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for Wednesday, January third. I'm Amy King. Got some light rain falling.
Wasn't too bad when I was coming in, but kno, it's coming
down harder now. As I watch dogs, Amy Kats and dogs, he
just gave me the stink eye, so I guess it started raining a little
harder. The rains expected to last through this morning, so take your time,
take a little chill pill, maybe leave a little bit early because,
as we know, every time it rains, the roads get slick, So
we want you to be careful and get to where you're going safely. Today.
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Harvard University president Claudine Gay has
announced she is resigning just six months into her tenure. The resignation follows dozens
of allegations of plagiarism and criticism over whether she believed calling for the genocide of
Jews violates Harvard's Code of Conduct. Dozens of California Jewish houses of worship have
received threats that bombs had been hidden at buildings, temples, and synagogues.
Ninety one messages were sent to houses of worship around the state yesterday. A
new law in California has gone into a fact requiring organic waste to be recycled.
Remember when this passed not too long ago. Well, that means that
kitchen food scraps and your kids unwanted sandwiches need to go into the green bin
with yard trimmings, not into the trash. It'll be up to the cities
to choose whether or not to find residents for non compliance. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Investigators say they're trying to track down those responsible for a fatal mass shooting near
downtown LA. Officers with the LAPD say they were on an unrelated shooting call
when all of a sudden, they heard gunfire down the street near Porter and
Olympic. The audios from surveillance video, which also shows the chaos during the
shooting on New Year's Eve, cars got bullet holes in it there's blood spatter
on my car, allegedly from the girl that died. That's Mike, an
Uber driver who was waiting outside the party. Police say ten people were shot,
two of whom a young man and woman, died on scene. Cops
say the party was an illegal gathering. Steve Gregory King of I News,
Detectives in Orange County say a new trend involves crook's following business owners home,
then burglarizing the house once the homeowners leave. Sant Ana police officer Natalie Garcia
says a crew grabbed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars worth of stuff from a
home just a few days before Christmas. This couple had ring camera and alarm
system, but these suspects of figuring loopholes into getting into their homes. Garcia
says the burglars cut the power, he activated surveillance, and destroyed the footage
by dunking the cameras in water. She says detectives tracked down a license plate
number from one of the burglars cars, but the thieves wore masks. At
least twenty people have reportedly been killed and forty others are injured in explosions at
a ceremony honoring an Iranian general who was killed. Iran's state run media says
two explosions were heard near the burial site on what is the fourth anniversary of
the general's death. A live broadcast showed thousands of mourners participating in the death
anniversary. Israel is on high alert for an ES escalation with Hesbelah following a
massive explosion near Beirut that killed a top Hamas official. ABC's Marcus Moore says
Selah al Arari was the second in command of Hamas and senior leader in the
West Bank. Lebanon's state run news agency says Israel carried out the attack,
which if confirmed, would mark a major escalation and would be Israel's first at
tack on Beiroot since two thousand and six. Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu had threatened
to kill Aurori as well before Hamas attacked Israel. In October, Starbucks is
letting customers byoc bring your own cups to reduce waste. Customers can tell the
barista they've brought their own clean cup or mug, and it'll be collected at
the pickup window using a contactless vessel so it stays hygenic. Starbucks says the
cups must be cleaned beforehand, and cups larger than forty ounces won't be accepted
forty ounces of coffee man. The chain's hot cups are made with plastic and
paper, which makes them difficult to recycle. Let's say good morning now to
ABC News's law enforcement reporter Luke bar Happy New Year, Luke, Happy New
Year. So we've seen pictures of thousands of people coming across the border and
we just let them in. So how bad is the problem gotten? There
were three hundred and two thousand encounters along the southwest border in December, marking
that the highest monthly total ever recorded. Sources have told us that the numbers
are preliminary and could change, but the numbers, of course come as US
Customs of Border Protection is reopening operations at four points of entry and border towns
on Wednesday, the Biden administration told US Officials from the Bide administration told us
last night there was a decrease in migrants over the past couple of days at
ports of entry, But then, of course comes as in December, daily
border apprehensions top twelve thousand a day, which prompts CBP to close for ports
of entry from Texas to Arizona. It sounds like the Biden administration is grasping
for any kind of good news, Like you said, they said, oh,
the last couple of days, border crossings are down. But three hundred
two thousand in a single month, I mean that's the size of a good
sized city. Yeah, there are a lot, There was a lot of
just day after day. Twelve thousand was the high one day in December,
the eighteenth of December. But I mean other days after that, ten thousand
migrants a day along the southwest border. Those are you know, record numbers,
you know. But the Bide administration says that there are reasons for this
sort of surge. They say that normally during the holidays, these sources I've
spoken with say normally during the holidays to quiet time. This year it was
busy because there were all kinds of misinformation given out by the cartels and by
the smuggling organizations. I've talked to law enforcement sources who've told me that misinformation
about the CBP one app, which is the app that is used to you
know, put migrants in an order, give them a time slot to appear
at the border, to claim asylum. They smuggler said that was going to
be shut down at the end of the year. That's not true. You
know. Other misinformation, you know includes the border negotiations which shut down the
border after they come to a deal. Obviously that's not true. And then
you know just the general preying upon vulnerable migrants, sources of said is working
charging thousands of dollars to get into the border. Okay, and so you
mentioned the smugglers and the charging thousands of dollars to come to the border,
and they're not only coming in from Mexico and South America. Now we're getting
moored that there are so called travel agencies cropping up in places as far away
as Senegal. Yeah, so those travel agencies are fake travel agencies. They
are advertised at the US in Senegal, like you mentioned, that's just one
of them. According to an official that we spoke to, these quote unquote
travel agencies advertising Visa fe Visa free travel to Europe for the singing the leaves,
which would then open up travelsphere if the offers were legitimate. Obviously they're
they're not. According to the CVP official that I spoke with. Uh,
these quote unquote travel agencies sell the complete package which connect them to a smuggling
organization. Then they facilitate the sort of northern migration to the border, and
then they just drop them there at the border and and and they're there,
but there there there are one hundreds of thousands of dollars operation. That's that's
all about making money for these smuggling organizations. Yeah, it's big business.
And I know we got to let you go one real quick question. Uh,
Texas is trying to slow the flow, but the federal government is suing
Texas to stop them from stopping people from coming in. Yeah, so they
the Justspartment said that they're going to UH sue if Texas doesn't basically enforce a
bill UH that SB which allows for migrants to you know, for law enforcement,
state and lookal law enforcement to apprehend a migrant if they are suspected of
being illegally in the country. Theo jasas Texas can enforce it, and if
they do enforce it by today, they will assue to stop them from enforcing
that law. Okay, ABC's Luke bar thank you so much. You can
follow Luke at Luke L Bar. That's B A R R. Thanks for
your time this morning, we'll be we'll be watching the border. Luke,
thanks so much. Have a good day, all right you too. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Experts gathered by the OC Healthcare Agency say the level of asbestos from
a fire that destroyed a blimp Hager in testing was not so bad. There's
no place on this earth that you can't find asbestos, and that you won't
find it in the air. Druxel University professor Arthur Frank says his decades of
research has only found disease from asbestos and people with continuous and heavy exposure.
I'm not going to say the risk over a lifetime is zero, but I'm
going to say the risk is so low that it would be scientifically unmeasurable,
and it's not something that folks ought to be concerned about. Other experts on
the panel Thursday agreed crews are still cleaning up debrief from the fire that started
in November in Orange County. Corbin Carson k if I news Please. They're
looking for a mob of about one hundred people that caused thousands of dollars in
damage and losses to a bakery in Compton, LA County. Sheriff's Captain Melissa
Ramirez says the thieves used a car to ram through the entrance of the bakery
and still just about anything they could get their hands on. We have meat
scales, meat itself like items from the from the business, as far as
groceries and lotto scratchers. They also burn trash, mattresses and Christmas trees in
the street early yesterday morning. No arrests have been made. The federal government's
gross national debt has passed thirty four trillion dollars. The Treasury Department reported the
record high yesterday. The Congressional Budget Office had previously predicted in twenty twenty the
gross federal debt would surpass that thirty four trillion dollar mark in twenty twenty nine.
Republican lawmakers agreed with the White House last year to temporarily lift the debt
limit. That agreement lasts until twenty twenty five. A second and superseding indictment
against Senator Bob Menendez claims he helped a businessman in New Jersey get a multimillion
dollar investment from a company in Cutter For the last three years. According to
the new indictment, Menendez has been taking things of value from the kataries in
exchange for his support of certain Senate resolutions. Aaron Katterski says the deal,
closed last year, was worth tens of millions of dollars. The indictment yesterday
says Melendez allegedly made a number of supportive statements of Katar from twenty twenty one
to twenty twenty two. A man has been found dead in the engine of
a plane at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Alex Stone says the guy,
who who had a ticket to Denver, ran through an emergency exit at
the airport on Monday night. There was a man hunt forum His clothing and
shoes were found on the tarmac. He was then found inside of an airplane's
engine on the de icing pad. The engines were rotating, but police say
it's not clear that they had been on. Stone says the guy was pulled
out and given narcan, but he died at the scene. Toxicology reports have
been requested to help determine his cause of death. The world's first fully AI
powered restaurant has opened in Pasadena. Guests who eat at Cali Express by Flippy
can watch robots prepare burgers and fries from start to finish. The simple menu
is similar to in and outs, where you can order burgers, cheeseburgers,
and fries. The CEO says the location will also double as a pseudo museum
presented by Miso Robotics. Reservations can be made online. Up to three quarters
of an inch of light rain and three to six inches of snow expected across
southern California this morning. A winter weather advisories up for the mountains of La
Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties through ten this morning. Snow could fall as low
as four thousand feet that could effect travel through the Grapevine and to hone Pass.
Forty to fifty mile per hour winds are also so expected through this afternoon.
A federal appeals court has ruled at Texas can ban abortions even in medical
emergencies. Republican Texas Attorney General to Ken Paxton had sued to overturn a ruling
from twenty twenty two that said abortions should be allowed in medical emergencies. The
Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with him. Mayor Bass and city councilwoman
Unices. Hernandez will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony today for a ninety five unit
facility in Cypress Park that'll provide interim housing for the homeless. The project,
called Northeast New Beginnings, broke ground in May of twenty twenty two. It's
expected to open residents next week, well five years ahead of schedule. The
US national debt has hit a record thirty four trillion dollars. We'll be telling
me about that right now. Let's say good moe, wording to the host
of Rich on Tech right here on KFI KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro, Happy
new year, Rich, Hey, good morning to Amy. Happy new year
to you, new year, new way to invest maybe bitcoin? Tell us
what's going on with that? Well, it's been kind of an up and
down this morning. It is down in kind of a big way. So
bitcoin hit forty six thousand, which was like the highest since April twenty twenty
two. Why because all these bitcoiners expect the SEC to approve a bitcoin ETF.
And what would that mean. It means a lot of regular people could
put money into a bitcoin ETF, you know, in their four to one
k's and just the regular investments but now this morning it's back down because one
of these companies that follows this stuff says they expect the SEC to reject all
the ETF applications. But who knows. Amy. It's up, it's down,
it's around. It is certainly fun to watch. Do you have any
bitcoin? I do have bitcoin from many, many years ago, and you
remember your password? Well, okay, it's funny you say that, because
when I first signed up, I did forget my password. So I do
have an account somewhere that I have no idea how to access. But I
do have one account which I can access. So you could have like hundreds
of thousands of dollars sitting there that you just have no access to. Ever
again, no, because I didn't buy like more than like probably ten dollars.
Oh okay, I don't think it could be more than that. But
no, the account I do have access to is in one of these apps
that you know. It was during the time when everyone was buying, and
you know, of course people got on board, and it's just kind of
a fun thing. More of the technology of it and more of what is
this thing all about? To understand it better, and you know it sometimes
it goes kind of up. Sometimes it goes down. We are definitely in
a time when it is up more than has been in a long time.
I did the same thing with Doji cooin. Remember when Elon Musk came out.
How did that work out? I think it's back up to nine cents
a share. Okay, I didn't buy very much. I also okay like
you, But so one year of doge is up eighteen percent in the past
year. One year of bitcoin is up one hundred and fifty two percent.
So you know, that's eighteen percent is still pretty good. Yeah, sounds
like you made the better choice. Is it a good investment? Do you
think bitcoin? Ooh? That? You know what? I can't give investment
advice. I you know what, For me, it's just fun. It's
just interesting. You know, you kind of have an understanding of how it
works and how to buy it and how to protect it and all that stuff.
I think, you know, if it's play money, sure, but
there are people out there that have put a lot of money into this.
So I do think the technology behind it is very very interesting. But I
think there's another side of it, and that is the governments, of course,
don't really want this because it's not necessarily, you know, aligned with
what they want, which is control. Yeah. Okay, so we got
another new phone coming out Sam Yes, Samsung S twenty four. Now,
obviously this is all rumor and speculation, except for this part. We do
know when the next Samsung event will happen. It is scheduled for January seventeenth
of this year, so that's in a couple of weeks here, right after
CES next week. It'll be held at the SAP Center in San Jose.
That's where they're going to unveil it. I of course will be there.
There is a big focus amy as you might expect. Take one, guess
what do you think the buzzword is for this new phone? Besides camera?
I was gonna say camera, The new buzzword is CHATJPT ai exactly. Bingo,
you got it. Ai. They call it Galaxy AI is coming,
so we will see When the Pixel launched, that's Google's phone. Lust was
it October of last year? It was all about AI and this phone is
going to be all about AI. And so there you have it, S
twenty four. It's coming out a little bit earlier than previous years. Damsung
every single year kind of moves back their launch state, and I think it's
because they want to separate from the iPhone and the other phones. Now they've
got the foldables that come out in the later portion of the year. So
in the S twenty three Ultra, by the way, still doing well.
It's still a good phone a year in, so they keep getting better.
How are the foldabules doing. I was interested in those, but then I
just kind of forgot about them. Small part of the overall market, maybe
about two percent worldwide, even less a little bit. I think the latest
number was just under two percent, But they are the growing area. So
there's two parts that are growing right now. Premium smartphones, which include the
foldables and also foldables themselves. But the budget, regular everyday phones, you
know, the standard iPhone, the standard Google whatever, those are just kind
of flat and these manufacturers know that, and that's why they are pushing the
super premium models because that's where the money is and that's where the growth is.
Okay, well, yeah, you mentioned the flat sales. Apples Aquan
down like three percent yesterday because they're not doing great right now. Well,
I think overall Apple is still doing really well. I think that when it
comes to the eyes of investors. They want to see that new, big,
best thing. And of course the iPhone just continues to evolve. It's
a great device. But are people sitting there saying, oh, my gosh,
this is the most amazing thing I ever purchased this year? No,
they say, Oh, it's time to upgrade. Let me go get a
new iPhone. What do you guys have. It's not Oh, Apple has
a new foldable let me go buy that. Ye that's And of course you
have the new vision headset coming out, and that's too expensive for most people.
So that's going to be fun, but it's not going to be the
mover and shaker for the stock price. The Vision headset that's like a VR,
Yes, VR headset I expected in the next couple of months, they
said early twenty twenty four. The rumors are saying February, which is next
month. But you're talking thirty five hundred dollars minimum amy that doesn't include any
accessories, that doesn't include tax, the Apple Care, all that good stuff.
So that is for very, very a certain individual who has a lot
of money to burn, fun to play with, not a necessity. No,
But if you know, I have high hopes for I do think they
will bring VR into a new realm, hopefully, because they are doing things
kind of cool and they've got the developer base which is amazing. Okay,
so it is a new year, and I know I, for one,
keep getting the little flashes saying, hey, your computer is about full.
You only have about twelve gigs left or something like that. So for the
new year, and maybe in an effort to declutter, how do you clean
up your computer? Yes, I've got to se on my website. Rich
on tech dot TV, this is my story today on KTLA. I love
starting the new year with a fresh computer. I did this myself over the
break. Now I go pretty wild. I actually clean out, like I
format the entire thing, like I erase everything and start fresh. You don't
have to necessarily do that because it is a lot of work. But here's
the four things I think you should do. Number one, get rid of
old programs that you no longer need or use. Same goes for your web
browser. You downloaded all those little extensions over the past year. You know,
the ones that check prices, the ones that help you search all this
different stuff. Get rid of the ones you don't need. Do your software
updates, those are very important to protect your computer security wise, but also
it could smooth things out, make it run a little bit faster. Clear
out your browser so your browser remembers a whole bunch of stuff. You should
clear that out so that it can run faster. And then of course empty
the trash on your computer and give it a restart, and that should really
go a long way for making your computer feel newer. Ooh, I think
that I need to do that today. I think that that's a great idea
to start the new year. So why not. I mean everyone's doing dry
January, why not do clean up my computer January as well? Getting drunk
anyway, so you might as well be productive and clean out your computer.
Yeah, and you're not going to spill beer on it. Look on the
bright side. LA tech reporter Rich Damia thank you so much. Rich,
of course, is the host of Rich on Tech right here on kfive Saturdays
from eleven to to two. He's got so much great tech information for you.
You can also follow Rich on Instagram at rich on tech is website,
richontech dot tv. Thank you, Rich. We'll talk to you next week.
All right, thanks Amy. All right, let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The State
Department of Water Resources says the water outlook for the rest of this year remains
uncertain. After it took the first snow survey of the year, we recorded
a snow depth of seven and a half inches and a snowwater content of three
inches that results in thirty percent of average to date. Snow Survey manager Sean
DeGuzman says the start of this water year has been dry, despite the recent
December storms that gave a small boost to the snowpack. Last year, at
this time, the snowpack was at one hundred and eighty five percent of normal.
Harvard President Claudine Gay has become the second Ivy League president to resign in
the past month. Her resignation yesterday comes amid plagiarism accusations and backlash over her
testimony about anti Semitism on Harvard's campus. She only took over in the job
in July. The Harvard Crimson says that it will be the shortest tenure of
any university president since the sixteen hundred. ABC's Mary Alice Parks sins Gay was
the first black woman to serve as the president of Harvard. The Harvard Corporation
says the resignation came with great sadness. California is now handing out stiffer punishments
to retailers who sell flavored tobacco products. Stores now face up to six hundred
dollars fines on their first strike in increasing finds if they continue breaking the rules.
The American Lung Associations Keisa Bruce says stiffer laws are essential to keeping miners
from becoming addicted to tobacco. Targeting flavored tobacco is important because they are especially
popular among youth. The same bill that stiff in the laws beginning this year
also directed the California Department of Public Health to become the lead enforcement agency.
Blake Trolley Kafine News, an Iranian official says at least seventy three people have
been killed one hundred and seventy wounded in an attack that targeted his ceremony for
a slain general. Two explosions rocked the ceremony that marked the fourth anniversary of
the general's death. A new law in California has gone into effect requiring organic
waste to be recycled. That means kitchen food scraps and your kid's unwanted sandwiches
need to go into the green bin with yard trimmings, not into the regular
trash. It'll be up to cities to choose whether or not to find residents
for non compliance, and you may not need to make the switch to electric
appliances. After all, Berkeley became the first city in the country to ban
natural gas powered stoves. That was in twenty nineteen. Of course, they're
trying to fight climate change. Will an appeals court struck that down last April,
and then yesterday refused to rehear the case. So the ruling's going to
become final unless the Supreme Court agrees to review it. This could mean the
overturning of laws in other cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles. At six
oh five, it's handle on the news. The US national debt has hit
a record thirty four trillion dollars, five years ahead of predictions. Hey,
in just a few minutes, we're gonna check in with Ellen k because yesterday
on Coast she got to talk to Jeremy Renner. Remember, Jeremy Runner was
in that incredibly serious snowplow accident that happened a year ago, so she got
to talk to Jeremy and see how he's doing. We'll share that information with
you in just a few minutes. Amy's on it, Aami's on it,
Amy's on it, Gami's on it. What am I on? I'm on
streaming shows, movies, TV series, documentaries, and of course I love
a good Hunger Games movie. And now The Hunger Games Ballad of Snakes and
Songbirds is streaming. The movie was released in theaters in November, but became
available to stream right before Christmas on Prime Video. Yeah, I bought it
twenty four to ninety nine, but now it's mine. So the movie is
the backstory of Corlinis Snow, who is the president of Pan m and basically
the ultimate villain in the Hunger Games movies with Catnus Everdeen. Well, those
movies happen for the seventy fourth and seventy fifth Hunger Games. This story,
it's a prequel. It starts sixty four years earlier. It shows us the
tenth Hunger Games. And in this movie, the games are still pretty new.
They're ten years old, and they kind of haven't worked the kinks out
yet. They know that they're going to reap kids from twelve districts at districts
and they all go into an arena and they fight to the death, and
it's it's a way to punish the districts for their rebellion and their uprising.
So the kids here now are mistreated, they're starved, they're kind of treated
like animals, as opposed to in the Hunger Games movies if you've seen those,
they really kind of treat them like rock stars before they send them into
the arena to kill each other. So cinematically it feels like the Hunger Games
movie, so it's very familiar. Musically, the score has a familiar theme,
so you feel right at home. Like there's songs from the Hunger Games
movies that they make reference to. The theme is similar, and so again
you kind of feel right at home in that the movie is dark, it's
gruesome, but what I do appreciate is that it's not gratuitously gory. So
even though the whole goal of the Hunger Games is to kill all your opponents
in the arena, it's not just blood and gore like a slasher movie would
be. So the movie stars Peter Dinklic as Dean High bottom and also Viola
Davis. She is the evil doctor gall She is maniacal, she is scheming,
she is bad, and I love, love love her character. I
mean, Viola Davis is a great actress, but she takes it to a
whole new level of crazy in this one. I mean you can just feel
the evil like emanating from her pores. She's much more outwardly evil and devious,
I think in the movie than in the book. But I think it
works. And just like with most books and movies, I think that the
book because I went and read the book before I bought the movie, I
think the book is a lot better than the movie. And I think that's
the case almost all the time. But if you like the Hunger Games,
I think you're gonna like this. Although I do agree with Jason Nathanson.
We talked to Jason about this when it was released in movies, the movie
goes too long and it feels like the final third part of the movie could
have been a whole different movie. So will there be another movie? No
official word yet, but there certainly could be several more, because you know
they're at Hunger Games ten and the one with Catnus Evererdeen is seventy four and
seventy five, so there's a lot of story to tell between the tenth and
the seventy fourth Hunger Games. Guess that's going to be up to the author,
Suzanne Collins. But overall, I think it's worth the watch. If
you didn't see it in theaters, again, it's now available on streaming and
if you like the Hunger Games, I think you're gonna like this one.
And if you haven't seen the Hunger Games, it can still stand alone,
but it definitely, in my opinion, helps because it makes references to things
from the Hunger Games, so it starts to kind of put the picture and
the pieces all fall together. So super super interesting. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. More
than one hundred synagogues in California have been forced to close after getting email threats.
The emails claimed explosives were on the property yesterday. Anti Defamation League LA's
Jeffrey A. Abrahms taels NBC four there are consequences to people sending threats.
Law enforcements diverted to these hoaxes. They're not doing their job. To help
protect the entire community. This has a consequence, so everyone needs to speak
out and again to do so in unity. The Anti Defamation League says since
October seventh, there's been a three hundred and thirty seven percent increase in anti
Semitism compared to twenty twenty two. Police say they don't believe the threats are
credible and no explosives have been found. Officials in the city of Industry have
arrested two brothers they say violently stole a purse from a woman at a costco.
The Only County Sheriff's Department says the men were arrested last week for the
attack that happened back in November. The woman was putting things into her car
when an SUV pulled up. One attacker got out of the car and tried
to grab her purse. She was punched several times and refused to let go
of the purse. The other guy in the car drove off, dragging her
about fifty feet in the process. Officials say she suffered life threatening injuries.
Disgraced former lawyer Tom Girardi has been found competent to stand trial by a federal
judge in La Girardi is accused of stealing more than fifteen million dollars from his
clients in a decade's long fraud scheme. In more recent years, he had
a resurgence in popularity for his marriage to real housewife of Orange County Erica Jane.
His lawyers wanted the eighty four year olds dementia diagnosis to prevent them from
going on trial. Alex Stone says details of the judges ruling yesterday are under
seal. Lawyers for both sides will get the chance to identify information in it
that they want to keep confidential, like health records and other sensitive materials.
Several new shows are debuting on Broadway this year, including the revivals of the
rock musical Tommy and the Whiz, a new musical The Heart of Rock and
Roll featuring the hits of Huey Lewis, and the news debuts That Could Be
Fun, along with Hell's Kitchen, which is a coming of age story that
features songs by Alicia Keys. There's also a new musical version of the popular
novel The Notebook, Yeah, Be Ready to Cry. And then there's also
Suffs, which is a new musical about the nineteen thirteen women's Suffrage movement.
It's produced by Malala USAFC and Hillary Clinton of all people. Up to three
quarters of an inch of light rain and three to six inches of snow are
expected across southern California this morning. A winter weather advisory is up for the
mountains of La Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties through ten am. Snow could fall
as low as four thousand feet that could affect your travel through the Grapevine and
to hone Pass. Forty to fifty mile per hour winds are also expected through
this afternoon. A federal appeals court has ruled Texas can ban abortions even in
medical emergencies. Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued to overturn a ruling from
twenty twenty two that said abortions should be allowed in medical emergencies, with the
Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with him. Mayor Bass and city Councilwoman
at Eunices Hernandez will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony today for a ninety five unit
facility in Cypress Park that'll provide interim housing for the homeless. The project is
called Northeast New Beginnings. It broke ground in May of twenty twenty two,
and is expected to open a residence next week. We're just minutes away from
handle on the news this morning, Harvard's president is stepping down after intense pressure
and backlash for charges of plagiarism and her response to calls for the genocide of
Jews on the Harvard campus. So, as we mentioned just a little bit
earlier, it's been a year now since Jeremy Renner was almost killed when he
was run over by his own snowplow at his home in Reno. As you
recall, he saved his nephew from the being hit by the snowplow he was
stuck there on New Year's Day twenty twenty three and then ended up being run
over by his own snow cat, which weighs more than seven tons. So
Jeremy Renner stopped in to talk with Ellen Kay on our sister station KOST to
see how he's doing a year later. It's like checkpoints for me, It's
like State of the Union. I always have to kind of check in with
myself, check in with you physical and mental emotional parts of life, and
it's it's it makes it pretty exciting to be honest, it's part of the
gifts that came from something quite tragic. There's one of thousands of amazing gifts
that that I was able to receive. And you know, there's wonderful blessings.
That's all I can say. There's just really that are like, here's
here's one I can I've never afforded a bad day for the rest of my
life. It's impossible, right, And how about that thought? Right?
So these ideas or thoughts keep coming to me, and I'm like, wow,
what, Life's pretty dang good. Life's pretty dang good. And I
keep finding these things, you know, like you know, some things I
share with other people and most things I keep pretty private. And but there
there are wonderful, wonderful gifts that came and I feel so so lucky and
blessed for it, you know. Now, Jeremy has been busy over the
last year. Of course, he's been recovering from his injuries, but he's
also been putting together a new album kind of reflects what happened to him.
It's a musical diary entry, you know, journal entry and kind of healing
cathartic for me. And then I'm sharing it because I think a lot of
people were all on this journey with me in this in this recovery, which
I found strange. You know, really, yeah, what way, because
you know, I mean me waking up from me waking up from the accident,
I know what the big deal was. I mean, what were people
freaking out about it? Like I'm gonna be out of here? And I
think a selfie like when I was in the two days when I woke up,
you were crushed, Yeah snowcare yeah yeah yeah, But I thought I
was out in two days, right, So I get why people were pretty
Also, I was on life support for a few days. I didn't realize.
Yeah, I woke up and I was intibating, like I'm thinking I'm
totally fine, like my brain thought I was still fine. In reality,
he was on life support and then had a month's long recovery to repair more
than thirty broken bones and other really nasty injuries. He says that he's apologized
to his family for what happened because it has forever changed them, and he
says they can't unsee what they saw that day. But he also said he's
not a victim. He doesn't want to use this accident as an excuse for
New Year's Day to not be a reason to celebrate. Now. Speaking of
celebrations, Jeremy Renner also talked to Ellen about his upcoming birthday, which is
this Sunday. Well, my last birthday. I got my face surgery done
and my ankle so on my birthday, so and I kind of wanted it
that. I was like, hey, there's no better birthday than like to
get this sort of out. It'd be my last surgeries as well. Okay
this year, I don't know. I think I just wanted to just to
celebrate. You know, the depths of love with every relationship in my life
has shifted changed all for the better, and I just want to celebrate all
those those deep relationships I have, you know, And that's it. Yeah,
that's it. Yeah. I'm so happy that we can sit here and
say to you, happy birthday. Yeah, yeah, happy need what a
gift? Yeah for real? Yeah, it says wonderful blessing, and Jeremy
Renner says he is ready to get back to work. I'm so excited about
this. He's going to return to the set of The Mayor of Kingstown next
week, which is a really great show. We've talked about on Amy's on
It, and now that there's going to be a new season, I bet
we're going to be talking about it again. So glad to hear that Jeremy
Renner is doing well. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The US Border Patrol says in December
a record number of illegal immigrants crossed into the US, and while a large
number crossed into California and Arizona, the majority entered Texas. Sources in the
Border Patrol say three hundred two thousand illegal immigrants were processed last month across all
sectors in the Southwest. In the first twenty eight days of December, agents
processed one hundred and twenty seven thousand single adult migrants and nearly twelve thousand unaccompanied
children. Another ninety six thousand were part of a family unit, with migrant
parents and children traveling together. The next highest monthly number was two hundred and
seventy thousand in September. Steve Gregory king off I News huge waves in the
Bay Area have caught the attention of people across the world. One guy says
he flew in from Portugal to experience. The giant waves at Half Moon Bay
such a big deal, and HBO documentary crew is recording the surfing, while
San Mateo County officials urging people to stay away. Alex Stone says Maverick's Beach
is known around the globe for its massive waves. The National Weather Service warned
the thirty three high foot waves last week. We're deadly and we're not expecting
quite that large, but more big waves are expected as another storm moves through
California. Time Passenger is flying United. We're hoping to have two New Year's
Eve celebrations, but failed at time travel. The flight was scheduled to depart
Guam the morning of January first and land in Hawaii December thirty first. The
airline even promoted the flight saying you only live once, but you can celebrate
New Year's Eve twice. Well. Unfortunately, the flight was delayed and passengers
arrived in Hawaii after midnight on January first. Next time, maybe they should
travel by DeLorean. Okay, up in the sky tonights lots and lots of
celestial activity, so we know that we've got rain on the way this morning
and some snow in the mountains, and that kind of stuff, but it
is supposed to clear off, and if it does, that could mean some
really cool viewing for the quadranted meteor shower. The best viewing of this first
North American meteor shower of twenty twenty four is tonight through dawn tomorrow, and
astronomers are saying the peak viewing time is at four point fifty three as Thursday,
So right before you turn on a wake up call tomorrow morning, step
outside and take a look up in the sky. They're expecting up to one
hundred and twenty shooting stars per hour, and the Quadrantids apparently has the potential
to be the strongest shower each year, but a lot of times it's not
because of two things. One, the weather gets in the way a lot,
and also there's a short length for maximum activity for this one. It's
just six hours, So if you're looking into the sky, look for bright
fireballs, so not necessarily the long tails, but more of a bright fireball.
They're larger explosions of light and color that can last a little bit longer
than an average meteor. And it's one of four major showers each year.
Again, the other ones are the Leonids, the Lyrids, and the ercids.
But this one again is going on now but peaks again tomorrow morning at
four fifty three am our time. And as always, NASA says, if
you really want to see it, you got to get away from city lights,
but the sky should be clear, so fingers crossed. This is KFI
and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your Wednesday wake up
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