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Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 1: I was happy watching Gabby Thomas yesterday. She's amazing. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking to ABC Sines de la Katera about
Speaker 1: all the happenings at the Olympics. So much fun. I
Speaker 1: can't believe it's almost done. There's only like three or
Speaker 1: for more days left. Also, did you feel it, Cono,
Speaker 1: did you feel the earthquake?
Speaker 4: I did not?
Speaker 1: You did not, Okay, like everybody, there was this group
Speaker 1: text going around and everybody was weighing in and oh
Speaker 1: yeah we felt it, we felt it. I missed out.
Speaker 1: I was asleep. I mean, I'm also the Inland Empire,
Speaker 1: so it's another sixty miles.
Speaker 5: That is true.
Speaker 1: That is true. But so it was in Kern County,
Speaker 1: but it was felt Nick felt it in Anaheim, they
Speaker 1: felt a jolt in Fullerton, it was felt in Long
Speaker 1: Beach and shaking the political world. Harrison, her new VP
Speaker 1: picked Tim Walls, hit the campaign trail. I've been watching
Speaker 1: my shows because you know, I like to watch all
Speaker 1: of the shows because I'm a junkie about political just
Speaker 1: like you know, knowing what's going on. CNN is giddy
Speaker 1: about Tim Walls. Fox is appalled, and both Harrison Walls
Speaker 1: are on the attack. It is going to be a wild,
Speaker 1: wild ride. Here's what's a head on wakeup call. As
Speaker 1: I just mentioned, Kamala Harrison, her just announced running mate
Speaker 1: Tim Wallas, have hit the ground running with a campaign
Speaker 1: rally in Pennsylvania. Walls went on the attack, saying former
Speaker 1: President Trump doesn't know the first thing about service. Harrison
Speaker 1: Walls are hitting battleground states next, including Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia,
Speaker 1: and Arizona. Missouri. Democratic Representative Corey Bush has lost her primary.
Speaker 1: She's been a vocal critic of the Israeli government and
Speaker 1: its response to the Hamas terrorist attacks. On October seventh,
Speaker 1: she was beaten by Israeli group backed Saint Louis County
Speaker 1: Prosecutor Wesley Bell in the primary yesterday. She's the second
Speaker 1: so called squad member voted out this election cycle. The
Speaker 1: Lacity councils considering creating a so called bubble zones around
Speaker 1: protest sites. The motion would set up designated protest areas
Speaker 1: outside places like mosques and synagogues, and also community centers
Speaker 1: that would still allow for people to come and go
Speaker 1: to those locations. The motion now heads to the Council's
Speaker 1: Public Safety Committee for consideration. Hey, we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: with rich Miro in just a couple of minutes a
Speaker 1: little bit early today. We've got new rules for getting
Speaker 1: into costco. Google has the new streaming device, and with
Speaker 1: the political season in high gear, is there a way
Speaker 1: to stop all those stupid political texts that you're going
Speaker 1: to be getting At six so five a handle on
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Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour news or more than thirty aftershocks have been felt
Speaker 1: from a magnitude five point three earths quake, in Kern
Speaker 1: County that shook many parts of southern California. The quake
Speaker 1: was located near Bakersfield. It lasted for about thirty seconds
Speaker 1: last night. This guy in Ventura says he was in
Speaker 1: bed when he felt the shaking.
Speaker 6: I heard the dogs neck door making some noise, and
Speaker 6: then I got the text from the USCS or whoever.
Speaker 6: And then about two seconds later we felt the earth
Speaker 6: start to move.
Speaker 1: Apparently the earthquake was felt as far away as Riverside,
Speaker 1: so Kono. Maybe you just weren't Maybe you were sleeping too.
Speaker 1: LA's Heavy Metal Task Force has been given a financial boost.
Speaker 7: The city council approved another two hundred thousand dollars for
Speaker 7: the specialized team of police officers targeting the growing number
Speaker 7: of criminals stealing copper wire. The money comes from Councilman
Speaker 7: Kevin Dalleyon's district office. He and Councilwoman Tracy Park announced
Speaker 7: last week the task force has made more than eighty
Speaker 7: arrests and recovered more than two thousand pounds of copper wire.
Speaker 7: Thieves have targeted street lights, darkening neighborhoods and even the
Speaker 7: new Sixth Street Bridge. They've also hit cultural monuments statues.
Speaker 7: And plaques, leading to costly repairs and replacements in downtown La.
Speaker 7: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A man has stabbed and killed a coyote that got
Speaker 1: into his home and seeing a semi valley, and attacked
Speaker 1: his small dog. Police say that coyote got into the
Speaker 1: house Monday through a dog door. The man was bitten
Speaker 1: on his hands and arms. He's been treated at the hospital.
Speaker 1: His dog was bit in the face and head, but
Speaker 1: is expected to recover. A slight cooling tra is hitting
Speaker 1: southern California following a heat wave that brought heat advisories
Speaker 1: and excessive heat warnings to the Southland. Forecasters say closer
Speaker 1: to average temperatures are expected through Friday. By temperatures are
Speaker 1: headed back up as we head into the weekend. Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris says Minnesota Governor Tim Walls will be ready
Speaker 1: on day one. Harris introduced Walls as her running mate
Speaker 1: for the twenty fourteen or twenty twenty four presidential election
Speaker 1: at a rally in Philadelphia yesterday.
Speaker 4: Coach Walls and I may hail from different corners of
Speaker 4: our great country, but our values are the same, and
Speaker 4: we both believe in lifting people up, not knocking them.
Speaker 1: Down Walls is a former high school teacher, a high
Speaker 1: school football coach, National Guard member, and a six term
Speaker 1: member of Congress. A survey says seventy one percent of
Speaker 1: Americans don't know yet who he is. A State assembly
Speaker 1: member from the San Fernando Valleys joined with elected officials, celebrities,
Speaker 1: and child health advocates to push for the passage of
Speaker 1: the California School Food Safety Act.
Speaker 2: Anthetic food dies which are the target of this bill
Speaker 2: six synthetic food dice can cause harm to children that
Speaker 2: they can cause hyperactivity and other neurobehavioral problems in our children.
Speaker 1: Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel says that includes red dye forty.
Speaker 1: The legislation would not ban specific foods or products, but
Speaker 1: rather would encourage companies to make minor changes to products
Speaker 1: sold in California, which could encourage other states to make
Speaker 1: similar changes. The bill faces a vote in the Senate
Speaker 1: Appropriations Committee next week. Okay, we got Rich, So let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to the host of Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech on KFI KTLA tech reporter Rich DeMuro, who we're
Speaker 1: talking to a little bit early today because we've got
Speaker 1: Anez with Olympic updates every day. So We'll be back
Speaker 1: to the normal time with Rich next week, but we
Speaker 1: get to talk to you early this week. So Rich
Speaker 1: tell us about Google's new streaming device. I'm just finally
Speaker 1: figuring out how to use my fire device, so I
Speaker 1: need a new one.
Speaker 8: Now, well, you don't need a new one necessarily, but
Speaker 8: I think that this actually competes better with what Roku has,
Speaker 8: what Apple TV has, and what Firestick has. It's one
Speaker 8: hundred dollars. It's a Google TV streamer, and basically Google
Speaker 8: has been all in on Chrome Cast for a long time,
Speaker 8: but now they're you know, this is a set top box,
Speaker 8: and so I think that it addresses a lot of
Speaker 8: the issues that people had it. It has much more
Speaker 8: power than the last device that came out with. It's
Speaker 8: got four K It's got eight hundred free live TV channels.
Speaker 8: So I was actually checking some of these out the
Speaker 8: other day. I mean, you can watch a lot of
Speaker 8: stuff for free, and of course it has AI built in.
Speaker 8: That's to be determined. I need to see how good
Speaker 8: that is. But Google has some pretty good AI for saying, hey,
Speaker 8: I want to watch a movie like this or with
Speaker 8: this person, or you know, family comedy, whatever. But this
Speaker 8: This will arrive on September twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: And do we know how much is going to cost?
Speaker 5: One hundred bucks?
Speaker 1: And you said it's got four hundred live TV channels.
Speaker 5: Eight hundred lives, eight hundred Yeah, so is.
Speaker 1: It going to have like local like I can watch
Speaker 1: Channel four and seven with it?
Speaker 5: I don't know what those channels are?
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, can I watch KTLA channel five on that?
Speaker 5: No, I've heard of that one. You know what. That's
Speaker 5: a good question.
Speaker 8: I don't know, actually, because I don't think we're on
Speaker 8: I you know, I got to look at that, because
Speaker 8: I do know you have access to a lot of
Speaker 8: those like you know.
Speaker 5: Streaming only news stations.
Speaker 8: It's just a lot of stuff, Like they have channels
Speaker 8: dedicated to I was just flipping through. It's like they
Speaker 8: have channels that just like show like you know, food
Speaker 8: channels and you know, travel stuff. But that's the biggest
Speaker 8: growing area is all these free channels that people don't
Speaker 8: want to pay for streaming services. Yeah, so Roku's got them,
Speaker 8: you know, fire TV's got them, and now Google has
Speaker 8: them too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see because like my my firestick
Speaker 1: or whatever, it has some channels, but It's like you
Speaker 1: can watch the news in Chicago and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't really care about the news in Chicago exactly.
Speaker 8: It's very hit or miss, but I think people find stuff.
Speaker 8: But yes, for for KTLA specifically, I don't know if
Speaker 8: we have a Google TV app just yet, but I
Speaker 8: know we're on Roku, Apple TV and the other one Firestick.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's coming out September twenty fourth, and then
Speaker 1: let's move on shall we know?
Speaker 4: We know that.
Speaker 5: Is it.
Speaker 1: Google's in a lot of trouble because they say that
Speaker 1: they're operating as a monopoly forcing people to use their
Speaker 1: search engines. But now Apple has something brewing with bing.
Speaker 5: Well. I thought this was pretty interesting.
Speaker 8: So we heard yesterday that, you know, the judge, federal
Speaker 8: judge ruled that Google does run an illegal monopoly when
Speaker 8: it comes to search. And the main issue is that
Speaker 8: Google pays billions of dollars to companies like Samsung and
Speaker 8: Apple and many others so that when you open up
Speaker 8: that smartphone and go to the web browser, what comes
Speaker 8: up Google by to fall right, And so Google pays
Speaker 8: a lot of money these companies to do that. And
Speaker 8: this judge said, you know what, that's really stifling the competition.
Speaker 8: We don't think that Google's a bad search engine. They
Speaker 8: actually think it's a really good search engine. He mentioned that.
Speaker 8: He said the problem is for advertise because there's no competition. Basically,
Speaker 8: all these advertisers have to use Google Search for those
Speaker 8: little text links up at the top of the results,
Speaker 8: and Google can charge as much as they want because
Speaker 8: there's no one else that you're gonna go to anyway.
Speaker 8: That's just also set it up Amy where inside this
Speaker 8: judge's report there was a mention where Apple I guess
Speaker 8: Microsoft came to Apple and said, hey, we'll put bing
Speaker 8: on the iPhone as a default, and Apple said there
Speaker 8: is no price that Microsoft could ever offer us to
Speaker 8: get us to do that, because clearly they don't like
Speaker 8: bing very much.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I guess we're not seeing that change coming.
Speaker 1: This is I'm this is an important one because if
Speaker 1: you're having an emergency, you're probably not thinking straight and
Speaker 1: you need to access those magic three numbers as quickly
Speaker 1: and easily as possible. And it's you know, you have
Speaker 1: to do certain things on your phone to get to
Speaker 1: the dialer to do the nine to one one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so I was this kind of was.
Speaker 8: You know, it's it's very appropriate today after last night's earthquake.
Speaker 8: But if you ever need help fast, yes, you can
Speaker 8: always dial nine one one, of course, but like you said,
Speaker 8: sometimes you want to do this faster, right, and so
Speaker 8: every phone and.
Speaker 5: Watch actually has a shortcut.
Speaker 8: And for most yes, so most of the phones, you
Speaker 8: can just press your side button like the power button,
Speaker 8: five times fast and that will automatically dial nine one one. Now,
Speaker 8: if you turn it off in the settings, you can
Speaker 8: go into the settings and you know, make.
Speaker 5: Sure you have that turned on.
Speaker 8: But I thought that was really interesting because you know,
Speaker 8: it could make you know, a change, if it could
Speaker 8: be the difference in life and death if you get
Speaker 8: that number dialed faster. If you have a smart watch,
Speaker 8: Apple Watch, Google Pixel Watch, or Samsung Watch, same thing
Speaker 8: on Apple Watch, you press and hold the side button
Speaker 8: the flat one, Just press and hold that. That'll bring
Speaker 8: you to the nine one one screen Google Pixel and
Speaker 8: the Samsung you can press the button five times fast
Speaker 8: and you can also ask the voice assistant Siri and
Speaker 8: Google can dial nine one one Alexa cannot. I've got
Speaker 8: all the instructions on the website so you can review them.
Speaker 8: Familiarize yourself with them before you ever need this.
Speaker 1: Okay, And you're talking more about this on this one
Speaker 1: on KTLA this morning.
Speaker 5: Right, Yes I am, and I'll show you how to
Speaker 5: do all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, very cool, that's very cool. I know that when
Speaker 1: I try to turn the phone off, it says, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to dial nine to one one?
Speaker 5: I'm like no, that's.
Speaker 8: How people discover it, like ninety percent of the time,
Speaker 8: or you're trying to take a screenshot or something and
Speaker 8: you're like, wait, no, don't dial.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Always good to know how to dial
Speaker 1: nine one. Seems like it's an intuitive thing, but on
Speaker 1: smartphones it's kind of not. And one more thing, oh no,
Speaker 1: two more things. Gosh, we have so much to talk about.
Speaker 1: Costco's changing things up a little bit. Now you have
Speaker 1: to scan your membership card to get in.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I thought this was pretty interesting.
Speaker 8: Over the weekend went to Costco and first time I've
Speaker 8: ever seen this, But you have to scan your membership card.
Speaker 8: They've got like an iPad set up with a little scanner,
Speaker 8: and I guess they are verifying you are who you
Speaker 8: say you are and making sure that you are you
Speaker 8: have a valid membership to go in, and so when
Speaker 8: you scan it, I guess your picture pops up on
Speaker 8: the iPad, they verify it's you, and you can walk in.
Speaker 8: So this has obviously created a ripple effect across southern California,
Speaker 8: as I posted this to my Twitter and Facebook, and
Speaker 8: people are reporting that there's many many stores in our
Speaker 8: area have now implemented this procedure. It makes sense because
Speaker 8: they're supposed to be a member to go into Costco.
Speaker 8: But I guess a lot of people are going in
Speaker 8: with expired or inactive membership cards or just trying to
Speaker 8: use someone else's.
Speaker 1: Okay, the using someone else's I get, but the expired
Speaker 1: one wouldn't make a difference because you couldn't check out
Speaker 1: with an expired card.
Speaker 8: Oh and my favorite is when they're just like, oh,
Speaker 8: we just added your membership to the total. You just
Speaker 8: spent like three hundred bucks, yere, and we just added
Speaker 8: another like fifty or sixty whatever it is.
Speaker 1: You're like, no, okay, So something new at Costco. Okay.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, we're going to be probably inundated with
Speaker 1: political texts. I'm getting them all ready. Is there any
Speaker 1: way to stop those?
Speaker 8: Really, really tricky. So the you know, look, there are
Speaker 8: so many lists out there. We're all getting these messages
Speaker 8: that are texts that are unwanted and spam. If it's
Speaker 8: a legitimate sender, it should respond to what's called stop.
Speaker 8: So if you've got a legitimate text from someone, you
Speaker 8: can type in stop if it's from a business or
Speaker 8: political and they would stop that. But after that it
Speaker 8: gets pretty tricky because many of these are just political lists.
Speaker 8: And also, by the way, if you're on the do
Speaker 8: not Call list, that does not apply to political calls
Speaker 8: and texts, So you're kind of like basically at the
Speaker 8: mercy of deleting these things, ignoring them, or if you
Speaker 8: think it's legitimate, then you can try texting stop and
Speaker 8: see if that works.
Speaker 1: So I think the takeaway from that is you're going
Speaker 1: to be getting a lot of political texts, and.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be getting a lot.
Speaker 8: I mean, look, you can forward them to like spam spam,
Speaker 8: but I don't really think that that works, to be honest,
Speaker 8: And also it's not going to help you.
Speaker 5: It's just gonna maybe these.
Speaker 8: People text from so many different numbers, I don't think
Speaker 8: it's always the same every time, so it's just it's like,
Speaker 8: you know, you get set up unknown texts going to
Speaker 8: that unknown folder, but then sometimes your other texts going there.
Speaker 8: So I think we're all just like this is a problem, right,
Speaker 8: the bottom line.
Speaker 1: All right, and we're stuck with it, and we've got
Speaker 1: three months to the election, so I would expect it
Speaker 1: to ramp up. Rich Demiro, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time today. As always, we'll talk to you next
Speaker 1: week again at five twenty. But you can also listen
Speaker 1: to Rich on tech right here on KFI this Saturday
Speaker 1: from eleven to two. You can follow Rich where do
Speaker 1: we follow you? Rich?
Speaker 5: Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 8: I have all those instructions for the nine one one calling,
Speaker 8: and I'm gonna put some earthquake instructions up today too
Speaker 8: to get those alerts.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Thank you so much, Rich, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Five point three earthquake that rocked Kern County has been
Speaker 1: felt in LA and as far south as Long Beach, Anaheim, Fullerton.
Speaker 1: The quake hit at nine oh nine last night. There
Speaker 1: have been at least thirty eight after shocks that rumbled
Speaker 1: the Lamont In Great Vine areas. The largest after shock
Speaker 1: was a four point five hunting in Beach City Council
Speaker 1: is considering an ordinance that challenges the newly signed California
Speaker 1: law that bars public schools from requiring teachers to notify
Speaker 1: families if a student starts identifying as a different gender.
Speaker 1: Mayor gra C. Vandermark says he wants to make Huntington
Speaker 1: Beach the first parents right to no city. The mayor
Speaker 1: says the Fourteenth Amendment is on her side. Got to
Speaker 1: get my hers and hymns straight, saying it gives us
Speaker 1: the constitutional right to parent our children. The city of
Speaker 1: Long Beach is considering a plan to allow people to
Speaker 1: smoke marijuana at public events. Long Beach City Council talked
Speaker 1: about the plan yesterday. It would allow businesses to get
Speaker 1: temporary permits to sell pot and let people smoke it
Speaker 1: or eat it at public events. At six o five,
Speaker 1: It's handle on the news. NASA says it needs more
Speaker 1: time to come up with a plan to get two
Speaker 1: of its astronauts back to Earth. They're stuck on the
Speaker 1: space station because of issues with the Boeing Starliner. Right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to ABC's and As de la
Speaker 1: Katera in Paris, bonjourins.
Speaker 9: Oh the Great day for Kemu to.
Speaker 1: Say today, it is what's going on?
Speaker 9: So far, they are leading in the gold medal counts
Speaker 9: for the first time, very exciting. We now have twenty
Speaker 9: four gold medals.
Speaker 1: Nice. And then so China's still in second, that's.
Speaker 9: Right, Ta has twenty two. We're still leading also in
Speaker 9: the total medal counts with eighty six. China has sixty.
Speaker 9: But yeah, we're doing great so a few days ago though,
Speaker 9: so we still have a lot of events to get through,
Speaker 9: but certainly some welcome news.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the US women's soccer team is powering its way
Speaker 1: toward an Olympic gold medal, that's right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So they had an incredible game yesterday. They played
Speaker 9: against Germany in the semifinals. They went into extra time
Speaker 9: and it was Sophia Smith that gave the Americans the
Speaker 9: goal they needed to advance. So they did defeat Germany
Speaker 9: one to nothing, and they will be facing Brazil in
Speaker 9: the final on Saturday.
Speaker 1: And what's a vibe at thisccer games? Is it like
Speaker 1: as electric as you know other soccer matches.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I famally haven't been to the soccer games yet,
Speaker 9: but they are, I mean from what I've seen the
Speaker 9: pictures yeah, there are so many team say fans who
Speaker 9: are there cheering people on and and the women's team.
Speaker 9: I think they just have a really committed fan base.
Speaker 9: So we'll see how they do on Saturday, but we
Speaker 9: are expecting that to be a big one certainly want
Speaker 9: to watch. You've also got basketball, the team sports actually,
Speaker 9: you know, are finally they've been ongoing. They had to
Speaker 9: get through all their different rounds and all the different games,
Speaker 9: but we're now in the final stretch. So we do
Speaker 9: have basketball also who they have the men's team. They
Speaker 9: won against Brazil yesterday and they are favored to win
Speaker 9: the goal, so they are advancing. We'll see how they do,
Speaker 9: but certainly may be shocked if they didn't win the goal.
Speaker 9: They have such an incredible line up. They're on the
Speaker 9: men's basketball.
Speaker 1: Team well, and they're just demolishing their competition, aren't they.
Speaker 9: That's right. Yeah, I mean, you've got I feel like
Speaker 9: it's unfair for the other teams. You've got Lebron James
Speaker 9: and Stuff Curry and Kevin Duras and they're all teaming
Speaker 9: up for the Olympics, so it's yeah, it's always unfair
Speaker 9: for the other teams. But but yeah, They're absolutely crushing it.
Speaker 1: And I saw that Steph Curry's taking a little time
Speaker 1: out from basketball to go watch gymnastics. He was in
Speaker 1: the crowd the other night watching watching some own viles.
Speaker 1: We talked about American beauty Colley. She's pretty. Gabby Thomas yesterday,
Speaker 1: how'd she do in her two hundred meters?
Speaker 9: She is incredible? Yeah, So she won the gold in
Speaker 9: the two hundred meter final. It was a very exciting
Speaker 9: race and I think a bit of a redemption for
Speaker 9: Team USA because she beat think Lucia's Julian Alfred, who
Speaker 9: you'll remember one the gold in the one hundred meter
Speaker 9: final against she Carrie Richardson. She had Garry had been
Speaker 9: expected to win the goal. She ended up winning the silver.
Speaker 9: Julian Alfred winning the gold in that race came as
Speaker 9: a bit of a shock, I think to a lot
Speaker 9: of Team USA fans and to the fact that Gabby
Speaker 9: Thomas was able to win against herr yesterday made it,
Speaker 9: you know, all the more satisfying, and it was I
Speaker 9: think on a personal level for her, she was really
Speaker 9: outdoing herself. She had won the bronze in that same
Speaker 9: event four years ago, so very nice to see her
Speaker 9: winning the goal of this time around.
Speaker 1: Cool and then what do we got on tap for today?
Speaker 9: So today we've got some more racing. We've got the
Speaker 9: men's two hundred meter semifinal where we are expecting to
Speaker 9: see Noah Lyles, who has been dubbed the fastest man
Speaker 9: in the world. He is expected to clear that to
Speaker 9: then advance to the finals. The men's four hundred meter
Speaker 9: final is also happening today, and we've got women's basketball
Speaker 9: the quarterfinal against Nigeria.
Speaker 1: Okay, and as the Olympics get closer to wrapping up,
Speaker 1: So it's Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, so really for four
Speaker 1: more days of competition. Is what's a feeling around Paris
Speaker 1: as you're wandering around? Are people still as excited? Are
Speaker 1: they getting tired and want to go home? What's it like?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a great question. I was just thinking about
Speaker 9: that this morning when I was out for a walk.
Speaker 9: The mood has changed, calmer, and I think that's because
Speaker 9: a lot of the events that were taking place around Paris,
Speaker 9: a different kind of iconic landmarks are winding down. So
Speaker 9: now that we've moved on to athletics, all of that
Speaker 9: is happening at the stadium there that's outside the one
Speaker 9: with the now infamous purple track that's outside of Paris,
Speaker 9: so you're not seeing as many tourists as many fans
Speaker 9: kind of milling about the downtown, you know.
Speaker 3: All the swim for.
Speaker 9: The most part, the swimming in the sun has wrapped up.
Speaker 9: There is one final event that's going to be held
Speaker 9: on the ninth, but the bike races have ended. The
Speaker 9: beach volleyball at the foot of the Eiffel Tower is
Speaker 9: winding down. So yes, it's a bit of a Calmber vibe.
Speaker 9: It is starting to feel like the beginning of the end,
Speaker 9: which is very sad. Post Olympics. Post Olympic blue, I'm
Speaker 9: told is a very real thing for athletes. I think
Speaker 9: it's probably a real thing for reporters covering the Olympics.
Speaker 3: As well well.
Speaker 1: And we will check in and hopefully you won't be
Speaker 1: in a deep depression next time we talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: There we go.
Speaker 3: So that's good, Thank you, Thanks.
Speaker 1: As we'll talk to you tomorrow. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
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Speaker 1: A former safety officer with Metro is suing the trendsit agency,
Speaker 1: alleging she was fired earlier this year for filing a
Speaker 1: report about rider safety. The lawsuit, filed in La Superior
Speaker 1: Courts's Gina Osburn, was let go unlawfully in retaliation for
Speaker 1: voicing a complaint about rider safety, which the suit says
Speaker 1: was contrary to the position taken by Metro's chief executive.
Speaker 1: The suit is asking for more than seven million dollars
Speaker 1: in damages for out of pocket expenses and emotional pain.
Speaker 1: A substitute teacher from Southgate has been charged with sexually
Speaker 1: abusing two boys.
Speaker 10: One boy was allegedly abused at the age of eight,
Speaker 10: the other was allegedly abused between the ages of four
Speaker 10: and nine.
Speaker 5: Nine.
Speaker 2: What we didn't know or expect at the time of
Speaker 2: this investigation was initiated. Was how deep, dark and disturbing
Speaker 2: the acts of this individual turned out to be?
Speaker 10: Southgate Police Chief dren A Rakawa says neither boy abuse
Speaker 10: from twenty fifteen to this year was a student of
Speaker 10: Andrew Sandoval's. Police were initially tipped off to Santoval's home
Speaker 10: last month on a cyber tip that he was downloading
Speaker 10: childborn in downtown La Blake trolley kaf I News.
Speaker 1: The Palestinian militant group Hamas says, chosen a new leader
Speaker 1: following the assassination of the group's former leader in Iran.
Speaker 1: The man chosen to replace Ismael Hania is Hamas's top
Speaker 1: official in Gaza, who masterminded the October seventh attacks in Israel.
Speaker 1: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says ya Ya Sinwar
Speaker 1: has the power to ensure that a ceasefire deal is
Speaker 1: reached for the war in Gaza. A statue of Marilyn
Speaker 1: Monroe in Palm Springs is being moved. The twenty six
Speaker 1: foot tall Forever, Maryland statue that Monroe's famous skirt scene
Speaker 1: from nineteen fifty five's The Seven Year Itch has been
Speaker 1: called inappropriate because you can see her underwear. It's in
Speaker 1: plain view. Visitors disagreed with concerns. They say it's a
Speaker 1: great place to take photos. The statue will now be
Speaker 1: tucked away at the back of the property where it
Speaker 1: now stands away from the sidewalk, so it's not going away,
Speaker 1: it's just moving back a bit. The term campaign has
Speaker 1: called Kamala Harris's running mate West Coast wannabe, who is
Speaker 1: a dangerously liberal extremist. Republicans this morning wasted no time
Speaker 1: in branding the Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Wall's
Speaker 1: ticket as the most liberal in American history. Walls is
Speaker 1: a former teacher and coach who served in the Army
Speaker 1: National Guard. A robber has been shot and killed by
Speaker 1: the owner of a tobacco shop in Norwalk. Police say
Speaker 1: four armed men broke into the business yesterday. The owner
Speaker 1: shot one of them. That man was found in an
Speaker 1: alley and later died. Two others ran off. They were
Speaker 1: found and arrested. The fourth person still on the loose.
Speaker 1: Border patrol agents are building a second layer of border
Speaker 1: wall near Calexico. They're using material left over from previous
Speaker 1: security construction projects. The wall being built is to stem
Speaker 1: the flow of fentanyl into the US, which agents say
Speaker 1: is crossing the border in the El Centro section. The
Speaker 1: work is being done without direct approval from Washington. At
Speaker 1: six oh five, it's handled on the news the leader
Speaker 1: of Hesbalos as an attack against Israel is coming, but
Speaker 1: they're keeping Israel waiting is part of the punishment.
Speaker 2: As on it, as.
Speaker 1: On it, Aami's on it?
Speaker 5: What am I on?
Speaker 1: I'm on streaming services checking out movies and TV shows
Speaker 1: and documentaries. Got some good ones in the queue, but
Speaker 1: I felt like, since its Olympics and there's been so
Speaker 1: much hype around Simone Biles, I should check out the
Speaker 1: Simone Biles documentary and then also the Selene Dionne documentary
Speaker 1: since she had that just freaking amazing performance at the
Speaker 1: opening ceremonies. So first, Simone Biles Rising. It's on Netflix,
Speaker 1: and it's the story of Simone from when she was
Speaker 1: a little girl to her rise to superstardom in the
Speaker 1: gymnastics world, to what happened at the Tokyo Olympics when
Speaker 1: she took herself out of the competition. Sort of goes
Speaker 1: a little deeper and explains all of that. It goes
Speaker 1: back to deciding when she wanted to go for the
Speaker 1: gold again, and how she got through what she called
Speaker 1: the twisties, that's when your mind and your body aren't
Speaker 1: working together. She basically says, she kind of forgot how
Speaker 1: to do all the amazing things that she knows how
Speaker 1: to do that nobody else in the world can do.
Speaker 1: And then it shows how she fought her way back,
Speaker 1: and it goes back to see Simona's a little girl.
Speaker 1: I mean she's little now, she's like four to eight,
Speaker 1: but when she was a little girl, she was really little,
Speaker 1: and she was still amazing. Like you could see her
Speaker 1: as soon as she got the gymnastics by like they
Speaker 1: show her like doing a flip off the beam when
Speaker 1: she was about four and she was about two feet tall,
Speaker 1: and it's absolutely adorable, and you see her poise and
Speaker 1: her strength and her ease on the apparatus, like it's
Speaker 1: just she was meant to do this. And it takes
Speaker 1: you all the way up to right before the Olympics,
Speaker 1: and of course now we know what happens, and then
Speaker 1: there's also going to be more because Simone Biles Rising
Speaker 1: has the next episode coming this fall. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that until the end of it, so that's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: But it's a fun, fun look at Simone Biles. Okay,
Speaker 1: So then onto Celen Dion. It's on Prime Video. I
Speaker 1: am Selindon. It's raw and a sometimes painful look into
Speaker 1: that very rare disease she has. It's called stiff person syndrome,
Speaker 1: like one or two people in a million get it,
Speaker 1: and it causes her muscles to spasm and freeze and
Speaker 1: then it's heightened by like noise and stress. Well that's
Speaker 1: basically performing. So it shows at the beginning show are
Speaker 1: kind of raw. She's not camera ready. You can tell
Speaker 1: she's in pain, and so you go, wow, this is
Speaker 1: really really interesting. And it also shows clips of her
Speaker 1: when she's younger, and it shows clips of her singing,
Speaker 1: and you just go goll lee. She's just so just
Speaker 1: phenomenally talented, and it makes you very sad because she
Speaker 1: hasn't performed for five years until she performed a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. All right, a couple weeks ago. But
Speaker 1: at some point in this one, I was really disappointed,
Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, I was disappointed because it kind
Speaker 1: of it went away from what she's going through, Like
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about the Michael J. Fox documentary called Still,
Speaker 1: which I thought was just phenomenal. They did the same things,
Speaker 1: but you felt differently about Michael J.
Speaker 5: Fox.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's more relatable or something. And
Speaker 1: Selena is just such an amazing talent. But then they
Speaker 1: show her and she's got she's got a ton of money, right,
Speaker 1: and they show kind of this opulence that makes her
Speaker 1: unrelatable and it kind of affects how empathetic I felt
Speaker 1: while I was watching it, and I was it was
Speaker 1: really it was disturbing to me because I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: I want to feel more for her because she's going
Speaker 1: through this awful thing. And then toward the end of
Speaker 1: the show, then they show the real effects of it,
Speaker 1: Like there was one scene where she's like literally paralyzed
Speaker 1: laying there and they show how hard it was for
Speaker 1: her to sing, and she's trying to sing and she's
Speaker 1: explaining why she can't, and then you start to feel
Speaker 1: the empathy. But again, I feel like the documentary kind
Speaker 1: of missed the mark in waiting until the end of
Speaker 1: the documentary to show her vulnerability and how devastating this is.
Speaker 1: That being said, God, nobody wants to go through this,
Speaker 1: and it is an interesting watch, and I think it
Speaker 1: was especially powerful because watching her performance in the opening
Speaker 1: ceremony and how spectacular she was, and you could see
Speaker 1: the emotion on her face as she's singing and doing
Speaker 1: what she said she was born to do and has
Speaker 1: always wanted to do, and that's performance. She's on that
Speaker 1: world stage and just belting out a song so beautifully,
Speaker 1: and you could see the emotion that she misses performing,
Speaker 1: you know, So I think it's worth a watch again. Again,
Speaker 1: it's called I Am Celene Dion. It's a little tough
Speaker 1: to watch, and like I said, I'm a little bit disappointed,
Speaker 1: but I still thought it was interesting and then definitely
Speaker 1: recommend Simone Biles Rising. That's what I'm on this week,
Speaker 1: Simone and Celon Salon. Simone and Celene, two incredibly powerful
Speaker 1: and talented women. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: A magnitude five point three earthquake in Kern County has
Speaker 1: been felt across southern California. The US Geological surveyces it
Speaker 1: was centered about twenty miles from Bakersfield and hid at
Speaker 1: nine oh nine last night. This guy in Bakersfield. He
Speaker 1: didn't feel a lot of shaking.
Speaker 5: It wasn't violent here at all. Definitely a rolling taking.
Speaker 4: And long.
Speaker 1: The shaking was felt for about thirty seconds. Apparently there
Speaker 1: were no initial reports of injuries or damage to buildings,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people in the Southlands say they
Speaker 1: felt it, including as far away as Fullerton, Anaheim, and
Speaker 1: Long Beach. Some La City Council members have asked for
Speaker 1: a faster process to hire LAPD officers. The city's Personnel
Speaker 1: Department General Manager Dana Brown says it's not just the process, though,
Speaker 1: it's also candidates not having patients.
Speaker 9: They have the expectation that being becoming a police officer
Speaker 9: will take a significant amount of.
Speaker 6: Time because that's truly the industry standard.
Speaker 1: Brown says, other candidates have failed to meet the physical
Speaker 1: requirements to proceed to the next level. The council's Personnel
Speaker 1: Committee voted in favor of doing an analysis that could
Speaker 1: move hiring to the police department as a possible way
Speaker 1: to speed things up. Laguna Beach is running online ads
Speaker 1: to convince all beach visitors to start behaving better.
Speaker 6: Oh, we had so many people this year, way more
Speaker 6: people than we've seen.
Speaker 11: In the past Luguda Beach mayors, who Kemp says, the
Speaker 11: ads warned the influx of new tourists that there is
Speaker 11: no drinking, alcohol, smoking, or littering on the beach.
Speaker 1: We welcome visitors to the beach and just treat it
Speaker 1: as if it was your own beach. You wouldn't leave
Speaker 1: your trash out, and you would be respectful to the
Speaker 1: people around you, particularly the lifeguards who work really hard.
Speaker 5: Kemp says.
Speaker 11: The community also called for action to stop illegal parking
Speaker 11: and public intoxication. Finds run one hundred dollars for the
Speaker 11: first events, two hundred for the second, and five hundred
Speaker 11: dollars for the third. In Orange County, Corbin Carson kf
Speaker 11: I News, a.
Speaker 1: Five point three earthquake rocked Kern County. It was felt
Speaker 1: in la and as far south as Long Beach, Anaheim, Fullerton,
Speaker 1: and out in Riverside. The quake hit at nine oh
Speaker 1: nine last night. There've been at least thirty eight aftershocks,
Speaker 1: the largest of them was four point five, and the
Speaker 1: US Geological Services get this, there's a seven percent chance
Speaker 1: a quake larger than the initial five point one three
Speaker 1: could be coming. Border patrol agents are building a second
Speaker 1: layer of border wall near Calexico. They're using materials left
Speaker 1: over from previous security construction projects. The wall being built
Speaker 1: is to stem the flow of fentanyl into the US,
Speaker 1: which agents say has been coming in at the El
Speaker 1: Centro section. The work is being done without direct approval
Speaker 1: from Washington. The Little League team from East Vale has
Speaker 1: beat Hawaii in the regional championship eleven to three. The
Speaker 1: win yesterday puts the team from Riverside County one victory
Speaker 1: away from the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania. Their
Speaker 1: chance to secure that spot is Friday at Al Houghton
Speaker 1: Stadium in San Bernardino. We're just minutes away from a
Speaker 1: handle on the news this morning, a pole vaulter package
Speaker 1: is breaking the internet. Let's say now good morning to
Speaker 1: the President and CEO of Pasadena Humane, Dia du Vernet.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Dia, Good morning Amy. Thanks for getting up
Speaker 1: early to talk to us about a couple of big
Speaker 1: events that you have coming up up at Pasadena Humane
Speaker 1: that just may end up with a wake up call
Speaker 1: listener adding a furry friend to his or her family.
Speaker 1: Let's first talk about doggie speed dating. What is it
Speaker 1: and how does it work?
Speaker 3: Well, this is so much fun. It's going to be
Speaker 3: this Sunday, and we're looking for foster families to come
Speaker 3: and speed date with some large dogs and see if
Speaker 3: they can find one they fall in love with and
Speaker 3: take home and foster. We're asking them to foster for
Speaker 3: six days and then to bring the dogs back for
Speaker 3: our Clear the Shelters events the following weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh so this is sort of a this is a
Speaker 1: lead up to the Clear the Shelters.
Speaker 3: It is you know, when dogs are in foster homes,
Speaker 3: the foster families are able to give us more information
Speaker 3: about how the dog acts in a home, what its
Speaker 3: personality is like, and just gives us a lot of
Speaker 3: great information to provide to perspective adopted families.
Speaker 1: Okay, so does it work like regular speed dating where
Speaker 1: you go from dog to dog to dog and pick
Speaker 1: out the one you want.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 3: We're going to have families spent about five minutes with
Speaker 3: each dog and then figure out which one is a
Speaker 3: perfect match for them. And we're hoping too, to recruit
Speaker 3: some new foster families. We have wonderful volunteers who foster
Speaker 3: animals in their homes all throughout the year, and this
Speaker 3: is a great opportunity to see what it's like and
Speaker 3: hopefully you'll want to do some more fostering.
Speaker 1: Lovely, Now, what Dia, What if you took a dog
Speaker 1: home to foster and you fell in love with it,
Speaker 1: could you adopt it or no?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we call those foster failures. Of course, it's not
Speaker 3: a failure that it's really the best outcome possible for
Speaker 3: a dog to find a permanent home, but it does
Speaker 3: happen at times, and it's absolutely wonderful if fosters end
Speaker 3: up wanting to adopt their foster pets.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you're just asking for six days. So does
Speaker 1: it cost anything to participate.
Speaker 3: No, it's absolutely free. We do ask that people sign
Speaker 3: up for a session because we're going to have three
Speaker 3: one hour sessions, one starting at eleven, one at twelve,
Speaker 3: and one at one pm. So you can go online
Speaker 3: to our website Passing Humane dot org and sign up
Speaker 3: for one of these sessions.
Speaker 1: Okay, super Now that's happening this Sunday, and then next
Speaker 1: weekend we're going to clear the shelters.
Speaker 3: Yes, please, we love to clear the shelters. We'll have
Speaker 3: over two hundred pets who were a need a home Saturday,
Speaker 3: August seventeenth. The event is from ten to two and
Speaker 3: it's part of the nationwide effort. Shelters all across the
Speaker 3: country during the month are having these events. That used
Speaker 3: to be the Clear the Shelters was a one day
Speaker 3: event and it was so popular that it's expanded to
Speaker 3: a month and shelters pick what kind of adoptions specials
Speaker 3: they want to run during that month. So for us,
Speaker 3: it's free adoptions this Saturday, not this Saturday. Next Saturday,
Speaker 3: August seventeenth, from ten to two.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. And why do we need to have these
Speaker 1: Clear the Shelter events.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you, Summer is our busiest time. We
Speaker 3: have so many animals. We actually just adopted out one
Speaker 3: hundred and ninety five kittens last weekend at cat Coon
Speaker 3: and we still have yeah, we still have hundreds of
Speaker 3: animals who are in need of homes. So it's so
Speaker 3: helpful to get the message out of how wonderful shelter
Speaker 3: pets are as members of your family and encouraging people
Speaker 3: to adopt from shelters all during this month. It's a
Speaker 3: great way to read our message. It's sponsored by NBC
Speaker 3: and Telemindo, so there's quite a bit of pr to
Speaker 3: let people know that this is happening.
Speaker 1: My best friend was in town, I don't know, about
Speaker 1: a month ago, and I said, do you let's go
Speaker 1: look at the Pasadena Humane and go check out kittens.
Speaker 1: Guess who has a new kitten, Aha, and he is adorable.
Speaker 1: His name is Ozzie and he is absolutely beautiful and
Speaker 1: growing and growing. So for anyone who's just thinking about this,
Speaker 1: why should someone adopt a pet?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the companionship is amazing and if you
Speaker 3: adopt from Pasaden Humine, all the dogs and cats are
Speaker 3: spade or neuter, vaccinated, microchipped, and if you want to foster,
Speaker 3: we provide all of the supplies. We provide twenty four
Speaker 3: hour support and we also have veterinary care available. So
Speaker 3: we try to make it as easy as possible and
Speaker 3: we would encourage anyone to consider adopting or fostering.
Speaker 1: Okay, Dia du Vernet, thank you so much for your time,
Speaker 1: and again we've got doggy speed dating you're looking for
Speaker 1: foster people, that's this Sunday, August eleventh. And then the
Speaker 1: clear the shelters where you can go and have your
Speaker 1: pick because there's a lot of beautiful pets just waiting
Speaker 1: for a new home, and that event is Saturday, August seventeenth,
Speaker 1: and you can get information again.
Speaker 3: At Pasadenia Humane dot org.
Speaker 1: All right, doa thank you so much good luck with
Speaker 1: both events. I hope you find lots of new homes
Speaker 1: for our beautiful dogs and cats.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Governor
Speaker 1: Newsom says Kamala Harris's VP pick Tim Walls is about
Speaker 1: doing the right thing. He says, Walls is about honor
Speaker 1: and decency and is exactly the right pick in a
Speaker 1: campaign about daylight versus darkness. Newsom, whose name was thurned
Speaker 1: around as a presidential contender will be, says that Walls
Speaker 1: will be an incredible partner to Kamala Harris in her
Speaker 1: presidential run. A new poll shows the extreme heat across
Speaker 1: the US is affecting people's lives. The Associated Press Nork
Speaker 1: Center for Public Affairs Research poll found seven and ten
Speaker 1: Americans say the heat has impacted their electricity bills in
Speaker 1: the past year, and a majority reported an impact on
Speaker 1: their outdoor activities. About four and ten said the extreme
Speaker 1: heat has had an impact on their sleep, their pets,
Speaker 1: and exercise routines. Tropical Storm Debbie continues to dump heavy
Speaker 1: rain on the southeast. ABC's Victor Akendo says the rain
Speaker 1: is expected to last several more days.
Speaker 7: In downtown Charleston, over eight inches of rain already overtaking
Speaker 7: streets and businesses, homes struggling to keep both.
Speaker 1: Debbie came a short Monday in Florida, packing eighty mile
Speaker 1: per hour winds, dumping more than a foot and a
Speaker 1: half of rain in Sarasota, and Team ussays men's basketball
Speaker 1: team has demolished Brazil one twenty two to eighty seven.
Speaker 1: That advances them to the semi finals at the Paris Olympics.
Speaker 1: Team USA is won each of their first four games
Speaker 1: by at least fifteen points. They're going to try to
Speaker 1: keep that momentum going against Serbia tomorrow. This is KFI
Speaker 1: and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead
Speaker 1: local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm
Speaker 1: Amy King. This has been your wake up call, and
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