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up call. This is your wake up Call for Wednesday, July third.
I'm Heatherbrooker in for Amy King. Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining
us on this fourth of July eve. We have a great chow planned for
you today. I want to say good morning to Ann and Kono. We're
all here in KFI studio working hard while I feel like everyone else is probably
sleeping in. We're still here. We're still here, all right. Here's
what's ahead on wake Up Call. The United Nations says Palestinians are streaming out
of Eastern Conunis, the second largest city in Gaza, as an Israeli evacuation
order effects roughly two hundred and fifty thousand people. We'll get the latest on
the war between Israel and Hamas. And did Biden have a bad night during
last week's presidential debate, Well, we'll talk about why some are saying it
was just a bad night and not a sign he should drop out of the
race. And Snapchat has a new feature that can set your snap to disappear
in less than a second. We'll talk to rich Chi Muro about what this
means for you and possibly your kids. Then at six zh five, it's
handle on the news. Governor Newsom is going to Washington today to attend a
meeting with fellow Democrats, a plan to talk about the fallout from President Biden's
por debate performance last week. Let's get started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A proposal to offer more security
to Jewish institutions in la has been pushed back. The plan was to allocate
a million dollars to help offer more private security to synagogues and other Jewish organizations
after violent protests in recent weeks. City councilman Katie Arslovsky says many Jewish people
in the city feel unsafe. The threats are real, and the fear of
a proxy war for what's happening in the Middle East spilling onto our streets here
in La is Real. Raslavsky offered a different motion yesterday instead, and because
of the changes, it couldn't be voted on. Later this month, the
council will consider two million dollars for security available to institutions supporting any faith.
Michael Monks KFI News. Law enforcement agencies in California have increased patrols for the
fourth of July. The state wide enforcement period starts at six o'clock tonight and
will stay in effect until Sunday night. The CHP says public safety is the
top priority and officers will take a zero tolerance approach when cracking down. About
twelve hundred drivers got a dui during the holiday weekend last year. Sixty eight
people were killed in crashes the year before. Fast food workers in LA could
get more protections and better benefits, including mandatory advanced notice of schedules and paid
time off. City Councilman Hugo Soto Martinez says the workers lack opportunities offered in
other industries. They currently have sick time off, but that can't be used
for going through a family gathering or taking some a couple of days off with
their children, and so we're going to look in to see if that's a
possibility of passing. The Organization Save Local Restaurants opposes the proposed ordinance, saying
it would only drive up costs more when they're already struggling with the new twenty
dollars minimum wage. The La City Council has approved settlement agreements totally more than
twenty one million dollars with a people from South La whose homes were damaged by
a botched fireworks detonation. The LAPD bomb Squad set off the illegal fireworks in
twenty twenty one. Court documents show some people affected got hundreds of thousands of
dollars and others more than a million. The settlements approved yesterday are for nineteen
people still living in a hotel downtown. The agreements need to be approved by
Marabas City Controller Kenneth Mahea. He also needs to authorize the funding. The
US military has rebuilt a runway on what it calls an iconic World War II
site in Paleliu in the South Pacific. Official SAT engineers worked to rebuild the
airstrip for months by cleaning brush and trees, making sure no dangerous devices were
still there from the nineteen forty four battle. They say successful landing Saturday marks
a significant and triumphant returned to the island. The reopening could enhance US military
capabilities to counter China in the Indo Pacific. A toddler who ran into the
streets of South la and he was hit by a car is in critical condition.
Bilise, the two year old, was alone late Monday when it happened
on MLK Junior Boulevard. The child has a severe head injury. Three people
have been arrested in connection with a robbery that turned deadly in Newport Beach.
Police Sergeant and PIO Steve Oberon says an elderly couple was targeted at Fashion Island
yesterday and the woman was dragged into the street where she was fatally hit by
the getaway car. It's very sad when someone is injured or in this case,
deceased as a result of a crime, and we just do our best.
Officers are very vigilant here in Newport Beach and we we do everything that
we can to ensure the safety of the community and preventk crime. Oberon says
the robbers led officers on a chase into Ellie County, where they eventually arrested
in Southgate. They were eventually arrested in Southgate. A man from Studio City
has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge alleging he shot fireworks at a Lamborghini
from a helicopter Prosecutors say Alex Troy set up the stunt on federal land in
San Bordino County and posted an eleven minute long video to his YouTube channel last
fourth of July. Choi is free on fifty thousand dollars bail and is set
to go to trial next month. Jury deliberations have started in Orange County and
the trial of a man charged in the fatal stabbing of a former classmate in
Foothill Ranch. Prosecutors called for a first degree murder conviction, saying Sam Woodward
intentionally stabbed Blaize Bernstein twenty eight times in twenty eighteen because he was gay.
The defense has asked for a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, claiming the killing
was motivated by sexual confusion, social isolation, and an autism diagnosis. Palestinians
displaced by the Israeli offensive and the Gaza Strip are fleeing from parts of Khan
units following an evacuation order by the Israeli Army. On Monday, ABC's Jordana
Miller joins us live from Jerusalem with more. Good Morning, Jordana, Good
morning. The Israeli Army issuing evacuation orders for several neighborhoods in eastern Conunis,
that is the largest city in southern Gaza. The Israeli Army coming back to
this area that was previously cleared of Hama's operatives because they appear to have regrouped.
Twenty rockets fired on the Israel Tuesday. That seems to be what prompted
Israel to evacuate this area and come in about two hundred and fifty thousand gozzens.
Certainly some of them are on the move for the third or fourth or
fifth time or moving west to an expanded humanitarian zone. I'm not going to
call it a safe zone because it's not, but it's a safer zone.
There are still some Hamas and other militants that operate out of the humanitarian zone,
but it is a safer area and Israel has gone and there have been
various over air strikes in the last twenty four hours, over thirty people killed.
And this is not the only area of combat. There's combat going on
in Rafa in southern Gaza, the Tip there close to the Egyptian border,
and in the north as well, in the Shajaia neighborhood of Gaza City.
It appears we're seeing a kind of late surge in fighting, a last surge,
if you will, because these early Prime Minister and his defense leaders keep
indicating that they will soon declare the end of intense combats Gaza. That is
expected in the next two weeks, certainly before Prime Minister Benjamin Ntagnel arrived in
Washington to address the both houses of Congress. Now, you mentioned that these
people are being told to go into the Israeli declared safe zone, but as
you mentioned, it isn't really a safe area and is there even space there
for them to reside and to live. It is extremely I mean overcrowded,
which sounds like redundant, but it is. It is packed with people this
area. Israel estimates that almost two million goss are in its expanded humanitarian zone,
and that is almost all of Gaza's residence, right because there's about two
point three million cousins in the strip. There are not a lot of basic
services. There's not a lot of podible water, earth or shower bathrooms.
It appears that to accommodate the large amount of people in this area, Israel,
yes, they hooked up its electricity grid to a desalinization plant a un
desalinization plant, and that will provide more potable water, more water for sewage,
et cetera. Remember, there are fuel shortages in the Gothas Strip,
and without fuel, those desalinization plants, unless they're hooked up to electricity grids,
can't work. So this is a major problem, not only because you
know, the temperatures are soaring here the summer's hit in the Middle East.
It's over one hundred degrees in some of these areas, but also because there's
water borne diseases and things like chronic diarrhea that children are suffering from, so
clean water is essential. So that's one change Israel has made. Certainly,
it's you know, many are going to call it too little, too late,
and can you give us an update. You briefly mentioned it on the
humanitarian aid It is there still any aid going into Gaza? Has it been
stopped? Like, what is the latest on the aid that's trying to get
to these people. So we've seen consistently at least two hundred trucks of aid
enter the Gaza Strip every day for several weeks. Now the major obstacle is
now it's not the entry of the aid, it's the distribution of the aid.
It is piling up outside of the crossing the entry points into Gaza,
for example, outside of the Caram Shalom crossing there are tens of thousands of
food and other AID parcels. And then right outside the US floating pier that's
very pier that was built, which right now has been disconnected, but nonetheless
it brought over about ten million pounds of food llitated off of ships and that
most of it is sitting on the shore. Only a couple of days ago
the UN started to move it into warehouses. There's a major problem with the
distribution from lawlessness, bangs and hamas and other militants attacking trucks and looting them,
holding up drivers. Then there's also logistic issues, you know, coordinating
routes with the Israeli Army, having enough trucks and fuel for the trucks who
are delivering aid. There's a host of issues there, and the tragic part
of it is that there's eight in the Gossen strips sitting and you know,
people who are hungry or sick can't get it. Well. We appreciate all
of your updates, Jordana, and we'll keep continuing to cover this story,
Thank you so much, Thank you. A woman was killed when she was
run over by a robbery suspect at Fashion Island Mall in Newport Beach. Three
people were taken into custody. The La City Council has approved settlement agreements totally
more than twenty one million dollars with nineteen residents of the South La neighborhood where
an LAPD bomb squad botched the detonation of fireworks in twenty twenty one. And
the home of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and All their Friends is expected
to be sold as part of a reshuffling by the Jim Henson Company. The
company is in the process of selling the iconic Jim Henson lot on Librea and
Hollywood, where they have been headquartered since two thousand. Then at six zh
five it's handle on the news. A new poll shows most Democrats think they
have a better chance of keeping the power in the White House if President Biden
isn't the nominee. We'll talk about what this could mean for the party,
but right now, Snapchat has some fun new features and the president is banning
the sale of all Kaspersky software. Kfi's tech reporter Rich Dumuro, host of
Rich on Tech right Here on KFI Saturdays from eleven am to two, joins
US Live Now with more on what this means for you. Good morning,
rich Hey, good morning to you, Heather. It's so nice to talk
with you, my friend. We used to work together a million years ago.
I know, I love it and I love watching your success. So
congrats to all that. So Snapchat, Yeah, you mentioned they've got some
new features. I thought this one in particular was really interesting. So number
one, they were kind of promoting the fact that they have nine million paid
users at this point to their subscription service called Snapchat Plus. It's a couple
bucks a month and they've got nine million users doing that, which I think
is incredible for them. Obviously they'd like to have more, but that's a
pretty substantial number. But the feature, I thought that was interesting that they
just added our new faster snap. So Snapchat, you know, you send
a snap to someone and basically it expires after a certain period of time.
It used to be a second. Now they have one for point one zero
seconds, point two, five seconds and half a second, So you can
literally say something to someone that flips before their eyes and is gone. Forever.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing. I feel like our
attention spans are already getting shorter and shorter and shorter, Like, do we
need that? Well, I think it's going to be used for certain types
of snaps, you know, to get people's attention. And that's what my
thought is here, because why would you need something to go away after point
one seconds? Yeah, I can't imagine, yeah, unless you're sending maybe
something inappropriate. Of course, my mind goes somewhere else. So that's that's
exactly what I'm thinking. Okay, I think that's why they did this.
It's because, you know, we do see this issue with you know,
this whole idea of sending news is like actually a huge issue with the teenagers
and the younger generation. They think it's just a thing that people do.
And clearly, with features like this, I feel like it's encouraging that for
sure. Oh absolutely. You know, my daughter is eleven, and we've
had many conversations about social media being safe and never doing those types of things.
But I know not everybody is having those conversations with their kids, and
kids are still doing, you know, things like that. I also feel
like in a lot of the safety conversations that people have with you know,
being safe online. Snapchat isn't an app that comes up a lot. It's
almost always TikTok or Instagram or Facebook. I don't hear a lot of conversations
around how you can be safer on you know, keep your kids safer,
or have a more user friendly experience on Snapchata. Snapchat is very, very
popular. It is sort of like the way to message for a certain group
of people, you know, middle to high school. And you know this,
I feel like this feature, this, this ultra quick snap just encourages
pictures that would not traditionally be shared because you're like, well, what's the
big deal. It's only half a second, it's only a quarter of a
second. It's only a tenth of a second that someone gets to see this.
But the reality is it is somewhere on a server in the world.
That is very important distinction and reminder. Okay, let's talk about what President
Biden has done. He's issued a ban on the sale of all Kaspersky security
software in the US because apparently there's a risk to national security. So what
companies or products are going to be affected by this? Yeah, so I
call this the TikTok treatment. So this is, you know, kind of
what they're doing at TikTok, they're doing the same thing at Kaspersky. We're
not exactly friends with China or Russia, and Kespersky is antivirus software that's very
popular, but it's based over in Russia, and so the US has said
this is dangerous, there are unacceptable risks to the United States national security and
so existing The ban is effective immediately, by the way, but existing users
have until September twenty ninth to find alternative software. And so if you have
this on your system, you really can't get any software updates. They're banned
after September twenty ninth. That means your computer could be at risk because you
have no more security protection. So what I recommend is you can revert to
Microsoft Defender, which is built in it's sort of like Windows anti virus built
into Windows. Or you can download a free program like a vast, which
is a free program that antivirus that a lot of people seem to like.
So those are the two things around it. You know. Keasperski obviously says,
look, we're not doing anything wrong. We don't think our software is
insecure. This is more all about world politics than anything else. So how
do people know if they have that software on their computers? Is that more
for like large businesses or is it something individual users might need to check into.
It's both. It could be you know, your business could use it.
You could be a government organization that uses it. You could be a
consumer that purchased this. You could a search, you know, press the
Windows key on your computer, type in kas and see if Kasperski comes up.
But I think that in general, you'd probably know if you have this
because it is your primary antivirus software. So I would you know according to
this you probably want to uninstall it by September twenty ninth, because after that
it's not going to be protecting your system. Okay, good information there.
All right, let's talk about I love this. In the email, you
said I love the Rocket app. Tell me what you love about the Rocket
app. Yeah, this is an app formerly called true Bill. We did
a story with them many years ago when this was a startup. It helped
me actually cancel a gym membership very easily. Now it's called Rocket Money.
And so what I like about this app is you link up your bank accounts.
I know some people are concerned about doing that, but it uses the
industry standards to link those up. And then what it does is it just
slices and dices your finances. So the other day I returned something to Costco
and it like confirmed, like, hey, you just got your refund from
Costco because that money hit my card again. And so it'll tell you when
you get your paycheck. It'll put your stuff into categories. So we were
talking about auto insurance yesterday with someone at my work and I said, huh,
let me see how much I've paid for this over the past, you
know, a couple of years. And sure enough, you just type in
your auto insurance company on this and you can see all the bills you've paid
over the past couple of years, so you can track your spending. It
tells you when your bills go up, like hey, I got an alert
that my internet bill went up by five dollars this month. So it's just
a really nice way of keeping track of your finances, especially Heather, as
you know, all prices are going up right now with inflation, and so
it's just really nice to be like, hm, do I really need that
subscription because it will show you all of the different things that you have in
various categories, and by the way, it's all free. The only feature
that I've found that you do have to pay for if you want to is
the net worth feature, which is what Mint used to do. So if
you want to see your full net worth on one page, you do have
to pay Rocket Money. I don't pay for that because I'm just using the
free version, but it's kind of a neat thing to do as well.
I definitely want to check that out. My husband is in finance and I
think he might find that to be really interesting and helpful. So Rich,
thank you so much always such wonderful information. We want to remind everyone you
can follow Rich on Instagram at rich on tech and his website is rich on
tech dot TV. Thank you so much. Enjoy the rest of your fourth
the fourth of July. Thanks Heather, you too. Thank you. All
right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden has blamed all the international travel he did
in June for his poor performance during the debate with former President Trump. ABC's
Rachel Scott says Biden told supporters at a fundraiser last night that he almost fell
asleep on stage. The President traveled to Europe twice in June, but he
returned back to the United States twelve days before the debate, and sources say
during his debate prep at Camp David, advisors blocked out time in the schedule
for rest. Biden apologized for the debate but stressed that winning the election was
critical. This CHP will be ramping up patrols on state highways and roads across
Los Angeles and Orange Counties today and throughout the weekend to catch drunk and impaired
drivers over this holiday weekend, and Christopher Reeve's son Will Reeve will have a
cameo appearance. And James Gunn's upcoming superman Us job openings rose slightly to eight
point one million dollar eight point one in May, despite the impact of higher
interest rates. Then at six p'ozh five, it's handle on the news.
LA Mayor Karen Bass has announced she will run for mayor again in twenty twenty
six. We'll talk about what she's already doing with her campaign and a five
point fifty. The Queen Mary is getting ready for a special Fourth of July
celebration and we'll have all the details you need to know if you plan to
go. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A proposal to offer more security to Jewish institutions in
la has been pushed back. The plan was to allocate a million dollars to
help offer more private security the synagogues and other Jewish organizations after violent protests in
recent weeks. City councilman Katie Arslovsky says many Jewish people in the city feel
unsafe. The threats are real, and the fear of a proxy war for
what's happening in the Middle East spilling onto our streets here in La is real
Yourslovsky offered a different motion yesterday instead, and because of the changes, it
couldn't be voted on. Later this month, the council will consider two million
dollars for security available to institutions supporting any faith. Michael Monks KFI News.
Some Democrats are questioning whether President Biden should move forward with his re election campaign.
ABC's Molly Nagle joins us live from the White House with how they're responding
to these comments. Good morning, Molly, Good morning Heather Yeah, we
saw the press secret of Harry take the podium and hold a press briefing for
the first time after that disappointing debate by President Biden. And she really was
trying to walk a fine line here. She was trying not to dismiss what
happened on the debate station, what people saw, but was trying to argue
that this was just one bad night and not an example of a bigger problem.
And just to show you how much she was committed to this argument,
this breathing lasted about an hour. I think she said that the President had
a bad night more than a dozen times in that hour. I was in
the room and was able to ask her, you know, had she ever
seen the president have a day or an evening like we saw on the debate
stage during her time in the White House? And she said no. But
when I asked her then if she was surprised by what she saw on the
debate stage, she started to kind of tick through these various explanations the White
House is offered for what happened on Thursday, that you know, the president
was under the weather and we all have bad night, so it's not unusual,
but really stressed how much of the White House obviously wants to move past
this. Almost a week out from the debate, and we're going to start
to see the White House kind of shifting their strategy here, I think a
little bit. In the coming days. She outlined some new additions to the
president's schedule. He's going to be traveling to Wisconsin in Pennsylvania, He's going
to have his first interview after the debate with babc's George Stephanopolis. And he's
going to do a press conference at NATO next week here in Washington. So
these are all things that we've heard some allies of the President calling on the
White House and his campaign to do to get him out there more in front
of the American public, to show that he is up to the task and
up to the job. So I think the question now is how does this
play out? Does this do what they are hoping and moving past this debate
performance? So let's talk about now what the President himself has actually been saying
about this over the past couple of days. Has he he's been sort of
like dismissing it as well as being tired and that sort of thing. What
is he saying about his performance? Yeah, we saw the president, you
know, immediately after the debate, but on that Friday during a campaign stop
saying, Look, I don't debate as well as I used to. I
don't walk and talk as well as I used to. You know, that
has now evolved into what he said last night at a fundraiser. He was
speaking in Virginia and said he wasn't very smart for traveling internationally ahead of the
debate, and he told donors that he quote almost fell asleep on the stage.
Some of the room laughed at that, but the President added, he's
saying it's not it's not an excuse, but it is an explanation for a
Thursday. So we're seeing him, you know, continue to try and acknowledge
what happened. But again like the White House to move past it and say
that this is, you know, this is what caused that shaky performance.
I think the question will be is that enough? Is that up to snuff
for voters? Do they feel like that is enough of an explanation? Now?
I know you mentioned he has some press events planned and some other he's
meeting with Democratic leaders and governors. Our own governor Newsom is going to be
traveling there today to meet with the President and his team. What else should
he be doing or can he be doing? And what are they hoping is
going to be the result of this, That the poll numbers will change,
that it will increase, you know, his popularity ranking. What are they
hoping will be the difference here? Yeah, you know, speaking of those
conversations, I think a lot of people were surprised by Frankly what the White
House had been doing up until this point. We were reporting yesterday how the
President had made those phone calls to Democratic leaders within the party like Chuck Schumer
and Nancy Pelosi and h King, Jeffreys and even James Cliburn, who really
helped to revise the president's election chances in twenty twenty when he endorsed him ahead
of the South Carolina primary. And so I think it's striking now to see
that what president is now getting more personally engaged in this. I think a
lot of people were surprised that Frankly wasn't doing it before. And I think
what they're hoping is that they can kind of shore up their support and rally
support within the party even as people are raising concerns and talking about the you
know, Frankly their concerns about what they saw from the President on Thursday.
I think they're just hoping to move past this and that they can show that
it's not going to have an impact in the larger scheme and he can still
be an effective candidate against Donald Trump as we head into the election, well,
he certainly has an uphill battle, it seems so. Molly Nagel live
from the White House. Thank you so much, Molly, thank you.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Law enforcement agencies in californ And you have increased
patrols for the fourth of July. The state wide enforcement period starts at six
o'clock tonight. It will stay in effect until Sunday night. The CHP says
public safety is the top priority and officers will take a zero tolerance approach when
cracking down. About twelve hundred drivers got a DUI during the holiday weekend last
year. Sixty eight people were killed in crashes the year before. Law enforcement
agencies across so Cow may have to get rid of some of their drones.
State Senator Tom Umberg has introduced the bill that would require law enforcement agencies to
get rid of drones that are banned for use by the Pentagon. As technology
advances, there is an amazing amount of detailed information that can be collected and
transmitted, for example, by drones. Umberg says his bill would target Chinese
made Dji drones. Records from last year's showed Dji drones in the fleets of
the La County Sheriff's Department, Orange County Sheriff's Department, and other agencies.
Those agencies will likely have a two year grace period to use the drones if
the bill passes. Trolley k if I News fast food workers in La could
get more protections and better benefits, including mandatory advanced notice of schedules and paid
time off. City Councilman Hugo Sodo Martinez says the workers lack opportunities offered in
other industries. They currently have sick time off, but that can be used
for going to a family gathering or taking some a couple of days off with
their children. So we're going to look in to see if that's a possibility
of fact. The organization Save Local Restaurants opposes the proposed ordinance, saying it
would only drive up costs more when they're already struggling with a new twenty dollars
minimum wage. A state senator has introduced a bill that could cost police agencies
across SoCal some of their drones. Senator will pardon me, Senator Tom Umbridge
says he thinks his bill, which bans drones blacklisted by the Pentagon, will
get support in Sacramento, and I expect that other legislators will feel as I
do, that we need to be cognizant of both our national security as well
as taking an account our our local security situation. Umbergsville would target Chinese made
Dji drones, which are currently being used by the La County Sheriff's Department,
the OC Sheriff's Department, and other agencies. The US military has rebuilt a
runway on what it calls an iconic World War two site in Paleliu in the
South Pacific. Official say engineers worked to rebuild the airstrip for months by clearing
brush and trees and making sure no dangerous devices were still there from the nineteen
forty four battle. They say a successful landing Saturday marks a significant and triumphant
return beaches in several states across the country have been closed to swimmers over the
last few days due to harmful levels of bacteria in the water. The defending
chair, Marquette Vandrosova, the check is checked out on center court. That
is the wrong story. My apologies. I promise you guys. I will
wake up eventually. The lead singer of Heart unfortunately gets some bad news.
Looks like she has cancer and the band is postponing the remaining shows on its
dour while Ann Wilson gets treatment. Wilson says she's had surgery to remove the
cancerous growth and is also going through chemo. Performances have been pushed back to
twenty twenty five. Heart was scheduled to perform at Crypto dot com A,
Rita in September and had stops in Bakersfield and San Diego in December. Los
Angeles County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Jenis Hahn are expected today to unveil a proposal
for creating a more representative, accountable, and effective county government, possibly through
the expansion of the five member board. Residents of an apartment building in Santa
Monica say they have been terrorized by a man who walks around completely nude at
all hours of the day and night, and worry someone could get hurt if
the behavior escalates. And four lucky Southern California residents recently scratched their way to
a small fortune with the California Lottery Scratcher Games. Laurie officials said the biggest
winner was jose Garfius, who won seven million dollars from an extreme crosswords scratcher
ticket he bought at Sweet Time Donuts. I've tried those crosswords and I never
went on those, but now I think I might give it another shot.
We're t just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, a
judge has granted a delay in sentencing for Donald Trump's hush money case. It
has been moved to September, and we'll talk about what this means for the
former president. All right, Tomorrow is the fourth of July, one of
my personal favorite holidays, and if you're looking for something fun to do with
the family, we've got just the thing. The Queen Mary is hosting a
special all American Fourth of July event, and Dylan Madison, the director of
Experiences on the Queen Mary, joins me live right now to talk about all
the fun things they have planned. Good morning, Dylan, Good morning.
How are we doing. I'm doing great. I'm hanging in there drinking my
coffee. How about you? A two month old at home, so I've
been up for hours that We're good. Thank you, I feel you all
right. I am sending you lots of good nap juju for later in the
day. All right, let's talk about what's happening this year for the fourth
on the Queen Mary. Oh my gosh, we're so excited to welcome all
of our guests tomorrow. We've got a full day of activities from live entertainment,
family friendly activities, delicious food, dancing of World War two flyover,
and of course our big firework display at nine pm to cap off the night.
Okay, So, if I'm going to come down to the Queen Mary,
can I bring my kids? Can I bring the family? Absolutely?
Yeah, That's what it's all about, is you know, we've created a
program for everybody in the family to have an awesome time. We've got a
kid zone where we'll be doing water balloon tosses, watermelon eating, you know,
tug a war three, laked race, you name it. And then
obviously we've got food food for everybody, from corn dogs to get to a
fried chicken, popcorn again, you name it all the all American diet there.
Absolutely. Okay, So let's talk about the flight team. Is it
like an actual like flight demonstration? Yeah, so these are this is going
to be great. There's actually World War two era planes that are going to
be flying over, and we've got a big we do the national anthem and
have our commodore has been on board the ship for over forty years, welcoming
everybody, and then the flyover comes over and you get to see these World
War two era planes right over the ship. And of course we have to
talk about the fireworks. Are you guys planning a big fireworks display? Yeah,
oh my gosh that we are so so excited for that. So they're
actually they go off right behind the ship, and so everybody will be on
the back of our ship and right on the dock right behind our ship.
The fibers come right over the ship and it's just absolutely amazing. Just can't
wait. Yeah, getting getting giddy thinking about it. Okay, and then
can the guests stay overnight for this event or is that just something? Yeah?
We do still have room packages available and both VIP tickets which kind of
give you a closer review of the fireworks there in the back, as well
as GA tickets. Again, those GA tickets start at thirty five dollars for
children then fifty five for adults. We do encourage folks to go on Queen
Mary dot com and get those tickets today because there is a chance of us
selling those out tomorrow and we don't want you to get turned away at the
door, So definitely purchase those tickets today and hoping to get all the families
here. And it starts at three o'clock. Did you say three to ten?
Yeah, so it runs yep, so runs three to ten. And
we also do have tours available before that as well, and if you buy
a tour ticket, that also does gets you into our full day of party
as well. So if you're interested in the tours earlier in the day,
you can also book those online as well. Okay, and I know this
is totally corny, but I was thinking about this. Is there something sort
of ironic about celebrating America's independence on a British passenger ship. No, it's
a great question. You know what's crazy is it's actually the Queen has been
here in Long Beach longer than it was ever at sea, and so we
like to think that it's more American than British at this point. But it's
a celebration of everything that America is about. And so we're going to have
a blast tomorrow, all right, and tell everybody where they can get tickets
again and remind them where they can get more information. Yeah. So it's
all Queenmery dot com. And we have a landing page there talking about all
of the stuff that I just kind of highlighted for the fourth of July.
But yeah, we hope to see everybody in their families out here tomorrow.
All right. Thank you so much, Dylan, and good luck with the
baby. I remember that state. Thank you so much. Have a good
one, Thanks you too, Bye bye. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden has
blamed all the international travel he did in June or his poor performance during the
debate with former President Trump. ABC's Rachel Scott says Biden told supporters at a
fundraiser last night that he almost fell asleep on the stage. The president traveled
to Europe twice in June, but he returned back to the United States twelve
days before the debate, and sources say during his debate prep at Camp David,
advisors blocked out time in the schedule for rest. Biden apologized for the
debate but stressed that winning the election was critical. Senator Bernie Sanders says he's
not confident President Biden can win the election this fall, but he doesn't want
him to step aside. Sanders and Congressman Lloyd Dodgett shared their concerns yesterday,
with dodget saying he thinks Biden should withdraw. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean
Pierre argued Biden was sick during debate the debate last week and just had a
bad night. She also dismissed questions over whether Biden suffers from dementia. Officials
in India say at least one hundred and sixteen people have been killed and over
eighty others hurt during a stampede at a Hindu gathering. They say most of
those killed yesterday were women and children. It's not clear what triggered the panic
and made people rush out of a makeshift tent, but local media is reporting
heat and suffocation could have been a factor. Stampedes are relatively common around Indian
religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas with few safety measures in
place. The La City Council has delayed a plan to spend one million dollars
to provide more private security at Jewish institutions. City councilwoman Katie Yaroslavsky says,
after weeks of violent protests, more protections are needed. The temperature is high
on all sides, and it's high not only in here, but it's high
on our streets, and our institutions are feeling that Yaroslavsky changed her motion yesterday
and it couldn't be voted on before the council's summer recess. The council will
consider a two million dollar fund later this month to help bolster security at an
institutions at institutions rather serving any faith. Now, despite struggles with his health,
Michael J. Fox made a surprise appearance on stage. ABC's Andrew Deinbert
says the Hollywood Icon was seen jamming with Coldplay at the Glastonbury Music Festival in
England. The Back to the Future actor in his wheelchair rocking out on guitar
in front of an estimated crowd of one hundred thousand people. Lead singer Chris
Martin telling the crowd how Fox has inspired them from the beginning. So the
main reason why we're in about this because of ontun Back to the Future.
Fox later writing on social media in case you were wondering, it was expletive
mind blowing. There is a time for every band, and a band for
every time. This is coldplayce time. Hollywood Bourbank Airport is getting an eight
point two million dollars to help with construction of a new terminal. The FAA
announced another round of airport infrastructure grants earlier this week, saying Americans are flying
in record numbers and the Biden administration wants to continue its investment in making travel
safer and more convenient. The grants are part of twenty five billion dollars set
aside for airport improvements across the country. Flights in and out of Newark Airport
in New Jersey are back to normal after some major problems yesterday. ABC's Derek
Dennis has details a shortage of air traffic controllers at a regional facility on Long
Island, New York, caused major flying issues in and out of Newark Airport.
Monday, Jason and his girlfriend Nicole were on a Spirit Airlines flight from
Fort Lauderdale that had to zigzag up the coast so controllers could spread out the
number of departures and landings at Newark. They don't have the facilities to take
care of it, I guess, he said. The crew told passengers they
were taking the long route, leaving the coal frustrated. It totally derailed their
whole day. Flights at Laguarda and JFK Airports were not impacted. Still,
travelers are urged to check their flights ahead of time. Derek Dennis ABC News
New York, the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race massakers say a legal
setback will not stop them from fighting for justice in their lifetime. ABC's Andre
Fuji says they are now asking the US Justice Department to investigate the massacre.
One hundred nine year old Leslie Benningfield Randall and one hundred ten year old Viola
Fletcher soon Tulsa, trying to force the city to pay reparations for the destruction
of the once thriving black district during the nineteen twenty one Tulsa Race Massacre.
That's when a white mob, some of who were deputized by the city,
burned down the district, killing as many as three hundred people. Randal and
Fletcher claimed the city caused a public nuisance because of the massacre, but Oklahoma
Supreme Court found plaintiff's grievances do not fall within the scope of our state's public
nuisance statute. Skuydiance Media has reached a tentative agreement to merge with National Amusements,
the parent company of Paramount. This comes after months of trying to close
a deal, and despite discussions abruptly ending in mid June after the owner of
National Amusements refused to sell her controlling stake. Skuidiance announced the news yesterday,
saying it's reached a preliminary agreement to buy the company. The deals are now
being reviewed by a Paramount Special Committee. Well, tomorrow is the fourth of
July, and we are going to have a lot of exciting things to share
with you. I have some wonderful interviews and segments planned for wake Up Call.
I'll be here, Kona will be here, and we'll be here.
We'll I'll be working and so you definitely don't want to miss it. We're
also going to be sharing some of the amazing places and events that are happening
for the fourth of July, so get ready for that. This is KFI
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