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This is your wake up call for Thursday, January fourth. I'm Amy King.
Had to think about what the day was. We're already deep into twenty
twenty four. I can't even say Happy New Year anymore, Nah, I
can, I still will. We're only four days in Kono. Don't give
me that look too late. Four days, no more celebrations. That's it,
all right? Fine, Hey, I'm celebrating that it wasn't super windy
on my way into work last night. I don't know about where you are,
but last night I went to bed and it was blowing like crazy,
Like I couldn't go to sleep because the winds were just howling. The cats
are like, hey, what's going on? But and I was just sort
of waiting for the roof to come off, like it was seriously blowing that
hard. And we're expecting more wins today, so batten down the hatches.
We've got wind advisories in several areas. Will be telling you about that.
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The names of one hundred and fifty
people associated with Jeffrey Epstein have been released. They include former presidents Trump and
Clinton. Other people mentioned in the documents released yesterday include Britton's Prince Andrew,
Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield, and Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer. Some
beaches in La County have been closed because of a more than fifteen thousand gallon
sewage spill. Officials say the spill yesterday actually happened miles away at the Rubio
Wash in San Gabriel, but the sewage got into the La River and washed
down to Long Beach west of Belmont Shore. The Federal Reserve appears to be
done with rate hikes. Members of a key FED committee predicted rate cuts in
twenty twenty four. That's according to a new meeting minutes from December that were
just released yesterday at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Several
state capitol buildings were evacuated because of a mass email threat. We'll tell you
about that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La County has started cleaning up beaches that have
been pounded by big waves. Large waves brought on by storms over the last
week have left behind trash, debris, and even caused erosion on some of
the beaches. LA County Beaches and Harbor's Carol Baker says the surge has also
pushed garbage into storm drains, so that will end up on the beach and
it just takes a while because we have to use mechanized equipment. We need
to take it in pieces, says Lifeguard Towers that were heavily hit during the
swaller also being inspected. The department will be working to address the most vulnerable
areas to ensure safety and sanitation. Chris Adler, Keffie News The Laped says
a guy's been detained in connection with the hit and run deaths of three members
of the same family on New Year's Eve. All three were in a smaller
sedan when they were broadsided by Chevy tahoe going close to eighty miles an hour
in a residential zone in south central LA. Detective Ryan Moreno says the scene
was one of the worst he's ever witnessed. I think when you see this
car, and you see just the destruction as the vehicle. I think the
hard thing is looking at these two little car sheets in the back that are
covered in blood. Moreno says the father, mother, and five year old
daughter were killed. The one year old daughters in critical condition. Moreno says
alcohol played a factor in the crash and the driver could be facing murder charges.
Steve Gregor kfin News. Former President Trump has asked the US Supreme Court
to overturn a ruling that bars him from the primary ballot in Colorado. Colorado
Supreme Court ruled last month that under the Fourteenth Amendment, Trump cannot run because
he engaged in insurrection on January sixth. Trump's attorneys yesterday said they disagree.
The attorneys argue it's up to Congress, not the courts or state officials,
to determine whether a candidate is eligible to be president, and they claim that
office isn't covered by Section three of the Fourteenth Amendment ABC. Stephen Portnoy says
courts across the country have been grappling with these questions, but only the Supreme
Court can answer them. A man who appeared in court in Las Vegas for
aggravated battery has attacked a judge during his sentencing. Alex Stone says Judge Mary
kay Holthis was sitting on the bench when Diebor Redden ran up, jumped over
the bench and attacked her. Judge Holthas took cover, appearing to hit her
head, and court security jumped in fighting with Reddin. The Clark County Court
says Judge Holthas had injuries and her condition is being monitored. Stone says A
Marshall was also injured and taken to the hospital yesterday. The guy had just
been sentenced to thirty years in prison. SpaceX has put a cell tower in
space. Elon Musk's company launched six STARLINGK satellites yesterday, designed to provide LTE
mobile phones with network signals. The billionaire partnered with T Mobile, saying the
direct to sell satellites are meant to connect people in areas where it's impossible to
get service, like in my apartment. Let's get back to some of the
Actually, we're not going to get back to some of the stories just yet,
because we're going to get back to Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. And even
though Cono says, I can't say it happy New Year. Jordana, Oh
yeah, you can still say that I'm America. Okay, good. So
I have my Jewish New Year and my American New Year. It's all good.
Lots of celebrations. So Israel has pulled some troops out of the Gaza
Strip, but the chief of Israel's intelligence services basically doubled down, saying they're
going to continue to hunt down every single Hamas member involved in the October seventh
massacre. That's right, Spy Chief David Barnea, who heads up the Mossad,
essentially putting out a warning saying that any and every Humas leader that was
involved directly or indirectly in October seventh, what is called a massacre here.
You know, over twelve hundred Israelis killed, over two hundred kidnapped. He
said, anyone involved in October seventh, that Israel is going to hunt them
down and essentially kill them. That was the implication. He was saying it
in his eulogy for former Mosad chiefs vis Amir, and that Masad chief was
the first one who kind of went on the offensive after the Munich massacre,
when Palestinian militant murdered eleven members of Israel's Olympic team. That chief the mir
decided that he was going to set up a unit that was going to,
even if it took years, go out and assassinate everyone involved in that attack.
And that's essentially what Barney is saying here, and it's the strongest indication
yet that Israel carried out assassination in Beirut two nights ago of atop AMS leader
because Sala Aururi is suspected of helping plan and plot the October seventh attack,
and he was killed on Lovanie soil. Barnea making this threat saying you know,
no matter where you are, will find you, even if it takes
us a long time, Okay. And is there indications Jordana of how many
people they may be talking about. They say they're going after every single one,
But do we have any idea how many strong Hamas is well. I
think he was primarily making the threat against its top leaders. I mean,
many of the actual fighters who carried out the attack were either killed on the
day of the attack once the army got down there, or they've been killed
on the battlefield. But leaders like Ya Kassinoir, who's the head of Hamas's
military wing, he's allegedly hiding somewhere underground under Hanyunis or for example, Mohammed
Death their deputies, both of them would be on the list as well.
And if Mohanea is the head of Hamas, he's likely on the list too.
So, you know, David Barney is talking about the really the highest
ranks of those who plotted, as he called it, you know, plotted,
were the envoys to the attack, other people involved in the attack.
And there were about three thousand Hamas fighters that came over the Gaza border blowing
up, you know, almost twenty different entry points into southern Gaza into southern
Israel. Those a lot of those fighters, you know, they're either still
fighting or being killed or were already killed. Now, we haven't talked to
you, Jordana since before before the Christmas holiday, but we did get word
earlier this week that Israel was planning to pull a lot of troops out of
the Gaza strip. But that's not a signal that they're ending their operations there.
Correct, Correct, I'm the Prime Minister of the Defense Minister, the
head of the Israeli Army. Everybody has been very clear the war's not ending,
but it does seem that there is a shift in strategy. Israel seems
to be thinning out its troops in northern Gaza, moving out reserve soldiers,
thousands of them, and instead focusing most of its firepower on Conunis, a
city in the south that's the last hamastronghold, and some areas in central Gaza.
And as the Defense Minister said, there'll be smaller operations in the north
where Israel has what it claims is operational control over most of northern Gaza,
and in the south. It will still be a high intense war. But
this is in line with the talks the US and Israel has been having about
switching to a kind of lower intensity war, one that might be you know,
just as effective going after you know, the strongholds that are left or
based on until now, and there's a lot from Hamas fighters that were taken
in and interrogated, going after a certainarians rather than a full force ground offensive
in every part of the Gaza Stript. It will also be safer for civilians,
God willing, in the Gaza Stript. Some can return home to their
homes in northern Gaza because so many about one point eight million, are packed
into the south, and it will help get more aid in and distribute that
aid quicker when there's less you know, airstrikes and fire power from all sides.
Okay, And speaking of the civilians who said that they there may be
an ability to go home, do they even have homes to go through,
go back to? I mean from the pictures we've seen, I mean gaz
is just decimated. Yeah, I mean there are you know, there's there.
I think the as them that to the seventy percent of the homes and
the Garsa strip have been damaged or destroyed, that's a lot. So certainly
there will be some families that have you know, nothing to go back to.
But certainly, you know, people would rather be back in their familiar
surroundings, in their neighborhoods and their neighbors, et cetera, and trying to
figure out what Plan B is than them living in a tent and you know,
in southern Gaza somewhere with you know, packed in with a lot of
people. So it's it's a it's a small improvement. But obviously, you
know, rebuilding the Gaza Strip and what the Gods Strip will look like when
this war's over, that's a whole nother interview, Okay, and I'm sure
that we will be having that discussion in the very near future. Jordana Miller,
thank you so much for your time. Thanks Texans. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Previously sealed court documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are
starting to be really as daring, Katursky says. The documents released last night
revealed the names of powerful people who associated with Epstein. These documents have been
unsealed on a rolling basis over the last number of years, and finally the
judge just decided that there really was no longer a compelling reason to keep them
fully sealed any longer. Epstein was accused of abusing young girls and women for
years. He killed himself in jail in twenty nineteen while awaiting sex trafficking charges.
A thirteen year old girl who turned up missing during a family vacation in
la has been found safe. LAPD says Valentina Magana was located and being reunited
with her family. She was last seen Tuesday afternoon after she got into an
argument with her mom over some makeup. The teen and her family are visiting
La from Mexico. The bill to change Proposition forty seven in California has been
interduced at the state Capitol. Democratic Assemblyman Carlos Villa Pudua has a plan that
would adjust the nine hundred and fifty dollars threshold between misdemeanor and felony theft.
We need to do more for our constituents, more for our retailers. We
need to make sure that we're retaining our businesses here. The bill would also
give judges more say and sentencing provide discretion for judges to make a discretion on
what their professional judgment on the different circumstances. Prop forty seven, previously known
as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, has been under intense scrutiny in recent
years for perpetuating retail theft by making it harder for law enforcement to prosecute.
Blustery winds expected to continue to blow through southern California. Winter weather advisories have
been replaced with wind advisories through early tomorrow for the Santa Clarita Valley, Malibu
Coast, La County Beaches, Palace Verdes Hills, Santa Monica Mountains, Recreational
Area, Calabasis, Western San Fernando Valley, and the San Gabriel Mountains,
along with Kataline Island and the fourteen Freeway corridor. Very blustery Ventre County officials
are looking for a group of burglary suspects who ran down a deputy. The
deputy was hit by one of two vehicles involved in the burglary at a market
in Casita Springs. Investigators say the driver hit the deputy on purpose. She's
been treated and released from the hospital. A thirteen year old from Oklahoma is
reported to be the first person ever to beat Tetris. The teen, who
goes by the nickname Blue Scootie, posted a video on YouTube YouTube showing him
appearing to defeat Nintendo's famous Falling Block puzzle game by reaching the kill screen.
The record was previously held by an AI bot. Humans prevail again. At
six oh five, it's handle on the news. A big old sewage spill
in San Gabriel has prompted beach closures miles and miles away. So it's not
every day that you get to to talk to a real hero, but with
us, this morning is CNN's new Hero of the Year doctor Kwan Stewart from
San Diego. He is the street vet and provides veterinary services to homeless dogs.
So doctor Stewart, good morning. Can you please tell us what it
is you do and why you do it? So I've been a veterinara now
for he's going on twenty six years. But about halfway through my career,
I found myself actually wanting to quit my own profession. And there's a longer
story behind it, but I was a shelter veterinarian at the time and it
was just on a good time to be a shelter at a municipality no less,
we had a high youth and Asia eight and it was during the recession,
and I felt like exiting, exiting and just finding something else entirely different
is that because it was just so heartbreaking to see I. Like you said,
it was during the recession and people were turning in pets and so the
shelters were probably flooded and overcrowded. You have no choice at that point,
but then to euthanize them, right, It was the eth and Asians that
were getting to me, and they were daily and they were by the dozens,
and it was it just started to kill a part of my soul.
And you know, when you're a little boy dreaming of being a vet one
day, it's not what you envisioned. So yeah, I was, you
know, looking back now, and you don't really fully realize it or appreciate
the time. I think I was going through some depression doing the work,
and how could you not when you're seeing that daily. And yeah, I
just happened to come across this unhoused man and his dog and sort of sort
of a random act of helping him of kindness, I rediscovered why I should
be in this profession that, over the years, caught the attention of multiple
people, but ultimately seeing then Okay, so tell me about the man and
his dog. Well, he was sitting there outside of seven eleven, sort
of off to the side, and you sometimes we'll see them panhandling. I
went in to get coffee and as I came out, I looked to my
left and he was there crossing the corner with his dog. And I,
you know, regretably, i'd seen this guy before, and I had ignored
him before, but on this day, probably because I was in my own
funk in fact, I was in my head just before I went in.
I was writing my letter of resignation. I sort of sort of crafting it
in my head as I was getting my coffee, and so, for whatever
reason, I know I was in this mental space. I took notice of
him and his dog. I stepped over. I could tell his dog had
a serious skin issue. It turned out just to be fleezed. And for
anyone listening who may or may not own a dog, if a dog has
fleas long enough, it can completely destroy the skin. And this dog looked
like a burn victim. The hair was gone, the skin was red,
and Bumpy was infected. The dog was miserable. The man was miserable.
He was living with his dog and the fleas as well. And I just
I leaned over. I introduced myself. I said, I'm a quand Steward,
I'm a veterinarian. If you're here tomorrow, I'll return with something that
should help. I did as promised. It was all of three dollars out
of my pockets. It was just a basic flea treatment. And I saw
the same dog about a week and a half later, and the dog was
just transformed, happy, The hair was coming back, and the man sitting
in the same spot looking up at me, said, with tears in his
eyes, thank you for not ignoring me. And I just had this lightning
bolt of feeling. It was so rewarding, and it was so easy.
It took so little of my time to just pull this dog out of suffering,
a dog that probably otherwise never would have gotten help. Just the man
just didn't have resources, obviously, and I just told myself, I'm going
to do more of this. And that was twelve years ago and I haven't
stopped since. Okay, so now what do you do, because now we
know that you are the street vent, so tell us about what you're out
and about doing. I pack a bag of medical supplies. This is pretty
simple, and in it are vaccines at inflammatories, and I bought Tonyl trimmer,
is just a basic kit. And I hit impoverised areas of the cities,
mainly southern California where I live. I live in San Diego, but
I go to La a lot at skid row, and I just walk through
these encampments and I look for people in pets. Our census tells us that
about twenty percent of our homeless own the pets that's been my observation as well.
It's about one out of five. And so if you just walk through
these areas, you're going to come across people in pets. And when I
do, I introduce myself just like I did a day at seven to eleven
and ask them if I can help their dog in any way. Usually I
say yes, and I just get to work and I can treat about eighty
percent of the dogs I see the cases I see out of that bag about
eighty percent, so I can do a lot out of a pretty small bag.
For the other twenty percent, I need to get them into hospital care
for further care, could be an anesthetic procedure to remove a tumor or extract
a tooth or what have you. But we will and we cover all the
costs. And who you say we cover the cost who pays for this?
Well, my charity. It's it's a Project Street Vet and we officially formed
in twenty twenty and five to one, and yeah, through that, through
donations and and we have This is the part of blows me away. Yeah,
I know we're a pet loving nation and we are. There is something
about pets and our connection to them, and it just plays out over and
over. They're more popular than they've ever been. This younger generation are replacing
kids with pets. It's just it's a part of who we are. And
I just never imagine when I started this charity that people would would be as
generous as they are, and they are so giving, and the whole mission
runs entirely on donations. But people have been so generous, and and we
do. We have good resources. We're well resourced, and so I never
have to turn an animal away. If family to go in for a five
thousand dollars procedure, then we can cover it. If it's something lest we
covered, if it's fall up care reach outs and so forth, then we
have the resources that take care of these animals the way they can be cared
for. Now, doctor Stewart not only takes care of hundreds of homeless pets
by providing those veterinary services for free, he's taken it a step further.
And tomorrow we're going to continue our conversation to find out how about his new
program to feed homeless pets has been launched. He'll also tell us more about
how he got the attention of CNN and became their hero of the year.
Amazing Man, amazing organization. Be sure to join us tomorrow, same time
tomorrow. Also, you can donate money and find out how you can volunteer
to help with projects street Vet at projectstreetvet dot org. Talk about an impressive
person. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Orange County we'll spend one hundred and nine million dollars
to remodel its juvenile detention center to a rehabilitation, treatment and training campus,
modernizing our juvenile justice system. Mostly Supervisor Katrina Foley says the new campus will
have sixty beds for detention, but also dozens of transitional beds with wrap around
services for people who are about to be released to reduce re entry into our
criminal justice system. We want people to do their time and leave better than
they came in, healthier, stronger, better trained, and able to become
good citizens and have good stable wives. Demolition is expected to start early this
year in Orange County. Corbin Carson kf I news Police in Pomona have arrested
two teenagers seen on camera attacking a couple at gunpoint as they tried to sell
an iPad video from the seller's tesla captured the attack last month. He says
he sold fifty items from an online market place and never had any problems until
now. The arrests were announced yesterday. Police say people should always meet in
a well lit, busy location and to share that location with someone they trust.
The Biden administration says it is likely Isis is behind the twin bombings in
Iran that killed at least eighty four people. ABC's aik Ajaji says the bombs
detonated yesterday from backpacks during a ceremony marking the death of Iran's former talk General
Cause Solomoni, who was killed four years ago by the US. US officials
denying involvement. The attack comes just one day after officials say and Israeli drone
targeted and killed a top Hamas official. Jaji says Sulimani was the mastermind behind
militia groups that included Hamas and Hesbalah. Iranian officials blamed Israel and the US,
saying Israel will pay the price. Nets have been installed under the Golden
Gate Bridge. Officials in San Francisco approved the project more than a decade ago,
but work didn't start on the twenty foot wide stainless steel mesh nets.
Until twenty eighteen, the project was repeatedly delayed, but officially was completed yesterday.
Nearly two thousand people have died from jump off the bridge since it opened
in nineteen thirty seven. I want to tell you about something that's very cool.
It's going on at the ocean right now. Orange County beaches are lighting
up thanks to bioluminescent waves. If you've never seen this, it is so
spectacular, and the bioluminess is now gracing the waves of Huntington Beach, Newport
Beach, and Laguna Beach. And so what it is. It's algae that
creates glowing neon blue waves, and so when the waves break, instead of
seeing the white, glows blue. And then there's even a tour operator that's
taking people out in boats at night, so when you go through the waves,
even the wake from the boat lights up. And they've said they've seen
some pretty spectacular things like dolphins diving in and out of the waves and the
waves lighting up. I haven't seen it for years, but if you get
a chance and find yourself at the ocean, bioluminescence and it reminds me of
something from Avatar from Pandora because it's just so otherworldly but very cool. Bioluminescence
at Orange County going on now through until it runs out. The names of
one hundred and fifty people associated with Jeffrey E. Fstein have been released.
They include former presidents Trump and Clinton. Other people mentioned in the documents released
yesterday include Britain's Prince Andrew Michael Jackson, magician David Copperfield, and lawyer Alan
Dershowitz. Downtown LA is the most dangerous neighborhood in Los Angeles. A new
top ten list from the website Property Club says Downtown is followed by West Adams,
the wholesale district in skid Row, Hollywood, and South LA. Property
Club reports Downtown LA's crime rate is five hundred and thirty percent higher than the
national average. Some beaches in La County have been closed because of a more
than fifteen thousand gallon sewage spill. Officials say this bill yesterday actually happened miles
away at the Rubio Wash in San Gabriel, but the sewage went into the
La River and washed is washing down toward Long Beach west of Belmont Shore at
six oh five, it's handled on the news. Former President Trump has asked
the Supreme Court to let him back on the ballot in Colorado. At five
point fifty, we're going to get the latest on that plane collision in Japan
and what may have contributed to the two planes crashing into each other on the
runway one of Japan's busiest airports. Right now, though, let's say good
morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim as Billy Joel says, I'm moving out.
Yeah, a lot of folks are, and it's appropriate. I suppose
that people are moving out of New Jersey and New York hometown to Billy Joel.
Right, but if you look at this, and this is a really
fascinating way to look at this, I think, Amy, what U haul
does? You haul rented something like two and a half million moving trucks and
trailers last year. So if you look at the number of that are rented
one way, right, So you're moving from Las Vegas, for example,
Or you rent a truck in Las Vegas and you turn it in in Scottsdale,
Arizona, and you don't return that. The assumption is that you've moved
to scotts Stale, Arizona from Las Vegas. Right, So they put together
this big data set to looking at the places that people are moving from and
the places they're going too. Sorry to end with that preposition there, but
and we'll give you a pass on this. Sorry anyway. So the top
growth state for twenty twenty three, at least according to u HAUL and this
big data set, Texas comes out on top and has been there for the
last few years. Florida is in second place. North Carolina is in third.
South Carolina is in fourth place. So those states in the south,
the southwest, and southeast still remain popular places for relocations. But it's interested
to see that in sixth place Idaho. Really Idaho, well you know that.
I think that it's become kind of the new destination where people used to
like leave California and go to Oregon. I think they don't want anything to
do with Oregon because it's my home state and frankly, it's a mess.
So they're going to Idaho. Idaho, it's my home state, and people
seem to like it there. I guess. You know. It's not the
winters, I can tell you they get cold up there, but it's a
nice place. The fairly diverse economy, and so Idaho comes out pretty strongly
on this list. Then that's not to say that people may So that's the
breakdown by state, State by state, Texas, Florida, North Carolina,
South Carolina. But if you look at the city breakdown, Texas doesn't come
in until fifth place. Who does Florida, Palm Bay, Melbourne, That
metropolitan area is the top growth city according to U haul one way rentals.
Oh, Califlorida is in second place. And where are people most leaving?
Did we say California? California? Yeah, for the it's the it's showing
in that decrease, fourth year in a row that California had the largest loss
net loss of one way movers. And also down at that in that category
Michigan, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York State. No
big surprise is there for the other ones? Yeah? Yeah, So people
kind of stopped moving during the pandemic because everybody was sort of frozen. But
now are those are those moving levels back up again? Well? Yeah,
they went back up after the pandemic. So in twenty twenty one, you
saw a lot of people renting trucks and moving away. The number went down
just a little last year twenty twenty three, and was twenty twenty two,
and then down a little from that in twenty twenty three. So I think
there was a big spike in twenty twenty one right after the pandemic people who
maybe decided they were going to move before COVID came along, they put it
off until after the pandemic had kind of eased a bit, and then they
rented their trucks and moved away. The other thing to consider is this,
so U haul has a specific kind of audience, right, maybe a younger
audience, people who are just setting out on their own so they can't afford
to hire movers. Yeah, exactly right. They rent the truck, they
drive the truck, they load the truck, and then unload it. On
the other end, United Moving, United Van Lines, which is your higher
end moving company. I suppose you're hiring a crew to load up your house
and the crew to drive it somewhere and then to unload it. It shows
that the Northeast is the most popular place to move into. Oh that surprises
me, Yeah, because well it's wintertime. So does you all of any
predictions for twenty twenty four? Do they just look back. They just throw
out these wrong numbers. They don't really look at anything. They don't try
to analyze that. They just throw out the numbers and say, here,
here's what we have. Do with it what you will. So they're there.
Don't make any predictions about what's going to happen next. And the numbers
do fluctuate somewhat, you know, especially when you get down toward so tax
has been number one for a while. Florida number two. The Carolinas are
a fairly newcomer to the top five or six. It's pretty there, Oh,
it is absolutely Carolinas. I mean, Idaho is nice too. It
was number ten in twenty twenty two, up to number six last year.
Washington State does pretty well. Okay, Well, the good news for us
is that a lot of people are leaving California, so there's a little more
elbow room. That's right, all right, Jim Ryan, thank you so
much. Seamy. All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some parents and relatives of
young people killed by fentanyl in southern California have been allowed to sue the parent
company of Snapchats. A judge in LA ruled the group can sue Snap over
allegations the social media platform facilitated the sale of illegal drugs to minors. The
company said it was immune from certain lawsuits because of a federal code, but
the judge said the group can still pursue other claims. Bill Bodner is the
former head of the DEEA in LA and says this case has the potential of
changing the way social media operates, the way social media companies do business,
how they do age verification, basically, how their artificial intelligence or algorithm work.
The group represents more than sixty young people who died from a fentanyl overdose.
Steve Gregory kf I News. A highly invasive pest is causing disease in
citrus fruits across southern California. The California Department of Food and Agri Culture has
issued a warning about HLB, a pathogen found mostly in a pest from Asia.
It's also been reported in several states over the past twenty years. The
CDFA says the most devastating disease of citrus in the world was first detected in
California in twenty twelve. Officials say there are several quarantine areas in La Riverside,
Orange, Ventura, and San Diego counties where people are being asked to
avoid sharing homegrown fruit. The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new law
that would allow police in the state to arrest migrants who come into the US
illegally. The federal lawsuit claims only one entity, the federal government, can
make and enforce immigration laws. Abc'sandyfield says the DOJ is asking the court to
declare the new Texas immigration law unconstitutional. Lawmakers in Texas gave the state the
power to arrest migrants because they said the FEDS were not doing their job protecting
the southern border. The law is set to go into effect in March.
The former West Side Pavilion Mall is going to be turned into a UCLA research
hub. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block says the mall will be home to a quantum
research center. The UCLA Research Park will also become the home of the UCLA's
Center for Quantum Science and Engineering. The center brings together scholars and industry partners
to advance one of the most important breakthrough technologies. Block says the seven hundred
thousand square foot institute will solidify LA as the epicenter for scientific achievements. California
is allocated two hundred million dollars for the hub. That's part of a five
hundred million dollar investment to establish the Institute for Immunology m Immunotherapy. It's set
to open in about three and a half years. Blustery winds are expected to
continue blowing through southern California. Winter weather advisories have expired and have been replaced
with wind advisories through early tomorrow for the Santa Clarita Valley, Malibu Coast,
Los Angeles County Beaches, Palace Verte Hills, Santa Monica Mountain, Recreational Area,
Calabasas, Western San Fernandez, the San Gabriel Mountains, Catalina Island,
and the fourteen Freeway corridor. And I don't know about it your house,
but last night at my place, I thought the roof was going to come
off. The winds were howling. Venturrey County officials are looking for a group
of burglary suspects who ran down a deputy. The deputy was hit by one
of two vehicles involved in a burglary at a market in Casitas Springs. Investigators
say the driver hit the deputy intentionally. She was injured but has been treated
and released from the hospital. Elvis is going to make his debut on the
London stage thanks to AI. The British company Layered Reality says their new Elvis
Evolution show will use artificial intelligence and groundbreaking technology to make a holog a holograph,
recreating the what they call seismic impact of seeing Elvis live for a whole
new generation of fans. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this
morning, and the core documents have been released tied to Jeffrey Epstein. One
hundred and fifty names if people associated with Epstein have been released, including those
former presidents Trump and Clinton. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's
Tom Rivers. Tom, we have some new clues into what went wrong that
may have led to that crash between the passenger jet and the Coastguard plane at
one of the busiest airports in Japan. Yeah, it's interesting. One aspect
that may have impacted this or not warning lights until pilots whether runway is clear
or not. We're not working the day of the collision, but I guess
was reported that they were not working. Going back to the twenty seventh of
December, how do they go, how are they able to have that airport
up and running if the lights aren't working? Well, then you have to
rely, you know, you have to you have to have your headphones,
you know, so tightened up because you have to listen to every little instruction
from the control tower. So it's kind of a secondary, if you will,
warning thing. But yeah, you would think something that would be,
you know, deemed to be pretty important that yes, they can, you
know, break, but you get maintenance out there and get them fixed within
the day, not as I say, in this case, at least five
days down the road. That's just crazy. And as you mentioned, I'm
sure that that's a redundant or a backup system. But the passenger jet that
landed that hit the Coastguard plane said it had clearance to land. Yeah,
exactly. And as part of two probes, one is police probe looking in
the possible professional negligence. The other side of the coin is a transportation ministry
They've been looking in depth at the transcripts and the communications between the recordings between
the tower and the two planes. Now, according to them, they say
that the JLA three point fifty had been cleared to land okay, kind of
a bog standard, you know, average, kind of if you will landing.
They also say that they instructed the smaller DASH eight Coast Guard plane to
move to a quote unquote stop line right before the runway. Now, it's
interesting to note that NHK Television is reporting that the Coast Guard pilot who survived
says that he was given permission to take off. So those are two very
different takes on what might have happened. But again, they've got the information.
They've got the two boxes from what remains of the Coast Guard plane,
so we expect they're going to get to the bottom of this pretty darn quick.
So you mentioned that they have the black box, and they also have
the cockpit voice recorder right from Yes, certainly from the Coast Guard plane smaller
one. They have at least one box the latest I have one box.
I'm not sure which one it is from JL. You know, we always
hear, oh, they found the black box, but it seems like maybe
the news cycle has just moved on. It doesn't seem like we hear what
actually happened. Like they go Okay, we found it, so they know,
but we never really hear exactly what happens, so it'll be interesting to
see if we get more details. Yeah, it takes time. And again,
you know, in the past, when it involves an airbus, generally,
not always, but generally those boxes are sent off to Toulouse in France
where the manufacturers are, and they go through them meticulously. That may or
may not happen in this case, but certainly representatives from Airbus in France have
flown to Japan to help in the investigation. You know, just hearing about
this, it just makes me think of in the last year or so,
all of the near misses that we've been here it back. Yeah, we
hear, and we hear about them more in the US. But here's one
that came to pass where you know, the warning systems and the backup systems
didn't prevent this, and the two planes literally clide it. I mean we've
heard of planes like clipping wings and that kind of stuff, but not full
on impact like this. Yeah. Oh, you're absolutely right. I mean
he kind of takes your breath away thinking about it. Close calls very crowded
skies becoming crowded again after the after the pandemic. But you're absolutely right,
and you know, sometimes it's just sheer luck that if there is even a
minor bump that you know, the fuel isn't set off, et cetera,
et cetera. And in this case, catastrophic, catastrophic, and some amazing
stories of the passengers getting off very very quickly, indeed, And yeah,
thank your lucky stars. And like I say, very very good work by
the crew on the JL plane. Absolutely, And you mentioned the surviving pilot
from the Coast Guard plane. What kind of condition is he in? That's
a good question. I don't know. But again he's been voted as saying
that he was cleared to take off, so I assume that he's in a
state at least to communicate at this stage. But yeah, I guess more
will be coming forthcoming in the days on that, Okay, And let's hope
they fix those warning lights, yeah, exactly, maybe fix them yesterday.
But yeah, it's one of the anomalies in the story and something that I
guess maybe there'll be recommendations coming out of this saying have backup systems, you
know, in a hangar somewhere, so if something goes down, you turn
it around and fix them, you know, Johnny on the spot within an
hour or so. Yeah, And as tragic as it was, we're so
lucky that it wasn't so much worse. ABC's Tom Rivers. You can follow
Tom at Tom Rivers ABC. Thanks so much for your information. Appreciate it,
Tay care Well, let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Former President Bill Clinton is among
the high profile names listed in newly unsealed court documents pertaining to sex offender Jeffrey
Epstein. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says the documents include arguments by attorneys for an alleged
victim of Epstein who wanted to depose Clinton, who's not accused of any wrongdoing,
as part of her defamation suit. After Epstein's arrest in twenty nineteen,
a Clinton spokesperson denied the former president knew about Epstein's crimes, denied Clinton was
ever on Epstein's island, and said Clinton had not communicated with Epstein in more
than a decade. Dimbert says, deposition from a witness who said she met
Michael Jackson, a Jackson and magician David Copperfield during her time with Epstein,
was also listed in the forty documents released. Epstein killed himself in jail while
awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. One of the country's largest police units,
Unions RATHER, says nearly three hundred and eighty PLIT police officers were shot in
the line of duty last year. The Fraternal Order of Police released statistics Tuesday
showing a fourteen percent increase from twenty twenty two to twenty three. Former Department
of Homeland Security official John Cohen says the increase coincides with calls for violence against
police. The overwhelming majority of this content is being posted on anti government on
white supremacist forums, and this content isn't subtle. Cohen says. It includes
a graphic video of shootings, stabbings, and other attacks on officers. Police
are hunting for the person who's shot and killed in a mom outside of mosque
in Newark. Officials say so far they haven't found any evidence the shooting was
part of an anti Muslim bias. There are many in New Jersey right now
who are feeling a heightened sense of fear or anxiety at the news of this
slain. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin says he's bringing all of the state's
resources together to keep Muslims in the community safe. Platkins said yesterday police have
stepped up out each to houses of worship in the area since the start of
the Israel Hamas War. So it's just after the holidays, and for Disneyland,
that means it's time to shut things down, not a lot, but
some. So they do this every year, and if you're a Disney officionado
and or you're planning on making a trip to Disneyland, just be aware that
some of the rides and attractions are going to be closed down for a little
bit. It's a small world is closing down, but only for a couple
of weeks, starting this weekend. Grizzly River run over at California Adventure,
which is one of my favorite summertime rides, is closing down. Now's a
good time because it's colder and you get soaked on that ride a lot of
times, so it makes sense to do its refurbishment during the winter. The
sailing ship Columbia is closing down just for a little bit, and then the
Mark Twain Riverboat is already down on the Rivers of America, and if you
haven't been on those for a while, when you go and make your next
trip to Disneyland once they reopen, they are really kind of fun. I
mean, that's one of the great things I think about Disneyland is there's the
thrill rides, but then there's also these really cool experiences, and so highly
recommend that one. The astro Orbiter is closed. And also the World of
Color Show over at California Adventure, which is the light show, is closing
down for refurbishment pretty soon, and that's going to reopen, I think at
the end of February, so just be aware. But there's still lots and
lots of other rides and fun things to do. I think I better make
a trip. I haven't been to Disneyland in twenty twenty four. It's time.
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