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It's five o'clock. Stir raight up, good morning. I'm Amy King,
and this is your wake up call for Friday, January twelfth, twenty twenty
four. Only forty nine weeks till Christmas. Feels like Christmas out there.
It's darn chili. We've got frost advisories up for the inland Empire. San
Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita Valleys. Temperatures are expected to dip below freezing in
some areas. The frost advisory up until about nine. So I want to
grab an extra jacket before you head out the door this morning. Here's what's
ahead on wake up call. Six crew members aboard a Navy helicopter that crashed
into the San Diego Bay have survived. Navy officials say the MH sixty R
Seahawk helicopter went down last night during a training mission near the Naval Amphibious Base
Coronado. President Biden says the US and UK strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen
are in direct response to Hooti attacks against ships in the Red Sea. Biden
said in a statement. The attacks endangered US personnel as well as its partners,
along with threatening the freedom of navigation. The attacks hit over a dozen
Hoothy targets in Yemen, including radar systems and drones storage. We're going to
find out the latest and the possible repercussions from what the US and the UK
have done with ABC's Shannon Crawford. That's coming up in just about five minutes.
A California congressman has introduced a federal bill that would require insurance companies to
provide coverage for natural disasters. This comes after State Farm and All State announced
last year that they would stop writing new policies in California because of rising business
costs and the increasing risk of wildfires. At six ZHO five, it's handle
on the news. Trump had his say during his day in court. The
judge told Trump lawyer to control his client. Sure, Bill's gonna have a
lot to say about that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hunter Biden has bleeded it not
guilty in downtown La to federal tax charges. Biden was released on terms that
include he does not drink, do drugs, or have a gun. He'll
have to submit to random drug testing and attend therapy. Prosecutors say Biden shows
not to pay one point four million dollars in federal taxes from twenty sixteen to
twenty nineteen. Prosecutors further alleged you spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle
rather than pay his tax bills. Biden entered the courthouse quietly yesterday. He
used a garage and not offering comment to reporters before or after the hearing in
downtown La. Blake Trolley k if I News passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight
where the door plug blew out have sued Boeing, saying the experience caused them
economic, physical and emotional pain. The door plug detached last week, causing
the cabin to depressurize at about sixteen thousand feet up. The lawsuit comes as
the FAA investigates whether Boeing failed to make sure its products adhere to federal safety
regulations. It says the emergency should have never happened. Hundreds of flights have
been canceled or delayed because of Boeing's seven thirty seven Max nine planes being grounded.
The airline has given a full refund to all one hundred and seventy seven
passengers on board that flight. It also provided a fifteen hundred dollars cash payment
to each passenger to cover any other expenses, and says it'll be offering twenty
four to seven access to mental health resources and counseling. Cyprus has voted to
swhich from at large voting to district voting, despite the council majority opposing the
transition. This lawsuit has nothing to do with the Asian community here in our
city, Cypress Mayor Scott Meniscus says, a similar lawsuit has extorted multiple cities
in soak Outis, which is incredibly disheartening because we've had this if you will
Leftis ideology forced down our throats. Councilwoman Francis Marquez disagreed this week, pointing
to the city's lack of Asian representation despite the group being thirty seven percent of
the population. Then California Voting Rights Act exists to make sure underrepresented groups have
a fair opportunity to elect their candidate of choice in Cyprus. Corbin Carson kf
I News Google has cut several hundred jobs across the country as it continues to
push for efficiency. The layoffs will impact hardware and central engineering teams and some
people working on the Google Assistant product. A year ago, Google cut its
work offorce by twelve thousand, or roughly six percent of its full time staff.
Other big tech companies have also been cutting costs and staff. Recently,
ESPN has returned dozens of Emmys and disciplined some employees who submitted fake names to
get trophies for on air personalities who were not eligible to receive them. ESPN
said in a statement the apparent fraud date dates back to nineteen ninety seven,
been going on for a little while. The National Academy of Television, Arts
and Sciences, which administers the Emmys, says it discovered the fraud and that
led to an investigation. Oh, speaking of the Emmys, I didn't even
realize this. They've snuck up on us. They're happening on Monday. I'll
be watching. I told you I'm a sucker for award shows. It's five
seven on your wake up call. Let's say good morning now to ABC's State
Department correspondent Shannon Crawford. So, Shannon, the US is finally fighting back.
Good morning. Well, that's right. After weeks of warning that hoo,
the attacks in the Red Sea would have severe consequences, the US and
the UK made good on those promises, launching a stunning blue of Tomahawk cruise
missiles in the pre dawn hours from an American submarine and Navy warships, with
fighter jets backing the whole operation, ultimately hitting over sixty targets at sixteen locations.
It's one of the broadest strikes in recent memory. Okay, and you
said sixty different targets. Were they all concentrated in like one area or kind
of all over Yemen? We are seeing most of the targets were in western
part of the country. That's where the hookies have been launching attacks on commercial
vessels in the Red Sea. They say they're doing it in solidarity with the
Palestinians and that they're hitting ships with connections to Israel, but in reality,
many of these ships have no connections to Israel or only ten risk ties.
Okay, and a lot of them are cargo ships, isn't that correct?
That's right fifty About fifteen percent of the world's trade goes through the Red Sea
and the surrounding waterways. It was starting to have a significant impact on the
ability to move goods and oil. Ships had to diverge round Africa instead of
going through the more direct route, and really was adding costs to an already
shaky global economy. How much longer does it take to go around the tip
of Africa? It takes about ten days added to these already sometimes very long
journeys because much of the trade is going to East Asia, so these are
weeks or months of travel that is already happening, so adding those days,
and of course other threats come with that diverted route. So really shipping companies
were finding there was no good option. Yeah, okay, so we launched
the attacks the US and the UK. What kind of damage was done?
Do we know or is it too early to make that assessment? Damage assessments
are ongoing now that we've paid daylight hours and Yemen. US officials are confident,
however, that they have significantly degraded hooty capabilities. They should have a
better picture soon as to how successful they've been. But the hookies are very
mobile. Many of their projectiles can be launched off the back of pickup trucks.
So officials say they would not be surprised that all if the Hoopies do
respond, they have held on to some firepower or remains to be seen as
how significant that response will be. Yeah, and I heard that the Hooties
are coming back and saying that they are going to respond because we attacked them.
That's right, And they have been saying, you know, it is
important a note of course, that there have been more than two dozens the
attacks on commercial vessels, and we saw this week they openly admitted to targeting
a US ship, so you know this is not for nothing. And then
also the Hoopies are they have saying they are going to come back, they
are going to strike back. They made that promise, and you know it's
something that official thing and shipping companies are taking very seriously. Shifts have been
worn against transitting through the Red Sea over the next couple of days. The
message here is going to get worse before it's better. That's what I was
just going to ask you. So is this going to encourage the ships to
start going through the Red Sea again, or is it going to like say
no, let's keep going around. You know, the ultimate hope is that
this will take the wind out of Hohofy sails. Really, the US was
under major pressure to act after issuing so many warnings, especially at the beginning
of the year, to came out with fourteen partners, to say, you
know, hey, enough is enough. And if they didn't, you know,
strike back, there would be some kind of you know, there'd be
a question over American credibility. But also, you know, the concern here
underlying all of this has been escalating tensions in the Middle East, and there
is a fear that this could open up a more regional conflict, spreading you
know what we're already seeing in the Israelian moss War. Okay, and Shannon,
this is the President has said that this was in direct response to the
attacks on the ships in the Red Sea. Doesn't have anything to do theoretically
with all the attacks on the bases that have happened, like there's more than
seventy five of them around the region, that's right, But there is one
commonality in that is Iran. Iran is a backer of you know, so
many of these militia groups in the Middle East, hes Beulahamas and of course
the Hoosis. So there is a kind of an access of resistance or that's
how Hoopies see it that they are taking part in. So yes, but
while US forces work quick to story back against those militia groups in Syria and
Iraq, the hoopies have been a kind of a different story because of you
know, really the de facto government of the emin right now. So it's
a little bit of apples or just comparison in the eyes of the US.
Okay, and the attacks happen, I mean less than twenty four hours ago.
But do we have any kind of idea or are is there any kind
of rumbling as about when they might expect the Hooties to respond if they do
well. It's something that US officials are going to be watching very closely through
today. You know, it's likely that the hoopies have not really finalized their
plans on what they intend to do. And what's also an added challenge we're
dealing with the hoopies is there a very unpredictable group while you know, others
might have a more consistent pattern the hoopies are really you know, only become
organized as such we've seen in the past couple of years. So it's definitely
something that they're going to have to be US forces and others in the region
are going to have to be agile and see what happens. Okay, and
we will be watching Shannon so much. Appreciate all the information Shannon Crawford.
You can follow her at s k Crawford ABC to keep up on all the
latest. Thanks so much, Annon, Thank you. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
The average price for a gallon of regular guys in La County has dropped to
its lowest level in eleven months. The average is four dollars sixty five cents.
It's down two cents from me yesterday, ten cents down in the last
week. It hasn't been this cheap, if you can call it that,
since last February. Orange County's average also dropped to four fifty five Inventor County
gases averaging four seventy one a gallon for regular unleaded. A California assembly member
is introduced a bill to restrict the use of facial recognition technology in the state
AB eight fourteen, which simply requires law enforcement to have additional evidence before they
can proceed with the search, arrest or affidavit for a warrant when they are
using facial recognition software. Assembly member Phil Ting says it's critical for California to
set up safeguards. Do you prevent mistake and arrests or inappropriate tracking when using
the tool. A piece of technology revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas will help deaf people play video games. Audio radar allows the hearing impaired
to play popular audiocentric games like Call of Duty, Roadblocks in Fortnite. Any
espen on how many hearing impaired gamers there are out there, I could say
millions. For facts. That's Tim Murphy, the inventor and CEO. Murphy
says audio radar puts six led lights around a TV or monitor. So when
these lights are flashing let's say on the top of your TV for example,
that means there's gunshots or footsteps or tanks rolling directly in front of you.
Now those lights are flashing on the bottom of the screen just like a radar.
Those sounds are now behind you not only behind you, but you can
see it. They're behind you to the right or behind you to the left.
Murphy came up with the idea in twenty sixteen. He used to be
a radar tech in the Navy. He says they're working now on a system
to alert deaf people when someone's at the door or when a smoke alarm or
carbon monoxide alarm is activated at the CEES in Las Vegas. Steve Gregor,
y King of High News. Pasadena is a great place to visit es according
to The New York Times, which put out its list of fifty two places
to go in twenty twenty four. The Time says the city, known for
the Tournament of Roses, Parade and the Rose Bowl, has plenty to see.
The nearby San Gabriel Mountains provide a picturesque view on a clear day.
The Norton Simon Museum, which I love, is a must visit, as
well as the Pasadena Playhouse, the Antique mal and of course, there's plenty
of dining options like Barsheloo. According to the Times, the number one place
to go this year is the Path of Totality, which follows the total solar
eclipse across America. In April, a second avalanche has come down in Lake
Tahoe, near where an avalanche killed a man on Wednesday at Palisades Tahoe,
which used to be Squaw Valley. It wasn't familiar with what that ski resort
was, but now we know. Ski patrol searched the area yesterday with dogs,
probes and beacons and says no one was hurt in the avalanche. The
area is expecting another foot of snow as a new storm moves in. Avalanche
danger was high yesterday, it's been downgraded to moderate for today. Israel says
the war in Gaza is not intended to destroy the Palestinian people, and Israeli
lawyer made the argument today in the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in its war against Hamas.
NASA will roll out a supersonic plane from a hangar in Palmdale today.
There's going to be a test flight of the new aircraft later this year.
NASA said. In a couple of years, the X fifty nine is going
to soar over a half dozen cities in California so it can get public feedback.
NASA says it will ask the public to let them know if the sonic
boom sounds more like a thump. Have you ever heard of sonic boom?
I don't know if I ever? Have you have cono? I have been
to a couple of air shows at March Air Force Base and they get up
there, they set off all the car alarms in the parking lot, which
is awesome. Does it sound like a thump? It's a really hard I
kind of. It's very hard to explain, but it's really cool to be
there for it. Okay, Well, I can't wait for the X fifty
nine to fly at six oh five. It's handle on the news. The
US and the UK finally fought back against all the HOOTI attacks on she in
the Red Seed. Let's say good morning now to iHeart aviation analyst Jay Ratleft.
Good morning, Jay Pleasing, Good morning. So it's been a week
since the so called plug blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland to
Ontario. The FAA says it's investigating Boeing. What are they looking for,
Well, they're looking to see just how widespread this situation is. And keep
in mind this happened on a Boeing Max seven thirty seven, their nine hundred
series aircraft, and so it's just a small part of the seven thirty seven
Max family. But it was at the end of December, I think it
was a twenty eighth or twenty ninth Boeing came out with an alert to airlines
that had all of the seven thirty seven Max aircraft around the world and told
them to be aware of loose or missing bolts. Now, this wasn't the
same part of the aircraft that we had the situation in last weekend. This
was different parts of the airplane. So we've had in the last three weeks
Boeing admitting that they have aircraft leaving their production facility being entered into commercial service
around the world that really I don't want to say aren't flight ready, because
that would suggest that there's an element of danger here. But anytime that you've
got airplanes that don't have what we call untorked hardware or where things haven't been
properly secured, it's to me an obvious situation of a production line that's getting
in a hurry trying to do everything that they can to dispatch airplanes. More
interested in speed than they are in safety, which is weird. I mean,
like Boeing used to be kind of known for its meticulous safety record.
But is that that's kind of falling by the wayside. Apparently, yeah,
it is, but I'll tell you it really off the tracks with the Boeing
Max situation a number of years ago, were for sure a memory about that
because the Max had just been released and it had just started flying and then
we had I think it was two crashes, right, yeah. And what
happened was that Boeing had totally read designed this aircraft, and the aircraft the
way it was, they had to move the engines slightly and it affected the
airflow over the aircraft so that when it was flying, there was this tendency
for the nose of the aircraft to nose up just a bit. Now in
flight, if it noses up too much, it disrupts the airflow over the
wings and it could create a stall, and a stall is very bad in
aviation. So the thought is that they would develop this software system that would
cause the aircraft nose to come down just a bit. If the program detected
that the nose was going up on the aircraft, it was an automatic system.
It is called the MCAST system, and it was new. So what
happened was they put it on this airplane and it malfunctioned, and it malfunctioned
to the point that it took control of the airplane away from the pilots for
ten seconds as it tried to correct it, and then it would give pilots
control back for five seconds. And what happened was we had two crashes where
pilots were fighting this new INCAST system, and here was the kicker. Boeing
told the pilots nothing about it, so they didn't know what they were fighting.
When American airline pilots went to Boeing engineers saying why didn't you tell us,
they said, well, we didn't want to inundate you with a lot
of needless information. It wasn't even the checklist in their cockpit. So Boeing
for a number of years has had issues with that system. They've since corrected
it, but it was obvious for a number of years they were hiding information
from pilots from airlines as well as the FAA inspectors. They were fined quite
a bit of money for that, and they promised to turn things around,
but here we are again just a few years later, where they're back to
producing airplanes that aren't really ready to fly. And the bottom line is Airbus,
which is the European aircraft manufacturer. They're kicking Boeing's butt right now.
I mean, they're producing and selling more airplanes than Boeing, and Boeing's try
to keep up, and they're doing that by trying to rush the production and
and that's why we're seeing the problems we are. Wow, it's just so
scary. So it and since this happened, and thankfully nobody was hurt,
but since this happened, United and Alaska say they did find on their planes
some bolts that were loosened and so and some that weren't. Yeah, some
that just were barely put on by hand. You could tell that they had
just started to threat them so they could use the automated torquing system to tighten
them down. And those were never done. And some of the mechanics from
some of the airlines involved around the world have sent me pictures. It's unbelievable
that that could be considered done. Nobody would see it and it would go
on. And the issue with Boeing is a number of years ago, they
got rid of a lot of their inspectors. They started having their employees to
self check their own work. Now, some Boeing whistleblowers came out saying,
look, this is horrible because that extra set of eyes would catch a lot
of problems that took place. Now that they've removed that, it's kind of
like, you know, you're in high school, you grade your own test.
Okay, thank you very much. We've got an A plus here.
But the production schedule is so rushed right now, and that so much pressure.
We're being told on the Boeing employees that it's a matter of schedule as
king, we've got to get the airplane out. And you're right. Boeing
used to be the industry world leader in safety. They were the top of
the wrong but right now it almost seems as those safety is an afterthought.
And of course the CEO for Boeing is promising to be transparent, blah blah
blah. It's obvious that they didn't learn their lesson from just a few years
ago. They're still stuck on trying to rush planes through production, and that's
one of the reasons right now we're seeing a lot more airlines say look,
I'm going to buy my future airplanes from air Bus instead of going with an
American made product because we simply can't trust now that those airplanes are going to
be safe to fly. And not only safe, this airplane that came out
from Boeing for last airline was in service for ten weeks, so there's a
problem. And now you have to take all of those out of service for
like a week to inspect them. Well, for Alaska Airlines, that's twenty
percent of their fleet, So it's a really becomes an issue where even if
it's not dangerous, which this could have been, it's an inconvenience and it
affects your bottom line. And when that confidence starts to erode, it affects
the decision makers for airlines and rightfully so to go with the product that they
can better trust. Yeah, and it's like in an effort to compete Boeing
and shooting themselves in the foot. You mentioned the cancelations, Alaska has grounded
its Max nine fleet until at least this weekend so they can expect the planes.
And that's one hundred and fifty flights a day, it is, and
that's just in friends selling those flights. It is, and you know,
thankfully this wasn't a month ago when we were dealing with a lot of you
know, soon to be holiday travelers. But it's still not convenient because we're
still seeing a lot of people that are wanting to fly. I think United
has seventy two of these, but it's only about eight percent of their fleet,
so they're able to absorb this a little bit easier than Alaska Airlines.
But the real key is, and kind of the question lingering in a lot
of people's minds. Are Okay, we had that issue at the end of
December where they said look for bolts loose in this part. We are now
finding loose bolts in this part. Are there other parts of the aircraft that
we're soon to find out that aren't properly secured that are going to start giving
us some problems? All right, Well, we will be watching and hopefully
this is going to lead to some changes in some fixes. So thank you
so much for your information and expertise. Jay Ratliff appreciated a ton, Always
my pleasure. Thank you. All right, Hey, this Sunday morning at
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Sports presented in part by Rotolo Chevrolet. See what the fun is all about
at Rotlo Chevrolet. Six crew members of board a Navy helicopter that crashed into
the San Diego Bay have been rescued from the water. Navy officials say the
MH sixty are our Seahawk helicopter went down last night during a training mission.
Happened around six forty near Naval Amphibious based Coronado. President Biden says the US
and UK strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen are in direct response to Hoothy attacks
against ships in the Red Sea. There have been twenty seven attacks. Biden
says the attacks by the US and UK were done with the support of Australia,
Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands. Officials say the attacks hit over
a dozen Hoothy targets in Yemen, including radar systems and drone storage. A
couple of Friends' scripts are being auctioned off. The scripts from the one with
Ross's Wedding Part one and Part two were supposed to have been destroyed after the
episodes were filmed in a suburb of London so that the ending wouldn't be leaked.
But apparently a studio worker found the scripts in a dumpster, pulled them
out and put them in a drawer. The scripts are expected to be offered
up for between seven hundred and sixty and one thousand dollars. Seems like they
would go for much much more than that. Hey, Hertz was all in
for the electric cars, but now it's going to sell off a bunch of
them. I'll tell you about that at five point fifty. What's new in
the theaters this weekend and the critics have their say. On Sunday night,
we're going to be talking with our entertainment guru, ABC's Jason Nathanson. But
right now it's time to talk about your dream home. So let's say good
morning to the host of Home on KFI, the House Whisper. It's Dean
Sharp. Hey, Amy, how you doing. I am fabulous. You
know We've talked several times about how, even though I'm not doing projects on
a home right now because I'm renting, I love listening to your show because
you kind of explain things. So I'm super excited about what you're talking about
this weekend, and that is about building your dream home. Yeah, even
though I got to admit it's not the most exciting facet of building your dream
home that we'll be talking about this weekend, but but it's super important,
and you know, I should just say we're starting something a little different this
year. We're going to approach some of our topics a little differently this year.
Okay, Building your dream is a series that I'm starting this weekend.
I don't know exactly how long it's going to last us, and we'll have
a few interruptions along the way, but we're going to attempt to take the
process of building a dream home from step one to the end throughout the course
of this year, for however long it takes us. So we're kind of
doing, you know, a little masterclass on how to move through the process
of building a dream home this weekend. Step one so exciting. Yeah,
No, fact, finding your property profile is basically what it comes down to.
And when I throw that out there for exactly exactly, well, you
know it's this, Before you play the game, you got to know the
rules. Nobody lives in the middle of nowhere, anymore. There's no more
unclaimed frontier where it's little house on the prairie and you're like, well,
this looks like a good spot to build the family home. Everybody, every
house, everywhere, every square foot of buildable property anywhere in this country falls
under some kind of governing jurisdiction. And to make the most of your money,
your time, your efforts, before you even start to get serious about
design, a good conscientious homeowner should sub do their homework and pull up all
of the regulations, limitations, the profile, the history of their home,
their property. I don't know. It doesn't matter whether it's just an empty
lot that's ready to build a brand new home or whether you're remodeling. There's
a ton of stuff to learn about your home before you even get started.
Because and this is what's critical. I don't want to limit anybody's ability to
dream or to build the home that they want. But I've seen so many
people waste time with all sorts of designs and investments into architects and contractors,
only to find out when they get to the city that somebody there is wagging
their head saying you can't do that, you can't do that in this city.
And if the city decides you can't do it, there's not a lot
you can do about it, or can you appeal it. If you go,
oh, I want to do this, design in the city goes no.
Yeah, you know, people talk about that all the time. And
I've been involved in a couple of appeals. One we actually moved forward,
with the other not. But by and large, these are hard and fast
rules. So an appeal has to have a very very strong case that something's
being interpreted wrong or something like that. So generally speaking, no, when
the city says no, this is the way it's got to be, then
guess what. This is the way it has to be. And I know
that sets kind of a bummer constraint on some projects, but I always say
this as a designer, constraints catalyze our creativity, right, And so we
got to we just need to know where's the envelope, you know, what
are the boundaries that we're working in, and then we can, if we
work hard enough, come up with something that works really, really well.
But we don't want to waste our design time and our design money working on
something that just is a pipe dream in terms of this property in this city,
in this county, in this location. Okay, So here's a question
for you, because so basically you're saying, you got to do your homework
before you really get started with your project. Do you do it or do
you have your designer do it, or your architect do it, or your
contractor do it? Who does the homework? Well, most of the time
you're not going to have your contractor do it because a contractor, if if
we're building our dream in the proper order, comes along later down the road,
we're not right there right now. Now. Some people have a friend
who's a contractor who has experience, and they're going to do it as a
favor for them. That's, you know, fine, But generally speaking,
for most people, the contractor is somebody who comes down the road. The
question is are you going to do it? Are you going to have your
architect or your design to do it? And that is really a question of
who do you want to pay to take the time to do all this.
So my encouragement this weekend, I'm going to be laying out the list of
things to be look for, the profiling things that we want to find out,
the information that we want to find out about the property and The fact
of the matter is that a homeowner can save themselves a lot of money if
they just want to, you know, kind of hunker down, do their
own homework, make a visit to the city, talk to the right people,
find out what they need to find out, and then present that to
your designer and say, okay, here's the profile of our property. Here's
what we already know. Designers love it when you do that because we have
all the information we need right at the outset. Right, and then you're
not wasting your time either. Okay, So I just give us a couple
of the things that we might not think of that are things that come into
play that you have to consider. Well, okay, so you know,
right at the top of the list, and a lot of people don't know
that that their their property has a attract a parcel and a lot number on
it on the tax assessors map. That's super easy. Yeah, it's not
exciting at all, it's not and yet it is literally step one. Nothing
moves forward without that right and and in most municipalities in California you can find
that out online. The county has tax assessor maps online. You enter your
address, you get your parcel number, dad that kind of stuff. The
second question is who is actually in charge? You know in Los Angeles too,
exactly in Los Angeles it gets a little uh foggy sometimes because we don't
know is this LA County? Is it LA City? Is it a local
city with their own building department? Got to find out who's in charge the
zoning designation. I'm shocked sometimes that more owners don't understand what their zone designation
for their property is. That says an entire It says a huge amount about
what you can and can't do. And by zoning, I mean are you
zoned residential? What we call R one? Is it R A, which
is residential slash agricultural. That's my property here. It's not an agricultural property.
It's not, you know, a farm. But we are ra So
some folks in our neighborhood have large enough piece of property they can keep horses.
Not me. I don't have the necessary square footage on my property,
but I have enough square footage to keep chickens and technically one goat, one
goat. How do I know that? No, we don't. We don't
have a goat chickens because we would like to have two goats. If we
had a goat, we'd like to have two goats so they keep each other
coming. But we have chickens, Yeah, we have chickens. So but
the point is there's a there's a square footage cut off the size of the
lot. If we were, you know, a few hundred feet larger our
lot, then we would step up to the next level and be able to
have a different set of animals here on the property like some of my neighbors
do. And if we are a little bit smaller, we couldn't even do
the chickens. And that's the kind of information and profiling that I'm talking about
for your property. Know your zoning, know what that means in your city,
what's allowed, what's not allowed. We want to get a list as
best as possible of all the rules that we're going to have to work within,
and then we start designing within those rules and not wasting time. I
love it. Here's a couple others that I'm looking at on your list that
I know you're going to be going into a lot more detail this weekend.
But things to think about, like how tall can your house be? Heighth
limits, how much square footage can you put on your lot? Are there
noise ordinances in your neighborhood and parking allowances. How many spaces do you have
to have? And that's just like a couple of the what twenty thirty different
things that you need to look at. So I know you're going to dig
deeper into it, and you say it might not be that interesting, but
I've find it fascinating and I bet your listeners will too. And you can
hear Dean Sharp this weekend. It's Home with Dean Sharp on KFI six to
eight am Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday. You can also follow him
on Instagram at Home with Dean. Thanks Dean, Thanks Amy. We're going
to do our best to keep it fun and informative. That's that you always
do, you always do. Thanks so much. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four news from
the Biden administration is about to cancel student loan debt for borrowers who took out
smaller loans and are still struggling to pay it off a decade later. You're
paying it for ten years. It's enough. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says the
Education Department will start automatically discharging debts next month for people who qualify and are
enrolled in an income driven repayment plan rolled out last year. For those who
have borrowed the twelve thousand or less after ten years, they would be receiving
loan forgiveness. Nearly seven million borrowers are enrolled in the Save Replayment repayment program.
More than forty people in San Diego who eight oysters from Mexico have been
infected with neurovirus UGH. The county Health Department has told restaurants not to sell
Rocky Point oysters from the Sonora region in northwest Mexico. The cases have been
linked to several restaurants, including the Fish Shop in Pacific Beach Point Loma and
Encinitas, and the Carlsbad Aqua Farm. And Crews at the California Science Center
are in the process of lifting a massive external fuel tank into its upright position.
It's part of the launch ready display of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, which
is still a couple years away. The tank is going to fit between two
already standing solid rocket motors. It's not clear when the shuttle is going to
be moved from its existing horizontal display and be lifted upright, but officials are
saying it'll happen in the coming weeks. Tonight, the Clippers take on the
Memphis Grizzlies, with tip off at five on your home of Clippers Basketball AM
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We make it easy. A second avalanche has come down in Lake Tahoe,
near where an avalanche killed a man on Wednesday. SKI patrol searched the area
with dogs, probes and beacons yesterday and said no one was hurt in the
avalanche. The areas expecting another foot of snow as a new storm moves in.
Avalanche danger was in the high category, it's now going to be moderate
today. Israel says the war in Gaza is not intended to destroy the Palestinian
people, and Israeli lawyer made that argument today in the International Court of Justice
in the Hague, where Israel is defending itself against accusations of genocide by South
Africa in its Wargans Tomas, A bipartisan bill introduced in the House would allow
commercial pilots to make reports about UFO sidings to the Federal government. The bill
was put up after military officials testified about unidentified objects out maneuvering jets. The
legislation would also allow air traffic controllers to make reports A president or former President
Trump wasn't supposed to talk and closing arguments for his civil fraud trial yesterday,
but he was able to get in a few words and was going to check
in on that. Right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's entertainment guru,
Jason Nathan's and Jason, let's get mean Yeah. Sure, we got
the Mean Girls coming out this weekend. Mean Girls is out this weekend,
the musical version of the original two thousand and four movie, which then went
on to become a Broadway musical. So this is the screen version of that,
And this is like the Color Purple thing. It came out as a
movie, then went to Broadway, became a musical, and now it's a
musical movie exactly. But there was a lot more time between the Color Purple
and when it came out in the theaters and then went to Broadway and then
became a musical. This is, you know, two thousand and four,
Yes that's twenty years ago, but I think Mean Girls is one of those
films that is still on people's minds. They still watch it, they still
quote it, they still love it. And you know, it feels a
little soon. So when you're going into your like, okay, you're already
you got your guard up a little bit, You're like, impress me do
something better than the original. Did make this better in some way, and
unfortunately it just I'd rather go watch the original film, Okay, not that
this is bad. And the you know, the performances are good. And
you have Angery Rice, who plays the Katie Herron role, which was made
famous by Lindsay Loewen, her first kind of adult role. Remember, she
had been in Parent Trap and Freaky Friday and a couple of kids movies before
that, but this is the first role that really kind of broke her out
and she was fantastic in that, and the rest of the cast was so
good, and the cast here is good. Reginia, the Regina George role,
is played by Renee Rapp, who is an up and coming actress and
also a great singer. The songs, to me don't really add a whole
lot to this, normally they don't. Anyway. I'm not a huge musical
fan, but I do like the genre and like it on this stage.
That's where I like. The musical is better. Yeah, and that's where
I think this probably should have stayed. I think people who went and saw
the Broadway version loved that as well. It did very, very well.
It was very successful. But this you're just going to compare it to the
original, and I would say the original is still fresh enough. It doesn't
feel like an old movie at all or dated it anyway, you know,
kind of just watch the original that it's going to do well this weekend.
It's going to top the box office and they're looking at I think thirty million
dollars for the extended holiday weekend. Okay, And if you don't want to
head out to the theaters this weekend, we have new streaming on Hulu called
Self Reliance. What's that? Yeah? This is a movie from Jake Johnson,
who you might remember from New Girl. He wrote and directed and stars
in this. This is his directorial film directorial debut. He plays a guy
who can win a million dollars if he survives for thirty days on a dark
web reality show in which he's being hunted, and he figures out a loophole
in which that he can if he's with somebody the whole time, they can't
kill him. So he has to be with somebody, has to find somebody
to stay with him the whole time. So it's kind of his quest to
find somebody who will stay with him. You know, his family doesn't believe
that he's actually telling the truth, and the whole thing it devolves into it's
a dark comedy, and it devolves into it gets darker and darker, and
the whole time you're wondering, is this real? Is this actually happening?
And he plays a lot with that. I like the way that he does
play with that. Anna Kendrick also co stars. Yeah, and she's great
and just about everything. I wanted this to be a little sharper, a
little funnier, to make it kind of an instant classic, because I really
do love the premise. And when I talked to Jake Johnson, he said
he based it off a Japanese game show in the late nineteen nineties where a
guy was stuck in an apartment with nothing. He was naked. This actually
aired on Japanese television. He was naked and stuck in an apartment. He
couldn't leave, and he didn't have anything food, he had no clothes,
he had no you know, nothing in the apartment, and he had to
win little prizes by there were I thinks like newspaper cutouts and coupons and things.
He had to win prizes. So like at one point he won a
bag of rice and he was so excited, and then he had nothing to
cook the rice in. And so Jake Johnson kind of took that premise and
expanded it into this, and I think it's, you know, a very
interesting meditation on the loneliness we face today, the isolation that we faced today,
and other kind of social stuff. So I like the areas he explores.
It's not quite there, but I did enjoy it. Okay. So
whether you're staying home or going to the theaters, you have options this weekend.
Thank you so much, Jason Nathanson. If you want to follow Jason,
go to at ABC News. Jason, have a great weekend, you
too. Take care. All right, here are some of the stories.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
our newsroom. US and British militaries have joined forces in a massive retaliatory strike
against Iranian back Houthi rebels in Yemen. Retired US Marine Colonel Steve Ganyard says
they don't want to just go after individual launchers and drone sites. They want
to be able to take out all of the Houthy military capabilities of disrupting commercial
shipping in the Red Sea. Ganyard says that's why they took out more than
a dozen larger targets where Hooty weapons could be stored in Yemen. The Houti
say at least five people were killed. President Biden says the strikes yesterday were
to show the US and its allies will not tolerate the group's ceaseless attacks on
the Red Sea. Protesters have gathered in front of the White House to condemn
the US for its strikes in Yemen. Crowds could be heard last night chanting
hands off Yemen. Now. Some warned there's a real danger of triggering a
regional war in the Middle East. Fruit Striped gum has been discontinued. The
gum in the colorful pack with the zebra on front. It was one of
my favorites as a kid, has been around since nineteen sixty nine. The
company that makes it says that is decision to sunset the product was not taken
lightly, and that many factors were considered. What other things do the makers
of fruit stripe gum make? Fundip gobstoppers and nerds. 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
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