WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.879 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.359 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOSTHD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. 3 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:18.839 How goes it, mister Warlock? Winter? Please? I've got my 4 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:23.920 magic power working just fine. I can cast up a big freeze, Yes, 5 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:31.480 sir, I think I can guarantee oh white Christmas wonderful. Then let's 6 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:36.960 be off. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy Kay. 7 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:40.560 You bet watch John? You bet are not? Try? You bet? 8 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:48.159 Are not? I Sata Clauses coming to the time. Nos he is 9 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:52.359 in twelve more days. I check in it. It's five o'clock on your 10 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:56.200 wake up call. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Happy Tuesday. I 11 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.119 just watched Santa Claus Is Coming to Town the other night. I do think 12 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.479 that of all all of the Christmas movies, that is my number one, 13 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.840 and I still I'm such a wiss I still get teary eyed every year when 14 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:12.640 I watched it. Here's another way that I got into the Christmas spirit. 15 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:18.599 Yesterday went to Disneyland. I mean, how do you go wrong when you 16 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:21.120 do that? Had a great day. They have their Festival of Holidays going 17 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:26.159 on where they have all these kiosks set up in Disney California Adventure and you 18 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:30.680 get basically it's not tapas, but it's small plates of stuff so you can 19 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.319 go around and try stuff. Food's delicious. So we kind of sampled our 20 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.519 way through the parks and we watched the tree lighting in on Main Street in 21 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:44.159 Disneyland. Did you stay for the snow? No? No, because I 22 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.280 had to get home go to bed. I did not see snow, but 23 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.400 it was kind of like we had snow because during the tree lighting there were 24 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.519 these kids with those little bubble makers behind us and they had those going full 25 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:59.400 force, and we're like, what is that? It was children? And 26 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:04.400 here's when thing that I noticed yesterday that I probably notice all the time. 27 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:08.360 But you know how like there are parking lots all over the place that it 28 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:13.280 seems like more and more they have more of those compact spots, which just 29 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:17.439 means door dings. Disney does not do that. They have those massive parking 30 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:21.919 structures and there's room for your car. So when I got out of the 31 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:25.080 car, I was like, I'm thankful for Disney and no door dings today. 32 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.159 So anyway, that's that was my takeaway from Disneyland yesterday, but a 33 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:34.879 lot of fun. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. LA Police helicopters 34 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.960 cost taxpayers about forty six million dollars per year, and audit by the city 35 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:45.039 Controller's office shows sixty one percent of the time the seventeen LAPD helicopters are in 36 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:51.800 the air, they're not for high priority calls. President Biden is welcoming Ukrainian 37 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.800 President Zelensky to the White House today as his administration pushes Congress to pass one 38 00:02:55.879 --> 00:03:00.479 hundred and six billion dollars in aid for Ukraine. Is is the border and 39 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:06.439 Taiwan Republicans say they will only support it if it comes with significant changes to 40 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.520 US border policy. We're going to be talking more about this with ABC's Karen 41 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:13.800 Traverse in about two or three minutes. Authorities are trying to figure out how 42 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.759 a man from Russia was able to get on a plane in Copenhagen, Denmark 43 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:23.120 and fly to Lax without a ticket or a passport. A man apparently wasn't 44 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:25.560 hiding. He was sitting there with other passengers. He appears to have snuck 45 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:30.599 by security in Copenhagen. He's been arrested and is facing charges of stowing away 46 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:35.240 on a flight. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of 47 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:39.000 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A fire has destroyed the California Yacht Club 48 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:44.039 in Marina Del Rey. The fire was reported late last night and was soon 49 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.360 declared a second alarm, which means more firefighters are needed to fight it. 50 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:52.199 Two firefighters were hurt. They've been taken to the hospital. A former La 51 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.719 Kenny Sheriff's deputy who improperly detained a man in Compton then tried to cover it 52 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.560 up, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. The judge said 53 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:02.960 mcgilvy Vega's conduct embarrassed every person who puts on a badge. Vega and his 54 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.280 partner and properly detained a man who told them to leave two men they were 55 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:12.199 questioning alone. After driving away from the park, Vega continued to taunt and 56 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:15.600 threatened the victim, including threatening to drop them off in gang territory where the 57 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:20.079 victim would be beaten. US Attorney spokesman Kieren McAvoy says Vega crashed while the 58 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:24.120 man was in the car, which injured the man. The deputies then told 59 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:28.000 other deputies. In twenty twenty that they detained the guy because he was high 60 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:31.360 on meth. Blake trolley k if I News. A suicide bomber has attacked 61 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:36.279 a police station in northwest Pakistan, killing twenty three officers. Officials say the 62 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:41.480 man was in a vehicle full of explosives that were detonated at the police station's 63 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:46.040 main game gate. Pakistan's army says six militants then started shooting. The fight 64 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:51.959 with security forces lasted hours before the terrorists were killed. A pregnant woman in 65 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:58.920 Texas who was seeking an abortion has left the state to have it done. 66 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:03.040 The Texas Supreme Court last night ruled against the woman, who wanted an emergency 67 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:09.360 medical exception to the state's strict abortion ban. ABC's ran On Alice's Kate Cox 68 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:14.040 had already left Texas when the decision came down. Cox's attorneys say the decision 69 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.480 left her with no choice but to seek medical care in another state, but 70 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:23.360 she still wanted to pursue the legal case in Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken 71 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:27.839 Paxton argued the condition of the woman's fetus did not meet the medical exception to 72 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.759 the state's abortion law. The Texas Supreme Court had called on the State's Medical 73 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:35.920 Board to provide more guidance on the medical emergency exception. Let's say good morning 74 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:41.560 to ABC's Karen Travers at the White House. Karen, a pretty high stakes 75 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.680 meeting for Ukraine's President Zelenski today, Yeah, it is. The President will 76 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.040 be going to Capitol Hill first to meet with lawmakers, try to make his 77 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:55.040 case for why Ukraine aid is so critical and why the US cannot have any 78 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:58.240 laps in support for his country. And then he'll be coming here to the 79 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.160 White House to meet with President Biden in the of a office for a couple 80 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:04.480 of hours, and then the two leaders will deliver remarks and take questions from 81 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:09.879 reporters. But Winehouse says that this visit comes at a very critical time, 82 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:15.079 exactly the right time for Zolensky to be making this case, because Russia is 83 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:19.680 increasing their missileing drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, and Zolenski will be 84 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:25.279 saying what this means for his country and how the people in Ukraine are suffering 85 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.879 right now, and how the support from the United States and also European allies 86 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.759 is what is keeping them in the fight at this point, and what it 87 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.800 will mean for his country in January and February if it stops. But we've 88 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:43.160 talked about this. The site on Capitol Hill is beyond Ukraine. It's about 89 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.879 border policy right now, and it's not clear where there is a compromise to 90 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:51.279 be reached, and it's not clear what will satisfy Republicans on what the president 91 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:57.439 could compromise on. Nobody is talking publicly about what the negotiations are entailing at 92 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.600 this point, so we don't have a lot of details. But it's hard 93 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:04.160 to see what President Zolensky can make a case about today that can convince minds 94 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:09.199 on the border aspect of it, because there's such two separate issues, right 95 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:11.720 It's like he can go in and say, hey, I really need this, 96 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.680 and everybody will go, yeah, of course you really need your aid. 97 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.079 But there's another issue looming and just sitting out there that needs to be 98 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:24.319 addressed. Yeah, and you have Republicans who are at the center of the 99 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:29.639 border negotiations, James Langford of Oklahoma. There's like Mitch McConnell, the minority 100 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.120 leader, Mitt Romney, a leading voice who all support aid for Ukraine, 101 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:39.040 but they say it has to come with major concessions by the White House major 102 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:43.240 agreements on border policy, so that's the sticking point at this point. They 103 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:47.160 don't need to be convinced necessarily by Zolensky to get the aid done. It's 104 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.800 just a matter of how it gets done on the House side. Maybe Zolensky 105 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:56.240 has more of a case to make, but he's also made this case before, 106 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:00.240 and it's not clear that anything he'd say now would be changing minds on 107 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.639 some of the more hardline Republicans there. We don't support this assistant. Okay, 108 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.360 And Karen, has anyone er have you heard any rumblings about why they 109 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.240 don't just break up this aid package so we can do the Ukraine part and 110 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.319 then deal with the other one, because it likely wouldn't get passed. They 111 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:22.279 it all tied together because if it doesn't have any of the border security measures 112 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:26.560 included in it, Republicans would not vote for it. So they've got to 113 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.800 have to tie it all together to get it across the finish line. Okay. 114 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:35.360 And President Biden has said publicly I'm willing to move on the border issues, 115 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.279 but has he said what? No? And that's you know, the 116 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.360 White House will say we're not going to negotiate this from the podium. We're 117 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:45.639 not going to negotiate this in an Air Force one briefing, so it's not 118 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:50.080 clear exactly where the President is willing to compromise. He said he is willing 119 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:52.240 to meet them somewhere on this issue. We do know, you know, 120 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:58.240 in the request he made, he asked for about fourteen billion dollars for border 121 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:03.200 security. It's more border ai jins, more immigration judges, more asylum officer. 122 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.080 So that was a request for funding. But in terms of the actual 123 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.879 policy changes, the White House is not giving any details of that. Okay, 124 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:13.639 well, it's up to Zelensky to shine today. We'll see what happens. 125 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.799 Thank you so much, Karen Travers. Appreciate the insight. Have a 126 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:18.679 great day, all right, you too. Let's get back to some of 127 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:22.159 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A woman who 128 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:26.759 pointed a gun at a three year old child's head has been shot and killed 129 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:30.679 by San Bernardino police. It happened at an apartment a complex Sunday. You 130 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:35.399 don't only understand what the purpose or the reasoning was behind the suspect's chaotic behavior, 131 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:39.759 you know, she had actually been very violent with the residents there. 132 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.879 For quite some time before we've been got there. Lieutenant Jennifer Correll says. 133 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.399 The woman appears to have been a friend of the child's family. She was 134 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:50.720 out on the balcony when police got there, but then ducked inside and locked 135 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:52.559 the door with the child and wouldn't come out, so they had to kick 136 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.600 in the door, and as soon as the door opened, they saw the 137 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.919 suspect was standing over the child within just feet with a gun I played directly 138 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.559 at the child's head. That's when the woman was shot. Carrelsa's the woman 139 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:09.399 threatened the child's life again and then was shot again by officers a second time. 140 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.600 A man in Glendale's been arrested for allegedly going on a racist tirade against 141 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.759 some Latino street vendors. The guys accused of yelling racial slurs and profanity at 142 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.399 the vendors last month and tossing pieces of broken concrete at them. One person 143 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:28.240 was hit and property was damaged. A thief is ransacked a home in Westminster, 144 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.799 making off with thousands of dollars worth of cash and jewelry. The family 145 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.360 says the intruder got in Sunday through a bedroom window on the second floor we 146 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.000 got home, everything was in disarray. There is like things just all over 147 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.679 the ground and that that's when my mom was like, oh, someone's in 148 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.159 the house, she tells KTLA. The intruder spent about a half hour inside 149 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:50.440 and also took religious and sentimental items. The guy was caught on security video. 150 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.000 DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who was on K Rock for forty years, has 151 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:01.440 been accused of sexually assaulting six underage girls decades ago. Rolling Stone published a 152 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.840 report yesterday detailing two of the claims from Gogo's guitarist Jan Wheedland and runaway songwriter 153 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:13.039 Carrie Chrome. Wheedlin alleges she was assaulted by Bingenheimer when she was fifteen and 154 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:18.559 he was about twenty seven. Bingenheimer hosted Rodney on the Rock. On K 155 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.559 Rock. Officials in New York say it's a miracle nobody was killed when a 156 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:28.399 building partially collapsed. ABC's Jim Dolans's witnesses described it as a series of collapses 157 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:33.360 yesterday that started near the top of the building and cascaded down the corner floor 158 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.919 by floor. They say it coust a massive pile of dirt and to bring 159 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.120 on the ground below, and then a frantic search for survivors. The fire 160 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.600 department says it searched the rubble of the multi story complex in the Bronx for 161 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:50.159 nearly seven hours, using drones and canines to see if anybody had been trapped. 162 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:54.039 The cause of the collapse is being investigated. Officials say they're looking into 163 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.919 several reports of violations and complaints about the building. Mexico is putting up its 164 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.840 own version of a border all to try to stop people from crossing into the 165 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.399 US. San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond praised the efforts, saying the number 166 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.399 of crossings along the Tijuana River Canal south of Sandy Cedro has dropped in the 167 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.639 last month. I think they should be doing enforcement on their side of the 168 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.840 border as well. A lot of these migrants come from all over the world, 169 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.919 so they didn't just start in Mexico, so they're coming through Mexico to 170 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.120 get to our southern border. Desmond says the Mexican National Guard is patrolling the 171 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.960 area. Signs have also been put up telling migrants that crossing the canal is 172 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:33.639 illegal and to use the CBP one app to apply for asylum. Hey, 173 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:37.879 I mentioned that we were at Disney yesterday, And as you might have heard 174 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:43.679 us talking about, there are Disney after Dark events, and last year we 175 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.440 got to go to i think Princess Knight and also Star Wars Night, and 176 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:54.639 they're fun. They're separate ticketed events and they go from like nine o'clock until 177 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:56.279 one o'clock in the morning. You get access to the park at six, 178 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:00.720 so you pay for like a separate partial day ticket. But the really cool 179 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:05.240 thing about it is each one is themed and attendance of the park goes down 180 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:09.320 dramatically, so you really if you don't love the crowds, which are part 181 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.960 of the Disney experience, it's really kind of a cool chance to go. 182 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.879 There's shorter lines to the rides, and they have all these cool things, 183 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.360 like on Star Wars Night, they have Star Wars characters everywhere all over the 184 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:24.559 park, and they have different photo ops and they have specially themed foods and 185 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.360 that kind of stuff. So Disney has announced for Disney after Dark events for 186 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:33.919 this year. So it's Star Wars Day, it's Sweetheart's Night, it's the 187 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.759 Gay Pride event, and also a new one is Disney Channel Night. So 188 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:43.320 Disney Channel apparently is going to have like backdrops for photo ops for Camp Rock 189 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:48.159 and the Teen Beach Movie and Lizzie McGuire ive always loved Lyzia McGuire Halloween Town 190 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:52.320 Xenon and for two of these events. If you are a person who wants 191 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.360 to go, and you know, you got to get on your computer and 192 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.360 you got to start dialing in early to get them because they're in high demand. 193 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:05.320 Actually go on sale today, so if you're interested in those, then 194 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.279 you might want to check that out. And then the Star Wars Night and 195 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:13.279 also the Gay Pride Knights are going to go on sale later, but it's 196 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:16.480 for multiple nights for each event and they're really fun. If you want to 197 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:22.240 check them out, there you have it. Israel says its forces are surrounding 198 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:26.039 the last Tamas strongholds in the Northern Gaza Strip as the war continues. Israel's 199 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:30.840 Defense Minister says Hamas battalions in the region are, in his words, on 200 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:35.000 the verge of dismantling. The more than five month long strike appears to be 201 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.600 over for employees at four hotels in SoCal The Beverly Hilton, Coasta, Mesa, 202 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:43.559 Hilton, Anaheim, Hilton, and Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills have all 203 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.360 reached tentative labor agreements. Five other hotels have already made deals, but the 204 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:52.279 strike continues at fifty one other locations. LA's demographics are shifting. The latest 205 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:58.240 sense of data shows the senior population is up to fourteen percent of the county's 206 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.519 population. That's up from thirteen percent five years ago. Hispanics make up about 207 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.759 half of the total population, and the Asian population is up about two and 208 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.919 a half percent. At six oh five, It's handle on the news. 209 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:15.360 Is the cost of LAPD's helicopter program the largest in the nation? Worth it? 210 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.559 We'll be talking about that right now. Let's say good morning too. 211 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.480 Joel Larsguard, the host of How to Money here on KFI, Good morning, 212 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.600 Joel, morning Amy. Okay, we were going to talk about this 213 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:28.440 last week and we ran out of time, but so we decided we're going 214 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:33.320 to talk about it this week. An article in The Atlantic says inflation is 215 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:39.759 your fault. How is that possible? Because they're talking to you and me 216 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:43.559 and you right right, just every individual out there. It's on you. 217 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.120 Sorry to bear the bad news, but it's you spending that's driving inflation. 218 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.360 And it's not that there's like zero accuracy to the headline. But the truth 219 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:54.879 is it's so much more than that, as we all know, and so 220 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.919 reading that article, I was just like kind of pulling my hair out, 221 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:03.679 thinking any individual reading this is just going to be like upset and rightly pissed 222 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.840 off, because it's not all your fault. There's anybody remember COVID. That 223 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:14.360 was a big issue that led to so many domino effects. There were there 224 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:18.480 were staying home orders, and then there were there was supply chain issues. 225 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:21.960 And think about all the all the ships sitting off the port not too far 226 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.200 from here, and the increased cost of goods because of wars overseas that we 227 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.360 had nothing to do with as individual Americans. I mean, all of these 228 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:34.720 things led to the inflational inflation reality that we saw. And so did our 229 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:40.320 continued spending increase inflation and keep it around a little bit longer. Sure, 230 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:45.120 but the government also stuck money into our accounts three times, And so I 231 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.720 guess it's just it's a tough headline to stomach, a tough article to read, 232 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:52.639 because there's it's just so much more. There's so many more reasons inflation 233 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.879 happened than just like Americans spending money well, and during the pandemic, if 234 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:02.639 you're going back to there when they were the incentives people were saving during that 235 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:04.839 period, right, Or are we kind of hoarding money because we didn't have 236 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.559 anywhere to spend it? That's exactly right. I mean, yeah, we're 237 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:12.720 staying at home and we're getting our takeout food to support the local restaurants. 238 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.920 But there were just fewer places to spend money. And so when money gets 239 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.119 shold into your account and you can't really go out to spend it like you 240 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:22.599 normally would, you don't go to the stores, You're maybe not going to 241 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.720 the club you might have gone to to stimulate the economy, more of that 242 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:29.480 money sets in your account, and so there's just been an excess of savings, 243 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:30.920 which is not a bad thing, but that's getting spent down and that 244 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:36.599 has led to inflation sticking around longer than a lot of people expected. But 245 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:41.519 then again, inflation has come down significantly, and I feel like we're the 246 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.480 Fed keeps talking about this soft landing or were going to hit this soft landing 247 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:48.079 where unemployment doesn't spike, where there is no recession, and where inflation gets 248 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:51.640 you know, comes under control. And it looks like we're headed there, 249 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:53.759 but those headlines, it's just it's kind of tough the stomach because there are 250 00:17:53.839 --> 00:18:00.880 so many other realities of inflation and what caused it's not thus spending money. 251 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.079 Yeah, and then the other thing you just mentioned. Inflation is coming down 252 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:07.799 and the rate of inflation is coming down, but there's no deflation. We're 253 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:11.839 still spending, like I just and I know that people talk about it, 254 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:18.160 how much higher the costs are at grocery stores, but everything is higher by 255 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.920 like twenty thirty forty percent. Yeah, And I talk about this a lot. 256 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:26.920 Is that your individual rate of inflation is different than whatever the consumer Price 257 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.519 indexcess. Right, So if the CPI says that inflation is three point two 258 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:36.279 or three point five percent or something like that, well you're your particular inflation 259 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.240 number as an individual could be a lot higher or it could be a little 260 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:41.799 bit lower. It depends. Like if you bought a house and a car 261 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.519 last year, your personal inflation rate is much higher because those are two things 262 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:47.279 that have gone on. Or if you go to a bunch of concerts, 263 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:49.519 Right, that's another place where I've seen a lot of inflation. But if 264 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:52.880 you know, held off on all those purchases and you bought a flat screen 265 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.599 TV or whatever, and you spend your money in other ways, then it's 266 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.799 not impacting you to quite the same degree. But you're right, we are 267 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:03.160 saying, and it's really important for us to think as consumers, like, 268 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.519 well, where am I going to spend my money? And so the truth 269 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:10.799 there is some truth to the buyer's revolt, right that if something costs too 270 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:12.039 much, and we say, you know what, I wanted to go to 271 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:17.559 Paris this coming summer, but the plane tickets, you know, fourteen hundred. 272 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:19.240 I'd go for eight hundred, but not for fourteen hundred. That's a 273 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.720 really good opportunity for us to exercise our muscle. And granted, none of 274 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.200 us as an individual can bring down inflation, you know, but we can 275 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.000 bring it down in our own lives. And I talk about it like it's 276 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.279 got this kind of Captain planet effect where if we all kind of combine our 277 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:37.279 powers together, we become Captain Planet. If we all kind of start to 278 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.480 balk at some of these higher prices, we do help to bring inflation down. 279 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:45.640 Okay, So then this brings us to our next topic. Because you 280 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:49.400 mentioned houses and you talked about us acting like Captain planet and all bonding together. 281 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.519 Young people want the housing market to crash. Oh yeah, yeah, 282 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:57.759 there was a Yes, there was a new study, and thirty five percent 283 00:19:57.759 --> 00:20:03.039 of Americans overall to see a housing crash. But fifty three percent of gen 284 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.319 zers and forty six percent of millennials want the housing market to tank. And 285 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.519 the answer is pretty self evident. It's it's that, Hey, I want 286 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:14.440 to buy a house, and I can't afford it right now. And so 287 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:19.079 if prices come cratering twenty thirty forty percent back down, if it's reminiscent of 288 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.519 the two thousand and eight housing crash, then maybe I can get in and 289 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:26.279 actually afford to buy a house. So I get the sentiment, But the 290 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:32.799 reality is a housing market crash is highly unlikely given all of the data that 291 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.319 we have. So too bad. You're stuck. You're not going to buy 292 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:38.640 a house anytime soon, not necessarily. And I will say there was an 293 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:41.480 interesting there was an article in the Wall Street Journal this week. It said 294 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.680 the math for buying a home no longer works. And the truth is, 295 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.799 I'm feeling these questions from listeners all the time. It's like, Hey, 296 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:51.720 I want to buy a house, but it kind of doesn't make financial sense, 297 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.960 and part of it the market will come back into some sort of normalcy. 298 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:02.599 Like the spread between rents and mortgage price is greater than it's been in 299 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:06.279 a long long time, and so you have to be willing to zig when 300 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:10.359 other people are zagging in if something, we have to make value judgments kind 301 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:11.880 of like I was talking about, be willing to walk away from higher prices, 302 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.559 and so I think for people who want to buy a home but don't 303 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.119 feel like they can afford it yet, even though rents have gone up, 304 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:22.680 well, that mortgage amount has like skyrocketed at a much much faster pace. 305 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.240 So I would say, be willing to hold off, not because there's going 306 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.160 to be some sort of housing crash, but so that you can save more 307 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:32.759 of your money, be more prepared when there is not a crash, but 308 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:37.799 in all likelihood more of a minor correction as rates come down more supply comes 309 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.079 on the market. I'm not saying that prices are going to come down significantly. 310 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:44.359 I don't see that in the housing market future. We still don't have 311 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:47.680 enough supply as a country. But I think the more you can do to 312 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:49.799 be prepared on a personal individual level, the better. Off. You're going 313 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.920 to be all right, Joel Larscard, Thank you so much. I'm going 314 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.680 to smash away my money and be prepared. Sounds good. And we'll get 315 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:02.920 Knos some cash for Christmas too. Yes, all right, we'll talk to 316 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:04.799 you next week. Thanks so much, SIRL. A judge in Orange County 317 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:10.279 has rejected a lawsuit that would end the zero bail policy in La County. 318 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.440 The lawsuit was filed by twenty nine cities in La County. The judge says 319 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:18.640 the cities did not present sufficient evidence to prove La County Superior Court failed to 320 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:23.960 consider potential risks to public safety and the victims of crime when creating the policy. 321 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:30.359 President Biden's welcoming Ukrainian President Zelensky to the White House today as his administration 322 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:33.799 pushes Congress to pass one hundred six billion dollars in aid for Ukraine, Israel, 323 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:37.960 Taiwan, and the border. Republicans say they'll only support it if it 324 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:42.400 comes with significant changes to US border policy. Triple A says nine and a 325 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:47.680 half million people will be traveling at the end of the year in southern California. 326 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:49.920 That's up three percent from last year, two percent from the year before. 327 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:56.359 The pandemic. The top destinations Las Vegas and San Diego, Las Vegas 328 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:00.119 for Christmas interesting. At six five I it's handled on the news. A 329 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:06.519 guy from Russia got on a plane and flew from Copenhagen to lax No passport 330 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:10.559 didn't go through. Security officials are trying to figure out how the heck he 331 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:12.920 did it. At five p fifty we're going to be checking in with ABC's 332 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:18.359 Jim Ryan. It's a porch pirate's paradise out there. We're going to be 333 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:21.839 talking about where to worry the most and how to protect your packages. You 334 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:25.799 know, this year there is a new twist to Christmas shopping. As you 335 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:30.160 probably have seen by now, more and more businesses have iPads that are asking 336 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:33.279 customers if they want to tip for what, in many cases is just a 337 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:40.079 simple transaction with no extra effort. So that growing number of businesses using credit 338 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:44.759 card machines and they flip it around and they ask you do you want to 339 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.880 tip? Well, Diane Gotzman runs the Protocol School of Texas. She says, 340 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.240 you shouldn't be pressured to do it. That little app that they've turned 341 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:56.400 around is a suggestion and we don't have to take that suggestion, She says, 342 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:00.680 the mostly simple transactions at the counter are part of an hourly worker's job. 343 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:07.160 Consider that app a tip jar that's discretionary. Jesuys it is appropriate to 344 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:11.240 tip servers since most of their salary comes from tips. And I agree, 345 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.440 and I would say that, Nick and I go out and run around a 346 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:19.920 lot. Nick POLIOCHINNI yeah, And we're seeing more and more that everywhere you 347 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:25.319 go they flip that thing around and look at you. They really do. 348 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:29.559 And I'm like, I don't get it. I am all for tipping servers, 349 00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:34.839 and I will generously tip servers when I get good service, but well, 350 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:37.720 this one just goes to me. It just goes beyond the pale that 351 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.000 they're asking us to pay more. Well, not just that, but also, 352 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:44.920 and we've talked about this a couple of times, we don't really know 353 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:48.079 where that money's actually going. That's true because so not only yeah, so 354 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.039 not only is it you know that what you just said, this specifically to 355 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:55.119 somebody who has a lower salary, the tip really helps, but we really 356 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:56.759 don't know at the end of the day, where's that money actually going. 357 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:00.160 Is it going to those people that are turning the screens around to us or 358 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.319 is it going somewhere else within the organization. And I think that's really at 359 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.200 the end of the day, my biggest concern is if I'm going to put 360 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:07.519 in, you know, and I'm saying, we're putting in like you know, 361 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.160 a couple, you know, rounding up for the tip kind of thing. 362 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:14.640 It's nothing crazy that way, but if we don't know where that money 363 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.039 is going, I'm feeling a little bit, you know, I pressured as 364 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:19.799 well as everybody has, you know, kind of like you've got somebody staring 365 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:22.480 at you now. But then where's that money actually going in the end. 366 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:26.039 That is a very good question, and that's why I think we were talking 367 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:32.920 to somebody and gosh, I'm spacing surprisingly, I forgot, uh, But 368 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:34.519 we were talking to somebody who said, if you're going to tip somebody in 369 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:38.079 that instance, tip and cash, because then you know that they're going to 370 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:42.160 get it same thing with you. And I don't do this at restaurants enough, 371 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:45.799 but better to tip and cash, give them the money. If you 372 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:51.359 get great service, tip and cash. Although I don't really carry cash much 373 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:53.000 anymore. Yeah, well, I think that's the bigger issues. Most of 374 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:56.640 us don't but even if you go back to that, a lot of times 375 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:00.240 the service if we're going back to the service issue, when you give them 376 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.480 on the bill, it comes out of their taxes as well. So if 377 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:06.480 there's something you know, granted, we always want to support people paying taxes 378 00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:10.599 and everything that effect, but they're not get back fedal well under staying because 379 00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:12.160 that's my biggest thing is you're giving it to the person and they should be 380 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:15.079 putting it into taxes at the end of the year as opposed to automatically being 381 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.839 taken out and you know in the beginning, So I don't want to be 382 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:21.880 big brother and over people's shoulders saying not not no, you need to be 383 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:26.240 giving you Uncle Sam, I your a certain percentage here as opposed to if 384 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:27.079 we provide them with the cash, then they can do that at the end 385 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:30.000 of the year when they file their own taxes. Yeah, and speaking of 386 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:37.279 tipping it as the holidays and uh, the insidious tip is back for anybody 387 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.119 you had interaction with over the last year. And I'm I'm sort of split 388 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.480 on this because there are some people that I think, yeah, like you 389 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:51.240 should give somebody a little extra little something something like I have a wonderful woman 390 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:53.839 who comes and cleans my house every once in a while, and she does 391 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:57.680 a fabulous job, and so I'm going to give her a little boost, 392 00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.599 like, thank you for doing a fabuls less job for me all year round. 393 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:06.759 But the list of people that you're supposed to tip is getting a little 394 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:11.240 extensive. So here here If you are have interaction with any of these people, 395 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:19.119 be prepared. Delivery drivers, babysitters, nannies, repair people, housekeepers, 396 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:25.319 okay, pool cleaners, trash collectors who I have never seen once in 397 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:32.640 my life, landscapers, pet walkers, groomers, sitters, personal trainers. 398 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:38.359 You're supposed to tip your personal trainer, really, hairstylists and beauticians and newspaper 399 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:44.119 carriers? Are there even newspaper carriers? And like letter carrier? Do you 400 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:47.359 guys tip your letter carriers? No, I don't even know. We have 401 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:49.599 so many leather carriers. I mean, now, not to be creepy or 402 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:52.359 anything, but I mean I looked at my ring camera. I must have 403 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.880 at least two dozen different mail carriers. So I don't even have a regular 404 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:00.039 mail carrier to be able to do that with. Yeah, and I I 405 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.359 used to know my male carrier. His name is Scott Lowell. I'm listening 406 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.279 Scott like I stay in touch with him from twenty five years ago. But 407 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:11.240 I don't know my carriers anymore. I never see them, I have no 408 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.319 relationship with them. So I just think that the tipping thing has gotten out 409 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:18.480 of control and I'll probably get hate mail because last time we talked about tipping, 410 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.759 we got a few responses. I am a firm believer in tipping and 411 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.720 tipping well. But and then there's here's the other thing too. You're not 412 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:30.680 supposed to give cash to everybody, Like you're not supposed to give co workers 413 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.799 cash. They're supposed to give them gifts if you're going to give them something. 414 00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:37.759 And then same thing with like long term care facility workers, teachers, 415 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:41.599 principal, school staff. Although I wouldn't give my head, then does that 416 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.480 mean like a gift card does that count as well or not? Well, 417 00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:48.599 they're saying that you shouldn't pay them directly, so I don't know if it 418 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.759 gifts card counts. But it's supposed to be a gift because I can give 419 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:56.359 them a Visa gift card and that is a gift, but it's cash realistically 420 00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:59.599 at the end of the day. So yeah. And then there's certain people 421 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.519 who can accept gifts public service to government workers, healthcare workers, lawyers, 422 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.880 realtors and accountants and financial advisors. I always get a gift from my financial 423 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.480 advisor and I'm you're not supposed to give them a gift back. Hmm, 424 00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:15.720 interesting, right, very much so. And they do say if you don't 425 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.480 have a lot of extra money and you can't afford to tip, and that's 426 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.400 understandable. We're all, you know, there's a lot of people, including 427 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:23.319 me, who are you know, it's it's a little tight right now. 428 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:27.599 You can write them a nice card and say thank you, and that's acceptable 429 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:34.519 too. I got crickets from everybody. Maybe not okay, so it's nice. 430 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.359 I'm sorry, no no no, I think I no, no, 431 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:38.640 no. Thank you letters are really nice and I was going to say no, 432 00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:41.319 no, no. This is really quick to wrap that up. It's 433 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:45.359 specific for me. I've always been told that that's one of those things. 434 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.480 And we don't send cards. And if you ever think about Christmas cards, 435 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.039 and not to go a little off a topic, but everybody gets those pre 436 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.839 made gift cards. If you're going to do something heartfelt and thoughtful to write 437 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.680 the little note by hand. I mean that you and I itself, as 438 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.480 silly as it sounds, is so unusual in twenty twenty three. That is 439 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:07.880 not something that is done any longer. And really, you know, some 440 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:11.000 people will not appreciate it, but more often than not, folks appreciate it 441 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:14.079 because they're like, oh, somebody actually took the time to sit here and 442 00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:17.559 write me a heartfelt, thoughtful message. And it wasn't just printed out by 443 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.599 you know, like cardstock dot com or something like that. Yep, I 444 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:23.279 think that's a really good that's good advice. Nick Poliochini, thank you so 445 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.000 much. Good teamwork there, Amy, kay. I know, let's get 446 00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.640 some back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour 447 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:33.160 newsroom. The La City Controller's offices, the LAPD has not justified the need 448 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:38.240 for its helicopter program. Chief of Accountability and Oversight Sergio Perez, says the 449 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:45.960 police department has not collected data on whether helicopter's lower crime despite decades of helicopter 450 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:52.359 operations, Despite sophisticated operations in staff and resources, an audit by the Controller's 451 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:56.240 office found thirty nine percent of the helicopter's flight time is spent on high priority 452 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.559 crime. Thirty four percent was used for patrols in general flights. The LAPD 453 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:06.599 currently spends more than forty five million dollars a year on its seventeen helicopters. 454 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.119 A guy with a knife has robbed a street vendor in South la. The 455 00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:14.519 vendor says the man walked up behind him Friday night and demanded cash. Jocelyn 456 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:18.839 Segera tells Kate La her parents have worked in the same corner or on the 457 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.880 same corner for years, and the robbery has left her father traumatized. It 458 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.839 frustrates me may not being able to do anything for them, because you know, 459 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.160 like they do work for this. This is this is what they do. 460 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.640 You know, they've been doing this for over twelve years. The robber 461 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:40.480 got away with about five hundred dollars. The Supreme Court has granted a request 462 00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:45.480 by Special Counsel Jack Smith to consider hearing arguments on whether former President Trump has 463 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:49.680 immunity from prosecution for anything he did while in office, particularly his role in 464 00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:56.240 the January sixth attack on the Capitol. ABC's Justin Finch says a lower court 465 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.599 already rejected Trump's claim of absolute immunity. Finch said the appeal process could delay 466 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:07.519 the trial pasted the twenty twenty four election. CNN says Anderson Cooper and Andy 467 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:10.519 Cohen will return as hosts of its annual New Year's Eve show in Times Square. 468 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.720 Enrique Iglesias, Maroon Five, The Jonas Brothers, Flow Rider, Miranda 469 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:22.039 Lambert, Darius Ruckert, Yea and Rod Stewart are all performing. David Blaine, 470 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.480 Neil Patrick, Harris Bowen Yang and Jeremy Renner will be appearing as guests. 471 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.599 CNN's New Year's Eve show will also stream on Max. Cooper and Cohen 472 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:37.119 are still campaigning for a boozy evening just getting word into the CAFI newsroom that 473 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:43.839 Harvard's president, Claudine Gay will remain president of the Ivy League school following the 474 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:50.400 comments she made at a congressional hearing on anti Semitism that have been strongly criticized. 475 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:54.279 The president of the University of Pennsylvania resigned over the weekend because of the 476 00:32:54.319 --> 00:33:00.079 comments she made at those hearings. Israel says its forces are surround the last 477 00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:06.319 Hamas strongholds in the northern Gaza Strip as the war continues. The Gaza Health 478 00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:09.680 Ministry says more than eighteen thousand Palestinians have been killed since the war began. 479 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:15.079 October seventh, a more than five month long strike appears to be over for 480 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:20.920 employees at four hotels in Sokow. The Beverly Coasta Mesa and Anaheim Hilton's, 481 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:25.119 and also the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills have all reached tentative labor agreements with 482 00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:30.799 their union. Five other hotels have already made deals. The strike continues at 483 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:37.359 fifty one other hotels. Governor not Governor. President Biden is going to be 484 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:44.000 welcoming President Zelenski to the White House. We'll be talking about that on handle 485 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.119 on the news in just a couple of minutes. But right now, let's 486 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:51.640 say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, tis the season for presidents 487 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:57.440 and packages and dreaded porch pirates. Yes, naturally, during the pandemic, 488 00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:01.200 we were ordering things online all year long and collecting them off far front porches, 489 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:05.720 so too were port pirates. That's when they really met their heyday. 490 00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:08.719 But yeah, it's continued though. People have gone back to work in the 491 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:13.599 office and they're still ordering things online, so those packages are sitting there on 492 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.920 their front porches for longer periods. You know, hours at a time sometimes, 493 00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:22.480 and we're finding that indeed, porch piracy is a major problem, about 494 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:27.599 six billion dollars in losses all together. If you add up all the stuff 495 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:30.400 that's stolen, seventy one percent of the packages were valued at one hundred bucks 496 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:35.400 or less. But if you pick fifty bucks, that's the average loss. 497 00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.599 That's where you come up with a six billion dollar aggregate. There, seventy 498 00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:43.000 five percent of us amy have had something stolen from the front porch. Forty 499 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.920 percent of those it's happened more than once. Yeah, that's you know what. 500 00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:51.320 And the companies have gotten really good about letting you know, like immediately 501 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:53.639 when it's delivered. Some of them take pictures, which is good, but 502 00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:57.280 I know that when it gets delivered earlier in the day, and like you 503 00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.400 said, I'm at work, I just sit there and go, oh my 504 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:01.280 gosh, I hope it's still there. I hope it's still there. I 505 00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:05.679 hope somebody doesn't grab it because you know it's sitting there for hours on end. 506 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:07.880 Well. Sure, and you have to sign up for those kinds of 507 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.920 alerts too. You know, if you order something and you say as part 508 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.480 of the order process, the shipping process. It says, do you want 509 00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:19.920 to track this package or do you want to know when it's delivered. Great, 510 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:24.800 that's one way to kind of protect yourself ensuring or requiring that a signature, 511 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.760 and this is not practical for a lot of people if everybody works in 512 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:31.159 the house is empty. But requiring a signature in a place where you can 513 00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:36.920 when something is delivered to you. But really working with your neighbors in your 514 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:42.280 neighborhood, making sure that people are watching out for each other, that it 515 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.400 can build the community there. First of all within the neighborhood, but also 516 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:50.679 let's porch pirates or other thieves burglars know that this neighborhood is on alert. 517 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.760 There are cameras around potentially, but there are people around and they've got their 518 00:35:53.800 --> 00:36:00.639 eyes open. So where are some of the worst places for porch pirates? 519 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:05.760 A company called safe Wise, which is sort of a national consumer group that 520 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:09.360 analyzes looks at the home security systems, has put together this list based on 521 00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:15.639 surveys them, police reports and whatnot. Seattle, for whatever reason, has 522 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.559 it the worst. For some reason, you know, seventy eight percent of 523 00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:23.079 the people now in Seattle and around Seattle, Tacoma Bellevue are using some kind 524 00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:27.679 of deterrent. Most of them it's a camera. Memphis, Tennessee comes in 525 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:30.119 second place this year. Last year it wasn't even on the list, and 526 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:36.119 then third place San Diego tu La Vista. Really, yes, that's well, 527 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:40.719 maybe it's a nicer area, so that's why they go there. There 528 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:44.320 seems to be no in of course, in a quote nicer area, you 529 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:49.599 would assume that more people have security cameras and doorbell cameras and whatnot, but 530 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:53.320 it doesn't seem to matter much. If you watch surveillance video that's always posted 531 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:59.079 online, it seems that some of the thieves couldn't care less if their places 532 00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:00.960 are seen. They just kind of stroll up, grab a package, and 533 00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:05.159 stroll off and drive away. It's a low risk crime, and that's part 534 00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:08.000 of what contributes to the popularity. If you will, okay, Jim, 535 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:13.079 if you get your package stolen, are you just out of luck? Will 536 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:15.320 the company send you a new one that you ordered from or what happens a 537 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:21.639 lot of cases that is the case. You know, the companies will reimburse 538 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:23.320 you, and then of course we're all kind of paying the price for that. 539 00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:29.519 Eight and ten people say they did add some deterrent. Twenty one percent 540 00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:32.960 of the report of the theft law enforcement and some percentage of the mad An 541 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.599 insurance claim that about six percent of people say that they managed to recover the 542 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:43.079 package from the thief. Oh really, yeah, Okay. I just hope 543 00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:46.119 that if somebody does come and steal something from my porch, it's going to 544 00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:50.480 be one of the orders, like when I had like cat treats or feminine 545 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:58.360 products or feminine products for your cat. All right, Jim Ryan, thank 546 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:00.480 you so much. Have a great day. Let's get back to some of 547 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.559 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news from President Biden is 548 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:07.719 hosting the President of Ukraine at the White House today. ABC's Dave Packer says 549 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:13.440 the visit comes as the Biden administration is pressing Congress to approve billions in new 550 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:16.679 aid for Ukraine. OH Speaker Mike Johnson says he'll explain why Republicans are holding 551 00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:21.559 up support for Ukraine's fight against Russia. While Johnson says he does not want 552 00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:23.679 to see Vladimir Putin prevail in Ukraine, he says, quote, we have 553 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:28.199 to take care of our border. First, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says, 554 00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:30.920 when it comes to keeping America safe, border security is ground zero. 555 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:36.159 A man in Minnesota convicted of murder in two thousand and four has been released 556 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:39.360 from prison. Marvin Hayes is now thirty five. He left a courthouse yesterday 557 00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:44.119 surrounded by his family once his conviction was vacated. I mean, it took 558 00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:46.599 nineteen years, but I'm here and all I want to do is move forward 559 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:52.199 and just get my life back. Let's see. The County Attorney's office agreed 560 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:57.639 with Hayes's legal team that the uncertain eyewitness used as evidence wasn't enough to connect 561 00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:00.639 Hayes to the killing. Hayes thank the Innocence Project for picking up his case 562 00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:05.920 and his sister for advocating for him. You see. San Diego Health has 563 00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:09.480 purchased the Alvarado Hospital Medical Center from Prime Healthcare for two hundred million dollars, 564 00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:14.800 adding the three hundred two bed facility to its network of clinics and hospitals. 565 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:20.800 UCSD Health says it's a new chapter to expand access to needed medical and surgical 566 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:24.480 care in eastern San Diego. It says the center offers a new emergency department 567 00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:30.320 remodeled I See You and expanded behavior health services. Yesterday about this time, 568 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:36.039 the Golden Globes were announced, and as we mentioned to you, Barbie picked 569 00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:39.800 up nine nominations. Oppenheimer picked up eight, so it was a big Barbenheimer 570 00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:45.719 day. But they don't have a host for the Golden Globes. The awards 571 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:50.440 ceremony is going to be held on January seventh, but no one wants to 572 00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:55.360 do it. Apparently Chris Rock declined an offer. He last attended a major 573 00:39:55.400 --> 00:40:00.519 show in twenty twenty two when he obviously was slack, remember the slap herd 574 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:06.280 around the World, But he said no. And then others who have said 575 00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:10.079 no are the star of the Netflix series Beef, Ali Wong was approached, 576 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:16.800 and then will Arnette, Sean Hayes, and Jason Bateman were also approached. 577 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:22.840 They're the co hosts of that podcast SmartLess. They all three said no, 578 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:29.039 Amy Paul or Tina Fey They're probably not going to and other a list celebrities 579 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:31.880 apparently have also said no thanks to the Golden Globe. So right now they 580 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:38.199 are hostless. We'll see what happens. And one more thing, speaking of 581 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:45.280 Barbie White, Christmas is out pink Christmas is in because of the Barbie fad. 582 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:51.320 There is a ton of pink pink trees, like they're being sold at 583 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:55.880 Target, Walmart, Wayfair Home Goods. They all have blush and masterful pink 584 00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.280 trees and apparently it's a big thing. And then there's like celebrities and social 585 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.280 media influencers and they're all about the pink. So if you're wanting to do 586 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.840 something a little bit different, maybe Barbie pink is the way to go, 587 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:15.000 except that it won't be Barbie pink because I think that's copyrighted or something. 588 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:20.119 But you're probably gonna see much more pink, So they're calling it Mary Pink. 589 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:25.840 Miss I'm gonna stick with Christmas. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los 590 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:30.960 Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm 591 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.079 Amy King. This has been your wake up Call, and if you missed 592 00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.199 any of wake Up Call, you can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. 593 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:40.840 Super easy to find you've been listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy 594 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.559 King. You can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through 595 00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:51.320 Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,