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It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. It's
five o'clock. Time to get up, get your day going. This is
your wake up call for Tuesday, March ninth. Good morning, I'm Amy
King. So we made it through the eclipse. Did you watch it yesterday?
Had? I got my glasses. I got them from Mondo from the
Gary and Shannon Show, so I was able to see the eclipse. It
was kind of cool here, not spectacular here, but cool as you're seeing
the moon crossing across the Sun. I tried to get pictures of it didn't
turn out at all. I used the eclipse glasses to cover the lens so
I wouldn't damage it. Didn't turn out at all. I did miss a
very big thing tagged to the eclipse, and I'm kind of bummed about it.
I know Nick Poliochini took advantage of it, but that was Krispy Cream
had special eclipsed doughnuts, so they were the original glazed with chocolate icing and
then dusted with silver sprinkles to represent the darkened sky, and then they had
butter cream frosting and they topped it with an oreo cookie. Sounds like a
big It was delicious. Oh there he is, Yeah, I coincidentally I
am here early. Yes, No, it was delicious and it was a
cookies and cream also underneath that oreo, so carry very good. That butter
cream was a cookies and cream. It sounds like a whole lot of sweet.
It was a whole lot of sweet, a whole lot of sugar.
So yes, trust me, still a lot of sugar high. Okay.
So our buddy Rick Johnson, actually he used to work here at KFI.
He was our digital website guy, and he's he's now moved on to bigger
and better things. He's an author. In fact, he's got a new
book out. We're going to talk to him at some point about it.
But he traveled to Dallas and went to Addison's Circle Park and then he posted
some stuff about it. So he and I were texting back and forth and
I said, can I share the audio of what you got there? And
this is the crowd is they hit They're about to hit totality and then they
had Star Wars music in at the park and the crowd goes wild. Oh
and that little moment of silence that was him swearing. But it was just
it was very cool. And I watched it on CNN and Fox and that
kind of stuff, and it was I mean, it is powerful. And
I've heard that from like from everybody who's been there. They said, it's
just like this amazing, powerful, surreal experience. And I'm like, now
I want to see an eclipse. We don't get one until twenty twenty four.
Oh, no, twenty forty four. This is twenty twenty four.
We don't get one for another twenty years. But here's what's ahead. On
the wake up Call, the LAPD says the death of a five to six
month old baby on the four or five freeway in your Culder City could be
connected to a man's murder in Woodland Hills and a deadly crash in Redondo Beach.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has picked a date to start an
offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafa. While he didn't say what the
date was, he says that entering the city is necessary for victory over the
Palestinian militant group Hamas. We're gonna be talking with ABC's Jordana Miller about this
in just a minute. And Yu Khan has won back to back NCAA Championships,
beating Perdue last night in the men's title game seventy five to sixty.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The woman spotted on
video smashing out car windshields all over La County has pleaded not guilty. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of the KMFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The LAPD says a baby found dead on the four or five in
Culover City could be connected to two other deadly scenes. CHP Officer Steven Selass
says first responders found the baby on the roadway yesterday and a nine year old
on the side of the freeway. She had moderate injuries. Where they push
or were they did they jump out? You know, we're still trying to
figure out get to the bottom of how they ended up on the freeways.
The girls were found shortly before a woman was killed in Redondo Beach when her
car slammed into a tree. Police say the two events may also be connected
to the murder of a man in Woodland Hills. The CEO of Pick and
Save is working with investors to try to save some ninety nine cents only stores.
The ninety nine has filed bankruptcy because of financial losses during the pandemic and
the inability to keep up with inflation. Mark Miller says he's working quickly to
try to save the stores and bring back bart for buyers. When entrepreneurs start
to get big and other people get involved, processes become more important in a
company than the content. Miller says he's only looking to save the one hundred
and forty three stores in California, and if he's successful, we'll shut the
stores down for ninety days for improvements. The ninety nine announced last week it
would be winding down business and has already started liquidating sales. Chris Adler kf
i Knews a new bill in California would change Ticketmaster's dominance over live event ticketing.
Grammy winner Jay King says when Ticketmaster and Live Nation merged in twenty ten,
it became a monopoly. Monopoly means one one entity who benefits from the
system they control. AB twenty eight oh eight helped fix this broken system by
creating competition. Ticketmaster controls eighty percent of primary ticket sales in the US.
King says increasing competition will lead to lower fees and better service. The law
would also make it illegal to limit the transfer or resale of tickets to penel
or penalized, discriminate against, or deny access to an event for resellers.
Time to say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, first
of all, I want to talk about Natannell who coming out yesterday and saying
they've got a date for RAFA. Right. Well, N'taennielle, you know,
continues to threaten the RAFA operation in the face of opposition from the United
States and European leaders and just about everybody in this case, yeah, just
about everybody. And in this case, N'tennielle suddenly put out this video announcement
that they have a date for the operation. Of course didn't tell us what
the date is, but it's clear that it's related to Israel's decision to pull
all of their forces and every combat soldier out of southern Gaza. That decision
drew a lot of criticism from N'ataielle's far right partners in the government, and
a couple of them were threatening to bolt and bring down the government. And
so suddenly we saw an Attenniell scrambling to say, no, no, no,
Rafa's going to happen. We have a date. The war's not over.
We're going to vanquish Hamas in Rafa. You know, it's a lot
of talk, and you know, clearly Nataniell thinks there's a strategic interest and
many do for Israel to go into Rafa, but realistically, on the ground,
you need many, many weeks to carry out an assault on Rafa.
First of all, right, now there's a window of opportunity for Goza Seafire.
It's being negotiated. We've heard Israel's respond. Hamasa's response to the United
States is waiting, and that's going to take, you know, a week
perhaps two before that possibility is exhausted. And then Israel has to not only
call up troops, bring troops back in and evacuate a million civilians. I
mean, an actual assault on Rafa, most experts here will not be for
another six weeks, eight weeks, two months, two and a half months.
I mean, it's not something that is imminent, and it never really
has been and it's not going to happen overnight. As you mentioned, now
you talked about that window that so we're we hear that they might be making
progress in talks and then nothing comes of it. But now we're hearing again
that there may be some meeting of the minds or that the two sides are
getting closer to a ceasefire deal, which would be good, but would also,
as you just mentioned, could give them time to move all of those
people who've gone to Rafa to escape the fighting, to move them to another
area. Right, So we are I mean, it often feels like we're
on a roller an emotional rollercoaster. Would be talk, I mean, certainly
for the Israeli families and certainly for the country at large, since it's a
small country and there's been such a vocal public plea for months on the from
the families of the hostages to you know, get them out. So the
whole country you know, goes up and down. But you know, Israel
for the first time was saying there's been progress, and then Hamas said,
well, Israel didn't really meet our demands, but we're still going to look
at the deal. It's probably more spin than what's really happening, because the
United States says also that you know, there was progress made and now everyone's
waiting, essentially, you know, twenty four to forty eight hours to hear
the response from Hamas. I mean, it's a good moment right now to
move forward with a hostage relief deal. First of all, Israel has pulled
almost all of their troops out of the Gaza Strip, which is what Hamas.
You know, it is many steps towards Hamas's demands that all troops leave
the Gauza Strip. There's still a few thousands, but much less when we
think at the height of the war there were fifty thousand Israeli troops. Now
there's a few thousands. Also, you know the push by President Biden after
the AID workers were killed in that terrible tragic accident, and as famine looms
in the North, you know, there seems to be a new urgency led
by the President to push all the sides to cut a deal and to pause
the fighting. And so they are pushing hard on all the sides, on
Cutter, which has the most leverage, on Hamas, on the Egyptians,
which also have a say right because they control the borders in and out of
the Gaza Strip, and then and Biden and the administration is putting pressure on
Israel. So we know that Israel, for example, now has said,
well we'll let most of the Gosens go back to Northern Gods without security checks.
That means that Israel, you know, whereas before they wanted to make
sure that men of fighting age were not armed and moving back up to the
Gaza Strip, Israel it's going to say, okay, well we'll just let
whoever wants to go back up to Northern Godzap for the most part go if
they're not you know, identified militants. So that's that's a concession that Israel
seems to have made in this round. And we'll see if that's good enough
for Hamas you know, it would the same parameters are there that we've been
talking about for weeks, forty hostages out for a six week ceasefire, you
know, one hundreds more trucks per day that would come into the Gaza Strip,
and then during that six week period there would be discussions to extend the
ceasefire and bring out more of the hostages. Okay, well, let's hope
that some progress actually is being made this time and well question all right,
thank you, Jordana Miller, appreciate your input. Okay, all right,
talk, So let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Justice Department has announced the arrest of a
man in Idaho accused of planning to carry out attacks on churches in court a
Lane after pledging support to ISIS. The eighteen year old was arrested Saturday.
The Fed say he planned to attack a specific church over the weekend. According
to the charging documents, his attack plan involved using flame covered weapons, explosives,
knives, a machete, a pipe, and ultimately firearms. ABC's Christian
Cordero says investigators have said they believed the man may have been motivated motivated by
a terror attack last month in Russia. The Redland School District has paid more
than forty five million dollars to settle sixteen sex abuse lawsuits by former students.
I believe there's more than fifty victims. Lawyer Morgan Stewart says the abuse started
in nineteen ninety seven, when a now disgraced administrator put in school policies that
resulted in a couple dozen sexual predators working for the district. A environment meant
that not only was it conducive to sexual perpetrators, but was permissive, that
didn't report, that failed to follow the law, that hovered for perpetrators.
Stuart says. In addition to last week's settlement, eight cases are still pending.
Redland School District has yet to provide a comment. Corbin Carson kf I
News, Well, that didn't take long. Officials in Oregon say a person
with a ticket matching all six powerball numbers from Saturday nights, drawing worth one
point three billion dollars, has come forward. The ticket was presented yesterday.
It was sold at a convenience store in Northeast Portland. Hey, I used
to have a house in Northeast Portland. The state lottery says it's working with
the alleged winner in a process that involves security measures and vetting, and that's
going to take a little time before the winner is publicly announced. Wow.
Normally it takes like six months to a year because they lawyer up and hide
their identity on all this stuff. I guess it was enough. They said,
screw it, I want my money. Okay, you don't have to
go far to find a super bloom. I know Nick and I have been
talking about heading out to a super to find the super blooms because we had
all that rain over the winter, and last year we went to the we
went to the Poppy Preserve up in outside Lancaster. This year, the poppies
aren't blooming. So I remember that we were there and we asked why the
poppies hadn't fully opened, and one of the people who works there was telling
us that the conditions have to be just right and the sometimes you can get
too much rain, and it looks like they got too much rain this year,
So the poppies are not in super bloom up at the poppy Reserve.
But if you're flying in and out of Lax in the next few weeks,
just look for the grassy areas between the runways because apparently a super bloom has
sprouted at LAX. So I would imagine it's very nice to see when you
fly in and fly out, but the World Airports is saying, hey,
if you fly in and out, make sure you look out the window.
Don't just shut the shape, because there's this beautiful orange swath of flowers.
Kind of cool there's other places to go see too. Anzoborega Desert State Park
has a pretty decent bloom going in the San Gabriel Mountains. Wildfires are blooming
along the first leg. I'm not sure where this is of the canyon trail
at Placarita Canyon Nature Center in New Hall, and also the habitat gardens at
Elizabeth Learning Center in Kutahey, all this rain makes for beautiful blooms and we
have now to do it. I think they last until like early May.
So if you're going to do it, you do sort of need to make
plants. The Biden administration's proposing a new plan to slash student loan debt for
more than thirty million borrowers. The plan, announced yesterday would affect those with
so called runaway interest, borrowers who have been paying on loans for twenty years,
and those who qualify for income driven repayment plans. The La City Council
is going to consider a temporary moratorium on dog breeding permits at its meeting today.
Supporters say it would help the city run the city run animal shelters,
which are packed. If passed, it would the mortarm would be lifted once
the shelters are at or below seventy five percent capacity. For three straight months,
the NAIA has banned transgender athletes from women's sports competitions. The National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics Council of Presidents approved the policy on a unanimous vote yesterday.
The NAIA is the governing body for sports for two hundred and forty nine small
colleges not part of the NCUBA. At six oh five, It's handle on
the news. Billboards are going up around LA promoting gun safety. Right now,
let's say good morning to Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money
on KFI. Good morning, Joel, Morning Amy. So we were talking
about how everybody's offering subscriptions to stuff now, and then we came across another
one just announced by Alaska Airlines called Alaska Axis. Yeah. I mean,
this is the monority runs on subscriptions. And you know Duncan donnutsays America runs
on Duncan. Well, our modern economy runs on those five, seven,
ten, twelve dollars whatever it is monthly subscription fees that we pay to a
slew of different businesses. This is another one of those attempts to get you
to sign up in hopes that you will forget about it and continue to pay
Alaska money. And just like every single other subscription, there's a lot of
silly ones out there and we need to pay close attention. But whether or
not this one makes sense for you depends on how you live your life,
depends on what you're normally doing with your travel, and is specifically with this
one. Because Alaska is going to charge you five bucks a month, that's
not terrible, okay, but what are you getting in return? Well,
you're getting like once a month free internet access on flights, So if you're
flying typically once a month on Alaska, it's like, oh wow, okay,
that might be worth it. You get early access to some of the
sales that Alaska offers. So if you are kind of a loyal Alaska fan,
you fly fairly regularly on that airline, then this five bucks a month
could make a whole lot of sense. But if you're like, yeah,
I go on a trip once a year, that's sixty bucks you'd rather have
in your wallet. Yeah, this is definitely sounds like frequent flyer stuff for
sure. Exactly Okay, I'm going to skip that. I love Alaska,
but I don't fly that often. Okay, So there's a new bill introduced
that would limit your employer's right to reach out to you after hours or during
non work hours. I'm sure anybody working in the modern workforce has at times
been annoyed that they get a text message, a phone call, or an
email at ridiculous hours of the night. And I think, especially given the
nature of work post COVID in particular, with so much hybrid going on,
the boundaries have become blurred. And so this bill that's been introduced, it's
Bill Assembly Bill twenty seven to fifty one. This is an attempt to say,
listen, employers, you don't have the right to contact employees at all
hours of the day and night. There have to be limits to this,
and there have to be limits to your expectations for employee response, because a
lot of times those expectations are that you pick up the phone and you address
the issue now, right right now. Okay, I'll do that first thing
in the morning. It's exactly carefully. Hey, I sent you an email
at nine nine pm. Why did I hear back till eight thirty am?
And kids, that's when I start my work day. I'm not sitting in
my bed checking my email. I'm reading a book and winding down, and
so I totally get the impetus for this bill. Thirteen countries have already done
this, France and Spain or a couple of them. I believe Australia is
at least weighing whether or not to implement this bill. I'm so much more
a fan of this than I am of the thirty two hour work week bill,
which kind of forces people into a four day work week, which if
that's what you want to choose, that's totally fine. But I just don't
know that we need some sort of government mandate to tell us how many hours
we can work in a week, and that we can't go overboard because,
like we talked about with that one, it might prevent ingenuity, especially in
certain sectors of the economy. But this is a much better attempt, is
it? The best? Thing? That depends? Right? I saw somebody
wrote about this, Jennifer Graham. She said, with reasonable people, this
sort of thing could be accomplished with a conversation, not a law, and
I tend to agree with her on that too, Like I think that if
you and we don't know if this bill is going to pass anyway. So
if you are being reached out to all hours of the day and your boss
expects a response, I would say, hey, listen, I do awesome
work between the hours of eight thirty and five. If you need me to
check email one time at seven pm and beyond for ten minutes, like,
we need to talk about that. But here are my boundaries. Here are
my clear lines of delineation. And if it's a pants on fire situation,
you're going to have to give me a call or whatever. But like,
I think it's okay to have that proactive conversation with your boss. And if
your work is great and speaks for itself, I'm pretty sure most of the
time your boss is going to be amenable to your proposition about when you're available
and when you're not, and they'll respect those boundaries. Okay, I need
to find a new job. Well, and speaking of that, there's a
lot of people who are looking for or want to look for a new job.
Yeah. I was kind of shocked by the statistic, but and you
got to be careful to know the source. And you know, Monster dot
com has their Monster work Watch report, and they basically found that ninety five
percent of workers in the United States of America are either planning to or are
already looking for a new job in twenty twenty four. Everybody right, exactly.
I was like, that's excessive. I'm one of the random people in
the five percent who's not looking for something else. There's also nothing wrong with
looking for a new job. And in fact, new statistics out from ADP
this week, and the average pay increase for switching jobs is going back up.
We've seen the unemployment rate tick down a little bit, which means even
though the labor where things are at with labor in this country, it's not
nearly as insane as it was eighteen months ago, but still it's a really
tight labor market, and you, as an individual worker, have a lot
of options out there at your disposal in so many sectors of the economy.
So if you stay put, you're going to get on average five percent pay
bump. If you move down the street you take another job, you're going
to get on average a ten percent pay bump. So maybe looking for another
job is it the worst thing in the world, and it might increase your
income in a significant way. Okay, something to think about, but I
agree with you. I'm not looking for anything right now. I like my
job. Well you got to say that. I know I have to,
but I actually mean it, Okay, actually mean it. So for lots
of great advice on how to save and where to spend your money, you
can listen to Joel Larsguard on how to Money with Joel, and that is
on Sundays from noon to two right here on KFI. You can also follow
him at how to Money Joel. Thank you Joel. Thanks Amy. All
right, it's time for Dodger Baseball. The Dodgers are taking on the Twins
in Minnesota this afternoon. First pitch goes out at four forty A. You
see the doubl Dingers yesterday show Hey Go and out Outman too. Listen to
the action on AM five seventy LA Sports live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth,
and you can stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword
AM five seventy LA Sports. The LAPD says the death of a baby on
the four h five freeway in near Culver City could be connected to a man's
murder in Woodland Hills and a deadly crash in Redondo Beach. The baby was
found in traffic lanes early yesterday morning. A nine year old was also found
on the shoulder of the roadway and was taken to the hospital. Please say
the person they're looking for is the man's wife and the children's mother. California
Senator Maria Drazzo has introduced a bill requiring food delivery companies to disclose hidden fees
up front. She says companies like door Dash and grub Hub charge hidden fees
to the restaurants, which can drive up cost of deliveries to you. She
says the bill would allow customers to make informed decisions. Five California condor chicks
hatched at the La Zoo. The first egg hatched on March first, The
other have hatched rather in the past two weeks. The birds, which are
the largest in North America, are critically endangered, with less than three hundred
and fifty remaining in the wild. At six oh five, it's handle on
the news Benjamin Natanna, who says a date has been set for a ground
defensive in Rufa in spite of calls from basically everyone not to do it.
Now, let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers. So Tom, it's
something you see from time to time, but definitely don't see every day.
In Russia. Citizens took to the streets to protest exactly. And usually we've
seen in the past political demonstrations are dealt with quite rapidly, but this is
a kind of a different kettle of fish. Let's go back to Friday.
Last Friday, there was a dam that burst and the area in the Ural
River was basically flooded down near the border with Kazakhstan, about thirteen miles away
from Kazakhstan Russia city of Orst, and it was pretty pretty heavy duty.
About four thousand people were evacuated because of the floodwaters, ten thousand homes affected
in some way, shape or form, and on Sunday was determined that was
going to be a federal emergency, similar to what you hear in the US
or maybe in the UK. There's things like you know, tornadoes, et
cetera, et cetera. The rub really is. The protest came out on
Monday because they said, Okay, we're going to help you people that had
to vacate your homes, and we're going to pay you a sum of wants
turn into dollars one hundred and eight dollars a month for six months, and
look exactly they said, look, we've lost in some cases they've lost everything.
No, that's no stop. And so they're out there saying, look,
we want more compensation. We'll see we assume that eventually the government will
say, okay, yes, we'll revive that upward. But they're just saying,
thanks for not a whole lot of money, and we need a whole
lot more to rebuild our lives. And was there any backlash to the protesting,
like you said, in the political protesting, they seem to try to
shut down pretty quickly. Did they do anything here? Nothing? Not this
time, because I can again, it's a different kind of a situation.
People are really incensed. It's kind of a kind of a man made natural
phenomenon at work. Also, there's an investigation that could be the possibility of
some criminal negligence with regard to some of the people that constructed that damn But
that's another story. But they're saying no, it's kind of a different,
different kind of a deal, and people, you know, get angry in
their gut and they say, no, we're going to go on the street
and protest this until the government hears us, and we'll see in the coming
weeks if in fact they up the amount of money going to these people who
certainly certainly deserve it. Do you know more protests they're planned? Don't know
that. I think you know, it'll all boil down to what kind of
communication there is between the local government, the federal government, and the people.
And if there's there's kind of a nod saying yes, we're going in
the right direction, it might be the end of things. If there's zero
action, yep, this certainly could be repeated. And do they have a
right to sue? In Russia, did they sue? The government can do
Yeah, they can do exactly so they can you know that can grind through
the courts, just like in the West. Unfortunately, your action may be
uh could take literally, you know, years or decades to work through the
process. Okay, Well, one hundred and eight dollars a month for six
months just doesn't seem right. So let's hope that they get a little bit
more at least. Yep, we'll were watching that one in the coming weeks
see exactly where this thing goes. All right, Tom Rivers, thank you
so much for your information today. Hey here, all right, I was
happy to see that the government didn't crack down on them. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Low income families in LA could lose some childcare opportunities as part of a proposal
to cut nearly two thousand vacant city jobs. The Department of Recreation and Parks
Chinieri Stoneham says that includes around two dozen childcare positions. Not all families have
that grandparent or family member who can take care of their kids. LA currently
offers two subsidized childcare sites and may open more with grant funding. A campaign
in La County is promoting gunlocks. New billboards on the ten and seven ten
are designed to push drivers to visit locked in Unloaded dot com, where a
free gunlock can be located. LA County Medical Association CEO Gustavo Friedrichson says public
health and gun safety are related. Or trying to at least educate parents,
or trying to educate kids, or trying to educate the entire extended family on
how to just look at this differently. If you own a gun, store
it safely, lock it up. Friedrickson's group is working with La County and
Lacare Health Plan on the effort, Michael Monks KFI News. The Justice Department
is refused to turn over recordings of President Biden's interview about how he handled classified
documents. House Republicans set yesterday as a deadline for Attorney General Merrick Garland to
release the records or possibly face a contempt of Congress charge. Garland says he
won't hand them over because he thinks the Republicans want them for political reasons.
Representatives from studios, music labels, and production companies will be at a special
job fair tomorrow in Hollywood. All Access Fest is geared toward young people sixteen
to twenty four years old to give them a chance to meet decision makers in
the music and live entertainment industries. The annual event will happen this year at
the Palladium. We are giving every participant a resource guide, and within that
resource guide our career maps, identifying their personal skills and characteristics. As they're
meeting those professionals in the field, they're starting to map themselves into those opportunities.
Jerreed Smith is the executive director of the Music Forward Foundation, which produces
the event. She says This is the one and only chance for young people
to meet set designers, sound engineers, directors, agents and producers to get
a realistic sense of the live entertainment world. The event is free and people
can register at Musicforward Foundation dot org. Steve Gregory Kafi News. If you
still have your eclipse glasses and haven't tossed them, hold off before you put
them in the garbage. I was thinking about this yesterday after the eclipse.
I was like, how are we going to reuse these? We don't have
another eclipse in the US until twenty forty four. Well, there is a
group Astronomers Without Borders that is accepting donated glasses and they'll send them to Africa
and Asia and North and South America for future eclipse events. The group is
called Astronomers Without Borders and you can donate these glasses at any Warby Parker store.
We'd love for have you join me and the Wake Up Call Crew Sunday,
April twenty first, so about two and a half weeks no week and
a half away at Brookside Park in Pasadena. It's time for the Wiggle Waggle
Walk to benefit Pasadena Humane and help them care for all of the animals they
take in every year. We have a five k walk or run, and
I was given permission not to run, so I'll be walking. We've got
adoptable putts, so we're going to be out there. There's going to be
booth and demonstrations. I know they're going to have a canine team out there,
a costume contest, and would love for you to join our team.
We're called the wake Up Call Wigglers, and you could come out and walk
with us and stop by the KFI booth. We have got some cool T
shirts and some exclusive KFI swag that will be there while supplies last. Again,
it's April twenty first at Brookside Park and what a great way to start
your Sunday morning with a little walk around the Rose Bowl with us. If
you can't join us, you can still donate to help us reach our goal.
And every little bit helps, and every little bit stays right here locally
and helps to take care of animals, So what better cause? Right You
can get all the information at KFIAM six forty dot com slash wiggle. That's
where you find out how to donate and how to sign up to be part
of the Wake Up Call Wigglers. Would love to see you out there.
Norfolk Southern has settled a class action lawsuit related to the Fiery East Palestine derailment
in Ohio. The amount six hundred million dollars. An appeals court in New
York has rejected former President Trump's request to delay his hush money trial. The
decision came down yesterday, a week before the scheduled start of jury selection.
Trump's lawyers had argued the case should be moved out of Manhattan because it can't
get a fair trial in the heavily democratic area. The women's NCAA Championship smashed
a TV ratings record. South Carolina versus Iowa on Sunday was the most watched
women's basketball game ever. ESPN says, is it at its peak, twenty
four million people were watching the game. Cocks big win. It averaged eighteen
point seven million viewers, and it was the most watched basketball game since twenty
nineteen. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning. LA
gas prices are going up and up twenty one straight days of increases. Now,
right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan in Dallas.
So Jim still basking in the glow, or rather the darkness of the eclipse.
What was it like in Dallas? Yes, I don't know. I
was in Hillsboro. You were south of Dallas about forty miles. Yes,
you're still in totality, you're recality. Oh yeah, yeah, that's why
I went down there. Oh, okay, Hillsborough was more towards the center
of the path than Dallas Fort Worth was. Hillsborough had four minutes twenty three
seconds of darkness. Dallas had something like, depending upon where you were,
three minutes and odd something. So yeah, Hillsboro is a place to be.
And it also the clouds broke free long enough for you to see the
actual corona, the bright, brilliant white circle surrounding the disc of the moon.
So yeah, it was good. It was. It was pretty remarkable.
It was amazing. I didn't I wasn't expecting that to see something that
cool, was it? So that was your first eclipse eclipse, Yes,
first total eclipse like that, and certainly one the one that was most dramatic.
I've seen, you know, lunar eclipses and partial solar eclipses, but
I think that was the first one, the first total solar eclipse, so
a lot of people because I was watching it. Obviously we only had a
partial here, but was watching several different news channels, and I was amazed
at how the reporters were just sort of they kept saying, I'm sort of
speechless, and you know, they were really kind of moved by the whole
thing. Yeah, I mean I was, you know, working live to
New York right from Hillsboro and describing what was going on, and my little
app was counting down. First it was counting up the percentage of the sun
that was blocked, you know, seventy five percent, seventy six percent,
seventy summer. And then there was a countdown, an audible countdown, ten
nine eight totality. You can take off your eyewear, and I took off
my eyewear, and yeah, it was. It was. I couldn't breathe
for a second because it was really that moving. It was just dramatic and
a little unsettling. And everyone around me was quiet. I was standing in
a parking lot, the birds got quiet, the stars began to come out,
street lights were coming on. Yeah, it was. It was critty,
It was it was something. Yeah, people, I think it it
makes you think of how small we are. I mean to see the moon
ginormous as it is. I mean like a celestial body moving in front of
us, you know what I mean, Because normally it just is there,
it doesn't cross paths, and so I think it was kind of profound even
watching it on TV. And I can sure, yeah, I think,
And that was probably a better way to see it if you wanted to see
if the camera was in a location that didn't have clouds and that you had
a clear view of what was happening. But even without the even without seeing
the sun itself, did to suddenly have a look like eleven thirty at nine
when it's one thirty in the afternoon, It was pretty amazing. Yeah,
did you have any weird technology glitches or anything? Only insofar as so many
people. You know, Hillsboro is a town of about eighty five hundred and
that was probably tripled yesterday with everyone coming in. Hillsborough promoted itself as the
place to be. It changed its name to Eclipsborough for the day and had
festivals and seminars and things going on for a week in advance, and so
people came to Hillsborough. The other parts of Texas were saying stay away from
here, we don't want the traffic, et cetera. But Hillsboro. So
yes, when this was happening, cells got a little fishy because so many
people were streaming, computers were running a little slower. I noticed, And
so yeah, that I think was to be expected, simply because whether it's
a Super Bowl game or an eclipse, you got a lot of people in
one place and they're all on their phones and something's happening and they're calling people,
it is going to cause slower technology. Well, I noticed after the
eclipse here that my ways was doing wonky things, and I don't know if
that was coincidence or if maybe the sun and the moon had an effect on
it. I'm going to think that it is because I like that that idea
better. But so that's there was a lot of worry that there was going
to be traffic jams and basic supply shortages and rampant crime. Did any of
that materialize anywhere? Traffic yes, ramp and crime, no shortages? No?
But they is it? Yeah? It was four and four and a
half minutes in the but but once it was over, then the sun came
back out and everybody's like, that's it all right, let's go home.
Everybody in They got on the nearest. Yeah, it was heavy. Traffic
was heavy. I saw a video from from every part of the path of
totality, from South Texas up to New Hampshire and up way up there into
Maine and everywhere. Traffic was just jammed up for hours. In a lot
of those places, it finally broke up and people did get home. I
don't think there are any lingering traffic jams this morning from it, but that
one prediction about heavy traffic predictably came true. Okay. You know, some
say that the eclipse is a sign that Mother Earth is angry, and I
was like, that's a silly thing to say, because if she's angry on
demand, then because we know exactly when it's going to happen, right.
And the other thing is that some of the on parts of the web where
conspiracies run rampant, people were saying, Okay, well, the government's going
to use this to impose martial law. It's going to be pandemonium. Well
why if the government's going to do that, why not do it at night
when people are asleep anyway, instead of during that eclipse when people are awake.
Looking at this guy. So you know, there are there are,
there are people. There's a fringe out there, and they keep it interesting
for sure. Yeah, when the next one is in twenty twenty four,
No, I'm sorry, I keep saying twenty twenty four. This is twenty
twenty four, and the next one is in twenty forty four, something like
that. Yeah, the next one of this tight. There's an eclipse almost
every year, and if you want to travel there and be there for the
next one, I'm not sure where it's going to happen, but there'll be
another solar eclipse before too long, and you can go there and see it
if you're so inclined. And some of the people I was standing with yesterday
in a church parking lot in Hillsboro, Texas, they were suddenly devotees.
They were absolutely committed. They were so moved that they had decided that,
yeah, we're going to go to the next one. We don't care where
it is, we're going to go because they were so profound. Well,
all I know is from LA where it was very limited, just as Parshall
was about half is, it was still pretty cool. And then after hearing
what you said, and my friend Rick Johnson was there in Dallas. I
might have to plan a trip to go siantic clips. Yeah, it was
surprisingly emotional. Yeah. Okay, Jim Ryan, thank you so much.
We'll talk to you soon. All right, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A Congressman representing
Orange County wants to use artificial intelligence to fight the cartels at the border.
We've been introduced by Democratic Congressman Lukerea and a Republican from Texas would use AI
assisted image recognition technology to spot drugs and other illicit substances trying to sneak into
the country. The Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act, introduced last week, would
also implement machine learning and nanotechnology to improve border security and prevent human trafficking.
Migrants crossing deadly remote desert areas could also be intercepted and get the resources they
need through the use of AI assisted infrared cameras and ground sensors. Corbin Carson
KFI News. Three people have been killed in a shit shooting at a law
office in Las Vegas. Police Lieutenant Jason Johanson says it was a tragic case
of domestic violence yesterday that happened over a child custody dispute. Shortly into the
deposition, approximately three to four minutes, one of the part of the suspects
stood up and began opening fire on the two victims across the table from him.
Johansson says the man in his seventies shot himself after shooting his former daughter
in law and a man in his fifties. An attorney for the father of
the Oxford High School shooter in Michigan has asked a judge for leniency. The
defense said yesterday James Crumbly should be sentenced to time served or up to forty
three months in prison with credit for time served. Prosecutors have asked the judge
for a sentence of ten to fifteen years, saying the father has blamed everyone
but himself for the shooting that his son committed. In twenty twenty one,
Crumbley and his wife were both found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for turning a blind
eye to their son's mental health issues before he killed four classmens classmates. Sentencing
is set for today, and Dreamstar Line says made a first move to start
running an overnight train between La and San Francisco. Dreamster's plan would be to
use the tracks owned by Union Pacific Railroad along the coast once a final agreement
is made. Dreamster says it wants to offer luxury service with next generation Sleeper
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