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It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up call for
Thursday, July eighteenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King, got my coffee
ready to go. Hey, you know how I told you you guys said
I broke my toe while I was on vacation. It's been healing quite nicely.
Doctor said it's going to be six weeks and I'm about two and a
half weeks in. And you know how when things stop hurting, you forget
that you're injured. I was doing some work around the house yesterday, doing
a little vacuuming. Yeah, I kind of forgot about my toe. I
think I've reinjured it. Ah. Anyway, Day three of the r n
C, the gold Star families of the thirteen soldiers killed in the withdrawal of
Afghanistan took the stage last night. Wow. That was powerful. And you
know they're at the RNC, so they're going to be talking favorably about Trump
and not about Biden, but they said that they barely even got a passing
glance from President Biden, but that former President Trump met with them and grieved
with them. And the crowd starts chanting, never forget, and the cameras
show people in the audience crying. It was just really, really I thought
powerful. And Riverside County Marine Hunter Lopez was one of the people killed.
His parents were there. The parents worked for a Riversid County Sheriff's office,
and they say they have gotten silenced from the Biden administration. And then they've
read the names of all the people killed because they said that the president never
said their names, so they did, and oh man, it was heart
wrenching. It was just it was really powerful though. And so the last
night of the RNC is tonight. Of course, Trump's going to take the
stage. I'll be watching j d. Vance accepted the VP nomination last night.
We're going to be talking more about that with ABC. Stephen Portnoy before
the end of the hour, got lots of head on wake up calls.
So let's get started. Former President Trump's, as I mentioned, we'll take
the stage in Milwaukee Milwaukee to formally accept the GOP nomination for the White House.
It'll be the first time he addresses the nation since surviving an assassination attempt
at a rally in Pennsylvania. California Representative Adam Schiff has become the highest profile
Democrat to call for President Biden to drop his reelection bid. The DNC convention
is in two weeks. Nearly two of Democrats in an ap Nork Center for
Public Affairs poll say President Biden should step aside and let his party nominate a
different candidate on location. Filming is down by more than twelve percent in LA.
TV and film production continue to face challenges. A report released yesterday say
the actors and writers' strikes had a huge impact on production in the last year.
The oc fares getting underway tomorrow, and it wouldn't be fair without Chicken
Charlie. We're gonna be talking with him about his latest and greatest concoction.
That's coming up at bottom of the hour at six oh five. It's handled
on the news. Signs that President Biden may be becoming more receptive to the
idea of stepping aside. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. The White House's President Biden has tested
positive for COVID nineteen while campaigning in Las Vegas. ABC's Mary Bruce says that
trip was cut short yesterday as Biden boarded Air Force one and returned to Delaware.
President appears to be feeling the effects of this COVID diagnosis. He's moving
a little a little bit slower getting his way down the stairs. Then when
he makes it to the car, it doesn appear he needs a little bit
of help, extra help from the Secret Service just to get it in the
vehicle. The White House is Biden does not have a fever and has been
given a dose of the medication pex Looavid, the director of the Secret Service,
has spoken with some members of Congress about the protection of former President Trump
at the rally in Pennsylvania. Wyoming Republican Senator John Barrosso said during a closed
door Senate briefing yesterday that the director of the FBI told lawmakers agents identified the
shooter as a suspicious person an hour before the assassination attempts. They lost sight
of him. He had a rangefinder, he had a backpack, the kind
of things that would be suspicious to anyone. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheedle,
has admitted mistakes were made. The shooter killed one person Saturday and hurt three
others, including Trump, before he was killed by agents. The House is
expected to hold a classified briefing next week. Barasso and Senator Marsha Blackburn from
TENNISEE confronted the Secret Service director about the reported failures by her agency while they
were all at the Republican National Convention last night. Cheadle told them it was
not the time for questions before she left the floor with her agents and retreated
to a closed room. Netflix shows have received a whopping one hundred and seven
Emmy nominations, with Ripley and Reindeer Games leading the way. FX got ninety
three nominations, twenty five of them for Showgun. Netflix's The Bear got twenty
three nominations. The Emmys will be awarded on September fifteenth at the Peacock Theater
in la You can see a complete list of the nominees on our website at
KFIAM six forty dot com slash Emmys. It's five oh seven on your Thursday
morning wake up call at say Good Morning Now to ABC's Jim Ryan So Jim.
The chorus for President Biden to step aside is growing. Yes, Adam
Shipping the latest and highest profile Democrat in Congress to recommend that Biden step off
the ticket allows somebody else to take over, Kamala Harris or someone else altogether.
And yes, but that's also the conversation here in Milwaukee at the Republican
National Convention. Amy, I've been asking some delegates their thoughts on that should
if Biden were to step aside, does that help or does that hurt Donald
Trump? I think universally folks feel that it would hurt it because Joe Biden
seems like an easier opponent than others. And in that way, perhaps the
Trump campaign and the Republicans did themselves no favors by having the debate last month.
It showed some weakness there on the part of Joe Biden fairly early on.
May have given Democrats a chance to change horses midstream. Yeah, I
would think the enemy, you know, kind of scenario, Yes, the
one who's been on TV and has the highest profile. So sure. I
think that's why Kamala Harris's name comes up so often from the stage here at
the RNC, because the assumption I believe is that you know that Kamala Harris
would step in and take over as the presidential candidate if Joe Biden were to
step off. And so the RNC is trying to lay some groundwork here,
get the statements, its thoughts and criticism of Kamala Harris out in the open
before the Democrats have a chance to do that. Yeah, and Kamala Harris
is kind of the foregone conclusion. But there are other names being bandied about,
including Gavin Newsom. You know, I think people have been talking about
him as a potential Democratic candidate. So sure, I mean, there are
all sorts of names out there, but I think Kamala Harris probably is the
one that makes the most sense and maybe logistically makes the most sense to the
Democrats. Yeah, So the question is can Biden rebound? I mean,
now he's been he's off the campaign trail because he's got COVID again, and
the polls are showing more and more that his support is slipping, and so
is the funding. We're hearing from some Democratic fundraisers who say that those contributions,
the campaign contributions, who are starting to dry up as people see this
this apparent weakness on his part, And interestingly, yesterday the campaign was hinting
or President Biden himself was saying that if there were some health crisis, then
yeah, he would consider moving aside, either as president or at least as
the candidate of the Democrats. And here comes this COVID diagnosis yesterday from Nevada.
So yeah, I think things are sort of heading in that direction perhaps,
but that's not a I mean, that's not a devastating diagnosis anymore.
I mean, you know, that's a cold basically, more or less,
right, I mean, unless you're eighty three, eighty eighty one years old?
Right, yeah, true, to be more serious. So that's I
think one consideration there. Okay, and you're still hanging around outside the convention?
Yes? Are they letting you go inside yet? Are you still outside?
My assignment is to talk to delegates and talk to alternism those folks.
I can get into the un credentialed. But Stephen Portanoy has one side of
the story and I've got the other side, and so we're kind of doubling
up that way. I love that. So tell me, how how is
it? What's the vibe? How is it going? Good? Bad?
Are people excited. I think it's what the Republicans were expecting. And I'm
talking with delegates about JD. Vans yesterday. Most interesting comments, I think
came from a delegate from Texas. She said that his being a former never
Trumper is actually a good thing for the campaign because if JD. Van's as
harsh as he was, and he had some of the harshest criticism and I
mean American hitler is what he was calling Donald Trump a few years ago,
and for him to come around to kiss the ring and now to be sitting
there on the ticket with Donald Trump, she believes that that may bring other
never Trumpers on board as well. So it's an interesting theory, you know.
Maybe it's seeing the silver lining there that she says that because he was
so ardently anti Trump and yet has made this big turnaround one hundred and eighty
degrees, that others inside the party might feel the same way, including supporters
of Nicki Haley. Yeah, I mean, it is kind of an interesting
story. He didn't he didn't just at least for what I can tell,
he didn't just flip flop. He basically said it took a while. I
didn't know the guy I didn't think he could do the job, but then
watching what happened, it changed his mind, so right, And of course
that was eight years ago too, and that's a long time Nicki Haley.
It's more like four months ago that she was coming down hard on Donald Trump
as she tried to get the nomination, and now she's had this transformation so
well, except at the convention she didn't she said she fully supported him,
but you could tell that she was like, you know what, I don't.
I still don't agree with the guy on a lot of stuff. Right.
Well, she had to say that too, and I think again that's
sort of a way of easing others into the thought that, Okay, I
could probably support that. If Nicki Haley can support him, then then why
not you know others? So yeah, I think you're right. She did
kind of qualified by saying we don't agree on everything, but I'm fully supporting
him. Where she's saying it through gritted teeth, I don't know. Maybe
maybe okay, final night tonight, big night, Yeah, Donald Trump himself.
Will he take off the bandage? That's what I'm thinking. Maybe he'll
take off the bandage during his speech, but that would be gross well,
it'll be interesting to see how bad the injury is, you know. He
apparently his son said that he didn't even need stitches, so how bad could
be. Others around the convention here have been wearing white bandages on their right
ear and solidarity really prevent tump. That's the fashion statement. Migah, hats
ends all right, white bandages? All right? Well, Jim Ryan,
thank you so much. Always a pleasure to talk to you. We'll chat
with you soon. All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A guy who led police
on a chase from Hawthorne to Culver City had a woman and a month's old
baby in the car at the time. The pursuit yesterday involved high speeds and
driving on the wrong side of the street. The driver was live streaming while
the baby's mother begged him from the backseat of the car to pull over and
surrender. Does let us hew, bro let us how in the corn I
got good in the car, bro You're not thinking about your baby smoking.
The chase ended on a dead end street. The driver could be seen holding
the baby before the woman took the child and got out of the car.
A lot of alarms have been going off accidentally in Pasadena. More than twenty
one hundred false alarms have gone off so far this year. Pasadena spokeswoman Lisa
dr Darien says those false alarms tie up police resources as two officers typically respond,
so that we can have one that covers the front, the back,
the perimeter. You can't take any chances anymore, for just a simple arm
can turn into something a lot more serious. Last year, around forty three
hundred alarms went off by accident across the city. False alarms in Pasadena could
lead to fines of up to one hundred and seventy one dollars in Pasadena.
Blake Trolley, k if I News, Disney CEO Bob Iiger, and USC
Dean will Obey will be the new owners of Angels City FC. Now that
the married couple is acquired. The controlling stake of the team just cost him
two hundred and fifty million dollars. The team says it generated the highest revenue
of any women's soccer team in the world in twenty twenty three and has the
highest revenue in attendance in the National League. They will serve on and control
the team's board of directors after the deal closes in the next thirty to sixty
days. The people move of a project at LAX has been delayed again.
The target for opening the new elevated train at the airport is now closer to
Christmas next year. The airport board meets later today to finalize a dispute with
its main contractor, LAX Integrated Express Solutions, in an amount more than half
a billion dollars. The airport and the contractor have had disagreements over compensation and
workflow and other things. The people Mover is said to be about ninety five
percent complete, but the last bit will take a year and a half.
Apparently. When it's finished, it'll be two and a quarter miles long and
connect to La Metro in downtown La Michael Monks KFI News Meet baseball legends Steve
Garvey, Sachs and Jaeger the Three Steves this Saturday at Galpinford in Mission Hills.
It starts at noon. There's going to be food and prizes and get
amazing deals as part of the Galpin ten thousand. You can find details about
the Steves being at Galpin this Saturday. Details at a five seventy LA sports
dot com. The National Weather Service is warning that it's going to be dangerously
hot in much of southern California. An excessive heat watch will be in effect
from tomorrow morning through at least Wednesday. The valleys, foothills, and mountain
areas are expected to see highs between ninety five and one hundred ten. The
President has COVID again. White House Press Secretary Corine Jean Pierre says the President
has tested positive and is experiencing mild symptoms. He's going to be working from
home in Delaware while he recovers. The President had a scheduled campaign speech at
an Hispanic convention in Las Vegas yesterday but had to cancel at the last second.
The Avengers still have more adventures to go on. The Russo Brothers are
in talks to direct the next two Avengers films. An Avengers movie for twenty
twenty six is in the works, with Avengers The Secret Wars set for twenty
twenty seven. It would mark a return to the franchise for the pair who
directed both Avengers Infinity War and Endgame. At six o five's handle on the
News, JD. Van says accepted his nomination as vice president on the Republican
ticket. Now it's Trump's turn at the RNC. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Jordana Miller. Jordana, there's calls for an investigation into security failures that
basically allowed the October October seventh attack to happen, but the Prime Minister says
not now, We've got other priorities. Right, Many people have been calling
on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and to set up a