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Speaker 1: It's five oh one. This is your wake up call
Speaker 1: for Monday, November twenty fifth. Good morning, I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And glad that
Speaker 1: you are getting your days started with us. Hope you
Speaker 1: had a good weekend. I had a very chill weekend,
Speaker 1: but it was a lot of fun yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you do when you leave work? You come
Speaker 1: back to work, But it was for a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp had his annual home holiday show at the
Speaker 1: KFI Performance Lounge upstairs, and I don't know it was
Speaker 1: about it. Probably about one hundred people came out for it.
Speaker 1: It was really fun, really fun, and good way to
Speaker 1: kick off the holiday season. Even though I technically broke
Speaker 1: my law about holidays because like I can't do one
Speaker 1: holiday until the last, you know, until one is gone.
Speaker 1: So like we haven't had Thanksgiving yet, so I'm really
Speaker 1: not allowed to do Christmasy stuff. But I broke the rule.
Speaker 1: I dressed in holiday gear and came down to hang
Speaker 1: out with the Dean and a bunch of home listeners.
Speaker 1: A lot of fun. But it's a free for all
Speaker 1: starting on Friday. Christmas is going up. We're all over it.
Speaker 1: I might even get a tree this weekend. Seems like
Speaker 1: it's time because it's so late in the late in
Speaker 1: the month this year for Thanksgiving. Here's what's ahead on
Speaker 1: Wake Up Call. Got a lot going on today. Lyle
Speaker 1: and Eric Menendez are expected to appear in court in
Speaker 1: Van Nuy's virtually as their lawyer asks a judge to
Speaker 1: re sentence the brothers who killed their parents in their
Speaker 1: home at Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine. Getting to
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner could be a bit challenging as forecasters warn
Speaker 1: of another round of winter weather in California. Winter storm
Speaker 1: warning is in effect for the Sierra Nevada through tomorrow,
Speaker 1: with heavy snow expected in higher elevations. In Seattle, thousands
Speaker 1: are still without power from the last bomb cyclone storm
Speaker 1: that hit the West Coast last week. The original host
Speaker 1: of the Wheel of Fortune has died. Chuck Woolery hosted
Speaker 1: the game show from nineteen seventy five to eighty one,
Speaker 1: and then went on to host several other popular game shows,
Speaker 1: including Scrabble and Love Connection. Remember that we'll be back
Speaker 1: in two and two. Chuck Wiillery was eighty three. President
Speaker 1: elect Trump has filled out his cabinet, or at least
Speaker 1: nominated everyone he wants to serve in the cabinet. ABC's
Speaker 1: Karen Travers is going to have the newest nominees. And
Speaker 1: what's next that's coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Why mom and pop shops need your support. This Small
Speaker 1: Business Saturday, more than ever, we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: with the CMO, the chief marketing off chief marketing officer
Speaker 1: of Constant Contact, who's going to give us a little report,
Speaker 1: a report card on how small businesses are doing. That's
Speaker 1: coming up at the bottom of the hour. Every once
Speaker 1: in a while, a commercial gets to you and okay,
Speaker 1: I got suckered in this one. Did it for me?
Speaker 1: And then I felt kind of stupid because it's actually
Speaker 1: an ad but it's a good one and I'll share
Speaker 1: that with you before the bottom of the hour. Also,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving a time of food and family and fun and
Speaker 1: this year potential some pretty nasty family fights. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking turkey and how not to get your feathers
Speaker 1: ruffled with ABC's Jim Ryan. That's coming up before the
Speaker 1: top of the hour. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Lyle and Eric Menendez have a date in court in
Speaker 1: their effort to try to get their sentences lowered. Legal
Speaker 1: expert Brian Buckmeyer says the hearing in Van Eys today
Speaker 1: involves the brother's claim of new evidence, arguing they should
Speaker 1: get a new trial or get their previous sentences reduced
Speaker 1: or thrown out.
Speaker 5: So significance of this hearing, which is typically a very
Speaker 5: mundane one, is that the Menendez brothers will appear virtually
Speaker 5: and they could be asked questions or answer any type
Speaker 5: of information that the judge asks of them.
Speaker 1: The court will hold a lottery to determine which sixteen
Speaker 1: members of the public will get a seat in the courtroom.
Speaker 1: The father of a woman from Maui reported missing in
Speaker 1: La has been found dead near Lax.
Speaker 6: Ryan Kobayashi had recently traveled to La too helped search
Speaker 6: for his missing daughter, and has not been seen since
Speaker 6: November eighth, when she apparently missed her connecting flight at
Speaker 6: Lax as she traveled from Hawaii to New York City.
Speaker 1: Kay if I Stammy Trujillo says the family claims Ryan
Speaker 1: Kobayashi killed himself yesterday by jumping from a parking garage.
Speaker 1: Hannah Kobayashi was last seen on November eleventh near the
Speaker 1: Pico Metro station in downtown La. More ballots are being
Speaker 1: counted today as election officials get closer to declaring a
Speaker 1: winner of the forty fifth Congressional district race. Democratic challenger
Speaker 1: Derek Tran has a five hundred and forty five vote
Speaker 1: lead over Republican incumbent Michelle Steele. Tran is leading in
Speaker 1: the smaller La County portion of the district. Steele has
Speaker 1: a slight lead in the larger Orange County portion. More
Speaker 1: than three hundred and fourteen thousand ballots have been counted.
Speaker 1: It's still not clear exactly how many ballots still have
Speaker 1: to be counted. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Karen Travers at five oh eight on your Monday morning
Speaker 1: wake up call, Karen, President elect Trump has been a
Speaker 1: busy little beaver. Are some of his newer nominations.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the big overall headline here is that
Speaker 7: with this flurry of activity Friday night and then into Saturday,
Speaker 7: the President elect has now named nominees for all of
Speaker 7: the fifteen agencies that make.
Speaker 2: Up the cabinet, so he is basically done. There are
Speaker 2: still some positions left that could be elevated to cabinet level,
Speaker 2: like the Small Business Administration, but for the big, big agencies,
Speaker 2: the one that you think about as the government agencies
Speaker 2: that make up the cabinet, they're finished for at least
Speaker 2: his picks. And now the next phase is the meeting
Speaker 2: with Senators for these nominees and then eventually confirmation hearings
Speaker 2: at the Senate, but that won't take place until Republicans
Speaker 2: control the Senate in early January. So it's a much
Speaker 2: faster timeline by the President elect than what we saw
Speaker 2: eight years ago when he was first elected, and even
Speaker 2: faster than what we saw from President Elect Joe Biden
Speaker 2: four years ago, and I think it indicates he knew
Speaker 2: the types of people he wanted for these positions. He
Speaker 2: had shortlists ready to go, his team was paired so
Speaker 2: he could make these moves quickly. Over the weekend, we
Speaker 2: saw him pick longtime allied Brook Rollins to be the
Speaker 2: Agriculture Secretary. Friday night, he announced billionaire Wall Street veteran
Speaker 2: Scott Besson, who's an economic advisor and fundraiser, for him
Speaker 2: to be the Treasury Secretary. Besson's an interesting choice because
Speaker 2: he had been spent years working for George Soros, Democratic
Speaker 2: mega donor, and he himself had been a Democratic donor
Speaker 2: decades ago. But this was a big battle for the
Speaker 2: position at the Treasury Department, with several others in the
Speaker 2: Trump world competing for that position, but ultimately it went
Speaker 2: to Bessend. And then one more just notable one was
Speaker 2: Oregon Congressman Lurid Chavez Dreimer, who has picked to lead
Speaker 2: the Labor Department. She's somebody that's actually getting significant support
Speaker 2: for that position from labor unions because she had supported
Speaker 2: legislation to make it easier for workers to unionize.
Speaker 1: Which and we know that Trump's not super pro union necessarily,
Speaker 1: but he's pro worker, so maybe that, yeah, maybe that
Speaker 1: could be a good choice. Is there are there any
Speaker 1: new controversial picks?
Speaker 2: You know, for there's a couple of big health announcements.
Speaker 2: He picked former Florida Congressman Dave Weldon to lead the
Speaker 2: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC. Weldon had been
Speaker 2: has been skeptical of vaccine research and obviously that's an
Speaker 2: important part of what the CDC's portfolio is. To lead
Speaker 2: the FDA, he had picked doctor Marty mcarey, a surgeon
Speaker 2: and somebody who is a regular on Fox News, clearly
Speaker 2: where Trump first saw him, and McCarey had argued against
Speaker 2: pandemic lockdowns back during the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: Notable too, I think that, and you know it's been
Speaker 2: written about, is that this is not a very racially
Speaker 2: diverse group. Of the dozens of nominees and appointees that
Speaker 2: have been named so far, only one is black, and
Speaker 2: that's the president Alex pick to lead the Department of
Speaker 2: Housing in Urban Development, Scott Turner. He's a former NFL
Speaker 2: player and now a conservative commentator.
Speaker 1: And how many women did he nominate? I mean I
Speaker 1: don't know the number of out my head half, but
Speaker 1: it's a there's several.
Speaker 2: I'd have to count it for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Karen Travis, thank you so much. Appreciate
Speaker 1: the information. As always, Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Health officials in California warning the public to avoid a
Speaker 1: specific raw milk product out of Fresno County because the
Speaker 1: bird flu virus has been found in a sample. The
Speaker 1: Department of Public Health says the raw milk is from
Speaker 1: the raw Farm company. It's recalled the affected milk, which
Speaker 1: has a best by date of eleven twenty seven, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. No illnesses have been reported, but the department
Speaker 1: has told store owners to take the milk off the shelves.
Speaker 1: Raw milk products are not pasteurized, which is that heating
Speaker 1: process that kills bacteria and viruses like bird flu. A
Speaker 1: major producer of organic carrots in California is hoping to
Speaker 1: reassure consumers about the safety of their product after they
Speaker 1: were linked to an E. Coli outbreak. ABC's Melissa Aiden
Speaker 1: says grim Way Farms, a supployer to Trader Joe's, Wegmans
Speaker 1: and Kroger a voluntary recall of its carrots.
Speaker 9: The company's president and CEO speaking directly to shoppers, saying
Speaker 9: consumers should feel confident that the carrots available for purchase
Speaker 9: on store shelves today are safe.
Speaker 1: One person died and thirty nine others in more than
Speaker 1: a dozen states have gotten sick from eating the carrots.
Speaker 1: Two people in a car that's rammed through the gate
Speaker 1: of Orange County Fire Authority headquarters in Irvine have been
Speaker 1: arrested on suspicion of dui. Police say the two ran
Speaker 1: after the crash late Saturday, but they were found a
Speaker 1: short time later and arrested. The crash only damaged the
Speaker 1: gate and some landscaping. A DHL cargo plane has crashed
Speaker 1: in Lithuania's capital and skidded into a nearby house, killing
Speaker 1: a Spanish crew member. The cause of the crash early
Speaker 1: this morning is being investigated. Flight tracking data analyzed by
Speaker 1: the Associated Press showed the plane made a turn to
Speaker 1: the north of the airport, lined up for landing, then
Speaker 1: crashed less than a mile short of the runway. A
Speaker 1: recent survey on career readiness found that eighty one percent
Speaker 1: of workplace managers say new college graduates are not ready
Speaker 1: for the workplace. KFI Scott Carr says a survey of
Speaker 1: a thousand managers show many new grads need training on
Speaker 1: professional protocols.
Speaker 10: The issues they cite include not taking constructive criticism well,
Speaker 10: adhering to dress codes, the use of cell phones on
Speaker 10: the job, and speaking about controversial topics in the workplace.
Speaker 1: Some other issues were time management and a lack of
Speaker 1: professional communication skills. So the holidays are here at the
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Speaker 1: to enjoy the wonder, joy and magic of the season.
Speaker 1: You know about my ban on holidays until the last
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be giving those tickets away this week, so
Speaker 1: keep your phones and your radios close. The father of
Speaker 1: a woman from Hawaii who's been missing since she didn't
Speaker 1: show up for her connecting flight at lax has died.
Speaker 1: Ryan Kobayashi apparently jumped from a parking structure near lax
Speaker 1: early yesterday morning. Hannah Kobayashi had a stopover at Laxo
Speaker 1: November eighth on her way to New York. She was
Speaker 1: last seen in downtown La November eleventh. Hesblah has fired
Speaker 1: about two hundred and fifty rockets and other projectiles into Israel.
Speaker 1: It's one of the heaviest barrages in months. At least
Speaker 1: seven people in northern and central Israel will hurt the
Speaker 1: attack in response to Israel's attack in central Bay Root.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, We're going to get the latest on
Speaker 1: the attacks and whether that's gonna mess with the ceasefire
Speaker 1: talks with Jordana Miller in just a second. The Glicked
Speaker 1: weekend has been huge. Wicked and Gladiator two have earned
Speaker 1: a combined two hundred and seventy three million dollars at
Speaker 1: the box office globally. Wicked took in one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen million in the US alone. Gladiator took in a
Speaker 1: Gladiator two took in over fifty five million, and this
Speaker 1: coming weekend expected to be a big one too, because
Speaker 1: Mwana two debuts on Wednesday. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to ABC's Giordana Miller in Jerusalem. So, Geordana Hesbela was
Speaker 1: very active and destructive over the weekend.
Speaker 11: What happened, that's right, and Hesballa fired by midnight the
Speaker 11: number was closer to three hundred on drones and missiles,
Speaker 11: and by the way, three waves of attacks just on
Speaker 11: Tel Aviv and central Israel, which was a lot. Usually
Speaker 11: the fire they haven't fired that intensively on Tel Aviv
Speaker 11: and in many months. It was clearly a response to
Speaker 11: what happened over the weekend. Israel carried out very intense strikes,
Speaker 11: not only in southern Route in the Hasbalas stronghold of Dahia,
Speaker 11: but also in central Beyroute is going after one of
Speaker 11: the few Hamas leaders that are still alive, and they
Speaker 11: missed him, but they brought down the building and killed
Speaker 11: dozens of others, and so there was a lot of
Speaker 11: anger over those strikes. Plus there's still intense air strikes.
Speaker 12: And up in southern.
Speaker 11: Ground forces. So it was a bloody weekend. But I
Speaker 11: have to say it's all happening. It could actually all
Speaker 11: be connected to this East fire talks. That is, before
Speaker 11: the sides agree to stop, there's often a kind of
Speaker 11: ramping up of the attacks as each side tries to
Speaker 11: pressure the other at the table. We're still strong, we
Speaker 11: still have capabilities. If you don't sign, look what we're doing.
Speaker 11: And to tell their domestic audiences, we're signing, you know,
Speaker 11: from a position of strength. And it's also an opportunity
Speaker 11: for both sides opportunity hit their targets hard before they
Speaker 11: have to stop fighting. And there has been progress towards
Speaker 11: the ceasefire. I think we're still you know, a couple
Speaker 11: of weeks away, but the intensifying attacks could be part of.
Speaker 1: That, okay, And what all is involved with the seaspire
Speaker 1: aside from just stopping the attacks on each other? Do
Speaker 1: we know where is that it?
Speaker 11: We are beginning to learn some of the details of
Speaker 11: this agreement. For example, what has been agreed on is
Speaker 11: that Hasbola, the Iranian backed militia, will move over twenty
Speaker 11: miles off of Israel's northern border, behind what's called or
Speaker 11: above north of what's called the Latani River. That's where
Speaker 11: they were supposed to be and stay after the last
Speaker 11: war between Israel and Husbala in two thousand and six.
Speaker 11: We're also learning that the Israelis are not going to
Speaker 11: hold any security They're going to completely withdraw their troops
Speaker 11: in this seafire, though it may take thirty to sixty
Speaker 11: days for that to happen, but there's no plan to
Speaker 11: hold any Lebanese soil.
Speaker 1: Number back in, Yeah, you would cut out just a second.
Speaker 1: So you're saying that part of the seasire deal is
Speaker 1: that Israel would pull its troops out of Lebanon where
Speaker 1: out of Okay.
Speaker 11: That's right. They will not hold any kind of security buffer.
Speaker 11: They will not stay on Lebanese soil.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 11: What is still in dispute is how to verify and
Speaker 11: implement the deal. Who's going to be in charge of
Speaker 11: making sure Hsbala doesn't violate the deal? Right? The UN
Speaker 11: and the Lebanese Army and the government didn't do such
Speaker 11: a great job over the last twenty years.
Speaker 6: The new.
Speaker 11: Part of verifying this deal with some AIRB partners and
Speaker 11: even Europeans like the French. So those details are still
Speaker 11: being worked out, but there has been progress. I think
Speaker 11: we're weeks away from a seafire.
Speaker 1: Okay, And unlike what's going on between Israel and Hamas,
Speaker 1: where both sides seem to have really just dug in
Speaker 1: their heels on this is we're seeing more of a
Speaker 1: willingness to come to a ceasfire.
Speaker 11: Absolutely. I think both Lebanon, has Balah Iran, you know,
Speaker 11: they're interested in the seafire because they realize that the
Speaker 11: next level of targets are not just going to be
Speaker 11: has Balla targets. They may be they may be civilian.
Speaker 11: The infrastructure targets right hitting Lebanese you know, let's say
Speaker 11: power grids or energy reserves, something that will force the
Speaker 11: Lebanese to really get Hasbala to stop its fire. So
Speaker 11: there is and Iran. You know, Iran has taken its
Speaker 11: threats of striking Israel off the table. They're waiting until
Speaker 11: President Trump gets into office, That's what it looks like.
Speaker 11: So they're also interested in nscu's fire. And Israel. You know,
Speaker 11: Israel doesn't you know, Israel can't you know, fight a
Speaker 11: two front war, you know, for another full year. Right,
Speaker 11: Israel also needs to pull their troops out they've been
Speaker 11: fighting intensely for a year. It's taken a toll on
Speaker 11: the economy, and it has obviously a lot of diplomatic
Speaker 11: hitfall and the fighting, which I think is a good sign.
Speaker 11: And maybe it'll lead to a breakthrough on the Gaza
Speaker 11: front as well.
Speaker 1: That would be tremendous, And who knows, maybe in time
Speaker 1: for Christmas, ABC's Jerdona Millisonica or for Hanukah more yes,
Speaker 1: more appropriately for Hankah there. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information. As always, we'll talk to you again.
Speaker 12: Soon, Talk soon.
Speaker 3: YEP.
Speaker 1: Firefighters are battling a fire in a vacant two story
Speaker 1: commercial building. Flames have been shooting through the roof on
Speaker 1: South Flower Street, downtown, LA. Fires Margaret Stewart says Cruise
Speaker 1: are on scene and actively fighting it. Travel experts say
Speaker 1: the best time to drive over the Thanksgiving holiday will
Speaker 1: be on Thanksgiving Day itself. Adrian Woodland with Triple A
Speaker 1: says people flying should check in early online, monitor flight status,
Speaker 1: and get to the airport at least two to three
Speaker 1: hours before your flight.
Speaker 7: And it's going to be very busy out there, Busy airports,
Speaker 7: busy roadway.
Speaker 1: So if you are planning to travel, definitely Prepare Triple
Speaker 1: A says nearly seven million people from California are expected
Speaker 1: to hit the road to visit family this holiday. It
Speaker 1: might not just be mother Nature that could put a
Speaker 1: damper on holiday travel. The FAA says air traffic could
Speaker 1: be slowed during peak travel times because of staffing issues.
Speaker 1: The area that could be most affected is the Northeast,
Speaker 1: especially in New York, because of a shortage of air
Speaker 1: traffic controllers in that area. Tuesday tomorrow, expected to be
Speaker 1: the busiest travel day, with almost three million travelers going
Speaker 1: through TSA security checkpoints. Weather Services Southern California could get
Speaker 1: some rain early this week, but it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot. The agency says most of the rain will
Speaker 1: probably come tomorrow. Meteorologist Casey Oswant says any rain we
Speaker 1: get will likely be less than half an inch.
Speaker 12: It does look like we're going to see additional chances
Speaker 12: of rain for maybe part of Monday and then continuing
Speaker 12: into Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1: She says there's about a twenty percent chance of showers
Speaker 1: this afternoon in La County, but we should be dry
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. Okay. There are commercials that come out every
Speaker 1: holiday season and they try to kind of tug at
Speaker 1: your heart strings. And this one got me and so
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna play it for you. Whoops, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna play that for you. I'm gonna play this for you.
Speaker 1: So they show us a theater in New York City.
Speaker 5: But the world's no slow sweet glove steel that is
Speaker 5: to us.
Speaker 7: To the law.
Speaker 1: So that's the janitor and he's going around and he's
Speaker 1: cleaning the theater. So it's obviously late at night and
Speaker 1: it's very quiet, and then some of the staff gets
Speaker 1: together and they're they're like going, Oh, there's the guy,
Speaker 1: and isn't he sweet? And unlook he sings as he
Speaker 1: does his work, and so then you see one of
Speaker 1: the people look online and they find like a jacket,
Speaker 1: like a dinner jacket or a and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's get that for him. So they order it and
Speaker 1: then they put the lights together and they put him
Speaker 1: up on stage and here he goes.
Speaker 7: He's slow, sweet, fast, all.
Speaker 1: That so sweet, and then you see the Amazon smile.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's an Amazon commercial, which I felt like, oh jeez,
Speaker 1: but it was. I guess it's sort of like there
Speaker 1: have been a couple like Budweiser commercials that are just
Speaker 1: so beautiful. They don't say anything, they just they're just
Speaker 1: visually beautiful, and they sound wonderful, wonderful, And I think
Speaker 1: that's that song is so powerful and it was really
Speaker 1: just a sweet commercial. Is it gonna make me order
Speaker 1: from Amazon? I did over the weekend, so maybe it worked.
Speaker 1: A judge in New York has decided he's not quite
Speaker 1: ready to decide whether to grant bail to rap mogul
Speaker 1: Sean Combs. In a hearing Friday, the judge overseeing the
Speaker 1: sex racketeer in case said he would take the Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: holiday to make his decision. Combs has pleaded not guilty
Speaker 1: to all charges, and one of his defense attorneys said
Speaker 1: if released, Combs would stay inside his apartment in Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Part of the southbound one on one is going to
Speaker 1: be closed again overnight in Studio City as Coltrans completes
Speaker 1: what it says are urgently needed pavement repairs. The project
Speaker 1: is closed lanes on the one to one transition of
Speaker 1: the one seventy connector overnight Saturday night and again last night.
Speaker 1: It'll be closed again tonight from ten pm to five am.
Speaker 1: A giant emerald worth a billion dollars is being sent
Speaker 1: back to its home company country. The eight hundred eight
Speaker 1: hundred thirty six pound gem was found in a Brazilian
Speaker 1: mine back in two thousand and one and somehow later
Speaker 1: got smuggled to the US. Several groups have been trying
Speaker 1: to claim ownership, but a federal judge ruled that the
Speaker 1: one hundred eighty thousand carrot Emerald must be given back
Speaker 1: to the country of Brazil. At six oh five its
Speaker 1: handle on the news. We're bracing for battles in the
Speaker 1: Senate now that Trump has made his cabinet picks at
Speaker 1: five point fifty. Thanksgiving is a time of food and family,
Speaker 1: fun and ruffled feathers. We're going to be talking with
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan about how to keep the peace at
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving table. Right now. This is Good Morning too.
Speaker 1: The chief marketing officer for Constant Contact, Sarah Jordan. Good morning, Sarah,
Speaker 1: Good morning Sarah. Before we jump in and talk about
Speaker 1: the small businesses, can you tell us what Constant Contact
Speaker 1: is and what you guys do.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Constant Contact provide digital marketing solutions for small businesses.
Speaker 3: We service over four hundred thousand across the globe with
Speaker 3: things like email marketing and SMS, texting, social media, and
Speaker 3: lots more capabilities to help small businesses deliver their message
Speaker 3: to their customers good.
Speaker 1: Direct to the customer because they don't they often don't
Speaker 1: have the big budgets of the big box stores. So
Speaker 1: tell us, Sarah Barah with Small Business Saturday coming up
Speaker 1: on Saturday, this Saturday, this Saturday after Thanksgiving, how is
Speaker 1: it looking for small businesses this year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the holiday time can be a really stressful one
Speaker 3: as certainly as it is for a lot of consumers,
Speaker 3: but definitely for small businesses. Most of them get, especially
Speaker 3: in retail and e commerce field, get around a quarter
Speaker 3: of their revenue during the holiday season. So leading up
Speaker 3: to it, there's always a little bit of trepidation. And
Speaker 3: I would say this year, you know, with the long
Speaker 3: tail inflation effects coming out of the economy, but also
Speaker 3: a lot of really positive spending signs coming out in
Speaker 3: the media, there was a little bit of cautious optimism
Speaker 3: going into the holiday season that there would be you know, similar,
Speaker 3: if not increased spend levels from consumers this year at
Speaker 3: their businesses.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now you mentioned inflation, and you know it's affected
Speaker 1: all of us. We know that even though the rate
Speaker 1: of inflation is backed down to more normal levels, the
Speaker 1: damage has pretty much been done and almost everything costs
Speaker 1: like twenty percent more. Is that the same for small
Speaker 1: businesses and are they forced them to kind of push
Speaker 1: that along or are they cutting their profit margins to
Speaker 1: stay competitive?
Speaker 3: A bit of a mix, you know, Definitely small businesses
Speaker 3: have felt the impact just like consumers and certainly with
Speaker 3: their suppliers, but they usually are pretty hesitant to raise prices.
Speaker 3: So I would say the data that we showed so
Speaker 3: showed a bit of a mix that some have and
Speaker 3: may even plan to again, while others really want to
Speaker 3: hold out and see if things can return to more normalcy.
Speaker 3: But you know, all the more reason why this holiday
Speaker 3: season is really important to them and hopefully makes up
Speaker 3: some of the you know, the revenue this year. And
Speaker 3: also important to note that one of the major data
Speaker 3: points that came out of the survey is just how
Speaker 3: committed holiday shoppers are to shopping small.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you mentioned that you not only talked to businesses,
Speaker 1: but you talk to people who are going to be
Speaker 1: doing the shopping. What's what's their vibe that you got
Speaker 1: from your survey?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were really impressed with the results. I mean,
Speaker 3: certainly we know some of this changed in trend post
Speaker 3: COVID that communities and consumers really realized how important small
Speaker 3: businesses are to their communities. You know, we know of
Speaker 3: every dollar spent sixty seven cents days within that community,
Speaker 3: and there was sort of this renewed focus on maintaining
Speaker 3: maintaining consumership and shopping small. We saw that eight out
Speaker 3: of ten consumers still plan to visit and shop with
Speaker 3: small businesses this season and for most you know, this
Speaker 3: really doesn't change throughout the year, that they are very
Speaker 3: committed to shopping small. So great data coming out of
Speaker 3: the study. Really a lot of optimistic data points for
Speaker 3: small businesses, and certainly with their continued resiliency, you know,
Speaker 3: coming out of the pandemic and continuing to you know,
Speaker 3: see growth outside of that in these past couple of years,
Speaker 3: you know, we have a lot of hope and optimism
Speaker 3: for this next holiday season.
Speaker 1: Well that's good news now, Sarah. One of my favorite
Speaker 1: things to do during the holidays is to head to
Speaker 1: like some of the smaller towns around southern California and
Speaker 1: go into their you know, their little downtowns and shop
Speaker 1: for Christmas presents and stuff and hit the mom and
Speaker 1: pop shops, but it seems like they're harder to find
Speaker 1: and more of my favorite shops have kind of closed down.
Speaker 1: Are you seeing that trend or are we seeing a
Speaker 1: resurgence or or or is it just sort of holding
Speaker 1: steady now?
Speaker 3: I would say now, probably holding steady. We certainly saw
Speaker 3: post COVID, you know a lot of those local retailers
Speaker 3: shut down and frankly large retailers shutting down on the
Speaker 3: you know, physical locations. But we've definitely seen some some
Speaker 3: growth and reopenings there. And you know, one tip for
Speaker 3: small businesses as well that that holiday shopping, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: the season is really really important to stay in front
Speaker 3: of consumers, but it's really important to stay in front
Speaker 3: of them year round. So whether you're a business that
Speaker 3: has a physical presence, you know in some of those
Speaker 3: little holiday shopping markets, or whether you're you're e commerce
Speaker 3: and rely on a lot of digital business that using
Speaker 3: tools like email marketing and SMS and really using those
Speaker 3: to stay in front of your audience all throughout the
Speaker 3: year will be helpful to make it so that there's
Speaker 3: really less pressure on that holiday season yep.
Speaker 1: And of course this Saturday is small business Saturday, so
Speaker 1: support the moms and pops they need. Just Sarah Jordan,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Appreciate your time and information this morning.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, take care. Let's get back to some of
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Speaker 1: One man has been killed another hurt in his shooting
Speaker 1: near a homeless camp in Long Beach. The shooting was
Speaker 1: reported just before two am yesterday. The two men were
Speaker 1: found with gunshot injuries. One died at the scene. Police
Speaker 1: say the reason for the shooting was not known. Democratic
Speaker 1: Congressman and soon to be US Senator Adam Schiff says
Speaker 1: the criminal cases against President elect Trump should not be dismissed.
Speaker 10: A jury of Donald Trump's peers found him guilty.
Speaker 1: He's no less guilty because he won an election. Shift
Speaker 1: told NBC's Meet the Press the cases should be put
Speaker 1: on hold until Trump gets out of office, because he
Speaker 1: says being president is not a get out of jail
Speaker 1: free card. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law
Speaker 1: granting debt forgiveness to new army recruits who enlist to
Speaker 1: fight in Ukraine. The measure final version appeared on a
Speaker 1: government website Saturday, underscores Russia's needs for military personnel in
Speaker 1: the nearly three year old war. The unsays three hundred
Speaker 1: countries have agreed to a new three hundred billion dollar
Speaker 1: plan to flight climate change. There have been weeks of
Speaker 1: at times heated discussions at the COP twenty nine summit
Speaker 1: in Azerbaijan, and on Saturday a deal was finally reached.
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Speaker 1: twenty thirty five. The effort aimed at helping developing countries
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Speaker 1: is about to host a couple of turkeys at the
Speaker 1: White House. The national Thanksgiving turkeyser set to get pardons
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Speaker 1: House Christmas Tree will be presented to first later Doctor
Speaker 1: Jill Biden, alongside military connected families. Always fun to watch
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Speaker 1: of another round of winter weather, saying it could complicate
Speaker 1: travel leading up to Thanksgiving. California is bracing for more
Speaker 1: snow and rain, while still dealing with some flooding and
Speaker 1: small landslides from the last storm. The National Weather Services
Speaker 1: issued a winter storm warning for the Sierra Nevada through tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: survived a plunge into the harbor and Marina del Rey,
Speaker 1: La County Fire says the car went off the roadway
Speaker 1: and into the water last night around six Both people
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Speaker 1: took in an estimated one hundred and seventeen million dollars.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from handling the news this morning,
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Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's at Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving has always been a little bit sticky as you
Speaker 1: deal with the stress that families can present in this year,
Speaker 1: coming on the heels of a close election and a
Speaker 1: lot of polarized opinions. How's that affecting people as we
Speaker 1: approach the hullet?
Speaker 4: Freaking them out?
Speaker 1: To put it simply, Yeah, hosts.
Speaker 4: And hosts are you know, they're worried about this, about
Speaker 4: having a big family gathering because the more people you have,
Speaker 4: the greater the chances that those folks, at least some
Speaker 4: of them are going to have varying political views. And
Speaker 4: here we are just three weeks after the election, and
Speaker 4: some of those wounds and some of that gloating might
Speaker 4: still be quite fresh on people's minds. And so yeah,
Speaker 4: it's kind of adding a bit of stress to what's
Speaker 4: already a stressful situation.
Speaker 1: Abe was the situation the same four years ago?
Speaker 4: Don't know, I haven't seen surveys seen, you know, polling
Speaker 4: related to that, but I can tell you this year
Speaker 4: is it is extreme. The surveyed une by Spruce has
Speaker 4: two thousand people around the country what they felt about
Speaker 4: the coming Thanksgiving and the possibility for conflict among family
Speaker 4: members or guests at Thanksgiving, And yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 4: a real thing. About a quarter of people are considering
Speaker 4: scrapping it all together and just staying home and not
Speaker 4: doing Thanksgiving because of what the conversations might sound like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so do you have any recommendations on how families
Speaker 1: and friends can make sure that it is a happy.
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving throughout these stats and not tell you maybe how
Speaker 4: to deal with it. There's a psychiatry professor and this
Speaker 4: makes a lot of sense at Columbia University who has
Speaker 4: an acronym CALM C A l M. Okay, see is
Speaker 4: for communicate curiously. That is, don't just talk at people,
Speaker 4: but talk with them and hear what they have to say.
Speaker 4: And you know, I have a conversation that involves sharing
Speaker 4: information just instead of just spouting your views. The second
Speaker 4: actively listen. Okay, then limit setting. At some point you
Speaker 4: say we're done talking about politics. Let's talk about you know,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers, or let's talk about something else altogether, and
Speaker 4: then finally am maintain the big picture. That is, maybe
Speaker 4: you can't stand where your brother in law is politically,
Speaker 4: you just can't stand what he says what he thinks
Speaker 4: about politics, but that's still your brother in law. You
Speaker 4: probably have a longtime relationship and things that go well
Speaker 4: beyond politics, So focus on those things. The big picture.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that that's a very nice thing to
Speaker 1: aspire to. I mean, that's a lot of communicating, and
Speaker 1: I think one of the problems with a lot of families,
Speaker 1: including mine, is we're not we don't communicate that great together.
Speaker 1: I mean, we love each other and we have a
Speaker 1: good time together, but like saying, hey, you guys, let's
Speaker 1: sit down and make sure that we don't get into
Speaker 1: a big political fight this this holiday season. And that's
Speaker 1: a tough conversation to have.
Speaker 4: Well, it could be, but you could also deal with it,
Speaker 4: maybe in a humorous way. If I were hosting Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: it a big house or something and expecting a lot
Speaker 4: of people, I think I'd put a sign outside that
Speaker 4: says it went a box that says leave your Kamala
Speaker 4: Harris T shirts and your Mega caps in this box.
Speaker 4: We're not going to talk about it here. Second thing,
Speaker 4: maybe you'd limit the alcohol a bit, because people who
Speaker 4: get drunk or drink, they tend to run their mouths,
Speaker 4: right They their mouths get them into trouble and with
Speaker 4: a lot of regrets at the end of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's always sort of been like the
Speaker 1: status quo, don't talk about religion and don't talk about politics.
Speaker 1: Are money or money? I mean, I grew up with
Speaker 1: those things, like knowing those My parents I think probably
Speaker 1: drilled that into our brains. Never talk about those things.
Speaker 1: And we've never had big fights at the Thanksgiving the table,
Speaker 1: but we probably already know what the hot topics are,
Speaker 1: so we just sort of steer clear of it.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a good idea, and you're right, And I mean,
Speaker 4: if you've set some guidelines on your own, whether you
Speaker 4: have the sign in the box outside or you're just
Speaker 4: that's kind of how you feel and how you hope
Speaker 4: your guests feel. And yeah, it's a it's a great idea. Money, politics, religion.
Speaker 4: Just leave them back at the house.
Speaker 1: And if things do get heated, how do we diffuse it?
Speaker 4: You just ask everybody to leave for it, get out,
Speaker 4: take your pumpkin pie and scram we're done.
Speaker 1: I would totally take the pumpkin pie with me. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: good luck with Thanksgiving. I think, I think hopefully cooler
Speaker 1: heads will prevail if we all just take a deep breath.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of holding your breath, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, well, we'll check in after the holidays and
Speaker 1: you can get some intel and recon about all the
Speaker 1: fights that went on.
Speaker 4: But do have a turkey knife in my neck? Cursonably
Speaker 4: Oh all.
Speaker 1: Right, let's be safe out there too.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Please, all right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: So yah, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: FAA says staffing shortages could cause some delays in your
Speaker 1: holiday travel.
Speaker 10: The area that could be most impacted is the Northeast,
Speaker 10: especially New York, because of a shortage of air traffic controllers.
Speaker 1: KFIS Chris Graggio says tomorrow is expected to be the
Speaker 1: busiest air travel day of the week. A man has
Speaker 1: been arrested in connection with a fatal hit and run
Speaker 1: crash in South la where a sixteen year old on
Speaker 1: a bicycle was killed. The crash happened Friday afternoon on
Speaker 1: South figaroa street near BMO Stadium. Investigators see the driver
Speaker 1: had gotten into an argument with a large group of
Speaker 1: people on bicycles and followed them into a parking lot.
Speaker 1: They say the teen was hit by a different car,
Speaker 1: possibly on purpose. The Israeli ambassador to Washington says a
Speaker 1: ceasefire deal to end fighting between Israel and hezbola In
Speaker 1: could be reached within days, even as the fighting escalated
Speaker 1: over the weekend. ABC's Lama Hassan says has Belah fired
Speaker 1: its largest barrage of rockets over the weekend, according.
Speaker 9: To the IDF, around two hundred and fifty projectiles slamming
Speaker 9: into areas in northern and central Israel.
Speaker 1: At least six Israelis were injured. She says the attacks
Speaker 1: were retaliation for an inn Israeli military strike on Saturday
Speaker 1: that hit a residential building in Beirut. Israeli Ambassador Mike
Speaker 1: Herzog told Israeli Army Radio there are still points to
Speaker 1: finalize for a ceasefire and that any deal requires agreement
Speaker 1: from the government. Democratic Senate Judiciary member Amy Klobisher says
Speaker 1: she has concerns about all of President Elect Trump's cabinet nominees.
Speaker 1: She says she is troubled the Trump transition team has
Speaker 1: not yet agreed to FBI background checks of Trump's picks.
Speaker 8: We require these background checks of line DEA agents, drug
Speaker 8: and AN agents. We required of first time prosecutors for
Speaker 8: the federal government.
Speaker 1: She backs background checks or she says that background checks
Speaker 1: are a must for the most important jobs in the
Speaker 1: US government. The author known for A Woman of Substance
Speaker 1: has died. Barbara Taylor Bradford first gained popularity in the
Speaker 1: nineteen forties and wrote more than a dozen other novels
Speaker 1: that sold more than eighty million copies around the world.
Speaker 1: A Woman of Substance was published in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Bradford was one of the world's wealthiest writers, and her
Speaker 1: image appeared on a postage stamp in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and seven, she was recognized by Queen
Speaker 1: Elizabeth I. Barbara Taylor Bradford was ninety one, and scientists
Speaker 1: in Europe say they found out why people lose weight
Speaker 1: and then often gain it right back. Researchers at ETCH
Speaker 1: Zurich call it the yo yo effect. We've all heard
Speaker 1: that before. They say being overweight leaves a lasting imprint
Speaker 1: on our fat cells through chemical markers called epigenics. Researchers
Speaker 1: say the fat cells remember how big they were when
Speaker 1: a person was overweight, and then apparently try to get
Speaker 1: right back there. Isn't that great your fat cells? Remember.
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Speaker 1: Weather from KFI, mostly cloudy at slight chance of showers
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Speaker 1: Valley's upper sixties to low seventies for the Inland Empire,
Speaker 1: fifties in the Antelope Valley. Overnight lows in the forties
Speaker 1: and fifties, and rain is likely tomorrow with highs in
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Speaker 1: again on Wednesday, then we should just be mostly cloudy
Speaker 1: with highs in the sixties to low seventies. For Thanksgiving Day.
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