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Speaker 2: This is your wake up call for Monday, January sixth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. It is five o'clock on the dot.
Speaker 2: I'm Michael Monks filling in for Amy King this morning.
Speaker 2: It is the first Monday of this brand new year.
Speaker 2: It's also the first Monday of the first full week
Speaker 2: after all of the holidays. No more excuses. I am
Speaker 2: sure you are all finally back on your way to work.
Speaker 2: Suck it up, let's get going. It's all good. Nice
Speaker 2: long holiday break. You got no excuses. Even Bill Handle
Speaker 2: is back to work today. Everybody is back to work.
Speaker 2: Some of us have been keeping the home fires burning
Speaker 2: while everybody else was out enjoying a little break during
Speaker 2: the holidays. I was glad to do that for Amy.
Speaker 2: Glad to do that again today. Got a big show
Speaker 2: coming up over the next hour here on wake Up
Speaker 2: Call on KFI. Congress also back to work today. They
Speaker 2: got a big item on their agenda. They're certifying the
Speaker 2: presidential election results. You may remember how that went four
Speaker 2: years ago. This year is expected to be different. We'll
Speaker 2: go live to Washington, d C. To get a feel
Speaker 2: for what's coming up later at the Capitol, and President
Speaker 2: Biden is coming to southern California. But before he does,
Speaker 2: he and the First Lady are going to stop in
Speaker 2: New Orleans, where they will meet with families of the
Speaker 2: victims of last week's terror attack in the French Quarter.
Speaker 2: We'll get a live update on the latest end of
Speaker 2: the investigation there, as well as in Las Vegas, where
Speaker 2: a cyber truck was exploded outside a Trump hotel. And
Speaker 2: then later on this hour, there's this weird ongoing tragedy
Speaker 2: in the San Gabriel Valley. It's been happening since last fall.
Speaker 2: A number of wild parrots mutilated killed. We'll be joined
Speaker 2: by a woman who's been taking care of the ones
Speaker 2: found in recent days in a makeshift bird cage on
Speaker 2: some railroad tracks in Almonte. So stick around for that.
Speaker 2: That'll be coming up later this hour. And then of
Speaker 2: course at six ZHO five it's Handle on the news,
Speaker 2: this time with Bill Handle himself. Bill and the team
Speaker 2: are back today except for Amy. She'll be back soon.
Speaker 2: And I know you're looking forward to that, I am too.
Speaker 2: We're going to start with some of the stories coming
Speaker 2: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ellie Mayor
Speaker 2: bass She's got a busy week two She started twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five's first full week in Africa. She's part of
Speaker 2: a four member delegation from the US set to attend
Speaker 2: the inauguration of that country's President Ghanah. The mayor has
Speaker 2: been dispatched by President Biden to Ghana along with the
Speaker 2: Director of the US Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young,
Speaker 2: US Ambassador to Ghanah, Virginia Palmer, and Francis Brown, who
Speaker 2: is a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director
Speaker 2: for African Affairs at the White House's National Secure Council.
Speaker 2: So why La Mayor bass Well. When the mayor was
Speaker 2: in Congress, she served as chair of the House Foreign
Speaker 2: Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global human Rights, and
Speaker 2: International Organizations from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty two, when
Speaker 2: she was elected mayor. President elect John Dromana Mohamma is
Speaker 2: to be inaugurated tomorrow there in downtown La. A hearing
Speaker 2: is set to begin today for the men charged in
Speaker 2: the murder of actor Johnny Whacter. The former General Hospital
Speaker 2: actor was shot to death in downtown la last year
Speaker 2: when he came upon a group of people trying to
Speaker 2: steal the catalytic converter from his car. Wactor was leaving
Speaker 2: his job as a bartender in the early morning hours
Speaker 2: when he was killed. A judge today is expected to
Speaker 2: determine if there's sufficient evidence to allow the case to
Speaker 2: proceed against eighteen year olds Robert Isaiah Barcelo and Sergio Estrada,
Speaker 2: and the Golden globes have been handed out here in
Speaker 2: La Is. Hollywood's awards season has kicked off. The Brutalist
Speaker 2: won Best Drama, while Amelia Perez was crowned Best Musical
Speaker 2: or Comedy. Adrian Brody won a Best Actor prize for
Speaker 2: The Brutalist, and Demi Moore was awarded Best Actress in
Speaker 2: a Musical or Comedy for her role in The Substance.
Speaker 2: It's January sixth, when the Congress convenes to certify the
Speaker 2: election of the US President. The country had a rough
Speaker 2: go of it four years ago, but today is expected
Speaker 2: to be considerably calmer. Kfi White House correspondent John Decker
Speaker 2: joins US Now Live to talk about it. John, thank
Speaker 2: you so much.
Speaker 3: Hey, Michael, thanks for having me today. Yeah, it's going
Speaker 3: to be pretty much ceremonial, as it should be. The
Speaker 3: peaceful transfer of power officially happens with the inauguration two
Speaker 3: weeks from now January twentieth, when Donald Trump is sworn
Speaker 3: in as America's forty seventh president. But there's a ceremonial
Speaker 3: aspect that happens today, the counting of the Electoral College
Speaker 3: votes that happens in both the House and the Senate.
Speaker 3: And it's the Vice President, the sitting Vice President, Kamala Harris,
Speaker 3: who will preside over this process in the Senate. She
Speaker 3: will certify the election. She will certify that her opponent
Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty fourth presidential election, Donald Trump, will
Speaker 3: be the next president.
Speaker 2: And we remember other January sixth from the past, including
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen when now President Joe Biden, who was
Speaker 2: the Vice President, presided over this very ceremony when his
Speaker 2: side did not win and Donald Trump won. Two thousand
Speaker 2: and one, Al Gore lost a very close election, presided
Speaker 2: over over that. Then, what does today look like procedurally,
Speaker 2: what actually happens.
Speaker 3: Well, two years ago there was a law that was
Speaker 3: passed signed by President Biden called the Electoral Vote Count Act,
Speaker 3: And what that law stipulated essentially was that there's going
Speaker 3: to be a peaceful transfer of power. It makes certain
Speaker 3: and spells out in no uncertain terms that the vice
Speaker 3: president plays only a ceremonial role. They can't over turn
Speaker 3: the results of a presidential election. And the threshold for
Speaker 3: a member of Congress and either the House or the
Speaker 3: Senate is much higher because of this law passed in
Speaker 3: bipartisan fashion to challenge the results of a presidential election.
Speaker 3: So do I expect any members on the Democratic side
Speaker 3: to challenge the presidential results? I don't see what grounds
Speaker 3: they would have to challenge it. Donald Trump won handily
Speaker 3: as it relates to the popular vote and also in
Speaker 3: the electoral college. But you never know. But again, the
Speaker 3: threshold is so high that it really will not make
Speaker 3: a difference as it relates to any individual member challenging
Speaker 3: the results of the presidential election.
Speaker 2: Well, we all got a pretty strong civics lesson a
Speaker 2: few years back when this happened last time, the storming
Speaker 2: of the Capitol, And now everybody seems to know that
Speaker 2: January sixth, after a presidential election year is when this
Speaker 2: sort of thing takes place. But these changes you just mentioned,
Speaker 2: they were I guess put in place following what happened
Speaker 2: four years ago. What was different four years ago? How
Speaker 2: what was the situation where people were able to object
Speaker 2: so much more easily.
Speaker 3: Well, what was different is that there was ambiguous language
Speaker 3: in terms of the role that the vice president played.
Speaker 3: And because of that ambiguous language, it was Donald Trump
Speaker 3: who was urging his then vice president, Mike Pence, to
Speaker 3: throw the election back to state delegations. And Mike Pence
Speaker 3: consulted with his legal counsel, and his legal counsel said
Speaker 3: to the Vice president at the time, you cannot do that.
Speaker 3: And he told that to President Donald Trump at the time,
Speaker 3: and the two that really have not been speaking ever since.
Speaker 3: But because of that law, it gets rid of those
Speaker 3: ambiguities and it makes clear that it's only a ceremonial
Speaker 3: role that the vice president plays. They can't buy themselves
Speaker 3: throw it back to the states, they can't overturn the results.
Speaker 3: And that's the reason why you will see Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: take part in the same process that, as you point out,
Speaker 3: Al Goirt took pardon back in two thousand and one,
Speaker 3: when he lost a very close election to George W.
Speaker 2: Bush, we noted that the vice president is presiding over
Speaker 2: the meeting today in a ceremonial fashion. What does it
Speaker 2: look like exactly what is she doing? Is she sitting,
Speaker 2: is she banging a gavel? Is she pointing at folks?
Speaker 4: What does she do?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, think about it this way. You know,
Speaker 3: if you've ever watched the State of Union address, you know,
Speaker 3: behind the president as the President delivers that State of Union,
Speaker 3: it's the vice president as well as the Speaker of
Speaker 3: the House that sit behind the president. Well, on the
Speaker 3: Senate side of the capital, the vice president has not
Speaker 3: only the role of being vice president of the United States,
Speaker 3: they are also the president of the Senate. So Kamala
Speaker 3: Harris will sit in a chair at the head of
Speaker 3: the rectrum, and she will certify the results of the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four presidential election, again in a way that
Speaker 3: is ceremonial, in a way that makes it clear that
Speaker 3: we have a peaceful transfer of power in the United States.
Speaker 2: John, I know you've got a ron, but is there
Speaker 2: any other business before the Congress today?
Speaker 3: No, that's about it. As you know. On Friday of
Speaker 3: last week, the new members of Congress and the incoming
Speaker 3: Congress from one hundred nineteenth were sworn in as new members.
Speaker 3: So now they can begin the process over the course
Speaker 3: of the next two weeks of confirmation hearings for all
Speaker 3: of those nominees that require Senate confirmation that President elect
Speaker 3: Donald Trump has put forward. And so that's what we
Speaker 3: can expect over the next two weeks, including some of
Speaker 3: those controversial nominees like Pete Hegseth to be the Secretary
Speaker 3: of Defense.
Speaker 2: We know you'll be keeping an eye on it and
Speaker 2: hope to talk to you again soon. John Decker is
Speaker 2: our White House correspondent. John, have a great Monday. Thank you,
Speaker 2: and we'll get back now to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Speaker 2: Two people are dead and four others are injured after
Speaker 2: a wrong way crash on the one thirty four Freeway
Speaker 2: in Pasadena.
Speaker 5: The crash happened just after eight o'clock Sunday morning. The
Speaker 5: California Highway Patrol says a car entered the freeway from
Speaker 5: an off rampant who's going eastbound in the westbound lanes.
Speaker 5: At least four vehicles were involved in the crash. The
Speaker 5: wrong way driver was one of the two people killed.
Speaker 5: Three of these surviving victims have moderate injuries. One has
Speaker 5: minor injuries. I'm Mark Mayfield and you're.
Speaker 2: Listening to Wake Up Call here on KFI A M
Speaker 2: six point forty. President Biden has plans to ban new
Speaker 2: offshore oil and gas drilling in most ust coastal waters.
Speaker 2: This is a last minute effort to block possible action
Speaker 2: by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling. Biden
Speaker 2: says he is using authority under federal law to protect
Speaker 2: offshore areas along the East and West coast, the Eastern
Speaker 2: Gulf of Mexico, and portions of Alaska's Northern Bearing Sea
Speaker 2: from future oil and natural gas leasing. Biden says he
Speaker 2: has the support of coastal communities who've argued that offshore
Speaker 2: drilling could cause ear revos, purle environmental damage. A spokeswoman
Speaker 2: for President elect Donald Trump has said the decision will
Speaker 2: be reversed after Trump takes office on January twenty. A
Speaker 2: woman who worked as a hairstylist for Fox Sports has
Speaker 2: alleged in a lawsuit that former on air host Skip
Speaker 2: Bayless offered her one and a half million dollars to
Speaker 2: have sex with him. Nushin Faraji says in her suit,
Speaker 2: Bayliss made repeated unwanted advances toward her and that Fox
Speaker 2: executives fostered a hostile work environment. She's seeking unspecified damages.
Speaker 2: Milannia Trump will be the subject of a new documentary
Speaker 2: coming to theaters and Amazon Prime. The film started shooting
Speaker 2: back in December. It has been described as the latest
Speaker 2: connection between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and President elect Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: as tech companies are reportedly seeking to improve relationships with
Speaker 2: the president elect. So we have a new oldest person
Speaker 2: in the world, apparently, no jokes, no jokes. The oldest
Speaker 2: person in the world is now believed to be a
Speaker 2: none from Brazil. Sister Na Connabaro is almost one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventeen years old and maybe Earth's oldest after the
Speaker 2: death of a Japanese woman previous believed to be the oldest.
Speaker 2: The nun love soccer cracking jokes. Longeviquest tracks super centenarians
Speaker 2: around the world and declared Connabarro the world's oldest person
Speaker 2: over the weekend. Well good for her. A man has
Speaker 2: been stabbed to death outside of McDonald's and Santa Ana
Speaker 2: Police say it happened just after three o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2: They say they do have a person of interest detained.
Speaker 2: A man from Huntington Beach is expected to be sentenced
Speaker 2: today after his conviction on wire fraud charges. Keith Middlebrook
Speaker 2: is a part time actor and self styled credit guru
Speaker 2: who solicited investments in companies that marketed bogus cures for
Speaker 2: COVID nineteen in the early days of the pandemic. The
Speaker 2: fifty seven year old used social media to get those
Speaker 2: investments from all over the country, touting a patent pending
Speaker 2: cure and treatment. The California Highway Patrol has warned the
Speaker 2: public about people posing as Amber Alert representatives and offering
Speaker 2: to register children. CHP says this is not how the
Speaker 2: Amber alert system works. In a social media post, the
Speaker 2: agency says the California Highway Patrol is the only agency
Speaker 2: authorized to activate Amber alerts and no registration is required.
Speaker 2: It's always something every day to keep your eye on
Speaker 2: out there. President Jimmy Carter has been lying in repose
Speaker 2: at the Georgia Capitol, where he will remain until Tuesday.
Speaker 2: His grand niece, Cameron Carter. Hebert says, a lot of
Speaker 2: people have been paying their respects.
Speaker 6: He not only cared about the nation and the good
Speaker 6: that he did, he cared about his neighbor's next door.
Speaker 6: He always checked in on anybody in town. He'd send letters.
Speaker 6: So just how for all the work he had to do,
Speaker 6: how personable he stayed with everybody.
Speaker 2: Carter died last week at the age of one hundred.
Speaker 2: The late president will be brought to Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: Where he will be taken by horse drawn carriage the
Speaker 2: Capital de Lion State. Carter state funeral will take place
Speaker 2: Thursday at Washington National Cathedral. President Biden is coming to
Speaker 2: southern California this week, but before he lands at LAX,
Speaker 2: he has another stop to make. He'll visit the families
Speaker 2: of victims in the New Orleans terror attack. The investigation
Speaker 2: into that and the explosion of a Tesla cybertruck outside
Speaker 2: of Trump Hotel in Las Vegas have continued all weekend.
Speaker 2: KFI National correspondent Rory O'Neill joins US Live Now with
Speaker 2: the latest in both investigations. Good Monday morning, Rory.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 2: Let's start with the President. What's on his agenda today
Speaker 2: in New Orleans.
Speaker 7: Right, Well, he's going to be going to talk to
Speaker 7: the families the survivors and try to bring some comfort
Speaker 7: to them and assure them that the Americans are standing
Speaker 7: beside them. He also wants to talk to the Mayor
Speaker 7: of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana about some of
Speaker 7: the security measures that will be in place for the
Speaker 7: upcoming Super Bowl, and Marti Gras. Apparently there's a bit
Speaker 7: of a laundry list of requests that the Mayor of
Speaker 7: New Orleans has and is asking the federal government to
Speaker 7: help them bolster the security in the wake of what
Speaker 7: happened on the first.
Speaker 2: We learned that there were maybe some security lapses in
Speaker 2: the French Quarter on New Year's And what are we
Speaker 2: hearing from officials there about steps that they are prepared
Speaker 2: to take currently as these other major events just happened
Speaker 2: to be in New Orleans this year, like the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and of course Marty Graus every year, right.
Speaker 7: And it really is something that is bringing a whole
Speaker 7: set of fresh eyes to the security approach that they've
Speaker 7: been taking there in New Orleans for these past few years.
Speaker 7: You know, we've had a lot of attention focused on
Speaker 7: those ballards that were either not working or were being replaced,
Speaker 7: And even if they were replaced, it may not have
Speaker 7: stopped the attack that happened on New Year's Day, because
Speaker 7: the FBI told us yesterday that this suspect had actually
Speaker 7: gone to New Orleans from his hometown in Houston twice
Speaker 7: last fall, wearing those meta glasses with the camera and
Speaker 7: recording the Bourbon Street French Quarter area apparently as some
Speaker 7: sort of recon and that helped him plot and plan
Speaker 7: his attack that included driving down Bourbon Street with that
Speaker 7: rented truck and also placing those two IEDs, those improvised
Speaker 7: explosives in coolers around the Bourbon Street area, exactly where
Speaker 7: he learned the knowledge about how to design those. That's
Speaker 7: really got the FBI and ATF scratching their heads right now,
Speaker 7: perhaps looking at some overseas trips he took to Ontario
Speaker 7: and to Cairo, Egypt as possible places where he became radicalized.
Speaker 2: What was so unique about these improvised explosive devices that
Speaker 2: it has investigators scratching their heads about how this guy
Speaker 2: would know how to make them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they were using a remote detonator system, not something
Speaker 7: we've seen here it operated in the US when you
Speaker 7: compare it to that cyber truck case in New Orleans,
Speaker 7: rather in Las Vegas that was really more just setting
Speaker 7: a fuse. But these remote electronic detonators not something that
Speaker 7: the Norland suspect would have been trained for in the military.
Speaker 7: He was mostly an IT guy in the HR department
Speaker 7: when he was serving in the US Army, so not
Speaker 7: something he had been trained for. So they're trying to
Speaker 7: figure out how did he learn that technique. Was it
Speaker 7: some video that he saw online or was he recruited
Speaker 7: And the fact the fact that maybe there were people
Speaker 7: with ices who were helping train him in this attack.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned that there's video now Jabbar walking around
Speaker 2: the French quarter with those meta glasses on, likely recording
Speaker 2: some video doing some reconnaissance. Where did that video come from?
Speaker 7: Well, obviously he had saved the video during the during
Speaker 7: those trips, and that's the whole point.
Speaker 2: So not surveillance video of him that was that was uncovered.
Speaker 2: It was his own video that he was taken. There's
Speaker 2: no images of him walking around.
Speaker 7: I think there's some images of him looking in a mirror. Actually, oh,
Speaker 7: that is on I think that maybe what you see.
Speaker 7: And also he wore those glasses the night of the attack.
Speaker 7: Now we haven't seen that video. It may not have
Speaker 7: been video from that event, but that also may be
Speaker 7: out there.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: President Biden is, of course headed there. You've talked a
Speaker 2: bit about who he wants to talk to. What has
Speaker 2: his messaging been generally about the attack in New Orleans.
Speaker 7: Well, he has said before, and he said a few
Speaker 7: hours after the attack, that hate has no harbor in
Speaker 7: the US and this kind of violence is unacceptable. Sadly,
Speaker 7: he's had to deliver these kinds of messages before. But
Speaker 7: he's also got a lot of close ties to New Orleans.
Speaker 7: His granddaughter went to Tulane, He's been there just I
Speaker 7: think as recently as this summer speaking at Tulane, and
Speaker 7: a lot of political ties to New Orleans as well
Speaker 7: during his fifty plus years in politics. So I think
Speaker 7: that's one of the reasons he wanted to go. Obviously,
Speaker 7: it's the waning days of his presidency. He's on his
Speaker 7: way to Italy shortly as well, for a three day
Speaker 7: trip to Italy and the Vatican. So's a busy week
Speaker 7: for the president, who will be on the quite a
Speaker 7: bit while there's plenty of activity happening in Washington.
Speaker 2: We're talking with national correspondent Rory O'Neil. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. Now we have some more details about Matthew
Speaker 2: Leibelsberger as well, the man who blew up the cyber
Speaker 2: truck in Vegas. He left some notes on his mobile phone.
Speaker 2: What do we know about those messages?
Speaker 7: Yeah, some pretty troubling stuff. And in the interviews that
Speaker 7: the investigators have done with friends and family, it looks
Speaker 7: like the suspect in that Las Vegas incident had a
Speaker 7: much more troubled time where we know that in New
Speaker 7: Orleans this was really isis inspired. The case out of
Speaker 7: Colorado and Las Vegas looks to be more of a
Speaker 7: service member who was in trouble suffering from PTSD. I mean,
Speaker 7: he was a five time Bronze Star winner. He was
Speaker 7: a long serving member of the Green Berets. But some
Speaker 7: of the messages he left behind talked about the US
Speaker 7: and China working together with anti gravity drones launched from
Speaker 7: submarines off the East coast. But he also talked about
Speaker 7: an attack he was involved in while in Afghanist that
Speaker 7: killed innocent women and children. He said the US had
Speaker 7: tried to cover it up, and the UN actually had
Speaker 7: criticized the US for this attack. So there may be
Speaker 7: some truths in what was posted there, but clearly this
Speaker 7: was a troubled man who may not really have been
Speaker 7: attacking Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas with the truck.
Speaker 7: Maybe it looks more and more like this was just
Speaker 7: a high profile suicide.
Speaker 2: Essentially a high profile suicide. But again let's reiterate, this
Speaker 2: was outside of a Trump branded hotel, inside a cyber
Speaker 2: truck which is operated of course by Elon Musk, and
Speaker 2: we know the relationship between Trump and Musk and the
Speaker 2: way that that escalated during the election. No one's saying
Speaker 2: that this was politically motivated.
Speaker 7: Well, in fact, in some of the writings, this man
Speaker 7: was clearly a Trump supporter, was actually looking forward to
Speaker 7: Trump taking things back, and he talked a lot about
Speaker 7: bringing back masculinity. He wanted his suicide to be sort
Speaker 7: of an seen as a turning point. So, yeah, it
Speaker 7: doesn't seem that this was an attack against Trump or Musk.
Speaker 7: It would have been quite the opposite. And when you
Speaker 7: look at the explosives and you compare his knowledge base
Speaker 7: to the explosives that were in the cyber truck. Clearly
Speaker 7: he knew that what he had in the truck was
Speaker 7: not going to do any real damage to destroy that building,
Speaker 7: and he certainly had much more knowledge about it. But
Speaker 7: it looks like this was just more of a tragic
Speaker 7: suicide case involving a troubled soldier.
Speaker 2: And both of these men levels Burger in Las Vegas
Speaker 2: and Jabbar in New Orleans. Both of them served in
Speaker 2: the US military, and maybe not at the same at
Speaker 2: the same time, maybe not crossing paths. But what does
Speaker 2: the military have to say, if anything, about either of
Speaker 2: them in these situations.
Speaker 7: They did clarify that both men did serve in Afghanistan,
Speaker 7: but probably didn't cross paths there, and both men served
Speaker 7: at what was then called Fort Bragg, but not at
Speaker 7: the same time. So we don't think that there are
Speaker 7: any direct connections, but plenty of coincidences renting high end
Speaker 7: pickup trucks and delivering their attacks on New Year's Day.
Speaker 7: As you said, both serving in the military using web
Speaker 7: that app called truro to get the trucks. It seemed
Speaker 7: like an awful lot of coincidences, but there's not the
Speaker 7: same political motivation or religious motivation that we saw in
Speaker 7: New Orleans. With the case in Las Vegas, it doesn't
Speaker 7: seem that they were motivated by the same thing at all.
Speaker 2: Roory O'Neil is a national correspondent, and Rory, we do
Speaker 2: appreciate you taking some time out of your Monday and
Speaker 2: hope to talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Michael, you got it. More news now. A new study
Speaker 2: has shown that teens are using fewer drugs and less
Speaker 2: alcohol and tobacco.
Speaker 8: And then You'll survey taken since nineteen seventy five by
Speaker 8: the University of Michigan examined the responses of nearly twenty
Speaker 8: four thousand middle and high schoolers across the US. More
Speaker 8: than half of high school seniors reported not using alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes,
Speaker 8: or e SIGs in the past thirty days, which is
Speaker 8: the highest since twenty seventeen. The abstinence rate in high
Speaker 8: school sophomores was even higher at eighty percent, reaching a record,
Speaker 8: and ninety percent of middle schoolers reported no use, which
Speaker 8: is in line with the last survey taken. I'm Tammy, Triheo.
Speaker 2: And Mufasa has claimed the top spot at the box
Speaker 2: office after the first weekend of twenty twenty five. According
Speaker 2: to estimates, the photorealistic Lion King prequel earned twenty three
Speaker 2: point eight million dollars in its third weekend. Sonic the
Speaker 2: Hedgehog three, which had been on top the previous two weekends,
Speaker 2: wasn't far behind in second place. Nosferatu took third place.
Speaker 2: Mona Ti and Wicked rounded out the top five. The
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five box office year already off to a
Speaker 2: better start than twenty twenty four. They say it's up
Speaker 2: around twenty percent from the last weekend last year. Congress
Speaker 2: convenes today to certify the results of the November election,
Speaker 2: with Vice President Kamala Harris presiding. Eli Mayor bass Is
Speaker 2: in Africa as part of a four member US delegation
Speaker 2: set to attend the inauguration of the new president of Ghanahs.
Speaker 2: Killers of actor Johnny Whackter, who was shot to death
Speaker 2: in downtown La last year they're set to appear in
Speaker 2: court today, and a tech entrepreneur from La says he
Speaker 2: recently missed his flight home after getting trapped in a
Speaker 2: weymo on the way to the airport. Those waymos are
Speaker 2: those self driving vehicles, he tells KTLA. His name's Mike Johns.
Speaker 2: He tells KTLA the issue happened in Scottsdale, Arizona, in
Speaker 2: mid December. That self driving car he was riding in
Speaker 2: wouldn't stop making circles in a parking lot.
Speaker 9: And it was just going in the circles, like around
Speaker 9: the fifth or sixth time. That feeling was very uncomfortable
Speaker 9: where you're strapped in, you can't open the door, and
Speaker 9: this vehicle is just going in circles.
Speaker 2: On Sunday, a Waymo representative told The La Times John's
Speaker 2: was delayed about five minutes, then driven to his destination.
Speaker 2: The spokesperson blames it on a software glitch that has
Speaker 2: since been resolved, adding that John's was not charged for
Speaker 2: his ride in the Weimo vehicle. And coming up at
Speaker 2: six oh five, we've got Handle on the news. Bill
Speaker 2: Handle is back with the team and we'll have him
Speaker 2: here at six zho five. And coming up at five
Speaker 2: point fifty, we've got an update on the mutilation and
Speaker 2: killings of multiple wild parrots in the San Gabriel Valley.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from a woman who is taking care of them.
Speaker 2: That's coming up at five point fifty. Okay, let's move
Speaker 2: on now, We've got another live interview with one of
Speaker 2: our colleagues. The popular video app TikTok faces banishment from
Speaker 2: the US unless the Chinese ownership to vest or President
Speaker 2: elect Trump perhaps steps in makes a delay. He seems
Speaker 2: to like the app. He likes a lot of social media,
Speaker 2: where he routinely shares his thoughts directly. The owner of
Speaker 2: X formerly Twitter, Elon Musk, has become a rabid backer
Speaker 2: of Trump, but he's also touted X as the new
Speaker 2: home for journalism, frequently saying to his legion of diehard followers,
Speaker 2: you are the media now. Meanwhile, the regular old media
Speaker 2: like TV, newspaper, radio, have faced audience declines. So what
Speaker 2: does all this mean for the future of trustworthy journalism.
Speaker 2: ABC News political analyst Steve Roberts is with us now
Speaker 2: to talk about it. Good Monday morning.
Speaker 4: Steve, Well, thank you for having me. And not only
Speaker 4: have I been a journalist for over sixty years, but
Speaker 4: I teach journalism at George Washington University, and I teach
Speaker 4: of course in media ethics. And you describe the situation well,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump, the last campaign only culminated a trend we've
Speaker 4: seen now for years, which is that there are so
Speaker 4: many new platforms, the democratization, the fragmentation of the media universe,
Speaker 4: whether it was the podcast that Trump went on, whether
Speaker 4: it was using x formerly known as Twitter, whether it
Speaker 4: was using TikTok to reach directly to voters. And in fact,
Speaker 4: it's fascinating because Trump a year ago, two years ago,
Speaker 4: was denouncing TikTok because it's owned by Chinese company and
Speaker 4: totally reversed his position on that, saying, I have a
Speaker 4: warm spot in my heart for TikTok. Why Because Donald
Speaker 4: Trump has one principle and one principle only, and that
Speaker 4: is what works for him personally and politically. And he
Speaker 4: discovered the TikTok, even if its Chinese own, was an
Speaker 4: enormously useful pathway for him to connect directly to voters.
Speaker 4: And that's the situation as he takes over as for
Speaker 4: a second term as president. But in my view, it
Speaker 4: means that the mainstream media. Yes, we've lost credibility, Yes
Speaker 4: we've lost audience. Yes there are economic problems besetting a
Speaker 4: newspaper like the Los Angeles Times, like the Washington Post.
Speaker 4: These are all true, But that doesn't mean that the
Speaker 4: role for the mainstream media is any less important. In fact,
Speaker 4: in many ways it's even more important than ever because
Speaker 4: as Trump legitimately, I'm not saying it's illegitimate, he legitimately smartly,
Speaker 4: shrewdly is using TikTok and all of these other ways
Speaker 4: to communicate directly. But there has to be a mechanism
Speaker 4: for verification, There has to be a mechanism for accountability.
Speaker 4: There has to still be a role for professional, independent,
Speaker 4: mainstream journalism that says we're going to hold you to
Speaker 4: account and we're going to verify and FactCheck and investigate
Speaker 4: you on a regular basis.
Speaker 2: That's what I wanted to ask, is because this is
Speaker 2: not just a threat to audience size from traditional media,
Speaker 2: this is also a threat to what people know about
Speaker 2: what's happening. So explain to us what are the most
Speaker 2: important distinctions separating traditional journalism and social media posts.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a very good question. And you know, I
Speaker 4: think at the core of the ethic and the integrity
Speaker 4: of mainstream media, and it's been true for a couple
Speaker 4: of centuries now, is that there remains a firm belief,
Speaker 4: a deep seated belief that independent journalism can describe and
Speaker 4: evaluate reality, and there's a shared set of facts that
Speaker 4: underlie public discussion and decision making. Plus the fact that
Speaker 4: you know, as a president like Trump becomes even more
Speaker 4: powerful and more dominating and more ability to shape the
Speaker 4: information people get. There has to be a voice that says,
Speaker 4: this is not the whole story. When Donald Trump says
Speaker 4: the election of twenty twenty was stolen, there has to
Speaker 4: be a voice it says, no, that's not true. And
Speaker 4: when Donald Trump says that, When Donald Trump says that
Speaker 4: tariffs are going to be paid for by foreign companies,
Speaker 4: there has to be a voice it says, no, that's
Speaker 4: not true. Tariffs are attacks on American consumers. That's reality.
Speaker 4: Those are facts, Those are the product of independent journalism,
Speaker 4: and that's the role.
Speaker 2: So when Elon Moss tells his audience you who are
Speaker 2: the media now, it's usually met with excitement and enthusiasm
Speaker 2: from a lot of his followers, a lot of people
Speaker 2: in the country. You know, they've long been angry at
Speaker 2: traditional media outlets for reasons that may or may not
Speaker 2: be valid. So how does that sentiment from folks tap
Speaker 2: into how social media is now a threat to traditional media?
Speaker 4: Well, look, I have no problem with that and no
Speaker 4: problem with the idea that the whole media system has
Speaker 4: been democratized, and people on TikTok, and people on Twitter
Speaker 4: or X, people on Instagram, people on podcasts have found
Speaker 4: a voice. You know. And I was hired by the
Speaker 4: New York Times in nineteen sixty four. Virtually everybody who
Speaker 4: works for the mainstream media looked like me, a straight
Speaker 4: white male, you know, educated in the Ivy League. The
Speaker 4: whole media universe has been democratized in a very healthy way.
Speaker 4: I think there are many upsides to the fragmentation of
Speaker 4: the media universe. New voices, new platforms, new vitality. This
Speaker 4: is all a plus. There's nothing wrong with X, there's
Speaker 4: nothing wrong with TikTok. They're very valuable additions to the
Speaker 4: media ecosystem. But there has to at that. But those
Speaker 4: are often systems without checks and balances, without the media
Speaker 4: ethics of verification. There's no editor, there's no producers telling
Speaker 4: people on X weight that's not true. When I started
Speaker 4: in the business working for the New York Times, I
Speaker 4: had a dozen crusty old editors saying, Steve, that's not true. Steve,
Speaker 4: make another phone call, Steve. Let's hold your story for
Speaker 4: a day. Steve. Let's be sure we know what we're
Speaker 4: talking about. In these new platforms, there's that kind of
Speaker 4: external system of verification and integrity is gone, and it's
Speaker 4: still there's a very help the development there, but there
Speaker 4: has to be a balanced with an independent journalism that
Speaker 4: has a different set of standards and a different set
Speaker 4: of values.
Speaker 2: We're talking with ABC News political analysts Steve Roberts. I
Speaker 2: wanted to build on that point that you were just making,
Speaker 2: and I'm wondering if today's audiences in general even care
Speaker 2: about where that information comes from. You know, you kind
Speaker 2: of hinted at some of these scenarios you've got, like
Speaker 2: a neighborhood Facebook group, for example, you might have a
Speaker 2: report in the neighborhood of a loud noise and within
Speaker 2: an hour there are all kinds of wild theories about
Speaker 2: what happened. Whereas someone like you or someone like me,
Speaker 2: I'd make some calls before I blurted anything out about it,
Speaker 2: you know, but by the time you and I get
Speaker 2: around to verifying whether the loud noise was anything worth
Speaker 2: reporting on, it may be too late to reach that audience.
Speaker 2: And does that audience care.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a fair point, and there's no doubt that
Speaker 4: every poll shows a declining confidence in the mainstream media
Speaker 4: and look more partly in fault. But you've also got
Speaker 4: to remember that Donald Trump has spent years and years
Speaker 4: and years saying to his followers, it's all fake news.
Speaker 4: The only person you should believe is me, and he
Speaker 4: has been very, very candid. In the interview with Leslie
Speaker 4: Staller CBS years ago, he said that she asked him
Speaker 4: why do you keep attacking the mainstream media, and he said, well,
Speaker 4: I do it so that you have no credibility left,
Speaker 4: so that when you try to criticize me, no one
Speaker 4: will believe you. And he's been very open and very
Speaker 4: shrewd and very effective and undermining the credibility of people
Speaker 4: who might be critics. It is, and I'm not minimizing
Speaker 4: in any way, the crisis that is facing the mainstream media.
Speaker 4: And it's not just a crisis of credibility. It's also
Speaker 4: a crisis of economics, as people are unwilling to subscribe
Speaker 4: to a newspaper like the Los Angeles Times. Gathering information
Speaker 4: is expensive. It's easy to get up there and spout
Speaker 4: opinions that's cheap. But real news, real information, particularly investigations
Speaker 4: that hold whether it's the mayor of Los Angeles or
Speaker 4: the governor of California, the President of the United States,
Speaker 4: or account it's expensive, and without people subscribing, without people
Speaker 4: willing to spend money to support independent journalism, it's the
Speaker 4: economic crisis. In some ways, it's just as bad as
Speaker 4: the credibility crisis. But having said all of that, and
Speaker 4: understanding that we're less credible and less believable, I still
Speaker 4: believe there's a vital role whether it's KFI or the
Speaker 4: La Times or the New York Times or NPR or
Speaker 4: whoever it is that says we're still here as a
Speaker 4: bastion of independent, professional journalism that tells you what the
Speaker 4: facts are, and you can decide for yourself how you vote,
Speaker 4: how you interpret those facts. But let's at least agree
Speaker 4: on what reality looks like.
Speaker 2: Steve Roberts, ABC News political analyst, Steve Professor, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for spending some time with us on this Monday.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it very much. Hope to talk again anytime.
Speaker 2: And some more news coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 2: four hour newsroom this morning. Two people have been killed,
Speaker 2: three people have been taken to a hospital after that
Speaker 2: fiery multi vehicle crash on the Ventura Freeway in Pasadena
Speaker 2: caused by a wrongway driver. The crash on the westbound
Speaker 2: freeway at North San Rafael Avenue happened around eight o'clock
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, when a vehicle entered the freeway from the
Speaker 2: San Rafael Raphael off ramp and then went eastbound in
Speaker 2: the westbound lanes. Some headlines were monitoring looking for further
Speaker 2: details out of the ap Nippin's Steel and US Steel
Speaker 2: have filed lawsuits challenging President Joe Biden's decision to block
Speaker 2: that fifteen billion dollar deal between those two the Japanese
Speaker 2: based Nippon Steel and of course You Steel, and Pope
Speaker 2: Francis has named the first woman to head a major
Speaker 2: Vatican office. We will have more on those stories throughout
Speaker 2: this morning. We know we've seen wild parrots around southern California.
Speaker 2: They are not native here, but they're here, and they
Speaker 2: seem to injoke it. Why not? What's not to like?
Speaker 2: When you have weather like we've got today, clear sunny
Speaker 2: into the seventies in January, you gotta love that. But
Speaker 2: some people have turned violent against some of these wild parrots,
Speaker 2: and nobody seems to know exactly why some of these
Speaker 2: parrots have been found mutilated, some of them even dead.
Speaker 2: Most recently, five were found inside a makeshift bird cage
Speaker 2: on railroad tracks in Elmonte. I've been hosting a Saturday
Speaker 2: night program here on KFI Live seven to nine every
Speaker 2: Saturday night, and I spoke this past Saturday with Cleo Watts,
Speaker 2: who operates Cleo's Critter Care in Pasadena and has taken
Speaker 2: care of the injured birds. This is that interview. This
Speaker 2: situation in December involved five parents that were found in
Speaker 2: what has been described as a makeshift bird cage on
Speaker 2: some railroad tracks in Elmonty. What can you tell us
Speaker 2: about what was found in that bird cage?
Speaker 10: Yes, that is correct. I was actually called out by
Speaker 10: a sergeant Francisco of ELMONTI Police Department Saturday morning, Francisco Ramirez,
Speaker 10: and he had told me that there were five birds
Speaker 10: that were found in a makeshift basically cage. It was
Speaker 10: actually a dog kennel that was converted into They put
Speaker 10: pigs across for the bird superse so it seemed like
Speaker 10: they halfway cared. They were found abandoned on the railroad
Speaker 10: tracks in Temple City at a homeless encampment. We don't
Speaker 10: know who the perpetrators are. They said that they're going
Speaker 10: to be investigating and you know, scaling around it. It's
Speaker 10: credently difficult to catch one of these birds alone five,
Speaker 10: So I'm just curious as to how they've even obtained them,
Speaker 10: if they found them that way, or if they were
Speaker 10: the ones that harmed them. We still don't know. But
Speaker 10: there were five and they were severely mutilated.
Speaker 2: Well, we talked about being severely mutilated. And I don't
Speaker 2: want to be graphic for our listeners, and I know
Speaker 2: that injuries to animals can be triggering to folks, but
Speaker 2: I think it's important that we know what's happened. What
Speaker 2: can you tell us as gently as possible about the
Speaker 2: injuries suffered by the parrots?
Speaker 10: Okay, so two of them had open wing fractors. Third
Speaker 10: one had a badly fractured lower mandible, meaning that the
Speaker 10: whole bottom, the whole beak was split in half.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, were to.
Speaker 10: Pry the beak opened, you know, and split.
Speaker 4: It down the middle.
Speaker 10: There was a severe laceration.
Speaker 3: On another one.
Speaker 10: One of them. There's no evidence of any of these
Speaker 10: guys being shot, which is, you know it opens up
Speaker 10: a whole nother case of you know, animal abuse or
Speaker 10: torture that you know somebody is actually doing this by
Speaker 10: hand or with with an object. One of them was
Speaker 10: found with the severe latoration throughout its whole body, through
Speaker 10: the whole cross of its wings, across its head, and
Speaker 10: we're all just you know, wondering how you know, how
Speaker 10: they were able to get them if they found them
Speaker 10: that way, if it's a mental uh issue, you know
Speaker 10: it is what they were found in a homeless encauntment.
Speaker 10: We do you know that a lot of homeless people
Speaker 10: do suffer mental disabilities, you know, struggles. We we don't
Speaker 10: really know what caused, you know, why, what made them.
Speaker 4: Do this to them?
Speaker 10: And there really is no reason in my book to
Speaker 10: do this to anything, any any living creature. Is it's
Speaker 10: really disturbing.
Speaker 2: And there were five that were found. I understand that
Speaker 2: only one has survived.
Speaker 10: One has survived and and yeah, it's going to take
Speaker 10: months and months of extensive tube feeding because he won't
Speaker 10: be able to eat on his own. And that was
Speaker 10: the one that had to split down the middle of
Speaker 10: of his.
Speaker 2: Uh Man, What what happens at Cleo's Critter Care when
Speaker 2: one of these injured parrots arrives.
Speaker 10: I do have a triage that take on hand that
Speaker 10: I call for situations just like I mean, we were overwhelmed,
Speaker 10: there were so many at once again, so she she
Speaker 10: comes over and she helps with the triage and then
Speaker 10: we send them to depending on what her injury is.
Speaker 10: Especially with the parrots. We have a specialist over in
Speaker 10: Paula's Verdict, doctor Miko, who is an expert at pinning wings,
Speaker 10: so she can make anything like again, practically she could
Speaker 10: pend on hommingbirds wings. She's one of the best, so
Speaker 10: you know, if they're able to and we don't have
Speaker 10: to euthanize right away to end their suffering, they make
Speaker 10: the trip out to her and Paula's Verdict and then
Speaker 10: once she can basically you know, patch them up, clear
Speaker 10: them up, then they make the trip down to San
Speaker 10: Diego to soak Ol Parrot Rescue to Ashley over there.
Speaker 10: So it's kind of a team effort that we have here.
Speaker 10: I live in the Pasadena, San Gerel area, so you
Speaker 10: know they're coming from my area, so I take them
Speaker 10: from my area. Pasadena Humane gets them in and we
Speaker 10: both send our birds to doctor Miko from there and
Speaker 10: she sends them over to Sandy Go.
Speaker 2: We're talking with Cleo Watts of Cleo's Critter Care about
Speaker 2: this terrible trend that started apparently in November continued through
Speaker 2: December of just some mutilated and injured parrots, and Cleo
Speaker 2: Watts helps rehabilitate the ones that are savable. But as
Speaker 2: you just heard, they're not always savable. And so there's
Speaker 2: one that has survived this most recent mutilation where they
Speaker 2: were found in a makeshift bird cage on some railroad tracks.
Speaker 2: Parents are not native to southern California, but they're here
Speaker 2: and they are now part of our wildlife. They seem
Speaker 2: to have acclimated. Well, what is typically the response that
Speaker 2: people should have when there's a parent? Are these animals
Speaker 2: you should stay away from despite the curiosity?
Speaker 10: Well, I mean if they seem in distress, and you
Speaker 10: know there's some that fall out of the nest, the
Speaker 10: tree tremmors, you know, you know, they get attacked by predators,
Speaker 10: attack them, they get singled out, you know, they get
Speaker 10: shot at. I mean, whatever it is. If if you
Speaker 10: see an animal in distress, you always call a passidina
Speaker 10: humane or you call a wildlife rescue. You know, you
Speaker 10: try not to handle the animal. You don't want to
Speaker 10: stress it out. We are trained to handle them. We
Speaker 10: have a proper gear. You know, you do need gloves,
Speaker 10: heavy gloves, especially with these birds. They have very powerful beats.
Speaker 10: They can you know, do some damage, especially if you're
Speaker 10: not familiar with holding them. So you do want to
Speaker 10: call a rescue, you know, Passinini Humane you can call me,
Speaker 10: you know, just try to if you see somebody doing
Speaker 10: something like this, I wouldn't approach them, but I would
Speaker 10: definitely call the police.
Speaker 2: For this last guy who has survived that you recovered
Speaker 2: from that makeshift bird cage, the one survivor you mentioned,
Speaker 2: He's going to be on some bottle feeding and all that.
Speaker 2: What's what's the prognosis long term for this one? Is
Speaker 2: he somebody? Is he a bird that will fly in
Speaker 2: the wild again?
Speaker 10: Yeah, his wing fork damaged. We're hoping that he will be.
Speaker 10: He is. Actually I believe he is starting his rehab
Speaker 10: at Ashley Zobert and so Cal Parrot Rescue. I believe
Speaker 10: they have the birds now. But you know, I mean
Speaker 10: it's gonna take six to eight months, you know, nearly
Speaker 10: half a year to rehab this animal and a lot
Speaker 10: of times they do in print. They are highly intelligent animals,
Speaker 10: and you know, we try to get them going as
Speaker 10: soon as we can get them free back into the
Speaker 10: you know, the rest of the flock, and it's just
Speaker 10: it's just set back when they're that badly damaged. And
Speaker 10: I mean, it's just you know, we had some come
Speaker 10: in since October twentieth, the ones that we're getting shot,
Speaker 10: and then now this, and it's just it's really it's yeah, uh,
Speaker 10: it's pretty disturbing to see this actually, andan to know
Speaker 10: that it's a human being doing this, you know, it's
Speaker 10: a person or person that is doing this to them.
Speaker 10: It's just really I just I don't understand it. And
Speaker 10: I hope that they can, you know, find the person
Speaker 10: or person so responsible for this.
Speaker 2: Well so do we. And Cleo Wants is the founder
Speaker 2: of the nonprofit animal rehabilitation center known as Cleo's Critter Care.
Speaker 2: It's in Pasadena, and she is taken care of some
Speaker 2: of these parrots that have been mutilated and injured in
Speaker 2: recent months. So best of luck to you. I hope
Speaker 2: we can follow up with you sometime soon and see
Speaker 2: how the parrots are doing. And please stay in touch.
Speaker 2: Thanks for taking time out of your Saturday to chat
Speaker 2: with us about this terrible case.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, thank you so much for your your reaching out
Speaker 10: as well. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You got it, and we will continue to follow that story.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call here on KFI and
Speaker 2: Michael Monks filling in for Amy King. Another issue facing
Speaker 2: birds in California is bird flu and looks like the
Speaker 2: White House is paying attention to what's going on with that.
Speaker 2: Lots of money coming to fight that virus. You've probably
Speaker 2: felt the impact of bird flu yourself, not that you're
Speaker 2: sick with it or anything, but if you've been to
Speaker 2: the grocery and I went yesterday, the price of eggs,
Speaker 2: it's no joke. It has impacted the availability of eggs
Speaker 2: and the I guess the efficiency of egg production. This
Speaker 2: bird flew across California. It was like almost nine dollars
Speaker 2: for a dozen eggs. It's getting crazy, something to keep
Speaker 2: an eye on. So we are keeping an eye on
Speaker 2: that story and other stories throughout the day. Here as
Speaker 2: we approach six o'clock on the first Monday of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, this is the first Monday of what looks
Speaker 2: like the first full week where people will start to
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Speaker 2: Some of us who have been working throughout the holidays
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