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This is your wake up call for Tuesday, October twenty fourth. I'm Amy
King. Thanks for getting your day started with us. I got a post
on social media yesterday nine mondays till Christmas producer and just went, oh crap,
and it's the twenty fourth. That means one week till Halloween, the
spooking season, and then after Halloween all bets are off all Christmas, but
none until then. Cono you okay with that? Thanksgiving? I know,
but the best Thanksgiving gets worked in there. In fact, we're gonna be
talking with Joel Larsgart about Thanksgiving today. That's coming up at five point twenty.
Lots of really good stuff on the show today, including we're gonna connect
with Jordana Miller, who is in Israel. We tried to connect with her
yesterday, couldn't kind of scared us all, but she's okay. She'll be
back with us in just a couple of seconds, actually minutes here's what's ahead
on Wake Up Called. Two more hostages have been freed by Hamas. Israeli
officials say it was only done in an attempt to delay a possible ground invasion.
One of the women, who's eighty five, says militants beat her with
sticks and bruised her ribs, forced her to walk several miles, and took
her into a spider web like network of tunnels. Negotiations between sag After and
the Hollywood Studios are said to resume today. Management halted discussions earlier this month,
saying the two sides were too far apart. It'll be their sixth meetings
since the actors strike began fourteenth. La is the second rattiest city in the
US. What a nice distinction to have, huh. The rankings of the
top top fifty cities with rat infestation problems are based on the number of residential
and commercial rodent treatments done in the last year. San Francisco ranks fifth number
one, Chicago, Illinois at six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Eight Republicans have pled their case as the search for a new speaker continues.
Bill's going to elect you, Bill's going to let you know what's on
tap for today. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Israeli airstrikes have continued across the Gaza Strip,
even as humanitarian aid is allowed in ABC's Matt Gutman says at least fifty
four trucks of aid were delivered yesterday, carrying food and medicine, but no
fuel, Israel fearing it could be used by hamas the aid meeting only about
one percent of Gaza's daily needs, coming as Israel launched one of its deadly's
barrages on God. Yet, Gutman says Israel has struck hundreds of targets and
promised a multilateral operation in the air, ground, and sea. Officials in
Gaza say more than four hundred Palestinians have been killed in the last twenty four
hours. Part of the Orange County District Attorney's communication system has had to be
shut down because of a cyber attack. We deal with highly sensitive confidential information
Wornge County DA spokeswoman kimberly Ed says the third party is helping check for vulnerabilities
and the FEDS are helping to catch the culprits. We're going to have to
go back to doing things the way they used to be done before technology was
introduced into the criminal justice system. That means filing cases in person, among
other things. Ed says alerts of a breach started coming in Friday, but
so far there are no indications that sensitive case info has been compromised. In
Orange County Corbin Carson k FIN News, the bus driver's strike in Santa Clarita
is into its second week. Santa Clarita Transit canceled all bus and transit services
over the weekend because it didn't have enough available drivers. Service during the week
is limited. The union wants a nine percent pay increase for twenty twenty two,
an eight percent increase for this year, and an eight percent increase for
next year. The Transportation Authority has repeatedly offered or reportedly offered, nineteen dollars
seventy five cents per hour to start, with a twenty five cent increase after
a year, and then increases over five years. The La County DA's offices.
It is investigating labor practices within hotels in La County. The investigation in
response to recent strikes organized by Unite Here Local eleven. The union claims striking
workers have been replaced by homeless refugees, mainly in the housekeeping departments. Hotel
front desk workers, cooks, housekeepers and others have been on strike since July.
They're demanding better working conditions, higher wages, health insurance and pensions.
Mary lou Retten's daughter says the former Olympic gymnast is out of the hospital where
she was treated for a rare of pneumonia. She said to be recovering at
home. Two weeks ago, Written's daughter said her mom was in the ICU,
unable to breathe on her own and fighting for her life. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller. Jordana, I know we
were scheduled to talk with you yesterday, and with all that's going on over
there, I have to tell you we were a little bit worried about you.
So happy to hear it was just connection problems. It was just connection
problems. You know. I love talking to you guys because I'm a native
of California. Oh. I didn't know that in californielis of Los Angeles.
Nice, kay, we got a hometown grown. Okay, Jordana Taylos tell
us what's going on. Lots of developments, including the release of two hostages,
and one of them's talking, so essentially the hostage. There were two
hostages that Hamas released. They're both Israeli women in their eighties, and one
of them is was speaking today to the press and she described her time in
captivity as quote well, she said that she was beaten, that she was
forced to walk for a kilometers in what she described as a spider webs of
different underground tunnels. That only when she was separated from a larger group of
about thirty hostages, which she treated a little bit better with food and medical
attention, likely because Hamas then realized or had made the decision that they were
going to try to release her. You know, her husband is still in
captivity, and the other woman, who is in seventy nine year olds her
husband is also still in the clutches of the terror group. Hamas, it
appears, is trickle by trickle, letting out small numbers of hostages and what
appears to be an effort to delay Israel's ground invasion of the Gaza strip Israel
is now we're hearing from credible sources that Israel will now hold off a little
bit on their ground invasion to allow for other negotiations if we can see the
release of more of these hostages. Remember Comoso holding two hundred and eighteen,
that's Israel's count, but the militants themselves say they're holding about two hundred and
fifty or sixty, Which is interesting because if they're doing it as a delaying
tactic, and they were, like you said, letting them trickle out and
being released every day or two, I mean that pushes things back three months
if you were waiting until out right, and I think that's exactly what they're
hoping for, is to somehow drag this process out and try to improve their
image quote unquote in the international community, you know, instead of being viewed
as butchers and murderers who you know, killed and burned babies and raped women
and tried to behead people, which are the facts and evidence we've seen of
their rampage on October seventh. They're trying to, you know, tew the
world. No, we're humane. Look, we've let out a mother and
her daughter and now two elderly Israeli citizens. But I have to tell you,
I do not believe that Israel will delay their ground invasion by more than
a few days because they see that Kamas is trying to play tricks, if
you will, with the international community. The more time it has to prepare
for thee for the ground incursion, the better for hamas more pressure it can
create internally in Israel, for families who say, oh, you know those
two were released, maybe my loved one will be too, and they'll put
pressure on the government not to go in on the ground. So these are
this is all described by Israeli officials as a kind of psychological warfare. Yeah,
it's got to be, and it's got to be so heart wrenching for
the families because when they see the really they get a little bit of that
hope and they don't know even if some of the hostages are still alive.
But I know everybody's looking for a little bit of hope. And speaking of
a little bit of hope, there is some aid getting into Gaza, not
a lot, but some is getting in, that's right. I wanted to
tell you another interesting detail before we get to the issue of Gaza aid,
which thank god, is beginning to get into the Gaza strip. This woman
who was kidnapped, you headed Liveships and her husband, Odad. It's worth
noting they are peace activists and that for close to, you know, more
than a decade, they have been shuttling cancer patients dozens of all ages,
especially children, across the border and to his early hospitals and back. They
you know, they in other words, they have been working towards you know,
a kind of ultimately a kind of piece of the Palestinians and helping the
billion population. And of all of the you know, people to be kidnapped,
they were kidnapped. So you know, I think, you know that
that sheds light on you know, we have to understand people living along the
Gaza Strip border. They're not some you know, crazy right wing fanatics.
You know, these are all kinds of Israelis. And in this case,
this was a couple that you know, had dedicated their you know, twilight
senior years to volunteering and helping Gossoms on the issue of aid. There's now
about sixty trucks have come in between Saturday, Sunday and yesterday today. There's
another likely twenty that will pass in so maybe eighty. It is providing some
aid to the Godza strip. But we have to you know, we have
to tell the story as it is, and that is that this aid is
vastly. It is not enough, it is it is one tenth of what
the Godza Strip used to get on a day basis, or trucks a day.
They used to be three hundred. Yeah, so we've seen that the
trucks are lined up in Egypt waiting to get in. Why is the process
so slow? I know you've got to run, but can you answer that
real quick? Of course, it's slow because on the Israeli side, before
the trucks you know, pass through, there are Israelis who are inspecting all
of the cargo and that takes time. Israel wants to make sure there aren't
weapons that are in there. And for now, Israel doesn't want fuel going
in to the Gaza Strip because they believe it will only help Hamas's military structure
that's also working on generators, you know, for example, the tunnels,
you know, keeping the lights on in the tunnels and air conditioners and through
these tunnels that's all you know, they are the military, the Commas,
militants and the terrorists they're living. You know, they need fuel for their
generators and Israel doesn't want to give it to them. The bad side of
the hospitals aren't getting them either, so it's just I mean, it's just
tragic all the way around. Jordana Miller, thank you so much for connecting
with us today. We're glad you're safe and we'll look forward to our next
conversation. Take care. Thanks. One of the two hostages released by Hamash
yesterday is the seventy nine year old mother of a man from San Diego.
The woman's husband is still missing. Israel says Hamas is still holding more than
two hundred people hostage, including some Americans. Former President Trump and his former
attorney Michael Cohen are both expected in a courtroom in Manhattan today in Trump's civil
fraud trial. Cohen's expected to testify that nothing happened at the Trump organization without
the Boss approving it. Electricity rates in Glendale could soon be skyrocketing if a
proposal passes, Rates would go up about fifteen percent in December, another eleven
percent in July of next year, and then another eleven percent in July twenty
twenty five. Glendale Water Empowers is the higher rates would pay for solar power
projects. A biofuel plant and upgrades to the power grid. At six oh
five, it's Handle on the news. The studios are reportedly ready to make
a new offer to SAG after as the two sides get ready to sit down
for more negotiations today. Right now, let's say good morning to the host
of How to Money on KFI. It's Joel lars Guard. Good morning,
Joel Amy. Hi morning. Hey, So let's get started with some not
so fun economic news, and that is that more people who own cars are
falling behind on their payments. Yeah. So we've seen some new stats come
out and sixty day late payments have gone up significantly over the past couple of
years, from like roughly two percent of borrowers experiencing a sixty day late payment
and now it's up to six percent of borrowers reporting that being reported late on
those payments, and so so much of that has to do with how much
more people are financing on the car front. But this is this is not
good news from an economic perspective, and it's really bad news for a whole
lot of individuals who fall into this these you know, percentage points. There's
growing number of people who are experiencing delinquency on those car payments. Okay,
so when we speak of that, what are the effects on the people,
like, because you know that people are sitting there going, oh, maybe
I just can't make my car payment this month. It's not that big of
a deal, but it is a big deal. And what are the long
term effects of this? Yeah, I mean at some point, if you
don't make payments over a significant period of time, that car is likely to
get repossessed. And so if you can't make the car payment, it gets
taken away, and that makes it really difficult to get to work to continue.
It creates this really awful downward cycle financially speaking, for so many people
not being able to maybe get to work, not being able to get the
paycheck, and then it's like, well I can't put groceries on the table
now. So it's a really bad news. And so that's why I mean,
I'm such a big proponent of people spending a whole lot less on their
cars. I know it's because more difficult in recent years, given how much
of a surge we've seen in the price of used cars and new cars,
we're starting to see those used car prices slide just a little bit, which
is good, but overall, people spend and feel like they're it's okay to
spend a whole lot more than I think is okay on a car, and
it gets people behind the eight ball. It gets them in trouble, especially
when we're talking about rising rates on a lot of these loans, a lot
of people paying nine to ten plus percent on the loan, and so they're
taking out longer loans and it just is creating this really messy cycle. So
the key for so many folks is to limit how much debt they take on
for a car. I'm you know, and this might sense is easier said
than done, but I really, really really want people to consider paying cash
for a car and only buying a car that they you know, don't have
to finance at all. Ah cash the cars cost like thirty forty dollars now,
oh, but they don't have to all right, And so that you're
right, Like the the new cars are expensive. We have seen, you
know, new car prices go down. The Teslas have been like, man,
those have gotten a whole lot cheaper in recent just over the last year
as Tesla's been cutting prices. So yes, car prices are coming down a
little bit, but man used car prices and I realized it's harder than ever
to buy a sub five thousand dollars car that's in good shape. I think
it's still possible. There was somebody in the how to Money Facebook group who
said was asking this question getting feedback from listeners, and then she was like,
hey, I'm reporting back. I was able to get a six thousand
dollars, you know, ten year old Cadillac and this thing, or maybe
it was a fifteen year old Cadillact, but like I had it checked out
by a mechanic, it's in good condition, and six grand. Like that's
impressive, right. I think most people think that's not possible. It is
possible. It just takes a little bit of hunting, and it takes saying,
you know what, I'm unwilling to go into debt for a car because
I realized that it doesn't allow me to reach these other financial goals that I
have. Yeah, especially with like we're talking about the high prices. If
you do decide, I know this isn't your recommendation, but if you can't
pay cash and you do finance it, I've got friends who've got six and
seven hundred dollars payments. Yeah, and so if you are going to finance,
by the way, I want you to make sure you have at least
a significant down payment for that car, right, And I also want you
to make sure that you're getting financing or at least getting a quote from your
local credit union, because you're likely to get better terms there than you are
if you go straight to the dealership and get financing there. So if you're
going car shopping, have that quote in hand from your credit union already,
and then make the car dealership, make the person in the finance department there
beat what you got from the credit union, and you know, maybe they'll
be able to do so. Oftentimes they're not. And so the other thing
is just to keep that loan term down. So if you got if you
have to take out longer than a forty two month loan, well you need
to look for a cheaper car. Okay. I do like going in though,
to the dealership with a little leverage, yes, right, exactly.
So if you've got that burden the hand from the credit union, it gives
you you're sitting in the cap bird seat from a negotiating cool Okay, Now,
speaking of high prices. I'm guessing that the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner
is going to go up this year over last year. But where can we
get the best prices? Yeah, so it's it's true. And we haven't
even hit Halloween yet, that's a week away, right, but we're already
talking about candy. Candy is up thirteen percent on average from last year.
Yeah, I mean, that's that's pretty crazy, right, And so if
you're handing out candy, you're maybe be a little more sparse, but you're
given the kids When it comes to Thanksgiving. Walmart and Aldi just announced that
they are doing some doing some special pricing starting November first for and through really
actually through Christmas. They're going to be they're going to offer special pricing on
a whole lot of holiday items. And Aldi said something like seventy items are
going to be discounted up to fifty percent off. And so these are what's
known as lost leaders in the industry, right and oftentimes these you know,
Walmart and Alday wants you to come in and not only do they want you
to get the discounted items, but they want you to start shopping there more
and they want you should buy other items there. But the truth is Walmart
and Aldi are two of the best places to save money on groceries anyway.
So the fact that Aldi is taking additional discounts on top of kind of the
low prices they already charge makes it kind of a no brainer. And there's
an app, a website that I want people to look at when they're doing
their comparison shopping on groceries. It's flip dot com flipp and it's one of
those sites that basically puts all of those grocery store flyers in one place,
and you just type in your zip code, you see all of you know,
you see Walmart, you see Target, you see all do you see
all of these different places? And you can kind of say, before I
even venture in to the grocery store, I want to kind of see what
everybody's charging for different things, and it might be most the best policy for
you to shop at a couple different stores to get the most savings. Okay,
Flip dot com, f L I p P dot com. I am
totally going to use that because I will tell you I was on in search
of diet coke this week because diet coke prices have gone absolute through the roof,
they've more than doubled. And like you used to be able to get
like three twelve packs for twelve dollars, and now it's eight ninety nine for
a twelve pack or seven ninety nine if you buy three. So I'm on
the hunt for good diet coke prices because every once in a while it still
does go on sale. Yeah you got you gotta wait for those sales.
You got to stock up. You get the three pack when it's you know,
four ninety nine apiece or whatever. But I feel your pain on that
one. I'm a cherry coke addict to myself, and so yeah, it's
it's sometimes I'll just I'll go without the if the price isn't right. Yep,
okay, flip dot com. I love that. I love that.
I know we were going to talk about savings accounts medical savings accounts, but
we kind of ran out of time, So maybe we'll do that another time.
I heard you talking about it this weekend and I was fascinated, So
maybe I'm might have just to go back and listen to your podcast. Perfect.
Yeah, Well, and we can talk about it next week because that's
when open enrollment really starts Okay, next week, so we can totally talk
about hsas then and they are like the best retirement account that nobody knows about.
Okay, Oh that's a nice tea. So next week it's a date,
Joel Larsguard. We're going to be talking about the best way to invest
for your retirement or one of the best. Sounds good, all right,
looking forward to it. All right, How to Money with Joel lars Guard.
You can hear it every Sunday from noon to two right here on KFI.
And if you want to follow Joel, it's at how to Money.
Joel. Thanks so much for your insight and information. Joel, of course,
thanks Amy. All right, take care. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom zero and we
don't know the game again, and I'll ask. Airline's pilot's been arrested for
allegedly trying to crash a plane he was a passenger on during a flight from
Everett, Washington to San Francisco. Joseph Emerson is charged with eighty three counts
of attempted murder. ABC's Alex Stone says Emerson is accused of trying to shut
down the engines in flight on Sunday, sources say an off duty pilot sitting
in the jump seat heading to fly a Boeing seven thirty seven out of San
Francisco, made a comment about I'm not right and then allegedly tried to pull
fire extinguish your buttons. It would have killed the engine, so scary.
The on duty pilots were able to stop him and he was subdued until they
got onto the ground in Portland and he was arrested. We're going to be
hearing more about what happened with Alex Stone in about five minutes, so stick
around for that. Want to hear more about that story? So crazy.
A woman's been arrested for the fatal stabbing of her mother in Elmonte. The
stabbing on Sunday happened on a lot with several homes on Rancheto Street. The
Sheriff's department says the possible murder weapon was recovered. Jury's selection is set to
start in la in the federal trial of a dive boat captain over a fire
in twenty nineteen that killed thirty four people. Jerry Boylan is facing a charge
of misconduct or neglect by a ship officer. He's also accused of a series
of failures, including abandoning ship. Federal prosecutor say Boylan was the first crew
member off the boat, even though thirty three passengers and a crew member were
still alive and trapped below deck. Clippers opening night is tomorrow night, with
tip off at seven thirty Again whence the Portland Trailblazers. Oh my home team.
At Crypto dot com Arena, you can listen to the game on AM
five to seventy. LA Sports Haffey hot Dogs, a socaw treasure for almost
one hundred years, available at your local Albertson's Hafe Local original Great. Can
you believe basketball season? It's already back. Two more hostages had been freed
by Hamas. Israeli officials say it was only an attempt to delay a possible
ground invasion. One of the women, who's eighty five, said militants beat
her with sticks, bruising her ribs, making and hard to breathe. They
forced her to walk several miles and took her into a spider web like network
of tunnels. Negotiations between sag After and the Hollywood Studios set to resume today.
Management called the discussions off a couple weeks ago, saying the two sides
were too far apart, but reportedly they have a new offer. We shall
see. The most stolen vehicles in California full sized Chevy pickup trucks, followed
by Honda Civics. The National Insurance Crime Bureau says in twenty twenty two,
more than twenty six thousand of just those two vehicles were stolen in the state.
Vehicle thefts were up seven percent in twenty twenty two. At six oh
five, it's Handle on the news. Migrants staying on skid row have apparently
been hired to work in La hotels, where workers have been striking since July.
At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with our friend Kevin
McManus with Pasadena Humane. There's a new Halloween time incentive for you to bring
a new pet into your family. But right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's Alex Stone, who has details about one of probably the scariest flights
in a long time. Hey, they're Amy, Good morning. How are
you I I'm good, glad I'm on the ground. Well, yeah,
I've a lot of people who were on the flight are as well, so,
yeah, this was Sunday night. Alaska Airlines their regional carrier technically Horizon,
but have everybody many times, yeah, yeah, everybody on board.
You know, they booked it on Alaska, flying on a plane that says
Alaska. It's owned by Alaska. So they were going ever in Washington to
San Francisco on Sunday night. Everything was good, they were flying. There
was a off duty pilot in the jump seat up in the cockpit, which
I think. You know, when you see another pilot up there, you
think, great, that's that's good. We gott just tell you got a
little help if something goes wrong. And totally common for pilots who are dead
heading as it's called, going from one city to the other without working.
That did they sit up there when the plane is full, there's no seats
in the back and they go sit up there and read a book. You
know, they're not working while they're up there. But they were flying along
and that extra pilot, forty four year old Joe Emerson, made some kind
of comment. Our sources who have been briefed on the investigation say he said
something along the lines of I'm not right and then went for the controls and
to kill the engines. And the allegation is he was trying to take down
the aircraft and now charged eighty three counts of attempted murder, one for everybody
on board, one hundred and sixty three charges overall. There was a scuffle
in the cockpit. They got him out of there. They handcuffed him in
the back and then made an emergency landing in Portland and then got him out
of there. The radio call from the pilots down the air traffic control on
Live ATC sounded like this, Oh, we've got the occupant. He's a
handcuffed and he's an a half back jumped seat. When law enforcements right and
right now, he's saying calm. They got down on the ground and police
boarded the plane and took that pilot away. And he's in jail right now,
going to be in court around two this afternoon to hear the counts against
him, and we may find out more at that point. Those who were
on board, some of them say they slept through all of this. One
guy who was in one a said he had headphones on and was sound asleep.
I guess, you know, kind of a story not to wear the
noise canceling headsets and fall asleep that somebody may try to crash your plane and
you have no idea. Others say that they did know stuff was going on.
Aubrey was in eighteen A. She says, I was panicked. I
was alone in the back, and you know, everyone was shifting around trying
to figure out what was happening. But it was relatively calm. Yeah,
she says, it actually was pretty quiet what was going on. That the
flight attendant, she didn't even realize that as they were escorting him to the
back of the plane that he was handcuffed in that moment and they took him
back there, and she thought it was a medical emergency that they were back
there saying, you know, take a deep breath, you're going to be
all right. We're gonna land. We're gonna get you taken care of.
And then she had after we did land and the gentleman was escorted off,
the flight attendant got back on the speaker and said, plane and simple,
he had a mental breakdown. We needed to get him off the plane immediately.
So even at that point, after he had been escorted off, we
didn't have any confirmation that it was a security threat and amy a preliminary review
of his service record shows he has a clean work history. The FAA is
saying this has nothing to do with what's going on in the Middle East,
that airlines have been warned to be on high alert right now for somebody who
may try to do something based on what's going on in Israel and with Homas
and Iran and anybody else who gets involved, that there could be attempts to
do something and to be aware this was not that that they don't know a
motive seems like a may go down mental health, but it's not what's you
know, no kind of terrorism or ideology or anything like that of what this
was as it unfolded. Okay, so he was in the cockpit and he
apparently he tried to pull some fire extinguisher handles which would have shut down the
engines. Is that how we were understanding, Yeah, that's exactly right.
So the if there's a fire in the engine. They were in an Imbre
one seventy five, which is pretty common plane that you see it did Burbank
and other airports. Looks like a little miniature seven thirty seven, and that
above the pilots are the fire tea handles as they call them. They look
like tea's. You pull on them, it kills the engine. If there's
an engine fire, puts fire extinguisher chemicals into the engine to stop that fire.
That the allegation is that he made that comment then went for the tea
handles above the pilots. They stopped him from doing it and then got him
out of there. So what I'm amazed about is that they got him off
of the tea handles before he could pull him and then wrestled him, I
would imagine in that little tiny cockpit, got him out of the cockpit and
then sat down. And then you heard the captain just like a uh,
yeah, we're going to land in Portland. And some of the passengers have
no idea anything was going on. It seems like a lot of it had
to be in the cockpit and not outside of it. Well, here this
is Alex. He was in one a so sitting in the very front.
I was actually asleep while this was going on, and when I woke up,
the pilot had said had clarified and said we're landing in Portland and said
there was a disturbance the cockpit and we need to land in Portland immediately.
Yeah, and we don't know how disturbing, you know, the disturbance was
in the cockpit. Were they like, dude, dude, no, you
don't want to do this, you know? Was it all verbal? Was
it physical? We don't know. We may get some of that today once
he's been in court from court documents and was he saying anything else? You
know, were they getting, you know, a little bit weary of him
before this, and that they were watching him and trying to figure out what
was going on. We don't know now. I mean his neighbors. He
lives in the Bay Area. His neighbors say, this is your quintessential pilot,
you know, like he looks like a pilot, loves working for Alaska
Airlines, loves being a seven thirty seven pilot, which, by the way,
he was commuting the pilot a seven thirty seven out of SFO. Can
you imagine what this would have been had he gone to work and been at
command, at the commands of the aircraft. But his name say, great
dad, you know, just a good neighbor guy. This is one of
the neighbors in the Bay Area and Pleasant Hill. We just can't imagine him.
So everybody's baffled by this, but they're gonna have to look at you
know, is he having marital problems, problems with his kids, his health,
his finances. Does he have a lot of pilots of outside businesses?
Is he having a problem there? What is going on? And right now
they don't know. Yeah, Well, I'm just glad that cooler heads prevailed.
I have a question. I don't know if you know the answer to
it. That imberor it's a jet. It's not a prop right, Yeah,
it's a jet. It looks like yeah, it's got the engines under
the wings. Looks like a little seven thirty seven. Okay. If he
had succeeded in turning off the engines, could the plane still fly? I
mean, I know it doesn't any thrust, but could it come to like
could it come down? Heah? I mean it would have glided at that
point, like when you're landing, and you know, if they began to
decrease their altitude, it could have They could have glided for a very long
time to find an airport. Yeah, and they can restart the engines.
Oh Okay, it's not perfect, it's not ideal. It depends on altitude
and a number of different things. But after those are pulled, they can
be restarted. But I mean, you know, you don't want to be
flying along and all of your engines go out that if they couldn't get them
restarted. So yes, and then they they could have potentially gotten them restarted,
but they wouldn't have gone nosedive at that point unless he were to go
for the the stick and try to to nose down. But yeah, they
would have kept flying. Okay. Well, thank god for the pilots and
then also the flight of tenants for helping out once they got him out of
the cuppit and lovell Ass Airlines. Absolutely all right, thank you so much,
Alex Stone. Appreciate your insight. You got it. Thanks Amy yi
Keys, that's scary. One of the two hostages released by Hamash yesterday is
the seventy nine year old mother of a man from San Diego. The woman's
husband is still missing. Israel says Hama is still holding more than two hundred
people hostage, including some Americans. Former President Trump and his former attorney Michael
Cohen are both expected in a courtroom in Manhattan today in Trump's civil fraud trial.
Cohen's expected to testify that nothing happened in the Trump organization without the boss
approving it. The La Kenny District Attorney's office is investigating allegations of hotels using
homeless refugees hired from a shelter on skid row to replace striking workers. Hotel
housekeepers, cooks, front desk workers, and others have been on strike since
July. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
one of the two women released yesterday by Hamas is talking. She says she
went through hell. I'll tell you more about that right now. Let's say
good morning to Pasadena Humane's Kevin McManus. Good morning, Kevin, Good morning,
Amy, good ma. You sound like I woke you up this morning.
Not all, not at all. Hey, the adopted Boo event is
happening now at Humane Society. Tell us about it. Yeah, So,
any we have quite a few large dogs right now who are looking for home.
So from now until Halloween, any dog over thirty one pounds can be
adopted for only ten dollars. And you know, we also are sending everybody,
all the adopters home with a little trick or treat bag with some swag
for the dogs in it. Okay, cool, And so you've got a
lot of big dogs, and I know that we went down, we talked
to Kevin. I don't know if you saw our social media posts still up
on Instagram if you want to go check it out. Then when they had
an adoption event, and we got to see some great cats and dogs,
but the big dogs there were several at that time too. They're harder to
get into homes, that's right, yeah, I mean, of course it's
you know, a size issue. It's you know what, folks who have
apartments, maybe they can't have a large dog, or they can have a
pet it all. And so consequently, especially with the kind of downturn on
me, we've seen just more big dogs at our shelter and other shelters throughout
throughout southern California. So if you're thinking about expanding and you have the room
to do it, if I seriously we talked about this when I was there.
If I could have a dog, I would, But like you were
saying, there's so many people living in apartments. Cats is what I can
do right now. But if you have the ability, is a thirty one
or more pound dog during the adoptive boo events ten bucks and how do they
go check them out? Do they just come down to the shelter? Do
they look online? How do you do it? Yeah, well, the
easiest way to do is look online. During the weekdays we have adoption appointments
or adoption spy appointment excuse me, but on weekends we're having more walk INDs,
So definitely have a look at the website. It's pacidmihumane dot org.
Pictures and short descriptions of all of the dogs. There's a link on there
to make an appointment if you can come in during the week If you want
to come in the weekend and kind of have a walk around, don't we
have what we call visiting hours on Saturdays and Sundays from from two to five.
Okay, great, idea great to come down walk in that way you
can kind of lay eyes on the dog and get a feel for them.
But of course our adoption team is well versed on you know, all these
all the dogs that we have, and they can help you make a good
decision and when you go down there, you're probably going to fall in love
several times over like I did. And wouldn't it be cool to have a
new dog in your home around the holidays, you know, curled up around
the Christmas tree, that kind of stuff. That's just my thought. See,
well it's a perfect time. You know. We've got Halloween, which
is an amazing holiday, thanks for being, We've got Christmas, all these
things that you know would be made so much better with having a dog.
Okay. The adopt Aboo event is now through Halloween. Dog's over thirty one
pounds ten dollars and if they want more information, where's the website Pasadena Humane
dot org. Easy, all right, Kevin McMahon's always a pleasure. We
love to have you on. We'll be looking forward to talking to you about
more adoption events in the near future. I'm sure for sure. All right,
take care, sure, Thank you so much, thank you. Okay,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour news room. Negotiators for striking actors in Hollywood studios meeting again today
to try to end the strike that started back in July. Talks broke off
nearly two weeks ago after five negotiating sessions spread over two weeks. The studio
said at the time, the gap between the AMPTP and SAG after it was
just too great and talks were no longer productive. Hundreds of healthcare workers at
Providence Medical Center in Burbank are on day two of their five day strike over
alleged unfair labor practices. More than seven hundred workers hit picket lines after months
of negotiating fell apart. Surgical tech Christian Iona says only some of the workers
would get the twenty four percent pay increase Providence is proposing. There's many other
positions that wouldn't get that. It ranges from nineteen to eighteen to doll the
way down to fourteen point seven over three years. Workers also say the hospital
is highly understaffed, with some nurses being assigned forty patients at once. Providence
said yesterday patient care won't be impacted during the strike. Chris Sadler KFI News.
The LAPD says it's looking for people to become super sleuths. The Forensic
Sciences Division and Technical Investigations Division are hiring people to help solve crimes behind the
scenes. The department's Tatiana Garcia says because of staffing, they have to prioritize
cases based on the severity of the crime, to process the violent crimes,
Yes, to process the ones that are non violent. We do have in
the latent Prince section a backlog. Garcia's division handles things like polygraphs, crime
scene photos, and fingerprints, whereas the Forensic Division handles things like firearms analysis,
narcotics and toxicology. House Republicans working to seat a new speaker. The
House is expected to move forward today with secret ballots on eight candidates. There
were nine, but Pennsylvania Congressman Dan Muser dropped out last night. Texas Representative
Pete Sessions is one of the lawmakers who says he's right for the job.
The Republican Party needs to come together. Our members of Congress have an opportunity
to get behind what I believed can be a consensus candidate. I believe that's
made Session says in twenty ten he rallied Congress because they worked together and didn't
divide each other. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy
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