WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.120 You're listening to KF I am six forty wake Up Call with Me, Amy 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:14.519 King on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:22.039 Orange County. They'll do something I hate most of all, every who down 4 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:30.280 and who will the tall and the small stand close together with Christmas spells with 5 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:41.920 me? They'll stand hand in hand those who's wisttop shy. It's time for 6 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:56.200 your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. It's five o'clock. This 7 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.719 is your wake up call for Friday, December eighth. Good morning, I'm 8 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:03.359 a king. That just brings me joy. I think I'm going to watch 9 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:07.359 The Grinch, the original. I like the Jim Carrey version, but I 10 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:15.120 like the original best. I got a lot of that Christmas shows to plan 11 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:19.480 to have on my television. Because remember that two hundred dollars tree that I 12 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.799 bought last weekend. I still haven't decorated it. The rest of the house 13 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.640 is decorated, but I haven't done the tree yet. I don't know why 14 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.040 I haven't aversion to it. Maybe it's because I spent so much money. 15 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.000 I just want to see the glory of the tree and not cover it up. 16 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.439 Or I'm really lazy. It's one of the two. Here's what's ahead 17 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.319 on wake up call. President Biden's son Hunter has been indicted on nine counts 18 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:47.480 of tax crimes in California. The charges include failure to file and pay taxes, 19 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:53.159 evading assessment, and filing a false or fraudulent return. Prosecutors say during 20 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.439 a four year period, Hunter made more than seven million dollars and didn't pay 21 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.000 at least one point four million dollars in taxes. The US is called on 22 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:07.319 Israel to put a premium on civilian protection as it continues its war to destroy 23 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:10.840 Himas and the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Health Ministry says seventeen thousand Palestinians have 24 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:16.120 been killed since Hamas attacked Israel October seventh, including three hundred yesterday alone. 25 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:23.560 Secretary of State Antony Blincoln says there's a gap between Israel's intent to protect civilians 26 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:29.840 and what's actually happening. Bronnie James is back at full contact practice with the 27 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:34.000 USC men's basketball team. Lebron James's son is on the court for the first 28 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.479 time since he suffered cardiac arrest during practice in July. James could play in 29 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:43.719 his first game with the Trojans when USC hosts Long Beach on Sunday afternoon. 30 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:46.000 Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four 31 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:51.159 hour newsroom. As I mentioned, Hunter Biden has been indicted on nine charges 32 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.479 in California. The charges filed last night include three felonies and six misdemeanors. 33 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.240 It's in addition to federal firearms charges in Delaware, alleging Biden broke a law 34 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.960 against drug users having guns back in twenty eighteen. And I've been saying the 35 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 president's son took part in a four year scheme where he did not pay just 36 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:13.080 under one and a half million in federal tax owed from twenty sixteen to twenty 37 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:17.719 nineteen. Abc'sandy Field says instead, Biden allegedly spent millions of those ode taxes 38 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:23.400 on what prosecutors say was an extravagant lifestyle. Police have increased security at Redondo 39 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:29.039 Union High School following a lockdown over loaded guns found on campus. Two teens 40 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.560 were arrested back to back earlier this week after students notified school officials that their 41 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:38.520 peers were carrying the guns. Redondo PD's Lieutenant Corey King says he wants students 42 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.719 to remember, if you see something, say something that was clearly shown in 43 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.800 these two incidents of how proud we are of the students, the faculty, 44 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:52.439 the staff on how they reacted. Students now have to go through metal detectors 45 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.039 with police president until they go on win or break. Police say there's no 46 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:00.319 evidence either of the teens were planning a school shooting. Chris Adler, Yeah, 47 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:06.240 Fine News. The UN Secretary General Antonio Antonio Gutiraz invoked Article ninety nine 48 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:12.280 earlier this week. It urges members to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the 49 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.920 Israel Hamas War. A vote on the resolution brought by the UAE is set 50 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:20.279 for today. Article ninety nine of the UN Charter was last used over a 51 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:26.439 half century ago in nineteen seventy one, when Bangladesh separated from Pakistan. The 52 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:30.759 Wall Street CEO has threatened to withdraw a one hundred million dollar donation to the 53 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:38.079 University of Pennsylvania because of backlash the school's president is facing over comments about anti 54 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:43.399 Semitism on campus. U penn President Liz McGill testified during a house hearing earlier 55 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:47.839 this week. Ms McGill at Penn does calling for the genocide of Jews violate 56 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:53.720 Penn's rules or code of conduct, yes or no. If the speech turns 57 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:58.040 into conduct, it can be harassment. Mcguil has since walked back her comments, 58 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.040 saying a call for genocide of Jewish peace well is a call for some 59 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.439 of the most terrible violence humans can perpetrate. The donor says he'll pull the 60 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:09.519 funds if she doesn't resign. Time to take an early look at your morning 61 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.959 commute with Nick Poliochini. We got slowing in Riverside on the ninety one, 62 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:16.240 so it's gonna be mostly Friday morning light aim, but it is going to 63 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.000 be a busy one and stretches on the west Don side and spokes are making 64 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.120 their way from before Magnollion two about the fifteen and then you'll see delays beyond 65 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:27.480 clu Corona to continue from before the seventy one and she head toward the two 66 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:30.879 forty one toll road, also seeing a feudilays for you surprisingly on the northbound 67 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:32.720 side of the two forty one as you leave the Windy Ridge tollplaza heading toward 68 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.240 the ninety one. That could be just a glitch in the system, or 69 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:38.439 it could be a few extra cars that are heading north down along the two 70 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.480 forty one. If you're an updated something slowing you down pound to fifteen in 71 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:45.560 yourself on keyword is a SOCW traffic or KFI traffic. The one will get 72 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:46.680 you to me south own side of the fifteen, and you make me through 73 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.959 the Cone pass before the one thirty eight or at Calturans cruise wrapping on shop 74 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:53.839 for the drive, and it looks like you may encounter issues a little bit 75 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.279 closer to the one thirty eight, and it is going to be still going 76 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:59.519 fay from before the escape ramp heading south on on the fifteen heading over to 77 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:01.879 La count You're actually looking pretty good at the exception of the eastbound side of 78 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.439 the one oh five. I'm going to see the lays off of Lake with 79 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:06.920 Boulevard as you make it to a Bellflower Boulevard. Looks like you got a 80 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:10.399 crash in lanes. It's being dealt with, okay, if I and the 81 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:14.240 sky helps get you there faster. I'm Nick Poliochini. Thank you, Nick. 82 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.120 It's five six on your wake up call. Let's say good morning to 83 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:21.160 ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom. This one caught my attention because we have not 84 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:28.600 heard almost anything about this for quite a while. It's the Notre Dame Cathedral 85 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:33.040 or is it Notre Dame, no Tre Dame, no t And you're right, 86 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:38.240 it's been four and a half years, so actually more April of twenty 87 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:43.199 nineteen, and today's kind of an important day because Macron was checking up on 88 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:48.240 the work. In theory it will be done completed finito, twelve months from 89 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.040 now, so you wanted to check on it. And yeah, it's been 90 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.720 a lot of work behind the scenes that you know, we haven't covered every 91 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.480 day. But yeah, it just is very, very slow and painstaking. 92 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.079 Okay, can we back up a little bit and remind us because as you 93 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:06.480 said, it was more than four years ago, but Notre Dame Cathedral burned, 94 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:12.519 so kind of let's go back and remind us how bad that was. 95 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.959 It was terrible. I mean I was here in the London Bureau. It 96 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:19.160 was terrible. I was here in the bureau and you go it's a fire, 97 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:21.879 and you go, well, it's fires as fires, and it kept 98 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:26.959 growing, it kept building, and if you had seen some of the interior 99 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:32.439 shots, I mean you had large medieval timbers in there that drier than bones, 100 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:38.120 so that once it started, it took off, and the roof and 101 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:43.000 the steeple came down, and there was got there the second day and there 102 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:47.879 was literally an army of volunteers helping to try to get items inside the cathedral 103 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:53.439 out across the street and to be saved. But then, boy, it 104 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:57.240 was a burning, burning hulk. And certainly for the first couple of months 105 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.399 they thought some of the structural walls, retaining walls were going to be coming 106 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.160 down what would be left. But the architects were there, the engineers are 107 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.959 there. They've been, you know, working really really hard, and they're 108 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:13.480 saving what they can. And as I say, for the Olympics in about 109 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.319 well next summer, people coming to town will see the structure and say, 110 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.639 look from the outside, it looks like it used to fantastic interior wise, 111 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.519 there's still going to be work to be done, but yeah, it's it's 112 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:31.480 pretty pretty mean feet roughly about what five years five and a half years out 113 00:08:31.679 --> 00:08:37.240 to have this thing back to where it was now a lot of that you 114 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.320 you mentioned that they were taking the relics out, and I remember that specifically 115 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.679 because they're like, these things are hundreds of years old. Did they pretty 116 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:48.960 much get everything out most everything. Yeah, there were a few items that 117 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:54.919 were beyond repair or but yeah, most everything came out, but some things 118 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.399 were you know, we're in there. For instance, the pipe organ. 119 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:03.519 I know, it was huge. I was just reading today. There are 120 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:09.559 eight thousand pipes in it, amy and they're going through them one pipe and 121 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.679 cleaning them one pipe at a time. Why because yes, you can say, 122 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.720 well, there was ash there. There certainly was ash there. But 123 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:22.480 it was another thing too. There was like tons of lead in the roof 124 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.519 that some of it vaporized, some of it fell down. So there's there's 125 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:33.360 lead dust in the interior just about everywhere, including in the organ. So 126 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:39.200 yes, it is meticulous work going down to the micro square centimeter to try 127 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.519 to clean everything up, get it safe, and get it to where it 128 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:48.039 was okay. And so their target date is December eighth of twenty twenty four 129 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.559 to reopen. Yep. That's amazing. Yup. So yeah, put that 130 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:56.440 in your calendar. We'll see, I guess. I guess historically, certainly 131 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:01.879 in recent years something like when they opened the door, something like fifteen million 132 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.600 people go through there each and every year. So yes, it'll be opening 133 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.759 the floodgates once again after an absence of five and a half years at least. 134 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.639 Yeah, that's really cool because, like I said, we hadn't heard 135 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.840 about it for a while, but I remember watching that fire, like we 136 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.799 all, not maybe not all of us, but most of us were watching 137 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.759 that fire and it was just devastating to see that piece of history coming down. 138 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.679 So cool as you're down it was so it was, it was, 139 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.519 it was, it was sad, it was scary, and you know, 140 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.440 it's it was something that you know, you thought you'd never cover. Yeah, 141 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:37.039 and the local thought they would never see and we're going, wow, 142 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.919 this is Notre Dame. It's going it'd be the equivalent of the White House 143 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.720 or you know, fill in the blank Elise Palace. But yeah, it 144 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.720 was something that caught everybody unawares. And of course there was building work being 145 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.240 done at the time, and the leading theory back then was that, you 146 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:03.440 know, maybe a torch used in treatment to remodel the structure caught on to 147 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:09.039 something that then created maybe an electrical spark and there you go off to the 148 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.279 races. Well, good that it's going to be back. I can put 149 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.120 that back on my list of things to do when I one day go to 150 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:18.879 Paris. There you go, all right, talk a good deal. Tom 151 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.759 Rivers, thank you so much. Hey, you can follow Tom at Tom 152 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:26.720 Rivers ABC. Lots of good stuff. Thanks Tom. Let's get back to 153 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:28.360 some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. 154 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.480 California's facing a record breaking sixty eight billion dollar budget deficit. State Senator Roger 155 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:39.279 Niello on the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee says the state can withstand the 156 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.440 big budget shortfall. I don't think we're at a crisis stage yet, but 157 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:48.320 what we do this budget year to solve that sixty eight billion dollar gap will 158 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:54.440 determine whether we do indeed create a real crisis for subsequent budget years. Ylo 159 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:58.519 is recommending using some of the state's reserve funds and other cuts, which could 160 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:03.600 include COOL funding, to help make up the deficit. A man who led 161 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.840 police on a chase through several counties in southern California's been arrested see h pieces. 162 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.279 The guy was believed to be armed while driving a stolen red pickup in 163 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.799 Fontana. Police followed the guy last night along the ten. They passed through 164 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.480 downtown La, then onto the one oh one northbound on the four or five, 165 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.960 and finally to the five. The driver avoided two spike strips that were 166 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.240 deployed, but finally hit a third one near six Flags Magic Mountain that brought 167 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.519 the chase to an end. I'm imagining if we were home, what would 168 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:33.440 it happened? Home in Granada Hills has been burglarized twice in less than a 169 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.279 week. The homeowner tells KTLA thieves got away with about one hundred and fifty 170 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.759 thousand dollars worth of items from the house on November twenty ninth. It's just 171 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:48.039 I don't understand why La became like this, the owner says. The three 172 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.240 armed people shattered a glass door when they broke into the house on Tuesday night 173 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.879 of this week. They say this time an alarm scared them off. Texas 174 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.840 Attorney General Ken Paxton has worn doctors who help pregnant women get an abortion they 175 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.320 could face charges, including first degree felonies. The warning comes following a judge's 176 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:11.240 ruling yesterday that Kate Cox, who is twenty weeks pregnant, could legally terminate 177 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:15.279 her pregnancy because her fetus has a fatal diagnosis. In a letter to the 178 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:20.000 hospitals caring for Cox, Attorney General Ken Paxton argues the judge is not medically 179 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:28.159 qualified to make this determination. Babyc's ran On Ali says Cox's lawyers claim Paxton's 180 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:33.039 main tactic in enforcing abortion bans is fear mongering. Her lawsuit is believed to 181 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:35.279 be one of the first attempts in the US to seek a court ordered abortion 182 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:41.919 since Roe versus Wade was overturned. A man who once served as chief a 183 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.440 chief of the Lahapra Police Department has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for 184 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.080 his role in the January sixth riode at the US Capitol. He chose to 185 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:52.000 represent himself in his trial. He was convicted earlier this year. The DOJ 186 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.639 says the man took tactical gear, pepper spray, and hatchets to the Capitol 187 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:03.799 during the riot. Have upped security efforts around Jewish spaces in La for Hanukkah. 188 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:09.440 Beverly Hills Police Sergeant Jeffrey Newman tells KTLA police have to be extra vigilant 189 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:11.960 to make sure people are protected during the festival of Lights. The Jewish community 190 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:16.759 in general has had a long history of worrying about people trying to hurt the 191 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:22.240 Jewish community. Specifically, the ADL has reported a three hundred percent increase in 192 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:26.919 hate incidents and rhetoric targeting the Jewish community since amass attacked Israel October seventh. 193 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.720 A lot of Menora lighting events are scheduled over the next seven days. Hankkah 194 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:37.679 started last night. At least three people have been hurt when a truck crashed 195 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.480 into spectators at the California Christmas Parade in Bakersfield, polisse A. The driver, 196 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:45.840 who may have been drunk, was upset that a road was closed and 197 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.919 sped onto the parade route as people were getting ready to watch it. The 198 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.720 seventy two year old driver has been arrested. Russia's President Putin wants to stay 199 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:56.559 in office for another six years. State run media in Russiasis. Putin has 200 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:01.879 announced plans to run for reelection in twenty twenty four. Analysts say he's almost 201 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.480 insured a win. A short lived rebellion in June had raised some speculation that 202 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.080 Putin could be losing his grip, but the rebellion ended and the leader, 203 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:15.679 if Geenny Fregosian, is dead. Actor Alan Ruck is being sued by a 204 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.720 driver he allegedly hit on Halloween night. The driver says he was stopped at 205 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:22.840 a red light when the succession in Ferris Bueller's Day Off star rear ended him, 206 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.559 then ended up crashing into a pizza shop in Hollywood. No charges were 207 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:30.960 filed against Ruck at six oh five its handle on the news. Hunter Biden 208 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:35.759 is facing new charges, including three felonies that include filing a false tax return 209 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.360 and not paying more than one point four million dollars in taxes. Right now, 210 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.679 it's time to take a Southern California sleigh ride. Come along, won't 211 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:48.720 you. So we're checking out some fun activities and events going on around southern 212 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.879 California for the holidays, and for this one, it's right in the heart 213 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.159 of La so you don't have to go very far. It's a much more 214 00:15:54.279 --> 00:16:00.840 intimate kind of fun, interactive, and definitely family friendly event. It's brand 215 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:04.039 new to Southern California. It's called Holidays on the Hill at the Hilton and 216 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:08.720 Universal City. We caught up with the director of Marketing and PR Marissa Pratt. 217 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:14.279 Marissa tell us all about Holidays on the Hill. This is our kickoff 218 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:18.879 inaugural event. The Hill is such a stentral location to so many different parts 219 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:23.600 of downtown and the city the valley, So we really wanted to create a 220 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:29.200 large event just pick off the holiday season and to announce our presence in Los 221 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.679 Angeles. So we have four different activations throughout the month of December, but 222 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.000 the really premiere one that I'm excited about is our holiday festival. Okay, 223 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:42.360 and the holiday festival is going down on below us and it is so festive, 224 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:45.559 So tell us what we're going to find down on the holidays on the 225 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:49.879 Hill festival. So I think it's just such a great place because we have 226 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:56.840 unlimited gameplay, oh wit, look game unlimited rides, unlimited activities at all 227 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:02.320 day programming. It's gonna be so diversified. We have elves on stilts, 228 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:07.400 unice cyclists, ballet dancers, but we also have movie nights of the evening. 229 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.880 So it's like your one stop shop to like experience fun, entertainment and 230 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.440 movie. It's all on the same planes. Okay, So if you're looking 231 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.400 for something fun to do, and this is really a family friendly. I've 232 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:21.000 seen a lot of kids out there dancing, like little tiny kids dancing and 233 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.440 loving the music and playing the games. But you've got movies, and are 234 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:26.559 the movies playing each night of the event. Yeah, they're playing each night. 235 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:30.599 The first week we're showing Elf and then I love that. I know 236 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.799 who's Santa, I know him. I guess Hitler Little Barrel. But then 237 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:37.279 the second week is Nightmare before Christmas. Oh I love that. Okay, 238 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:41.000 So when you do that, you've got a big screen and it's it's a 239 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:45.440 blow up screen and people sit out under the stars and with the Christmas trees 240 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:48.039 and the lights around and watch a movie. How cool is that? It's 241 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.759 so cool. I mean we're gonna have outdoor cinema next year, so like 242 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:53.480 this is just like our first peak is an outdoor cinema on the till. 243 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:57.440 Yeah. But the great thing about coming here, your ticket includes a photo 244 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:02.000 with Santa. And that's any day of the week. We're very pet friendly, 245 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.039 so you can bring your cats and your dogs and have your photo with 246 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:07.599 Santo. It's on a visiting day. You can just come any day if 247 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.920 you bring your pets. I love that. So and we went into Santa's 248 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:14.920 workshop a little bit earlier and it's really really set up beautiful. So if 249 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.960 you're looking for that perfect holiday photo with Santa Claus and I love that you 250 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.599 can bring your pets with you, Yeah, not everywhere you can. And 251 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.880 again it's so centrally located. It's right here in Universal City on top of 252 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:27.759 the hill. It easy to get to. So when, oh, before 253 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:30.119 we move on, I got to talk about the food, because you also 254 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:37.079 have food and beverages. And this is a specialty cocktail. It's delicious. 255 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:41.039 I don't remember everything that's in it, but it's really good. And this 256 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:47.039 bananas fostered and a waffle and ice cream with snowflake sprinkles, Are you kidding 257 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:49.640 me? And that's just a couple other really great specialty foods that you have 258 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:53.039 out here. Delicious. We have cute little food carts. We they're like 259 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:57.200 donuts and carros, bananas fosters, and then we have like really cute carnival 260 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:03.759 food like pizza this as well and like fever Tree dreams. But we haven't 261 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:07.079 forgotten the parents, Like we have complimentary beer and wine pasting good, so 262 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.799 you know, we've had to bring something for the parents. We also have 263 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.640 a really cool glamd farm which is so fun. It's like four kids and 264 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.559 four adults. So while the mom is getting her nails done, the kids 265 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:21.799 can't their face painting. Oh I love this. See so it's fun for 266 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:25.160 the whole family. And tell us when we can come and where we're going 267 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:29.519 to get inform more information. So it's December seventh through the tenth for the 268 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:32.680 first week one, and then December fourteenth through the seventeenth for week two, 269 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.079 so Thursdays to Sundays, and where can we find out information about it and 270 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.599 get tickets and all of it. I'm going to experiencefill dot com. Okay 271 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:42.480 perfect, That's where the Southern California is Slate Ride has taken us. We're 272 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:45.440 at Universal City for Holidays on the Hill. Come check it out again. 273 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:51.920 It's happening this weekend and next weekend. It's a smaller event, great for 274 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.200 kids, especially young kids. Like the games that they have are really geared 275 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:59.720 for the kids. And as as Marissa mentioned, Santa is there and his 276 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.160 workshop is really really beautiful. You can take a peek at the event if 277 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:07.160 you want to get a look before you go. I'll be posting the interview 278 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:10.839 that I just did with Marissa this morning on my Instagram at Amy K King 279 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.680 and at KFI AM six forty. But we also want to give you a 280 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:18.480 chance to go and experience Holidays on the Hill. So we have a four 281 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:21.880 pack of tickets to give away to you to Holidays on the Hill, and 282 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:26.960 the folks at Holidays on the Hill is also kicking in a four pack of 283 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:30.480 tickets to the theme park and Universal City next door. So make it a 284 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:34.519 of it really a cool experience. Let's take caller number eleven at one eight 285 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:40.640 hundred five to two oh one KFI. Put your coffee down, get to 286 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:45.839 the phone eight hundred five two zero one five three four Again one eight hundred 287 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:49.160 five to two oh one KFI. The number is one eight hundred five to 288 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:53.480 two zero one five three four, and we're looking for caller number eleven for 289 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:57.880 a four pack of tickets two Holidays on the Hill and also to the theme 290 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:00.880 park next door. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of 291 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.720 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three people in Oxnard have been arrested for 292 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:10.319 allegedly stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from a mall in Camerio. The 293 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.480 Ventura County Sheriff's offices that arrested one guy in November after a police chase. 294 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:18.960 During a search of the guy's car, officers found stolen clothes with security devices 295 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:25.240 still as attached. Photos from the bust show a collection of expensive baseball hats, 296 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:27.759 puffer jackets, and other things that total about five thousand dollars. Two 297 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:33.240 others were arrested shortly after on additional charges. San Diego State Senator Brian Jones, 298 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:37.880 the Senate minority leader, has called for the border to be shut down 299 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:42.480 because of a surge in border crossings. We need to completely halt any further 300 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:47.240 immigration into the country until we can get a grasp on the people that are 301 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.680 already here that have been allowed to come into the United States over the last 302 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:55.440 year. Senator Jones says, border patrol is reporting different groups of people trying 303 00:21:55.480 --> 00:22:00.400 to claim asylum. We're seeing immigrants coming from countries as far as West Africa, 304 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:03.359 Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and we don't know why they're coming here. 305 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.480 They're not coming here necessarily to work. A record twelve thousand people crossed 306 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.880 the border from Mexico into the US in just one day this week. News 307 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.640 brought to you by American Vision Windows. A rocket attack on the US embassy 308 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.559 in Baghdad has caused some minor damage to the building. US and Iraqi officials 309 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:22.119 say no one was hurt. The attack is believed to have been carried out 310 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.599 by militias in Iraq backed by Iran. No group immediately claimed responsibility, ABC's 311 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:30.240 and as Dela Qua Terrass. It comes as Muslim militants have been launching attacks 312 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:34.759 against US forces on military bases in both Iraq and Syria. The attack is 313 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:40.440 the first on the embassy, located in a heavily fortified zone of Iraqi capital, 314 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:45.680 since the start of the Israel Hamas War. North Carolina is on Disney's 315 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.279 mind. The company announced it's going to be building a bunch of homes there. 316 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:55.079 It's part of the company's ongoing story Living by Disney venture. More than 317 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:57.720 four thousand single family homes are going to be built, some of them specifically 318 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:03.920 for adults fifty five and old. There's already a story Living community in Rancho 319 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:07.839 Mirage live out your days in a Disney themed neighborhood. I think I could 320 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:11.960 get in on that. Hey, postathon, we know that it's over. 321 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.039 We raised more than a million dollars. We did that with your help, 322 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:18.359 your generosity, and that's going to help feed like twenty five thousand kids every 323 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:23.119 week through Katerina's Club Wendy's is still taking donations, So if you want to 324 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:29.319 do a last minute Christmas gift to Katerina's Club for postathon, Wendy's is taking 325 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:33.720 those donations through this Sunday at all locations around southern California. And again, 326 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:38.839 thank you for your support and your donations this postathon. President Biden's son Hunter 327 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:44.319 has been indicted on nine counts of tax crimes in California. The charges include 328 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.480 failure to file and pay taxes, evaiding assessment, and filing a false or 329 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:52.119 fraudulent return. We're going to dig a lot deeper into this with ABC Stephen 330 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:55.640 Portnoy in just a minute, so stick around. The US has called on 331 00:23:55.759 --> 00:24:00.440 Israel to put a premium on civilian protection as it continues its war to destroy 332 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:04.440 Hamas and the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Health Ministry says seventeen thousand Palestinians have 333 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:10.200 been killed since Samasa attacked Israel on October seventh, including three hundred yesterday. 334 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:15.319 Secretary of State Antony Blincoln says there is a gap between Israel's intent to protect 335 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:21.920 civilians and what's actually happening. The La Kings now hold the all time NHL 336 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:26.119 record for consecutive road wins to start a season. They picked up their eleventh 337 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.880 straight win last night. That's the record, shutting out Montreal four to nothing. 338 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:33.960 Now the Kings could tie the all time road win record if they beat 339 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.640 the New York Islanders tomorrow night, Go Kings Go. At six oh five, 340 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.000 it's handle on the news. We're gonna find out more about the UNLV 341 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:44.960 shooter. Turns out this professor how to be with a lot of people on 342 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.480 a lot of campuses at five point fifty, ABC's Jason Nathanson is going to 343 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:52.640 leave the world behind and why that's a pretty scary proposition. Right now, 344 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:59.640 let's say good morning to ABC National correspondence Stephen Portnoy. Good morning, Stephen. 345 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.559 So, a new indictment has been handed down against Hunter Biden. Tell 346 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:07.000 us all about it. Yeah. This indictment, handed up in federal court 347 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:12.079 in Los Angeles yesterday, contains a litany of tawdry details about Hunter Biden's proclivities. 348 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:18.240 At a time he was a self admitted drug addict living in Malibu and 349 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:23.119 various other places. It lists all the fancy hotels in and around the Southland 350 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:29.160 where Hunter Biden spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the span of years. 351 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:34.200 But beyond specifying his payments to those hotels and to exotic dancers and poor insights, 352 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:38.640 and even a sex club in Los Angeles at a low point in Hunter 353 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:42.559 Biden's life, this indictment also paints the president's son as a sophisticated tax cheat. 354 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:48.079 It alleges that years after his drug use, he still had his accountants 355 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:53.559 categorized his past spending on debauchery as legitimate business expenses to be deducted from his 356 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:57.640 income so that he would owe less money to the federal government. And essentially, 357 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:03.319 what this indictment ledges is that Hunter Biden never went into debt. He 358 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:07.839 had cash on hand, he wasn't destitute. He purposefully, according to prosecutors, 359 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:14.240 paid all his other bills. He just didn't pay the irs. And 360 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:18.799 so I was curious to see that when the charges came down, that there 361 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:22.440 was that outline, like you were talking about the lavish lifestyle and all of 362 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:26.599 that thing. And my original thought was, well, so that's lots of 363 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:30.880 toury details about the way he's lived his life as he made like seven million 364 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:34.519 dollars, But what does that have to do with paying taxes? Because that's 365 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:38.400 kind of none of the government's business. But it's because you're saying he wrote 366 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:42.519 some of that stuff off. Well, that's the main reason is to illustrate 367 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:48.039 that at least in the twenty eighteen filing, he tried to deduct expenses that 368 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:52.720 were definitely not, according to prosecutors, legitimate business expenses. For example, 369 00:26:52.759 --> 00:27:00.240 the ten thousand dollars membership to a notorious southern California sex club written off to 370 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.839 the indictment as a business expense, payments to exotic dancers written off as a 371 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:10.319 business expense. But you're right in the sense that you know, this indictment 372 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:12.599 goes it seems to go out of its way to paint, you know, 373 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:18.400 to be dripping with salacious details as drug fueled debauchery. This is all a 374 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.799 function of and I think in large part. Look, this was all supposed 375 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:29.160 to be resolved last summer in a plea agreement where Hunter Biden was prepared to 376 00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:34.559 plead guilty to two tax related misdemeanors, but that agreement came undone. It's 377 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:40.160 not entirely clear why the judge had problems with the way it was written in 378 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:44.119 the idea that the court was responsible for overseeing enforcement with the diversion agreement, 379 00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:47.079 and she said she'd never seen anything like that before. And before you knew 380 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:49.160 it, the deal was off. Prosecutors said they were going to go to 381 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:53.599 trial, and the defense attorneys said, all right, well, we'll defend 382 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:57.519 our client. And now you have the felony charges in Delaware related to the 383 00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:03.559 purchase of a pistol a time that prosecutors say Hunter Biden shouldn't have had one 384 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:08.319 because he was using drugs. And now you have this a silacious indictment related 385 00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:12.359 to the tax crimes that are alleged to have been committed, tax evasion, 386 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:18.240 filing false tax returns. And again, all of this was supposed to be 387 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:19.920 resolved last summer, but it hasn't been, and now it's going to trial. 388 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:26.119 But perhaps most acutely important this morning is we're reading all of these really 389 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.839 gritty details. Yeah, and it's interesting too because now the gun charge, 390 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:36.440 which is the one that had stuck for earlier this year, like you mentioned, 391 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:40.200 that one seems pretty minor compared to one and a half million dollars in 392 00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:42.240 taxes not paid. Well, the taxes have been paid, which is a 393 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:47.079 mitigating circumstance. Oh, they have been paid, the taxes have been paid, 394 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:49.599 but he's charged with not paying them. He's charged with not filing his 395 00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:56.319 taxes. Yeah, okay, And look, the bottom line is the wrongdoing 396 00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:59.960 was done according to prosecutors, from twenty seventeen all the way uprough twenty two. 397 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.079 But that includes the failure to file, the failure to pay timely, 398 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:11.400 and also, according to prosecutors, the cheating. I mean claiming that the 399 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:17.160 spending on your lavish lifestyle is a legitimate deduction from your income. That's perhaps 400 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:21.079 the most damning allegation. Not that Hunter Biden was down on his luck, 401 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:23.640 and he was, you know, he fell into addiction and he was trying 402 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:27.960 to put his life back together. It alleges that while his father was, 403 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:32.559 you know, embarking on becoming the Democratic nominee for president it was time for 404 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:37.720 the family to come together behind him, he was still seeking to evade the 405 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.599 federal income taxes that he owed in the millions of dollars that he was given 406 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.440 by overseas clients. That he paid all his other bills, he paid the 407 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:49.519 alimony, he paid his creditors, he paid his employees, but he didn't 408 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:53.680 pay the tax man. And that's the accusation. So what happens next? 409 00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:02.319 Well next, you know, interesting question. We always ask it because we 410 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:04.079 want to figure out what where this goes. This will go to trial, 411 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:07.440 right, so that will happen, The defense attorneys will have their day. 412 00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:11.480 They say that this is only happening because Hunter Biden's last name is Biden, 413 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.920 and that there's been political pressure applied by Republicans in Congress on the Justice Department 414 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:22.240 to look tough. I think that ultimately one big question that hasn't been answered 415 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.440 is whether there's anything else. Yeah, because when this all started to unravel 416 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.039 in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware last summer, the judge asked, what 417 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.440 else is there? And the prosecutor said, well, there's basically there's two 418 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.960 things. There's the gun charge, there's the tax thing, and we can't 419 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.200 talk about the other aspects of our investigation. And the judge said, well 420 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:44.240 it might it have to do with the Foreign Agents Registration Act of FARA. 421 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:48.440 Could you bring charges under FARA? And the prosecutor simply said yes, we 422 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.759 haven't heard anything about it since. Guess we're going to have to just keep 423 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.359 listening and keep watching. Thank you so much, Stephen Portino. I appreciate 424 00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.240 the information and insight. You bet, all right, Let's get back to 425 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.240 some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Seventeen 426 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.799 percent of workers in the entertainment industry in LA lost jobs because of the WGA 427 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:11.039 and SAG after strikes this year. The Otis College of Art and Designs study 428 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.519 says that nearly twenty five or that is, nearly twenty five thousand employees. 429 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.559 Actors and writers made up the majority of job losses, but camera operators, 430 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:25.839 editors, and sound and lighting techs also lost jobs. Mayor Bass says she 431 00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:30.279 wants more LAPD recruits. The mayor's team says the goal is to hire many 432 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:33.839 new officers, with no exact target laid out. In August, the mayor 433 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.799 proved a thirteen percent pay increase for recruits. More than one thousand people applied 434 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.519 for the department that month. Mayor Bass says that was the highest number of 435 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:45.920 recruits since twenty twenty. This, I think shows that we're well on our 436 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:52.160 way to restoring the department. About eighty nine hundred and fifty officers currently work 437 00:31:52.240 --> 00:32:00.000 for the LAPD in La Blake Trolley KFI News McDonald's is testing a new restaurant 438 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:07.519 with customizable drinks and treats designed for afternoon snackers. Ten Cosmics restaurants are opening 439 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:12.200 next year in Chicago and Texas. McDonald's president says Cosmics will serve snacks like 440 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:16.279 pretzel bites and egg mcmuffins and drinks like churo frope or is it a truro 441 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:21.519 frap? It's a frap, all right? I don't sure. I don't 442 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:23.359 do FRAPs. I don't know. Tonight, the Clippers take on the Jazz 443 00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:28.160 in Utah, with tip off at six pm. Listen to the game on 444 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:32.799 a five seventy LA Sports Hollywood Park Casino Elevate your Game. At least three 445 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:37.000 people have been hurt when a truck crashed into spectators at the California Christmas Parade 446 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.839 in Bakersfield. Police say the driver, who may have been drunk, was 447 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.400 upset that a road was closed and sped onto the parade route as people were 448 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.799 getting ready to watch. The seventy two year old driver has been arrested. 449 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.160 Russia's President Putin wants to stay in office for another six years. State run 450 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.839 media in Russia's as Putin has announced plans to run for reelection in twenty twenty 451 00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:00.079 four. There was a short lived rebellion in June that had raised some speculation 452 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:05.240 that Putin might be losing his grip, but the rebellion ended and the leader 453 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:10.079 of the rebellion, Yevgeny Progosian, is dead. The Dungeons and Dragons game, 454 00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:15.319 boulders Gate three is a big winner of the Game Awards twenty twenty three. 455 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.759 Boulders three won six awards, including Game of the Year at the awards 456 00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:23.920 last night in Los Angeles. Marvel spider Man two was nominated for seven awards, 457 00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.599 didn't win any. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news 458 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:31.880 this morning, Hunter Biden is facing new charges, including three felonies for not 459 00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:37.440 filing and filing a false or fraudulent tax return. Right now, let's say 460 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:44.640 good morning to ABC's entertainment guru, Jason Nathansen. Jason got some big names 461 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:49.039 in a new Netflix movie that poses a rather scary question for a tech filled 462 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:52.640 world. Yes, Leave the World Behind. Stars Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawk, 463 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:57.440 Hershaw, Lee Kevin Bacon. Haven't seen Julia Roberts for a while. 464 00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:02.599 Yeah, she was in a series I don't remember which streaming service. It 465 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:07.799 was on kind of an Apple, but that series was by Sam Smail, 466 00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.119 who's the creator of Mister Robot, who is the creator of this film and 467 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:14.880 director as well. And this is based on a book from twenty twenty which 468 00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:16.920 was very popular, and she's Julia Roberts, is the kind of head of 469 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:21.480 a family. They're living in New York. They go away to the Hamptons 470 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:24.519 for the weekend to have a nice relaxing weekend and they get there and things 471 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:29.239 are starting to go a little weird. They notice weird things happening. The 472 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:31.320 cell phone's not working, the WiFi is not working. Well, that happens 473 00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:36.280 every day, Jason, Well, sure, but this happens in a in 474 00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.079 a way that causes questions for them, Okay, and then they start to 475 00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:44.760 realize, oh, this is kind of a bigger thing and it's not really 476 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:47.800 working out so well. And then kind of, you know, people start 477 00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:52.760 to get paranoid, they start to question things. Society starts to break down 478 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:54.960 a little bit. And this is kind of scary because this is this is 479 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.840 gonna happen to us one day. If you basically get the you get the 480 00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:04.320 feeling that this is all very grounded in some kind of reality that we're all 481 00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:07.079 going to eventually face and have to deal with, which is kind to be 482 00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.800 kind of scary. So this is it's a psychological look at that which is 483 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:15.920 very interesting. And remember there was a movie on Netflix that took a lot 484 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:21.000 of people the streaming world by storm a couple of years ago called bird Box 485 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:22.559 the Sand Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think this is going to 486 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:25.559 be this year's version of that, And a lot of people are going to 487 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:30.519 watch this and watch this over the next several weeks, as you know, 488 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:32.840 the holidays and people are looking for something to see, and this is the 489 00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:37.880 one I think people are going to be talking about. I'm seen Anne Hathaway 490 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:42.199 in a while either Anne Hathaway. She's been around, She's been in a 491 00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.360 couple of things. Maybe I'm just not getting out enough, smaller thing. 492 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:47.320 She was in a really good series that was an Apple I know that called 493 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:52.119 We Crashed about the We Work Couple, which was really good. If you 494 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.239 didn't see that, go check it out, go watch that. She's also 495 00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:59.599 in a new movie called Eileen, which is in theaters expanding in the theaters 496 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:04.159 nation, but it's been in theaters for a week or so. Now and 497 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:08.159 she it's her and Thomas and mackenzie. You might remember her as the girl 498 00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:12.840 from Jojo Rabbit. That was her for the first time we saw her, 499 00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:17.079 and she's fantastic in this. Thomasin McKenzie plays a young woman who's kind of 500 00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:21.559 shy. She works at a juvenile detention center that's like in the late fifties 501 00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:25.639 early sixties in Boston, and she's and and Hathaway's character shows up. She's 502 00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:31.880 a psychologist and kind of starts to bring Eileen out of her shell because she's 503 00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:35.719 the kind of woman who when she walks in a room, everybody pays attention 504 00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:38.320 to her. And this is kind of a psychological thriller study as well. 505 00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:44.119 Really good performances by Anne Hathaway and Thomas and McKenzie. You know, see 506 00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:45.679 it in theater if you want. I think you could see it at home 507 00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:51.360 whenever it comes streaming as well. But this movie's not gonna make a lot 508 00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:53.360 of waves, but it's a real it's really well done. Okay. And 509 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:57.599 then there's another movie that probably isn't going to make a lot of waves called 510 00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:02.480 Waitress. Yes, so Waitress is actually it's based on there's a two thousand 511 00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:07.760 and seven movie called Waitress starring Kerry Russell that was made into a Broadway play 512 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:14.199 musical starring various people, but also Sarah Burrellis who wrote the music and lyrics 513 00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:17.000 for that and then eventually started it on Broadway as well. And now this 514 00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:22.840 is now back in theaters, but it's not a movie movie. It is 515 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.760 a filmed version of the Broadway musical for Hamilton. Well, yeah, when 516 00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.360 they put Hamilton on Disney Plus, this is kind of the same thing. 517 00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:37.000 But Hamilton was a massive worldwide hit. Yes true Broadway Waitresses a Tony winning 518 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:40.760 and did you know, very very well, And it's only in theaters for 519 00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:45.159 a couple of days that think through through Monday. But you know, if 520 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:49.559 look, you have to like musicals, and you have to like Broadway musicals 521 00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:51.719 to go see something like this at a theater, I know, you know, 522 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.000 very few people are probably actually going to go do that. But if 523 00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:58.239 you do like Broadway musicals and you didn't didn't get a chance to see it 524 00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:01.000 on Broadway, especially with Sarah brella Is starring in it, then this is 525 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:06.000 your chance. I mean, it's a good story, Okay, great sounds 526 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:07.880 like there's lots coming up, do they usually do a lot of releases around 527 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:12.440 the holiday seat it feels like stuff is still being pushed out. Yeah, 528 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.039 I mean, this is not necessarily the biggest week for releases. These are 529 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:20.039 a bunch of kind of small films, except for the Netflix one, which 530 00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:22.559 by the way, was in theaters and might still be in theater for a 531 00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.199 little bit. But as we get into next week and then the next two 532 00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:30.239 weeks, that's a really big week. So we're gonna see Wonka, the 533 00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.280 Color Purple, George Clooney's The Boys in the Boat, which he directed. 534 00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:39.320 There are a bunch of Aquaman. There are a bunch of big movies coming 535 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:42.400 in the next couple of weeks. All right, we'll be watching for him, 536 00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:44.840 Jason Nathans And thank you so much. All right. Ticket, Hey, 537 00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:50.079 congratulations, we have a four pack of ticket winner to Holiday on the 538 00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:53.440 Hills. Let's start that again. Holidays on the Hill also tickets to the 539 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:58.599 theme park next door. It's at the Universal City Hilton, going on this 540 00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:02.480 weekend and next and when say congratulations to Steve Johnson and his family, get 541 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:07.519 to go and check out the Holidays on the Hill. I'm going to try 542 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:14.280 this and bear with me, but there is a list of most mispronounced words, 543 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:19.719 and here are a few of them. Singer Sizza, actor Kylieen Murphy, 544 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:25.039 and biotech entrepreneur vivek Ramaswami have made Babel's list of most mispronounced words, 545 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:30.519 and I will tell you vivake several times I've mispronounced that one. The online 546 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:34.800 language learning company i D the top words in the US and UK that news 547 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:39.880 anchors, politicians and others messed up this year. Two volcanoes, Mexico's Popa 548 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:47.239 Ka Tepitil and Hawaii's Kilauea also made the list. Travis Kelsey's last name also 549 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:52.039 made the list. In case you don't remember, he is the Kansas City 550 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:55.760 Chief's tight end who is dating times twenty twenty three percent of the year. 551 00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:01.280 Taylor Swift. I almost made it through that. We lead local live from 552 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:05.679 the KFI twenty for our newsroom. 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