WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.839 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.640 demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is your wake up call for Thursday, 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:16.519 February eighth. I'm Amy King, thrilled that you're waking up with us starting 4 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:21.079 your day. I'm seeing stars today in a good way. It was kind 5 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:24.920 of fun. It was driving in saw stars in the sky. I haven't 6 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:27.679 seen those for a while. Tony was nervous that I was going to pass 7 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:33.119 out. No, it was, but I know it's only been a few 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:36.359 days. But I'm like, oh, yay, stars, and the weather's 9 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:39.240 going to be better. We do still have some weather warnings in effect, 10 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:44.159 but I think the worst of this storm is out out of southern California. 11 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:51.320 That is also who knew that Southern California was a wildlife extravaganza. Okay, 12 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:56.159 So yesterday I saw my porch possum. I have a possum that runs up 13 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.280 and down next to my house and sometimes he stops on the porch and drives 14 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.079 the cat crazy. So so saw the porch bossum. Then I was driving 15 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:06.159 to work this morning and saw two coyotes. If they weren't so mean and 16 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.840 nasty, they are kind of cute. And then as I was walking into 17 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:15.079 the station today, a little rabbit was hopping across the trail. Who needs 18 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.079 a zoo when you have southern California. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. 19 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.760 Section of Moleholland Drive in Studio City has been shut down because of a 20 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:30.480 mudslide. The hillside collapsed yesterday between Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon Drive. 21 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:34.719 A portion of a vacant home near the top of a hill is dangerously close 22 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.760 to falling off a cliff. Five hundred and twenty mudslides have been reported in 23 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:44.120 La County since the storm rolled in on Sunday. We're just getting this information 24 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:49.560 into the KFI newsroom. The five Marines aboard that helicopter that was on its 25 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:55.239 way from Las Vegas to Miramar near San Diego that went down in the mountains 26 00:01:55.239 --> 00:02:00.560 outside San Diego have been confirmed dead. The military is now confirming that the 27 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:06.000 Supreme Court's going to hear a case today that will decide if Donald Trump is 28 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:10.560 ineligible for a second term in office. Justices will hear arguments on the Colorado 29 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:15.560 Supreme Court's ruling that disqualifies Trump from appearing on the state's ballot ahead of the 30 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:20.120 twenty twenty four election. At six oh five, it's handle on the news 31 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.080 at US air strike in Iraq has taken out a key player in the Iran 32 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:29.680 backed Iraqi militia. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of 33 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.879 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A winter storm warning is in effect for 34 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.599 parts of La County and the San Gabriel Mountains. The current storm is expected 35 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.520 to drop moderate to heavy snow on the San Gabriels, Mount Wilson, Mount 36 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.240 Baldy, Right Wood, and Angelus Crest Highway. Between ten and twenty inches 37 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:51.319 of snow could fall at elevations above seven thousand feet. The Mayor of Long 38 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.639 Beach is telling people to listen to weather warnings. Nineteen people were rescued off 39 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:58.960 the coast of Long Beach during the storm after their sailboat mast broke off, 40 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:02.759 sending them toward break water rocks. Mayor Rex Richardson says several weather advisories were 41 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:07.199 sent out warning people to use caution during the storm. We used all our 42 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:12.639 channels to advise the public what activities you should and shouldn't do, and that 43 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.759 a storm is coming. We should take it very seriously that amount of rain 44 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.319 coming down at one time. The water moves very fast, Richardson said yesterday. 45 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.759 When people don't listen to safety advisories, they put themselves and first responders 46 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:31.599 at risk. Chris Adler KFI News officials have found or confirmed that the five 47 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:38.360 Marines whose helicopter went down in the mountains near San Diego are dead. ABC's 48 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:40.919 Matt Gutman says the helicopter was found yesterday. There's no indication yet on what 49 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:46.719 might have caused that helicopter to go down. There's also no indication at this 50 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:50.479 point that there are any survivors, and again we just got confirmation that there 51 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.960 are no survivors. The helicopter was returning from a training mission in Nevada when 52 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:58.400 it went down in bad weather. It was reported missing when it didn't show 53 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.039 up at Marine Corps air Station and Miramar. The last known contact with the 54 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:06.919 helicopter was late Tuesday. The Marine Corps was leading search and rescue efforts. 55 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:12.759 Israeli airstrikes have reportedly killed more than a dozen people in Gaza, hours after 56 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:18.800 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas's ceasefire terms and vowed to expand Israel's offensive. 57 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:25.920 Egypt has warned that any ground operation in Rafa or mass displacement across the border 58 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:30.519 with Egypt would undermine its four decade old peace treaty with Israel. Russia's Central 59 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.839 Election Commission says a politician who's been critical of the war with Ukraine cannot run 60 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:41.680 for president. The commission declared more than nine thousand signatures submitted by the lawmaker's 61 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:46.319 campaign were invalid, which was enough to disqualify him. Most opposition figures who 62 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.639 might have challenged Russian President Putin have either been imprisoned or exiled, and the 63 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:57.279 vast majority of independent Russian media outlets have been banned. Kind of scary, 64 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.879 Thank you, Nick. Let's say good morning to ABC's senior national reporter and 65 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:06.639 Flaherty at the Pentagon, And we just got word in about two minutes ago 66 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:13.680 that they have the military has confirmed that the crew members on that marine helicopter 67 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:18.959 that went down in the Cleveland National Forests have died. Yeah, that's right. 68 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:23.000 So, you know, we were getting word luck yesterday that they had 69 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:28.240 found that debris field. You know, this crew flying a nighttime mission in 70 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:32.000 some of the most treacherous weather, really leaving the question there of why they 71 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:36.160 were allowed to continue with this mission. It was a training mission flying from 72 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:40.959 Las Vegas to the San Diego area. You know, we had reporters there 73 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.240 overnight. They were trying to hike into the region. They said it was 74 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.759 extremely difficult to get to a lot of mud, very limited visibility. So 75 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:53.639 of course that's not the outcome that anyone wanted. But you know, it's 76 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:58.120 not surprising we heard that the debris field was you know, there was not 77 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.040 a lot of hope. Oh, okay, Yeah, and from you know, 78 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:05.480 just rank and file, what was being put out was just that having 79 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:10.959 found the crew, which was kind of an odd, I don't know, 80 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.720 an odd way to address it since we knew that the helicopter had gone down, 81 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:19.279 and like you said, the conditions were so bad, so they don't 82 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:24.120 think that anyone actually survived the crash and later died because, like you said, 83 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:28.680 the debris field was pretty extensive. Yeah, So we did get confirmation. 84 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.399 It's the third Marine Aircraft wing that has put out the information. They 85 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:38.360 said that all five marines have been confirmed deceased, so that has been confirmed 86 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:41.240 as of They confirmed that twelve minutes ago. Okay, well, not the 87 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:43.720 outcome we were looking for, but thank you for the update on that. 88 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:47.439 And then halfway around the world, the US has hit a high profile target 89 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:53.000 in retality, retaliating for the death of the three US service members in Jordan. 90 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.519 What's the latest on that. Yeah, so, you know, we 91 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.920 saw that attack on the US base. There was a own that was able 92 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.040 to get through kill those three American service members, and the US officials vowing 93 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.560 that they would retaliate at a time and place of their choosing. Now, 94 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:13.560 we did see bombing strikes last Friday, but US officials left it very open 95 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:15.720 ended. They said they were not done yet. And then yesterday we got 96 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:20.839 word of these explosions in a neighborhood in Baghdad. It was later confirmed by 97 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:26.560 Iraqi officials that Alsadi, who is the leader of Kativ Haspola, that is 98 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.319 the group suspected to be behind the US attack, that he was in a 99 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.720 car with two others traveling when it was struck by a drone and he was 100 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.959 killed. So those groups vowing revenge, they call it a crime. The 101 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:43.160 Iraqi minister Prime Minister saying he condemns these attacks on his soil. Of course, 102 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:47.600 some complicated politics there a lot of the Iranian militants that are operating inside 103 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.800 of Iraq. They're doing so with the knowledge of Iraqi officials who are a 104 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:57.560 US ally, So you know, the US saying we are holding those responsible, 105 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:01.240 We are not going to let those deaths stand. But now everyone holding 106 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:03.600 their breast for what the other side does next. Okay, And now that 107 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:13.199 we've hit a major player, is the US expecting, probably expecting retaliation and 108 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:18.120 are they taking any extra precautions? You know, that is the big question. 109 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.560 There's been one hundred and sixty eight attacks on US forces in Iraq and 110 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:26.199 Syria since mid October, and that's these groups say that's in retaliation for US 111 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.000 support in Israel. At US say is it's not going to change its policies 112 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:35.440 because of Iran backed militants, and they've blamed Iran directly. But yet that 113 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.440 is the concern, is that there will be retaliation for that. The US 114 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.080 saying that their goal here is deterrence, to get these groups to back down. 115 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.360 They're trying to de escalate from the region. Nobody wants a wider war, 116 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.840 that's what they keep telling us. So now we just have to sit 117 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:56.240 and wait. Yeah, pretty impressive and that they were able to target with 118 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:01.480 a drone a car in a neighborhood. Yeah, you know that that is 119 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.399 something that the US has had the ability to do. We saw that stretching 120 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.879 back from the Obama administration. You know, I had covered the Iraq war 121 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:11.759 and then came took a break, and when I came back, I thought, 122 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.360 Wow, everything has shifted to drone warfare. It's just it's amazing. 123 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.000 In the past, you know, ten years, how dramatically the landscape has 124 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:22.559 changed. And you know, when you look at what the Housies are doing 125 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:28.240 in the Red Sea, harassing these commercial ships, they're able to essentially block 126 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:33.879 commercial trade without a navy. They're doing it with very low priced weaponry, 127 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.919 getting these ships to you know, stop operations at times because they're able to 128 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.200 hit some of these targets. So, you know, a very different different 129 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.120 landscape than it was ten years, ten to fifteen years ago. Yeah. 130 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:54.080 And since the US has retaliated, have the strikes either by the Hootis or 131 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.879 from the Iran backed militias, have they slowed down or are they kind of 132 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.000 the same. Has there been any change? Yeah, that's a good question. 133 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:07.399 So last Friday, we had a barrage of strikes from the US on 134 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:13.360 facilities that were being used weapons storage systems, essentially that we're being used to 135 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:18.600 attack US forces. That's then we have seen these run backed proxies, these 136 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:24.120 eroun proxies back down and say we're not going We're going to call for a 137 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:28.480 ceasefire. And the US sort of looked at that and said, well, 138 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.480 okay, but you've had one hundred and sixty five attacks on US forces, 139 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:35.360 You've killed three service numbers, which changes the calculation. We're not done. 140 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.960 And that's and then we got the word Wednesday about these explosions in Baghdad. 141 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:45.159 So you know whether or not this will be enough to deter them. Will 142 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.639 everybody step back from the brink? I think that's what the hope is, 143 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.919 but we don't know yet. Okay, and we will be watching ABC's and 144 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.159 Flaherty. Thank you so much for your time and information this morning. Thank 145 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:58.279 you. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out 146 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.120 of the KFI twenty for our newsroom. The LAPD has its first Asian American 147 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.000 chief, Dominic Choi has been chosen as interim chief. He takes over March 148 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.840 first, the day after chief more retired. Ultimately, my goals to set 149 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:16.200 the stage establish a framework for a smooth transition for the next Chief of Police 150 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.080 of the Los Angeles Police Department. Choi graduated from us scenes been with the 151 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.879 department for twenty eight years. He's served in some capacity in just about every 152 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:28.080 division in the department. He was promoted to Commander of Operations Central Bureau in 153 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.639 twenty seventeen, and in twenty nineteen became a deputy chief. Current rules preclude 154 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.480 him from getting the permanent chief job. Steve Gregory King of Fine News, 155 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:41.759 an investigator has testified Rebecca Grossman's speed was the primary cause of a crash that 156 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:46.200 killed two boys in Westlake Village. The expert says data from Grossman's suv recorded 157 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.200 the gas pedal as being ninety eight percent floored and hit eighty one miles per 158 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.919 hour three seconds before the twenty twenty crash. Math was used to claim the 159 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.240 family would have made it safely across the street had the suv been traveling the 160 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:00.879 forty five mile per hour speed limit. The defense claims the kids were outside 161 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:05.320 of the crosswalk because the first debris from Grossman's suv was found fifty feet away, 162 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.080 but hail yesterday described it as basic physics. The debris was connected to 163 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.399 the suv at impact, so both would continue traveling right through the intersection at 164 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.320 Vani's courthouse. Corbin Carson kf I News. A volcano in Iceland is erupting 165 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:22.960 for a third time. The country's Mediological office says the volcano south of Reykvik 166 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.399 is spewing lava from a miles long fissure. Lava from the last eruption, 167 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:33.759 about three weeks ago, reached the outskirts of a coastal town, forcing nearly 168 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:39.039 four thousand residents to evacuate the town. Iceland has over thirty active volcanoes. 169 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.960 A satellite that will study microscopic ocean life and particles in the atmosphere has launched 170 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:52.039 from Cape Canaveral three two one booster ignition the old Power Indians and lift off 171 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:58.879 of the Falcon nine and PACE, helping keep pace with our ever changing ocean 172 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.360 atmosphere. Vanessa PACE is on a three year mission to gather data that will 173 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.559 allow scientists to see what they call the invisible universe in the sea and sky. 174 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:13.000 PACE is an acronym for plankton, aerosol, cloud and ocean ecosystem. 175 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.559 When we come back, more and more self checkouts are popping up, and 176 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.879 more and more people seem to be hating them. I'll tell you about that. 177 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.840 You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty Ready 178 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.559 to get the day started. Looks like it's going to be dry unless you're 179 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:31.720 headed to the mountains and they're still expecting some snow Here's what we're following in 180 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.879 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Again, this information just coming in a 181 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.639 few minutes ago. The military is confirmed five Marines aboard a helicopter that crashed 182 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:46.240 in San Diego County have been killed. The helicopter was returning from a training 183 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.879 mission in Nevada when it was reported missing Tuesday night. It was supposed to 184 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.399 arrive at Marine Core air Station Mirror mar but didn't make it. The last 185 00:13:54.399 --> 00:14:00.360 known contact with the helicopter was late Tuesday during bad weather. The hell copter 186 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:05.799 was found yesterday in Pine Valley in the mountains above San Diego. Republican presidential 187 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.879 candidate Nikki Haley has turned her focus to California after a rough showing in Nevada's 188 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:15.720 Republican primary. Hailey was at a Tavern in Costa Mesa last night, says 189 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:20.200 she's not given up even though she lost the Nevada primary to the none of 190 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.679 these candidates option on the ballot. Home sales in southern California have plummeted down 191 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:30.720 forty three percent between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three. Three hundred eighty 192 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:33.960 four thousand homes were sold during that time. High prices and high mortgage rates 193 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:39.799 have led to the slowest two years for home sales on record. At six 194 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.799 ZHO five its handle on the news. A US air strike in Iraq has 195 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.879 taken out a key player in the Iran backed Iraqi militia. Right now, 196 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:54.799 let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, we're seeing more and 197 00:14:54.919 --> 00:15:00.120 more self checkouts stores and as it turns out, people don't like them. 198 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:03.200 Yeah, Tructor University has taken a look at this. They really kind of 199 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:09.679 did the first hard look at how customers feel about self checkout amy and discovered 200 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:11.919 that customers aren't crazy about it. You know, we've kind of gone full 201 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:16.559 circle. Back in the day you've had to visit a checkout station with a 202 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.000 person standing there and put the stuff on the conveyor belts and that person would 203 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.159 check out, put it in the bag, and you'd be gone on your 204 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.960 way. Of course, then we went to self checkout maybe twenty years ago. 205 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:31.200 I suppose that's when they started putting these things into stores in a big 206 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:35.080 way. That Costco and Walmart, Kroger, they're all they've made a big 207 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:41.200 commitment to self checkout. But the study from Direction University says that customers feel 208 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:45.639 a sense of loyalty to stores where they have the option to go to a 209 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:48.799 human being right, that they can walk over next to the self checkout, 210 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:54.600 go through a checkout with a person standing there, and that they feel taken 211 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.840 care of in that way, sort of pampered. So now some stores are 212 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:03.480 going the opposite direction, and it's on an experimental basis. All three Walmart 213 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:08.320 stores in the Albuquerque area are taking out their self checkout altogether, right, 214 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:12.879 So I mean Walmart, where you have some places with ten or twelve kiosks 215 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:17.279 there for people to self check out and they kind of monitor it with a 216 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:21.679 person standing there. They're taking those all together and putting in the old style 217 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:26.200 checkout stands with human clerks there. So we'll see if this catches on see 218 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:33.759 if other retailers take this to heart. It's pretty obvious. But why are 219 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:38.960 they putting them in money money money money, right? Yeah, the reason 220 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:41.039 they we're doing it in the first pally, Yeah, it is to save 221 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:45.480 on labor, cause to maybe to give a little more futuristic feel to the 222 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.440 whole experience. Yeah, check out your own stuff with these scanners here. 223 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:55.159 But at the same time, you've got people and probably everybody is guilty of 224 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.720 this. They go through through the cell checkouts they at home and realize they 225 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:02.159 have something in their back that they didn't scan, didn't pay for, and 226 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.720 totally accidental. But there are others who do skip scanning on purpose. There 227 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:08.440 was a Tennessee school board member I had to step down a couple of weeks 228 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:14.119 ago because she was caught skip scanning to the tune of several hundred dollars over 229 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.720 the course of several months at a Target store in her hometown. So, 230 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.880 yeah, you know, self check checkout is kind of facing a reckoning right 231 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:26.079 now. Yeah. I was talking on wake up Call I think last week 232 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.720 and telling people that there was a sign posted at a self checkout at Dollar 233 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:37.279 General that said this is closed because you guys keep stealing and then said something 234 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:44.559 like sorry to all the honest people or something. And I like the analysis 235 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.839 that people want that loyalty or you know, that they want that human interaction. 236 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.400 And I'm one of them, Like I don't do the self checkout. 237 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.880 I'm like, I want to go and even though I hate it when somebody 238 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:57.359 is in line in front of me and they have like a ten minute conversation 239 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:03.359 with with the checkout clerk, Yeah, I still want that interaction, right, 240 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.599 and I think that's what a lot of people are going for. It's 241 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:10.519 funny you bring was a Dollar General? You said there? Yeah. The 242 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.839 CEO last week he said that he wanted to improve the customer experience In customer 243 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.240 service, he says, quote, the company was starting to rely too much 244 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.599 on self checkout in the stores, so it's likely that they may start replacing 245 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.359 those with human beings. I went through full service checkout last night, just 246 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:30.119 coincidentally, for the first time in a long time, clearly a high school 247 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.440 kid, and I had a basket full of stuff. He was efficient, 248 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:36.799 he was friendly enough, but quick, and you know, I was in 249 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:41.480 and out of there in no time. So there is something he said for 250 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.960 that, the human contact but also the somebody who's there who knows what they're 251 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:51.319 doing. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think that the other thing that I 252 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:56.079 find interesting about the self checkouts is that they have like twelve people or they 253 00:18:56.079 --> 00:19:00.960 have twelve checkouts, and like one or two people monitoring them have an issue, 254 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.759 then you have to wait, so then it takes longer. Like I 255 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.359 was at my pavilions the other day and I got some cheese that was supposed 256 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.920 to be on super special and it didn't ring up right, but I was 257 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:14.559 able to talk to him right there and he fixed it. Yeah, let 258 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:18.599 me guess, Bree, it was Bree cheese. It was not. It 259 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:23.960 was sharp cheddar cheese and white extra sharp cheddar cheese. It was on super 260 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:30.279 sale. Yeah, okay. So I also think that the next step should 261 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:34.000 be getting rid of the conveyor belts and having the clerks take your stuff out 262 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.160 of your little basket like they used to. I don't think that's going to 263 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:41.839 happen, okay, I don't think so. Fine conveyable it is. Okay, 264 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.680 if you've got those dividers, you know, you've got that partition that 265 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:48.839 you can put between yours and the people behind you, Okay, and then 266 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.839 do you do this, Jim, because this is my supermarket etiquette. After 267 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.279 you've unloaded your basket, ye, put the little divider behind your stuff so 268 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.319 the next person can start putting their stuff down. Yes. I hate it 269 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:04.799 when people don't put the little divider behind their stuff and I have to reach 270 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:08.039 across them to grab one. I know, I know, excuse me, 271 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:12.680 excuse me, excuse me. And touching you know, maybe just do you 272 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:18.759 get skiped out touching stuff in public places like that, like the divider, 273 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.480 like the car at the shopping cart whatever. I'm okay with that, all 274 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.559 right. Are you a German a man than I am? No, not 275 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:27.799 necessarily. All right. Well, I'm glad to see that they're going to 276 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:32.839 at least test having more clerks back in the stores. I think that's a 277 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:34.960 cool thing. Yeah, I'm surprised. I mean, these Walmart's in the 278 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.279 Albuquerque area, they're going to take them out altogether. Walmart's one of the 279 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:44.720 companies that made a huge commitment to self check out. Okay, see people 280 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:47.319 connections. It's a good thing. Yeah, thank you, Jim Ryan, 281 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:51.559 the you the Dollar General not at the self check outline though they've closed them. 282 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:53.839 All right, take care let's get back to some of the stories coming 283 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.240 out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La Kenny Sheriff's Department's trying 284 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:02.039 to find a fifteen month old boy allegedly kidnapped by his mom, who does 285 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:06.559 not have legal custody. The boy was last seen Tuesday with his legal guardian 286 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:11.039 in Walnut. Miguel Medina is Hispanic, three feet tall, black hair, 287 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:12.960 brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans, 288 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:18.920 and black Adida's shoes. His mom, Bridget Benitez, is Hispanic five foot 289 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.119 one. She weighs about one hundred thirty nine pounds, has blonde hair and 290 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:26.599 brown eyes. She may be driving a twenty twenty one black Toyota Camry with 291 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:30.960 California plates. Ending In nine six eight, the Supreme Court's expected to hear 292 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:34.559 arguments in former President Trump's appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that took him 293 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:38.960 off the primary ballot. The state court found Trump is not eligible to run 294 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.880 for president because he violated a provision in the fourteenth Amendment, which prevents those 295 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:47.839 who engaged in insurrection from holding office. We're going to be talking more about 296 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:52.160 this with ABC's Steven Portnoy coming up in about twenty minutes at five point fifty. 297 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:59.160 Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has interviewed Russia's President Putin. Carlson says 298 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:02.920 the two hour interview is going to be released on his website and ex profile 299 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.240 tonight at six o'clock Eastern. That's three o'clock here. It's the first interview 300 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:12.359 Putin has given to Western media since the invasion of Ukraine in twenty twenty two. 301 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:18.200 Carlson had claimed Western journalists I only interviewed Ukraine's president and couldn't be bothered 302 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:23.240 to speak with Putin. The Kremlin corrected Carlson yesterday, saying it receives several 303 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:29.160 requests for interviews from Western media. They're just denied because the outlets are not 304 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:34.680 deemed impartial. YouTube is still the most widely used app online. Pew researches 305 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:38.880 eighty three percent of adults use the video sharing platform. Pew surveyed more than 306 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:44.359 five thousand people in the US and found Facebook was the most used social media 307 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:48.079 app, Instagram, pinterest, TikTok, and LinkedIn follow A third of adults 308 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:53.119 say they use TikTok, which is up twelve percent from twenty twenty one San 309 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:59.240 Francisco quarterback brock Perty will be the third youngest quarterback to start a Super Bowl 310 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:03.359 in NFL history. He just turned twenty four on December twenty seventh. He 311 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.920 was also the two hundred and sixty second and final pick in the twenty twenty 312 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:12.799 two NFL Draft. They called him mister Irrelevant. He's certainly relevant now He's 313 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:18.160 the starting quarterback Sunday as the forty nine ers take on Kansas City in the 314 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:19.920 Big Game. Kickoff is at three point thirty on your radio. Home of 315 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:25.720 the NFL, AM five seventy LA Sports presented in part by Rotlo Chevrolet. 316 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:30.160 See what the fun is all about at Rotolo Chevrolet. When we come back, 317 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.960 we're going to take a look back at one of the biggest draws for 318 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:37.640 Super Bowl, the commercials. You're listening to a wake up call on demand 319 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:41.680 from KFI AM six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four 320 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.799 hour newsroom. Five marines have been confirmed dead following a Super Stallion helicopter crash. 321 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:51.240 The US Marine Corps confirmed all five were killed when the helicopter went down 322 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:56.599 in Pine Valley during a training flight from a base in Las Vegas to Marine 323 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:00.640 Air Station Mirramar near San Diego. Happened on Tuesday. The hell helicopter was 324 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:04.160 found yesterday. A twenty two year old woman who went hiking on Mount Baldy 325 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:08.200 alone during the storm is still missing. The last time anyone heard from her 326 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:11.960 was Sunday afternoon, after she posted videos of her hike on social media. 327 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:15.960 Volunteers haven't been able to do an extensive search because of the snow, ice, 328 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:21.319 and other winter weather conditions that are just too dangerous. A statue of 329 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:26.480 Kobe Bryant will be unveiled this afternoon outside Crypto dot Com arena. The Lakers 330 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:30.839 picked today because it's two eight twenty four. Kobe wore the numbers eight and 331 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:34.400 twenty four for the Lakers, and his daughter wore the number two when she 332 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:38.720 played basketball. Kobe and Gianna, along with seven others, were killed in 333 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:44.759 a helicopter crashing Calabasas in January of twenty twenty. At six oh five, 334 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:48.359 it's handle on the news, another first for the LAPD at least for now. 335 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:52.880 At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Stephen Portnoy. 336 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:56.200 It's in historic day for the Supreme Court and people have been lining up 337 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:00.519 to get in to see it. So super Bowl just a couple days away, 338 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:06.960 and every year, of course so much hype. The main attraction the 339 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:11.880 commercials. Have they been lacking in the last few years? Nick, do 340 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:18.559 you remember any of the commercials from last year? I don't, Tony, 341 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.160 I don't remember any of the commercials from last year. And I think that's 342 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:22.559 what I was just trying to like kind of rack my brain on it. 343 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:26.079 I agree with you if they've been lacking. And I think the other thing 344 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:30.240 is they come out before Super Bowl a lot of times, you know, 345 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:33.799 they've got all the yeah, and this year I'm starting to see it. 346 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.200 But I don't watch broadcast TV that much, so I haven't seen that many. 347 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.359 But it's still I'm like, if you really want to do the big 348 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.039 Super Bowl ad and really make it this great, big unveiling, then wait. 349 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:48.559 But maybe it's because the commercials aren't that great. So the one good 350 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.480 thing that's coming back this year is the Anheuser Busch Clydesdales are going to be 351 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:57.079 back. They haven't been on Super Bowl for the last few years. And 352 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:02.119 then also we just found out yesterday that Carl Weathers, who just died last 353 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:06.200 week, is in a fan duel's commercial. His family is supportive that they 354 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.640 go ahead and run it. So it's going to be there on Super Bowl. 355 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:11.880 So that'll be kind of interesting and kind of sad too. Right. 356 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:18.519 Over the years, though, there have been some fantastic and very memorable ads, 357 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:21.279 and so we wanted to know, like, what are the top ads 358 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:25.319 of all time? This one didn't make it, but it was kind of 359 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:29.519 one of my favorites. I got good gage on the Plats defenses, their 360 00:26:29.559 --> 00:26:34.160 defensive line, and there's hello, who what's up? NUMVI? Just watching 361 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:41.400 the game having a bud? So but you nud watching the game having a 362 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:52.160 bud? True? Got it? True? Okay, that's enough. Tony 363 00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:53.640 and I were talking about that a couple of days. It was funny though, 364 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:57.079 and memory was really funny. I do you remember the frogs though for 365 00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:11.559 bud for bud Bud Wise, I remember that out there we go food fies, 366 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:25.079 bood er bodies, bood dumb and so great. But it stuck with 367 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:26.599 me all these years and I was even able to emulate them. How many 368 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.000 years later. I know you did a very good job. Okay, so 369 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:36.759 we have the top we have the top five. Okay, so here's number 370 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:48.519 five. And it started Betty White, remember the one, Mike, what's 371 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:52.079 your dealing? Come on, man, you've been riding me all game. 372 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:57.440 You're playing like Betty White out there. That's how what your girlfriend said, 373 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:11.279 better go, You're not you when you're hungry snakers satisfied. Yeah, okay, 374 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:14.400 that was great. That one was fun. Okay, And then I've 375 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.920 had forgotten about this one, but I do remember it and back in the 376 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.079 day when it came out, because all of these commercials are pretty old. 377 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.799 Back in the day when it came out, I remember that friends and I 378 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:30.279 were all, you know, emulating it a long time for a long time. 379 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:36.720 And that was the McDonald's showdown commercial between Michael Jordan and Larry Bird. 380 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:41.119 This is for your Big Mac right, first one that missus watches the Winner, 381 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:49.720 he lunch, you got it off the glass, thy shore, over 382 00:28:49.759 --> 00:29:03.720 the second rafter, off the floor, off the expressway, over the river, 383 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:08.680 off the billboard, through the window, off the wall, nothing but 384 00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:15.559 Netta sweet. Yeah. That was a That was a fun one. The 385 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:22.559 McDonald's Showdown That was in nineteen ninety three. And then who can forget this 386 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:26.359 is probably one of the most memorable for me, Clara Peller. It certainly 387 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.400 is a big bun. It's a very big, fun, big fluffy bun. 388 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:36.680 It's a very big, fluffy fun. Where's the beef? Some hamburger 389 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:38.799 places give you a lot less beef. I'm a lot of bun. Where's 390 00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:42.200 the beef? At Wendy's, we save a hamburger we modestly call a single, 391 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.079 And Wendy's single has more beef than the whopper or a big Mac. 392 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.720 At Wendy's you get more beef and less bun. Hey, where's the big 393 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:53.319 Why don't they there's anybody? Then you want something better? You're Windy's kind 394 00:29:53.359 --> 00:30:00.519 of people. That was from nineteen eighty four. Wow. Yeah, and 395 00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:03.359 then speak, I have a T shirt from that actual like thing, so 396 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:06.279 I have to find that but like a T shirt so that it even led 397 00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:10.319 from ads to close at one point. Yeah. And then speaking of nineteen 398 00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:14.960 eighty four, I do remember that this one wasn't ranked number one, but 399 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.319 it was. It was number two, and that was Apple's commercial. Remember 400 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:23.720 nineteen eighty four, the day seven the first You're only a fund of us 401 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:34.519 The information for Information Directors On January twenty fourth Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh and 402 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:41.839 you'll see why nineteen eighty four won't be like nineteen eighty four. Who knew 403 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:45.480 Apple was going to splash like that? Like that's the first one. I 404 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.880 thought that was cool. So and that ad was a minute long. The 405 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:53.720 McDonald's showdown ad was a minute and a half and for that timeframe that was 406 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:59.039 super spendy. Because this year the thirty second ads are going for I think 407 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:03.480 seven million dollars. Okay, number one out of all time. Any guesses? 408 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:08.440 Anyone? Anyone? Mm hmm, anyone at home? Okay, here 409 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:17.680 it is, Yeah, you need any help? Want my coke? No? 410 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:22.400 Really, you can have it? Good? Okay, do good? 411 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:38.880 Thanks. I like to say wow, thank you, thanks mean Joe. 412 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:45.279 That one was from nineteen seventy nine, ranked the best Super Bowl commercial of 413 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:47.880 all time. I hope they have at least one really good one this year. 414 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.359 I'll be watching will you Yes, you're listening to Wake Up Call on 415 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:59.279 demand from kf I Am six forty and look back and listen to old Super 416 00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:04.920 Bowl commercial. I'll be watching Sunday rooting for my Niners, and we're actually 417 00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.960 doing a smaller get together this year. We've gone to pretty big Super Bowl 418 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:12.519 parties the last couple of years, and then the person who usually throws them 419 00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:15.519 isn't doing it, and so now we're doing like a small gathering. And 420 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:20.039 I was like, oh good, because I like to watch the national anthem, 421 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:24.039 biba, I want to see the game, I want to see the 422 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:27.920 halftime show usher, and I want to see the commercials. I want to 423 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:30.279 watch it all. And when the group's too big, I mean, I 424 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:31.920 don't know if you've had the same experience, but I find that you can't 425 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.799 do it all because you know, people, people got to talk, and 426 00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:39.240 they got us socialized and eaten all that stuff. So I'm looking forward to 427 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:44.119 a smaller group this year. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four 428 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:47.039 hour newsroom. A tornado may have touched down on the Central Coast swept through 429 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:52.839 San Luis Obispo County yesterday near Pismo Beach and Grover Beach. Photos on social 430 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:57.079 media show trees ripped from the ground and flattened, asphalt torn up, and 431 00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:00.880 streets littered with debris. A team from the National Other Service is going to 432 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:04.000 survey the damage to day to see if it was a twister or just really 433 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.359 strong, straight line wins. The Senate's going to try to get an aid 434 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.559 package for Israel and Ukraine passed today. A foreign aid package failed yesterday. 435 00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:16.319 It included a border security bill. After the vote, Democratic Majority Leader Chuck 436 00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:22.480 Schumer said he would bring up the Israel and Ukraine package again as a separate 437 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:28.680 bill stripped of border security provisions. Travis Kelce's mother says she thinks she'll be 438 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.279 in the stands this Sunday to watch her son play at Super Bowl fifty eight 439 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:37.359 in Las Vegas. Dona Kelce has been in a press box several times, 440 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:40.359 not the press box, but one of the private suites several games this season 441 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.400 with Kelsey's girlfriend, Taylor Swift. But she says this super Bowl is a 442 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.359 bit pricey, so she's not quite sure if she's going to be in a 443 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:52.880 fancy box. I bet we'll see. We're just minutes away from handle. 444 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:57.200 On the news this morning, the sphere in Las Vegas has been scaled by 445 00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:02.960 a protester. Pretty amazing footage. Pretty amazing that it guy didn't fall off. 446 00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.840 Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy in Washington, 447 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.639 d C. Stephen, people have been lining up early for this one, 448 00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:16.800 as you'd expect. It's historic, so people line up early every time there's 449 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:21.760 a historic Supreme Court oral argument, and this one certainly is that because the 450 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:27.039 Supreme Court has never been asked to decide the parameters or the limits of Section 451 00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.960 three of the fourteenth Amendment, and the stakes are incredibly high for the country, 452 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:35.599 for the Court, for the campaign, and we're less than a month 453 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:39.480 away from the March fifth Super Tuesday primary. Donald Trump's name would be off 454 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:44.920 the ballot if the Colorado Supreme Court had its way. And the question for 455 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:46.960 the justices today is whether the Supreme Court of Colorado, when it's four to 456 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:52.960 three ruling, got it wrong. And the specific questions about whether Trump engage 457 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.119 in insurrection. I don't know that the Court is going to dive into that 458 00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:59.280 so much as they might seek an off ramp. This is a conservative leaning 459 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:02.239 court with mind toward maintaining its legitimacy in the country, and I think it 460 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:07.119 would be highly unlikely, as most observers do, that the Justices will say 461 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:13.000 that the Colorado Supreme Court ruling should stand. The question is what rationale do 462 00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:17.280 the justices seek to identify in the oral argument today and ultimately in the opinion 463 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:22.440 they'll issue that carves out an ability for the Fourteenth Amendment to stand in the 464 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:30.280 future and for there to be a decision that takes the court out of the 465 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:37.679 muck of whether Donald Trump engaged in insurrection. I think that I've heard arguments 466 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.679 on both things, and I think you can certainly make a case on both 467 00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:46.000 things, which makes it so interesting to see what they're going to decide. 468 00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:51.159 And then Stephen, like Vick, you were saying that they might want to 469 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:54.679 look for an off ramp, or they might not dig into too many details. 470 00:35:55.199 --> 00:36:00.800 They can issue a ruling without saying why, right, well, I 471 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:05.000 think it's unlikely, given the stakes that they wouldn't issue an opinion that explains 472 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:07.920 their rationale. Often these cases will come before the Supreme Court, they issue 473 00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:12.480 one sentence orders. This is a case it's been scheduled for oral argument. 474 00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.119 Would suggest that they will put out a full, robust opinion that lays out 475 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:22.079 rationale and offers the opportunity for dissenting justices to also air their views. I 476 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.440 think that you know, the off ramps that are offered by Donald Trump's lawyers 477 00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:30.119 include one the idea that the fourteenth Amendments third section doesn't apply to the presidency 478 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:34.599 because it's not specifically listed in the offices that are affected by it, the 479 00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:38.440 way that senators and representatives and electors for president and vice president and state office 480 00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:44.559 holders are specifically mentioned. Why isn't the presidency mentioned? And if it's not 481 00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:47.199 mentioned, therefore doesn't apply. That's one argument. That's the lead argument that 482 00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:52.159 Trump's lawyers are actually making. So they basically could decide against it on a 483 00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:54.760 technicality, Yeah, technicality or a loophole, whatever you want to call it. 484 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.199 That's one way another way, and I think the more likely way is 485 00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.559 for them to say, look at the last clause of the fourteenth Amendment. 486 00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:06.920 It says that even if a person engaged an insurrection or rebellion, even if 487 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:10.280 that happened, and even if they were convicted in court, Congress can remove 488 00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:15.199 the disability by a two thirds vote. And if Congress were to do that 489 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:19.000 in Trump's case, not say they will, but if they did this, 490 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:23.519 all it's all moot. So who is the justices of the Supreme Court of 491 00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:29.239 Colorado? Who are they or who is any state official to supersede Congress and 492 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:34.000 make a decision for Congress when Congress has is the ultimate arbiter. I think 493 00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:36.920 that's something that I'll be very interested to hear if the justices pick up on 494 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.840 that. Okay, and what you just said was that that Congress could remove 495 00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:46.360 the disability with a two thirds majority. Basically, Congress could decide whether he 496 00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:49.920 could be on ballots or not. Yeah. All you can do is read 497 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:52.119 the amendment. I encourage everybody to google it. It's dense and esoteric, 498 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:55.599 but it says it in plain language. Congress can remove the disability by a 499 00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:59.400 two thirds vote, and it did so in the aftermath of the Civil War 500 00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.760 a couple of time times. The other thing is the question about self executing. 501 00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:06.519 I don't want to get too stuck in the weeds here, but the 502 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.719 point is that, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress said, 503 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:12.679 all right, we've passed this amendment. Our intent is to prevent any Confederates 504 00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.760 from serving in any office in the government, state or federal. How do 505 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.000 we go about making sure that this is properly enforced. Well, here's what 506 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.119 we'll do. We'll pass a law that says that in every state, a 507 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:27.480 US attorney can go to a federal judge and get an order from that judge 508 00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.480 that determines that a person was a Confederate, they did engage an insurrection or 509 00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:36.360 rebellion, and that disqualifies them and removes them from office. That law was 510 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:38.519 on the books in the aftermath of the Civil War. It is no longer 511 00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:42.840 on the books. And because there's no law such as that on the books, 512 00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:46.400 the argument is that the Fourteenth Amendment can't be applied by states, and 513 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:51.320 willy nilly, that there needs to be a framework at the highest level by 514 00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:54.400 Congress setting it up as it did in the aftermath of the Fourteenth Amendment. 515 00:38:54.440 --> 00:39:00.239 In the absence of that framework, you could have a patchwork of decisions across 516 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:04.679 the country where various officials or judges what have you say, Oh, well, 517 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:07.559 I think that person engaged in insurrection. I'm just decided, and therefore 518 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:10.400 that person can't appear on the ballot. That I think is something the Supreme 519 00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:15.159 Court will seek to avoid. So interesting. Thank you for helping us sort 520 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.159 it out. We'll be watching, Stephen. You bet all right. Let's 521 00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:20.480 get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our 522 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:23.599 newsroom. The military has confirmed five marines aboard a helicopter that crashed near San 523 00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:29.000 Diego did not survive. We did get confirmation. It's the third Marine aircraft 524 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:32.199 wing that has put out the information. They said that all five Marines have 525 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:37.079 been confirmed this season. ABC's and Flaherty says there was not a lot of 526 00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:42.760 hope of finding survivors given the debris field. The helicopter was flying in stormy 527 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.440 weather on Tuesday night, returning to air Station Miramar from a training mission in 528 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:51.159 Nevada. It was reported missing when it didn't arrive at Miramar. The wreckage 529 00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:55.039 was found yesterday. The deaths were confirmed less than an hour ago. US 530 00:39:55.079 --> 00:40:00.960 officials say President Biden is considering executive action to determ illegal immigration at the southern 531 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:06.840 border. The official say the plans have been under consideration for months. Illegal 532 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:10.519 border crossings in December hit records at more than ten thousand per day. This 533 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:15.079 week, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have added new border protections and 534 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:21.719 provided billions in aid to Israel and Ukraine. And engineer has been arrested for 535 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:27.880 allegedly stealing military technology from a company based in southern California. US Attorney Martinez 536 00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:32.519 Strada says Changwan Gong stole technology that's important for keeping the US safe, military 537 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:39.400 technology designed to detect nuclear missile launches and ballistic and hypersonic missile launches. Gong 538 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.840 worked for the company he's accused of stealing from for a few months last year. 539 00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:49.280 Investigators say from March to April he transferred thousands of files containing the secret 540 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:52.880 information. Gong is accused of offering military information to China in the past. 541 00:40:53.239 --> 00:41:07.519 Blake Trolley k if I News, the man behind the two most famous notes 542 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:12.719 in the world, turns ninety two today. John williams notable themes have made 543 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:23.880 movies like Jaws and This Film instant classics. The multi award winning composer has 544 00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:37.159 scored music for Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Arc, and holiday classics 545 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:42.320 like Home Alone. In nineteen seventy seven, Williams worked with George Lucas to 546 00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:54.960 create one of the most recognizable themes in cinema history. Throughout Williams multi decade 547 00:41:55.000 --> 00:42:00.400 career, he's won Oscars for Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, E Tler's 548 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:04.599 List, and Star Wars. Happy Birthday, Maestro. Oh, I got 549 00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:07.599 to see him at the Hollywood Bowl. I don't know if he's doing his 550 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:10.079 show this year, but if you get a chance, go see it. 551 00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:16.559 It is absolutely spectacular and so much fun. Happy birthday, mister Williams. 552 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:21.760 You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King. 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