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Time to get your day started. This is your wake up call for Wednesday,
July twenty fourth. I'm Amy King. I'd have you with us this
morning. We got a lot to get to and weird dreams last night,
weird weird dreams. You grab your teeth falling up. No, but I've
had that dream before. And then remember that what was that movie with Julie
Roberts that the Obama's produced? It was, Oh, shoot, what's it
called? It came out like last year. One of the characters, Julia
Roberts kid, all his teeth fell out. It was right after the computers
went out, right before the nuclear war. Leave the World Behind. Ah,
that one got that. It was an awful movie. All right,
let's not start the day on that note. It's going to be a fabulous
day. We're excited for it. Here's what's a head on wakeup call?
A new wildfire has forced families out of their homes in Ventura County. A
fire burning near Highway thirty three in Los Padres National Force quickly grew to two
hundred and fifty acres yesterday and forced residents of Apache Canyon to evacuate their homes.
It's one of ten fires that started in the state yesterday. The largest
fire burning in California in Santa Barbara County. It's more than thirty eight thousand
acres ninety percent surround it. Former President Trump's going to move his campaign rallies
indoors. The Washington Poe says the Secret Service told Trump's campaign to stop holding
large outdoor rallies and other outdoor events with big crowds following the assassination attempt on
him earlier this month, We're going to be talking more about the Secret Service,
the resignation of the director, and how the Secret Service moves forward with
a former special agent for the Secret Service, Don the Holli. Salt Lake
City's been awarded the twenty thirty four Olympic Games. Salt Lake, which last
hosted the Winter Games in two thousand and two, was the only city in
the running. Following the International Olympic Committee, fast tracking the decision last year
and awarding the Olympics to the US. Okay, lots more coming up on
wake up Call. Rich DeMuro is coming up before the bottom of the hour.
Apple may be getting into the foldable phone market. Amy's on it.
I'm on a really spacey show that could just make your head spin just a
little bit. And then we have a special guest coming into the studio a
little later this hour. She's petite, she's adorable, and she wears a
tuxedo. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the twenty
four hour newsroom. President Biden will address the nation tonight about his decision to
drop out of the race for president. Biden posted on x saying he'll speak
at five pm on what lies ahead and how he plans to finish the job
for the American people. He returned to the White House yesterday for the first
time since he tested positive for COVID last week. Former President Trump is invention
is going to start holding rallies indoors, following a request from the Secret Service.
Officials reportedly told Trump's campaign to stop holding those large outdoor rallies with big
crowds. Following the assassination attempt. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle resigned yesterday after
growing pressures over her mishandling of the rally. In Pennsylvania, LAPD chief Dominic
Choice's street takeovers have become more common and more dangerous, Joi told the Police
Commission. Despite having four task forces, they just don't have the resources to
be everywhere at once. A lot of these vehicles are stolen now and then
they leave them there or they burn them. So we're looking at that angle
too to see if there's a particular area group that's doing that. Choi says,
given the recent murder of a teenage bystander and the looting of a store,
getting a handle on this is more critical than ever, and the chief
says it's becoming more difficult to track down possible locations in advance. Steve Gregory
Kaphie News a hydro thermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park ascent visitors running for safety.
ABC's Alex Stone says it happened at the Biscuit Basin yesterday, sending a
huge cloud of steam and chunks of earth into the air and then debris all
over a boardwalk. Nobody was injured. Geologists are now investigating, saying hydrothermal
explosions are caused when magma rises towards the surface. The basin is closed for
now while geologists look into it. The US Geological Survey says these kinds of
events are relatively common in Yellowstone. A similar explosion was reported in the Norris
Geyser Basin in April. It's five seven on your Wednesday morning wake up call.
Let's say good morning now to ABC News's Law Law Enforcement contributor Don Mahalik.
Don was a special agent with the US Secret Service back from back in
nineteen ninety eight. He was promoted then to senior special Agent in twenty fifteen,
and then was appointed as a Regional Training Coordinator for the Northeast Region.
He's responsible for training Secret Service personnel in the Northeast region. Don, I
think you know what you're speaking about. So you're the perfect person for us
to talk to today. After the big grilling by lawmakers and not answering a
lot of questions about the failures of July thirteenth, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle
has resigned. So tell us what happened, and then what's going to happen
next, well, it's good to be with you. And from what my
understanding is the pressure, the mounting pressure both from elected officials and others,
the calls for her resignation. I think the director uestelfishly decided that she was
becoming a distraction to the Secret Service, because let's not forget what this is
about right now is the men and women of the Secret Service in their mission.
So she was clearly becoming a distraction. The focus needs to be on
the MENI moment of the Secret Service. They've got a tremendous mission. They've
got the DNC coming up, they're picking up Jade Vance's family, they're increasing
VP Harris's detail, They're going to pick up her running mate. There's a
whole campaign still to run. There's a lot going on, and the last
thing you want to be as a leader is taking away from that focus.
And I think she saw that that was becoming a problem, and she unselfishly
said, Okay, I'm going to tap out. So that way it takes
me out of the picture and I'm not the subject of conversation. The Secret
Service becomes a subject of the conversation. So I think as a leader,
she made the right move. Okay, good, and do you think,
well, you're saying that she did it, so it's not distracting a lot
of people are saying that she did it because she wasn't running the agency that
well. From your experience, did you see her as a good leader.
I don't think there was any question about her capability and confidence to be the
director. She's been the director for three and a half the year she was
handpicked by President Biden, and I think President Biden had been around the Secret
Service long enough to know who would be effective and who wouldn't be effective,
and who he was comfortable with. Because let's not forget the Secret Service director
is a presidential appointed position. It's not a Senate confirmed position. So the
president has unilateral authority to appoint who they want to be the Secret Service director.
So you know, up until she resigned, she retained the confidence of
both Secretary of Majorcus and the President. And from my understanding, it was
her decision to resign. It was not a request from the White House or
a request from Homeland Security. So based on what I understand, it was
her call. She saw she was a distraction, she decided to go,
had nothing to do with her she was running the agency, or her confidence
so then done? How how were so many mistakes made on July thirteenth,
or were not that many mistakes made? And we just don't realize how things
are normally run. So some of this has to go to understanding how the
Secret Service does protection. When the Secret Service gets out to sites, they
work with their local and state counterparts to set up a security plan. They
generally set up three rings of protection entering, middle ring and an adding enterring.
Think of the stage area, middle ring, think of the checkpoints,
adderings, think of parking lots, buildings, et cetera. Which is where
this building apparently was. They staff those parts of the security plan with different
personnel, typically secre Service personnel and the interring Secret Service and maybe some local
personnel. And the middle ring and the adding Typically they staff with local law
enforcement support because the Secret Service that's finite resources, and during a campaign they
could be in eight states and twelve sites and have to staff and secure all
of those sites, rely heavily on local law enforcement from reporting. The mistakes
started when this individuals identified and by local law enforcement, and they instead of
interacting with him and mitigating the threat, which is what the Secret Service does.
They mitigate threats, they eliminate threats. One of the mitigation measures is
if you see something suspicious, go to it, identify it, and figure
out what's going on. It did in my entire career. So in this
case, instead of going to the problem, interviewing the problem, figuring out
what the problem was when it was in a parking lot, they chose to
surveil the problem for too long, lost sight of the problem, and then
they called the team to go investigate it. And the team they called to
investigate it was the team that was supposed to be monitoring the building that he
ended up on top of. So they got called away to go investigate it,
and it was amongst a communication loop solely within the local law enforcement loop.
From my understanding, service didn't get visibility that there was a problem until
almost it was too late. Oh wow, Okay, So it just sounds
like they maybe need to improve their communication strategy, like, you know,
if this happens, then this happens, like maybe they didn't know because local
law enforcement aren't used to dealing with the kinds of threats that the Secret Service,
and that's part of the problem is whenever you're going out and working with
local law enforcement, and they do a tremendous job, but there is a
mission in mindset. There's a mission and mindset difference between what the Seper Service
protection mission is and what local law enforcement does. And also around the country,
you know, different agencies have different capabilities. You know, LAPD has
tremendously different capabilities than the police department out by Yosemite, so it's a you
know, so it's a totally different capability. You also have to assess when
you go at it, which is why in some of these areas like Butler,
Pennsylvania, the local agencies, because they're small, they have to pull
in resources from surrounding community, state police, etc. So the Secret Service
owns a security plan, no doubt about that. What the Secret Service probably
needs to do moving forward now is ensure that they're leveraging the right assets in
the right places to mitigate the threats for the security plan, and that the
instructions for how to do that are clearly understood by everybody, and that the
communication loops between the local law enforcement and all the stakeholders working that event site.
It's clear and everybody's speaking the same language. So that way, if
somebody says there's a problem, everybody understands what that problem was, which is,
from what I understand, part of the issue here was that the local
folks said we have a problem, or we have a suspicious person, but
there was no clarification on exactly what that was. And I think Cheadle said
when she was being questioned by Congress that she said it was a suspicious person,
it wasn't designated as a threat. So it sounds like it's like a
Samana take problem that it's getting the terminology the same. I wish the director
handled that question better because there is a distinction between a threat and a suspicious
person. Well, if you go to these political events, there's all kinds
of suspicious people. People show up dressed in alantash outfits, people show up
carrying all kinds of unique things. So the mitigation method for that is for
a secret service agent or the local law enforcement to approach that individual of those
individuals and identify them and determine what are you doing, what's your intent,
you know, and do all that so that way we know we can determine
are you a threat or are you just you know, here to enjoy the
event and you're a little you know, you're a little lackey. So as
it happened, you get all kinds of people. Yeah. Yeah, so
you know, so like that is the piece that didn't happen here. And
a threat is a demonstrative, you know, somebody who is taking demonstrative steps
or doing something where they're where they're putting the life of the protect thee,
the life and safety of the protectee or the participants people at the rally in
jeopardy. So there's a difference. Somebody showing up, you know, dressed
out landishly carrying something silly. They're not a threat to the protector. They're
suspicious, but they're not a threat to the protector or the participants. Somebody
carrying a range find or in a backpack and then you open the backpack and
you see who's got a rifle. That's a threat. So there's a difference.
Yeah. Well it sounds like don everybody learned a pretty hard lesson,
but hopefully it's going to help keep everybody safe as we move forward, as
more adjustments are made. Yeah, and I just want to you know,
listen, the Secret Service has had a historical success rate concerning what it does.
The last time a former president had an assassination attempt was Teddy Roosevelt,
so you know, and the last time the sitting president had an assassination attempt
was Reagan. And there's a whole bunch of assassination attempts that have taken place
amongst the decades, and nobody knows about that has not been reported that the
Secret Service, with its partners had mitigated, including the assassination plot against President
Biden ount in Denver where the FBI went and raided the house two or three
days before President Biden arrived in Colorado. So there's a lot of work that
goes into us. There's a lot of successes that go into this, and
the Secret Service is one of a few agencies in the federal government where when
they make a mistake, they admit it and they try to work their tail
off to close that gap. We saw that after the French Jumper incidents.
We saw that after the Reagan assassination. So you know, I'm positively and
confident that moving forward they will take the steps necessary to mitigate this risk,
to close these gaps and make sure that the American people and all their protectees
feel safe moving forward as the campaign progresses. I think that's the perfect way
to end our conversation. Don Mahallick, ABC News Law Enforcement contributor, thank
you so much for your time and your information. I feel better now.
Thanks for having me in LA. All right, Take care. President Biden
says he'll address the nation tonight from the Oval Office. It's expected to happen
at five o'clock hour time. It'll be his first on camera appearance aside from
moving between his vehicle and the plane, since he dropped out of the twenty
twenty four presidential race on Sunday. Earlier this week, Biden told his campaign
workers that dropping out was the right thing to do. Protesters have staged a
sit in at the Capitol ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanna, Who's address
to Congress this afternoon. Several arrests were made yesterday. Hundreds of protesters wore
red shirts that said not in our Name, enchanted, Let Gaza Live,
before being taken away by Capitol police. Tennis player Coco Goff has been named
the female flag bearer for Team USA at the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris.
Lebron James was named the male flag bearer earlier this week. And get this,
Snoop Dogg has been chosen to be one of the last Olympic torch bearers
leading up to opening ceremonies. Can't wait to see that. At six ZHO
five, It's handle on the news. The fighting could cease soon. There's
talk that there's new hope for a ceasefire between Israel and Humas. Let's say
good morning now to the host of Rich on Tech on KFI KTLA's tech reporter
Rich Demuros. So, Rich, looks like Apple might be getting into the
foldable phone game. Search sounds that way. Good morning to you. This
is from a exclusive report from the Information. They say that Apple is working
on a foldable iPhone with a potential release date as early as twenty twenty six,
so we still have some time. The device is going to look like
a clamshell, so it's kind of similar to what Samsung is doing with their
z flip smartphone. By the way, they've been making that for oh about
four years now, five years, so Apple a little behind here. But
the main thing they want to get rid of is that crease in the center
of the screen. Apple likes to do things a little bit better, and
so that's what they're trying to get rid of before they come out with this
apparently. And the Samsung still has the crease in the middle of the screen.
It's not very visible. I mean, it's one of those things that
people make a big deal out of, but when you're using the phone day
to day, you don't really notice it. It's not that big of a
deal. So, yes, it's still there, but it's I think it's
minimized over the years. And has Apple been working on this for as long
as Samsung has and it's just been not ready for prime time or are they
just really late to the game to get started with it. No, I
think we've heard reports about Apple working on a foldable phone for many years now.
So it's just one of these things where Apple is working on a lot
of stuff. They don't bring stuff to market unless they believe that the quality
is there and the market is there and the timing is there. So I
think we'll see. Nobody really is kind of like, you know, seeking
a foldable phone, Like nobody says, oh I need this because it can
do this. But I think a foldable iPhone would do pretty well because it's
a smaller form factor. People do like that. So I'm looking at my
iPhone right now, So if it folded in half, is it so it
basically would it be that or would it be a larger phone or do we
know yet? No, it'd basically be the size of your phone, except
probably a little narrower, and it would just fold from the top to the
bottom, so you'd be able to I mean, the neat thing about the
foldable form factor is that it does give you some interesting options when it comes
to taking pictures. So most of your pictures are actually taken even if they're
selfies, with the best cameras on the phone, because you can take them
with that phone closed, and that means your cameras on the outside are really
the best cameras, and so it's kind of tough to explain, but yeah,
you'd be able to take all of your pictures with the best cameras instead
of having that selfie camera which is not as good, and then the main
cameras on the back, which are the best. Okay, but we're gonna
have to wait a little while longer because you said twenty twenty six, right,
Yeah, we'll set a date to talk about this in twenty twenty six
and we'll revisit perfect. I love that. Okay, now let's talk about
companies and something called personalized pricing. Yeah, I thought this was pretty interesting.
The FTC is asking eight companies to give some information on what they call
surveillance pricing. So these eight companies basically use personal data, AI and algorithms
to set different prices for different people. And this is a major area of
concern with the Internet because when you log onto something, it may have a
completely different price than I have. Now in reality, do we see this
a ton? I'm not sure because I don't know what you're paying for things.
I think some places like Amazon, people talk about prices changing all the
time. People talk about prices changing with travel depending on what country you're logging
in from. So I do think that this is interesting that they're looking into
it. It's something that I've often wondered about and I would like some more
light on it, especially as someone who is shopping for a hotel room right
now. You know, I've shopped for the past three a's and the prices
have been different pretty much every single day. Well, just the name of
its surveillance pricing sounds bad. Yeah, it's kind of loaded that they call
it that. I mean, I don't think these companies that are selling this
these services, I don't think they call it surveillance pricing, but that's what
the FTC is calling it. Kind of a loaded way. But by the
way, the companies include MasterCard, Revionis, Bloom, Reach, JP,
Morgan Chase, Task Software, pros Accenture, and McKinsey and Company. So
those are some pretty big names in there as well. And I just think
it sounds like it could lead to things like discrimination, Like yes, absolutely,
I mean, it just sounds like it's so wrong on so many levels
on both sides. So if you have maybe a lower income, you might
pay one price, you have a higher income, they might charge you more.
There's a lot of ways that this can go. And as we know,
there are so many points of data out there about us, especially on
our web brows and just in general with these data companies, that this is
probably a pretty good business. I'm looking at Revionix and they've got some pretty
big customers as their customers. So yeah, okay, you can find out
more about this and what we've just talked about, and we're gonna I believe
you're talking air tags on your KTLA segment this morning, and are you going
to talk about that this weekend as well? Absolutely, air tags and both
for iPhone and Android. Perfect. And you can listen to Rich on Tech
right here on KFI Saturday from eleven to two. You can follow Rich at
rich on Tech KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro. You can follow him as I
mentioned at rich on Tech and his website too with your nifty newsletter where you
can sign up for that is rich on Tech dot tv. Thank you,
Rich all right, Thanks Amy. All right, let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. A new
ethics commission could be created for La County. To make such a commission part
of the county Charter is a piece of a larger government reform measure. In
the meantime, the Board of Supervisors has asked for a report next month on
how to create an ethics commission now. Supervisor Catherine Barger says there's no need
to wait till November. This is a step in the right direction in showing
the voters that we can get important things done with a sense of urgency.
And ownership. The commission would ensure compliance on conduct, contracts, lobbying,
and other issues in downtown La. Michael monks KFI News. He is brought
to you by Semper Solaris. Transportation Secretary Pete bootaj Edge says the department is
investigating Delta to see why the airline is still struggling since last week's crowd strike
outage. He says the department has received over three thousand complaints people being on
hold for hours and hours trying to get a new flight, people having to
sleep on airport floors, even accounts of unaccompanied miners being stranded in airport.
Yeah, that doesn't sound fun at all. Boothajedge says over six thousand flights
have been canceled since Friday, Hundreds of flights were canceled yesterday and more than
a half million passengers have been impacted. And dozens of buildings in downtown San
Diego have been covered with massive ads for comic con. Lord of the Rings,
The Walking Dead, Star Trek, and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are
among those being promoted, but officials say some of the building wraps are illegal.
Fines range from one to ten thousand dollars a day, so some say
the value of advertising outweighs the risk. The cost for many of the giant
ads is more than one hundred thousand dollars. The head of the Pennsylvania State
Police says two local officers in the buildings where the assassin opened fire and former
President Trump from the roof, left their post to go search for the shooter.
It's one of a multitude of security failures that have come to light since
the shooting on July thirteenth. What went wrong and pressure from lawmakers prompted the
director of the Secret Service to resign. Yesterday, two thousand migrants from dozens
of countries have set out by foot from a city in southern Mexico in an
effort to get to the US border before the November election. Several say they're
worried that a former President Trump is elected, he'll follow through on a promise
to close the border. Time to slow your role. In Anaheim's speed limits
are being lowered by five miles per hour on one hundred and fifty nine roads
around the city, A handful will be lowered by ten miles per hour,
and a portion of Manchester Avenue near Disneyland is being lowered from forty to twenty
five miles per hour. A city study shows most people driving on those streets
are already going slower than the speed limit. The city's just making it official.
New speed signs could go up as early as next week. We're just
minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, Elon Musk pledged forty
five million dollars a month to former President Trump's campaign. But he's walking that
back right now. Oh and as I mentioned at five point fifty, that
special visitor stopping by, she's Unflappableamy on it, dais on this Day's on
it, Damie's on it? What am I? I'm streaming shows? There's
so much out there? How do you know what to watch? Well?
I take a lot of recommendations from friends. Sometimes I just sit and Peru's
stuff. And a lot of times my friends steer me in the right direction.
So hopefully I can steer you in the right direction and get you to
see some of the really good shows or maybe even avoid some of the not
so great shows. This week, I'm on a show called Outer Range.
It's on Prime Video. There are two seasons. It stars Josh Brolin.
It's described as an American science fiction neo Western TV series. I know sounds
weird, right, Well it is. Josh Brolin is a rancher named Royal
Abbott who makes an other worldly discovery on the western edge of his property.
So basically, a hole opens up on his property. But it's not just
an ordinary hole. It literally it swallows people up and it's spits others out.
And how that all happens is really still a mystery. And I've watched
both seasons. The show is slow, it's very strange. It has this
really ominous feeling about it, like you're always waiting for something to happen.
The characters are odd, they're not that likable, and it seems like everybody
in the show is a mess. There are families who are feuding, we
don't really know why, and after the first full season we still really don't
know why. And then there's this aspect of time travel that obviously, well
not maybe not obviously, but now obviously because I'm going to tell you it
has to do with that hole. And you're left with this feeling of what
in the actual hell just happened enough that you keep watching and go onto the
next episode to see if you get any answers. So the show kind of
reminds me of I don't know, if you want to nbsa's NBC's Librea,
where sinkholes opened up and people then get transported back from modern time to ten
thousand beach c they literally fall into a hole. Well, the stories are
different, but there are some similarities between Outer Range and Librea. Again,
you leave scratching your head a little bit. And Librea was canceled after three
seasons, and I just found out actually that Outer Range has been canceled after
two seasons. So Prime Video is not making a third season, which is
super frustrating because at the end of the season, like I said, you're
left scratching your head, you don't have any answers. You want to know
what happens next, and we're never gonna get those answers. So can I
recommend watching it? If you like weird sci fi kind of stories, then
yeah, it's interesting, but I wouldn't put it at the top of my
priority list. The one cool thing that I learned that I did not know
when I was listening to the show, and it was because I was like
doing housework and stuff as I'm watching it. And I went, you know,
Josh Brolan's voice sounds so familiar. So I looked it up and I
went, oh, my god, that's Thanos. I didn't know that.
I know, ConA is looking at me like you idiot. I didn't know
that Josh Brolin was Thanos. So that's what I learned from watching two seasons
of Outer Range. That's what I'm on this week. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Four
men from La County have been arrested on federal charges of committing armed robberies of
mostly seven eleven stores in South LA during a nearly two month long crime spree.
The indictment, unsealed yesterday, charges the men with conspiracy to interfere with
commerce by robbery and interference with commerce by robbery, known as a Federal Hobbes
Act crime. Good to know those technical technical terms. News brought to you
by Samprasillaris. A day old girl has been found dead at a house in
Woodland Hills. Her death is being investigated as a homicide. There are reports
a bleeding woman who appeared to have recently given birth, turned up in an
emergency room last night. She was escorted to the home and that's when the
baby was found. San Clemente is considering a sales tax bump to pay for
a yearly sand replenishment program to fight coastal erosion. About sixty thousand tons of
sand will start being delivered to North Beach next week, which San Clementy City
Manager Andy Halls has will cost about two million dollars. This is our first
phase. Some of the beaches that we all want to be more like,
whether that's Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, they're in phases twelve or thirteen.
Mayor Victor Carbral says asking voters to raise taxes could help. If we're going
to continue to be a beach community, we're going to have to put Sam
there. Councilman Chris Duncan disagrees. I can't strap them with the responsibility to
pay for a project that the state, frankly should be paying for. The
council will consider a sales tax increase next month. In Orange County, Corbin
Carson ca I News She's amazing. Selene Dionne hasn't performed since twenty nineteen,
but she'll be performing Friday. At the opening ceremony of the twenty twenty four
Summer Olympics in Paris. As you'll recall, Selene left the stage after being
diagnosed with something called stiff Person's syndrome. She was forced to cancel all of
her tour dates because of the disease. So I am, for one thrilled
that we'll get to hear Celene sing again. And Nick Poliochini, thank you
for sending me the picture of Fanos. That's the Josh Brolin side eye Thanos.
Yeah. I love it. Now that I look at it, I'm
like, oh, yeah, that's Josh Brolin. I swear I had no
said. It's like it's this browline and everything all right, okay. A
fifteen year old girl missing from her home in Monterey Park for more than a
week has been found and is safe. Alice and Chow went for a bike
ride to go see her aunt in San Gabriel on July sixteenth, but never
showed up. Billy says she was found and she's safe, but didn't provide
any more details on where she's been. Former President Trump will host Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mara A Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump announced
on Truth So Social the two are going to meet tomorrow. Netanyahoo delivers an
address to a joint meeting of Congress in DC this afternoon. At least thirty
Democrats, including Vice President Harris, will not attend. Are you ready for
some more football? The executive director of the NFL Players Association says a union
has had high level discussions with the league about adding an eighteenth regular season game
to the schedule. The twenty twenty four NFL season starts September fifth, with
the Super Bowl champion Chiefs hosting Baltimore. We're just minutes away from Handle.
On the news this morning, former President Trump is fighting to keep Kamala Harris's
hands off Biden's ninety one million dollars in campaign cash. We have some special
guests in the studio this morning. And it's not every day that I get
to say, oh gosh, there's a penguin in the studio, But this
morning I get to say, oh my god, there's a penguin in the
studio. Penny, the penguin from SeaWorld is here this morning. And also
with Penny is Curator of Rescue Jenny Smith. Jenny thank you for bringing Penny
in along with el Obrian, who we're going to be talking to in just
a minute. What are you guys making the rounds for this week. Well,
we're here to celebrate National zoo Keeper Week and we're also celebrating sixty years
since SeaWorld open. Sixty years sixty years since we started our rescuing rehabilitation program.
We've rescued over forty two thousand animals, and so it's a great time
to celebrate the people that take care of all of the animals at SeaWorld and
all of the amazing conservation, education, inspiration work that we do every single
day. Absolutely how many people are working at SeaWorld doing the rescue operations on
a given day. On a given day, there's about eleven people. But
it just depends on the case. Every single case is different. For example,
if we have a dolphin that we rescue and we are rehabilitating, it'll
take a lot of care, So twenty four hour care, right, And
what other I know that dolphins are one and we hear about the sea lions
a lot. What other animals are you rescuing and rehabilitating? So we rescue
California Sea lions, northern elephant, seals, sea turtles, seabirds, Guadaloupe
fur seals which are threatened species. So there's many different species that we rescue
off the coastline of San Diego. And what about penguins like Penny? Do
you rescue many penguins or that's they're in a different area, they're found a
little more a little further south. So we do not rescue penguins like Penny.
But we have many penguins at SeaWorld that I can have. I'll explain
all about them. L O'Brien is a zoological specialist at SeaWorld, and I'll
tell us about Penny. She's so cute. Yes, she's pretty cute.
She also knows it. So she is a twenty year old Magellanic penguin.
Magellanic penguins are one of the four species of temperate penguins, so they don't
live down in Antarctica when they're really really cold, crazy parts of the world.
They live off the coast of South America, so Argentina and Chile is
pretty common for these guys. We went to Africa and we saw penguins in
Africa. Africa. Pee were in Africa, but they Oh my gosh,
they're so adorable. And Penny is twenty years old. How long do these
penguins usually live? So typically we say wildlife span is about ten to fifteen
years. But when they live here with us and they have no predators and
unlimited food and free healthcare, they can live a lot longer than that.
So she We often get birds into their twenties and late twenties, even to
their early thirties. And our penguins mate for life. Is that true?
So we say they're like monogamish. They tend to have one partner at one
time. Oh okay, So she does have a boyfriend. His name is
Pete. They're very cute together. They've been together for a number of years.
I love it. How many penguins do you have at Saworld? So
we take care of over three hundred penguins at Penguin Encounter. We have eight
different species of penguins that live with us at SeaWorld. Two of them are
temperate species, so our magellanics and our Humboldt species. Okay, and do
they all hang out together or do you have to keep the different species separated.
We have a mixed species exhibit in our Antarctic exhibit. So if you
go inside Penguin encounter, there's six different Antarctic species of penguins that live all
together, and then our two temperate species live outside, just single species.
Okay. And so by going to SeaWorld, are you helping the rescue and
rehabilitation efforts? Yes, every single visit helps their wild counterparts, and then
you get to meet some really amazing creatures just like Penny here. Absolutely.
And if you haven't been to SeaWorld for a while, it's a beautiful summer,
maybe you should just head on down. And when can we go to
SeaWorld? We're open every day, right, Yeah, three hundred and sixty
five days a year, so you can see us whenever you feel like it.
We're gonna be there and you can come meet all of our animals.
Okay, and what are some of the other animals? Again, I haven't
been to SeaWorld for a few years now, and now I'm like going,
Oh my god, I love the penguins. I gotta go back. So
who else can we see? So we have a number of cetaceans, so
our dolphins. We also take care of sea lions and orcas. We have
a bluga whales. So you come, you can see a number of marine
life animals. What a great way to spend the day. And in sort
of an ancillary way, you're helping animals too, just by showing up SeaWorld.
I love that. Jenny and l and Penny, cute little Penny.
Thank you so much for stopping by wakeup call this morning, and happy National
Zoo Keepers Week. Thank you so much. All right, thanks guys.
So adorable. Penny is absolutely adorable. I got a picture. I look
awful in it. Penny looks adorable. I might post it on my Instagram.
I'm not sure. Maybe I'll just cut me out. That would be
easy anyway. Excited to go see SeaWorld again. It's and again another one
of those places. It's right here in our own backyard, and I haven't
been for a few years, so I think I might have to make that
plan. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A ballot measure to expand the LA Board of Supervisors
has been approved. The current five supervisors voted three to two to ask voters
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county executive Supervisor. Lindsay Horvath says, though one more vote by the board
is required, it'll be in the hands of the people whether they want a
county government that adapts to keep up with the times or a government from nineteen
twelve, when there were more cows than people. An additional measure approved yesterday
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and global. This is a societal problem deserving of a national, aggressive and
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million dollars in disputed transactions just last year. A new superhero is being added
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