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This is your wake up call for Monday, November thirteenth. I'm Amy King.
Thanks for waking up with me this morning. Hope you had a great
weekend. Do you know it's like less than two weeks until Thanksgiving and it
was eighty five degrees yesterday. It still feels really weird, but I have
to tell you I'm in total Thanksgiving mode. We had pumpkin Ravioli on Friday
night and then last night pumpkin Yoki. I'm in full Thanksgiving mode. I
made a nice little brown butter sauce. I'm getting to be quite the chef,
even though not a very good cook. But I actually did the brown
button didn't burn it, so I'm pretty proud of myself. So today's going
to be a doozy thanks to that fire in downtown LA that shut down the
ten. If you're headed out, you might want to step it up and
get going early. There are estimates that you might want to leave about an
hour early because of that. We're gonna check in with Nick Poliochini in just
one second. He's going to give you an early look at what's going on
on the roads. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call, and estimated
three hundred thousand commuters in LA are going to have to find a different way
to get where they need to go. Part of the ten Freeway and surrounding
freeways and connectors are closed indefinitely after that fire at a Pallette yard underneath the
freeway over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO says there may be a
deal in the works to free more hostages held by Hamas. He wouldn't go
into any detail, saying the chances of a deal are better the less he
talked about it. About two hundred and forty people, including Americans, are
being held hostage. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has suspended his presidential campaign.
He made the announcement on Fox News last night. In fact, I was
watching it and he's talking to Trey Goudy about how he's headed to Iowa and
all this, and all of a sudden, he says, but I'm not
going to Iowa as a candidate. I'm announcing that I'm getting out of the
race, he said. Voters have made it clear to him now is not
his time. He didn't rule out running in the future. He also has
not yet endorsed another candidate for president. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news and here we are again, just a few days away from
a government shutdown. Bill's gonna weigh in on that. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And
who better to start with in our very own Nick Polio Keiney wanted to check
in with you early, Nick, And of course this is probably going to
be what you're going to be talking about all morning long. But we have
a mess bruin in downtown La. Yeah, and it's been that way all
weekend long. Amy. It's started acture on twelve thirty in the morning on
Saturday morning, and it was pretty These pallette are a pallet yard underneath the
freeway near East fourteenth and Alameda Street and both sides of fourteenth Street underneath the
ten which is really really creepy. If you've seen any of the images that
people were shooting and putting out on social media fully engulfed for you underneath the
free when the flames are coming up underneath it So looks like what exactly happened
was some of the steel guard rails and freeway infrastructure itself pretty much was melted
from that situation, including a fire truck that responded to it was completely damaged.
And there's some really creepy images you can see on social media of that
as well. Yeah, so how is that going to affect us this morning?
What all's closed right now? Northbound five to the westbound ten connectors off
limits, Southbound five to the westbound ten off limits, westbound sixty to the
ten. Westbound ten on ramp at Soto as well as the Alameda Street on
ramp and the ten west Santa Fe On Ramp are all off limits. I'll
post on x or Twitter closure map for you to be able to check out
some of the alternate routes that are available for y'all. Make sure to tag
you as well Amy and Kfi to have those details for you. An eastbound
alternate for the ten is going to be exiting at Alameda and sixteenth Street,
and there are signs posted to help get you through there on the westbound side
of the ten. You're going to be coming away from Well Entered, getting
off the Washington Boulevard, and then it looks like Central Avenue or sixteenth three
will help you get around that again. I'll put all those closures up for
us on extra Twitter. Okay, great, thanks Nick, and we're going
to check in with you again in about two minutes. You can give us
the latest on that and then other stuff going on as we get our Monday
morning started. Appreciate it sounds great, You got it. Governor Newsom says
state agencies they're going to work twenty four to seven to repair the section of
the ten freeway in downtown that was damaged by fire. Newsom said he's treating
the cleanup with the same urgencies his agencies did during the nineteen ninety four north
Ridge earthquake, and he says he knows the question on everyone's mind, when
the hell is this going to get reopened? That is being assessed in real
time. Yesterday the governor flew over the freeway and did a walking tour of
this. He says the state property was leased to an entity that was behind
on rent and had been cited multiple times for code violations. Photos of the
storage lot of shown vehicles, food vendor carts with propane tanks, wooden pallettes,
and a homeless camp in downtown LA Steve Gregory KA Fine News, Oh
what a mess. The schools in the Test And School District will be closed
again today while health officials check the areas surrounding the big big blimp hanger that
burned last week at the former Test And airbase. The district says some campuses
have already been cleared and will reopen tomorrow. One option for schools that don't
reopen is virtual learning house. Republicans have proposed a temporary two step plan to
avoid a government shutdown this month. It extends government funding for some agencies and
programs until January nineteenth, and continues funding for others until February second. Pennsylvania
Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle says it's not what's needed right now, but he is
seeing some signs of progress. We all know the way this is going to
end. We're going to get a clean cr The only question is will we
get it before a government shutdown, or will we get it some days and
weeks into a government shutdown. The temporary plan does not include additional aid for
Israel or Ukraine. We're going to be talking more with ABC Stephen Portnoy about
the details of this plan or these plans and the chances that it has of
passing. It's five seven on your wake up call. Let's say good morning
now to ABC's Jordana Millard. Jordana, what's the latest as Israel continues to
push further into the Gaza Strip. Well, all eyes today really on the
Al Shifa Hospital that is Gaza's largest medical facility in northern Gaza, and now
for a third day in a row, there's intense combat around this hospital.
Hamas terraces engaging in firefights with the Israeli forces. Israel says it is not
directly firing on the hospital and not attacking it directly, but nonetheless the hospital
has suffered some secondary damage from this combat and a number of civilians were killed
over the weekend. Because there were tens of thousands of people that had been
sheltering outside the hospital thinking it would be a safe place, many of them,
most of them evacuated over the weekend. Inside the Al Shifa Hospital said
on Saturday it lost power because it ran out of fuel. As you know,
Israel's not allowing fuel into the Gaza strip because it says it will you
know, Hamas will steal its fuel and use it in the war. It
also argues that Hamas has plenty of fuel stockpiled and it could give it to
the hospitals, and it is refusing that Alshiva Hospital now really not operational.
We're hearing today that at least thirty two patients have died there and that includes
three premature babies. Are thirty six other babies that were in incubators that have
now you know, they've had to doctors had to take them out and try
to keep them alive. And Israel says it has offered to evacuate these babies
to other hospitals or to Egypt, but Hamas is preventing that. We're going
to have to wait and see and pray that some of these babies and other
sick patients can get out of this hospital as it is increasingly in the middle
of this war. And you're saying that the firefight is happening in and around
the hospital. Is Hamas inside the hospital firing out. The combat's happening around
the hospital, not inside. There's no Israeli troops inside. There have been
reports that Hamas militant militants, terrorists, fighters, commanders, whatever you want
to call them, have been firing on Israeli troops from inside the hospital.
But there there are no troops inside, and Israel will not go inside the
hospital and not while there are sick people there. That's our that is what
we understand now. You know, it is so hard for us to tell
the story because we don't have a lot of sources on the ground. Uh,
and it becomes a he said, she said. On the other hand,
if we fay, if we kind of take a larger picture of what
has already happened in this in you know, now we're in the sixth week
of this war, we have to say that. You know, Hamas has
claims that it does not control the hospital and has nothing to do with the
babies or the staff. It's hard to believe when we see the way Hamas
is operated that far. They took an Israeli nine month old baby and several
children into captivity. Uh. You know, if they were concerned about these
babies surviving, they would enable them to leave the hospital, it seems,
but that is not obviously on their priority list. It's hard for US US
in the West and the United States to understand the brutality of this group.
I have a seven month old baby, and I'm horrified by these stories.
So this is uh where, you know, everyone is hoping that somehow they're
going to there's going to be some mechanism to keep these babies out and evacuate
them to Egypt. You mentioned the hostages too, and I heard over the
weekend that there could be a deal coming or it's in the works. Nettan
y'all who said there could be, but he wouldn't give any details, saying
the less he says, the better the chances of the deal coming together.
What's the latest you're hearing about it. Well, you know, for several
days, we've been hearing that momentum is building towards a hostage deal. We
understand that the Prime Minister rejected an earlier deal that included the release of only
ten or fifteen hostages. It simply wasn't enough because there's two hundred in the
right there's because there's two hundred and nine that's you know, less than ten
percent. So we are now hearing that it is going to be you know,
dozens and dozens of hostages potentially released in exchange, it seems, for
the release of some jailed Palestinians here in Israel, perhaps some women or men
over the age of fifty, you know. And we're not sure how long
the pause in the fighting will be. But remember Israel has said that the
military campaign puts pressure on Hamas and makes it more likely to negotiate for a
hostage release. That may or may not be true. You know, it
may be that Hamas you know, holds on to the hostages more tightly as
the campaign progresses, you know, waiting for a further point in the future
to try to use them for leverage. Well also, but it's also heartbreaking.
Yeah, and you would think too, I mean, if you're just
sitting back and looking at it, that you would think that Hamas would hold
on to the hostages because that also is possibly keeping the Israeli military from destroying
several other areas or tunnels that where there may be hostages held they might be
you know, not putting right and treasure right and the Alshifa Hospital exactly.
I mean, why is the Alshifa Hospital in the middle of this war Because
Israel believes that Hamas is using parts of the hospital and has built bunkers underneath
the hospital to store weapons and militants and possibly the hostages. So you know,
it certainly complicates Israel's war plans, especially when it comes to destroying the
tunnels where some of the hostages are likely being held. I mean, four
hostages have made it out, and the one elderly woman who spoke to the
press said, you know she was you know, she was marched essentially through
miles of muddy underground tunnels that she described were spider like webs underneath a gaza.
All right, well, we will continue to watch it, and as
always, we appreciate all the information that we get directly from you. Jordana
Miller in Jerusalem. If you want to follow Jordana, it's at Georgiana L.
Miller on Instagram. Thanks again so much. All right. Officials are
warning commuters it could take an extra hour to get to work this morning because
of a closure on the ten. The freeway is shut down because of a
palifier under the freeway and Saturday that melted away some of the freeway's steel guardrails.
Not only the ten is affected, several other freeways and connectors are going
to be closed, and of course Nikkolaiokini is going to keep you right on
top of that. Pro Israel rally has been held in Thousand Oaks at the
same place. A sixty nine year old Jewish man was injured a week ago
and later died after a run in with a pro Palestinian protester. There were
no issues with the rally yesterday. Bag After members will begin voting tomorrow on
a new three year contract with the Hollywood Studios that ended the one hundred and
eighteen day actors strike. The deal includes AI protections, an eleven percent base
pay increase for extras and residuals for streaming shows. At six oh five is
handle on the news. The pool of Republican presidential candidates just got smaller.
Senator Tim Scott has suspended his campaign. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom, we've heard of all the pro Palestinian protests,
but a march in France was different. Please tell us about it very
much. So we've had some very very large pro Palestinian marches in France itself,
and actually yesterday there was a protest against the view of anti rising anti
Semitism in the country. They've been documented by the police records roughly about one
thousand quote unquote incidents up and down the country over the past month. So
at the behest of both houses of Parliament they had they had a march through
through Paris yesterday and again uh, some some notables leading the march. You
had Sarcozzi. You also had another former Prime minister, Francois hol On there
as well. Macron did not make it, but he sent in a letter
of approval. So yes, uh, trying to get on the street and
get get their message out, just like as we're seeing here in the UK.
We had a pro Palestinian march on Saturday here from Hyde Park to the
US Embassy. That one was bigger. It was about three hundred thousand uh
turned out for that. So yes, we're seeing marches in a number not
only the capitals, but a number of cities throughout Europe. And it's been
going on for the past month here and it looks like this, No,
no look of that calmbing down in any way, shape or form. And
was the march yesterday was it peaceful? Did they have run ins with opposite
sides? Oh? That was that was peaceful. The one here in London
there were something in the neighborhood of ninety three arrests. Three of those were
on the pro Palestinian side. Ninety arrests were on the anti pro Palestinian hard
right faction, if you will. So, yes, it was a counter
demonstration to the main demonstration. So yes, we are seeing that dynamic playing
out here, okay. And for the for the demonstration in Paris yesterday,
it was just one big one or was it in several places around the country,
Yeah, it was. It was that was where the largest one was.
They estimated in total up and down the country one hundred and eighty thousand
plus. But as I say, it varies, but they think between one
hundred and one hundred and five thousand people in Paris, Okay. And you
they, as you mentioned, there were some pretty big powerful people there.
So was security pretty Yeah. They always are. They always are. The
French police are always out to go back to the Jill Jean protests of about
five years ago, they got used to showing up each and every Saturday or
Sunday. So yes, they're quite versed and they're there and they take action
if it is required. But as you said at the top. No real
problems this particular weekend. Good to hear, Tom. Do you speak French?
Very very basic? I can go to a restaurant there. Nut's about
it. I'm asking because you say the names so beautifully. Which one has
that? No, all the French names, you say them very you know,
like you like you speak the language. We when you go there and
you cover it, you learn about five new words each trip. So there
you go. Okay, Thank you so much, Tom, appreciate your input
and information this morning. Have a wonderful day. Take care all right,
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Republican Senator Tim Scott has announced he is out of the twenty
twenty four race for president. The South Carolina senator made the support announcement on
Fox's Sunday Night in America with Trey Goudy. One campaign worker told the Associated
Press that campaign staff found out Scott was dropping out by watching the show.
The news comes as Scott continued to struggle in the polls and just days after
the third Republican primary debate. Scott entered the race in May with more cash
than any other Republican candidate Courtney Adelman KFI News, and as I mentioned at
the top of the hour, I was watching Fox News when Senator Scott made
that announcement yesterday, and it was like, I was kind of doing some
stuff for the show today and so half listening, and then I kind of
looked up and said, did he just announce that he's doing that? He's
dropping out? And then the host of the show's Trey Goudy, and you
could tell that he was thrown. He was not expecting that because he was
like I, I, it wasn't in the script. So interesting. Too
bad. I really liked Tim Scott. I still liked Tim Scott. Lawyers
for President Trump are said to begin their defense in New York in the civil
fraud case against the Trump Organization when new testimony is expected today from Donald Trump
Junior, who's also a defendant in the case. He testified as a prosecution
witness less than two weeks ago. He said experts and accountants were responsible for
financial statements. The state Attorney General says, we're fraudulent news brought to you
by American Vision. Windows maintenance work at all cal State University campuses is about
to come to a halt. More than a thousand employees are going on a
one day strike tomorrow. Electricians, plumbers, mechanics, locksmiths, and others
planned to walk out at twenty two campuses in the state. Their union calls
its members the unsung heroes who keep the place running. Another wildfire's burning in
Hawaii. It's in a remote rainforest on the island of Oahu. The sixteen
one hundred acre fire was first spotted on October thirtieth. It was ninety percent
surrounded by Friday. It has mostly burned inside the Owahu Forest National Wildlife Refuge,
which is home to twenty two species listed by the US government as endangered
or threatened. Write to lo L on a text or on your Facebook or
Instagram post. Yeah, that's so yesterday. I didn't even know this until
just now. The new one is I jbo L any idea What it means?
Kno, not a clue. Not a clue, Nick, you know
no. I was typing it out to try to figure out idea. Okay,
well, so the laughing and crying face emoji is, you know,
very old now. The new one is I JB O L. It stands
for I just burst out laughing, according to dictionary dot com. So,
I guess it's kind of the new rofl rolling on the floor laughing, except
what do you call it? Oh? I gave you an IgE bowl.
That sounds ridiculous. Okay, well that's my new I just burst out laughing,
Nick, you just burst out laughing. I loved it. I'll hey,
you know, you know, just push the button and I'll be there.
And estimated a three hundred thousand commuters in Los Angeles are going to have
to find a different way to get to where they need to go. Talk
about needing kindness. Today, traffic is expected to be a mess as part
of the ten Freeway and surrounding freeways and connectors are closed indefinitely because of that
fire at a pallet yard underneath the freeway. Over the weekend, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there may be a deal in the works to free more
hostages held by Hamas. He wouldn't go into details, saying the chances of
a deal are better the less he talks about it. About two hundred and
forty people, including Americans, are currently being held hostage a town south of
the capital city of Ricovik. Iceland, is being evacuated because of a possible
volcanic eruption. The town was cleared out Saturday following hundreds of earthquakes in Thearia.
They recorded like fourteen hundred earthquakes Icelandic officials say they are expecting an eruption
within a couple of days. At six five Handle on the News, former
President Trump is siding with the media on this one. He wants his trial
televised. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Stephen
Portnoy about how lawmakers are going to try to get bills passed to avert a
government shutdown, which is now just five days away. Right now, let's
say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim tipping. Is it a tipping
point? More and more people are being asked to tip and tip more,
well, right, yeah, and then this may be part of the National
Kindness Day. How about tipping your waiter or your weight staff. But do
you have to tip the barrister at Starbucks? Do you need to tip the
convenience store clerk who really didn't do anything except cash you out? And you
know it's so yeah, that's more and more people say that they are being
asked to tip more. In this survey by a Pew Research of twelve thousand
people, by the way, it's a huge sampling, seventy two percent say
that tipping is now expected in more places than it was five years ago.
And I think that goes without saying that. You you see it more often.
You see the tip jar there, or the clerk spins the tablet around
and asks you to write in a tip amount before than skimming your card or
whatever you do. So, yeah, more people are being asked tip.
Are they being asked to tip more? Perhaps? Are they actually tipping more?
Not necessarily? Yeah, you'll find that about you know, about a
quarter of people say that, yeah, I tip about twenty percent. That's
kind of the standard now. Yeah, but two percent say I don't tip
at all, zero percent ever ever, Okay, I do have a problem
with that. Yeah, come on, okay. So but now you're saying,
and I was reading an article that said, oh, it's a good
idea to leave twenty percent. I'm like, when did it get to be
twenty percent? A couple of years ago it was fifteen, and then it
was eighteen, and now when they you know, when they do the suggestions
on the receipts, it goes you can do eighteen, or you can do
twenty, or you can do twenty five. I'm like, what happened to
fifteen? Why don't they put that on there anymore? Well, for somebody
like me who works with words, not with numbers, twenty percent is just
easier math. It really is. I mean, one point five fifteen percent
is okay, but twenty percent just became easier to do. But you know,
it depends upon the situation. By the way, here's here's a tip
for you, Amy. If you see that listing there, Hey, if
you want a tip, fifteen percent, it'll be this amount, it'll be
twenty percent, it'll be this amount. That is the after tax amount,
right, so you might want to go back in and figure it out before
the tax is added onto your bill on your slip. That way, you're
tipping the amount before tax, not after tax. I know, but I
don't think that anybody does that anymore. It's like there's all these these social
moras like how much you're supposed to tip so? And I think that the
biggest cause of here's my word of the day, consternation. I don't use
big words very often is when you go and, like you said, the
barista at Starbucks, or I go to my little Chinese place down the street
and they basically all they I've done is serve me at the counter. They
haven't brought food out to me. They're not checking my water, they're not
getting me another cocktail. And then they turn around that screen and stand there
and look at you. Yeah, and it says how much do you want
to tip? I don't want to tip. This is not a tipping situation,
all right. Well, twenty nine percent of the people in this in
this survey said that tipping is an obligation, twenty one percent hits a choice,
forty nine percent of full half of them say, you know what,
it depends on the situation. So don't feel too guilty if you don't tip
your barrest reach that okay. But and then on the flip on the flip
side, are they are people showing they're unhappy with the service by tipping less
they are, yes, or by not tipping at all. And I think
people are catching on to this. It was just sort of a blanket thing
before, especially during the pandemic. Those folks are there risking their lives to
serve you up, so they deserve tip. And I think now, folks,
some of the customers are saying, yeah, things are different now and
I'm not maybe going to tip as much. Yeah, although I will tip
a little bit more on the holiday days. It's that time of the year,
and maybe today because it's National Kindness thing. Good for you, be
kind all right, Thank you so much, Jim. Appreciate your time as
always. Take care. All right, Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom says cal
Fire is investigating the cause of the massive fire in downtown LA that damaged a
section of the ten Freeway. Newsom says the state property was leased to an
entity that was behind on rent and had multiple code violations. He says he's
rethinking the state lease program. Who is leasing these sites and are they being
monitored? Are they being held accountable? And the answer specifically on this site
is yes. In fact, we're in litigation with the Lassie. The governor
wouldn't elaborate on the litigation yesterday, but said the Lassie may have been illegally
subleasing to a third party. The fire started early Saturday, morning in downtown
la Steve Gregory kf I News Elle Mayor Basset's traffic through the downtown area is
going to be a huge mess until further notice. The laser will be so
powerful if you are driving through downtown on the freeway and take the route around,
Bes says. Officials will monitor traffic patterns to adjust any detours or alternate
roots. She says. La dot will also synchronize stoplights on surface streets to
alleviate expected backups from detour traffic. Why don't they do that anyway? That's
why I hate driving through downtown. News brought to you by American Vision Windows.
A professor at UC Irvine is part of a team of scientists who will
design the most powerful laser in the world. The laser will be so powerful
that for the millionth of a billionth of a second that the laser will fire,
it'll be more than a thousand times more powerful than the global power grid.
UCI Associate Professor Franklin Dollar says the two separate twenty five PETAWAT lasers will
be built in New York to research particle acceleration, laser driven nuclear physics,
targeted radiation delivery for cancer patients and high field physics and quantum electrodynamics to emulate
the energy level of the Big Bang. What could go wrong? In Orange
Downy Corbin Carson kf I News. Two giant rocket motors are now standing one
hundred and sixteen feet tall at the California Science Center. Each one weighs one
hundred four thousand pounds. The rocket motors were lifted into the upright position at
the Science Center last week. Visitors can now see the top of them from
outside the construction area of the new Space exhibit. The motors are the first
large components to be installed the Shuttle's giant external fuel tank, and then the
Space Shuttle Endeavor itself will be added in January. As we told you last
week, we got to go to the California Science Center. If you haven't
checked out my video on that it's really cool, then of course I encourage
you to go down and see it for yourself because the exhibits only open until
the end of this year until it goes away so they can reposition this shuttle.
But you can see my interview at Amy K. King on Instagram,
also at KFI AM six forty seven million dollars at the box office might sound
pretty good, but if it's a Marvel Universe movie, that's another story.
The Marvels made forty seven million dollars in its premiere weekend, which was the
worst opening in MCU history. Nick and I went and saw the movie.
Nick, I think we're sort of in agreement. The movie was kind of
me. Yeah, it was really mad overall. I mean Kamala Khan's character,
who is the left if you saw Mis Marvel, we love her period
across the board, and she's a Marvel, Miss Marvel, Miss Marvel.
I thought she was Miss Marvel well miss well no no, no, miss
like ms yeah instead of miss yeah, miss Marvel. But anyway, she
really is the breakout star for me, and it's purely because she is such
a Marvel superfan before getting her own series on Disney. Plus, she really
leans into it. Breelarsen fantastic as Captain Marvel. But yeah, there's overall,
I think it was a filler to get the story continuing going on as
we move into Phase six of Marvel the Cinematic Universe and all the things that
are to come. Yeah, I just Reelarson. I love Breelarson. I
think she's a fantastic actress. I just don't think that her character really had
anywhere to go. There wasn't anything really interesting about this story arc. They
kind of started some things where they share their powers. They find out that
the Captain Marvel and mis Marvel, and then some what's the other girl's name,
Manica Rambo Monica Rambo, yes, yes, which is her best friend's
daughter, but Captain Rambo. They end up sharing these light powers and they
have to figure out how they can work them together, and then that kind
of fizzles out. I don't want to tell anything that happens. I mean,
it's it's still a Marvel movie. It's fun to look at. It's
got lots of action and that kind of stuff. But I just think in
the whole Marvel universe, this was just kind of a dud. Yeah,
And I think the only thing that we will be a little bit spoiler alert
is the you will see one post credit scene that will help you see what
is coming to the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the near future.
So that's kind of the real reason's the reason to go see the Little Movie
for sure. Exactly. So there's only one of the you need to stick
around for. And that's the heads up for you, a little bit of
insight, although there is one more fun little reference at the very end,
but really that's kind of as you just are, maybe a friend of a
feeline like you Amy, Yes, oh and that was I. I would
tell you the cats are the best thing about this movie. And you'll you'll
know when you see it. Okay. Officials are warning commuters could take you
an extra hour to get to work this morning because of a closure on the
ten. The freeways shut down because of a pallette fire underneath the freeway Saturday
that melted away some of the steel guardrails. A pro Israel rally has been
held in Thousand Oaks at the same place. A sixty nine year old Jewish
man was injured a week ago and later died after a run in with a
pro Palestinian protester. There were no issues with the rally yesterday. Donald Trump
Junior will be back on the stand today as the defense presents its case in
the Trump organization's two hundred and fifty million dollar fraud trial in New York.
Prosecutors say Trump inflated real estate values to get better loans and insurance on his
properties two minutes away from handle on the news and Appeals Court says, just
because Honda is basically spying on you with your car, doesn't mean they're doing
anything wrong. Nice. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy.
Stephen, here we go again. All of a sudden, we're just days
away from a government shutdown. Yeah, this is a result of the measure
that was put on the floor by then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that led to
his ouster. And so the current extension of government funding runs out at the
end of this week Friday night. So what's the solution that's been proposed to
avoid a government shutdown going into next weekend ahead of Thanksgiving. House Speaker Mike
Johnson wants to do. And this is a new term for us here in
Washington, DC and the weird way we speak, we're still getting used to
it. A laddered cr What does that mean? Two steps? Really,
it's two expiration dates on an extension of government funding through either January nineteenth or
two extra weeks February second. The first deadline would apply to do domestic agencies
like the Transportation Department, the Veterans Affairs Department, Housing and Urban Development.
The second deadline would apply to the National Security Apparatus, the Defense Department,
the State Department, the Homeland Security Department. Now, this is a measure
that's being opposed by some outspoken Republicans, even though this idea of a forked
two stage deadline situation was a Republican idea. The bill is opposed by at
least four House Republicans, which would be enough on a party line basis to
kill it because it does not include any cuts or any kind of policy rider
that Democrats might view as a poison pill. Why would Republicans object to it
because, as I say, they expected that the new Speaker would put in
place short term stopgap funding measures that would not just have different deadlines, which
is a Republican idea, but it would cut spending, and this bill does
not do that. This is a clean extension of government funding with two different
expiration dates. So why would Democrats oppose it if it's clean. Well,
they think it's a bit given this idea of a two stage laddered continuing resolution,
and they don't think it's a good idea to do this sort of thing
now or in the future. And so they're going to oppose it. The
White House put out a statement on Saturday calling this an unserious proposal. There's
also the fact that the presidents requested more than one hundred billion dollars for Ukraine
in Israel in an emergency supplemental measure that is not included in this short term
stop gap for agency funding. So this proposal is possibly going to be voted
on in the House tomorrow. But if it's clear by the end of today
or early tomorrow to Speaker Johnson that he doesn't have the votes, the Democrats
are going to withhold their support and enough Republicans will vote to tank it,
maybe he won't put it on the floor tomorrow. Okay, that's a lot
to unpack. So the one hundred six billion that is that is not included.
This sounds like what McCarthy did earlier when he said we're not going to
include it right now, We're going to deal with a not right now.
Is Johnson saying the same thing? Yes, essentially. I mean, remember,
the House has already passed a fourteen billion dollar Israel funding measure, but
because it doesn't include support for Ukraine, nor does it include humanitarian really for
the Palestinians. It's dead on arrival in the Senate. And it also isn't
that the one that they paid for with something else? That's right, yes,
of course, and it include the pay for provision, which is taking
money from IRS enforcement. For over all those reasons, it's dead on arrival
in the Senate. The bottom line is, you know, Congress has not
acted to pass aid for Israel or Ukraine, and never mind the border security
funding. So there's so many things on the table sort of balls in the
air, and none of it is really going to wind up at this moment
on the President's desk, the prop of the immediate crisis, because everything requires
it seems a deadline for action, real significant action to happen in divided government.
Here, the immediate crisis is Friday night. If a measure can be
passed by the House and Senate that extends that deadline further, well then we
won't have a government shutdown on Saturday. That could happen. But for the
moment, the only proposal that's been written down on paper is this laddered two
stage two expiration date government funding at the current levels that the Speaker, Mike
Johnson has offered that Democrats are eyeing suspiciously and may just sit on their hands
for and Republicans. A small number but outspoken Republicans are expressing their outright objections
to let's see how it all unfolds this week. Okay, And that's the
one that you just mentioned, if I'm hearing you right, that only kicks
the can down the road till January and February. It's not really a funding
plan. It doesn't It doesn't take care of the problem. It just pushes
it back a couple months. Well, to the extent that the problem is
how to fund these agencies. It solves it, but it doesn't do it
at the adjusted twenty twenty four fiscal year funding. That would be the normal
way of doing business, which would be to say, we'll take last year's
budget and we'll plus it up a certain percentage. That's what the normal order
would be. This keeps the agency funding at last year's that is, fiscal
twenty twenty three's levels. Republicans say it should be even lower than that.
So the idea that the solution is to only increase the budget for the fulls
fiscal year, Republicans would oppose that instinctively. Okay, but it doesn't.
It doesn't keep it funded even if they passed it. It only funds it
until January and February. It doesn't do it through twenty twenty four, right,
or well exactly, it does through the end of September, which would
be the normal order. Okay, so we got five days. The countdown
is on. We'll be watching, all right, Thanks so much, Steve.
Take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour news room. Schools and Tuestin are closed again because
of the fire that destroyed a massive hangar at the former Tustin Air Base.
Asbestos was detected in the air last week and the fire flared up over the
weekend. The test in school district says schools will stay closed while an assessment
is done of the environmental impact of each campus. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah
who says there could be a potential hostage deal with Hamas, but he didn't
give any details. He told NBC's Meet the Press talking about it could get
in the way of the delicate negotiations to free those captive. On October seventh,
health officials in Gaza say thousands of people have left the region's largest hospital
as Israeli forces and Palestinian militants fight outside its gates. ABC's Matt Gutman says
hundreds of patients, including babies, have remained inside Al Shiva Hospital. The
very severely ill, the sickest of the sick patients can't go anywhere, and
about fifteen to twenty percent of the medical staff have stayed with them in order
to try to care for them and try to save their lives. But at
this point they have virtually nothing. He says. They don't have water,
they don't have medical supplies, and they're down to single sockets for an operating
room. Israel's Prime Minister says they have offered fuel for the hospital to keep
the incubators going, but Hamas refused it. He says. Israel has also
offered to build field hospitals and low cost carrier Fly. Dubai says it's adding
thirty Boeing seven eighty seven nine Dreamliners to its fleet. The announcement was made
this morning at the Dubai Air Show. The deal worth fifty two billion dollars.
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