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It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. This
is your wake up call for Thursday, October nineteenth. I'm Amy King.
Good morning, It's five o'clock. Straight up, out of bed, Get
up, get that coffee, Time to get ready. I'm going to tell
you as you're starting to get dressed for the day, it feels like summer
out there, so I dressed like summer for a tank top. I thought
about wearing shorts, but thought that's pushing it a little too hot. We've
got heat advisories up for several areas this afternoon, going to top them one
hundred degrees in the Inland Empire, maybe even in the valley. We've got
a lot ahead for you on wake up call. Of course, we'll let
you know what happened while you were sleeping, but also we've got our boob
preview for the week. We're going out and about to different places to share
some of the Halloween events, and the Great Shakeout is happening later this morning.
We're gonna be talking with somebody from the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
Let you know all about what you're supposed to do and why. Here's what's
ahead on wake up Call. The US has vetoed a UN resolution they called
for a pause in the Israeli Hamas conflict. US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield says
the US was disappointed the resolution made no mention of Israel's right to defend itself,
and she also blamed Hamas for the crisis. Another vote for Speaker the
House is expected today, This after Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan fell short of the
two hundred and seventeen votes needed to be elected for the second time in just
two days. In fact, on yesterday's vote, he lost a couple more
vote Twenty two people did not vote for him. Former LATV News anchor Christina
Pascucci has joined the race to take the Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein for
thirty years. Pascucci has never held or ran for a public office before.
She says she's running as an independent Democrat at six oho five. It's handle
on the news. President Biden says the US is going to provide humanitarian aid
to Gaza, but there are conditions. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Israeli airstrikes have hit
southern parts of the Gaza strip that Israel had declared safe zones. Palestinian news
officials say it killed at least thirty people. The attacks came after Israel agreed
yesterday to let Egypt deliver limited humanitarian aid to Gaza for the first time in
the eleven day siege. Ap is saying many of the two point three million
people in Gaza have been cutting back to like a meal a day and have
been left to drink water as supplies dwindle. More than three hundred people protesting
against the Israel hop Israel Hamas war have been arrested by Capitol police. Thousands
gathered in the rotunda of the Cannon House building in DC yesterday demanding a ceasefire.
Many wore shirts that said Jews say ceasefire now and not in our name.
The protests came as President Biden visited Israel and after the bombing of a
hospital in Gaza earlier this week. A person has been killed in a hit
and run in Pasadena. The two car crash happened last night near the intersection
of North Raymond Avenue and East Penn Street. One person died at the scene,
another was taken to the hospital. Policeaid the driver of the second car
ran away on foot. The Aly County Sheriff's Department is pushing for speed cameras
on pH after a deadly crash in Malibu. Captain Jennifer Ceo says too many
people have been killed because of speeding cars along the Coast Highway. We've got
to change with the times when technology is an option, and these speed cameras
will be. They're going to be in six cities starting in twenty twenty four.
Four Pepperdine students were hit and killed Tuesday night when a twenty two year
old driver lost control of his car on PCH and slammed into them. Police
say the crash is being investigated. Governor Newsom is veto to bill that would
have banned forever chemicals in synthetic lawns. Forever chemicals are found in plenty of
plastic products and used to make things like water stain and grease resistant. Newsom
said last week he strongly supports the intent of the legislation, but was concerned
the state wasn't ready to enforce the bill. Then Governor Jerry Brown signed a
law prohibiting cities and counties from banning synthetic glass get grass less than a decade
ago. Easy for me to say, huh okay. So, some disabled
dogs known as the unstud Pppable Dogs, are being featured in a calendar that
raises money to provide wheelchairs for disabled and injured pets. The twenty twenty four
Walk in Pets calendar will have pd pop Zeke and Little Eddie. They all
use wheelchairs. Walking Pets is based out of Huntington Beach. It has helped
close to two million pets stay active over the last twenty years. You can
see the Unstoppable Dogs on Instagram. They have one hundred and thirty thousand followers.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Geordana Miller in Jerusalem. You know,
geor Dana is this is becoming routine, unfortunately, but we are very
happy that we get to talk to you so you can give us the latest
of what's going on. Israel has denied it targeted at a hospital. It's
released video and audio to prove that but Hamas is dismissing that are there any
new developments with that. Well, we're now approaching forty eight hours since that
hospital. That explosion went off in the parking lot. By the way,
the als not a direct hit, and it seems now very clear that the
Israelis did not psych it was not an Israeli missile, and that it was
an errant fire from a Palestinian rocket. You know, there's been more and
more evidence coming coming to the surface over the last day or so, and
some of it coming from very non official channels. For example, a farmer
who had his camera on he was filming some of the rocket fire. You
know, he captured this huge salvage salvo of Palestinian rockets and just you know,
thirty seconds later, a minute later, a huge explosion next to you
know where it looked like the origin of those the rockets came Channel twelve news,
not connected to the government, not connected to the army. Also its
cameras capture similar images with the same time stamp about six fifty nine local time.
And even if you look at the impact site, the crater, there's
no crater that usually companies an Israeli strike, no massive damage to the buildings
around there. It's all says it was not firing at the time. And
when the President was here and he was pressed on why he believed the Israeli
claims, he said, you know, our own defense department, so that
maybe you know, that's a reference to me. There's other American intel as
well. So it seems clear that this was a misfire and really shame on
some of the international media organizations that took right away for truth the claims by
hamas a Paris organization and has Blah in the hour after the strike, without
waiting, without checking. Thank god, ABC was not one of those news
organizations, but places like the BBC, even the New York Times had to
readjust and re rewrite their story, you know. So this it has to
be said. Miss fires are a very common feature of these of the conflict
between a Israel and come off every round of it. There are misfires,
and sometimes there are hundreds of them. This time there have been over seven
thousand rockets fired in the Israeli army estimates about four hundred missfires. In the
last round there were three thousand rockets and about you know, three hundred or
two hundred and fifty miss fires. It happens all the time. This is
not some you know, you know, random theory that you know what happened
here. It happens a lot. Now does it matter If you asked someone
today on the streets of Cairo or Beirut or Damascus, you know what happened
at the Baptist hospital in Gaza, they would tell you the Israeli's bombed it.
Because the Palestinian street. You know, you can present a lot of
evidence, but it doesn't sway, it doesn't sway or impact the very strong
misinformation and propaganda campaign that's carried out by the militant groups who have some of
the hearts and minds of Palestinians in the Arab world. Yeah, Jordana,
I, it's just it's like they can't win for losing on this, and
it's so hard because Israel's trying to get the word out saying we didn't do
it, and people aren't listening. So it'll be interesting to see if they
if they do, and maybe that quells tensions a little bit, but we'll
keep watching it. Jordana, thank you so much again for your time and
your insight. We appreciated a ton. Stay safe. Thanks, good to
be with you. Thanks all right, thank you. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Funeral
services have been held for a Manhattan Beach police officer killed in a crash on
the four or five in Carson. The life of thirty five year old Chad
Swanson was celebrated by friends, family, and fellow officers from near and far.
Swanson's wife, Haley reminisced on how her husband ran towards the chaos during
a mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas. He handed me his drink
and I watched him run off into the gunfire. He was so grateful to
have been there that night. Swanson's casket was escorted by motorcade to and from
a church in Orange County yesterday, where hundreds of police officers paid their respects
to a comrade whose watch ended October fourth, Chris Adler. KFI News.
Dozens of parents have asked to judge in LA to allow their lawsuit against Snapchat
to move forward. This parent claims Snapchat is liable for the drug overdose death
of his and other children. You have a social media app like Snapchat,
which he's propagating these drug dests by facilitating and allowing drug dealers to sell illicit,
counterfeit drugs to our children. The parents also claim Snapchat makes it difficult
for law enforcement to track evidence of illegal activity. A one of the children
died after buying pills that they thought were drugs like oxycodone, but they turned
out to be laced with fentanel. A Riverside County Sheriff's deputy's been shot in
Thousand Palms. The department says he was taken to the hospital last night.
Is condition not known. They asked people to avoid the area of Ramon and
Robert Rhodes for several hours until someone was taken into custody. A thirteen year
veteran firefighter has been indicted on hit and run charges, alleging he killed a
man crossing pch in Dana Point. The entire incident was capched on video.
Orange County DA spokeswoman Kimberly Ed says video shows a car allegedly tied to OC
Fire Authority firefighter Jeffrey Grassinger hit the brakes before the collision last October then just
take off. The collision caused the victim to go airborne, spin through the
air, and fall head first into the pavement. She says it's not just
disturbing that a trained medical professional would leave a person who needed medical attention,
it's criminal. Grassinger's lawyer says this is a veteran firefighter who saves lives and
is not guilty. The man is doing court next month in Orange County.
Corbin Carfi News. San Diego has been named the most expensive place to live
in the country. US News and World Reports says f twenty twenty three to
twenty four, San Diego's the most unaffordable metro area based on median gross rent
and annual housing costs for people paying mortgages. The report also noted added fees
people in San Diego pay, like homeowners' association dues or apartment complex maintenance costs.
LA was a close second Yeay on the list, followed by Honolulu and
Miami. Passengers flying on United are about to experience some changes. ABC's Michelle
Fransen says it's to help speat up the boarding process. United says it will
allow those assigned to window seats to board first, followed by middle and then
asle. The airline says that change will shave off two minutes for boarding.
Wow. The update comes as airlines head into the busy holiday traveling season and
our pressured to keep departure and arrivals on time. The new process will start
next Thursday. I think some of the airlines are already doing that doesn't matter.
It's still always just sort of a big cluster getting on and off planes.
President Biden's going to address the nation tonight from the Oval Office about the
conflict in the Gaza Strip and the US response to Hamas's attack on Israel.
The Press secretary says the President will also be talking about Russia's ongoing war against
Ukraine. The speeches at five PM. The Great Shakeout happens later this morning
at ten nineteen am. On this ten nineteen, emergency officials are asking Californians
to participate in the state wide earthquake drill to drop cover and hold on Netflix.
Yay raising prices. Didn't they just do this? The company is coming
off of boost and earnings in the third quarter and a nine percent increase in
the number of subscriptions. The premium ad free plan is going to go up
three bucks a month to twenty two to ninety nine starting this week. Netflix
says the growth is because of strong programming, but others say it's because of
the company's crack down on password sharing, so more people have to actually get
their own accounts. At six oh five, it's handled on the news,
Jim Jordan is hoping the third times the charm in his bid to become the
next Speaker of the House. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's
crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, as Israel heads toward week three
of its war against Hamas, things are just heating up more and more,
and one of the big problems is the fog of war, and the bigger
question obviously is what do you have at the end of it, because you
know Israel is going to go in and do some big time fighting with a
moss that's going to cause a lot of casualties, which is also going to
heat up other parts of the world and maybe other Arab countries that feel like
it's too much and then attempt to are actually come to the aid of the
Palestinian you know, I'm talking about Iran, Syria and maybe some other countries.
Iran obviously could use Hezbal all their terrorist organization which my guess is we're
in the middle of this anyway. But the point being, I just don't
see how this can ever sort of end in any positive way. Is Israel
going to occupy Gaza. I mean they've taught sort of talked about that.
Well, that certainly worked out well for us in Afghanistan, right, So,
I mean there's just there's just so many things that it's like this has
nowhere to go but someplace bad. I guess the question is how bad?
Well that's that I was just going to ask you, though, is there
any way to cool things down, like asid from Israel just calling it off,
which they're not going to do. They're not going to do. My
guess is that they are going to take their time, and it's going to
take them a lot of weeks. If you think about the number of buildings,
the number of tunnels, I mean, apparently there's just an extensive tunnel
system, in particular in Gaza City, but probably in other parts of the
Gaza strip where you're gonna have people hiding. I mean, I've cleared some
pretty scary buildings and secluded areas. I don't know if I want to go
into a tunnel and start fighting somebody just because you know, close quarter drill
is an understatement there. So all of that is really tough stuff. Yeah,
and so we've talked about how other players may get involved, and you
hear the rhetoric coming out of Iran saying time is out or has run out.
I can't remember what the exact words were, but there was a tweet
saying, you know, watch out Israel because we're kind of coming. And
there's talk of like Hesba laws you mentioned, getting involved and they're already trading
rockets and that kind of thing from southern Lebanon. But it also affects the
ua US. So how is what's going on there become a problem for here?
Well, you have literally millions of people or at least hundreds of thousands
of people that align themselves either with the Palestinians or with Israel. And will
that play out in my estimate in lone actors. I mean, what's been
reported so far of that horrible stabbing death of a six year old upside Chicago.
I mean, that seventy one year old defendant is just you know,
seem to be motivated by what is happening in Israel. I mean, the
six year older mother who apparently survived the attack, are both Muslim. And
can we have versions of that? Of course we can, you know,
so, yes, I do see it playing out here more individuals than perhaps
as groups. And how do we find these guys? You're you're the terrorism
expert. What are they looking for? Well, first of all, if
you if you let's keep it a loan actress for a second. I mean
they could they be active Hamas people, Well maybe, but the odds are
greater. It's going to be sympathizers, just like we've had Isis sympathizers over
the years that have attacked individuals or small groups, and you only know about
them because a they do something that tips off law enforcement who they contact,
something they buy, whatever that might be, or they start posting stuff on
social media, or they just get a tip from a relative or somebody else.
They start checking the person out and they end up stopping them before they
commit an act. But that's all. There's too many ifs in what I
just said, right, And it's it's like chasing school shooters. Right.
Kids say a lot of horrible things, but some start a massing weapons or
they take weapons from home. Well, who knows that if you don't know
what it's going to happen, you maybe can stop it before they get through
the door, and maybe you won't. It's the same thing you have going
on here. And so as this war escalates, sort of expect more people
to act out. Okay, So being practical, I can't believe I'm even
having to ask this in the US, But what can we do and watch
for as just as we're living our everyday lives, you just have to be
visualant. I mean, if you are of the you know, Jewish faith,
I mean they're already under alert, just even prior to this war starting.
You know, different cars, different movements, different activities, things that
you see that aren't part of the routine. You just have to be visulant
where you go, but not to in my view as state being paranoid about
it. In the same way for the rest of us, just in our
everyday lives. Do we see things, do we hear things, do we
see actions by people that concern us? And so the best thing to do
is report it. Many times it ends up being nothing, but sometimes there's
nothings turn into something. Okay, So be alert, don't be alarmed,
but watch your back all right, thank you so much for your time and
your insight, Brad Garrett. We look forward to our next conversation. Hopefully
it'll be on something more positive. Good luck on that one, I know.
Thanks Brad. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A suspected robbery in LA. It has
been accused of being involved in other robberies in southern California Portland. Thornton has
been leaked to at least seven other robberies. The LAPED is now asking other
people who may have been targeted by Thornton to come forward. Based on our
investigation, we believe he may be involved in similar robberies where he has not
yet been identified. Detective we knew when, says Thornton was arrested in Hawthorne
earlier this month. Thornton is accused of punching a woman at a shop in
Chinatown in the face while he's still expensive sculptures. The woman says she needed
more than twenty stitches in Chinatown Blake Trolley kaf I news. A woman's been
arrested for allegedly setting fires in Sherman Oaks, LA. Fire says One of
the fires was set outside a flower shop late Tuesday night. Another was started
at about two hours later at a home. A family inside the home wasn't
injured. The woman was arrested on suspicion of vandalism last Saturday for different crime
after allegedly driving a car into a building, but she was released from jail
just six hours later because of La County's new zero bail policy. Two earthquakes
have hit northern California this week. The US Geological Survey says a four point
one magnitude quake hit yesterday near Isleton that's about forty miles outside of Sacramento.
That followed a four point seven quake that hit Monday along the coast. Learning
cursive is now going to be required for kids across California in first through sixth
grades. The bill was introduced by an assembly woman who was a former public
elementary school teacher. Governor Newsom signed the bill into law last week. It
requires cursive be taught every year, rather than requiring educators to teach it for
just one grade. I think I've seen penmanship of kids these days, and
I think that's going to be a really good thing. Hey, yesterday we
were talking about how people were leaving California and where they're going, and they
ranked a bunch of factors and turns out that New Hampshire was the best place
for Californians to move to. And we were saying, why, what would
make that place a great state to be because I'm not familiar with New Hampshire.
Well, I got a message on Facebook yesterday from a listener who lives
in New Hampshire. She says she was born spent most of her life in
New Hampshire. She says, I've lived in other states, including California,
but came back to New Hampshire and settled in so she said New Hampshire is
a real nice place to live. She says they are the live free or
die state. That means no sales tax, no state income tax. She
says, we don't have to wear seat belts unless you're under eighteen, don't
have to have don't have to have insurance on your car, and don't have
to wear helmets riding a motorcycle. She said, we also have the tallest
mountain on the East coast, Mount Washington, and she just wanted to share
that New Hampshire is a nice place to live, good to know. The
US has vetoed a UN resolution that called for a pause in the Israel Hamas
conflict. US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield says the US was disappointed the resolution made
no mention of Israel's right to defend itself and blame Hamas for the crisis.
Another vote for Speaker of the House expected today, this after Ohio Congressman Jim
Jordan fell short of the two hundred and seventeen votes needed to be elected for
the second time in two days. For the first time ever, the median
single family home price in La County has topped nine hundred thousand dollars. The
California Association of Rilter says the current median home price is nine hundred fourteen thousand,
six hundred forty dollars, about thirty thousand dollars higher than a year ago.
The big increase largely blamed on rising mortgage rates. At six zho five,
it's handle on the news, X is testing out a plan to charge
a one dollar annual fee for users to help fight spam. At five point
fifty, We're going to be talking about the Great shakeout. It's happening today
we'll tell you what it is, why we do it, and what you're
supposed to do. At ten nineteen this morning. Right now, it's time
for this week's Boo Preview. We're going around to different places around southern California
checking them out for you as we head towards Halloween. There's so many things
going on and people get so into Halloween. There's a lot of places that
I keep I'm seeing on social media. I'm like, oh, I wish
we had time to get to that one. But here's one of the ones
that we did get to. We've gone to a lot of scary places.
We've gone to horrifying places that are supposed to scare your pants off. Well
this is not that. This one is called Carved. It's at Disconso Gardens.
It's an enchanting, fun Halloween event. We got to catch up with
Chris Medvitz, the creative director at Disconso Gardens. So Chris tell us about
the experience we're going to have when we come out to Carved. So.
Carved is a walking experience through a number of areas at Disconso Gardens. It's
a nighttime, immersive and interactive experience that is designed to be family friendly and
spooky but not scary, So anybody that doesn't want zombies and monsters coming after
you, this is a great way to spend a Southern California evening. And
you know what I was thinking just walking around too. I'm like, if
you want a date night, this is a cool place to come because you're
strolling through these fantastic gardens that without any decoration, are really really beautiful.
But for the Halloween time event, what kinds of things are they going to
be seeing? Everything is very much halloween or autumn feeling. There's a there's
a d de List wartoes a frienda where people can pay respects to those that
have passed. There's a lawn with a hay maisee and a pumpkin house for
kids. There's a forest with twelve hundred illuminated jack lanterns. We have a
what we call a ghost ship and oh wait, wait, wait, I
want to hear about the ghost ship. Okay, well we call it a
ghost ship, but there's not really a ghost on it, but it's like
a There's a dark installation area with a sort of a shipwreck that's been taken
over by some sort of sea monster. That's really kind of fun. Okay.
And there's fallen trees that are lit up and illuminating. Well, there's
a lot of trees that, unfortunately during the storms last year, fell on
the property and rather than just taking them away, the disconso has been recycling
them up, cycling them. They're using them for benches and some furniture and
some of the renovations. And then we also use them as part of the
sculptures here in the at carved Okay and everything at night. We got here
when it was still light out, and now that it's dark, it is
so cool. It's like like like Chris was saying, it's not spooky at
all. It's just enchanting is the word that I keep coming back to because
it's so cool looking. And about how long does it take to wander through
the gardens? It probably takes about an hour to wander through the pathway.
It's a little under a mile walking. It's all very even and you're not
going up hills or having a climb rocks or anything like that. But a
lot of people if you stop to take pictures and enjoy the displays, they
should take about an hour to walk through, Okay, and I should probably
mention too, there's food and drink out here, plenty of food and drink.
There's also these amazing art pumpkins that are carved behind us. Over here,
there's a whole gallery of these amazing art pumpkins, huge oversized pumpkins that
artists have designed really elaborate Halloween characters and images, and then they carve that
out of the pumpkin, carve the pumpkin out on the inside and they're illuminated.
It's really a great a display. And then when you come toward the
end of carve, you're going to run into this incredible installation. And it's
done by and I'm not going to say your name, right Tom, so
go ahead and tell me your last name. My name is Tom, and
last name the Quiver. He's from Belgium. That's why I can't pronounce it.
So Tom tell us about this fabulous installation behind us. Well. Chris,
the creative director of the festival, selected our work as an integration of
an art installation into the roots and the work is related to what you see
here at dis Counsole Gardens, which is a lot of plants and trees that
have roots underneath the surface. And all of these plants and trees they connect
with each other, just like we human beings do in real life. And
I wanted to visualize that idea of constructions and make a big web of ropes
into disconsole gardens. We have four miles of rope, okay, so that's
a lot. And you can walk underneath the work but also look from a
distance and when you come from the rout behind the corner, suddenly you experience
what is that in the end of the street, You know, like in
the end of the pathway, there's something glowing up there and it just attracts
you. And I hope it has an effect like a digital campfire where people
walk underneath, talk to each other and then just relax, you know,
and be here. It's really sort of mesmerizing, I would say, so
for people to come out and experience this. When are you open and what
dates and times? Car Friends Every night throughout October twenty ninth, it opens
at six pm and runs till ten pm. But you have to go online
and buy a ticket at a particular time frame because they have time ticket groups.
So you buy a ticket for a certain arrival time and then those times
that's to limit the amount of people that are in the garden so it never
gets crowded and it is always a good experience. That's so great because you
don't want to have it just packed with tons and tons of people. In
this way, you can wander and stroll and really just enjoy it. Yeah.
Absolutely so so pretty. So again a totally different kind of Halloween experience.
But the weather is so nice and it's warm and summary, so maybe
make your plans to head out to Disconzo Gardens and check out Carved. It's
going on through Halloween. Tickets are at Desconzo Gardens dot org. President Biden
is going to address the nation tonight from the Oval Office about the conflict in
the Gaza Strip and the US response to Hamasa's attack on Israel. Biden's press
secretary says he's also going to be talking about Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine.
The speech is at five. The La Kenny Sheriff's Department is pushing four speed
cameras on PCCh following a deadly crash in Malibu. Four Pepperdine students were hit
and killed Tuesday night when a twenty two year old driver lost control of his
car on pch and slammed into them. Netflix is raising prices. The company's
coming off a boost in earnings in the third quarter and a nine percent increase
in subscriptions. So starting this week, the premium ad free plan goes up
to three dollars or actually goes up by three dollars a month to twenty two
ninety nine minutes away from handle on the news this morning, Jim Jordan hoping
the third time is the charm in his bid to become the next Speaker of
the House. So are you ready to drop cover and hold on? It
is the Great Shakeout today and to tell us all about it, we brought
on Lori Nazura. She's the Deputy Director of Planning, Preparedness and Prevention.
Easy for me to say in the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Lorii,
good morning, thanks for coming on wake up call with us this morning.
Good morning, thank you for having me bright and early. Yes, So
tell us what is the Great Shakeout and what are we supposed to do well?
The Great Shakeout is an opportunity for us to exercise drop cover and hold
on. That's what we are asking folks to do if there's an earthquake,
there's more injuries that occur when people move around during earthquakes. So the safest
thing you can do is drop. Hopefully you're near a desk or table,
you can get under it. You cover your head, back of your head,
and you hold on hold on to anything nearby. I heard that it's
also good to be to drop next to like a couch. Yes, that
way, if any bookshelves fall over, then the back of the couch will
will stop it before it hits you. Okay, so you're asking people not
to just think about this and look around. You're saying, do it physically,
do the exercise. That's right. We've got ten point one million Californians
already registered on shakeout dot org. And that's a commitment saying that at ten
nineteen today, they're going to drop cover and hold on, whether they're in
their homes, their schools, or their businesses. Okay, we were talking
about this. We had a little shaker. I don't know it was a
month or two ago, maybe it was longer than that. And I know
that you're supposed to drop cover and hold on. But what I did when
I felt the jolts was I rent and grabbed my cat. So So part
of practicing is getting your you know, like muscle memory, getting your body
used to it and looking around and saying where is a good place for me
to drop or you know, like is that part of the idea behind this.
Yes, it's all about ensuring that we're consciously thinking about what we're going
to do to prepare for an earthquake. So not only are we practicing those
protective measures drop cover and hold on, but it's a really good time for
homeowners, renters, folks to look at their homes and say, Okay,
what do I need to do to prepare my home for shaking? Do I
need to anchor bookcases, other large furniture, you know, and things like
that, And also like the people around you, like what do you do?
Do you go grab them? Do you like I did with my cat?
Or are you supposed to just drop right then? Or do you grab
them drop? You know? I mean it becomes something that we don't think
about every day, but we probably should because a big earthquake could happen anytime.
That's right. I know, as parents, you probably want to grab
your children, and that's because they may not readily drop cover and hold on,
So you need to do that for them, but do practice ahead of
time with your children in the home so that they do know what to do.
So you kind of make it a little bit of a game to hopefully,
you know, potentially save their life if we do get some major shaking.
What are some other things that people can do to get ready for a
major earthquake. Well, if you are a homeowner or even a render with
a landlord that is very conscientious, you want to make sure that your home
is safe. If it's a pre nineteen eighty home, you might want to
consider getting that retrofit, and we do that very so you just brace it
the outer walls to the foundation to make sure that it doesn't get knocked off
the foundation. Obviously looking around your home to see what needs to be braced
to the wall. We even have a curriculum at the Governor's Office of Emergency
Services that meets California standards that can be caught in the classroom. So if
you're a teacher, think about using our curriculum. It's all hazards, not
just earthquakes. But we do have an earthquake unit, so all of this,
if you're prepared for earthquakes, are going to be prepared for all disasters.
Well, that's what I'm saying. During COVID they said, you know,
get ready in case you get cut off from things. And I got
my emergency kit and I was like, hey, this would come in handy
if there was an earthquake. Too good for you. I hope you maintain
it. Oh I have to maintain it. Okay, I'll do. I'm
going to put that on my list. Excuse you, water and food are
perishable item. Okay. So we're going to hear the alert at ten nineteen,
and I know we're doing it on radio, they're doing it on TV.
And then also you said there's the shake ap Where can people get that?
So you can download the my Shake app free from for both iOS and
for Android and it will alert you in if you are in an area that
is going to experience intent shaking. So in a real earthquake, it also
works. This is not just for a drill. Yes, that is correct.
All right, So at ten nineteen this morning, on this ten nineteen,
get ready because it's almost time to drop cover and hold on. All
right, Thank you, thank you so much. Lorie Mazurou with the Governor's
Office of Emergence and see services. Appreciate it. It's coming up in a
few hours. Get ready, Okay, let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. The FBI,
Department of Homeland Security, and National counter Terrorism Center have released an intelligence bulletin
warning of the potential for violence in the US because of the conflict in the
Middle East. There are stepped up patrols at synagogues in Los Angeles, more
crowd control in Washington, d C. And in New York. The nation's
largest police force has called in reinforcements, instructing all officers to prepare to work
twelve hour shifts. Aaron Katirski says yesterday's statement warns potential targets include people and
places perceived as symbolic of, or tied to, the Israel Hamas war.
The US is telling police to remain vigilant. The King of Jordan is sent
to meet with Egypt's president in Cairo to talk about what Jordan's royal court called
the means of ending Israeli aggression on Gaza. The king had been set to
welcome President Biden and the Palestinian authority in Jordan yesterday, but that plan was
canceled last minute. It just as a reflection of quite how tensings are here
and quite how deeply people feel the deaths and the casualties inside Gaza. ABC's
Ian Panel says the canceled meeting is a huge snub because the Palestinian authority in
Egypt technically have pretty decent relationships with the US. Parents have filed a lawsuit
against education officials and charter schools in the Sacramento and Maricopa areas. The lawsuit
claims the schools discriminated against families who chose to homeschool their kids with religious teachings
by not allowing them to use state money to buy materials or faith based classes.
California Department of Education says the independent programs to offer parents several types of
educational opportunities and do not discriminate against religion. The Labor Department's weekly jobless claims
reports can to be released this morning. ABC's Daria Albinger says, for the
most part, the claims have remained deddy for months. That's despite continued economic
pressure, especially when it comes to inflation. Economists view first time claims as
a proxy for layoffs, and the numbers indicate hiring is still strong. Albinger
says the historically load jobless claims are assigned inflation and other pressures on the economy
like hiring are still strong. It's you know what we got to say.
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