You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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o'clock. Straight up. Don't you hit that snooze, don't don't do it.
It's time. I got my coffee ready to go. We got Tony
here with his eyes half open. He's almost ready to go. Tony's filling
in for Kono, who's taking a few weeks off, and we appreciate it.
And Tony said he is. He told me this morning he is the
best fill in person ever for a person because he can tell the person who
normally has the job, I don't want your job. I have no designs
on taking your job. Yep. Never. I won't do all I can
to not Well, we're happy that you're here. Thank you, Thanks,
I see you, and we'll be nice and loud to keep you awake,
and I'll just you know, smack kipside the head starting not all right,
Well, there's no nodding off because there's a lot going on today and we're
glad that you're here to find out about it. Lots ahead on wake Up
Call, here's what we're getting started with a so called atmospheric river is flowing
toward California. Heavy rain is expected tomorrow. A winter storm watch will be
in effect from late tonight through tomorrow night. In the San Gabriel Mountains and
along the five and fourteen Freeway corridors. Up to eighteen inches of snow could
fall above the seven thousand foot level, ad dusting to about three inches of
snow is expected to fall between forty five hundred and six thousand feet. Two
witnesses have testified in Grossman Burne Foundation co founder Rebecca Grossman's murder trial in Van
Nuys that they saw a pair of Mercedes SUVs speeding before the white suv hit
a young boy who was crossing with this family and a Westlike village crosswalk in
twenty twenty two were killed. Residents and businesses in the northern California zip code
of nine five six three six have something to write home about again. It's
the zip code for the Grizzly Flats post Office, which was destroyed along with
more than a thousand buildings in a wildfire in twenty twenty one. The US
Postal Service says the Grizzly Flats post office will reopen for full service today.
Nice to see at six oh five it's handled on the news. Could Taylor
Swift and the NFL be part of a plot to win re election for President
Biden? Handle's going to dive into that one. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Charges have
been filed in San Bernardino County against the five men arrested for the murder of
six people in the high Desert near Adelanto. All five are charged with special
circumstances murder and robbery. All but one are also facing firearms charges. The
bodies of the murdered men were found last week off Highway three ninety five in
El Mirage. All had been shot. Investigators say four were also burned.
The LAPD says it has busted up a major theft operation involving more than five
million dollars worth of Nike shoes and merchandise. Investigators say during a search at
a warehouse in Hawthorne, they found thousands of pairs of Nike shoes, clothing,
accessories, and unique prototypes. On Monday, police say thirty seven year
old roy Lee Harvey Junior was booked for receiving stolen merchandise. It's not known
how or where Harvey got all the stuff. The Department's Major Theft Task Force
and Organized Retail Crimes Task Force were also part of the operation, along with
the Commercial Crimes and Cargo Theft units and Nike's Global Security Director Steve Gregory,
King of Fineos. Iran says it will respond decisively to any attack on the
Islamic Republic by the US. Over the killings of three American soldiers in a
drone attack, abc ZM Wins says that attack over the weekend at a military
base in Jordan injured dozens of troops. President Biden blames iron for arming the
radical militants who carried out the deadly attack. He told reporters yesterday he's already
decided how the US will respond, adding the White House wants to avoid a
broader war in the Middle East. Iran has denied any involved in the drawne
attack with eighteen eyes and fifteen notes, the eyes have it and the motion
is agreed to. House Republicans have taken a party line vote toward impeaching Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcis. Republicans claim Mayorcis has deliberately ignored immigration law. Democratic
Congressman Dan Goldman says that is not true. More deportations and removals have been
executed than under any previous administration. Our Speaker Mike Johnson says Mayorcas has helped
usher in the largest illegal immigration catastrophe in our nation's history. The entire House
will now decide on the impeachment. A vote could come as early as next
week. Remember William Hung, he became famous or infamous for his American Idol
audition in two thousand and four. She bang right, He's going to go
work for the La County Sheriff's Department. Hung is now forty one years old.
He's going to work as a crime analyst. He had the job several
years ago, but then left to start a career as a professional poker player.
Hung says poker led to a serious gambling addiction that cost him his marriage
and also affected other areas of his life. Well, nice to see he's
back on track. Let's say good morning now at five oh six to ABC's
Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, there is rumbling of a deal to stop
the fighting and to release hostages, but Prime Minister Nettagna, who says,
uhh, that's not happening right. Well, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Nataniel is
essentially saying, you know, the terms that Hamas is demanding, we're not
on the same page. We're not going to agree. And he said last
night and today again that Israel will not release thousands of Palestinian prisoners and that
the Israeli army will not leave the Goz's strip entirely. Now, that still
leaves NATANIEO with quite a bit of wiggle room to cut a deal. Or
in November we saw Israel release at a three to one rate Palestinian prisoners.
And in this framework deal and phase one of it, which the mediators,
including the United States, are kind of urging Israel and Hamas to agree to
now even if they have disputes about the other parts of the deal, because
there's three phases that we talked about yesterday, right, okay, right,
right, there's three phases. So in this first phase where Hamas would free
the Israeli female civilians, be injured, and the elderly men and women in
the elderly category, that's about forty So if Israel agreed to us again a
three to one, even a four to one rate, it would only be
one hundred. You know, it wou barely be two hundred Palestinian prisoners,
so that's still viable. And also, you know, Israel last time redeployed
and moved out of some areas, and they would be expected to do the
same. Those are some of the details being worked out. So Natanya's certainly
has room to still get the ball rolling on this deal. The problems are
in phase two. In phase three, what would Hamas demand to get the
Israeli soldiers, including the female soldiers out, and what would they demand in
phase three to deliver what are now over twenty five bodies that they're holding.
Israel has said it will not agree to end the war. It will not
agree to leave Gaza, you know, entirely, and that it sees,
you know, a security role for Israel in the interim. Before you know,
there's a party that can take over the Gaza Strip and govern it.
And of course, one of the huge disputes which we don't even talk about
that lunch Hamas is still unwilling to relinquish power over the Gaza Strip. It
still thinks that it can negotiate for some kind of role in post war Gaza,
which Israel in the United States and many of the West. The Western
leaders oppose well, and Natanya, who's pretty um I said, not pretty
much, but flat out said we are going to destroy Hamas. So Hamas
can say we want to remain in control. But if Israel had it had
its way, Hamas would just be dead, completely gone, right, I
mean, Israel's Israel's aimans too kick Hamas out of the Gaza Strip. So
just mantle its its military capabilities, kill or expel its leaders, and push
it out. You know, the goal is to give governing of the Gaza
Strip to another body that will not support terror or, as Ntaignell says,
educate Palestinians to hate or you know, or carry out violent attacks on Jews
or Israelis. So you know, this is a long term plan, and
you know Hamas Hamas is also you know, put down very hard lines.
But we'll have to see how the end of this war can be negotiated.
That seems very far off this phase one. When Blincoln comes to visit next
week, perhaps the Sectary of State will be able to give the final push
for the sides to agree. At least to this first phase, okay,
And a US facial has said that even though publicly the talks don't appear to
be going well and from everything you're telling us, they don't appear to be
going well, they are saying, oh, well, that might not be
the case. Well, that's I think, because when you talk about the
whole deal, the three phases, there's no way the gaps are huge.
If you talk about just phase one, then everyone agrees that the general parameters,
all sides agree on them. When it would start where the Israeli are,
we would deployed to the guarantees. About how long the ceasefire will be,
that is much closer at hand, and as all these could be reached
as all these talks continue, we know that the fighting continues on the ground,
so I wanted to sort of get an update from you on that.
We know that we had talked about Israel was going to kind of scale back
its offensive, still continuing, but doing more targeted attacks in the Gaza Strip.
Is that happening now? So in the northern part of the Gaza Strip
there are far fewer tanks and troops, and there are some areas of combat,
but mostly it is targeted operations in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
It is still an active war zoned in the south. Okay, heil
is pushing, yeah, to the their work. They're operating in Communis,
the southern city and to the west and south, pushing towards the Rafa area,
the border crossing with Egypt. Okay. And then we also heard that
in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Israe's military is saying that they've
killed about fifteen Hamas militants in the last day and also targeted militant infrastructure in
a school. Like you've been saying, they build their infrastructures in schools and
hospitals to try to keep the attacks down on them or to hide them,
right right. So a few days ago, you know, there was the
very disturbing news that Hamas had built tunnels underneath the cemetery. Feels like that's
a new lobe for Hamas. But they often and not often, I would
say, part of their military strategy, of course, is to build tunnels
under schools, inside schools, you and shelters. There can be tunnel chafts
near those areas, mosques, residential buildings. I mean, this is it's
a near daily flow of images and a video that the Israeli Army puts out
of things they're finding, which have even shocked is all intelligence officials. You
know, they thought they knew what was happening in the Godsen Strip. Now
that they're inside, it's much worse than they even suspected. And what's so
interesting here is it because we've talked about this, and one of the reasons
I want to keep talking to you is because we need to know this stuff
because we're not seeing that here. I mean, it's it's just out of
the news cycle, right, So right, it's important to keep talking to
you, right right, right, Well, yes, there's other events going
on in elections and everything else, getting gearing up for election day in the
United States, But right this war is still very much alive, there's no
doubt about that. And there are soldiers that are dying every day here.
And by the way, the plight of the Gosins continue, They're suffering continues.
There's tens of thousands of Gossens now that have left even the southern part
where they initially fled to. They they're on the run or walk again,
moving further south as the fighting enters Conunis. So this is this is terrible
for families who you know, they're just taking anything they can with them and
moving to tents and overpacked you and shelters. You know, there's one point
eight million gossens. Eighty percent of gosens are in southern Gaza, and that's
where a lot of the intense fighting is going on. So you know,
we're seeing about two hundred trucks of eight get in a day now, which
is a little some improvement over the last few weeks, but that's only that's
a fifty percent less than what got into the strip before the war. So
I mean to miss nowhere near enough. Well, there's no good news that
maybe they're starting to get a free to work for something together. And we'll
be watching and we'll be checking in with you. Jordana Miller, thank you
again for the information. We appreciate it. Thanks, Thanks, take care.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Russia's Defense ministry says Russia and Ukraine have exchanged one hundred
and ninety five prisoners of war each. We're just getting that information and we'll
bring you more as it comes in this morning. A man's been sentenced to
twelve years in federal prison for pulling off ten armed robberies in Orange County within
twenty within forty eight hours. In his plea agreement, George Arizona actually pleaded
to just one robbery of a seven eleven and twenty twenty two when US Attorney
LA spokesman Kira McAvoy says the guy shoved a ghost gun in a clerk's face.
The Storm employee was in fear for his life and handed Arizona eighty dollars
in cash and two pack of cigarettes. So I think about that. Twelve
years in prison for eighty dollars in cash and two packs of cigarettes. As
part of the deal, the guy admitted the other robberies during sentencing Monday.
He was also ordered to pay back more than thirty six hundre dollars to the
seven eleven, eight restaurants and one hair salon in Orange County. Corbin Carson
KFI News CBS is closing twenty five minute clinic locations in southern California. The
pharmacy giant says it's to help support future growth and design the next evolution of
community health destinations. Whatever that means. The clinics will be closing by February
twenty fifth, eleven minute clinics will stay open with virtual on demand options.
When we come back, we're going to be talking TechEd because it is wired
Wednesday. Are you depressed have anxiety? There's an app for that and KTLA's
Rich Demiro is going to tell us all about it. You're listening to Wake
Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty five twenty three. I'm Amy
King. Thanks for starting your day with us. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four our newsroom. FBI Director Christopher Races Chinese hackers are getting
ready to unleash havoc on Americans. Ray and other top federal security officials will
be testifying on Capitol Hill that the Chinese are planning to target critical infrastructure,
including water treatment, electricity, and natural gas pipelines. Manhattan Beach police are
looking for the person or people who stole a bronze plaque detailing the racially charged
history of Bruce's Beach. The theft is the latest in a string of recent
crimes in which thieves have been taking bronze and other metal items and hopes of
reselling them. State Senator Scott Wiener is introduced a bill that would allow people
to drink alcohol on public streets and sidewalks, much like in Las Vegas.
Wiener says the designated entertainment zones would activate downtown streets where activity has struggle to
rebound from the pandemic. At six oh five, it's Handle on the news.
Democrats are pushing for a border deal, saying they're going to do it
since Republicans won't. Right now, let's say good morning too. The host
of Rich on Tech right here on KFI KTLA tech reporter Rich DeMuro, Good
morning, Rich, Good morning to you. Amy. Okay, so we
know that you love this Apple Vision Pro and apparently are and are you the
only one? No, the reviews are coming in and they're actually quite good
for a thirty five hundred dollars headset. But that is the underlying theme is
that it's really good, but it's also thirty five hundred dollars and who needs
this and what's the use case scenario? So let me give you a quick
summary of some of the reviews. Yes, it's probably one of the best
headsets out there, but it is heavy, especially if you're wearing it for
a long time. Like how heavy rich is it? Like a eight ounces
or sixteen ounces or it's the last I heard was grams about eight hundred grams,
which I don't know how many ounces that is, but it's heavier than
an iPad strapped to your face, So let's put it that way for the
for the you know, for the record, I only had it on my
face for probably half an hour. I did not feel that it was overly
heavy, but I did adjust it a few times. Maybe that's because my
brain was telling me, hey, this is a little bit heavy on your
face. But twenty eight ounces, okay, ooh that for eight If it's
eight hundred grams, that's what that's twenty eight ounces. Oh wow, Well
that seems really heavy. That's like it's not like a gallon of milk.
It's heavy, but it's also incredible, so, you know, watching movies
is great on this. People say they can work in this thing. The
controllers are really easy because it's literally just looking at stuff and pinching with your
fingers, so it's very easy to like get the hang of. And you
know, the downside is the battery pack. It doesn't last that long.
It lasts about two hours. Although you know, are you going to really
spend that much time in this every day? And again the price and who's
this for and what is the main use case scenario? And we all have
a laptop, we all have a phone, So now you're going to spend
even more time doing what inside this headset besides watching a movie for thirty five
hundred That's what it comes down to. It goes on self Friday, by
the way. Okay, then this was this is sort of interesting. There's
an app that might help you if you think you might be depressed. Yeah,
this is an app that I've spoken about before. I've interviewed the doctor
who created it. She's actually the same person behind Heel, which is the
company that they did the house calls, or they still do, I guess,
but she has moved on to this new app. It's called Together Byrona,
and the app is sort of a one stop shop for all of your
health concerns, so you can track your the medications that you take. It
uses AI to sort of scan the bottles of these medications. Excuse me here,
but it could also take a selfie and you can check your blood pressure,
your heart rate, your oxygen levels. But the newest feature is that
you can speak into this app. And I tried this yesterday and it can
detect signs of anxiety and depression. And I don't know, I just think
that the idea of like this one stop shop app is really interesting, especially
if you're helping to take care of someone like a parent or a loved one,
because you can kind of link into this app and make sure that they're
taking their medications, make sure they have their appointments, and also monitor their
vitals. I'm fascinated by the speaking into it. I think the whole thing
sounds really cool, but that you can speak into something and they can detect
anxiety, yeah, I mean it's it's you know. Look, I mean
I think humans can do the same thing. You can, you know,
if you're really tuned into what people are thinking or saying or doing body language.
But you know, these are algorithms that get really good over time,
and this is just the beginning. And I think the bigger thing I'm seeing
here is there's more of a push towards home healthcare and being able to do
a lot of the stuff that you would have to go to the doctor's office
for these routine kind of vital things, these screenings. You're going to be
able to do more of them from home and be able to connect with the
doctor online on your phone, you know, via telehealth. And it's just
going to you know, cut down on the cost of things and also expand
health into much more facets, many more facets of our lives. Well.
And two, I think there is a lot of apprehension about going to a
doctor. So maybe this sort of easy makes it easier for you and people
are more likely to check on it rather than making the appointment and going to
the doctor's office. Yeah. Or or the fact that maybe you you know,
it's tough to get like with a lot of elderly folks. You know,
it's like you need someone else to bring you there. Right. So
the fact that you can do some of this stuff from home, now it
has to be easy that people can understand how to do it and also fool
proof. But you know, the more I see of this stuff, the
more I realize that that's where we're headed. Okay and together by Renee Is
that available now? Yes? Available for iOS Android any day now? Oh,
any day now? Okay, So together by renee. You watching for
it and then definitely want to hear about this free TVs. Yes, so
this is a company that started last year. It's the guy who started do
you know Pluto TV? Are you familiar with that? Vaguely? I know
that it's out there. Yeah, it's a streaming service. So it's a
free, ad supported streaming service. Well, he sold that to Paramount and
Viacom and now he's starting a new startup, which is Telly. This is
an AD supported smart TV, so they literally will send you a TV.
It's got a fifty five inch four K TV and then it's got to and
then underneath that it has a second screen and that's sort of the trick.
It's got ads on that second screen that are on all the time. There's
also a camera for video calls. There's a voice assistant. It's a really
nice TV. I got to demo it in Vegas. But the big thing
is you are giving up your data in exchange for a free TV and it's
kind of cool. We'll see if it works. They're expecting to go into
millions of homes this year. You can sign up on the website to get
one. You can go to my website rich on Tech dot tv for the
link. But if you're selected, you get a free TV. And the
downside is, according to a couple people I interviewed, is that you know,
if you stop using this, you will have to send it back and
that could cost you some money. Okay, And if people want to see
the TV, they can check out your segment on KTLA is at this morning
coming up right now, I'm heading over there, fabulous, okay, Rich
Demurro, thank you so much. KTLA Tech reporter Rich Dimiro. You can
hear him every weekend right here on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two, and
you can also follow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech his website rich on
tech dot tv. Thanks for all the info. Rich, All right,
Sea, all right, when we come back, Amy's on It an Academy
nominated movie that hasn't generated a ton of buzz, So the big question now
is should it be getting more? We'll tell you. Baseball season is here.
Don't miss live coverage from FanFest with insider David Vesse this Saturday from noon
to three. Check out another winning season at Broadway in Hollywood dot Com.
Southland weather from KFI a mix of sun and clouds today, highs in the
mid sixties at the coast, sixties to low seventies inland, fifties and sixties
in the high desert. The storm moves in overnight, with heavy rain at
times expected tomorrow. Gusty winds and thunderstorms are possible. Chance of rain Friday
and Saturday, then rain likely again starts Sunday and into next week. You're
listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. My days
are all messed up this week because I took Monday off, so I almost
said it's Thursday, and yesterday I screwed something up because I thought it was
Monday, but it is Wednesday, Humpday. I know Bill is going to
be saying that all morning long. I mee mee king, thanks for getting
your day started with us. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A so called atmospheric reverse flowing toward California, heavy rains expected
tomorrow. A winter storm watch will be up from late tonight through tomorrow night
in the San Gabriel Mountains and along the five and fourteen freeway corridors. Up
to eighteen inches of snow could fall above seven thousand feet. We're expecting a
dusting to three inches of snow. Between forty five hundred and six thousand feet
in the valleys, expect about two to three inches of rain. House Republicans
have voted to advance articles of impeachment for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcis.
The full House could vote on the articles as soon as next week.
Mayorcis is accused of willfully and systematically refusing to comply with federal immigration laws.
Former President Trump's going to be on Illinois presidential primary ballot, after all.
The state Board of Elections voted to dismiss an effort to remove him from the
ballot over his alleged involvement in the Capitol riot. The Supreme Court will take
up Colorado's efforts next month to pull the former president from its ballot. At
six oh five, it's handle on the news. A man's been arrested for
stealing a whole lot of Nikes, five million dollars worth. At five point
fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Ines de la Quaterra about how
and when the US might respond to the deadly attack that killed three US service
members in Jordan. Amy's on it, AMI's on it, Aami's on Itami's
on it. What am I on? I'm on streaming. There's so much
content out there that how would you possibly know what to watch? And you
can go and you can kind of just go start flipping around, but then
you don't know if you're going to get it's something good, and I like
to get something good, so I take recommendations from friends, and I take
for recommendations from family. Like Tony just told me about a movie that I
haven't seen yet, and I probably will, but I might wait till it
streams. But he's saying, god Zilla Minus one is like top Dogs,
top notch movie. I absolutely loved it, absolutely love it, sam every
bit of it. It's all in Japanese. It's subtitled Okay, I might
have to get on that one, but right still a Godzilla movie. But
yeah, okay, but right now, hopefully I can recommend some good ones
to you as well, so you can see the good ones and maybe skip
the bad ones. Or if you like bad movies, maybe you'll see the
bad movies. But here's one that is up on Peacock. It's called The
Holdovers. Starring Paul Giamatti, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his
role. It's also nominated for Best Picture, and I will just tell you
that this movie deserves that nomination. So in fact, I went and watched
it a second time because I was it's like, did I like it that
much? And the beauty about streaming is you can go watch it again if
you really like it. So it's a story about a group of people who
get stuck at a rather prestigious academy. It's a boarding school over the two
week Christmas holiday. The year is nineteen seventy and of course the students left
behind at school and the teacher are at odds from the get go, so
the tension and the conflict is set from the start, and it's sort of
like a misfits Christmas, Like everybody else is going and they're going on these
cool holiday vacations with their families and all this stuff, and there's just a
few students who aren't able to go home. So they're stuck there in some
remote area in the snow in the middle of winter, and nothing's open,
everything's closed, so they're just kind of stuck with themselves. So Paul Hunum
is played by Paul Giamatti. He is cranky, he is super intelligent,
and he is notoriously hard on his students and basically disliked by everyone, and
he plays this character brilliantly. Then there is eighteen year old Angus, who
is privileged. He's smart, but he's always getting in trouble. He's one
of those kids who's like always about to be expelled. And he comes across
as a tough guy, but is he a tough guy. It's gonna have
to be something that you watch to find out. There's also it features the
head cook who is stuck to feeding these people over the holidays, played by
Divine Joy Randolph. She just lost her son in Vietnam and she just stays
behind because she doesn't want to deal with the whole Christmas holiday. So it's
not action packed. It's a really good story and as you may have come
to know that I love this kind of thing. It just gives the story
move room to breathe, so they don't try to rush through everything. And
when they introduce new elements, they explain it that things don't just appear for
no reason, that everything kind of has a reason and it gives them time
to dig into the characters, what their flaws are, what makes them tick,
what their pain is. The writing is wonderful. There's not a lot
of surprises, but there are interesting and compelling twists and turns, and there
are life lessons and there are insights, and there is some redemption, which
I always enjoyed that. I hate movies that just they're like bad, bad,
bad, bad, and then the movie ends. I like it when
the characters grow and learn, and I think that they do in this one.
So it's surprisingly funny like and a couple of times I kind of chuckled
out loud. It's sad. Parts of it are uncomfortable, but it's charming
and it keeps you entertained and it keeps you engaged, and it's definitely worth
the watch. And we'll be interesting to see if Paul Giamatti picks up a
win on this one. I think he won a Golden Globe for it.
I'm not an I can't remember, but it's called The Holdovers. It's on
Peacock. I highly highly recommend it. Back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom, parents in Porter Ranch say the
La School District may be moving middle schoolers to Chatsworth High School because of overcrowding.
Parents with students at Porter Ranch Community Schools say they specifically bought homes that
have their kids attend the number two school in the district. Christy Rose says
the school is that capacity because developers keep developing homes, but the city hasn't
added more schools. Unfortunately, families are moving in and they can't even enroll
their kids into the school that's right across the street. Parents called out district
leaders at a town hall meeting Monday night, criticizing their lack of planning and
demanding proof of where their tax dollars are being spent. La City Councilman John
Lee has vowed to raise five hundred thousand dollars to try to keep the six
through eighth graders on campus. If it is for the extension at least just
three years. Not it doesn't even have to be a permanent solution. I'm
willing to push in that half a million dollars. The district has offered other
solutions, including pausing permits and expanding the K through eight school itself. The
district says nothing has been finalized and it will can continue to discuss options with
parents. Chris Adler KFI News. Federal agents in La say twelve people have
been arrested in connection with a major drug trafficking ring allegedly connected to Mexican cartels.
Thea's FBI's Don Always says the investigation started in twenty twenty, but it
could not have been successful without the collaboration between the US, Canada, and
Mexico who worked together to interdict and take down a fairly significant drug trafficking organization
that was bringing massive amounts of drugs throughout our continent, harming our citizens in
all three countries. The FED say hundreds of pounds of cocaine, meth and
fentanyl were smuggled from Mexico and headed to Canada. Ten people were arrested yesterday
too were already in custody. One of the candidates for the US Senate seat
formerly held by Diane Feinstein says an administrative error by the California Secretary of State's
office is killing her campaign and calls election integrity into question. The ballot lists
Christina Pascucci as no ballot designation instead of local television journalists, so this is
hugely harmful and not only to my campaign, but when people across a nation
are questioning the integrity of our elections, it's very important that mistakes like these
are not made. Pascucci says ballot designation can influence voter perception and trust,
and says these kinds of errors can actually affect election outcomes. Pascucci says her
polling numbers have been cut in half due to the error. The lead prosecutor
in the election interference case against former President Trump in Georgia has reached a temporary
agreement with his wife in a divorce case. Nathan Wade entered into the agreement
yesterday to avoid a hearing set for today where he was expected to testify about
an alleged romantic relationship with Fulton County DA Fanie Willis, one of Trump's co
defendants accused the pair of an improper relationship earlier this month. Willis said any
alleged affair is irrelevant to the election interference case. Okay, so if you
like a good cup of Starbucks and you're on a college campus, you might
not be able to find one for a while. If students get their way
students at UCLA and you see Riverside say they want Starbucks kicked off of campus
because of its union busting campaign against Baristas. About fifteen hundred signatures are going
to be turned in. Half of them were delivered yesterday to UCLA, to
the Board of Directors for Associated Students, and then the uc Riverside petition is
going to be delivered today to Chancellor Kim Wilcox and other top decision makers at
the university. So they say this is one of the Riverside students. Aaron
Whitfield says, when we graduate, we want to enter a workforce where workers
have a real voice on the job with their employees. And apparently, as
you may have known, that Starbucks has closed some locations. They're in trouble
for it because they're saying, oh, you only closed them because they were
trying to unionize. And actually some of the Starbucks are being ordered to reopen,
which I think is a crazy overreach of government. But that's a whole
other thing. So it'll be interesting to see if they get their way.
But they want the contracts not to be renewed and they want Starbucks off campus
until they stop trying to bust unions. We shall see this afternoon, the
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from KFI AM six forty. One person has been killed in a street racing
crash in Kenoga Park. LAPD says two drivers were racing in the southbound lanes
of North Topanga Canyon Boulevard around one this morning when one car hit the other.
The driver of the car hit lost control and slammed into a pole.
The driver of the other car took off. A woman has been charged with
murder and assault in connection with the death of her four year old daughter,
who was found unresponsive in a vehicle last week in East Los Angeles. The
medical examiner says the little girl died of the combined effects of strangulation and what
was called sharp injury force. You can once again search Taylor Swift's name on
x Her name was blocked from being searched on the platform after explicit deep fake
images of the singer went viral. The photos had over twenty seven million views
before the account that posted them was suspended. We're just minutes away from handle
on the news this morning. Drinking in downtown. That could become a thing
in California, and we're going to take a look at it for you.
Here are some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A new bill in California could let therapists and social workers decide if a
patient needs mandatory detention. Currently, police officers decide when someone needs to be
in a mental health facility for a seventy two hour evaluation. The bill says
licensed professional should be able to decide without police intervention. Data shows from twenty
twenty to twenty twenty one, more than one hundred twenty thousand adults hold Let
me start that again. Data shows between twenty twenty and twenty one, more
than one hundred twenty thousand adult holds were issued. The California Police Chiefs Association
supported the bill Monday. Close to three hundred sex buyers have been arrested in
La County as part of an annual human trafficking sting, and one hundred and
ninety three of them were arrested in the city of La LAPD Deputy Chief Allen
Hamilton says, during the recent week long effort, officers rescued a fourteen year
old girl. We had a total of ninetuvenile victims that we rescued. The
suspect who was trafficking this young victim, who was our youngest victim rescued this
year, had actually been fastening her since the age of thirteen. Operation Reclaim
and Rebuild mobilized ninety five local, state, and federal agencies around California to
conduct massive sweeps and undercover operations. Steve Gregory Kapinos, the mother of a
four year old girl found unresponsive in a Carney's tell as I just mentioned,
has been charged with murder and assault. The assault was reported late last week.
The girl died at the hospital. The La County Department of Medical Examiner
determined the girl died from the combined effects of strangulation and sharp force injury of
the wrist. A man convicted of raping a nine year old girl and a
jogger in Mission Viejo has been sentenced to one hundred and forty years in prison.
Genetic genealogy led to the defendant, but also to his twin brother.
Orange County Dia Todd Spitzer says Kevin Conther made incriminating statements in twenty nineteen about
the two rapes from the late nineties during a secretly recorded conversation with his twin
brother, who was shocked by the arrest. She was only nine years old.
For goodness sakes, he still raped her and left her naked with only
her school supplies as she ran home to tell her mom about the attack.
Conthor was also sentenced Friday for the jagger and for molesting his former girlfriend's daughter
in Orange County. Corbin Carson kaf I News. The Israeli military is flooding
tunnels under Gaza with large amounts of water. The effort is aimed to keep
the Palestinian militant group Hamas from using the estimated three hundred and fifty miles of
tunnels that they've built. We were talking to ABC's Geordana Miller earlier today and
she is saying that the Israelis are finding more and more of these tunnels all
over the Gaza Strip. The plan to flood the tunnels has drawn some criticism
over potential dangers to the nearly one hundred and thirty hostages still being held in
Gaza, and over damage to drinking water and sewage systems. Governor Newsom has
announced steps in California to take to restore salmon populations in the face of a
changing climate. The governor says the priorities are to remove barriers, modernize infrastructure
for migration, and protect water flows and key rivers. The state's already spent
more than seven hundred and ninety six million dollars in the last three years towards
dam removal, returning the fish to historical habitats, and expanding partnerships with tribes.
Okay found a new study about napping and if you are an early morning
person, as I am now an early morning person, you may rely on
naps. I know that when I had regular hours, I didn't so much,
but with wonky hours, I've come to rely on them. And I
always thought that taking an app was a really good thing for you, but
apparently it might not be. About a third of adults, according to researchers,
take a nap, and while there are lots of good things, like
you might feel refreshed. I always know I feel better when I get up.
New research says that for some people, napping may not be good for
you, and study from China shows that taking a midday nap could raise your
blood pressure. Also, those who napped were twelve percent more likely to develop
high blood pressure and twenty four percent more likely to have a stroke than those
who don't take naps. Great now I can't even take a nap. Here's
more health news for you. The American Cancer Society recently released its projections for
twenty twenty four and yearly stats, and there's good news. There's been a
thirty three percent drop in cancer deaths in the US since nineteen ninety one,
but colon cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths among people under fifty.
Under fifty, so remember it used to be that you hit fifty and
you got a colonoscope to make sure that everything was okay. Now they've lowered
that recommendation to forty five because they're finding that people are getting it younger or
any younger, and the hitch on that the really nasty thing is that most
people don't think about it earlier. So forty five is the new benchmark,
and especially because these statistics are scary to say the least, and that a
colonoscopy can save your life. I know that it did for me. I
survived it, and if I would have done it earlier, I probably wouldn't
have had to fight it at all. So there's my recommendation for the day,
to take your good care of yourself and get that colonoscopy. It's something
that nobody wants to talk about. It's not fun, but get it done
anyway. Okay, here's something that is fun. I love this. Remember
this show, Comma Knock on our door. We've been waiting for you.
Of course you do Freeze Company. Now, if you watch the show at
the very beginning, you remember the Ropers and there was Missus Roper and she
had her bright red hair and her what were those things called, like the
big funky dresses. I think they're called caftins. Well, Hermosa Beach wants
to celebrate Missus Roper, so they're doing a Missus Roper romp. It's happening
on February twenty fourth. Mark your calendars. It's a Saturday, and basically
it's a pub crawl, but they want everybody to come dressed as Missus Roper.
They want you to support local restaurants in bars, and according to a
post by Hermosa Beach, dressing like Missus Roper no matter what gender is a
primary costume. But you can also dress up as somebody else if you want
to be mister Roper or mister Furley, or you could be Jack, or
you could be Larry if you want. And they even have a recommendation that
Amazon has an amazing selection of caftins, chunky jewelry and wigs. If you're
not sure where to find your Missus Roper outfit, again, that's happening.
I love this Missus Roper romp Hermosa Beach on Saturday, February twenty fourth.
If nothing else, it'll be a good m a good drunk. Maybe you
shouldn't say that, but it should be a good time and lots of photo
ops. Right, you've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King.
You can always hear Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday
on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.