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Speaker 1: It's five o'clock, straight up. Time to get up. This
Speaker 1: is your wake up call for Wednesday, January twenty second.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Amy King. Big Happy birthday to Will Coleschreiber.
Speaker 1: Our birthday boy. Thank you, and you came to work today.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine again thirty yeah. Okay, got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to be saying that kind of
Speaker 1: every day because man, things are moving fast and furious.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. First wins Now.
Speaker 1: La Mayor Bass has issued an emergency executive order to
Speaker 1: shore up burn areas ahead of possible rain this weekend.
Speaker 1: City crews have been ordered to shore up hillsides, reinforce roads,
Speaker 1: and clear debris and vegetation from burn areas to keep
Speaker 1: mud flows from contaminating stormwater systems, beaches, and the ocean.
Speaker 1: Because of hazardous pollutants from the fires. People trained to
Speaker 1: cross the border from Tijuana have been told the border
Speaker 1: is closed and they cannot use the CBP one app
Speaker 1: to apply for asylum any longer. Trump shut that down.
Speaker 1: The San Diego Union Tribune says a million people trying
Speaker 1: to get into the US used the app over the
Speaker 1: last two years. President Trump says he would be okay
Speaker 1: with TikTok being sold to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison
Speaker 1: if they wanted to buy it. Trump granted TikTok a
Speaker 1: seventy five day reprieve on a ban on the Chinese
Speaker 1: owned social media company through an executive order. It is
Speaker 1: a whirldwind at the White House. ABC's Careen Travers has
Speaker 1: the latest on a five hundred billion dollar investment in
Speaker 1: AI what's being tagged one Big Beautiful Bill, and Trump's
Speaker 1: trip to California that's coming up in about four minutes.
Speaker 1: And we knew the effects of the wildfires that were
Speaker 1: going to be far reaching. We're going to tell you
Speaker 1: about the people facing a life threatening situation because of it.
Speaker 1: Didn't even think of this one and how you can help.
Speaker 1: Got another edition of Amy's on It today. I'm on
Speaker 1: the stream and with Awards season in full swing, I
Speaker 1: thought I better see some of those movies that are nominated.
Speaker 1: This one really bizarre. Is it worth your time and money?
Speaker 1: We'll tell you that's coming up at five thirty, and
Speaker 1: is it worth your time and money? I'm asking that
Speaker 1: question because it's not streaming for free yet. Let's get
Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Fire officials say forward progress
Speaker 1: has been stopped on a fire that's burned about thirty
Speaker 1: eight eight acres in Harupa Valley in Riverside County. It's
Speaker 1: forty percent surrounded. The fire started yesterday in the Santa
Speaker 1: Anna River Bottom. Homes were threatened for a while, and
Speaker 1: evacuation order was issued. Two La County supervisors have introduced
Speaker 1: a motion calling for an independent review of the emergency
Speaker 1: notification systems used to inform residents of evacuation orders. Kfi's
Speaker 1: Mark Mayfield says some people in Altadena claim they never
Speaker 1: got warnings and evacuation orders came too late.
Speaker 5: The fire started at about six thirty pm on January seventh.
Speaker 5: Residents of neighborhoods west of Lake Avenue reportedly did not
Speaker 5: get electronic evacuation alerts until three twenty five the next morning.
Speaker 1: The fire that started in Eaton Canyon has burned more
Speaker 1: than fourteen thousand acres, destroyed more than nine thousand homes
Speaker 1: and other buildings, and killed at least seventeen people. The
Speaker 1: fires eighty nine percent surrounded. Some renters in La County
Speaker 1: who help displaced fires victims now have some extra protection.
Speaker 3: The Board of Supervisors has voted to make sure tenants
Speaker 3: can't lose their home for taking in extra people temporarily
Speaker 3: during the recovery from wildfires. Supervisor Lindsay Horvath says this
Speaker 3: is not the time for property owners to be greedy
Speaker 3: or punitive to landlords.
Speaker 6: I want to be very clear we will not tolerate
Speaker 6: using this crisis as a reason to evict tenants or
Speaker 6: to price gouge.
Speaker 3: The board also loosened restrictions around short term rentals, allowing
Speaker 3: for more units to be advertised as long as they
Speaker 3: are going to people in need of housing due to
Speaker 3: the wildfires. Michael Monks KFI news.
Speaker 1: La County Supervisors have approved sending a letter to President Trump,
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom, and other state and federal agencies to try
Speaker 1: to get funding for wildfire recovery. The motion highlights former
Speaker 1: President Biden's pledge to provide one hundred percent federal backing
Speaker 1: for debris removal and emergency protective measures for six months.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom proposed last week that California provided least two
Speaker 1: and a half billion dollars in additional funding for ongoing
Speaker 1: emergency response efforts and to speed up recovery efforts. President
Speaker 1: Trump has said he plans to visit southern California on Friday.
Speaker 1: I mentioned that Karen Travers would be joining us at
Speaker 1: five oh five, but no, she's going to join us
Speaker 1: to tell us about that and more coming up at FI.
Speaker 1: I've twenty it is five six on your Wednesday morning
Speaker 1: wake up call. Let's say good morning to ABC's Mike Nabuski. So, Mike,
Speaker 1: TikTok was blocked, but that didn't last long. So give
Speaker 1: us a quick recap of why it went down and
Speaker 1: then why it came back online, and then we'll talk
Speaker 1: about what happens next.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So over the weekend, TikTok kind of intentionally shut
Speaker 7: itself down. It went dark a little before midnight on Saturday.
Speaker 7: And this was ahead of the band that we've been
Speaker 7: talking about for several weeks now taking effect on Sunday.
Speaker 7: So that legislation went into effects as normal as we expected. However,
Speaker 7: TikTok slowly came back. It restored service over the course
Speaker 7: of Sunday, and when users went to open TikTok on Sunday,
Speaker 7: in addition to being able to scroll through videos just
Speaker 7: like they used to be able to, they also were
Speaker 7: greeted with a pop up message thanking now President Trump
Speaker 7: for providing the necessary clarity to do so.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 7: This all came after Donald Trump made some noise on
Speaker 7: his own social media platform, truth Social, indicating that there
Speaker 7: will be no liability for companies that host TikTok, essentially saying,
Speaker 7: if you know you're major tech company, if you're a
Speaker 7: web service provider or a company that runs an app store,
Speaker 7: We're not going to hit you with a fine if
Speaker 7: you host TikTok as this law stipulates. So that seemed
Speaker 7: to be enough for companies like Oracle, which is TikTok
Speaker 7: sort of web partner. They provide like the architecture for
Speaker 7: TikTok to exist on the American Internet. They said, we're fine,
Speaker 7: bring TikTok back. That's why you can now scroll through
Speaker 7: TikTok on your phone just like you could last week. However,
Speaker 7: it's not enough for other companies like Apple and Google,
Speaker 7: which still have not allowed the app to come back
Speaker 7: onto their app stores, which means that if you already
Speaker 7: have TikTok downloaded, you really probably don't notice that much
Speaker 7: of a difference. If you want to download TikTok onto
Speaker 7: a new device, it's going to be a lot more challenging.
Speaker 1: So if Apple and Google aren't offering it as there
Speaker 1: any way to get it, or you just can't get.
Speaker 7: It right now, so there's kind of more technical ways
Speaker 7: to get it. You know, you can sideload it through
Speaker 7: a different app store, but ultimately for most users that
Speaker 7: would be kind of like too technical and too challenging
Speaker 7: a thing to do, and probably if.
Speaker 1: You don't have it, you don't really care if you get.
Speaker 7: It now, especially when you consider that there are a
Speaker 7: lot of other apps and services out there that are
Speaker 7: kind of exactly the same as TikTok, at least from
Speaker 7: a functional point of view, right, Like, why would you
Speaker 7: go through the trouble of trying to find, you know,
Speaker 7: a VPN that can download TikTok on a foreign app
Speaker 7: store and then somehow bring that onto your own phone
Speaker 7: that exists here in the United States when you can
Speaker 7: just go over to Instagram Reels and that's a sort
Speaker 7: of scrolling feed of vertical video. YouTube shorts is the
Speaker 7: same thing, red note is the same thing. I think
Speaker 7: it's going to be interesting to see people who you know,
Speaker 7: kind of came up on TikTok as the app's future
Speaker 7: kind of remains in doubt, and whether they make the
Speaker 7: jump over to those other services, as many of them say,
Speaker 7: you know, those apps aren't quite as good. The algorithm isn't,
Speaker 7: as you know, finally attuned as TikTok is. But if
Speaker 7: TikTok becomes kind of unusable, which is another thing that
Speaker 7: could happen given the fact that it's not on app stores,
Speaker 7: then you know, they might kind of just suck it
Speaker 7: up and make the jump over to those other apps.
Speaker 1: Okay. And I heard that a lot of people had
Speaker 1: migrated over to a different app. And again I'm not
Speaker 1: a TikTok user, so I don't even know if it's
Speaker 1: the name of the other app, but that a huge
Speaker 1: amount of people went over to another app. Are they
Speaker 1: going to migrate.
Speaker 7: Back now or that's the question? You know, I think
Speaker 7: it's all early days at this point, people are still
Speaker 7: posting on TikTok. They're still uploading videos to TikTok, people
Speaker 7: of course who already have the app installed on their devices,
Speaker 7: who never deleted it in the last few days. But
Speaker 7: I think the app that you're probably thinking about there
Speaker 7: is red Note, which is another Chinese app of vertical
Speaker 7: scrolling video Shaohongshu is the Chinese name for it. Read
Speaker 7: that it's kind of the americanized version of it, And
Speaker 7: the sentiment from many young people who made the jump
Speaker 7: over to that app is kind of like, well, hey,
Speaker 7: if the US federal government is going to take away
Speaker 7: this Chinese app that I like, I'm just going to
Speaker 7: jump over to another Chinese app just to kind of
Speaker 7: pokem in the eye. It seems in some ways to
Speaker 7: be kind of motivated by spite and you know, kind
Speaker 7: of you know, flying in the face of a lot
Speaker 7: of the national security concerns that lawmakers have raised as
Speaker 7: a reason for wanting to ban TikTok, So that seems
Speaker 7: to be motivating some of that move.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: I don't want to put too much emphasis on Red
Speaker 7: Note because it is somewhat more clunky than TikTok, A
Speaker 7: lot of the sort of controls are in Mandarin Chinese,
Speaker 7: and it is just not as refined an experience, it
Speaker 7: seems like. But you know, people behind Red Note are
Speaker 7: working on it. By all accounts, it seems to have
Speaker 7: gotten better and more friendly to English speaking users in
Speaker 7: the last few months or so, and there have been
Speaker 7: some sort of interesting cultural exchanges on that app, you know,
Speaker 7: primarily Chinese used now communicating with primarily American users who
Speaker 7: are calling themselves TikTok refugees of all things. So that
Speaker 7: is that's another thing to keep your eye on, okay.
Speaker 1: And we will keep our eye on it. And for
Speaker 1: now we're in a holding pattern and we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens next. Mike Debuski, thank you so much. Appreciate it,
Speaker 1: of course. Thanks are all right, take care. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four our newsroom. A man has been killed
Speaker 1: another injured after being stabbed during a robbery at the
Speaker 1: metrolink station in Fontana. The man who survived the attack
Speaker 1: was able to give police a description of the stabber
Speaker 1: in his car. I release say two men were arrested
Speaker 1: near the scene on Saturday. Two more were found in
Speaker 1: a vehicle linked to the stabbing, and we're also arrested.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration is directed that all federal Diversity, Equity
Speaker 1: and Inclusion staff bey put on paid lead.
Speaker 5: The news comes after Trump signed an executive director of
Speaker 5: ending federal DEI programs, with offices being ordered to shut down.
Speaker 5: White House Press Secretary of Caroline Levitt called the move
Speaker 5: a win for Americans, calling DEI programs a scourage on society.
Speaker 1: Cafi's Mark Mayfield says Trump signed the order Monday. Trump
Speaker 1: is called the program's discrimination. He says hiring will be
Speaker 1: merit based and color blind. Former National security advisor to
Speaker 1: President Trump John Bolton is losing his Secret Service protection.
Speaker 5: You take a job, you want to do a job.
Speaker 4: We're not going to have security on people for the
Speaker 4: rest of their lives.
Speaker 1: Why should we. Trump fired Bolton in twenty nineteen. President
Speaker 1: Biden granted Bolton's Secret Service protection in twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: after a threat on his life from Iran. Trump called
Speaker 1: Bolton a warmonger. Bolton said he found out he was
Speaker 1: losing the protection Monday night, hours after President Trump's inauguration.
Speaker 1: More than two hundred million Americans are under some kind
Speaker 1: of cold weather alert that include places like Philadelphia, where
Speaker 1: residents like Samantha Kimmel are dealing with single digit temperatures
Speaker 1: absolutely freezing. Temperatures are sub zero. We have an electric car.
Speaker 7: I didn't know who would even start, so we're just
Speaker 7: happy to be getting on the train and getting warm.
Speaker 1: The two main airports in Houston had to be closed
Speaker 1: because of the unprecedented cold weather, and snow has even
Speaker 1: fallen in Florida. Meteorologists say it could stick around through today,
Speaker 1: but won't reach Tampa. New data shows gas prices in
Speaker 1: the US have gone up in the last week. ABC's
Speaker 1: Alex Stone says analysts blame higher oil prices and colder weather.
Speaker 9: The Entergy Department reports a price of regular unloaded went
Speaker 9: up seven cents a gallon in the past week to
Speaker 9: three eleven a gallon. That's about five cents higher than
Speaker 9: a year ago this time three eleven.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that for quite a while. The average
Speaker 1: price in California for a gallon of regular gas four
Speaker 1: forty five. In La County, it's four forty nine, four
Speaker 1: forty four in Orange County, and the Inland Empire it's
Speaker 1: four thirty seven. Robert Murdoch's British tabloids have made a
Speaker 1: rare apology to Prince Harry in the settlement of an
Speaker 1: invasion of privacy lawsuit. They'll pay what's been called a
Speaker 1: substantial sum.
Speaker 10: Us UK is finally held to account for its illegal
Speaker 10: actions and it's latant disc god for the Lord.
Speaker 1: Harry's lawyer, David Sherborne says Newsgroup offered a full and
Speaker 1: unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for years of
Speaker 1: unlawful intrusion. It's the first time Newsgroup newspapers have acknowledged
Speaker 1: wrongdoing at the SUN. A popular streaming service is raising
Speaker 1: its prices again.
Speaker 2: Subscribers of Netflix found out on Tuesday that they're going
Speaker 2: to have to pay more to keep the service. A
Speaker 2: standard plan without ads is increasing by two dollars and
Speaker 2: fifty cents to seventeen ninety nine per month. The ad
Speaker 2: supported tier will go up one dollar to seven ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Now if you have the Premium tier, that's going up
Speaker 2: two bucks to twenty four to ninety nine a month.
Speaker 2: The price he comes as Netflix reported nearly nineteen million
Speaker 2: new subscribers in the fourth quarter of last year. Globally,
Speaker 2: Netflix now has over three hundred million paid subscribers. Andrew
Speaker 2: Caravella KYFI News.
Speaker 1: A record quarter millions of new subscribers. And then they go, wow,
Speaker 1: things are so great, let's raise prices. Is it supposed
Speaker 1: to go the other way? Things never go down. It
Speaker 1: seems like ever we shall see. The strongest winds have
Speaker 1: blown through, but the National Weather Service says there will
Speaker 1: still be wins and humidity levels are low, so red
Speaker 1: flag warnings for high fire danger remain until at least
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. I do not drink notice has been extended
Speaker 1: in Pasadena because of damage to the water supply from
Speaker 1: the Eaten fire, and the only county Sheriff's department says
Speaker 1: it's going to increase patrols in Altadena to keep looters away.
Speaker 1: Let's not keep Karen away any longer. Good morning, Karen
Speaker 1: travers it. So we had day one, day one, and
Speaker 1: President Trump has announced a pretty huge investment for the
Speaker 1: United States.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, and to note this is not schedil
Speaker 6: government money investment. This is companies who say that they're
Speaker 6: investing in a joint venture. So three companies who have
Speaker 6: come together to do their own project, a business project.
Speaker 6: But the President yesterday, was very excited to count this
Speaker 6: as part of what he says is his plans to
Speaker 6: move forward on artificial intelligence investment AI, open AI, soft Bank,
Speaker 6: and Oracle, the heads of those companies were at the
Speaker 6: White House yesterday to talk about this one hundred billion
Speaker 6: dollars that they're moving forward on to open data centers
Speaker 6: in Texas for artificial intelligence production empowering. They say that'll
Speaker 6: potentially invest about five hundred billion dollars maybe up to
Speaker 6: five hundred billion dollars over the next four years. But
Speaker 6: again important to note this is not government money that's
Speaker 6: being invested. And also this is in the works before
Speaker 6: President Trump took office, so it's not like it came
Speaker 6: together in the last forty eight hours. But he has
Speaker 6: made AI a priority. He's very close with a lot
Speaker 6: of these tech leaders and wanted to count this very
Speaker 6: quickly after he took office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and then Karen, what is the deal with
Speaker 1: the big beautiful bill that President ju, House Speaker Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: and Senate Majority Leader John Thune all talked about in
Speaker 1: the Oval Office yesterday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So stay tuned, and you know, sorry, this is
Speaker 6: going to get wonky over the next couple of months.
Speaker 6: We're going to have conversations about this as they move forward.
Speaker 6: And you'll probably remember we did this four years ago
Speaker 6: when President Biden took office. This is President Trump saying
Speaker 6: to Congress, here are my priorities. I want to have
Speaker 6: a legislation on taxes, energy production, border security, and immigration.
Speaker 6: Figure out how to do it all and get it passed.
Speaker 6: And the question is do you put it all together
Speaker 6: in one big bill because that's the best chance of
Speaker 6: it getting passed, or do you try to break it
Speaker 6: up into smaller bills because Republicans have such a slim
Speaker 6: majority in both the House and Senate right now, that's
Speaker 6: what they're trying to work out. It's very processing, but
Speaker 6: no surprise, the president's very impatient and he wants to
Speaker 6: see some progress and get them moving on this so
Speaker 6: he can get legislation under his belt. But there is
Speaker 6: a lot to be worked out, including what the legislation
Speaker 6: is even going to focus on, and then how they
Speaker 6: put it together.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll be watching that. And then before you go,
Speaker 1: Trump's Trump's headed to California to check out the wildfires,
Speaker 1: but he's making another stop first.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's going to go to North Carolina first to
Speaker 6: look at the recovery efforts there after Hurricane Heleen last,
Speaker 6: and then he will make his way out to your area.
Speaker 6: No details yet on what that visit is going to
Speaker 6: look like, where he will go, who he will meet with,
Speaker 6: but he did say, you know, it's a disaster relief
Speaker 6: trip and recovery efforts, and he wants to get a
Speaker 6: sense of what things are looking like firsthand.
Speaker 1: Okay, ABC's Karen Travers as, I was talking to another
Speaker 1: one of the people that we talked to on a
Speaker 1: regular basis. Buckle up, it's going to be a wild ride,
Speaker 1: absolutely all right. Take care. Rain may finally be on
Speaker 1: the way to southern California after a lengthy dry spound.
Speaker 3: The region has seen multiple Santa Ana wind events, low humidity,
Speaker 3: and no significant rainfall in months. National Weather Service meteorologist
Speaker 3: Alex Tarti in San Diego says it's been an unprecedented period.
Speaker 1: We've never been in this territory before. We've never seen
Speaker 1: a mid January with these numbers.
Speaker 7: Never.
Speaker 3: Tarti says. The gusty winds and the fire danger they
Speaker 3: bring are expected to continue this week, but by the
Speaker 3: weekend we may see some rain across the region and
Speaker 3: maybe even some snow in the mountain areas. Michael Monks
Speaker 3: KFI News.
Speaker 1: Eleven deaths have now been blamed on the fire that
Speaker 1: started in Pacific Palisades. The county Medical Examiner confirmed the
Speaker 1: number yesterday. Authorities have said they anticipate the number of
Speaker 1: fatalities to rise as crews continue sifting through the ash
Speaker 1: and rubble. The fire, which has burned more than twenty
Speaker 1: three thousand acres and more than six thousand homes and
Speaker 1: other buildings, is sixty five percent surrounded. CalFire says fire
Speaker 1: crews have been making good progress building containment lines. Utilities
Speaker 1: are working to repair infrastructure and address hazards like fallen
Speaker 1: trees and downed power lines. Fire breaks in new neighborhoods
Speaker 1: and wetter ecosystems are being suggested as things cities can
Speaker 1: do in the future to avoid devastating wildfires like the
Speaker 1: ones in La County. Chief Tree Officer Peter van Midwood,
Speaker 1: with the Global Tree Planting Movement ECOSIA, says drought conditions
Speaker 1: and Santa Ana wins should be factored in when designing
Speaker 1: future housing developments.
Speaker 8: I think firebreaks making sure to get more water available
Speaker 8: in the landscape, so you creative wetter ecosy, but also
Speaker 8: more palms and sweels where there's water when you need
Speaker 8: it for firefighters.
Speaker 1: He says materials other than wood should also be considered
Speaker 1: for building houses. Jet Blue is giving customers more ways
Speaker 1: to buy and fly. ABC's Michelle Fransen says the airline
Speaker 1: is expanding ways to buy a ticket.
Speaker 11: The popular carrier announced it's now accepting Venmo for direct
Speaker 11: bookings when using its website. Jet Blue now the first
Speaker 11: and only airline to use the peer to peer payment app.
Speaker 1: She says it's part of the airline's efforts to compete
Speaker 1: and draw in younger travelers. The Supreme Court in Colorado
Speaker 1: has rejected a personhood claim for elephants being kept in
Speaker 1: a zoo. ABC's Alex Stone says animal lobbyists claim detaining
Speaker 1: the elephants is unlawful.
Speaker 9: Washington, DC based non Human Rights Project claimed the elephants
Speaker 9: born in the wilds of Africa are essentially imprisoned in
Speaker 9: the zoo and using a human law for unlawful detention,
Speaker 9: wanted to get them out.
Speaker 1: The court says because elephants aren't human, the group doesn't
Speaker 1: have the legal right to fight for their release under
Speaker 1: Habeas corpus, the law meant for human prisoners. As you know,
Speaker 1: we've been collecting donations and with your help, raising money
Speaker 1: for the fire victims in La County for both the
Speaker 1: Eton and the Palisades fires, and that work continues, still
Speaker 1: taking donations. Anything you can spare, you can donate at
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Speaker 1: the help of your donations, the Dream Center and iHeartMedia
Speaker 1: La been working to help the victims of the fires.
Speaker 1: Your donations are being used right now to deliver air purifiers, electronics,
Speaker 1: pet food supplies and more to areas in the community.
Speaker 1: Good news and if you have things that you would
Speaker 1: like to drop off and donate, the Dream Center LA
Speaker 1: is going to be taking those donations today from nine
Speaker 1: am to seven pm twenty three oh one Bellevue, that's
Speaker 1: right in Echo Park from nine am to seven pm.
Speaker 1: You can just pull up, they'll take it off your
Speaker 1: hands and off you go. It's very easy to do
Speaker 1: and it's a wonderful thing that you're doing, so thank
Speaker 1: you for your donations. Aamy's on it. Amy's on it,
Speaker 1: Aami's on it.
Speaker 6: Gamie's on it.
Speaker 1: What am I on? I'm on streaming shows, TV series, movies, documentaries.
Speaker 1: There's so much content on there, how how do you
Speaker 1: know what to watch? So I do take recommendations. If
Speaker 1: you have one, maybe you could you could DM me
Speaker 1: on my Instagram at Amy ky King. Also, since it's
Speaker 1: award season, I thought maybe that would be a good
Speaker 1: time to check out some of these nominated movies because
Speaker 1: we have these SAG Awards coming up the February twenty
Speaker 1: third or somewhere around there. And I got a lot
Speaker 1: of movies to watch because a lot of the ones
Speaker 1: that are nominated I'd barely even heard of. But this
Speaker 1: one I had heard of because I watched the Golden
Speaker 1: Globes and Demi Moore won an award for it and
Speaker 1: it looked really interesting. It's called The Substance. It's currently
Speaker 1: streaming on Movie, which I had never heard of, which
Speaker 1: offers a free seven day trial and then it's a
Speaker 1: subscription for fourteen ninety nine after that, so if you
Speaker 1: want to just watch it and cancel it, you can
Speaker 1: do that. It's also an add on to Prime Video.
Speaker 1: You can rent it on Apple TV, so there's places
Speaker 1: that you can find it. But most of them are
Speaker 1: not free. De Me Moore plays Elizabeth Sparkle. I know,
Speaker 1: a cheesy name, right, Well, it kind of sets the
Speaker 1: stage for this movie. She's an actress, very famous, turned
Speaker 1: fitness instructor, and on the surface, Elizabeth Sparkle has it all,
Speaker 1: but like so many other women face, she's getting older
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, and Hollywood wants youth, so she's given everything
Speaker 1: to her career. So you can tell that she doesn't
Speaker 1: have any friends, she didn't have any families. She just
Speaker 1: has this fading fame. And I think that the movie
Speaker 1: in a kind of cheeky but not it's such a
Speaker 1: weird movie in kind of a cheeky way, takes a
Speaker 1: look at the darker side of aging in Hollywood. Although
Speaker 1: it's really cool on a side note to see a
Speaker 1: lot of older women getting these great roles and older
Speaker 1: men too. I mean, Harrison Ford's like one hundred years old.
Speaker 1: He looks fabulous and he's a great actor. So anyway
Speaker 1: back to the substance. So Demi's character then has this
Speaker 1: experience that presents her with an opportunity, and that's how
Speaker 1: she's introduced to the substance to keep her young or
Speaker 1: make her young Again. It's it has a feel like
Speaker 1: severance where it starts out and looks like like I said,
Speaker 1: kind of a quirky, maybe a little bit funny movie,
Speaker 1: but has very dark undertones. It plays out like a
Speaker 1: suspense thriller. The cinematography is really interesting and I think
Speaker 1: you'll get it if you watch it, you'll see it's
Speaker 1: very intense. It's interesting the cinema. It feels very personal,
Speaker 1: but it's also very creepy and very freaky. And if
Speaker 1: you don't like needles, you are not gonna like this
Speaker 1: movie because it made me squeamish and I don't like that. Also,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of TNA, and again I think Demi Moour,
Speaker 1: she's fabulous and looks beautiful. I don't need to see
Speaker 1: naked Demi Moore, but you do a lot, and then
Speaker 1: you see the other gal who's in it, and you
Speaker 1: see her naked a lot, and then you see a
Speaker 1: lot of TNA, and it's I know, it's part of
Speaker 1: what the movie makers were trying to do. They're trying
Speaker 1: to get their message across about the superficiality of Hollywood
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But I did not enjoy this
Speaker 1: movie at all. I can't believe that Demi Moore did it.
Speaker 1: I can't believe she was nominated for it. I am
Speaker 1: not recommending that you be on it. Yes you really
Speaker 1: want us, it's just maybe maybe see it, just because
Speaker 1: it's so weird. And I can't tell you much more
Speaker 1: about it because I don't want. I hate to like
Speaker 1: wreck the plot of a movie, but it takes some
Speaker 1: weird turns, and like I said, and actually, Demi Moore
Speaker 1: does a good job in her character of what she's
Speaker 1: supposed to do. I didn't like it, didn't like it
Speaker 1: at all. Amy's not on it. Amy is not on it.
Speaker 1: Now next week I'm going to be on something that
Speaker 1: is also very dark, but it's really good. It's a
Speaker 1: little preview because and it's also nominated for SAG Awards. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Federal investigators are
Speaker 1: trying to find two men seen on video breaking into
Speaker 1: a US Forest Service vehicle in San Bernardino County and
Speaker 1: then stealing critical fire equipment. Kfi's Daniel Martindale says, the
Speaker 1: guys swipe the stuff. Early Friday, we.
Speaker 10: Got to the equipment in the middle of the night
Speaker 10: by forcibly opening three law compartments in the fire engine.
Speaker 10: It all happened in the parking lot of a hotel
Speaker 10: in Retro Cucamonga, where the strike team was stationed during
Speaker 10: strong Santa Ana wins.
Speaker 1: The for services. The thieves were in a red Jeep
Speaker 1: Wrangler with a soft black top and tan seats. California
Speaker 1: Republican Representative Kevin Kylie has introduced a bill to prohibit
Speaker 1: states from providing medicaid to illegal immigrants. The bill includes
Speaker 1: an exception for emergency services. In twenty twenty four, California
Speaker 1: began allowing immigrants between the ages of twenty six and
Speaker 1: forty nine to receive all benefits afforded to citizens and
Speaker 1: legal immigrants. President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright
Speaker 1: citizenship has been met with a lawsuit by California and
Speaker 1: other states. California Attorney General Rob Bonta says he's seeking
Speaker 1: a preliminary injunction to block the order immediately.
Speaker 7: And ensure that the rights of the many American born
Speaker 7: children harmed by it should be in effect while the
Speaker 7: litigation proceeds.
Speaker 1: BoNT says Trump's order is a violation of the fourteenth
Speaker 1: Amendment of the com Institution, which offers citizenship to anyone
Speaker 1: born in the US despite the legal status of their parents.
Speaker 1: Before President Trump took office, Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman
Speaker 1: went to mar A Lago to meet with him, but
Speaker 1: Fetterman says it's not a sign that he's about to
Speaker 1: switch parties or become an independent. I'm a Democrat and
Speaker 1: I'm going to remain a Democrat.
Speaker 10: So there's many of his ideals that I don't agree with,
Speaker 10: but that's pretty much that's how it works here.
Speaker 1: Rumors of Fetterman switching to the Republican Caucus have been
Speaker 1: fueled by a string of recent stances he's taken to
Speaker 1: position himself as a political moderate. He also positions himself
Speaker 1: as a not great dresser. Did you see him on
Speaker 1: Inauguration Day wearing his hoodie, his signature hoodie and shorts
Speaker 1: and it was like fifteen or twenty degrees. He's an
Speaker 1: interesting character, for sure. Interesting. There's a lot less popping
Speaker 1: going on popping popping. Champagne sales are down, Yeah, Champagne
Speaker 1: trade Association called Committee Champagne Champagne. They say that nearly
Speaker 1: shipments from France were down ten percent last year. Still,
Speaker 1: that's two hundred and seventy one million bottles. That's the
Speaker 1: second straight year of declines in Champagne shipments. Apparently because
Speaker 1: of inflation, people may be saying I'm not going for
Speaker 1: the champagne and also the glum mood around the globe.
Speaker 1: The president of the or the co president of the organization,
Speaker 1: said this is no time for celebration, with inflation, conflicts
Speaker 1: around the world, economic uncertainty, and a political wait and
Speaker 1: see attitude. In some of Champagne's biggest markets, they're just
Speaker 1: not seeing the sales. I'm all for a little champagne poppin'.
Speaker 1: Let's get those mimosa's rolling. Absolutely, it is your birthday
Speaker 1: after right thout again. Forecasters say more wins are on
Speaker 1: the way. Even though the most dangerous wind conditions have
Speaker 1: blown through. Red flag warnings remain in place through tomorrow evening,
Speaker 1: with fifty to sixty miles per hour gusts possible between
Speaker 1: tonight and tomorrow night. Former Lahabra police chief Alan Hosteeddter's
Speaker 1: been released from federal prison, along with hundreds of others
Speaker 1: convicted in the January sixth riot at the Capitol following
Speaker 1: President Trump's pardon. Hosteedder, who has ties to San Clementy,
Speaker 1: has said that this wasn't the last public the public
Speaker 1: would hear from him, and added, we're just getting started.
Speaker 1: Netflix raising prices again. It announced that a standard plan
Speaker 1: without ads would go up two fifty a month to
Speaker 1: seventeen ninety nine. With ads, subscription prices are going up
Speaker 1: a dollar to seven ninety nine. The price comes as
Speaker 1: Netflix reported nearly nineteen million new subscribers in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of twenty twenty four. We're just minutes away from
Speaker 1: handle on the news. This morning, at the traditional national
Speaker 1: prayer service for the new President, Trump got a little
Speaker 1: tongue lashing from an unlikely source. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: now too, the CEO of Kidney's Quest Foundation, Carolyn Erquidez.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Carolyn, Good morning, How are you?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 1: Good so, Carolyn. We've been talking on wake Up Call
Speaker 1: and all over on KFI about repercussions of the wildfires
Speaker 1: that are going to affect kind of every aspect of
Speaker 1: people's lives, and many haven't even come to the light,
Speaker 1: to come to light yet. We don't even realize how
Speaker 1: far reaching it's going.
Speaker 7: To be.
Speaker 1: But here's one and that's people who have kidney disease
Speaker 1: and need dialysis to survive are deeply affected by this.
Speaker 1: So before we dive in, can you tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about during normal times what does Kidney's Quest do.
Speaker 4: Our mission is to be that resource in the community,
Speaker 4: taken them by the hand once the dyke us for
Speaker 4: a condition or bringing a warriers on conditions that lead
Speaker 4: up to kidney disease.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: We have to navigate them.
Speaker 7: We Uh.
Speaker 4: We've worked with transplant teams to keep them active and
Speaker 4: get them active on a transplant list, as well as
Speaker 4: introduced team to home dialysis and live donors. We are
Speaker 4: their resource. We are the ones that a lot of
Speaker 4: individuals just come to because it is a scary avenue
Speaker 4: when someone just tells you, when when a professional tells
Speaker 4: you that you got M stage renal disease and you'll
Speaker 4: end up on a machine for the rest of your life. Right,
Speaker 4: Okay if you don't get a transplant.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: You're you help them navigate this very scary time in
Speaker 1: their lives.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, okay, and educate, go ahead, we support educate, I
Speaker 4: get them to that next step, yes, within their health
Speaker 4: with their help teams.
Speaker 1: Okay, And are you a nonprofit organization, Carolyn.
Speaker 4: Yes, we are.
Speaker 1: And then how how are you finding.
Speaker 4: By a lot of great organizations, person private entrepreneurs, people
Speaker 4: that just know of us for years. We do corporate grants.
Speaker 4: That's how we work with We move with the community's needs, Okay,
Speaker 4: and that's when we reach out.
Speaker 1: Okay. So Carolyn, the reason we wanted to talk to
Speaker 1: you today is again, there's so many things that we
Speaker 1: don't even know how far reaching the wildfires are going
Speaker 1: to be and how they're going to affect everyday lives,
Speaker 1: and you're finding that it's affected a lot of the
Speaker 1: people that you work with, and so what what are
Speaker 1: you seeing?
Speaker 4: What we're seeing is a lot of patients that are scared,
Speaker 4: first of all, because either they were transplanted or they're
Speaker 4: on home it's called home therapy, home dialysis, and there's
Speaker 4: there's three different types. It could be baby k, it
Speaker 4: can be home HEMO, it could be PD tartanel. And
Speaker 4: then we also have our transplant patients. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of individuals that they were real close with their healthcare team,
Speaker 4: but in a situation like this, when the power goes down,
Speaker 4: when they when they have no sources of lighting, UH,
Speaker 4: when they have no sources of power to plug in
Speaker 4: their machines to do their therapy. If it comes overwhelming
Speaker 4: to the healthcare teams, So what do they reach out to?
Speaker 4: To our organization just alone, we had a we had
Speaker 4: a We were all over the town looking for generators
Speaker 4: and I and I hope next time we won't be
Speaker 4: that way. Where our goal is to raise enough to
Speaker 4: UH get generators to be on staff uh on our
Speaker 4: premises for the next uh for for our future, and
Speaker 4: a facility and a facility to accommodate these people because
Speaker 4: they really didn't have a stable or an area in
Speaker 4: their home in the dark to work with. It's it's
Speaker 4: a life or death matter and and uh and then
Speaker 4: the professional facilities can only do so much because you
Speaker 4: have hundreds the patience that do not that cannot get
Speaker 4: accommodated right away, maybe one or two days later.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and you think about it, like you said, it's
Speaker 1: a life or death situation, and you're adding that life
Speaker 1: or death situation on top of the one that's been
Speaker 1: created by the fires, and think about how it just
Speaker 1: probably exponentially is very scary and uncertain and so it's
Speaker 1: good that we have like Kidney's Quest around to help.
Speaker 1: How can we help Kidney's Quests to help people?
Speaker 4: Oh, help we need Okay, I'm gonna ask you, said,
Speaker 4: how can we help? Yep, we need a facility. We
Speaker 4: need a facility for the future to accommodate these people
Speaker 4: to come to to get them the therapy they need
Speaker 4: right on the spot.
Speaker 9: We need.
Speaker 4: Generators, a solar flash lights. Flash lights could really a
Speaker 4: great source of first aid kits. We did the best
Speaker 4: we could. We've already delivered about three hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: emergency backpacks. We've delivered about one hundred and twenty meals
Speaker 4: to kidney patients. We have delivered blankets, essentials with great
Speaker 4: organizations that have You know, we have just really did
Speaker 4: everything we possibly could at the time of moment of need.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you want to help for the existing need,
Speaker 1: but plus also for the future. So donations of those
Speaker 1: goods and also monetary donations. I'm guessing where can people
Speaker 1: get more information and make a donation?
Speaker 4: Right on our website www dot Kidney's quest Foundation And
Speaker 4: that's a plural for kidneys.
Speaker 1: Okay dot org Kidneys Questions Foundation dot org.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, and you know it's it's just a diet
Speaker 4: that they're on and the area, the area that the
Speaker 4: kidney transport patients, they couldn't go to these Uh, they
Speaker 4: really didn't feel safe going to these these home I
Speaker 4: mean that the locations where everybody was being the shelters
Speaker 4: because of the fact that there their immune compromised. Their
Speaker 4: immune system is very, very risky to be around. And
Speaker 4: they were like, Carrol, I can't go there. I go,
Speaker 4: I know, don't worry, We'll get a generator. We went
Speaker 4: out in bottom, We went out and borrowed from neighbors,
Speaker 4: you know. So there there's a huge need. This was
Speaker 4: this was impacted with the chronic kidney disease and conditions. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know there oxygen. We still have generators out there,
Speaker 4: still out there with you know, collaborations of you know,
Speaker 4: things that people and that say hey, Carol, okay, this
Speaker 4: works just out. We're still right now. What we're doing
Speaker 4: is we're we're overseeing uh a company that's that made
Speaker 4: you know, that has certain types of generators to see
Speaker 4: if they can even accommodate the machines at the at home.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of there's a lot to be done.
Speaker 1: There is a lot to be done, and we appreciate
Speaker 1: all of the work that you were doing with Kidney's Quest.
Speaker 1: And again, if you'd like to make a donation or
Speaker 1: find out what kind of supplies or donations that they need,
Speaker 1: it's Kidney's Quest Foundation dot org. Carolyn Orkitas, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for the work you're doing, and you know,
Speaker 1: good luck and godspeed.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you have a great thing. Wow, these fires, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two La County supervisors
Speaker 1: have introduced a motion calling for an independent review of
Speaker 1: the emergency notification systems used to inform residents of evacuation orders.
Speaker 1: Gave a. Kfi's Mark Mayfield says some people in Altadena
Speaker 1: claim they never got warnings and evacuation orders came too late.
Speaker 5: The fire started at about six thirty pm on January seventh.
Speaker 5: Residents of neighborhoods west of Lake Avenue reportedly did not
Speaker 5: get electronic evacuation alerts until three twenty five the next morning.
Speaker 1: The fire that started in Eaton Canyon has burned more
Speaker 1: than fourteen thousand acres and destroyed more than nine thousand
Speaker 1: homes and other buildings. Criminal charges have been filed against
Speaker 1: us of people who allegedly committed violent crimes in San
Speaker 1: Diego for the Mexican Mafia. Prosecutors alleged local gang members
Speaker 1: were told by the gang from prison to murder and
Speaker 1: extore business owners. Prosecutors say one business was ordered blown
Speaker 1: up because the owner hadn't paid taxes to the mafia,
Speaker 1: while other businesses were firebombed and robbed. Bloomingdale's is closing
Speaker 1: its iconic flagship store in San Francisco. The Luxury Department
Speaker 1: storesays its store in the once thriving San Francisco Center
Speaker 1: shopping district will close this spring. Nordstrom and other retailers
Speaker 1: have also shuttered their stores on Market Street in recent
Speaker 1: years because of crime and high costs. Ahead of the
Speaker 1: Oscar nominations, which come out tomorrow, nominations have been announced
Speaker 1: for the forty fifth Razzie Awards. The Razzies honor what
Speaker 1: organizers say are the worst movies and performances of the year.
Speaker 1: Joker Fallia Due is nominated seven times, including four Worst
Speaker 1: Picture and while Keene Phoenix and Lady Gaga for Worst
Speaker 1: Actor and actress Razzie's will be awarded March first, the
Speaker 1: day before the Oscars. One last note, Fire Aid, which
Speaker 1: is going to help with fire relief relief efforts, is
Speaker 1: coming to the Into It Dome and Kia Forum on Thursday,
Speaker 1: January thirtieth. Tickets go on sale today at noon on Ticketmaster.
Speaker 1: Ticket Master and into It and Kia are waiving the
Speaker 1: service fees to make sure one hundred percent of the
Speaker 1: ticket purchases go to fire Aid relief. And there is
Speaker 1: a lot of people performing. Billie Eilish, Earth Wind and Fire,
Speaker 1: Gracie Abrams, Jelly Roll, Katie Perry, Lady Gaga, Little Baby,
Speaker 1: John Fogerty, Elinis, Morrisset Anderson and Pack, Dave Matthews and
Speaker 1: John Mayer, No Doubt, Pink and more, Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Speaker 1: They're doing two separate concerts, so you'll buy tickets to
Speaker 1: one show, but then they'll have big screens in the arenas,
Speaker 1: so as you're watching one show, you can be at
Speaker 1: the other show and vice versa. And their starting they're
Speaker 1: staggering the start times again. They go on sale today
Speaker 1: at noon on ticket Master, and it's all for raising
Speaker 1: money to help the victims of these stupid fires. See
Speaker 1: I've resorted to name calling the stupid fires. This is
Speaker 1: KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland. Weather
Speaker 1: from KFI. Red flag warnings are in effect through tomorrow
Speaker 1: evening with wind gus too about forty five miles per
Speaker 1: hour in the valleys and mountains. Sunny and warmer today
Speaker 1: with HIGs in the lo mid seventies at the beaches
Speaker 1: near eighty for Metro La Inlando c the valleys and
Speaker 1: Inland Empire. Sixties in the Antelope Valley. It's going to
Speaker 1: be sunny again tomorrow with highs in the seventies to
Speaker 1: low eighties. It's fifty one and day to point fifty
Speaker 1: two in Long Beach, forty nine in Sherman Oaks, and
Speaker 1: forty seven in Lahabra. We lead local live from the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical
Speaker 1: producer Kno along with traffic specialist and birthday boy Will
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
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