You're listening to KFI Am six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is your wake up call. Thanks for
joining us this morning. Well, the countdown's on people getting ready to travel,
purchasing stuff. I noticed over the weekend the grocery stores were a little
busier than usual today. Actually not today, but tomorrow and Wednesday are the
busiest air travel days of the year. I'm glad I'm staying home. They're
expecting like two point six million people to travel through TSA checkpoints each day.
But I have to tell you over the weekend I was driving around. I
was actually on my way here yesterday morning because we came in because Dean Sharp
hosted his Home for the Holidays live show here at the iHeart Studios to talk
all things Holidays. Fun time got not to only meet home listeners, but
also some wake up Call listeners. So if you're listening today too, thanks
for getting up with us. But driving around there was leaves on the roadway,
probably because it's been really windy, so it's blowing the dead leaves out
of the tree, and I was like, oh, it feels like fall.
Finally, of course, it's going to be almost eighty to Greece.
But besides that feels like fall. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
The ten is open. The roadway damaged by fire more than a week ago
reopened to traffic last night after being closed down four eight days for repairs.
Babies evacuated from Gaza's Shifa Hospital have arrived in Egypt. Egypt's state run media
says twenty eight babies were taken to a hospital across the border. In Egypt.
Thirty one babies were taken out of the hospital over the weekend. Not
clear where the other three are. Former First Lady Rosalind Carter has died shortly
after she started receiving hospice care at her home in Georgia. Missus. Carter
was integral to Jimmy Carter's presidency. She sat in on cabinet meetings and was
his confidant and closest advisor. She died yesterday, again at home. She
was ninety five. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of course, the big one the section
of the ten Freeway in downtown LA that was shut down because of a massive
fire under the bridge has reopened even before what was estimated. Last week.
Officials had announced the freeway would reopen by at least tomorrow, but lane's opened
up last night. The original estimate for how long the freeway would be closed
was three to five weeks. Investigators say they have an idea who started the
fire, but no idea why. I'm Steve Gregory. That investigation, in
partnership with LA Fire Department, where the state Fire Marshall Caltrans, has been
ongoing. Govern A Newsom said yesterday preliminary results of the arson investigation will be
released by Wednesday, but gave no clues on what that might include. He
said last week the fire was intentionally started, and over the weekend, CalFire
released photos of a man they're calling a person of interest. You can see
the photos and bulletin on our website at KFIM six dot com. Steve Gregory,
KFIE News. A man walking all the one O five freeway in Lynnwood
has been shot by a CHP officer. Someone had reported a tall man with
dark clothing and a backpack was walking across lanes yesterday afternoon, wearing headphones and
talking on his phone. CHP says an officer made contact with the man,
there was a struggle and then the shooting happened. The man was taken to
the hospital. A large tree has fallen onto the street in Mission Hills.
It's one of two toppled over by strong winds overnight. One of the trees
came close to landing on a pickup truck. Wind advisories are up for several
areas, with winds expected to continue to blow today. We could see gus
up to sixty miles per hour. The US and Israel have rejected calls for
a full ceasefire in Gaza. They say talks toward a possible pause in fighting
in exchange for the release of hostages are sensitive. ABC Sjeordana Miller says gaps
in the negotiations mediated by Katar are narrowing, and Israeli sources say Hamas would
release at least fifty Israeli women and children, plus dozens of foreign nationals.
They'd be freed in groups each day over a five days ceasefire. Israel would
also release Palestinian women and miners in its jails. Representatives for the families say
there has been significant progress, but it could still take several days. We're
gonna be talking with Jordana Miller more about this in about fifteen minutes, so
stick around because she's got the latest from Jerusalem on developments overnight, from jigli
jello molds to green bean castrole. My favorite the TSA is dishing on what
Thanksgiving foods you can fly with this holiday. TSA officials say if it's solid
like baked goods, meats, stuffing, or cast roles, it can go
through a security checkpoint. If you can spill it, spray it, spread
it, pump it, or pour it, and it's larger than three point
four ounces, then it should go in a checked bag. I just want
to know who's bringing a turkey on them. I've never heard such a thing,
and I keep hearing about that. I think that's hysterical. Let's say
good morning to Nick Polio Kaney. We've got well, you're not exactly flying
down the freeway on the two fifteen. Boy, that's maybe like a turkey,
which you know is a flightless bird, kind of like a penguin.
So that's the craziest thing. That's wild. I you know, what can
you imagine with all the check bag fees that you'll be paying that. You'd
have to check your bag for your turkey. You're thirty pound turkey. You're
good. O. Wait a, my look, no, you can bring
the turkey on the plane exactly. Anyway, let's say good morning now to
ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim SpaceX's starship isn't exactly ready for prime time?
Well maybe not. Yeah, they've still got them some things to work out,
as we learned over the weekend. The first test, remember back in
April, ended with a big explosion of shortly after the thing lifted off.
It also destroyed, essentially destroyed, the lift of the launch pad there at
Boca Chica, Texas, down on the Texas A Gulf coast, the way
down at the southern tip of the state. Well, yes, so the
launch that happened this weekend, the launch pad survived. This is the biggest
rocket ever launched. Imagine hoisting a forty story skyscraper into space. That's sort
of what This is a four hundred foot rocket, biggest ever built and most
powerful by the way too. That's important. So the thing lifted off a
few minutes in to launch the initial stage rocket. It did its job.
It lifted the thing up to almost the point of orbit. Then it separates
and falls away. And normally these SpaceX rockets, the booster rocket will will
come back down to Earth, it'll be refurbished, it'll be fixed up and
put into service again. This one didn't. It blew up a couple of
seconds, well maybe a minute or so after the separation from the starship,
so it was lost, fell down into the Gulf of Mexico somewhere. The
starship itself continued on into orbit. It was supposed to make about an hour
and a half orbit, almost a full orbit around the Earth, and then
drop down into the Pacific Ocean to be recovered. Well, for whatever reason,
SpaceX lost contact radio contact with that spaceship. By the way, nobody
on board, no cargo, nothing of any value at all. This was
just a test. But once contact was lost, the starship itself initiated its
self destruct, sequenced and blew itself to pieces. It's up in orbit.
But there's nothing we can gain from that at all. But yes, the
crews will try to find what's left of the Booster rocket in the Gulf of
Mexico today, so a lot to learn. Elon Musk still calls this a
success. Okay, it seems like a lot of money to blow that up.
How do we know how much like each rocket costs. I could tell
you it's in the hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean, these things
are expensive. But by the way, I mean this Falcon nine concept,
the concept of the booster rocket that lifts the thing into orbit and then falls
back down and makes it gradual and very ConTroll an amazing landing if you've ever
seen it happen, which they just did another one this morning. Falcon nine
just launched twenty twos Starling's satellites up right, Well, and that's the process.
And so they bring the thing back down, they clean it up,
they refurbish you to fill it up and get it ready for the next launch.
That's the thing that makes this financially feasible, that they reuse those boosters.
So, yeah, it is expensive to do this, but this was
a test. Again, It's only a test, right, no cargo on
board, no people, clearly nothing at all of any value except the test
equipment that was supposed to tell us what went wrong. Okay, so we
were just talking about the Falcon nine rockets that now you say, they come
and they land and they get cleaned up, and then they're used again.
When that program started, did they have similar things happening? I mean,
were they going up and blowing up and then they kind of had to perfect
it? Or is it happening different this time. It's always been like that.
That's kind of been the course of experimentation, you know, since the
nineteen fifties into the sixties, that you'd had failures, dramatic and spectacular failures.
When you're dealing with you know, hundreds of tons of fuel and the
thing blows up, people are gonna notice that. So it's not just a
mechanical glitch or a computer error. Is this something that is spectacular and it
is right there on display for the world. I mean, that's been happening
all the time. And so Elon Musk, maybe is he being disingenuous when
he says it was his success. This is fantastic because he just lost hundreds
and millions of dollars worth of stuff. But you know, he says that
there's a lot to learn from this. Well, yeah, and it got
farther than the last time, so they made progress. So do we have
any kind of idea of when he might send another one up. No,
that's not you know, on the table yet, but it was April when
the last launch, the first launch was held and did pretty much the same
way. By the way that the launch pad did survive this time. Oh
get they had made impress from that launch to this one and so it wasn't
destroyed the way it was the first time. Still, a lot of folks
there at Boca Chica, Texas, down on the southern tip are concerned about
the environmental impact and they, you know, they want to see this slowed
down somewhat because they're concerned about birds and animals. I mean, this thing
shook the earth to registered as an earthquake whint it launched. Just really wow.
And you mentioned that this thing is four hundred feet tall, largest rocket
ever And I want to do a little comparison because we were just out at
the California Science Center to see the Space Shuttle before they took it, before
they take it off display, and they have since they've put the rocket motors
in their upright position and then they're going to add the external fuel tank before
they moved the shuttle over. But I just looked it up, the external
fuel tank and that thing is huge. I just saw it. It's only
one hundred fifty only it's a hund and fifty four feet tall, So this
one is four hundred feet tall. That thing is massive, it is,
and the force and the thrust that's required to get that thing into orbit is
incredible. You know. It's it's a matter of scale. You've got a
bigger, heavier rocket, which is what you need to get a bigger heavier
rocket into space. So every time they boost the size of this thing,
they increase the thrust of it too. So that's why what accounts for these
magnificent launches. And by the way that you know they people came from all
over the country to see this thing launched yesterday and enthusiasts space enthusiasts weren't.
We're not dissatisfied by what they saw and the thing, even though the thing
blew up. I'm just fascinated by this stuff. Are you guys? Just
so excited about this? I can't wait to see the next one. And
I'm gonna go watch the latest episode of For All Mankind. I'm inspired now.
Thank you, Jim Ryan, have a great day. See ay,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Workers have started tearing down a massive World War II blimp hanger
at the former Tustin Marine Base that's been burning for weeks. On Saturday,
authority said details of the hangar's deconstruction plan were being finalized, with the project
planned to take place over twenty four to forty eight hours. They say the
goal is to put out all the remaining hotspots. Nothing is being done yet
with the hanger doors or concrete pillars. A man in La who shot at
a couple of armed robbers who ran up on his outside of his front door
has had his concealed carry license Suspendedly, criminals came to my home point the
guns in my chest. After successful defending my home and my family, my
five month old child, California has now decided to suspend my second amendment.
The shooting earlier this month was caught on home security cameras. Vince Ricci said
in a video posted on x the scariest part was that his wife and baby
were insides. Not clear why Ricci's permit was suspended. The Sheriff's department only
said California's Department of Justice establishes guidelines for concealed carey weapons permits, and the
Sheriff's Department must follow the DOJ parameters in accordance with the law. The nonprofit
news organization cal Matters says maternity wards have been closing across California. Forty six
hospitals have closed maternity wards in the past decade. Reporter An a Ebari says
some hospitals weren't delivering that many babies, some wanted to repurpose their centers,
and others were having staffing issues. They say they've had a hard time hiring
labor and delivery nurses and obs, and this was especially the case in some
more remote and rural areas. She says the closures can impact prenatal care because
when people lose a maternity ward, they often lose their OB's who end up
relocating. That can cause overbooking at other maternity centers, causing healthcare delays.
Chris Adler kf I Knew The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes topped
the box office in its opening weekend. The prequel to the blockbuster Hunger Games
series at began back in twenty twelve, open with forty four million dollars.
Trolls Band Together came in second with almost thirty one million dollars, and not
so great news for the Marvels. It brought in just over ten million dollars
in its second weekend out and tied the holiday slasher movie Thanksgiving. When we
come back, we're going to be talking with ABC S Geordana Miller about the
continued fighting around the largest hospital complex in Gaza and also getting babies out to
safety. Only three more days still Thanksgiving. Here's what we're following in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Five lanes in each direction of the ten Freeway
in downtown La have reopened. More than two hundred and fifty people worked on
the section of the freeway twenty four hours a day after fire damaged it a
week ago Saturday. The stretch of road takes nearly three hundred thousand vehicles on
per day. A blustery day is on the way. The western San Gabriel
Mountains, Highway fourteen and the Grapevine are under a high wind warning until tomorrow
morning. Windsor expected to blow thirty to forty five miles per hour, with
gusts to sixty miles per hour. And the western San Gabriel Mountains could see
gus as strong as eighty miles per hour. Microsoft has hired open ai founder
Sam Altman and another architect of Chat GPT after they unexpectedly departed the company days
earlier in a corporate shakeup that kind of shocked the AI world. Microsoft says
Altman and op ai co founder and former president Greg Brockman would be leading a
new advanced AI research team at Microsoft. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. Police say they think they may know who set the fire
that ended up shutting down the ten for more than a week, but they
need your help in finding him. Right now, let's say good morning to
ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, first thing, good news, what
you told us about on Friday. The babies are being cared for and several
have been taken out of the hospital in Gaza. Yeah, thank god,
thank god, there's some good news to report. Those babies were first moved
from Al Shifa Hospital to a hospital in southern Gaza near the Rafa border crossing
yesterday and today, twenty eight of the premature babies that were in serious condition
dehydration, sepsis were transferred to over the border Rafa, crossing into Egypt,
and they will make their way to a hospital in Cairo. So that is
good news, God willing those lives will be saved. As the fighting continues
across the Gaza strip, primarily in the north, but Israel has also begun
to expand its operations into the southern area around Hanyunis that is the last kind
of Hamas stronghold. A city, a big city in southern Gaza, sits
on the south west. And what will complicate Israel's operations is it moves further
south, is that there's also you know, a million dozens that are in
the you know, the side the Communists in the southeast, So that's going
to complicate the issue. Also a big story this weekend is the Israeli Army
revealing what it calls new evidence of Hamas's operations inside the Al Shifa hospital.
They released CCTV video from the inside the Al Shifa Hospital on October seventh,
the day of that heinous attack. Two separate clips were were shared of what
looked like Hamas gunmen I mean armed men in one case pushing through a man
an alleged hostage from Thailand, and then another clip we're told an injured man
being moved through the hospital, also a foreigner, So you know, Israel
saying that even on the day of the attack, Hamas operatives came through Shifa
Hospital. There were also shots from the parking lot of some of the Israeli
g that were stolen in the attack, as well as we saw some new
images of the tunnel that was found a few days ago, thirty feet deep
and it runs about sixty yards than a barrier. Israel's in the process of
breaking that barrier, they expect there'll be rooms and other legs of this tunnel
that is running inside. That the tunnel was found on the Alshifa Medical complex
and running towards the direction of the hospital underneath, and that would be a
big thing because they've been saying that Hamas is running a command in control and
with all the kind of pushback, not kind of, but all the pushback
against what Israel is doing, that would really bolster their argument that hey,
you guys, they really are doing this underneath hospitals and putting their own people
in harm's way. Absolutely, I mean, I think it will be maybe
another few days or a week until Israel finds more puts together and finds more
of the ground. A tunnel network, Hamas has tunnels running all through the
Godza strip. They're often characterized by one section and then a barrier like this
by the way, that has areas where you could put a firearm in and
fire right to protect perhaps anyone coming into the tunnel, like soldiers or anybody
else to attack the tunnels or people inside. So this is a hallmark of
Hamas tunnels. It certainly is not. It would be absolutely shocking if this
was the only little section of a tunnel they found at Schifa. Also,
Jordana, we've been hearing and in fact you and I were talking about it.
I believe on Friday that they are getting closer to a deal for a
hostage swap. Was there any more movement over the weekend. Well, the
war Cabinet here in Israel met last night. It was one of the subjects
that they discussed. There continues to be progress, made no breakthrough yet,
but we still those kind of general parameters that we've been talking about are still
stands that is Hamas would release at least fifty Israeli women and children. On
top of that, some foreign nationals, and in return, Israel would pause
the war a temporary cease fire for five days. The hostage is likely to
be released staggered a little bit each day, and then Israel will also release
Palestinian women and miners that are in the jails here in Israel. Okay,
And you mentioned women and miners because I think initially when they said that they
were going to release Palestinian children, a lot of people were saying, why
are Palestinian children being held? But is it more like teenagers and stuff who
might have been involved in some of the incursions, And it is actually they're
teenagers that are old. They're mostly teenagers who are involved in whether it's you
know, a classroom with Israeli forces in the West Bank, throwing molotov cocktails,
rocks, some of them use arms even at a young age. These
are not you know, these are not children in the tea, you know,
an eight year old. No, they're not like the you know,
the toddlers that hamaf has Oa they're holding. All right, tre Dana,
thank you so much for the update. We're going to keep hoping we can
get some of those hostages home. Appreciate all of your insight and giving us
a deeper look at what's going on. We'll talk to you soon, Talk
soon. All right, yep, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Former First Lady Rosalind Carter
is being remembered as a key advisor, humanitarian, and champion for mental health.
She was just eighteen when she married Jimmy Carter in their hometown of Plains,
Georgia, in nineteen forty six. They were in their twenties when Jimmy's
father died and they took over the family peanut business. ABC's Morgan nor W
says when Jimmy Carter entered politics in nineteen sixty two, Rosalind joined his campaign
and helped him become governor. She also campaigned for him for president and was
his closest advisor. Rosalind Carter died yesterday at her home in Georgia. She
was ninety six. A five year old boy in northern California has been stabbed
to death by his twin brother. The twins were fighting on Wednesday when one
brother grabbed a small kitchen knife, came back to the brother, and then
stabbed him. The boy was rushed to the hospital but later died from his
injuries. The District Attorney's office has gone over the case, and authorities say
that no charges will be filed against a five year old. The Sheriff's office
says that California law dictates that age, criminal intent, and knowledge of wrongfulness
are factors needed to charge a child with a crime. They say that in
this specific case, there's no indication of negligence or criminal activity by any other
party. Andrew Caravella KFI News. A federal appeals court in Washington is said
to hear arguments over whether it should reinstate a gag order on former President Trump.
ABC's Mark Remillard says prosecutors claim the restriction is necessary to prevent Trump from
making inflammatory statements, so the attorneys say it violates his free speech rights.
The three judge panel hearing arguments today is made up of two Obama appointees and
one Biden appointee who joined the court earlier this year. Hey the Clippers take
on the Spurs in San Antonio tonight. Tip Off is at five. You
can listen to the game on AM five to seventy LA Sports Haffey Hot Dogs,
The so Cal treasure for almost one hundred years, available at your local
Albertson's Hoffey Local Original. Great Hey, when we come back. Steve Gregory
has a million things you can see this holiday season, all in one place,
and it is spectacular. Don't go away. Nice short week this week.
I hope you're excited for that. Are you traveling, I'm staying put
Tony. Are you traveling, stan put you working? Go to my cousins.
Okay, you're not. You're Only four percent of the people's surveyed said
they actually host Thanksgiving dinner. That can't be right, but that's what the
surveys said. Anyway, here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The ten is open. The roadway damaged by fire more than a
week ago, reopen to traffic last night, way ahead of schedule. Governor
Newsom last week said it would be opened by at least Tuesday, after saying
a few days before that it was going to be three to five weeks before
the roadway reopened. Babies evacuated from Gaza's Shifa Hospital have arrived in Egypt.
Egypt's state run Medias's twenty eight babies have been taken to a hospital across the
border in Egypt. Thirty one were taken out of the hospital over the weekend,
not clear where the other three are. About fifteen million Californians are going
to see some big healthcare changes in six weeks. Medical will open up to
the age group of twenty six to forty nine and to some older than sixty
four, but many are going to lose coverage as the state finishes reviewing who
no longer qualifies after the pandemic. Almost forty percent of Californians have medical.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Bill's going to take
a look back at the life and legacy of Roslyn Carter, who died over
the weekend at five point fifty. Thanksgiving tradition for a lot of us the
National Dog Show, and we are so excited. We're going to be talking
to actor, comedian, author, and game show host and the host of
the National Dog Show, John O'Hurley. Super excited about that. That's in
about twelve minutes. Steve Gregory is now going to take us on a journey
through an immersive experience at the La Arboretum featuring more than a million lights.
It's called LightScape and features colorful art installations from around the world with one thing
in common. Lights LightScape is an illuminated path through culturally significant gardens. It
started in Europe in the UK. Greg Curtis is the regional producer for the
show and also handles the San Diego production. LightScape is nestled in the middle
of the arboretum and is designed so people can take a leisurely walk through the
exhibits. We have Zoe Boutreu who's the artistic director, and she curates the
entire trial. So we started August. We all walked trail together and she
comes up with a map of what where she thinks the the installation pieces will
fit. You had a chance to get a tour of the show, but
in the daylight during seven So yeah, we're just starting a trail. Everybody
will come through the main entrance of the garden and then proceed down here.
We'll already have a little bit of light happening in this tree. You can
see it's lit up. It's it's a pee light tree, typical kind of
scenario. We'll have a little We'll have music that starts right over here.
It's about an hour long loop of music, and then right here we have
our concessions area, so you can eat, drink, get some swag from
the event, and then it's of course it's decorated. We have these wonderful
moving lights that go over that fountain and kind of light up the whole area.
Do you also keep in mind about how long it would take the average
person to get through it. Yeah, we want to keep it to about
a little over an hour for a family afford to walk through, right and
keep a really consistent pace. I think that's a good amount of time.
And you know, everybody seems to enjoy it. Everybody moves in a single
direction, so we don't encourage people to go backwards on the trail. We
just keep people flowing through the experience. Greg takes his work very seriously and
is passionate about the show. And as we continue on the path, we
come upon one of the more popular stops, the Winter Cathedral in daylight.
It's simply a long and arched framing with thousands of lights. So there's things
that happen in there. You know, people asking they're beloved to marry them
often inside of this, so we'll stop and they'll do a proposal. Yeah,
Yeah, that's the one that it's in all the flyers. Yeah,
it's their signature piece. We stop for a moment and walk through the arch,
walk through it to see what it looks like. It's hard to get
a sense of the wow factor in the daylight, but if you've ever seen
pictures or video, it's pretty spectacular. We hop back on the ATV and
continue the tour. We see someone working in the garden, they'll get up.
Sydney's an electrician. Is this one of those things that were when Christmas
light goes out, the whole thing thing goes out. Uh? No,
These are a little bit more sophisticated than that. We have a lot of
lights here, so we're able to replace individuals. What's the biggest challenges an
electrician on this project. It's a lot of cable. It's a lot of
cable and a lot of electricity we're dealing with. We have a number of
generators that we're running to, so it's about mapping out where everything's going and
making sure that we are within the limits. And how many generators do you
think you have here? Seven? I believe yeah. Seven. From here,
we get out of the ATV and go for a walk. That's where
we meet Dan, another electrician with the show. These types of bulbs now
with these LEDs and that that doesn't pull nearly the wa it's just the old
incandescent or anything, right, like eighty watts at their maxi full power.
And since we're usually only running single colors in a lot of the variety of
sections that you see, they drive in fractions of that. There are some
real big panels that you'll see around the park that are out on the ground.
Those are up to around eight hundred and fifty watts if you're running them
at full but that's just because they're giant blasters. They're things to give bright
washes of color all over the place. We keep walking when we come upon
a really bizarre setup. It's a tall, square frame with hundreds of cables
hanging from the interior, and each of those has dozens of lights embedded into
the cable. It's called submersion, and obviously you get a pixel map in
three D space that you can walk through and you can kind of touch and
feel, and it's an immersive experience. And if some music it's just a
tone or a sound, right, Yeah, is this kind of like a
soundscape in the LightScape. Right. Wow, so at night you can you
really feel like it's travelings and stay. So we'll do this again and it'll
be totally different with the light. With the light too much. You want
to start, you want to go to do a walking back. As we
head back to the start of the tour, greg tells me he hopes LightScape
becomes an annual holiday tradition for families, with all the proceeds going to a
good cause, the care and maintenance of the Arboretum. For wake up call,
I'm Steve Gregory, KFI News. Thank you, Steve. LightScape runs
through January second, and it is spectacular. I know that Steve thought during
the day. We got to see it during the night and it is really
cool. So hopefully you'll include that on your holiday ventures out to go see
cool things. Right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Traffic is moving again on the ten
Freeway through downtown LA. Part of the freeway was shut down because of a
massive fire just over a week ago. A reopened last night, way ahead
of schedule. Officials that estimated it would take three to five weeks for the
supports to be fixed under the freeway, and last week they said the freeway
would reopen by at least tomorrow. An employee at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena is expected to plead guilty due defrauding a federal COVID nineteen relief program.
Rasse Cutters Armann Hovanesien used pandemic relief loans to pay off real estate debt and
help pay for an illegal marijuana cultivation project. He's looking it up to twenty
years in federal prison. The Billboard Music Awards ceremony has been held completely online
for the first time. Country singer Morgan Wallan was the big winner last night
with eleven awards, followed by Taylor Swift who picked up ten and Drake got
five. Swift won Top Artist and Top Female Artist. Wallen won Top Male
Artist. The thirteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here. Jeff Bruno's charity, Katerina's
Club, provides more than twenty five thousand meals thousand meals every week to kids
in need in southern California, and your generosity is what makes it happen.
Couldn't do it without you, so there are three very very easy ways for
you to help. One donate at pastathon dot com. Two, shop at
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donation goes to Katerina's Club. So please do help pastathon dot com and we
help to see you at the Anaheim white House next Tuesday. Here's what we're
following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Five lanes in each direction of
the ten Freeway in downtown La have reopened. More than two hundred and fifty
people worked on the second of the freeway twenty four hours, a day after
a fire damaged the roadway a week ago Saturday. The stretch of road handles
nearly three hundred thousand vehicles a day. A blustery day, as I mentioned,
is on the way. The western San Gabriel Mountains, the Highway fourteen
corridor, and the grape Vine are all under high wind warnings until tomorrow morning,
with winds gusting to sixty miles per hour. The western San Gabriel Mountains
could have us as strong as eighty miles per hour. The average price of
a home in La County's gone down two point three percent from September October.
The California Association of RILCHRI says Orange County had a two point seven percent month
to month decrease, but the median sale price of a single family home in
Orange County is still among the highest in the country at one million, two
hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. We're just minutes away from Handle. On
the news this morning, a big shake up at open Ai. The maker
of chat GPT and the founder of the company was canned. So some people
love the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Me I love the National Dog Show.
Thrilled this morning to be talking to one of the hosts of the show,
actor, comedian, author, game show host TV personality known for his portrayal
of Jay peterman On Seinfeld, also the sixth host of Family Feud and host
of To Tell the Truth for a couple of years and more. And boy
can this man dancy one Dancing with the Stars. Ladies and gentlemen, Wake
up call listeners, please welcome John O'Hurley to the show. Good morning,
how are you? I am fabulous and so excited to be talking to you
today because, as I just mentioned, I love watching the National Dog Show
every Thanksgiving and you're one of the hosts of it. So tell us,
like, what's so great about the National Dog Show that people should turn in
the tune in this year. Well, it celebrates the wonderful, wonderful qualities
that dogs bring to our lives. And you know, if you have ten
people on an elevator and you walk in with the dog, everybody's head turns
and looks at the dog. There's something wonderfully, wonderfully attractive about the presence
of dogs in our lives. And we're lucky enough to have two thousand of
the best dogs in the country, representing two hundred different breeds, on the
greatest family day of the year. And it's wonderful to be able to present
this show and celebrate the rich history of dog breeding. I love that.
So you said there's two thousand dogs that participate, how many do we actually
see because we don't see each and every category, right, you will see
the winners. It's a kind of a process of elimination during the day.
By the time we get to the show on television, all of the breeds
have been judged. Now the breeds are all separated into seven different groups.
So the groups are what you're going to be seeing the winners of those.
And you know, I love it when it comes along when the groups come
out and I go, oh, that's like the sporting group. That's my
favorite one. And then the next group comes out and I go, no,
wait, that's my favorite group. They're all so fun and spectable.
And then when the little toys come out there, everybody enjoys that so much
because they're just the little miniature version of their larger cousins. Yeah. Do
you have any favorites? John? Personal favorite? Jaw My favorite show dog
is always the Irish Center And I'll tell you why. When it comes into
the ring and it makes its initial run around the arena, all the heads.
It's against the blue rug, that auburn hair and that very kind of
strong, athletic erect look as they come in and it looks like the redhead
that just ran into the cocktail party. Every head, every head turns and
it's just you can't help but notice it. Yeah, Okay, beautiful dog.
Same with the app, same with the Afghani. I think it gets
the same sort of attraction. Okay, And what's your been your biggest surprise
hosting the show? Uh? Well, I would say the number of breeds
and the variety of breeds, because every every breed has a rich history to
why they were, why they're there. Dogs were never dogs were up really
companions or pets. Back as as men evolved. They they were necessary for
man to survive. They were hunters, they were ratters. I missed those
healthy in days of ratting. And but they they were footwarmers. You know,
there were so many different varieties of things that they did, but they
had a function and they were bred for that function. So it's like the
terriers there, you know, they were they were supposed to go down little
little vermin holes and pull out the vermin and uh and they had their little
tails at the end that you pulled the tail on, they pulled the dog
out. That's so funny. Every yeah, everything, I mean every everything
had a hitting a function. And that's so that's what they're celebrating today,
the yet rich history of greeting. Yeah. So when the dogs aren't in
the spotlight, John, are they regular pets or are they just kind of
constantly pampered dogs being dogs? Every one of Yeah, every one of them
has uh, has has spilled or had an accident on the floor somewhere.
You know, it's they're just dogs being dogs. But you know it's even
funnier is during during the dog show, people will send us photos and uh
and videos of their dog watching the show. And it's very funny to watch
a dog watching television. Uh. There's one in particular that I loved when
the dog sitting on the sofa watching the large screen TV, jumps down onto
the ground, walks over to the television and starts snipping the screen, wondering
why the dog is reacting, and then walks around to the back of the
television because he knows that's where the dog is. Dogs are so cool.
Do you have dogs, John, I have three. I have a little
Havanie which is a dog like kind of like a Maltese, a smaller dog.
And then two rescues, two that I have as well. So we
support book. We support both worlds, the world of the purebread and also
the rescues for the shelters. They can't be ignored either. Absolutely, And
when can we watch the National Dog Show twelve till two every time zone.
You're going to see it all across the country during the day following the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day parade and right before football. So it's Dogs until two. Don't
touch that remote. I love it. Thank you so much, John O'Hurley,
appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. We'll be watching you
on Thanksgiving Day. Wonderful to talk to you. All right, thanks,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. I love John Harley. By the way, the National Weather
Service has issued a high wind warning for downtown Riverside, Marino Valley, Corona,
Hemmet, Temecula. It's in effect until ten tomorrow morning. North Winds
twenty to thirty miles per hour expected, with gus up to fifty five miles
per hour GUS up to sixty five miles per hour could be possible in the
Kahon Pass, lots of winds blowing today. Israel says it has more proof
of hospital it has been searching in Gaza was being used by Hamas as a
command center. ABC. Patrick Reevel says the Israeli military has been focused on
Al Shifa hospitals for weeks. It's real, saying video shows Hamas moving a
wounded hostage into Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital on October seventh, just hours after that
surprise attack, in which it sees nearly two hundred and forty hostages. A
second video showing another hostage being dragged into Al Shifa. The IDF claims another
hostage, nineteen year old IDF soldier, was murdered in that hospital. Her
body was found last week. Moss claims she was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
And President Biden has written an op ed and The Washington Post saying a
ceasefire in Gaza is not peace, argue it would give Hamas time to regroup.
The President also reiterating his calls for a two state solutions. ABCS J
O Brien says, according to Biden, it's the only way to ensure security
for Israelis and Palestinians. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange
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