WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.440 You're listening to kf I AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King 2 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:15.320 on demand on the iHeart Radio f K five and kost HD two Los Angeles 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:37.320 and Orange County. A good ball, your host, Aby King. October 4 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:43.520 ball is here. Dodgers start playing again on October seventh, all the way 5 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:48.439 to the World Series. Baby. This is your wake up call for Monday, 6 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.000 October two. Good morning, I'm Amy King. Thanks so much for 7 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:56.119 waking up. Did you feel the fall chill in the air this morning? 8 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:59.000 Maybe I haven't. You probably haven't been outside yet, but when you do. 9 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:00.280 I felt this little chill and I was like, oh, yeah, 10 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:04.760 fall is here. Of course. Then I got a forecast coming up for 11 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:07.319 you. It's gonna be like one hundred degrees this weekend. But that's a 12 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:11.159 whole other thing. A sure sign. Holidays are right around the corner. 13 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:18.200 I got my Amazon Christmas catalog, Amazon's Holiday Dash, all the hot toys 14 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:23.400 the kids gotta have, Foolish Little Mermaid, stuffed animals, Spiety and his 15 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:27.959 amazing friends, lots of cool stuff. Hey, we had a fabulous day 16 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:33.280 at the Pacific Air Show yesterday. I'm gonna be telling you more about that 17 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.760 coming up. But in the meantime, I do encourage you to check out 18 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:41.400 my Instagram at Amy K King to see who I ran into. And here's 19 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:47.239 a hint. I feel the need the need for speed. It was a 20 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.079 really fun little encounter. I will tell you about that in a minute. 21 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.840 Here's what's head on the wake up call say after In the Hollywood studios are 22 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.040 scheduled to sit down for negotiations for the first time since actors walked out in 23 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:04.200 mid July. AI A big sticking point. California Governor Newsom has vetoed a 24 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.919 bill that would have paid unemployment benefits to striking workers. He rejected the bill's 25 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:14.520 Saturday. He said California's unemployment Trust Fund is already near twenty billion dollars in 26 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.479 debt and now is not the time to increase that. The lights are on 27 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:22.840 at the US government. Lawmakers passed a continuing resolution Saturday to keep the government 28 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:27.879 running through mid November. The big question now is whether Kevin McCarthy can survive 29 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.759 as speaker after that vote. We're gonna be talking with ABC's Stephen Portnoy about 30 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:36.039 this in just a couple of minutes. Don't away. At six oh five. 31 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:39.080 It's handled on the news. The governor has appointed a replacement for Diane 32 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:45.919 Feinstein. Einstein just passed away on Thursday night. Let's start with some of 33 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:49.159 those stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At least twelve 34 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.879 cities in La County have filed a lawsuit to stop the new zero bail policy. 35 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:57.840 Representatives from the cities noted in their filing late Friday that the new policies 36 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.680 a threat to public safety. Is zero bail for most non violent offenders started 37 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:05.520 yesterday with the blessing of the county's presiding judge and the Board of Supervisors, 38 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.560 but cities like Whittier, Downey, and Industry joined Glendora, Palmdale, and 39 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:13.080 Arcadia along with others to put a stop to the new policy. It's not 40 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.039 clear why the city's waited until the last minute, but it's expected more cities 41 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.840 will join the lawsuit. Steve Gregory caf I News. At least four people, 42 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:25.280 including an LAPD officer, have been hurt during a protest in Boil Heights 43 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:31.840 over proposed rent increases for city housing. The Los Angeles Tennant Unit Union says 44 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.800 LAPD officers rushed from behind protesters yesterday outside Boyle Heights City Hall. No arrests 45 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.039 were made. The union said it is planning its next march for early November. 46 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:47.000 Governor Newsom is named a replacement for Senator Dianne Feinstein, who died last 47 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:53.960 week. Appointing Democratic strategists Lafonza Butler to fill Diane Feinstein's seat fulfills Governor Gavin 48 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:57.000 Newsom's promise, and he would appoint a black woman. Many thought it was 49 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:00.599 going to be Congresswoman Barbara Lee until Newsom said he would not have point anyone 50 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:04.560 currently running to fill the seat as to not disrupt the primary process. ABC's 51 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:09.800 Alex Stone says Lee is running for the seat next year. Butler will be 52 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:14.680 the only black woman in the Senate. She'll be the first openly LGBTQ senator 53 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.680 to represent California. Opening statements are said to begin in New York in the 54 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:24.759 fraud case against former President Trump. The civil trial against the former president begins, 55 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:28.839 with the judge already having declared last week that there is enough evidence that 56 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:33.040 Donald Trump committed fraud by lying about the value of his assets and inflated his 57 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:38.800 net worth by as much as two point two billion dollars. ABC's Sonia Rincon 58 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:44.000 says the trial will determine penalties. She says Trump good face finds up to 59 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.680 two hundred and fifty million dollars and could lose control of some of his properties 60 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.199 in New York. The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been announced in Sweden. 61 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:57.800 The Nobel Assembly at Carolinsky Institute that has today decided to award the twenty twenty 62 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:03.279 three Nobel Prize in physiolog your Medicine. Jointly Secretary of the Nobel Assembly, 63 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:09.000 Thomas Pearlman says the award goes to two scientists for discoveries that allowed for the 64 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:15.040 development of MR and A vaccines against COVID nineteen. Katalin Kariko is a professor 65 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:19.639 at Sagan's University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. 66 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:25.680 Drew Weissman did his research with Kuriko at the University of Pennsylvania. Nobel announcements 67 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.399 are going to continue this week with the Physics Prize tomorrow, Chemistry Wednesday, 68 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:32.959 Literature on Thursday, and the Nobel Peace Prize, the big daddy of them 69 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:38.120 all, will be announced on Friday. Let's say good morning now to ABC's 70 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:41.519 Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, on Friday when we talked, it looked like a 71 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:45.920 shutdown was imminent, but at the very end of our talk you said anything 72 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.839 could happen, and it did. I'm so glad you remember that. I 73 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:55.680 was gonna say it if you didn't listen, I was right. No, 74 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:00.079 listen. What happened over the weekend was Speaker McCarthy knew that the only way 75 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.920 to avoid a government shutdown was to have by partisanship. He put on the 76 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.720 floor of bill that actually surprised Democrats and for a while they were suspicious of 77 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:10.879 it and said they needed to spend the time reviewing all seventy one pages because 78 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:14.439 it was done without coordinating with Democrats, and he put it on the floor. 79 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.120 It was a clean continuing resolution that did not include money for Ukraine, 80 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.160 but did provide an additional sixteen billion dollars for disaster relief, and after Democrats 81 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:25.639 initially aired their suspicions and even objections, they said, you know what, 82 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:30.399 We'll take this deal. And it was sent to the Senate with three hundred 83 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:32.240 and thirty five members of the House voting in favor and eighty eight members of 84 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.480 the Senate voted to the Senate of the President's desk, and he signed it 85 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:39.839 with leus than an hour ago, so no government shutdown. Government agencies are 86 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:44.439 funded through mid November. The question now is what are the ramifications for Kevin 87 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:47.120 McCarthy's Speaker of the House for essentially, I won't say striking a deal with 88 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:54.000 Democrats because again Democrats were caught off guard here. But he worked with Democrats 89 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.279 to get this done. And in fact, more Democrats than Republicans in the 90 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.800 House voted to send this bill to the Senate. Most Republicans voted for it, 91 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.040 but ninety voted against it. And among the ninety or some of the 92 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:08.720 loudest critics in the Republican conference, Matt Gates. Yeah, right, So 93 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.680 Matt, Matt Gates is today, as early as today, going to go 94 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.199 to the floor of the House and put up a motion to vacate the speakership. 95 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.439 It could trigger a vote within forty eight hours. It could happen as 96 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:23.240 early as today. That vote the first of what will likely be a few 97 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.199 votes. McCarthy yesterday said, or a Saturday said, bring it. He 98 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:30.360 is of the mind that first of all, he enjoys the support of about 99 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:35.079 two hundred of the two hundred and twenty one House Republicans. At best, 100 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:42.639 Gates has maybe maybe about twenty Republicans who are willing now to vote to oust 101 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.839 McCarthy as speaker. We'll see how it all shakes out. But the bigger 102 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:49.000 question is what are the Democrats going to do? Because the House of Representatives 103 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:51.879 currently as four hundred and thirty three members, the House chooses its speaker, 104 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:55.800 the House decides whether it oust the speaker. A lot has been made about 105 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:58.600 Matt Gates, but Matt Gates can't do it alone. He can only do 106 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:03.639 it if the Democrats side with him. So the question is, will the 107 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.639 Democrats join up with Matt Gates to devolve the House into chaos or will the 108 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:13.519 Democrats to reject Gates's motion? Or will Democrats sit on their hands, avoid 109 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:18.839 the vote, or simply vote present, which adjusts the math in the House 110 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.120 of Representatives, leaving it entirely up to Republicans. And if they do that, 111 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.360 well, then there's no doubt that McCarthy's position is safe, okay, 112 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:33.240 because if they vote present, and you've got the two hundreds who support and 113 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.840 the twenty against, then that's all that counts. That's exactly right. Then 114 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:39.919 the vote would be two hundred and twenty. Let's just say okay. Or 115 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.519 they could say, you know, he did us a solid by keeping the 116 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.360 government open, let's continue down this path, or on a motion to table 117 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:52.799 or a motion that would raise a question of consideration. There a whole bunch 118 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.919 of different parliamentary tactics that can be used here. But the point is Democrats 119 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:01.799 have a couple of options to derail gates effort. If they want to propagate 120 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:03.840 it, they simply have to vote along with him okay. And then Gates 121 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.440 said, oh, I'm gonna I could do this every day. Yes, 122 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.440 it sounds like a big waste of everybody's time. Well, and that's why 123 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:15.000 it's not likely to succeed in the end. But but his perspective is well. 124 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:18.000 Over time, as more Republicans wake up to what it is that McCarthy's 125 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:22.960 done to undermine our our principles and violate his promises and all these things, 126 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:28.000 well, then the numbers could grow. But there's also a move to maybe 127 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.879 talk about ousting Gates from the House. He's got a pending Ethics Committee investigation. 128 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:37.799 That's true. You know, I just love our talks because it's just 129 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:39.679 never a dull moment. Thank you so much, Stephen, and I'm glad 130 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:43.600 that you were right on from you. Bet all right, take care, 131 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.320 all right, good bye, all right, let's get back to some of 132 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.360 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Negotiators for actors 133 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.399 and the major studios are expected back at the bargaining table. Sag AFTER and 134 00:09:54.440 --> 00:10:00.279 the AMPTP have not held official talks since the actor's strike began in July. 135 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:05.080 The union's demands include general wage increases, protections against the use of actor images 136 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:11.840 through artificial intelligence big sticking point there, higher compensation for successful streaming programs, 137 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:16.519 and better health and retirement benefits. Members of the Writers Guild of America are 138 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.639 set to start voting on whether to approve their new contract with the studios. 139 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.559 The tentative deal was announced just over a week ago, following five straight days 140 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.039 of negotiations. It would officially end the strike that started in May. Retail 141 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:35.120 workers at Ontario International Airport have walked. They're gone. They've gone on strike 142 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.120 following months of negotiations with the Hudson Group. The union says previous contracts expired 143 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:43.759 three years ago and negotiations stalled out in January. Workers say they're tired of 144 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:48.600 working full time and not making a livable wage. A bill from an assemblywoman 145 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:54.080 in Fullerton to prevent certain people from owning a gun has been signed into law. 146 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.440 The bill from Assemblywoman Sharing Quark Silva, closes a loophole that allowed criminal 147 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.759 defendants who suffer from mental illness to own or possess guns. The law prevents 148 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:07.799 people in pre trial mental health diversion programs for a felony or specified misdemeanor charge 149 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.600 from owning a firearm until they successfully complete diversion. A completed diversion program can 150 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:16.519 prevent criminal convictions allowing a person to get a gun anyway, but the new 151 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.320 law signed last week allows prosecutors to petition the court to prohibit gun possession if 152 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.799 the person poses a threat to themselves or others. In Fullerton, Corbin Carson 153 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.600 kf I News, a former employee of the Eli County DA's office, is 154 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.159 suing the county. Brett Sereno claims he was driven out of the office by 155 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:39.159 intolerable conditions after the election of DA George Gascon. Serreno now works in it 156 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.519 for the county Fire Department. At least nine people in northern Mexico have been 157 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.399 killed when the roof of a church collapsed during mass. About fifty people were 158 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.919 hurt. Yesterday, rescuers were still searching through the rebel. Late last night, 159 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.120 dogs were being used to look for possible survivors. The cold and flu 160 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:01.080 season is right around the corner. At Nutritionist doctor Michael Gargo says boosting your 161 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.480 immune system will help you get ready for it, but a good balanced diet 162 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.320 you want to stay hydrated, sleep and rest. I don't know why some 163 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.879 people brag I only need three hours of sleep. Stress management easy for me 164 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:20.440 to say, hard to do. Garko says getting enough sleep and managing chronic 165 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:26.000 stress not only helps your body recover, but also strengthens the immune system. 166 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:31.279 He says you might want to also consider vitamin supplements. Okay, have you 167 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.240 bought the new iPhone fifteen? I don't have it yet. But they're getting 168 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.879 a lot of complaints that these little guys are overheating, and they're saying that 169 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:46.320 they're overheating when they're charging. They're overheating sometimes, like when you're playing an 170 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:52.759 intensive thing like you're doing gaming. Certain apps and Apple hadn't made an official 171 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.840 comment, but now looks like it's responding and saying we're going to work on 172 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.120 that, and it may have to do with the new operating system, the 173 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.919 iOS seventeen. I believe it is. So they said that they're addressing it, 174 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:07.720 and if it does have to do with the operating system, then they'll 175 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:11.519 send out a fix soon. I think I'm gonna hold off on buying the 176 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:16.639 fifteen for a little bit until they fix it. Governor Newsom has appointed Democratic 177 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:22.759 strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris's presidential campaign, Lafonza Butler, to fill Diane 178 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:26.320 Feinstein's Senate seat. Feinstein just died last week at the age of ninety. 179 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:30.600 With the appointment, Newsom made good on a promise to appoint a black woman 180 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.600 to fill the seat. Bus drivers in Santa Clarita could soon be going on 181 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:39.080 strike that could interrupt bus service in the area, including for many high schools. 182 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:43.799 Because the buses contract with the schools, LA County has eliminated cash bail 183 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:48.320 for most crimes, most people arrested for non violent or non serious events is 184 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.919 will be cited and released in the field, or booked and then ordered to 185 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.519 appear in court at a later date. People considered a danger to the public 186 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:01.759 or a flight risk will have their cases reviewed by I had judge at six 187 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:03.360 oh five. It's handling the news. You're gonna want to stick around for 188 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.279 Bill talking about this. One of the nineteen people, including former President Trump, 189 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.360 charged with allegedly trying to overturn the election results in Georgia has cut a 190 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:16.000 deal. Bill's going to talk about what that could mean for Trump. Right 191 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:20.519 now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, I've never 192 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:22.480 heard of this before and it kind of caught my eyes, so I wanted 193 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:26.559 to have you explained it to us. We've got saltwater from the Gulf of 194 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:31.720 Mexico flowing upstream. Yes, all right, so tell us what that is 195 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.799 and what it means. Well, the Mississippi River, of course, is 196 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:41.080 freshwater. The headwaters are way up in Minnesota. It actually step across the 197 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:45.679 Mississippi River where it begins. It's life. By the time it makes it 198 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.399 down to the Gulf of Mexico, it's wide and it's raging, and you 199 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.000 know, you can read a lot about it from Mark Twain. But right 200 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:58.320 now, because of a drought, the mouth of the Mississippi River. There's 201 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:03.159 such low pressure there from lack of rain that the salt water from the Gulf 202 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:07.840 of Mexico is making its way up into the Mississippi River. So it's gradually 203 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.080 creeping up. They're pushing against what normally would be pretty strong pressure. It's 204 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:16.399 not strong pressure, and so you've got what amounts to a saltwater wedge on 205 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:22.559 the bottom of the river moving gradually creeping up in towards some populated areas, 206 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.759 communities like Burus, Louisiana, Placamun's Parish, eventually perhaps New Orleans if there 207 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:33.679 isn't a sustained solid rainfall in the next few weeks. Okay, so what 208 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:39.320 is the what's the effect of that? Though? Well, so much of 209 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.440 the somebody of the communities there along the Super River draw their drinking water from 210 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:46.720 the Mississippi, so it's brought in, it's cleaned, it's chlorinated, it's 211 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.720 sound out into people's homes and businesses, and everything's great. Dealing with salt 212 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:56.679 water, there's a different animal, you know. The saltwater causes problems, 213 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.720 causes damage to the water treatment facility equipment, not to mention in people's homes 214 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:04.480 if they if it actually makes it out into your home. It causes issues 215 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:07.879 there and you can't drink it anyway, you could shower with it. But 216 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.600 in the long term there are some major, you know, effects from this, 217 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:17.559 not only New Orleans, but in those communities down south toward the Gulf, 218 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:21.480 toward the mouth of the Mississippi. Is it mainly small communities that you 219 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:23.679 said it could hit New Orleans, but otherwise as it mainly small licens, 220 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.840 small communities. Burausts is when I've been to Bureausts before us down and it's 221 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:33.480 kind of a fishing community, fairly closed to the Gulf of to the mouth 222 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:40.399 of the Mississippi. But the local paper has published a calendar essentially showing that 223 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.720 on October thirteenth, it could be in bell Chase. This saltwater could have 224 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:48.399 reached that far north in the Mississippi, which isn't too far from New Orleans, 225 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:52.600 then Saint Bernard Parish, then eventually New Orleans and Algiers, which is 226 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:57.360 on the east bank of the Mississippi River. So they're looking at this and 227 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:03.039 really hoping to get the heavy rainfall to wash away this salt water, and 228 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:07.599 the short term solution is kind of interesting. They're gonna put a fresh water 229 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:12.640 on barges up north, the up river on the Mississippi. So they're going 230 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:18.279 to go on the water and bringing water down exactly to bring it in by 231 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.400 barge that'll be put into the water treatment facilities to kind of keep the salt 232 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.160 water from getting in there. So yeah, I think it's interesting they're they're 233 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.920 using the source of the problem in Mississippi to kind of solve the problem at 234 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.000 least in the short term. And then are they bringing in like drinking water 235 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.079 and stuff and bottled water. Yes, they're urging people not to go out 236 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.920 and start panic buying and buying up all the bottled water in the stores, 237 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:45.640 which means they are will you oil. Probably it's going to look something like 238 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.400 that before a hurricane comes and everybody buys up all the bottled water and canned 239 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.559 food. You know. Kind it's so weird, Like in New York where 240 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:53.720 they had eight inches of rain in a day, You're like, if you 241 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.640 would have just shifted that down south a little bit and a little bit, 242 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.000 Yeah, whatever, Could this happen in other areas of the country too, 243 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.839 Well? It could. I mean, the Mississippi is such an iconic I 244 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:10.680 mean, it's it runs all the way the north south from Mississippi from Minnesota 245 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:15.079 down to the Gulf of Mexico. I think this one. And then there 246 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.680 are are the rivers. I'm sure that this could cause some problems too. 247 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:21.359 The Arkansas River, which flows into the Mississippi, may have these issues the 248 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:26.160 Missouri there, But I suspect that this is the most dramatic because this empties 249 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:30.359 right out into the Gulf, the gulf Ish saltwater. It's pushing against the 250 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.799 fresh water in the Mississippi, and for right now it's winning that little tug 251 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.160 of war. Okay, with the saltwater flowing up. I mean, are 252 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:41.440 they seeing like sharks in the Mississippi and stufford you get that anyway along the 253 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.599 Mississippi coast there in mississ state of Misissippi, they have nerth sharks there occasionally 254 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:49.480 Louisiana coast to Louisiana says, see some of that. The Mississippi River. 255 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:53.839 You know, there was a dramatic earthquake that happened one hundred years ago or 256 00:18:53.839 --> 00:19:00.720 so, and the river actually flow the opposite direction for its time, So 257 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:06.000 you know, it's susceptible to two weird things that happen in the environment. 258 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.200 Okay, well, we're going to hope for some rain for Mississippi or for 259 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:12.880 the Mississippi River and along that so they don't have to barge the water down. 260 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.440 That's bizarre, but hey, modern technology, if we can do it, 261 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:19.400 let's do it modern like barges. All right, Thanks so much, 262 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.119 Jim Ran, appreciate you explaining that to us. See you. All right, 263 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.480 let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty 264 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.839 four our newsroom. Employees at Kaiser Permanente could go on strike this week now 265 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:36.799 that the labor contract for seventy five thousand unionized healthcare workers has expired. Ninety 266 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.519 eight percent of union members who voted voted a couple of weeks ago to approve 267 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:45.160 a three day strike if an agreement wasn't reached before the expiration. A spokesperson 268 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.640 for Kaiser says progress has been made at the bargaining table and is urging workers 269 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.359 to reject all calls for a strike. We're gonna have to wait and see 270 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:55.640 on that one. Governor Newsom has veto to bill that would have let striking 271 00:19:55.640 --> 00:20:02.559 workers collect unemployment benefits. His Vito message to California has paid over three hundred 272 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:06.920 and sixty two million dollars in interest on a federal loan used to provide benefits 273 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:11.279 during the pandemic, and he says he has a deep appreciation and respect for 274 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.279 workers, but now is not the time to increase costs or incur as sizable 275 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:21.440 debt. The three year pandemic pause in federal student loan payments has expired. 276 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:25.160 That means twenty eight million people will now have to start making those payments again. 277 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.000 Average federal student loan borrower owes more than thirty seven thousand dollars in debt 278 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:36.519 payments, averaging between two hundred and three hundred dollars a month. ABC's Elizabeth 279 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:41.880 Schulzy says a lot of borrowers had hoped President Biden's loan forgiveness plan was successful 280 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:47.920 in court. The Biden administration says it is still exploring options for debt forgiveness 281 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.960 through a different law called the Higher Education Act. A craving for tacos is 282 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.599 paid off big for a couple near Sacramento. They had just returned from an 283 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:00.559 overseas trip when they stopped at their favorite taco truck and Patterson Tim Dine says 284 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:04.440 he usually runs over and gets a lottery scratch it from across the street when 285 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:08.759 he gets the taco, So he did that too. That scratcher was worth 286 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:15.279 a million dollars, and that's just you know, that's just a pittance compared 287 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.720 to Powerball. There was no winner on Saturday nights, so the Powerball jack 288 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:25.599 bodies up again over a billion dollars. The estimated jackpot is worth one point 289 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:30.359 zero four billion dollars. Four tonight's prize I would tie it as the fourth 290 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:36.640 largest powerball prize. Sag After and the Hollywood Studios are scheduled to set down 291 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.960 four negotiations for the first time since actors walked out in mid July. AI 292 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.240 and streaming continue to be big sticking points. Former President Trump is expected to 293 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:49.599 be in New York City today for his civil fraud trial. New York Attorney 294 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:55.519 General Letitia James has accused Trump and his family of fraud for inflating his net 295 00:21:55.519 --> 00:22:00.200 worth, which James said gave Trump better terms than he deserved from lenders and 296 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:04.839 insurers. A full length film about Beyonce's Renaissance World tour is in the works. 297 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:10.079 Reports say the singer is teaming up with AMC to release the documentary December 298 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:15.480 first. Taylor Swift's Era's concert tour hits theaters later this month. I think 299 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.680 on October thirteenth. It sold twenty six million dollars in pre sale tickets on 300 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:25.240 the first day they were available. At six oh five, it's handle on 301 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:29.200 the news. Zero bail goes into effect in La County. Actually it was 302 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:33.519 effective yesterday at least a dozen cities or pushing back and suing to get the 303 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.640 new policy blocked. At five fifty, We're going to be talking with the 304 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:42.200 executive director of the Innocent Center who helped free that man in southern California who 305 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:48.559 was wrongly accused and convicted and spent twenty eight years in prison for a crime 306 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:55.440 he didn't commit. His sentence was just overturned and he has been exonerated and 307 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:59.920 is now a freeman. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out 308 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.440 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden has signed a bill to keep 309 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.160 the government running, which gives Congress another forty five days to agree on a 310 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:12.240 spending plan. Quite frankly, I'm sick and tired. I'm sick and tired 311 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:18.480 of the brinksmanship and so an American people. The temporary bill does not include 312 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.799 the steep spending cuts that some conservatives wanted. It also cut out more than 313 00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:29.759 four billion dollars Democrats wanted for Ukraine. Republican Congressman Matt Gates has threatened to 314 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:34.000 remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker for working with Democrats on the temporary spending bill and 315 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:37.799 not reigning and spending. I am relentless and I will continue to pursue this 316 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:42.680 objective. McCarthy says he'll survive. Bring it on, let's get over with 317 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:48.319 it, and let's start governing. Gates says he will use a procedural tool 318 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:52.680 called a motion to vacate to try to strip McCarthy out of his office as 319 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.720 soon as this week. Two men from Riverside have been arrested for allegedly distracting 320 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:02.519 an elderly woman outsider home in Huntington Beach while one of them stole fifty thousand 321 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:06.480 dollars from her purse. The seventy nine year old was approached two weeks ago 322 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:10.440 when she got home from the bank. Police say that type of crime is 323 00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:15.640 known as bank jugging, where thieves pay attention to bank customers who withdraw cash 324 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:21.200 and then follow them home to rob them. At least twelve cities in La 325 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:25.200 County have joined together to sue the county over its new zero bail policy. 326 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:30.759 The group of cities filed a last minute complaint on Friday. Beginning yesterday or 327 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:34.839 most nonviolent offenders are going to be given a citation by police on the spot 328 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:41.440 and then just released. County officials say the new policy equalizes an unbalanced bail 329 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.480 system. Critics say the new program is a threat to public safety. Some 330 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:51.480 people who got Apple's iPhone fifteen Pro and Pro macs have complained the new devices 331 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.400 get too hot, both while using and charging the devices. Some users say 332 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.039 they believe the issue could be triggered by certain apps running in the background, 333 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:06.119 such as Instagram or Uber. Apple Tech support has referred customers to an old 334 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:10.799 support article on how to handle an iPhone that feels too hot or too cold. 335 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:15.119 The notice says overheating could occur when using intensive apps, charging, or 336 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:21.039 setting up a new device for the first time. Time to check in now 337 00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:26.240 with ABC News correspondent Tom Rivers, Good morning Tom. This one has kind 338 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:32.240 of flown under the radar. Armenian refugees are fleeing their homes by the thousands. 339 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:36.720 Can you tell us why they're going and what's happening over there? Good 340 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:37.559 morning Abby, Yeah, well, don't you know what you think? Back 341 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:44.160 this has been a sore spot going back about thirty years, but it really 342 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:51.200 really ramped up just over a week ago in Azerbaijan in essence, fired volleys 343 00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:56.920 of artillery shells in and basically after twenty four forty eight hours, the Armenians, 344 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:02.480 the ethnic Armenian said enos enough and they're packing their bags. Total population 345 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:06.759 ethnic Armenians about one hundred and twenty thousand, and by the latest count, 346 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:11.559 over one hundred and five thousand have now split down a mountainous road to Armenia 347 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.880 proper. So yes, it's it's kind of game over. And these people 348 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:22.640 have left their homes, small businesses, livestock fill in the blank, packing 349 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:25.839 whatever they have on their backs or in cars or in busses, and that's 350 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:30.480 it, saying that they can't carry on any longer there and Azerbaijan will in 351 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:37.000 essence take over within the next day or two at city Hall. And these 352 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:40.839 are this isn't like a military stronghold. It's just an area where people are 353 00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:44.920 living Is that correct? Yeah, exactly. I mean you look at Azerbaijan. 354 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:51.960 Armenians are a different background, Christian background, and basically, why why 355 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:53.200 have they left? Why didn't they hang around and say, well, we'll 356 00:26:53.200 --> 00:27:00.279 make some compromises. They're fearing reprisals, they're fearing as well, losing their 357 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.960 freedom to use their language, to practice their religion, et cetera, et 358 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.599 cetera. So again, by the latest count, eighty five to ninety percent 359 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:14.200 have already left the UN after something like thirty years. But they're back monitoring, 360 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:19.240 kind of twiddling their thumbs, watching this exodus, this outflow of humanity, 361 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.160 and not a whole lot they can do. Is the US helping at 362 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:29.799 all? Not really, just if you will, rhetorical support for the ethnic 363 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:33.720 Armenians. But but that's it, And the Armenians are calling it ethnic cleansing. 364 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:38.200 They are, they're using that language. In fact, the leader in 365 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:45.880 Armenia itself who's using that particular phrase, and you know others have been saying 366 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:48.119 today, you know, what can the UN do? What can the US 367 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.599 do? At this stage? All you can do is maybe put some financial 368 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:56.279 aid in the way of the pockets of the ethnic Armenians that have now left 369 00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:00.880 that are going to have to start over and create a new life in Armenia 370 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:04.200 itself. But it doesn't look like they're going to get the support to like 371 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:07.759 say, oh hey, you guys can come back. It's like you're out, 372 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.640 You're gone, see you right, Yeah, when no one is egging 373 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.720 for a fight as it is, over, game over, the horses bolted. 374 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.799 That's just crazy if you think of that, like if that happened here, 375 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:21.319 Yeah, exactly, you know here, we're gonna move you out. 376 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:23.559 We're gonna start bombing you. We're gonna clear out Huntington Beach. You know. 377 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.400 I'm taking over your host, host, Amy, goodbye, have a 378 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.720 nice life in Phone, Nebraska wherever you Yeah, exactly. All right, 379 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:33.839 Tom Rivers, thank you so much. Appreciate your time today. Take care. 380 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:38.359 It's really disturbing. Hey, flipping over to a happier things. Nick, 381 00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:44.400 Paulo Chini and I went out and about to the Pacific Air Show yesterday. 382 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.640 Good morning Nick, Good morning Amy. Yeah. So this was fun. 383 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:49.480 I haven't been to an air show in a long time. I've been 384 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:52.799 wanting to go to the Pacific Air Show because it's just so great. And 385 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.119 then Kafi is involved with it and we've had so many great stories about it, 386 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:02.119 and I tell you it did not disappoint yesterday that was amazing. That 387 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:04.839 show was rocking so and it's obviously it's over now, but just kind of 388 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:07.559 put it on your radar, put in the back of your mind for next 389 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:12.920 year, like it's it's worth the trip. And we saw F fifteens, 390 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:21.880 F thirty five's for a Hornet, FA eighteens, the Canadian Snowbirds, the 391 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:25.359 Air Force Thunderbirds of course, and then I know you got to kick out 392 00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:29.440 of the cow fire see one thirty. Oh my gosh to see one thirty. 393 00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.720 And you have to check it out on Instagram either Nick poly'keiny this week 394 00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:37.319 I with Nike, Amy k King or even Ka five AM six forty, 395 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.759 all of those have it. It was wild and they were showing exactly how 396 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.960 they respond as a fire and rescue vehicle and so they can bring up to 397 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:51.640 three one thousand cubic I don't know square feet of water something in that effect. 398 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:55.359 In it's a lot of water, and we saw a lot of water 399 00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:57.400 that was being poured over Huntington Beach. That was amazing. Also, we 400 00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:02.359 saw the paratroopers when we were for showing up to the evenge oh yeah, 401 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:06.200 and like exactly yeah. And then the thing that was the best is you 402 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:08.400 saw a couple of friends, right I did. Okay, So you guys. 403 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:12.200 So we're sitting there and they have the little uh they're the Gators. 404 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:18.799 They're like a hopped up golf cart and these two guys on the back of 405 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:21.240 it, and I go, jeez, that looks a lot like Maverick and 406 00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:25.279 Iceman. And I was like, holy cow, it's Maverick and Iceman and 407 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:29.960 these guys. I know they're actors, let's be straight, but these guys 408 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:34.480 were like dead ringers for Tom Cruise and Valkan. It was well and it 409 00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:38.359 was you know them thirty years ago when when Top Gun first came out, 410 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.759 and so I ran up to him. I'm like, hey, I mean 411 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.039 and they you know, they waved and pointed, and then they did they 412 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.359 stopped and took pictures with people a little bit later, and so we ran 413 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.559 over there. So you gotta go check out my Instagram. I'm totally fan 414 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.319 girl these guys. But it's at Emmy Kiking And did you put it up 415 00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.799 in yours? Tunic? Did I have a different It been us so yeah, 416 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.920 so that's over there also Nick poly O'Kenny or This Weekend with Nick. 417 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.279 Yeah, so check it out. So that was really just a fun treat 418 00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:08.799 and like smart of the air of the air show to do that, I 419 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:11.680 think it was fun for everybody. So there was fun on the ground, 420 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.119 there was fun in the air, and it was just a spectacular show. 421 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:21.799 Even of a FedEx seven fifty seven did a fly by and that's a huge 422 00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:26.359 plane flying right. Yeah, it was so cool. So and you know 423 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.160 they have they have it goes on for like a mile along the coast, 424 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.200 so there's tons of areas that you can just go and watch it, and 425 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.440 then there's the actual air show area where you can hear you can hear the 426 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:40.440 music and the announcers and really get the play by play of what's going on. 427 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:42.839 But either way, it's just a fabulous way to spend the day. 428 00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:48.240 It was so great, So highly recommend that for next year. Right now, 429 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.559 let's say good morning to the executive director of the Innocent Center, Michael 430 00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:56.400 Samancheck. Good morning, Michael, good morning, and thank you for having 431 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.400 me. Oh, thank you for making the time to come on this. 432 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.160 This came out last week and I was like, we got to get these 433 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:07.359 guys on because this is this is a story that made me incredibly happy and 434 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:13.519 incredibly sad at the same time, and that was that Gerardo Cabanius is now 435 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:19.200 a freeman. He was wrongly convicted and served twenty eight years in prison. 436 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:27.079 How how'd you get him out? Well, mister Cabanius was wrongfully convicted. 437 00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:31.400 He had twenty eight years ago. He was brought in by a detective and 438 00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:37.960 falsely confessed to the crime, and that false confession was then used to convince 439 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:44.200 the victims that to make a bad eyewitness identification. And so about two and 440 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:47.200 a half years ago, three years ago, we were lucky enough to get 441 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:52.039 some DNA testing going and the DNA testing, the test results came back and 442 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:57.839 excluded him from from being involved in the crimes he was convicted of, and 443 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:02.920 we worked with the Los Angeles Just District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit to reverse the 444 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:08.400 conviction and we got about okay. And had mister kevani AS's case been on 445 00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:12.480 your radar because you said two and a half years ago you got some DNA 446 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.480 evidence, But had you been trying to figure out things for him before that 447 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:21.640 time or is that kind of when he came to your attention. We started 448 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.920 working on his case five or six years ago. It takes a lot of 449 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:30.039 time, energy, and resources to reverse the conviction in the United States. 450 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:35.920 It's just on average, I think it takes roughly about sixteen years for a 451 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.680 person to get their conviction reversed in the US. And that's so that's just 452 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.359 as we really just believe in finality in the US, and it makes it 453 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.799 all the more difficult to reverse these convictions even when they're is okay, So 454 00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:50.480 take us back a little bit, because I want to talk about mister kevany 455 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:53.759 As. He was eighteen when he was arrested, and it was a pretty 456 00:33:53.759 --> 00:34:01.279 heinous crime. Yeah, So there was the he was just a child. 457 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:07.440 There were there were two men that were committing crimes in January of nineteen ninety 458 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:12.599 six. They were they would go and find people sitting in cars in a 459 00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:17.000 park and they would they would rob them. Sometimes they would sectually assault women 460 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:22.360 if they were in their cars. And that's what happened in two instances in 461 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:30.159 nineteen ninety five. And and so the victims had reported their crimes to police 462 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:35.960 and a few days after one of the crimes happened. Mister Kabaneus was standing 463 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:38.119 on a corner wearing red pants. One of the one of the witnesses had 464 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:44.199 described perfect for wearing red pants, and that's how he initially got picked up. 465 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:46.760 And then they got him in there and he didn't have a lawyer with 466 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:51.400 him, and they said confess, and he did. Why did he confess? 467 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:57.280 Yeah? So he was made a lot of promises by this detective that 468 00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:02.400 was known for eliciting false confessions, and he he was always going to get 469 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:07.599 home, and he was told, hey, why don't you just just just 470 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:12.440 confessed to this one little robbery and then and then you'll be gone and you'll 471 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.880 you'll be home on probation. And so he is in there for hours, 472 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:20.760 seven hours, and eventually just decides, like as an eighteen year old katie 473 00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:22.920 trust law enforcement says, final, well, I'll say I did this so 474 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:25.559 I can go home, and says he does it. They bring in another 475 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:30.000 detective and then they start recording and it's at that point he finds out that 476 00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:35.840 it's not just a robbery, it's actually all of these crimes where he's you 477 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.000 know, kid napped a woman and sexually assaulted or in a house, all 478 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:44.639 stuff that he didn't he had no knowledge of, but he had confessed because 479 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:46.360 he thought he was going home. Okay, and in nineteen ninety six, 480 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:51.079 we didn't have the availability of the DNA evidence, so there was no way 481 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:55.599 to disassociate him from the crime basically, and he had confessed, So why 482 00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.320 wouldn't they can right? Yeah, right, I mean, we had DNA 483 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:02.719 testing, but it required a lot of genetic material in order to develop a 484 00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:08.039 profile. And so, yeah, we have this confession, and who wouldn't 485 00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:13.920 believe a confession because at the time we didn't really have all of the data 486 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.119 that we have. Now we know that about twelve percent of the thirty three 487 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:22.440 hundred roleful convictions in the United States have involved a false confession. And yeah, 488 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:27.119 that DNA wasn't quite good enough at the time to get a full profile 489 00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.320 from the evidence that existed. Okay, So Michael, you must get people 490 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:35.280 saying every day I didn't do it, I didn't do it, I didn't 491 00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:37.719 do it, and they did. What convinced you that this guy was telling 492 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:42.199 the truth? Well, like all of our cases, you have to go 493 00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:49.239 and do an investigation and make an assessment as to whether or not it deserves 494 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.400 limited resources to try to get somebody out, and in this one, it 495 00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:57.079 had all the hallmarks of a false confession. So as we already mentioned his 496 00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.239 age, the fact that none of it was recorded, the fact that this 497 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:05.280 detective had done this in other cases and there was we had evidence to suggest 498 00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:09.239 that he had been involved in a listening false confessions and others. The fact 499 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:14.119 that none of the confession really added up and made sense. Yeah, and 500 00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:15.440 then we knew that there was this DNA that we could go out and test. 501 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:19.639 And so once the results came back and it confirmed what we thought that 502 00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.320 in fact he was he had falsely confessed, it became a whole lot easier, 503 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:28.639 and it was just a matter of fitting it together and figuring out what 504 00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:32.159 had happened, and that that part happened by working with the Los Angeles District 505 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:37.199 Attorney's office. That's got to be so like exciting for you when you go, 506 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:39.400 we've got one who really and we've got a chance at getting him out, 507 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:45.320 Like doesn't kind of makes all the work worthwhile. Absolutely, Yeah, 508 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:49.039 when you was you know, there's been a couple of days where you know 509 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:52.840 that stick out of my mind. When the DNA results come back and you 510 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:57.079 get chilled, and at the same time, it's it's also like, you 511 00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:59.159 know, it's kind of like it really you have to put your foot in 512 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:01.440 the gas because you at the absolutely know at that point the person's innocent and 513 00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:05.320 they're sitting there like you might have had an inkling for a while, but 514 00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:07.559 then you've get that confirmation and it's like, wow, we've really got to 515 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:13.360 get working fast here. And then the day, the moment that you walk 516 00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:16.559 up her person out of prison is really just one of the best days of 517 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.400 my life and certainly of their's. Yeah, and so what's next for mister 518 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:27.199 Keviny is, you know, like a lot of people that spend almost three 519 00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.800 decades in prison, he's got to learn to live back on the outside again. 520 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:37.119 And prison is a is a challenging place. It's emotionally and mentally draining, 521 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:44.840 and you live a different life in prison. So he's gonna, hopefully, 522 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.400 you know, slowly but surely, figure out how best to live his 523 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:53.840 life on the outside and and catch up a family that he hasn't really been 524 00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:57.519 able to see When he went to prison. His daughter was eight months old 525 00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:01.559 and she's almost thirty, and so spending time with his daughter and his loved 526 00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:05.639 ones that he hasn't really had a chance to see for the last three decades. 527 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:08.039 Yeah, well, certainly give give him our best. And you know, 528 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:13.079 I'm all for bad guys serving time for the bad things that they do, 529 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.599 but every once in a while, when you get someone like this, 530 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:19.440 it's so like it's just gratifying to hear that you're you're able to get them 531 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.760 out. So thanks, thanks for the work that you do. Michael Semanchik 532 00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:27.320 with the Innocent Center, we appreciate your time this morning. Yeah, thank 533 00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:30.480 you again for having me and go to the Innocent Center dot org and support 534 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.840 our work. We take donations and we'd love to have everyone insight. You 535 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.440 got it. Thank you so much, Michael. Than what a story. 536 00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:43.440 Isn't that amazing? And gosh, I can't even imagine like relearning the world 537 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:47.159 on the outside after all this time. I mean, and I know that 538 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:51.559 cell phones get into jails and that kind of stuff, but just everything that's 539 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:55.199 going on now that wasn't around thirty years ago. We lead local live from 540 00:39:55.199 --> 00:40:00.239 your KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your 541 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:02.000 wake up call and if you missed any wake Up Call. 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