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This is your wake up call for Thursday, August tenth. Good morning,
I'm Amy King. Do you feel that cooler weather late yesterday and this
morning? I don't know if you've been outside yet. I was taking out
the trash yesterday afternoon. I got all excited because there were rain drops maybe
more on the way. We have like a forty percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon, so I'm actually hoping for some not necessarily the lightning.
It was raining a little on the way in. Was it really Yeah?
I love that. That's weird for us in August, right, but it's
going to get hot again next week, so enjoy it while it's here.
Thanks for that. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call. A thousands
of residents in Maui have race to escape the fires sweeping across the island,
which has destroyed most of the historic town that dates back to the seventeen hundred.
Slaina and killing at least thirty six people. A group of protesters has
blocked all lanes of the one thirty four in Glendale for about three hours.
The protest last night was to bring attention to the plight of Armenians in art
Stock. The LA City Attorney's office has decided not to file any charges tied
to a physical altercation in December between city Councilman Kevin de Leon and an activist
calling for him to resign following the leaked racist tape scandal at city Hall.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour news room. Of course, the fire in Hawaii. Raging wildfires have
killed at least thirty six people. The bodies were found during firefighting efforts.
Maui Mayor Richard Bisson says the seaside town of Lahinah is devastated, probably upwards
of hundreds of homes, businesses and dwellings that were burnt to the ground.
Bisson says none of the islands hotels have power. They've opened shelters for people
who've been forced to leave their homes. The fires have been pushed in part
by strong winds from Hurricane Dora south of Hawaii, which is a category four
storm. I have two sorority sisters who live on the islands. One of
them, Karen has she did that reported in safe on social media. And
then another one, Sean, sent a group of us a picture and I
just posted it on my Instagram. I'm gonna I'll put it on the wake
up called page two. But the picture from her living room is just scary.
She says they're safe, so that's good. At least one person in
South Korea has been killed during a strong tropical storm hitting the country. More
than a foot of rain has fallen in southern areas from the storm that made
landfall this morning. Emergency workers have been responding to growing reports of flooding and
landslides. More than sixteen thousand people have been forced to leave their homes.
That number is expected to grow. An LAPD swat team has arrested a man
following an hour's long standoff in Los Felis. The man, suspected of assault
with a deadly weapon, took off in a stolen LADWP vehicle yesterday before officers
fired at the car, causing him to stop. Officials say that driver was
acting erratically refused to surrender and appeared to be in no pain despite being covered
in blood. He was finally or he finally climbed onto the roof, where
officers moved in and took him away on a stretcher. A man in Utah
has been shot and killed during an FBI raid. ABC's Josh Margaland says the
man repeatedly posted on social media about his desires to kill President Biden, and
an investigation was opened earlier this year. By June, the investigation had matured
so much so that they told the Secret Service. Obviously, the Secret Service
is responsible for protecting the president. Margolin says the threats were found to be
credible, and when agents showed up to arrest the men yesterday, a shootout
began. We're gonna find out more about the raid when we talk with ABC
Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. That's coming up right around five fifty ish.
An La landmark is offering a chance to own a piece of culinary history.
When you walk into the Elcholo, it feels like you've stepped back in
time. The decor is reminiscent of a classic canteena and has remained mostly intact
since it opened one hundred years ago. My mother taught me to count by
using coins in the registr. I think it was about six or seven.
Maybe then you were counting money at six, Yeah, she taught me to
count. Ron Salsbury owns the original l COLO on Western and the other six
locations, but he prefers the title grandson of the founder. Did I mentioned?
Ron's also ninety years old and the third generation from the ones started.
Have six generations actually working in the restaurant. What was eld trouble like day
one? Well, my earliest memories that us here a little bit before I
was born. All I can remember is about two or three years old,
setting in somewhere Ah. I knew everybody was happy, There's a lot of
energy, and it was a good spot. I knew that. That's my
first memories of life. Yeah, but it's fun. But you know,
people got to keep coming back for the food too, right, More than
food, it's the connection people. I run into people all the time.
They'll say, yeah, I love your restaurant, And I said, stop
right there, what do you mean love? That's a strong word. People
like things, but you love it. And I realized when I get into
development a connection that you know, you have your work, you have your
home, and then you go out for pleasure and if you know, going
to a restaurant and the eating and everything and the connection with the people in
that restaurant is really kind of your third place to go. Growing up around
with this iconic restaurant, did you know you were going to be taking this
over? Did you want two? Were you expected to or did you have
another career path in mind? All of the Bill of Ron went to college
in Utah. He dabbled in sports and majored in business. Then he ended
up back at the original eld Sholo and by then the place had become a
hotspot for celebrities, some from the Golden Age and some more modern. Actor
Jack Nicholson, who was eating year before he was in movies, became really
well acquainted with the cocktail waitress. They had by then mccarmen, who brought
the nachos to us. And I can remember going to a celebration of Nacho's
son got married. We're in an East La Veterans of Foreign Wars haul and
he can manage not very fancy, and they had milk crates there and we're
sitting on milk crates and reading Kentucky Fried Chicken off paper plates, and I'm
talking to Jack Nicholson about he's trying to commission a vote for George McGovern Ron
says he strongly believes in giving back to the community. He's been doing it
in some sort of way for years, but now he's escalated the efforts.
I tossed out, well, it's the raised a million dollars. That's a
good number for pediatric cancer research. You know, if we've ever seen a
young child suffering from cancer, it just tears your heart out. Now,
I thought, well, look at all these people who have this emotional connection
with El Cholo. It goes deep, and how giving them an opportunity by
donating to put the permanently bond their name with the restaurant is the big thing
for a lot of people. And so we thought, well, for five
thousand dollars, we will give you permanent endowed naming rights to the boots,
because I think when you think of El Chill, you think of the wooden
boosts. That's kind of iconic thing, the hide back wooden boots. Has
anyone bought when yet, Well, I gave my close friends the first shot,
and we already have twenty three taken on that twenty three out of one
hundred boots are already taken. Uh huh. Yeah, So if you're in
and thinking about it, you better hurry out. So those are going fast.
Ron's also offering a chance for people to buy naming rights to entrees and
cocktails at his other restaurants in Newport Beach, like The Canary and Louise by
the Bay. In fact, Ron was able to get a regular at the
Cannery to buy the naming rights to their new jellyfish aquarium for one hundred thousand
dollars. There are also lots of other perks for those who want to donate,
but not necessarily on that scale. Ron says he wants to raise a
million dollars for children's hospitals in LA and Orange County by the end of the
year, and I think he'll do it. People who say I love your
restaurants and to spread it is still rewarding. And to think we're doing this
everywhere else anyway, it's yeah, I don't know how to describe it.
It's just very rewarding. But before I let Ron go, I had to
ask if there was still an original menu item on El Cholo's menu from one
hundred years ago. He said, Yep, it's the number one combos on
a number one and Chelata taco beans or ice for a wake it call,
I'm Steve Gregory. KFI news sounds delicious and naming rights to cocktails. I
like that idea. For more information, you can go to KFI AM six
forty dot com slash Cholo. A large group of protesters and a big race
have blocked the one thirty four freeway interchange with the five in Glendale four hours
to highlight a humanitarian crisis among Armenians in Artsak kids are starving. Hundred twenty
thousand people and thirty thousand alone just the kids are starving and have This is
not normal in twenty twenty three to face genocide. The freeway was shut down
about nine last night. Protesters say they were trying to get the attention of
California Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff. The group says he hasn't done enough to stop
ongoing blockades in Armenia. Schiff put out a statement saying he supports the Armenian
people and has urged the US to take action. A memorial service is being
held in la for a Sheriff's department recruit who died eight months after he and
his others were hit by a wrong way driver in Whittier. Alejandro Martinez died
from his injuries July twenty eighth. Archbishop Jose Gomez will lead the service today
as a Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Sheriff Luna is expect to
expected to speak. The hearst is scheduled to arrive at the cathedral just before
nine this morning. Anaheim is set to consider a lobbyist ordinance, whistleblower protections,
and other transparency reforms to root out city corruption. An FBI investigation and
an independent investigation have alleged criminal conspiracies, money laundering, questions about lobbyists,
elections and campaigns, plus secret meetings about deals involving the Angels, Disney and
more. Anahim Mayor Astley Aikin says her proposals call for more transparency. I
have formed a Mayor's Advisory Council to look at the systemic issues of corruption that
allowed a lot of the illegal actions of the former administration to go on unfettered.
The city council will discuss the reforms Tuesday. In Anaheim. Corbin Carson
kf I News. Eli Kenny supervisor Janis Hahn is pushing in proposal to raise
the minimum wage for tourism workers in unincorporated areas to twenty five bucks an hour.
This proposal would require hotels with sixty or more rooms and parks like Universal
Studios and Six Flags to raise pay by eight dollars. Supervisor Janis Han says
she expects pushback from businesses, but I'm of the mind that an industry as
profitable as the tourism industry in Los Angeles County should pay their workers enough that
they can survive. In LA County, Han says the pay increases mirrored after
similar proposals for LA and Long Beach. She says the motion will be addressed
at the next board meeting September twelveth Chris Adler KFI News. Police in Washington
State have made what they call one of their largest drug bus ever. Officers
in Shorelines say they see nearly three hundred thousand fentanyl pills, ten pounds of
fentanyl powder, a pound of coke, five pounds of heroin, guns,
and fifty two grand in cash. They say it was enough fentanyl to make
more than two million lethal doses. A new walking tour will be showing people
the worst of San Francisco. The Downtown Doom Loop walking tour through mid Market
Street, the Tenderloin area, and Union Square will show people open air drug
markets, abandoned tech offices, and deserted department stores. The thirty dollars tour
is set for August twenty six. Organizers say it's already sold out. Okay,
here's a new challenge for people. Apparently it's it's becoming a thing for
people hitting midlife. They want to do a fitness flex and that is a
pull up, mainly women. Can you do it? I will admit to
you that I have never done a pull up in my whole life, never
been able to kono. It's probably better that you never have to than to
be able to have done it a long time ago. And now it's just
a pressing that I can't do it anymore. Oh failure, big feel.
Yeah. So apparently so. And in my defense, it is particularly hard
for women because anatomically we tend to have more ore body strength, at least
that's what these studies are showing. But women are embracing exercise training, and
so they're like, Okay, I'm going to do a pull up. And
there's this one lady who said, after five months of training, she finally
got her chin above the pull up bar and now can do three with good
form. It's impressive, I guess. So it's why I failed that President's
Fitness test when I was like ten years old, because I couldn't do a
pull up, still can't to this day. Burned out cars and smoking piles
of rubble is what's left after much of Lahina on Maui was destroyed as wind
whipped fire swept across the island, killing at least thirty six people and forcing
residents to jump into the ocean to escape the flames. A woman's been killed
when an suv crashed into the Hammer Toyota car dealership in Mission Hills. The
woman got pinned underneath the suv in the customer reception area. The La City
Council's unanimously decided to move forward with a plan to identify land that could be
transferred to historically marginalized groups within the city. At five thirty five, we've
got another edition of Amy's on It. I'm going to be on a movie
that you may have missed. That's I think worth a watch. Let's say
good Morning now too, ABC's Jim Ryan, Jim, good Morning. Has
Zoom made us un unwitting accomplices to its efforts to advance artificial intelligence? Zoom
says no, but others say maybe it all came a few months ago when
Zoom decided to change its terms of service aiming and so most people just go
through, they click okay, I agree, and they get on with it.
They're Zoom meetings whatever. But buried within that service agreement, say skeptics,
was a note that said, by clicking agree, you are allowing Zoom
to use the material from your meetings, the video, of the images,
the notes, whatever, to train up Zoom's artificial intelligence component. Right,
So, if you weren't reading that very carefully, if you didn't look carefully
at the terms of service, and who does that, he does nobody looks
at the terms of service, Well you should, and this is a good
reason to do that. Okay, Zoom says, Look, you know,
we may be using some of this material to train our AI, but you
have to opt in. You didn't, You don't have to opt out.
You're automatically opted out until you opt in. But clicking I agree, may
in fact do that. Then Zoom is not the only company doing this.
Zoom, by the way, says, sure, we may be using it,
but you still own that content. Right, A lot of good it
does, I guess at that point, but yeah, you still own the
video and the voice and the notes that you took. Zoom is not the
only one. Otter, which is another company that has transcription like this Microsoft,
they're both looking at their same kind of artificial intelligence training products in the
future, and so yeah, they're using that data to too. Okay,
So is this like what the actors are talking about where they take your likeness
and then they can reproduce it and use it again. Well, I think
that's that's kind of the umbrella for artificial intelligence. Yeah, that's part of
what the complaint of sag Aftra and the w GA was that Hollywood is using
artificial intelligence to to come up with new scripts. If some day they may
replace actors with artificial intelligence AI products, and we've seen how easy it is
to replicate a voice of someone with AI. So on the up side,
if AI made a ME, I could be in a Zoom meeting and not
actually have to be there precisely, yes, and you have an AI assistant
who will be sitting there with you taking notes whether you're there or not.
Others in the room will be as well, and you can kind of see
the conflict over in intellectual property rights if everybody's sitting there at the meeting with
a different AI product from a different company. We were all at the meeting
and none of us were there, Yeah, exactly, okay, and still
getting a lot done. Yeah. Can you opt out of that and still
use Zoom? Yes, yeah, you don't have to. You don't have
to opt You don't have to opt out. You have to opt in,
right, So be careful read the fine print if you if you don't want
to do that, if you want to click out, if you don't want,
if you don't agree with that, then sure you can still use Zoom,
but your voice, her face, her notes won't be used. I
think there's all kind of feeding into what the Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute recently found
in a survey. They asked a thousand and one registered voter than a ye
thousand and one, but they did a thousand and one registered voters about their
opinions on the growth of artificial intelligence. Seven percent of Americans say, yeah,
I'm very excited about artificial intelligence and the potential it holds. Fourteen percent
the end they're somewhat excited about it. Sixteen percent are completely neutral, they
don't have an opinion. But sixty two percent of these people asked in this
survey were either somewhat concerned or mostly concerned about AIM. I'm of the sixty
two percent. That's what I'm hearing from a lot of folks today. Although
my brother uses it all the time, and I have a friend who uses
it all the time, and they think it's just the greatest thing ever.
Well, some parts of it are. I mean, I used to an
AI product here recently to strip the music out of a song. Right,
I just wanted the voice and want of the voice isolated. So I ran
it through this thing that's dot org application online and it's stripped out the music
and here was just the voice, and it was incredible. That's kind of
cool. Yeah, and it's here to stay, so we might as well
figure out how to use it best to our advantage. Yeah, it's the
serious stay and it's only growing. Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you
so much for your time this morning. He's got a zoom. Okay,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. The LA City Attorney's offices, no charges will be filed over
a fight between an activist and city councilman Kevin da Leone. The scuffle happened
in Lincoln Park in December. The men accused each other of instigating and separately
filed battery reports with the LAPD. Da Leon says he's disappointed in the decision
not to charge the man he says attacked him, a woman on his team,
and others. The man says he's also disappointed about the decision not to
charge. Daily on News brought to you by Semper Solaris, Uber's released a
new in app safety feature that gives writers and drivers in LA the option to
record audio during a trip. The company says if the features enabled, both
parties get a notification letting them know. Officials say the recordings are private and
no one, not even Uber, can listen unless a writer submits a safety
report that includes the file. The safety feature was first introduced in Latin America
in twenty nineteen and is currently available in about one hundred and fifty cities around
the US. The OC County Sheriff's Department says drug prevention and education programs have
helped decrease fentanyl overdoses in the county by five percent. Don Barnes says one
point seven million dollars in new funding approved this week by supervisors will help enhance
those programs. First is to add a deputy to our above the and Strike
education program for fifth and sixth grade students, and the second is to augment
resources for our Highway Interdiction Team. Barnes says that team stops the cartel's flow
of drugs, money, and guns along the five The team will get a
new vehicle and additional drug detection canine and new equipment that identifies drug types and
detects guns and drugs in vehicles. President Biden will wrap up a swing through
the US West in Utah today, made stops in Arizona and New Mexico,
and we'll be speaking in Salt Lake City to highlight the one year anniversary of
the Pack Deck that expands benefits to military vets who became sick after being exposed
to toxic burn pits. Biden reportedly will also be attending a fundraising event in
the Park City area. And What's Old is New? Taylor Swift is announced.
You thought we were done with Daylor now that her shows are done,
Nope, She's announced she's re recording and will soon release Taylor's version of her
fourteen album nineteen eighty nine. Now. The rerelease of some of her hottest
hits follows Scooter Braun's controversial acquisition of her masters. She said the album has
changed her life in countless ways, apparently so she wants to share it again.
It's going to drop on October twenty seven. Thousands of residents on Maui
have raced to escape the fires sweeping across the island that have destroyed much of
the historic town dating back to the seventeen hundreds and killing at least thirty six
people. A group of protesters has blocked all the lanes of the one thirty
four in Glendale did it for about three hours. The group was calling on
Congressman Adam Shift to do more to stop a blockade of a mountains supply corridor
in Armenia. Virgin Galactic has set to launch its second commercial space flight from
New Mexico this morning. On board will be the first mother daughter duo to
go to the edge of space, and an eighty year old Olympic canoeist who
bought his ticket for a quarter million dollars at six so five is handle on
the news. President Biden has ordered a ban on certain US tech investments on
China. I'm going to take a look at that right now. It's time
four Amy's on it. I might have to change the name of it.
It seems a little self serving to do a during wake up call, but
it was a feature that I was doing with later with Moll Kelly on Fridays.
We were because we talked a lot about entertainment things, and I thought
it was kind of a fun feature because what I'm on is streaming shows.
Basically some network shows, but a lot of streaming shows because there's so much
content out there, and if you just go onto like Netflix and start start
searching through it, there's so much there, Like how do you pick what
to to watch and not to watch? And a lot of times they take
recommendations for my friends, that's how I find great shows, and so I
thought that it might be nice if I would watch these shows, take a
bullet for you in some regards when the show's really bad, and maybe share
some really great shows too. So the show that I watched this week is
not super old. I believe it came out last year. It's called A
Man Called Auto. It's on Netflix, and its stars Tom Hanks. And
at first I think I saw it, and I tried to start it one
time and wasn't really paying attention. So I was like, Oh, it's
about a grumpy old guy, No big deal, although I you know,
I mean, like, inherently I love Tom Hanks, so I'm going to
give him the benefit of the doubts right out of the gate for that.
But I sat down the other day and watched it, and it is about
a grumpy old man. He recently lost his wife and it just doesn't want
to live anymore, and he is mean and nasty to all the neighbors.
He's well, he's pretty much a jerk to anybody crosses paths with. And
so it starts out that way, and then somewhat predictably, his icy exterior
starts to thought. And that's because of these new neighbors who move in and
in spite of him, being mean and nasty. They just keep coming back.
Hi, Hi Auto, Hi Auto, and they're really nice to him,
and he slowly starts to warm up to it, and it turns out
to be kind of sweet, heartwarming. And you see his love story with
his wife, which he's so devastated about losing, which you find out right
from the very beginning. So I'm not giving anything away, but you see
that love story, and you see what happens in his life and how he
ended up where he is. And I will tell you get the clean X
ready. You're gonna need him because it was a real tear jerker at certain
points. Good movie, no big surprises, but I would say worth the
watch. So it's a man called Auto, It's on Netflix. Pretty interesting
story and it's a good way to spend a couple of hours. At five
fifty, we're gonna be talking with ABC analyst Brad Garrett. This guy knows
his stuff, and we're gonna be talking about the guy who was killed in
Utah after threatening to assassinate President Biden and others. We're also gonna dig a
little deeper into ghost guns and the ruling from the Supreme Court that came down
this week. That puts rules restricting and regulating ghost guns back into effect.
While it's fought out in the lower courts. Right now, let's go back
and check some more stories that are coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Police are trying to track down up to forty thieves who ransacked the
Eve Stan Laurent store at the Americana in Glendale. The thieves rushed inside the
store, loaded up about three hundred thousand dollars where the merchandise, and took
off in several cars. This guy says he saw some of the flash mob
burglary go down Tuesday, saw multiple cars blocking both pedestrians and cars from moving
through the intersection. Glendale Police Sergeant Victor Jackson says he's got into a short
chase with some of the thieves and some of that information is going to be
We're going to leave right now for the investigation, but we do have some
preliminary suspect information. Police are investigating if a recent attempted burglary at the Gucci
store is related in Glendale Blake Trolley k if I News. The La County
Sheriff's Crime Lab says it has found a powerful narcotic used on animals mixed within
the illegal drug supply throughout the county. Officials say xylazine has been detected in
drug seizure samples provided by local law enforcement. The drug is an animal anesthetic
used by veterinarians. It's not FDA approved for humans. When ingested, people
can experience dangerously low blood pressure, a decrease in breathing and heart rates,
large sores, and ulcers. When mixed with opioids, xylazine can speed up
overdose deaths on the streets known as trenk. Food delivery robots in Hollywood are
being attacked by thieves and vandals. The jam Cafes Steve Avalis has fortunately,
restaurants using the service are not responsible for food loss, whether it be robots
or actual drivers. If we hand the food over to a driver or a
robot or whatever, as soon as they take possession of the food, we're
actually we're cleared. The bots are used by restaurants and delivery services like door
Dash and Grubhub. The company that owns the bots says the machines have password
protected locks and GPS tracking. The San Bernardino County Sheriff says he needs help
to manage all the hikers up on Mount Baldy. Shannondikas says in the last
few years his crews have done more than one hundred search and rescues at a
cost of more than three million dollars. He says he would like some help
from the US Forest Service, like a permitting program which could track hikers,
making sure they get marked, maybe operating volunteers, having more rangers out there
and doing more proactivity, doing a number of advertisements letting hikers know that you
know Baldy can be treacherous. There just needs to be more effort, in
my opinions. Says he's lobbying LAWMA to put pressure on the Forest Service.
Steve Gregory Canopy News. A dam in southern Norway has partially burst after days
of heavy rain that triggered landslides. In Flooding officials say the severe weather is
forced evacuations of communities downstream. Officials in Oslo are now encouraging people to work
from home, adding unnecessary traffic should be avoided. Thousands of people have also
been left without power. ABC's and Es Delikatera says Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania,
Finland, Estonia and Latvia are also being hit by heavy rain and strong
winds. A candidate for president in Ecuador who was anti cartels and corruption has
been assassinated. Fernando Via van Cco was killed yesterday at a political rally in
the capital city. Ecuador's president suggested organized crime was behind the murder, less
than two weeks before the presidential election. Bad hair Day, don't blame your
brush, blame your parents. New search says a rare genetic mutation affects hair
follical and formation. The patterns of our hair are influenced by whirls, or
the patches that grow in a circular pattern around a specific point on your head.
Scientists say the world is determined by four genetic variants that make up the
number of whorls and the direction of the whirl. They say unusual patterns or
bad hair we're seen on people with neurological or genetic development issues. They're also
looking for genes related to other physical traits, including hair curliness, fingerprints,
eyebrow thickness, and earlobe shape. Michael Krozer KFIN News, Okay, good
to know that it's not my fault. Burned out cars and smoking piles of
rubble are about all that's left of much of Lahina on Maui, as wind
whipped fires swept across the island, killing at least thirty six people, forcing
some residents to jump into the ocean to escape the flames. A woman has
been killed when an suv crashed into the Hammer Toyota car dealership in Mission Hills.
Police think the elderly driver, who wasn't hurt, hit the gas instead
of the break. The La City Council is unanimously decided to move forward with
a plan to identify land that could be transferred to historically marginalized groups within the
city, where just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning, US
Special Council got a search warrant and got access to Trump's Twitter account. Okay,
did you uh you know how everybody's going solar now? Well, Six
Flags Magic Mountain has plans to go solar. The park is going to be
they say, entirely powered by clean energy. Kind of a it's a is
a this is a big project like Disneyland recycles food scraps, Universal Studios has
a couple of trams, but six Flags they're going to go all solars.
So the plan right now is to build a solar array in Magic Mountain's main
parking lot that, when it's done, will generate enough electricity to run the
whole park, all two hundred and sixty acres of it. Six Flags is
saying it's the largest commercial renewable energy project of its kind. Governor Newsom obviously
very happy about it. He says, six Flags commitment to clean energies the
type of work that will power the future. And if you're wondering if the
rides are going to keep going on cloudy days when the sun isn't shining,
they're saying that it shouldn't be a problem. The solar power being harvested at
Magic Mountain is going to be stored in these huge batteries that are expected to
hold enough juice to keep the coasters rolling through June Gloom and beyond. It's
pretty ambitious. Go six Flags Go. Let's say good morning now to ABC
Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Good morning, Brad, Good morning Amy.
I know last time we talked, we didn't really get a chance to
chit chat, but Brad and I hosted a show one day. He was
filling in and so Robin had me come in and sit with him. And
Brad, if you don't know him, has such great inside and so much
wisdom in that brain about crime and terrorism. So today we're going to talk
about the guy who was shot and killed when the FBI attempted to serve a
search warrant to him in Provo, Utah. What was the warrant for Brad
and what happened? Okay, so the FBI got both a search and arrest
warrant for this guy because he had threatened to kill President Biden. Now an
important point, obviously is that President Biden is in Utah right now, So
I assume they worked extra fast to put this together to make sure that they
could control this guy so he couldn't get anywhere near the president. But the
point being, he made all these threats against the president, against the elected
district Attorney Alvan Bragg in Manhattan, against Latitia Jays, the Attorney General of
New York. Now, this list I'm assembling, obviously are folks that in
the last two case charged President Trump either civilly or criminally, and a lot
of these folks that end up trying to commit violence against people that they believe
have quote unquote wronged Former President Trump are getting more and more unhinged as each
indictment falls, and as you well knowing, he may get indicted the former
president in Georgia this month, which would be four than separate jurisdictions that have
charged him. So expect to see versions of this guy continue to pop up.
So I'm just curious, what is it that they're so adamant that Trump
is their guy, that they that the feelings just escalating. They get more
and more frustrated, and it's just going to the point where they're openly making
threats. So you have to go to the whole conspiracy theory mindset. Okay,
people who fallen into these conspiracies like the the election was stolen and they
get President Trump to tell them every twelve minutes that that's the case. So
you have a well known, powerful person making statements that holds a lot of
weight with some people. Now you have to be sort of oriented a certain
way of being disagreeable, not particularly a person who likes to think through and
logically figure out. You're just mad and maybe you're in a disadvantaged situation.
Maybe you'll live in a rust belt, you haven't had a job, you've
had troubled relationships, because typically these people do. In other words, their
life is very negative and they become more and more angry. They don't have
the tools to deal with the anger, so they latch onto these conspiracy theories
and they see, sort of, we can solve this. This is right
and wrong. It's wrong the president Trump's not the president, and it's right
that he should be, and so it's a resolution or it solves a problem
for them to fall into these eras theories, and some of them, not
most of them, but some of them, like this guy, take it
to the next level. And my concern is there's going to be more versions
of this guy as we move into twenty twenty four. And is the FBI
looking at these kind of threats all the time? I mean, because this
guy was posting stuff on social media, right, right, Yeah, he
was not being subtled at all. They do, the Secret Service obviously do
when it comes to the president. The problem is that a vast majority of
these people who make these outrageous threats have no intention in carrying them out.
They're just basically verbalizing. So I'm going to guess again that the FBI had
more information other than he had just made idle threats. Was he actually planning
to find a president in Utah for example? I don't know that, but
I'm suggesting it's going to be something more than just an idle threat to have
gotten them to get a search warrant and an arrest warrant for this guy.
So what's the FBI looking for that would differentiate him from someone else who's just
kind of spouting off? Operational? In other words, they actually, first
of all, have the ways. It means, let's say that they've been
able to determine that he's got a cache of R fifteens other type of weapons.
That's one thing, and clearly, if he has them legally, that's
his right to have them. But the point being, did was he planning
this? Is he talking? Are their sources involved in this case? Did
he see other things online that would certainly go to I'm going to go do
this and this is how I'm going to do it kind of thing? So
we'll see if that comes out at some point. Yeah, the good news
is they stopped him, correct, But it's also, like you said,
it's a little bit scary. They have to follow it kind of right up
to the edge. Because if they do, because they can't. They can't
interact too early because they don't know if it's real. But if you wait
too long, like you said, the President's in Utah today, it's all
about timing, and I will tell you. And there have been cases even
in mass shooters, where the police have the interviewed the person weeks, months,
days before they commit a mass shooting because they've gotten information that the person
may will want to commit a mass shooting, but they don't have enough information
to charge them or evidence to charge them, and so as a result,
you know, the person then finishes the operational side and goes and commits the
act. These folks fall into the same category. If you don't know about
them, that's one thing, but to know about them when they're actually going
to take action. I mean, the First Amendment gives you a lot of
league away one hate speech, and it's really tricky, and that's why people
slipped through. This guy could have slipped through. And my fear is as
the numbers grow of these type of guys, we're going to have a lot
on our hands as we get into the twenty twenty four presidential election. Okay,
all right, let's real quick with a couple of minutes that we have
left shift over to ghost guns. The Supreme Court ruling from this week allows
for rules for ghost guns passed by the Biden administration in twenty twenty two to
be enforced while it gets slugged out in the lower courts. So what's what's
the consensus on this as far as this is a good thing while it's happening,
is it going to become permanent or is it just too soon to tell?
Too soon to tell? I mean, you know, ghost guns obviously
have no serial number, you don't have a background check. All you need
is a credit card or debit card order through the mail comes to you.
You could be the baddest, most violent felon in the world and you could
order it because there's no control at f changed the definition of firearms, saying
that these unassembled firearms which are shipped to you and under an hour you've can
put them together, is as a firearm, and gun rights folks challenged them.
They got to judge in Texas to say, yeah, that's right,
they can't change their regulation. So he blocked them. Well, the Spreme
Court, to your point, unblocked at least temporarily as it goes to the
system. It's extremely important that these weapons be regulated. Every other weapon.
If you and I go to a gun dealer in Los Angeles, we go
through a background check, we get a weapon with a serial number, we
know where it came from. You can trace it. It can't trace ghost
guns. And who's making ghost guns? I mean, is it people who
typically lawfully purchase weapons who are just trying something new, or is it bad
guys who can't buy them. I think it's I think it's both. Because
you don't know the numbers because there's no database. I mean, obviously the
folks that produced these ghost guns would know how many guns they've sold. But
because there's no regulation, there's no regulator like ATF or oversight, there's no
background check, you have no idea. I'm going to guess that the majority
of people who buy ghost guns aren't committing crime. They just don't want people
to know they have firearms, so they don't want law enforcement to know they
have again going back to your conspiracy theory way of thinking. But it's I
mean, in California, there's study in California that said that your law enforcement
twenty five to fifty percent of the weapons they seize or find our ghost guns.
That's that's scary that number. Yeah all right, ABC's Brad Garrett.
Thanks for spending some time with us today. Hope we can do it again
soon. Appreciate your insis great. Thank you, Amy a good day.
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