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This is your wake up call or Tuesday, August twenty nine, Good morning,
I'm Amy King. Did you see that moon? It's not even full
yet. I was driving in and the moon is it looked like it was
rising. I don't know if it's rising or falling, but so cool.
And we have a rare blue moon coming up at the end of the month.
It's gonna be another hot one. God, I was hot yesterday and
I was driving between the LA area and the Alley and there's this noticeable,
like ten or fifteen degree difference. Got another hot one coming today before it
cools down. And the other thing I noticed when I was driving around yesterday
is a lot of people are out walking their dogs, which is lovely,
but when it's one hundred and ten, the ground is like even hotter,
especially when you're walking across the asphalt, and nobody had booties on. So
I'm not a luxury kind of person, but remember that your dogs don't have
shoes on when you're crossing the street and it's one hundred and ten degrees outside.
Come on people, Okay, I'm a coffee, got your coffee ready
to go? It's Tuesday. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Idalia
has become a Category one hurricane. Is it motors toward Florida. Forecasters say
the storm's going to continue to gain strength and will be a dangerous major hurricane
when it makes landfall Wednesday. Attorney General Rob Bonte has sued the Chino School
District over its new rule requiring staff to tell parents if they're students identify as
transgender. Eminem is telling Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to stop singing his songs
after Ramaswamy wrapped an Eminem's song on stage at the Iowa State Fair. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. California Attorney General Rob Bontas filed a lawsuit against the Chino Valley School
District over its new policy to notify parents of a student's gender identity or sexual
orientation. Bontas is the policy is dangerous for kids. That's not Banta,
This is Bonta. Transgender and gender non conforming students already face disproportionate levels of
abuse and harassment and are at great risk of suicide and serious mental health issues.
The district says its policy also requires law enforcement to be notified if a
student feels threatened by a parent because of their gender identity or sexual orientation.
The community of Tribuco Canyon has prayed and rallied together following a mass shooting that
killed four and hurt six others. We would like to thank everyone for all
your love support of prayers. Cook's Corner general manager Ronda Polomari posted condolences for
everyone involved who were here Wednesday, August twenty third for the most horrific act
by one man who has changed the lives of so many. Saddleback Church Pastor
Stacey Wood named the people lost when hundred showed up over the weekend for a
prayer vigil. Lee Hey and his family and loved ones. Tanya Clark and
her family and loved ones. We have Glenn's and his family and loved ones.
The shooter was killed by deputies in Orange County. Corbin Carson kaf I
news Child's been postponed and Riverside County for an ex police officer accused of killing
a disabled man and hurting the men's parents at a Costco and Corona Remember that
one. It's been pushback to October thirtieth so the record's requests and other defense
matters can be resolved. The X cop is charged with voluntary manslaughter and assault
in the shooting in twenty nineteen. Federal prosecutors say they think former La City
Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas will serve the majority of his three year prison sentence for
corruption. Ridley Thomas has been given a November thirteenth surrender date. He was
convicted earlier this year of a bribery scheme between him and the former dean of
USC's School of Social Work. US attorney Martinez Strada says the scheme was not
a victimless crime. We the people, the constituents, the community that the
defendant was elected to serve, deserve much better. Prosecutors say. From twenty
seventeen to twenty eighteen, Ridley Thomas supported contracts between USC and the county in
exchange for benefits for his son in downtown La Blake trolley. K if I
News, a European airline is trying only adult zones on flights between Amsterdam and
Kiasaw starting in November. The zones will be four passengers sixteen and older only.
There will be walls and curtains separating the only adult zone from the rest
of the plane. It's five zero six on your wake up call. Time
to say good morning to Stephen Portnoy, ABC News National correspondent. So,
Stephen, we got two big dates were set yesterday. What are they?
Well, the one big date was set. It's March fourth. That's the
date for jury selection and the trial here in Washington, DC. That's the
January sixth case brought by Jack Smith, a special council, and it's been
set. And that's the big news here. Okay, So jury selection starts
that date, or the trial is slated to start that day. Well,
that is the same thing, and that's the day that jury selection will begin.
That's essentially the trial start date. Okay. So then just to refresh
everyone's memory, remind us that this date is different than what the prosecution want
and what Trump lawyers wanted. You're right, the prosecution wanted the trial to
start on January second of next year. The defense team the trial to start
April of twenty twenty six, two and a half years from now. The
judge said that she found neither date acceptable, that the defense needed more than
four months to prepare, but she said two years was too much time,
and she settled on March fourth. Now, what's interesting is March fourth happens
to be the day before the Super Tuesday primaries in more than a dozen states,
including California. Why would they set the date for Super Tuesday or the
day before Super Tuesday. Why did the judge choose March fourth. Yeah,
she did not fully explain herself, except to say that she conferred with the
judge who's overseeing another trial, and that's in New York. That's the case
that starts March twenty five, three weeks after the case that will begin here
in Washington, DC, she says. Judge Chutkin here in Washington says she
called Judge Mars Shawn in New York and spoke with him about the fact that
he has another pending matter involving the former president will begin in later March.
That's the only explanation that Judge Chutkin gave except to say that there is a
societal interest in a speedy trial. But she did say that she found four
months unacceptable, two and a half years unacceptable. She decided six months from
now is a good time to start the trial. Okay, that's interesting that
they're so close together, so they're expecting a relatively short trial, or technically
could two trials be going on at the same time. Well, that's an
interesting question. Look, you know, the former president is going to have
to be expected to show up to sit before a jury so that the jury
can see the defendant. But the former president does not necessarily have to attend
every session of the trial. In fact, you know, there's some experts
who believe that he might not have to attend much at all. But maybe
he'll want to. I really don't know, and it depends perhaps on the
judge and the jurisdiction. But one thing that Judge Chutkin did say yesterday is
that regardless of his professional obligations, not the legal obligations, for professional obligations,
his need to run for office and appear in various places and try to
win the delegates of California and other states, they'll have to set all that
aside that as a defendant in her courtroom, he's going to have to make
it work, okay. And can the lawyers say that's election interference because it's
preventing him from campaigning. The lawyers can say whatever they want. The former
president can say whatever he wants. But the idea that it's election interference,
that's not an argument the lawyers are going to make inside a courtroom with any
great success. Okay. And then down in Georgia, the date was set
for the arraignment. Yes, so the arraignment will take place a week from
tomorrow. But you know, at least one of the defendants has already waived
the right to an arraignment and therefore entering a not guilty plea on paper,
these it's a very perfunctory thing, stacked fifteen minutes apart, all nineteen co
defendants, the former presidents supposed to go first, nine thirty in the morning.
Could happen, virtually, could be waived. We'll see what happens.
Okay, Gonna be a busy day on September six. Thanks so much for
your time, Stephen Portnoy. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four Hour newsroom. A woman has been awarded nearly
twenty four million dollars in damages in connection with the shooting death of her son
by LAPD officers in Kanoga Park in twenty seventeen. Navy veteran Jesse Murillo was
holding a metal bar that the officers apparently thought was a machette. Family attorney
Dale Gallipos's body cambridge footage showed the shooting was not justified. Number one,
he was never facing the officers during any of the shots. Number two,
he was running away from the officers when he was shot, and number three,
the fatal shot occurred after he already went to the ground. Daily Kenny
DA's office reviewed the shooting in twenty twenty and decided not to file charges against
the officers, saying at the time the decision to open fire was lea ly
justified. Prosecutors in LA say they want to retry and x ucla campus Gannet
collegist who's already serving eleven years in prison for sexual assault related charges. A
judge set a hearing for October twenty fifth in Burbank. The doctor was found
guilty last year of sexual battery by fraud and sexual penetration of an unconscious person
involving former patients. At one time, the former doctor was reportedly the highest
paid physician in the UC system and treated about six thousand patients. More than
five hundred lawsuits were filed against him and UCLA. Moving out young wealthy people
who once lived in California moving out the other states. The study from smart
Assets says they've gone to states like Florida and Texas. The study found California,
New York, and Illinois lost the most people between the ages of twenty
six to thirty five and with at least two hundred thousand dollars a year salaries.
About forty five hundred people left California, but about five thousand people moved
in. Data came from the IRS and the twenty twenty one tax year.
Disneyland is changing its hotel policies starting January twentieth. Guests staying and the properties
will no longer automatically get early entry into Disneyland and California Adventure, instead guesting
at one of the Disneyland hotels, and those who have valid park admission and
reservations can enter one of the parks thirty minutes before the regular Park opening time.
As you know, we lost a TV legend. Bob Barker died over
the weekend. He's not having a funeral, His longtime publicist says, at
Bob's request, there will not be a funeral or a memorial service. He
wants it to be a more private thing. Bombark is going to be laid
to rest next to his wife, Dorothy Joe Barker. She died in nineteen
eighty one. They'll be their final resting pace. Place is at Forest Lawn
in the Hollywood Hills. Okay, so this is nothing new. Politicians use
walk up music at campaign rallies to fire up the crowd, but the fake
Rama Swammy took it to a whole new level. You might remember he had
he did a video. It went viral when he wrapped Eminem's Lose Yourself at
the Iowa State Fair down the whole crowd. Everybody don't can Well, apparently
Eminem's not very happy about it. He's told him basically stopped singing my songs,
and he's sent a letter. BMI sent a letter to Rama Swammy's campaign
lawyer that says Eminem's works are no longer part of a music licensing agreement and
that Eminem requested that. Now we mentioned that this was not the first time,
but this has happened that politicians used the walk up music all the time.
Well Adele wanted Donald Trump to stop using her songs because he was using
Rolling in the Deep and Skyfall at political rallies. In twenty six, Trump
was using dream On at his political rallies. Aerosmith didn't like that. Let's
see the Trump campaign used Here Comes the Sun. George Harrison's estate did not
like that, so the Beatles said no, thank you. A lot of
these are apparently for Trump. Bruce Springsteen didn't want him using Born in the
USA at his rallies. Elton John was not happy that Trump was using Rocketman
and Tiny Dancer at political rallies. Farrell opposed Trump playing the song Happy at
rallies. Prince Well he didn't want or the estate of Prince didn't want Trump
using Purple Rain, and then Rihanna threatened legal action against Trump for unauthorized use
of her don't stop the music rallies. But he's not the only one.
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Donald Trump used Twisted Sisters. We're not
going to take it. They didn't like that the Foo Fighters My Hero was
used by John McCain. He said, knock it off. Sarah Palin was
using Barracuda as walk up music. Heart wasn't happy about that then. I
think the only one where they said don't use it and it was targeted at
a Democratic candidate was in twenty sixteen when Hillary Clinton used Bikini Kills Rebel Girl
in an ad and the drummer for Bikini Kill had the song removed from the
adge because she was supporting Bernie Sanders. Seems like mostly Republicans. They don't
like the Republicans using the cool music. Here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. The Stan Fernando, San Gabriel, and southwestern Ventura
County valleys, along with San Bernardino overside Orange in San Diego Counties, remain
under an excessive heat warning through at least eight o'clock tonight, but temperature is
expected to get as high as one oho eight. The Department of Transportation has
hit American airlines with over four million dollars in fines. That's the largest fine
ever for keeping passengers waiting on the tarmac. The fine is tied to forty
three flights that affected more than fifty eight hundred passengers. Between twenty eighteen to
twenty twenty one, thousands of people line the streets of downtown El Segundo to
greet the Little League World Series champions. The team won the title on Sunday,
and let the celebrations continue. The team's going to be honored tonight at
Dodger Stadium. Let's say good morning to the host of How To Money on
KFI, Joel lars Guard. Good morning, Joel, morning. Amy.
So Zillo Home Loans is offering a one percent down payment mortgage. Yeah calls
that sounds right, right. I mean, if you're the person buying the
home and someone says you don't have to bring nearly as much money to the
table, You're like, Wooho, that just became so much easier for me
to save up for the house, right, I don't have to save up
in nearly the same nearly the same amount of down payment because now Zillo is
saying, ah, just one percent, that's enough. And right now this
is only being offered in Arizona to our neighbors over there, But this is
something that could become more widespread and it's worrisome to me because the thing is
there's multiple there's multiple problems with this. One. If you don't have to
save up as much, are you actually financially prepared to buy that house?
And then second, especially with rising rates, well, the less you put
down on the home means the more you're financing at a higher rate, which
means a much higher payment. And aren't interest rates up? But like seven
point two percent? Now, oh, did we just lose Joel. Let's
see if we can get him back. I think the other thing that it
affects two is the PIMA, the Homeowner's insurance. If you put less than
twenty percent down, then you have to have that insurance, which increases your
payment even more. So you take the seven point two percent that you're financing.
When you're financing more, you take the twenty percent of the PIMA insurance.
It's a couple hundred dollars a month, and then you take that The
medium price in California is eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars or something crazy,
So even with one percent down, I guess it's only eighty three hundred dollars.
But yeah, he makes a good point. Can you really afford it
if you only can afford to put eighty three hundred dollars down. If we
get him back, we're going to be asking him too about how people are
foregoing homeowners insurance. And I can tell you that one of the things that
it's fine getting harder and harder to find homeowners insurance here in California because a
lot of companies like Farmers and All State and several others have pulled out of
the California market. But I think having home insurance is a necessity because if
something really goes wrong, you're stuck with the bill. And I know that
people who have earthquake insurance you still have that super high deductible and some people
can't get earthquake insurance in certain areas because of the earthquake wrist. But I
would say get that insurance if you can get it, because when you need
it, it's gonna save your butt. Since we year are not getting Joel
back, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom and we'll see if we can catch up with Joel in
a little bit. Health officials in Orange County reported the first human case of
Westnile virus. This year, a woman in Orange tested positive but didn't feel
any symptoms. The Healthcare agency reported eleven cases and people. Last year,
two people died. Officials say the best way to avoid the virus is to
avoid mosquitoes, so they advise emptying any standing water, wearing long sleeves outside,
especially at dawn and dusk, and using bug spray with deet. The
Hawaiian Electric Company says it's downed power lines are responsible for the deadly wildfires on
Maui, but the utility refuses to take all the blame. The company said
while it's lines ignited the fires. Earlier this month, Maui County firefighters failed
to properly extinguish a brushfire, which reignited, causing the destructive fire that tore
through the historic town of Lahaina. Hawaiian Electric CEO said it does not preemptively
shut down power lines, but the company said yesterday it de energized power lines
for six hours before the second fire ignited. The company also set a lawsuit
filed against them by the County of Maui is factually and legally irresponsible. Steve
Gregory kof I News, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina Chapel
Hills has been shot and killed on campus. The accused shooter was arrested about
an hour and a half after the shooting yesterday. Based on witness information at
the scene, UNC police were able to identify suspect and after a search of
the surrounded area, this suspect was taken into custody. UNC Police Chief Brian
James said yesterday investigators were trying to find the gun used and the reason for
the shooting. The false semester just started last week. You saw August is
ending on a blue note with a rare supermoon. A blue moon isn't actually
blue, It just signifies a second full moon within a single month. Nasis's
super moons are brighter and bigger than average moons. Oh maybe that's why the
moon looks so large today when I was driving in stargazers can catch the blue
moon tomorrow night, that's when it's actually full. The last of four consecutive
super moons in twenty twenty three will be the Harvest moon September twenty eight.
The next blue moon after that won't happen until May of twenty twenty six.
Did you hear that Burning Man is going on. I didn't know Burning Man
was even going on this year. I haven't heard anything about it. Here's
what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. E Dahlia has become
a Category one hurricane as it motors toward Florida. Forecasters say the storm's going
to continue to gain strength before making landfall on Wednesday. We're gonna be talking
to Jim Ryan in just one second about that. Hawaiian Electric says it's power
lines caused the wildfire on Maui the morning of August eighth, but says power
lines had been de energized for six hours by the time of second fire started
and destroyed Lahina. Attorney General Rob Banta is suing the Chino School District over
its new rule requiring staff to tell parents if their students identify as transgender.
At six oh five. It's handle on the news Hawaiian. The Hawaiian Power
Company, as I mentioned, says its lines did start one of the fires
on Maui, but it has also blamed firefighters for the fire that destroyed Lahina.
Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Florida is
bracing for Hurricane Dalia. Yes, getting ready for it as best they can,
and for a lot of folks who live close to the shoreline, amy
that means simply packing up and getting out. Interstate four headed over to Orlando
was packed this morning with people who were evacuating from the west. It's from
the Gulf coast of the Florida Peninsula and headed in that direction. Others who
live farther in Lanton twenty miles are just laying in supplies of water and canned
goods, as starting up the generator just in case the power goes out,
because it will and it's likely to be out for a few days. The
airport here at Tampa closed at midnight last night, won't open until Thursday.
So how many people actually do evacuate when when the governor calls for that?
Because I know we had a hurricane, but we didn't evacuate. No,
we have a hurricane either. We were gonna have a hurricane, but it
got downgraded. Well, this one, it looks pretty honest. It became
you know, Ada turned into a hurricane this morning at the five o'clock update,
went from below seventy four miles per hour the top wind speed above seventy
four miles That makes it a Category one hurricane. It's not really the wind
that's going to be a problem this time now, although it's expected to be
up around category two per perhaps even a Category three storm by the time it
makes landfall here around Tampa or north of Tampa. It's the storm surge that
will be the major problem. So the wind, well, it's going to
do some damage to property and trees around here. It's also going to push
the tide in farther and this may strike right at high tide, which would
make the storm surge even more intense. Add into it the full moon,
and you're going to have a perfect storm, as it were, of characteristics.
Okay, so when they talk about the storm surge and they say it's
going to be twelve feet, does that mean that the whole the sea level
rises twelve feet or just the waves come in. I don't understand what that
means. Yeah, that's gentleman. It means is that the the shoreline right
there at the shore line, it will be twelve feet above. But but
that's just the waves that are crashing ashore, that are being pushed in by
the wind and by the low pressure of the storm itself and so but obviously
the as you get half mile, quarter mile, a full mile in land,
it won't be that high. But the storm surge right here at Tampa
Bay is expected to be around four to seven feet on top of the high
tide. So the sheriff had sort of an interesting comparison here. He said,
that's that's going to put this storm well above my head, the storm
surge. So he's certainly going to evacuate, so is everybody else in his
community. Where are you going to go? Well, I'll be here in
Tampa and probably up on top of a building somewhere to see what's going on.
I mean, that's kind of been my formula here for the last twenty
years or so. Is it just being on a high location? Okay?
And when people leave, because Florida is pretty good about this because there they
get hurricanes on a kind of regular basis. Where do they go? Do
they go to another state or do they just go into inland areas? Where
do they go? Well, in this case, I think most of them
are heading over toward the East coast. So if the storm is coming up
the Atlantic coast, people who head over here towards Tampa or up into the
Panhandle. For this storm, people will head over to the east coast toward
Orlando or Jacksonville, or even up into Georgia, maybe the Carolinas if they
have family up there. So it's just a matter of moving away from the
predicted landfall area. Okay, And we mostly dodged a bullet with her with
what was Hurricane Hillary then turned to a tropical storm, then became a subtropical
cyclone depression something or other. But is there any chance that they're going to
get a break on this one? Is or is Idealia just powering and getting
stronger. Well, there's always that chance. But considering that the waters of
the Gulf of Mexico are historically warm right now, that serves as jet fuel
for a storm like Idealia. So I think the chances that it's going to
get any less intense are almost zero. The chances that it will get more
intense from where it is right now about wow. And what we had in
our favor was as the storm moved up the Mexican coast, we hit the
cooler waters in the Pacific because our water is a lot cooler, and once
it hits that cold water, it sucks the power out of the storm,
right, Yeah, we don't have that situation now. And you also have
the fact there's no real upper level sheer to this. Normally, the upper
level whether pattern would pull the top off of this storm. That we don't
have that right now, so it could be a problem. Okay, well,
stay safe, all right, stay on high ground. We'll check in
with you two. Thanks Jim. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And excessive heat warning is
in effect until eight tonight in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys, where
temperatures could hit as high as one hundred and nine temps overnight are just in
the seventies and eighties. A less severe heat advisory is in place until eight
tonight in the Santa Clarita Valley, Palace Verdes Hills, coastal areas reaching into
downtown La Santa Monica, Mountains Recreational Area, and the Anelope Valley Freeway Corridor.
Pet experts say even grass can be too hot for pets to walk during
a heat wave. They say grass indirect sunlight will get about ten degrees warmer
when it's one hundred and five degrees. Concrete could be as hot as one
hundred twenty degrees, as asphalt as hot as one hundred forty degrees. With
temperatures of one hundred twenty degrees, pet pause can burn in as little as
five minutes. Something to remember when you're taking the pop out for a walk.
News brought to you by Stemper Solaris. Adelia has become a hurricane.
As we just discussed, the storms headed toward at Florida's Gulf coasts. The
National Hurricane Centers warned of an increasing risk of dangerous hurricane enforced winds in Florida
for the next two days. Landfall is expected early tomorrow. It's likely to
continue strengthening all the way until impact, and it could have catastrophic storm surge.
Governor Ron de Santis has declared a state of emergency in forty six counties.
Evacuation notices have been issued in twenty one counties, and the state has
mobilized eleven hundred National Guard members. Officials in Florida say the man behind the
racist murders of three people in Jacksonville texted his father about where to find his
last will and testament. And a suicide note. The dad called nine to
one one and said his son had felt suicidal before when he was fifteen.
He left the note a suicide note, and got on his bike and was
headed downtown to jump off a building. The dad says by the time he
notified police on Saturday, the twenty one year old had already shot and killed
three black people and himself at a Dollar General store. Anti government protests in
southern syriaev Truck stretched into a second week. The protests started because of surging
inflation and the country's spiraling economy, but quickly shifted focus with marches calling for
the fall of the Assad government. Protesters have kicked members of Assad's Bath Party
out of some of their offices. They've also welld the doors shut and spray
painted anti government slogans on walls, and Russia says President Vladimir Putin is not
planning to attend the funeral of Mercenary chief. You have Guinea Progosian, who
was killed in a plane crash. Russian investigators say that after forensic testing,
it can confirm Progosian was among ten people on board the ill fated flight.
Last week, ABC's Britt Clement says Russia has not said what may have caused
the private jet to suddenly fall out of the sky near Moscow and denied any
responsibility for it. Officials wouldn't say when or where the leader of the Wagner
Group would be buried. Some Russian media have suggested it could happen today in
Progosian's home city of Saint Petersburg. Right now, let's say good morning to
ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers. Good morning, Karen. What's the agenda
on the agenda for President Biden today? The President's going to be talking today
about the administration's efforts to lower healthcare costs for there in families broadly, but
he's specifically going to be talking about the new list that was announced today of
the first ten prescription drugs selected for the Medicare price negotiations, the major step
in their effort to bring down healthcare costs. For the first time ever,
the Medicare health program for older Americans can negotiate with drug companies about the price
of some of its most expensive drugs. And this is happening because of the
Inflation Reduction Act that the Presidents signed into law last year. The negotiations with
the participating drug companies can start this year, and then we'll go into next
year, and any negotiated prices go into effects starting in twenty twenty six.
So some of the drugs that were on the list today include medicines to treat
blood clots, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. The White House says this is
going to make a major difference for millions of seniors bringing down their out of
pocket costs. And when you're talking about bringing down out of pocket costs,
what kind of reductions are you talking about? Is it ten or twenty percent,
or fifty or sixty? Gotta see what the negotiation looks like. They
don't really have a good estimate just yet, but the Administration says that the
ten drugs that are covered that are announced today, Medicare enrollees that we're taking
these ten drugs. Last year twenty twenty two paid a total of three point
four billion dollars in out of pocket costs. Out of pocket costs, so
that's significant. So they say that that number is certainly going to come down
once these prices are negotiated. Does Medicare have to negotiate I mean that's part
of the laws of view now as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. This
is a measure that was included in that legislation that Medicare is allowed to and
now has to negotiate with participating drug companies that are part of the Medicare program.
The companies can choose to withdraw, but that means they're not selling the
drugs into the government. And if they choose to refuse to negotiate, if
they had been part of it, they could also face some heavy taxes.
And are the drug companies kind of kicking and screaming or they're just going along
with it so far? Not kicking and screaming from everybody. There was one
lawsuit filed by murch saying that this was unconsortabitutional. They filed this back in
early June. The administration told me at the time that they felt that they
were on firm legal standing on this. A lot of lawyers we talked to
at the time so that they agreed. Mark said it was unconstitutional, but
the White House that they were going to fight it through the whole legal process
and they felt that they would prevail. So is Mark still fighting or did
they kind of back down. Yes, yeah, no, the process is
still playing out, but we haven't seen a major push. I mean farmat
today the big pharmaceutical lobbying company put out a statement criticizing this new surprise.
They had fought it during the process of the Inflation Reduction Act being drafted into
legislation. But as they say, this is something the President signed into law
last year, last August, so it has been baked into law for over
a year now, didn't Isn't there already something that affects insulin. Yeah,
that is the cap on insulin for seniors at thirty five dollars a month,
and the White House says that that has already made a major impact for millions
of Americans. That you know, this stuff has already gone into effect as
part of the Inflation Reduction Act. That's had a significant impact on people.
So is that sort of a testing the water. We'll see how the insulin
one goes, and then we'll expand it to more. Yeah, that went
into effect on January first, and he was like nearly four million seniors with
diabetes who's now had their cost cap at thirty five dollars per month, and
they're looking to expand that. Then for more people. Okay, and then
real quick, what kind of timeframe are we looking at if they have to
start negotiating now? Are when are we expecting the drug places to actually fall?
Do we have any kind of twenty twenty six, So the negotiations will
be this year and twenty twenty four, and then the negotiated prices would go
into effect in twenty twenty six. Okay, thank you so much, Karen,
Drivers appreciate your time this morning. I have a great day. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. A federal jury has awarded nearly twenty four million dollars in damages to
the mother of a man shot and killed by police in Kanoga Park. The
man was holding a metal bar in twenty seventeen that police said the officers believed
was a machete. The other county DA's off has decided not to file charges
against the officers, saying they were legally justified in firing their weapons. Windows
at several businesses in the San Fernando Valley been smashed. Will he say,
an La Fitness in North Hollywood, a moving supply store in Van Nuys,
and a health store in Sherman Oaks. We're all hit yesterday morning. San
Clementi has asked the state to consider building temporary homeless housing for the region on
state property. In Costa Mesa. The problem of homelessness is a regional issue,
Thank Clementi. Councilman Steve Noblock says, the old Fairview Developmental Center could
house homeless people from multiple cities in South County. San Clementi is already built
out. We don't have one hundred acre facility that's capable of housing twenty seven
hundred individuals. Costa Mesa Mayor John Stephen says his city's already working with the
state for permanent housing on that property. We're looking to put two thousand units
there of mixed income, mixed use, kind of a village, if you
will, he says. Costa Mesa partnered on the regional shelter, and San
Clementi can too. In Orange County, Corbin Carson kf I News Metro says
more than twenty three million people used transit systems in July. It marks the
eighth consecutive month of year over year growth. July marked the first full month
of operation for the new A and E lines. In July, ridership on
those lines rose by twenty six percent on weekdays compared to the combined on the
A n L lines. Last July, ridership on weekends was up nearly forty
two percent. I wonder how much of that had to do with Taylor Swift.
Former President Trump has been told to work his campaign trips around a March
fourth trial date in Washington, DC. Aaron Katurski says prosecutors argued Trump's behavior
on a daily basis requires a speedy trial, saying he has publicly disparaged witnesses,
he has attacked the integrity of the courts, the citizens of the District
of Columbia who make up our jury pool, and this potentially prejudices the jury
pool. Judge Tanya Shutkin says Trump, like any defendant, will have to
make the trial date work, regardless of his schedule. Trump's lawyers argued any
quick trial would amount to a miscarriage of justice. Okay, you all know
about TikTok trends, right, like eating tide pods and stupid stuff that can
kill you. I think one of them was the cinnamon you'd take like a
teaspoon of cinnamon, and I think there was one that had to do with
helping people pass out, like grabbing them from behind and making them pass out.
Here are a couple of TikTok trends that may actually be good for you.
There's a thing called silent walking. It's been trending since early this summer,
so you know it's walking, but the trend is to do it to
clear your mind. Go for a walk alone, free of distractions. It's
kind of like a meditation thing, right, So here are things to do.
Walk in and near by quiet area. Take care of your basic bodily
needs before you leave the house, like you know, get something to drink,
something to eat, and use the restroom because those things can be distractions
if I have to go to the bathroom or you're hungry, you're thirsty.
Make sure it's just you and your thoughts. So silent walking really means no
phone, no music, no walking buddy, and no dog. It doesn't
sound like much fun to me. I like taking an animal with me,
I like going for walks with friends, and I love having music if I'm
going by myself. So but silent walking. And then here's the other one,
bed rotting. It's not as gross as it sounds. So it involves
spending the day in bed, scrolling through social media, binge watching your favorite
shows, or just sleeping or doing other relaxing things. Bed Rotting, i
think, is one of my favorite things to do in the whole world.
I'm a big advocate of bed rotting. I think I did it over the
weekend. I watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three, which came out
and now it's streaming so you don't have to pay for it. And then
I jumped into the rabbit hole and watched all the Guardians of the Galaxy movies,
and now I'm watching the end of the Marvel Series two. I tend
to do that, so bed rotting is perfect for me. This is KFI
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