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This is your wake up call for Tuesday, November seventh. I'm Amy
King. Here's what's a head on wake up call. The captain of the
Conception dive vote that caught fire and sank near Santa Cras Island has been convicted
in the deaths of the thirty four people killed. Jerry Boylan was found guilty
of misconduct and neglect. It could get up to ten years in prison when
he sentenced. It's election day in some states. Control of Virginia's legislature is
up for grabs. All one hundred and forty seats in Virginia's General Assembly are
on the ballot. Voters in Ohio will decide whether to guarantee abortion access in
the state's constitution. Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Bursheer and Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves,
a Republican, are both running for reelection. California assembly Woman Wendy Corrio has
announced She's running for an LA City Council seat despite her arrest on suspicion of
drunk driving last week. cRIO is one of seven people running for the District
fourteen seat. She's doing court for the dui charge. December first, at
six oh five. It's handle on the news. President Biden is getting calls
to call it quits after new polls show him losing to former President Trump in
several battleground states. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hangar has been burning at the former Tustin
Air Base in Tustin. The Orange County Fire Department reported flames shooting through the
building's roof this morning, so a helicopter was called in to assist. A
sixty nine year old Jewish man has died from a head in he got during
a run in with a pro Palestinian protester in Thousand Oaks. Witnesses told deputies
they saw the man in a physical fight with a counter protester where he fell
back and hit his head on the ground. The sixty nine year old was
taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries. An autopsy was
performed yesterday, where it was determined the man died from blunt force trauma,
with the manner of death being a homicide. The Jewish Federation of Greater la
said in a statement the man was hit by a megaphone during the rally Sunday.
The Sheriff's department says the investigation has not ruled out the possibility of a
hate crime. Chris Adler KFI News, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel
will have overall security responsibility in Gaza for an indefinite period after its war with
Moss because we've seen what happens when we don't have it. Netanyahu says he's
open to small pauses in the fighting to facilitate the release of hostages. President
Biden has called for a broader humanitarian pause. Investigators say a group of men
who deliberately caused a crash on the ten Freeway near Arlington and rob the driver
were after jewelry. The HP says the guy robbed last month was a jewelry
dealer visiting from Hong Kong. Video shop by passers by shows four men in
dark clothes and masks ransacking the dealer's car. After he was hit and forced
off the road. The driver was on his knees with his hands up.
California's moving on plans to build its largest reservoir in almost fifty years. Governor
Newsom is fast tracking it. He says. The goal for the reservoir in
Cluza County north of Sacramento is to give people access to clean drinking water and
to make the state more resilient against future droughts. The reservoir would be able
to hold enough water for cities and farms from the Bay Area to Los Angeles.
The first deputy to arrive at a mass shooting in Trebuco Canyon says a
bystander likely saved his life and the lives of the deputies running up behind him.
The ride from where I was coming from maybe two minutes, three minutes
away, it felt like a turn of the OACI Shriff Deputy j Carrasco says
his plan was to head straight through the front door to end the threat that
had already killed three people and injured six others. It was frightening not knowing
where he was, but fortunately that evening in August, Nelson Rosales ran up,
waving his arms with a warning that can be heard on Carrasco's body camp
where yeah, great up with the open. He had great cover, he
had the high ground, and he had the drop. We didn't know where
he was and he was just watching us. Had we had just ran into
the building like the original plan, he would have been able to get us
on the side and we wouldn't have any cover. Sure enough as soon as
Carrasco pulls up and gets out. As for claims that deputies were heroes for
responding within minutes to prevent the shooting from being far worse, I think I
speak for myself and most of my partners. We don't feel like heroes.
We were just doing our job, what we trained to do, and what
we're willing to do on any given notice. In Orange County, Corbin Carson
k if I News and Alaska Airlines has unveiled a new Disney themed plane inspired
by the park's famous toon Town. Officials say Mickey's Toontown Express took more than
four hundred hours to paint by hand from nose to tail. It features Mickey,
Minnie and their palace Pluto, Donald and Daisy. It'll also offer Disney
themed snacks and activity books to passengers as they fly across the country. Sign
me up, I'm going to make my reservation. Now, let's say good
morning. Now to ABC's Mike Dobuski. Mike. OpenAI had its first big
developer conference, launching a new version of chat GPT. Tell us about it.
Yeah, that's right. So this is the first developer conference, the
first sort of live streamed public facing event from open Ai. They're the company
behind a lot of popular AI tools that have kind of cropped up in the
last year, things like chat GPT, as you mentioned, but also image
generators like Dolly three, which is where we see all that kind of strange
interesting AI art come from. Well, this is a developer conference. It's
a place for people who build apps, for people who make things in the
world of technology, to gather to see what the big tech firms of the
world, including open ai, are working on. It's a place for these
companies to show off their latest wares. And from open AI's perspective, their
latest and greatest is called GPT four Turbo. Well, yeah, I know,
right. This is a turbo charged, a bigger and better version of
GPT four. This is their large language model. This is essentially the engine
that goes into their various products, so Chat GPT, it runs on GPT
four. This is kind of the underlying technology and what gets what makes it
turbo? What makes it different from the standard CHAT or GPT four I should
say, Well, they say it is trained on newer information, which means
that all the tools that are now that underpinned by this technology. It can
tell you about things that happened as recently as April of twenty twenty three is
April of this year, whereas before anything that used this technology had a knowledge
cut off in September of twenty twenty one one. You can also feed it
more stuff, they say, up to three hundred pages of text you can
now input into this technology. They say that will allow for more complex questions
and therefore more complex answers. You could conceivably give this thing a short to
medium sized book and tell it to translate that book or summarize it for you,
and it will do that for right. Yeah, you can see kind
of some of the applications here. And again this is a developer conference,
so it's going to be up to the developers, the people who work with
this technology to ultimately do something with it. To give us a product that
we can go in and play around with. Maybe it is a book report
generator, maybe it's something else. And of course this technology also comes with
some of the latest updates we've seen to open aiyes technology, things like the
ability to accept images where you can upload photographs and ask the technology to describe
what is in that photograph for you. And also text to speech, which
means you can talk to chat, GPT and anything that is sort of powered
by this technology and it will talk back to you. Oh, it still
freaks me out. So what is what is it getting better at? That's
a good question. Again, more information, the larger your language model.
In other words, in open ayes estimation is what makes these things smarter.
They're always constantly putting more stuff into these models, more writing, more human
generated text and imagery. And they say, the more stuff you put into
it, the smarter it's going to be the learning as it goes in a
way that they are ultimately inputting the information themselves. It's not like this thing
is going out onto the Internet and you know, going rogue necessarily. I
want to kind of just dissuade against the notion that these things are going to
become self aware. I think that is sort of a more distant concern,
But there are very real concerns that come along with this technology as well.
Of course, things like information which would obviously raise some eyebrows ahead of election
year. Next year here in New York it is election day, and the
role of you know, misinformation, information generated by these these text generators where
it's very hard to trace where it came from. You can imagine that would
be a concern for people who work in that world. Also, things like
image generators being used to spread misinformation or slander people. There were recently a
story in New Jersey about a school that had a rash of pornographic images of
students. Yeah, you know, go around. I believe Jim Ryan was
talking about this earlier this week, and the concern was that there were no
rules on the books, there was no law to really dissuade against this.
So it's a very new technology and it's very impressive. Again, you can
feed it, you know, a full book pretty much and get it to
translate it for you. You can see what the practical application of that would
be. But there are many very real concerns that are pretty present and already
happening that I think we need to talk about as well when we talk about
this new technology. Okay, what does what does the GPT not do well?
Yet? Again, it is only trained on information as recent as April
of twenty twenty three, So if you ask it about more recent news stories
like, it will not be very good about telling you about the latest going
on in the Israel Hamas war, for example, or other recent news events.
So it's not really meant for that purpose. Open eye, you know,
is kind of dissuading people from thinking about this as a news tool,
maybe more of a tool that can help you find things. And again,
it hallucinates. A recent estimate found that about three percent of queries that you
put into chat GPT come back with false or misleading information. Now they say
that they call it hallucinating. Hallucinating is the term in the AI world.
Yeah, it hallucinates because and again this is kind of one of the major
risk factors of these technologies is that when I go to Google, for example,
right and I type in, you know, good Indian restaurants near me,
it will present me with a page full of links, right like just
I can go through and scan, you know, tends upon tens of links
of nice Indian restaurants near me. Well, if I type that exact same
thing into chant GPT, same text box, it will present me with unanswer.
Right, the answer in its estimation, right, a very confident sounding
this is the best restaurant in your area. Well, that's nice, right.
It cuts down on my work, right, I don't have to do
as much to figure out exactly what the answer to my question is. But
at the same time, it could be wrong, and is that a risk
that we want away? I mean, there are two text boxes right now.
One presents you with a bunch of options but a little bit more work,
and the other presents you with one option and maybe it's wrong. Interesting
balancing act like it takes away choices and presents things as an absolute. Yeah,
any confidence is what the AI is selling here, which is a good
thing and a bit okay. One last question, Yeah, Elon Musk said
that AI could lead to the destruction of all jobs. Does this version lead
us closer to that not so pleasant reality? I mean again, jobs are
a pretty big concern here, right. Obviously you can imagine people who do
a lot of repetitive writing either text entry. You know this would be something
to keep a close eye on copywriters also coders. There was a lot of
talk during yesterday's event about how good this thing is getting at coding. In
fact, they announced this new idea where you can go in and basically make
your own chat gpt right. You can create one that is specific to you
know, southern California news and it will, you know, be very knowledgeable
about that particular thing. Well, that's a concern for a lot of people.
But on the other hand, Elon Musk over the weekend announced that for
some paying subscribers, they're integrating a chatbot it's called grock into x right.
So like he's also got a hand in the AI stuff as well. And
Elon Musk was in part involved in the founding of open Ai, which is
the company that builds this stuff that we've been talking about. So both sides
of his mouth, it's a part of it. I mean, I think
he's raising some valid concerns, but you know, at the same time,
he's got a vested interest in, you know, one company doing better than
another company, So you know, grain of salt as always. All right,
Mike Debuski, thank you so much, appreciate it. You can follow
Mike at Michael Dobuski d o b Uski. Thanks Mike, Thanks guys,
take care bank. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. SAG after has rejected what the Hollywood Studio
Is called their last, best and final offer to end the month's long actor
strike. Netflix CEO Ted Sarando says he's still hopeful in agreement will be reached
soon, despite the union's rejection of amtpt's amptp's proposal yesterday. They're ongoing at
the table all day every day and we are trying to get to strike resolved
and get the town back to where sag says, there are still essential items
that can't agree on. AI protections for high earning members remains a key sticking
point. A woman from Monterey Parks appeared during a yoga retreat in Guatemala in
Mexico. Her family says they got a call from the retreat organizer on October
nineteenth, saying the twenty nine year old was missing. They have since reached
out to the State Department, the FBI, and local representatives. The FBI
says the Guatemalan government is the lead agency investigating a police officer in Colorado has
been found not guilty in the killing of a black man who was put in
a neck hold and injected with ketamine by paramedics. Attorney General Phil Wiser says
while he respects yesterday's verdict, he's disappointed at this moment. I'm thinking about
Jennie McClean, who has fought hard to keep her son's memory alive and to
live on as a blessing no mother should go through which she's gone through.
Elijah McLain died in twenty nineteen. The court ruled the officer Nathan Woodyard,
was not with mclan as his condition worsened and other officers continued to restrain him
and Hundreds of American flags are on displaying Mariatta's town Square, saluting men and
women who served or are serving in the military. The fifteenth annual Field of
Honor is part of a week long series of events to honor veterans. The
Muria Ata Rotary Club says the flags will remain up until Sunday following the city's
twenty first annual Veterans Day Parade. On Saturday morning, a sixty nine year
old Jewish man has died after getting into an altercation during dual pro Israel and
pro Palestinian protests in Ventura County. Please say the man died at the hospital
yesterday after hitting his head on the ground. The Ventura County Sheriff's supremacis it
has not ruled out a hate crime. Sag After has given the Hollywood Studios
a counter proposal, following what the AMPTP says was its last, best and
final offer. The Screen Actors Guild says AI is still a big sticking point.
It's not clear if the two sides are going to be talking today.
The victory tour for the world champion El Segundo Little League All Stars continues on
New Year's Day. The team is going to be riding on a float in
the Rose Parade. DirecTV. We'll pick up the costs so the float.
They typically run between three hundred and fifty and four hundred thousand dollars yanks.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The captain who abandoned
ship as his dive boat burned has been convicted in the deaths of thirty four
passengers. Bill's going to tell you the latest on that. Right now,
let's say good morning to the host of How to Money here right here on
KFI. It's Joel Larsgard. Good morning, Joel, Good morning Amy.
So, health savings accounts. We've been wanting to talk about this, and
as the year comes to a close and you start planning for next year,
let's talk about them. You love them? What are they and why are
they so great? Yeah, I'm a big fan of health savings account I
can tell by the big side that you let out. They're so misunderstood though,
so many And part of it is because of the naming convention, Like
it's such a poorly named account that people don't understand how effective it can be
in helping them save for retirement. And that's because the name is health savings
account. And so what you think of is, oh, I'm going to
save a little bit of money, and I'm going to save on taxes by
contributing some dollars to this HSA. And then when I have, you know,
a health incident or something like that, I'm going to tap this HSA
and you know, boila, I've been able to save some income tax.
Yes, and that's what I think this account's good for. But the reality
is this account functions best If you're actually investing dollars inside of your HSA and
you're not tapping them for years and years and years, it becomes kind of
a de facto third retirement account that you can use to invest for the long
term. So, in addition to an IRA and individual retirement account, a
workplace retirement account, the HSA is like the third account that most people don't
think of as a way to invest for their future. But it's actually the
most tax advantaged account in existence. Right, so it's triple tax advantage.
Instead of like when in a traditional four one K let's say, right,
you're getting a tax break in the here and now, but eventually you got
to pay the piper down the road. Well, a ROTH version is the
exact opposite. You pay the tax now, you never pay tax again.
Well, an HSA is triple tax advantag So you don't pay tax as your
funnel dollars in, you don't pay tax on the growth, and then you
don't pay tax when you tap the HSA in the future either. That's what
makes it so special. Can it only be used for health stuff? It
can only be used for health things. And so this is where it gets
a little complicated in terms of basically you have to keep receipts from current ear
health expenses that you might incur, pay those health expenses out of just savings
that you have on hand, and then you can tap the HSA. You
can pull money out for those health expenses. Even let's say it's a health
expense you occurred that you incurred in twenty twenty three, Well in twenty forty
three, you can say, I think I want to take that five hundred
bucks based on the health expense in twenty twenty three out now twenty years later,
and what's so fantastic is that account has grown significantly because you've invested those
dollars and so you're still pulling them out tax free, but you're pulling out
an account that's much larger now, which sounds like a good deal no taxing.
Yeah, I mean, it's the only way to avoid taxation altogether.
And we should probably really quickly talk about a cousin to that account the FSA
If I talk about that, absolutely, okay, So that's something else that
people have access to. FSA. The FSA is completely different the Flexible Spending
Account, and there are two varieties of this two flavors, one is for
dependent care expenses and one is for health expenses. And you have to be
since we're an open enrollment season, you have to be really careful about how
much money you're sticking into those accounts, because unlike the HSA, where you
can invest and pull out at any point years down the road, the FSA
is to use it or lose it. And so if you put in too
much money, you might find at the end of the year, and by
the way, a lot of people we're getting towards the end of the year,
you need to check your flexible spending account how much money do you have
left over? Lots of times you can roll over hundreds, like up to
six hundred dollars into the next year, but if you but if you still
have money left over more than that, on top of that, you're going
to want to use spend it on FSA eligible items like sunscreen, tampons.
Those are sorts of things that you can use f S money for most people
like. But if you don't, if you don't spend it down, you
are those those those dollars just to evaporate. They're just gone, Yeah,
what did it? Okay? I have. I never did a flex spending
account, but I have some friends who did because they had kids. They're
like, we know we're going to be having doctor bills with the kids,
so yes them. The dependent care FSA to me makes all is better because
you you pretty much know how much you're going to spend on childcare the next
year, so you're not worried about losing money in that. With the health
the healthcare version of the FSA, you just have to be careful about how
many dollars you put in so that you don't end up losing them, or
that you don't end up with like one hundred and fifty dollars worth of sunscreen
that you don't need, right, So just just be careful, don't It's
nice to get the tax break, but don't let the tax tail wag the
dog funneling too many dollars into the r FSA and the potentially losing some Okay,
real quick. Then we talked about buy now, pay later, coming
to stores. This holiday not your favorite thing, and now it's being offered
for travel. Yeah, I mean it's taken over the world and you can
be in pl anything you want. Now. Yeah, how American? Is
that? Right? But like, yeah, the new statuhow that one in
five Americans are planning to pay for a plane ticket instead of all at once
over time in installments. And I get it. It's an expensive it's an
expensive purchase, especially if you're buying, you know, holiday airfare for the
family. You can get up into four digits right pretty easily. And so
people are like, oh, yeah, it might make sense if I pay
it off over time. But my take is this is gonna this is going
to push a lot of people to buy something that they can't afford, and
because of that, they're going to be paying for it well into the spring.
And so you just have to be careful, Like I'm not a fan
of buy now, pay later, not because of the fees attached to it.
Typically there are none if you pay your installments regularly and you pay pay
it off in full within those four installment periods. But if the problem is
if you're buying more than you can afford and you're paying, we're taking on
this payment buyer mentality as a mayor, and that's what's so dangerous. Okay,
So is it better than a credit card or worse than a credit card?
Because they kind of think effectively do the same things. Yeah, So
the problem with credit cards is that if you don't pay it off. You're
talking about, especially now, a pretty high interest rate attached to it,
right, But there are benefits to using a credit card, including protections that
you have when you use a credit card to buy things. I think,
especially during this holiday season, if you buy something from a retailer and what
you get doesn't match up to what they were selling, like, you have
the right to do a charge back. And the great thing is money's not
out of your account. You're trying to claw back money that would eventually be
you know that isn't actually isn't gone from your fingers yet. So I like
credit cards as a as a method of purchasing, but there are also pitfalls
there too, and so people have to be careful. Like I've got a
post on how to money dot Com about the Golden Rules of using plastic.
You have to make sure you abide by all those things. But if you
can, credit cards are the superior purchasing option. Okay, So howdomoney dot
Com and Golden Rules of using credit cards. I think it's something that we
should all probably review as we head into the holidays. Thank you so much,
Joelarsguard. Always appreciate it and you can hear more with Joel on how
to money with Joel lars Guard here on KFI Sundays noon to two. Thank
you, Amy, Thanks Joel. Some customers still haven't been paid due to
bank deposit delays caused by a human error last week. Banks say the money
is secure, it's just payments that didn't go through need to be resent and
that's going to take time. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the agency is
aware of the issue and is watching. It's election day in some states.
Control of Virginia's legislature is that for grabs all one hundred and forty seats in
Virginia's General Assembly or on the ballot. Voters in Ohio will decide whether to
guarantee abortion access in the state's constitution. Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Burscheer and Mississippi
Republican Governor Tate Reeves are both running for reelection. Work begins today to stay
and a pair of fifty two tons solid rocket motors into an upright position at
the California Science Center. The rockets will ultimately be on display with a massive
external fuel tank and the Space Shuttle Endeavor in launch position. The Space Shuttle
arrived at the Science Center a year eleven years ago. And I'm going to
give you a little teas that on Thursday, Amy's going to be out and
about and we're going to the California Science Center. You're gonna want to be
tuned in for that. At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Deal or no deal looks like no deal on the studio's last best and
final offer to SAG After and if I poin fifty, we're going to be
talking to ABC Stephen Portnoy about the fireworks flying in the courtroom at the Trump
trial yesterday and what's next. Right now, though, let's say good morning
to David and Susan Schwartz, the authors of the Amazon bestseller The Joy of
Costco A Treasure Hunt from A to Z. Good morning, David and Susan,
Good morning. It's lovely to be here. Okay. You know,
some people visit all the national parks in the US. They put that on
like their bucket lists or something. Some visit all the baseball stadiums. But
David and Susan went a little different direction and visited all of the costcos in
the US and in thirteen other countries as well. Well, it's not quite
all of them, We've got to be honest. We went to at least
one in every one of the forty six states and also each of the thirteen
other countries. Okay, we lost count at about two hundred and fifty wareholders.
Okay, and why did you decide to go to all these costcos?
Oh? You know, we we love costco We love the quality, we
love the low prices, we love the curated selection. You know, they're
only thirty eight hundred items in a costco versus let's say forty thousand your local
supermarket, are one hundred and forty thousand at a Walmart. But most importantly,
we love the fact that you never know what you're going to find there.
It's always going to be a surprise, you know, treasure hunt.
You know, it's just turned to the holiday season and they're all sorts of
incredible Christmas items and you know, stuff that you would never expect to find.
And you know, you just you kind of hit the nail on the
head too, because you said there's like thirty eight hundred things as opposed to
thousands and thousands there's not so much choice, and I think that that makes
it easier for people to purchase because you don't get stymied by overstimulation. That's
totally right. Mean, Costco takes that problem away from you. At the
home office in Seattle and also around the world, they select only thirty eight
hundred items. To put that in perspective for you, a supermarket's got forty
thousand, a Walmart has got one hundred and forty thousand. Amazon is literally
called the everything store. They have everything. But at Costco it's only thirty
eight hundred items. They're carefully vetted, and they're only marked up at most
fourteen percent above costs. So it's really a lot of fun, a lot
of variety, and great you can rely on the quality and pricing. Okay,
so you go to all these Costcos, and you go into a Costco
in California, and then you go to one in Oregon, and then you
go to one in Utah. I mean, do you have the same experience
and do you walk in and you just walk the halls? Do you purchase
stuff at everyone or do you just go check them out? Okay, true
confessions. Since it's early in the morning, we take a lot of time.
We walked the entire warhouse, and yes, we buy something everywhere,
and it's about forty different around the world. Okay, and I bet Costco
must love you if you're buying it at every store. So you've bend all
these different stores in all these different states and countries. What's are your what's
your favorite Costco? There's got to be one. Well, well, you
know, it would be like revealing who your favorite child is. But I'll
tell you a number ones that we really love. There's a there's a Costco
in Mexico, right outside of Mexico City that has a rooftop that they put
up there with a skateboard. Oh, you're cutting out. It has a
community center and it's just it's just wonderful. It's beautiful, and it has
it has a skateboard. We had, we lost you for a second.
It has a skateboard park on the roof, along with a contemplative garden and
a power board court, and it's just a magnificent facility that's open to the
community. Oh, we need one of those in the US, all right,
So you guys are Costco pros. What are some secrets to getting and
watching for the best deals at your favorite warehouse. Well, first a disclaimer,
we do not work for Costco. We're totally independent, okay, and
Costco did not fund this project. We did it ourselves. So I'll tell
you one a couple of things. One is early in, early out.
They are already full throttle in holiday season, so if you want to get
in now and get it out, they'll be sold out quickly. Another thing
is walk every aisle because you never know what you'll find. And then a
really favorite tip is the death star at the death star the death stasterisk at
the top of the price tag, and it indicates the other will be discontinued,
either temporarily or permanently very soon. So if you see that stock up,
and does that also mean that it might be on sale, because there's
a way to tell if stuff is actually marked down, right, Yeah,
if it doesn't end in nine to nine, then it's a sale that's either
from the retailer or from the warehouse. It's it's a pretty complicated ougor.
Then we cover it in the book. Okay, and your book is the
Joy of Costco. A treasure hunt from A to Z. I love this,
Where can you get it? Anywhere in the US and Canada. It's
sold widely. Your favorite bookstore, your bookstores, little bookstores, and also
Costco and also Costco. It is a Costco Okay, well, of course
it is. I hope that they give you, guys a lifetime membership or
something. I think you deserve it. Thank you so much, David and
Susan Schwartz, Happy Costco ing. I know that our the host of Bill
Handle or Handle in the Morning here on KFI would probably love you guys,
so he's a big Costco fano. Thank you. We just we just finished
our road trip from Younger New York to your Linda, California, and we're
heading to LA today. We're so excited to see the LA stores. They
really well they have food courts outside, yes they do. And check out
the Burbank store. That's my personal favorite. Oh oh, we love that
there, all right there. Thanks David and Susan. Take care. Oh
thank you. You know what, what a fun job. We're going to
go to every Costco in the United States and fourteen different countries, and then
we're going to write a book about it. Too fun. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of KFI. Twenty four hour Newsroom.
A sixty nine year old Jewish man has died after being hit in the head
during dual pro Israeli and pro Palestinian rallies in Thousand Oaks. Rabbi Moisha Breisky
says the man was not trying to hurt anyone. He just heard that there
was demonstrations taking place. He loves Israel, He's proud of being a Jew,
and he went to us to wave his flag. He died at the
hospital of a severe head injury yesterday. The Jewish Federation of Greater La says
a pro Palestinian protester hit him in the head with a megaphone and he fell
to the ground, hitting his head on the ground. Investigators say this qual
could qualify as a hate crime. The Israeli military is going to have screenings
in Hollywood and New York of the raw footage from the Hamas attacks on Israel.
The footage reportedly comes from body worn cameras found on Hamas militants and is
said to have captured gruesome beheadings, rapes, and other atrocities. Director for
the American Jewish Committee, Richard Hershout, says Hamas has terrorized both Jews and
Palestinian. We talk about the loss of life in Gaza. That is a
tragedy, and it is also a tragedy that Hamas terrorists have embedded themselves among
the civilian population. Forty five minute screenings will run tomorrow at an auditorium,
but a location has not yet been released. Chris Adler, Kafi News And
on a more positive note, forty five minutes to open checks, Yes,
Yes, Jee. The Bear has been renewed for a third season. The
hit show about a chef who comes back to run his family's business, will
return in twenty twenty four. The first season has been nominated for thirteen Emmys.
The second season, which dropped on Hulu in June, has a ninety
nine percent rating among critics and a ninety two percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
I'm a huge fan of the Chef, so glad it's coming back. A
sixty nine year old Jewish man has died after getting into a fight during dual
pro Israel and pro Palestinian protests in Ventura County. Polisse died at the hospital
yesterday after hitting his head on the ground Saturday. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department
says it has not ruled it out as a hate crime. Sag after has
given the Hollywood Studios a counter proposal following what the AMPTP said was its last,
best and final offer. The Screen Actors Guild says AI is still a
main sticking point. Says there are several things they haven't agreed on. Not
clear if the two sides are going to be talking today. The victory tour
for the world champion El Segundo Little League All Stars will continue on New Year's
Day. The team's going to be riding on a float in the Rose Parade.
Direct TV's going to pick up the tab for the float, which typically
runs between three hundred fifty thousand and four hundred thousand dollars. We're just minutes
away from him on the news this morning. President Biden is getting calls to
call it quits after new polls show him losing to former President Trump in several
battleground states. Let's say good morning to ABC's national correspondent Stephen Portnoy. Good
morning, Steven. No big surprise. Sparks were flying in a New York
courtroom as the former president took the stand. Donald Trump sat on the witness
stand. Yesterday for about four hours as he was probed for information in the
case being brought by the New York State Attorney General. The allegations which the
judge presiding over the case has already adopted as fact, involve the inflation of
Donald Trump's wealth, his net worth, the value of his properties. And
really this is the penalty phase of a trial. The determination has already been
made by the judge presiding over it that Donald Trump and his organization did commit
fraud. The other question for the judge to answer now is what should be
done about it? What should the penalty be two hundred and fifty million dollars,
possibly the stripping of Donald Trump's business licenses in the state of New York,
having the properties Trump Tower and all the others turned over to a receivership
to be spun off to third parties. I mean, that's what's at stake
for Donald Trump. As he sat in the courtroom of the judge who's already
ruled against him, and the judge will decide whi should happen next, and
Donald Trump says that the whole thing's a scam, a case that had never
been brought. And he said that the judge of the judge, he always
rules against me, is a very unfair trial. Yesterday, over the course
of his testimony, the judge tried to rain Trump in, saying he was
long winded. This is not a political rally, it's a courtroom. You
could attack me, you could do whatever you want, but you have to
answer the questions. At one point he was so exasperated the judge turned to
Trump's lawyers and said, if you please control your client. It was a
bit of a show, to say the least. But by the end of
his testimony, Donald Trump provided information that may be helpful to the Attorney General's
side of the case. He said that from time to time, as he
was revealing his financial statements, which his accounts prepared, he would on occasion
make some suggestions that perhaps his properties were not valued the way he thought they
should be, that his Trump Tower triplex should be listed larger, or his
Seven Springs estate north of New York City, the valuation was too high and
should perhaps come down. And the attorney generally yesterday said that despite the insults,
despite the show that was put on in the courtroom, that the evidence
will demonstrate that Donald Trump did in fact inflate his net worth in violation of
the laws of the state of New York. Now, Trump himself will have
his own opportunity to make his case, I mean, through his attorneys.
Starting next week, they'll call witnesses who will testify that the banks themselves were
never really damaged by this, that they knew what they were getting into it,
in fact profited made money, and that Donald Trump should not be stripped
of his business licenses, or that there shouldn't be a huge financial penalty to
pay. But the judge so far is already determined that Donald Trump did commit
fraud. And so this case obviously isn't over. It's still playing out.
But yesterday it was a bit of a spectacle as the man who was president,
who hopes to be president again, sat at the witness table, the
witness stand and got into it with the judge and insisted, not just inside
the courtroom but out of it that it's all a scam perpetrated against him for
political retribution and for those kinds of comments that he makes outside the courtroom.
Are those things that might violate the gag order that he has against him?
Well, I don't know. There have been occasions where the former president has
been sanctioned by this judge for the statements he's made on social media and outside
the courtroom. I don't know that anything he said yesterday crosses a particular line,
okay. And there was no cross examination, right, This was the
prosecution questioning Trump. Correct. Yeah, an interesting decision to make, you
know. I guess the defense didn't really feel as though it needed to ask
any questions. In fact, Christopher Kaise, who's representing the former president,
said that it was what he heard yesterday was the best testimony for many witness
he's ever heard in his thirty plus years of practicing law. So no need
to ask any questions because what he said under direct examination from the Attorney General's
office was good enough to make the case. Okay, So if can Trump
appeal this when they assess the penalties or whatever? Oh? Yes, in
fact, he's already appealed the judgment. And look, the argument that will
be made is one that I can't get into right now, or I don't
fully understand myself, to be honest with you, why it is that you
know, Trump could possibly win an appeal when a finding a fact that's been
made by the judge, But it will be appealed, and ultimately it'll be
appealed to New York's highest court. You'd imagine if the highest court is able
and willing to take the case, and you know that'll play out over the
years I imagined to come. The immediate question in the political context is will
this judge say to the former president that you are now no longer able to
do business in the state where you made your name, where you made your
brand. You're no longer able to own the towers with your names on them.
That's that's going to be a tough hit for him because that's his baby
real estate, right Well, it's it's it's the idea. The idea in
the public mind is that Donald Trump was a New York City real estate mogul
and that he truly you know, made himself and and and demonstrated to the
whole world how he knew the art of the deal. But if the judge
in this case finds that it was all a fraud, or that's a significant
amount of fraud was perpetuated as part of all this, that could have an
impact on the public mind. And that is perhaps why Donald Trump is not
just you know, going after the judge inside the courtroom, but also outside
the courtroom because he understands the damage it could possibly do to his reputation at
this key moment in time. Okay, so what's next. Now he's done,
and now Ivanka takes this and tomorrow right, Well, that's right.
So Ivanka Trump will take the stand as her brothers Eric and Don Junior already
have, and it's expected that she'll testify in the same way that the brothers
did that she didn't have anything to do with any of this. And then
next week the Donald Trump side of the case will be brought by his attorneys
and that could take a few weeks, and then the judge will decide what
should be done. Okay, thanks for explaining all the fireworks, you bet.
Thanks. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Voters in several states going to the polls this
off year election day. There are races for governor in Mississippi and Kentucky.
Voters in Ohio are going to decide on a state constitutional right to abortion,
Voters in Uvalde, Texas will pick the next mayor, and voters in New
York could put an exonerated member of the Central Park five on the city Council.
At least thirty five thousand culinary workers and bartenders in Las Vegas have threatened
to go on strike if they can't make a deal with casino, hotel and
restaurant employers. The union says it'll strike Friday if MGM, Caesar's and Win
don't agree to memor demands. This worker says she's ready to hit the picket
lines now. We've worked hard for these companies. We deserve to not be
left behind. We deserve to not have our hours cut. We deserve to
not have to work two and three stations. The threat of a strike comes
is the city gets ready to host the Formula one Grand Prix, which is
expected to draw thousands of tourists to the Strip. The office space sharing company
we Work has filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey. The company, which leases
seven hundred and seventy seven locations around the world, says the finaling yesterday is
limited to locations in the US and Canada. We Work reported liabilities ranging from
ten to fifty billion dollars. The company was valued at forty seven billion dollars
in twenty nineteen. And remember the Great resignation, Well that's over now.
Too few people are leaving their jobs. Turnover has declined so steeply at some
large employers that companies are saying they are over budget and they now have to
weigh whether to put some projects off or cut staff as the end of year
of the year approaches. Other bosses say they're worried about how to keep their
best workers engaged when there are fewer vacant positions to move up, makes them
harder to get into new roles. Attrition is low. Morgan Stanley says new
people staying on the job has prompted layoffs for them, and employers are trying
to kind of do that dance between how many staffers are going to quit in
a given year to set budgets for teams and set up hiring plans, and
they say those models are all off because people are just sticking around. A
full reversal from the gray resignation. Very interesting. This is KFI and KOSTHD
two Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
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