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This is your wake up call for Monday, July eighth. I'm Amy King.
Thanks for getting your day started with us today. It's going to be
a good week. I can feel it. Maybe it's because I'm well rested
after a week off. Got to spend the fourth of July and Oregon with
my mom. Her birthday was also last week. And I gotta tell you,
fourth of July in Oregon is a lot quieter than here. I remember
being here a couple of years ago, and then I was listening to Mo
Kelly talking about how you know, it sounds like a war zone on the
fourth of July, and in Oregon it's just like, hey, Mom,
did you see that? We had a few fireworks going off, but nothing
compared to here. It was nice, quiet, great to visit, great
to be with my mom and got to see a bunch of friends. I
hope that if you took any time off over the Fourth of July you got
to have a similar relaxing time. I will tell you the one hitch in
my giddy up is that I broke my toe. So I'm going into a
room that I've been in five hundred thousand times during my life because my mom
has lived in the house where she is for well since I was like thirteen,
and she I got bug bites and I'm like, Mom, where's that
little stick that takes the itch away from the bugs? She goes, Oh,
it's in the medicine cabinet. It's right up there on the left hand
side. So I go jamming back into her room and crash right into a
chair that's sitting in her room. Broke my toe. Okay. Thanks to
Heather Brooker who filled in last week. Anne is off this week. Michelle
is with us. Kano of course is here. Nick is here with traffic.
We've got you covered, going to get your day started. So let's
get to it. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. At least four
House Democrats have reportedly called for President Biden to step aside. The call came
during a private call with Minority leader Hakim Jeffreys yesterday. Virginia Senator Mark Warner
said to be organizing a similar effort in the US Senate. We'll be talking
with ABC's Steve Roberts more about this coming up at the bottom of the hour.
A fire in Santa Barbara County's grown to nearly nineteen thousand acres and is
eight percent surrounded. Evacuation orders have been expanded as fire crews work to protect
the community of Woodstock, which is in the path of the fire. The
fire's burned within a mile of Michael Jackson's Old Neverland ranch in Los Alivos.
Palmdale hit one hundred and fourteen degrees. Lancaster hit one fifteen. The National
Weather Services temperatures could get even hotter by midweek, when the heat wave is
expected to peak, and Hurricane Barrel has made landfall in Texas at as a
Category one storm. ABC's Gym Rian's going to give us the latest from Texas
in less than five minutes at six o five. It's handle on the news.
Boeing is pleading guilty to fraud in the Max crashes to avoid a trial.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The National Weather Service says there won't be any relief from
the excessive heat, at least for the next few days. Forecasters stay temperatures
in southern California are expected to stay in the triple digits for most of the
week, which means there's a high risk of fires. Meteorologist Brian Adams says
the heat's being caused by a slow moving high pressure system. Now, when
we get these really strong areas of high pressure you may refer to them here,
that refer to as heat zone. When we get those, definitely really
furch to see some of those, you know, one hundred to one hundred
and five, even some areas approaching one hundred and ten in the Immann Empire.
Heays temperatures will probably be at their highest from Tuesday through Thursday. The
Laped says three kids kidnapped by their mother had been left with another family member.
Detectives at seventy seventh Division said they'd been looking for the three siblings after
it was reported their mother, Timberly White, had abducted them. Police say
she does not have custodial rights to the children. The kids, ages six,
twelve, and fourteen, were last seen Saturday morning in the two thousand
block of Florence Avenue in South LA. Police say on Sunday morning, the
kids were dropped off with a relative. Investigators say the mother is still wanted
for abducting the kids, though they say they're not sure where she took off
to. A local community activist says White plans to surrender to police. Steve
Gregory ka Fine News, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee is asking
for an interview with President Biden's doctor. ABC's Perry Russom says it comes less
than two weeks after the presidential debate that raised questions about Biden's mental acuity.
In a letter to President Biden's doctor, Republican Congressman James Comer writes the committee
is concerned doctor Kevin O'Connor's medical assessments have been influenced by ledged financial ties with
the Biden family. Biden's campaign and the White House have blamed his poor debate
performance on all of his foreign travel and a cold. They say he just
had a bad night. We're going to find more about the request and whether
it has any teeth with ABC. Stephen Portnoyd a little bit later this hour,
Let's say a good morning to Nick Poliochini, who's going to take a
first look at your morning commute with some slowing out in Moreno Valley on the
two fifteen. Good morning, Amy, Good to have you home again,
and it's going to be a busy one for folks that are making any north
on right now from before you Caalyptus passed them of the sixty heading toward uc
Are, definitely a rough go for your driver's thing. Also seeing the usual
slunging for you shown up already in stretches on the westound side of the ninety
one river signed through Corona from before Lost Ciege. You may maybe on the
fifteen and the seventy one heading over toward the two forty one to road maybe
a little lighter than usual, but definitely seeing some heavy delays here and there.
Got an updata something slung you down pound to fifteen yourself on keyword is
a KFI traffic sup on side of the fifteen as you're coming through the go
home Pass, going to be a rough go for you from before Oak Hill
as you make your way beyond the one thirty eight, continuing stretches toward at
clig Horn and ken Win and also got some issues for you on the so
ubound side of the two fifteen past DeVore Road. Looks like you've got a
crash evolving an overturned pickup and that has been well either cleared to the right
shoulder, is still partially blocking the right lane. Still going for your drive
on the two fifteen southbound, leaving the split with the fifteen, and seeing
those delays continuing as you make it way almost down toward Palm So then California
is only the airborne traffic reports. I'm Nick Poli o'keaney. Thank you,
Nick, it's five six on your wake up call. Let's say good morning
to ABC's Jim Ryan. Well, Jim, we're Bacon and Kelly. But
I'd much rather have this than what Texas is now dealing with. Yeah,
they're not baking around the Houston area right now. They're dealing with the winds
and the flooding, the possibility the heavy rain that Hurricane Barrel has brought.
He came ashore about three hours around Matagorda Bay and yeah, day eighty miles
per hour. It was a Category one hurricane. It'll weaken over the next
couple of hours and then move to the north and east eventually by Thursday.
They'll be feel some of the rain from this all the way up in Michigan,
Michigan. Yeah, this storm has some legs. Now. This storm
started a couple seems like weeks ago, right about till Yeah, a little
over a week ago. Was born off the coast of Africa and kind of
wandered around out there. But it exploded into a Category five storm within just
a period of twenty four to thirty six hours or so. That makes it
the earliest category five storm in the calendar ever. So it's very unusual.
I mean, we have storms like this, tropical storms and hurricanes in early
July, but for this one to blast up into category five status in June,
late June, that was the earliest that's ever happened. Didn't we have
one last year, Jim, or maybe it was a year before that.
It was just a storm kind of churning and all of a sudden, it
too exploded, but it hit Mexico kind of. It was like a surprise
attack exactly. And we've seen that happen and these storms and climatologists have warned
about this that we're going to see more powerful and faster growing storms as these
warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, and is the climate continues to change
for whatever reason. Okay, and we're getting word that about a million people
are without power now as they're just getting updates because the storm has now made
landfall. What other things are they expecting. I'm obviously rain and winds,
but do we know how much? Yeah, Well, and flooding is going
to be a real possibility. They're seeing some of that now around the Houston
area. A lot of flooding happening there. Tornadoes again are being spun off
by this tornado warnings that have happened. We don't have any reports of damage
or injuries from that, but there are a lot of side effects that come
from a storm like this the last well beyond the storm itself, and certainly
we're going to see that in Texas. It just reminds me of the movie
that's coming out, Twisters, in like two weeks. I think it's July
nineteenth that it comes out, and it was watching a trailer for it last
night, going, we don't need a movie about this. We've seen more
Twisters this year, and we've seen it so in such a long time.
I don't think I want to go into the theaters to watch it. But
that's just me so barrel, barrel, Barrel, it's such a weird name.
So it's going to go down to probably a tropical storm, tropical depression,
but it's still expected to dump a ton of rain as it makes its
way through the midsection or is it also not expected to do much after it
leaves Texas? Well? No, it's still going to have some effect.
You know, how much effect is really hard to say, but yeah,
and it's a fairly tight storm. It's not really spread out very far,
and it's moving fairly quickly. Twelve can ask you about that. Yeah,
and so as it moves across. But I'm just surprised that the track is
that this thing is going to take for the next several days as it goes
up through Arkansas and then I've been into the Ohio Valley and the expectation from
the National Hurricane Center showing that it'll be a subtropical depression by the time it
reaches Michigan. But yeah, they will still feel some effect from this,
you know what, a thousand miles away in Michigan, Okay, and you're
in Dallas, are you guys getting rained to It's raining here a little bit,
and that's maybe some effect from that from the far outer bands of this,
or some ripple effect from Beryl, and we'll see some of that,
but main leads to the east. If here the southeast and east Texas that
will see the biggest impact from this. Okay, And with a very active
hurricane season expected by forecasters, any other storms brewing right now that we know
of, not right now, and looking at the National Hurricane Center map of
the whole hemisphere, Beryl is the only thing out there, which is a
little surprising because sometimes you see two or three little areas of concern or disturbances
out there. Right now, Beryl is it? Well, that's good news.
Yeah, all right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for your
time and information. Stay dry all see you. Let's get back. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
new Room. Nearly six dozen teenagers have been detained and cited in connection with
what deputies have called a major disturbance at am All in Carson, Eli.
Kounty Sheriff's deputies were called to the South Bay Pavilion on Saturday evening, where
about two hundred teenagers had gathered. Officials say some set off illegal fireworks inside
a store at the mall, and someone else started a fire inside in a
trash can. Backup was called when the crowd failed to disperse. Some parents
and relatives of the kids say law enforcement had an excessive presence. The mayor
put out a statement yesterday commending the Sheriff's Department for their quick action. The
Justice Department says Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge tied
to two deadly seven thirty seven MAX crashes. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says the company
would also pay two hundred and forty four million dollars in fines as part of
a deal, which still needs to be approved by a judge. Boeing is
accused of misleading regulators. Relatives of those killed in the twenty eighteen and twenty
nineteen crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia are asking a judge to reject the plea deal.
Federal prosecutors said in May that Boeing violated a twenty twenty one settlement that
shield it from prosecution. Officials in Ukraine say Russian missiles have hit a children's
hospital in Kiev and killed at least three people in other parts of the country's
capital. They say. Another attack today in central Ukraine killed at least ten.
Ukrainian President Zelensky says Russia targeted five cities with more than forty different types
of missiles. Chapman University students have partnered with the Irvine Ranch Conservancy for a
climate change research projects. Gold Chapman University Associate Professor Gregory Goldsmith says is to
strengthen conservation efforts to understand what native plant species are most likely to be resilient
to increasing temperatures in order to help us better manage and restore the native ecosystems
in our backyards. Students measured twelve different plant species to determine the thermal tolerance
of their leaves. The results will be presented at a national ecological conference in
August in Irvine. Corbin Carson KFI News Riverside Congressman Mark Takano is one of
four senior Democrats calling for President Biden to withdraw from the twenty twenty four presidential
campaign. Takano joined New York Representative Jerry Nadler, Washington's Adam Smith, and
New York's Joseph Morrell and calling for Biden a step aside. It happened during
a meeting with Minority leader Hakim Jeffries yesterday. A heat wave continues to grip
the Western United States, temperatures at one hundred and nineteen in Reading. Yesterday.
Phoenix had a record high of or actually a record high low of ninety
two degrees, only got down to ninety two overnight. It was one hundred
and eighteen for a high in Las Vegas, Portland, San Diego, Boise,
Idaho, and other cities are still under excessive heat warnings. At least
six people have been injured in the first day of the Running of the Bulls
in Pamplona. One of the people hurt is a fifty four year old from
New York. A man from Spain was gored by a bull. I do
not understand what drives people to do that. At six oh five is handled
on the news. A few dozen teens were detained after letting out fireworks inside
them All and Carson over the weekend. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Jordana Miller. Good morning, Jordana. We've talked about this so many times
before, but today there may actually be new hope for a ceasefire, God
willing, as we say, I know, every time we discuss the ceasefire
we say that, But now it appears it appears there's some new hope because
Hamas has said that they have dropped their demand for a declaration to an you
know that the war will definitively end. They wanted Israel to say that in
the beginning of this deal, before even the hostages were released, and now
they're backing off of that and dropping that. That doesn't mean they don't want
an end to the war. They do, but they're not asking for a
promise in the beginning. And so now as their meeting today, well already
is real sensive delegation on today and the team reported back you know, with
describing it as a positive meeting. Today, these Reelis have sent another delegation
to Cairo to talk with Egyptian officials. Remember, there are lots of issues
that the Egyptians are you know, they have a border with Gaza, so
control in a you know, after a seafire over the eight mile border between
Egypt and gaza's critical. It includes the roper border crossing. All of that
controlled right now by the Israeli Army and both stocks are supposed to set the
stage for larger wider talks on Wednesday in Doha, and the CIA chief Bill
Burns is expected to be part of those talks with also Qutar officials. There's
a lot of momentum and discussions. There's still a lot of details that have
to be hitted out, the timeline of the Israeli army's redeployment, who Israel
is from its Palestinian jails in order to get out the hostages. You know,
the big question is really is Hamas's leader, Israel's leader, finally ready
to down their arms and stop this war? You know, it's still on
the answer to that question is still unclear, even though we have a renewed
interest in the discussions themselves, negotiations. For example, last night, the
Israeli Prime Minister put out a list of demands that Israel has and some of
them are new demands that Hamas has good in the past. So many people
asking what exactly is Nataniel doing by putting this on the table, and by
the way, by doing it publicly. Is this another way to try to
create favor with his base, with his far right partners. Remember, there
is a conflict of interest here for nataniel If this ceasefire goes through, it's
likely the far right elements of his government will pull out of the government and
Antoniell's government will fall. And even if some of the opposition parties save him
for the sake of a ceasfire deal, they will quickly turn their backs and
put through a no confidence vote. So a seafire also means that Antonielle is
likely out of power. So that is one of the problems with Natanielle's leadership
in this war. Many people, you know, just don't trust him.
So we're going to have to wait and see, even though it looks like
we have you know, renewed and robust talks right now. Okay and Jordana,
are there any indications of why Hamas might have dropped that one demand about
promising that all operations would cease it. Is it because they maybe feel like
they're losing ground so they really need to stop it, or do we have
any indications on that. Well, I think that's a really good question.
And you know, there's some new reporting from the Associated Press today from intercepted
messages between Hama's leaders that suggest Israel's raugh operation and the destruction there, and
really Israel's easy access to areas where Hamas has regrouped has made the leadership there
think that you know, there the skills have tipped in Israel's favor on the
battlefield. Remember, Israel now controls all the border into the Gods of Strips.
That means there's no entry as long as you are there, there's no
way for Hamas to bring in arms and regroup and rebuild. Right. So
for Israel it was and we you know, we said this despite the controversy
of the raf operation and the concern for there, and thank god, in
the end there were not thousands and thousands of things killed in the rough operation,
right, They did evacuate and most of them safely. There were hundreds
killed, but it did not fit the fear that the White House had.
Israel always said it was a strategic interest to take the eight mile Gaza border
between Egypt and Gaza because that's where all the arms came in. That allowed
Hamas to build up its military capability. So it may be that Hamas realized,
you know, what are we going to do? They're going to in
the sense starve us out in a war. Now it's clear that on the
battlefield, I do think Hamas is now at a disadvantage and that may have
contributed to their their position softening their position. Yeah. Interesting because of just
a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about seeing communications between Hamas leaders
saying hey, we've got Israel right where we want them, that it might
have turned around that quickly, right, right, rather quickly exactly. I
mean in this sense, we have to say that Natanielle, though he spins
a lot and sometimes he's wrong and sometimes he's lying right, it's our job
to kind of figure out when in this case he turned out to be right.
On the rough operation. It was a key turning point in the war
and it was a key strategic interest and Israel in the end did need to
go to Rafa. And we will be watching for talks later this week in
Doha and hope that they can come up with a will. All right,
Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, Thank you so much for your time and information.
Okay, texting, take care. An alleged hit and run driver and garden
Groves crashed into two adults on bicycles and three children being pulled in bike trailers.
One adult and two kids were in critical condition yesterday. The cyclists were
riding on Hester Street at Twin Tree Lane when they were hit. The driver
took off, but a witness followed the guy until police could catch up too
and arrest him. Three men charged with the murder of a woman in Newport
Beach during an attempted robbery at Fashion Island or Doing Court. The woman from
New Zealand was hit by the alleged robbers car last week as they tried to
leave them all they led police on a chase into La County, where they
were arrested. The men were charged Friday with murder, including a special circumstance
allegation of murder during the commission of a robbery and a sentencing enhancement of killing
a person over sixty five. The Orange County DA's office will decide later whether
to ask for the death penalty. California Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff says President Biden
and former President Trump should both take cognitive tests. I think, frankly a
test would show Donald Trump as serious illness of one kind or another. Schiff
is defended President Biden and says the choice is up to him whether to drop
out of the presidential race. Shift told NBCs Meet the Press, President Biden's
debate performance rightfully raised questions among Americans as to whether he has the vigor to
defeat Trump in November. This summer's political conventions in Milwaukee and in Chicago are
expected to draw both protests and security threats. The Secret Service will be supervising
security for both conventions. The Secret Service agent overseeing security for the Democratic National
Convention says, it's serious stuff. We're not only here to ensure the safety
of the attendees of the convention, but there's almost two point seven million residents
of the city of Chicago that live and work here every day. Police in
Chicago say they plan to put hundreds of officers on bicycles for crowd control.
Entrepreneurs in California have been invited to pitch their product to Walmart and Sam's Club.
Walmart is accepting applications for its eleventh annual Open Call event for small business
owners and entrepreneurs across the country. The program is part of its three hundred
and fifty billion dollar commitment to boost manufacturing of products that are made, grown,
and assembled in the US. The company has provided thousands of business owners
the chance to become a Walmart supplier since twenty fourteen. Entrepreneurs who get a
Golden Ticket will get to sit down with Walmart and or Sam's Club merchants.
Applications are open until July fifteenth. Chris Adler KFI News. Tomorrow, the
Dodgers are taking on the Phillies in Philadelphia, with the first pitch going out
at three point forty. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game
on AM five seventy LA Sports Live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth, and
you can stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five
seventy LA Sports. Police in Lakewuit are looking for the person or people who
torched flags honoring veterans. Mayor Todd Rogers says the American and MIAPOW flags at
Veterans Memorial Plaza and Del Valley Park have been set on fire in the last
few days. Rogers's repairs and replacement flags are coming in the next few days.
A Russian missile attack has hit a children's hospital in the Ukrainian capital of
Kiev. At least ten others were killed in other areas. Animated movies continue
to dominate at the box office. Despicable Me four took in a whole lot
of money over the holiday weekend. It was estimated at like one hundred and
twenty three. Now it's up to one hundred and forty eight million dollars for
the holiday weekend. Inside Out two, in its third week of release,
finished in second place with thirty million dollars. It's not doing too shabby either,
A quiet place. Day one was third at six so five A tenel
on the news, the high temperatures turned deadly in Death Valley over the weekend.
At five point fifty, We're going to be talking with ABC Stephen Portnoy
about why some Republican lawmakers want to talk with or get notes from President Biden's
doctor. But speaking of President Biden, let's say good morning to ABC's Steve
Roberts. Steve, President Biden is under even more scrutiny from members of his
own party, who are suddenly aware that the president may be having some cognitive
difficulties. What's the latest, Yeah, it's not all that sudden. I
mean, the doubts have been growing, and they think there are four reasons
why Democrats are increasingly calling for Biden to step aside. One is not just
as they doubt that he can win, but they doubt that they can win
either. I mean, there are marginal Democrats, and this includes several Keys
is right there in California where Democrats are worried that if Biden stays at the
top of the ticket, he's going to drag down these Democrats and that they're
going to lose the House as well as the White House. Secondly, I
think that there's growing feeling even if Biden would have win, is he really
capable of governing for four years given the feebleness we saw on display during the
debate. But there's a third factor here. Since last week, I think
there's a growing number of Democrats who feel deceived, who feel that the White
House was not straight with them, That the White House, Biden, his
family, his coret inner group of advisers had to have known that the man
they put out there in that debate was in decline and had to know that
he was increasingly feeble. And they feel deceived. And it was Biden himself
Amy who said this election was critically important. Biden himself has said democracy is
on the ballot and there they go, hiding from their own party, let
alone the voters, who he really is. Yeah. What was interesting to
me, Steve, is that, you know, Biden came out and said,
Hey, I want to do this debate, debate, and I want
to do it early. And you're like, okay, go, But if
he is aware and his team is aware that there are issues, why push
for that so hard, so early. It's a very good question. And
that's one of the questions a lot of Democrats, a growing number of Democrats
are asking. You know, the whole Biden's strategy was, let's remind people
of who Donald Trump is. Let's make sure people are remember all the things
they didn't like about Donald Trump's presidency, all the chaos, all the craziness.
So they taunted Trump into this debate on the theory that the more people
saw Trump, the better off they would be. But the net result is
that their strategy was turned completely on its head and instead of the debate focusing
attention on Trump, which is what their goal was, the debate focused attention
on Biden, and it had exactly exactly the opposite effect of what they intended.
Yeah, okay, and you're saying that this week. This week is
really critical for Biden to get out there show that he is up to task.
What's he What's he got on the agenda for this week. Well,
he's got a lot of critical moments. He's got the summit meeting with European
leaders, he's got he's promised to do a press conference, he's got a
number of campaign events. Honestly, Amy, I just don't think it's possible
for him to reverse this slide. People can't unsee what they saw in the
debate, and I just think the call for his removal is going to is
going to increase. But that doesn't mean he's necessarily going to step aside,
because let's you remember, this is an extremely proud and stubborn man who his
whole life, over a fifty year career in the Senate, his whole goal
has been to be president. This is not a man who's going to leave
easily. And it's also a man who believes his own mythology. He believes
that he has an extra degree of resilience and tenacity. He's a man who's
bounced back from political and personal setbacks, and he believes in himself totally.
You don't get to be president without having that incredible strong sense of yourself.
So he's not going to leave easily. I'll tell you that. Yeah,
and he told you're calling. George. Stefanopolosaid, I watched that interview,
and I will tell you that interview did not I don't know he's the fears
or the worries. I think he came across as very I don't know hesitant.
Has listened to me being hesitant now, but I'm also not the ruler
of the free world. But you know, I mean it didn't help.
I don't think I think that he thought if he goes and does the interview
with Stephanopoulos, it's going to help him. But I don't think it repaired
that the damage that was done at all. That's my opinion. I don't
think so either. I don't think so either, and partly because he was
also clearly in denial. Just take one example, he said during that interview,
the election is a toss up. It's not a toss up. New
York Times has comp ahead by six points. It's not a toss up.
All right, ABC, Steve Roberts, thank you so much for the information.
Of course, we will be watching anytime. Amy all right, take
care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A wildfire in Santa Barbara County has burned nearly nineteen
thousand acres in just a couple of days. Evacuation orders have been issued for
an area that includes Michael Jackson's Neverland Branch in Los Alevos. The fire was
reported Friday afternoon. It's only eight percent surrounded. About a thousand firefighters are
working to put it out. A wildf fire near Litele Creek in the San
Bernardino National Forest Service Area has led to evacuation orders for the Mount Baldy Ski
Resort, and parts of the Pacific Crest Trail are now closed from Lytle Creek
to Mount Baldy, along with additional trails below Mount Baldy. The fire started
yesterday morning. It's burned about one hundred acres in steep terrain. Fire officials
say there are no evacuation orders or warnings for the community of Mount Baldy,
which is about five miles south of the resort. Death Valley could record the
highest record temperature on Earth before this heat wave is over. It was one
hundred and twenty eight on Saturday. Forecasters say it could hit one hundred and
thirty in Death Valley in the next few days. If that happens, it
would reportedly set the record for the hottest temperature ever reliably measured on Earth.
Olympic flags are headed to La City Hall, but some things need to be
moved first. The city Council voted to allocate half a million dollars to move
a display from the Mayor's office to the La Convention Center. Gifts to the
city have long been on display and the mayors suite on the third floor of
City Hall. They'll make way for flags celebrating the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games
coming here in four years. Mayor Bass is expected to attend the twenty twenty
four Games in Paris, where Olympic flags will be presented to her and the
city of La. Those flags will fly near her office and eventually in the
city Council chambers in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News a couple of weeks
ago, if you were listening to Wake Up Call, that you know that
I got to talk to Curtis Stone, who is the co founder of Gwen
Restaurant and was recently named one of the best places in the whole wide world
to get a steak. And I got to go and talk to Curtis and
he cooked a steak for me and it was phenomenal. But so over the
holiday, I got together with my family and my little baby brother who's much
bigger than me. My little baby brother was going to cook the steaks over
at mom's house, and so I said, if you're going to cook steaks,
you have to watch this video that I did with Curtis Stone first,
because he's going to tell you how to cook the states. He had some
really interest seeing little tips and tricks in there, and you know what,
it paid off like it was the best steak my brother has ever cooked.
So if you want to get some great tips on how to make a fabulous
steak, even if you're cooking at your home, if you're not at Gwen
Restaurant, go to at amy K King. And of course I invite you
to follow me on Instagram, but it's at amy K King, so Amykayking,
and it's Curtis Stone and he was delightful and the steak was delicious.
Two deputies have been hurt in a crash during a police chase. The deputies
were chasing suspected street racers in Long Beach early yesterday morning when their patrol car
crashed into a tree. One of the deputies had to be cut out of
the wreckage. Both were taken to the hospital. One has been released.
Amul In Carson had to close Saturday night after hundreds of teens gathered and caused
a bit of a ruckus. Police say a trash can was lit on fire.
Illegal fireworks were set off inside the South Bay Pavilion Mall. Dozens of
teens were detained after they refuse to comply with dispersal orders. John Sena Sena
is it Sana or Asena? That's a Sena, That's a Sena. John
Cena is retiring from the WWE. The sixteen time world champion wrestler, made
the surprise announcement Saturday at the WWE event in Toronto. The wrestler turned actors
been appearing in more comedy and action films, including Hulu's hit show The Bear.
I just saw him on it like last Weekend. Sa Sena says he'll
still be involved with wrestling when Monday Night Raw moves to Netflix in January.
Let's say Good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, the fallout from
the debate continues in Biden's own party. Let's get started. Oh what,
That's not what I'm going to talk to you about. I just talked to
somebody else about that. Now we're going to talk about from the Republicans.
But they are also calling for some things to happen after Biden's debate performance.
Yeah, I mean, look, and Republicans are trying to get a little
piece of this. I think that it's a bit of a gambit on their
part. They want to hear from the president's physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor.
They want to bring him in for for an interview with part of the predicate
for it is in their investigation of the president's family business. James Biden,
the president's brother, invoked doctor Kevin O'Connor because he sought some strategic advice in
a business plan having to do with a hospital company back in twenty eighteen.
And whether doctor O'Connor recommended something or other, whether he was part of the
business plan, I don't know. And that's what Republicans want to get up.
But they also want to ask questions about the president's neurological condition. I'd
be very surprised if the White House permits the president's doctor to go up to
Capitol Hill to take questions from the opposing party, which is why I call
it a little bit of a gambit on Republican's part. Yeah, I mean,
do they have subpoena power over a over the president's doctor. They can
issue a subpoena. The President would likely invoke executive privilege to block the enforcement
of that subpoena. And it's we're in the same logjam that we've been in
with every other attempt by the House Republicans to try to get a senior administration
official to come and I don't see it resolving here. But we can widen
out and talk about the Democrats because I think that's really the driving force of
the news this week as the President meets with the NATO allies as a news
conference on Thursday, more House Democrats. Maybe we'll see some senators too.
So far, none have come forward to say that the President should remove himself
from the top of the ticket. Right, And we were talking with Steve
Roberts a little bit ago about some of the issues that are coming up and
that includes there was that phone call yesterday with Hakeem Jeffries and some key Democrats
and apparently and one of them's from California that are saying, you know what,
it's time for Biden to go. Well, that's right. The four
Democrats who are the leaders of their party on key committees include Jerry Nadler from
the Judiciary Committee, Adam Smith of Armed Services, You've got Mark Decano,
and Joe Morell, joining five other Democrats who publicly said that the president should
remove himself from the top of the ticket. Now, look, that's less
than ten all told. Of more than two hundred Democrats in the House,
and many are publicly expressing their support for the president. Yesterday, he was
in Philadelphia saying that he's in it and sticking in it, and he attended
a church and the pastor said that everyone should essentially should get behind Joe Biden,
because you know, people in their nineties are just as sharp. The
President of the United States has all eyes on him, and this week he'll
have the NATO leaders here. He'll have a news conference on Thursday, the
key opportunity for everyone to watch the president stand for questions and we'll see how
it all plays out, and so far him being in the spotlight following the
debate hasn't been that great of a showing. Like I watched the interview with
George Stefanopolois as we were talking about earlier, and it wasn't great. I
mean, he said he had congenital little defects, and I'm one to say
that I stumble all over myself. But I'm also not the leader of the
free world right and if you were, you'd be held to a higher standard
and I probably would be impeached immediately. Well, look, the key question
for voters is you know it's binary at the moment, and that's what Democrats
are worried about. The answer the President gave to the final question that George
Dephanopolis asked. He's been ringing in Democrats' ears all weekend. Well, if
you stay in the race and Trump was elected and everything you've warned about democracy
comes to pass, how will you feel, mister president George asked. The
President said, I'll feel as long as I gave it my all and did
a good job as I know how to do. That's what this is about.
Well, the Democrats, that's not what this is about. It's not
about how good a job the president did and whether he gave it as all.
It's about beating Donald Trump and preventing all the things they worry about from
coming to pass. And that disconnect there, if there is a disconnect,
is what is I think prompting some Democrats who had been reticent to speak out
to come forward because they're hearing about it from their own constituents too. Now.
The White House and the campaign might say it's all a media invention,
I think a lot of voters hear that and they think, no, it's
a agree, it's not a cheap well right, it's and it's the idea
that it's just a whole bunch of thought leaders here in Washington, d C.
Trying to score some points and get us, you know, get a
scalp. Right. Yeah. But to voters out there who are really truly
weighing it, they wonder whether this man really has what it takes to be
president the United States and whether he's proven to the country. But he is
the right guy. If there is another outcome that can be pursued, and
we will be watching to see what happens. Thank you, Stephen Portnoy,
appreciate all the information. YEA, all right, take care. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The LAPD says three kids abducted by their mother on Saturday morning have been
safely returned to a relative in South la. The kids are six, twelve,
and fourteen. Police say the mother, Timberly White, does not have
custody of the children. The kids were dropped off yesterday morning, and White
is still wanted by police. A local community activist says White is planning to
surrender to police. Hurricane Beryl has made landfall in Texas. Coming off the
Yuca ten Peninsula. Tropical storm Barrel began to gather power from the warm waters
of the Gulf of Mexico, so that when it finally made landfall this morning
near Matagorda Bay, Texas, it was a Category one hurricane with winds of
eighty miles per hour. ABC's Jim Ryan says Beryl is moving northeast and is
expected to dump rain on at least ten states through Thursday. Israel is defending
its actions in the city of Rafa in southern Gaza, which is in ruins.
ABC's Matt Gutman says Israeli defense forces have been trying to root out Hamas
fighters there for more than two months now. The scale of the destruction here
and what used to be the street is absolutely breathtaking. Every single house is
destroyed. All that you see is a little alley way carved in the rubble.
All that's left this twisted rebar, concrete and household goods. He says
an estimated one point three million Palestinians have been forced to leave Southern cousin.
Closing arguments are set to begin this morning in the federal bribery trial of New
Jersey Democratic sener Senator Bob Menendez. ABC's Lindsay Tuckman says Menendez has said he
expects the jury to find him not guilty. He expects his attorneys will produce
a powerful and convincing summation and at the prosecution he believes has failed to prove
every aspect of this case beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutor sa Menendez and his
wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from three businessmen in exchange for
Menendez using his position to benefit Egypt's government. Okay, did you see that
Danny Trejo got into a fight at the Sunland Tahunga Fourth of July parade.
This guy, he just cracks me up. I mean, and I don't
think this is probably a laughing matter. But he's now speaking out about what
happened. So he got into a fight with someone in the crowd after someone
threw a water balloon at the car he was riding in. It was a
classic car, so trey Hoo has told KTTV that someone yelled that the balloon
was filled with acids, so that could have been really bad. Right then,
he said he was hit with another balloon, which prompted him to confront
the guy who threw it. Trey Ho, who's eighty years old, stumbled
off a curb fell into the street during the fight. He wasn't seriously hurt,
but a friend of his was ended up bloodied and bruised. But apparently
everybody's going to be okay, but Danny Treyho getting into some action. Can't
we all just get along. I'm glad he's okay, and I'm glad that
there was an acid in the balloon. This is KFI and kost HD two
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