You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. This
is your wake up call for Wednesday, July tenth. Good morning, I'm
Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and happy that you are
with us this morning. The heat continues. Today is going to be the
hottest day and then it's going to cool down, way down. I like
three degrees that's still hot. It's not so bad. I mean, I'm
not in the valleys, and I'm not up in Lancaster where it's top and
one hundred and ten for like the sixth day. It's not so bad.
And my cats seem to love it, like they want to go outside on
the balcony in the middle of the day. I'm like, don't she get
a little sweaty with all that fur Okay? I told you earlier this week
that I broke my toe on my vacation. I went to the doctor yesterday.
I'm like, I broke my toe, and she goes, Yep,
nothing we can do about it, so I was right in not going to
the doctor. Initially, I went to the doctor for something else, but
she said there's nothing you can do. And then it was feeling better because
she said it's going to be like six weeks. It'll take a while to
heal before you can like bend your toe again, and it's not excruciating pain.
And then it was feeling better. Yesterday afternoon, I'm like, oh,
maybe I'm really a fast healer. Today I can barely walk. I
think i'll elevate anyway. Here's what's a head on wake up call. Four
men and two women in Orange County who are all in the US illegally,
have been charged in a multi state ATM scamming skimmings scam scamming scam skimming scam.
The skimmers pick up account information and pins off of credit, debit and
ebt cards when you run them, and then that information is used to create
counterfeit cards and then they steal money from you. The six arrested are from
Romania, the UK, and Ireland. President Biden will officially welcome NATO allied
leaders to the summit in DC today. It's day two of the summit.
He'll also hold his first round of talks with new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The summit comes at a critical time for the president as he faces pressure
from fellow Democrats to show that he is fit to serve another four years.
Ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas are set to resume today in Qatar, nine
months into the war. We're going to get the latest from ABC's Jordana Miller.
In less than five minutes. iPhone users are being targeted in a smishing
scam Macworld in nine to five, maxay that smishing is a phishing attack sent
by text. It tries to get your Apple I log in. We're gonna
find out more about that and how you can avoid it with ktilas tech reporter
Rich Demiro in about twenty minutes at six oh five, it's handle on the
news to get the number of dogs and animal shelters down. The city of
La may start allowing people to have more furry friends. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news from the
heat wave baking southern California is expected to peak today with more triple digits in
the forecast Palmdale and Lancaster in the Anealope Valley are expected to set new records
by recording their seventh straight day of at least one hundred ten degrees. Slight
cooling as I mentioned, is expected to begin this weekend and last and continue
into early next week. Doctors in California are warning of harmful smoke exposure as
wildfires continue to burn across the state. Doctor Angela haksu at U see Davis's
smoke can contain toxic chemicals. The most dangerous type of eye fire is coming
from the wildland urban interface. Ax Wu says that's an area where human development
meets undeveloped wildland or vegetation. She says inhaling smoke can cause long term effects
like heart disease, diabetes, and other respiratory issues. A study in Science
Advances found it likely contributed to more than fifty two thousand deaths in California from
twenty eight to twenty eighteen. NASA is using satellites and i AI and then
passing the information along to firefighters to track and predict wildfires in California. Infrared
photos show how much moisture is in the ground and how dry vegetation is models
can then use that data to predict in which areas firefighters could take preemptive measures
like doing controlled burns. The La County Medical Examiner says KTLA entertainment reporter Sam
Rubin did die of a heart attack caused by coronary artery disease. Ruben went
to the hospital with stomach pain on May tenth after calling nine one one.
He died at the hospital a short time later. The medical examiner ers has
Ruben's heart stopped due to a lack of blood and oxygen. Sam Ruben was
sixty four. It's five seven. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller
and Jerusalem. Jordana. Potentially a big day is negotiations for a ceasefire between
Israel and Hamas get underway in Doha. That's right, Let's hope and pray
for the best. The CIA chief is in Dohak Cutter, and he's meeting
with all the sides, the Israelis, the Kataris, the Egyptians. This
is you know, not only are all the parties involved, but there's the
most kind of optimism being expressed or positive feedback from all sides. Before going
into this meeting. We saw Hamas come in and show flexibility. The Prime
Minister is doing a few things with statements, but behind closed doors we understand
that there's also flexibility and we're going to have to hope for the best.
There are a lot of things that decides agree on, but there are still
gaps. What will be a particularly thorny issue is the identity of Palestinians jails
here in Israel that Israel is willing to let out. Some of them have
been in serving consecutive life sentences for very deadly attacks on Israelis dating back to
the first into Fada and the second into Fada, those of the Palestinian uprisings.
So those are you know, quote unquote terrorists with a lot of blood
on their hands. There's going to be sites over who will be released,
and also issues of the redeployment of the Israeli Army and Egyptian security along the
Gaza border. Right Israel has now realized that most of the weapons came in
along the Egyptian border that Israel now controls, and they're not going to leave
that area unless they're convinced the Egyptians will keep arms out of the Gaza strip.
Okay, and is that is that where Rafa is. That's right,
that's Rafa is on the border. It's an eight mile border that goes you
know, west east to west to the coast, and Israel took that was
that was the one of the main aims of the Rafa operation was taking that
that border area. Okay, and the Rafa crossing, Jordana, Are you
saying that most of the weapons that were coming in that are fueling hamas were
coming through the border crossing or were they just coming across that eight mile border
somewhere. So they were both smuggled in through things that came over the Rafa
border crossing, and they also came through in dozens of tunnels that Hamas built
along right reaching from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, the same ones that we
saw reaching into Israeli territory, except on the Israeli side there was a lot
more security, and so most of it came through there. Israel has since
closed up and destroyed a lot of those tunnels, and Egypt got rid of
some of them as well, but it is still they still have access,
you know, those cross border tunnels. So Israel's one of the key points
of negotiating with the Egyptians over who's going to police that that eight mile border
if Israel leaves, if the troops leave, okay, and the stuff getting
smuggled over, was that coming across in AID trucks, as Israel was saying,
this is why getting AID in is taking so long because we have to
search those trucks. Or was is it not through those AID trucks or do
we well, I mean, clearly before the before, clearly before October seven,
there were arms coming through. There were arms coming through those AID trucks.
There were some arms coming through the Israeli side too, but the Israelis
were you know, they had they were infecting everything so much, you know
closer that the vast majority of the arms came in through the Gaza border.
It's also important to say that Hamav built some of their own weapons factories inside
the Gaza strip that Israel has found and destroyed. That is, you know,
making rockets, making rocket launchers. They're kind of crude missile, not
only rockets but M sixteen's right, which are called the Carlos. So you
know, it didn't all come in, but a lot of it, even
the parts for those things came in from through smuggling across the Egyptian border,
okay, and then Jordana. As the peace talks get underway, the war
is continuing and Israel has taken out another top has Belah official Aeel took out
another has Bola official. Hasballah responded as they do every time, with very
heavy rocket fire and missiles and drones on northern Israel. And yesterday one of
those rockets kind of direct hit on a civilian car and took out an Israeli
couple in their forties, a mom and dad. Those three kids, now
you know are orphans. But you know, Hebala is attacking primarily they say
military targets in the north, but this one got through and was very deadly.
That you know, tensions in the north remained very high. But there
is a direct connection between getting a feuse fire and Gaza and quiet in on
the along the northern border. Hezbala has signaled that they will hold their fire
if there is a fease fire in Gaza that can look towards the permanent end
to the war. So the two are now linked in a way that months
ago they weren't. And how long are the this round of talks expect to
last. Do we know, are they going to sit down for a day
or it's going to last a week or I think we're you know, it'll
be at least the day. It could be two or three. All right,
We're gonna have to see if things go well. All right, well,
let's hope that both sides are willing to give a little and we can
get something done. Thank you so much, jor Dana Miller. We'll talk
to you soon. Thank you. Here's some more of stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour news room. Opening statements are expected to start in
New Mexico in Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial. ABC's Jason Nathanson says the jury
was seated yesterday in just one day of jury selection, eleven women and five
men who were asked about their thoughts on Alec Baldwin's work as an actor,
their opinions on gun ownership, and more. The judge swore in the jury
and told the panel to avoid news about the case. Jurors will decide whether
Baldwin committed a felony when he shot cinematographer Helena Hutchins in twenty twenty one,
killing her and hurting the direct Baldwin could get eighteen months in prison if he's
found guilty. A man accused of killing his elderly parents and their dog inside
a mobile home in San Juan Capistrano has been shot by O C. Sheriff's
deputies. The man, covered in blood, apparently chased a neighbor's maintenance man
before he was shot yesterday. This woman says she knew the man's parents.
Say they are my neighbors. Yes, they're just nice people, very nice
people. It's very sad. Both parents were in their seventies. The forty
one year old son was shot several times and is in critical but stable condition.
The reward being offered to help find whomever dumped a German Shepherd with zip
ties on its mouth and neck has tripled. It's up to seventy five hundred
dollars for information leading to the arrest of the person who left seven year old
Argne the dog about two hundred and fifty feet from the nearest road in a
remote area of Malibu Creek Canyon. The dog is being cared for at an
animal shelter. LA Counties moved forward with a plan to add more elected supervisors
orders will be asked whether the La County Board of Supervisors should be expanded from
five to nine, and if an elected county wide executive is wanted. Supervisor
janis Han says the county and its ten million residents should have more representation,
home to one out of every thirty four Americans, and yet La County has
a smaller governing body than counties half our size. If voters approved the expansion
of county government, the new positions would be on the ballot for the twenty
thirty two election in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News border crossings the San
Diego border and nationwide have decreased by over forty percent since June fifth. That's
the lowest level scene since January of twenty twenty one. The numbers have been
dropping with since an executive order took effect that fast tracked deportations for illegal border
crossings. The Department of Homeland Security also says heat is a factor in the
declining numbers. The San Marcos City Councils voted to put new restrictions on homeless
camping. Now that the US Supreme Court has ruled cities can enforce local rules.
City officials say homeless camps are a public health issue, a fire hazard,
and a threat to the environment. The proposal passed last night on a
four to one vote. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says high inflation isn't the
only risk the economy faces. As part of his annual address to Congress,
Powell said yesterday he wants to see more evidence inflation is cooling before cutting interest
rates, but also said waiting too long could hurt the economy and the labor
market. The two giant pandas from China are settling into their new home for
the next five years at the San Diego Zoo. There's no timeline for the
public to be able to see Yun Schwan and Sing Boo, but the zoo
says they're comfortable as they adjust to their new surroundings. They're on loan to
the zoo for the next five years. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. The jury's been seated. Opening arguments are expected today in
Alec Baldwin's rust shooting trial. Let's say good morning now to the host of
rich on Tech on KFI kt LAS Tech reporter Rich DeMuro, or should we
say bonjour o Bonjoor from the most Parisian place in the world. I'm actually
in the basement of the Louver. What are you doing at the Louver?
We are This is where the Samsung event is happening today. They kicked the
most popular place in the entire city to do this event. I love this.
Okay, so tell us again because I know we talked about this a
little bit last week, but it's happening today. So you are there because
Paris. Uh, the Olympics are coming up in just a couple of weeks
and Samsung's a big sponsor. Yeah, but they decided to have what's called
their Galaxy Unpacked event here right now. It's about two twenty three in the
more two twenty three in the afternoon. The event starts at three pm and
this is where Samsung is going to show off their latest foldable phones. Also,
some new watches are rumored and they're smart Ring. That is pretty anticipated
because it's going to come with the likes of the Aura. Apple is expected
to get into the smart ring. Health is a big growing area of these
tech companies, and so this is Samsung's first foray into that besides the watch
and the phone. Okay, what's a smart ring. So a smart ring
is something that can be worn twenty four to seven. It looks like your
standard ring, maybe just a little bit thicker, yes, okay, but
it has sensors inside, so it measures your blood oxygen, it measures your
sleep, it measures your exercise. So some people don't want to wear a
big, bulky watch to bed, so this is seen as a way to
truly capture that twenty four to seven health metrics. So it's sort of like
the next generation of fitbit, because Fitbit kind of gathers that information. It
doesn't display it, but it gathers it. Yeah, exactly, And fitbits
are great and people like them. But the idea is that this can be
worn easily while you're sleeping. I know people can wear a fitbit, but
not everyone wants something on their wrist while they're sleeping. Yep. So that's
why people have really gravitated towards these smart watches. They could be kind of
pricey, but again, if you're really into your health, people are gravitating
towards these, and Samsung wants to be a part of that. It looks
like, okay, is it just a band or does it have like are
they decorative. Well, we don't know just yet because the event has not
started, but from what I've seen with the Aora ring, they are definitely
decorative. They are definitely a little bit thicker, a little bit you know,
bigger than your typical ring. But you know, people do like to
show their fashion sense, and so I would expect that Samsung would do something
very similar. Yeah, I like big bling. I'm looking forward to seeing
these. Okay, So then something else that is new is coming to Google
Maps, and that is this is interesting. Yes, and this is something
that we've seen on Google for Android for a while. But now, if
you use Google Maps in the car, you typically you see the speed limit
sign. Well, now next to that, you're going to see the speed
that you are going in your car. So obviously some people will like that.
Some people it may be a wake up call that oh, I'm driving
really fast. And by the way, that information is being collected by this
app. You can turn that feature off in the settings. But if you
see that on your iOS Maps app for Google Maps, that is a new
feature. I had a couple of people send me a screenshot saying, rich
is this new? I said, I don't think so it was on my
Android for a while. Now it's coming to iPhone. That's what's new about
it. So cops don't need radar guns anymore because you know they're collecting that
information somewhere. Oh, I'm not kidding Amy. When I was a kid,
I predicted that in the future, your car would just tattletale on you
and when you speed, it would just spit out a ticket from your dashboard.
And I think we're just getting one step closer to that reality. I
love the idea of the tickets case spin out of the dashboard. I'd be
in. So it'll trouble, It'll probably be emailed at this point, but
you get the gist. Yes, okay, Microsoft, you know how subscription
prices for streaming are going up. Well, Microsoft is raising the price of
the Xbox Game Pass. What's up of that? Yeah, so this is
going to go up to nineteen ninety nine a month. That's a three dollars
increase that is happening on September twelfth. And the thing that's going on here
is that they're going to introduce a cheaper plan for fifteen dollars a month.
But what's going on is that there are games that are big that people were
very excited for to have included in this subscription, the big one being Call
of Duty. There's a brand new one coming out, and everyone was excited
saying, oh, how cool is it that Microsoft is including this game in
our in our pass and they're not raising prices. And then, of course
a couple weeks later today they announced, oh, by the way, we
are raising prices. So this just goes to show all of these streaming services
there is one game garantee. If you're subscribed, prices will eventually go up
like clockwork, like cable. Okay, so be watching and do we know
when that's kicking in or is it already in place? That is September twelfth
for existing subscribers, and it is right now for new subscribers. So you
missed the boat if you're trying to get on that three dollars less fee for
the next two months. Okay. And one last thing. Bad guys always
looking for new ways to get to you. And a new thing that's happening
to your iPhone is called smishing. Yeah. Smishing is basically a social engineering
attack that's happening through SMS. So you might get a message and we've seen
a lot of these. Sometimes you can easily identify that they're spam. But
a lot of people have been getting caught up in this on the iPhone because
the page it takes you to to log into your Iicloud or your Apple account
looks very realistic. You have to be very careful about the links that you
click on your phone. Virus software and malware that used to be kind of
like the big thing that we were up against, and now we are up
against ourselves because if you click that link and you type in your username and
password, within moments, your account could be hacked. So please, if
you ever are in doubt, go to the website itself, go to your
Apple ID and log in that way. Do not just click a random link
and log in. Be very very careful with that. Good reminder, Good
reminder. Okay, Rich, we know you headed into the big event shortly.
What's your takeaway from Paris so far? A lot of people, a
lot of people like to sit outside and amy. The biggest takeaway I have.
All the seats at the bistros are facing the street. People don't face
each other when they eat, They face the street. People watching is like
a national pastime here and they have not gotten the memo about smoking because everyone
still smokes. And yeah, happy hours like twenty four to seven. Here
it's a different place. It sounds like my kind of place, all right.
Yeah, it's not bad. It's like Vegas, but you know,
more authentic without the gambling. Okay, yeah, Chris Jamiro have a great
time. Thanks so much for calling us from Paris, and we will say
au revoir for now. Thank you. Amy. All right, how fun?
What you know? He gets to go on the best assignments. A
jury's been seated and opening statements are expected today. In Alec Baldwin's trial in
New Mexico, Baldwin claims he didn't pull a trigger of the gun that killed
Rust cinematographer Helena Hutchins on the set in twenty twenty one. Prosecutors say test
show the gun couldn't have been fired without pulling the trigger. If convicted,
Baldwin could get eighteen months in prison. San Marco's city councils voted four to
one to put new restrictions on homeless camping now that the US Supreme Court has
ruled that cities can enforce homeless encampment bands. City officials say the camps are
a public health issue, a fire hazard, and a threat to the environment.
The proposal is going to need to get a next before it could be
enforced. Following their exchange about golf during the presidential debate, former President Trump
has challenged President Biden to an eighteen hole golf match. During a campaign rally
in Florida last night, Trump said he'd donate a million dollars to a charity
of Biden's choice if the president wins. Trump also challenged Biden to another debate.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Former President Trump,
as I just mentioned, challenged President uh Brighten to a debate and that
round of golf. Bill's gonna tell us more about that. At five point
fifty, The Latest and Greatest in vending machines, ABC's Jim Ryan is going
to tell us what they're putting in the machines. Now, Amy's on it,
Amy's on Amy's on it, Gami's on it. What am I on?
Oh? I'm on all things, streaming movies and documentaries and series.
Sometimes I'm books, sometimes I'm on movies. But with so much content out
there, the big question is what do you invest your time in to watch
so a lot of time. I take recommendations from my friends. And I
got a message on my Instagram from my friend Kimmy, who I just got
to see last week in Oregon. So that was fun. But now that
we've reconnected, I hadn't seen her for a couple of years, and now
that we've reconnected, she's sending me messages every day. It's always fun.
But anyway, she sent me a trailer teaser of a new show called Billy
and Mollie. It's an otter love story and it's on National Geographic. I
think you can get it through Hulu too, or if you go now.
They've bundled everything so if you go into the Disney app it's all on that.
It's an unlikely love story between a man and an orphaned otter. I
know sounds a little odd, but first of all, let's just say otters
are the freaking cutest thing in the whole wide world. So if for nothing
else, watch it because the otters are so adorable. But the story is
about this guy. He and his wife moved back to the remote Shetland Islands,
which is up by Norway and kind of the northernmost part of Scotland,
a really like barren but beautiful area, like the hillsides are green, but
there's no trees, so it's a little different than here. But they're right
there on the water and it's so just the views are picturesque, beautiful,
stunning, stark, and so it's just a really pretty show altogether. And
then they weave in this story and it is a documentary. It's not a
scripted movie. It's a documentary about Billy who finds this otter out on the
dock at their house. And he said, you know, otters are usually
really shy and they don't come up to people, but this one didn't seem
afraid of him, and so he thought, you know what, she's probably
really hungry. She's probably really desperate. And apparently she was very thin and
didn't look that well. So he took it upon himself to try to get
her some food, and they created this bond. And his wife had said
that her husband, Billy, had a certain kind of sadness about him until
he met the otter they named Mollie, and the couple's life, and especially
Billie's, begins to quickly revolve around Mollie. And it's really kind of it's
just fun and it's kind of heartwarming, heartwarming to see what he does to
accommodate this little otter who has become their friend. And so they feed Mollie
and they play with her, and they help her get back to being a
healthy, happy otter. And the show is really not only about playing with
an otter, which is on the surface adorable, but it's it's about what
Billy was able to teach Mollie and what Mollie was able to teach Billy,
and how much they both seemed to love that. And like I said the
documentary, it's picturesque. The land is beautiful. It's so fun watching the
otter and as they interact and then Molly meets other otters and stuff. It's
peaceful, it's joyous. Obviously, it's not anything. It's not like an
action movie, so you're not sitting on the edge of your seat or anything.
But it shows so much about the beauty of friendship, whether it's between
people or it's between a person and an animal, and it is just lovely.
So get your husband or your wife, or get the kids, or
even get the grandkids and sit down and watch this. Like I said,
beautiful, movie and so fun. I will admit I got a little bit
of a tear, but in a good way. Really a great show.
Billy and Molly an Otter love story. It's on National Geographic and Hulu.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Record high temperatures have been drawing tourists to Death Valley, even
as officials warned people to stay safe in this heat. It was one hundred
and twenty two degrees there yesterday. People from France, Spain, England and
Switzerland. That's quite a switch, left their air conditioned rental cars this week
to take pictures in front of a giant thermometer. One visitor called it a
once in a lifetime opportunity and said it was kind of like walking on Mars.
News brought to you by Simper Solaris, Kroger and Albertson's have released a
list of nearly six hundred Vaughn's and Albertson's stores that would be sold off under
a proposed mega merger. Sixty three of those stores are in California. Most
of them are in Southern California. Company officials say all employees would be able
to keep their jobs. The merger is being challenged by the Federal Trade Commission,
which claims the deal would lead to higher grocery prices. The United Food
and Commercial Workers' Union is also against the merger. The man accused of killing
an eighteen year old at a sober living home in Irvine has been charged with
murder with a sentencing enhancement for the person use of a deadly weapon. Prosecutors
say Braxton Hill use a dumbbell Monday to kill his roommate. Hill was arrested
hours after the murder on the I fifteen in Apple Valley. LA Mayor Bass
is set to speak at Metro's annual State of the Agency gathering. Bass has
chaired the board for a year and is expected to talk about Metro's infrastructure advances,
ridership growth, and the recent wave of violence to board buses and trains.
Those crimes have led to plans to form an independent police department to patrol
the transit system. That new police force will be rolled out over five years.
Labor unions have secured a deal to guarantee work along the High Desert Corridor,
more than fifty miles of high speed rail connecting the Antelope and Victor Valleys
are planned. State Building and Construction Trades Council President Chris Hannon says eventually it'll
be even bigger. This line is not only going to connect the Annalo Valley
and the he Desert communities, It's going to connect the state of California and
the states of Nevada. The timeline's not clear yet, but this week Union's
guaranteed that their members will be the ones doing the work as labor reps and
government officials signed official documents in Palmdale. Michael Monks KFI news. Hey,
is that a snake in your pants? Or are you just happy to see
me? A man in China has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle more
than one hundred live snakes into the country in his pants. Customs officials say
they caught the guy yesterday crossing in mainland China from Hong Kong with six canvas
bags filled with snakes strapped to his legs. Oh, that just makes me
cringe. The Dodgers are taking on the Phillies today in Philadelphia. The first
pitch is going out at four to five, and you can listen to every
play of every Dodgers game on AM five seventy LA Sports live from the Galpin
Motors Broadcast booth, and you can stream all the games too NHD on the
iHeartRadio app. Keyword is AM five seventy LA Sports. The record breaking heat
that's been baking the Antelope Valley and other parts of La County for days is
expected to peak today. Temperatures are going to top one hundred and ten degrees
again. Excessive heat warnings are up in several areas, including the San Fernando,
Santa Clarita, and Annealo Valleys as the state continues to bake. Fire
officials or warning people that even everyday tasks could be dangerous. A man in
the East Bay and another in Sonoma County have both been arrested for accidentally starting
fires with their lawnmowers. Officials say if you must mow or trim your weeds,
do it early in the morning, avoid open flames and barbecues, and
don't park cars on the grass. All those things could spark wildfires. Governor
Newsom says the twenty twenty six World Cup is going to generate more than a
billion dollars for California. The games will be played at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood
and at Levi Stadium in the Bay Area. LA is going to host two
of the three games in the group stage for the US men's national team,
but you have to wait a while, not till twenty twenty six. We're
just minutes away from a handle on the news this morning, visitors to Yosemite
National Park a bin responding to the call of nature in the park and are
leaving evidence behind to prove it. We'll tell you about that right now.
Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, you can get candy
and soda, pop and vending machines. People used to buy cigarettes, and
now something new is coming to vending machines. Bullets what bullets? Ammunition?
Okay. In fact, my little research show that the first, the very
first vending machines came about in the first century. They were in the temples.
You buy holy water there and drop a coin in and it would dispense
holy water. Isn't that amazing? First they did not. Yeah, these
things have been around forever. So the latest vending machine, though, a
company that's based here in the Dallas area, American Rounds, has begun installing
vending machines in Alabama, Oklahoma, a couple here in Texas, next in
Colorado that dispense ammunition. Right, But there's a process here. Amy.
You don't just walk up, plunk in some money and here come the bullets.
You have to scan your driver's license or your ID. The machine is
able to verify that it's an actual ID, and I assume check your criminal
record. If you have a felony conviction, you can't purchase ammunition. But
then once the verification is made, it snaps a picture, a three D
picture of your face, your head, ninety two points of comparison. It
looks at that against the picture ID and then determines whether you can purchase ammunition.
Then you provide your form of payment and outcomes a box of bullets.
So that's kind of the latest thing. Interesting. And you said it's in
Texas. Is it coming to other places too, or are they just are
they kind of testing it? Or I think this is it's shared, it's
actually being done. There a couple of locations in Alabama and three locations I
guess in Oklahoma. These are communities that are kind of small outside the main
city where you could easily get ammunition communities that where hunting is popular and where
people want to buy bullets, and so, yeah, there's only one here
in Texas, even though the company is based here, and next there are
plans to open one of the next few weeks in Colorado. In Tusca Looosa,
Alabama, the city council sat down last week and they were having an
informal meeting. They were sitting there talking about stuffing when somebody said, Hey,
you see that vending machine over on the other side of town. They're
dispensing ammunition. Well, the council told them that they could told them they
had to shut the machine down and take it out. The owner of the
convenience store did that, but he says it was because the money the machine
wasn't making any money. But so it could be that there will be legal
challenges that test these waters. So far though it appears to be legal.
Yeah, I was going to say, in a place like California, where
they're putting restrictions on guns and ammunition and all of that stuff, I can't
imagine that they could get away with it here. Yeah, it's I think
it's a very local kind of thing. I doubt that they would even bother,
you know, putting in machines in California, although I know there are
places there in California where hunting as popular. Yeah, but I mean in
terms of federal regulation, if you can purchase ammunition online, which you can.
You can go online. You just click a box that says yes,
I'm eighteen, You provide the form of payment, and here comes see the
ammunition. Well, the owner of this company, this American rounds company,
says that this is more secure because it's verifying, at least using some method
of verifying that the person is of age and legally able to purchase ammunition.
I wonder if we're going to be able to get pot from vending machines.
I wouldn't. I think there's still that conversation out there. Pot possibly alcohol,
you know alcohol really yeah, in some place. I know that.
In my fraternity house when I was in college. Oh what fraternity were you
in? Capisigma? Really? You guys were right across the street from what
we're doing. Alpha Fi, Alpha Fie. Ye. My roommate's sister was
an Alpha fe. Anyway, we had a coke machine in the basement,
yeah, and loaded it naturally, as fraternity boys do with beer cans.
Right with beer, you didn't know what was coming next, so you'd put
in fifty cents. It was only fifty cents for a can of beer,
and the first four were the worst, awful, cheapest beer we could find.
Every fourth or the fifth one was going to be Heineken. So it
was kind of a combination slot machine alcohol coke machine. Okay, smart huh?
Yeah. I think you can get pizza from some vending machines. Don't
they like cook it and spit it out? Well, I mean in those
those what do they call them something matt remember the back in the fifties and
sixties that became very popular that they had these valones you saw in old movies.
They to go around their circle and you open the little door and take
it out. Yeah, and at airports you can get makeup through vending machines.
You can get electronics. I bought a pair of headphones in an airport
vending machine. Good ones. There's so many sound canceling, noise cancelings,
and they're okay, there were only forty bucks, but they work. Still.
Yeah, I would just again, I'm still a try and buy kind
of person, So you want to make sure that thirty out six ammunition is
going to work before you plug down money for it exactly. Okay, Well,
we'll see if there's legal challenges to this one, because it just seems
like it would be rife with them. Yeah. I think you're right.
People are sitting there saying, well, something wrong with it. I can't
quite if it's legal to buy ammunition online or walk into Walmart? Should this
be legal too? I think you're right that somebody will put their finger on
it and there may be a lawsuit. All right, ABC's Jim Ryan,
thank you so much. All Right, let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Six foreign nationals living
in Orange County have been charged in a massive ATM theft scam. Federal authorities
say the group installed skimming devices on ATMs across the country and at check out
point of sale units in stores. Those skimming devices allow the thieves to read
and capture account information and pins. Four of the six charged our citizens a
Romania. The group allegedly withdrew as much as three hundred thousand dollars from bank
accounts and made an unknown number of purchases Nearly six thousand people have signed a
petition against the California Public Utilities Commission over an upcoming electric fee of about twenty
four bucks a month. The flat charge is intended to distribute grid related costs
to all customers of investor owned utilities. State Senator Rosalicia Ochoa Bog who led
the petition effort, says Californians are coming out against the fea as they become
aware of it. They're saying enough is enough. I'm with them. I
feel I feel for Californias and their ability to live in our state. The
CPUC, which created the fee, says it will coincide with price cuts to
electricity usage. The fee is set to go into effect next year. Blake
Trolli kaf I News. Two Democratic senators have asked the Department of Justice to
investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for potential ethics violations. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and
Ron Wyden sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Gardland Garland requesting he appoint a
special counsel. They say evidence gathered suggests that Thomas has committed several violations of
federal ethics and false statement laws by accepting luxury gifts and travel from donor friends.
You have no style or sense of fashion. Miranda Priestley is returning to
the Devilware's Prada. Disney is developing a sequel to the two thousand and six
movie, starring Meryl Streep and Hathaway and Emily Blunt. Variety says the story
follows Miranda Priestley as she navigates the decline of magazine publishing and faces off against
Emily Blunt's characters, now a high powered executive. The details are limited,
so that's all. Yep, that's all. And with that, that's all
for Wakeup Call. This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour news room for
producer Michelle and technical producer Kono, along with traffic specialist Nick. I'm Amy
King. This has been your wake up call, and if you missed any
wake up Call, you can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been
listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear
wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,