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How dad can get a good call your host Amy Kay, good morning,
It's five o'clock. Straight up. This is your wake up call for
Monday, November twenty seventh. Less than thirty days still Christmas. We can
totally geek out on Christmas. Now Thanksgiving is done, so now we're free
and clear. I'm one of those people who tries to stay, you know,
stick to the rule that one holiday at a time. Well, now
Thanksgivings over, it's on. Had a great weekend, hope you guys had
a great weekend and enjoyed some time off. I know kno was having two
Thanksgivings. Did you recover? It was a long day the first Thanksgiving with
a almost three year old, yeah, and five children under six years old.
When did the meltown? When did the meltdowns start? At the end
of my parents which is the first house we went to. Yeah, so
it was and then you had the rest of the day. Yeah, it
was a long day, but a good day. It was fun. Okay,
yeah, I did. We had a small Thanksgiving with my brother and
his girlfriend and it was great. And then I got to go up to
paser Obols for the weekend to see my best friend who recently moved up there,
and so we did wine tasting, as one is wont to do in
paser Robos. That was fabulous. And then we did our small Business Saturday
and went down to San Luis Obispo, which I've never been to. Their
little downtown area really cool. So I love Small Business Saturday. It's just
a you know, you can go to the malls any day and you kind
of forget about some of the small businesses, and if you forget about,
some of them are going to go away, Like in Claremont. We used
to go to Claremont on Saturdays after Thanksgiving, and now Claremont is still a
beautiful little place, but a lot of the little shops that they had that
you could do some of your great shopping, have just closed up. So
gotta support. I also missed traffic. Did you guys get stuck in traffic?
I missed traffic because I headed home really early yesterday, so I'm heading
south on the Grapevine and of course still freaking out because remember, I don't
know if you remember, but a couple months ago my car broke down on
the Grapevine but that's a whole other story. So but and traffic was not
bad, but heading north it was crazy. And that was like at ten
o'clock in the morning, and I was like, oh my gosh, I
feel bad for the people who didn't get an early start yesterday. So hope
you made it home safe and sound. Hope you had a great weekend.
Here's what is ahead on wake Up Call. More hostages are expected to be
released on this fourth day of the Israel Hamas ceasefire. Israel has said it
would extend the ceasefire by one day for every ten day additional hostages released.
We're going to be talking with ABC's Geordana Miller in about a half hour and
get the latest on what's going on now, who's been released, and if
there's going to be an extension to that ceasefire. So Call is bracing for
another round of strong Santa Ana wins. Forecasters say gusts of thirty to fifty
miles per hour are expected through tomorrow, with US up to sixty miles per
hour in the mountains and foothills after the winds. We have a chance of
rain Wednesday through Friday. It's this light one, but there's a chance.
A newly unsealed legal complaint claims Facebook and Instagram deliberately engineered its social platforms to
hook kids. The complaint also alleges the company new but never disclosed, that
it had received millions of complaints about underage users and only acted on a fraction
of them. Parent company met us as the complaint misrepresents its work. At
six oh five, It's handle on the news, A forty eight year old
has been arrested in connection with the shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont that's
being called a hate crime. Let's get started with some of the stories coming
out of the CAMFI twenty four hour newsroom. An American girl who spent her
fourth birthday as a hostage in Gaza is one of the latest group of hostages
released as part of the ceasefire agreement with Israel. President Biden's The girl's parents
were killed when Hamas attacked on October seventh. Those who are now Rappie and
Abigail in love and care and the support of services she needs she's been through
a terrible trauma. A nine year old Israeli girl, who also had a
birthday while being held hostage, was also freed over the weekend. She'd been
sleeping over at a friend's house when she was kidnapped. Her father thought she
had been killed and said he was relieved because she wouldn't have to suffer in
captivity. Police and vermon have arrested a man accused of shooting three Palestinian College
students. Authority say the students were outside the man's apartment yesterday when they were
shot. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says two were wearing Palestinian scars. They were reportedly
speaking Arabic while returning to one of their relatives' homes when police say the suspect
approached them and fired at least four rounds without saying a word, then ran
off. Two of the injured students are in stable condition. The other has
more serious injuries. The Oli County Sheriff's Burglary Robbery Task Force has arrested ten
people in connection with a flash mob robbery at a Nike store in East la
The store on Whittier Boulevard was hit several times over the summer. Deputies have
linked the robberies to two criminal street gangs that focused on organized retail theft.
A man walking on the one to one Freeway has been hit and killed shpieces.
It happened in the eastbound lanes just west of DeSoto Avenue around three this
morning. A burst water pipe in Hermosa Beach is sent a torrent of water
into Redondo Beach. Hermosa Beach police say the pipe, controlled by California Water
Service burst last night in the area of Harper Avenue in Ormond Lane. Official
say hundreds of thousands of gallons spilled. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Jim Ryan. Good night morning, Jim, Hey Amy, good morning,
Happy Thanksgiving, a little bit lated, happy belated Thanksgiving to you, and
now I will say happy Christmas season because it's on. It is on.
Yeah. I was seeing all the stuff in the stores now a few twinkling
lights on a few houses and a few neighborhoods, and that's going to grow
right through the twentieth maybe the twenty first, when people finally finished putting up
their stuff. I know some people in where I was visiting this weekend already
had everything up like fully fully loaded and had all the inflatables up and all
the lights and everything, and I was like, oh, I got to
get my Christmas stuff out. But anyway, hey, we wanted to talk
to you today because we have a not it's pretty unsettling that the CDC has
come out with a new information. Autism used to become a pretty uncommon thing,
but this new report says that's not the case anymore. Well, no,
you're right, and unsettling in a way, yes, but also heartening.
I mean it offers some hope because yes, the number of children diagnosed
with autism spectrum disorder has been rising consistently. It's also risen dramatically since the
nineteen nineties, when really public awareness began to spike about this. So right
now, Center's for Is Controlling Prevention shows that about one in thirty six children
age eight in the country has been diagnosed with autism. In two thousand,
the number was about one in one hundred and fifties. So, yes,
this number has gone up dramatically. But does that mean that not many more
children actually have autism spectrum disorder. No, but it means more have been
diagnosed. The diagnosis has gotten much better. I mean the diagnostic criteria have
changed. It was first described in the nineteen forties, but back then they
didn't know what to do about it. They really didn't know what to look
for. But that has improved dramatically, and so in nineteen eighty four,
the American Psychiatric Association released the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders. Was included in that, and so that's why we've seen this,
the diagnosis go up dramatically. So you know, it's likely that by
age eight, most kids, maybe all kids, have been screened at one
time or another, and because of public awareness, parents know what to look
for early on, even in their toddlers, even before the kid reaches toddler
age, there are signs that they can look for. And when does is
there a typical time when it starts presenting itself? Well, I mean again,
it's around the pre k around kindergarten, around those times, because that's
when you start to see kids who are interacting more with other kids. And
for most of them, it's it's a fairly easy natural process. They make
friends with their other little kids and grow from there. But some kids have
trouble. They don't socialize well. With other kids. Does that absolutely mean
autism spectrum disorder? No, absolutely not, but certainly that's one of the
things on a checklist that pediatry since we'll be looking for as they try to
make this diagnosis. You know, I think back to when I was in
school and some of the kids who were you know that they, like you
said, they had trouble interacting with other kids, and you wonder maybe that
person was on the spectrum, as they say, and we just didn't know
because we didn't have the diagnostic tools at that time, so they didn't know
what they were looking for. Absolutely, And if you look back to the
fifties, the sixties, the seventies, then that's really when not the fifties,
Gym, I'm not that old. Well, no, I understand,
but really that's when things came to light. I'll tell you a story,
I mean personal story that my brother who's seventy and seventy years old now is
autistic, and really he was diagnosed way after even high school. There was
just no recognition. Nobody knew what to do about it. Misdiagnoses all along
the way. But he's lived a great life. Mary lives independently with his
wife and so it's not a it's not a sentence to a life of certainly
institutionalization, which it would have been in the thirties and forties. Maybe,
Yeah, there is a there's a light head and for a lot of folks
in great life, I love that. And and with the diagnoses, it's
it's kind of catching everybody who's on the spectrum, as they call it.
Yes, and it has evolved somewhat so that certain things are not necessarily included
in that in that diagnosis. But you're right. For example, you know
Asperger syndrome and this catch all pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified d d n
os. Those were added to the diagnostic diagnostic tools back in the nineties but
then taken off that list. These are specialized things that those terms just really
aren't used so much anymore. Okay, So even though the numbers are up,
it's actually a good thing because it means we're catching it absolutely, that's
right. You know, doesn't mean the incidence is hire most likely Now it's
a matter of trying to find out why. And we still don't have any
idea why what's causing this. Well, there are clues, you know,
there are external factors. You know, women are giving birth later and that's
associated in a lot of cases with the disorder prenatal exposure to air pollution or
pesticide paternal OBCD. The country's weight overall has gone up and that is associated
sometimes with this. So we've got clues. Absolutely cause has been found,
not yet, but they're looking. Oh keep looking to Thank you so much,
Jim Ryan, appreciate all the information. Thanks Amy. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A couple dozen people have held a protest outside the La County Sheriff station in
East La, calling for deputies to face consequences for beating a disabled man.
Video shows a deputy seeming to place a man in a chokehold while the other
punches him repeatedly in the face. The man's attorney says the beating was not
justified. There was no report of a crime, There was no one who
called nine one one on mister Ernandez, and there was nothing which should have
caused the deputies to have stopped mister Hernandez. Despite those facts, they tried
to stop him, and when they stopped him, they recognized that he had
a disability. The Sheriff's Department says Alejandro Hernandez, who is an amputee,
had reached for his waistband where he was hiding a loaded gun and was resisting
arrest. A major drug trafficker with connections to L. Choppo's cartel in Mexico
has been killed in South LA. Investigators with the La County Sheriff's Department say
Eduardo Escobedo was one of two gunned down in an industrial area of Willowbrook.
Officials say Escabato was killed during a party overnight Wednesday and the Thursday, though
a specific motive wasn't given. Escobato, who went by the nickname El Mago
or the Magician, was raised in East LA and worked for L. Choppo's
oldest son, often bragging and flaunting his lavish lifestyle by posting pictures of himself
drinking high end champagne and posing with celebrities like Floyd Mayweather and Al Pacino.
Steve Gregory k if I knew, I wish. It was so sad to
hear this. Over the weekend, fans and coworkers are remembering the co creator
of hr Puff and Stuff, Marty Croft, died of kidney failure over the
weekend at his home in La His older brother Sid shared the news yesterday on
social media. As brothers created the popular kids show featuring the life sized dragon
puppet back in nineteen sixty nine. They also were behind the Land of the
Lost Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. Those were both in the seventies, and
of course, who could forget the Banana Splitz. Marty Croft was eighty six
pastath on twenty twenty three. Is here. We're going to be at the
Anaheim White House tomorrow morning, starting right at five am with wake up call
and leading up to our show, we wanted to introduce you to one of
the kids whose life was changed thanks to Chef Bruno and Katerina's Club. The
money and the pasta you donate helps kids now and continues to affect them after
they're all grown up. So let's say good morning now to Alandra Beteo.
Alandra, how did you first come to know oh, Chef Bruno. I
was about six or seven years old when I started going to the Boys and
Girls Club and Bruno people come bring pasta to the club that I would participate
at. So he will give us pasta before we will go home every day,
and then he went to our mobile home park where I used to live
at com bring his pasta. And then during the month of November he will
come with the Chapman students to come deliver turkeys and all the stuff that you
know, it's needed for Thanksgiving dinner. And yeah, that's how I got
to know him. So you were involved in the Boys and Girls Club?
So did you go there every day after school? Yes? And about how
many kids were in your Boys and Girls clubs? Oh, well, we
got a lot of kids from my mobile home park. It was a good
ten of us every day, ten of us from Monday through Friday. But
over on the Boys and Girls Club, I would say a good two hundred
to fifty kids a day. That's great, okay. And I would imagine
when you're seven years old, you don't really realize what's going on. I
know that Chef Bruno is bringing you guys food, and isn't that lovely?
But did you as you grew older, did you start to realize that one
he was helping out your family by maybe taking some of the food burden off
of them and really helping tons and tons of people. Yes, it was
actually a funny story, like one time I had my shoes off for some
reason. There was a skate park there and I was changing my shoes and
there was holes on my socks and Bruno saw that. The next day,
he had someone buy me socks from the store, making sure that I have
what I needed, because back then it was kind of hard on my family,
especially with the rent that my parents had to pay. Were just him
buying socks or even him coming to our mobile file parking give us food to
low income families like it benefited a lot. That's so cool. So that
was when you were seven years old, and now you're twenty two, twenty
one, twenty one. Oh, she's still talking. One. Okay,
what are you doing with yourself these days? Right now? I am a
for fear, I ca'll say full til. I'll be finishing up my degree
in the sociology in May, so I'm hoping that I work with children.
I do want to give back to my community. Right now, I'm actually
working as a pre college advisor, So the students that I serve are low
income, first generation students trying to get to higher education, and hopefully I
get to my master's so I could become a school counselor look at you along
he that is so great, and I think it's just testament to what this
program does. It changes lives. It doesn't only fill up their bellies and
fills up their hearts and their minds too. So thank you so much,
and that's luck to you. Congratulations, thank you appreciate it, Alandro.
Butteo, isn't that great? I mean, like you feed a kid in
the afternoon and you don't realize the long term implications that that has. And
you can help make a different by joining us for Pastathon twenty twenty three.
As we mentioned, Chef Bruno's charity charity Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty
five thousand meals every week to kids in need in Southern California, and we
can't do it without you, so we want you to join us. You
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donate at checkout, Go to any Wendy's restaurant in Southern California and donate,
and of course join us tomorrow all day. We're going to be broadcasting live
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all the way until ten o'clock tomorrow night, and we want you to come
and see us. Make a donation. One hundred percent of your donation goes
to Katerina's Club. It's pastathon dot com. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A homeowner
in Chatsworth says thieves have stolen dozens of high end purses and several watches from
his home. The family was out shopping on Black Friday, probably about thirty
to forty five handbags, Chanelle Gucci, about six watches, a Cardier diamond
watch, four rolixes. He tells KTLA this stuff was worth about two hundred
thousand dollars. He also says the thieves used bear spray on the family's two
Pomeranians. Police and Westminster have arrested the mother of a nine year old girl
found dead inside her home. Officers had gone to the home Friday to do
a welfare check and forced their way in. Only the girl was there.
The mom was arrested at a shopping center in Aliso Via Home. A five
year old girl rescued after she was swept out to sea and half Moon Bay
has died at the hospital. The search for a fifty four year old man
also swept away Saturday has been called off. The Coastguard says two people at
Martin's Beach had been reported swept out to sea by what officials called a sneaker
wave. The Weather Service says such waves surge much farther up the beach than
expected and can overtake a person. Jesus. A naked man has been arrested
for causing a commotion on the Small World ride at Disneyland. The guy apparently
got off the ride yesterday, stripped down to his underwear and walked or onto
some of the attractions. Video shows him walking around as Christmas music plays in
the background. It was splashing in the water as park employees went up to
him. He was carried away and arrested for Indisian exposure and being under the
influence of a controlled substance. A guess station employee's mistake is paid off for
a lottery player in Michigan. The man usually apparently buys a lottery ticket for
ten or twenty draws, but in September, the employee accidentally printed out a
ticket with ten lines for a single draw. Well. That ticket was worth
twenty five thousand dollars a year for life. The man who bought it recently
claimed the lump sum of three hundred and ninety thousand dollars. More hostages are
expected to be released on this fourth day of the Israel Hamas cease fire.
Israel has said it would extend the ceasefire by one day for every ten additional
hostages released. Southern California is bracing for another round of strong Santa Ana winds.
Forecasters say wind gus thirty to fifty miles per hour are expected through tomorrow,
with us up to sixty miles per hour in the mountains and foothills.
After the wind, there's a slight chance of rain Wednesday through Friday. Its
just a twenty percent chance, but still there. Some Gen z Ers may
not be heading home for the holidays because of student loans. A recent Credit
Karma survey found many Gen Z Americans with student debt can't afford to pay for
travel on top of their student loan payments. About a third say they are
relying on their parents to pay for their holiday travel. At six oh five,
it's handle on the news. This one brings back memories. The King
of Saturday Mornings, Marty Kroft, has died at five poin fifty. We're
going to be talking to ABC's Tom Rivers about a dream cruise that has well
pretty much turned out to be a nightmare and it hasn't even set sail.
We're waiting for Georgiana mill It looks like she's calling in right now from Jerusalem,
where it's early morning. Good morning, Jordana. First of all,
let's start with the good news, and that is that we got her back.
How's little Abigail doing. We understand she's doing well. She's been reunited
with her siblings. She has two siblings that survived the October seventh attack,
even though her parents were murdered by Hamas on that day. Her aunt is
with her. She's still at the hospital special children's ward that has been created
in one of his reluff hospitals, and she's doing well. Her aunt,
who is now going to raise her, is there with her, and we
hear that she's okay. It's so hard because it's like, it's heartwarming to
hear that this four year old who turned four years old while being held hostage
by a mosque is back free. She's, like you said, she's with
family, but her parents were murdered in front of her on October seventh.
That's right, and it's you know, it's it's horrifying. Let's hope she
has no memory of it or you know, because she was so little,
but she's there were many children who saw their parents killed in front of them
on October seventh. I mean, there are there are two kids who essentially
hid in a closet for fourteen hours and they they saw their their first their
father being killed that was killed, and then their mother who was shot.
So these are these are this is going to be a whole group of children
that are you know, have to live with the trauma of growing up with,
you know, losing one or two parents on October seventh, and some
of them being old enough to remember witnessing it. Yeah, And it was
I was watching some of the footage from from that area where you said that
they're taking some of the children and showing them and it's so just surreal because
they just look like kids and they're holding teddy bears and they seem to be
okay, but there's going to be a lot of trauma for these kids.
Yeah, they, I mean, Israel's basically to its credit, they have
put together teams for each family to deal with any you know, to deal
with the symptoms of trauma that will likely come out later, not right after
the release. You know, I know, there was I think maybe you're
talking about the same picture. I remember seeing a little girl, you know,
holding a teddy bear at the first the little blonde girl. That's that's
Emily, her name, her name is Emily Alone and she was she was
released. I think she's only about six, but she was there with other
children as well. I mean, the only saving grace for these children is
that most of them were there with family, with their with one parent,
and in the case of Avigali Dan, you know, she was with another
few children and a mother who took care of her as well. So you
know, they you know, they the fact that they were kept in groups
helped them, you know, cope with the cope with captivity. It's had
their optimism that they would be essentially or ultimately uh you know, released and
freed. So you know, that's maybe the only silver lining of their captivity
is that they most of them were not alone. Yeah, okay, and
we're expecting another group to be released today, So I think, what are
we at thirty nine ish, thirty or nine or forty? Right? We're
at thirty right, We're at thirty nine. And then in a separate deal
with Russia, one male Israeli in his twenties was released. He also has
an incredible story. He escaped from after a bombing, an Israeli Israeli bombing
raid. His hideout got hit, he escaped. He was on the run
for a few days trying to find the border, the Israeli border. Then
Gosin's turned him back over to Hamas and you know, thank god, he
was freed last night. We're supposed to see another eleven come out today,
but there have been some hiccups and there looks like there's going to be a
delay to the release. Instead of happening in the next hour, we might
have to wait a few more hours before the handover begins. Israel says that
Hamas has given them a list that you know, does not include mothers and
children together. And this is one of the basic requirements, so they're trying
to sort that out. But there is optimism that Israel and Hamas will extend
this eeaspire for at least one more day, okay, and when if the
fire is extended, that again it's a slippery slope because it can help give
Hamas more time to regroup and get ready to start the fighting again. Because
nett Ya, who's still saying, when the ceasefire is over, we're going
back at it, that's right. And obviously Israel is making a calculation that
you know, they have achieved enough in the war up until now, and
they're in a strong position where they can afford to you know, hold their
fire for another couple of days and then the overall plan to you know,
push them off out of the Godsen strip that can still be accomplished even if
they give it another two or three or four days. There have been,
you know, no attacks on Israeli soldiers, there haven't been any serious violations
of the agreement. So far. It is going well. So you know,
every every extra day will bring home more innocent people who are abducted,
and right now that seems to be the priority. Okay, Well, we'll
be watching and hope they get the hiccups ironed out, smooth out. We
can get more people home. Thank you so much than it in tandem there.
Thank you, Jordana. We'll talk to you soon. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
An ex convict recently found guilty of shooting an LAPD officer to death is going
to be sentenced today. Sixty five year old Kenneth Gay was found guilty of
first degree murder in August after his case was retried. He killed an LAPED
officer during a traffic stop in West Terrace in nineteen eighty three. He's now
facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. Memorial observances for former First
Lady Rosalind Carter are set to begin in Georgia. The procession will begin in
Plains, Georgia, where Rosalind Carter was born. The Carter family is set
to hold a brief ceremony at the Sumpter Medical Center, where the former First
Lady's remains will be transferred to a herb. ABC's Mike Dubuski says a reeflaying
ceremony is going to be held at the Rosalind Carter Health and Human Sciences Complex
at Southwestern State University before the motorcade arrives at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in
Atlanta. Rosalind Carter died on November nineteenth. She was ninety six. Well,
it turns out Wish was no match for The Hunger Games. So Disney's
new movie, the animated movie that we talked about on last week couple of
times, was supposed to be number one at the box office, but The
Hunger Games Songbirds and Snakes finished first. It's now grossed almost one hundred million
dollars domestically in two weeks of release. It won the weekend with forty two
million dollars for the five day holiday frame, and that was more than Whish,
which came in with thirty one point seven million in five days. And
actually even Napole beat Wish out and that's the one with Joaquin Phoenix. It
took in thirty two and a half million dollars for the five day long holiday
weekend. So that's sort of a surprise. I need. I think next
time I talk to Jason, I want to ask him. And maybe you
guys already know this, but how do they make those estimates? Because you
go, oh, it's a Disney movie, it's going to be big,
But how do they estimate how big it's going to be? Yeah, something
we'll ask him about. Israel and Hamas are preparing for a fourth exchange of
hostages for Palestinians as mediators seek to extend a ceasefire in Gaza that's set to
expire after today. Hamas freed seventeen more hostages yesterday on the third day of
the truce. In turn, Israel released thirty nine Palestinian prisoners. A federal
court panel will consider the gag ordered today and former President Trump's civil fraud trial
in New York City. The order was temporarily blocked by an appeals court.
Trump has on several occasions railed against the judge and court staff in his trial,
leading to the gag order being imposed last month. It is cyber Monday.
I might have to look for it. But there are some big deals
out there. Amazon has won a thirty two inch high def TV slashed in
half just eighty dollars. There's also vacuum cleaners, pillows, air pods,
mattresses, furniture, and lots of other electronics, but analysts are warning to
beware of scams and do your research before you buy. We're just minutes away
from handle. On the news this morning, somebody lost it on It's a
Small World. He lost his mind and his clothes. I'll tell you about
that right now. Let's say good morning to ABC News correspondent Tom Rivers.
Good morning Tom. It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime,
but it's kind of turned into a nightmare for some passengers, oh very much.
So. Can imagine you're getting ready to go on a cruise for maybe
ten days or maybe even two weeks, and something happens with the operator.
Okay, it's not good, but you can bounce back from that. These
individuals, one hundred eleven cabins were sold for people to go on a cruise
for three count them three years, so a lot of them. All these
people you know at the age maybe they're retired. They rented out their houses
or sold their houses in some cases, got rid of some possessions. Some
people got rid of small businesses. And they got a flight to Istanbul,
where this adventure was supposed to begin, and then they started getting the run
around. The firm called Life at Sea Cruises said, well, we got
some delays, just hang loose for a while. A few weeks later they
said, have you guys hook up with the boat in Amsterdam? Now what
happened behind the scenes. The boat they wanted to purchase for this three year
adventure. They didn't secure the funds and was out bid. They went for
a second vessel, they got out bid on that one. They looked at
a third vessel, too small for the amount of passengers. So finally they
threw in the towel said you're not going anywhere. We'll fly you home and
we'll get your money back to you in three months December, January and February.
But you know, if you were living in la and said, okay,
I guess I'm flying home, gosh, I just just rented out my
flat for twelve months, exactly what a tangled, tangled mess. And of
course these things usually end up in court for lengthy periods of time. But
boy, what a mess for the individuals that thought this was going to be
the most amazing way of dealing. I guess with the twilight, you know,
part of their lives. Oh my god. Yeah, And I didn't
even think about that part that you just mentioned, and that's that they probably
either sold their homes or rented them out or shut down their businesses because yeah,
three your crews, you don't need your house for a while. So
how much did the cruise cost? Do we know? We don't seen.
It's tens of thousands, but they say on an average, and I don't
know how they calculate it, you know, high and low, but they
said average couple, you know, paying whatever after you're retired per month,
that would be equivalent in your town to not maybe not l but in your
average American town to say, to say, the cost of a month on
this vessel. So you know you're paying out the same amount, but you
get one heck of an adventure. Yeah, so let's just guesstimate five to
six thousand dollars, Yeah, something like that. Yeah, okay, so
that time's twelve, that's sixty, so two hundred basically about two hundred and
forty thousand dollars. Nope, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars for three lots
of bucks. Any inventive if you get if you get a nice balcony cabin
or you got an internal whatever. But yeah, everything is round figures.
But yeah, it's a lot of money. And as I said at the
top, if you if this were you know, it would be bad if
it was a one week cruise, yeah, you know, but you can
bounce back from No, you're going back to maybe live with your kids or
or a cousin's gonna put you up until you get your life together whatever.
A real mess. Well, and then to add insult to injury, they're
not even giving them a refund right away. They're like, oh, we're
going to spread it out. We'll get you, we'll get you that in
the next few months exactly. So I mean, if if you if you
didn't see the red flags initially on that score as well more red flag so
you know, fingers crossed. They all get their money back. But you
know, I don't know if I'd bet on that or not. Okay.
So, and this isn't it's life at sea cruises. It's not one of
the big ones. It's not like Princess or Caribbean or anything like that.
They're not a filliate no, okay. But again it's a small little world.
These people generally have worked for other cruise lines. They know what's going
on. But the management here really was was caught out. And if you're
gonna, if you're gonna set up a boat. In fact, they were
initially going after a German subsidiary of Carnival Corporation Cruises. They were going after
a vessel that was being put up for sale. If you're gonna do that,
you do that many many months in advance. Why because they said,
in this case they have to get it into drydock. They have to,
you know, go through everything with a fine tooth comb because just this this
vessel is going to be at sea for three years. So you go through
everything, you know, the engine, the plant, everything from top to
bottom, generators, you name it. But you don't do it by saying,
well, let's buy a boat in September and we'll sail it in October.
It doesn't work like that. Yeah. Oh man, I feel really
bad for these people, I know. Yeah, all right, all right,
thank you so much, Tom Rivers, appreciate the information. Take care
boy, that sucks. That's an early non Christmas present, right Hey,
Speaking of Christmas, the Hollywood Christmas Parade it's happening this weekend and it's going
to step off from Orange Drive in Hollywood, Boulevard, following a U shaped
route east to Vine Street, South on Vine to Sunset, West on Sunset
back to Orange. It's going to be co hosted by Eric Estrada and Dean
Kine, so Superman and Chips. I love that, plus other media personalities
and performances, and I love this. The Grand Marshall is retired Colonel Paris
D. Davis, who was awarded the Medal of Honor in March, nearly
sixty years after he was nominated for his heroism during the Vietnam War. It's
going to be the Grand Marshall, retired Colonel Paris D. Davis. And
if you're not going to the parade, which is going to obviously cause a
mess for traffic around Hollywood on Sunday, you can watch it on the CW
Network. It'll air December fifteenth. This is KFI and kost HD two Los
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