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your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. It's five o'clock. This
is your wake up call for Friday, December eighth. Good morning, I'm
a king. That just brings me joy. I think I'm going to watch
The Grinch, the original. I like the Jim Carrey version, but I
like the original best. I got a lot of that Christmas shows to plan
to have on my television. Because remember that two hundred dollars tree that I
bought last weekend. I still haven't decorated it. The rest of the house
is decorated, but I haven't done the tree yet. I don't know why
I haven't aversion to it. Maybe it's because I spent so much money.
I just want to see the glory of the tree and not cover it up.
Or I'm really lazy. It's one of the two. Here's what's ahead
on wake up call. President Biden's son Hunter has been indicted on nine counts
of tax crimes in California. The charges include failure to file and pay taxes,
evading assessment, and filing a false or fraudulent return. Prosecutors say during
a four year period, Hunter made more than seven million dollars and didn't pay
at least one point four million dollars in taxes. The US is called on
Israel to put a premium on civilian protection as it continues its war to destroy
Himas and the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Health Ministry says seventeen thousand Palestinians have
been killed since Hamas attacked Israel October seventh, including three hundred yesterday alone.
Secretary of State Antony Blincoln says there's a gap between Israel's intent to protect civilians
and what's actually happening. Bronnie James is back at full contact practice with the
USC men's basketball team. Lebron James's son is on the court for the first
time since he suffered cardiac arrest during practice in July. James could play in
his first game with the Trojans when USC hosts Long Beach on Sunday afternoon.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. As I mentioned, Hunter Biden has been indicted on nine charges
in California. The charges filed last night include three felonies and six misdemeanors.
It's in addition to federal firearms charges in Delaware, alleging Biden broke a law
against drug users having guns back in twenty eighteen. And I've been saying the
president's son took part in a four year scheme where he did not pay just
under one and a half million in federal tax owed from twenty sixteen to twenty
nineteen. Abc'sandy Field says instead, Biden allegedly spent millions of those ode taxes
on what prosecutors say was an extravagant lifestyle. Police have increased security at Redondo
Union High School following a lockdown over loaded guns found on campus. Two teens
were arrested back to back earlier this week after students notified school officials that their
peers were carrying the guns. Redondo PD's Lieutenant Corey King says he wants students
to remember, if you see something, say something that was clearly shown in
these two incidents of how proud we are of the students, the faculty,
the staff on how they reacted. Students now have to go through metal detectors
with police president until they go on win or break. Police say there's no
evidence either of the teens were planning a school shooting. Chris Adler, Yeah,
Fine News. The UN Secretary General Antonio Antonio Gutiraz invoked Article ninety nine
earlier this week. It urges members to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the
Israel Hamas War. A vote on the resolution brought by the UAE is set
for today. Article ninety nine of the UN Charter was last used over a
half century ago in nineteen seventy one, when Bangladesh separated from Pakistan. The
Wall Street CEO has threatened to withdraw a one hundred million dollar donation to the
University of Pennsylvania because of backlash the school's president is facing over comments about anti
Semitism on campus. U penn President Liz McGill testified during a house hearing earlier
this week. Ms McGill at Penn does calling for the genocide of Jews violate
Penn's rules or code of conduct, yes or no. If the speech turns
into conduct, it can be harassment. Mcguil has since walked back her comments,
saying a call for genocide of Jewish peace well is a call for some
of the most terrible violence humans can perpetrate. The donor says he'll pull the
funds if she doesn't resign. Time to take an early look at your morning
commute with Nick Poliochini. We got slowing in Riverside on the ninety one,
so it's gonna be mostly Friday morning light aim, but it is going to
be a busy one and stretches on the west Don side and spokes are making
their way from before Magnollion two about the fifteen and then you'll see delays beyond
clu Corona to continue from before the seventy one and she head toward the two
forty one toll road, also seeing a feudilays for you surprisingly on the northbound
side of the two forty one as you leave the Windy Ridge tollplaza heading toward
the ninety one. That could be just a glitch in the system, or
it could be a few extra cars that are heading north down along the two
forty one. If you're an updated something slowing you down pound to fifteen in
yourself on keyword is a SOCW traffic or KFI traffic. The one will get
you to me south own side of the fifteen, and you make me through
the Cone pass before the one thirty eight or at Calturans cruise wrapping on shop
for the drive, and it looks like you may encounter issues a little bit
closer to the one thirty eight, and it is going to be still going
fay from before the escape ramp heading south on on the fifteen heading over to
La count You're actually looking pretty good at the exception of the eastbound side of
the one oh five. I'm going to see the lays off of Lake with
Boulevard as you make it to a Bellflower Boulevard. Looks like you got a
crash in lanes. It's being dealt with, okay, if I and the
sky helps get you there faster. I'm Nick Poliochini. Thank you, Nick.
It's five six on your wake up call. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom. This one caught my attention because we have not
heard almost anything about this for quite a while. It's the Notre Dame Cathedral
or is it Notre Dame, no Tre Dame, no t And you're right,
it's been four and a half years, so actually more April of twenty
nineteen, and today's kind of an important day because Macron was checking up on
the work. In theory it will be done completed finito, twelve months from
now, so you wanted to check on it. And yeah, it's been
a lot of work behind the scenes that you know, we haven't covered every
day. But yeah, it just is very, very slow and painstaking.
Okay, can we back up a little bit and remind us because as you
said, it was more than four years ago, but Notre Dame Cathedral burned,
so kind of let's go back and remind us how bad that was.
It was terrible. I mean I was here in the London Bureau. It
was terrible. I was here in the bureau and you go it's a fire,
and you go, well, it's fires as fires, and it kept
growing, it kept building, and if you had seen some of the interior
shots, I mean you had large medieval timbers in there that drier than bones,
so that once it started, it took off, and the roof and
the steeple came down, and there was got there the second day and there
was literally an army of volunteers helping to try to get items inside the cathedral
out across the street and to be saved. But then, boy, it
was a burning, burning hulk. And certainly for the first couple of months
they thought some of the structural walls, retaining walls were going to be coming
down what would be left. But the architects were there, the engineers are
there. They've been, you know, working really really hard, and they're
saving what they can. And as I say, for the Olympics in about
well next summer, people coming to town will see the structure and say,
look from the outside, it looks like it used to fantastic interior wise,
there's still going to be work to be done, but yeah, it's it's
pretty pretty mean feet roughly about what five years five and a half years out
to have this thing back to where it was now a lot of that you
you mentioned that they were taking the relics out, and I remember that specifically
because they're like, these things are hundreds of years old. Did they pretty
much get everything out most everything. Yeah, there were a few items that
were beyond repair or but yeah, most everything came out, but some things
were you know, we're in there. For instance, the pipe organ.
I know, it was huge. I was just reading today. There are
eight thousand pipes in it, amy and they're going through them one pipe and
cleaning them one pipe at a time. Why because yes, you can say,
well, there was ash there. There certainly was ash there. But
it was another thing too. There was like tons of lead in the roof
that some of it vaporized, some of it fell down. So there's there's
lead dust in the interior just about everywhere, including in the organ. So
yes, it is meticulous work going down to the micro square centimeter to try
to clean everything up, get it safe, and get it to where it
was okay. And so their target date is December eighth of twenty twenty four
to reopen. Yep. That's amazing. Yup. So yeah, put that
in your calendar. We'll see, I guess. I guess historically, certainly
in recent years something like when they opened the door, something like fifteen million
people go through there each and every year. So yes, it'll be opening
the floodgates once again after an absence of five and a half years at least.
Yeah, that's really cool because, like I said, we hadn't heard
about it for a while, but I remember watching that fire, like we
all, not maybe not all of us, but most of us were watching
that fire and it was just devastating to see that piece of history coming down.
So cool as you're down it was so it was, it was,
it was, it was sad, it was scary, and you know,
it's it was something that you know, you thought you'd never cover. Yeah,
and the local thought they would never see and we're going, wow,
this is Notre Dame. It's going it'd be the equivalent of the White House
or you know, fill in the blank Elise Palace. But yeah, it
was something that caught everybody unawares. And of course there was building work being
done at the time, and the leading theory back then was that, you
know, maybe a torch used in treatment to remodel the structure caught on to
something that then created maybe an electrical spark and there you go off to the
races. Well, good that it's going to be back. I can put
that back on my list of things to do when I one day go to
Paris. There you go, all right, talk a good deal. Tom
Rivers, thank you so much. Hey, you can follow Tom at Tom
Rivers ABC. Lots of good stuff. Thanks Tom. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
California's facing a record breaking sixty eight billion dollar budget deficit. State Senator Roger
Niello on the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee says the state can withstand the
big budget shortfall. I don't think we're at a crisis stage yet, but
what we do this budget year to solve that sixty eight billion dollar gap will
determine whether we do indeed create a real crisis for subsequent budget years. Ylo
is recommending using some of the state's reserve funds and other cuts, which could
include COOL funding, to help make up the deficit. A man who led
police on a chase through several counties in southern California's been arrested see h pieces.
The guy was believed to be armed while driving a stolen red pickup in
Fontana. Police followed the guy last night along the ten. They passed through
downtown La, then onto the one oh one northbound on the four or five,
and finally to the five. The driver avoided two spike strips that were
deployed, but finally hit a third one near six Flags Magic Mountain that brought
the chase to an end. I'm imagining if we were home, what would
it happened? Home in Granada Hills has been burglarized twice in less than a
week. The homeowner tells KTLA thieves got away with about one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth of items from the house on November twenty ninth. It's just
I don't understand why La became like this, the owner says. The three
armed people shattered a glass door when they broke into the house on Tuesday night
of this week. They say this time an alarm scared them off. Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton has worn doctors who help pregnant women get an abortion they
could face charges, including first degree felonies. The warning comes following a judge's
ruling yesterday that Kate Cox, who is twenty weeks pregnant, could legally terminate
her pregnancy because her fetus has a fatal diagnosis. In a letter to the
hospitals caring for Cox, Attorney General Ken Paxton argues the judge is not medically
qualified to make this determination. Babyc's ran On Ali says Cox's lawyers claim Paxton's
main tactic in enforcing abortion bans is fear mongering. Her lawsuit is believed to
be one of the first attempts in the US to seek a court ordered abortion
since Roe versus Wade was overturned. A man who once served as chief a
chief of the Lahapra Police Department has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for
his role in the January sixth riode at the US Capitol. He chose to
represent himself in his trial. He was convicted earlier this year. The DOJ
says the man took tactical gear, pepper spray, and hatchets to the Capitol
during the riot. Have upped security efforts around Jewish spaces in La for Hanukkah.
Beverly Hills Police Sergeant Jeffrey Newman tells KTLA police have to be extra vigilant
to make sure people are protected during the festival of Lights. The Jewish community
in general has had a long history of worrying about people trying to hurt the
Jewish community. Specifically, the ADL has reported a three hundred percent increase in
hate incidents and rhetoric targeting the Jewish community since amass attacked Israel October seventh.
A lot of Menora lighting events are scheduled over the next seven days. Hankkah
started last night. At least three people have been hurt when a truck crashed
into spectators at the California Christmas Parade in Bakersfield, polisse A. The driver,
who may have been drunk, was upset that a road was closed and
sped onto the parade route as people were getting ready to watch it. The
seventy two year old driver has been arrested. Russia's President Putin wants to stay
in office for another six years. State run media in Russiasis. Putin has
announced plans to run for reelection in twenty twenty four. Analysts say he's almost
insured a win. A short lived rebellion in June had raised some speculation that
Putin could be losing his grip, but the rebellion ended and the leader,
if Geenny Fregosian, is dead. Actor Alan Ruck is being sued by a
driver he allegedly hit on Halloween night. The driver says he was stopped at
a red light when the succession in Ferris Bueller's Day Off star rear ended him,
then ended up crashing into a pizza shop in Hollywood. No charges were
filed against Ruck at six oh five its handle on the news. Hunter Biden
is facing new charges, including three felonies that include filing a false tax return
and not paying more than one point four million dollars in taxes. Right now,
it's time to take a Southern California sleigh ride. Come along, won't
you. So we're checking out some fun activities and events going on around southern
California for the holidays, and for this one, it's right in the heart
of La so you don't have to go very far. It's a much more
intimate kind of fun, interactive, and definitely family friendly event. It's brand
new to Southern California. It's called Holidays on the Hill at the Hilton and
Universal City. We caught up with the director of Marketing and PR Marissa Pratt.
Marissa tell us all about Holidays on the Hill. This is our kickoff
inaugural event. The Hill is such a stentral location to so many different parts
of downtown and the city the valley, So we really wanted to create a
large event just pick off the holiday season and to announce our presence in Los
Angeles. So we have four different activations throughout the month of December, but
the really premiere one that I'm excited about is our holiday festival. Okay,
and the holiday festival is going down on below us and it is so festive,
So tell us what we're going to find down on the holidays on the
Hill festival. So I think it's just such a great place because we have
unlimited gameplay, oh wit, look game unlimited rides, unlimited activities at all
day programming. It's gonna be so diversified. We have elves on stilts,
unice cyclists, ballet dancers, but we also have movie nights of the evening.
So it's like your one stop shop to like experience fun, entertainment and
movie. It's all on the same planes. Okay, So if you're looking
for something fun to do, and this is really a family friendly. I've
seen a lot of kids out there dancing, like little tiny kids dancing and
loving the music and playing the games. But you've got movies, and are
the movies playing each night of the event. Yeah, they're playing each night.
The first week we're showing Elf and then I love that. I know
who's Santa, I know him. I guess Hitler Little Barrel. But then
the second week is Nightmare before Christmas. Oh I love that. Okay,
So when you do that, you've got a big screen and it's it's a
blow up screen and people sit out under the stars and with the Christmas trees
and the lights around and watch a movie. How cool is that? It's
so cool. I mean we're gonna have outdoor cinema next year, so like
this is just like our first peak is an outdoor cinema on the till.
Yeah. But the great thing about coming here, your ticket includes a photo
with Santa. And that's any day of the week. We're very pet friendly,
so you can bring your cats and your dogs and have your photo with
Santo. It's on a visiting day. You can just come any day if
you bring your pets. I love that. So and we went into Santa's
workshop a little bit earlier and it's really really set up beautiful. So if
you're looking for that perfect holiday photo with Santa Claus and I love that you
can bring your pets with you, Yeah, not everywhere you can. And
again it's so centrally located. It's right here in Universal City on top of
the hill. It easy to get to. So when, oh, before
we move on, I got to talk about the food, because you also
have food and beverages. And this is a specialty cocktail. It's delicious.
I don't remember everything that's in it, but it's really good. And this
bananas fostered and a waffle and ice cream with snowflake sprinkles, Are you kidding
me? And that's just a couple other really great specialty foods that you have
out here. Delicious. We have cute little food carts. We they're like
donuts and carros, bananas fosters, and then we have like really cute carnival
food like pizza this as well and like fever Tree dreams. But we haven't
forgotten the parents, Like we have complimentary beer and wine pasting good, so
you know, we've had to bring something for the parents. We also have
a really cool glamd farm which is so fun. It's like four kids and
four adults. So while the mom is getting her nails done, the kids
can't their face painting. Oh I love this. See so it's fun for
the whole family. And tell us when we can come and where we're going
to get inform more information. So it's December seventh through the tenth for the
first week one, and then December fourteenth through the seventeenth for week two,
so Thursdays to Sundays, and where can we find out information about it and
get tickets and all of it. I'm going to experiencefill dot com. Okay
perfect, That's where the Southern California is Slate Ride has taken us. We're
at Universal City for Holidays on the Hill. Come check it out again.
It's happening this weekend and next weekend. It's a smaller event, great for
kids, especially young kids. Like the games that they have are really geared
for the kids. And as as Marissa mentioned, Santa is there and his
workshop is really really beautiful. You can take a peek at the event if
you want to get a look before you go. I'll be posting the interview
that I just did with Marissa this morning on my Instagram at Amy K King
and at KFI AM six forty. But we also want to give you a
chance to go and experience Holidays on the Hill. So we have a four
pack of tickets to give away to you to Holidays on the Hill, and
the folks at Holidays on the Hill is also kicking in a four pack of
tickets to the theme park and Universal City next door. So make it a
of it really a cool experience. Let's take caller number eleven at one eight
hundred five to two oh one KFI. Put your coffee down, get to
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two zero one five three four, and we're looking for caller number eleven for
a four pack of tickets two Holidays on the Hill and also to the theme
park next door. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three people in Oxnard have been arrested for
allegedly stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from a mall in Camerio. The
Ventura County Sheriff's offices that arrested one guy in November after a police chase.
During a search of the guy's car, officers found stolen clothes with security devices
still as attached. Photos from the bust show a collection of expensive baseball hats,
puffer jackets, and other things that total about five thousand dollars. Two
others were arrested shortly after on additional charges. San Diego State Senator Brian Jones,
the Senate minority leader, has called for the border to be shut down
because of a surge in border crossings. We need to completely halt any further
immigration into the country until we can get a grasp on the people that are
already here that have been allowed to come into the United States over the last
year. Senator Jones says, border patrol is reporting different groups of people trying
to claim asylum. We're seeing immigrants coming from countries as far as West Africa,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and we don't know why they're coming here.
They're not coming here necessarily to work. A record twelve thousand people crossed
the border from Mexico into the US in just one day this week. News
brought to you by American Vision Windows. A rocket attack on the US embassy
in Baghdad has caused some minor damage to the building. US and Iraqi officials
say no one was hurt. The attack is believed to have been carried out
by militias in Iraq backed by Iran. No group immediately claimed responsibility, ABC's
and as Dela Qua Terrass. It comes as Muslim militants have been launching attacks
against US forces on military bases in both Iraq and Syria. The attack is
the first on the embassy, located in a heavily fortified zone of Iraqi capital,
since the start of the Israel Hamas War. North Carolina is on Disney's
mind. The company announced it's going to be building a bunch of homes there.
It's part of the company's ongoing story Living by Disney venture. More than
four thousand single family homes are going to be built, some of them specifically
for adults fifty five and old. There's already a story Living community in Rancho
Mirage live out your days in a Disney themed neighborhood. I think I could
get in on that. Hey, postathon, we know that it's over.
We raised more than a million dollars. We did that with your help,
your generosity, and that's going to help feed like twenty five thousand kids every
week through Katerina's Club Wendy's is still taking donations, So if you want to
do a last minute Christmas gift to Katerina's Club for postathon, Wendy's is taking
those donations through this Sunday at all locations around southern California. And again,
thank you for your support and your donations this postathon. President Biden's son Hunter
has been indicted on nine counts of tax crimes in California. The charges include
failure to file and pay taxes, evaiding assessment, and filing a false or
fraudulent return. We're going to dig a lot deeper into this with ABC Stephen
Portnoy in just a minute, so stick around. The US has called on
Israel to put a premium on civilian protection as it continues its war to destroy
Hamas and the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Health Ministry says seventeen thousand Palestinians have
been killed since Samasa attacked Israel on October seventh, including three hundred yesterday.
Secretary of State Antony Blincoln says there is a gap between Israel's intent to protect
civilians and what's actually happening. The La Kings now hold the all time NHL
record for consecutive road wins to start a season. They picked up their eleventh
straight win last night. That's the record, shutting out Montreal four to nothing.
Now the Kings could tie the all time road win record if they beat
the New York Islanders tomorrow night, Go Kings Go. At six oh five,
it's handle on the news. We're gonna find out more about the UNLV
shooter. Turns out this professor how to be with a lot of people on
a lot of campuses at five point fifty, ABC's Jason Nathanson is going to
leave the world behind and why that's a pretty scary proposition. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC National correspondence Stephen Portnoy. Good morning, Stephen.
So, a new indictment has been handed down against Hunter Biden. Tell
us all about it. Yeah. This indictment, handed up in federal court
in Los Angeles yesterday, contains a litany of tawdry details about Hunter Biden's proclivities.
At a time he was a self admitted drug addict living in Malibu and
various other places. It lists all the fancy hotels in and around the Southland
where Hunter Biden spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the span of years.
But beyond specifying his payments to those hotels and to exotic dancers and poor insights,
and even a sex club in Los Angeles at a low point in Hunter
Biden's life, this indictment also paints the president's son as a sophisticated tax cheat.
It alleges that years after his drug use, he still had his accountants
categorized his past spending on debauchery as legitimate business expenses to be deducted from his
income so that he would owe less money to the federal government. And essentially,
what this indictment ledges is that Hunter Biden never went into debt. He
had cash on hand, he wasn't destitute. He purposefully, according to prosecutors,
paid all his other bills. He just didn't pay the irs. And
so I was curious to see that when the charges came down, that there
was that outline, like you were talking about the lavish lifestyle and all of
that thing. And my original thought was, well, so that's lots of
toury details about the way he's lived his life as he made like seven million
dollars, But what does that have to do with paying taxes? Because that's
kind of none of the government's business. But it's because you're saying he wrote
some of that stuff off. Well, that's the main reason is to illustrate
that at least in the twenty eighteen filing, he tried to deduct expenses that
were definitely not, according to prosecutors, legitimate business expenses. For example,
the ten thousand dollars membership to a notorious southern California sex club written off to
the indictment as a business expense, payments to exotic dancers written off as a
business expense. But you're right in the sense that you know, this indictment
goes it seems to go out of its way to paint, you know,
to be dripping with salacious details as drug fueled debauchery. This is all a
function of and I think in large part. Look, this was all supposed
to be resolved last summer in a plea agreement where Hunter Biden was prepared to
plead guilty to two tax related misdemeanors, but that agreement came undone. It's
not entirely clear why the judge had problems with the way it was written in
the idea that the court was responsible for overseeing enforcement with the diversion agreement,
and she said she'd never seen anything like that before. And before you knew
it, the deal was off. Prosecutors said they were going to go to
trial, and the defense attorneys said, all right, well, we'll defend
our client. And now you have the felony charges in Delaware related to the
purchase of a pistol a time that prosecutors say Hunter Biden shouldn't have had one
because he was using drugs. And now you have this a silacious indictment related
to the tax crimes that are alleged to have been committed, tax evasion,
filing false tax returns. And again, all of this was supposed to be
resolved last summer, but it hasn't been, and now it's going to trial.
But perhaps most acutely important this morning is we're reading all of these really
gritty details. Yeah, and it's interesting too because now the gun charge,
which is the one that had stuck for earlier this year, like you mentioned,
that one seems pretty minor compared to one and a half million dollars in
taxes not paid. Well, the taxes have been paid, which is a
mitigating circumstance. Oh, they have been paid, the taxes have been paid,
but he's charged with not paying them. He's charged with not filing his
taxes. Yeah, okay, And look, the bottom line is the wrongdoing
was done according to prosecutors, from twenty seventeen all the way uprough twenty two.
But that includes the failure to file, the failure to pay timely,
and also, according to prosecutors, the cheating. I mean claiming that the
spending on your lavish lifestyle is a legitimate deduction from your income. That's perhaps
the most damning allegation. Not that Hunter Biden was down on his luck,
and he was, you know, he fell into addiction and he was trying
to put his life back together. It alleges that while his father was,
you know, embarking on becoming the Democratic nominee for president it was time for
the family to come together behind him, he was still seeking to evade the
federal income taxes that he owed in the millions of dollars that he was given
by overseas clients. That he paid all his other bills, he paid the
alimony, he paid his creditors, he paid his employees, but he didn't
pay the tax man. And that's the accusation. So what happens next?
Well next, you know, interesting question. We always ask it because we
want to figure out what where this goes. This will go to trial,
right, so that will happen, The defense attorneys will have their day.
They say that this is only happening because Hunter Biden's last name is Biden,
and that there's been political pressure applied by Republicans in Congress on the Justice Department
to look tough. I think that ultimately one big question that hasn't been answered
is whether there's anything else. Yeah, because when this all started to unravel
in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware last summer, the judge asked, what
else is there? And the prosecutor said, well, there's basically there's two
things. There's the gun charge, there's the tax thing, and we can't
talk about the other aspects of our investigation. And the judge said, well
it might it have to do with the Foreign Agents Registration Act of FARA.
Could you bring charges under FARA? And the prosecutor simply said yes, we
haven't heard anything about it since. Guess we're going to have to just keep
listening and keep watching. Thank you so much, Stephen Portino. I appreciate
the information and insight. You bet, all right, Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Seventeen
percent of workers in the entertainment industry in LA lost jobs because of the WGA
and SAG after strikes this year. The Otis College of Art and Designs study
says that nearly twenty five or that is, nearly twenty five thousand employees.
Actors and writers made up the majority of job losses, but camera operators,
editors, and sound and lighting techs also lost jobs. Mayor Bass says she
wants more LAPD recruits. The mayor's team says the goal is to hire many
new officers, with no exact target laid out. In August, the mayor
proved a thirteen percent pay increase for recruits. More than one thousand people applied
for the department that month. Mayor Bass says that was the highest number of
recruits since twenty twenty. This, I think shows that we're well on our
way to restoring the department. About eighty nine hundred and fifty officers currently work
for the LAPD in La Blake Trolley KFI News McDonald's is testing a new restaurant
with customizable drinks and treats designed for afternoon snackers. Ten Cosmics restaurants are opening
next year in Chicago and Texas. McDonald's president says Cosmics will serve snacks like
pretzel bites and egg mcmuffins and drinks like churo frope or is it a truro
frap? It's a frap, all right? I don't sure. I don't
do FRAPs. I don't know. Tonight, the Clippers take on the Jazz
in Utah, with tip off at six pm. Listen to the game on
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this morning, Hunter Biden is facing new charges, including three felonies for not
filing and filing a false or fraudulent tax return. Right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's entertainment guru, Jason Nathansen. Jason got some big names
in a new Netflix movie that poses a rather scary question for a tech filled
world. Yes, Leave the World Behind. Stars Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawk,
Hershaw, Lee Kevin Bacon. Haven't seen Julia Roberts for a while.
Yeah, she was in a series I don't remember which streaming service. It
was on kind of an Apple, but that series was by Sam Smail,
who's the creator of Mister Robot, who is the creator of this film and
director as well. And this is based on a book from twenty twenty which
was very popular, and she's Julia Roberts, is the kind of head of
a family. They're living in New York. They go away to the Hamptons
for the weekend to have a nice relaxing weekend and they get there and things
are starting to go a little weird. They notice weird things happening. The
cell phone's not working, the WiFi is not working. Well, that happens
every day, Jason, Well, sure, but this happens in a in
a way that causes questions for them, Okay, and then they start to
realize, oh, this is kind of a bigger thing and it's not really
working out so well. And then kind of, you know, people start
to get paranoid, they start to question things. Society starts to break down
a little bit. And this is kind of scary because this is this is
gonna happen to us one day. If you basically get the you get the
feeling that this is all very grounded in some kind of reality that we're all
going to eventually face and have to deal with, which is kind to be
kind of scary. So this is it's a psychological look at that which is
very interesting. And remember there was a movie on Netflix that took a lot
of people the streaming world by storm a couple of years ago called bird Box
the Sand Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think this is going to
be this year's version of that, And a lot of people are going to
watch this and watch this over the next several weeks, as you know,
the holidays and people are looking for something to see, and this is the
one I think people are going to be talking about. I'm seen Anne Hathaway
in a while either Anne Hathaway. She's been around, She's been in a
couple of things. Maybe I'm just not getting out enough, smaller thing.
She was in a really good series that was an Apple I know that called
We Crashed about the We Work Couple, which was really good. If you
didn't see that, go check it out, go watch that. She's also
in a new movie called Eileen, which is in theaters expanding in the theaters
nation, but it's been in theaters for a week or so. Now and
she it's her and Thomas and mackenzie. You might remember her as the girl
from Jojo Rabbit. That was her for the first time we saw her,
and she's fantastic in this. Thomasin McKenzie plays a young woman who's kind of
shy. She works at a juvenile detention center that's like in the late fifties
early sixties in Boston, and she's and and Hathaway's character shows up. She's
a psychologist and kind of starts to bring Eileen out of her shell because she's
the kind of woman who when she walks in a room, everybody pays attention
to her. And this is kind of a psychological thriller study as well.
Really good performances by Anne Hathaway and Thomas and McKenzie. You know, see
it in theater if you want. I think you could see it at home
whenever it comes streaming as well. But this movie's not gonna make a lot
of waves, but it's a real it's really well done. Okay. And
then there's another movie that probably isn't going to make a lot of waves called
Waitress. Yes, so Waitress is actually it's based on there's a two thousand
and seven movie called Waitress starring Kerry Russell that was made into a Broadway play
musical starring various people, but also Sarah Burrellis who wrote the music and lyrics
for that and then eventually started it on Broadway as well. And now this
is now back in theaters, but it's not a movie movie. It is
a filmed version of the Broadway musical for Hamilton. Well, yeah, when
they put Hamilton on Disney Plus, this is kind of the same thing.
But Hamilton was a massive worldwide hit. Yes true Broadway Waitresses a Tony winning
and did you know, very very well, And it's only in theaters for
a couple of days that think through through Monday. But you know, if
look, you have to like musicals, and you have to like Broadway musicals
to go see something like this at a theater, I know, you know,
very few people are probably actually going to go do that. But if
you do like Broadway musicals and you didn't didn't get a chance to see it
on Broadway, especially with Sarah brella Is starring in it, then this is
your chance. I mean, it's a good story, Okay, great sounds
like there's lots coming up, do they usually do a lot of releases around
the holiday seat it feels like stuff is still being pushed out. Yeah,
I mean, this is not necessarily the biggest week for releases. These are
a bunch of kind of small films, except for the Netflix one, which
by the way, was in theaters and might still be in theater for a
little bit. But as we get into next week and then the next two
weeks, that's a really big week. So we're gonna see Wonka, the
Color Purple, George Clooney's The Boys in the Boat, which he directed.
There are a bunch of Aquaman. There are a bunch of big movies coming
in the next couple of weeks. All right, we'll be watching for him,
Jason Nathans And thank you so much. All right. Ticket, Hey,
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Taylor Swift. I almost made it through that. We lead local live from
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