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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
wake Up Call with Me Amy King on

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demand on the iHeartRadio app. Don't
let all this commercialism ruin my CHRISTMASSHD two,

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Los Angeles, Orange County. I'll
take the solutree home and decorated,

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and I'll show them it really will
work in our plan. I never thought

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it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all. Really,

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maybe it just needs a little love. Charlie Brown is a blockhead,

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but he did get a nice tree. It's time for your morning wake up

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call, Mary Chrismas Joy Brown.
Here's Amy King. I haven't watched Charlie

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Brown Christmas yet. I'm saving the
best for last, or one of the

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best for last. Actually, Santa
cla Is Coming to Town is my favorite,

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but I have watched, oh,
pretty much every other Christmas movie.

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Hey, it's five o'clock. I'm
Amy King. This is your wake up

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call for Tuesday, December nineteenth.
Thanks for starting your day with us.

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Only six days till Christmas. I
was so excited yesterday to say a week

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till Christmas, but then I was
sick, so and of course that comes

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on the heels of me telling everybody
oh, I haven't been sick forever,

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because everybody's been getting sick around the
station, and I'm like, oh,

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I haven't been sick for three years, and then I got sick on Friday.

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So thank you to Heather Brooker for
filling into kind of last minute for

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me yesterday. I appreciate it.
Wanted to give you a quick update on

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the Christmas tree saga, the two
hundred dollars Christmas tree that sat undecorated for

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about a week. It's decorated,
it's beautiful, except it's dry and dead,

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and I think it's becoming a fire
hazard. So I'm very, very

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nervous to even turn on the lights, and I'm thinking of getting rid of

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it before Christmas. Did you water
it? Yes, I've been watering it,

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and I've been spraying the trunk like
you you sprits the trunk to help

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it stay moist. And this year, and I know I heard Tim Conomy

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Junior talk about this too, that
his tree just dried out really bad this

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year and mine did too, so
kind of sad. Still pretty. Did

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you cut off the bottom? I
did. I had them give it make

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a fresh cut before I took it
home. I did all the things right,

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it's still dead. I mean,
of course it's dead, but it's

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just yeh, it's it's my Christmas
stick now. So anyway, here's what's

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ahead. On wake up call.
A floodwatch is up in La County.

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Is the second of two storms rolls
through southern California. The National Weather Service

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has two to four inches of rain
are possible in most areas, even more

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in the foothills and on the coast. Some areas could see up to an

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inch of rain per hour. Later
this week. Hunter Biden is said to

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be arrained on tax charges in January. Biden's expected to make his first court

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appearance on nine tax related charges in
Los Angeles January eleventh. He's facing three

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felony and six misdemeanor counts with a
maximum penalty of seventeen years in prison.

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The CDC has warned people who traveled
to northern Mexico and Baja recently to watch

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out for Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
It's spread by ticks. Since November,

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six people who traveled to Takate,
about an hour south of San Diego,

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have gotten sick. Four have died. Antibiotics work, but only if you

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get the treatment soon after you get
the tick bite. Let's get started with

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some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour news from body

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parts found in a dumpster in Encino
last month have been identified as those of

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a woman missing from Tarzana. The
Eella County Medical Examiner's Office says the woman

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was reported missing in early November.
Her parents are still missing. The woman's

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husband is accused of murdering all three, then tossing the dismembered body mark parts

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into the trash. The parents of
a four year old boy in Lancaster say

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they were headed to a grocery store
when their son was shot and killed in

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their vehicle. LA County Sheriff's investigators
say the attack was most likely the result

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of road rage, but an actual
motive is not clear. On Friday night,

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the boy and his parents were on
the Sierra Highway when another car pulled

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up and opened fire, striking the
boy in the back seat. Soon after,

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a license plate reader would lead deputies
to the location of the car and

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the man and woman inside, both
of whom were arrested. A GoFundMe page

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has identified the boy as Gore,
a Damian, and was described as a

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vibrant boy whose life was tragically cut
short, Steve Gregory Kafi. News ETNA

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has filed a lawsuit against multiple sober
living homes in southern California, alleging the

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treatment centers collected forty million dollars in
fraudulent payments. The insurance company says sites

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in La Orange and Riverside Counties were
supplying patients with drugs and alcohol to keep

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them in need of treatment. Patients
at some of the sites say their insurance

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was covering the cost for all their
healthcare needs. Atnest says the scheme dates

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back to twenty twenty one. Apple
says it's going to stop selling some versions

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of the Apple Watch in the US
as early as this week. The company

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says, starting Thursday will no longer
be selling the Series nine Watch or the

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Ultra two, and actually the Ultra
too won't be available at retail locations after

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December twenty fourth. The decision comes
after the International Trade Commission ruled in October

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Apple was in violation of a medical
company's oxymeter patent. Oximeters measure the saturation

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levels of oxygen in red blood cells. Who knows it's time for us to

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say good morning? To ABC's Jim
Ryan. Jim, things are out of

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control at the Texas border, but
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is trying to get

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that control back. Well, yeah, in a way that may be unconstitutional.

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Yesterday, well there's that. Yeah, he signed into law Center Bill

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four, which essentially takes the responsibility
for immigration law enforcement out of federal hands

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and places it into the hands of
local police and Cheff's deputies. Amy,

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and you can expect lawsuits to be
filed about this. But yes, he

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says that the federal government has not
done enough to stave the flow of immigrants

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coming across the border, so he
has signed this law passed by the legislature

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in the most recent session to allow
local police to detain and arrest people they

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suspect are in the state illegally.
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unconstitutional because the border is the US
order, not the Texas border. Correct.

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Well, yes, and that immigration
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not state officials or local official or
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that's kind of the crux of the
entire argument. If this all sounds familiar,

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and here's why, Because in twenty
ten, Arizona passed a similar law,

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and it was signed a law it
would have made it a state crime

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for legal immigrants who weren't carrying their
immigration papers to be detained. They required

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leads to investigate the immigration status of
anybody they came into contact with, require

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them, not allowed them, but
require them basically had to carry papers exactly

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right, show me your papers.
The US Supreme Court said, you can't

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do that. It's not up to
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And so it's likely that this law
signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott,

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is going to go before the Supreme
Court again. But consider now that the

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Court has five new members, three
of whom were appointed by Donald Trump and

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may be more sympathetic to the Texas
case. So this almost undoubtedly well end

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up in the hands of the US
Supreme Court at some point that the other

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immigration rights groups, now Democrats in
Congress and in the state legislature are asking

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the Justice Department to step in before
this law is to take effect in March

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shaming, would they ask the Justice
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that's kind of the first step here. If the Justice Department then does an

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investigation in a civil rights investigation,
takes a look at this law, then

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it could knock it down. If
not, then lawsuits are almost certain to

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be filed. And it's interesting the
Supreme Court that you know, you're right,

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Donald Trump did appoint them. But
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in the Supreme Court that there have
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the other direction. You're right,
So nothing is guaranteed here by either side.

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And you know, I think it's
interesting when in this kind of sidebar,

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but when presidents regardless of their party, are choosing Supreme Court nominees,

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they're like, no, this person
is completely fair and politics has nothing to

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do with it. And yet I
mean, you watch every decision made by

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these Supreme Court justices against the lens
of their political leanings and who appointed them,

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you know, So it's not so
much and it's interesting. I mean,

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it's just it's interesting to me,
amy, But you know, they

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do the laws of the law,
and it's written and you can rule on

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it. You can take a look
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like anybody else, nobody is impartial. Absolutely, okay. So in the

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meantime, yeah, sorry, that's
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bar So the governor signed the bill. Are they going to start busting people

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immediately or what happens? This part
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so nothing happens for three months anyway, right, okay, right, But

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it also I mean, it's also
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law that were part of immigration policy
that came before the legislature, including another

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one point five four billion dollars in
state money for the construction of a barrier

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along the Texas stretch of US Mexico
BORI. The state could spend up to

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forty million dollars for state troopers to
patrol one little housing development near Houston that

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some people believe is a magnet for
undocumented immigrant. So we're talking about spending

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billions of dollars more or beyond just
this new enforcement measure. Okay, Well,

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something's got to be done. Yeah
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Yeah, okay, And next step
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suspect there will be some loss and
filed. Potentially the Justice Department may step

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in and decide what to do about
this. But in the meantime, you

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know, Customs and Border Protection is
down on the border trying to do what

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it can. There are record numbers
of immigrants on the other side of the

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border in Tenton coming in either through
the border patrol checkpoints in the legal way

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and going through being processed in and
then waiting for an immigration hearing, or

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the other way between the checkpoints,
coming into the country illegally. Right.

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Well, it's a mess and we'll
continue to watch it. Thank you so

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much for the information, Jim,
very helpful. See you all right,

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let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four

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our newsroom. Israeli forces have rated
one of the last functioning hospitals in northern

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Gaza. Airstrikes in the south have
killed at least twenty eight Palestinians. ABC's

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Clenin says Israel is pressing ahead with
its offensive despite international pressure for a cease

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fire. Israel facing growing pressure to
shift strategy. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin

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continuing to urge Israel to move quickly
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strikes on hamas in Gaza. Nearly
twenty thousand Palestinians have been killed since the

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war began October seventh, Israel's Prime
minister has vowed to destroy Hamas Former Supreme

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Court Justice Sandradale O'Connor will be remembered
today at the Washington National Cathedral Cathedral.

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Her body late in reposed yesterday at
the Supreme Court. She became the first

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woman to sit on the bench on
the High Court when she was appointed by

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President Reagan in nineteen eighty one.
Sandrade O'Connor died December first, at the

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age of ninety three. At least
one hundred and sixteen people in northwestern China

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have been killed in what the China
Earthquake Networks says was a magnitude six point

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two earthquake. The US Geological Survey
measured it at five zero point nine.

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The quake overnight severely damaged houses and
roads in the mountainous region and knocked out

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power and communication lines. A volcano
has erupted in southwestern Iceland. The eruption

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could last days, but it's not
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another volcano did in twenty twenty ten. Produce a lava flows, so they're

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very hot and they're very fluid.
Geophysics professor Paul Siegel at Stanford University says

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predicting exactly where the lava will go
is challenging. The volcano is about thirty

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one miles southwest of the capital of
Raykovic. It's more than two miles from

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a town evacuated in November after strong
seismic activity earthquakes damaged homes and raised fears

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of an imminent eruption. Well turned
out it was imminent. Hey, here's

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something imminent. If you want to
see something really cool and special, you

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might want to make a trip out
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you might have heard about it.
It's called Wreaths Cross America and it is

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this really cool nonprofit organization that places
wreaths on all the graves of our veterans

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at national cemeteries. They do it
at Arlington and of course that's beautiful,

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but they do it here too,
And last weekend they put the wreaths up

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at Riverside National Cemetery and also at
Los Angeles National Cemetery, of course,

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to remember and honor our veterans by
laying remembrance wreaths on the graves. And

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it's really beautiful for the holiday season. So if you want something a little

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bit solemn, and peaceful. That's
where to Go reads across America at the

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Riverside National Cemetery and the Los Angeles
National Cemetery. The LA County Medical Examiner

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is confirmed body parts found in a
dumpster and Encino are those of the wife

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of the man charged with her murder. The man is charged with killing both

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his wife and her parents in November. Her parents have not been found.

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Santa Monica police are looking for a
man who vandalized an eight foot tall menora.

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Investigators say last Thursday, the man
jumped up and pulled on the steel

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and glass Manora, causing it to
come crashing to the ground. The man

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was seen running away immediately after.
A Starbucks manager in Long Beach has sued

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the coffee company for denying her a
transfer. The complaint says she requested to

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be moved to a new store for
safety reasons after someone was spotted pacing in

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the store with a large knife in
their hand. Her lawsuit claims violation of

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the state Labor Code and also a
disability discrimination. She's asking for a million

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dollars in damages. At six oh
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A lot of kids are getting sick
because of lead in Apple sauce packets.

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The contamination may not have been an
accident. We'll talk about that right now.

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Let's say good morning to the holiday
host of How to Money on KFI.

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It's Joel lars Guard. Good morning, Joel ho ho. Hello.

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I love all the cheesy Christmas he
Let's talk about not Christmas spending. Let's

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talk about rents. Okay, all
right, rents are softening. It's good

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news for so many people. Yeah, they are so. I mean,

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if I was getting so many questions
during the heart of the pandemic where people

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were like, what do I do
My landlord just jacked my rent up by

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fifteen percent or something like that,
it was incredible how much rents skyrocketed for

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a couple of years there. And
they're coming back down to earth. And

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we might not be seeing like massive
tectonic shifts downward, but we are seeing

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extreme excuse me, softening in the
rental market, which is just great news

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for everybody. So, if you're
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just is that because there are more
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is because we have done a good
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building more rental units, bringing more
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aided. The more supply has made
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We've never really had as big of
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you'll pay for a mortgage if you
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extreme, and so I know there
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sideline saying, I really want to
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making so much more sense. And
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people at least to wait to buy
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starts to chill out just a little
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happen is a really good question.
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lot of people whose lease is coming
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to renew or I'm looking at maybe
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a lot more power when it comes
to negotiating what you actually pay. Before

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it was the landlord's world and you
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kind of had to take what they
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the case anymore. You're able to
negotiate maybe a rent discount, maybe get

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a free month of rent thrown in
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or you can find out maybe what
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live in a single family home and
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or she mows the lawn herself,
and you can say, listen, let

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me take that over for you,
and and and maybe we can get a

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discount because of that. You can
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lease if you feel comfortable staying at
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and ask for a discount for that, because vacancy is one of the most

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annoying things a landlord can deal with. And so if they know that you're

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going to be you're gonna be there
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in many cases to give you a
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ways now that you can ask for
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that was like a non starter,
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You get laped out of the room. Okay, that's that's good to know.

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I know that, and I love
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my rent has gone up considerably.
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you have been, like you,
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that your landlord, I trust me, wants to keep you. And there

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are these wonderful ways that you can
ask for that discount that you can you

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can, like they said, sign
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perks, or and if you if
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they and you look around at the
market. You're scouring rents on Zillo to

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see what other places are charging.
You might say, guess what, I

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do love living here, but I
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two hundred bucks a month cheaper,
and so I think I'm gonna move.

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And you have to actually be willing
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the worst trust me, I know. But you have to be willing to

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walk if you find a lower price, or at least hold that up to

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your landlord and say, hey,
listen, I'm really serious about this.

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That might get them back in the
conversation that if they haven't been willing to

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listen, all right, well we'll
see maybe I'll ask Yeah, let me

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know how it goes. Okay,
I will let's see Generation Z is keeping

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too much money in cash. I
thout having a lot of cash is a

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good thing. Cash is great.
I love cash, And some people would

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say cash is trash. I totally
disagree. And the truth is, you

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need you need cash on hand for
emergencies that might pop up, right,

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You definitely need you need a minimum
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and sixty seven dollars in cash to
cover emergency expenses. And on top of

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that, you want to add more
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something were to happen to you.
Isn't your goal to have like six months

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of your I mean your goal to
have like six months that's exactly right,

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month of your expenses. Hanging out
in a savings account is ideal because that

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means, hey, you lose your
job sadly somehow, or there's some sort

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of unexpected medical emergency, like you
want to have that firepower backing you up

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in your savings account. And although
it's hard to do so many people fail

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to get there. But I will
say this, when we're talking about investing

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or money that should be going into
investments, it seems like younger folks are

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keeping too much money in cash,
and it's the five percent high yould savings

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accounts are great, you know,
close to six percent on some of those

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CDs, and that seems rich,
and it is. It's far better than

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it's been in many years. I've
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But it's also possible to allocate too
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missing out on the higher returns.
I mean, look at what the stock

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market's done in just the past month
and a half. It's up like fourteen

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percent, and over the year it's
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I talked about this actually on the
show on Sunday, just all the predictions

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for the stock market for the coming
year, and they're all it's really hard

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to trust them because everybody was wrong
last year. Everyone was predicting either another

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down year in the market or tepid
returns, and the market just crushed it

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this year. And so yes,
I'm so glad that we can earn higher

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rates of return on our cash.
But it's also important not to avoid investing

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and stick to something that feels super
safe, like cash, because you're missing

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out on the compound of the returns
that you need your money to enjoy so

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that you can enjoy a great retirement. Okay, so gen Zer's time to

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get in the market. Yes,
oh yep. And it might feel weird,

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especially like after a big run up, you're like, oh, I

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don't know, this feels like,
this feels like tough timing. But when

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you look at the stats, after
a twenty plus percent return in the market

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in the year, what happens the
next year? Twenty two out of thirty

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four year year years, so two
out of three years, the market goes

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up again, to the tune on
average eight point nine percent. So even

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though you're like, wait, is
I going to just crushed it? I

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should stick to cash. Well,
likelihood is that the market is going to

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outpace your cash again next year.
Three out of four years, on average,

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the market goes up, and the
longer you stay on the sidelines,

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the less your money's working for you. All Right, Okay, one last

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question, because it's the last time
we're going to talk to you before Christmas.

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What's your best pre Christmas tip for
people? Because you're the money guy.

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Okay, well, so we're getting
to the point where last minute Christmas

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shopping, right, Yeah, and
so if you're looking online, you are

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going to pay a pretty penny for
shipping and it might not get here in

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time. I don't love the stress
of that, So you're going to have

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to resort to in person shopping.
I would say, maybe go with local.

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Maybe fine. I just got a
gift card somewhere. I'm not usually

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a huge fan of gift cards,
but when there's a discount attached to it,

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that's when I like it. Local
bakery extra twenty percent on my gift

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card. I love that as a
gift for people because, yeah, that

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way they can go enjoy one of
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So maybe look, yeah, look
local at this point instead of trying

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to buy the electronic gadget online.
All Right, we'll do Joel Larsgard,

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host of How to Money, right
here on KFI Sunday's Noon to two.

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You can also follow him on on
Instagram at how to Money Joel. Joel,

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have a merry Christmas. All right, Thanks you too, Amy,

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and we'll talk to you next year. Sounds good. I love saying that.

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All right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of

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the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A second storm is expected to roll through

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southern California starting later today, bringing
more rain than the first. That second

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storm, we're looking anywhere widespread two
to five and trainfall totals, with even

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some higher mounts in the Foothill Mountain
areas. National Weather Service meteorologist Rich Thompson

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says some snowfall will happen during the
second storm, but it's expected to be

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at or above the seven thousand foot
level. News brought to you by Ruder

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Hero. A man has been fatally
stabbed insign an apartment in Hermosa Beach.

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Police say the death is not being
investigated as a homicide. Police went to

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the apartment last night about unknown trouble
and heard a woman screaming. Officers say

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they found the man with several injuries
from what looked like stab wounds. Police

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say there were several people in the
apartment at the time. OHC Animal careses

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it has hundreds of pets patiently waiting
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Christmas. Since the test and Hangar
fire, the large dogs especially have been

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confined mostly to their kennels. Oh
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families have already opened their homes for
a few weeks to give one hundred and

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fifty animals a break, but more
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cooped up. Getting these animals out
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run outside and play, gives them
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inside the kennel, she says,
plus twenty percent of temporary foster families decide

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to keep the pet in Tustin Cool
or Ben Carson KFI News wouldn't be a

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fun if it was one hundred percent
wanted to keep them. A floodwatches up

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in La County as the second of
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National Weather Services two to four inches
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even more in the foothills and at
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to an inch of rain per hour
later this week. Hunter Biden is set

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to be arraigned on tax charges next
month. He's expected to make his first

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court appearance on the nine tax related
charges in Los Angeles January eleventh. He's

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facing three felony and six misdemeanor counts. Most Americans have cut back their shopping

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list this holiday season. A Monmouth
University poll shows more than half of those

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asked say they're not going to splurge
the season because of high prices. Experts

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say while the rate of inflation may
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has already been done. At six
oh five, it's handled on the news.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has set up
another showdown with the Feds as he

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signs a law that allows police local
police to arrest migrants that's supposed to be

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done by federal authorities. At five
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to our friend Kevin McManus with Pasadena
Humane about roses and wet noses, what

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it is and what it could mean
for you for New Year's Okay, so

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we all have a lot of stuff. And I mentioned last week that what

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I learned during the pandemic, and
maybe you did too, is that I

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was craving experiences with people, not
things from people. So we are on

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a little bit of mission, of
a mission to find some interesting, different

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kinds of things that you could do
to give as a gift this year.

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So how about giving your presence as
your present and give your friends and loved

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one and experience with you so you
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you've heard of like pottery making classes, and last week we told you about

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that cookie making a cooking class that
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was super for fun. This week
we're taking a cookie decorating class. So

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we caught up with the owner of
batter Up Sweetery, Elena Chetwood and Elenni.

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We are so excited to take your
class and learn how to decorate cookies

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like a pro. Of course,
this is my favorite thing to do in

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the whole world. So it's so
happy to be here. And as we've

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discussed, I watch a lot of
cooking shows and I love like the cookie

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Baking Championships. I have never ever
in my life decorated a sugar cookie,

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and so we thought we'll go to
the pros and learn how to do it

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the right way. So Elennie tell
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today, and as we talk,
I'm going to be decorating. So if

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you hear cuss words and that kind
of stuff, that's probably coming from me.

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So when you do a baking class, or not a baking class,

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but a decorating class with you what
are people going to be doing when you

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arrive at class, everything is already
ready to go. The cookies have been

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baked, the frosting has been collared
and begged, and so you can just

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arrive to dive right in and have
fun. Generally it's with a group of

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people, yes, okay, And
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technique like what we did a little
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draw these lines. Because it's royal
icing. I would tell you it's kind

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of hard to work with, but
it's it's really cool when you do like

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a straight line or you do something
right. When you do something wrong,

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you just kind of laugh it off
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or something right. But so tell
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through decorating kind of step by step? What's the quick process? Sure,

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so, after we do the piping
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some familiarity with how to hold the
bag and how it feels for icing to

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be coming out of the bag,
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then we dive into the fun part. We always start with outlining our

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shapes or various sections on our cookies
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little bit of time to set up
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we're working through our whole cookie set
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versus finishing one cookie in one sitting. And that way, people who are

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either experienced decorators or they're brand new
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orders, that it's not just a
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give people a sneak peak of that
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takes wed an hour, two hours, three hours, how is it?

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which is a lot of fun.
That one is just an hour because we

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all know our kids have much shorter
attention spans than we do, and it's

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a lot more of a relaxed class
for the kids. We're not, you

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know, worrying so much about the
techniques as much as, you know,

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having fun with it and just getting
icing on a cookie. I love that,

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So that could be a cool gift
for a kid. Too. So,

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ELENNI you are fabulous at this.
I've been watching you great cookies all

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afternoon. When did you start doing
this? I actually just started about eight

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months ago. Months ago. Yeah. So I have a little boy,

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Jones, and he turned one in
April, and like any first time parent,

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I went way over the top and
planning his first birthday party. Okay,

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we all know that the first birthday
parties more for us, the parents,

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than the kids, but I was
really excited about this theme that I

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had for his party, and I
was really struggling with finding a baker who

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could execute my vision in cookie form. And so after, you know,

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being a fan of the cookie videos
that you see while you're scrolling online,

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I thought, Okay, how hard
can it be. I can just do

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these myself. Yeah, exactly.
Little did I know it was a lot

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harder than it looked. So I
ordered all the supplies and had really high

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hopes going in, but it was
a very steep learning curve to get to

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where I am today. Right,
But then after you did it, you

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went, wow, this is really
cool, and now you can stay and

425
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be at home with the kids and
still have a successful business. Exactly.

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So if somebody wants to do a
cooking class, how are they going to

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reach you? So I have a
website batterupsweetery dot com and I'm also very

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active on my Instagram, which is
at batter upsweetery, So there is an

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order form on my website. I
have an event right where I host all

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of my cookie classes and tickets can
be purchased through there. I love that.

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So if you don't do it in
time for Christmas, the beauty of

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it is, there's let's say I
was going to say Thanksgiving, but that's

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going to be a ways away,
but the next one up is going to

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be Valentine's Day. There's Easter,
there's birthdays. You could do it for

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Fourth of July, but what a
fun way to hang out with one of

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your friends or bring your kids and
do a cookie decorating class. And then

437
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there's something else that you have if
you want to just decorate the cookies on

438
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your own. You also have cookie
kits. So what comes in a cookie

439
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kit and what do you do with
it? Yeah, so a cookie kits

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with all of the cookies baked again, the icing, colored and begged,

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and then describe tool that we're using
here, so that you're able to manipulate

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the icing at home. For the
holidays. I have pre made ones with

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holiday shapes, but I also do
them for special occasions for birthday parties.

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So if your kid is having a
themed birthday party, we can do cookies

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that are shaped to that theme and
you know, choose the colors and all

446
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of that together. So it's very
customer customizable. Okay, And how do

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I get a cookie kit? Same
thing? Through my website or through just

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contacting me on social media? Elenie, This is super fun. So if

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you're looking for a different gift giving
experience and you want to have that experience

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with one of your friends, consider
cookie decorating. There you have it.

451
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And Eleni is based in Long Beach
and again her instagram is at batter up

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Sweetery or you can go to batter
upsweetery dot com and see some of the

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cookies. She is so talented.
I can't believe she's only been at it

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for like eight months. I'm also
gonna put it on my Instagram so you

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can see some of the cookies that
we decorated at Amy K King and at

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KFI AM six forty. But really
kind of fun, different experience and something

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that you can do with a friend
to share an experience as a gift this

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holiday season. We've got another one
coming up later this week. We think

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you're gonna like so be listening.
You have no excuse to go anywhere else.

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You have to stay right here and
listen to wake up call every day.

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Just kidding. Well, we'd love
it, but you don't have to.

462
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Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty

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four hour newsroom. La County firefighters
have donated hundreds of Christmas toys to replace

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the ones destroyed in a church fire
in Pomona. Members of Victory Outreach Church

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were planning a toy drive early Sunday
morning, but the church burst into flames

466
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just hours before. This church member
says the firefighters fought the fire and then

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donated about six hundred gifts to save
Christmas our main focus because we had our

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out our tour outreach, so we
were just trying to figure out, Okay,

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how are we gonna continue it?
But you know, different churches reached

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out to us, he says.
The community banded together and the outpouring of

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donations and support has been overwhelming.
LA County Fire says the cause of the

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fire is still being investigated. Chris
Sadler Kafi News. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

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says the US and more than half
a dozen other nations have created a new

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force to protect ships in the Red
Sea that have been attacked by Houthi Rebert

475
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rebels backed by Iran. These reckless
hoodie attacks are a serious international problem and

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00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:31.119
they demand a firm international response.
Ships have been targeted with drones and ballistic

477
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:36.720
missiles fired from Houthi controlled areas of
Yemen. The new effort, called Operation

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Prosperity Guardian, will include joint patrols
and support in the southern Red Sea and

479
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:50.160
the Gulf of Aden. There goes
the La La radio icon. Jim Ladd

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00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:53.440
has died. Ladd championed classic rock
on the air in LA for more than

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00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:58.960
fifty years and was the subject of
Tom Petty's hit The Last DJ. Ladd

482
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:00.839
received a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame in two thousand and five.

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00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:05.680
Sirius XM says he died early Sunday
morning from a heart attack. He was

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seventy five. The La County Medical
Examiner is confirmed the body parts found in

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a dumpster and encino are those of
the wife of the man charged with her

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00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:17.519
murder. The man is charged with
killing both his wife and her parents in

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November. Her parents have not been
found. The United Nations Security Council will

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most likely try again today to call
for a halt in fighting in Gaza.

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The US has vetoed previous ceasefire resolutions, but the Security Council is expected to

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call for a suspension of hostilities instead
of an all out stop, hoping that

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might bring Washington on board. A
Starbucks manager in Long Beach has sued the

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coffee company for denying her a transfer. The complaint says she requested to be

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moved to new store for safety reasons
after someone was found pacing in the store

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with a large knife in their hand. Her lawsuit claims violation of the state

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00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:58.360
Labor Code, among other things.
She's asking for a million dollars in damages.

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We're just minutes away from a hamble. On the news this morning,

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00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:05.760
the warning was up for weeks that
there was an imminent eruption. Seismologists were

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right. A volcano in Iceland is
erupting right now. Let's say good morning

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to our friend Kevin McManus with Pasadena
Humane. Kevin tell us about Roses and

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wet Noses. Good morning, Amy. Yes, we have a really cool

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promotion going on for our large dogs. You may have heard we have a

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float in the Rose Parade this year, which is super exciting. So we've

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kind of done a little tie in
to help also promote our big dogs who

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are looking for homes. And it's
called Roses and Wet Noses. So between

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I know, isn't it cool?
We have really talented people in our marketing

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department. So yeah, between now
and the end of the year, any

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dog over forty pounds can be adopted
at no charge and all adopters will receive

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a swag bag of gifts from our
partners, Hills Pet Nutrition. Okay,

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and then, and we've talked about
this before, but when the dogs are

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adopted, they're Spader neutered and they
they're all ready to go. Basically,

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that's correct. You have Spade neutered, vaccinated microchips, and we have partnerships

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with local veterinarians who will do a
free exam within the first couple of weeks

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00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:25.960
make sure that everything is is going
well. Okay, Now let's talk about

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big dogs, Kevin, because I
personally love big dogs. But they're a

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challenge, not a challenge to have, but a challenge to get adopted exactly.

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I mean we have well, just
like every other Celtz or in southern

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California, we have an over abondance
of larger brief dogs or your German shepherds

518
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or huskies, pit bulls, rockweilers, labs even, and so yeah,

519
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:54.880
it's always, you know, a
challenge for us to find homes for them.

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You know, folks who don't have
a whole lot of space in their

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apartment or whatever, don't have the
yard, and we just want to remind

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everyone that, you know, it's
not at all about the size of your

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yard, it's the size of your
heart that you know allows you to adopt

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00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:13.199
big dog. You know, they
just want to curl up next to you

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00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:15.159
on the couch, so you can
have the biggest yard in the world,

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00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.920
but they they're going to want to
be right by your side anyway. I

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00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:23.360
had I think Samson was about forty
forty five pounds, and he was he

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00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:27.639
was such a lover and a lap
dog and just the best dog ever.

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And yeah, if you can get
a dog, a nice big dog is

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a is a big lover for you. So Okay, how do we find

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out better to cuddle with? For
sure? Better to cuddle with right and

532
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:38.880
you don't have to worry about the
crushing them if you roll over on them,

533
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:43.000
they're up on the bed with you. Where can we find out more

534
00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:49.159
about roses and wet noses? Well, our website is passidnihumane dot org and

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00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.840
certainly follow us on all of our
social media at passiduni Humane. Okay,

536
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.800
and you can find lots of beautiful
dogs. You could go take a sneak

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00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:00.199
peek or can you just go down
to the Humane Society and take a look

538
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:06.599
yourself. The best bet is to
look online. We do have weekend walk

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00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:10.119
walk through or visiting hours we call
them, but because of the holiday this

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00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:15.400
coming weekend we're going to I think
modify the hours a little bit. So

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definitely check our website. If you
see anybody you're interested in, please call

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00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:23.920
or shoot us an email. Adopts
at Paciday in the Human is the best

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00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:29.840
way to get like a quick answer
from our adoptions team about the availability of

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00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:32.800
any animal. Okay, Kevin McManus, thank you so much and we can't

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wait to see your beautiful pups on
our in the Rose parade on their float

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of Your's Day. Very exciting,
great, Thank you Kevin. Talk soon

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00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:45.639
let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four

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00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:51.320
hour newsroom. A man accused of
tagging multiple buildings in Burbank and Glendale with

549
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:55.480
anti Semitic graffiti has pleaded not guilty. The guy was arrested Thursday in San

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00:38:55.599 --> 00:39:01.000
Bernardino and is charged with a dozen
felonies, include a hate crime allegation and

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00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:06.079
two counts of vandalism of religious property
for targeting a church and a synagogue.

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00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.639
A preliminary hearing is set for January
third. A woman who stole the identities

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00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:15.159
of dozens to collect COVID nineteen relief
benefits has been sentenced to two and a

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00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:17.480
half years in prison. Prosecutors say
the thirty two year old women from San

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00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:22.960
Diego got unemployment benefits using the identities
of homeless people and inmates, then went

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00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:28.679
on a shopping spree bought jewelry,
furniture, and a Mercedes SUV. She

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00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:34.239
was also ordered to pay restitution and
return the Mercedes. Two of Vellow Airlines

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00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.159
flight attendants have been recognized for saving
a man who had a heart attack during

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a flight into Burbank. The man
who was unresponsive and barely breathing in his

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00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:45.400
seat has since made a full recovery. It's exhilarating and it's rewarding to know

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that he is back with his family
and be able to celebrate the holidays today.

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It's a really good feeling. Attendant
Chris Allison says the man was moved

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to the back of the plane in
July so he could be treated with the

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00:39:55.440 --> 00:40:00.119
defibrillator. Allison and Tali Rosas also
notified a face officials ahead of the plane's

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00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:05.360
landing, awaiting Paramedics took the man
to a hospital out of the Hollywood Burbank

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Airport Blake Trolley. KFI News so
happy to hear he's doing well. Thank

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00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:12.760
you flight attendants. You guys are
going to be put through the ringer for

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the next few days, so when
you're flying, be nice to the flight

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attendants. Remember they're there to protect
you. This is KFI and kost HD

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two Los Angeles, Orange County.
We lead local live from the KFI twenty

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four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call,

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and if you missed any of wake
up call, you can listen anytime

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on the iHeartRadio app. You've been
listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy

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King. You can always hear Wake
Up Call five to six am Monday through

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Friday on KFI AM six forty and
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