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County. And it's time for your
morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.

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It's five o'clock, straight up.
This is your wake up call for

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Thursday, July eighteenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King, got my coffee

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ready to go. Hey, you
know how I told you you guys said

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I broke my toe while I was
on vacation. It's been healing quite nicely.

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Doctor said it's going to be six
weeks and I'm about two and a

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half weeks in. And you know
how when things stop hurting, you forget

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that you're injured. I was doing
some work around the house yesterday, doing

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a little vacuuming. Yeah, I
kind of forgot about my toe. I

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think I've reinjured it. Ah.
Anyway, Day three of the r n

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C, the gold Star families of
the thirteen soldiers killed in the withdrawal of

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Afghanistan took the stage last night.
Wow. That was powerful. And you

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know they're at the RNC, so
they're going to be talking favorably about Trump

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and not about Biden, but they
said that they barely even got a passing

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glance from President Biden, but that
former President Trump met with them and grieved

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with them. And the crowd starts
chanting, never forget, and the cameras

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show people in the audience crying.
It was just really, really I thought

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powerful. And Riverside County Marine Hunter
Lopez was one of the people killed.

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His parents were there. The parents
worked for a Riversid County Sheriff's office,

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and they say they have gotten silenced
from the Biden administration. And then they've

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read the names of all the people
killed because they said that the president never

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said their names, so they did, and oh man, it was heart

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wrenching. It was just it was
really powerful though. And so the last

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night of the RNC is tonight.
Of course, Trump's going to take the

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stage. I'll be watching j d. Vance accepted the VP nomination last night.

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We're going to be talking more about
that with ABC. Stephen Portnoy before

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the end of the hour, got
lots of head on wake up calls.

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So let's get started. Former President
Trump's, as I mentioned, we'll take

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the stage in Milwaukee Milwaukee to formally
accept the GOP nomination for the White House.

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It'll be the first time he addresses
the nation since surviving an assassination attempt

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at a rally in Pennsylvania. California
Representative Adam Schiff has become the highest profile

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Democrat to call for President Biden to
drop his reelection bid. The DNC convention

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is in two weeks. Nearly two
of Democrats in an ap Nork Center for

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Public Affairs poll say President Biden should
step aside and let his party nominate a

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different candidate on location. Filming is
down by more than twelve percent in LA.

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TV and film production continue to face
challenges. A report released yesterday say

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the actors and writers' strikes had a
huge impact on production in the last year.

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The oc fares getting underway tomorrow,
and it wouldn't be fair without Chicken

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Charlie. We're gonna be talking with
him about his latest and greatest concoction.

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That's coming up at bottom of the
hour at six oh five. It's handled

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on the news. Signs that President
Biden may be becoming more receptive to the

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idea of stepping aside. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out

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of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. The White House's President Biden has tested

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positive for COVID nineteen while campaigning in
Las Vegas. ABC's Mary Bruce says that

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trip was cut short yesterday as Biden
boarded Air Force one and returned to Delaware.

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President appears to be feeling the effects
of this COVID diagnosis. He's moving

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a little a little bit slower getting
his way down the stairs. Then when

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he makes it to the car,
it doesn appear he needs a little bit

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of help, extra help from the
Secret Service just to get it in the

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vehicle. The White House is Biden
does not have a fever and has been

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given a dose of the medication pex
Looavid, the director of the Secret Service,

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has spoken with some members of Congress
about the protection of former President Trump

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at the rally in Pennsylvania. Wyoming
Republican Senator John Barrosso said during a closed

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door Senate briefing yesterday that the director
of the FBI told lawmakers agents identified the

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shooter as a suspicious person an hour
before the assassination attempts. They lost sight

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of him. He had a rangefinder, he had a backpack, the kind

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of things that would be suspicious to
anyone. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheedle,

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has admitted mistakes were made. The
shooter killed one person Saturday and hurt three

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others, including Trump, before he
was killed by agents. The House is

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expected to hold a classified briefing next
week. Barasso and Senator Marsha Blackburn from

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TENNISEE confronted the Secret Service director about
the reported failures by her agency while they

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were all at the Republican National Convention
last night. Cheadle told them it was

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not the time for questions before she
left the floor with her agents and retreated

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to a closed room. Netflix shows
have received a whopping one hundred and seven

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Emmy nominations, with Ripley and Reindeer
Games leading the way. FX got ninety

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three nominations, twenty five of them
for Showgun. Netflix's The Bear got twenty

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three nominations. The Emmys will be
awarded on September fifteenth at the Peacock Theater

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in la You can see a complete
list of the nominees on our website at

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KFIAM six forty dot com slash Emmys. It's five oh seven on your Thursday

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morning wake up call at say Good
Morning Now to ABC's Jim Ryan So Jim.

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The chorus for President Biden to step
aside is growing. Yes, Adam

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Shipping the latest and highest profile Democrat
in Congress to recommend that Biden step off

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the ticket allows somebody else to take
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And yes, but that's also the
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National Convention. Amy, I've been
asking some delegates their thoughts on that should

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if Biden were to step aside,
does that help or does that hurt Donald

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Trump? I think universally folks feel
that it would hurt it because Joe Biden

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seems like an easier opponent than others. And in that way, perhaps the

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Trump campaign and the Republicans did themselves
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It showed some weakness there on the
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May have given Democrats a chance to
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would think the enemy, you know, kind of scenario, Yes, the

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one who's been on TV and has
the highest profile. So sure. I

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think that's why Kamala Harris's name comes
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the RNC, because the assumption I
believe is that you know that Kamala Harris

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would step in and take over as
the presidential candidate if Joe Biden were to

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step off. And so the RNC
is trying to lay some groundwork here,

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get the statements, its thoughts and
criticism of Kamala Harris out in the open

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before the Democrats have a chance to
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is kind of the foregone conclusion.
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including Gavin Newsom. You know,
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him as a potential Democratic candidate.
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all sorts of names out there,
but I think Kamala Harris probably is the

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one that makes the most sense and
maybe logistically makes the most sense to the

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Democrats. Yeah, So the question
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now he's been he's off the campaign
trail because he's got COVID again, and

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the polls are showing more and more
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is the funding. We're hearing from
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the campaign contributions, who are starting
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this apparent weakness on his part,
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or President Biden himself was saying that
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yeah, he would consider moving aside, either as president or at least as

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the candidate of the Democrats. And
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So yeah, I think things are
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but that's not a I mean,
that's not a devastating diagnosis anymore.

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I mean, you know, that's
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right, I mean, unless you're
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Right, yeah, true, to
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think one consideration there. Okay,
and you're still hanging around outside the convention?

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Yes? Are they letting you go
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My assignment is to talk to delegates
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I can get into the un credentialed. But Stephen Portanoy has one side of

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the story and I've got the other
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up that way. I love that. So tell me, how how is

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it? What's the vibe? How
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Are people excited. I think it's
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talking with delegates about JD. Vans
yesterday. Most interesting comments, I think

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came from a delegate from Texas.
She said that his being a former never

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Trumper is actually a good thing for
the campaign because if JD. Van's as

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harsh as he was, and he
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mean American hitler is what he was
calling Donald Trump a few years ago,

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and for him to come around to
kiss the ring and now to be sitting

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there on the ticket with Donald Trump, she believes that that may bring other

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never Trumpers on board as well.
So it's an interesting theory, you know.

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Maybe it's seeing the silver lining there
that she says that because he was

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so ardently anti Trump and yet has
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degrees, that others inside the party
might feel the same way, including supporters

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of Nicki Haley. Yeah, I
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story. He didn't he didn't just
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he didn't just flip flop. He
basically said it took a while. I

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didn't know the guy I didn't think
he could do the job, but then

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watching what happened, it changed his
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that was eight years ago too,
and that's a long time Nicki Haley.

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It's more like four months ago that
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as she tried to get the nomination, and now she's had this transformation so

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well, except at the convention she
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but you could tell that she was
like, you know what, I don't.

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I still don't agree with the guy
on a lot of stuff. Right.

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Well, she had to say that
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sort of a way of easing others
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could probably support that. If Nicki
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not you know others? So yeah, I think you're right. She did

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kind of qualified by saying we don't
agree on everything, but I'm fully supporting

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him. Where she's saying it through
gritted teeth, I don't know. Maybe

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maybe okay, final night tonight,
big night, Yeah, Donald Trump himself.

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Will he take off the bandage?
That's what I'm thinking. Maybe he'll

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take off the bandage during his speech, but that would be gross well,

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it'll be interesting to see how bad
the injury is, you know. He

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apparently his son said that he didn't
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be. Others around the convention here
have been wearing white bandages on their right

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ear and solidarity really prevent tump.
That's the fashion statement. Migah, hats

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ends all right, white bandages?
All right? Well, Jim Ryan,

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thank you so much. Always a
pleasure to talk to you. We'll chat

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with you soon. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories

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coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A guy who led police

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on a chase from Hawthorne to Culver
City had a woman and a month's old

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baby in the car at the time. The pursuit yesterday involved high speeds and

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driving on the wrong side of the
street. The driver was live streaming while

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the baby's mother begged him from the
backseat of the car to pull over and

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surrender. Does let us hew,
bro let us how in the corn I

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got good in the car, bro
You're not thinking about your baby smoking.

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The chase ended on a dead end
street. The driver could be seen holding

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the baby before the woman took the
child and got out of the car.

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A lot of alarms have been going
off accidentally in Pasadena. More than twenty

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one hundred false alarms have gone off
so far this year. Pasadena spokeswoman Lisa

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dr Darien says those false alarms tie
up police resources as two officers typically respond,

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so that we can have one that
covers the front, the back,

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the perimeter. You can't take any
chances anymore, for just a simple arm

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can turn into something a lot more
serious. Last year, around forty three

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hundred alarms went off by accident across
the city. False alarms in Pasadena could

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lead to fines of up to one
hundred and seventy one dollars in Pasadena.

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Blake Trolley, k if I News, Disney CEO Bob Iiger, and USC

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Dean will Obey will be the new
owners of Angels City FC. Now that

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the married couple is acquired. The
controlling stake of the team just cost him

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two hundred and fifty million dollars.
The team says it generated the highest revenue

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of any women's soccer team in the
world in twenty twenty three and has the

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highest revenue in attendance in the National
League. They will serve on and control

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the team's board of directors after the
deal closes in the next thirty to sixty

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days. The people move of a
project at LAX has been delayed again.

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The target for opening the new elevated
train at the airport is now closer to

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Christmas next year. The airport board
meets later today to finalize a dispute with

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its main contractor, LAX Integrated Express
Solutions, in an amount more than half

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a billion dollars. The airport and
the contractor have had disagreements over compensation and

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workflow and other things. The people
Mover is said to be about ninety five

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percent complete, but the last bit
will take a year and a half.

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Apparently. When it's finished, it'll
be two and a quarter miles long and

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connect to La Metro in downtown La
Michael Monks KFI News Meet baseball legends Steve

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Garvey, Sachs and Jaeger the Three
Steves this Saturday at Galpinford in Mission Hills.

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It starts at noon. There's going
to be food and prizes and get

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amazing deals as part of the Galpin
ten thousand. You can find details about

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the Steves being at Galpin this Saturday. Details at a five seventy LA sports

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dot com. The National Weather Service
is warning that it's going to be dangerously

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hot in much of southern California.
An excessive heat watch will be in effect

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from tomorrow morning through at least Wednesday. The valleys, foothills, and mountain

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areas are expected to see highs between
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President has COVID again. White House
Press Secretary Corine Jean Pierre says the President

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has tested positive and is experiencing mild
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home in Delaware while he recovers.
The President had a scheduled campaign speech at

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an Hispanic convention in Las Vegas yesterday
but had to cancel at the last second.

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The Avengers still have more adventures to
go on. The Russo Brothers are

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in talks to direct the next two
Avengers films. An Avengers movie for twenty

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twenty six is in the works,
with Avengers The Secret Wars set for twenty

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twenty seven. It would mark a
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directed both Avengers Infinity War and Endgame. At six o five's handle on the

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News, JD. Van says accepted
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ticket. Now it's Trump's turn at
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ABC's Jordana Miller. Jordana, there's
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basically allowed the October October seventh attack
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not now, We've got other priorities. Right, Many people have been calling

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on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and to
set up a