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You're listening to k f I,
a m six forty wake up call with

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me Amy King, on demand on
the iHeartRadio app kf I n k OST

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HD two, Los Angeles, Orange
County. Everyone listen, it's time for

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your morning wake up call. Here's
Amy King. Good morning, It's five

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o'clock. This is your wake up
call for Monday, January first, twenty

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four. I'm Amy King. If
you're up this early, hopefully on one

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of the first first to say to
you, Happy New Year. I would

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also a venture to say that if
you are up at this time, you

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probably did not ring in the New
Year at midnight and you were, like

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me, sleeping, But we had
the lots of explosions. I'll say that

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that's how I rung in the New
Year. I was sound asleep, and

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then there was lots and lots of
celebratory explosions. We'll call them up.

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Who knows what they were because I
didn't go look, but yeah, LA

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gets a little loud on New Year. See if hopefully everybody had a nice,

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safe time. You know what.
A lot of times when you start

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a new year, you go,
you know what, good riddance to the

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last year. And after the pandemic
and other things. There have been a

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couple of years like that for me, but this last year, twenty twenty

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three was pretty good. So let's
hope to build on that and look forward

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to a great twenty twenty four.
Here's what ahead on wake up call.

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Up to a million people are expected
to crowd the streets of Pasadena for the

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one hundred and thirty fifth Tournament of
Roses Parade. The parade along Colorado Boulevard

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gets center way this morning in about
three hours at eight o'clock, and in

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just a few minutes, we're going
to be getting a sneak peak at the

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big parade when we talk with the
president of the Tournament of Roses Agajanian,

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Alex I'm sorry, I know I
screw up your name all the time.

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A tsunami warning has been issued following
a series of earthquakes in Japan. The

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strongest quake hit just after four pm
local time. It was a magnitude seven

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point five. Roads are damaged,
power has been knocked out. There are

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reports of injuries. The western part
of the country along the coast is where

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where it hit hardest. Officials are
warning waves could reach as high as sixteen

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and a half feet and have told
people on the coast to head to higher

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ground. The Rams have clinched a
wild card berth with their one point win

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over the Giants and a Steeler's win
over the Seahawks. The Rams are nine

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to seven and have won six of
their last seven games. They close out

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the season next weekend against the Niners, who are first in their division.

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At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. Masks are back at

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La County healthcare facilities. We'll tell
you about that, but let's get started

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with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

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Japan has issued tsunami alerts and are
telling people to evacuate seaside areas because of

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a series of strong earthquakes on the
western coastline. ABC's Claire Bauer says one

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of the quakes was a seven points
five. Initial tsunami waves have already struck

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and authorities are urgently directing the population
to evacuate to higher ground, with warnings

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of possible tsunami waves as high as
sixteen feet. Bower says the earthquake's impact

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was felt in Tokyo and swayed power
lines and light fixtures. Israeli airstrikes in

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central Gaza have killed at least thirty
five people. The strikes yesterday after Israel's

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Prime minister resisted more international calls for
a ceasefire, the IDF saying it expects

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the war with Hamas to likely last
throughout the entirety of twenty twenty four,

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adding that some reservists or returning home
this week, taking a brief break to

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give them the needed strength for a
prolonged fight. ABC's Rheanon Ally says over

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the weekend, the Prime Minister vowed
to take back control of Goz's border with

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Egypt. He said any other arrangement
would not ensure the demilitarization that Israel is

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after the world's population has increased by
seventy five million people in the last year.

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The US Census Bureau says there are
more than eight billion people on Earth

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now. The worldwide growth rate in
the past year was just under one percent.

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Census Buro says at the start of
twenty twenty four, four point three

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births and two deaths are expected worldwide
every second. So we're going to be

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keeping you up to date on everything
that's going on this morning, and of

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course a lot of what's going on
today is the Rose Parade, and we've

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got some really fun sneak peak interviews
for you coming up in just a few

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minutes. But we also want to
let you know that there's still time for

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you to go see this really cool
exhibit in Rancho Palace, Verdes. It's

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here for a couple of more weeks, so you do have time to see

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this one. It is it's called
Trolls. So let's say good morning now

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to Marylynd Mack, who is the
chief operating officer at South Coast Botanna Garden,

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Maryland. Please tell us about trolls. They're so excited to welcome Thomas

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Dambo's trolls here. They have their
West Coast premiere happening here at South Coast

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and that's here. We're the first
in the West Coast. Yes, and

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we are just happy to have the
trolls here because they're here to save the

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humans amy we need it. Yes, And actually that is part of the

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story. So I want you to
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the trolls, and we will tell
you that there are trolls strategically positioned throughout

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the gardens, and you'll go on
an expedition to find them and discover what

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they're doing to save the humans.
Humans not humans, humans, these are

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the young trolls. So basically they've
come with a very serious mission in mind.

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The elder trolls were sitting around the
fire and they were talking about all

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the horrible things humans are doing to
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birds and the animals and just not
respecting nature the way we should. Okay,

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yeah, these six young'ins heard that. Because the elder said, we

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got to get rid of the humans. They got to go and the and

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the young troll said, oh my
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We can teach them to do better. We must save the humans.

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So I like those I know me
too. They formed a troll gang.

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Okay, six of them they took
off and now they're here at South Coast

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and they're going to teach us how
to do better and be better. Okay,

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so let's start down the journey and
tell us about all these bird houses

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and what their significances. I know, we're in a wild place right Usually

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in the spring, this is our
butterfly pavilion, but it was empty and

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one of the trolls Ibby Pip,
the bird house troll. They all have

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super fundation. She got here first, and you know, so she was

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placing her bird houses around because that's
what she likes to do, take care

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of the birds and animals. And
she discovered this eighty seven acres and started

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to pick up some other beautiful plants
and other objects and saw this empty space

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and thought, well, you know, we're gonna have to have a playhouse

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while we're here. So welcome to
Ibby Pip's playhouse. I love this,

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Okay, So I think we should
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at Iby Pippy. Now you can
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Ibby Pip is one of the trolls. And I will tell us about what

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the trolls are made of, because
they're pretty spectactical. That's what's exciting is,

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you know, we are on a
landfill or use or used to be

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a landfill amy and now we're eighty
seven acres of a botanic garden, and

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we still like to talk about what
we used to be, turning trash into

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a treasure, okay. And that's
what a standbo dig with these trolls is.

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He now has taken reclaimed wood palets
and turn them into something magical.

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We have six trolls. They all
have distinct personalities, and this is Ibby

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Pip, our birdhouse troll. That
is pretty spectacular. So you can see

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and we'll just explain it to you. Ibi Pip is hanging birdhouses in the

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trees. One of the cool things
that you're doing along with this exhibit is

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you're not only coming out to see
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actually do it. So you're you're
holding workshops. So tell us about one

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of the workshops. Yeah, one
of the workshops that we have is you

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can make your own birdhouse. So
we were very inspired by these trolls.

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Every troll has different classes and workshops
that you can take advantage of. And

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Ippy thus make your own beautiful birdhouse
and take care of the birds in your

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own backyard. Okay, And so
all of the trolls have kind of their

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own little mission, so you're going
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We can't go through all of it
in this short period of time,

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but tell us about, like,
what are the other missions of the trolls.

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Rosa fung figure is the botanical troll. Her mission is to make sure

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that we respect nature by planting more
beautiful things. Okay, and so we

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can teach you how to do that
in our gardening classes. We have Sofa's

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Lotus, the Listening Troll. It's
all about being quiet and listening to what

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the world tells you. I think
we could all use a little bit of

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that every day. We also have
Ronja Red Eye. You can't underget her.

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She's the smallest, but she's the
fiercest. She's the leader of the

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trolls, okay, and she wants
you to use your voice and tell the

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right thing. Okay. And then
we have Bossi Buler. Bossi is a

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little bit of a wild child.
He loves to paint and create things with

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symbols, and he's just one to
tell you to never lose that child inside

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of all of us. Okay,
those children do the right thing, okay.

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And your favorite troll, my favorite
Camma Can Caammi Can. She's our

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trash troll. Okay. She saw
all these eternity pieces laying around all over

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the earth, just kind otherwise known
as plastic junk, not doing anything right,

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and she said, I can turn
this into something beautiful. So what

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I like, Cama cam for is
not only does she have fabulous jewelry on,

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but she's a trash troll and so
what better symbol for us? I

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love this. So if you haven't
been out to South Coast Botanic Garden,

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it is in and of itself without
anything extra. It is absolutely spectacular and

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what a fun way to spend an
afternoon just strolling through the garden. And

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now you've added the trolls to it, and so you can come and you

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can help save the humans and see
these beautiful exhibits. We've got to come

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see them. They're here through mid
January, okay, and you're open every

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day. We are open every day. Okay, come out and see the

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South Coast Botanic Garden Trolls exhibit.
Save the Humans, say the humans,

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and we need saving. It's really
a really fun, relaxing, chill way

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to spend an afternoon, whether it's
with a friend or with your family because

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it's it's so great for the kids, or maybe a day or something like

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that. But that exhibit again,
is is here through mid January. And

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if you see a nice afternoon and
you want to head out and do some

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kind of chill, it's really worth
a worthless seed love the South Coast Botanic

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Garden. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI

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twenty four hour newsroom. Two people
have been shot and killed. Three others

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were wounded in a shooting at a
commercial building in downtown La. LAPD says

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a shooting happened shortly before one this
morning on Porter Street. Officers apparently saw

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the shooting happen. The two killed
died at the scene. The others were

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taken to hospitals, one in critical
condition. Police are looking for the driver

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who hit a man in the Peco
Union neighborhood of La leaving him seriously injured.

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Laped says the man was walking across
the street last night when a dark

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colored car hit him. My son
didn't deserve to be hit and left on

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the road like he was trash.
He is his very love by his family

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and we just want him to be
okay, and the person who did this

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neeeds to be held accountable. The
man's mother, Jessica Rameira, tells Kate

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La her son is still on a
ventilator. Police say the driver may have

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been in a four door Dodge Charger. Where is your sister, right?

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Yeah? I thank you? Okay? Let's get you out of her first.

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Police a shot and killed a woman
who apparently broke into her sister's home

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in Chatsworth and set the place on
fire. Officers responded to Laramie Avenue last

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night to reports the home had been
set on fire. Lapd says a woman

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locked herself in the bathroom and called
nine one one after her sister broke in.

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She then escaped to a neighbor's backyard
and told police her sister had a

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gun. When police found the sister, she apparently pointed a gun at the

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officer. Lapd says that's when officers
shot and killed her. President Biden has

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appeared on Nick Clark's New Year's Rock
and Eve with Ryan Seacrest to celebrate the

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welcoming of twenty twenty four. Biden
says he hopes everyone has a happy,

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healthy, safe New Year. Beyond
that, I hope that they understand that

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we're in a better posion in any
country in the world to lead the world,

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and we're coming back and it's about
time. Biden says he's truly optimistic

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about prospects for the country. He
says the economy's coming back, and he's

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looking forward to a Great Year.
Thousands of people have camped out along Colorado

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Boulevard, staking out their spots for
the Tournament of Roses Parade, which steps

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off at eight this morning. A
million people are expected in Pasadena today for

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the parade. Pasadena hotel workers are
on strike ahead of the Rose Parade and

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the Rose Bowl game. Workers at
the Hilton Pasadena and Higatt Place Pasadena hotels

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walked off the job yesterday. Workers
are demanding more money and better affordable healthcare.

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Alabama goes for its second consecutive victory
over an undefeated, top ranked team

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when it faces Michigan today in the
college football playoff semifinal at the Rose Bowl.

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The game starts at two. The
Wolverines are one and a half to

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two point favorites at six zero five. A handle on the news. More

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rain, possibly more big waves are
headed towards southern California to start the new

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year. Now, we are just
a couple of hours away from the one

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hundred and thirty fifth Tournament of Roses
Parade, and we wanted to give you

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a little bit of a sneak peek
at what you're going to see today and

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maybe some history about the parades.
So let's go straight to the source.

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We're going to the tournament house in
Pasadena and let's see if we can catch

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up with President Agagenian. Let's see
if someone's home. Hi, Amy,

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Hi, Look at there, it's
Alex Agagenian. Come on in. Just

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happens to be the president of the
Tournament of Roses, and we are so

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excited to talk to you today.
So let's talk about the parade. It's

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if we have to, if we
absolutely have to. How long has the

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parade been going on? Eighteen ninety
so this is the one hundred, okay,

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and when when it started out,
like do we know how many floats

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there were in the parade? There
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all sorts of things that the families
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went to their garden and they took
their flowers and their plants and decorated those

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carriages and all that. And it
started as a way to show the East

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Coasters who were buried in snow,
you come out to California and look what

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we're doing out here. So it's
just a floral parade. They started with

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buggies and carriages. That's amazing.
And then when was it first televised?

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Nineteen forty seven, I believe,
I believe KTLA was the first station to

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televise it. It went on the
radio about nineteen twenty five when we went

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coast to coast and that's when the
parade started getting it's footing as a statewide

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parade that people wanted to hear about. The Tournament of Roses parade is so

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spectacular and unique because it's all about
live things. Correct, So our floats

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have a requirement that they have to
be decorated with something that's alive or should

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have been alive or could have been
alive. Right, Okay, so seeds

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and all those things are on there, but anything that was alive. Our

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horse are also decorated sometimes with flowers
and all that, and our marching bands

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don't really decorate that way, although
this year we have a band in the

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parade from Westchester, Pennsylvania that is
marching down the street with floats around it

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and all that flowers and their banners
all flowers. So it's something we should

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look for this year in the parade. Okay, And how many bands participate

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twenty one and how do they get
picked? Did they submit entries or do

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you just kind of look around and
say that one's good, that one's good.

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How's that done? So the president
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say so on the bands that are
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So you are the last line there
with a lot of help. Okay,

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all right, And we have a
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starts about two years before the parade. They're going to march in accepting applications.

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They screen them and then make a
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family. And at the presentation,
the president decides what band or bands are

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going to be in the paray.
Where are some of the bands from this

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year? So we have three international
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England. We have the remainder bands
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and there's a very special band this
year from Hawaii, there is, and

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can you tell us a little bit
about that and why it's special that they're

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here this year. So the Hawaii
band is a composite band, and one

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of the groups that are in the
band is from Maui. And those Maui

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kids, as you know, from
the fires, suffered a great deal absolutely

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about ten of them when we visited
aren't coming this year. Their homes were

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destroyed, their instruments were destroyed,
and their poor families just can't afford it.

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Yeah. I'm hopeful that they had
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it's just that it didn't happen.
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those kids. I know, Japan
is going to do a concert, the

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Japanese band. It's going to do
a concert to support the Hawaiian band and

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more particularly the kids from Maui.
That's great, and so it's so fun

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because all of the bands have a
story. And then of course there's the

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floats that are so fantastic. So
give us a little sneak peak of some

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of the floats that maybe caught your
eye a little extra special. I know

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they're all special. So we have
two flys in the parade. Okay,

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okay. The first one is the
traditional bomber and it's escort this year of

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two planes in the first one and
then the second one is coding for veterans.

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The float they have, yep,
they're going to in addition to their

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float, they're going to have a
fly over with vintage World War II planes.

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Oh cool, Okay, so we
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memory. And then we have a
whole number of floats because of the theme

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that have musical acts on them.
The Calgirl channel has got musical acts all

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women, a Calgirl group on the
float, and twenty five equestrian units riding

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around it. There is a forty
three foot tall bear. It's riding behind

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me in the parade. Thank god, it's a unit behind me. Cal

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Paula Pomona's got an undersea concert with
Manna Rays and all that. There's just

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a lot of really fun things to
come see. We have four entertainment units

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in the parade. You're going to
be surprised at Honda is the opening show

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and how their float is really cool. It's a futuristic design. It's really

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really cool. You know. The
Mansion group is closing the parade and they've

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got some real good talent in all
these units. We have a five unit

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float from Newport Beats and that's five
separate, five separate units carriage as opposed

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to the one. And I think
one of the things that is so cool

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when you're watching the floats is like
you were saying that everything has to have

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something that was five. It's a
natural, organic and the movement that they

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get, especially like when they show
the animals. I saw that there's one

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and there's going to be a lion
on there somewhere, and I can't wait

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to see the main and the flowers
or the plants that they use to get

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that movement and make it look so
realistic. Well, I'll be lying to

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you if I wasn't telling you it's
spectacular. And then we have our Grand

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Marshal and the theme for this year
is celebrating a world of music, so

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only appropriate that our Grand Marshal is
correct, the Grand Marsters Auto McDonald,

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don't tell anybody. And then just
recently we announced a special performer that we're

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just finding out about. Who's that
and what is she going to do?

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She's going to be singing on the
mansion float the closing act. Oh,

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that's what a great way to end
the parade. Okay. So for people

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watching, when is the parade?
When does it start? Eight o'clock in

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the morning, and it lasts for
about how long? About two hours?

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Okay? We finished within an hour
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then for people who want to come
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you see them on TV or if
you are at the parade, you get

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it to see them going by,
but seeing them up close is really a

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pretty cool thing, and you can
do that after the paray's over. You

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can we exhibit the floats at float
Fast after the parade. This year,

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it's a day and a half long
and you can come in and tour the

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park and see the floats up close. Awesome. Can't wait. I'm so

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excited for this year's parade. Thank
you so much for your time out.

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You're welcome, appreciate being with you. And the paride steps off in two

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and a half hours. Supposed to
be kind of chilly, about fifty one

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degrees at parade time. Do not
envy the people who've been camped out all

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night, but I'm sure that they're
nice and toasty warm. Hopefully they have

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lots of hot cocoa. Let's get
back to some of those stories coming out

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of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man has been shot and killed

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inside a car near a golf golf
course in Santa Clarita, Ella. Kenny

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Sheriff's Department says deputies responded to shots
fired on Vista Fairways Drive yesterday morning,

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deputies found a man with a gunshot
wound inside a car parked in the middle

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of the road. He was taken
to a hospital where he was later pronounced

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dead. Helicopters from the US have
repelled an attack by hooty rebels on a

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Maersk ship in the Red Sea.
Ten militants were apparently killed. ABC's ran

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On Ali says the US retaliated after
Navy helicopters were fired on yesterday. US

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Central Command saying the helicopters, acting
in self defense after being fired upon,

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responded by sinking three small hoothy boats
that were trying to attack a container ship.

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Ali says a fourth boat took off. Marisk says it's pausing all of

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its sailing through the Red Sea for
forty eight hours. The Pope has led

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New Year's Day Mass from the Vatican. Pope Francis delivered a traditional blessing while

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also calling on people to pray for
peace in Ukraine and in the Middle East.

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Last night. He asked Christians to
cultivate their gratitude in the new year

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and follow the example set by Mother
Mary. Up to a million people are

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expected to crowd the streets of Pasadena
for the one hundred and thirty fifth Tournament

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of Roses Parade. The parade along
Colorado Boulevard gets underway this morning at eight.

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Also, we're going to take a
closer look at some of the floats

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you're going to see in the parade, how they're put together and what makes

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them so amazing. That's coming up
in fifteen minutes, so stick around for

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that. A tsunami warning has been
issued following a series of earthquakes in Japan.

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The strongest quake hit just after four
pm local time. It was a

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magnitude seven point five. Roads have
been damaged, powers knocked out in much

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of the quake zone in the western
part of the country. Officials of warned

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waves could reach as high as sixteen
zero point five feet, and I've told

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people on the coast to head to
higher ground. Twenty twenty four could be

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off to a multi million dollar start
for anyone who matches all six winning numbers

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in tonight's Powerball jackpot drawing the lot
of jackpot is worth eight hundred ten million

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dollars. At six oh five,
It's handle on the news. A concealed

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weapons law struck down as unconstitutional by
a judge in California. We'll go into

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effect today. We'll explain why I
can't stand to fly. I'm not there

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night. I'm just to fine the
better pot of me. I'm more than

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a bull. You're waking up to
Grammy nominated platinum selling artist Five for Fighting,

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also known as John on Drassic.
Thank you so much for joining us

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this morning, John, I want
to talk about five for Fighting because five

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for Fighting sounds like you're a big
old band and you're actually a one man

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show. Well, back in the
day the age of litla fair boy bands,

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grunge music, late nineties, my
record company came to me and said,

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you know, John, the male
singer songwriter is dead and you need

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a band a band name and La
King fans will remember Wayne Gretzky's bodyguard Martin

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McSorley, and I'd been to a
King's game that day, okay, and

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I was a little miffed that they
wanted me to change my band name,

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but you know, nobody can pronounce
my name anyways, you did a wonderful

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job, thank you, And so
I started sarcastically, said, well,

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how about five for Fighting? Because
Martin McSorley gotten in two fights that day,

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and I expected them to hate it, and they're like, we love

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it. I'm like, you're crazy. It sounds like we should be opening

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for Metallica. And it was so
surreal. Early in my career, we

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would go out and you know,
you take any gig you can yet,

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right, and they booked me at
these you know, heavy metal gigs and

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I'd be sitting there with my piano
playing Superman for people maching. It was

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very strange. But you know,
for fighting over the years has kind of

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paid off on me because you know, with the sports world and being a

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big Kings fan and being able to
get a hockey ticket where I want to

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go, there's there's some fringe benefits. And you're a You're an LA native,

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grew up in Granada Hills, mom's
a piano teacher. I've lived pretty

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much everywhere in the Valley Van Eys
and you know we're in Thousand Oaks right

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now. So yeah, born and
raised Valley boy. Okay. And so

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the music that you heard at the
very beginning of this was Superman and that's

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the song that really got you going. So tell us about what happened there.

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Yeah, it was. It was
very interesting. You know, I'd

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had a minor hit with a song
called easy Tonight, and the record company,

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Columbia Records said well, you know, it's Sally Records, but we'll

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give you one more song, and
I suggest, thanks guys, yeah,

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thanks, UK so a lot and
and they said, you know, what

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do you want to pick? And
I said, well, I have this

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little song Superman that you know,
when I play it, people seem to

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react and they're like, no,
it's too slow, the piano's not on

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the radio. And I said,
well, you know, if this is

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my like one and done, I'll
go down with this one. And it

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was interesting. Radio initially didn't want
to play it because it was so different,

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it wasn't kind of what was on
the radio. And over time it

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kind of grew and grew, and
I got this weird call one day from

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the label and they said, you
know, your song's number one in the

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Philippines. I'm like, really really, But we had a hint that it

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was catching on, and then you
know, you hit that tipping point and

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the song, you know, really
started to take take on some legs.

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And then of course, after nine
to eleven, it became one of the

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songs that kind of recognized the heroes
of nine to eleven and then like an

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anthem type of song, Yeah,
especially in New York. And then with

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the concert for New York, of
course, it kind of took on a

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whole new dynamic nobody could have very
imagined. But and that's when you played

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the benefit show at Madison Square Garden, Yeah, to honor the first responders,

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and that was there was two months
after nine to eleven. It was

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surreal, you know, twenty some
years later, it's still hard to explain.

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You know, any other night of
my career, being on the stage

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of every living icon would have been, you know, incredible, But of

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course that night was very somber.
But you know, to play that song

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and look out and see, you
know, twenty thousand people who'd been down

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at ground zero kind of digging through
the rubble, be able to release and

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cry and sing and scream. I
remember I was singing Superman and I looked

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out and there was just some big, burly union worker with two beers and

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singing Superman with tears running down his
face. And it really kind of,

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I think, impacted the rest of
my career because I saw, you know,

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very honestly, how music can matter
in ways beyond fame, fortune,

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hits and all that stuff. And
it wasn't just my song. It was

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watching the Who blow the roof off
Madison Square Garden and seeing everybody release and

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how much it mattered to them.
So to this day, it was a

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very surreal and humble moment. Yeah, and when you do a show like

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that, that's so powerful. I
mean I get teared up just talking about

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nine to eleven and it was,
you know, more than twenty years ago.

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Yeah, So like, have you
ever just broke down and lost it

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during a performance? Yes, yes, many times. And you know,

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we actually just did a reunion with
the Gary Sonese Foundation with some of the

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firefighters that were on that stage,
and I played the song again with them

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kind of standing right next to me
like we did at Madison Square Garden,

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and I couldn't keep it together.
You know, I forgot the words of

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my own song that I've sun twenty
thousand times. But yeah, it's you

406
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know, but that's the wonderful thing
about those moments. It transcends and it

407
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.559
allows music to provide a solace that
I don't think other mediums can. Okay,

408
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:38.119
I want to ask you one more
thing, because I read that you

409
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just recently went to Kiev. Yeah, tell me about that. Well,

410
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I wish we had a couple hours. It was insane. It actually started

411
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with Afghanistan. I'd written a song
kind of critical of the Afghan withdrawal,

412
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okay, and became kind of very
appointed within the Afghan VET community, and

413
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I actually started getting emails from people
trapped in Afghanistan. So I didn't know

414
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what to do. So I started
working with some NGOs, one being a

415
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.680
group called Save Our Allies, who
rescued sixteen thousand Afghan allies in nine days.

416
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Wow. And so I'd had this
experience with them, and they moved

417
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some of their operations to Ukraine when
the war started, and I'd written a

418
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song called can One Man Save the
World, kind of recognizing the fortitude of

419
00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.680
Ukrainian people, and we got word
that the ministry was open to us going

420
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:27.559
over there and playing a song with
the Ukrainian orchestra. And it was surreal.

421
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:32.119
It was humbling in every emotion you
could imagine. It's just incredibly angering

422
00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:37.240
when see what was happening. But
we put this orchestra in front of the

423
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:40.839
symbol of Ukrainian independence. It's actually
an airplane. It's called the Maria.

424
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.640
It flew missions during COVID. It's
the largest cargo plane in the world.

425
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:49.000
It's the symbol on their army patch
and putin blew it up in the first

426
00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:52.519
few days of the war when he
tried to take Kiev. So it's in

427
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.359
this bombed out airport. But we
put the kind of orchestra in front of

428
00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:00.720
this plane on hollow ground and put
piano in a pool of jet fuel and

429
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:06.400
recorded this song with these amazing people. Every remember that orchestra either had a

430
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:10.160
family member killed missing around the front
lines. So we really, I think,

431
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:14.680
got a sense of what's going on
there. And it was surreal and

432
00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.039
as you can imagine, you know, very moving. And where can we

433
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:19.599
see that? Yeah, it's called
Can One Man Save the World? With

434
00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.759
Ukrainian Orchestra. It's on YouTube.
Okay, I gotta do is just you

435
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:27.079
know, put that in your YouTube
and you'll you'll see firsthand our experience there.

436
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:32.880
And I look forward to going back
when they win this war and playing

437
00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:37.319
it again for those amazing heroic people
who are kind of fighting this goliath.

438
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:42.680
What I love about the songs of
yours is it. It's a big song,

439
00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:47.480
but it's also intimate, one of
your hits one hundred years and you

440
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.759
have a little a special rendition for
wake up call for us. I sure

441
00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:56.839
do. Okay, let's play that
right now, the fifteen for a moment

442
00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:04.920
between ten and I'm just training,
counting the wad. Let's do where you

443
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:17.720
are fifteen still time for you to
buy, time to lose fifteen. There's

444
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:26.079
never a wish better than they love
that song. So tell me, John,

445
00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:27.640
how many people come up to you
and say, oh my god,

446
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:32.599
your song changed my life because that
one's so impactful, you know about how

447
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.359
your life just kind of flies by, and and how you remember when you

448
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:42.240
were that Well, certainly there's been
a lot of home movies and uh yeah,

449
00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:45.680
it's kind of wild that, you
know, here we are twenty years

450
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:51.720
later and still graduations and weddings and
having babies and funerals. That song really

451
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:55.200
seems to, you know, kind
of encapsulate that, you know, appreciate

452
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:59.839
the moment, right And And it's
interesting for me because I'm always moving through

453
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:01.039
the song. And when I wrote
it, I was in the second verse.

454
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:05.680
Now I'm in the bridge. Soon
I'll be in the vamp, you

455
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.119
know. So I'm always in there
somewhere, and I think that's why people

456
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:12.240
it still kind of resonates, because
you can always find yourself, you know,

457
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:15.640
somewhere one hundred years and again,
it's very you know, I feel

458
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:20.000
very fortunate to have a song that
kind of sticks like that. Lots of

459
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:23.240
songs that stick like that. John
and Rossick local boy, Love Love Love.

460
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:25.440
You know, he was here not
too long ago and did a show

461
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:30.640
up in Santa Clarita and it was
spectacular. It was just so fun.

462
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:35.960
I love live music in small settings
like that. If he comes back,

463
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:40.559
we'll let you know. Truly talented, talented man. Thousands of people have

464
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:45.400
camped out along Colorado Boulevard, staking
out their spots for the Tournament of Roses

465
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:51.279
Parade, which steps off at eight
this morning. A million people are expected

466
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:55.160
in Pasadena for the parade. Pasadena
hotel workers are on strike ahead of the

467
00:32:55.240 --> 00:33:00.559
Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game. Workers at the Hilton Pasadena and High

468
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:05.039
A Place Pasadena hotels walked off the
job yesterday. Workers want more money and

469
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:09.279
better affordable healthcare. Actor Ian Zerring, best known for his role on Beverly

470
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.440
Hills nine oh two one zero has
gotten into a fight with a bunch of

471
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:17.400
people riding mini bikes near Hollywood and
Highland. TMZ says the fight yesterday afternoon

472
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:22.359
was all caught on camera. Both
the bikers and Zerring left the scene before

473
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.240
police arrived. We're just minutes away
from Handle on the news this morning,

474
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:30.960
police in riot gear been called out
to a mall in Torrents. Tell you

475
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.960
why right now, let's say good
morning to Heidi Hoff with AES. She

476
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:38.920
is the one responsible for eleven of
the floats in this year's Rose Parade.

477
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:43.799
So much goes into putting these floats
together, so we wanted to get started

478
00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:49.759
with one of the less flashy but
key areas that help paint the complete picture

479
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:53.400
of a Rose Parade float. So
we're starting in the seed area. Yes,

480
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:58.519
this is the seeds and the dried
material area, because the dry material

481
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:01.599
isn't just seeds, it is,
as you can see here, some straw

482
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:12.800
flower, some white rice, some
parsnip. We want to take a look

483
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:16.599
at this because we have cranberry here
and then we have old cranberry. And

484
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:22.800
the reason that we have so many
different colors and dimensions of material is because

485
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.519
all of that goes on to a
float, and it gives each character the

486
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:31.599
dimension in the detail that's required to
make these things come alive. That's what

487
00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:35.159
it's going to say to make them
come to life. And it's something that

488
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:37.239
you know, I've watched the parade
for so many years. I've gotten to

489
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:40.639
see it a couple of times,
but I'm always astounded at how many different

490
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.079
colors you're able to get. And
if you look around, you see how

491
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.360
many bins are there, there's like
fifty of them. Yes, there's large

492
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:52.599
walnuts over there, small walnut shells
over there. What's that? This is

493
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:58.400
a gold clover seed. We have
brown lettuce? Who knew there was brown

494
00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:01.840
lettuce, dark lettuce, light lettuce. Any kind of lettuce you want,

495
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:07.679
we probably have. And because they're
all different colors, So then we take

496
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.119
all of those seeds and start assembling
on the floats. And that's kind of

497
00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:15.079
the base. So let's show you
a couple more things as we take our

498
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:20.920
tour around the pavilion and see some
of the floats. And one of the

499
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.320
areas that you told me about just
a minute ago was the glue area.

500
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:28.719
And apparently the glue area is a
big deal when it comes to putting together

501
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:30.880
floats, and here it is the
glue station. This is the start of

502
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:36.199
the glue station, and there's really
a process about the type of glue you

503
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:40.039
use and the type of glue stick
you use to apply the glue. So

504
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:43.920
people come here and they fill their
glue. Either you're going to use clear

505
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:49.719
glue or white glue. Different products
require different type of glue. So when

506
00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:54.159
you're assigned decoration, you get educated
on your material and your glue, and

507
00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:59.199
of course you are a glue stick
over here. I think this is always

508
00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:04.199
fun. Here are the rules of
gluing. It's very important, like look

509
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:08.079
at leave a glue line, make
sure that you stack your beans in a

510
00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:12.599
row, and fill in all of
the little spaces. It's really I mean,

511
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:15.360
it's really intricate, because the floats
wouldn't look so spectacular if it wasn't

512
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.360
all planned out so well, a
very choreographed project. Okay, so let's

513
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.360
take a look at a couple of
the floats that you're working on. As

514
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:27.960
has eleven floats that they're working this
year, yep, and we're just going

515
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.079
to focus in on a couple of
them. One of my favorites is the

516
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:35.480
Kindness is free float, which is
the Boys and Girls Club, right,

517
00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:40.519
Boys and Girls Club of West End, Gabriel Valley this year has be kind

518
00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:46.840
is their motto, and that is
a B I G elephant. It is

519
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:53.199
a ginormous elephant being so kind to
a little tiny mouse. But that little

520
00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:59.280
tiny mouse up front is really five
feet tall. That's crazy, and so

521
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:02.320
you can you can see it's a
big blue elephant. And the big blue

522
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:08.320
elephant is an interesting thing this year
because, as we have heard over the

523
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:14.440
years, everything has to be plant
based right correct, It's all natural material

524
00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:19.599
canadium dide colored. We use a
version of blue which is probably a combination

525
00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:23.800
of some blue status or blue iris
that will reflect and have it look as

526
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:28.719
close to a blue as we can
get absolutely. And then the other thing

527
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:32.079
that's really interesting is we're inside a
pavilion right now, and how tall is

528
00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:36.840
that elephant going to be when he's
in his upright and parade ready position.

529
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:38.960
Well, he's actually sitting on his
bottom, So when he's sitting on his

530
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:45.519
bottom fully upright, he will be
twenty nine feet tall. So we've got

531
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:49.360
his head tilted over. And I've
noticed that several of the floats they're not

532
00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:53.800
in their upright position because the ceilings
aren't high enough, and because I just

533
00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:58.119
found this out when they're being moved
over to the parade route, they have

534
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:01.199
to go under overpasses, and the
overpasses are too low, and boy,

535
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:05.039
that would be a real bummer if
you chopped his little head off before he

536
00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:07.440
got to the buried. Thankfully,
the end of the parade route is the

537
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:13.360
only place that there is a bridge
that these floats have to fall into themselves

538
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.800
and go under the bridge. Okay. And then this one over here,

539
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:20.599
I love it's bees. I'm a
big bee fan. Yes, this is

540
00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:24.239
Union Station Homeless Services. Their theme
this year for their company is be the

541
00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:29.760
Solution and they're celebrating that with the
Rose Parade, and they have all these

542
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:34.880
fun bees working around their bee hive
and there's a sign up front that says

543
00:38:35.119 --> 00:38:37.159
home sweet Hive. I love it. And then we're going to take a

544
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:42.000
quick look over here because we have
the Pasadena Humane, which is near and

545
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.480
dear to my heart, not only
because of our friend Kevin mc manus,

546
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:46.519
which is right there, but also
that's where I got my own little baby,

547
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:51.880
Alexander the Great. So here's the
Pasadena Humane and the theme for this

548
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:57.639
year is feed the Love. Yeah, and we're going to have dogs on

549
00:38:57.639 --> 00:38:59.519
the float. Are we going to
have any cats on the float? No

550
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:06.639
cats on probably a good idea.
No live cats. We'll see there's some

551
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:09.880
cats up there though. If you
look up top, this is going to

552
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.519
be so beautiful. And then the
theme of the whole parade this year is

553
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:21.039
celebrating the world of music, so
each float, also incorporating their own messaging,

554
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:23.159
has music as an overall fame as
well. Yeah, and I don't

555
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:25.400
know if you know this, Kevin
can talk about it a little bit more.

556
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:34.440
But Pasadena Humane had a student from
the Music school write specific a song

557
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:39.280
dedicated for this float. Yeah.
La Music College is our neighbor, so

558
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:45.559
yeah, they held a little competition
for their students. This young woman,

559
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:49.800
Ella Buyer, wrote this beautiful song
for us, So if she won a

560
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:53.760
competition, we're excited to have it, you know, broadcast from our float

561
00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:58.719
playing on New Year's Day. Cool
I love get stuck in your head.

562
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:02.119
Okay, all of this work takes
there's so many volunteers. There's like,

563
00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:08.039
is it eight nine hundred volunteers We
have probably about we like about two thousand

564
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:14.000
volunteers a day, You're estimated a
little while to help finish the decorating for

565
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:16.239
this. I am so thrilled Heidie
that we got to take a sneak peek

566
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:20.719
behind this and see them like in
production. And I cannot wait to see

567
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:23.440
the finished product on New Year's Day. Thank you so much. And the

568
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:28.960
finished product is going to hit the
streets in about two hours. It's the

569
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.360
one hundred and thirty fifth Tournament of
Roses Parade. And I haven't seen all

570
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.559
the floats since we saw the kind
of the base being done with the seeds

571
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:42.119
and the dry ingredients, so I
can't wait to see all the flowers and

572
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:45.519
everything. And they have some really, really really fun floats this year.

573
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:49.440
And Jordan Sparks is going to wrap
up the show. I Love That Love

574
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Her. This is KFI and KOST
HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.

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00:40:54.719 --> 00:41:00.360
We lead local live from the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King.

576
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:04.400
This has been your New Year's Day
wake up Call. You've been listening

577
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.719
to Wake Up Call with me,
Amy King. You can always hear wake

578
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:12.199
Up Call five to six am Monday
through Friday on KFI AM six forty and

579
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:15.480
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