You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good
morning and happy Leap Day. It's Thursday, February twenty nine. This is
your wake up call. I'm Amy King. So Leap Day the day that
comes only once every four years, and to celebrate, there are some businesses
that are going to be offering up some things so you can kind of cash
in on it. We'll be telling you about that during wake up call.
A couple of them are pretty tasty, because one of them I already tasted.
Also very excited. Today Pitpwatch is underway, so watches when they're watching
for eglitz to start coming out of their shell. We've got a couple of
bald eagles perched in a tree high above Big Bear Lake, about one hundred
and forty five feet up Jackie in shadow. They've been nesting and sitting on
their eggs for thirty five days, and thirty five days is when it's feasible
for the eglitz to start hatching. So we start watching that today. Whether
it starts happening today, that is up to mother nature. But being as
if you listen to the show at all, you know that I am a
huge, huge fan of the Eagles, and you can watch it on the
Big Bear Bald Eagle Cam. It's a YouTube channel and it's so cool to
watch. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Both President Biden and former
President Trump will be visiting the US Mexico border in Texas today. Biden is
set to meet with border patrol agents and local leaders in Brownsville. Trump will
be about three hundred miles away in Eagle Pass. Two men convicted in a
deadly drive by shooting in South La more than twenty years ago are now free
men. The La County DA formally exonerated them. They were fifteen and twenty
at the time of the killing. The stars of Curb Your Enthusiasm are remembering
comedian and actor Richard Lewis. He died yesterday of a heart attack. Larry
David said Lewis was like a brother to him. David's TV wife, Cheryl
Hines, says he was a loving person and working with him was a dream.
Richard Lewis was seventy six At six oh five, It's Handle on the
news with two days left despair. Looks like lawmakers have a deal to prevent
a partial government shut down tomorrow night. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. One of the worst
storms of the winter season is sweeping through northern California. National Weather Service meteorologist
Courtney Carpenter says heavy snow and hazardous blizzard conditions are expected in the Greater Lake
Tahoe area through Sunday. This will bring stonefall rates of two to four inches
per hour at times, so really going to pile up pretty quickly and really
make things nasty or travel across the mountains. Carpenter says gusty winds and widespread
rain will also be a problem. She says by the end of the storm,
the Sierra could get up to ten feet of fresh snow, with snow
levels possibly dipping down to two to three thousand feet. The Department of Water
Resources is expected to do its latest snow survey in the southern Sierra later this
morning, and forecasters are saying all these storms that have been coming through should
bode well for the snowpack. A woman accused of trying to snatch a four
year old boy from a target in Korea Town has been arrested. Police say
the woman grabbed the boy on Sunday afternoon and dragged him outside the store.
That's where she was confronted by one of the kid's parents and ran away.
Trial has started in Lancaster for a man charged with killing his four kids and
their grandmother. The youngest child was just over a year old. Prosecutor told
jurors yesterday that Jermarcus David drove himself to a sheriff's station after the murders in
twenty twenty one, apologized in a note and asked to be taken into custody.
The kid's mom found the bodies when she returned from dinner with friends.
The defense says David was devastated and crushed by his wife's decision to end their
relationship. President Biden and former President Trump are both visiting the southern border today.
ABC's Jim Ryan says Biden is going to Brownsville, Texas, about three
hundred and twenty five miles up the Rio Grand From here, presumed Republican nominee
Donald Trump will appear in Eagle Pass, a city that has become a focal
point in the broader debate over illegal immigration. Biden blames Trump and Republicans for
killing a bipartisan border security deal. Trump says the deal wasn't strong enough to
secure the border. He's promised to begin mass deportations if he's elected. We'll
be talking more about the dueling border visits with ABC's Jim Ryan coming up up
at five point fifty, so we do hope you'll stick around for that.
A street medicine program and Garden Grove has received ten million dollars to expand into
Costa Mesa and Anaheim. Cal Optima Health Medical executive director Kelly Bruno Nelson says
nearly two hundred homeless people got medical, mental health and housing services in the
first year of the program. The veterans that had been on the street for
over seven years and after seeing our housing navigator for just a few short months,
was issued a housing voucher and is now in apartment. Bruno Nelson says
the team searches out people on the street who start getting doctor and nurse visits
as soon as they sign up. She says a peer navigator also visits participants
twice a week to help them through the process. A plan to redevelop Disneyland
with new hotels, parking, and attractions includes buying several streets from Anaheim.
Disneyland would stay within its current five hundred acre property, but Disney consultant Joe
Haupt said this week buying a street like Magic Way improves traffic on as any
Disney resort. Traffic on Walnut because there would be no way to get through
Magically would be converted to emergency vehicle access only. The ten year, one
point nine billion dollar project also promises one hundred million dollars in improvements for Anaheim,
comitments to address city wide needs and housing, parks, transportation, and
infrastructure. A city planning commission to set to vote on the proposal next month.
In Anaheim, Corbin Carson KFI needs It's five oh six on your leap
day wake up call. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller.
Good morning, Jordana. The fighting continues, but there is a bit of
positive news. Well, the positive news is that there's slow progress towards a
seafire. But it's really two things to say. If we have a breakthrough
yet. Of the Israeli delegation that was in Cutter reported that the talks have
been positive there with the Katari and the Egyptian mediators. They are of course
representing Hamas. But I'll still waiting this year from Yeesi Seinoir, that is
the mastermind of the Deaday October seventh attack, the head of Hamas, the
man who's hiding in tunnels in southern Daza, likely surrounded by hostages, and
he has to weigh in and you know, approve this deal. So we're
not there yet, and there are still some gaps, but it appears where
there's momentum, there's forward movement. The deadline everyone is aiming for is March
tenth, that's before Ramadan begins, the Muslim holy month, and then shortly
thereafter the Jewish holiday of Passover. You know, God willing, it's disclosed
well quiet through you know, most of March and April. Yeah, so
earlier this week President Biden had said that he thought we would have or we
would see a deal by Monday. So it sounds like he kind of jumped
the gun on that. I think he did jump the gun on that.
You know, he certainly wants a deal as soon as possible to stop the
fighting, to bring the hostages home of them. You know, there's eight
Americans, two of those unfortunately have died, but you know, to bring
those two bodies and presumably six Americans out alive, and of course to you
know, bring in tons and much more aid into the Gaza Strip. You
know, today there's you know, we're beginning to get the full picture now,
but it looks like there was a very very deadly incident as eight trucks
arrived in the north near Gods of City. You know, thirty thousand people
rushing for likely a dozen trucks filled aid. Some firefights breaking out with Israeli
soldiers that were there trying to secure the passageway of the convoy, as well
as stampedes and trucks that were then you know, attacked, including the drivers
who then tried to leave the site, killing people. The Hamasa and the
Health Ministry says one hundred are dead and several hundred injured. Hamas is blaming
the entire incident on the Israeli army. But these Erali armies says they did
not use artillery or tank fire or drones that they did open fire on some
who were attacking idea of soldiers, but they're not, they are not.
They say the majority were killed in a stampede, and it speaks to how
desperate the situation is in northern Gaza, where aid is just trickling in and
Jordana. When you say that the trucks were attacked, you said that the
Health Ministry run by Hamas says that it was Israeli soldiers, but I mean
like attacked, like fired upon and shooting or that just attacked by people trying
to get to the aid. You know, the Israeli soldiers were protecting the
safe passageway of the trucks. They weren't driving the trucks, were guarding the
trucks. They were on the streets, and the trucks were driven by locals.
And it appears that iman were in war, right, so an Israeli
soldiers the enemy. And it seems that some of those thirty thousand people who
were in the area started to attack soldiers and the soldiers used live gunfire to
protect themselves, and that sounds like it could have led to some of the
deaths. But one hundred deaths did not come from firefights between gunmen or unarmed
civilians, and that number seems that number is too high to come from just
gunfire incidents. In one part of this stretch of road that was being guarded
by the Israelis. We can see from aerial shops that the Israeli Army put
out now that there were you know, thousands and thousands of people around these
trucks. Okay, So is that going to or do we know yet if
that's going to affect attempts to get more AID in because I know that one
of one of your talking points today was going to be that AID trucks are
getting in. But that's what gets Yeah, that was the positive, that
was the positive news yesterday until this incident. You know, it's unclear how
this is going to impact come. You know, AID convoys to northern Gaza,
about fifty had come before this morning into specifically northern Gaza. And it's
important to say that Jordan and France, the United Arab Emirates, Baharain and
Egypt. Over the last twenty four hours they've been dropping air dropping AID all
over the Gaza strip. But in the last twenty four hours, the first
air drops of AID made it to northern Gaza early this morning and last night.
So that's also that's also a help. Certain certainly not enough. I
mean, we know that people are hungry in the northern part of the Gaza
Strip. There's three hundred thousand people there and they are not getting enough aid.
Uh. And there's vast destruction in northern Gaza. Uh. And this
is this is you know, a major major humanitarian crisis there. Yeah,
and you said there's three hundred thousand people. There are those people who went
back to Gaza City or are those people who never left? Those are mostly
people who never left northern Gaza. There used to be about about one point
five million, almost half more than half of Gaza's entire population was based in
northern Gaza. Isra was able to move out about eight hundred thousand people,
and there's around three hundred. The estimate is around three hundred thousand. Most
dozens have not returned to the north. It's one of the disputes that Hamas
and Israel are trying to work in a hostage relief and take fire deal.
Who will be able to go back to the northern Gaza Strip. Israel doesn't
want young men of fighting age to go back because they're worried that they'll regroup,
so Isra wants to allow when we women and children back so complicated,
continue to hope that. Yeah, we'll continue to hope that they can come
up with a deal and at least stop the fighting for a while. Thank
you so much, Jordana Miller, appreciate it. Bud Willing, Thanks Puck.
Soon, all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A judge in Illinois has ruled
former President Trump should be removed from the state's Republican primary ballot because of the
January sixth ride at the Capitol, but that decision is on hold to give
Trump time to appeal. The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments regarding a
similar ruling in Colorado. The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether former President
Trump can claim presidential immunity to fight charges of election interference. Arguments are going
to be held the week of April twenty second. The criminal case against Trump
is on hold until then. Wildfires burning in Texas have now burned through more
than a million acres. The largest of the fires in the Texas Panhandle has
burned more than eight hundred and thirty thousand acres and has crossed into Oklahoma.
It's only three percent surrounded. People in the town of Canadian were allowed to
return home yesterday. Dozens of homes have been damaged or destroyed. At least
one death has been confirmed. Police in California could soon have more freedom to
wire taps suspected fentanyl dealers. The Assembly Public Safety Committee passed a bill lowering
the amount of feentanyl and the drug deal needed for wire taps to be approved.
Assembly mean Jim Patterson says police need more tools to take down suppliers.
We all know this that thousands of Californians are act being poisoned as a result
of fentanyl. Currently, wire taps can be approved for deals involving at least
three pounds of fentanyl. Patterson's bill would lower the amount to eight ounces of
the drug. The bill will need to pass another committee BEF for the entire
Assembly can vote on it. Blake Trolley Kafi News, the company that owns
Outback Steakhouse, has closed dozens of so called underperforming restaurants. Bloomin Brands also
owned Carabas, Italian Grill, Bonefish Grill, and Flemings Yum. The company
said in an earnings call last week that it had already closed forty one locations.
The closures hit Outback steakhouses the hardest. The company did not release a
list of closed restaurants. You know, Outback is one of my favorite places
to go. It's like a inexpensive and a good steak and plus they've got
bloomin onions, Oh delicious. You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from
KFI AM six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Northern California is about to get slammed by the strongest storm of the
season. Blizzard warnings go up this morning for the Sierra Nevadam Mountains, including
Lake Tahoe, with up to ten feet of snow expected. Michael Moore has
one day left on the job as chief of the LAPD. He stepped down
and moving out of La says he wants to be closer to his daughter,
but we'll still be a consultant for the city. Shohei Otani has a new
team and a new wife. Announced on Instagram late yesterday that he got married.
He says he's not only begun a new chapter in his career with the
Dodgers, but also in new life with someone from his native country Japan.
At six oh five, it is handle on the news, the longest serving
Senate leader in US history, stepping down, but not going away just yet.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers at the White House.
So, Karen, President Biden got his annual check up. How did it
go? Yeah, you know. The President talked to reporters before the official
report came out yesterday and gave a two thumbs up and said everything squared away,
told reporters everything was great, and even joked at an event with some
police chiefs that his doctors think he looks too young. He got to kick
out of his own joke. The police chiefs also liked his joke, But
he told reporters there was nothing different in this year's physical than last year's report,
and then when we got the details of it, that was largely true.
The president's doctor said that he is a healthy, active, robust eighty
one year old who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency word
for word from last year, except changing his age. But one thing that
is different than last year is that the president, according to his doctor,
has begun using a positive airway pressure machine a seapop machine to help him with
some ongoing sleep apnea. So people probably are familiar with those masks that you
could use to help you sleep better. He has been trying that. I've
never get it called a positive airway. Yeah, though I had to traffic
track it that way yesterday because that's the official way the doctor put it in
the report. His gait, the way he walks, remains stiff, according
to doctor O'Connor, but hasn't gotten worse since his physical last year. And
the President continues to exercise at least five days a week. We know he
likes to exercise in the morning. He has said he likes to hop on
a bike if he can. But he is somebody who very much tries to
get in a daily workout. And he does still have occasional symptoms of acid
reflux. That's why he clears his throat a lot, according to his doctor,
and is getting some medication treatment for that, as well as cholesterol issues.
But those were all the same from the year before. So as the
President said, yeah, kind of uneventful. But one thing that was questioned
at the briefing yesterday. There wasn't a cognitive exam in this physical looking at
mental fitness. That's of course something that poll show Americans are concerned about whether
he is the physical and mental fitness to serve another term. The White House
said yesterday that his doctors, including neurologists, did not believe he needs one.
Karine Jean Pierre told my colleague he passes a cognitive test every day as
he does his job. Of course, Karen Jean Pierre says that, of
course, okay, Kiaren, drivers thank you for the update. Appreciating it
you. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Two men convicted of killing a teenager in La more
than twenty years ago are now free. Men. District Attorney George gasco And
said new evidence has come to light, freeing Joe Fama Coleman and Abel Soto
from prison. They were both victed of the two thousand and three shooting death
of sixteen year old Jose Robols four years later. Coleman was sentenced to twenty
five years to life, while Soto received seventy two years to life In January
of this year, their attorney asked the District Attorney's office for a review of
the conviction in light of new evidence. Michael Monks KFI News. A new
online dashboard shows the results of La County's no cash bail program for non violent
offenders. Superior Court Executive Officer David Slayton says the pre arraignment released protocols,
known as PAARP or PARP, are safe and fair, so the PARPs are
working as intended, protecting public and victim safety while ensuring that those who present
little risk don't languish behind bars simply because they can't afford to pay bail.
If you want to see it, it's at LA court dot org slash bail.
That's where you can find the dashboard. It was introduced five months ago.
Congressional leaders have reached a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown. ABC.
Sandy Field says money for half the government runs out March eighth, the
rest March twenty second. At March eighth date could be a problem as it
is the day after President Biden said to give his State of the Union address.
Congressional leaders insist they have a deal on six of the spending bills now
do it a week. The House is expected to vote today on temporary funding.
It'll then go to the Senate for a vote, where it may face
some hurdles. All one hundred members will have to agree to the measure.
The FDA says food packaging that contains harmful, long lasting chemicals will no longer
be sold in the US. Man made chemicals called PFA's or forever chemicals don't
break down and have been associated with serious health risks. The agency called the
move yesterday a major win for public health. A bunny boom has baffled animal
services in Granada Hills. Nearly one hundred rabbits were found last week on some
private property. The abandonment resulted in rabbits well making more rabbits. Officials in
la and Chatsworth called the Bunny World Foundation for extra support, dispay and re
home the animals. The foundation says any more pregnancies could result in another couple
hundred rabbits. They do multiply fast. So it's leap day and we want
you to cash in on it. So here's a couple of ways that you
can do it. We're going to start off with our friends from Wendy's because
yesterday they brought us some tasty treats and did you come in and get yours?
No? Okay, So the Wendy's has their cinnabon pull apart breakfast item
and they're available now. But today they're offering a free serving, no purchase
or loyalty membership necessary. It's good for one adult per group inside the restaurant
or one car for drive through customers. And I can tell you we had
them yesterday. Oh and here comes in, she's coming to get hers.
That a girl. It's right over there. Yes, so it's the Wendy's
pull apart breakfast and it's a little cup full of goods. Delicious. Chipotle
is offering free gualk today. It's for a free small side or entree topping
of guak when you purchase a full price item. BJ's Restaurant or two twenty
nine puzukis oh I get it. Two twenty nine pazukis yummy when you have
a minimum ten dollars purchase, and that's for dining customers. Good excuse to
go to BJ's Deliciousness. Duck Donuts is offering a cinnamon sugar donut with a
medium hot coffee or cold brew four to twenty nine on this two twenty nine.
And if you like barbecue, Lucille's Smokehouse you can get a full rack
of baby back ribs and then get a half rack for free. Again.
That's today on Leap Day. I love when they have good deals for a
special day. When we come back. Our very own Steve Gregory stat down
with LAPD Chief Michael Moore. Today is his last day on the job.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty. Thanks
for joining us on this Leap Day. Here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Both President Biden and former President Trump are going to
visit the US Mexico border in Texas today. Biden's going to meet with Border
patrol agents and local leaders in Brownsville. Trump's going to be more than three
hundred miles away in Eagle Paths. Two men convicted in a deadly drive by
shooting in South La more than twenty years ago have been freed. The La
County DA says new informations come to light and has formerly exonerated the men,
who were fifteen and twenty at the time of the killing. Wendy's is trying
to clarify its plans for so called dynamic pricing, following a huge backlash to
the announcement that food prices would fluctuate during the day depending on the time and
how busy the restaurant is. Fast Food Giant says the plan is to discount
food during off peak hours and not surge prices at the busiest time of the
day. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The Supreme
Court's going to hear the case of whether former President Trump had complete immunity when
he was in office. And at five point fifty, we're going to take
a closer look at both of the president and the former president. Heading to
the border. ABC's Jim Ryan is there. Today is Michael Moore's last day
as Chief of the LAPD for nearly forty three years. Moore has been wearing
the official LAPD badge the last five and a half as chief. More hadn't
planned to be the boss, but his predecessor, Chief Charlie Beck, asked
More to stick around. Moore was the assistant chief at the time and was
actually looking for another job at that point. I was actually competing for a
chief job in another city, and where was that at San Diego? San
Diego, And in fact I went down that following Monday. I was one
of two finalists for that job. And it looks like Moore made the right
choice. He would eventually become the fifty seventh chief of the department. I
recently sat down with Chief Moore. It would be our last one on one
interview as reporter to Chief. I asked him about getting the reins from Chief
Charlie Beck. Did Chief Beck give you any advice? Did he tell you
about any pitfalls? What was that inside baseball tip that he gave you?
Sure? Well? Something I carry with me every day, and that is
he gave me worse of that. Here give me ten rules, ten things
remember as I go about my work. And he left this for me,
and he hand wrote in number eleven they're all typed. One through ten is
type and then are our type. And then number eleven he hand wrote,
blame me. Don't be afraid to use this as necessary. It works better
sooner than later exactly, and then he signed it. He more took over
at a time when things in the department seemed pretty stable, But that would
soon change. The pandemic hit and then on May fifth, twenty twenty,
George Floyd was killed, and that incident would forever change the department, isolation
and the quarantine and the shutting down a society, and concert with that formed
a storm where suddenly the frustration and anger and everything that was wrong in a
person's life now the police became a focal point. And while many demonstrations and
protests were peaceful, there were also giving amount that too many that were violent.
A lot of rank and file say they lost respect for you the day
took a knee and you're looking back on that now, do you regret that?
Yes? And no. I mean the reality of that gesture will probably
forever be misunderstood by Son, but others they understood exactly what I was doing.
During your tenure, what would you consider your lowest point? My lowest
point was the calling in the National Guard, mobilizing the organization and essentially seeing
riotous conditions in our streets across Los Angeles. It was a circumstance that I'd
seen as a sergeant in nineteen ninety two, and it was one that was
it was very disappointing because and it hurt now the other side, your proudest
moment I don't have. It's got to be a singular There's got to be
something singular. I know you've had a lot of good moments, You've had
a lot of great moments, but there's got to be one that it doesn't
have to be a grand scale thing, just the tiniest thing or the largest.
The proudest thing I am of is I go home to a wife who
loves me, and I have a daughter who does as well. That's there's
so much about this job that to keep that imbalanced. Well, But so
I'm proud of the fact that we've had a team and I get to leave
and take that next journey with them. Give yourself a letter grade from your
performance as chief b b Okay. I think I leave with accomplishments, with
criticism, a drawer full of things I will I wish I'd gotten done,
and more things I want to get done. But also I'm probably know that
I've done everything I can and it's time forty two years and some change.
In this juncture with where the city is at, with what's in front of
it, it needs an early handoff. But it doesn't much matter because at
the end of the day, I know what I did and why I did
it, and that's all it matters. Well, this would be our last
one on one as chief, so I just can't tell you how much I've
appreciated working with you over the years. Your accessibility has always been a long
You have brought in an approachability and candor, and you had to have the
you know, you always play fair, and it says so you ask hard
questions. You know this isn't softball stuff. But at the same time you're
fair and your balance and to that end, it's mutual respect and admiration.
And I wish nothing but the best, and I wish I just wish there
was more Steve Gregory's around here. Well I'm not sure about that. For
wake up call, I'm Steve Gregory k if I news, I think one
Steve Gregory is plenty. Thank you. Steve Gregory. Super interesting and I
agree Steve does a heck of a job. Uh right. At the beginning
of the year. It was, in fact, on January first, a
lot of people with sweet tooth or sweet teeth were pretty shocked when there was
an announcement by Sweet Lady Jane that all of the locations that they have opened
around the Southland were going to be closing and everybody was getting laid off,
and at the time, Sweet Lady Jane said, we can't afford to do
business here. But now Nick, we're getting some rumblings that maybe Sweet Lady
Jane's coming back. Nick Robin, do you have Nick up? I there
there we go. Oh no, no, it's all good. I was
just going to say I was in Largemont Village yesterday and they were supposed to
have a Sweet Lady Jane that would open around the holidays last year, and
it never got open. And the building is still there and everything is still
set up. So it's kind of wild to think that, you know,
in a quick turnaround of just a couple of months, there might be some
sugar on the horizon if you will. Well. Yeah, so the interesting
thing to me and me I have not been to this place, but anybody
who has, they just rave about it, and then I'm like, dang,
I missed out, and now I never get the chance. But they
closed very abruptly, and then a couple weeks later, somebody who apparently had
worked there for a couple of months filed a lawsuit against them, saying they
hadn't been paid and there was all this stuff, and then social media is
a buzz and starts weighing in, and that's never a good thing. The
court of public opinion is really really challenging. So yeah, so they have
that to deal with. But now they're putting out on social media that said
a post said is this thing on? We have some good news to share.
We're not quite ready to let the cake out of the box. And
then they said, have you been craving a slice of triple berry cake?
Which I hear is wonderful dark chocolate sea salt brownie, which sounds incredible.
Well what about a curried chicken sandwich soup? Well same here. We think
it's time for a reunion, don't you. And then the latest cryptic message
is can you taste it? Get ready? And Sino Calabasis, Beverly Hills,
Arch Month, Santa Monica, and West Hollywood. So they're reopening.
But if they couldn't afford to do business, how are they reopening. It's
interesting to me, like, I'm I think it's cool. I hope they
are coming back. I've heard that there may be new ownership, and then
we'll have to. We'll have to wait and see, and if they do
reopen, I'm definitely headed that way. But I think it just sounds so
weird because the closing was so fast and now the reopening is fast. And
Anne and I were talking about this yesterday and I'm like, is there something
fishy going on? Was this a stunt? Well? Yeah, and that's
always my question period, and especially right now with business and with how things
are. And then, like I said, I'm literally walking by the shop
that didn't even get to be opened, and you have this beautiful place in
Larchmont Village where you're like, Okay, well that's interesting. But yeah,
it almost feels like there might have been something to turn around. And we're
so used to things that close or go bankrupt or whatever, and then it'll
be really interesting to see where this goes moving forward. Well, if they
do reopen, Nick, I think we should go out and about and go,
Yeah, sample some triple berry cake. I agree with you. Now,
Allegedly, if you get the there's a maybe a fake out that's over
at Whole Foods, so they have a triple berry fake out or something to
that effect. That's very much similar to that triple berry cake from Sweet Lady
Jane, So we might have to do some research ahead of time before that
happens. Yeah, and that's just right across the street, so exactly,
that's just like it's a real easy walk. And what are you doing?
Go get us some cake? Although I know you guys have got those pull
aparts from Wendy you so, and you're des really jealous this morning? Yeah,
all right, thank you. Nick. You're listening to wake Up Call
on Demand from KFI am six forty is you know, according to tradition,
it's the day that women can propose to men. Hmm, who should I
propose to I'm gonna have to think on that one. I propose that we
get more information from Nick Pouliocheani. You know, we were talking about Sweet
Lady Jane and rumblings that it's coming back and some cryptic messages, and of
course Nick dives into everything. He's my best researcher. So what did you
just find? I found out that even though you cannot order immediately, the
ordering platform for Sweet Lady Jane is up and active right now, so I
can actually so it can't so it has notations pick up not available at this
time this location does not offer online ordering now, but I can actually go
in and pre order things because I was looking up the Triple berry cake because
I want to find where that fake is for us to try it before Sweet
Lady Jane's come back, and that's when it's like pre order only, and
I was like, excuse me, pre order only. So by following down
that rabbit hole, it looks like the platform is already up and running.
You mean, if they're not taking orders right now, it's still available there
to get all the details. And it also even has the pre order link
available. Yes, so okay, what happened. Here's another sign that it
might be coming back on the stores in Santa Monica and Encino. There are
now signs posted on the doors that say we're coming back, so we'll be
watching. Thank you, Eric. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Northern California is about to get slammed by what's being called
the strongest storm of the season. Blizzard warnings go into effect this morning for
the Sierra Nevada Mountains, including Lake Tahoe. The storm could dump up to
ten feet of snow. Wind gusts are expected to top one hundred miles an
hour. Lawmakers are working to pass several bills in Sacramento to fight the rise
of retail theft. One would allow for prosecution of repeat offenders. Another would
make it a felony to press your kids to commit crimes. There's also a
bill that would allow county courts to charge retail thieves in other counties if they
are multi offenders. Three cities in California have been ranked as having some of
the worst commutes in the country. No big surprise there, La two on
the list based on time and money spent driving. San Francisco is seventh worst,
Oakland is tenth. New York City number one. We're just minutes away
from Handle. On the news this morning, Wendy's was hit with a huge
backlash over its dynamic pricing plans. So now the fast food company has some
splainin to do. It's trying to kind of clear the air on this one.
Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan in Texas.
Yesterday we talked Wendy's. Today, we're talking to presidents of the border.
Yeah, both the former president and the current president will be along the US
Mexico border. President Biden will be here in the city of Brownsville later today.
He'll be meeting with local leaders. He's going to talk about He'll use
this as the backdrop for discussion of the Senate bill, the bipartisan immigration bill
that failed, and try to get something going on that front. Meanwhile,
up the river from here, in the city of Eagle Pass, former President
Donald Trump will make an appearance. He'll be talking Texas National Guard members,
local leaders, and discussing the border situation there. They're vastly different situations,
by the way, amy up an Eagle Pass about three hundred and twenty five
miles from here, it's considered the hot spot for undocumented immigrants coming across the
river into the United States illegally. And isn't that where they're putting up the
razor wire. Yes, the razor wire has gone up there also those floating
barriers, the big buoys that are out there in the water, and the
Texas National Guard has taken over a city park there, much to the chagrin
of the Border Patrol agents federal agents who are trying to get in there and
do their job too. So that's really become the epic center down here.
In Brownsville, the number of people coming across illegally and legally by the way
is much more manageable. This is a larger community, a better infrastructure to
handle this sort of situation. The numbers in fact of people coming across illegally
here at Brownsville has gone off, has dropped quite dramatically in the last few
months. That's what President Biden will to try to highlight here today. Well,
but what he's going to miss is that they're just shifting west and crossing
in Arizona and California now more or less, yes, and even shifting west
up to know the other parts of the Texas Mexico board of the up and
I'll passo an eagle pass and then over you're right into Arizona and then California.
So yeah, it's all kind of moving in that direction, isn't it
kind of I mean, like, I don't know if you're hearing it,
but what I'm hearing is it's sort of disingenuous to go to Brownsville where the
problem is not as bad as it used to be, Like, wouldn't it
make more sense to go where ten thousand people a day are crossing? To
say, you guys, this is horrible. We really have to pass something
to fix it. Well, it's politics, though, too, right.
I mean President Biden wants to show that things are not as bad maybe as
the Republicans are saying they are. Former President Trump wants to show that things
are worse than they've been in recent years. So yeah, it's politics,
it's optics, so the whole thing, right, you're right, I mean
going to the place where the problem is the worst and trying to get things
done. I think you would do that quietly though, wouldn't you, instead
of making a campaign appearance. That's what these two guys are doing today,
Okay, And the White House is it's a coincidence that they're both going on
the same day and summer saying now, not really, because Trump has had
this plan for two weeks. Yeah, he's had this plan and then this,
the Biden trip, came up after that. So you know, by
the way, they said the President Biden, by the way, while he's
here today, is going to get a briefing on the wildfires burning up in
the Texas, so he'll happen to be in the same state that that's all
going on. That's about eight hundred miles from here. Yeah, Texas is
so big you think that you know, oh Texas is on fire, but
they probably don't even see the smoke down where you are. And how is
that going? I saw the numbers this morning. It's over a million acres
burned. Huge. Yeah, it will at some point become a largest wildfire
ever to burn in Texas. We do have one fatality now. I'm told
that a grandmother and eighty some odd old, eighty three year old grandmother has
died. She was a former substitute teacher. She was in her home in
the town of Stinnett when the fire came across she apparently that was the one
person who died. And where it's burning, it's a very rural area,
is that correct? It is. It's in the Southern Plains, the US
Southern Plans up in the Panhandle, where the most notable feature, I think,
and what I've been there many times, is the wind, just the
constant howling wind that comes. There's nothing to block it for many many miles
around. So yeah, it's very rural. Cattle ranches out there, A
lot of farming happens out there. You also have the pan Text nuclear power,
or rather nuclear weapons plant in Amarillo. Is that still shut down?
Yes? Well, yeah, essentially it is the only essential personnel are on
staff there. They're not producing anything at this point. But they also assure
us that none of the nuclear material is in jeopardy. Well that's good news.
Yeah, okay, all right, Well, Jim, Jim Ryan,
thank you so much for the update. Appreciated a ton. Thanks Amy.
Oh and I forgot to ask him because Anne wrote an extra note on my
show notes that said, is Trump going to look at the wall? He
never finished, and promised that Mexico would pay for I doubt he's going to
talk about that. They did say it's all political. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
street medicine program in Garden Grove to help the homeless has received ten million dollars
to expand into two more cities. Just last week, we had five members
receive housing vouchers and are out looking for apartments as we speak. Orange County's
cal Optoma Health Medical executive Director Kelly Bruno Nelson says almost two hundred homeless people
in Garden Grove got medical care right on the street in the first year of
the program, they get a doctor that comes and sees them, a nurse
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President Biden's doctor says the president's latest physical exam shows no new concerns.
ABC's Karen Travers says a report calls Biden a healthy, active, robust,
eighty one year old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the
presidency. Doctor O'Connor's report does say the president began using a positive airway pressure
machine this past year to treat ongoing sleep apnea. Mister Biden's gate remains stiff,
according to O'Connor, but hasn't worsened since last year, and he exercises
at least five days a week. The president's physical yesterday did not include a
cognitive test. Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre says Biden passes a cognitive test every
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