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Speaker 1: It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Monday,
Speaker 1: December thirtieth. Good morning, I'm Amy King. As we get
Speaker 1: ready to close out the year, I've had some people
Speaker 1: talking to me about you know what was great about
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and blah blah blah. And one of
Speaker 1: the coolest things that happened in twenty twenty four was
Speaker 1: what you were just listening to. Was our opportunity to
Speaker 1: talk to Colonel Haig on board the International Space Station.
Speaker 1: Like you get to do a lot of cool things
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Speaker 1: been at the helm the whole time. You didn't take
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Speaker 1: The longest living former president has died. Jimmy Carter died
Speaker 1: yesterday at his home in Plains, Georgia. The former peanut
Speaker 1: farmer and Georgia governor was the thirty ninth President of
Speaker 1: the United States. He served from nineteen seventy seven to
Speaker 1: eighty one. His wife, Rosalind, died in November twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter was one hundred. We're going to be talking
Speaker 1: more about the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter with
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan. That's coming up in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. The FAA is investigating a close call on
Speaker 1: a runway at lax A Charter flight carrying the Gonzaga
Speaker 1: University men's basketball team apparently failed to follow instructions from
Speaker 1: the tower on Friday, plane stopped just short of taxing
Speaker 1: in front of a Delta Airlines flight that was taking off.
Speaker 1: A wood burning ban is in effect again today because
Speaker 1: of high pollution levels in the forecast. The ban is
Speaker 1: for non desert areas of Los Angeles, Riverside and San
Speaker 1: Bernardino Counties and all of Orange County. Let's get started
Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. As the nation mourns the passing
Speaker 1: of former President Jimmy Carter, two local area mayors are
Speaker 1: paying tribute to his enduring legacy.
Speaker 6: LA City Mayor Karen Bass honored Carter's commitment to service
Speaker 6: and human rights. She says President Carter established the idea
Speaker 6: of human rights as a core tenet of American foreign
Speaker 6: policy and created a path towards a clean energy future,
Speaker 6: while Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson praised Carter as a
Speaker 6: leader who continued to help others far beyond his time
Speaker 6: in office. The reflection from both Bass and Richardson highlight
Speaker 6: Carter's lasting influence as a global leader and Amanitarian Andrew
Speaker 6: Caravella KFI news.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom echoed those sentiments. Colin Carter a man of
Speaker 1: rare character. The National Weather Services a fire weather watch
Speaker 1: will be in effect tomorrow for most of southern California.
Speaker 1: Forecasters say critical fire weather conditions are likely across the
Speaker 1: Santa Ana wind prone areas of La and Ventura Counties,
Speaker 1: as well as the Inland Empire. Meteorologist Sam Zuber tells
Speaker 1: KFI a lack of rain is one reason for the advisory.
Speaker 8: What's going to be happening is the next system that's
Speaker 8: coming in is just going to kind of pick up gusts,
Speaker 8: especially over there in the mountains, and with that we're
Speaker 8: also going to be seen some really low humidity.
Speaker 1: She says. The fireweather watch will be in effect through
Speaker 1: Thursday night. A man who shot at police and barricaded
Speaker 1: himself inside a motel room in Woodland Hills has been
Speaker 1: found dead. The shooting happened just after ten last night
Speaker 1: at the Vantage Point in on Ventura Boulevard. Police SWAT
Speaker 1: officers found the men dead when they went inside. Investigators
Speaker 1: to trying to figure out if the man was killed
Speaker 1: by police or if he shot himself. A new study
Speaker 1: shows California has the sixth highest vehicle theft rate in
Speaker 1: the United States. The study by the Cimmarn Law Group
Speaker 1: of Burbank analyzed crime data from the FBI and National
Speaker 1: Incident Based Reporting System and found that California has a
Speaker 1: theft rate of three hundred and ninety three point nine
Speaker 1: per one hundred thousand people. Maine has the lowest car
Speaker 1: theft rate, at sixty five point two per one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people. Show Hey, Otani and his wife are expecting.
Speaker 1: They shared the news on social media. A photo on
Speaker 1: Instagram shows a pink Onesie baby shoes and an ultrasound image.
Speaker 1: Otani's dog is also in there. The caption reads, can't
Speaker 1: wait for the little rookie to join our family soon. Ooh,
Speaker 1: exciting news for the Otani family. Now, let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, the thirty ninth President
Speaker 1: of the United States, has died.
Speaker 5: Yes, surprising, maybe not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1: We were I mean, he's been in hospice for almost
Speaker 1: two years.
Speaker 5: Two years. Yeah, I went out there and covered that.
Speaker 5: When he left Atlanta, went out to planes Georgia essentially
Speaker 5: to die, but lived for another two years. Did have
Speaker 5: a lot of health issues, including cancer which successfully was
Speaker 5: treated five or six years ago. So yeah, a long
Speaker 5: long life, one hundred years. No other president has ever
Speaker 5: made it to triple digits. No other first couple has
Speaker 5: ever made it to seventy seven years of marriage.
Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing? And they when did they get married?
Speaker 1: Were they really young when they got married?
Speaker 5: They were, Yes, they were young, and just after World
Speaker 5: War Two. He was a nuclear engineer during World War
Speaker 5: Two in the Navy, had been to the Naval Academy,
Speaker 5: first president to do that, to graduate from the Naval Academy.
Speaker 5: Then they began this seventy seven year marriage. They'd known
Speaker 5: each other their whole lives there in Planes Georgia.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. It's sort of like the George Bush and
Speaker 1: Barbara Bush. You know that they just were together forever
Speaker 1: and it was just a beautiful love story. You said
Speaker 1: that he'd been in hospice, he'd been in Plaines. Was
Speaker 1: he in the hospital or was he at home?
Speaker 5: No, he was at home. He was at home, Yes,
Speaker 5: and he had to you know, given it. Maybe he
Speaker 5: had stopped taking you know, he's still eating, still drinking
Speaker 5: and taking basic medicines, but was not doing any sort
Speaker 5: of therapy that was intended to prolong his life. He
Speaker 5: had kind of accepted this and quite peacefully and gratefully
Speaker 5: accepted this very long life that he had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned that he had been treated for cancer,
Speaker 1: and I was just reading about that, that he had
Speaker 1: brain cancer. But then after a few months he stopped
Speaker 1: getting treatment because he got some new sort of cancer therapy.
Speaker 1: Do we know what that was? I don't remember hearing that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that was another one kind of surprising
Speaker 5: that he had this cancer diagnosis, but some sort of
Speaker 5: alternative therapy that appeared to work for him. And I
Speaker 5: think doctors are hesitant to say that it was the
Speaker 5: treatment that did it or was it simply that he
Speaker 5: overcame this cancer? Hard to say, but yeah, an interesting
Speaker 5: twist there, and I think people then eight nine years
Speaker 5: ago assumed that he was on his way out. Essentially,
Speaker 5: they sent me out there to cover that when the
Speaker 5: Quarter Center was going to give an update on his health,
Speaker 5: and here came Jimmy Carter to sit down and give
Speaker 5: the news conference about his own health. So really a
Speaker 5: resilient person physically and emotionally, So.
Speaker 1: Jim, I think that, at least my memory of it
Speaker 1: is President Carter was not regarded as a particularly good president,
Speaker 1: but he has a wonderful legacy that you know, after
Speaker 1: he got out of office, he really had some really
Speaker 1: big accomplishments he did.
Speaker 5: I think people forget though about you know, the Camp
Speaker 5: David Peace Accords that he broke at this piece between
Speaker 5: Egypt and Israel.
Speaker 1: Is that while he was in office? Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to retract the last thing I said. But
Speaker 1: I think as an overall thing, like you look back
Speaker 1: and you don't at least again, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's my generation or whatever, but I don't look at
Speaker 1: that as being a successful presidency. But you're right, that
Speaker 1: was a huge, huge accomplishment.
Speaker 5: Well it was. He established the Department of Education. That
Speaker 5: was one of his big pushes. He came up with
Speaker 5: a the National Energy Policy. I think he was kind
Speaker 5: of forced into that because of the energy crisis that
Speaker 5: was going on during his presidency. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: the peace between Israel and Egypt last forever. No, it didn't,
Speaker 5: but it certainly was a moment in time and in
Speaker 5: that picture of Nwar Sadats and Monacham began. I still
Speaker 5: remember that vividly, with Carter standing there between them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then after he got out of office, what
Speaker 1: are some of the things that he did? I know
Speaker 1: that the Habitat for Humanity is one of the things
Speaker 1: he'll be remembered for sure.
Speaker 5: When he left office, his biographer says that Jimmy Carter
Speaker 5: was depressed, deeply depressed. Didn't know what he was going
Speaker 5: to do with his life. He left behind a White House,
Speaker 5: and he knew what his legacy within the White House
Speaker 5: was going to be. The hostage the Iranian hostage crisis
Speaker 5: ended just as his presidency was ending. Minutes later, the
Speaker 5: crisis ended, the hostages were released. So I think he
Speaker 5: saw this kind of this dark spot over his presidency,
Speaker 5: so he said, what am I going to do with
Speaker 5: the rest of my life? So he and his wife
Speaker 5: roseland dedicated themselves to causes. It became huge, not just
Speaker 5: giving money and lending their names to something like the
Speaker 5: like Habitat for Humanity, but going out and actually building
Speaker 5: houses physically. I covered him at several of these builds
Speaker 5: when he and his wife would come, and there was
Speaker 5: this earnestness about him. And he wasn't just there to symbolically,
Speaker 5: you know, turn dirt. He was there to pound nails.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then what are some other things that he did.
Speaker 5: He and his wife also championed human rights around the world.
Speaker 5: They traveled the world, visiting places of soth Africa and
Speaker 5: places in Eastern Europe to try to promote democracy and
Speaker 5: human rights. And certainly that was a big part of
Speaker 5: his legacy. And of course the Carter Center, which went
Speaker 5: on to establish this human Rights Center in nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 5: it sent observers to elections around the world. One hundred
Speaker 5: four fourteen elections in thirty nine countries have been watched
Speaker 5: by the Carter Center as an effort to further democracy.
Speaker 1: Nice. Well, you know, one hundred years. I think that's
Speaker 1: a life well lived.
Speaker 5: Sure you also know that he won three Grammy Awards.
Speaker 1: Why did he win Grammy.
Speaker 5: Awards Best Spoken Word Albums twenty seven, twenty sixteen, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5: His books, his books on tape or his audio books
Speaker 5: won Grammy Awards.
Speaker 1: Nice Okay, I might have to think about it all right,
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan, thank you so much. Seamy tak too. Soon
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A wrong way
Speaker 1: driver has caused a crash on the two ten that
Speaker 1: killed one person and injured another. Police say a driver
Speaker 1: was headed eastbound in the westbound lanes at North Allen
Speaker 1: Avenue around three am yesterday when the crash happened. A
Speaker 1: decomposing body has been found at the bottom of a
Speaker 1: cliff in Rancho Palace Verties. The Eli Kenny Sheriff's Department
Speaker 1: says investigators believe the death might have been the result
Speaker 1: of a fall from Dina's viewpoint. They say the body's
Speaker 1: not related to recent discoveries of human remains along the
Speaker 1: shoreline where two boaters disappeared last week. Beach goers in
Speaker 1: North Carolina have seen a juvenile female humpback whale up
Speaker 1: close and personal. It washed a shore Friday. Crowds have
Speaker 1: been gathering to see it. This onlooker says he couldn't
Speaker 1: believe his eyes when he saw how big the whale is.
Speaker 6: I've never seen a whale before, but this is like
Speaker 6: the first time, and I was like, holy.
Speaker 7: Smoke, that is huge.
Speaker 1: A neck crop they was before, or was due to
Speaker 1: be performed on the whale's carcass to determine what caused
Speaker 1: its death. At least sixty six people have been killed
Speaker 1: when a truck plunged into a river in southern Ethiopia.
Speaker 1: We're just getting word in of that tragic accident. New
Speaker 1: analysis shows artificial intelligence data centers are using massive amounts
Speaker 1: of power and could be distorting the normal flow of
Speaker 1: electricity across the US. The analysis by Bloomberg of seven
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy thousand home sensors shows more than three
Speaker 1: quarters of distorted power readings are within fifty miles of
Speaker 1: AI data centers. That's called bad harmonics and means household
Speaker 1: appliances that use electricity could be affected at some point.
Speaker 1: There not Fresh, the actress known for a role in
Speaker 1: the TV sitcom Alice in the nineteen seventies, has died.
Speaker 1: A representative says Linda Lavin died in La yesterday of
Speaker 1: complications from recently discovered lung cancer. Lavin worked on broad
Speaker 1: Broadway before moving over to TV. Alice ran from nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six to eighty five, and Lavin sang the theme
Speaker 1: song There's a New Girl in Town. She was working
Speaker 1: as recently as this month promoting a new Netflix series
Speaker 1: Linda Lavin was eighty seven. President Elect Trump says the
Speaker 1: challenges faced by President Jimmy Carter came at a pivotal
Speaker 1: time for our country. Trump said on a truth Social
Speaker 1: that only those who served as president can relate to
Speaker 1: the enormous responsibility of leading the greatest nation in history.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter died yesterday at the age of one hundred.
Speaker 1: A seventeen year old girl has been killed in a
Speaker 1: shooting at a house party in Signal Hill. Three other
Speaker 1: girls and seven boys were also shot at the party
Speaker 1: on Burnett Street on Saturday night. There's a black moon tonight.
Speaker 1: That's when there are two new moons in a single month.
Speaker 1: It's a rare occurrence, happening about once every two and
Speaker 1: a half years. It is the kind of the opposite
Speaker 1: of a blue moon, which is when there are two
Speaker 1: full moons in a month. So nice, dark skies, hopefully
Speaker 1: lots of stars. Tonight at six oh five, it's Handle
Speaker 1: on the news. Elon Musk drops the F bomb over
Speaker 1: his spat with some immigration hardliners. We'll be talking about that.
Speaker 1: Of course, it won't be handled. It's going to be
Speaker 1: Wayne Resnick in for Handle this week. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's Sam Sweeney. Sam, horrible plane crash
Speaker 1: in South Korea. One hundred and seventy nine people were killed.
Speaker 1: Can you give us the latest on what happened.
Speaker 3: Instigators are now on the ground in South Korea trying
Speaker 3: to figure out what happened. We typically can deduct and
Speaker 3: come up with some scenarios of what may have happened
Speaker 3: in these situations with so much data, so much video,
Speaker 3: But this one is a strange one. Why did this
Speaker 3: plane go around the airport? Possibly because of a potential
Speaker 3: bird strike? They did a may day call, But why
Speaker 3: did it come back around so quickly and land without
Speaker 3: its landing gear down, without its spoilers or flats engaged
Speaker 3: to slow the aircraft. It came down at a high
Speaker 3: rate of speed, didn't use much of the two mile runway,
Speaker 3: and then touch down at the end, had a few
Speaker 3: hundred feet before it crashed into that wall. Why did
Speaker 3: that happen? If you have a bird strike that takes
Speaker 3: out one engine, you still have a second engine to
Speaker 3: power the aircraft and keep it flying. Give them time
Speaker 3: to run checklists and of course lower the landing gear.
Speaker 3: They're on very different systems and then there's backup systems
Speaker 3: redundancies within these planes. Why did that landing gear not
Speaker 3: them down? And why did that plane not stop? That's
Speaker 3: what investigators need to figure out with the black box
Speaker 3: data that they recovered over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was just going to ask you if they
Speaker 1: got that. So you meant I had heard about the
Speaker 1: no landing gear, but also that they didn't have the
Speaker 1: flaps like they It didn't appear that they were even
Speaker 1: trying to slow the plane down.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 3: And that's what you know, all of these experts can
Speaker 3: figure out when you look at it. Typically, when the
Speaker 3: plane lands, when the wheels touch the ground or just above,
Speaker 3: you know, ten feet off the ground or so, there's
Speaker 3: the automatic reverse thrusters engage, almost like a vacuum that
Speaker 3: pushers air the opposite way to slow the plane, the
Speaker 3: plane down. We don't know or believe that those activated
Speaker 3: as well. Again, flaps weren't down, spoilers not engaged, landing
Speaker 3: gear not down. So many failures. Was this flight crew
Speaker 3: simply overwhelmed and rushing to get the plane on the
Speaker 3: ground that they forgot to drop the wheels. That's a possibility,
Speaker 3: and that's what we'll be able to figure out with
Speaker 3: the black boxes. They had the voice recorders, which record
Speaker 3: everything that was said, every noise in the cockpit in
Speaker 3: those final moments, and then the datta recorders, which will
Speaker 3: record all of the maneuvers the plane made, any input
Speaker 3: from the pilots, any button that was pushed. We will
Speaker 3: learn all of that and figure out what happened here, okay.
Speaker 1: And in the meantime until they release that information, do
Speaker 1: we know anything about the pilots. Do we know if
Speaker 1: they were veteran pilots or maybe brand new or anything.
Speaker 3: I don't know anything about the pilots, but we do
Speaker 3: know that the two people who survived were flight attendants.
Speaker 3: They were seated in the rear of the aircraft.
Speaker 1: I was just going to ask you that, okay.
Speaker 3: And they were in the jump seats, which means they
Speaker 3: were harnessed in and likely their backs were up against
Speaker 3: the wall, and they were facing the rear of the aircraft,
Speaker 3: so the opposite direction of all the passengers. And if
Speaker 3: you look at the wreckage video, the only thing that's
Speaker 3: left is the tail.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, the two flight attendants. Because I was I
Speaker 1: was again, I was going to ask you, Sam who
Speaker 1: survived and where were they sitting on the plane.
Speaker 3: So it's just it's worth noting that the black boxes
Speaker 3: are also located in the tail of the aircraft. That's
Speaker 3: typically the strongest point of the plane, and of course
Speaker 3: furthest from that concrete wall. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 3: of questions. The reason they do these thorough investigations is
Speaker 3: to prevent these incidents from happening again. It's not just
Speaker 3: to quench the first of the public to understand why
Speaker 3: they want to prevent them from happening again. A lot
Speaker 3: of experts are saying, why is there a concrete wall
Speaker 3: at the end of this runway. Perhaps they will say
Speaker 3: that was one of the causes. This could have been
Speaker 3: less deadly if that wall weren't there. Will they make
Speaker 3: those changes. They're going to look at all of that and.
Speaker 1: Get at the Bourbank Airport. I think that there's a
Speaker 1: sound wall or something like that, so we don't know
Speaker 1: that that might be why that wall was there.
Speaker 3: So this wall, actually it was a concrete wall with
Speaker 3: a dirt mound over top of it, and it held
Speaker 3: the instrumentation the localizers what it's called, and that helps
Speaker 3: glide the planes in. But in Burdbank. That wall there
Speaker 3: at the end that a plane would go right through that,
Speaker 3: it wouldn't crumple like a concrete wall, that sound barrier.
Speaker 3: It's a small airport, so a little bit you know,
Speaker 3: different scenario there.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect, So thank you for that clarification.
Speaker 6: Sam.
Speaker 1: This is, you know, just out of the blue. But
Speaker 1: are there any signs of any kind of foul play
Speaker 1: or anything like that aside from a bird strike, which
Speaker 1: that's a bad joke.
Speaker 3: Nothing points the foul play. I mean, this was a
Speaker 3: routine flight. It was in the air for over four
Speaker 3: hours coming from Bangkok, full flight, one final approach. They
Speaker 3: were given that warning that you know, it's right near
Speaker 3: the water. So there's a lot of bird activity in
Speaker 3: the area. Not uncommon, but there are thousands of bird
Speaker 3: strikes every year or just in the United States. It
Speaker 3: is a very common thing. Now, what is not common
Speaker 3: in the situation like you know miracle on the Hudson
Speaker 3: where you have dual engine failure, birds went in both engines.
Speaker 3: That is so rare. In fact, they can only think
Speaker 3: of that one case. So did that happen? Here was
Speaker 3: their dual engine failure? It doesn't appear, so we have
Speaker 3: no reason to believe that because the plane has so
Speaker 3: much power when it landed. But look, we don't know,
Speaker 3: and it's tough to speculate in this situation. And the
Speaker 3: only thing that's going to give us those answers are
Speaker 3: those cockpit voice recorder and the cockpit data recorder.
Speaker 1: Okay, And since those have both been recovered, Sam, do
Speaker 1: we have any kind of idea does it take a
Speaker 1: few weeks, because obviously if A and TSP, those guys
Speaker 1: all the airline regulatory agencies have to look over everything.
Speaker 1: But do we have any kind of clue about how
Speaker 1: long it usually takes to get the information.
Speaker 3: One of the one of the black boxes was damaged.
Speaker 3: They believe they can still get the data off of it,
Speaker 3: but that could take a little bit more time, but
Speaker 3: typically they can do this in a couple of days.
Speaker 3: And if the Koreans who are leading the investigation, if
Speaker 3: they can't pull the data, then it will be sent
Speaker 3: through the NTSB lab in Washington, where they likely will
Speaker 3: be able to pull the data, and again they can
Speaker 3: do that within a couple of days.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then just one last question, the flight attendants
Speaker 1: who survived, how are they doing? Are they are they okay.
Speaker 3: One is in intensive care, and there are reports in
Speaker 3: local media that one did wake up this morning, the male.
Speaker 3: There's a male and female, and the male did wake
Speaker 3: up and he has no recollection of the crash, and
Speaker 3: he reportedly asked the doctors why he was in the hospital.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Well, that's amazing that anybody survived that. ABC.
Speaker 1: Sam Sweeney, thank you so much for the information. We
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, all right.
Speaker 1: As twenty twenty four is about to become twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: police departments around the US are warning gun owners not
Speaker 1: to fire weapons into the air to celebrate the new year.
Speaker 1: One city where that's the case is Milwaukee, where Assistant
Speaker 1: Chief Nicole Waldner is posted on social media that firing
Speaker 1: those weapons is illegal. When MPD responds, it is unknown
Speaker 1: to us if shots are being fired into the air
Speaker 1: or if an active shooter incident is taking place. The
Speaker 1: LAPD and La Kenny Sheriff's Department both have policies on
Speaker 1: not firing guns into the air on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: They say it will not be tolerated. I know last
Speaker 1: year at New Year's I think I worked on New
Speaker 1: Year's Day and so of course I went to bed
Speaker 1: at like eight o'clock, but there was a lot of
Speaker 1: gunfire in La. It was a little bit shocking. I
Speaker 1: mean it's nothing like Fourth of July, but it was
Speaker 1: a lot. A fifteen year old boy has been critically
Speaker 1: wounded in a gunfight with police in South LA. The
Speaker 1: LAPD says gang enforcement officers saw someone spring graffiti on
Speaker 1: a wall last Thursday night. Another person apparently fired an officers,
Speaker 1: who then returned fire. Three people were able to take off.
Speaker 1: They led police on a chase that ended in Compton,
Speaker 1: about five miles away. A twenty year old and two
Speaker 1: fifteen year olds were arrested, and again one of those
Speaker 1: fifteen year olds critically wounded. A seventeen year old girl's
Speaker 1: been fatally shot at a party in Signal Hill. Six
Speaker 1: other teens were hurt on Saturday night, many of those
Speaker 1: that the party took off when the shooting started. Billy
Speaker 1: say those hurt are between seventeen and nineteen years old.
Speaker 1: It's not clear what led up to the shooting. Singer
Speaker 1: Marvin Gaye's adopted son is being sued by a woman
Speaker 1: who claims she was hurt while trying to calm a
Speaker 1: dispute between Gay and his wife at their home in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. The lawsuit, filed in Cordon van Eyes
Speaker 1: by a woman identified only as Jane Doe, alleges that
Speaker 1: when she arrived at Gay's house, things got violent. The
Speaker 1: suit says Gay allegedly pointed a gun at her and
Speaker 1: his now former wife, Wendy. Final floral touches are being
Speaker 1: put on floats for the one hundred and thirty six
Speaker 1: Tournament of Roses Parade.
Speaker 9: Each float has about sixty volunteers who are up to
Speaker 9: their elbows in glue and flowers, seats and other floral
Speaker 9: components to make a float amazing. It's messy and it's cold.
Speaker 9: To keep flowers lively, the warehouses are kept between thirty
Speaker 9: two and thirty seven degrees. In the end, each float
Speaker 9: will be covered with about forty five thousand flowers and
Speaker 9: lots of other organic materials. After the parade, you can
Speaker 9: see the floats at Floatfest until January third, then they're
Speaker 9: turned into potpourri and mulch.
Speaker 1: I'm pre tennis and of course the parade rolls through
Speaker 1: the streets of Pasadena on New Year's Day. Hey, Cottonwood,
Speaker 1: California never heard of it. You're probably gonna hear of
Speaker 1: it now if you haven't already over the weekend. It's
Speaker 1: a little town in northern California of just six thousand people,
Speaker 1: and one of those six thousand people is one point
Speaker 1: two billion dollars richer. That's where a winning Mega Million's
Speaker 1: ticket was sold for Friday nights drawing.
Speaker 2: Durn it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't me, I had my ticket. There was no
Speaker 1: Powerball winner over the weekend, So that next drawing is
Speaker 1: tonight and it is worth one hundred and sixty three
Speaker 1: million dollars. Can you imagine how popular that person's gonna
Speaker 1: be in Cottonwood? I wonder if they no, because you
Speaker 1: know how like in small towns, everybody knows everything and
Speaker 1: knows everybody. Wonder if the person who won is gonna
Speaker 1: suddenly disappear or come forward quickly. A man's been arrested
Speaker 1: for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars worth of apple products
Speaker 1: from apple stores around southern California. Irvine police a Malcolm Walker,
Speaker 1: who's from Illinois, grabbed about twelve hundred dollars worth of
Speaker 1: apple products on Friday night at the Apple store at
Speaker 1: the Spectrum Center. A search of his vehicle found about
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars worth of other apple products that had
Speaker 1: been stolen from stores in the Southland. A body's been
Speaker 1: found on a beach in Rancho Palace, Verdes. A hiker
Speaker 1: spotted the body at the bottom of a steep cliff
Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon near Pelican Cove. POLICEAI It appears the
Speaker 1: person had been dead for a few months. Linda Lavin
Speaker 1: has died. The Tony Award winning actress was best known
Speaker 1: for her role on TV's Alice in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 1: She died unexpectedly from complications of recently discovered lung cancer.
Speaker 1: She was still working filming a new Netflix series called
Speaker 1: Not Good No Good Deed, and also mid Century Modern
Speaker 1: that's being worked on on Hulu. Linda Lavin was eighty
Speaker 1: seven at six oh five. It's handled on the news,
Speaker 1: but it's not handled today. It's Wayne Resnick. President Biden
Speaker 1: says he regrets dropping out of the race and thinks
Speaker 1: he could have beat President elect Trump. Speaking of President
Speaker 1: elect Trump, is a department of government and efficiency go
Speaker 1: in toe to toe with some Republican hardliners. We've got
Speaker 1: ABC's Stephen Portnoy to tell us the latest on that. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I said, I had a six sick holiday, And
Speaker 1: you know, sick can be good and it can be bad.
Speaker 1: So sick, the good part was I got to go home,
Speaker 1: spend time with family and see friends, and we did shopping,
Speaker 1: and we did did a little wine tasting. The Rogue
Speaker 1: Valley in southern Oregon has become quite a little hub
Speaker 1: for wineries, and so as a person who enjoys a
Speaker 1: little taste of wine, we had a nice time. So
Speaker 1: in that way, it was very sick. And I got
Speaker 1: to spend time with my mom, which was great, and
Speaker 1: she I don't know what your family does, but my
Speaker 1: mom is one of those. Well, she's an overachiever when
Speaker 1: it comes to holidays. She has like six Christmas trees.
Speaker 1: They're all over the house and it's so cool because
Speaker 1: and then she has them on timer, so they go
Speaker 1: on and off. But when I'm home, I set them
Speaker 1: so that they're almost always on because they're so pretty.
Speaker 1: So it's very festive at Mom's house. Now on the
Speaker 1: sick part, the literal sick part. My brother was driving
Speaker 1: to southern Oregon to spend Christmas with the rest of
Speaker 1: the family, and he got less than halfway there and
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm sick, and he had been sick for
Speaker 1: a couple of days. He said, I'm going to try
Speaker 1: to fight through it. I'm going to come and he like,
Speaker 1: I said, he's less than halfway there, and he just goes.
Speaker 1: I feel horrible. I said, then turn around. You got
Speaker 1: to go home. And so what should have taken him
Speaker 1: like four hours to get home took him seven hours
Speaker 1: because he kept like falling asleep while he was driving,
Speaker 1: so he had to pull over. So we didn't get
Speaker 1: to see my brother for Christmas, so that's bad. And
Speaker 1: then the younger brother got sick at Christmas, so he's
Speaker 1: better now. And I've been oding on vitamin C and
Speaker 1: my mom is so cute. I'm like, Mom, would you
Speaker 1: like an emergency and she's like, no, thanks, I eat
Speaker 1: an orange every day and she's healthy as a horse.
Speaker 1: So also I was mentioning why economic travel is not
Speaker 1: always the best idea. I got to take a Velo Airlines,
Speaker 1: which I've had great experiences with before. So it's one
Speaker 1: of the low cost carriers and it flies to some
Speaker 1: like random places that a lot of the bigger airlines
Speaker 1: don't fly, and has direct flights, so like if you
Speaker 1: fly Alaska to smaller cities, you have to like stop
Speaker 1: in Portland or Seattle and then go back south to
Speaker 1: get to southern Oregon. Sort of it's problematic. So a
Speaker 1: Vello has this great flight from Burbank to med and
Speaker 1: the rates are very inexpensive. The base rate is like
Speaker 1: seventy nine dollars, but you can get them for like
Speaker 1: thirty nine dollars or fifty nine dollars. But then they
Speaker 1: charge you for absolutely everything. So you get a small
Speaker 1: you get a backpack, but if you want to carry on,
Speaker 1: that's sixty dollars. Carry On is sixty dollars. If you
Speaker 1: want to check a bag, that's sixty dollars. So I
Speaker 1: had to check two bags, so that was one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars. And then they're like, hey, want a seat,
Speaker 1: that's going to cost you too, so and it's anywhere
Speaker 1: from I think nineteen dollars up to about sixty five dollars,
Speaker 1: and so I didn't choose a seat, and so they
Speaker 1: assign you one. Well, you always get the middle seat.
Speaker 1: So I'm like a nine E and my seat doesn't recline,
Speaker 1: and I swear they've shoved another row of seats in
Speaker 1: there because my knees were touching, and I'm tall, I'm
Speaker 1: like five eight, but I'm not that tall. So next
Speaker 1: time I might splurge and spend the extra one hundred
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars, because by the time everything added up,
Speaker 1: if you put in the luggage and the carry on
Speaker 1: and bought a seat, then you're back up to three
Speaker 1: or four hundred dollars for the flight anyway, So why
Speaker 1: not just take another airline? So that's my wise words
Speaker 1: of wisdom. Although I will say I've had a good
Speaker 1: experience on a Vello before, just the one on Saturday
Speaker 1: wasn't great.
Speaker 5: So do your homework.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden has
Speaker 1: ordered flags at the White House and across the US
Speaker 1: and its territories to be flown at half staff in
Speaker 1: honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who died yesterday at
Speaker 1: the age of one hundred.
Speaker 10: America and the world, my view, lost a remarkable leader.
Speaker 1: Carter died yesterday at his home in Plains, Georgia. Biden
Speaker 1: says he's known Carter for fifty years.
Speaker 10: Millions are people all around the world, all over the world.
Speaker 10: I feel they lost a friend as well, even though
Speaker 10: they never men. And that's because Jimmy Carter lived a
Speaker 10: life measured not by words but by his deeds.
Speaker 1: Carter was elected president after the resignation of President Nixon.
Speaker 1: He brokeer the nineteen seventy eight Camp David peace accord
Speaker 1: between Israel and Egypt, but his presidency was marred by inflation,
Speaker 1: energy shortages, and Iran taking fifty two American hostages. When
Speaker 1: Carter left office, he spent his life doing humanitarian work.
Speaker 1: President elect Trump also praised Carter for his service to
Speaker 1: the nation. Trump said in a statement, those of us
Speaker 1: who have been fortunate to have served as president understand
Speaker 1: this is a very exclusive club, and only we can
Speaker 1: relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the greatest nation
Speaker 1: in history. Trump went on to say the challenges Carter
Speaker 1: faced as president came at a pivotal time for the country,
Speaker 1: and he did everything in his power to improve the
Speaker 1: lives of all Americans. He says, for that, we all
Speaker 1: owe him a debt of gratitude. President elect Trump's nominee
Speaker 1: for Chair of the FCC says he's questioning ABC's negotiation
Speaker 1: with local TV stations. Brendan Carr says it's his understanding
Speaker 1: that ABC is trying to get financial and operational concessions
Speaker 1: from TV stations or it could end their affiliate agreements.
Speaker 1: When local stations air ABC content, they have to pay
Speaker 1: the network. The FAA is investigating a close call at lax.
Speaker 5: Stop Stop.
Speaker 1: A Delta Airlines flight was taking off Friday when a
Speaker 1: private jet carrying the Gonzaga men's college basketball team crossed
Speaker 1: its path. No one got hurt. The Gonzaga team went
Speaker 1: on to play UCLA the following day. A small but
Speaker 1: significant earthquake has jolted an area of northwestern Ohio.
Speaker 11: The US Geological Survey says a two point nine magnitude
Speaker 11: quake hit the village of Hicksville in Defiance County just
Speaker 11: after six thirty am Sunday. What's unique about that is
Speaker 11: there are no known faults in that area. In fact,
Speaker 11: according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, there's never
Speaker 11: been a record an earthquake in Defiance County before, but
Speaker 11: now this one is the strongest to hit that part
Speaker 11: of the state in the last twenty five years. I'm
Speaker 11: Jack Crumley.
Speaker 1: You know, Moe Kelly gives you gives us all a
Speaker 1: hard time if we mention earthquakes if they're not at
Speaker 1: least a five. So when I heard that story and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, it's a two point nine. But I
Speaker 1: guess they never feel them. So if they felt it,
Speaker 1: it might have been a little scholten. Public observances are
Speaker 1: planned in Washington, d c. And Atlanta for former President
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter. The services will be followed by a private
Speaker 1: internment in Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he died yesterday.
Speaker 1: The family is asking for donations to be made to
Speaker 1: the Carter Center in low of flowers. Jimmy Carter was
Speaker 1: one hundred years old. At least four people have been
Speaker 1: killed as severe storms moved through the South. More than
Speaker 1: thirty tornadoes touchdown over the weekend in Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, and Texas. A man in North Carolina was
Speaker 1: killed when a tree fell on his truck during a rainstorm.
Speaker 1: Lufasse is king at the box office. The Lion King
Speaker 1: prequel took in just under sixty four million dollars in
Speaker 1: the five days of Christmas. Sonic three was second, which
Speaker 1: is under sixty million in ticket sales. The horror movie
Speaker 1: Nasparatu scared its way into third place. Wicked and Mowana
Speaker 1: rounded out the top five. We're just minutes away from
Speaker 1: Handle on the news this morning, but this morning it's
Speaker 1: Wayne on the News. Wayne Resnick's filling in for Bill Handle.
Speaker 1: A boy in a bubble found off the coast of Brazil.
Speaker 1: Really bizarre story. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, what's the flat between Elon Musk
Speaker 1: and the Veik rumas Swami and some Trump supporters about
Speaker 1: H one B versus.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a pretty epic rift in Magaworld which pits
Speaker 7: some of the long standing supporters of the America First
Speaker 7: movement and really the intellectual basis of it, people such
Speaker 7: as Steve Bannon and others, against some of the newcomers
Speaker 7: who are newly influential, people like Elon Musk and Vek
Speaker 7: Ramaswami who are right at Donald Trump's side.
Speaker 1: And the issue is over.
Speaker 7: These highly skilled workers from other countries who are brought
Speaker 7: to the United States to work for companies and be
Speaker 7: granted H one B VISUS. This is mainly seen in
Speaker 7: the tech sector. It's for highly skilled computer programmers and
Speaker 7: coders and other kinds of people who have unique skills
Speaker 7: where they can sit and perform what are generally seen
Speaker 7: in the tech world as sort of menial tasks coding.
Speaker 7: And the idea is that we simply in this country
Speaker 7: do not have enough qualified people to fill those jobs,
Speaker 7: and the tech industry leaders say that they have no
Speaker 7: choice but to bring in foreign workers to perform these tasks,
Speaker 7: and that's why they want to see an expansion of
Speaker 7: the H one B program. Steve Bannon's perspective is that
Speaker 7: it presses the wages of Americans, that they're certainly Americans
Speaker 7: who would love the opportunity to have these jobs, and
Speaker 7: that this program should be smaller or shut down altogether.
Speaker 7: Donald Trump over the weekend seemed to weigh in on
Speaker 7: the side of musk and Ramaswami, telling The New York
Speaker 7: Post that he believes H one B is a great
Speaker 7: program that he has used many times now. There may
Speaker 7: be some confusion here on Trump's part, because the record
Speaker 7: reflects that he has much more often taken advantage of
Speaker 7: the H two program. To bring in lower skilled workers cooks, housekeepers,
Speaker 7: and waiters versus the highly skilled tech jobs that are
Speaker 7: typically seen by the H one B program. Although his
Speaker 7: Trump Media and Technology Group does have an application to
Speaker 7: bring in a data analyst, the posted salary is sixty
Speaker 7: five thousand dollars, not clear whether that position was filled.
Speaker 7: And under the H two program for agricultural workers, Trump
Speaker 7: is seeking thirty one foreign vineyard farm workers. According to
Speaker 7: the New York Times, the listed salary for them is
Speaker 7: fifth teen dollars eighty one cents an hour. And that's
Speaker 7: it is winery in Charlottesville, Virginia. Again, this is an
Speaker 7: epic philosophical struggle. And last week you had vike Ramaswamy
Speaker 7: going on a tear on social media talking about how
Speaker 7: American culture is flawed in many respects, that we here
Speaker 7: in the United States value prom queens over mathletes, and
Speaker 7: leisure time over hard work and valedictor I'm sorry, jocks
Speaker 7: over valedictorians, Stefan or Kel over Steve Rkele, and Zach
Speaker 7: and Slater over Screech some deep seated resentment. It seems
Speaker 7: to me that vivike Ramaswami has and it has also
Speaker 7: resulted in some racist posts directed towards him and anti
Speaker 7: Indian sentiment in particular exploding on social media. So this
Speaker 7: is a really strong and powerful rift here, and it's
Speaker 7: been depicted sort of as a maga civil war. Let's
Speaker 7: see how it all plays out. But at the end
Speaker 7: of the day, for the moment, Trump seems to be
Speaker 7: siding with Musk and Ramaswami.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Steven, here's a question. We talked about how
Speaker 1: they're saying we need these H one B visa people
Speaker 1: to come in and that there aren't enough in the US,
Speaker 1: and then people are saying there's lots of people who
Speaker 1: would want those jobs. Do we have any data showing
Speaker 1: that we do have people to fill those jobs that
Speaker 1: are highly technical and like you said, kind of menial
Speaker 1: but needed.
Speaker 7: Well, look there, you could look at the statistics the
Speaker 7: number of people, for example, who graduate every year from
Speaker 7: colleges with a computer science degree and the number of
Speaker 7: jobs that exist in the tech sector. You could look
Speaker 7: at the ability now for a lot of this work
Speaker 7: to be done remotely from other countries. Anyway, I'm not
Speaker 7: an expert in this area and I don't have the
Speaker 7: data in front of me, but again broader and more philosophic.
Speaker 7: The issue is whether it's in the interest of America
Speaker 7: and American workers to have this program, because the argument
Speaker 7: is that if you bring in the foreigners, they're competing
Speaker 7: with Americans. The requirements of the program is that a
Speaker 7: company has to certify to the federal government that there
Speaker 7: simply aren't any qualified Americans to fill these posts, and
Speaker 7: the company has no choice but to bring in foreigners.
Speaker 7: And that's why this information is publicly available, and the
Speaker 7: salary data is posted publicly so everybody can peer in
Speaker 7: and see. The argument has been that companies have misused
Speaker 7: this program and displaced Americans to bring in lower paid
Speaker 7: foreigners who are eager to do the work, because for
Speaker 7: them it's a complete and total it's a total change
Speaker 7: of their lifestyle, and it allows them the opportunity to
Speaker 7: bring in their relatives to this country and offer the
Speaker 7: whole family a new start. That's nice, But the argument,
Speaker 7: again from the America first types, is that it undercuts
Speaker 7: the Americans who are already who are looking for work,
Speaker 7: and how is that in the interest of the country.
Speaker 7: So again there are no right or wrong answers here,
Speaker 7: But this debate is ongoing, and Trump seems to for
Speaker 7: the moment be sympathetic to the tech executives who are
Speaker 7: newly influential and very much.
Speaker 2: In his ear.
Speaker 1: And maybe putting all of this in the spotlight will
Speaker 1: be enlightening and we'll see who who's actually right, how
Speaker 1: it all plays out. You bet, all right, Stephen Portinoy,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Appreciate it, you bet. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. One thing that maybe on
Speaker 1: people's New Year's resolutions list for twenty twenty five is
Speaker 1: how to limit time on social media. Doctor Darien Sutton
Speaker 1: of New York says, the first thing you can do
Speaker 1: is look at your numbers.
Speaker 3: Change your settings when you go into those apps.
Speaker 8: You can set settings for a night time, when you're
Speaker 8: about to go to bed.
Speaker 3: You can set daily limits.
Speaker 2: Also, my suggestion, get rid of your notifications.
Speaker 1: Oh I so am in favor of notifications, drive me crazy.
Speaker 1: The experts generally recommend keeping your usage of social media
Speaker 1: to between thirty minutes and two hours per day. Flu
Speaker 1: season is picking up after a slow start this winter.
Speaker 4: Data from the CDC found that positive tests went up
Speaker 4: by twelve percent for the weekending December twenty first, compared
Speaker 4: to the week before. Over twelve thousand people were hospitalized
Speaker 4: from the virus. Flu activity typically starts to pick up
Speaker 4: about Halloween, but this year activity just started picking up
Speaker 4: in recent weeks. The CDC says flu activity was hised
Speaker 4: in Louisiana and Oregon for the weekending December twentieth. Activity
Speaker 4: was also high along the West coast and throughout the South.
Speaker 4: I'm Chris Cracio.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what my brother had. Maybe that's what both
Speaker 1: my brothers said. Who knows. Researchers say a new sunscreen
Speaker 1: may block harmful rays from the sun and keep you
Speaker 1: cool at the same time. The sunscreen has been developed
Speaker 1: by researchers in China who say it can keep you
Speaker 1: up to eleven degrees cooler than other sunscreens that are
Speaker 1: on the market. They say their new formula includes in
Speaker 1: green adians the block UV rays, as well as moisturizing
Speaker 1: creams and a common silicon or silicone polymer that is
Speaker 1: used in cosmetics. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: Orange County Southland. Weather from KFI low clouds, fog this morning,
Speaker 1: then sunny with highs in the sixties at the beaches,
Speaker 1: Metro La and Inlando. C Sunny and windy, with highs
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Speaker 1: Inland Empire. Low sixties for the Anelope Valley. Morning clouds
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Speaker 1: sixties at the beaches and Metro areas, sixties to mid
Speaker 1: seventies in the valleys in Ie, around sixty for the
Speaker 1: Anelope Valley. Then we're going to warm up into the
Speaker 1: sixties to upper seventies for New Year's Day. It's fifty
Speaker 1: three in Anaheim, fifty six Redondo Beach, fifty two in Calabasas,
Speaker 1: fifty one in Rancho Cucamonga. We lead local live from
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer Michelle who's
Speaker 1: filling in for an and technical producer Cono. I'm Amy King.
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