer places, we could say, not
completely safe places, and half of that one point eight million moved south because
Israel asked them to and said it would be safe. So Israel now will
face a great challenge in trying to protect these civilians to the best of its
ability while it wages war against Hamas. That may mean. We will see
in the coming days some safe zones carved out, true safe zones where there
will be no bombing campaigns, and several of them four gossens. That's just
so scary because they said, you know, move here and you'll be okay.
But now as the war, you know, shifts, we also heard
that some of the Palestinians are saying they they're not leaving because they don't feel
any safer leaving where they are right well, that is you know, one
of the realities on the ground, which is that people are so terrified that
you know, they're asked to move it maybe the second or third or fourth
time they're moving, and they don't want to move because they're afraid they'll die
when they move. Yeah, so you know that's understandable. Israel has put
out online and even in leaflets a barcode to a very detailed interactive map where
it says it's going to light up certain areas on this map when it's coming
to those areas to operate and for people to move to move out. You
know, I don't think any army's ever done that before in a war.
But you know, there's still some questions about how effective it'll be because some
people will be too afraid to do it. It's what we saw happen at
the Al Shifa hospital, which was for days. There were fights going on
around the hospital and people were afraid to evacuate. Yeah. And then the
other the flip side of it is once the war is over, I mean
Israel's pounding the crap out of these places. Where are they going to have
to go back to? Well, I mean the goads of Strip's going to
have to be entirely rebuilteh with you know, money from regional leaders, the
un likely, the United States. I mean it's we have to remember Hamas
built, They had sixteen years to build terror infrastructure all throughout the Gauzza Strip
underground. I mean there's you know, tunnel networks and weapon cachets and you
know, dormitories underground, sweeping quarters, kitchens. You know, it's a
it is a city under a city, and there's going to be to get
Hamas and push them out of the gads of Strip. There's going to be
it's going to leave the gods of Strip and level Okay, most of it.
Yeah, all right, Jordana, thank you so much for the update
this morning, and we'll talk to you again soon. Yep, let's get
back to some of the story's coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. Mayor Bass is going on a week long tour of La It's mark
her first anniversary of her inauguration. She's going to be holding events to highlight
her work on homelessness, safety, business climate, and city services. And
Orange County supervisor has defended himself against ethics allegations related to his daughter's work with
a nonprofit. Ornge County approved one point two million dollars in grants to the
Via American Society. Critics claim Supervisor Andrew Doe should have disclosed that his daughter
has volunteered for and been on the payroll for the Huntington Beach based nonprofit,
but Do says County council advised him disclosing was unnecessary. Plus, neither he
nor his daughter benefit as a result of the contract, and Do says,
most importantly, it's a subcontract, which means it does not require a vote
from Doe or the board. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News as
we were just talking with Jordana about Israel's going full force again in its war
against Tamas. Israeli officials to confirm negotiation efforts with Hamas have completely stopped.
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirbys's President Biden hasn't give up given up on
a two state solution as the fighting between Israel and Hamas continues. What we
want to see is a reformed PA or revitalized Palestinian authority that can have a
voice and some measure of control over governance in Gaza. Kirby says there needs
to be discussions on how the area is governed and if it represents the will
of the Palestinian people. He says, there still are about one hundred and
forty hostages in Gaza, including eight Americans. So Pastathon has come and gone,
but you can still donate. I love this. So Wendy's said that
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stepping up and helping us out with Pastathon. They're going to extend their donations
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Again, Wednesday, Wendy's taking donations until this Sunday for Postathon twenty twenty
three. The Iranian back Houties have claimed responsibility for attacks on three commercial ships
in the Red Sea. The USS Carney shot down several drones that officials say
were launched from the Houti controlled parts of Yemen. Residents of Conunis say they
heard air strikes and explosions in and around the city after overnight, after the
Israeli military dropped leaflets warning people to relocate farther south toward the border with Egypt.
President Biden's headed to Hollywood for an all star fundraiser this week, actually
a couple of them. He'll be attending fundraisers hosted by Steven Spielberg, Rob
Reiner, and Shonda Rhimes. Donors are expected to spend up to nine hundred
thousand dollars each to attend the fundraisers. Friday. We're just minutes away from
Handle. On the news this morning, another smash and grab robbery, this
one at the Santa Anita Mall. Right, now, let's say good morning
to ABC White House correspondent Karen Travers. Karen, lawmakers are mulling over a
huge military aid package. Where are we with that? Yeah, So,
the big headline this morning is that the White House today is sending its most
dire warning yet about the urgent need for Ukraine funding. The President's Budget director
Shlanda Young sent a letter this morning to congressional leaders both the House and the
Senate that says flat out there is no magical pot of funding available to meet
this moment. She writes, we are out of money and nearly out of
time. This is very different than what we were hearing late last week from
the National Security spokesman John Kirby, who would say, you know, the
runway is getting shorter for funding for Ukraine. Now it's December, the clock
is taking. The White House is really ramping up the pressure to get the
one hundred and six billion dollar funding requests if they sent to Congress many weeks
ago across the finish line, sixty one point four billion of that would go
to Ukraine and the Shwanda Young is making it clear that without Congress approving this,
she says, the US will not have the resources to give more weapons
or equipment equipment to Ukraine or provide equipment from US military stockpiles. By the
end of this year. That's it. They're done. So look for this
to be the big message of the week to try and push Congress to get
moving on this. We're hearing that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would like to
see a bill get to the floor of this week. But they're still negotiating
some of the border aspects that would be a part of this funding request,
and that is proving to be very challenging, as you can imagine, because
it's such a complicated issue, right and for now, it's still all in
one package. It's like one hundred and six billion dollars, right, yeah,
and they're one undred and six billion is what the White House wanted,
and they want it all at once because they don't want anything left out.
When you start pulling things out, that's when things get left on the cutting
room floor, Okay, But then the sticking point is the border. Yeah.
Yeah, So the administration asked for fourteen billion dollars in border security funding,
and everybody's in agreement that they want border funding. But the question is
what does it go toward and what policy changes, if any, are made
as part of this legislation. Hearing the Republicans are pushing for tightening rules for
asylum, making it harder for asylum the seekerts to stay in this country while
their cases are being decided. The White House has been very tight lifted about
what they would or would not have the President sign off on because they're waiting
to see details from Capitol Hill. So look for that to be the big
question at the White House over the next couple of days. They probably will
not show the President's cards, but we are looking for signals from Capitol Hill
about how close they are to an agreement. Okay, we'll be watching for
it. Thank you so much for the information, Karen, have a great
day, Kail. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. One man has been killed another injured during
a shooting near a target in Norwalk. The Sheriff's department says two men in
their twenties were found Saturday night with gunshot wounds, one in the parking lot
who was pronounced dead at the thene The other guy was found inside the store
and taken to the hospital in stable condition. The Air Force says divers have
found the remains of five crew members and wreckage from an Osprey aircraft that crashed
off the coast of Japan. Rescue teams are now focused on recovery and support
for the families of the missing. ABC's Anthony Trotter says there were eight crew
members aboard last week when the aircraft went into the ocean. That number was
downgraded to six, but apparently it's back up to eight. One death was
confirmed at the time. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the
bankruptcy deal for oxy contin maker Perdue Fiara. The deal gives immunity to the
owners of Purdue Pharma the Sackler family, protecting them from lawsuits. Attorney Ed
Niger, who helped negotiate the settlement, of course, maybe bad people,
but they're not stupid people, and they will not give any money to abate
opiated crisis or two victims to help rebuild their lives unless they get those releases.
He says. Some families need the money to help someone struggling with addiction.
Some needed because the provider for the family died of an overdose. The
bodies of two people and a dog have been found in the debris from a
fire that heavily damaged three homes in Silmar. The LA Fire Department says Cruz
responded to a home yesterday morning where they found two backhouses also burning. Officials
say a lot of ammunition was going off as the fire burned, so the
bomb squad was also called out. Weapons were recovered from the scene. McNugget
Buddies are back at McDonald's. Doesn't sound familiar. That's because they have a
band at mc donalds for the first time in twenty five years. On December
eleventh, McDonald's is going to roll out the Kerwin Frost Box. It's a
collaboration with artist Kerwin Frost and a new spin on an adult happy meal.
Oh I like that idea. The box comes with ten piece McNuggets or a
big mac fries, a soda, and one of six Buddy collectibles. The
new Buddies are based on Frost's experiences growing up in New York City. A
portion of the proceeds are going to support the Harlem Arts Alliance, where Frost
first started his journey. How's this to a journey to be a super super
smart little girl. There's a six year old girl from New Jersey. She
has Genius IQ level. So Declan Lopez is a kindergartener. She's interested in
arts, science, math, geography. She reads at a fourth grade level.
Again, she's a kindergartener. She's recently been integrated into the MENSA society.
She goes to school in Dover. Teachers say that she's amazing and supportive,
and she gets this special teaching. Once a week. They do this
coding game with her to give her some extra stimulation because they don't have a
gifted program for kindergarteners. It doesn't start until third grade. So her parents
say that she's super super smart. She's let's see what is highs. There's
no answer to who has the highest IQ ever. But it's not Albert Einstein.
But this little girl has an IQ if. I believe it was one
thirty eight, which is right at the genius level. She's six years old.
I don't think are most of us even a triple digits gon's like I
might be one hundred. I have no idea. Have you ever taken an
IQ test? I've never actually taken one. Oh, not like a legit
one, like an app. Oh you did the app? Oh okay,
maybe I'll do that later. Scared to see the results. Hey. This
Wednesday, the Clippers take on the Denver Nuggets at Crypto dot Com Arena,
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