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This is your wake up call for Monday, September eleventh. Good morning,
I'm Amy King. Hope you had a good weekend. Kono still in
a football coma. I got to go visit the California Wildlife Center on telling
you about that at five thirty five. But here's what's ahead on the wake
up call. The names of nearly three thousand people killed will be read and
bells will toll at the World Trade Center Memorial in Manhattan to mark the twenty
second anniversary of the nine to eleven terrorist attacks. A man's been arrested in
connection with the deadly stabbing at a metro station in Los Angeles. Police say
the thirty one year old man was arrested on Saturday night in Vermont, Nolls
and is being held on two million dollars bail in connection with the stabbing.
On September seventh, Russia and North Korea have confirmed that North Korean leader Kim
Jong UN will be visiting Russia in the coming days. According to the Kremlin,
Russia wants weapons for its war in Ukraine. North Korea wants the money
before we get started. I want to take a look back at twenty two
years ago today, I remember exactly where I was at five forty six am,
and it's twenty two years later and it's still emotional. Isn't it a
fun way to start the day getting all emotional? But I mean, it
really did change our lives. On the morning of September eleventh, nineteen,
Al Kaita terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes. The first plane crashed into the North
Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. That was at five
forty five am our time. Sixteen minutes later, the second plane hit the
South tower. A third plane smashed into the Pentagon. The last plane likely
destined for the Capitol, but instead it crashed into a field in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania, after passengers fought back and stopped the hijackers, losing their lives in
the process. Almost three thousand people from ninety three company countries lost their lives
that day. It was the worst attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor in
nineteen forty one, and I mentioned I knew I was where I was.
I was sitting in a control room at a radio station in Portland, Oregon,
when the first plane hit and We're like, oh wow, what was
that? Something crashed into the World Trade Center And immediate at my morning show
co host was like, it's a terrorist attack, and I was like,
no, let's not go there yet. It's probably just a small plane.
It was probably just a little accident. And in the next fifteen minutes,
then the second plane hit and then we went, Okay, something's really going
on, and but we still didn't know. We were three thousand miles away.
And then we watched as the events unfolded throughout that morning and it was
just it was shocking and horrifying, and I'm I think that it brought us
together in a way that we haven't been brought together in almost forever. And
I wonder what would happen if the terrorist at attacks happened today? Would we
be able to come together like we did at that time? And I know,
Kno, you were thirteen when that happened, Yeah, about to be
thirteen twelve in eighth grade, so you remember it, though because and you
have a very tight connection to K five on the day of those attacks because
you heard about it and then you headed off to school and then what happened.
Yeah, so we had to wake up early. Where our middle school,
you know, it was like twenty five thirty minutes away, four kids,
so we had to get up early. My brother was watching TV,
which the TV is never on that early in the morning. It was you
know, five forty five, six o'clock in the morning. Yeah, so
and then in our head it's just like, oh, something No, I
don't want to dumb it down to like a high speed chase, but like,
oh, something's happening on the news. But that's what it was.
I mean, we didn't know at that point. We were like, oh,
what was it. Oh maybe it's the little cessna crashed into towers or
something like that. So then you know, my mom gets us into the
car, get off to school, and about halfway there we're listening to KFI.
We weren't allowed to touch the radio, so it was on, of
course, and he's the one that let us know that the towers fell.
Halfway through going to school and we I mean, at thirteen, I didn't
know them yeah, but my mom was letting us know, like, you
guys are gonna be hearing about this all day. This is a very big
deal. So even getting to school, it was like it was just a
weird, eerie feeling through like the teachers understood, right, So everything was
kind of it felt like a pause, like that day was paused in a
sense. Yeah, And because I was then, I was again. I
was up in Port Lenore and I wasn't down where you guys are now,
but I was on the air that whole day because we just didn't know what
to do, and I worked for a country music station. We stopped the
music and we just talked because everybody was just so shocked. Were like,
how could this happen? What's going on? And then, like you said,
watching and hearing about the tower, the first tower coming down, and
then watching as the second one came down, and it just like rocked us
to our core, and it just it's frustrating because I think a lot of
us have forgotten, or there's a lot of people who were so young when
it happened, they don't know, they don't understand, and that concerns me.
Yeah, I do remember, our teachers are actually a few of them,
we didn't do anything. They just had the TV on. Yeah,
this is what we're doing today. Like made it a point to make sure
that this is important. I believe. I even have a paper that was
maybe the day after, but it was like a memorium of nine to eleven
where on the back of it they wanted us to write down like where we
were at at our age. So I still have that of where we were
in our recollection at that age of what actually happened and how it went down.
And I do still have that paper actually and hold on to it.
Yeah. It's one of those moments that you know, they say there are
moments in your lives that you will always remember exactly where you were, what
you were doing, and I'll that's one of them. And I hope we
do remember. I think it's important to remember because when we forgot, we
are destined to repeat. So we're gonna take a little break. It's not
all going to be. It's a day of memorial of the almost three thousand
people lost that day, So we do want to remember and look back,
but we also want to move forward. And before we get into some of
the stories that we're following, in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of
course, we're talking about nine to eleven. It's twenty two years since that
day when our world's all changed, and we're still remembering, we're still honoring
those lost that day. Several ceremonies and remembrances are being held around the Los
Angeles area. LA Mayor baths and police chief more are going to ring ten
bells during a ceremony at nine am at the Frank Hodgkin Memorial Training Center near
Dodger Stadium in Long Beach. There's going to be a last alarm tribute at
fire Station one that'll start at nine eleven am. There's going to also be
ceremonies at all five of the Santa Monica fire stations, beginning at six forty
five. And sort of interesting, there's an artifact from the Ground Zero site
that's at fire Station one on Seventh Street in Santa Monica. It is open
for viewing by the public on business days. There's also an informal ceremony this
morning at Beverly Hills Fire Department. Hawthorne at City Hall is doing a ceremony
this morning. The Alhambra Fire and police departments are hosting a nine to eleven
remembrance at nine o'clock this morning. There's also a remembrance ceremony at nine at
the Antelope Valley Fallen Heroes Memorial at the Antelope Valley Mall in Palmdale, and
then in Corona, a civic remembrance services is being held. It's already underway.
It started at five am at the Historic Civic Center. City representatives and
others will be standing among a miniature field of flags representing the twenty nine hundred
seventy seven people killed on nine eleven, two thousand and one, and over
roughly the next three hours, attendees will be reading the names of all those
who were killed on nine to eleven. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Russia and North Korea
have confirmed North Korean leader Kim John Un will visit Russia in the coming days.
South Korea media reported the meeting could happen as early as tomorrow. US
officials say Russian President Putin may be looking for weapons and ammunition to use in
Ukraine. White House National Security spokesman John Kirby says no one should be helping
Russia. There will be repercussions should North Korea decide to go ahead and consummate
this arms deal. Again, we haven't seen them do that yet, but
if they move ahead, there will be additional repercussions for North Korea. The
international community and the United States will look for ways to hold them accountable for
that. Officials say North Korea could be looking for energy and food aid and
also advanced weapons technologies. Smash and grab robbers have hit the north Ridge Fashion
Center, Oh Boy another one. The group of five or six men stole
about twenty thousand dollars worth of perfume from the Macy's yesterday at about eleven o'clock
in the morning. At least say the robbers ran in through the store doors
and used hammers to smash cases. They wore black hoodies. A black Infinity
without a license plate was seen leaving them all. Just a couple weeks ago,
a Macy's and Sherman Oaks was trashed and ropped, and arrest has been
made in connection with the deadly stabbing at a Metro red line station in downtown
LA. A guy named Randy Nash was arrested on Saturday, the stabbing happened
Thursday afternoon. Police say it was an unprovoked attack. A man has been
shot while meditating on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Police say the man
was on the sidewalk just before three thirty yesterday morning when a guy walked up
and shot him at least once. The shooter ran off. The man injured
was taken to the hospital. Police they say they believed the shooting was random
and that the guy shot was not homeless. Police in Morocco how are people
in Morocco rather have been sleeping in the streets for three nights now because of
the magnitude six point eight earthquake that hit Marrakesh. ABC's and wins as soldiers
and international aid teams and trucks and helicopters have begun to go into remote mountain
town's hit hardest by the earthquake. This father saying he and his family were
at home when the earthquake hit, but his eight year old son never made
it out. At least seventeen aftershocks, including a magnitude four point five tremor
for their damaging buildings. More than twenty one hundred people have been killed and
that number is expected to rise. We're going to check in now with ABC's
Aaron Katurski. Good morning, Aaron. It's twenty two years after nine to
eleven, and people are still dying from what happened that day. They sure
are in numbers that are greater than the toll on some of the first responders
that day. Three hundred forty three firefighters were killed on nine eleven, three
hundred thirty one since in the twenty two years since, so nearly the same
twenty three police officers that day, three hundred and sixty in the last twenty
two years from nine eleven related illnesses, cancers, and long ailments. So
so the horror of the day, the terror of the day, is still
being lived and deeply felt by many in the community, and New York City
is commemorating those people as they pass away. Twenty two years later, on
I believe it was Friday, they added more names to the Trade Center memorial.
The Fire Department added names to its its memorial wall, which is this
wall outside its headquarters in Brooklyn, and those names then added, you know,
to the nine eleven memorial here because their their deaths have been it's been
decided we're directly the result of what happened here, and it's a weird So
you die so publicly on nine eleven, but then you know it's just been
an anguished death for many others who have lived, you know, unable to
properly breathe, or with cancers, and you know, not really knowing why.
And you hear these incredible stories of healthy young firefighters that just out of
nowhere suddenly became thick, and you know, you realize it's because of what
they were breathing in as they fought furiously to try and find others, rescue
others, or then you know, very quickly recover others in the wreckage of
what had been known as the pile. And that's going to that toll is
going to continue for many more years to come, and how long I remember
after everything came down. I think one of the most astounding things about nine
to eleven was we were talking about earlier how everybody just came together, and
we don't even begin to understand the enormity of that here in Los Angeles,
because we weren't in New York City. As people rushed into help and and
that sort of political unit I think is probably unimaginable at this stage of our
you know, of our civic life. But there was uh, you know,
firefighters and police officers from all over the country came here to try and
help. And and and you know, the country really experienced an outpouring up
emotion. For New York and for the country. Uh, baseball became a
thing, The Yankees became a thing. It was really it was an interesting
moment. And then a lot of that proved you know, rather fleeting as
as you know, other you know, political concerns took over and and but
it did show the best of our impulses. In some cases, it may
have shown darker impulses too. And and you know, our capacities for launching
wars that some believe were justified, some don't still a matter of debate.
So it's a really complicated day. But at bottom, it's at just the
data, remember the people, And that's why the ceremonies is so focused on
the names and the family. Well, and I'm glad that they're doing that.
I hope we continue to focus on those people who lost their lives and
continue to and I'm going to continue my pledge to never forget thank you again.
Aaron Katurski for taking the time this morning. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour news room. Of course, it is the twenty
second anniversary of the nine to eleven attacks on the World Trade Centers, the
Pentagon, and of course the plane that went down in Shanksville, Tennessee.
It's being marked with several ceremonies around the Southland, and of course in New
York City. The Macy's at Northridge Fashion Centers become the latest target of smash
and grab robbers. Up to six people with hammers wearing hoodies stole about twenty
thousand dollars worth of perfume yesterday morning, then hopped in a car and drove
off before police got there. About twenty five hundred people came out to celebrate
the Little League World Series champions from El Segundo. The parade through downtown El
Segundo yesterday wrapped up several celebrations that included honors at Dodgers Stadium, Angel Stadium,
and at LA Memorial Coliseum. At Saturday is USC Stanford Game. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. We're gonna start with how President
Biden is marking this nine to eleven. Then we'll backtrack to what he's been
up to for the past couple of days. What's he doing today, Karen,
Yeah, the President right now is traveling from Vietnam to Alaska, where
he's going to meet with and deliver remarks before more than a thousand service members,
first responders, and their families at a military base. That's going to
come up later this afternoon or early evening our time. Okay, and this,
I know I've heard lots of talk about that he's not in New York
City for the nine to eleven commemorations. Is a scheduling thing or do we
know why that decision was made. Presidents don't always go to New York City
for nine to eleven. In the past, some have monthed at the White
House or at the Pentagon. I traveled with President Trump to Pennsylvania to the
Shanksville Memorial, So it's not always a traditional thing every year to go to
New York City. The Vice president is traveling to New York today, show
mark the anniversary at the September eleventh more in Lower Manhattan. Okay, So
now let's back up to what he's been up to. For the past couple
of days he was at the G twenty summit. Anything interesting, revolutionary or
shattering come out of that, you know. The big thing I think was
the effort by the administration to try to counter China's influence in the region.
A lot of talk about that. That was what most of the questions at
the president's press conference focused on, and the fact that China's President Gi was
not there. President did meet with his number two, it's the deputy from
China who was at the summit. And then today yesterday in Vietnam, the
President announcing a new partnership with the Vietnamese government. Very significant, of course,
less than fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War. But there
are some critics who are pushing back because China is excuse me, Vietnam is
a one party communist state, in questions about their human rights record, and
criticizing the administration for this new strategic partnership and elevation of diplomatic ties. So
is this the first like official partnership we've had with Vietnam. Ever, it's
just a changing of it, so of elevating them up the list to a
higher level of diplomatic relations. Okay. And and then I also I saw
the President talking about that he didn't meet with Shijing Paydon because he wasn't there,
and he said, it's okay, We'll be meeting soon. Yeah,
And there's no date yet steps for that. The White House has said that
it will come at some point. The President has he hopes to have it
happened soon. It maybe in the fall, maybe in November at its summit
in eight San Francisco of Asian Pacific leaders. But the President has said it's
not a crisis that the two are not talking directly, that the two governments
have been engaged. It's not that there is a complete freeze out between the
US and China, okay. And it's probably too soon because we just got
this information that the Kremlin and North Korea have confirmed that Kim Jong un is
headed to Russia to meet with Putin. Has the White House made any statements
about that yet, not yet. Today. We've asked now that we have
confirmation about that meeting, that we will have to get back to you guys
on that. Okay, thanks so much for your time this morning, Karen,
appreciate it as always, touch you soon. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newser
Memorials are being held across the US to mark the twenty two years since the
September eleventh attacks that killed nearly three thousand people in New York, Washington,
DC, and Pennsylvania. A ceremony in Manhattan will include a moment of silence
at eight forty six am their time this morning. It's five forty six hour
time when the first hijacked plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
ABC's Derek Wallace's Vice president Harris will be there in place of President Biden.
He is marking the occasion in Anchorage, Alaska, at a military base
there. Last week, forty three names were added to the World Trade Center
Memorial Wall, commemorating firefighters, paramedics, and civilian staff members who have died
from illnesses related to rescue and recovery efforts. The owner of a bicycle shop
in Irwindale says thieves have stolen about forty thousand dollars worth of merchandise. The
owners of Irwindale Cycles say the intruders knew exactly what they were looking for when
they hit two weeks ago. The breaking happen in the early morning. Five
people in masks were seen using an angle grinder to cut through the steel security
bag gate. The bicycles taken were each more worth more than seventeen hundred dollars.
Governor Newsom says he would not appoint any of the candidates running to replace
Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein if she stepped down before her term ends, which it's
completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is
just a matter of months away. I don't want to tip the balance of
that. Newsom made the comments on Meet the Press. Supporters of Congresswoman Barbara
Lee, who's black, believed she was Newsom's first choice to fill a potential
vacancy, but she's running for the seat. She's trailing in the polls behind
Democratic congress members Adam Schiff and Katie Porter. Spanish Soccer Federation president Louis ruby
Alice has resigned for kissing a player on the lips when Spain won the Women's
World Cup for the first time. Player Jenny Hermoso said it was without her
consent. Prosecutors presented their case for potential criminal charges against ruby Alis on Friday
to Spain's National Court in Madrid. One of the most active volcanoes in the
world has begun to erupt after a two month pause. The Hawaii Volcano Observatory
says the eruption was seen yesterday afternoon at the summit of Kilauea. The volcano's
alert level was raised to warning status and the aviation color code winter red as
scientists evaluate the eruption and related hazards. Kilauea erupted for several weeks in June.
When we come back, I was out and about this weekend. I
got to visit the California Wildlife Center. It rescues and rehabilitates thousands of injured
and orphan animals each year, and we're going to tell you more about that.
This weekend, I was out and about and with my buddy Nick Poliochini,
we got to visit the California Wildlife Center. I got to catch up
with Jennifer Brandt. She's the executive director and the person we most need to
talk to about this incredibly fabulous organization that I will tell you it's like this
secret, hidden place where they save lives and not lives of people. We're
talking about wild animals, so tell us what you do here as California Wildlife
Center, so we focus on the rehabilitation and rescue of native California animals.
We have three main departments. We have Marine Mammals and they go out to
the beaches in Malibu and rescue sea lions, seals, turtles, pin of
heads, cetaceans. Then we have our OCU which is where we are now,
which is all of our baby animals, and our i SU which is
where all our sick and injured animals are. So if you find a native
animal who needs help, we are the people to go to. Okay,
So if you find like an animal that has been abandoned, or maybe it's
been hit by a car or exactly, some of the most common reasons that
the animals come here is orphaned, that's the number one most common. But
hit by a car, suffering from redenna side poisoning, being shot at unfortunately
is a common reason. Or caught by a domestic animals so a cat or
dog, okay. And behind us we have the little squirrels, which are
absolutely adorable, but they are wild animals. So when you come and you're
dealing with these animals, there's not a lot of like lovey human interaction with
them because you want them to be wild, right, that's one of the
challenges. I think it's the hardest thing for staff and volunteers is to not
treat them like pets. So we don't allow our staff or volunteers to speak
to them. We don't want them to make contact. It's very important that
these animals are not habituated, that they can be released back into the wild
and live a wild life. Absolutely okay, And down in the is this
what did you call this? The This is the OUs Orphan care unit.
There are some pigeons and some are there doubs down. Yeah, there's morning
doves. There's bantil pigeons, which are actually a native pigeon. They usually
live in the woodlands. Some housefinches, goldfinches, probably some mockingbirds. I
think there's a black headed cowbird over there. So we actually in total care
for over one hundred and seventy different species here. And last year, how
many animals did you we help? Slightly over four thousand. We receive about
thirty five thousand calls a year from people who find animals and need help,
and we asked them to text a photo because we want to make sure it's
a native animal, and then we either accept the animal or we give them
resources if it's not an animal that we care for. Here, okay,
and I want to talk about rodentiside for just one second, because I was
reading you sent a picture of the animal of the week, and what was
happening is some of these animals, like you had a great horned owl,
and the great hornell came in and was very sick and not doing well and
is a success story because he looks like he's doing great now, but what
happened to him? So what happens is people use rodentisides in their homes and
there's second generation rodenticides that are the most common right now, and they poison
the animal, but it doesn't kill them right away. It's not like a
mouse trap, so those rodents can go out of the house. They're weak,
they're not as active as they normally be, so they're great gray exactly.
So our owls are hawks, coyotes, bobcats, all of those animals
are picking up those the rodents and eating them, and then they get an
amalgamation of all those poisons in their blood. It thins their blood because that's
what a rodenna side does, and it's an anticoagulant, and even a tiny
scratch smaller than a millimeter, a bird like a great horn owl could bleed
out. So when they come here, we're able to treat them and then
we release them. But we do ask the people, not your rodenna sides,
that they practice exclusion. So the best best way to get rid of
rodents is to never have them in your house. So that means sealing all
of the places that they might have crawled in and planting thoughtfully and not letting
the rodents come in in the first place. Yeah. One of our tour
guides or educators that we were talking to earlier said, what you guys focus
on is coexistence because we all live here, we all got to short share
the space. So how can people help because I'm sure that nobody. The
money doesn't grow on trees for you. Yes, right. We do not
receive any sustaining government funding. Okay, so of course we love donations.
We are open three hundred and sixty five days a year. We do not
charge for any of our services, so of course we love that, and
we also are always looking for new volunteers. We are primarily volunteer run organizations.
So we use volunteers for cleaning, for feeding, for caring for all
of these animals, and we could not do it without their help. Okay.
And if they want to make a donation get more information about the California
Wildlife Center, where do they go? They can visit our website see a
wildlife dot org. We have our instagram is at Sea Wildlife. We have
a TikTok, we have Facebook, all the regular socials. Okay, great
saving lives. It's a wonderful thing. Thank you, thank you, Jennifer.
Yeah, it was a really really cool experience. This California Wildlife Center
is kind of tucked away in the hills, so it's not really it's not
like there's a big sign saying hey here's the California Wildlife Center and they take
in animals every single day. We saw a couple being dropped off as we
were taking our tour of the facility, and you know, she was mentioning
they've got little tiny things. They've got squirrels and birds, and they also
had a bobcap up there, but again we didn't get to see it because
they're rehabilitating it. They're keeping an eye on it. They have cameras on
and stuff, but they're rehabilitating it so it can be released back into the
wild and they have deer there. And then we did get to see the
sea lions and if you want to check out one of the sea lions who
was totally trying to steal the show at Amy K King on my Instagram and
also at KFI AM six forty. That was very cool. They're very social,
so we were actually able to see them, but again wild animals and
they're being released on a regular basis, which is great after their nurse back
to help or to health. If you are interested in donating or volunteering again,
they would love for you to get involved. It's c a Wildlife dot
org. When we come back, we're gonna be talking to again ABC's Tom
Rivers about that American stranded three thousand feet down in a cave in Turkey.
But there is a development and it looks like he's on his way up,
so we're going to find out the latest on that. Let's say good morning
now to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom. An American is stranded three thousand feet
down in a cave in Turkey, but there's some good news that he's finally
coming back up exactly. I mean, we've got our team on the ground
now in Turkey and this thing's been boiling for a few days. It involves
this forty year old American Mark Dickie, expedition leader in the It's called the
Mark Cave District in southern Turkey. It's it's part of the Taurus Mountains.
Down there, said to be the third deepest cave in the world. H
and there we're down about three thousand, four hundred feet. He developed internal
bleeding. So then over the days that followed, he started coughing of blood.
On the second of September, they sent down medication, but he was
prone and they didn't really know, you know, what to do. The
rescue teams thought about it for a while and they said, we will stretch
him out, but it will take some time. That began on Saturday,
and it's been a slow, laborious process. The laced up day we've gotten
from Anchor from the state disaster Management team there is that he could possibly be
out as early as later today. So keep watching that one. But it's
gonna be one heck of a story when he gets out, no kidding.
So he's been down there since August thirty first incorrect, He are they saying
what caused the internal bleeding? Is that like an ulcer or they don't know
yet that they don't know yet, and you know, fingers crossed it.
We have gotten reports now that his situation is stabilized, but he can't obviously
use his own power to get out, so in essence that stretching every every
inch, he's being pulled up with pulleys and almost two hundred teams or excuse
me, two hundred members from teams from eight countries are there to assist.
So it's it's a big, big group effort. But yeah, it's going
to be one heck of a story when he gets out. The plan is
for him to get local metal medical attention there and then probably be transferred over
to Istanbul for more complete examination and treatment there. And this guy's he's an
experienced he's a cave diver. I don't know what he's he's a caver,
yeah, he's he's been around the block. And but one of those things,
you know, if you if you, for whatever reason you get internal
bleeding and you can't move, what are you gonna do? Over the weekend.
You know, we're following this thing, and uh said to be an
experienced individual with his own power down at thirty four hundred feet normally it would
take you about fifty hours to get to the surface. And at that time
they said, look, we're gonna stretcher this thing. And the difficult thing
as well, there's some narrow passages or you and I could crouch through and
work our way that no, no, no, out with a stretcher.
You gotta get these other rescue guys to chip away at the edges enough to
get the stretcher in him through that you know, narrow bottleneck if you will,
and then proceed up up toward the surface. But as I say,
the latest update nine hundred feet down, it seems like a lot, but
it's a lot better than it was. And that was an updated about two
or three hours ago. So who knows. He may be filling the blank
seven hundred feet below the surface as we speak. Okay, so you're giving
me the heeb gbs just talking about like trying to get through those small spaces,
just like my clustrophobia kind of kicks in exactly. Yeah, And so
he's got to do They take him off the stretcher for certain areas, or
they literally are using tools to chip away the side of the cave. We
we haven't got the detail work on that. I think it's probably most more
of the latter. But if they did find a place where they could not
you know, or they felt it was unsafe to move things, they may
well have to take them off the stretcher and then you know, somehow just
you know, without trying to do any more injury, get him through that
passage. We've fold up the stretcher and then uh, you know, deploy
it again on the other side of the bottleneck. But yeah, it's gonna
be It's gonna be a made for TV movie, I think down the road,
that's exactly what I was thinking. I was like, you know that
it's reminding me of the Chilean thirty or thirty three. Yep, that was
a fabulous movie. Just what a story that was. And then even baby
Jessica remember her, she got down that well oh yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes exactly. I mean she
was like twenty feet down, so it's not quite as big, but it
kind of caught the world's attention. Yeah, the Chilean when when my former
colleagues, Jeffrey Kaufman, was was covering that for for many many days.
Yeah. So, yes, we've we've had precedents in the past, and
you want to just you know, crawl your fingers and say, let's get
let's get this guy to the surface and then everybody can breathe a sigh of
relief. No kidding. So you said that there's like two hundred people working
on it. How many people do we know? How many people are actually
down in the cave? We don't know exactly. No, but again,
it's a big effort from from eight different countries. So and as I say,
this didn't happen overnight, they've had weeks or actually more than a week
to plan this and saying, how are we going to do this? Okay,
this is the plan. How are we going to deploy our personnel,
et cetera, et cetera, And then let's go for it. Let's and
that was it. The starting on Saturday, Saturday morning, they said,
okay, the process begins. Okay. And was he caving by himself or
did he have a group with him? He was leading a group exactly,
Oh okay, and so has the rest of the group come up or did
they stay down with him? Oh, that's a good question. I would
assume most of them probably got out, but again maybe a couple stayed around
until we've reached the point now where this is a large, large rescue operation
where you know, people of of high quality of expertise are down there and
they probably have the other explorers saying okay, please leave right now while we
do our work. Well, I agree. I think it's going to be
a made for TV movie and I can't wait to hear all the details of
what happened and how they got him out. You got it, Amy,
And like I say, you know, like I said over the weekend,
is gonna take days. Hopefully, if there's no more bottlenecks, we get
some good news and it'll happen later on today. All right, thank you
so much, Tom Rivers for the information. Take care. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
This September eleventh anniversary ceremony at Grands Ground zero has begun with the tolling
of the bells. There has been a moment of silence twenty two years after
the terror attacks, and from here they're going to read all of the names
of the twenty nine hundred and seventy seven people killed on nine eleven, two
thousand and one. Ceremonies to mark the twenty second anniversary of the nine to
eleven attacks are happening in the Southland. In Corona, a remembrance services underway.
It's happening at the Historic Civic Center where Corona Chamber of Commerce and Corona
Rotary officials will be joined by city reps and others to stand among a field
of miniature flags representing the people killed on nine to eleven, two thousand and
one. The names of all twenty nine hundred seventy seven are being read.
That ceremony is expected to continue until about ten this morning. A grocery store
managers recovering after he was attacked trying to stop a thief at his store.
Sheriff's deputy say the Ralph's manager was assaulted over the weekend at his store in
Temple City. Deputyc the manager was trying to stop a guy with a knife
from stealing. The suspect punched the manager in the face, then tried to
get away, but was arrested by deputies waiting outside the store. A man
who is in custody for the deadly stabbing on a metro train in downtown La
Randy Nash, was arrested late Saturday. He's being held on two million dollars
bail. He's accused of pulling out a knife and stabbing another man last Thursday
on a subway train in Los Angeles. Officials say the stabbing happened without warning,
and that Nash and the person stabbed don't appear to have known each other.
Kaiser will pay more than forty nine million dollars for illegally dumping hazardous medical
waste and patients medical records in two landfills in California if they don't follow the
law. If they're careless with dangerous waste or sensitive information, the potential for
harm is enormous and its widespread. Attorney General Rob Banta says the settlement is
a result of an undercover inspection of dumpsters at sixteen Kaiser facilities. Kayser is
also going to be required to take steps to prevent future unlawful disposals. The
Little League World Series champions have been honored with a parade and other festivities in
El Segundo. The parade on Main Street yesterday included the El Segundo High School
marching band and cheerleaders. About twenty five hundred people turned out to cheer on
the team. The boys on the All Star Team won five straight games last
month to get to the championship, and won that game with a walk off
home run. This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
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