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 --> 00:00:17.359 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and kost HT two Los Angeles, Orange County 3 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:33.320 and all you Amy Kay. It is your wake up call for Thursday, 4 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:37.439 January eleventh. Good morning, I'm Amy King. I still get a kick 5 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:42.439 out of that intro. Todd Light, our buddy at the LA Dodgers reminds 6 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.719 me that baseball season isn't far away. We have big news in football, 7 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.920 and men'll tell you about it in just one second. Another night last night, 8 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:56.159 another debate, and this one just between Nikki Hayley and Ron De Santis. 9 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:58.320 And I told you I'm a junkie. I love watching these things, 10 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:02.240 whether they're consequential or not, there are interesting to me. But I do 11 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.480 have to say they just sat there telling each other, well she's lying, 12 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.280 well he's lying, well she's lying. Well you know he's a liar. 13 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:11.879 Well you know she's a liar. And I'm like, what, just stop, 14 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:15.359 please, like tell us what you're gonna do, not how nasty the 15 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.640 other person is, because in the end, you're all on the same team. 16 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:22.519 Remember you guys are all Republicans. So eventually you're going to vote the 17 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.480 same way anyway. Still interesting. And then of course Trump skipped it because 18 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:30.319 he was at a town hall and you know, in true Trump form. 19 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.359 But again, like I said, it doesn't matter what party it is. 20 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.959 I am obsessed with these things, and so I'm excited that there's more coming. 21 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.280 Here's what's coming up on wake up Call. Hurricane force winds up to 22 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:47.280 eighty miles an hour could blow through mountain and foothill areas of southern California through 23 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.920 this afternoon. At my house, we didn't get any wind last night, 24 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.840 so it's very thankful for that. High wind warnings are in effect for northern 25 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:59.319 La County, parts of Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. They're 26 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.599 also advisor the Santa Clarita Valley could see wins between fifty and seventy miles per 27 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.479 hour. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christy has ended his bid to become the 28 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:10.599 next president, announcing his supporters last night that he needs to be honest with 29 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:15.280 himself and to others that there's no path for him to win the nomination. 30 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:21.240 Big shakeups in football, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick not going to be 31 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:25.360 coaching New England next year. He's leaving the team after twenty four years that 32 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:30.319 included six Super Bowl victories. And of course, yesterday, the big announcement 33 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.840 was that Alabama's coach Nick Saban is retiring after winning more national championships than any 34 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:40.840 other major college football coach. He was seven. He won seven national championships 35 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:46.759 in seventeen seasons with Bama. Let's get started with some of the stories coming 36 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:51.240 out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. HP is investigating a pair of 37 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:55.400 car to car shootings on Los Angeles area freeways. At about nine last night, 38 00:02:55.719 --> 00:03:00.000 a person riding in a car was shot on the ten Freeway near downtown 39 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:04.560 Town, La. HP says it was likely road rage related. Then about 40 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.360 an hour later, there was another car to car shooting on or near the 41 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:12.439 one on one Freeway in Encino. An avalanche at a ski area in Lake 42 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.280 Tahoe or near Lake Tahoe has turned deadly. One male has passed away as 43 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:23.479 a result of the avalanche. There was also another individual that's sustained minor, 44 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:29.759 non life threatening injuries. Plaster County Sheriff Sergeant David Smith said the wall of 45 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:35.000 snow came down at Palisades Tahoe around nine thirty yesterday morning. To other people 46 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.800 were caught in the slide but were not hurt. At this point in time, 47 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:43.360 all search efforts have concluded, and we have come to the conclusion that 48 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.680 there is nobody else up on the mountain. More heavy snow is in the 49 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.800 forecast. See either twenty five than nays are twenty one. The House Judiciary 50 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:57.039 and Oversight Committee has voted to approve recommending Hunter Biden be held in contempt of 51 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:01.159 Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena do you issued by this committee. 52 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:06.960 We will move the report to the full House Committee. Chairman Republican James Comer 53 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:12.919 read the announcement. Republicans want Biden to testify in private about his business dealings. 54 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.839 Biden says he'll only do it in public. Biden unexpectedly showed up for 55 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.759 the meeting yesterday and then walked out during the middle of it. Today, 56 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:24.720 he said to be arraigned in La on felony and misdemeanor tax charges. The 57 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:29.160 future of Tech has arrived in Las Vegas. The fifty eighth Annual Consumer Electronic 58 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.439 Show brings together the latest advancements in technology for home entertainment, food prep, 59 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:36.399 cars and trucks, cell phones, and medicine and instant blood test that can 60 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:41.720 detect a concussion. Think about what this means for athletes young people around the 61 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.879 country who are playing sports. The ability to immediately detect a concussion and deal 62 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.399 with it is incredibly valuable. Jim Fellinger's with CEES and says, the hot 63 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:54.279 topic this year is artificial intelligence and how it's being integrated into every aspect of 64 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:58.680 our daily lives. At the CEES in Las Vegas. Steve Gregory KINGAHI News, 65 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.480 let's say good to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, there was 66 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:09.720 so much excitement on Monday when the moon Lander launched, and now the mission 67 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:15.399 has failed yet has for whatever reason, the lunar Lander, the Peregrine, 68 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:19.439 began to lose propellant after its launch of perfect launch. Really on Monday morning, 69 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:25.319 the board that Viking rocket first time they had used that the Vulcan rocket 70 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:30.279 rather United Launch Alliance was behind the launch and so everything was perfect. But 71 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:35.040 now Astrobotics, the company behind the Peregrine lunar Lander, says, you know 72 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:38.959 it's not gonna happen. It's not going to land. On the Moon. 73 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:43.839 It is still kind of rocketing out or cruising out in the direction of the 74 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.480 Moon, but there won't be any landing there as they had planned on feby 75 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:54.639 twenty third because of this propellant issue. So it's not in Earth's orbit anymore 76 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.920 longer. Correct, it's about two hundred old. Yesterday morning it was two 77 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.959 hundred thousand miles away from the Earth and going generally in the direction of the 78 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.839 Moon. But the expectation is that it's just going to keep on going. 79 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:10.199 They have no real way to control it once the propellant has run out, 80 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.040 and when that happens, of course, the battery is going to run out 81 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:17.279 because the unit can't continue to orient itself toward the Sun. It has to 82 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:23.600 do that to charge the batteries with solar panels. Okay, so it's going 83 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.560 to run out of propellant and then it's going to run out of power. 84 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:31.040 But it's headed in the general direction of the Moon, and because it's moving 85 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.279 that way and there's space and there's nothing to stop. But it's just going 86 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:39.759 to keep going right yeah, right, yeah, forever maybe, you know, 87 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:43.000 unless until it runs into something out there, I suppose. But it's 88 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:47.279 a big disappointment obviously for NASA, which was the major contractor on this, 89 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:54.560 but also for sixteen commercial customers in seven countries. Twenty payloads were aboard the 90 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.759 Peregrine Lunar Lander and now it's all just simply lost. None of it is 91 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.120 going to be put to us, says it was supposed to. It's not 92 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:04.639 the end of the road, though. Another company, Intuitive Machines, based 93 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:09.800 in Houston, has a contract with NASA as well. It's going to try 94 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:16.279 a similar lunar launder lunar launch next month and it'll be carrying some other NASA 95 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:20.360 experiments. So yeah, we'll see what happens in the next four weeks or 96 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:24.839 so. Okay, so you mentioned the company in Houston, and then of 97 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:29.839 course the other company is also a private company. Are there like a bunch 98 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.360 of private companies lined up just kind of waiting for their turn, or they're 99 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:35.959 just two or three, Well, there are several. I mean it's always 100 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:39.000 been that way too. I mean, if you look even back to the 101 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:44.439 space program in the nineteen sixties and seventies, there were contractors around the country, 102 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.839 private companies that were involved in making space suits and making different components the 103 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:53.600 hardware. Then that's sort of how it is now. There are big major 104 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:58.560 rocket companies. SpaceX, in fact, is going to provide the rockets that's 105 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:03.279 to be used next month for a Houston and Intuitive machines, so that launch 106 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.079 will use the Falcon nine rocket, and then ULA United Launch Alliance. They're 107 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:11.199 the newcomer and all of this. They created the rocket that was used this 108 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:15.720 past week. But yeah, there's a long list of contractors, private companies 109 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:20.920 who do nothing at all but make various components for the a NASA, but 110 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.920 for other contractors around the country. Okay, I didn't realize that there were 111 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.399 that many kind of companies kind of in the hopper waiting to go. So 112 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:35.480 of course the remains of or DNA of Lieutenant O'Hara, Scotti, doctor McCoy, 113 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.399 Gene Roddenberry and others, they're just space junk now essentially, yes, 114 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.120 although they were going to become space junk anyway, because yeah, yeah, 115 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.120 celestis this company that provides that service to people and pay a few thousand dollars 116 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.799 and have your loved ones DNA whatever remains there are sent out into deep space. 117 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:58.440 And so I suppose in that way those folks are getting what they asked 118 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.639 for they're they're loved ones. Remains are launched off into space and we'll stay 119 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:07.080 that way. But yeah, so Celestis is one of many contractors or companies 120 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:13.600 that had a space on that on that Peregrine Lunar Lander, and now we'll 121 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:18.799 have to rework the program. Okay, So for for Lieutenant o'hura and those 122 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:20.799 guys, it's sort of mission accomplished a little different than they thought it was 123 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.519 going to look, but it's fine, yeah, all right, and then 124 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.480 we'll be looking forward to the next attempt to get to the Moon next month, 125 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:33.039 right by the end of this year. Of course, NASA assume everything 126 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.159 goes right and we don't have delays like this or little glitches. You're going 127 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.879 to have a group of astronauts on a ten day trip around the Moon. 128 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.360 That group is not going to land on the Moon, but the plan is 129 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:48.519 that they will. Those astronauts will will loop around the Moon then come back 130 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:50.799 as part of the Artemis two project. Right, and that just got pushed 131 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.440 Did you just say that that that just got pushed back till next year. 132 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.639 I didn't know that. I heard it was by the end of this year. 133 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.600 It was the end of next year, and it just came out yesterday, 134 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:03.159 I think kind of it was late yesterday, but they said they're pushing 135 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.200 that one back, and then the next one is Artemis three, and that 136 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.679 one's pushed back to twenty twenty six. They didn't really say why, but 137 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:13.399 they said they need to work on a few things. You're bad. Yeah, 138 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.519 Well it's still I love all this stuff, and in the interim until 139 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.600 we actually get there, I'm going to keep watching for all mankind. Well, 140 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.440 live long and prosper. Thank you so much, Jim Ryan appreciate it. 141 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:26.799 So let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI 142 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.519 twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom says the budget deficit for California isn't nearly 143 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:35.639 as bad as first thought. Estimates of a sixty eight billion dollars short fallow 144 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.840 down to just over thirty eight billion. The proposed spending plan from the governor 145 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:43.360 increases the Health and Human Services Agency budget by about five billion dollars, whether 146 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.279 it's food or cash, supports, focus on those with disabilities, and the 147 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:54.879 services broad medic Health program, the many public health programs that we facilitate across 148 00:10:54.879 --> 00:11:01.720 the state. Those are being largely intact. Secretary doctor Mark Galli says there 149 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:07.639 will be reductions to some social services and legal services. He says much of 150 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.200 the increase will pay to expand health care for all, including illegal immigrants. 151 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.720 Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's dropped out of the twenty twenty four presidential race. 152 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.159 He made the announcement hours before UN Ambassador Nicki Haley and Florida Governor Ron 153 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:26.279 DeSantis debated last night. He also went after President Trump, anyone who is 154 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:33.200 unwilling to say that he is unfit to be president of the United States is 155 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.480 unfit themselves to be president of the United States. A recent poll in New 156 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.799 Hampshire showed Christy at twelve percent support and that about two thirds of his supporters 157 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:46.759 would pick Hailey as their second choice. A CNN poll found Trump's lead was 158 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:52.799 down to single digits in New Hampshire and about a third would now choose Nicki 159 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.799 Hayley. The LA County Medical Examiner's Office says the investigation into the death of 160 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:03.639 Matthew Perry has been closed. Died October twenty eighth from acute effects of ketamine. 161 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.159 Ketamine is a drug used to treat depression but can also be used recreationally. 162 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:13.440 The medical examiner found no evidence of alcohol or other drugs in Perry's system. 163 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:18.559 His death has been ruled an accident. A fourteen million dollar beach replenishment 164 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:24.399 project has dumped rocky cobble on beaches in San Clemente instead of the pristine sand 165 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.840 it normally has City officials complained, but Army Corps of Engineers LA District spokesman 166 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.600 Dina Odell says beach quality sand is at the dredging site near ocean side, 167 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.200 but it's beneath the layer of cobble. If suitable material can't be reached, 168 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:39.799 we will stop operations and the dredge will move to Salona Beach to start the 169 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.840 dredging project there. Should we leave, our intent is to return the beach 170 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.039 to pre construction condition. Odell says. The project that started last month has 171 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.879 also been stalled by inclement weather, sea swells and dredge maintenance, but crews 172 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:58.200 got back to work this week in San Clementy, Corbin Carson KFI News, 173 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:03.360 speaking of the beach big waves, they are expecting more big waves and maybe 174 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.720 some coastal flooding to continue through tomorrow morning. Hunter Biden is set to be 175 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:13.639 a rain today in downtown Los Angeles on nine federal tax charges. President Biden's 176 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:18.600 sons expected to plead not guilty to charges of failing to pay taxes, failing 177 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.799 to file, evading an assessment, and filing a fraudulent form. He could 178 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:28.440 be sentenced to seventeen years in prison if convicted as charged. Eight LA County 179 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:33.639 probation officers have been placed on leave because of something involving detainees at the Los 180 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:39.200 Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. The chief probation officer won't say what happened, 181 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:43.919 only it was a significant incident. Last month, the La Kunty Sheriff's Department 182 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:48.320 will investigate. TSA says it confiscated a record sixty seven hundred and thirty seven 183 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.799 guns at TSA airport checkpoints in twenty twenty three. One hundred and twenty five 184 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:58.240 of them were at the five LA area airports. TSA administrator David Pokoski says 185 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:05.159 what particularly concerning is that ninety three percent of the guns found were loaded at 186 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:07.919 six o five. It's handle on the news. Bill's going to a weigh 187 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.679 in on what he thought about the debate between Rohn De Santis and Nikki Hayley 188 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.200 last night. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller. 189 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.039 Jordana, the Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln is meeting with leaders in the Middle 190 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.360 East. It's his fourth trip, so let's talk about what he's accomplishing and 191 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:30.480 what he's trying to accomplish during this trip. Right the Sectary of State really 192 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:35.440 making a world win visit here to the Middle East. Who stopped in Turkey 193 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.679 and cutter in Saudi Arabia, Jordan. He was here in Egypt. Heos 194 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:45.960 in the Palacinian Authority, the territories there. He was in Bahrain, and 195 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.600 he will be in Egypt. All of those visits centered around of what is 196 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:58.639 happening in the Goaza Strip the war there talking to America's allies Arab allies about 197 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.399 how they can work together to one increase aid into the Gaza Strip. You 198 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.240 know, there's only about two hundred trucks of aid getting in a day. 199 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:11.720 That really needs to be increased because there's so much suffering there and their shortage 200 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:18.919 of food and water and medicine. Also, what post war Gaza is going 201 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:24.200 to look like that is you know, helping get a consortium of countries together 202 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:31.440 to both help rebuild and reconstruct the Gaza Strip and also to help revitalize and 203 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:37.759 show support for the Palestinian Authority, which is the governing body that the Americans 204 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:43.440 want to see come in and take a leadership role in the Gaza Strip. 205 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.960 But in order to do that, the Palestinian Authority really has to begin a 206 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.600 series of reforms. They're ailing leader, the Palstinian President has to groom a 207 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:58.279 successor. They need elections, they need to really be fund and their transparency, 208 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.200 you know, and the security forces, the palest and security forces are 209 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:08.639 really need to be revamped and retrained. So this is a long term project, 210 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:14.080 and it appears that you know, the Secretary of State really wants to 211 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:19.320 weigh in and make this kind of a collective effort to ensure that once AMASA 212 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:23.759 is defeated in the Gaza Strip, which it appears will still take many many 213 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:30.519 more months, that there's in place a government or a governing body like the 214 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.879 Palstoni Authority that can come in and take control. And that also me's asking 215 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:38.279 the Israelis to you know, also work with the Palestinian the Authority, which 216 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.480 is a challenge because the current Prime Minister doesn't like the palest The authority that 217 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:48.240 much to say the least. Okay, so what Blinkin is basically pushing for, 218 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:53.879 are the Allies kind of on board with that? And then also does 219 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:00.679 Israel seem to be on board with what the US is pushing for? Well, 220 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:06.000 it appears from what Lincoln has said that the Allies, the Air of 221 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:11.559 Allies, are willing to work together to try to make sure that Gaza is 222 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:18.759 a livable place without Hamas in the future, and those are goals that Israel 223 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:23.799 shares. The details there are obviously some differences, but I do believe that 224 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:30.519 over time the Israeli Prime Minister a given America support in this war indeed and 225 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:38.039 in a huge a military aid for Israel and diplomatic cover at the UN. 226 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:45.920 Over time, I do believe that the Israeli Prime Minister will agree to Palestinian 227 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:52.240 leadership in the Gaza strip. But all sides agree that the Palestinian authority has 228 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:57.519 to be reformed and it has to be strengthened, and that's that is now 229 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:03.359 going to be a regional project, and of course it includes reopening talks on 230 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:08.200 a two state solution. A Palestinian state, which that piece of the puzzle 231 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:14.880 is the part that the current Israeli prime minister is again, but remember Natanya, 232 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.079 who is unlikely to be Israel's Prime minister in even a year's time, 233 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:23.839 given that the horrible attack on October seventh happened on his watch and largely as 234 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:30.359 a result of his kind of vision or miscalculation of who Hamas was in the 235 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:34.519 threat they represented. Okay, so I have so many questions, and I 236 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.759 know we don't have time for all of them. But you're talking about rebuilding 237 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:42.119 Gaza once, once Hamas is cleared out, and I and my immediate thought 238 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.240 is wow, this is a great opportunity for a lot of different countries to 239 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:48.960 jump in and make a lot of money because it's going to be a major 240 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:51.920 operation. But then I was like, well, who would who's going to 241 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:57.440 pay to rebuild Gaza? Right? Well, I mean, first ball, 242 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:06.759 certainly the regional partners like Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Jordan, they all have 243 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:12.559 a vested interest in contributing to Gaza that is free of Hama. And if 244 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:21.440 Saudi Arabia and Israel, for example, moved closer towards normalization, then one 245 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:27.920 of the advantages of Saudi Arabia normalizing ties with Israel and what that gains for 246 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.400 Saudi Arabia's close ties with the US. Remember when Israel made peace of Egypt, 247 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:40.079 the United States played a major role peeling Egypt away from the Soviet orbit 248 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:45.519 and offering money and all kinds of things that only the Americans could do for 249 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.519 Egypt to help Egypt. And in a sense that is a version of what 250 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:55.079 we're seeing here. Saudi Arabia wants certain things from the United States, including 251 00:19:55.240 --> 00:20:00.720 arms and really to be a major player on the global scene, and in 252 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:06.640 exchange for that, normalizing ties with Israel and possibly footing part of the bill 253 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:11.000 to get Gaza, you know, back up and turn it into a functioning 254 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:15.799 and even thriving place. Right now, you know, there's obviously huge swalks 255 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:19.920 of the Gaza Strip that are destroyed, and you know it is a war 256 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:25.279 torn place right now, but you know, in the future it could be 257 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:30.000 this. You know, the end of Hamas's rule of the Gaza Strip is 258 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.720 only good in the long term, not only for Israel in the region, 259 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:37.880 but for Palestinians too. I mean, there are hundreds of thousands of Gozins 260 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:44.200 who are held hostage by Hamas as well. Now they may support Hamas because 261 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:48.240 they don't have another choice. This is a group that runs the Gaza Strip 262 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:55.000 like a dictatorship, you know, plus Islamic fundamentalism. I mean, it 263 00:20:55.119 --> 00:21:02.160 is nowhere you could dissent or voice your opposition. So you know, I 264 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:07.400 don't want to talk about liberating Gaza from Hamas. But there are certainly many 265 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.400 Palestinians. Remember there's two million in the Gods of Strip, and they do 266 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.119 not all support the Gaza Strip, the support Hamas. You know, we 267 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:19.279 could safely say at least half of them don't. Yeah. It just it's 268 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:23.559 so amazing to me and probably to everyone's out there listening and getting ready for 269 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:27.920 working stuff this morning, how complicated this is. It seems like it would 270 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:32.440 be a simple fix wipeout Commas, but it's so much deeper than that. 271 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:34.319 And we're so thankful, Georgiana that we have you to help us sort it 272 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:37.680 out. So thank you so much. Have a great day, and we'll 273 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.000 talk to you again soon month talk. So all right, take care. 274 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:42.920 Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four 275 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:48.319 hour news from the Extended Stay America Hotel in Carson's going to be converted into 276 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.000 studio apartments for the homeless. The project has received funding from Project Room Key 277 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:56.960 and LA County to help address the homelessness crisis. Local nonprofits are also working 278 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:02.400 on converting other hotels in Lancaster in Palmdale. The three projects will provide more 279 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:06.160 than three hundred units for interim housing. A date on when the projects would 280 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:10.400 begin has not been announced. Orange County plans to study a three million dollar 281 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:15.599 program to see if giving money to two hundred struggling families will actually prevent homelessness. 282 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:22.400 Office of Care Coordination Director Doug Beck says each family could get up to 283 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.519 almost eleven thousand dollars to help with rent and other bills. Priority populations will 284 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:32.400 be specifically seniors, eight to six year older, single parent households, and 285 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.519 yet again, people that are imminently at risk of homelessness. Beck says up 286 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:41.319 to six thousand dollars can be used for overdue rent and utilities, then a 287 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:45.759 forty dollars stipend would boost the family for twelve months. He says the county 288 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.279 has identified the two hundred families, but still needs to choose a vendor to 289 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:53.720 disperse the money and also study the results. A new AI powered restaurant will 290 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.920 soon be opening its doors in Pasadena. Collie Express will serve as a showroom 291 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:03.359 to other restaurant owners about using robotics to save on labor costs. The technology 292 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.920 used will enable restaurants to operate with one to two employees Miso Robotics. Ryan 293 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:11.640 Sinnett says he doesn't think there will be a completely human free restaurant anytime soon. 294 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:15.880 Restaurant owners would agree that consumers typically owt to restaurants is for more of 295 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:21.319 a human experience. Sinett says restaurant owners have been able to use AI technology 296 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:25.440 to keep more staff out of the kitchen and working directly with customers. The 297 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:27.599 restaurant is set to open in the next two to three weeks. Blake Trolley 298 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:32.559 k if I News. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christy has ended his bid 299 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:34.599 to become president, announcing his supporters last night that he needs to be honest 300 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.680 with himself and others there is no path for him to win the nomination. 301 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:41.799 He also was caught on a hot mic saying candidate Nikki Haley is going to, 302 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:47.720 as he put it, get smoked. A sixty five thousand pound external 303 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:52.359 fuel tank has been moved about one thousand feet across Exposition Park and is expected 304 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.279 to be lift into an upright position today next to two rocket motors that are 305 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:00.319 already in launch position. The Space Shuttle in debt will be next, likely 306 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:03.599 in coming weeks. A new display of the shuttle in launch position at the 307 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:07.000 California Science Centers expected to open in a couple of years. At six oh 308 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:10.599 five, it's handle on the news. A House committee is voted to hold 309 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:14.759 Hunter Biden in contempt for not complying with the subpoena. And that's just one 310 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:18.880 of Hunter's problems. He's also in court today in La facing tax charges. 311 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:23.599 At five point fifty, we're going to talk to ABC's Stephen portnoy Moore about 312 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:27.240 Chris Christy dropping out of the race and what effect it will have, if 313 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:33.519 any, on the candidates who still remain. So we went out and about 314 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:36.599 this week. You know, we like to go out check out things around 315 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:40.319 Los Angeles, and we found a fun and different way to see a movie. 316 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:42.599 A few weeks ago, Nick and I went to the IPIC Theater in 317 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:48.440 Pasadena. Awesome. Right there, there are other theaters that are similar, 318 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.599 maybe a little less high end, and so we found the Alamo Draft House 319 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:57.599 in Downtown Lakes. We wanted to go see American Fiction, which came out 320 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:02.599 a little bit early. I think it doesn't officially released until Thursday or Friday, 321 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:07.880 anyway, doesn't matter. So what is different about this from a regular 322 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:11.839 movie theater and Nick feel free to chime in anytime, is that one there. 323 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.640 It's smaller, There are fewer seats, and the seats are nicer than 324 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:22.400 regular seats. They're recliners and there are there's a place to put food, 325 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:26.000 and they do table service or seat service is whatever you call it. There's 326 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:32.799 only fifty seats in the theater, and I think it has a very old 327 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:37.079 school feel like when you walk into the Alamo Draft House, they have all 328 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:41.440 these classic movie posters and we saw a new release, but I saw just 329 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:45.400 from looking around that they do play classic movies too. Well. That was 330 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.079 kind of what we talked about quite a few times, and I think nostalgia 331 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.240 was the word that we used most often when we were there, But it 332 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.160 was even to something long before You and I would go to the theater and 333 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:00.759 they were playing old school news reports that used to come Ahead had of movies 334 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:04.519 many many many years ago, also little cartoons and vignettes from older black and 335 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:07.599 white films, So it was really really fun. It was very different as 336 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.440 much and you know swanky as ipick was. This was you know, kind 337 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.079 of old school Hollywood issue jacent swanky in its own way. Maybe not the 338 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.759 high end bougie experience you're thinking of, but it was really special and unique, 339 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:22.519 a little bit of a different situation. Yeah, and as we mentioned, 340 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:26.240 they do have they have food, so it's not just getting a hot 341 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.200 dog or just getting popcorn. So the menu is also a little more basic 342 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:32.920 than the ipic, but it was still solid. I mean, we had 343 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:37.160 we got a little pizza, which I thought was absolutely delicious. It reminded 344 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.680 me of Shaky's pizza. Remember how their crust is kind of different, so 345 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.160 that was really good. And then we had the popcorn that they bring it 346 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:45.240 to you instead of like in a little bag, they bring it to you 347 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:49.079 in a big bowl, which at first I was like big metal mixing bowls 348 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.319 that you use in the kitchen. It was really awesome. It reminded me 349 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:55.839 of like watching a movie at home kind of thing exactly whereas at first I 350 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:56.359 was like, oh, this is weird, and then I went, oh, 351 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:00.720 no, this is kind of cool. And they do serve cocktails, 352 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.720 which is a bonus for me, and I just thought it would I thought 353 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:07.440 it was really a good experience. I would definitely go again. If you 354 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:11.960 do go, it is downtown at the block in LA make sure that you 355 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:17.240 validate your parking because otherwise it'll cost you forty dollars. But if you get 356 00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:21.559 a validation, it's only four dollars, So that's correct, that's totally worth 357 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:26.279 it. So yes, a cool experience, a little bit less expensive and 358 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:30.359 a little bit maybe a little campier than I pick is. However, that's 359 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:33.279 a really good No, that's a perfect way to describe it. It's that 360 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:37.119 nostalgic, old school campy experience. And we've talked about this for a good 361 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:40.160 amount of time, but going to the theaters now is such a different world. 362 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:41.960 I mean, when you've got streaming services and you can see everything and 363 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:47.119 get things you know at your fingertips at home without a problem. So I 364 00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:49.160 think this was really fun. It's worth going out again. Like Amy said, 365 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:53.559 it's a little bit less expensive. Some of the higher end premium experiences. 366 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:59.440 This definitely still fits into that premium experience idea again with the service in 367 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.960 that comes to you. And it was just fun and also that we did 368 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:06.359 learn make sure you show up about a half hour early, just so you 369 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.160 can sit down, kind of get to lay of the land. You literally 370 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:11.519 show up and you end up down this long corridor which is a little bit 371 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:15.240 of a throwback to the Shining if you will, if you know, the 372 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.359 old horror film, and there's in fact even a little display there, and 373 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.400 it's just a bunch of hallways and you want to go down it. You 374 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:23.519 walk into your theater and then the experience really begins. It's really kind of 375 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:26.880 fun and unique. Yeah, and then we also, you know, with 376 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:30.839 transparency, Nick and I got lost heading to the movie theater. So that's 377 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:33.400 why I go a little bit early, at least for you, especially for 378 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.240 your first time, so you can find your way to a second lit We 379 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.480 got there. We got there, so yeah, thank you, Nick. 380 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:45.880 So we saw American Fiction and just real quickly it's the new movie with Jeffrey 381 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.880 Wright and you've probably seen trailers for it on ads and stuff, and I 382 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:55.119 went, oh, that looks really interesting. So the guy is he's a 383 00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:59.680 writer. He's a very talented writer, but nobody reads his books, and 384 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:03.200 so he's like, how am how am I gonna change this? And sort 385 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:11.559 of as an exasperation, he writes a book that he thinks is horrible and 386 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:18.519 really stereotypical, and it immediately sells. So and then kind of how the 387 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:22.359 not hilarity but how things unfold following that. So I think it was a 388 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.119 really interesting movie. It had Jeffrey Wright in it, who you probably know 389 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:32.480 from he was in Westworld and also from the Hunger Games movies love him. 390 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:36.079 And then Sterling K. Brown is in the movie Leslie Ugghams. Oh my 391 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:41.400 god, she's so beautiful and still adorable. Tracy Ellis what's her middle name, 392 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:44.920 Nick, Tracy Leeell's, Tracy L's Ross, Tracy Ellis Ross right, 393 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.559 She had a smaller part, but she was in it. I think that 394 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.319 it was an interesting movie. I think it was a little bit slow. 395 00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.400 It took a while to get going. And the other thing that the thing 396 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.839 I didn't like about it is I felt like it played in into every single 397 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:06.680 stereotype, but it does it intentionally, So I can't decide if I'm offended 398 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:12.200 by it or it was good because it makes sense for this movie. But 399 00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:15.480 I think one of the things that disturbs me about this movie and so many 400 00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:18.359 others coming out of Hollywood is they try to shove it down your throat that 401 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.960 black people have been oppressed, even though in this movie many of the black 402 00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:27.200 characters are really successful and affluent, and that all white people are just stupid 403 00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:33.880 and bad. And I feel like it just pushes more divisions in our society. 404 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.240 And it's frustrating because again, I like the premise of the movie. 405 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.880 I like some of the things in the way they unfold in the movie, 406 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.519 but I just a lot of the virtue signaling is still going on in this 407 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.640 movie, and I don't love that. Would I go see it again? 408 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.119 Maybe not, but I would go see it. It's called American Fiction. 409 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.200 It is an interesting watch, and it's nominated for a bunch of things that 410 00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.599 just came out that it's nominated for some SAG Awards, And yeah, I 411 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.880 would go see it. And I would go see it at the at the 412 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.559 Alamo Draft House in downtown LA because it was a really cool place to see 413 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.599 a movie that's you're out and about for this week, Let's get back to 414 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.119 some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor 415 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.920 Newsom has announced the first draft of his two hundred and ninety one billion dollar 416 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:23.200 state spending plan. The budget includes an almost thirty eight billion dollar deficit, 417 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:29.440 which is lower than the sixty eight billion dollars predicted by the Legislative Analysts Office. 418 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:33.480 Newsom says in times of a shortfall, he wants to prioritize funding for 419 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:37.559 issues he thinks are top of mind for most Californians. Almost that's the issues 420 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.839 around mental health, issues around a safer community, issues around crime and violence, 421 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:45.720 career education, which we'll talk a lot more about in the next few 422 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.640 months, our climate commitment, which is second to none. Newsom is set 423 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:53.160 to spend the next six months discussing the final plan with lawmakers. Charges have 424 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:57.599 been dismissed in Orange County against a man accused of trafficking a fifteen year old 425 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:01.880 girl because federal prosecutors taking over the case. Jamal Curry was arrested during a 426 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:07.279 traffic stop in Mission Viejo in November. The girl was in the passenger seat. 427 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:12.240 They had driven to California from Las Vegas. The federal charges include transportation 428 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:17.799 of a minor in interstate commerce for prostitution. South Africa's lawyers have told judges 429 00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:22.240 that the UN's top court that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. South Africa 430 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:30.759 contends that Israel has transgressed Article two of the Convention by committing actions that fall 431 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:35.279 within the definition of genocide. South Africa says the latest war in Gaza is 432 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:38.200 part of decades of oppression of the Palestinians by Israel, and they want the 433 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:44.599 court to urgently order Israel to stop its military operation. Israel has denied such 434 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:47.720 arguments and will make its case tomorrow. A decision will likely take weeks. 435 00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:53.599 Nicki Haley and former President Trump or Nikki Haley says former President Trump lost the 436 00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:59.359 twenty twenty election. In last night's debate against Florida Governor Ronda Santis, Hailey 437 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:04.279 referred to the January sixth Capitol riot as a terrible day, saying Trump will 438 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:07.759 have to answer for his actions. Our country is completely divided. It's divided 439 00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:13.319 over extremes, it's divided over hatred. It's divided over the fact that people 440 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.599 think that if someone doesn't agree with you, that they're bad. She says. 441 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:20.160 The country needs a president who brings out the best in people and paves 442 00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:23.559 the way forward. Hailey and DeSantis have been trailing close for the number two 443 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:29.359 spot between Trump for the Republican nomination. This Saturday, starting at one point 444 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:34.799 thirty, don't miss any of the AFC Wildcard NFL playoff games featuring the Cleveland 445 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.680 Browns and the Houston Texas. Then that game will be followed by the Miami 446 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:42.319 Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs at five. You can listen to the games on 447 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:46.759 AM five seventy LA Sports presented in part by Rotolo Chevrolet. See what all 448 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:52.359 the fun is about at Rotlo Chevrolet. Hunter Biden is said to be rained 449 00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:58.519 today in downtown Los Angeles on nine federal tax charges. President Biden Sun's expected 450 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:01.559 to plead not guilty to charges of failing to pay taxes, failing to file, 451 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:06.920 evading an assessment, and filing a fraudulent form. He could get seventeen 452 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.840 years in prison if convicted. A bomb threat has been made at the home 453 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:15.559 of the judge presiding over former President Trump's civil fraud trial. Police have responded 454 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:19.400 in New York. It's not clear if the judge was home at the time. 455 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:23.599 Closing arguments at the tax fraud trial will apparently proceed as scheduled this morning. 456 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:28.559 The city of Downey has fined a restaurant more than four thousand dollars, 457 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:34.119 saying its servers uniforms violate the city's dress code for people handling food servers at 458 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:38.239 Ojos Locos, where two T shirts cut into tank tops and short skirts. 459 00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:43.000 Apparently that doesn't fly. The restaurant says it will appeal and hopes to be 460 00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:49.480 reimbursed for the fines. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. 461 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:52.800 So, Stephen, Chris Christy is out. Let's talk about what he said 462 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.239 right before he announced he was dropping out of the race. Well, he 463 00:34:55.280 --> 00:35:00.679 was wearing a microphone that was transmitting on his campaign website unbeknownst him, and 464 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.519 he said of Nicki Haley, quote she's gonna get smoked. You and I 465 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:07.559 both know it. She's not up to it. And then he said DeSantis 466 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:13.039 called him quote petrified that I would. And then the microphone cuts out. 467 00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:15.239 We don't know what he was about to say, so that's when he realized 468 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:20.679 the mic was on. Well somebody did. Look. What we don't know 469 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:22.519 is what he was about to say. At the end of that sentence, 470 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:27.360 DeSantis called me petrified that I would. But ABC News has been reporting it 471 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:31.119 for some time. The DeSantis campaign has been really worried that Chris Christy would 472 00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:36.400 drop out before New Hampshire. They described it as a nightmare scenario because what 473 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:39.320 they've seen is Nicki Haley zooming in the polls, and it, you know, 474 00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:45.559 perhaps their own internal polling bears out what a CNN poll this week indicated, 475 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:47.840 which is that sixty five percent of Chris Christi voters would choose Nikki Haley 476 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:51.960 if they had to make a second choice. And so if he was polling 477 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:53.599 in third place in New Hampshire with a base of support of anywhere from ten 478 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:58.679 to twelve percent, and he's out, well, that suggests that most of 479 00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:00.920 his supporters would go to Nicki Haley. And there was a CNN survey this 480 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:05.400 week that showed that the race was a seven point margin between Donald Trump and 481 00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:08.320 Nicki Haley. So if most of Chris Christi's support goes to Nicky Haley, 482 00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:13.400 well, then the New Hampshire contest seems a lot hotter than it previously was 483 00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:15.840 looking before Chris Christi dropped out. Well, I know that we We've talked 484 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:22.639 several times Steven about how even if all of the seventeen candidates that started out 485 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:27.480 and some of them have dropped out, but earlier Trump's support was so strong 486 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.760 that even if you added all of those together, it wouldn't be enough to 487 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.199 beat him. But as you're just saying, that's shifting at least in New 488 00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:38.159 Hampshire. Well, and we're talking about well, and one other thing to 489 00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:43.719 point out is least these surveys offer the opportunity for you know, don't know 490 00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:49.039 or haven't decided options. When it comes down to an actual election, you 491 00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:53.440 know, we'll see whether you know, thirty nine percent is enough. Right. 492 00:36:53.840 --> 00:37:00.199 My point is to say that a plurality is all you need to win 493 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:05.360 an election, and so there are other options. We'll see what happens. 494 00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:08.440 Right. I don't want to forecast and say that Donald Trump can't be beat 495 00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:15.480 But New Hampshire is a unique case because you have essentially a semi open primary 496 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:21.119 there where people who are not registered Democrats can come into the polling place if 497 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.360 they're undeclared, and pick up a Republican ballot and take part. Even if 498 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:30.400 they're liberally minded. Certainly independently minded, and before they leave the polling place, 499 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:35.320 they can unregister themselves with the Republican Party and once again be undeclared to 500 00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:37.559 take part in the next primary cycle. So a lot of people in New 501 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:44.440 Hampshire do this and it's why someone who positions himself as anti Trump as Chris 502 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.840 Christy did, was able to have a base of support in New Hampshire and 503 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:52.119 be a contender. Now no poll had him in the lead, but he 504 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:54.559 was a factor. And now that he's out, you wonder where some of 505 00:37:54.559 --> 00:38:00.039 those independent mind and maybe even liberally inclined Republican primary vote are going to go. 506 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:06.719 What I think is interesting about Chris Christy and the comments that he made 507 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:12.440 during his speech before he said I am suspending my campaign. What he was 508 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.039 talking about, how he had to be honest with himself, how he you 509 00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:19.639 know, and he was basically a spoiler for Trump. That was sort of 510 00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:22.519 his that was kind of his jam, you know, like he wanted to 511 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.440 call out Trump whenever he could because he used to support him, now he 512 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:28.920 doesn't. And he said, I need to be transparent and if you can't 513 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:32.239 say that you don't follow Trump, then you shouldn't be president. And those 514 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:36.039 kinds of things. I'm not quoting, of course, But then he goes 515 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:40.039 and as he's telling people how he needs to be honest on that hot mic 516 00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:44.360 moment, he says there and just nails Haley and just said, well, 517 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:46.559 yeah, she's gonna get smoked. I'm like, then, be honest with 518 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:50.679 that. Why didn't you say that during your thing, like say, I'm 519 00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.880 dropping out, but I'm throwing my support behind so and so because I'm being 520 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:59.519 honest. It just it just feels so insincere, like I feel so many 521 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:01.480 candidates. Well, let me put it this way. At least it's consistent. 522 00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:05.920 He didn't say behind closed doors, she's going to get smoked and then 523 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:07.880 publicly say and now I endorse Nicki Haley. He did not say that. 524 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:13.480 Yeah, And it's almost you could put those two things together and read into 525 00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:15.719 it that he would not endorse Nicki Haley at a later date. Now, 526 00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:21.199 in politics, the winds shift and things change, and people have always reserved 527 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:24.280 the right to change their minds. Yeah, but at least last night, 528 00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:29.400 Chris Christie was consistent. One of the X factors in this campaign cycle could 529 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:32.360 be the presence of a third party candidacy that has not yet materialized. And 530 00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:37.639 if Chris Christie says that no one who declares that Donald Trump is unfit for 531 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:43.000 office is him or herself fit for office. If that holds, and you 532 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:47.000 know, Chris Christy decides not to throw his weight behind Nicki Haley or Rond 533 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.880 de Santis, maybe he'll hold out for some third party alternative. Maybe he 534 00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:54.159 wants to be a part of it. Who knows, Joe Manson and Chris 535 00:39:54.199 --> 00:40:00.639 Christie or somebody else who is throwing out It's so crazy this year, it 536 00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:02.719 could be anything. All right, Well, thank you so much, Steven 537 00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:07.920 Portnoy. We'll we'll be watching you. All right, Let's get back to 538 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:10.239 some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. One 539 00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:15.760 person has been killed three others hurt in an avalanche at Palisades tap Hoost Ski 540 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:20.760 Resort in northern California. The resort's Michael Gross says it was opening day of 541 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:24.800 the KT twenty two chair lift yesterday without ski patrol up there doing avalanche patrol 542 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:29.599 assessments since Sunday, So for the past few days they've been up there doing 543 00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:32.519 control work. But he says it appears the first skiers down. The run 544 00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.960 triggered the avalanche rescue teams were sent to clear the area. They spent several 545 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:42.239 hours searching for anyone who may have been trapped. The resort was temporarily closed. 546 00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.119 It is expected to reopen today. Chargers have been filed against a man 547 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:51.159 accused of using rocks and bricks to smash through windows of several businesses in the 548 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:55.599 Tapanga area. He's facing seventeen counts of vandalism with four hundred dollars or more 549 00:40:55.639 --> 00:41:00.400 in damage or destruction of property. A hearing is set for later this month 550 00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:05.320 to see if he's mentally competent to stand trial. Starbucks has been sued by 551 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:10.480 a consumer advocacy group in DC for alleged false advertising. The groups of Starbucks 552 00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:15.880 gets its coffee and tea from farms with human rights and labor abuses, including 553 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:20.320 farms in Guatemala, Kenya, and Brazil. The suit, filed yesterday, 554 00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:25.119 claims the company is misleading people by marketing its one hundred percent ethical sourcing commitment 555 00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:30.280 on its products. Big shakeups in football, The New England Patriots and coach 556 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:36.079 Bill Belichick have agreed to part ways, so Belichick will not be coaching New 557 00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:38.880 England in twenty twenty four, he is leaving the team, ending a decades 558 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:44.800 long run that included six Super Bowl victories, and yesterday, Alabama's coach Nick 559 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:50.920 Saban announced he's retiring after winning more national championships than any other major college football 560 00:41:50.960 --> 00:42:00.239 coach. He's won seven national championships in seventeen seasons with Bama. Pasadena is 561 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:07.360 celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the Cheeseburger with Cheeseburger Week. From January twenty 562 00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:12.199 first through the twenty seventh, people can dine in honor of Lionel Sternberger, 563 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.000 thought to be the first person to put cheese on a hamburger in nineteen twenty 564 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:22.000 four. Diners can download Cheeseburger Passport and visit participating spots to get it stamped 565 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.920 for a chance to win prizes. Sounds delicious. Tomorrow, the Clippers take 566 00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:30.440 on the Memphis Grizzlies, with tip off at five o'clock on your home of 567 00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:35.639 Clippers Basketball, AM five seventy LA Sports brought to you by your Southern California 568 00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:40.360 Toyota Dealers. We make it easy. This is KFI and kost HD two 569 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:45.000 Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm 570 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.880 Amy King. 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