You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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County and your host Amy Kay. Good morning. It is five o'clock straight
up, Martin Luther King Junior day. So if you're up, you're like
us. You get to work today, huh. Federal office is closed,
no mail, no banks, no stock market. Otherwise kind of a normal
day. Maybe traffic will be a little bit lighter. As I mentioned,
it is Monday morning and it is January fifteenth, twenty twenty four on your
wake up call. Thanks, so you're first starting your day with us today.
Had a fabulous weekend. Don't know how your weekend was, but let
me just tell you, had so much fun. Had some friends in town
and we got to go see the Eagles, which I have never seen them,
and hearing from people in social media going, oh I saw them last
year. I saw them. Then theoretically it's their last tour, the long
goodbye, and we'll tell you a little bit more about it. I know
that I got to go on Saturday, producer, and got to go on
Friday, and we'll let you know too where you can still go see them.
They have some more shows, not at LA but oh my gosh,
it was great. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The first voting
of the twenty twenty four election cycle gets underway later today with the Iowa caucuses.
Polls show former President Trump has a massive lead over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Hayley. We'll be checking in with ABC's Stephen
Portnoyd later in the show today. He's in the know and in Iowa.
Forward to talking to him. A man has been shot and an LAPD officer's
been injured in a car chase near downtown LA. Police say the man who
led police on the chase yesterday morning got out of his car with a gun.
That's when the officer involved shooting happen. The officer was injured in a
crash during the chase. Some shaking in the Pacific preliminary magnitude four point five
earthquake has rumbled south of Catalina Island in the Pacific Ocean. The US Geological
Services the quake hit at two forty four this morning, sixty nine miles off
the coast of San Diego at six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Congressional leaders have done it again. They've kicked the can down the road
for another month or so. We'll be talking about that. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room
this Monday morning. A ban on indoor and outdoor wood burning is in effect
across much of southern California because of a forecast of high air pollution in the
area. The ban will be in effect until at least midnight in the South
Coast air base air basin, including non desert areas of La Riverside and San
Bernardino County, and all of Orange County. The order does not apply to
mountain communities above three thousand feet, the Coachella Valley or the high Desert.
A Navy helicopter that crashed in San Diego Bay has been recovered. The salvage
effort on Saturday lasted around ten hours. The damaged helicopter was taken to Naval
Base Coronado. All crew members survived the crash last week and have been released
from the hospital. AH good news there. More than a thousand people have
gathered in Fontana to protest school district policies they claim socially transitioned children without parental
consent. Protesters on Saturday accused the Fontana Unified School District and Planned Parenthood of
infringing on parental rights by referring to students by different names and genders without telling
parents about it or getting their approval. Planned Parenthood, by the way,
has sued the city for blocking the construction of a new clinic in Fontana,
claiming a violation of constitutional rights. Houthi rebels in Yemen have fired an anti
ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea, but a US
fighter jet shot it down. The attack yesterday was the first since the US
and Allied nations started strikes on Houthi rebels. Abc'sg O'Brien says navy ships,
submarines and jet fighters have fired a barrage of missiles at Houthi military sites to
reduce their capability to attack ships. Thousands of protesters in Yemen condemnic the US
air strikes and Hoothi leaders promising the attacks on ships will continue in solidarity with
Hamas in its war against Israel. Huthi say they are avenging Israel's offensive in
Gaza. Federal offices are closed and service projects will be held throughout LA County
to Mark Martin Luther king Junior Day. There's also a mass at the Cathedral
of Our Lady of the Angels. The thirty ninth annual Kingdom Day Parade will
be held in Lamert Park. The theme of this year's three mile parade is
Can't Stop, Won't Stop Going to the Promised Land. Marshall will be LA
County Supervisor Holly Mitchell. The parade starts at ten, It ends in Lamert
Park and there's a festival being held there to it. This afternoon. Well,
let's say good morning now to ABC's Tom River at five six this Monday
morning. Good morning Tom. So the US wasn't a one and done with
the airstrikes against the Hooties. What happened over the weekend? Yeah, it
looks like the US on its own this time, took out a radar station
on early morning of Saturday. And then there is kind of a wait and
see mode. Now the US and the UK are saying, look, we'll
see what the hooties do. According the language of the Prime Minister here in
the Defense Secretary of This was a one off, but they said the options
are there. If more vessels are targeted in the Red Sea, they could
revisit hitting various targets in Yemen again, so kind of in now weight,
wait and see what shakes out kind of mode. Yesterday there was a missile
strike from the Houties in the direction of a US destroyer. We don't know
if it was specifically targeted or heading in that direction, but the US took
it down. So yes, we probably have not seen the last of that
kind of action in that very very important part of the world. And the
Hooties are saying one after we hit them last week, they said they're going
to retaliate, But aren't we kind of retaliating against them because they've tried to
fire on positions friendly to the US maybe friendly to the US like thirty times.
Almost. Yeah, it's going to carry on, and you know,
the question is what is your exit strategy? And again you know there really
isn't one here. Well, we're going to engage them for how long would
you like to engage them? According to US figures, the US military says
they took out about twenty five percent of the Hooty's ability to fire missiles into
the Red Sea. That leaves a big chunk, and you can guess that
the Houties will probably be using more of that weaponry certainly in the coming coming
weeks. Over the weekend there was a huge, huge demonstration of civilians and
support of UTI actions in Senna, the capital. There over a million people
out on the streets saying that they support the action of the rebel fighters.
So you know, fire is in their belly and we'll see what shakes out.
Like I say, in the coming days, there could very well be
more strikes on the western side if these attacks continue. Okay, And so
that you mentioned the big protests and all the support for the Houthi rebels.
Are the Houthies sort of in the same category as himasos. They considered it
a terrorist organization or no and no more of a Sunny Si I break down
there. So they are the the UH the faction that if you will,
backed by Iran, and of course they've been engaged for over eight years with
disputes with Saudi Arabia, and of course you know the us IS and the
UK has been for that matter, have been saying, you know this is
really a proxy war because they keep saying, you know, the Iranian backed
hooties, and the Hooties are saying, you know, the US and the
UK backing the Saudis and the bombing campaign that's gone off for almost a decade.
So yes, choose your proxy side and the war lingers on there.
Okay. And then we've talked about how they've been firing on these ships in
the Red Sea. Have they actually hit any they hit? I think too.
They don't have a very good track record in that regard. And again
they're rationale. They're saying they're doing this in support of the Palestinians who are
being if you will, hit by Israeli forces in Gaza. What points out
by the Defense Secretary here in London. He said, you know, roughly
thirty vessels have been targeted directly or indirectly by missiles heading in their direction in
the Red Sea. Many of them have zero connection with Israel at all.
So it is really really catches catch can in that part of the world and
it is very very dangerous. Fifteen percent thereabouts of world trade at sea goes
through that very very important waterway. If you can't go through there, you
have to go through down through around the Cape in South Africa, and if
you want to go up to Europe, they'll tack on two more weeks on
your voyage. That's a lot more insurance, that's a lot more diesel fuel,
that's a lot more costs than the shelves and the stores here and eventually
shelves in North America too. So yes, it is having a global impact.
Yeah, and then do we know how much much of that traffic is
going around now, because it was coming out a lot last week that they're
like, we're not going through the Red Sea anymore. We're going to go
around, like you said, extra expense, extra time. But are there
ships still going through the Red Sea or is there everybody kind of bag?
Yeah, there are some going through the Red Sea. I wish I had
a percentage for you right now. Maybe I can look that one up later
today. But some are diverting, some are going through the Red Sea,
and what the breakdown is I don't have available right now. But yeah,
some are taking the safe route or the safer route and saying, yep,
we're gonna we're gonna spend more taken taking the scenic journey, and you know
your Yo Yo's will arrive in Liverpool two weeks later. Well, I will
tell you it is a scenic journey because one time I got to go to
the South tip of Africa and it's beautiful, absolutely, Okay, yeah,
yeah, But again I think probably the extra million dollars in the extra two
weeks and all the extra gas and all that probably makes it a little less
enjoyable than my trip there, exactly exactly. But yeah, you know there's
a real economic dimension to this. Yeah, and people are mindful of that,
and one way or another, it has to be sorted out, all
right, and we will be watching ABC's Tom Rivers. Thank you so much
for the information and the insight. We'll talk to you again soon. Take
care, all right, take care. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Winter weather could impact
the outcome of the Republican caucuses in Iowa. Forecasters say today could be the
coldest Caucaus day on record, with temperatures below zero across much of the state.
The conditions may depressed turnout, there's no way to know or even predict,
since no one can remember a caucus night with temperatures this insanely low.
ABC's Stephen Portnoyce's former President, Trump is way ahead of his main rivals,
Nicky Haley and Ronda Santis. A statewide poll shows Trump with a twenty eight
point lead. We're going to be checking in with Stephen at five f to
get the latest from Iowa. A hit and run driver has killed a woman
in the Vermont Vista area of South La Another pedestrian was hit and is in
critical condition. The lease say the people were in a marked crosswalk last night
on Vermont Avenue around ninety third Street when they were hit. Witnesses say they
saw a silver Kia SUV taking off from the scene. Other witnesses found the
car a few blocks away on Vermont Avenue. More than two dozen people in
La County have become sick from eating oysters. The health department says it's received
twenty seven cases of gastro intestinal illness linked to the consumption of raw oysters at
four different restaurants. The county's health officer, doctor Muntu Davis, says they're
working to locate the source of the infected shellfish. Davis says anyone who suspects
they got sick after eating raw oysters should contact the health department to file a
report. He also says kids, older adults, and the immunocompromised should avoid
eating raw oysters and other raw seafood. Steve Gregory KFI News a woman and
two children have trying to cross the Rio Grande River into the United States.
They were near Eagle Past, Texas, Friday night, where Texas National Guard
soldiers have prevented Federal Border Patrol agents from processing and rescuing migrants. Governor Greg
Abbott says the state is within its right. Texas has the legal authority to
control ingress and egress and to any geographic location in the state of Texas,
and that authority is being asserted with regard to that park and egal Pass.
Texas Texas officials have denied claims that National Guard soldiers did not allow Border Patrol
agents to try to rescue the migrants. Got in Lisa, a reboot of
a popular nineties movie, is taken over the number one spot at the box
office. So So Match Mean Girls opened with an estimated twenty eight million dollars
to finish its first weekend in theaters. The Beekeeper came in second with Wonka,
hanging on to third place. A wood burning ban is in effect for
most of southern California because of poor air quality in the forecast for the south
coast air by basin. Burning wood and manufactured fire logs off limits in all
of Orange County, plus the non desert areas of La Riverside, and San
Bernardino Counties. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says the US has had intense
talks with Israel to lower the intensity of its attacks in Gaza. On face
the nation, Kirby said Israel has taken some steps to get there. Kirby
also said more trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are getting into Gaza each day.
We're going to check in with you're Dana Miller and talk more about this in
just one minute. The LA season, actually, the La Rams football season
is over after a one point loss in last night's wildcard playoff game in Detroit.
The Lions won it twenty four to twenty three after the Rams failed to
score on their final drive in the fourth quarter at six oh five. It's
handle on the news. If Nikki Hayley doesn't get the Republican nomination, who
are her supporters going to vote for you might be, so we'll tell you
about that. But right now, let's say good morning to ABC's geord Dana
Miller in Jerusalem. Geordana, Israel is one hundred days into its war with
Hamas and Prime Minister Nettaannah who says there is no stopping them. That's right,
Israel's Prime minister saying that this war will go on for quote many more
months. He said that before, and he repeated it as the country hit
that one hundred days of war. He is determined, he says, to
reach the achieve the goals of this war, which is to push Hamas out
of the Gaza Strip and return the hostages. Behind the rhetoric, though,
we can see that Israel has already adjusted its battlefield after one hundred days devastating
destruction in the Gaza Strip and over twenty three thousand killed, what, of
course, has also been a major concern for the White House, you know,
Jerusalem's most important ally. So the fighting already in the northern part of
the Gaza Strip has drastically been reduced. There are far fewer troops and tanks
there and major operations. Israel essentially holding northern Gaza and the fight now is
centered around Communis the last stronghold. That's where Israel believes that will need to
fight for several more months to dismantle Hamas, and that is where the one
hundred and thirty two hostages, including eight Americans are, you know, are
believed to be hiding down in the tunnels there. So this war not over,
not by any means, not yet, okay. And the tunnel system
initially when they went in and we were getting our early reports, was that
the majority of the tunnels were up in the north. But they found a
lot more tunnels than they expected to down in the southern part of the Gaza
strip, like han Unas, than they expected in that correct, That is
correct, Amy, I have to say every day here in Israel. The
experts who thought they knew, even intelligence guys right at the Joll's Mozade and
the Shabakh who thought they knew what was happening in the Gaza Strip, they
didn't even know half of it. Yeah, I mean when the soldiers get
down into the tunnels, when they go down sixty and eighty meters and they
they're on three different levels, and they connect a place near Rafa on the
south all the way up to the north, branching off into homes of known
top Hamas leaders under mosques. They contain weapon building factories in these tunnels.
Then the picture becomes clear that Israel vastly underestimated what Hamas was up to,
and in the sense, everything they find there also justifies the war. They
fear that they feel they need to fight to prevent Hamas from launching another attack.
Having said all that, the pressure is also rising here on Israel's Prime
minister to bring those hostages home, and there's new questions now after one hundred
days ken Israel both put Hamas under massive military pressure and bring the hostages home
or just one of those goals have to take the you know, the front
position and the other one go on the back burner because there's increasing fears that
if Israel continues its military operations in the South that those survived those hostages will
not survive. And of course, to play it on all of Israel's fears,
Hamas last night put out a video with three hostages essentially saying you know,
they were calling for the war to end, et cetera, et cetera.
On the one hand, a sign of life from those three hostages,
especially one young woman, Noah Argomani, whose mother's very ill. But on
the other hand, we don't know when that film was made, and it
carried a dire tagline that we'll find out how those hostages are today. Perhaps
appears to be some kind of threat preps on their lives. Yeah, and
then I would think the other question that comes into play as they're weighing their
options and what do you do and like you said, how much do you
factor the hostages into your attacks on Hamas is how many of those hostages are
still alive, because we really don't know right well. Israel has announced that
about twenty five of the one hundred and thirty two our bodies, so that
means that you know, there are still a little more than a hundred,
but we don't know how many of those are alive. And I have to
say, very few people in Israel believe, for example, the BBus family,
that young toddler who's now about eleven months. His birthday's actually coming up
on January eighteenth, so he's almost one year later this week, and his
four year old brother and his mother. Very few people believe they are actually
alive. Hamas has said already that they are not alive, and you know,
there hasn't been a sign of life in quite some time. So this
is extremely complicated, and Hamas is showing no real flexibility in the hostage release
slash cease fire negotiations. Hamaswanks an absolute end to the war before it will
release any of the hostages, and that is simply not going to happen.
And given that Israel knows it still has a lot of work quote unquote to
do when it comes to Hamas's military capabilities, and of course the civilian population
of Gaza another huge not only you know, military, but more importantly a
moral challenge for Israel. You have one twenty million people in southern Gaza.
You know, will Israel allow some of those almost a million to return to
the north. You know, are they going to make efforts to increase in
boost humanitarian aid. It's likely Israel will open the Air's crossing that's been closed
since it was attacked on October seventh. It would be a direct passageway from
Israel to northern Gaza, which is part of the strip that is very inaccessible
and not a lot of aid is getting up there. So that would help
you know. These are all you know question marks we have going forward now
that we've hit one hundred days, and we will continue to look to HUD
to help us find those answers. Thank you so much for the information today.
Thanks Seamy Tuktin. The first voting of the twenty twenty four election cycle
gets underway today with the Iowa Caucuses. Polls show former President Trump has a
commanding lead over former South Carolina Governor Nikki Hailey and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis,
and possibly affecting the voting and the caucuses today freezing cold temperatures. We're going
to be talking to Stephen Portnoy in about ten minutes, who's in Iowa,
to get the latest there. Congressional leaders have come to an agreement a short
term funding bill to keep the government funded not through the year, just until
March. The agreement comes ahead of the first funding deadline of January nineteenth.
Had a little shaking in the Pacific. A preliminary magnitude four point five earthquake
is rumbled south of Catalina Island in the Pacific Ocean. The US Geological surveyces
the quake hit at two forty four this morning, sixty nine miles off the
coast of San Diego at six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Remember the principal who tried to protect some kids during the Perry, Iowa school
shooting. He has died, not happy at five point fifty. As I
mentioned, we're gonna be talking with Stephen Portnoy. He's on the ground,
or maybe I should say he's on the frozen tundra in Iowa. Because it
is Caucus day. I want to tell you we went out and about this
weekend. And I didn't know this until this morning. Both Anne and I
went out and about. She went out on Friday night. I went on
Saturday night and we both went to the Kia Forum to go see the Eagles.
And can I just tell you this is I still think Paul McCartney's the
best show I've ever seen, but this is right up there. They were
spectacular, and I think that Anne said the same thing. I one hundred
percent agree. I absolutely loved every minute of it. Walked out of there
going wow, Yeah, this is something I will remember for a long time.
Yeah. And we were sitting there yesterday. My friend Debbie in town
and she was just like that was so good, and she just like,
throughout the day we were out shopping and just goofing off, and she's like,
that was just so good. It was so it was so great.
Here's why it was so great. One they came out and they started playing
hits, and they played hit after hit after hit after hit, and just
kept doing it. I saw Bruce Springsteen a long long time ago, and
he played for like two hours before I heard a song that I knew the
worst. Yeah, it was absolutely the worst. Yeah, And this was
the opposite. They just played the hit and and I loved what they said
too. I can't remember if it was if it was Don Henley who said
it, I think it was, but he said, we don't have any
inflatables, we don't have any fireworks, we don't have any butt wiggling and
dancing. All we have is a bunch of guys with guitars playing music.
And that's what it was. And at one point there were seven of them
across the stage, Vince Gill on one end, and was it Joe Walsher
on the other end. No, it wasn't Joe Walsh. It was oh
gosh, he was on the other end. But it was spectacular. Yeah,
and they sounded good. Like sometimes you go see these bands that are
having their farewell tours that they've been performing forever and they just don't they don't
have the range anymore, and they just don't do what they did. But
these guys were just good from start to finish. Yes. Yeah. And
then here's here's another thing that I thought was very, very impressive. I
didn't realize Vince Gill was with the band. And I love Vince skild because
I'm a big country music person and he just fits in so great, and
he's so talented and just brings, you know, just the Vince Gill to
the show. And so that was that was great. And here's the thing
that I tell me, if you think about this now, and you know
the Fork reporter Neil Sevadra, of course I think Vince Gill looked a little
bit like the Fork reporter. But here, oh yeah, a little bit.
Huh yeah. So go look at Vince Skill. Look at the Fork
reporter. Add some hair, yeah, and I think you got the guy
kind of got it. They both have a very lovely voice too. Can
Nil sing? I don't know, We'll have to ask him. Yeah,
come up from fifteen minutes exactly. Also then as you know, they lost
Glenn Fry and so Deacon Fry, Glenn Fry's son is now with the band,
and that was really beautiful because man can he sing and he's adorable and
it was just it was fun because it felt like the Eagles again. It
felt like the whole band was there. And Kia Forum I want to mention
too really quick if you guys haven't been to a show at the Kia Forum
lately, that is a fantastic venue. Like it is so nice, Like
the seats are like I don't know, I was like, I feel like
I'm sitting in a nice airplane seat or something like comfortable seats. The concourses
are beautiful. They have all kinds of different concessions and stuff. You can
go outside onto the concourse and then you're inside. And the sound there was
just so great and like Glenn uh not Glenn Fry, Don Henley had said
that they could have done one show over at I think he called it the
Spaceship, which he was referring to so FI, but he said, you
know, this sound here is really great and we really wanted to work a
little harder, and so they did four shows at the Forum instead, and
I for one, am very thankful and also very thankful because Don Henley mentioned
during it, and I think he mentioned it during your show on Friday Night
too, and he goes, yeah, tonight's show is brought to you by
Paxlovid, but the show has to go on. Don Henley has COVID and
he's performing. I know, which was great. Sound you sounded great,
But I thought there's a lot of old dudes up there. Is that a
wise decision? Well? It was spectacular, And of course they've moved out,
moved on from LA but they are, They're gonna They're in Palm Springs
tomorrow, They're in Phoenix. Let's see is that Friday on January nineteenth.
They're on Phoenix on the twentieth, and then they have several other other tour
dates up until March when they end in like Charlotte, North Carolina. But
if you want to take a little road trip or maybe take a little flight.
And you haven't seen the Eagles yet, because I hadn't seen him.
Had you seen the man? No? Yes, I haven't seen him before.
I'm so glad that I got to and again Kia Forum was spectacular.
So if you get a chance, and if you miss the Eagles, I
still say go to the Forum and see a different show because that was just
a great venue. Okay, Now when we come back, we are going
to be checking in with Stephen Portnoy because it is Caucus Day. Tomorrow,
the Clippers take on the Oklahoma City Thunder at Crypto dot com with your tip
off at seven on your home of Clippers Basketball AM five to seventy LA Sports,
brought to you by your Southern California Toyota dealers. We make it easy.
A wood burning ban is up for most of southern California because of poor
air quality in the South coast airbasin. Burning wood and manufactured fire logs is
off limits in all of Orange County, plus the non desert areas of La
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties until midnight. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says
the US has had intense talks with Israel to lower the intensity of its attacks
in Gaza. He says Israel has taken some steps to get there. Netanyahho
says there's no stopping Israel and they will eliminate Hamas Kirby also said trucks loaded
with humanitarian aid r getting into Gaza each day. The thirty ninth Kingdom Day
Parade steps off along MLK Junior Boulevard this morning at ten. The parade wraps
up with a festival in the Mert Park and a mass at the Cathedral of
Our Ladies of the Angels. The theme of this year's parade is Can't Stop,
Won't Stop Going to the Promised Land, and Disney's Princess Tiana from the
Princess and the Frog will be the Honorary Grand Marshal. We're just minutes away
from Handle. On the news this morning, people on that Alaska Airline's flight
that lost a chunk of its fuselage are suing. Bill's gonna take a look
at what they're suing for right now, though, let's say good morning and
Burr to ABC's Stephen Portnoy on the ground in Iowa for the Big Iowa Caucuses.
Well, good morning, I can say, Burr. It's negative thirteen
degrees here, So that's not thirteen degrees below freezing. That's thirteen degrees below
zero, right, negative thirteen degrees fahrenheit, And so yeah, that's that's
forty five degrees below freezing. Yeah, that sounds right. Look, the
bottom line is we've never no one's ever seen an Iowa caucus that has been
held on a day that's this cold. I asked the Iowa GOP chairman,
was there any thought to maybe postponing or you know, candling tonight, and
he said no, that it wouldn't be practical. And this is the date
that was selected, and so it's just going to move forward and people are
just going to have to bundle up and take the precautions and head out.
And look the islands. We've spoken with who intend to caucus, and I'd
say they're happy to do it that you know, they was one man put
it, I've got a big truck and a warm coat, so he's going
to go out and caucus. But the high watermark for turnout in the Iowa
caucuses on the Republican side was one hundred and eighty six thousand in twenty six
team and that was the competitive race between Donald Trump and his first entry international
politics against Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and others. And it was a close
race and Ted Cruz eked out a victory here over Donald Trump, who was
leading in the Iowa polls going in pockets tonight, Donald Trump has a formidable
twenty eight point lead over his nearest rival, Nicky Haley. The des Moines
Register survey has Trump at forty eight percent, Nicky Haley at twenty percent,
and then Ron de Santa's a few points back in third place. The enthusiasm
for Trump and DeSantis is much greater than the enthusiasm for Haley, even though
she's had sort of this late minute, last minute surge, if you will,
She's come up and now she's placing second in the polls. But inasmuch
as anything is true, this is Donald Trump's race to lose tonight. Because
his lead is so wide, you have to imagine that you know, even
half the Trump supporters who were going to cauc Us either couldn't get out because
the roads yet haven't been paved, or simply too cold, and then somehow
maybe there could be an upset. But I think everyone's expectation is a down
trumple win. The only question is how why does the margin and knowing that
he does have a huge lead almost everywhere, although I saw a poll from
New Hampshire last week that it was only like seven or eight points, But
in most places it's more than just doubled. It's more than ten, it's
more than twenty, it's like thirty points at some point. But the Iowa
caucuses aren't necessarily a precursor or a predictor of who's going to get the nomination.
No, you're right. I mean ask President Cruz or President Tantorum or
any of the other winners of the Iowa crocus. Tom one forgot about that.
That's right back in twenty twelve. So these this is an important milestone,
a mile marker, because it's where it all begins. But you're absolutely
right, the most recent Iowa caucuses on the Republican side have not been predictive
of the ultimate outcome. It's interesting because these races, and in terms of
horse race, play out in a narrative. So we're looking at how wide
might the margin for Trump be if he is the victor. If there's a
surprise upset, you know, it changes the dynamic entirely. But assuming Trump
is the winner, how wide is the margin? Is he firmly ensconced in
the lead or is he potentially damaged we'll see excuse me. Then beyond that,
the race for second place, which a lot of political observers pay attention
to because it indicates that when it gets down to a two person race may
be Assuming it does, there's an opportunity for that person who's placing second to
overtake Donald Trump in New Hampshire, which votes a week from tomorrow. If
Nikki Haley placed the second here, that should give her enormous juice going to
New Hampshire. And remember her home state of South Carolina follows New Hampshire.
But it's thought that Donald Trump is leading there too significantly. So what matters
most in a race for delegates is who winds up with the most, and
it's expected that Donald Trump will walk away with more delegates than anybody else here
tonight. We'll see what storylines come out tomorrow morning. Is I know that
Nikki Haley and Ron De Santas have been all over Iowa? Is Trump in
Iowa too, or is he back in Florida. Trump has been in Iowa.
He's in Iowa tonight. He was in Iowa here yesterday. He brought
hundreds of people out despite the cold and said that it's a pretty good indication
to him that the weather's not going to have an impact. Okay, I
guess we're going to have to wait and see, and they start, they
start caucusing like at seven o'clock their time. That's correct, and so the
results could be in living a few hours after that, okay, and we
will be watching and hoping that you stay nice and warm, because you're not
from Iowa, are you, Stevens. So this is probably extra cold,
No, but spent several years in upstate New York where it's not quite this
cold, but certainly snowy and snow here even than here. Well, we're
big babies here in California, and I tell you, it was like sixty
degrees and I was going all weekend. Oh it's cold. I think we
would all just collapse if we were in Iowa. It rains, I know,
right. All right, Steven Porton, I thank you so much for
your time and information. We'll be talking to you again soon. Yea.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsdream. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will continue
its war against Tomas until victory and will not be stopped by anyone. ABC's
Patrick Revel says. The Prime Minister also says the border between Egypt and Gaza
must be closed to keep weapons from getting in. But despite the devastation,
Israel is still far from achieving its goals of defeating a mass or freeing hostages.
Most Israeli official signal that the fighting is going to go on for months
more. This weekend marks one hundred days since the war against Tamas began.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude four point five has been reported south of Catalina
Island in the Pacific Ocean. The US Geological Service says the quake this morning
was centered about sixty one miles south of Avalon thirteen miles deep. It was
sixty nine miles off the coast of San Diego. The so called Doomsday clock
is set to get its annual update. It's a hypothetical clock that measures how
close civilization is to ending. It's kept by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
The clock was updated a year ago to ninety seconds to midnight. The
next update is coming a week from tomorrow. I always hate those. The
seventy fifth annual Emmy Awards will feature more than stars from today's TV shows,
but also cast reunions and recreations of classic moments from a dozen iconic shows throughout
TV history. Executive producer of the Awards Show, Jesse Collins says to watch
for the casts and vignettes from All in the Family, Cheers Martin, The
Sopranos, Game of Thrones, and even Gray's Anatomy. The first of them
will happen within the first ten minutes of the show, which airs tonight on
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