You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere
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app, we're happy you're here. Hey, did you ever stop doing things
because of the pandemic? I mean, we all stop doing everything, but
because of the pandemic, But did you not get back to doing the things
you were supposed to do? So I have a little confession. I stopped
going to the dentist. Cono you did too, I did? Okay,
also remedied that I'm going to listen to your story, but well you can
share yours too. So I went to the dentist yesterday and I'm like,
oh what now, when was the last time you were here? And I'm
like, uh, I don't remember. And so we looked back at the
chart. Yeah, it was twenty eighteen I was like, oh, I
guess I forgot because I thought, you know, like once the pandemic started
getting better, I was like, well, you don't want to go sit
in a dentist's chair because you don't want to be breathing on everybody. And
everybody was still wearing masks and that kind of stuff. And then I know
I've been thinking, oh, I should probably do that. I should probably
do that, and then I you know, it goes in my should file.
So I finally went yesterday. I'm going to be paying for that.
I got two temporary crowns. So I spent the whole afternoon in a dentist's
chair and oh my god, they beat me up. I don't remember hurting
this bad. But so anyway, and I've been solely chastised because I need
to floss more. So that's my new My new thing is I'm going to
floss because otherwise my teeth are going to fall out. Actually they were very
positive. They said, oh, look, your teeth aren't going to fall
out yet. It was great. So anyway, and you literally, yesterday
me and my wife had the conversation of when the last time I went to
the dentist. So the appointment has been made good. Quite nervous, Okay.
I love my dentists. I've been going there for like twenty five years,
so perfect, but still well. I wish you good luck and God
speak, thank you, and I hope you don't have to have any more
crowns. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The California Democratic Party has
voted to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as it's twenty twenty four presidential candidate.
California has four four, one hundred and ninety six delegates, the largest in
the nation. As of last night, Harris has enough delegates to get the
Democratic Party nomination. The fire in Riverside that has destroyed six homes and damaged
seven others was started by illegal fireworks. Security camera footage shows people running towards
cars as the fire began on Saturday. The fires burned about five hundred and
thirty acres. It's forty percent surrounded. The graffiti towers in downtown LA may
soon have a big, old sold sign on them. The Wall Street Journal
says a local developer that was not named is interested in buying the abandoned towers
that have been covered in graffiti fixing. Them up and finishing the project.
The Ocean Wide Plaza development has been sitting ab abandoned for five years. At
six oh five, it's handled on the news. The LA Superior Courts are
back in business. Bill's going to tell you about that. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Well, that didn't take long. Vice President Harris has secured the support of
enough Democratic delegates to become the party's nominee. A survey from the Associated Press
says by last night, more than twenty five hundred delegates had told the AP
or announced that they planned to support her at the convention. She needs nineteen
hundred and seventy six to officially get the nomination. The Democratic National Convention starts
August nineteenth in Chicago. The LA Superior Court is reopening following a data breach.
The nation's largest trial court system was hit by a ransomware attack. The
security breach forced LA Superior Court to shut down all thirty six of its courthouses
yesterday and to cancel any schedule activities, including trials. After nearly four days
of work to repair and reboot its online infrastructure, the court says it's ready
for business again, though delays are expected. The Superior Court's announcement says the
ransomware attack was not related to last week's widespread system outage involving CrowdStrike in downtown
LA. Michael Monks, KFI News, let's say good morning now to ABC's
Karen Travers at the White House. So, Karen, I was going to
ask you how her first little campaign stop went, but now I'm going to
ask you about that she's already locked up the nomination. Basically, some news
overnight and that the Vice President secured commitments from enough delegates to become the presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee. It was delegates in your state of California that sent her
over the top her home state, and the Vice President said overnight that she
looks forward to formally accepting the nomination soon, and this wraps up the process.
Basically at this point, you know that there would be no contested convention,
no floor fight, really no drama most likely at the convention, because
anybody that was considered to be a potential rival to her for this nomination got
behind her. You know, the governors from the battleground states, any senators,
everybody has thrown their support her way, and now the delegates are doing
the same, so she has enough to get past that first round of balloting
with the support. Now they're not all guaranteed. Things could go haywire.
We've seen crazier things happen in politics over the last few weeks. So I
was going to ask you about that. So if yeah, because they're committed,
they're not really committed. They're not bound like it's not like a legal
designation. You know. It's interesting because because of the primaries, they were
pledged to President Biden, so that was a different process because people had voted
for President Biden in the primaries. Now though, because he's out of the
race, these delegates then go and pledge commit their support to Vice President Harris.
But they still can do what they want when they get to the convention.
That said, they're not likely to do that because the state party chairs
and the elected officials in the state are rallying support, organizing and doing all
of this to get this locked down before we get to Chicago in a couple
of weeks. Okay, And there was talk of doing that voice call,
but to get by on the ballot or are they going to still do that.
Still looks like they're head in that direction to try and do that.
I think that was the latest we had in early August, so it would
be done before the convention, you know. I think that was exactly what
we were still looking at at this point in terms of a timeline. Okay,
So yesterday Harris had a sort of a mini press conference. It was
at what used to be Biden campaign headquarters and now it's Harris campaign headquarters,
and the President joined in. He did, he called in. He is
still in Delaware, is coming back to the White House today this afternoon after
getting over COVID. The doctor said yesterday his symptoms had almost completely resolved.
But she was there to greet the campaign staff, thank them for their hard
work. She acknowledged it's been a rollercoaster for them, but said, you
know, over the next one hundred and six days, we're going to take
our case to the American people. We're going to win. The President called
in, and these were the first remarks we've heard from him since he announced
he was not going to continue his race, and he said the staff that
he knew it was the right decision to make getting out. He said,
I know that the news was surprising and hard for you to hear, but
it was the right thing to do. He also told them he's not going
anywhere. He said, he's going to be out there on the campaign trail
with the vice president out there campaigning for her and as he put it,
working like hell. And I think this line was notable. Look for this
to be a big theme for the president over the next three months. He
said. The name has changed at the top of the ticket, but the
mission hasn't changed at all. Okay, we'll be watching for that messaging.
Stay tuned, all right, Karen Travers, thank you so much. Thanks
all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A fifteen year old boy shot during a street
takeover in South la has died. The LAPD says two boys were shot at
from a car leaving an attempted robbery in the Vermont Square neighborhood early Saturday morning.
The boys drove themselves to the hospital. Police say three people were involved
in the alleged robbery, but there was only one shooter. Officials in Riverside
say a fire that burned more than five hundred twenty acres and six homes in
the city was caused by fireworks. Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson says an arson task
force worked relentlessly since Sunday defined the cause of the fire that has destroyed and
damaged homes and forced evacuations, which have since been lifted. We live in
an area with dry brush, varied terrain, and high temperatures, making it
ideal for such disasters, Dawson says. Camera footage shows the possible fire starters
leaving the area. We will ensure they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law. Let me repeat that we will prosecute those responsible. The fire
is more than twenty percent contained. A man wanted in an almost twenty year
old murder case out of Costa Mesa has been extradited from Mexico to face charges.
Investigators say Pedro Diego's Garcia tried to shoot at a guy to stop a
fight at a kinsina in two thousand and six, but the gun wouldn't fire,
But prosecutor say a bit later, Garcia did shoot the guy in the
back as he ran away. Local and federal authorities spent years getting a warrant
approved, then more years finding the guy. Garcia was arrested in January,
but it would take several more months till his extradition was approved. The man
was returned to Orange County Thursday for a murder charge plus a felony gun enhancement.
He faces fifty years if convicted as charged in Orange County. Corbin Carson
kaf I News. Former President Trump's security mistakes were made at his rally in
Pennsylvania, which ended with an attempted assassination. Trump told Fox News yesterday there
was an officer who saw the guy with the gun a while before the shooting
happened. But I can tell you this just to go on the more positive
side. The people on the stage were unbelievable and brave that they were all
Secret Service that came running up. Trump says he's lucky he wasn't hurt,
worse, or killed. He questioned how the shooter was allowed to stay on
the roof for so long, saying someone needs to be held responsible for the
slow reaction time. Online searches asking whether President Biden is alive have been trending.
Some are questioning why the president has not been seen since he was diagnosed
with COVID and why his decision to end his reelection campaign was done. With
a post on social media, Vice President Harris said yesterday the theory is baseless.
Biden was on a phone call with Harris, as you heard Karen Travers
telling us. She says Biden has been in isolation. He is expected to
return to the White House today and then address the nation sometime this week.
The historic Westwood Village and Brewin movie theaters are shutting down. The Westwood Village
Theater has been bought by movie director Jason Reightman, with backing from other major
filmmakers like Steven Spielberg. Theater historian Scott Norton says the two separate theaters have
operated together since the nineteen thirties, sort of like a multiplex. The logic
would be, even if they're different owners, that eventually that's what happens here,
that they start operating them together. That's my hope. The Village Theater
was bought in February with plans to renovate and reopen, but there's still no
word on what will happen with the Bruin. Both theaters are expected to have
showtimes until the final wrap this Thursday. Chris Adler KFI News. Tonight,
the Dodgers take on the San Francisco Giants, with the first pitch going out
at seven o'clock. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on
AM five to seventy LA Sports and stream all games NHD on the iHeartRadio app.
Keyword is AM five to seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all
of LA. The heat wave that has settled in on southern California, it's
going to hang around for at least a couple more days. Excessive heat warnings
are up until tomorrow night in the Antelope Valley and Foothills, the San Gabriel
Mountains, and the five and fourteen Freeway corridors. Temperatures in these areas could
hit one oh six. Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign raked in eighty one million
dollars in the first twenty four hours of her announcing that she's seeking the Democratic
nomination, and she's already been pledged with the support of more than the nineteen
hundred and seventy six delegates needed to get the official presidential nomination. The Oscar
Meyer Wiener Mobile, and I'm going to start that over because I said it
wrong. The Oscar I'm gonna start it over because I said it wrong again.
I'm gonna I'm gonna blame it on my temporary crowns. The Oscar Meyer
Wiener Mobile will need some work because it crashed in Illinois. The driver of
the twenty three foot long iconic hot dog vehicle lost control yesterday morning on a
highway in Cook County. The Wienermobile rolled over and rolled into a Hyundai.
No one was hurt. At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
A fire that's taken out a half dozen homes in Riverside, sparked by
fireworks. Let's say good morning now to the host of How to Money on
KFI. It's Joel Larsgard. Joel Hi Hi so u Kono is doing this,
I do this and does this. We have side hustles, okay,
and I guess we're not alone at all. No, in side hustle.
It's one of those things where you hadn't heard of the term fifteen years ago.
It's it's come into vo but people did it right. It was moonlighting
or whatever, so it was. It has been a part of that show
Moonlighting. No, was it a good show. It was chrislus Oh,
I do like Bruce Willis, but like this was only people did, right,
you had maybe a second job, or you picked up some overtime hours
or something like that. But side hustles, because of the Internet, have
really the term has changed, and then the way people approach shide hustles has
changed. And the cool thing in some ways is it doesn't have to be
like this all or nothing thing like oh, I'm scheduled twenty hours a week
to go work at this location. It's more like, oh, I can,
you know, hang a shingle for uber, and I can pick up
five hours here and there when I want to. It's really kind of on
demand when I'm interested. And so because of that side hustle so have become
more attractive, more people are participating. Bank Create just did a survey and
something like a third of people, more than a third of Americans, say
that they have a side hustle. I have no problem with that. The
problem though, is almost all of those people who say they have a side
hustle say that it's necessary essentially for them to be able to pay the bills.
So that worries me, Like I don't love hearing that people say,
not only do I need my day job, but I also need this side
hustle, and I think I'm gonna need it forever. And that's just because
of the way the economy is these days. I mean, I think that's
part of it, right, That is certainly something that we should talk about.
I do think it's become harder to afford the classic American lifestyle and one
income. The other thing, too, is we our wants and desires have
exceeded our grasp in so many ways. And so when we think about what
we consider as normal in America these days, like it does seem like our
desires have outpaced our income on so many levels. Like when you think about
what even something like the simple car, think about what a Toyota camera looked
like in nineteen eighty eight versus what it looks like in twenty twenty four.
It's a completely different machine, right. And so if everything that we buy
and that we like, or a house, right, a house that was
built in the same year nineteen eighty eight versus today, it's so much bigger,
it's so much nicer. The hgt HGTV ification of our country, and
so like our expectations have gone up, and that's kind of awesome that we're
able to enjoy nicer things, but at the same time those things cost more,
and so yeah, we compare a price of a house thirty years ago,
fifty years ago to the price of a house today. We're also not
comparing apples and apples, or comparing apples and cucumbers or something like that,
because they're very different things and one is clearly more expensive than the other other,
largely because like, we can afford more, and we have poured more
resources into earning more money so that we can buy the nicer stuff. Yeah.
But with inflation, though, I'm wondering if more people are doing it,
not because their expectations and you know, their wants are higher, but
just their needs, their basic needs. Yeah, you know, I mean,
if inflation's up twenty percent in the last for you and roughly right,
I mean, it's the rate is slowing, but prices are still up twenty
or more percent. For sure, you're making twenty percent less. Well,
okay, you say that prices are up, but when you look at kind
of the what the average the average person's salary increase has gone up at roughly
that same amount, if not a little bit more. It's outpaced inflation for
many many people. So yes, prices are up, but also incomes are
up. I think the biggest thing I want to mention though, when we're
talking about side hustles and people think, oh, I have to do this
in perpetuity. I'm never going to get rid of this thing. I always
have to have two jobs in order to make ends meet. I think that
that's a recipe for burnout for most people, right. And yes, at
least it is kind of more of an on demand thing. It's not some
sort of thing where you're working sixty hours a week and you have to all
the time. But I would rather see people do a couple of other things
they're going to have more long term benefit. For one, increase your skills
so that you can bring home more money to your day. Be willing to
negotiate with your current employer, or say hey, what is it that I
can do to increase my responsibilities and increase my take home pay here? Those
are worthwhile discussions, and I think that's going to have more of a long
term impact on your ability to build wealth and feel financially secure than having that
side hustle in perpetuity. And the other thing is like work on starting your
own business. Oftentimes that over time will produce more wealth for you than having
a side hustle where you're driving for Uber Eats or something like that, right,
because the pay isn't going to go up commensurate to your skill level and
the business you're able to build. So, yes, it starts off slower.
You're not getting immediate income from it. Typically oftentimes it's a year or
two before you reach any sort of profitability with the small business. But the
long term possibilities are just so much greater. Okay, cool, all right,
So now then let's talk long term because we're talking. You found an
interesting little article about longevity and how does that play into how to money?
Sure? Okay, so I saw this article in the New York Times and
longevity is all the rage. Everyone's talking about it. There's the liver Longer
is all the rage. Yes, the Peter Attiaz book has just been this
like raging smash success and I love I love that. Like fitness and uh
and thinking about living longer and not just living longer, but living healthier for
longer is on the minds of more and more Americans, like this is great
stuff that we should be talking about, and it's such it's so good for
your mind and so good. Uh, it's it's just so good for your
whole you'll hold your whole persona to be a more fit individual. But the
thing is, this article was kind of talking about all of these interesting ways
that marketing and companies have gotten in on the longevity craze, and so I
guess in my mind I was thinking as I was reading this reading this article
that like, wait a second, to pick up on some of these things
and to desire to live a healthier lifestyle, it doesn't have to break the
bank. So I think some people are like getting in on this and then
they realize that they're getting fed all the Instagram ads like I guess I need
the two hundred dollars pair of Hokahs to become a runner now, or I
need these fancy supplements in order to have some like a healthy diet. And
I think the truth is we kind of we build these things up in our
mind and we think we need this, this and this in order to become
this kind of person. And the truth is, most of the things that
are prescribed in something like a Huberman or a tea approach just to live a
healthy life, or a whole lot less expensive and fancy than a lot of
people want to make it sound so okay, so inexpensive. What are the
things? So? I mean, you don't need a fancy pair of shoes
to go for a run, right, Like I don't necessarily suggest going barefoot
through the streets, but you don't need some sort of fancy to I love
that these fancy shoe companies exist, and it's great if you've got the money
and you do want to buy the fancy shoes, but you just don't need
them. Think about like basketball players back in the day least were commerce all
stars and they were okay, they played the game right. And I'm not
saying it's not nice that there's not that there's better gear that we can have
and stuff like that, but I guess just be careful when you're getting into
some of these things, because what can be a really inexpensive hobby that keeps
you fit and it's fun, can quickly get out of hand and you're like,
where did not my money go? Okay? And what about like things
like the supplements Because you're right, you see him everywhere now like balance of
Nature is a big one. But I looked at up one time and the
vitamins are like eighty bucks. Yeah, so I think just and I'm not
a nutrition expert, but I eat like a banana every morning, or maybe
make like a little smoothie. And I'm not against maybe some of the protein
powders or something like you can get at Costco. Yeah, maybe toss that
into your SMOOTHI or you're shake in the morning, Like, go for it.
But so many of the things that we're being fed are an attempt to
rip us from our money because we want to be healthier. And the truth
is, you can do body weight workouts right. You can go on a
run with a friend. There are free online workouts on YouTube. There's so
many free resources out there for us. If we're thoughtful and you get to
get you're gonna get the same results of living longer and being healthier as you
are if you're taking the really expensive supplements and you're doing all the above.
I think so. And again, not a nutrition expert, not a longevity
expert. It just makes me sad to think that people are saying, cool,
I do want to live longer. I want to be healthier, but
I feel like I have to spend all this money to do it, and
I just don't think that's the case. I like the way that you're thinking,
And if you want to read it, it's a New York Times article
on longevity and if you want to lengthen your money train, I like it.
Joel Larsgard's guy to listen to, and you can listen to him every
weekend Sunday noon to two right here on KFI. You can also follow Joel
to get some great tips on how to money at how to Money Joel.
Thank you, Joel Larskard, Thanks Amy. All right, have a great
week. Vice President Kamalai Harris has held her first on camera campaign event as
a potential presidential candidate. She was on a speaker phone call with President Biden
yesterday, who said that leaving the twenty twenty four race was the right thing
to do. This was the first time the country's heard from Biden since he
announced he was not running for reelection. The number of people riding Metro is
up for the nineteenth straight month compared to last June. Hip is up from
this time last year. Metros is almost twenty five point two million people boarded
buses and trains. In June, ridership is still almost fifteen percent lower than
before the pandemic. Housing costs, food, and energy are on the minds
of older Americans headed into the November election. A survey from Retirement Living dot
Com said seniors first priority, regardless of party affiliation, is high housing costs.
Crime, immigration, abortion, access, and climate change are other top
concerns for seniors. At six oh five, it's handled on the news.
The Vice president has the support she needs to get the official nomination to be
the presidential nominee. At five point fifty, ABC, Stephen Portnoy is going
to tell us about the Secret services big fail in protecting former President Trump and
whether anyone is actually going to be held accountable. Right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, Potentially millions of people are affected
by the faulty software update sent out by CrowdStrike on Friday, and some are
still feeling the effects. Sure Delta Airlines a lot of For some reason,
Delta Airlines was affected more than other airlines, but of course every airline was
affected. I had a flight out of Milwaukee on Friday that was delayed for
two hours because of the untangling of the mess that began early Friday morning.
So yes, people are still feeling the effects of it. And in another
way as well, the scammers are loose. Right, So every time something
like this happens, and even when it's not happening, there are phishing attempts
out there, tech support scams. But every time an event like this happens,
every time there's a CrowdStrike problem or something something of that sort, suddenly
there's a plausible story to go with it. Right, So the tech support
email you might get from someone posing as CrowdStrike would say, hey, you
heard about our big problem on Friday, Well, your computer has been infected
with something. We need to get in there and fix this. So you
get on the phone with them, with people you believe our CrowdStrike. In
fact it's not, it's a bunch of scammers. You are asked to download
a piece of software, any desk or team View or something like that,
which gives them, the scammer, access to your computer. So while they're
inside there, ostensibly repairing your computer or doing something updating, they're stealing all
the files out of there, pictures and financial information, whatever else they can
find. And creating all sorts of aims. So just be very careful.
These tech support scams are out there all the time, but I think it's
safe to say that now they're especially pervasion because of what happened Friday. Yeah,
so the computer issue itself isn't what necessarily made the computers vulnerable. It's
the scam artists who are praying on the people who had their computers. Right.
The problem is being repaired. I mean, CrowdStrike is taking care of
the issue out there regardless, and it's unlikely to affect at individual computers anyway,
but it provides that sort of little air of plausibility or the believability of
the store that goes with it now, right, because people may have been
listening with half an ear. Maybe they they were very intently listening to what
was going on with CrowdStrike, but now they have it in their head that
something can be done about it, and this fake person comes along. You
see these emails all the time, or I'm sure you've gotten an email amy
from geek Squad or from Microsoft or from someone saying your computer's security is about
to expire, your warrant is going to be out, You better call us
and so, and it's the same thing exactly. Okay, it makes me
so grutified. I get. The one that I get all the time is
and this is an ongoing one. Like you said, there's stuff that's just
going on all the time. Is the PayPal. Hey, Amy, we've
requested a payment of nine hundred and seventy seven dollars. Yeah, this isn't
right. Call us yep. So you know what happens if you've called them,
Have you called them? No good, because if you do call them,
they're going it's going to be somebody, usually not in this country,
usually in South Asia or somewhere. You'll be on the phone with them.
Let's say I'm with PayPal. Yeah, we owe you this refund for nine
hundred whatever dollars, and they'll get into your computer. They'll spoof the screen
so that it looks like it's your bank account. They'll add in all sorts
of extra money, and then they'll say, oh, wait a minute,
you need to get that money back to us. We accidental, they gave
you too much. And then it's up to you to go get gift cards
or something ridiculous like that to pay back the money that you don't owe them
in the first place. Yeah, it's inferiorting. It makes me want to
eat sprinkles. I'm right there with you, Jim Ryan, thank you so
much. Hopefully you'll help some people from becoming victims of the scams and watch
out the fake CrowdStrike websites. CrowdStrike itself has published a list of thirty spoofed
websites okay that people are maybe you know, falling prey to Okay, and
we know that this kind of thing is going to happen again. Just you
got to have your You have to have your guard up all the time,
keep your ears on, keep your head on a swivel. All right,
Thanks Jim Ryan, to you. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Vice President Harris has
received the endorsement of her US Senate replacement, Senator Alex Padilla was in Commerce
for an event and took time to make it clear he wants to see Kamala
Harris as the next president of the United States. I'm very excited. We've
got a lot of momentum looking forward to the convention in Chicago, and I'm
looking forward to winning in November. Thedia was appointed to the Senate after Harris
was elected VP. He was previously California's Secretary of State, Estate Senator,
and served on the La City Council. His endorsement is one of many that
have piled up for Harrison. Sunday, in Commerce, Michael Monks KFI News,
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to beef up security on the border.
He said he's going to need to triple the border wall, also razor wire
barriers and National Guard troops at the border now that President Biden has endorsed Vice
President Harris to be the Democratic nominee for president. Three years ago, Biden
made Harris the borders are millions have crossed the border illegally since then. Fire
the its burned about three hundred thirty acres in the Angelus National Forest above Glendora
is fifty five percent surrounded. The fire was reported Friday afternoon in the area
of Glendora Mountain and East Fork Roads. It quickly spread near popular camping and
hiking areas. By Saturday morning, the fire was burning toward the Sheep Mountain
Wilderness. A heat advisories in effect for the area beginning Thursday, with temperatures
expected to reach one hundred and ten. Winds are expected to gust between twenty
five and forty miles per hour through Thursday. A new one point six million
dollars fire truck at John Wayne Airport uses environmentally save firefighting foam without forever chemicals.
It is a beast of a machine, mostly fire thirty Engineer Mike Ketelson
says the CRASH three also carries dry chemicals for flammable liquids and more water capacity
than a typical fire truck. We also had what was called a piercing tip.
I can flow water foam or halotron. So we have an aircraft has
a fire inside, we can pierce through the skin and extinguish the fire without
even going inside the aircraft. He says. All trucks at JWA will have
the environment totally safe firefighting foam by the end of the year. Official said
last week. The truck is also equipped with high tech tools to quickly get
passengers away from an airplane fire. In Orange County, Corbin Carson camp I
news La Mayor Bass is headed to Paris. She'll be part of the delegation
of the Presidential Delegation for Friday's Olympic Games opening ceremonies. The delegation will be
led by First Lady Jill Biden. While in Paris, Bass will be meeting
with business leaders to discuss the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics being held here in
Los Angeles. Today is Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day, a day to celebrate
one of the most iconic culinary combos. It's not known when the two tastes
first came together, but the combination was made popular in the US through Reese's
Peanut Butter Cups. These were first out in nineteen twenty eight. And if
peep and chocolate isn't your thing, you can celebrate National Vanilla ice Cream Day,
which also falls on July twenty third every year. And speaking of peanut
butter and chocolate and Reese's, have you seen the Reese's Peanut Butter Metal just
in time for the Olympics. You know how they do the pumpkins at Halloween
and they do the weird little Christmas tree shapes at Christmas while they're medals for
the Olympics again, opening ceremonies happening this Friday, I think I should go
get one to celebrate. Vice President Harris is headed to Wisconsin for her first
official campaign rally. She campaigns for president. Harris's campaign has raised more than
one hundred million dollars since Sunday afternoon, when President Biden dropped out of the
race. She has the backing of Democratic officials and political groups. LA Superior
Courthouse is set to reopen today. The courthouses have been closed since Friday after
its network computer systems were impacted by a ransomware attack. Presiding by Judge Samantha
P. Jesner says a cyber attack happened on Friday, resulting in the shutdown
of nearly all systems to contain the damage. If you're flying Delta, it
might be a couple more days before you can get on board. The airline
has canceled more than four thousand flights it works to recover from a global computer
outage Friday. Delta says it's doing everything it can to get back in the
air. We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning,
Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit against Fox. Right now, let's say good
morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy So. Stephen Congress was looking for answers to the
failure of the Secret Service on the day former President Trump got shot at a
campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Did they get them? Not the answers they were
seeking. They did learn a bit, but there was so much more that
members of Congress on both sides of the aisle asked that Kimberly Cheadle was not
able to answer that. It left them frustrated, and by the end of
the hearing it led to calls from Democrats as well as Republicans for the Secret
Service director to resign her office, and late last night, South Carolina Republican
Congresswoman Nancy Mace entered a resolution on the House floor for the impeachment of Kimberly
Cheedle. This morning, the House leaders of both parties say they're going to
establish a bipartisan task force, essentially a new committee that will have subpoena power
and make recommendations for reforms. This statement from the House Speaker and his Democratic
counterpart of King Jeffreys, cites shocking security failures and they need to move quickly
to find facts and ensure accountability. Here's what they learned yesterday. They learned
that the local swat team spotted the gunman on the roof eighteen minutes before the
shooting, and that Secret Service received anywhere from two to five, strangely on
specifically, anywhere from two to five alerts about a suspicious person before the first
shot was fired. Now, Kimberly Cheatles said that if the detail had been
told that there was a threat, they never would have brought Trump onto the
stage. But there's a difference between a suspicious person report, which comes in
all the time, and the report of a threat, which is far more
rare and more serious, and so there is a delineation there. She also
said that the Secret Service did not deny any request for additional security at Butler
PA, that the assets that were requested for that day were given, which
Rom's other questions, what do you mean the assets that were requested? And
does it suggest then that there are other times that the Trump campaign has requested
assets that you haven't provided. There were questions about whether the Secret Service flew
a drone overhead that might have spotted the man on the roof. No answer
given there except to say that there was some sort of over overflight or overwatch
or something like that that indicated there was aerial surveillance. Kimberly Cheatle said that
she would like to know answers to some of these questions as well, which
the members didn't find satisfactory. Because she's the head of the agency, you'd
imagine she has access to this information, and she said that she was not
able to provide it because she didn't have it herself. She ultimately called it
the most significant operational failure since the attempt on Ronald Reagan's life in nineteen eighty
one. Well, by the end of it, even though she said she
takes full responsibility, she'd turned down calls to resign. Let's see what today,
tomorrow, the rest of the week brings. Okay, So if they
wanted to push to get her out, what are the ways that she could
be removed? You mentioned impeachment. Would that pull her from office? Well,
that's a long and drawn out process that requires a vote in the House
and then ultimately a trial in the Senate and the two thirds vote to convict.
Now, the easier path is for the president to say the easiest path
of all is for Kimberly Cheetle to say, I acknowledge the situation, I
will resign A bit harder still, is the president terminating her employment, But
that also is pretty simple. The Secret Service Director serves at the pleasure of
the President and does not require Senate confirmation out that that matters either. But
the point is the President could fire her at any moment, but there's been
no indication that that's going to happen. And didn't She also say Steven yesterday
that it's going to take like sixty days to get the report on what happened,
which is unsatisfactory to members of both parties. And it's why you see.
Look, the Department of Homeland Security under alle Jundra Maiorcis is initiating some
sort of blue ribbon panel to review it. The House is about to vote
to establish its own committee to review it. And the question is, you
know, how much longer And it really is a matter of time. I
think how much longer will Kimberly Cheatle remain in the role? Yeah, well,
I think one thing that we learned. I didn't watch the whole hearing,
but I did watch large chunks of it, and she is really good
at not answering questions. If that's a skill she has it. Yeah,
all right, Steven Portner, I thank you so much for the time and
information. You bet, all right, Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. More and more people
are riding Metro. Ridership on the system has gone up for a nineteenth consecutive
month and is now at about eighty five percent of pre pandemic levels. Officials
say in June, more than twenty five point one million people rode buses and
trains. That's a more than four percent jump from last year. Metro says
it's ridership is climbing as the agency works to improve safety for the people who
use the system. The agency says that has added more police officers, deputies,
and other security personnel to the system. It says it's also working to
remove people who did not pay fare from trains and buses. Blake Trolley,
k if I news man and from Montrose, who ran an adult entertainment website
scam, has pleaded guilty to defrauding investors out of more than a million dollars.
Prosecutor Sir Patrick Calaffian told investigators that their money, or rather investors,
that their money would be used for business operations and promised they would be repaid
by a certain date, but then never followed through. They say the scheme
lasted from two thousand and six to twenty sixteen. Colaffian entered his plea yesterday
in Downtown LA. Drug related Deskin, LA County have leveled off for the
first time in ten years. Officials say three thousand ninety two people died last
year from overdoses and drug poisoning, compared to thirty two hundred twenty the year
before. The number one drug of choice was fentanyl, followed by meth.
Official say aggressive education campaigns and intervention have helped bring down the numbers. The
EPA has awarded the South Coast Air Quality Management District five hundred million dollars to
support trucks and trains in the freight industry. The agency's Joseph Goffman says the
local grant is the largest one distributed from the air pollution Reduction program. These
grants present an extraordinary opportunity for these communities to really use their know how and
their understanding of their own needs and their own citizens' aspirations. The funds were
presented at a community park in Commerce yesterday. The location is surrounded by highways
and a Railyard. One hundred and thirty five thousand people are about to converge
on San Diego for this year's Comic Con. It opens tomorrow night at the
San Diego Convention Center. This year, with the pandemic in the rearview mirror
and the writers and actors strikes behind us, lots of stars are expected to
be back at Comic Con in full force. The new Deadpool and Wolverine movies
starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackson and Jackman will be featured. Marvel DC Star
Trek, Transformers, Doctor Who, and Lord of the Rings are all going
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