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It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good
morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. No need for an alarm.
You got me. You know how alarms are supposed to be annoying. I
don't know if it's good anyway, So did you did you enjoy the rain?
We got more on the way. I love it. I think it's
great. We've had so much hot weather that this rain is just cleansing and
refreshing, and it's sounds like we're not getting a lot today. More heavier
rain is coming in tomorrow and her day. One week till Thanksgiving. I
haven't even started shopping. I've started planning, but I haven't started shopping.
And if you want your morning cup of coffee from Starbucks might be a little
more challenging. Thousands of Starbucks workers are walking out one day. Of course,
this is the day that they unveil their red cups for the holidays.
It's affecting some places in LA but not a ton, So you should be
okay, and before we get started, I got to share this real quick
story with you about my mom. So I decorate for every holiday, and
last year I found these great Thanksgiving like paper plates. They're Charlie Brown,
They're adorable. So my mom saves and cleans everything. She doesn't throw stuff
away, and I'm like, mother, throw away that plastic cup, and
she won't do it. So I made some I made lunch, and then
I went to throw away the paper plate that I used, and I considered
for a moment, I like almost washed it off, saved it, and
then I went, no, you're not becoming your mother. And I love
my mother. I threw that plate away. Felt very good. All right,
here's what's ahead on wake up call. Got lots of stuff for you
this morning. The fire under the ten Freeway has sparked more criticism over LA's
inability to handle the homeless crisis. Sixteen people, including a pregnant woman,
were living under the freeway apparently when fire erupted in the pallet yard early Saturday,
of course, closing the freeway for the next three to five weeks.
The company that leased the property says it had complained to city officials numerous Times
about fires started by homeless people on or near the property. Six Capitol police
officers have been injured in pro Palestinian protests outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in
DC. Protesters got into shoving matches with officers last night. One person was
arrested. DNC members were evacuated from the building. The FAA has given SpaceX
the go ahead to launch its Starship proto type rocket. Plans are for the
massive five one hundred foot tall spacecraft to launch as early as tomorrow. Eventually
it will travel to the Moon and beyond. The first attempt to launch the
prototype in April and when the rocket blew up at six o five its handle
on the news, Israel and Hamas may be close to a deal to get
the fifty of the hostages out of the Gaza Strip. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
state Fire Marshal says investigators have been collecting evidence to try to figure out who
started that massive fire under the ten Freeway in downtown LA. Investigators wasted no
time in determining the fire was intentionally started. Chief Daniel Burland says they know
the how now they need to know the why. Any building that is owned
or leased by the state, we do have responsibility for enforcing the fire and
the life safety components of the building code. Berlind says that also goes for
open lots. The fire started early Saturday morning, and the chief says investigators
from cal Fire, LA City and County Fire are looking for surveillance video and
talking to witnesses. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News that Is shows first
responders have answered more than one hundred and seventy calls from a tiny home village
in North Hollywood. The president of the nonprofit Hope the Mission tells KTLA the
calls are from January through August of this year. Anytime you've put well over
one hundred people on one side during crisis, there is going to be an
element of law enforcement needed. Rowan Van Sleeves says the number of calls is
still less than those coming from a homeless camp. The nonprofit runs four tiny
home communities in La. Another tiny home village in the San Fernando Valley has
had more than one hundred and sixty emergency calls during that same period. The
calls are first suspected assaults threats, weapons, suicides, overdoses, and more.
A federal jerry in San Francisco's now deciding the case against the man charged
with attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. David Depapp is charged
with breaking into the Pelosi home in late twenty twenty two and attacking paup pl
Lusi with a hammer. Pap allegedly said he was looking for Nancy Pelosi.
His lawyer says the crime was driven by a firm belief in wide ranging but
misguided conspiracy theories that motivated it to Pap to bring down the wealthy and the
powerful ruling class. Let's now say good morning to ABC's Geordana Miller in Jerusalem.
Jordana, are we getting closer to getting some of those hostages out?
Well, it appeared yesterday there really was momentum and that a breakthrough could be
just days away. You know, an agreement on all sides that Israel would
release some jailed Palestinians in exchange for at least fifty of the hostages, though
Israel was negotiating for even more, perhaps fifty on the first day, and
a staggered amount of hostages released over the ceasefire, which also there was a
dispute whether that was three days or five days. But it has to be
said that the operations at the Al Shifa hospital, it appears that Hamas's leader,
the only man who really matters in these negotiations over hostages at ja Q
Sinoir, the head of the military wing there in Gaza, he appears to
have pulled back and doesn't want to talk about the hostages because he's upset about
what's happening at Al Shifa. Right, just to remind our viewers, Israel
data targeted operation in one part of this large medical complex. Talking to some
of the patients there, no one was injured and no one was detained nor
moved around and the hospital and staff or the injured civilians there, there was
not even any gunner could find weapons and other things at the hospital. And
that operation is continuing, as well as continuing to look in the basement sections
of different buildings of the hospital. And you know, Israel and the Americans,
you know, the intelligence assessment is that there are underground tunnels underneath this
hospital, possibly a bunker. So you know, Israel appears intent on finding
some more of that evidence. And that's got to be a tough one too,
because you said that they're not moving the patients and the staff out,
so the Israeli soldiers are going in and searching these buildings. It just sounds
like that it's very well, we haven't. I mean, I actually think
it's kind of remarkable. There haven't been any accusations, even from the doctors
or you know, the staff, that there's been friction or fights with patients.
Israel brought in for this operation, doctors, medics, and Arabic speakers
that were specifically trained for this mission. So there, you know, they're
going through very cognizant that, you know, they don't want to cause any
harm to the civilians and the staff there, which really the hospital should be
evacuated, but it appears the hospitals reluctant to do that. They're worried about
the safety of their patients, even though the conditions inside the hospital are dire.
I mean, there are sections of the hospital that don't have any electricity.
They're running out of food and clean water there. Israel did drop off
the bulk and other supplies for the thirty six premature babies, and those supplies
were taken inside the building where the babies are okay, Jordana, can you
repeat that because you cut out? You cut out for a second. So
the supplies did get in for the babies that need the incubators, that's right.
The hospital did accept the incubators, the baby formula and other supplies for
the thirty six premature babies that were moved from one section of the complex to
another. Is we'll put those supplies on the doorstep they were taken in,
which is good news. And we hear that the babies are in stable condition,
although there have been another six patients that have died that were seriously in
serious conditions, which brings about thirty five patients have died since November first.
Okay, And so the hostage deal that seemed close for a bit is pulled
back again. Is there any hint rumblings of when they might start the negotiations
again or do the negotiations just continue all the time. They're continuing all the
time. I don't think Kamas will be able to, you know, kill
the negotiations right now. There's constant pressure on them. Remember the hostages.
There are American citizens, European citizens, there are Muslims from Thailan and well
of foreign workers who they took, you know, and there's there's also calls
for the a National Red Crescent to visit these hostages and bring them medicine.
Some of them have medical conditions. Hamas is essentially preventing that from happening.
All right, Gert, thank you so much for the update. Jordana.
We will check in with you again soon. Be safe. Thanks so much.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man's been arrested in connection with the
death of a twenty seven year old woman in Laguna Beach, Tatum. Goodwin's
family announced the arrest to a crowd of mourners on the San Clementy Pier last
night. We can provide everybody with peace of mind that there has been arrest
and that's all the information we have at this time. But there has been
arrest, so there is some type of peace there. But there's never going
to be full piece for what has happened to Tatum. The twenty six year
old man was arrested in Laguna Hills yesterday. Goodwin's badly beaten body found in
an alleyway Sunday morning, near the restaurant where she worked as an assistant manager.
It's not clear if she and the twenty six year old arrested knew each
other. The Newport Mesa school district in Orange County has responded to claims a
student was suspended for hate speech for saying free Palestine. It's written here that
he just said. That's a hate crime. The Corona del Mar student's family
claims the student was called a terrorist, posted a letter from the school calling
the comment threatening, and a video of a conversation with school officials about the
suspension. So we're suspending per strange Palestine? Is that the reason why a
kit should be suspended? Superintendent Wesley Smith says the comment free Palestine is not
considered hate speech, but the full story of last week's suspension is protected by
student privacy rules. Just to be clear, we haven't commented on it.
We haven't said it's only one student in Orange County. Corbin Carson KFI News.
The US Senate has passed a bill that extends government funding through early next
year. It needed sixty votes to pass. It got eighty seven last night.
Because by partisan cooperation, we're keeping the government open without any poison pills
or harmful cuts to vital programs. A great outcome for the American people.
CENTA Majority leader Chuck Schumer says the government shutdown was averted thanks to bipartisan support.
The bill now heads to President Biden for his signature. The Eastern Municipal
Water District in Riverside County is urging people to find alternative ways to get rid
of Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. Officials say putting cooking, grease, food, and
other oils down the drain can be tough on plumbing and can damage sewer lines.
They say fats, oils and grease should be poured into metal containers or
cans and then tossed in the trash. That's what I do. Okay.
You know the fire that has been burning at the Tustin Air Base hangar where
they kept that World War two era blimp. Well, here's an interesting kind
of offshoot from what happened here. There is a dog shelter across the street
the facility in Testin, so now the oc Animal Call Share Animal Care Shelter
is asking people to come forward and foster the dogs, at least on a
temporary basis. They have more than three hundred dogs, and since the fire
began, they've been keeping the dogs indoors. They haven't been going outside for
walks and plays, and they think it's just best to get them out of
the area because the air quality issues and they're going to be demolishing what's left
of the hangar in the next few days or so, so they are just
like, well, let's get them out. So if you are available,
the oc Animal Care will provide you with food and supplies, including a leash,
collar, dog tags, so they'll they'll supply that. You just need
to give them a home and if you're interested again, it's the oc Animal
Care Shelter at oc AC Programs at OCCR dot OCGV dot com. I bet
if you just google it you'll find it. Never going to remember that,
but good thing to do if you could open up your home help some pups.
Crews have cleared all the hazardous debris and the work to shore up one
hundred support pillars under the ten Freeway is underway. California is getting three million
dollars in emergency funding from the Department of Transportation to offset initial costs of preparing
the freeway that was damaged by fire last weekend. A Russian court has convicted
an artist for replacing supermarket price tags with anti war slogans. Russian media says
she was sentenced to seven years in prison. Sasha Skulenko was arrested a month
after Russia adopted a law that effectively criminalizes any public expression about the war in
Ukraine that's not in line with the Kremlin governor. NEWSIM has met with Canadian
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the APEX summit in San Francisco. NEWSIM says they're
working on creating an electric vehicle corridor from California to Oregon, to Washington and
into Quebec. NEWSIM will be meeting with leaders the Pacific RIM today and tomorrow
at six so five. It's handle on the news. Officials are trying to
make it easier for you to get around during the ten closures. Bill's going
to tell you about that right now, though. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, President Biden and China's Shijimping met for about four
hours yesterday. How did it go. Yeah, The President said that they
reached agreements on a couple key things. One that military to military communications that
we talked about The President said, it's been very worrisome that the two sides
have not had that direct contact for more than a year. He said,
that's how accidents and misunderstandings happened. So there's now a return to direct,
open, clear communications, and the President said this is going to be a
good step in the right direction making real progress. Another thing that the President
highlighted was an agreement on Sentinel on trying to curb the companies that are making
these precursor chemicals that go into fentanyl. The President said that the this is
an agreement that the two countries would take action against these companies now, though
they have to maintain a policy and law enforcement coordination going forward to make sure
it works. That will take some time, That will take a lot of
work between the two countries. But the President was optimistic yesterday. He said,
this is going to save live here in the US. And then do
we get a readout about what they talked about or do we just hear that
from officials like, yes, they discussed this, No, they didn't discuss
this. The President gave the readout, you know when we did get up
briefing from a senior administration official, but you know, they were making the
president's press conference, the official readout where he came and talked about all the
things that they discussed and what they feel were they accomplishments from the four hours
of meetings. I think it was also notable how much he was emphasizing the
communication between the two of them. The fact that they met yesterday was significant.
They haven't had a face to face meeting in a year. They also
hadn't had any contact in a year. It's not like they were on the
phone with each other once a month in the last year, and they were
in person together, and the President was saying that he felt that the steps
have been taken to have better communication, more increased communication between the two sides,
and then that's going to go a long way towards simmering down some of
the tensions recently between the US and China. So when they wrap up,
do they schedule like another round of meetings or does it just sort of lay
there until it's time to talk again. Nothing is on the books officially,
but the President indicated yesterday that if he were to call China's president, she
would pick up the phone and vice versa. And that is certainly different than
I think we've seen over the past couple of months when there have just been
no talks at all, and think about the tension points recently with the Chinese
by balloon, some of the provocations by the Chinese military against the US military,
and the fact that they haven't had any engagement during all of that was
really something. Yeah, all right, Karen Drivers, thanks so much for
the update. Appreciate it. Thanks all right, let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The storm
that southern California has brought thunder and lightning with it. Alex Tarty with the
National Weather Services, yesterday's rain was from the first of two storm systems hitting
this week. There's still a threat for lightnings, but more likely it's going
to be just widespread showers Friday afternoons for Friday night. That's the main specific
storm that comes in. This is a leading edge the tropical Abospheric River.
Attorney says the coast and valleys can expect to see a half to an inch
and a half of rain by the end of the weekend. One to two
inches or forecast in the foothills and mountains, with snow expected above seven thousand
feet. A man from Tarzana has bleeded guilty to selling deadly doses a fentanyl
to two people. The man intentionally sold the fentanyl to a group of young
people, disguising the pills as percocet. US attorney spokesman Karen McAvoy says the
man sold the drugs on two separate occasions last summer to an eighteen year old
and a seventeen year old who died within ten days of each other. People
many times don't even know what they're taking, and just I believe just two
grams a fentyl can be fatal. Macavoy says. The man pleaded guilty to
two counts yesterday to try to avoid getting the maximum of forty years in prison,
but that will be left up to the judge. The man is expected
to be sentenced in January. Chris Adler kaf I News. An unknown respiratory
illness affecting dogs across the countries raise concerns for owners and vets. ABC's Michelle
Fransen says the condition mimics illnesses like kennel cough, with symptoms including coughing,
sneezing, and lethargy. Let's say it's important to keep your sick dog away
from other dogs and curb those doggy playdates to help stop the spread. They
really do doggy playdates. Okay. Research is still being done, but the
illness is said to be very contagious and can be fatal. Let's say,
if your dog shows signs of being sick, you should get them checked out.
California's Department of Agriculture says it has received over one hundred written reports from
vets about the illness since just August. Okay, so, speaking of animals,
there is a new rhino in the US. A little rhino was born
and little meaning it was hundred pounds was born at the Virginia Zoo. She
and her mother, Zena will be staying in their night barn for the next
few weeks to make sure that mom and the little girl are bonding. She's
the fifth member of the Zoo's heard and the second rhino born to this this
uh this rhinos Xena, and she is uh durable. Look at this little
girl. She's a Southern white rhino. And I will tell you I got
to go to Africa a few years ago and the rhinoceroses were one of my
favorites. I thought that they you know, I didn't expect to love the
rhinos like I did, because they're these just freaky, prehistoric looking creatures.
But they are so agile and graceful and nimble when they move like they don't
plod through they like they sort of float through the grass. It's just like
so cool to see them. And we got to see the northern white rhinos
and there are This is sad and it breaks my heart every time I talk
about it. There are two left on the planet, two of them.
When I was there, there were three and they are at the old Pajeto
Reserve and we got to see them and our trackers our guides were telling us
these are the last three left, and I was like, how can that
even happen? So and since then the male rhino, his name was Sudan.
He died in twenty eighteen. So now there are just two girls left,
two on the whole planet. And they are spectacular. So if you
ever get a chance to see a rhino in person, they're just beautiful creatures
and it's so sad. Stop the poaching makes me so mad. The thirteenth
annual KFI Pastathon is here. Chef Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club, provides more
than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids in need in southern California.
And how does he do that. He does that with your generosity. So
you can help, And here's how you can donate at pastathon dot com.
You can shop at any Smart and Final store and donate at checkout, or
you can go to any Wendy's in southern California and donate. So get a
Frosty and make a donation to help the kids eat. That's great. And
then this Saturday from two to five you can go see the Fork reporter Neil
Sevedra. He's going to be live at the Smart and Finally an Orange at
fourteen oh one Kittella Avenue, that's East Kaitela Avenue. And then on the
November twenty eighth, which is Tuesday, which is Giving Day, we're going
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as you're thinking about being thankful for what you have this year. Maybe think
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Katerina's Club. Pastathon dot com. Hope you'll join us out there. The
os the Animal Care Shelter needs foster parents for their pups. The shelter,
which is across the street from the Tuestin Air Base where the blimpanger burned,
needs to find temporary homes for more than three hundred dogs because of air quality
issues. The hangar, or what's left of it, is set to be
demolished in the coming days. A new pole says a majority of Americans now
support a ceasefire in the Israel Hamas war. About thirty two percent of people's
surveyed said the US should support Israel, but that's down from forty one percent
in mid October, and nearly seventy percent say the Israeli government should pursue a
ceasefire. Two ski resorts that were planning to open tomorrow have delayed their openings
because of warmer than expected temperatures in the mountains Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe and
Northstar and Trucke We're hoping to see big crowds this weekend, but that's not
going to happen. At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
President Biden says he had great meetings with China's president Xi Jinping, but then
called him a dictator. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking
to ABC Mike Dobuski about how you may finally have something that will help you
put your phone down. We'll see this week, we went out and about
to South Coast Botanic Garden to check out a new exhibit in Rancho Palacerities.
The gardens are so beautiful, great place to go wander around, maybe have
a picnic, take a break from the world, discover plants, trees.
We saw lots of butterflies when we were there, and they have a special
new exhibit there. So for out and about this week, the chief operating
Officer, Marilyn Mack, took us on a journey around the botanic gardens to
discover trolls. They are so excited to welcome Thomas Dambo's Trolls here. They
have their West Coast premiere happening here at South Coast and that's here. We're
the first in the West coast. Yes, and we are just happy to
have the trolls here because they're here to save the humans. Amy we need
it. Yes, And actually that is part of the So I want you
to kind of launch us on the Journey of the Trolls, and we will
tell you that there are trolls strategically positioned throughout the gardens, and you'll go
on an expedition to find them and discover what they're doing to save the humans.
Humans not humans, humans humans. These are the young trolls. Okay,
so basically they've come with a very serious mission in mind. The elder
trolls were sitting around the fire and they were talking about all the horrible things
humans are doing to the earth, the water, and the birds and the
animals and just not respecting nature the way we should. Okay, yeah,
these six young'ins heard that because the elder said, we got to get rid
of the humans. They got to go. And the young troll said,
oh my gosh, you know there's hope for them. We can teach them
to do better. We must save the humans. So that I, like
those I know me too. They formed a troll gang. Okay, six
of them. They took off and now they're here at South Coast and they're
going to teach us how to do better and be better. Okay, so
let's start down the journey and tell us about all these bird houses and what
there are significances. I know, we're in a wild place right usually in
the spring. This is our butterfly pavilion, but it was empty. And
one of the trolls, Ibby Pip, the bird house troll. They all
have super fun nation. She got here first, and you know, so
she was placing her bird houses around because that's what she likes to do,
take care of the birds and animals. And she discovered this eighty seven acres
and started to pick up some other beautiful plants and other objects and saw this
empty space and thought, well, you know, we're going to have to
have a playhouse while we're here. So welcome to Ibby Pip's playhouse. I
love this. Okay, So I think we should go out. We should
take a look at Iby Pipp. But you can tell me a little bit
more. So Iby Pip is one of the trolls, and I will tell
us about what the trolls are made of, because they're pretty spectacical That's what's
exciting is you know we are on a landfill or use or used to be
a landfill amy and now we're eighty seven acres a botanic garden, and we
still like to talk about what we used to be turning trash into a treasure,
okay. And that's what Thomas Stanbo did with these trolls is he now
has taken reclaimed wood palettes and turn them into something magical. We have six
trolls. They all have distinct personalities and this is Ibby Pip, our birdhouse
troll. That is pretty spectacular. So you can see and we'll just explain
it to you. Ibi Pip is hanging birdhouses in the trees. One of
the cool things that you're doing along with this exhibit is you're not only coming
out to see what Ibi Pip is doing, you can actually do it.
So you're you're holding workshops. So tell us about one of the workshops.
Yeah, one of the workshops that we have is you can make your own
birdhouse. So we were very inspired by these trolls. Every troll has different
classes and workshops that you can take advantage of. And ippysys make your own
beautiful birdhouse and take care of the birds in your own backyard, okay.
And so all of the trolls have kind of their own little mission, so
you're gonna have to come out to see it. We can't go through all
of it in this short period of time, but tell us about, like,
what are the other missions of the trolls, growth of fung Figure is
the botanical troll. Her mission is to make sure that we respect nature by
planting more beautiful things, okay, and so we can teach you how to
do that in our gardening classes. We have Sophi's lotus, the listening troll.
It's all about being quiet and listening to what the world tells you.
I think we could all use a little of that little bit of that every
day. We also have Ronja Red Eye. You can't underget her. She's
the smallest, but she's the fiercest. She's the leader of the trolls,
okay, and she wants you to use your voice and tell the right thing,
okay. And then we have Bossi Booler. Bossi is a little bit
of a wild child. He loves to paint and create things with symbols,
and he's just one to tell you to never lose that child inside of all
of us. Okay, those children do the right thing. Okay. And
your favorite, my favorite, Camma Can, Cammi Can. She's our trash
troll. Okay. She saw all these eternity pieces laying around all over the
earth, justind otherwise known as plastic junk, not doing anything right, and
she said, I can turn this into something beautiful. So what I like
Camma Can for is not only does she have fabulous jewelry on, but she's
a trash troll. And so what better symbol for us. I love this.
So if you haven't been out to South Coast Botanic Garden, it is
in and of itself without anything extra. It is absolutely spectacular and what a
fun way to spend an afternoon just strolling through the garden. And now you've
added the trolls to it, and so you can come and you can help
save the humans and see these beautiful exhibits. You've got to come see them.
They're here through mid January, okay, and you're open every day.
We are open every day. Okay, come out and see the South Coast
Botanic Garden Trolls exhibit. Save the Humans, Save the Humans, Save the
humans. If you would like to see some of the trolls, please go
check out my instagram at Amy k King. It'll also be up a little
bit later on the KFI Instagram at KFI Am six forty. And it's really
cool, Like the trolls themselves are just so cool. And like I said,
the botanic gardens are so beautiful and the weather's so nice. What a
cool way to spend an afternoon, like wander around with your family, maybe
go on a day but they're absolutely gorgeous. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police in Washington,
DC have arrested at least one person at a pro Palestinian rally that turned
violent on Capitol Hill. One demonstrator outside DNC headquarters last night says they gathered
to show Democratic lawmakers support for a ceasefire in Gaza. He came to make
a peaceful demand, which was a demand for piece and to do a peaceful
rally to let our voices be heard to these Democrats, and instead we were
met by incredible hostility and aggression, people being shoved. Video shows officers pushing
protesters who had huddled together chanting let us live. All us house buildings were
put on lockdown for several hours. LAPED Chief Moore says he's looking into the
actions of officers who may have turned away the men who reported finding body parts
in trash bags in Tarzana. The chief says he wants to know why the
officers working the counter TOPENGA Division told him in to go outside and call nine
one one. I'm grateful for the fact that this wasn't dropped, that they
followed those directions, and that a patrol you did arrive, did go out
to the scene and my understanding did discover trash bags in the rear. Art
Moore says there were no body parts in those bags and no one answered the
door, so officers couldn't proceed any further. The next day, Sam Haskell,
the fourth was arrested and on Monday was charged with three murders. Steve
Gregor with King of Fine News. Computer and digital systems in Long Beach are
going to be offline for several days because of a cybersecurity network investigation. It's
being done by the Long Beach Department of Technology and Innovation with help from the
city's cybersecurity consultant firm and the FBI not clear what led to the investigation.
Nine one one services are still operating, and non emergency city services are also
available from the Southern California Toyota Dealers Traffic Center. Let's go places. We've
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cingalays again from Imperial, Lets make way toward the fifty five and checking
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at the Al Shifa Hospital, and also hostage negotiations. Right now, let's
say good morning to ABC's technology reporter Mike Debuski. Mike, there's a new
gadget coming out that just may get us to put down our phones. That's
the idea at least. Amy. Yeah, there's a new device from a
new company. The company is called Humane. It's a startup that was founded
by some former Apple executives, a married couple as a matter of fact,
and they're just out with their new product, their first device. It's called
the AI Pin, and there's a clue in the name there. It's a
pin. You clip it to your clothing, you put it on your lapel
or in your t shirt, and it's designed to do everything your smartphone does.
That means make calls, it can send texts, it can take pictures,
it can look things up, but it does that without a screen.
And Humane says the way they're able to accomplish this is basically in two different
ways. There's a rejector in the pin that can beam information out to you.
So you can imagine putting your yeah no. It's very star trek,
it's very futuristic. It's cool to kind of see them demonstrate this. You
can imagine like putting your palm up in front of this. That's how Humane
envisions you using this projector, and it will beam out, for example,
a little playback for your music, and based on how you move your hand,
you can either skip to the next track or raise the volume. You
can also dictate a text message and it will transcribe it using this projector on
your hand. You clench your fist and it sends the next message that's humane.
Wait wait wait, you clench your fist and it sends the message that's
correct. Yeah, well that's how Humane says it works. Right right now.
No one has played around with this thing. There are no demo units
out there, so we have to take all of this with a grain of
salt. But that is how Humane says it's going to work. And again
they say this is designed to break us of our dependency on smartphones. We've
all been in that position where you get a notification on your phone, you
pick it up, and you know, forty five minutes you're deep in TikTok.
Right. This is one of those things where you can remain up and
out and experiencing the world, but still have all the conveniences of a smartphone.
Another way they do this is through voice controls. There's a little button
on it that you can press and just ask it a question and it will
answer it for you. There's a small speaker within this device that will answer
your questions. And another big part of this device amy is artificial intelligence.
They say that they're working with open Ai, which is the company that makes
Chat GPT, in order to have a sort of natural language sort of thing
going on with this thing. That means that there's no wake word. It's
not like Hey Alexa or Hey Google, sorry to launch everyone's voice assistance in
your listenership there. But there's none of that with this. It's supposed to
be just you press the button, you ask it a question in your own
phrasing and your own language, and it will be able to answer that question
for you. But of course there's a lot of caveats to that at which
we can get into a lot of hurdles for this startup company. But it's
an interesting little gadget right. On the one hand, it's a smartphone replacement.
On the other hand, it's kind of one of the first hardware devices
we've seen that really uses artificial intelligence. Right. It's it's a thing that
is deeply integrated. It's a hardware device, but a means by which we
can interface with chat GPT. It's it's kind of this really interesting convergence of
a bunch of different tech trends. Ken kind of harkens back to Star Trek
again, Like you know how they just talk to the computer computer. Yeah.
Yeah, many people have brought up this boarding the Star Trek communicators specifically.
You know, it's a little bit smaller than that. Again, it's
a pin. It doesn't have like a flip up mechanism or anything like that
like you would see on the original Star Trek, but it is about that
size. It's a little bit bigger than a matchbook. It's it's kind of
I believe it's two or three ounces. It's not very heavy, but yeah,
it kind of is designed to just be there in its marketing materials.
It's very impressive. It's very you know, interesting to look at. Again,
this there's an Apple connection here, so there's a focus on design.
So it looks rather nice. Comes in a couple different colors, but I
wonder if it's going to look kind of like an Apple eye watch, an
Apple watch without the I would screen. But like about that size in shape,
yes, it's it's sort of a small rectangle, almost a square,
with sort of rounded, very severely rounded edges. So it's got this sort
of soft look and a flat front with a sort of you know, hood
that comes up over it that houses the projector and the little camera and all
the sensors that it needs, and you know, the magnet that clips to
the back of it is your battery. And the idea is you sort of
hot swap this. You have multiple batteries, and you know it's meant to
kind of keep going throughout the day before I let go, Mike, yep,
how much is this thing going to cost? So that's one of the
hurdles that's kind of alluding to. It is six hundred and ninety nine dollars
ay, that is smart and smartest. I thought, well, sure,
it's smartphone money. That is before you factor in twenty four dollars a month
for your wireless plan. Because again, this thing has a phone number.
You can send texts, make calls, all that sort of thing. So
you know, you kind of see this. They see this as a smartphone
replacement, but you know whether people will take to it. Again, it
is a pin. It's something that you wear on the outside of your clothing.
It's an outward expression of your fashion in some way. We think back
to other tech devices that have tried this, things like Google Glass hasn't really
worked out, but we'll see if it's different with the Humane Ai pin.
And when's it going to be available, they say. So, it's available
for pre order today for the general public, but it's supposed to ship in
early twenty twenty four. This is a startup company. We should take that
with a grain of salt. Delivering on time is a challenge for especially new
companies. But again, they have some pretty high profile investors, Sam Altman
of open Ai among them, so there is maybe reason to be a little
bit more confident in this as opposed to some of the others that are out
there. But you know, there are, as I mentioned, some problems
with this, not the least among which is the fact that a lot of
the artificial intelligence technology that this thing uses tends to get things wrong. The
aipin in its own demonstration video got two facts wrong that the Internet was quick
to point out. So a lot of caveats with this thing, but it
is a kind of interesting gadget. Okay, we'll keep our eye on it.
Thank you so much, Mike Debuski, appreciate it, of course,
Amy take care all right. Hey want to say congratulations to Dave Fontneau of
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