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Speaker 1: call for Thursday, December twelfth. I'm Amy King. We're live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good Morning. Thirteen shopping days
Speaker 1: till Christmas. I'm still way behind, and my tree is
Speaker 1: still up. It's still not decorated. I looked at it
Speaker 1: yesterday and I went, oh, it's a perfect day. It's
Speaker 1: kind of cloudy, it's not very warm. This is the
Speaker 1: perfect day to get the lights on and decorate the tree.
Speaker 1: And then I got distracted into it. Kind of chilly
Speaker 1: this morning. You need to grab a sweater. You might
Speaker 1: want to do that before you head out the door.
Speaker 1: It's a day that I'm very thankful for seat warmers.
Speaker 1: You know I mentioned that, don't You don't use them
Speaker 1: that often in southern California, But on the days that
Speaker 1: you do, it's like, ah, it's so nice. Oh, and
Speaker 1: there's a gorgeous moon. It's not quite full yet, but
Speaker 1: it was beautiful driving in this morning. So as you
Speaker 1: head out, look up. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: Sant Ana wins have died down. Humidity levels are increasing
Speaker 1: as firefighters continue to battle the fire burning in Malibu.
Speaker 1: It's charred more than four thousand acres and is seven
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. Fire officials say nine homes and other buildings
Speaker 1: have been destroyed, six others are damaged. Will's going to
Speaker 1: give you an update on road closures in the area
Speaker 1: around the fire in just a couple of minutes. President
Speaker 1: Biden has commuted sentences of roughly fifteen hundred people who
Speaker 1: were released from prison and placed on home confinement during
Speaker 1: the pandemic. Is so pardoning thirty nine Americans convicted of
Speaker 1: non violent offenses. It's the largest single day act of
Speaker 1: clemency in modern history. The President said America was built
Speaker 1: on the promise of possibility and second chances. Police a
Speaker 1: fingerprints found at the scene where United Healthcare CEO was
Speaker 1: shot to death in New York City last week match
Speaker 1: Luigi Mangione's. This is the first forensic match that investigators
Speaker 1: say Ti Manchioni to the scene of the murder. Manngioni
Speaker 1: was arrested at a McDonald's Pennsylvania Monday. We're going to
Speaker 1: be digging into the mind of the potential killer with
Speaker 1: ABC's crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. That's coming up
Speaker 1: at five twenty. Forget Christmas, ABC's Jim Ryan says, it's
Speaker 1: time to start thinking about taxes for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: That's at five point fifty, and we're going to take
Speaker 1: a southern California sleigh ride this holiday season to a
Speaker 1: brand new Christmas event. It's in the heart of downtown LA.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at the bottom of the hour, So
Speaker 1: we hope you'll stick around the whole hour because we
Speaker 1: got lots going on, So get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: More than six thousand people in Malibu remain under evacuation orders.
Speaker 1: As the fire in the area has grown to more
Speaker 1: than four thousand acres, thousands more people are under evacuation warnings.
Speaker 1: The fire is seven percent surrounded. CalFire Incident Commander Dusty
Speaker 1: Martin says it is burning in areas that are hard
Speaker 1: to get to.
Speaker 4: The challenging areas for us have been on the west
Speaker 4: side of the fire up in the Malibu Canyon area.
Speaker 4: It's extremely steep and unaccessible terrain that the fire is in,
Speaker 4: and we're working on getting firefighters in there to start
Speaker 4: containing that.
Speaker 1: Cruz say the winds have died down and that's helping
Speaker 1: firefighting efforts. The La County Fire Department says damage assessments
Speaker 1: so far found nine homes and other buildings destroyed, six damaged.
Speaker 1: LA County has reported its highest ever number of reported
Speaker 1: hate crimes.
Speaker 5: Well the third straight year. There's been a double digit
Speaker 5: percentage increase in reported hate crimes in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: forty five percent more than the year before. Supervisor Holly
Speaker 5: Mitchell says even she experiences what she calls microaggressions.
Speaker 6: This isn't Alabama, Mississippi. I experience, without exaggeration, minimally of microaggression.
Speaker 2: Every single det.
Speaker 5: Race was the top category for reported crimes, while there
Speaker 5: were also increases in cases involving gender, identity and religion.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks KFI News. The family of a Hawaii woman
Speaker 1: who disappeared after arriving at lax now says she is
Speaker 1: safe in Mexico. Hannah Kobayashi was last seen in early November.
Speaker 1: The LAPD said evidence showed she walked into Mexico on
Speaker 1: her own and was not a victim of foul play. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: the woman's family confirmed she is safe. This holiday season,
Speaker 1: Santa Claus is connecting with us like never before. Saint
Speaker 1: Nick has gotten tech savvy, and starting today, he will
Speaker 1: offer one on one chats with chat GPT. Whether you
Speaker 1: have questions about life at the North Pole, you're curious
Speaker 1: about what the elves are up to, or your lif
Speaker 1: looking for a silly reindeer story as a parent with
Speaker 1: curious kids, you can now ask Sanna. He will respond
Speaker 1: in real time in his signature jolly voice in chat
Speaker 1: GPT's advanced voice mode. Let's say good morning now at
Speaker 1: five h seven to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, the FBI
Speaker 1: director has decided to quit instead of getting fired. Was
Speaker 1: this a surprise at all?
Speaker 3: Well, to the extent surprise. It's surprised that you know,
Speaker 3: it was announced yesterday, and it was the choice that
Speaker 3: Christopherray is making, not to quote drag the FBI deeper
Speaker 3: into the fray. You point out, Amy that you know
Speaker 3: Chrisphray was not invited to stay on in the Trump administration.
Speaker 3: In fact, the President elect made that very clear about
Speaker 3: two weeks ago when he announced that Cash Pttel would
Speaker 3: be his nominee to lead the FBI. Of course, there
Speaker 3: wasn't a vacancy. Donald Trump's you know, appointment of a
Speaker 3: man to a post that isn't vacant is a legal challenge.
Speaker 3: And Christopher Ray has a term that lasts through twenty
Speaker 3: twenty seven, but he's taking himself out of the role now.
Speaker 3: He's announced that he's going to leave the agency when
Speaker 3: the Biden administration ends next month.
Speaker 1: Okay, And normally you said he's been in there for
Speaker 1: seven years. Normally it's a ten year term that the
Speaker 1: FBI director serves, but the president can fire.
Speaker 3: Him, that is correct. I mean, look, Donald Trump fired
Speaker 3: James Comy in the middle of his tenure term, and
Speaker 3: so Trump would have would have fired Ray if Ray
Speaker 3: hadn't announced yesterday that he's going to step down voluntarily.
Speaker 1: Okay. And it's interesting because Trump actually appointed Ray when
Speaker 1: he was president last time.
Speaker 3: That's right, and it's a great fanfare praising him as
Speaker 3: a sort of a paragon of virtue. But Trump said yesterday, quote,
Speaker 3: I just don't know what happened to him. You know,
Speaker 3: Trump believes that Ray was responsible for the FBI's rate
Speaker 3: of mar A Lago in twenty twenty two. Of course,
Speaker 3: that happened after months of back and forth between unbeknownst
Speaker 3: to the public, between Trump and the Justice Department and
Speaker 3: the National Archives over the boxes of classified material that
Speaker 3: we're hanging out in you know, the bathroom and the
Speaker 3: auditorium and the storage room at mar A Lago, with
Speaker 3: allegedly his staffers moving the boxes around behind the attorney's back.
Speaker 3: All of this was ultimately the subject of a federal
Speaker 3: indictment that has now been dismissed, but Trump says that
Speaker 3: the FBI was responsible for how it was handled. Of course,
Speaker 3: the FBI is a law enforcement agency and can't operate
Speaker 3: without direction by the Justice Department and attorneys there, attorneys
Speaker 3: who go to court to get the FBI's search warrants signed.
Speaker 3: So anyway, long story short, Trump is not a fan
Speaker 3: of Christopher Ray and is tapping a longtime loyalist in
Speaker 3: Cash Patel, to essentially clean house. No, Pateel's gonna have
Speaker 3: to answer questions from skeptical senators, maybe some moderate Republicans,
Speaker 3: but certainly Democrats on camera. I had a confirmation hearing
Speaker 3: about how serious he is about the things he said
Speaker 3: on podcasts and in other places talking to right wing
Speaker 3: audiences about his desire to clean house and go after
Speaker 3: Trump's enemies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so is it like a cabinet position where
Speaker 1: he has to get the Senate to back the comfort
Speaker 1: to back the appointment.
Speaker 3: The FBI director certainly is the Senate confirmed post. And
Speaker 3: the whole idea of the ten year term established by
Speaker 3: Congress is to go beyond the length of any particular
Speaker 3: presidency to sort of take the Bureau out of politics. Well,
Speaker 3: that's not going to happen here. Christopher Ray is ceding
Speaker 3: to the intent of the incoming president to replace him.
Speaker 3: And that's understood now that the constitution gives the president
Speaker 3: the power to point officials and to fire them.
Speaker 1: Okay, And when does the raised resignation take effect. Is
Speaker 1: it going to be now or is he going to
Speaker 1: do like work with the Biden administration right up until
Speaker 1: January twentieth thirty.
Speaker 3: It is not happening now. What is not clear is
Speaker 3: exactly when his term will end. But he said yesterday
Speaker 3: that he'll leave next month. When that when the administration
Speaker 3: is over, so I suppose that means noon at January twentieth,
Speaker 3: but I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much as always,
Speaker 1: you bet all right, Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Police in New York say a gun found on the
Speaker 1: man suspected of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson matches
Speaker 1: shell casings found at the crime scene in Manhattan. YPD
Speaker 1: Commissioner Jessica Tish says there is also other evidence against
Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni.
Speaker 7: We're also able at our crime lab to match the
Speaker 7: person of interests fingerprints with fingerprints that we found on
Speaker 7: both the water bottle and the kind bar near the
Speaker 7: scene of the homicide in Midtown.
Speaker 1: Mangioni was seen on video to Starbucks the day Thompson
Speaker 1: was killed, buying water and the food bar. Mangioni was
Speaker 1: arrested in Pennsylvania at MacDonald's and is fighting extradition to
Speaker 1: New York. A fundraiser has been set up online for
Speaker 1: the man accused of killing Brian Thompson in New York
Speaker 1: as of this morning. Donations for mangeone on Give Send
Speaker 1: Go have topped forty four thousand dollars. The goal is
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand. People on the site can also send prayers.
Speaker 1: There's a button for that. The fundraiser said it is
Speaker 1: not to celebrate violence, but that organizers believe in the
Speaker 1: constitutional right of fair legal representation. The man accused of
Speaker 1: lying in wait to try to assassinate President elect Trump
Speaker 1: has asked a judge in Florida to delay his trial
Speaker 1: until December of twenty twenty five. Ryan Routh is pleaded
Speaker 1: not guilty to five counts, including attempted assassination of a
Speaker 1: presidential candidate. The judge in the casay she'll rule on
Speaker 1: the delay request in the not so distant future. New
Speaker 1: York City Mayor Eric Adams is said to meet with
Speaker 1: President elect Trump's incoming borders are.
Speaker 8: The two are expected to discuss deepporting migrants who come
Speaker 8: out crimes, the migrant crisis in the city, and federal
Speaker 8: immigration policy. Tom Homan has threatened to withhold funding from
Speaker 8: sanctuary cities that don't cooperate with deportation plans kafight.
Speaker 1: Scott Pringle says New York is a sanctuary city, but
Speaker 1: Mayor Adams says he'd like local law enforcement to work
Speaker 1: with the Feds to deport criminals. Protests over the meeting
Speaker 1: are planned outside city Hall. As more insurers stop offering
Speaker 1: insurance to homeowners in California, Farmers says it's going to
Speaker 1: offer more policies. Farmers has been limiting the number of
Speaker 1: new residential insurance policies in the last year to seven
Speaker 1: thousand per month. It announced it will raise that number
Speaker 1: for home and condo owners and renters to ninety five
Speaker 1: hundred new customers per month starting later this month. Six
Speaker 1: times Super Bowl winning coach Bill Belichick is going back
Speaker 1: to college. She'll become the next head coach at North Carolina.
Speaker 1: The former New England Patriots head coach has worked in
Speaker 1: the NFL almost fifty years. He holds the record for
Speaker 1: most Super Bowl and most Playoff wins in NFL history.
Speaker 1: He resigned from the Patriots at the end of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three season. Okay, as you know, Pastathon has
Speaker 1: come and gone and we finally have all the totals,
Speaker 1: So we wanted to say one more big, fat thank
Speaker 1: you to you, because you guys really opened up your
Speaker 1: hearts and your pocket books and donated a whole ton
Speaker 1: of money and pasta. So the final the final total
Speaker 1: is one million, two hundred twenty three thousand, two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy dollars. And on top of that, eighty nine
Speaker 1: thousand and five pounds of pasta and sauce was donated
Speaker 1: during Pastathon twenty twenty four and it all goes to
Speaker 1: Katarina's Club. Chef Bruno serves up twenty five thousand meals
Speaker 1: every week, twenty five thousand, So that's kids who get
Speaker 1: to have a nice full belly and get to you know,
Speaker 1: go back and do their homework, had their minds cleared,
Speaker 1: their minds nourished, and it's all because of you. Couldn't
Speaker 1: do it without you. Again, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your participation in Pastathon twenty twenty four. About six thousand
Speaker 1: people are still under evacuation orders because of the fire
Speaker 1: in Malibu. The winds have died down, so cal Edison's
Speaker 1: power has been restored to customers in the area and
Speaker 1: traffic signals are working again. The fires burned more than
Speaker 1: four thousand acres since Monday night. It's seven percent surrounded.
Speaker 1: Several roads are still closed around Malibu, including a stretch
Speaker 1: of Pacific Coast Highway. Others have reopened, but only to residents.
Speaker 1: Sheriff's deputies are patrolling the area to guard against looting.
Speaker 1: Schools in the area will stay closed at least through
Speaker 1: tomorrow because of the fire still being investigated. President elect
Speaker 1: Trump has been named Times Person of the Year. To
Speaker 1: mark the unveiling of the magazine cover, Trump's team says
Speaker 1: he'll be on Wall Street this morning to ring the
Speaker 1: opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. This will
Speaker 1: be the first time he's done that. It's his second
Speaker 1: time being named Times Person of the Year. At six
Speaker 1: oh five. It's handle on the news. FBI to TIS
Speaker 1: director Christopher Rayes calling it quits right now, let's say
Speaker 1: good morning to ABC's crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. So,
Speaker 1: Brad Luigi Mangioni had got everything going for him. He's smart,
Speaker 1: he's cute, starting a good career, good family, and then
Speaker 1: something happened that led him to basically assassinate the CEO
Speaker 1: of United Healthcare allegedly.
Speaker 6: So Aman, we don't know it got him there, but
Speaker 6: I can guarantee you he got there, and you only
Speaker 6: get there through radicalization. And I don't know who radicalized him.
Speaker 6: I don't know obviously who he was talking to online,
Speaker 6: but this kid at some point started delving into sort
Speaker 6: of a radical way of thinking about the healthcare industry
Speaker 6: and probably got in trade. He's really smart, and my
Speaker 6: guess has put everything into well what this is all about?
Speaker 6: And you know, isn't it awful? And you know, whatever
Speaker 6: negative things he could find, and maybe he's now talking
Speaker 6: to people that all also supporting that way of thinking.
Speaker 6: So radicalization basically goes through four phases for lack of
Speaker 6: better terms, where you get intrigued with a particular philosophy,
Speaker 6: you then accept it, and then you accept that violence
Speaker 6: is the way to deal with it, and then you act.
Speaker 6: And obviously he did act. And just his comments of
Speaker 6: what little has been released about whacking the CEO, I mean,
Speaker 6: it's all like, was he felt, he feels totally justified
Speaker 6: that what he did, that he's on the right side
Speaker 6: of all of this and the rest of us are
Speaker 6: on the other side. And I mean, let's face it,
Speaker 6: I mean there's a lot of people that are sort
Speaker 6: of applauding what he did, which obviously is not right,
Speaker 6: but it is out there. And so despite the fact
Speaker 6: he had all this going for him, he still felt
Speaker 6: had a vulnerability to fall into something like this, and
Speaker 6: the whole idea that he just peered for six months.
Speaker 6: It sort of fits. I mean, six months of total
Speaker 6: isolation of maybe just dealing with like minded people, probably
Speaker 6: online mostly. We'll have to see till he ultimately plans
Speaker 6: this and figures out where the CEO is going to be,
Speaker 6: shoots him, and then it leaves, and I think feels
Speaker 6: just fine about it, Yeah, which is not uncommon with
Speaker 6: people who commit these kind of acts.
Speaker 1: And Brad, I'm guessing, just from hearing you talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, the road to radicalization for people who may
Speaker 1: be heading that way, I'm guessing that the Internet and
Speaker 1: social media helps that along. And you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better word, because the algorithms all
Speaker 1: point you to places you're already going. It's just like it,
Speaker 1: you know, it pushes conservative people more conservative, and it
Speaker 1: pushes liberal people further to the left. So I would
Speaker 1: imagine as he starts digging around and finding stuff that
Speaker 1: it just makes it. I mean, it's like it's just
Speaker 1: fanning the flames for him.
Speaker 6: There is no doubt, and right it helps you go
Speaker 6: down whatever path you're choosing, whether it's a light path
Speaker 6: or a dark path. In his case, obviously he was
Speaker 6: he has gone down a very dark path, and you know,
Speaker 6: he's basically giving up his life to do this, and
Speaker 6: maybe he doesn't recognize this. I think the harsh reality
Speaker 6: of the four walls that he's currently sitting in that
Speaker 6: which may be his residence for maybe ever we'll have
Speaker 6: to see, is they don't think about that. And clearly
Speaker 6: maybe he planned it high risk he got away, but
Speaker 6: he didn't. He didn't plan the elk game, and that's
Speaker 6: what got him caught, which I thought all along he
Speaker 6: was going to get caught, because it just didn't strike
Speaker 6: me that you know that he was on a you know,
Speaker 6: a jet to some island in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was. He was found two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: miles away.
Speaker 6: Right right, and he's driving through familiar territory. I think
Speaker 6: he'd been to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. He went to college
Speaker 6: at at the University of Pennsylvania. So I don't know,
Speaker 6: but it's a story that we don't have all the pieces,
Speaker 6: but I'm pretty clear that he had to go through
Speaker 6: this sort of stages of radicalization to get to where
Speaker 6: he got to last week.
Speaker 1: Here's a question for you, Brat. I mean, this doesn't
Speaker 1: happen overnight. Is this like a year in the making
Speaker 1: or two years in the making, or is there any
Speaker 1: kind of a timeline typically that you see with these
Speaker 1: kind of cases.
Speaker 6: There's not a timeline, Amy, but I will tell you
Speaker 6: that it has come out that in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 6: so that's three years ago. He's in some sort of
Speaker 6: book club and he brings in the writings of Ted Kaczynski,
Speaker 6: the unabomber, and talks about beasically that he gives him
Speaker 6: a four star rating, and that that you know, maybe
Speaker 6: it was not right that he was the Ted was
Speaker 6: blowing people up, but that this whole idea of stopping
Speaker 6: society from improvements in technology was the right thing to do. Basically,
Speaker 6: he sort of justifies what Kazinski did and apparently it
Speaker 6: alarmed so many people in the book club. People started
Speaker 6: pulling out of it. Oh really, so I only shared
Speaker 6: only share that that's three years ago. So something's been
Speaker 6: going on with this kid for a long time, is
Speaker 6: a short answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now we know he had a back injury. That's
Speaker 1: been talked about quite a bit, But are there any
Speaker 1: indications so far that he was like denied coverage or
Speaker 1: a medical procedure or something by the insurance companies. And
Speaker 1: maybe that just really ticked him off and again sent
Speaker 1: him down that road.
Speaker 6: Oh maybe, or maybe that got him to be intrigued
Speaker 6: by the whole idea even had I may be wrong
Speaker 6: about this a second back surgery, and his back is
Speaker 6: much better than it was previously, but yes, that may
Speaker 6: have given him a direction. And then once he starts digging,
Speaker 6: he sees sort of how murky the whole healthcare insurance
Speaker 6: industry is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's fascinating in a very morbid way that
Speaker 1: somebody who, like we talked about, who seemed to have
Speaker 1: it all, shows that very dark.
Speaker 4: Path, right and throw it all away?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, all right. ABC's Crime and Terror Analyst Brad Garrett,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, appreciate your insight. As always, you're
Speaker 1: welcome take carry me all right, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: A homeless man charged with punching an Asian woman in
Speaker 1: the head in Culver City while shouting racial slurs at her,
Speaker 1: is pleaded guilty to a federal charge. The US Attorney's
Speaker 1: Office says it's a felony and carries a possible maximum
Speaker 1: penalty of ten years in federal prison. Sentencing a set
Speaker 1: for March. The man appointed as the director of the
Speaker 1: FBI by then President Trump in twenty seven teen will
Speaker 1: step down before Trump takes office in January. Christopher Ray
Speaker 1: announced yesterday he was resigning. He said it was the
Speaker 1: best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray.
Speaker 1: The resignation clears the way for Trump to nominate Cash
Speaker 1: Battel to head the FBI. The Pentagon is pushing back
Speaker 1: on claims by New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew that
Speaker 1: mysterious drones spotted over the state could be from Iran.
Speaker 1: Andrew says there is evidence that suggests the drones could
Speaker 1: be the work of foreign adversaries and should be shot down.
Speaker 1: He also says Americans should have full disclosure.
Speaker 9: That doesn't mean we tell their military sequence. But when
Speaker 9: you have something the size of a Chevy suburban hovering
Speaker 9: over your backyard, and these reports are real and they
Speaker 9: don't deny them. The Pentagon doesn't deny the reports. Nobody does.
Speaker 9: There's something going on here.
Speaker 1: Republican State Senator John Bremnick is calling for the drones
Speaker 1: to be temporarily banned. Such a bizarre story be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how that all shakes out. An American detained
Speaker 1: for seven months in Seria has been freed as the
Speaker 1: rebels who toppled the government have been letting people out
Speaker 1: of prisons. Travis Timmerman says he had crossed into Syria
Speaker 1: illegally from Lebanon on a Christian pilgrimage. He says he
Speaker 1: heard other young men being tortured while he was detained,
Speaker 1: but that he was treated okay. He says he was
Speaker 1: fed and given water, but complained he could only use
Speaker 1: the restroom three times a day. The last surviving star
Speaker 1: of a landmark counterculture TV show has died.
Speaker 2: Michael Cole starting the hit show The Mob Squad from
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy three with Clarence Williams
Speaker 2: the Third and Peggy Lipton. They played hip rebellious youths
Speaker 2: recruited to work as undercover detectives for the Man instead
Speaker 2: of doing time for crimes. Cole's twenty eighteen memoir was
Speaker 2: titled I Played the White Guy. He played Pete Cochran,
Speaker 2: a rich kid busted for stealing a car, and with
Speaker 2: partners Julie and Link, got involved in heavy stories of
Speaker 2: the time that regular fuzz cops couldn't get near. Cole
Speaker 2: died Tuesday in Tarzana. He was eighty four. Mark ronnerd KFI.
Speaker 1: News about five hundred Boeing workers in southern California are
Speaker 1: losing their jobs. The company announced yesterday that one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen workers in Long Beach and one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty four in El Segundo will be laid off. More
Speaker 1: will soon lose their jobs in Seal Beach, Huntington Beach,
Speaker 1: and San Diego. Boeing says it's being done in part
Speaker 1: because of losses from the two month machinist strike. The
Speaker 1: La City Council's voted twelve to three to increase the
Speaker 1: minimum wage for tourism workers more slowly than originally approved.
Speaker 1: The new measure increases the minimum minimum wage to twenty
Speaker 1: two to fifty an hour by February of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: instead of to twenty five dollars, and then the wages
Speaker 1: will gradually increase and will hit thirty dollars an hour
Speaker 1: by twenty twenty eight, just in time. For the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight Summer Olympic Games. Workers will also get better
Speaker 1: health benefits. Four restaurants in California have made yelp's top
Speaker 1: twenty five list for best new restaurants in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: The Asian fusion restaurant Burn and Shell Cute in La
Speaker 1: is fifth on the list. Mexico restaurant Paseo in Downtown
Speaker 1: Disney and Anaheim is ninth. Two restaurants in San Diego
Speaker 1: made the list. Kid Me Oma Cassi is fourth and
Speaker 1: Bougie Mana is eighth. On the yelp list. Bougiemna is
Speaker 1: a Mediterranean restaurant at five point fifty. It's two weeks
Speaker 1: away from Christmas, so doesn't it make sense that we
Speaker 1: should maybe start talking about your taxes. We're going to
Speaker 1: be checking in with ABC's Jim Ryan, who says it
Speaker 1: is time to start planning now. Oh, we're not talking
Speaker 1: taxes right now, because it's time for us to take
Speaker 1: a Southern California's sleigh ride. We're going out and about
Speaker 1: to a brand new event in the heart of downtown
Speaker 1: LA that is definitely going to help get you in
Speaker 1: the Christmas spirit. As far as I know there hasn't
Speaker 1: been anything like this in LA until now. It's the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Christmas Market. We caught up with marketing team
Speaker 1: member Queenie Kwan. So Queenie, please tell us about the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Christmas Markets.
Speaker 10: Well, the Los Angeles Christmas Market. It's the first ever
Speaker 10: in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is our first year, okay, and we are
Speaker 10: trying to bring some European inspired Christmas magic into the
Speaker 10: heart of LA. We have food, drink, plentey of little
Speaker 10: activities for everyone to enjoy. It ranges from meeting Sana,
Speaker 10: writing letters to Santa, some diy ornament painting, chocolate dipping
Speaker 10: and of.
Speaker 1: Course tippy wait tell me about chocolate chocolate dipping.
Speaker 10: Well, you are able to purchase a little tray and
Speaker 10: it'll come with your chocolate dip, a bunch of sweet treats, decorations.
Speaker 10: You can customize it however you want and enjoy as
Speaker 10: you make your food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And we are here actually at Letters to Santo,
Speaker 1: which is adorable. So you can sit down at your
Speaker 1: big people table and you write your letter to Santa
Speaker 1: and then you send it off to him and it
Speaker 1: heads to the North Pole and that's just one of
Speaker 1: the several activities that we can do. And then now
Speaker 1: tell us about some of the shopping because we're only
Speaker 1: a few days away from Christmas and shopping is paramount
Speaker 1: right now. So what are some of the things that
Speaker 1: people are gonna find.
Speaker 10: We have a lot of local California vendors. A lot
Speaker 10: of them are small businesses of their own, and there's
Speaker 10: a variety of different merchandise that everyone can purchase. It
Speaker 10: ranges from pet goodies to jewelry. If you like tea
Speaker 10: or honey, we have those as well. We have a
Speaker 10: local chocolate booth as well. It's freshly made every day.
Speaker 1: And how many shopping booths are there about?
Speaker 10: I would say about twenty to thirty. Okay, we are
Speaker 10: in a smaller lot, but it gives off a pretty
Speaker 10: cozy vibe as everything's a little bit clustered together. And
Speaker 10: of course you'll you're gonna see so many light displays everywhere,
Speaker 10: plenty of photo opportunities.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the light displays because they're every you
Speaker 1: wear and they're so fun. So they are light displays
Speaker 1: and their photo ops. So there's so many opportunities, Like
Speaker 1: there's that the light tunnel which is so spectacular beautiful. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: And then there's a couple of ornaments that we went
Speaker 1: in and you walk into the ornament and look and
Speaker 1: it's just a sea of lights and it just makes such
Speaker 1: a cool picture.
Speaker 10: Oh yes, definitely. Even some of our trees have a
Speaker 10: little tunnel underneath as well. They love walking through it
Speaker 10: taking photos. Yep, so many different light displays. We just
Speaker 10: wanted to bring some Christmas magic to everyone's lives.
Speaker 1: If you really have. I mean it really just because
Speaker 1: we've walked around and looked around and now get to
Speaker 1: talk about it, but it just really feels homey and
Speaker 1: Christmas y. It doesn't feel all big time. It feels
Speaker 1: like a really well thought out, beautiful activity to do
Speaker 1: for Christmas. So you can come and do your shopping,
Speaker 1: you can come to your activities with your family. And
Speaker 1: then we ought to talk about food, because there's food here,
Speaker 1: there's always fun here. So tell us a couple of
Speaker 1: the premiere ones or the hits.
Speaker 10: So some of the food items that we do sell.
Speaker 10: Obviously plenty of sweet treats for everyone with a sweet too,
Speaker 10: and we also have some European inspired dishes as well.
Speaker 10: It ranges from Snitchell to ratt Wars and Swedish meatballs
Speaker 10: given smoky salmon as well.
Speaker 1: Smoked salmon too. The Swedish meatballs delicious, yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And then there's like you said, there, I saw like
Speaker 1: a strawberry shortcake. I thought I saw something that had
Speaker 1: to do with waffles. I'm guessing those are sweet too.
Speaker 10: Yes they are. And some of these vendors are also
Speaker 10: local to California as well, so there's plenty of variety
Speaker 10: to choose from. There isn't too many that you're overwhelmed with,
Speaker 10: chy ses yep. And there's also plenty of drink holiday
Speaker 10: drinks to go around, such as hot chocolate eggnogs and
Speaker 10: some adult beverage as well. Adult beverages as well.
Speaker 1: And then I want to talk about this other thing
Speaker 1: that is so cool. They have igloos that you can
Speaker 1: rent out, so tell us about the Igloo experience.
Speaker 10: The Igle experience is one of our more VIP experiences.
Speaker 10: Once you first walk into the event, you're going to
Speaker 10: be handed a menu with your selections of foods and
Speaker 10: beverages that you'll be receiving in that igo. It's a
Speaker 10: ninety minute designated experience and so you.
Speaker 1: Can eat in there and have a cocktail or a
Speaker 1: hot chocolate and just get off your feet and just
Speaker 1: have some like you know, just hang out with your
Speaker 1: friends and family. It's really really neat and like you
Speaker 1: if you have the time and you want to do
Speaker 1: the VIP, I think the ALUs is really a cool
Speaker 1: thing to do. So tell us when are you open
Speaker 1: and how do we find out?
Speaker 10: We open? From time wise, it's from four pm to
Speaker 10: ten pm on Christmas Eve. We do have special hours,
Speaker 10: it's twelve pm to five ven pm last finish shopping. Yes,
Speaker 10: and we're open up into Christmas Eve, okay, from Wednesday
Speaker 10: to Sunday.
Speaker 1: So you're dark on Monday Tuesday, and then open Wednesday
Speaker 1: through Sunday from four to ten pm. And then you
Speaker 1: advise that people buy tickets ahead of time.
Speaker 10: Yes, tickets are sold only online, okay, and the weekends
Speaker 10: do get a little bit busier.
Speaker 1: Well, queeny, I think you guys are onto something, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, this is a really really cool thing
Speaker 1: and it's new, it's the first year, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like it's the first year. I mean, this thing
Speaker 1: is dialed in and ready for you to come down
Speaker 1: and see it. It's our Southern California sleigh ride. We
Speaker 1: went to the Los Angeles Christmas Market and I think
Speaker 1: it was really really a great outing. It's just something
Speaker 1: a little bit different, and like I said, once it
Speaker 1: got dark, because we got there when it was light
Speaker 1: and then the twilight and then the lights really start
Speaker 1: showing up and they have all these great light installations.
Speaker 1: So it's just a very chill thing to do. And
Speaker 1: one thing that we didn't mention when I talked to
Speaker 1: Queeny was they do movies every night, so they have
Speaker 1: an outdoor movie screen and they have all these Adirondack chairs.
Speaker 1: When we were there, they were playing White Christmas, and
Speaker 1: I think they they're rotating different movies around. But when
Speaker 1: we went there, like the whole everybody was sitting there
Speaker 1: watching the movies. There were people standing around, but like
Speaker 1: all the chairs were full. And they've do like two
Speaker 1: showings of the movie every night. And there's also a
Speaker 1: scavenger hunt for the kids and for the kids at
Speaker 1: heart because Nick and I both did the scavenger hunt.
Speaker 1: You can take a sneak peek at the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Christmas Market. It's up on my Instagram or will be
Speaker 1: shortly as soon as they get a chance to put
Speaker 1: it up there, it's at Amy K.
Speaker 10: King.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna post it at KFI AM six forty as well,
Speaker 1: but I would love for you to take a look,
Speaker 1: and I would love for you to follow me at
Speaker 1: Amy K. King. Let's get back to some of the
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Speaker 1: The wind driven fire in Malibu has grown to more
Speaker 1: than four thousand acres. It's still seven percent surrounded. Fire
Speaker 1: officials say the most challenging areas are on the west
Speaker 1: side of the fire, in Malibu Canyon, where the terrain
Speaker 1: is steep and hard to get to.
Speaker 4: As we look for in the days to come, I
Speaker 4: want to ensure that getting the citizens back into their
Speaker 4: homes is our number one priority. But to do that,
Speaker 4: we have to make sure that the area is safe
Speaker 4: before we could let folks back.
Speaker 1: In CalFire incident Commander Dusty Martins's sixty three hundred people
Speaker 1: remain under evacuation orders. Thousands more are under evacuation warnings.
Speaker 1: Assessments so far show nine homes and other buildings have
Speaker 1: been destroyed and six are damaged. UCLA's police Chief, John
Speaker 1: Thomas has left his job after being criticized for serious
Speaker 1: security lapses and failing to protect students during pro Palestinian protests.
Speaker 1: UCLA's announcement didn't say if he was fired or he resigned.
Speaker 1: A University of California independent review released last month found
Speaker 1: that UCLA failed on several fronts, leading to what it
Speaker 1: called institutional paralysis. California could face economic challenges due to
Speaker 1: President Elect Trump's announced policies.
Speaker 5: The newest economics forecast from UCLA Anderson suggests the state
Speaker 5: could face a labor shortage because of the mass deportation proposal.
Speaker 5: Millions of illegal immigrants could depart the state's workforce as
Speaker 5: part of the deportation process or voluntarily exit because of
Speaker 5: the fear of deportation. The report also notes that Trump's
Speaker 5: emphasis on H one B visas for tech workers could
Speaker 5: benefit California's tech industry.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks KFI News about six thousand people still under
Speaker 1: evacuation orders because of the fire in Malibu. The winds
Speaker 1: have died down, so cal Edison's power has been restored
Speaker 1: to customers in the area and traffic signals are working again.
Speaker 1: The fires burn more than four thousand acres since Monday night,
Speaker 1: seven percent contained. Several roads are closed in the Malibu area,
Speaker 1: including a stretch of PCH. Others are only open to residents.
Speaker 1: Sheriff's deputies are patrolling the area to guard against looting.
Speaker 1: Schools in the area will be closed. The cause of
Speaker 1: the fire is still being investigated. President elect Trump has
Speaker 1: been named Person of the Year. To mark the unveiling
Speaker 1: of the magazine covers, people say, he'll be on Wall
Speaker 1: Street this morning to ring the opening bell at the
Speaker 1: New York Stock Exchange for the very first time. It's
Speaker 1: his second time though, being named Person of the Year.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
Speaker 1: it's less than two weeks until Christmas, So why not
Speaker 1: start talking about taxes?
Speaker 11: You gotta start talking about them sometime. And the end
Speaker 11: of the year, of course, is the end of the
Speaker 11: tax season for most of us. And so yeah, just
Speaker 11: stick in the back of your mind and think, you
Speaker 11: know what, Hey, let me grab that receipt while I'm
Speaker 11: thinking about it, to the donation that I just made
Speaker 11: to some charity or the big box of goods that
Speaker 11: I took there, collected a receipt from them. So yeah,
Speaker 11: start putting those things aside, getting ready for the tax season,
Speaker 11: because it's coming, whether you want it to or not.
Speaker 1: Amy, I know, so you're saying, and that's actually a
Speaker 1: good reminder for any charitable donations you make around the
Speaker 1: Christmas time. You got to get those receipts. Like if
Speaker 1: you made a donation to Pastathon, you got to get
Speaker 1: those receipts.
Speaker 11: Right, That's important, man, And that is one way to
Speaker 11: kind of soften the blow of the tax filing and
Speaker 11: the amount that you're going to own the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so in general, like when would you say
Speaker 1: is a good time to really in earnest start putting
Speaker 1: your taxes together, knowing that April fifteenth is the day.
Speaker 1: And I know we've had several times in the last
Speaker 1: few years of probably because of the pandemic and buyers
Speaker 1: and stuff, where they've delayed the deadline. But April fifteenth
Speaker 1: is the date.
Speaker 11: It is twenty twenty five, It is the date. No
Speaker 11: federal holidays, nothing happening in Washington in terms of a holiday,
Speaker 11: no disasters that are slowing things down at least not yet,
Speaker 11: no fingers crossed. But yeah, fifteenth, this I'd say, I
Speaker 11: mean the time to start is as soon as you
Speaker 11: get your W two right that tells you what your
Speaker 11: earnings were for the previous year. Now, once that comes
Speaker 11: in the mail or is delivered to you electronically, then
Speaker 11: you can really start sitting down, whether you're filing by
Speaker 11: paper or filing electronically. And speaking of that in California,
Speaker 11: California is one of twelve states that were in the
Speaker 11: pilot program for IRS Direct File, and it's a program
Speaker 11: that allows you to log on, you set up your
Speaker 11: IRS ID, and then answer a few questions and you
Speaker 11: file your tax returned directly to the IRS, whether you
Speaker 11: owe or you're owed a refund. So it's expanded this
Speaker 11: year to twelve more states twenty four states altogether, but
Speaker 11: as with so many other things, it's coming under scrutiny
Speaker 11: and controversy.
Speaker 1: That controversy, well.
Speaker 11: Thirty Republican lawmakers say Direct File IRS direct File is
Speaker 11: a government overreach and that taxpayers run the risk of
Speaker 11: overpaying if they use this service. So well, yeah, that's
Speaker 11: the why. I mean, critics say that it digs too
Speaker 11: deep into taxpayers. Information advocates, though, say, look, it's just
Speaker 11: answering a few questions about your status, about the amount
Speaker 11: you made answering these questions and then filing directly with
Speaker 11: the IRS, so it's fairly transparent. But yeah, these thirty
Speaker 11: lawmakers are urging President Trump when he takes office to
Speaker 11: shut down the program, so we'll see what happens with
Speaker 11: it even before the administration steps inward seeing a controversy
Speaker 11: related to to this aspect.
Speaker 1: Okay, but even if he does shut it down, it's
Speaker 1: not going to be for this year. This is going
Speaker 1: to be available for the twenty twenty four. So the
Speaker 1: question is is it for all taxes or just for
Speaker 1: the really really simple taxes.
Speaker 11: Well, it's best obviously with simple taxes, you know, for
Speaker 11: this coming year. Direct file supports the ten ninety nins.
Speaker 11: It didn't last year, so even ten ninety nine for
Speaker 11: interest income greater than fifteen hundred dollars. So they're actually
Speaker 11: expanding this not only to more states, but to more details,
Speaker 11: the fine details of your return. So yeah, it's the
Speaker 11: free file is the one that you really should be
Speaker 11: very simple. I mean, if you're single and you have
Speaker 11: one source of income, you don't have a lot of deductions,
Speaker 11: than free file is probably the best way to go.
Speaker 11: But that one involves a private tax preparer working with
Speaker 11: the IRS.
Speaker 1: But it's free.
Speaker 11: But it's free.
Speaker 1: Okay, some of that's great.
Speaker 11: Well, so too is direct files. Right, Well, they're both free,
Speaker 11: but the direct file allows you to file directly with
Speaker 11: the IRS. Free file allows you to work with a
Speaker 11: tax preparer who's under contract with the IRS. It true
Speaker 11: is free, but brings in this third element.
Speaker 1: But they're working with the IRS. I think I want
Speaker 1: a private person.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, I mean they're working with him in terms
Speaker 11: of under contract with the IRS. Doesn't mean they're going
Speaker 11: to fudge your numbers or anything. They'll they'll still do
Speaker 11: what they have to do because they're legally bound to
Speaker 11: be accurate or as best or as accurate as they
Speaker 11: can be at least.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, thanks for dampening my Christmas spirit
Speaker 1: by bringing up taxes. I think I need to go
Speaker 1: watch a Christmas movie. ABCD ABC's Jim Ryan thinks so much.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon. So yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden's commuting sentences
Speaker 1: of about fifteen hundred people who were released from prison
Speaker 1: and placed on home confinement during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 1: He's also pardoning thirty nine Americans who were convicted of
Speaker 1: nonviolent crimes. He said he would be taking more steps
Speaker 1: in the weeks ahead and would continue to review clemency petitions.
Speaker 1: The family of a missing woman from Hawaii says she
Speaker 1: is safe. Anna Kobayashi was last seen in early November
Speaker 1: crossing the border into Mexico shoo that was seen on
Speaker 1: surveillance video. According to the LAPD, she had missed a
Speaker 1: connecting flight from Hawaii to New York City at LAX
Speaker 1: earlier in the month. On Wednesday, the thirty year old's
Speaker 1: family confirmed that she is safe and they have talked
Speaker 1: to her. The incoming Trump administrations reportedly planning to reverse
Speaker 1: a policy to prevent immigration and Customs enforcement officers from
Speaker 1: arresting illegal immigrants at her near churches, schools, hospitals, and
Speaker 1: other sensitive sites. NBC News says talk of the day
Speaker 1: one policy shift has already drawn criticism from groups like
Speaker 1: the ACLU that argue migrants with potentially contagious diseases should
Speaker 1: not be afraid to go to the hospital. Researchers that
Speaker 1: you see David say feeding cows seaweed could help save
Speaker 1: the planet. Burps that come from cows are a major
Speaker 1: source of methane and that contributes to climate change. But
Speaker 1: Professor Erme's cou Rob says, if you feed cattle seaweed,
Speaker 1: you can reduce methane emissions by almost forty percent.
Speaker 12: An inhibitor basically inhibits the formation of methane.
Speaker 1: The goalie says is to make cattle farming more sustainable.
Speaker 12: We want to reduce the amount of methane that is
Speaker 12: in the atmosphere so that we don't have the screenhouse
Speaker 12: cut effect as much as we do right now.
Speaker 1: He says, about a third of all methane comes from cows.
Speaker 1: The professor says adding a seaweed supplement to the cow's
Speaker 1: diet did not affect their health or their weight. This
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Speaker 1: the valleys in ie fifties. The Antelope Valley overnight lows
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Speaker 1: then morning clouds afternoon sun. For Sunday, it's thirty nine
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