You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI A M six forty KFI
and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. What do you want
for Christmas? Little boy? My mind is gone black? Frantically I tried
to remember what it was I wanted. I was blowing and blowing up,
canted all about nice football? Nor should you want? You should your eye
out? Kid? Merry Christmas? How? How? How it's time for
your morning wake up call? Here's Amy King. Oh my gosh, I
can't wait to watch a Christmas story this year. You should you ry out?
Good morning, It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call.
It's Thursday, December seventh. I'm Amy King. December seventh. That means
eighteen days till Christmas? Or is it seventeen days? I'm not sure about
this countdown thing? Do we count the day before? So? The big
debate was last night, and I love debates. Think I've told you before
that I am obsessed with watching debates. I just like the interaction, the
arguments, the yelling over each other, and every once in a while they
make a good point. Well, I missed a lot of this one because
I couldn't find it. It was on News Nation, So I'm trying to
download the app onto my TV and then it's going and then when it finally
comes up, it says debate starts in a few hours, so it's like,
okay, News Nation is on East Coast time. That doesn't help me.
So I finally found it on CW, but it had started at five
night, not six like that they had told us, and so I missed
half of it. We're gonna be talking more about that with Steve Portnoy with
ABC. He saw the whole thing, so we're going to get his take
on it. We'd love to hear your take on it too. Here's what's
ahead on wake Up Call. The shooter who killed three people at the University
of Nevada Las Vegas on Wednesday was apparently a college professor who had applied for
a job at UNLV but didn't get it. The man was killed by police
yesterday. A fourth person shots in critical condition. We're going to find out
the latest with ABC's Alex Stone in just about four minutes, so stick around.
Professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches at Sacramento State are
hitting the picket lines for a fourth day of a one campus per day strike
for better pay, parental leave, and improved health and safety. Faculty walked
out at cal State LA yesterday Today is the last day for Medicare open enrollment.
We talked with the president and CEO of Inland Valley Humane Society yesterday on
wake Up Call, and if you did miss it, please do go check
it out. It's up on the wake Up Call page on KFI AM six
forty. Really interesting to hear about why the shelters are so packed to the
rafters right now and what you can do about it, whether it's volunteering or
donating or maybe fostering or even adopting a new family member just in time for
Christmas. But again, that's on the wake Up Call page on KFI AM
sixty dot com. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Four of the presidential candidates have met for
a fourth Republican debate at the University of Alabama. Donald Trump wasn't there.
When former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley was asked about what she would do to build
the economy, she took the opportunity to criticize the former president and his economic
policy. As much as everybody wants to talk about how Donald Trump had a
good economy, nine trillion dollars in debt, he did just in four years
and we're all paying the price of that. Hailey is rising in the polls
as the race for second place heats up. Investigators say they need help finding
the killer of a young man in Compton. Elly County Sheriff's Lieutenant Mike Gomez
says Miguel Prato was not in a gang and was sitting in an suv with
his girlfriend on August eighteenth when someone walked up and opened fire. Investigators believe
that the shooting was gang related and Prado was the innocent victim of a senseless
act of violence. Gomez says a light colored sedan was seen speeding away from
the scene at one twenty two East Caldwell Street. Compton Mayor Amash Reef says
Proto had just finished an eight hour shift as he recently obtained his security guard
license. In Compton. Steve Gregory kf I News Army Coor of Engineers had
started dredging sand as part of a twenty three million dollar project to replenish seventeen
miles of beaches in Orange County Newport Beaches. John Pope says the goal is
to replace the natural flow of sand that was blocked when the FEDS built jetties,
breakwaters, and other projects in the areas where the beach gets more narrow
Because of the loss of sand, it's more prone to flooding and high tides.
That water gets up into parking lights, into streets, and potentially into
people's homes. Pope says by February, Cruz will have dredged almost two million
tons of sand to be deposited along Sunset and surfside beaches. He says the
sand will flow naturally to replenish beaches to the south, but the project will
need to be completed on a regular basis to really address the problem. Now,
let's take an early look at our morning commute with our very own Nick
Paula Yocchini, who is exhausted because he was at Disneyland for the Coast Holiday
party last night. Boy, let me tell you that was the truth and
if you were one of the few that got to make it out and enjoin
us, it was an amazing time. So check it out. The drive.
First go around this morning, and as you're making right through Marina Valley
Nork on side of the two fifteen, you'll see the lace from before Eucalyptus,
passing the merge of the sixty toward UCR and the Riverside interchange WESTBN side
of the ninety one riverside through Corona, that'll be heavy stretches of slonging for
the drive from Los Aierge and make great toward the two forty one toll road.
Also getting reports of somebody installed. It looks like it mostly has been
cleared to the Senator divider westboun nine you went around the two forty one and
even maybe a two of the car smashup that's been cleared to the Senator divider
there. In fact, if you have an update on this or anything else,
solwing you down pound to fifteen yourself on keyword is KFI traffic otherwise looking
really good for you right now now say anything major going down for the early
morning drive. As you make it through Orange County, most overnight couchins projects
I've wrapped up for the drive. Same story for La County heading back to
the Inland Empire fifteen southbound actually getting into it out of the high desert to
make way through hisparia. That'll be still going for you right now for main
Street and stretches as you make way all the way toward about Kenwood. Kay,
I find the sky helps gets you. They're faster. I'm Nick Pollocane,
Nick Polyocanne. You sound wonderful, but I can tell you are tired.
I tie read Amy. That was an epic night at the Disneyland parks.
It was absolutely amazing, and thank you huge thank you to the Disneyland
Resort casts that I were there for us. So yeah, coach, Christmas
party an amazing one in the books once again. And hopefully if you were
not able joined us last night, next year when party comes back around,
you'll be able to call in and win on coast one of three point five.
There you go, a little pluggy plugging, there we go. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's Alex Stone. Good morning, Alex. We
know that every good morning. We know that three people were killed and police
took out the shooter. But we've got more information. What's the latest on
the UNLV shooting? We do, and we learned quite a bit overnight that
the police are now compiling. So we know that the shooter was an older
gentleman sixty seven years old, not a student. Anthony Poalito his name and
number of sources overnight telling us that he had applied to be a professor at
UNLV but did not get the job. They don't know if that was the
motive, but that's definitely something that they are zeroing in on at this point.
It appears that the three who were killed were not students. They were
faculty in staff, which would indicate the me this was targeted in some way
to not getting the job, but they've got to figure that out. They've
been searching his home overnight that they have his cell phone. They're going through
that right now. He has ties to North Carolina and Georgia where he worked
as a professor. And it was a shootout in the end with two detectives
that ended all of this, and the sheriff in Vegas saying that was the
key that saved a lot of lives, saying this so it hadn't been for
the heroic actions of one of those police officers who responded, it could have
been countless additional lives taken. They were UNLV campus detectives who went running in
and like police are trained to do now that they don't wait for uniformed police
or heavily armed police, that they go in and they try to neutralize that
threat, as police would say. And that is what those two detectives who
were campus detectives, what they did when they heard the calls for help,
and then there was that shootout and he was shot and killed. So still
a lot they've got to figure out. We know he had one handgun in
this attack. He was not heavily armed. They are working on where that
gun came from, if that was legally his. Quite possibly it was,
you know, quite easy to get a handgun, so there's not a big
mystery there of where that would come from. But they they're trying to put
together those last parts today and figure out the why and if it is related
to him not getting the job and if he was angry. But there was
a lot of panic on campus yesterday, students who were sheltering in their rooms
for many hours they heard the gun shots. That there was a lot of
worry. Yeah, and you know when the campus started putting out it's alerts
on x or whatever social media that they put it out on. They put
out the run hide and fight. That's a scary message because they're not just
saying lock the doors. They're saying fight like this that I just can't imagine.
I haven't left have that happen. But you know, it's so it's
unsettling that they're saying, you know what, maybe you need to get involved.
They're not armed. Yeah, that's yeah, that's that's the messaging now
anytime there's an active shooter and when they know it's confirmed and when they don't
have it contained. And in this case, it started in the Business School
building and then moved to the student union area and was getting very close to
a gathering area where they've got big legos and things where students can at lunch,
you know, play and kind of collaborate like you would see at a
restaurant or maybe a brewery somewhere where they've got like Jenga and different things to
play around with. So would have been close to a really populated area on
campus right around lunchtime. So that the messaging was, you know, get
out of there, and if you can't get out of there, save your
own life and do what you need to do to stay alive. And so
students, yeah, they were given that message, and you know, we
heard the audio of students evacuating and they were hyperventilating as they were doing it.
I mean you can hear them freaking out. Totally understandably that the worry
was so great, knowing that there was a shooter on campus and police were
coming in everybody but their hands up, and you know, everybody in the
classroom sitting there with guns drawn on them by SWAT team members moving in and
then getting them out one by one. It is I mean, it's frightening
what they went through yesterday. And it's Las Vegas, only a couple of
miles away from the Vegas Strip. Think of what happened in twenty seventeen and
everything that the Las Vegas has been through. That that sparked a lot of
those memories. Yeah. Well, luckily, I mean not luckily. I'm
glad that they took out the shooter and that more people weren't killed, but
god, three people lost their lives yesterday because of this. It's ridiculous.
Alex Stone, thank you so much for the information. Appreciate the new developments
that you shared with us today. You got it, Thanky Gamy. All
right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A teen boy says he has also been attacked by
the man accused of sucker punching a grandfather pushing a stroller in Calabasas. The
fourteen year old said the man assaulted him randomly on a bike path Tuesday afternoon,
just came up from behind me and like grabbed me and like, I
don't know you tried to hit the back of my head first, and then
he tried me in my body for some reason. From protecting myself pretty good
hit him in the stomach, but it wasn't really that effective. The boy
was able to get away, had some minor injuries. He says when the
guy walked up to him, he didn't say a word. That man was
arrested in Oxnard yesterday. Several RVs have been towed outside Forest Lawn in la
as part of a city and county effort to clean the area up. Tow
trucks hauled multiple vehicles from Forest Lawn Drive, where people had been living out
of RV's, vans and small buses. Supervisor Catherine Barker says the cleanup was
years in the making. Over ninety RVs were parked on this stretch of Forest
Lawn Drive for years. This is a sophisticated operation, one that involves a
lot of partners. Partners like the Department of Public Health who are working to
sanitize the human waste left at the site. City and county officials will be
working with the people who were living in the vehicles to help them find housing
and other resources. Chris Adler Ka Fine News. The Planned Parenthood of Orange
and San Bernardino Counties has filed a complaint against Fontana, alleging the city is
blocking abortion access the city or The suit was filed Monday, requesting a construction
moratorium be lifted so progress can be made on the health center. It says
the moratorium violates people's constitutional rights to access reproductive health. The city council originally
approved the forty five day construction moratorium to cover an area downtown where the center
is supposed to be built. It was extended in September by more than ten
months. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is headed to Washington, d C.
To try to get more federal money to deal with the migrant crisis in
the Big Apple. This is a twelve billion dollar price tag over the three
years, and this is an national problem of we have been paying the cost
of that, and we believe that the federal government should pick up the tab.
More than one hundred and fifty thousand illegal immigrants have made their way to
New York City since spring of twenty twenty two. Adams is scheduled to meet
with congressional leaders and federal officials in DC and attend the White House Holiday Party.
Nobody won last night's Powerball drawing, so the jackpot will roll over to
four hundred and sixty eight million dollars. For Saturday nights drawing, the Mega
Million's jackpot is up to about three hundred and ninety five million dollars. Those
numbers will be drawn tomorrow night. Have you ever had this happen, Like
something bad happens and then the same bad thing happens the next day. If
you were listening yesterday, you might have heard. I spilled my oatmeal like
everywhere, all over the kitchen, in the microwave, on the counter,
on the floor, and on myself, And then I smelled like strawberries and
oatmeal for the rest of the morning. I went and I was heating up
my oatmeal. Just a second ago, I spilled it again, not as
much. I still have some. I'm glad, but I'm like, what
are the odds? What is going on? Maybe it's my body revolting against
having oatmeal every day for the last six months. I don't know. Anyway,
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The shooter
who killed three people at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Wednesday was apparently
a college professor who had applied for a job at UNLV but didn't get it.
The man was killed by police yesterday. A fourth person shot is in
critical condition. A gift card scam has been uncovered involving fifty four target stores
from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay area. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office
picked up more than fifty seven hundred gift cards and says a third of them
are fake and all linked to one person who's been arrested. Investigators say there
could still be thousands of tampered with gift cards on racks. President Biden and
the First Lady are going to be in La this weekend. Big Hollywood fundraisers
being held Friday. Jill Biden is also touring research labs at Cedar Sinai Medical
Center at six so five. It's handle on the news. The big debate
was last night, were there any winners and was anyone watching right now?
Let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, Israel continues
its assault on han Unis. What is the latest, Well, the Israeli
forces are facing intense combat u in han Unis in southern Gaza. We're hearing
there are essentially four Hamas battalions that work out of Hon Yunis. It's going
to take Israel Military analysts expect several weeks for Israel to really dismantle, destroy
or significantly, you know, h impact Hamas's military assets there and han Unis.
But that that effort has begun. Is soldiers have also encircled the home
of jach Sinoir. He's the top of the wanted list for Israel. He's
the head of Tamasa's military wing. He masterminded the October seventh attack his home,
which has also been destroyed again soldiers there kind of symbolically because he's not
there, he's likely hiding in the tunnel somewhere underneath hon units and then you
know, complicating the battlefield or all the Gosen civilians that are just to the
east, even some to the west of Hongunis and south. You know,
Israel asked hundreds of thousands of Gosdens to leave the north and go south,
and they have almost a million did and now they're down there and they feel
like there's you know, not doesn't feel like there's a safe place to run
or hide or take shelter because now all the fighting is in the south as
well. Israel has drop leaflets and an interactive map, but it has to
be said, you know, not everyone can access the interactive map. When
you know, cellular phones are not working consistently on the internet on and off,
and people are terrified. Some people just don't you know, they don't
want to leave. They don't want to move if they've already moved once,
and you know, people have died while they're trying to move from one place
to the next. So you know, I think until Israel actually carves out
safe zones where there's a guarantee of no artillery and no airstrikes, that will
be the only thing that may bring a modicum of safety to people in Gaza,
because right now there are safer zones, but there's still not free of
war. Yeah, it's safer zones, not safe zones exactly. Yeah,
your Dana. I'm curious as to the is Hamas firing still into Israel.
When this all started, Hamas was just you know, launching rockets into actual
Israel. But now that the Israeli forces are in the Gaza Strip, are
they still firing into Israel or are they just firing at the Israeli military in
the Strip. No, they're still firing on southern Israel. And there were
sirens, several sirens went off today around the what's called the Gaza periphery,
all the communities that are there. Most people have left those communities, but
nonetheless there's you know, Israel's main camp of troops and tanks are there,
so it's still it's still a target, and there's It doesn't make the headlines
all that often right now, but there's still several exchanges every day of fire
between Hasbala, the running backed militant group that satan Israel's northern border in Lebanon,
and the Israeli army there's back and forth every day. Yeah, we
don't hear about that. And is that the iron Dome takes care of most
of that. Well, the iron Dome takes care of some of it.
And Israel carries out strikes on the cells. The Lebanese that she has all
of cells that are firing. Okay, they will attack the cells, all
right, jor Dana Miller. Thank you so much as always for the information,
and we will check in with you again soon as we continue to follow
the Israel Hamas war. Thank you so much. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Santa Ana.
Winds are blowing into southern California. The National Weather Service has issued a
wind advisory for the Inland Empire. Gusty winds up to about fifty miles per
hour are expected today and tomorrow. The Weather Services the winds could make driving
conditions difficult because of blowing dust and sand. The highest windsor expected overnight.
The advisory will be in effect until four tomorrow. A man has been shot
and killed inside a barber shop in East la. Deputies responded at about six
last night following reports of shots fired. They say they found the man with
several gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
The shooter has not yet been found. The man who killed well known
marriage and sex therapist Amy Harwick has been sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole. Prosecutor say Harwick's ex boyfriend broke into her home in Hollywood
Hills in twenty twenty, waited for hours, then attacked her before he pushed
her off the balcony. Harwick was previously engaged to TV show host Drew Carey.
The state's nine to eighty eight provider says almost fifty thousand people died by
suicide last year. That's the highest number ever recorded. The most recent CDC
stats also showed the largest increase among middle age and older adults. LA based
Dede Hirst Crisis Line director Rebecca Zeitlin says ninety seven percent of calls, texts,
and chats are resolved without the need for further intervention. They don't want
somebody to problem solve and try to fix whatever is going on. What they
truly need is somebody to sit in that darkness with them, validate their feelings,
be compassionate and meet them where they are. She says many people still
don't know about nine eighty eight, which has received seven million calls, chats
and texts since starting last year. Corbin Carson KFI News. Police say the
grandfather sucker punched in Calabasas may have been a hate crime attack. The man
who was punched may have been targeted because he's an Asian American or Pacific Islander.
The La County Sheriff's Department arrested a man yesterday tied to the attack.
They say the same guy attacked to a boy of Asian descent on the same
day. Professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches at Sacramento State
are hitting the picket lines for a fourth day of a one campus per day
strike for better pay, also for they're fighting for parental leave and improved health
and safety. Faculty walked out at cal State LA yes yesterday. The Glendale
Unified School District has advised students and staff to avoid using school issued computers because
of a cyber security issue. District officials say the problem was discovered yesterday and
has impacted several of the district's information technology systems. Police are investigating at six
o five at handle On the New City Creuse have cleared a two mile stretch
of Forest Lawn Drive that had been taken over by RV's and makeshift homeless camps.
At five point fifty, we're going to be talking to Stephen Portnoy about
the takeaway from last night's debate, you know, the one where the one
who's leading in the polls by a mile didn't show up. So Christmas is
just seventeen days away. So many things to do and see during the holidays,
So we're going out and about to check them out for you and then
share some of the things we found really fun, beautiful, engaging holiday activities
that you can experience right here in Southern California. So our Southern California Sleigh
Ride takes us this week two Disconso Gardens for Enchanted. It's a winter themed
nighttime display that covers the gardens, and we got to catch up with the
communication director at Desconso, Jen Erico. Jen tell us about Enchanted. So
Enchanted is a really special place because it's a light show during the holidays,
but it really is about the garden and the beauty of the gardens. So
when you come out, you're going to see the oak trees, but they're
gonna be lit with all different colors. They're gonna see tulips, but they're
gonna be electric tulups. Okay, And right now, this is one of
the most spectacular things. It's very simple. It's just this beautiful lighting and
what's this called. This is our Starlight Garden. And when you come to
the Rose Garden, which is a whole new area this year, you're going
to just see little magical touches and this is one of them. It's one
of the best places to see a proposal. Uh hah. So guys,
if you're thinking about proposal, getting down on one knee, the Starlight Garden
might be the place to do it. It's this beautiful arched area and just
has all these lovely little white stars through it. And how many different installations
are there around the garden. So we have nine different areas and they range
everything from our ancient forest to our promenade, our Rose Garden, Maine Lawn,
and we have lighting areas that are lit up, and we also have
artists that come in and do these beautiful displays. And that's where we are
now. Okay, and we're going to take a look at that. In
just to saying I want to talk about the Ancient Forest. We hadn't wandered
through that a little bit earlier, so tell us about what is in the
ancient forest. So the Ancient forest is an area at Tusconsa where we have
our redwoods and our psychedds. There really these Jurassic plants during the day and
at night we've lit it so it looks like it's full of millions of fireflies.
It's really a highlight of Enchanted. It really is, and it's something
that you need to come out and see for yourself. And I will tell
you. We got to go and wander through it a little bit earlier and
we were going, I'm waiting for a velociraptor to come out, and it
looks ancient and then with the lighting, those so beautiful and warm and how
did Enchanted start? So in twenty sixteen we had a Halloween show here and
it was really popular and our CEO, Julianne Rook, watched everyone come in
and enjoy it, and she thought we should have a winter light show and
it should be about the garden. Yeah, And so she went all of
the United States looking at all the light shows, and then when she came
back, she invented this and it's really unique just to Desconso Garden and it's
loosely based on something you found in a very chilly place. Yes, So
one of the mort Narboretam has a show that is very based on their garden
and it's in Chicago, so it's snowy there. So Teslin, what makes
sense to a winter show here? Yeah, southern California where it's not freezing
cold. This is much better. And some of the people who worked at
that place in Chicago followed you here, correct. So our creative director who's
in charge of all of this, he came and thought the show through with
all of us. And every year we sit down and we think what can
we do better, what can we do different? And it just evolves.
So Enchanted is different every year. Yes, So if you've already been to
Discones Gardens, you should still come back. You should definitely come back.
And this year we've made this huge change because it is about all our special
areas and we have never been in the Rose Garden before, and now the
entire Rose garden's activated with lights and art and it's just beautiful. Okay.
And we're standing on the edge of the rose garden now, so we're going
to wander over and we need you to paint a picture for us of what
people are seeing here because this is it's just like mind blowing. It's so
cool. So this is from the minds of La based artist Hebecosoh. They
go to birding Man and a lot of the festivals and they do these beautiful
geometric shapes. It's all based on math and science, and I mean it's
really hard to describe just how just magical it is. It is. So
in this space where the install is, there's like eight nine and these geometric
shapes with all different designs on them and they look like lanterns. They have
the glow of like a lantern and they're so beautiful. And then there's music
that you can hear in the background that's mixed in and you can wander around
in them. And that's what the cool thing is about this place is you
just go wander. I always say Disconso is a place you come to discover
things, and it feels that way and enchanted too, and he be Koso
I love it because even when you look on the ground, it's reflecting these
beautiful patterns. When you look in the trees, it's reflecting these beautiful patterns.
So it's all about looking around and seeing nature and what we've done.
Okay, and when can people come see this? So we are open through
January seventh, so even after the holidayes five thirty to ten every night.
Okay. Parking is free and you can get tickets at Disconsogardens dot org.
And the other cool thing about it, Jen is that you stagger the people
coming in, Like everybody doesn't come in at five point thirty, right,
correct, So we have people buy tickets every half an hour. That way,
your experience is really nice. We don't want you to be crowded in
here. We want you to just enjoy and have a great family time,
a great date, just a great night out and maybe a great proposal.
Maybe Arlai Garden. It is Enchanted at Disconso Garden going on this holiday.
That's where we took our Southern California sleigh ride this week. Come out and
see it. I'm gonna be posting some video of our interviews so you can
see some of Enchanted. It's really really amazing and like I said, like
we were talking about, it's not Christmas themed, it's winter themed. And
it's so just like peaceful and ethereal and just and with the weather so nice
here, just go stroll in the gardens. Of course, you can go
see Enchanted for yourself. Tickets are available at Disconsogardens dot orgon If you want
that sneak peek, you can see that at Amy Kking. I'm gonna be
posting that video. I put up a video last night, a short one
if you want to check that out now, and it's also at at KFI
AM six forty so you can see. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I was just hoping
to get away alive. Class has been canceled for the rest of the week
following a fatal shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At least
three people have been killed. A fourth person is in critical condition. Police
say they killed the shooter. The student says he heard alarms go off yesterday
morning. I just assumed there was a fire drill. I put my laptop
back in my bag, I put it on and I heard six more loud
bangs, so I'm like, oh, this isn't a business series. UNLV
said the shooter was at the home of the business school. The shooting temporarily
shut down airspace at Harry Reid International Airport and the Vegas Strip. Four Republican
presidential candidates have duked it out in a debate at the University of Alabama.
First to speak in last night's debate was Florida Governor Ron De Santis. He
quickly attacked Nicki Haley, saying she doesn't stand up to Democrats. I have
delivered results, so that's what we need for this country. And you have
other candidates up here like Nicki Haley caves anytime the left comes after, anytime
the media comes after. Hayley's been getting more interest from donors and voters.
She took the brunt of the attacks in last night's debate. A two year
investigation into a twenty five thousand gallon oil spill in Huntington Beach has resulted in
multiple federal recommendations. The NTSB determined anchors from two container ships dragged along the
ocean floor, damaging the pipeline. The twenty twenty one spill killed fish,
and birds, damaged wetlands and hurt local businesses. Federal investigators Tuesday recommended larger
buffer zones between oil pipelines and where ships can anchor better leak alert systems,
more accurate tracking of container ships, and more. Investigators also found operators lacked
training to alert of a problem, which led to a more than fourteen hour
delay after the first leak alarm sounded in Orange County. Corbin Carson k if
I News. The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach advisory in southern
California. Forecasters say big waves and dangerous recurrents will continue over the next couple
of days. They say the condition will increase risk of drowning and have warned
beach goovers to stay off rock walls and jetties. Conditions will start to improve
following the peak. Today tonight, the Clippers take on the Denver Nuggets at
Crypto dot Com Arena. Tipoff is at six o'clock and you can listen to
the game on AM five seventy LA Sports Hollywood Park Casino Elevate. Your game
is today Thursday. It is that was the Clippers played the Denver Nuggets last
night. Let's do this one instead. Tomorrow night, the Clippers take on
the Utah Jazz at Crypto dot Com Arena. Tip off oh at six o'clock.
Listen to the game on AM five seventy LA Sports Hollywood Park Casino.
Elevate your game there, we got it right. Police say the grandfather sucker
punched in Calabasas may have been the victim of a hate crime. The man
attacked may have been targeted because he is of Asian American or Pacific Islander descent.
The l Kenniy Sheriff's Department arrested a man yes day in the attack.
They say the same guy attacked a boy of Asian descent on the same day.
A gift card scam has been uncovered involving fifty four target stores from Los
Angeles to the San Francisco Bay area. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office picked up
more than fifty seven hundred gift cards and said a third of them are fake.
All are linked to one person who's been arrested. Investigators say there could
still be thousands of tampered with gift cards on store shelves or racks. A
company in northern California has launched and landed a pilotless plane. The CEO of
Reliable Robotics, who developed the automation system, once worked for SpaceX. He
says he believes his technology will improve the safety of pilotless planes. Okay,
that scares me. We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this
morning, the border has gotten in the way of getting aid to Israel and
Ukraine. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's national correspondent, Stephen
Portnoy. Good morning, Stephen. Four candidates were on the stay always good
and bad about this one. Well, I'll leave it to others to decide
what they liked and didn't like. But let's see what happened last time.
And look, Nikki Haley has momentum, She has the backing of influential donors,
and so she took on the attacks from Ron DeSantis and Vek Ramaswami.
Ramaswami called Nikki Haley corrupt because of her ties to corporations and fascist because she
has said that she doesn't think that it's good that people can post things anonymously
on the Internet without their names attached, and she said that people should have
to submit their identity to the social media companies. Before they're allowed to post
online. Haley said that she'd crush Joe Biden and that her counterparts on the
stage were just jealous that she got the endorsements from the Koch Brothers network and
others and not them. Chris Christi used his time mainly to go after Donald
Trump, who's been leading these candidates on the stage in the polls by anywhere
from twenty to forty more more points in the key early states. Now,
this appears to be the last debate before Iowa and New Hampshire unless one should
materialize. No more have been scheduled. Doesn't mean there won't be another debate,
just that this moment we're not aware of any other debates and the thirty
nine days between now and the Iowa CAUCUSUS Now, it was contentious last night.
Chris Christy went hard at Ramaswami, calling him an obnoxious blowhard. He
defended Nikki Haley from the Entrepreneur's attacks. At one point, Ramaswami invoked conspiracy
theories. He said January sixth was an inside job. He said that the
racist great replacement theory, the idea of importing immigrants to this country to replace
white people, is a Biden strategy. So it was a messy scene and
in the end, I think it not much happened last night to change the
dynamic of the race, which has Donald Trump far and away coasting to the
Republican nomination as the leader. And it's not by when you say far and
away, it's by like fifty points in some polls. Well, I mean,
look nationally, Donald Trump enjoys majority support, which means that if you
were to add up all the support that Nikki Haley, Rhondas Anderson of ek
Ramaswami now have, you still wouldn't top the support that Donald Trump has.
And it was really interesting last night. In some of his strongest moments,
Chris Christie, who's not going to be the Republican nominee, it it appears,
he went after Donald Trump hard and said that you know, he's not
fit to serve and that the other candidates are afraid to offend Republican voters when
he and concluding by saying that it's very likely in Chris Christie's mind that Donald
Trump will be a convicted felon by next election day and that he won't even
be able to vote for himself. The audience responded by booing him, which
gives you the sense that even if people in the audience were supporting anyone of
the candidates on stage, they do not like that kind of criticism of the
former president. Yeah. Are there any rumblings that you've heard about that Trump
might ever show up for a debate or there's just no point in it for
him because he's so far ahead. Well, again, there are no more
debates scheduled between now and New Hampshire, Iowa. Anything can happen, but
for the moment there's no indication. And why would he if you look at
the strategy. The strategy was to try to seem to appear above it,
not to get dragged down by his opponents and have them be on a level
playing field. So he's decided not to participate. What does it mean for
future debates generally? I don't know. For the last sixty plus years,
we in this country have enjoyed the idea of candidates on stage exchanging their views
for the public to hear and see. But in this case, Donald Trump
is demonstrating the value of not participating. And I wonder what kind of broader
impact that might have on these kind of forms going forward. Yeah, I
guess I'll have to wait and see interesting. Steven Portnoy, thank you so
much for your time and insight. I'm glad you got to see the whole
debate. I had to miss half of it because I couldn't find it on
news. Oh well, I'll leave that to you and next star to work
out, all right, Thanks Steve. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KF twenty four hour newsroom. Multiple RVs and other
vehicles lining the street outside Forest Lawn and LA have been towed. It's part
of an effort to clean up the city. LA County Supervisor Catherine Barger says
more than ninety vehicles have been parked outside the cemetery for years. I am
a strong believer that this work can be done compassionately and in a way that
preserves a dignity of people experiencing homelessness. Barker was on site yesterday as the
vehicles were towed, saying that people living inside the RVs were given plenty of
notice that a cleanup was about to happen. She says the city's going to
be working with the homeless to help them relocate. Business owners impacted by that
mass shooting in Monterey Park have less than a month left to apply for a
federal loan. The Small Business Administration has allowed money set aside for natural disasters
to also be used for businesses to suffered following the shooting in January that left
eleven people dead. The low interest loans can be used for most all business
expenses, including payroll and inventory. Local lawmakers successfully lobbied federal officials and the
White House to free up the money. Officials estimated more than sixty businesses were
negatively impacted by the shooting. Steve Gregory, King of Fineows US State Department
has called again for fewer civilian deaths than the Israel Hamas War Department spokesman Matthew
Miller said yesterday too many Palestinian civilians have been killed in the Gaza Strip and
that they were having, as he put it, frank discussions with Israel about
it. Miller says part of the problem is that Hamas is embedding itself in
civilian areas, but added the burden is still on Israel to do everything it
can to reduce civilian harm. President Biden and the First Lady are headed to
La. The White House says they'll be showing up tomorrow to tour research labs
as part of the Initiative on Women's Health Research. First Lady is expected to
visit the Barber Streis and Women's Heart Center and SMIT Heart Institute, as well
as speak at a political finance event for the Biden Victory Fund on Saturday,
and of course, a big Hollywood fundraiser is also happening over the weekend.
Veterinarians say your pets may be feeling the stress of the holidays too. Doctor
Susan Nelson says, from loud bashes to quiet dinner parties, there are things
you can do to help calm your pet when there's extra commotion around the house.
There's verbal supplements that can be safe and effective for mild stress to help
with that, and then for ones who really get stressed and bothered, we
can even look at some prescription medications if needed. Over the holidays, Nelson
says owners can first try locking their pets away in a quiet bedroom or inside
a crate to help lower the animals stress levels. Maybe people should do that
lock themselves in the back bedroom during the holidays. Okay, this is KFI
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