You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty KFI and
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up call. Good morning, this is your wake up call for Thursday,
July fourth. I am how the Rooker in for Amy King, here to
celebrate all of America, all things America with you. I want to say
good morning to Ann and Kono. We're all here. We are working on
the fourth of July. Happy to be here and sharing the news with you.
We've got a lot of fun things in store for the show today,
So let's jump in, shall we. As I said, it's July fourth,
and we're gonna tell you where you can celebrate some fourth activities. And
there may be a few places you didn't know about, so you're gonna want
to stick around for that. And the Independent Shakespeare Company is getting ready for
it's summer season. We're going to tell you all about this free, family
friendly event that's happening in Griffith Park. And have you heard about the Savannah
Bananas. Well, some have called them the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball. We're
going to introduce you to the team in a very special report. Then at
six oh five it's handled on the news. President Biden says, no one
is pushing him out of office. We'll tell you what else, he told
his campaign staff during a special conference call. Let's start with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At least one person
is dead and ten others have been hospitalized after a boat crashed into the Rocks
and Long Beach last night. Long Beach fire officials say the boat overturned and
began taking on water. It's not clear what caused the crash, but officials
say speed might have been a factor. A possible expansion of eli's convention Center
has taken a step forward. The city council okayd fifty four million dollars for
pre construction design work, but there's a catch. They have to know by
the end of the year whether the full five billion dollars renovation would be finished
in time to host Olympic events in twenty twenty eight. Councilwoman Tracy Park says
she understands the challenge. We cannot risk losing those events to other cities,
or other regions, or even other states. City leaders say LA has been
losing out to much smaller cities for major convention dollars, and an expansion is
needed. Michael Monks KFI News. A fire that burned at least eighteen acres
southwest of Paris in Riverside County has been surrounded. The fire started Tuesday afternoon.
Three CalFire air tankers and water dropping helicopters were called in to help cruise
working on the ground. No homes or other buildings were damaged. The governors
of Minnesota, Maryland, and New York have thrown their support behind President Biden
after what some say was a rough debate last Thursday. New York Governor Kathy
Hochul was one of twenty governors who met with Biden yesterday. President Joe Biden
is in it to win it, and all of us said we pledged our
support to him because the stakes could not be higher. She and others say
they left the meeting feeling confident in Biden's ability to win. Some Democrats have
called on Biden to exit the race following his debate performance. Unionized Food for
Less grocery workers have voted to ratify a new three year labor contract. The
union says workers have secured raises, increased hours for part time workers, and
a more direct path to top rate pay over the next three years. Union
officials announced the agreement yesterday. Food for Less has fifteen stores in the LA
area and is a subsidiarya of Kroger. The union represents roughly six thousand workers.
Scientists say they've found fossils of a giant salamander like beast that's larger than
a human being. They say the animal ruled the waters some forty million years
before dinosaurs evolved. The findings, published in the journal Nature, say fossils
were found in Namibia and date back to about two hundred and eighty million years
ago, when the southern African country was once surrounded with glaciers and ice.
All right, let's take a look at your drive this morning. Looks like
well, Nick is here with us. Good morning, Nick, Happy fourth
of July. Happy forth to you as well. Heather and I got literally
nothing because it's holiday light for you across the little fight and fifties this morning.
Indeed, so you're looking at about eighteen to twenty two minutes for your
drive right now on the westbound side of the ninety one coming out of Riverside,
and as you make way through Corona, be on the fifteen and the
seventy one toward the two forty one Tour Road and then actually pretty much just
continuing all the way toward the fifty five. So a really good driver you
across the board. If you're encountering something that is slowing you down, pound
to fifteen, your cell phone keyword ESKFI traffic. I appreciate that four one
one on your morning drive. The vast majority of Caltrans projects have wrapped up
from the overnight and early morning hours, especially with the holiday upon us,
so a lot of those folks are not working today. But you may see
some of the long term Caltrans project areas under still having some closures in effect
even though they're there's not a lot of work going down. For the drive
northbound side out of the five right around a beach boulevard and the park area,
Geinea reports of a sought out car that's partially blocking the right lane,
mostly off to the right. Children not seeing too bad of a drive for
you. There we Southern California's only airborne traffic reports. I'm Nick Poliochini.
Thank you, Nick. I always say my favorite times to drive on the
roads are during holidays. Boy, that's the truth. Let me tell you
this summer, millions of people are going to watch a baseball game, but
this year another million are also going to watch the viral sensation banana ball.
So just what is banana ball? ABC's Jason Nathanson went to Fresno to find
out and filed this special report for KFI. It's a deep flyball to center
and that is caught with a cartwheel and a backflip. Wow, a miraculous
double trick played at the inning. You just saw one of the most epic
plays ever in the history of banana ball, is what you just saw.
What's being described there is banana ball, the viral sensation that is often referred
to as baseball's version of the Harlem Globetrotters. In a sold out stadium in
front of fourteen thousand fans in Fresno, California, I watched two teams,
the Savannah Bananas and the Party Animals, play a heavily modified version of baseball
that involves trick plays, a guy on stilts, dance offs, and much
much more. This is just absolute sheer madness in a way that I've never
experienced anything before. It's like Marti Gras and a carnival and a Disney parade
and an Acid trips. Just nuts man. When I told people I was
going to cover a Savannah Banana's game, I thought I'd have to explain to
them what it was. But turns out just about everyone new, from my
friend's teenage kids to my eighty one year old mom, they'd all seen the
viral clips of backflip catches and TikTok dances. You know, ten twelve,
fifteen trick plays sometimes every single night. Jared Orton is president of the Savannah
Bananas, the team founded in twenty sixteen. Minor League Baseball had just left
Savannah, Georgia, leaving the city without a team for the first time in
ninety years. A guy named Yesu Cole wanted to keep baseball in town,
though, so he and Orton dreamed up Banana Ball, more entertaining and exciting
version of baseball. I mean, the biggest thing is there's a two hour
time limit. You know. Now we always get nine innings in almost nine
percent of the time, but there's two hour timeline. Of course, the
most famous rule if a fan catches a foul ball. It's an out.
We let our fans challenge plays on the field. No bunting, there's no
mound visits, you can't step out of the box. Pretty quickly it became
a hit, and this summer the Savannah Bananas and the Party Animals are on
tour playing in ballparks across the country. It is game thirty four of the
twenty twenty four but in a ball World tour, you know where, we're
able to play in front of a million people this year. That first year,
I think we played in front of like ninety thousand. God real slippery,
please be careful, and those fans are dedicated. It was pouring rain
that weekend in Fresno, but nobody seemed to care, just knowing how hard
it was to get tickets. You're not gonna let a little rain stop you.
Like, so you're cold for the evening, you go home and you
warm up, but at least you had a great time. Emily and Brandon
told me they drove here from Oregon about ten hours. We're over one thousand
dollars into travel fees, plus the twelve dollars beers, the ten dollars hot
dogs, and the two hundred dollars a close that we bought at the merch
booth. So just a little bit about what's in front of me right now.
We have a marching band. We have a princess in a yellow princess
dress. We have a guy on stilts were a mascot. We have a
banana mascot who just a guy who's flipped over him. He's got big banana
muscles too. We have a guy in a stormtrooper helmet and a kilt,
and he's part of the Dad Bod cheerleading squad. Back to the guy on
stilts, he's one of the main draws. Dakota Stilts all Britain, but
just about everyone calls him stilts, walk on stilts. And I played baseball.
He's twenty three. Played high school baseball in Ellaville, Georgia. Yeah,
one red light in the whole county. I mean, the fourteen hundred
people. It's a little you blink, you're gonna miss it. And playing
baseball after high school wasn't really something he ever thought was possible. I got
it right out of high school and I went straight to work. I had
a full time job. I was I've done everything, I've built house,
I've been a pipe fitter at a paper meal, I've been a vac technic
and al Paso on the Army base over there. But one day he found
out the Savannah Bananas were having tryouts. He played baseball since he was four
and learned how to walk on stilts when he was ten, but he'd never
combined the two. The day of tryouts, I pulled the stilts out and
brought him to the stadium. I had no idea what I was going to
do with him, and Jesse said, can you hit a baseball? And
at the time I had never struggled to hit a baseball in any other way,
and so I told him, hey, yeah, I got on the
stilts and I went to knocking him out the infield. All right, now
the players are on field doing a lightsaber battle and dance off, and now
they're all dancing around the pictures. I mean, this is truly insane,
like nothing I've ever seen before, and you can't help but smile while watching
it. Fans come for the skits and choreographed dances just as much as they
do for the baseball, and Jackson Olsen is definitely there to put on a
show. So I guess character would be greatest showman play sec in base and
I do under the legs throws. He also loves to dance to Taylor Swift
on TikTok, and his one point seven million followers love watching him do it.
The main thing that we do here is we allow everyone to bring whatever
talent they have to this organization, and so it's just very open to whatever
guys want to do and no one's ever got to make fun of you for
doing that, and traditional baseball they will make fun of you. I got
made fun of a lot from my TikTok. Many of the guys had dreams
of going pro, struggled for years in the minor leagues to the point where
baseball just wasn't fun anymore. Then they found banana Ball. Got released from
the Angels and the Diamondbacks twice within seven months, and I was like,
you know what, maybe it's it's me, it's not them. Connor Higgins
is a pitcher for the Party Animals, and then kind of got here and
I haven't stopped pitching with a smile every single time I go out there,
and it's just I feel like I've rejuvenated my baseball career. Kind of myself.
I really feel like I make more of a difference here because our motto
is fans first. Before played six years in the minors, I wouldn't talk
to a single fan, maybe for a whole season sometimes unless they're asking for
a ball. And now I'm getting a chance of playing having a million people.
Yeh, bananas win, Quarna three rats on the win. How you
guys can celebrate tonight? Go to slit that's Savannah Banana's right field or Reese
Alexiatis. You guys don't go back and eat a bunch of bananas or drink
banana liquor or something banana related. Strictly banana stuff on the field and then
that's it. Do you like bananas? I do like bananas, trying to
have them as much as I can. Do you have to like bananas to
play banana ball? I don't think so. I think we got a couple
guys who are allergic. As for the fans, no banana allergies there.
What was your favorite part about it? Do you really want to know the
shirtless guys? Yeah? For sure. In Fresno, California for KFI,
I'm Jason Athens, ABC News. Oh that sounds like so much fun.
I would love to see them play live. So Jason's story there on Banana
Ball is part of the ABC News radio special he hosts called Press Play,
and you can hear the whole thing wherever you get your podcasts, just search
ABC News Press Play. Thank you Jason for that story. Let's get back
to some of the other stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Laguna Beach is putting on its annual July fourth fireworks without a bang.
We typically see a lot of smoke and we do the fireworks the good of
each Mayor Sue Kemp says switching to drones also eliminates the noise that affects people
with PTSD. We also have a lot of complaints from pet owners. Their
dogs are very afraid. The councilman, George White says air quality is another
reason the councilor decided spending seventy five thousand dollars for drones instead of forty two
thousand dollars for fireworks was worth it. July fourth and fifth have the forest
air quality of any days of the year due to traditional fireworks shows. The
show starts tonight at nine in Orange County Corbin Carson KFI News Fire and law
enforcement officials in California are urging people to be safe during the Fourth of July
holiday. State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant says it's illegal to sell, transport,
or use fireworks that don't carry the safe and Sane seal. Illegal fireworks in
California are unacceptable and we will not tolerate them. Berlant fire officials have been
busy. He says, fire officials have been busy seizing over two hundred and
forty thousand pounds of illegal fireworks within this last year. He also says they've
seen an increase in illegal firework sales online, so they're trying to crack down
on that. Violators can be fined up to fifty thousand dollars or sent to
jail for up to a year. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is doing an
enforcement operation in Indian Wells aimed at catching drivers who violate the state's hands free
cell phone law. The department says any text, call, email, or
social media post isn't worth a risk, and the focus should be on the
road coming up to go or not to go. That is the question you'll
be asking when we tell you about the Independent Shakespeare Company's plans for the Free
Shakespeare Festival in Griffith Park. At least one person has died and ten others
have been hospitalized after a boat crashed into the rocks in Long Beach last night
and its independence Today. Actors Steve Guttenberg and Danny Trejoe and many more are
joining Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna. They'll be among participants in parades in
La County. Trader Joe's is recalling their and Go tangerine scented candle. Apparently
it the flame burns a lot higher and larger than it should, so we're
gonna tell you what you need to do with that. ABC has Oh then
at six oh five, it's a handle on the news. ABC has reverse
course and will not air their interview. Will now air their interview with President
Biden in its entirety, and we're going to tell you when and where you
can watch it. One of my favorite things to do every summer is the
Independent Shakespeare Company Free Shakespeare Festival in Griffith Park. I love going with my
family. It's our family tradition. And every year I feel like the productions
are just better than the year before. So I'm so thrilled today to be
talking to Melissa Chalsma, the artistic director for the Independent Shakespeare Free Shakespeare Festival
that happens in Griffith Park every year. Good morning Melissa, Good morning Heather.
Is so nice to be here. I understand you guys are doing something
a little bit different than year this year with the festival. Can you tell
me about that. Yes, this year we are doing one play all summer
long. Usually we do longtime audiences. Well know, we typically have two
different productions we do over the course of the summer. Why we're doing one
play is very exciting, which is the city is in pre construction for a
permanent stage at our normal location, so we are moving to just up the
hill to a slightly smaller location. So we wanted to do one play so
that more people could come see that one production, and we're really this year.
What's perhaps most interesting is that we're doing something we've never done before,
which is we've designed an immersive prologue so people that come early, which is
a lot of people, because a lot of people come really early to picnic
and to explore Griffith Park before the performance. They're going to be able to
actually meet and interact with some of the characters and learn a little bit about
the backstory of As You Like It. So our goal is that first of
all, people really enjoy that hour before the performance, and also that people
maybe not familiar with the play or not familiar with Shakespeare get a chance to
kind of orient themselves to the production in a really really fun way, and
so that the play itself is even more enjoyable for them. You know,
whenever I tell people about this production that you guys put on every summer,
a lot of them say, what is it free? I didn't know that
was happening at Griffith Park And it's been happening for a long time, and
it's truly such a family friendly and wonderful experience where you, like you mentioned,
you can take some picnic baskets and things like that and go out and
enjoy. No wait, now, to remind me again, can people bring
wine to the park if they pack their picnic basket? What's the rule there?
Well, Heather, that's the alcohol is actually not allowed in Los Angeles
City parks, and so you run the risk of getting a ticket. Okay,
so don't pack your booze, keep it at home for this event,
but you definitely can and bring food and snacks and come and enjoy the performance.
And as you mentioned, it's as you like it. It is as
you like it, which is one of it was really my actually my favorite
of Shakespeare's comedies. It's just a completely delightful, charming, very surprising play
with a lot of music in it, which we love to add live music
to our performances. So we have a live jazz band that's playing the music
for the show and a lot of live singing and actually some added musical numbers.
So it's a really very very uh it's like it's a play where just
just when you think you've seen it all, like something new happens. And
one of the things I want to, you know, remind people of if
you didn't know and you're not familiar with this organization is because it's free,
you guys rely on donations from the community. And tell me a little bit
about that and how somebody can give and help support you. Oh, thank
you for asking that. It's a very very important question. Yes, I
think it's we We do receive obviously we get we love our partnership with Rex
and Parks, and we do get support from the City of Los Angeles,
but really about sixty percent of all of our kind of operating support for the
program is provided through these individual donations. We've really been built by a lot
and a lot of grassroots support, which is actually really important in a state
like California. The California as a state does not actually contribute per capita to
the arts as much as maybe we would think it would, being that like
the arts is such a big part of our instus, so it's really important
for people that live in California to know that if they love the arts,
they really do need to support their local arts organizations. So this year we
have a system where you can register to attend, which is great. When
you register, it lets us know how many people to expect, which is
very important for us to know how much. You know how many if it's
going to be really busy night, and then you get some emails that help
you with the directions and that kind of things. That's really helpful to register
and you have an opportunity to donate there. We also do a lot of
donations at the park we have opportunities to donate and then we also you can
also just go online to our website at ISCLA dot org and donate as well.
But those donations really do keep us going. And I want to remind
people too that these are professional actors that are performing here. It's professional.
All of the actors are paid, all of our crew is paid. We
really also look at it as an opportunity for people to start building their theater
career and building their career as professional theatermakers. So remind everybody where they can
go to either donate or register or find out more about your themed nights that
you have throughout the summer. Oh yes, thank you for that. Yes,
we've got lots of great theme nights, and we have workshops for families,
and we have dress up nights, and we have some discussion nights,
so there's a lot going on. The summer is very, very full.
You can visit our website at ISC that's Independent Shakespeare Company La so I SCLA
DOTRG, and at that website you can find out the full pat winter for
the summer and all of the important information you need to have a wonderful night
in Griffith Park under the stars, Grab your picnic basket, friends, family,
and head out to Griffith Park for this wonderful night. Melissa, thank
you so much. We appreciate your time. Thank you. It's always a
pleasure and I look forward to seeing you and your family there. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. A proposed ballot measure by Governor Newsom and other Democratic leaders
to repeal Prop forty seven has been scrapped. The measure would have competed with
a previous measure that is headed for the ballot in November. Governor Newsom says
his measure was pulled Tuesday because there was not enough time to add key amendments
some of event. Bill A. Saley from the II says he thinks the
measure was scrapped because of a lack of support in the legislature. They didn't
have the votes from the Progressives who don't want to touch Prop forty seven,
and they didn't have the votes from obviously Republicans and moderate Democrats who know Prop
forty seven is broken. Newsom says that now loan measure headed to the ballot
would revit policies from the failed War on drugs Bloke Trolli k if I News.
Fire officials in California are cracking down on illegal fireworks this Fourth of July,
especially with the heat wave, dry grass coupled with triple digit temperatures and
the wind is the perfect recipe for a disaster. Whether they're improperly used,
safe insane, or whether there are illegal fireworks, they can potentially create a
catastrophic fire. Save Fire Marshal Daniel Burlance says people need to be safe while
celebrating the Fourth and consider the risk. He says it's illegal to sell,
transport, or use fireworks that don't carry this safe insane Seal and officials will
be working with law enforcement to crack down. A state appeals court has upheld
a man's conviction for murdering his estranged wife in twenty seventeen, leaving her badly
burned body at a homeless camp in Granada Hills. The defense had argued prosecutors
failed to prove the elements of the murder during the man's trial in twenty twenty
two. The court yesterday rejected the claim of an air or, saying the
finding that the murder was saying in the finding rather that the murder was premeditated
and deliberate, and is supported by evidence by the man's motive, planning,
and manner of the killing. La City Council has approved fifty four million dollars
for pre construction design work to expand the convention Center Downtown. Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez
was the only one to vote against it, saying the full five billion dollar
project may not be done in time for the Olympics. If we try and
then we fall short, we also put ourselves in a situation to lose what
is going to be another Olympic dependent venue. The city will decide by the
end of the year whether the project could be completed by twenty twenty eight.
The convention Center is already said to host multiple events. Ella County Supervisors Lindsay
Horvath and Jennis Hahn have announced a proposal to expand the five member Board of
Supervisors to nine members, make the chief executive officer, make a chief executive
offer and elected official, and establish an independent ethics commission. Sentencing is set
for October twenty fifth for Samuel Woodward, who's convicted a first degree murder along
with a hate crime allegation for killing a gay former classmate in Foothill Ranch six
years ago. An excessive heat warning has been extended for parts of SoCal in
the western San Gabriel Mountains, the Annalot Valley, Foothills, and the Annealot
Valley through six o'clock tonight. Then at six oh five it's handle on the
news. Hurricane Barrel is responsible for at least seven deaths and total destruction in
some parts of the Caribbean. We'll talk about what's being done to help in
the aftermath. And at five point fifty, if you're still looking for some
ideas on where to celebrate the fourth, we're going to share several events happening
in SoCal that you just might want to add to your list. There are
a lot of fun things happening in southern California this summer, and just about
forty five minutes outside of Los Angeles, you can experience a little bit of
Vegas. We're talking to Matt Grogan, head of promotions at Yamavah Resort and
Casino, about some of the fun things happening there this summer. Okay,
Matt, So it's the fourth of July. There's a lot of things going
on what is happening out at Yambavah that we should put on our list of
things to do well. There's about seventeen event to be exact, we have
seventeen promotions starting this week. With that, we gave away our Protect Philip
watch the start off the week that was really really exciting and luxurious watch that's
incredibly hard to find. And then we kind of get into our big promotion
where we're getting away over five hundred thousand in free slot play. Starting on
Friday the fifth through Sunday one to nine pm one o'clock, you can win
seventeen thousand, one hundred and sixty dollars and then all the way at nine
o'clock you have a chance to win up to fifty thousand dollars with the lowest
prize being five thousand, So plenty of reasons to come out this weekend.
Some of the other things that we're really excited about, starting with the Star
Card giveaway, we're working with Jay Leno. We have a thing called Jay's
Picks, and being that he's such a good car officiing not we lean on
him and his expertise to kind of help us pick out what are the best
cars. So going into this year and put a lot of effort in improving
our Star Card benefit program, which is for our first responders veterans. This
year, we're actually giving them a car away just for them on Friday,
a Ford Ranger Raptor twenty twenty four, one of the hardest cars to be
able to find right now, but thanks to Jay and his help, we'll
be given that away to one of those lucky members, which is exclusive.
Nobody else can participate unless your Starcard member. And that's also happening on Friday.
Okay, so a lot of giveaways, a lot of fun times on
the casino floor. But let's talk about what you guys have going on in
the Yamavah theater. Comedians, musicians. Tell me who all is coming to
the theater and who should we put on our list to see? I feel
like that's an endless list. We could be here all day. I know
one that's really I'm really excited about, and he's been here twice already is
Andrea Bocelli. I know he coming November first. We have new kids on
the block. Line up never ends, It just keeps going and going and
going, you know, I'm also a comedian. That's kind of like what
I do on the side, my part time fund, my fun job,
I guess. And I was so excited to see Colin jos Is coming out
there. You guys are getting huge names in comedy as well. Talk about
your comedy club a little bit. So it's one of those that, just
like anything else, since we opened the theater a few years ago, we
just keep building on and growing. So you know, to your point,
having on the roster the likes of Kevin Hart coming out, some of these
other huge names, Chelsea Handler, It's just one of those things that,
knowing that comedy has always lived in LA and is one of the most synonymous
areas for it, we just felt like bringing it to the ie something that
helps us as well. What can you tell me about Summer Sessions. So,
Summer Sessions is a new program that launched this year. It's the way
we build It is the ultimate happy hour. If you're looking to get into
some fun off the casino floor, off the resort, you come to our
pool deck. We have music, live music, amazing drinks every Friday from
now until September sixth, from five pm to nine pm. It's an amazing
experience. Let's talk about rock and Bruise. Is that different from the lineup
you have at the Yamava Theater or is it kind of the same. Do
they tie in together? No, they are completely different. Rock and Bruise
is one of our food venues that offers amazing entertainment as well. So it
looks like you got Reverend Horton heat dock in Like that's more for like your
rock and roll crop. For sure, it sounds like yeah, and rock
and bruises that vibe. For sure. You love rock and roll and good
food, that's your place to go. I have only been one time,
and I went last Friday for research, and I made sure I stopped at
the ATM on the way just in case, Just in case I need to
go in depth in my research. What is something that you think is going
to surprise people whenever they come out to visit you To be honest here at
Yama, but I think almost everything can surprise you because you're not expecting to
walk into a facility with seventy two hundred slot machines, five high limit rooms,
over twelve bars and restaurants. The vibe is something that we really focus
and take pride in, so no matter what area of the casino you go
to, you're gonna feel a unique vibe for that space, which is kind
of tone setting when you enter a place. A lot of people when they
visit us for the first time, one of the first things that comes out
of their mouth is this is just like Vegas but better. So that's something
that we take pride in. And then obviously the customer service is far none
some of the best I've ever seen. And then any fireworks, are you
guys firing off any fireworks on the fourth of July that we should be on
the lookout for. We will not be doing any fireworks, but if you
come to Yamabo Resort Casino, go up to the seventeenth floor. We have
an amazing area that overlooks the entire San Bernadio County and you can see fireworks
for miles and miles and miles away. I think you can also buy them
out there too, in your area. I know when we were driving back,
I was like, there's the fireworks stands. We should stop and get
something, but then we have nowhere to shoot them off here, So well,
this is fantastic. I know my husband and I can't wait to come
back. We definitely want to come back and explore a little bit more where
we have some more time. And also worth mentioning this is a twenty one
and over casino and resort, so if you're thinking about bringing the kids,
don't do it right, they'll have to wait in the car. Well,
thank you guys so much. I appreciate your time and we hope you have
a wonderful fourth of July. Same to you read it. Thank you.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At least one person has died and ten others
were hurt and in the hospital now. After a boat crashed into the rocks
in Long Beach last night, Long Beach Fire officials say the boat overturned and
began taking on water. It's not clear what caused the crash, but officials
say speed might have been a factor. A possible expansion of LA's Convention Center
has taken us step forward. The city council okayd fifty four million dollars for
pre construction design work, but there's a catch. They have to know by
the end of the year whether the full five billion dollar renovation would be finished
in time to host Olympic events in twenty twenty eight. Councilwoman Tracy Park says
she understands the challenge. We cannot risk losing those events to other cities or
other regions, or even other states. City leaders say LA has been losing
out to much smaller cities for major convention dollars, and an expansion is needed.
Michael Monks KFI News. A red flag fire warning has been issued for
the Ventura County Mountains, the I five Corridor, and the western Antalope Valley
foothills. It will be in effect from six o'clock tonight until six am Saturday
morning. A red flag warning means critical fire weather conditions are either happening or
are imminent. A fire that burned at least eighteen acres southwest of Paris and
Riverside County has been surrounded. The fire started Tuesday afternoon. Three Cowfire air
tankers and a water dropping helicopter were called in to help cruise working on the
ground. No homes or other buildings were damaged. Governor Newsom and other Democratic
leaders have pulled their proposal ballot initiative to repeal prop forty seven. The measure
would have competed for votes with an already qualified measure headed for the ballot November.
Assemblyman Bill Assie says he thinks the move was pure partisan politics. He
was trying to distort the election and confuse voters with an alternative ballot measure.
Governor Newsom claims his measure was pulled because there wasn't enough time to add key
amendments to the bill. He says the other measure would revive policies from the
era of mass incarceration. President Biden has admitted he quotes screwed up, as
he put it during the debate with former President Trump. He told a radio
station in Milwaukee yesterday that he had a bad night. He says that was
ninety minutes on stage, and that voters should instead look at what he's accomplished
during his three and a half years in office. Biden says he is not
dropping out of the presidential race. Unionized Food for Less grocery workers have voted
to ratify a new three year labor contract. The union says workers have secured
raises, increased hours for part time workers, and a more direct path to
top rate pay over the next three years. Union officials announce the agreement.
Yesterday, Evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted after a fast moving one hundred
and thirty three acre brush fire that left one firefighter hurt erupted in seem Me
Valley and threatened nearby homes. Death Valley could set a new record. It
actually may break its own record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
The current record for the highest reliably measured temperature is one hundred and thirty and
that could be reached again this coming Monday or Tuesday. And as we mentioned,
it is the fourth of July. That means all government officers, the
post office, financial institutions, at some retail grocery stores will be closed.
Now we're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning, and well,
we're going to be covering a lot of stories. We're going to talk
a little bit more about what's happening in Death Valley with the hottest temperature there,
will they break the record, we'll see. All right, So it's
time to clean off your lawn chairs, dust off your blankets, get your
favorite summer grilling foods ready to go. Because it is the fourth of July,
we have details right now on some of the fun places where you can
go and celebrate, and me and kno and and we're all going to talk
about the fourth of July and all of the fun things that we can do.
Let me start first of all by saying, this is a very one
of my favorite holidays. And I know that's super nerdy, but it's my
favorite holiday because when I was growing up, my family was very patriotic.
We my mother instilled a big sense of respect and reverence for our country in
me when I was a child. And the fourth of July has always meant
a time to take a moment and pause and just be grateful for we uh
for what we have here in the United States, because so many other people
around the world do not get to celebrate the same freedoms that we do here.
It is also the day that my husband proposed to me, so it
has a little special meeting for me. It was so funny he said,
I can't think of a better way to celebrate Independence Day than by giving up
my independence. So that's always been a very special special time for me.
So we love the fourth of July. Let's let's talk about what's happening around
Southern California, big celebration at Universal Studios. You guys, they put on
a wonderful fireworks display there. We also talked about the Queen Mary. What's
happening at the Queen Mary tonight. They're doing a lot of celebrations and events
there and of course Disney. If you can get in, it's probably sold
out. But let's talk to all right, Kna, what do you do
for the fourth? What do you guys like to do? Usually I like
to get their go to somebody's house and have fireworks. But this year I
have a five month old. Yeah, and so I'm on his schedule.
Oh but I did tell my brother like, hey, man, are you
going to do anything? We live in the ill An Empire. Not many
places there firework friendly. Yeah, so we're gonna figure it out. But
I do love fireworks. Or like, my parents live on the north end
of San Bernandino, but it's kind of like the hills and you can literally
see fireworks from Fontana, like all the way pretty much to Highland, So
it's just like the whole sky is lit up, so you could. We
used to sit on the roof and watch fireworks. That's what I was saying
from Yamaba that people can just go up on their top floor and watch it
from all around. Yeah, it's it's incredible. Oh well that sounds nice.
I love. It really is about spending excuse me time with family.
So that's a great idea. And what are you going to be doing?
Well, My sister's birthday is on the third, so we celebrate on the
four. Gives us an excuse to all get together and we barbecue and swim
and then we all walk over to a park nearby that does fireworks and it's
fun. I love time. Yeah, see, it really is. It's
just like about relaxing, celebrating. There's no pressure. You don't have to
buy presents for anybody. It's not like the other holidays, you know.
And also, Nick, is this your wedding anniversary? It is. It's
our ninth wedding anniversary. My husband Brian and I nursary, so just like
you, I well, I was your husband because I proposed to Brian on
before of July back in twenty fourteen. I mean I could be your husband.
I just don't tell him. That's fun. But yeah, and so
I'll actually be live here on KFI this evening for later with mo Kelly,
along with mo Kelly, to Ola Sharp and our own FOURK reporter Neil Sabedra.
So we'll all be here tonight from seven to ten pm on KFI.
Shout out to all of the weekend warriors and the holiday workers who are We
work on the holidays because we love it. We're here to bring the news
and the information to the people no matter what. All right, let's talk
about some of the celebrations happening. We've got let Freedom Ring celebration happening in
Cerritos that kicks off at four o'clock. In El Segundo, they're having I
guess a whole day of fun out there. It's a fireworks display starts at
nine, but I guess it's free for residents, but non residents have to
pay five dollars for that. And Huntington Beach they're having their annual fireworks over
the ocean with free beach viewing. We love free Laguna Beach. We've been
talking about some of the things they're doing there at Laguna Beach, mostly just
music. I don't think they're doing oh drone show. They're doing a drone
show, yes, And in Long Beach, view the annual fireworks show from
the Queen Mary. That is going to be a great event as well.
And let me see what else we got here Marina del Rey. The annual
show will start about nine o'clock. And make sure if you're heading down to
Marina Delray, you look and see where their areas are to park or maybe
do a ride share situation, and I look and make sure you know where
to go a lot of these places, it's always best to plan ahead.
There's nothing worse than planning to go somewhere and you get there and there's nowhere
to park because nine other million people decided to go to the same place you
wanted to go. But that's life. In Socom In Rosemeade, they're having
a parade, family fun. The parade starts at ten o'clock and then they're
doing Freeze or the aquatic It was free swim, Yes it is free swim.
At one o'clock they're Aquatic Center there. Santa Anna starting at three,
they're having their festivities at Centennial Park. Then fireworks will start later in the
evening around eight forty five. And then in Santa Clarita nine fifteen, their
fireworks over the Valencia Town Center will begin and then in Walnut from five to
about nine thirty they're having music, games, food trucks, all of those
things for you all to enjoy. So there's a lot to do. And
well we have this information, do we have any of this up on our
website? And do you know if any of it will be on the website?
Okay, well you should just play this recording back then go back and
go back and listen to this podcast version of this wake up call later today
and take notes. So, yeah, I'm excited about the fourth of July.
This is going to be a fun, fun day. I think I'm
going to be swimming with my family as well. My husband is going to
get out the tragger and try some new like grilling situations. So yeah,
have a fun and say Fourth of July everybody. Oh you know what,
Cono I was going to tell you. I'm so mad that I didn't think
of this until literally as we were in the middle of the show. But
I was like, I should have see seen if you wanted to do like
a Fourth of July like mashup like dj Kno's like fourth Remix and like put
together all of your like fun music for the fourth. Should have done that.
I should have been like, let's do that. I'm still kind of
doing that. If you notice, every time I come in, it's some
sort of America. I love America, so you're gonna find the best America
songs throughout the day. Thanks for clarifying that for people. I love America.
All right, Well, okay, yeah, we are enjoying it.
But I'm like, I feel like we need to sell Djconos records on the
side, you know what I mean. Hey, whatever gives me a side
hustle. Ill, okay, Right, It's all about the side hustle,
especially when you work in radio. Speaking of side hustle, I'm gonna take
this opportunity to invite everyone to my next stand up comedy show. It is
gonna be in San Gabriel on July twelfth. Come out and see me there.
We're gonna be a I'm gonna be a Blossom Market Hall doing a special
Fun Night with the Mixed Nuts comedy show. So come out and see me.
My Also, I'm going to be back at the ice House in Pasadena
coming up in This is way ahead but like in September, so all the
ticket information is up on my website Heatherbrooker dot com. There woo plugged myself.
All right, Now, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Laguna Beach is putting on its
annual July fourth fireworks without a bang. We typically see a lot of smoke
and we do the fireworks the good of each Mayor Sue Kemp says switching to
drones also eliminates the noise that affects people with PTSD. We also have a
lot of complaints from pet owners. Their dogs are very afraid. Counselman George
White says air quality is another reason the councilor decided spending seventy five thousand dollars
for drones instead of forty two thousand dollars for fireworks was worth it. July
fourth and fifth have the forest air quality of any days of the year due
to traditional fireworks shows. The show starts tonight at nine in Orange County.
Corbin Carson kf I news Fire and law enforcement officials in California are urging people
to be safe during the Fourth of July. State Fire Marshal Daniel Berland says
it's illegal to sell transport or use fireworks that don't carry the safe Insane seal.
Illegal fireworks in California are unacceptable and we will not tolerate them. For
land. Fire officials have been busy seizing over two hundred and forty thousand pounds
of illegal fireworks within this last year. He says they've seen an increase increase
rather in illegal fireworks sales online, so they're trying to crack down. Violators
can be fined up to fifty thousand dollars or sent to jail for up to
a year. A proposed ballot measure by Governor Newsom and other Democratic leaders is
going to repeal Prop forty seven, and it's been scrapped. The measure would
have competed with a previous measure that is headed for the ballot in November.
Governor Newsom says his measure was pulled Tuesday because there was not enough time to
add key amendments. Somedayman Bill A. Saley from the II says he thinks
the measure was scrapped because of a lack of support of the legislature. They
didn't have the votes from the Progressives who don't want to touch Prop forty seven.
And they didn't have the votes from obviously Republicans and moderate Democrats who know
Prop forty seven is broken. Newsom says that now loan measure headed to the
ballot would revive policies from the failed War on drugs. Blake Trolly k if
I News. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department is doing an enforcement operation in Indian
Wells aimed at catching drivers who violate the state's hands free self own law.
The department says any text, call, email, or social media post isn't
worth the risk and the focus should be on the road. Officials say drivers
should pull over if it's that important. Drivers who violate the law two times
within thirty six months will have a point added to their DMV record. Three
men have been arrested for allegedly robbing the same camera store in Burbank twice.
Fully say the men snagged several cameras worth over thirteen thousand dollars last month,
before going back the next day and stealing seven thousand dollars worth of equipment.
And employee tried to stop the robbers, but they shoved him out of the
way. Two of the men were arrested last month. The third was taken
into custody yesterday. If he tried to run, They're all charged with robbery
and grand theft. President Biden has posthumously awarded a Medal of Honor to two
Civil War soldiers. Privates George Wilson and Philip Shadrack were part of an undercover
mission that became known as the Great Locomotive Chase, where Union soldiers overtook a
can Confederate train, just drawing key infrastructure in the process. ABC's Molly Nagels
says Shadrack and Wilson were captured, tried, and hanged by the Confederacy.
Biden said during the ceremony yesterday their heroic deeds went unacknowledged for more than a
century, but time didn't erase their valor. Competitive eaters have made their way
to Coney Island for the Nathan's annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest.
Professional eater James Webb says he's looking forward to seeing how many he can put
down. Is going to be a new champion, and it's going to be
a great experience and I'm just happy to be here. Major League Eating co
founder and host George Shay says he's expecting a tight competition since sixteen time champ
Joey Chestnut is sitting out this year because he's not going to be there,
We're going to have the fiercest contest in I don't know, probably fifteen years.
It all goes down at noon, more at twelve o'clock, nine o'clock.
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