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 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:12.839 on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange 3 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:22.280 County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. 4 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:33.479 It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Thursday, August thirty. 5 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:39.920 First, Good morning, I'm Amy King. Last day of August septembers. 6 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:45.679 Here. Hey, I woke up this morning without my alarm and I 7 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:50.560 get up like two thirty. It freaked me out because I was like, 8 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:53.119 Okay, I could try to go back to sleep for another five minutes, 9 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:58.240 or I could just get up. Worst feeling in the world. Do you 10 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:00.399 get up without an alarm? Oh no, no, no, I get 11 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:04.280 a bit. I have three alarms, two twelve to eighteen and two twenty 12 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:08.680 two. So if you're an early riser, do you wake up without an 13 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:14.319 alarm? I just it's very foreign to me, having to get up this 14 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.599 early and like going, oh hey, I'm awake. Okay. It's kind 15 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:19.599 of good though, because then you don't hit that panic you know sometimes when 16 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:23.920 you when your alarm goes off and you just freak out. I didn't have 17 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.159 that this morning, so it's kind of nice. Here's what's ahead on the 18 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:32.920 wake up call. Tropical Storm Dalia is barreling through the Carolina is on its 19 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:37.000 way to the Atlantic Ocean after leaving a trail of flooding and Devid's station around 20 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.719 the southeast. At least one person has been killed when a tree fell on 21 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:44.079 him in Georgia. We're gonna be checking in with ABC's Jim Ryan in Florida 22 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:46.280 and just a couple of minutes to get the latest to don't go away. 23 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:51.239 An eleventh bust filled with migrants has arrived in La from Texas. Thirty five 24 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:56.040 asylum seekers, including more than a dozen children from Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, 25 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:00.480 Russia, and Venezuela, arrived late yesterday morning. Lease west of Toronto, 26 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:07.079 Canada have worn drivers to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled 27 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.520 crates carrying five million bees onto a roadway. Pedestrians in the area also asked 28 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.000 to stay away. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. 29 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.280 Just mentioned that bust full of migrants, while La City Council is pushing for 30 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:27.199 legal action against Texas Governor Greg Abbott who keeps sending them to Los Angeles. 31 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.680 Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four 32 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:35.280 hour newsroom. What is now Tropical Storm Dahlia has swept through parts of Georgia 33 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:42.319 and South Carolina. ABC's Alec Alex Pursche says the storm surge breached the dunes 34 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.560 and a couple of spots along the coast of South Carolina, causing flooding in 35 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:52.759 downtown Charleston. Massive flooding combined with sixty five mile an hour winds resulting in 36 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:58.960 life threatening conditions from Charleston to Myrtle Beach. Adalia was a Category three hurricane 37 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.680 when it first made landfall yesterday. Trees were blown over, buildings were damaged, 38 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.599 and some areas were flooded. Nearly a half million homes and businesses in 39 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:12.319 four stays were without power as of last night. Nearly seventy animals have flown 40 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:17.039 to northern California because Tropical Storm Hillary. Remember our little storm rained cats and 41 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:21.400 dogs on a shelter in Orange County. Three hundred and fifty strays were brought 42 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:24.360 in OC animal cares Jackie, Transas. Most had run off during the storm. 43 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:29.560 Usually pets are able to find their way back home, but when it 44 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:34.840 comes to the rain, it's the smells start to be different for them and 45 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.520 that's how they get lost trans As several nonprofits banded together to put the animals 46 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:44.199 on a plane Monday headed for eight shelters and nine Norcow counties. The pets 47 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:47.039 that were sent we're at the shelter before the storm and we're healthy, vaccinated, 48 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:52.000 and ready for adoption. In Orange County, Corbin Carson kof I News, 49 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:58.199 we believe there is a public safety risk. LA County Sheriff Luna says 50 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.240 a man wanted for the fatal staff of an elderly man in East Wittier may 51 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.280 have also attacked another elderly man the same day. We have the same suspect 52 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:11.919 description and they were both violently assaulted. The guy was scared off in the 53 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.480 first case. Investigators say they believe the murder happened Monday afternoon and the killer 54 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:19.680 got in through an unlocked door. He was later seen driving the murdered man's 55 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:25.399 car in Ontario and Chino. The sheriff says the killer maybe homeless. He's 56 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:28.639 in his thirties, about five foot eight, one hundred and fifty pounds, 57 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:33.720 with short hair and facial hair. The US could soon change its alcohol guidelines. 58 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:39.160 Current USDA recommendations have been in place since the nineties and say men should 59 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.040 stick to no more than two alcoholic beverages a day, while women should cut 60 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.279 themselves off at one. The director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and 61 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.600 Alcoholism says when the guidelines are reviewed again in twenty twenty five, they could 62 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:56.800 suggest no more than two drinks a week. This comes after a recent study 63 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:01.199 showing binge drinking is on the rise across the country in people ages thirty five 64 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:05.959 to fifty. It's five oho five. Let's now say good morning to ABC's 65 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:11.000 Jim Ryan, who's in Tampa, Florida. So, Jim, the storm 66 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:15.319 has moved out of Florida. Where is she now? Right up along the 67 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.839 Carolina coast, just skirting along the coast there and causing some coastal flooding. 68 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:24.079 So everywhere it's gone, it's caused some kind of damage here in Tampa as 69 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:30.079 it was passing northward toward the north off the Gulf coast, the storm caused 70 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:34.000 search flooding here in the Tampa area. Waters as high as they've been since 71 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:39.959 nineteen twenty one in Tampa Bay. So some flooding was the issue there up 72 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.279 where the point of landfall came in the Big Bend section of the state. 73 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.600 That's where you had a lot of wind damage. Now in the Carolina's Yet, 74 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:51.319 lots of tornadoes that were reported, in fact, one confirmed amazing video 75 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.680 of a car being tossed over. And now you're looking at coastal flooding. 76 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:00.000 So depending upon where you lived, is that determined is the kind of damage 77 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:05.399 that you suffered from Adalia Amy And in Florida, there's still about one hundred 78 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:10.720 thousand people out of power. One hundred and fifty thousand here in Florida across 79 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:15.040 the state. That's customers, that's homes and businesses, apartment buildings, that 80 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:17.639 sort of thing. So one hundred and forty nine thousand customers up in Georgia, 81 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:23.319 about one hundred thousand. The Carolina's Beach have about twenty five thousand, 82 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:27.920 so and you're still looking at something like four hundred thousand customers without electricity right 83 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.720 now. But they're doing a pretty decent job of getting the power back on. 84 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.439 It seems like last night it was like five hundred thousand, and it 85 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:39.560 was like four hundred thousand in at least in Florida alone, So I think 86 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:46.040 it sounds like the governor kind of had those teams ready to mobilize exactly. 87 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.240 Yeah, you can chalk it up to the power companies themselves bringing crews in 88 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:54.439 from around the country to be ready for this and putting them in place up 89 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.639 around the Panhandle and in Georgia and places that were expected to lose power and 90 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.720 did in fact lose electricity. So yeah, there's the planning. I think 91 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:09.199 the lesson to learn from this whole thing is planning as far in advanced as 92 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.519 possible, even if it's just a few days, to get people in place 93 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:15.639 and ready to respond. National Guard members from around the state and across this 94 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:20.800 region. We're in place and have been doing search and rescue operations and thankfully 95 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:26.839 they haven't found anything of real significance. That we have three fatalities, at 96 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.319 least three fatalities now. Two work from car accidents here in Florida that happened 97 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:34.519 right around the time of landfall. The other fatality came up in Georgia, 98 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:39.319 Amy, and that was a tree fell on a person, right, Yes, 99 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:42.439 and very often that's how these things happen. That you know, the 100 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.399 ground gets saturated by the rains of a hurricane, and and then suddenly these 101 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:51.319 these trees that were weakened anyway have come tumbling down on people's cars or their 102 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:56.600 houses. The governor had a bit of a scare with the tree he did. 103 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:00.800 Outside the Governor's mansion. One hundred year old oak tree stood there, 104 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:05.279 and it was split by the winds of the storm over in Tallahassee. So 105 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.519 even ninety miles away from the point of landfall, they had enough wind that 106 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:11.160 it would do that kind of damage. Split this tree open, and part 107 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.680 of it apparently fell into the building next to the governor's residence. And the 108 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.199 family was home at the time, weren't they. Yes, the first lady 109 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.079 was there. She was there with at least one of her kids. They 110 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:28.360 saw what happened. In fact, she Casey de Sant has posted some images 111 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.720 online of this big, old, beautiful, huge oak tree that was just 112 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.960 broken right down the middle. Yeah, you know what, I was amazed 113 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.480 watching because you're watching all the coverage and seeing the flooded out streets and the 114 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.480 water rising and stuff. And then later in the day I was watching and 115 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.440 the water had receded already. I was amazed at how fast it goes back 116 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.840 out. Well, you're right, and depending upon high tider low tide, 117 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.600 that's going to govern what happens there with that. But also it's fairly low 118 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:01.000 lying area right at sea level here in Tampa, for example, and so 119 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.679 when the water comes in because of a storm surge, once that storm moves 120 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:09.159 away, the surge is able to subside, the water recedes and things get 121 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.639 back to normal. And you know, I've seen a lot of traffic moving 122 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:16.120 around here today in Tampa. People are coming back in to see if they 123 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.639 had any damage. They're probably gonna find they didn't. And there was a 124 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.480 lot of talk about the King tides because of our super moon. Did those 125 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:28.840 play out? Well, some of these it may have affected the height of 126 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.759 the high tides. The one when it when it passed by here by Tampa, 127 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.080 we were at low tide, and yet still the water came up four 128 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.120 or six feet, which is higher than it's been here for you know, 129 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.679 decades. And it was at high tide when landfall came up on the Big 130 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.639 Bend section of Florida. But you're right, the moon that's full moon, 131 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:56.639 that bluemon effect may have impacted the intensity of high tides wherever they happen, 132 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:01.480 and even though the water recedes quick glee, that damage is done. Like 133 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.840 all the do all those houses have to just be torn down and started and 134 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.679 rebuilt. Or if the water moves out quick enough, are they okay? 135 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.039 Well yeah, yeah, I mean once once drywall is soaked, it's soaked 136 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:16.440 and there's really nothing you can do but replace it. Take it out and 137 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.440 replace it. You know. I'll go down to the studs and just hope 138 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:22.679 that the studds weren't soaked so badly that you have to replace them. Cedar 139 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:28.240 Key is facing that sort of damage. Cedar Key is is a lives right 140 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:33.279 at sea level. It's a community of seven or eight hundred I believe there. 141 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.360 Then it's a fishing and tourism community. Beautiful place. But it was 142 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:43.039 close enough to the point of landfall, and the storm skirted close enough alongside 143 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.000 that You've got a lot of damage there. Buildings that were torn down by 144 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.799 the wind, others that were soaked by the flood and the rain. And 145 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.879 cedar Key is going to be one place I think to watch and then the 146 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:58.559 months ahead as they try to recover. Okay, and where's where's a dahlia 147 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:05.200 headed next? It's headed out into the Atlantic right now. I'm looking at 148 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.960 images from the National Hurricane Center and it's just skirting right along the Carolina coast. 149 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:15.600 It's going to roll out into the Atlantic. One model, just one 150 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:20.879 model shows a coming back in potentially up in New England. Others short kind 151 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.519 of spinning itself out. Franklin is still out there. It's a full blown 152 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:30.039 hurricane out in the Atlantic. It's not going to touch the US mainland. 153 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.919 And then here comes Jose. There's a storm called Jose, a tropical storm 154 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.320 that is formed right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The modeling right 155 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.639 now suggests that it won't do much either. Okay, well, let's hope 156 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:43.759 for that. Jim Ryan, thank you so much. Appreciate all the information 157 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.000 this morning. Thanks Amy. All right, let's get back to some of 158 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.840 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Investigators say a 159 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:54.679 man accused of causing the crash that killed three Uber passengers in South la was 160 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.200 on probation at the time for attempted murder. Gregory Black also has other felony 161 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:03.360 convictions. He's now facing three counts of vehicular manslaughter for the crash Saturday, 162 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.600 police say he was driving nearly one hundred miles per hour when he ran a 163 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.639 red light at Vermont Avenue in Century Boulevard, hitting the Uber vehicle. A 164 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:16.440 loaded gun was found in his Mercedes. The National Weather Services warning gusty winds 165 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.159 and low humidity are increasing the risk that fires could spread rapidly in the western 166 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.759 parts of the Hawaiian Islands. Wind gusts are forecasts up to fifty miles per 167 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.279 hour. The warning comes three weeks after that deadly fire on Maui. The 168 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:33.440 Orange County Fire Authorities raised one hundred twenty thousand dollars for firefighters on Maui whose 169 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.519 homes were destroyed in the wildfire that devastated Lahinah. Forty thousand dollars to the 170 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:45.240 fund was donated by the OCFA by the Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation. That money 171 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:50.320 will be delivered to the Maui Fire Department tomorrow. Researchers across California say Moore 172 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:54.039 has to be done to study the health impacts of wildfire smoke and protect the 173 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:58.600 firefighters who protect us. UC Davis School of Medicine Professor doctor Kent Pickerton says 174 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.159 studying smoke and its risks is crucial to understanding what can be done to mitigate 175 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.679 the risks of the occupation. There are a number of gases that can be 176 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:15.559 very toxic as well as the particulates itself. Pinkerton says there are no long 177 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.559 term studies on the impacts of smoke exposure, but limited studies have shown firefighters 178 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.840 maybe at a higher risk for respiratory illness, cardiovascular illness, and even cancer. 179 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:31.080 The Biden administration has moved to extend mandatory overtime paid to three and a 180 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.639 half million salaried workers. The rule, proposed yesterday would require employers to pay 181 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:41.000 overtime premiums to workers who earn a salary of less than one fifty nine dollars 182 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:46.000 a week or about fifty five thousand dollars a year. The current salary threshold 183 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.919 of about thirty five thousand a year was set by former President Trump in twenty 184 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.000 twenty. The Labor Department says the increase is necessary to make sure workers are 185 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.879 fairly compensated. And police in Nebraska have pulled over a man driving a compact 186 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:03.519 car for a traffic violation. Police say the guy had a massive watusi bull 187 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:09.240 riding shotgun in the car. The big old bull named Howdy Doody was sitting 188 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:13.159 in the car with his huge owl head and horn sticking up through where the 189 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:18.039 roof and the windshield used to be. Police let the guy off with a 190 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:22.600 warning. Tropical Storm e Dahlia has brought over nine feet of storm surge to 191 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.159 Charleston, South Carolina. The Governor of North Carolina has urged residence to stock 192 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.120 up on supplies and stay off flooded roads. A twelve year old boy has 193 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.200 died after collapsing during pe in Lake Elsinore, and a Westlake High School football 194 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:41.519 player has died after having an asthma attack last week. Federal vehicle regulators have 195 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:46.759 demanded Tesla turnover data about a secret feature in its cars called Elon Mode that 196 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.639 lets drivers use the autopilot feature without having to keep their hands on the steering 197 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:54.039 wheel. At six oh five, it's handled on the news what a mall 198 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:58.799 in Moreno Valleys doing to try to cut down on massive teen fights at malls 199 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.600 around the US. Right now, it's time for biz buzz. Let's say 200 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:09.399 good morning to CNBC special correspondent and our very own Jane Wells. Hi Amy, 201 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.879 Hi Jane, So you have a story to tell us about a company 202 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:18.799 in California that's going to save a lot of lives. Yes, I'm down 203 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.000 here in lak gonna be today for CNBC doing the story on a company called 204 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:28.960 Genesis based out of San Diego, and they provide sort of like public address 205 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:33.480 systems for state and local governments all over the country. And this is based 206 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:37.360 on what happened in Maui and just how everything that could go wrong did go 207 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:39.320 wrong there. And one of the things in Maui with during the line of 208 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:45.200 fire is they didn't turn on their air raid sirens and one reason for that 209 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:48.360 is because they were afraid people would think that it was a tsunami and they 210 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:52.159 would rush to the mountains away from the water and go right into the fire. 211 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:58.559 Well. Genesis sells a systems that includes speakers that are on poles, 212 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.399 but they talked to you. A message goes out, they tell you that 213 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:03.960 you need to evacuate, or that it is a fire, or that it's 214 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:07.559 a tsunami, or that you need to shelter in place because there's a school 215 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:12.159 shooting. And these are not a cheap systems. It's a combination of hardware 216 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.919 with the speakers and software with the text dealers that go out, and they're 217 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.840 being used all over California, including Lugua Beach. They've been used in two 218 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:23.919 fires last year to tell people to evacuate. They're using Colorado. They're used 219 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:32.320 at Fenway Park and lambeau Field. And this is a solution for a part. 220 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.399 This could have saved lives in Hawaii. I mean it seems like in 221 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:41.240 Hawaii and Lahainah. Yes, everybody really only had one road out, but 222 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.679 at least people could have gotten the word early. And here's the other thing. 223 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.080 Amy if the power goes out, if the cell system goes down, 224 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.840 these speakers still work because they're on a satellite channel. Nice. Okay, 225 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:55.240 so this is not texting or anything, and like you just said, it 226 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:59.240 doesn't need the power. So that could make a big difference too, because 227 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.200 the other problem in Lahina was even though they sent out text alerts and put 228 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:07.000 out I think they put out stuff on the radio, there were so many 229 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:12.599 power outages and cell service was down that people weren't getting the messages exactly. 230 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:18.319 The Genesis system does include that, but it's it's sort of like several layers 231 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:21.559 that you have this until that doesn't work. Anymore, you have that until 232 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.519 that doesn't work anymore, and the speakers will work until they burned it, 233 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.440 until the polls burned down, you know, And so it would have been 234 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:30.880 I just think when you hear it. They did a test for me yesterday, 235 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:36.880 When you hear the actual voice and you know what's going on, it 236 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:40.839 makes a huge Why are we still as a CEO told me, I saiday, 237 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:45.160 why are we still using sirens from the nineteen forties at twenty twenty three? 238 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.839 And is this again not cheap? Laguna Beach has spent one point three 239 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.119 million dollars to have an array of twenty four of these speakers around town with 240 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:57.599 the software that goes with it. But it could have saved well, we 241 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:02.720 don't know and we'll never know, but the thinking is it could have saved 242 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:07.799 lives in Lahiah. So you said that they're in Laguna Beach, twenty four 243 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:11.480 speakers. What's the reach, like, how many people in that community would 244 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:15.480 be able to hear them? They you'd hear it. They do a test 245 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:22.319 quarterly. It's really loud, and they're up on poles in different places strategically, 246 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.200 not just up in the hills, but also down on the beach at 247 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.640 lifeguard towers, and so you'd really there's there's one. He didn't click it 248 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.720 during a while we were getting v roll. He was afraid he was going 249 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:38.160 to click it. There's one system that you can do for the all twenty 250 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:42.960 fourth arrays or speakers. Well there's more than one speaker in each place, 251 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:48.839 all twenty four places. But you can also do it individually to a particular 252 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.200 neighborhood and you can say different messages to different neighborhoods. Oh okay, that's 253 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:56.359 cool. Are there any other cities in California that have this or are planning 254 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.359 to get it all over all over? For example, Burke, it comes 255 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:02.240 to mind they not only have it for the city, but they have it 256 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:03.519 for the university. I mean, this is the sort of thing where if 257 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:07.200 there was you know, you needed to stay in your classroom or in your 258 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.559 buildings because there was an active shooter, that they could put this over the 259 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:18.279 speaker as well. It's being used and Japan has them. They have a 260 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:22.440 thousand of them in Japan, which they fought after Fukushima for because of the 261 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.279 nuclears. You know what happened this last week and I was up where I 262 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:30.440 live in Avelue Beach. I lived near, not far from Diablo Canyon, 263 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:34.119 and they warn't everybody, They're going to run a siren test up there, 264 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:40.480 and they did. But the sylum doesn't tell you anything. So what am 265 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:42.880 I supposed to I don't have any information. It's just a siren. All 266 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:47.759 I'm gonna do is freak out. And I can do that on my own, 267 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:49.400 I know, and even when you do. You know, we got 268 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:53.480 that quake warning when we were having the hurric quake and it said stop, 269 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:57.559 drop and take cover, and I just like went oh and went and looked 270 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:02.160 for my cats. I didn't stop, drop or take cover. Still, 271 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:07.200 I don't know. I guess having those instructions would be helpful. Yes, 272 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.559 it would move on to something else real quick before we let you go. 273 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:17.519 And that is that Amazon is raising some prices kind of quietly. It is 274 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.839 if you are not a Prime member and paying one hundred and forty dollars a 275 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:25.440 year or whatever, the threshold to have free shipping is going up ten dollars. 276 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:30.000 Usually you can get free shipping if your order is twenty five dollars, 277 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.599 and now it is going up to thirty five dollars. And part of this 278 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:38.839 is amy because people are ordering so much stuff that they're returning. I don't 279 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:41.759 know. I've done a whole series of stories on the return economy. I 280 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.039 mean, the billions and billions of dollars of stuff is being returned. And 281 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.960 I think what Amazon is doing here is just starting to raise the bar a 282 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.880 little bit on different things so that they make it a little bit more difficult. 283 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:56.160 You think a little bit more before you order, and maybe then you 284 00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:00.200 won't order five pairs of shoes and different sizes that you turn four of them 285 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.160 that you don't you know, that don't fit. I just did that with 286 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.240 Beaar shorts. I ordered two sizes because I'm like, I don't know which 287 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.400 one's gonna fit. So that's what we do. Yeah, and for one 288 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:14.359 hundred and forty bucks. I know it sounds like a lot, but it's 289 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:17.680 it's the best money I've spent. I think I've I've saved that shipping in 290 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:22.480 the last month. So I'm with you. We are in Amazon's clutches, 291 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:26.359 we are, and we have fun. Poy. Yeah, all right, 292 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:29.640 Jane Wells, thank you so much. You can find Jane and find out 293 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:33.680 the latest from her on substack at Jane Wells dot substack dot com. And 294 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:37.160 I love this because I love to hear Jane on CAMFI. Jane's gonna be 295 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:42.119 with Gary Hoffman on Monday, right, Actually, I'm with Laylah Muhammed against 296 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:47.000 what ire both off on Monday. Oh okay, So I often get the 297 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:49.599 two of them confused. Yeah, they look a lot alike. So yeah, 298 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:53.039 We've got to Jane and Layla on Monday. So I'll see you Monday 299 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:57.920 morning. Thank you so much. Okay, take care, all right, 300 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:03.680 take care. Thousands are still in the dark and Florida's Big Bend area after 301 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:08.319 Idalia made landfall as a Category three storm yesterday. About one hundred thousand people 302 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:11.599 in the state are still without power. The storm's now moving across the Carolinas, 303 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.680 and eleventh bus filled with migrants has arrived in La from Texas. Thirty 304 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:19.440 five asylum seekers, including more than a dozen children, from Perue, Guatemala, 305 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:23.519 Honduras, Russia, and Venezuela, arrived at late yesterday morning. SpaceX 306 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:27.599 is getting ready for another Falcon nine rocket launch. If Algos as planned, 307 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:33.319 it'll lift off from Vandenburg Space four space at seven twenty six this morning, 308 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.920 carrying global military communication and missile warning satellites. At six oh five, it's 309 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:42.759 handled on the news Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has frozen again. It's a second 310 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:45.799 time in front of a crowd. How many times has it happened off camera? 311 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:49.279 I wonder? And is he okay? At five fifty, we're going 312 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:53.559 to be talking with ABC Stephen Portnoy about what happened with the Senate Minority Leader 313 00:22:53.640 --> 00:23:10.279 yesterday. Right now, I'm Amy king, I'm on it? What am 314 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:14.680 I on? I'm on streaming shows, movies, documentaries, series, sometimes 315 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:18.960 sometimes network shows, although there's not a whole lot new coming out on the 316 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.799 networks these days. But here's a show that I wanted to share with you 317 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.119 because I just recently watched it and I think Mo Kelly told me about it. 318 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:34.119 It's a show called Painkiller, and it stars Matthew Brodrick's Brodrick's Brodrick and 319 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:40.839 uh, it's a full series. It's available on Netflix six episodes, and 320 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:45.640 it's the fictionalized story of the origins of the opioid crisis. And of course 321 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:48.839 it's a big deal to everybody. My own story about this is I am 322 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.279 parent. It's just scared to death because they're so addictive. So even when 323 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:59.000 I went in to have surgery for when I had the big Sea, I 324 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:00.640 was like telling my doctor, I don't want I don't want oxyconton. I 325 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:04.039 don't want oxyconton. I think they ignored me because I did get some, 326 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:08.240 but only for a very short time, like it was for immediately after the 327 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:12.079 surgery, and they got me off it right away. So it can be 328 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:18.920 used in a very good effective way. This series talks about how it is. 329 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:25.279 It was designed to be abused, so it's based on true events. 330 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:30.440 Each episode starts with a disclaimer admitting though that the characters, the situations, 331 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.440 the dialogue, the story has all been modified and it's very upfron about that. 332 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.720 And then on the first episode, the woman or the man I can't 333 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:38.960 remember if as a man or woman who was talking about it. They said, 334 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:45.519 what is real is that my relative died of an opioid overdose. So 335 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.480 it kind of hits home right out of the gate. And the story is 336 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:55.119 really compelling. It's the story of Richard Sackler, who's the guy behind oxyconton. 337 00:24:55.720 --> 00:25:00.759 It's kind of an nerving it's really fascinating, but it does feel it 338 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:04.240 does feel over the top to me, like Brodrick and his family are portrayed 339 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:10.000 as evil people who just wanted to mass market the painkiller, get him hooked, 340 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:14.000 make a lot of money. And there's truth in that, I'm sure, 341 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:18.559 but it felt like it was it was hollywooded up, like they took 342 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:23.480 it over the top. So the story follows, also follows a man who 343 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:29.359 gets injured and gets on oxy and gets hooked, and then how it becomes 344 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:32.480 dependent on that, how it affects his life, how it affects his family, 345 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:37.160 and that I think is something that doesn't get a lot of play a 346 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:38.279 lot of times. I mean, you go, oh, this person gets 347 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.480 addicted to drugs and it destroys their life, but it destroys the lives of 348 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:47.359 the people around them too, and I think it showcases that. Again, 349 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:51.039 while there is truth in this, it does feel kind of Hollywood to me. 350 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:56.519 I think some of the story was done for effect rather than substance. 351 00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:03.799 But I still think it's an important movie. I think it's a devastating epidemic 352 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:10.720 really of the abuse of these opioids, and it's worth a watch because oxy 353 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:15.079 is an epidemic and it didn't have to be that way. Yes, Kono 354 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:19.480 have you seen Dopesick? I haven't seen that one yet. Did you see 355 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:22.400 that one? I've seen both. I just wanted to get your take if 356 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.680 you've seen it, and okay, well what's your take? Is it better? 357 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:30.480 I'm a big Michael Keaton fan. It's just different, like Pink Killers 358 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:34.440 more on the abuse of the drug, where Dope Sick is more about the 359 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:40.960 Sackler family and like the produced pharma side of it. Then that's next on 360 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:44.039 my list is to watch It's really good, all right, Okay? And 361 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:48.599 then real quickly, Cinderella in four K came out on Disney Plus and I 362 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:49.920 was like, hey, I haven't seen Cinderella in a long time, So 363 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:55.880 I watched it. Do you still Cinderella? I still like the story. 364 00:26:55.960 --> 00:27:02.200 It's cute, very old fashioned, very traditional, But I mean it's a 365 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:03.559 fun watch. I think it's still really cute for the kids. And the 366 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.319 animation looks great. It's just they cleaned it up. It looks a little 367 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:11.519 brighter and tighter, and you know, the lines are the lines are more 368 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:14.759 distinct, and the colors are better and that kind of stuff. So I 369 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:18.400 think that if you want to sit down and watch a nice animated show, 370 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.480 Cinderella in four k now on Disney Plus. Let's get back to some of 371 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.680 the stories coming out of the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. A cluster of 372 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.680 spot fires that began in a homeless camp and burned alongside the sixty Freeway and 373 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:34.200 riverside damaged at least six properties. The first of the fire started yesterday afternoon 374 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:40.000 along the retaining wall of the Pomona Freeway near Stoddard Avenue. Firefighters got there 375 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:44.559 to find one firehead branched out and become three or four others that burned both 376 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:47.559 sides the retaining wall, the shoulder of the freeway, and also behind some 377 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:52.240 houses. The LAPD says an online story suggesting it inflates the value of c'sed 378 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.839 illegal drugs for publicity is not true. Every time police announced a drug bust, 379 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:02.079 you always hear the street value and it's always different. Commander Lillian Coronza 380 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:04.599 says that's because there are many factors when it comes to pricing. You cannot 381 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:10.400 compare purchasing it at when it's pure and it just came over the border and 382 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:14.400 mass quantity to the price that it's being sold on the street. After he's 383 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:18.839 been cut or deluted three, four aim and sometimes five twin. Coronza says 384 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.079 it's not about the street value as much as the pounds and kilos of the 385 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:27.039 deadly drugs being removed from the streets. Steve Gregory kop Ie News Businesses and 386 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:32.440 homes across the San Bernardino Mountains are flying Pride flags in honor of a business 387 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:36.440 owner who was murdered earlier this month. The six year old woman was shot 388 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:41.039 to death on August at eighteenth after a man disparaged her for flying a Pride 389 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.960 flag outside her store in the Lake Arrowhead area. The man was later killed 390 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:48.799 in a shootout with deputies. Some businesses in places like Cedar Glen, Lake, 391 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:52.240 Arrowhead and Running Springs are also giving away Pride flags in the woman's honor. 392 00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:57.559 The Biden administration has canceled student debt for more than twenty three hundred former 393 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:03.400 students who were miss led by Ashford University in San Diego. Officials say recruiters 394 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.000 lied to the students about tuition, financial aid, and debt students would accumulate. 395 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:12.200 A g Robanta says what the school did was unconscionable. Students, they'd 396 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:18.640 be able to what the teachers nurses or dragon alcohol conclers. Despite the school 397 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:22.759 locking the necessaries, did approval or crediditions in exectory of the reality. A 398 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:27.559 court found the school made more than one million misleading claims one million misleading claims 399 00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:33.839 to prospective students. The school paid a twenty two million dollars fine last year. 400 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:38.920 Yesterday's agreement cancels seventy two million dollars in student debt. Attorneys for the 401 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:45.400 man accused of killing four University of Idaho students have filed emotion to remove courtroom 402 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:51.240 cameras. Ryan Coburger's defense team says the operator is not following the judge's direction 403 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:56.839 to only use wide angle shots. The cameraman has allegedly shot multiple close ups 404 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:02.160 of Cooburger. His lawyers say they want camera's band from all future court proceedings. 405 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.279 Japan's Prime Minister assembled seafood and talked to workers at a fish market in 406 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:11.119 Tokyo on a visit to assess the impact of China's ban on Japanese seafood. 407 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.599 He's promised government measures to support fisheries. The ban is in response to the 408 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:21.720 release of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Started a few weeks 409 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:26.319 ago. The release of treated wastewater into the ocean is expected to continue for 410 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:32.799 decades. Five million bees have escaped into a neighborhood in Canada when the crates 411 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.599 they were in fell off the back of a truck. People and drivers in 412 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:41.279 Burlington were told to keep their windows closed as experts worked to recover the bees. 413 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.920 Local beekeeper Luke Peters as some crates were left behind intentionally so the bees 414 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:52.000 could return to them on their own to communicate by smell, by sight and 415 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:59.039 all that. So they will start to communicate in those ways and figure out 416 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:03.119 their home. I love that you could hear a little bee buzzing around him. 417 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.480 A police officer in Burlington says he has never seen anything like this. 418 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:10.759 Beast bill. That's a whole lot of beads. Right now, let's say 419 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.440 good morning to ABC's Steve Portnoy. And before we get started, Steve, 420 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:22.039 I wanted to play the sound from what happened yesterday during an appearance for Mitch 421 00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:32.319 McConnell about what running for re election in twenty six Sure, and this is 422 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:37.240 where he freezes and stands at the podium. Did you hear the question senator 423 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.519 running for re election in twenty twenty six. I think he says yes, 424 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:48.319 there, but just stands there almost thirty seconds. Stephen, do we know 425 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.599 anything more about what happened to the Senate Minority leader yesterday? Well, the 426 00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:53.559 only thing we've been told is that he is This is from his office, 427 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:59.519 that he experienced some lightheadedness while he was at the press conference, and we 428 00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:04.759 were told he would be seeing a physician. No readoubt of any consultation with 429 00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:07.039 a doctor. But this is not the first time this has happened in public. 430 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:10.119 We should say it's not the first time it's happened in public. We 431 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:13.880 don't know how many times it may have happened. That's what I was wondering 432 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:16.039 too, because this is the second time that it was caught on camera. 433 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:21.079 But how many times does this happen when we're not seeing? That's right? 434 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:24.640 And look, it's tough to watch. The senator stands there at the lectern, 435 00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:29.319 his hands grasping both sides. He is attended to, not just by 436 00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:31.200 the aid you heard, but also by another aid, seemingly a member of 437 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:36.400 his security detail from the Capitol Police, who comes over and asks if the 438 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:40.519 senator needs to go, and McConnell after about thirty seconds, comes to re 439 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:46.000 engages and in a frail voice, continues the press conference for another minute or 440 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:52.359 so before he's led away. Look, we don't know what happened. There's 441 00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:54.799 a great deal speculation that maybe it was some sort of maybe a mini stroke 442 00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:00.039 or other sort of neurological event. You and I are not qualified to diagnose. 443 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.559 Absolutely, certainly, certainly not just by watching it on video. But 444 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:09.240 it raises questions about the health of a man who is the leader of Senate 445 00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:13.920 Republicans and has been since two thousand and seven. You know, we we 446 00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:17.000 You've heard a lot of talk about Senator Feinstein and her health at age ninety. 447 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:21.759 She represents the largest state in the country, your state. But you 448 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.160 know, every single one of these one hundred senators has an equal responsibility and 449 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:29.799 equal power in the Senate. But it's an outsized power for Mitch McConnell as 450 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:35.359 the leader of the Senate Republicans to guide his conference. And the bottom line 451 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:37.960 is, you know, you know, we are out a period of time 452 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:42.799 where a number of our senior most leaders in the country are of an age 453 00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:51.079 where increasingly nature runs its course, and it's raising questions among voters about you 454 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:55.480 know, the appropriateness of it, and the idea that so many of our 455 00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:00.200 people in these key positions, including the President United States, are of an 456 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.599 age where where at a certain point, the you know, as I say, 457 00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:07.119 nature takes hold. So there's not much more to say about it except 458 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:13.679 that here in Washington, DC, senior Republicans are expressing their good wishes for 459 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.320 Mitch McConnell. The President himself expressed good wishes, said he would check in 460 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:22.559 with his old friend Mitch McConnell, and Mitch says, Mitch, like I 461 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:25.519 know him. Senator McConnell is says he's going to go to a doctor this 462 00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:29.559 time because the last time they said, oh no, he's fine, don't 463 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:31.360 worry about him. Well, and he tried to laugh it off. I 464 00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:36.199 mean, there was an incident last I guess it was mid July where the 465 00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:40.840 President was attending a Service Academy graduation and he tripped on a sand bag that 466 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:45.119 was on the stage. Very alarming for an eighty year old man to be 467 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:51.000 seen falling, but Joe Biden bounced back up and you know, made a 468 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:55.480 joke about the sandbag, and Senator McConnell joked to reporters that he too was 469 00:34:55.559 --> 00:35:00.199 sand bagged when he had that moment last month. But now you have it 470 00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:04.920 happening again, and it's not easy to watch. No, it's not. 471 00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.199 It's so uncom I mean, you feel so bad for these people. And 472 00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.599 like you said, it's nature taking hold. You're just getting older. I 473 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:14.960 mean Bernie Sanders, I think is an outlier because he is just still like 474 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:17.840 smart as a whip and just going firing on all cylinders. Just see that, 475 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.639 And that's the argument. Listen. You know, you could think of 476 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.719 some rare examples of people who are even older who are spry and with it 477 00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:34.480 and can engage. But look at a certain point, sometimes maybe oftentimes, 478 00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:38.480 you know, you get to an age where the body does decline and the 479 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:43.320 mind does decline. But McConnell, again, once he was able to re 480 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:46.719 engage, was able to answer the question he was asked. I thought was 481 00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:51.239 What was interesting too, is that nobody asked him, Hey, what just 482 00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:54.519 happened? You know, like they just I think everybody was so uncomfortable they 483 00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:57.599 go, oh, let's just go ask him, and was old the question 484 00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.360 that we were going to plan to ask him. It was yeah, I 485 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:05.559 hope whatever happens with him. I hope he's okay, And personally wish these 486 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:07.760 lawmakers would let go of the power. I think they're so worried about letting 487 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:14.199 go of the power that they stay too long. I will just say that 488 00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:19.559 there's a long history in the Senate in particular of senators, and mainly they've 489 00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:21.960 all been men. I mean, Diane Fine stands for example, of a 490 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.199 woman who's ninety years old, still serving, the oldest currently serving senator, 491 00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:29.280 and there are questions about her health and cognition and all this. But you 492 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:31.559 know, the Senate is a history of men being wheeled in in wheelchairs, 493 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:36.079 practically catatonic. I mean, not that long ago. I mean you're talking 494 00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.760 about people like strom Thurman, Robert Byrd, who you know, were unable 495 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:43.400 to communicate practically and would be wheeled in and just you know what their thumbs 496 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:46.800 up or down, would somehow vote. So there's obviously precedent for this, 497 00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:52.119 but in our modern era, where Americans expect to be able to engage directly 498 00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.920 with their politicians, where they expect their politicians to be at the top of 499 00:36:54.960 --> 00:37:00.639 their game, performing right, engaging directly with voters on a variety of different 500 00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:08.079 media platforms. It's not thought of as a common thing for someone to be 501 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:12.800 infirmed while they're serving in high positions of authority in our government. Well, 502 00:37:12.840 --> 00:37:16.039 I think this is bringing this to light and we'll see what happens and maybe 503 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:21.360 maybe things change. Who knows, Steven, Steve Portnoy, Thanks so much 504 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:23.280 for the time today, bet Now let's get back to some of the stories 505 00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:25.880 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The latest update from the 506 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:31.800 official US Drought Monitor shows California is nearly one drought free. Officials save drought 507 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:37.880 conditions have continued to retreat across the state following our historic wet winter. Data 508 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:42.239 released just last week shows just six percent of the state is still considered abnormally 509 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:46.480 dry. No area in the state is in extreme or exceptional drought. Yet 510 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:52.280 another bus carrying migrants from Texas has arrived in La just as the city council 511 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:55.800 proved a motion to investigate whether Texas Governor Greg Abbott committed any crimes when he 512 00:37:55.880 --> 00:38:00.199 sent the first bus. Texas has so far sent an busses with a total 513 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.719 of four hundred and thirty five migrants. The La City councils asked the city 514 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.280 Attorney's office to find out if legal action could be taken against the State of 515 00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:12.639 Texas, Abbott or any others involved in sending that first group of forty two 516 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:17.840 migrants on a twenty three hour bus ride. Back in June, Federal vehicle 517 00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:22.320 regulators have demanded Tesla turnover data about a secret feature in its cars. The 518 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:29.480 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says elon mode. Called Elon Mode allows Tesla drivers 519 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:32.840 to use the autopilot feature without having to keep their hands on the steering wheel. 520 00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:38.000 CBS is putting a tribute show on for Bob Barker, who died over 521 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.559 the weekend at the age of ninety nine. The show Tonight's going to honor 522 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:45.039 the life and career of the longtime host of The Prices Right. He did 523 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.239 it for thirty five years, beginning in nineteen seventy two. Barker earned fourteen 524 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.599 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award in nineteen ninety nine. He also 525 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:58.280 a big advocates for pets and one last thing. Big Fans of Big Hero 526 00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:04.280 six get a treat starting today at California Adventure, San Fransokio Square is complete 527 00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:08.280 open for business. It's modeled after Big Hero six the San Francokio. There 528 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:14.559 comes complete with a Baymax. He's the big white inflatable healthcare robot. He'll 529 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:19.639 be walking around the newly reimagined Pacific Wharf food Court, and we'll be available, 530 00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.679 as Disney said, for squishy hugs, fist bumps, and photos. 531 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:29.760 This is KFI and kost HD to Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead 532 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:32.599 local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. 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