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Good morning, I'm em Kane. Do you know that next week is
Labor Day? Where did the summer go? I mean, the summer heat
is here, but the summer is just gone. But i'd freak you out
to start your Monday. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call. A
record setting heat wave is moving into southern California. A heat advisory will be
up from ten this morning through tomorrow evening at eight Temperatures up to about one
hundred and ten expected in the valleys and Inland Empire. Jacksonville, Florida's Sheriff
T. K. Waters is called a shooter's Manifesto, the Diary of a
Madman. A twenty one year old shot and killed three black people Saturday,
near and historically black university and what's being called a racially motivated shooting. The
El Sagundo All Stars are the Little League World champions. The team returns to
southern California today. They're going to be honored with an impromptu victory parade through
downtown El Segundo. Way to go, guys, Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police are
investigating reports of a huge fight involving a group of as many as a thousand
teens that I'm all in Torrents, A lot of kids, a lot of
chaos. They just wanted to cause chaos, that's all they wanted. Video
posted to social media shows dozens of teens running around the Delamo Fashioned Center mall
with an apparent fight happening in the middle of the crowd. They were all
just like running in trying to get into the movie theater. Yeah. I
saw like forty people get in, like a whole wattern got like the mall.
Scary guy punch. The group was so big. Officers from six other
nearby agencies were called in to help Torrance police with crowd control. A man's
been found shot to death in the driveway of an apartment complex in Woodland Hills.
He was shot in the chest and pronounced dead yesterday morning. Outside the
complex on Irwin Street near De Soto. A team from the La County Sheriff's
Department's Major Crime Bureaus has arrested ten people in connection with robberies at Nike at
a Nike store in East LA that was one of the smash and grab flash
mob robberies. Investigators say two of those arrested late last week had outstanding arrest
warrants. One of them was for shoplifting. Officials say one person is tied
in with the theft of a cargo truck. A labor union representing more than
fifteen thousand hotel workers has announced a boycott of LA hotels until hotel pay a
living weight. The boycott is being backed by reps for future events and conventions
as Unite Here Local eleven accuses hotels of violence against striking members. The workers
call for conventions to stay away from La marks a major escalation in the largest
hotel workers strike in US history. Earlier this month, the union filed federal
labor charges against several hotels, claiming they condoned violence against their own employees during
the strike. A spokesperson for the union is asking people not to cross picket
lines, saying it causes a disservice to hotel workers and all unions in La
Chris Adler KFI News. Some roads in Riverside County are still closed because of
damages from Tropical Storm Hillary. Work is scheduled to begin on those roads today.
The Rio Delsoul Road is a priority to reopen. It apparently provides access
to the Coachella Valley Animal Campus and Animal Samaritans Veterinary Clinic, and also some
local businesses. Emergency work on Thousand Palms Canyon Road is scheduled to start today
and is expected to take about a week. Thousand Palms Canyon Road, which
runs between Thousand Palms and Indio Hills and Sky Valley, has been closed because
of down power lines. Tyson Foods is shutting down six plants to shore up
its business, and it's laying off more than forty six hundred workers. The
plants are in Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas, and Virginia. County commissioner in
Missouri says a quarter of the county's jobs are going to disappear when the Tyson
plant closes this fall. FIFA has suspended Spain's soccer federation president for kissing a
player on the lips. After the Women's World Cup win. Louise Rubialis called
the kiss consensual, player Jenny Hermoso says it was not. Many Spanish soccer
officials applauded Rubialis when he refused to resign. Spain's soccer association is now supporting
him, while accusing Hermoso of lying and threatening to sue her for defamation.
The team's coach was also seen applauding during that news conference, but later released
a statement calling the kiss unacceptable. Abus ABC's Andrew Dinbert says the scandal has
led to protests in Spain. A rally is planned in Madrid today in support
of Hermoso. Had to play it the El Segundo All Stars or the Little
League World Series Champions. After being beating Kirasaw six five and Williamsport Tennis Not
Tennessee, Pennsylvania with a walk off home run, the champs fly home today.
They're going to be honored with an impromptu parade through downtown, where the
team's Facebook page says they will be driven in a caravan on Main Street.
Like rock Stars. The caravan starts at three thirty at Imperial Highway. It
will head south to El Segundo Boulevard. Fans are being asked to bring signs
where El Segundo clothing in colors, balloons, kids, pets, cheers,
whatever they say, show your ees, l and All Star Pride. An
official parade will be held on September tenth. By the way, the only
other LA team LA County team to win the National League the Little League World
Series. Where's my mouth today? Where the All Star teams from the Grenadi
Hills National Little League in nineteen sixty three and the Long Beach Little Leaguers in
nineteen ninety two and ninety three. It's five h seven. Let's say good
morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy's Stephen trying to keep these four indictments straight. What's
happening today in DC? Well, here in DC, there's a hearing.
There's a separate hearing in Atlanta. Two separate hearings in two separate cases.
That's what's happening today here in DC. The Judge Tanya Chutkin is going to
weigh competing arguments on when that federal January sixth trial should start. Prosecutors say,
this is the Special Council's Office, Jack Smith's office. They say,
that this trial should start at the earliest opportunity in twenty twenty four. January
two, twenty twenty four, to be precise. They want jury's election to
start this December. The defense attorney say, hey, look, you have
given us eleven point six million pages of discovery. It would take years to
go through all this documentation, literally two and a half years, and so
they argue that the trial shouldn't start until the spring of twenty twenty six.
Judge Chutkin will likely indicate today which way she's which way she's leaning, and
she may by the end of today issue a ruling on when the trial will
begin. Now, that's the story here in Washington, DC. In Atlanta,
a separate trial, separate hearing involving the separate case, and it has
to do with Mark Meadows and Mark Meadows's attempt to have the case against him
removed from Fulton County Court to federal court. What would it mean if Mark
Meadows prevails upon Judge Steve Jones. Fannie Willis, the district attorney would have
to take her documents and her briefcase and all the files and move them from
the Fulton County Courthouse where they usually operate to the US District Court House in
Atlanta, and Fannie Willis, the district attorney, would prosecute the case in
the federal court House against Mark Meadows. If the charges hold up, Meadows
is actually trying to get him dismissed. But let's just say he prevails in
one respect but not the other. Fannie Willis would have to try this case
in federal court under the federal rules of procedure, which she might not be
intimately familiar with, although I'm sure they understand their attorneys, and it would
be the federal judge that we were presiding over the case. But most importantly,
the jury hearing a case in federal court would be drawn from a larger
population, not just Fulton County, which is the city of Atlanta, most
of the city of Atlanta and some of the suburbs close in, but it
would involve counties around Atlanta, some of them are rather rural. So the
thinking is that strategically Meadows would like to have his case heard by people who
might buy virtue of their station in life and where they live, and perhaps
their politics as well. They might be more sympathetic to a former top aide
to the President of the United States. Okay, so I think in both
cases it's kind of interesting, like do they have a point though, because
in DC they're saying we can't get a fair trial if we don't have time
to prepare for it, And in Georgia they're saying, we can't get a
fair trial because you're not going to get a jury of your peers. You're
going to get such a concentrated group of people who are not Trump people.
Well, that's not the argument they're making a court. The argument they're making
a court has to do with his employment as a federal officer. But one
of the benefits is it would be a broader jury pool. Well they're not
making that point, but don't you think that's part of the reason before Well
certainly, I yes, I and other observers do. But that's not the
point they're going to make. The point they're going to make in court is
that has to do with his employment as a federal officer. Okay, Stephen
Portnoy, thank you so much for your time and insight this morning. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
news room. Two of the six people hurt in a mass shooting at a
biker bar in Tribuco Canyon have been released from the hospital. They were sent
home over the weekend. The shooting at Cook's Corner last week was done by
a retired Ventura Police Department sergeant who was targeting his soon to be ex wife.
He was shot and killed by Sheriff's deputies. The wife's family says she
was shot in the jaw but survived. A man who charged at police with
a knife has been shot and killed by LAPD officers in Northridge. LAPD Sergeant
Hector Guzman says it's unclear why the man and the officers were speaking yesterday at
an apartment complex. What brought officers to this location. Was there a call?
Was it just officers on random patrol. Maybe they got flagged down by
a community member, So that's gonna be part of the investigation. We at
officers not just to this area, but to make contact with the mail.
The man, in his twenties died at the scene. LAPD officers also shot
a man who charged at them with a knife in Highland Park on Saturday afternoon.
He's expected to survive. As we were just talking with Steve about hearing
is set in Georgia to decide if former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
will have his election interference case moved from state to federal court. His lawyers
argue he was working at the time as a White House official. Their ultimate
goal is to get his case dismiss. ABC's Karen Travers says the Fulton County
DA wants all nineteen people charged, including former President Trump, to appear in
court for arraignment the week of September fifth. A new poll finds rare agreement
across party lines in this case. A unifying figure is President Biden, though
not the way he would prefer to be. A hefty seventy seven percent of
the ap North polls say he's too old to be effective in a second term.
That sentiment about the eighty year old Democrat is shared not only by eighty
nine percent of Republicans, but also sixty nine percent of Democrats. Far fewer
express concerns about age with his leading rival, who isn't much younger. Donald
Trump is seventy seven. Sandy Wells ko FI News Simone Biles is on top
of the world, now holding the record for the most titles won by an
an American gymnast. With her victory yesterday at the twenty twenty three U S
Gymnastics Championships in San Jose, Files broke a tie without Alfred Jocom, who
competed eight decades ago. Biles still hasn't said if she is planning to compete
in the twenty twenty four Olympics now that she has anything to prove. Here's
something kind of cool. I'm not big on doing. Oh, this is
the first this and the first that, but for some reason, this one
caught my attention and it's Jamie Coffee made history at the San Francisco forty nine
Ers preseason matchup against the LA Chargers on Friday because she was the first PA
announcement, first female PA announcer in NFL history. She's she's been doing PA
announcing for basketball, but she became the first ever all Actually, she was
part of the forty nine ers first ever all female PA announcing team on Friday.
Sort of sort of a cool thing, glass ceiling kind of thing.
I think it's awesome, and that's not an easy job. PA is not
easy. No. She said that she prepared for it by walking around for
the whole week, like pronouncing all the players' names. I couldn't do it
I tell yet, but way to go, Jamie coffee. Kind of cool.
A tenth bus of migrants has arrived in LA from Texas. Mayor Bass
says they're all being taken care of. The judge overseeing former President Trump's federal
election case is expected to set a trial date today, aiming for early next
year. Trump's legal team has requested to postpone the trial until twenty twenty six.
Legendary The Prices Right Game show host of Bob Barker has died at his
home in Los Angeles. The current host of the show, Drew Carey,
who's been hosting it since two thousand and seven, tweeted that he will carry
Barker's memory in his heart forever. Bob Barker was ninety nine at six ZHO
five. It's handled on the news. Well, it's official. The head
of the vague Mercenary group and thorn in President Putin's side. You have Gunny
Progoshan is dead. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim,
bullying is on the rise, both online and on school campuses. Yeah,
and in fact, forty percent of kids and children and teenagers say they
were bullied on school campuses last year. That's some pretty strong numbers if you
consider the back in twenty nineteen the number was only twenty six percent. So
what happened between twenty nineteen and now the pandemic edge pediatrician child psychologists is back
that during the pandemic, when kids were at home, locked up and learning
online, they lost their social skills. Now they're back in an environment where
they have to deal with conflict, They have to deal with situations they didn't
have to when they were sitting at home, and now they're we're seeing this
Trendn't bullying going up? It's all from which I think is a pretty amazing
thing. They study by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, a survey
of one with thirty thousand kids from nine to eighteen this year, asking them
their feelings about all sorts of things, including bullying. And that's where we
see this number, this forty percent number of bullying on campuses. Eighteen percent
say they were cyberbullied. Just eighteen percent cyber bullied. Yeah, I was
a little surprised at that too. I thought it'd be more than that.
But I also considered this and this may, if not, skew the numbers,
it might explain some of the numbers, especially that one most of the
kids, fifty five percent of kids who were bullied online didn't tell anybody,
Okay, they didn't tell anybody, didn't tell an adult. Of those who
were bullied on campuses, kids were more likely to reach out to someone to
a teacher or a principal or a parent. Thirty eight percent of them,
though said that they didn't tell an adult either. Did they provide like an
explanation of what technically bullying is defined as. No. I think they ran
on the assumption that people who are pretty familiar or pretty they have a view
about what that is. And you're right, it's kind of like art,
right, or pornography. I can't describe it, but I know it when
I see it, And I think that's what they're they're sort of going for
here is they're boys and girls clubs. If kids are undergoing something that makes
them feel uncomfortable or unsafe, then that is chalked up to bullying. Yeah,
because I'm wondering if it's you know, like with the micro aggressions and
everybody gets their feelings hurt and I'm thinking about that. I'm like and quite
frankly, I was not an attractive child, and in today's world I could
probably say I was bullied, although I never thought I was bullied at the
time. Yeah, well if you if you didn't think you or you probably
aren't you weren't. I mean, but I think the definitions have changed.
Sure, I think that's entirely possible. So, yeah, they didn't necessarily
look at it in terms of a definition, but mainly about how kids are
feeling, you know, about their environment. Yeah, do we know what
AID group is most vulnerable? It's the middle teens. Are the kids who
reported that from from thirteen to about sixteen years old. You know that that's
the group that was most impacted by this. But this study, also,
the survey of one hundred and thirty thousand kids, also had some real positive
notes to it. I thought, oh good, let's talk about those.
Yeah, well, seventy five percent of those kids. These are urban kids,
rural kids, all sorts of kids. Seventy five percent intend to go
to college. Nice, right, doesn't mean that they will, and many
of them might not have the means to. But seventy five percent say,
yeah, I'm gonna go to college, Sixty two percent say they're confident they
have the skills that they'll need to be successful in a job, and ninety
three percent of eleventh and twelfth graders know that education and training is something that's
going to lead to a better career ahead. So they know the education.
You know. It's interesting to me about that is they know how important education
is, but like graduation rates have just plummeted kind of all over the place.
Yeah. I think you're right, and for a lot of reasons.
You know, some kids are out working now, some kids aren't working,
and that's a problem. But I think on the whole, kids do recognize
that an education is going to make things better for you, even if they
can't finish their their high school diploma. Yeah. I think the other thing
that is that surprised me about the study is we alluded to that it's only
not only it's eighteen percent reported having been cyber bullied, and in person is
forty percent. I would think that the cyber bullying would have been higher because
you know how we talk about how you can say anything you want on social
media and there's sort of no repercussions or consequences because it's a faceless attack,
completely anonymous. But these are happening. The bullying is happening in person because
kids don't know how to relate to each other anymore. Yeah, And another
part of the study, and seventy percent of these kids say that when something
important goes wrong in their life, they can't stop worrying about it. They
you know, they us doing it and they worry about a sixty seven percent
say they try to keep people from finding it out about that problem. So,
you know, I think there's eighteen percent number for cyberbullying maybe a little
low simply because they can't get kids to talk about it. Yeah, did
they Boys and Girls Club survey provide any recommendations ways to combat it or was
it just to find out what they were thinking? Well, keeping the line
of communication open, that's one thing that was key in this whole thing.
That I mean, if if fifty five percent of kids who are not who
are cyberbulling don't tell an adult something's wrong there, you know, and it's
it's up to the parent to be the parent and to say, listen,
have you got problems going on at school, or you've got problems with somebody
online or somebody's bothering you or picking on you, or making you uncomfortable,
please come to me. And that takes some bridge building with your kids,
you know. And so I think that's really at the heart of this as
well, that they Boys and Girls Clubs of America. They want those lines
of communication to stay open, not only among the parents and their kids,
but also teachers, school administrators, and those students. Talk talk, talk,
talk talk exactly. All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much
for your time this morning. Thanks. Amy. Let's say good morning now
to ABC's Steve Roberts. Steve, did the first debate move the needle at
all? Or has Trump just continued to stand strong? Well, he's certainly
continuing to stand strong. Amy. Look at the poll numbers. He's still
forty points ahead of Ronda Santis. Look at the fact that he raised over
seven million dollars selling T shirts and coffee mugs with his mug shot on a
million. He still has it. Yeah, seven million. I mean,
he's still No one ever accused him of not being a good salesman. He
loves too the president. He was certainly a good salesman, but also showed
that there are alternatives and there are a lot of Republicans, including a lot
of Republican donors, who are looking for alternatives, and some of those figures
also raised a lot of money after the debate. Nicky Haley, former governor
South Carolina, had her best fundraising day ever. Mike Pence got a thousand
new contributors. Ronda Santa says he raised a million dollars. The problem is
that the opposition is fragmented, and so there are a lot of people who
agree with Nicky Haley when she said on the debate, Donald Trump is a
most disliked man in America and we cannot win if he's the nominee. But
in twenty sixteen, exactly the same thing happened to me. You had the
Rubio people to cruise people the case of people, the Jeb Bush people,
and Trumps sailed through very similar pattern. If the opposition could crystallize one around
one alternative, they might have a shot at dethroning Trumpet. Right now,
he's sailing along and it's fifteen months out. Is it's still too early for
anybody to say not I'm thrown in the towel. No, not yet.
But the key thing here is money. At this stage you might want to
keep running, but if you if the money dries up, then you have
to drop out. But if the money keeps flowing, then you're encouraged.
That's where you got. You keep your eye on right now who is getting
the money and who is not. And in the aftermath, a number of
these candidates showed that they still have the ability to draw campaign contributions and they're
still going to stay in the race. But how long that happens, you
know, you don't know. Trump is just still such a powerful figure among
the core based of Republicans voters, but you know they're they're not going to
decide this election. You know, Moga Nation won't decide this election. It's
going to be suburban women outside of Milwaukee and Phoenix and Las Vegas who are
going to decide this election. And they are not happy with Donald Trump.
And the abortion issue hangs out there as a potential is very dangerous for the
Republicans. But precisely that reason. All right, Steve Roberts, ABC News
political analyst, thank you so much for your time and your insights this morning.
Forty point edge still for Trump, and he raised seven million dollars in
mug shots. T shirts and coffee cups. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom again. Baseball fans
in southern California, we're cheering as Elsa Gundo won the Little League World Series.
The game yesterday ended with a walk off home run by Lewis Lappy.
I was just looking for a good pitch of hit, and my mentality was
just get the next guy up, and if we kept doing that, we
wouldn't won either way. But I'll take the homer. The team is set
to return home today and we'll be driven in a caravan on Main Street like
rock Stars, as the league put it. People are being asked to bring
signs where team clothing, colors, spring balloons, kids, pets, cheers,
whatever, to show they're All Stars pride. There will be a formal
parade honoring the team on Main Street, but that's not till September tenth,
and this one is today. What a great win for those All Stars.
News brought to you by Semper Solaris. Near record temperatures are coming back to
California. The heat will be here over the next few days, with significant
cooling expected, but not until later this week. A heat advisory goes into
effect at ten this morning and lasts until tomorrow evening at eight pm. In
the valleys and Inland Empire, we could see highs up to one hundred ten
mid nineties for the Greater La area. The National Hurricane Center says tropical Storm
Idalia near the coast of Cuba could become a hurricane before it makes landfall in
the US. ABC meteorologists Samara Theodore says right now the system is spinning off
the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. Watches have now been issued for Florida's Gulf
coast, with landfall anticipated on Wednesday. Rain will reach before that and with
a quick four to six inches falling, flash floods will be a concern.
Adalia is forecast to become a hurricane tomorrow in the Gulf coast of Mexico and
will approach Florida with wins up to one hundred miles per hour, according to
forecasters. A man in his twenties has been shot to death inside a home
in Palmdale. Led County Sheriff's officials say the shooting yesterday may have been the
result of a domestic dispute. A man from Harupa Valley has been sentenced to
eleven years in prison for providing the fentinel pills that killed a woman from Moreno
Valley. The man pleaded guilty Friday to voluntary manslaughter and was immediately sentenced.
Prosecutors dropped a murder charge in exchange for the guilty plea. The Laguna Beach
City manager is agreed to retire in exchange for nine months severance and a two
hundred twenty three thousand dollars hostile workplace settlement. Claims against city manager show Ray
Dupuis include allegedly trying to get out of a traffic ticket by telling the officer
she was on the phone with the police chief. Other claims alleged Dupuis fought
against city hall transparency and concocted a feces was thrown at our house story to
distract from the ticket. Dupuis sued the city claiming a hostile workplace led by
a councilman, which included the feces vandalism. The city will also pay nine
months of health insurance and ten thousand dollars in legal fees. Her last day
is Friday. In Orange County, Corbin Carson k if I News. President
Biden has condemned the deadly shootings of three black people in Jacksonville, Florida,
by a white man who left messages of hatred for black people. ABC's Dave
Packer says Biden has urged all Americans to speak out. In a written statement,
President Biden saying we must say clearly and forcefully that white supremacy has no
place in America. The shooter killed himself Saturday after killing two men and a
woman at a Dollar General store. The local sheriff says the man had a
disgusting ideology of hate. Eight US Marines hurt in an Osprey aircraft crash in
Australia that killed three service members are in the hospital. Officials say twenty survivors
were flown from Melville Island to Darwin yesterday within hours of the crash that happened
during a multinational training exercise. ABC News contributor Colonel Stephen Ganiard says there is
a known problem with Osprey's called hard clutch engagement, and what it did was
essentially shake the airplane to pieces, and so this is a known problem.
We don't know if this had any factor in the crash in Australia. He
says investigators will likely be looking into it since it did cause a crash last
year. Lawyers for former President Trump or due back in court in Washington to
talk trial dates. Special Council Jack Smith's team is proposed to January second trial
in federal court in Washington. Trump's lawyers have asked for a trial in April
of twenty twenty six. They say they need time to review eleven and a
half million pages of documents they've received from prosecutors. So, in the aftermath
of the Maui wildfires, this is just a small piece of good news in
all of the devastation. You remember, last week they released three hundred and
eighty eight names of people officially on accounted for after the wildfire. The death
toll was still at about one hundred and fifteen, but like a thousand still
missing. Of those thousand, they had three hundred and eighty eight confirmed people,
and of that list, more than a hundred of them or their relatives
have now come forward saying they're safe. So now the FBI is reviewing everything
and working to remove names from the list. Several people on the list said
that they're alive and well. A few of them are saying that they were
confused or even frustrated about being on the list. One guy said he moved
away from Lahinah like three years ago, but they had the list. It
is shrinking and one hundred people are accounted for, so I'm going to take
that one as a win. One more this is not a win. The
Nordstrom in San Francisco, Nordstrom's flagship store, it's been there for decades.
It officially closed its stores yesterday the last days. Apparently we're pretty grim.
The store had empty display cases, stacks of naked mannequins, and you know,
they're saying it's the changing face of what's going on in downtown. The
stores has prompted another round of handwringing about the future of downtown San Francisco because
stores are closing. They're saying it's because in the wake of the pandemic,
the vacancy rates are higher. People aren't going to downtown as much. They
just don't have the foot traffic that they used to have. And then I
think you mix in the crime, the crime rates and all these smashing grabs,
and it's just not a great place to do business anymore. So the
Nordstrom in San Francisco in downtown San Francisco has now officially closed. So it
was sixty years ago today since Martin Luther King Junior gave his I Have a
Dream speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The speech,
in front of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered by the Lincoln Memorial, lasted
seventeen minutes. Here's just a part of it. I have a dream.
But one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of
its creams. We hold these twos to be self evident, that all men
are created it. I have a dream, and one day, on the
Red Hills the job the sons of Pharmacaves and the sons of pharmacave On will
be be able to sit down together at the table of brother. I have
a dream one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the
pito injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, be transformed into any races
a freedom and justice. I have a dream. My four little children well,
one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin, but by the content of that character. I have
a dream pretty powerful stuff sixty years later. So there are some facts about
this speech that you may not know. I have them. I'm going to
share them with you. First of all, Martin Martin Luther King, Jr.
Was the tenth person to speak that day. They had expected about one
hundred thousand people, but more than twice that showed up, and he was
the tenth and final speaker, which included twenty three year old John Lewis,
who went over on to become a US Congressman. Nelson Rockefeller inspired part of
the I Have a Dream speech. So apparently Clarence B. Jones was doctor
King's personal attorney adviser and one of his speech writers, and then Stanley Levison
was a progressive white lawyer. They teamed up and King asked Jones and Levison
to prepare a draft for his upcoming March on Washington address. And they say
that a conversation that they had had with then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller inspired
the opening analogy for the speech. Okay, the whole I Have a Dream
part that wasn't part of the speech. I love this one. So he
had his speech written and he had it all planned out, and he went
off book because somebody in the crowd, notably gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, yelled
tell him about the dream Martin, And apparently he had been using the I
Have a Dream in his speeches and thought that people would be sick of it,
and so he wasn't gonna use it because it would sound repetitive. But
after she yelled that out, he put down his notes and he delivered the
words that solidified his legacy. Also, Sidney Portier Poitier heard the speech in
person. He was there at the march on Washington along with other movie stars
Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, and Paul Newman. And then the I Have
a Dream speech caught the FBI's attention. After that. They had been apparently
been a little wary of Martin Luther King Junior since the bus boycott in Montgomery
in nineteen fifty five. But in a memo written just two days after the
speech, a domestic intelligence chief, William Sullivan, said, we must mark
him now if we haven't done so far, because he's dangerous, And before
the year was out, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy gave the FBI permission
to wire tap King's phone conversations. And then in nineteen ninety nine, if
you weren't sure that this speech was fabulous, scholars name that I Have a
Dream Speech the best American speech of the twenty twenty fifth century, of the
twentieth century. It beat out other inaugural addresses from John F. Kennedy and
Franklin Roosevelt, among others. They looked at a list of like a hundred
speeches and said, this is the best one. And then here's a really
cool thing. A Basketball Hall of Famer has an original copy, actually the
original copy of the I Have a Dream Speech. George Reveling or Revelling,
was a black athlete and a DC native. He played college hoops for Villanova
and he was working security that day. And when the speech was over,
George went up to the podium, not the three page script was standing.
There was in Reverend Martin Luther King Junior's hand and said, doctor King,
can I have a copy? Can I have that? And Doctor King gave
it to him. He's been offered three million dollars for it so far,
but he refuses to part with the speech sixty years ago. Today, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Investigators in Torrents are trying to figure out what led to a massive
fight at Delamo Fashion Center. About a thousand teens were at them all yesterday
when the fighting started. This woman who works at BJ's restaurant told NBC four
some of the kids went in there and got rowdy. When she asked him
to move, they got so mad, so angry, and they started just
yelling a bunch of things, cussing. Yeah, than one of them just
throws a cup of water at me. There were reports of a gun fired
about officials. They didn't find anyone who'd been shot. LAPD officers have shot
and killed the man with a gun. I'm sorry they shot him with a
gun. The man had a knife in Northridge. It happened late yesterday morning
on Malden Street near Canby Avenue. Police officers were talking to the man when
he pulled out a knife and charged at them. Criminal charges are expected to
be filed against the driver of a speeding car that ran a red light in
South la killing three women in a ride share vehicle. The woman driving the
ride share early Saturday was taken at the hospital. There was another person already
hurt also hurt. He was arrested and also taken to the hospital. Former
La City councilman Mark Ridley Thomas is expected to hear his sentence in a federal
corruption case. He's looking at six years in prison when he sentenced today for
what prosecutors called a shakedown. Ridley Thomas was convicted in March of bribery and
conspiracy charges. He was found guilty of voting for county contracts that favored USC
while accepting benefits for his son. Russian authorities have announced an effort to increase
production of movies glorifying Moscow's war in Ukraine. One feature movie called The Witness
hit theaters this month, and at least two more are in the works.
It's not clear how much of a draw they will be. Sociologists say public
interest in the war has waned. Getting back to California from Las Vegas could
be a little easier. Caltrans is going to open a temporary lane on the
southbound fifteen during the day on Sundays and Mondays to help break up some of
the traffic that's heading towards southern California. Fifteen is notorious for traffic jams especially
on holidays. Okay, there's a guy in Michigan who is suing Olive Garden
because he says he found a rat in his suit soup. He said he
was dining with two other people back in March. He ate from a bowl
of minister only soup. He says he felt something sharp stab his cheek,
spit it into the napcan, and realized it was the fur covered foot of
a rat, complete with claws. The release goes on to say that restaurant
employees were dismissive of the claim, and one apparently said that's funny. We
don't put our meat in minnestrone. At an urgent care facility, the man
was given a tetnas shop and prescribed a series of antibiotics for the cut inside
his cheek, and apparently since then he's had a stroke and has needs ongoing
medical attention. His attorneys say so anyway, They say that they tried to
work it out to avoid litigation, but Alive Garden refused to acknowledge the serious
nature of the incident, and all of Garden representative said that we have no
reason to believe there's any validity to this claim. There is a picture of
the rats leg provided in court filings appears it's much larger than a soup spoon.
Though in the lawsuit how He's attorneys that's the guy who's suing him point
out that their client was not really looking at his soup when he ate he's
seeking seventy five thousand dollars in damages. That's just This is KFI and KOSTHD
two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
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