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right, it's time. It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call
for Monday, November sixth. Good morning, I'm Amy King. I hope
you had a great weekend. So it's headed into work this morning and was
locking the door, and because I decorate for every holiday, I have these
little pumpkins like lining my walkway. Something's eating them there. I was like,
well, that's weird, and there's like these big bite marks out of
the pumpkins. I'm thinking it's the possums in the area. You don't have
raccoons, d I don't think it's raccoons, I think, And they say,
like, don't leave food out because raccoons like if you leave cat food
out for them, they'll come back and come back. So I'm like,
should I take the pumpkins away? But think of the possums that are there
anyway. So I guess if I can feed a postum, it's a good
day because they eat bugs. Possums are good. They're weird looking, but
they're good. Also, speaking of pumpkins, had a fabulous pumpkinhead chi latte.
Over the weekend, we were out in Claremont. We went to this
place called revd Up. I put a post on on my Instagram at amy
Kay King Delicious, and I got gas while I was out there. Fifty
cents a gallon cheaper than here in La County. Fifty cents almost makes it
worth driving out there just to fill up. And then as I was heading
home. You gotta love this. I don't know if this has happened to
you recently, but I'm about to get on the freeway at an intersection.
Someone comes up behind behind me and hits me, not hard, just a
little tap tap, hits the bumper like oh man, and so I pull
over. We both get out of our car and I'm like, don't inflate
the situation or inflame the situation. Diffuse and I'm like hi, and she
was so nice and she goes it was totally my fault. I was looking
the other direction and I'm like, that's okay, and I was like,
you know what, this was so great because one there was no damage to
the car, so that's great. But she's like, do you want to
exchange phone numbers just in case? And I said, yeah, everything looks
fine. And so thank you to Melanie in the unlikely Jane that you are
up and about at this moment in time. But it was just so refreshing
because everybody's so supercharged right now that it was just like this chill thing,
like, hey, yeah, this happened and we're okay. So maybe it's
just the people in the ie are nicer. Melanie's nice, melaniell okay,
so not everybody. Okay, here's what's ahead on wake up call. Two
people have been killed when a mini van crashed into a metrobus in downtown La
but least say they were chase. Seeing the minivan yesterday morning was apparently trying
to take off just off the ten Freeway when the crash happened. Two people
in the backseat of the minivan were killed. The two others inside were taken
to the hospital. Israeli troops are expected to enter Gaza City in mass either
today or tomorrow. Gaza health official'll say Israeli airstrikes hit two refugee camps yesterday
in the Central Gaza Strip. Israel is rejecting a push by the US to
take a humanitarian pause. Tyson is recalling nearly thirty thousand pounds of dinosaur shaped
chicken nuggets. Several people have reported finding small pieces of metal in the nuggets.
The recall is on Tyson's twenty nine ounce bags of fun Nuggets. You
can return them to the store where you bought them at six oh five.
It's handle on the news. Donald Trump expected to take the stand today in
his fraud trial in New York. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A person has been hurt
in a crash between a car and a Blue Line train in South la.
The fire department say the crash last night caused the car to flip over one
person got trapped inside. That person was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
A nineteen year old woman and two other teens have been arrested in Riverside
County for allegedly stealing about two thousand dollars worth of stuff from a store in
the Lake Elsinore area. Deputy say the trio was busted Thursday when they returned
to the store for a second time the same day to take more stuff.
Deputy say an investigation turned up more than ten thousand dollars worth of stolen items
from several stores in Riverside County. The laped is mourning the death of an
off duty officer killed in a high speed crash in Northridge. Foster Cunningham is
survived vi fiance and a six year old and three year old young boy,
young boys, a mother, and two other brothers. Police Chief Morses Officer
Darryl Cunningham was driving on Lindley Avenue early Saturday, crossing Roscoe Boulevard when his
car was hit by a driver going about one hundred miles per hour. The
officer's front seat passenger was also so killed. Three people in the backseat were
hurt, including an off duty San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy. Chief mor says
the twenty year old driver who caused the crash appeared to be under the influence
of alcohol. He's in the hospital in critical condition. A section of Sunset
Sunset Beach in Huntington Beach has been closed because of an injured whale and reports
of aggressive shark activity. The shark and whale sightings were reported yesterday afternoon.
People say they saw splashing and the shark activity before the whale washed ashore.
The beaches are going to be closed for forty eight hours. Good morning to
ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom as the war rages on. Ukraine is still pushing
to get into the EU. Of course we don't hear about Ukraine a whole
lot, but let's find out what the latest is from you. Yeah.
Over the weekend we had the European Commission President Ersa the Slavander lyon. It
was her sixth trip to Kiev and again kind of turning the super tanker.
Around two years ago, Ukraine was the by definition most corrupt country in the
world. Her assessment now is pretty glowing. You know, they've dealt with
the corruption, they dealt with judicial reforms, and they're doing a really great
job. And she's kind of putting together report. There will be yet another
EU meeting next month on possible talks and when and how Ukraine will become a
member of the European Union and how big a chunk of land it'll be.
Then it might be twenty percent less than there was two years ago, okay,
and what would joining the EU do for Ukraine, certainly help in trade
negotiations, in cutting down on tariffs, the ability to move around Europe,
certainly in the Shangan area without passport controls, et cetera, et cetera.
So there's a heck of a lot of economic and trade incentives for Ukraine to
eventually get into the Club of twenty seven. Okay. And if they oh,
so you just said it wouldn't be till like twenty twenty seven. Now
the Club of twenty seven nations would be the twenty eighth nation. So yeah,
so we don't we don't know what year this would happen. And you
know, how long is a piece of string. Again, the war has
to end first, so yeah, it's not gonna happen in ten days.
Okay, So there's no definitive timeline, but they have said that the war
needs to be over before they'll consider this. Well, it certainly looks that
way, you go, And again on that one, it's an interesting sideline
on if you caught it's toward the end of last week one of these crank
calls, This one caught the Italian Prime Minister Maloney off guard, and she
she admitted, thought it was a legitimate interview, and she said, yeah,
there's there's fatigue in Europe. You know, Italy is tottering again and
having economic problems like it had in two thousand and eight, Germany's in recession,
Netherlands in recession, the UK is almost there too, So there's real
fatigue of being you know, standing in line and saying yep, we're all
united because Biden says were united, and most of Europe is saying enough's enough,
We've done what we can do. It is what it is. If
Ukraine does get into the EU, does that help them in their bid to
join NATO? Or are they just two completely separate things kind of kind of
yeah, apples and oranges. The real question would be what geographically what does
Ukraine look like? Assuming there's me peace talks, who knows fill in the
blank a year or two from now, what is Ukraine going to look like?
Will it be by definition neutral? Will it be in NATO? There
are a myriad of questions that have to be to be hammered out. Russia
wouldn't like probably Ukraine joining either club, But of the two, the more
bitter pill would eat to or Ukraine to join join NATO. So yeah,
This is talking hypothetically down the road somewhere. We're certainly not there yet and
there's gonna be many many steps to get there. But yes, in one
regard, maybe, just maybe it's inching closer to inclusion in the European Union.
Okay, And you mentioned the more precarious one is NATO, because then
that becomes an attack on one, is an attack on all? Right?
Oh yeah, very much so, very much so. So. Yeah.
You know, we poured in ungodly amounts of money into Ukraine, and Ukraine
is not a member of NATO. You know that is not that has been
maybe an easier sell in America, has not been an easy sell in Europe.
Okay, And you mentioned that we have poured tons of tons of money
into Ukraine. Do we have any kind of idea because I know that there's
a lot of people saying, hey, there's no accountability. Do we know
how much of that money has been used or is there any left or are
they just plowing through it or do we even know? Well, there was
a US individual that can't, off the top of my head remember his name,
that was over there looking into that He sadly passed away. The short
answer is and there's been anecdotal evidence too, a wash in weaponry. Some
of the smaller weapons that can be carried in by hand are showing up on
a black market and they certainly are used in places like them at least.
So again, there's another problematic, if you will, tertiary problem in that
you go down this road giving everything to Ukraine and not everything goes into the
arms of a Ukrainian soldier. It's sold on to third parties who could,
in theory use them against Israel if this thing were to escalate, use them
against the US. So yes, another haunting problem of going in full blast
and not knowing what your exit strategy is. And you there are a wash
in different parts of the world that with weaponry that you don't want to be
there. Yeah, And it's just it's so amazing that you know that this,
the whole Ukraine conflict war was so top of mind, and then if
you know, a month ago, once the Hamas Israel, things started just
shift focus shift, and I was I was even going, man, I
got to talk to Tom because we haven't heard what's going on in Ukraine for
weeks. If the University of probably doing content analysis on this actually started before,
before Israel and Gaza. But as soon as you know that this was
the counter offensive that really didn't happen. A lot of column inches in papers,
a lot of space on television and radio in America really really cut down.
It's hard to be if you were in the camp of being a cheerleader,
to cheer something that isn't happening, and that was happening before we had
the problems in the middle least. Yeah, all right, well, Tom
Rivers, thanks you'd forgiving it, giving us the latest early this morning,
and have a wonderful day and we'll talk to you soon. Big care,
All right, take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Screen Actors Guild is considering
the so called last, best and final offer from the major Hollywood studios.
The two sides met over several days to try to end the strike that started
in July. The strike was called over issues like streaming residuals and the use
of artificial intelligence. A man accused of firing off fifteen to twenty gun shots
into the floor of his apartment in downtown Los Angeles has been arrested. This
neighbor says he was a little I'm sorry. He says, the shots were
a little unsettling. Certainly, things like this happening inside my own building aren't
something that don't think anyone want that. I'm just glad nobody got hurt.
The man's neighbor says the guy served in the military and works in the gun
business. The man initially refused to surrender to police yesterday. That prompt did
an evacuation of the fifty unit building. Police say the guy climbed out a
window and gave up about an hour later. Police did a search of the
apartment and found several guns, including assault rifles, ammunition, tactical gear,
and camouflage outfits. Orange County supervisors have approved a contract to provide maintenance and
upgrades to the county's crime lab equipment. The Orange County Crime Lab will get
a tune up for its equipment, including genetic analyzers, magnetic particle processors,
rapid DNA, and real time polimerase chain reaction instruments. OC Supervisor board chair
Don Wagner says the more than two hundred thousand dollars contract approved last week will
ensure the vital process of collecting evidence involves the most up to date technology to
catch, investigate, and convict criminals and keep communities safe. In Orange County,
Corbin Carson k if I News, about eleven hundred people have been able
to leave the gaza stripped through the RAFA crossing since last Wednesday under an agreement
between the US, Egypt, Israel, and Cutter, which mediates with Hamas.
The RAFA crossing is a parent only been closed again. ABC's Jordana Miller
is in Israel. She's going to bring us the latest in about a minute,
sag after says it will mole over what the Hollywood studios have called their
best, last and final offer to end the one hundred and fourteen day long
actor strike. The proposal reportedly includes more residuals for popular streaming shows, protections
against AI, and the highest increase in overall residuals in forty years. Former
President Trump's scheduled to take the stand in the Trump Organization's civil fraud trial in
New York today. The family business is accused of inflating its wealth to get
better loans. Ivanka Trump will testify Wednesday at six oh five. It's handle
on the news. Some deposits were delayed at banks all over the US over
the weekend. We'll tell you why. But right now, as I mentioned,
let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, there
were people getting out through the Rafa crossing from the Gaza Strip into Egypt,
but that has changed. Apparently it was closed over the weekend. The good
news is that we have just learned the rough of border crossing has just opened
a short while ago for people foreign nationals, Americans, injured gossens to get
through the crossing and out of the Gaza Strip where the fighting is just intensifying
each day. This is really good news because people have been essentially trapped there
for weeks and unable to get out because of these very sensitive negotiations that have
to go on between comeas Egypt, Israel, the United States, the un
You know, there's security checks for each person on the list, and then
there's the logistics of getting through the crossing while also AID trucks are coming in.
About seventy five AID trucks got in yesterday. We're hoping at least the
same number come in today. As you know, clean water and food and
medical supplies are dwindling in the strip, still no fuel getting in. Israel
is adamant that it will not allow fuel in because it fears Hamas will steel
those stockpiles or aid of a fuel and use it to keep its tunnel network
going. I remember it has very sophisticated tunnels with ventilation and lighting and heating
and all the rest. So that is one of the sticking points between Israel
and the international community. But this is good news. God willing some more
Americans will get out today. And do we know why it was closed over
the weekend, Well, it was close in part, I believe in response
to the Israeli strike on an ambulance Friday that killed fifteen people near the Alshava
Hospital. Israel claims that this ambulance was part of a convoy heading to the
Rafa border crossing. They say they had intelligence that Hamas militant fighters terrorists were
hiding inside the ambulance. It has been the case in previous wars that Hamas
has used ambulances to transfer its fighters throughout the Gaza Strip and move arms and
even try to get some of its leaders to you know, across the border
to flee and escape. So it wasn't an accident. It appears that it
was targeted. Now if it if it was a mistrike, not an accident,
right, so yeah, if it had been, Israel admits it makes
mistakes. Correct or do they admit and it makes mistakes? No, it
does. It does. I mean in every conflict, Israel ends up admitting
where it makes mistakes because war is an imperfect science, right, and there's
there's going to be mistakes. For example, last night, a rocket from
Lebanon killed an Israeli civilian. Israel responded and hit a civilian car that it
believed was carrying militants. It was not. It was carrying a grandmother and
her three kids. That appears to have been a mistake. That the Israeli
Army hasn't put out a statement yet that they are telling and they're preparing the
press for that announcement. So Israel does make mistakes. It is doing all
that it feels it possibly can under war to try to protect civilians. Today
it has secured evacuation routes from the north to the south. Some of those
routes in the past have been attacked by Hamas they've attacked Israelis trying to keep
them safe. They've attacked Gosins who are trying to flee south and we have
to remember the Gaza Strip is run by a terrorist organization. One of its
leaders just said a few days ago, Hey, we take care of our
own people, the civilians. That's up to the UN, I mean,
which gives you an idea of how Hamas operates. They don't feel responsible for
all the Gosins and you know that live in the strip, and certainly most
of them do not support come off, so they could never even you know,
express descent or ask for accountability or anything because it is it is a
it's a terrorist dictatorship in the Gaza Strip. Yeah, you know, I
was watching All the Light we cannot see over the weekend. It's a new
show on I think it's on Netflix. I can't remember, but it is.
It's set in World War two and in the show, the Allies are
dropping leaflets and telling people to get out, and it made me think of
Israel, because the Germans were blocking the exits out of the city and the
Allies are dropping leaflets saying we're going to start bombing. You got to get
out, and it just reminded me of what's happening in Israel or actually in
the Gaza strip. Now, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean,
that's what Israel's doing. It's dropping leaflets, it's putting onto in Arabic,
it's breaking into radio signals and putting messages, it's sending text messages, it's
putting things on social media. I mean, you know, Israel actually delayed
its ground offensive because of the civilian population. That was one of the major
factors. Everyone was saying, why aren't the Israelis going in yet, what's
happening? Well, there were other factors. You know, the United States
also needed to get its self in certain positions and you know, protect American
assets. Should Hazballah have jumped in, you know, and they still may
and whyden this conflict. But part of the calculation was we need to try
to get as many civilians out of Gaza City. That is going to be
the main focus of the first part of the war because that is a Hamas
stronghold. And you know, so far, the Australian Armies says they believe
about seven hundred thousand people have gone south. That still leaves three hundred thousand
people in the area of Gaza City. So you know there are people that
are that are getting caught in the fire storm. All right, well,
we will continue to watch ABC Stero Dana Miller in Jerusalem. Thank you so
much for the update this morning. Thanks so much. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
A wildfire, the burn nearly twenty five hundred acres in Awanga, east of
Temecula, has been surrounded. Evacuation orders and road closures were lifted yesterday.
The fire started near a home a week ago. The exact cause is being
investigated. The fire destroyed thirteen buildings and damaged three. Two firefighters were hurt.
Three boys have been stabbed at an apartment complex in Thousand Oaks. The
three teams were near the community pooled in the complex when the stabbings happened.
The Ventura County Sheriff's Department says the attacks happened just before nine Saturday night,
and an immediate motive isn't clear, though the department said it received multiple nine
to one one calls about a fight in the eight hundred block of Saint Charles
Drive, where the complex is located. Investigators the same moments before the deputies
arrived, five six males ran away from the area. The three boys who
were attacked are fourteen to seventeen years old and received severe stab wounds, but
are expected to fully recover. Steve Gregory k if I News jury selection is
set to begin in San Francisco in the federal trial of the man accused of
attacking Paul Pelosi. David Depap is facing attempted kidnapping charges for the attack on
then house speaker Pelosi's husband last fall. Pelosi was attacked in his home with
a hammer. Prosecutors said to Pap told police he wanted to confront Nancy Pelosi
and break her knee caps if she lied. Two people have been killed in
a minivan crash with a metro bus in downtown LA. Police say they were
chasing the minivan yesterday afternoon, just off the ten Freeway when it crashed.
Actually it was yesterday morning. Two people in the backseat of the minivan were
killed. The other two were taken to the hospital. Israeli troops are expected
to enter Gaza City in mass either today or tomorrow. Gaza health officials say
is Israeli airstrikes hit two refugee camps yesterday in the Central Gaza Strip. Israel
is rejecting a push by the US to take a humanitarian pause. The University
of Southern California football program is cutting ties with defensive coordinator Alex Grinch. He
took a lot of heat during USC's poor defensive performance, ranking one hundred eighteenth
in run defense and one hundred nineteenth in total defense. Cono, you're excited
about that, oh man. It was a very sad loss, but a
very good win for USC fans with him being gone, okay, and there
you have it, sports goober, Cono. At six oh five, it's
handle on the news. The US has sent a guided missile submarine to the
Middle East. Is that a signal of strength or a signal that things are
about to get worse? We'll be talking about it. At five point fifty.
We're going to be talking with a B expert from UC San Diego about
a really sad thing that happened recently in Southern California. Three million b's just
up and died and try to find out why. Right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, we're a year out from the
election and Americans are not at all happy with anybody in the government. Well,
that's right. And this ABC News IPSOS poll that we're talking about this
morning shows that three quarters of the country beliefs were heading in the wrong direction
seventy six percent. Just twenty three percent in our survey they we're heading in
the right direction. And when you couple the results of this survey with others
that have come out in the last forty eight hours, you get some very
worrisome signs for the president's hopes of winning a second term. The New York
Times Siena College poll has Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden in five of the
six key swinging states that are pivotal to any presidential election. The five are
Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, where the New York
Times Siena College survey has Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden by anywhere from four
to ten points if the election were held today. And it's not being held
today, but if it were, these survey results show that Donald Trump could
win the presidential election. Now, all the necessary caveats are important to air
and say. Now it is a year before the election. Surveys a year
before the election are not necessarily the predictive of the outcome. There's plenty of
time for the candidates to make their cases to the American people, and lots
of things can happen between now and then. In particular, Donald Trump could
find himself a convicted felon before the next election, and that could certainly change
the dynamic. Yeah, you would think that it would so. But now,
this isn't the first poll now showing that Trump could beat Biden. So
I know that a lot of times when a first poll comes out, they
go, oh, it's an outlier. Is this showing a pattern? Yes,
And that's why it's worrisome for the Biden campaign. It probably lines up
with their own internal polling. These surveys from ABC, CBS, the New
York Times consistently show that Americans are concerned about the economy, about inflation,
and they're looking to the incumbent president to say, well, all right,
what are you going to do about it? The CBS News poll that came
out yesterday indicates that by nearly thirty points, Americans believe that Donald Trump has
better ideas on how to improve their economic condition than Joe Biden. Today,
the president goes to Wilmington, Delaware, to tout his administration's efforts to improve
the nation's infrastructure, in particular the rail lines on his beloved Amtrak. He's
going to call it the most significant investment made in Amtrak since the railroads founding
five decades ago. But the survey indicates that Americans do not have the sense
the confidence that the White House believes they ought to have about this idea that
biden Omics is working for them. The White House would argue, well,
it takes time, and people need to understand and appreciate all the things that
have been done, and so many things are beyond the President's control, and
he's really working to reduce prices and help Americans afford the things they need in
the face of unprecedented Republican obstruction, they would say, But the surveys frankly
indicate on the whole, particularly and you see in the erosion of black and
Hispanic voters away from Joe Biden. Tore Donald Trump that on key table issues,
Americans doubt that Joe Biden has the right ideas for them. Okay,
and it's not I was just going to ask you, who, what are
the groups that are swinging away because man, they got to hate Biden a
lot to go over to Trump because Trump is very disliked at all. Well,
and our poll indicates just the deep on popularity of both these men.
Americas are not particularly interested in the rematch between Biden and Trump, but that
looks like what they're going to get. Donald Trump is a sixty percent unfavorable
rating in our survey. Joe Biden is a fifty percent unfavorable rating. The
favorable bulls. Only about a third of the country, respectively, has a
positive view of either man, and a third of voters say that they would
rather vote for somebody else. Some way of interpreting other surveys would indicate that
even more people would rather the choice be someone other than Joe Biden or Donald
Trump for their respective parties. But look, at the end of the day,
unless an alternative emerges, elections are generally binary choices, and there are
several reasons why people make their decisions, and there are lots of external factors
that a situation going on overseas. You could look at individual issues domestically,
abortion is a key motivator. Will be looking tomorrow at the state legislative races
in the state of Virginia, where abortion is very much top of mind,
and we'll see if that motivates more Democrats to come out in an off off
year election to elect a state legislature that might be less inclined to do with
the Republican governor of Virginia would like, which is imposed a fifteen week abortion
ban. So there are lots of things, plus the idea, as I
mentioned earlier, of Joe Biden running against a potentially convicted felon the idea that
Donald Trump stands accused of more than ninety criminal counts. Today he's in a
New York City courtroom to talk about how he didn't commit financial fraud in the
way that the state Attorney General in New York says that he did. And
so the concerns about democracy and what Donald Trump would do if he were and
the Washington Post over the weekend had a baffo story about how Donald Trump,
if he had his brothers and becomes president again, would possibly send the military
into American cities and voting the Insurrection Act, that he would weaponize the Justice
Department to not just go after his political opponents on the other side of the
aisle, but those who were working for him in his White House, people
like his former chief of staff John Kelly, who have since been sharply critical
of Donald Trump. So there are a lot of factors that will go into
people's decisions between now and next year. But today's survey results indicate that the
situation is worrisome for the White House and the Biden campaign. Yeah, and
I think it'll be interesting too to see if it is those two, what
voter turnout is going to be like, because you know, at the last
election, people were maybe voting some were voting for but some were voting against
the other guy. But this time, if everybody's like I don't want this
person, are they going to turn out at all? Well, look,
I think you know, the idea of a disaffect did electorate is certainly something
that will come into play. Both sides will do their best to really ramp
up their bases. I think Joe Biden seeing some of his base eroad is
particularly worrisome for him when it comes to turn out relative to twenty twenty one.
Thing you have to keep in mind is that the twenty twenty election happened
in the middle of the COVID pandemic, a number of people voted by mail
in areas where they might not otherwise vote by mail, So we'll see if
that has an impact. Apples to Apple's comparisons are tough to draw in a
circumstance like that, but I think you're right to say that in twenty twenty,
a number of people did come out to vote against the then incumbent Donald
Trump because they were perhaps exhausted by all of the trump Ism that was in
our politics that he was leading. And we'll see if that plays a factor.
I don't think Americans have forgotten that, but I think that the present
economic concerns and the idea that Joe Biden simply doesn't have. This again,
it's just a concept, not criticism, but the concept that Americans are voicing
is that Joe Biden doesn't have the right ideas for how to turn things around
economically at a time of high interest rates and high inflation. Even as it's
cooling, prices are still higher than they were. We're not in a deflationary
cycle where prices are coming down. When you hear about inflation easing, it's
the prices are continuing to increase, just at a slower and more normal rate.
Yeah, and Stephen Cranberry sauce for this Thanksgiving is up sixty percent this
year. Well, there you have it right, Thank you so much,
ABC's Stephen Portnoy. You can follow Stephen at Stephen Portnoy. Have a great
day. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Hate crimes are on the rise at colleges across the
US. Stanford University says the hit and run of an Arab Muslim student is
being investigated as a hate crime. The private university near northern California's Silicon Valley
released a statement saying the student, who was not seriously injured, was struck
on campus Friday afternoon by a black Toyota four Runner and that the driver shouted
a slur as he drove off. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's office says the
state officials have to determined it was a hate crime. Stanford University has reported
at least five possible hate crimes since the start of the Israel Hamas War.
Courtneyattlman KFI News an African gray parrot worth about seventy five hundred dollars has been
stolen from a pet shop in Lake Forest. Video shows a man holding the
bird yesterday at Omar's Exotic Birds. He walks around the store and eventually walks
out when employees are distracted. The stores manager says the parrot is only four
months old and is still hand feeding formula three times a day. The bird
is gray with a red tail and a black beak. Hey love this one.
It's to pay it forward. Buffalo Bills player DeMar Hamlin is setting up
a scholarship program to honor the hospital workers who saved his life. Of course,
Hamlin suffered that cardiac arrest on the field in January during a game with
Cincinnati. He ended up in this icee you for a week. Over the
weekend, he announced he was setting up ten one thousand dollars scholarships, each
one in the name of the ten people on the hospital team that kept him
alive. Hamlin said his Cincinnati Heroes scholarship will help underserved high school and college
bound students go to private high schools, trade schools, or universities in the
area way to go to mar Hamlin. About eleven hundred people have left the
Gaza Strip through the Rafa crossing since Wednesday, under an agreement between the US,
Egypt, Israel, and Cutter, which mediates with Hamas. The Rafa
crossing was closed over the weekend. But we just talked to ABC's Jordana Miller
a few minutes ago, and she says that the crossing has reopened, so
more foreign nationals and American citizens and injured people should be crossing into Egypt again
today. The Health Ministry in Gaza sas more than ten thousand Palestinians have now
been killed in the war with Israel. Israel says more than five hundred arrant
rockets launched by Palestinian militants have landed inside Gaza. A two mile long stretch
of beach in Huntington Beach has been closed because of a shark spotted in the
waters. People at Sunset Beach let lifeguards know about it yesterday afternoon after they
saw a beached whale with bite marks. The shark was then seen splashing near
the whale, which was still alive. The closure will be in effect for
forty eight hours. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning.
Donald Trump is expected to take the stand today in his fraud trial in
New York and this morning we have a little change of plans. We were
planning on talking to a professor at U SEE San Diego who is an expert
in the field of bee by biology and evolution. We're having trouble connecting with
him. But what we wanted to talk to him about, which I still
want to tell you about, was in southern California last month. Actually it
was about a month and a half ago. Now. There is a San
Diego bee sanctuary and the people who operate it went out to go check on
their hives and they thought, you know, it'll be like normal, They'll
see all the bees flying around making honey like they do. But instead they
found piles and piles of dead bees, and over the next few days,
eighty percent of their sixty four hives were decimated by some sort of mysterious plague.
Three million bees in southern California. Really sad, but still a mystery
as to what caused the mass die off at the San Diego bee sanctuary.
And the gentleman that we were going to be talking to says that we have
seen reports of die outs from different bee keepers around southern California, but to
lose eighty percent of a population is just not normal, and so they're trying
to figure out why. And do you remember the Bee movie. Everybody thought
it was really cute and they killed off the bees and then nothing worked anymore.
Well, that's what is going to happen. So whenever I see bees,
I always think save the bees, and I wish there was something I
can do. I don't think it's probably very practical to have a hive in
my apartment, but if you have the land. I actually know people who
do have their. They have little bee farms, and I think it's a
lovely thing to do, and we need them, and I always try not
to sweat them when they come and scare me. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La City
firefighters have put out a fire at a town home in Sun Valley that had
threatened other homes and an apartment building next door. The fire started in a
garage early this morning, burned into the unit above it. The fire ended
up burning into two units. The apartment building next door has damage from the
radiant heat. A woman from Anaheim has been sentenced to nearly fifteen years in
prison for torturing her ten year old stepdaughter and abusing three other kids in the
home. Court records show the girl had a broken neck, a bone sticking
out of an unhealed sore, and bruises from head to toe. The Orange
County District Attorney's offices. The girl weighed only fifty pounds and was found unresponsive
last year when she was taken to Children's Hospital of Orange County. A teenager
who escaped from Los Padrino's Juvenile Hall in Downey has been caught. Officials say
he was only out for about ten minutes on Saturday. They say the teenager
got away when a group of inmates assaulted a staff member. Visiting hours yesterday
were canceled and the facility was put on lockdown until further notice. Former President
Trump is set to testify in New York in the civil fraud trial targeting the
Trump organization. ABC News legal contributor Ken Nowadays says there is a risk for
Trump on the stand today. The more that the former president says and goes
into, the more record he creates that can be used against him, frankly
in this case and potentially in the other cases that are pending against him and
remember those other cases are criminal cases. Donald Trump Junior and Eric Trump took
the stand last week. The judge has already ruled the Trump committed fraud.
The trial is to determine penalties. Police in Massachusetts are trying to find a
man suspected of fatally stabbing his girlfriend. ABC's Andrea Fujii says the woman's body
was found Boston Logan International Airport on Wednesday, two days after she was reported
missing. It was found in a car in the airport parking garage. Police
have identified forty year old Kevin Kungoffe as the suspect. They say he was
seen a surveillance video and boarded a plane to Kenya shortly after the killing.
She says police are working with authorities in Kenya to find the man. Florida
Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to pick up a big endorsement in Iowa. ABC's
Mary Alice Parks says Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds will announce her support for DeSantis at
a rally this afternoon. There's a big chunk of voters that are looking for
an alternative, and of course Iowa was when voting starts, and so if
she is really signaling to other Republicans in her state here with her endorsement,
I think it could make a big difference. It's a big win for DeSantis.
Former President Trump called Governor Reynolds disloyal and claimed the endorsement will be the
end of her political career. Five Nights at Freddie's has taken the number one
spot at the box office for a second week, taking in almost nineteen and
a half million dollars in its second week. Taylor Swift The Era's Tour holds
at number two, and the Martin Scorsese movie Killers of the Flower Moon stays
in third. Industry people say this was one of the slowest weekends at movie
theaters all year. Okay, so a second ago, I was telling you
about bees. Bees are good, mosquitoes flies not so much. But have
you noticed that there's lots of mosquitoes and flies around this year? Like we're
into November and there were still flies flying around, which I usually only have
buzzing around my apartment in the summertime, and even mosquitos. I got bit
last week. So why is that? I'm a person who needs to know
the answers, So this is apparently why. It's because we usually have lower
mosquito fly populations because we have mild temperatures and low humidity. Southern states have
mild winters, but they have high humidity during the summer months, and that's
kind of ideal for the mosquitoes and the flies. And this year, because
of all the weird brother we had and the rain flies, cockroaches, mosquitoes,
which thrive in warm, humid environments, got to thrive around southern California.
I hope we get a cold snap really quick, because I am ready
for them to be gone. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call, and if
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