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Speaker 4: Please, I've got my magic power working just fire.
Speaker 2: I can cast up a big freeze, Yes, sir, I
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Speaker 4: Then let's be off.
Speaker 5: It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4: Here's Amy King.
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Speaker 6: I tended to block twenty two Santa Clauses coming to
Speaker 6: the time.
Speaker 1: Guess it's my favorite of all of the banking.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 1: Rankin bass, rankin bass, Yeah, it's I just love Santa
Speaker 1: Claus is coming to town. Well, five sleeps till Christmas.
Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Friday, December twentieth.
Speaker 5: I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and we are
Speaker 1: glad that you are.
Speaker 5: Here with us.
Speaker 1: You can have a lot of fun today and fill
Speaker 1: you in on what's been going on since you fell asleep.
Speaker 1: So let's get right to it. Here's what's ahead on
Speaker 1: wake up Call. President Elect Trump has announced success after
Speaker 1: lawmakers came up with a new bill to fund the government,
Speaker 1: but the House failed to pass the bill, with one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four voting four and two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five voting against the bill that would have kept
Speaker 1: the government funded through March and lift the debt ceiling
Speaker 1: for two years. We're going to find out from Karen
Speaker 1: Travers what's next and what happens if a bill doesn't
Speaker 1: pass by midnight.
Speaker 5: That's coming up at five twenty.
Speaker 1: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has deported more
Speaker 1: than two hundred seventy thousand people to one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety two countries over a recent twelvemonth period. That's the
Speaker 1: most deportations in a decade and nearly double the number
Speaker 1: from the previous year. Workers at four Amazon warehouses in
Speaker 1: southern California are on strike for a second day, with
Speaker 1: just five days left before Christmas. The workers say Amazon
Speaker 1: is refusing to recognize their union and negotiate contracts. Workers
Speaker 1: at warehouses in Palmdale, San Bernardino Industry, and Victorville joined
Speaker 1: striking workers in several other states and walking off the
Speaker 1: job yesterday. ABC's Will gans Is talking move Fassa. Just
Speaker 1: in time for Christmas, a new Diehard style movie hits
Speaker 1: the stream. Ooh, and then of course that brings up
Speaker 1: the big question, is Diehard a Christmas movie? Will Cole
Speaker 1: Schreiver says no, Okay, what does kno say?
Speaker 5: He's one thousand percent Christmas movie?
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: Our house whisper Dean Sharp is going to help us
Speaker 1: get a jumpstart on how you can spruce up your
Speaker 1: house and get organized in the new year.
Speaker 5: At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 1: Luigi at Mangioni is back in New York and found
Speaker 1: out yesterday he could get the death penalty.
Speaker 5: I Cono, we still hear you. He just start totally
Speaker 5: gave me the stink eye. And you know what, Cono
Speaker 5: came He look at this.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can't see it, but if you step up
Speaker 1: to your radio, he gave me a bottle of Coono wine.
Speaker 1: And it's not even one of those personalized labor labels.
Speaker 1: It's actually Cono Wine of New Zealand. Asauvion Blanc can't
Speaker 1: wait to dip into it. Thank you, Cono. Let's get
Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Republican leaders in Washington are
Speaker 1: trying to come up with a new plan to avoid
Speaker 1: a government shutdown, as lawmakers have voted down a second
Speaker 1: plan to extend funding. Dozens of Republicans joined Democrats last
Speaker 1: night in voting down the revised funding build that included
Speaker 1: a two year suspension of the debt limit that was
Speaker 1: demanded by President elect Trump.
Speaker 6: Very disappointing to us that all but two Democrats voted
Speaker 6: against aid to farmers and ranchers, against DIZA to relief,
Speaker 6: against all these bipartisan measures that had already been negotiated
Speaker 6: and decided upon.
Speaker 1: How Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters the only difference in
Speaker 1: the legislation was that they would push the debt ceiling
Speaker 1: to January of twenty twenty seven. He says Republicans will
Speaker 1: now regroup and come up with another solution. Senate Leader
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer says Democrats will not be negotiating. He says
Speaker 1: it's time to go back to the original bipartisan agreement.
Speaker 1: LA City leaders have announced more help for drug users
Speaker 1: and homeless people in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 3: The plan is to dispatch a variety of different teams
Speaker 3: to address the needs of the park, which is crowded
Speaker 3: with drug users and homeless people. La City Councilman Unsses
Speaker 3: Hernandez says the city, county, and state have come together
Speaker 3: to provide more services.
Speaker 7: I believe deeply that government works best when a response
Speaker 7: to the needs of community. We cannot solve the problems
Speaker 7: that faces by operating in silos.
Speaker 3: The plan includes mobile overdose response teams equipped with overdose
Speaker 3: reversal kits. It also has community clean teams, peace and ambassadors,
Speaker 3: and a field medicine program.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A man from Van Nuys has been arrested in connection
Speaker 1: with a series of arson fires in Sherman Oaks back
Speaker 1: in October. LAPD says Ricardo vi in Aeva is not
Speaker 1: believed to be involved in the series of fires in
Speaker 1: that same area. This week, the Nueva was detained during
Speaker 1: an unrelated traffic stop. He's been booked on suspicion of arson.
Speaker 1: Starbucks baristas in La Chicago and Seattle are going on
Speaker 1: strike because they say the company backtracked over future organizing
Speaker 1: and collective bargaining at the coffee giant. Barista in bargaining
Speaker 1: delegate Michelle Eisen says the company didn't hold up its
Speaker 1: end of an agreement with the viable economic proposals by
Speaker 1: the end of the year.
Speaker 8: Promised this economic package contained no wage increase for the
Speaker 8: first year of the agreement.
Speaker 9: Is that's just not an acceptable offer, It's an insulting offer.
Speaker 1: Frankly, the strike is set to run five days and
Speaker 1: cities said to be three of the company's priority markets.
Speaker 1: It's five oh seven on your Friday morning wake up call.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to kfi's White House correspondent
Speaker 1: John Decker. So, John, I think we've all known, at
Speaker 1: least those of us who were watching knew that President
Speaker 1: Biden was not operating at one hundred percent. But now
Speaker 1: we're hearing that the people closest to him knew it
Speaker 1: and hit it.
Speaker 10: You know, this is a story I have to tell
Speaker 10: you that could have been written by the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 10: which came out with this story just yesterday, And it
Speaker 10: could have been written by them twelve months ago. Amy
Speaker 10: it could have been written by them twenty months ago,
Speaker 10: in the sense that there was enough information to come
Speaker 10: out with the story episodes showing that President Biden was
Speaker 10: declining in terms of his physical abilities. You noticed this
Speaker 10: the slow way that he walks, the way he shlfles
Speaker 10: his feet, but also episodes of what appears to be
Speaker 10: declining cognitive abilities as well. And so it shouldn't really
Speaker 10: come to anybody's surprise the story that came out yesterday
Speaker 10: in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5: So why did they wait?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't know the answer to that. You know,
Speaker 10: I cover the White House. I'm there every day. I
Speaker 10: see the President every day, interact with him on days
Speaker 10: that he interacts with the press, And you know, I'm
Speaker 10: very honest. When people ask me how President Biden is doing,
Speaker 10: I give them my honest answer, and I tell them
Speaker 10: about various episodes that I've seen in my time covering
Speaker 10: him in the White House for the past four years.
Speaker 10: And there are episodes that, quite frankly, are concerning that
Speaker 10: I've seen over the course of the past four years.
Speaker 10: Now he only has thirty eight days or so left
Speaker 10: in the White House before handing the keys essentially over
Speaker 10: to Donald Trump. But you know, I think that it
Speaker 10: really became quite apparent to most Americans if they watched
Speaker 10: that presidential debate back on June the twenty seventh between
Speaker 10: Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the one hosted by CNN
Speaker 10: in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that it's interesting that so many
Speaker 1: people just said that, oh my gosh, look what happened.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I've seen it for at least
Speaker 1: a year, two years or more, and it's not part
Speaker 1: of it was I mean, he's is he eighty one now.
Speaker 10: He's eighty two years old. He turned eighty two a
Speaker 10: few weeks.
Speaker 1: Ago, Okay, And it's normal to see cognitive decline. I
Speaker 1: mean I saw my dad go through it, and it
Speaker 1: was it's heartbreaking. Sometimes he's fine, sometimes he's not, but
Speaker 1: something's going on. And that nobody would talk about the
Speaker 1: elephant of the room until it was front and center
Speaker 1: at that debate. It's like all of a sudden, everybody went, oh,
Speaker 1: something's wrong, And I was like, you guys, have we've
Speaker 1: been seeing it for forever.
Speaker 10: Well, that's exactly right, you know. And you could put
Speaker 10: blame on various people, you know, the people that work
Speaker 10: at the White House that protect the president, people like
Speaker 10: the White House Chief of Staff, who most people don't
Speaker 10: even know his name, you know, because he's so invisible
Speaker 10: at the White House. You could even throw some blame
Speaker 10: on the first lady as well, who has gone out
Speaker 10: of her way to protect your husband, you know, as
Speaker 10: any wife would do for their husband. But you know,
Speaker 10: I think that these are troubling things when we're talking
Speaker 10: about not just any husband, not just any person you
Speaker 10: know who shows up to work. We're talking about the
Speaker 10: president of the United States, I.
Speaker 1: Know, and it's I mean, honestly, John, at least from
Speaker 1: my perspective, it's very sad. It's very scary too, because
Speaker 1: you wonder who really is running the country.
Speaker 10: Well, he has a good national security team, you know,
Speaker 10: and those folks obviously give advice to the president, and
Speaker 10: you know, the president the other day, just last Tuesday,
Speaker 10: he took a question from me as he was departing
Speaker 10: the White House to board Marine one. When I asked
Speaker 10: him about the drones that have been appearing with great
Speaker 10: frequency over New Jersey other states in the Northeast. He
Speaker 10: responded to that question, gave an answer. But you know,
Speaker 10: to me, the media appearances that he's had are few
Speaker 10: and far between, certainly fewer than what I experienced in
Speaker 10: covering Donald Trump, or in covering Barack Obama or George W.
Speaker 10: Bush or Bill Clinton, all presidents that I've covered, and
Speaker 10: you know, I think that there comes a point where
Speaker 10: you have to ask, why is that happening? You know,
Speaker 10: because when he was in the US Senate, you couldn't
Speaker 10: get Joe Biden away from a television camera. He wanted
Speaker 10: to speak to the press as often as he possibly could.
Speaker 10: You know, it was often said, the most dangerous place
Speaker 10: in Washington is the space between Joe Biden and a
Speaker 10: television camera. You know, So that that is something that
Speaker 10: we do not see and have not seen over the
Speaker 10: course of the past four years while he's been President
Speaker 10: of the United States.
Speaker 5: Okay, and you can read more about this, John. It
Speaker 5: was in the Wall Street.
Speaker 10: Journal yesterday, it was, Yeah, so you could read it
Speaker 10: online for sure, you know. But again I could tell
Speaker 10: you incidents or episodes to amy that don't make get
Speaker 10: into the Wall Street Journal story that should have been there.
Speaker 10: And these go back twenty months. So that's the reason
Speaker 10: why I say this story that the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 10: put out just yesterday could have been written by those
Speaker 10: reporters quite some time ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you you were there, so you saw it,
Speaker 1: and I know you have to go, but maybe let's
Speaker 1: talk again. I would love to hear more about some
Speaker 1: of the things that you've.
Speaker 10: Exact absolutely and I sure a great day. Talk to
Speaker 10: bye bye.
Speaker 1: Kfis White House correspondent John Decker. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. La County Sheriff's deputies in Lancaster trying
Speaker 1: to find a missing teen mom and her one year
Speaker 1: old daughter. The seventeen year old was last scene with
Speaker 1: the baby in Palmdale yesterday. The young mom is Hispanic,
Speaker 1: five foot five, one hundred and fifteen pounds, with straight
Speaker 1: brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a green sweatshirt,
Speaker 1: tan jacket and black pants. The baby has brown hair,
Speaker 1: brown eyes, and a scar on her right pinky finger.
Speaker 1: She was wearing a hot pink puffer jacket. A woman's
Speaker 1: been arrested for allegedly starting a fire outside of Jim
Speaker 1: and the Eagle Rock Say.
Speaker 7: The alleged arsonist was originally named as a person of
Speaker 7: interest in a fire that happened just outside Lako Boxing
Speaker 7: Club on Eagle Rock Boulevard on December fifteenth. Los Angeles
Speaker 7: Fire got there just before five in the morning to
Speaker 7: put out the fire. Security images show a woman appearing
Speaker 7: to set the fire on purpose before she walked away.
Speaker 7: On Thursday, the LAPD arrested Marvella Solomon in connection to
Speaker 7: that fire outside the boxing club. Police say they recognized
Speaker 7: Solomon from a previous wanted flyer Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: Five years after murder hornets were discovered in Washington, state
Speaker 1: wildlife officials have declared them eradicated. ABC's Sherry Preston reports
Speaker 1: it was a team effort of wildlife officials at several
Speaker 1: levels of government. They're crediting the collaborative effort of state, federal,
Speaker 1: and international government agencies for finding and eliminating the hornets
Speaker 1: as a major reason for success. The great Northern Ordnate
Speaker 1: hornet hasn't been seen for three years. Washington and US
Speaker 1: wildlife officials have said that without a confirmed detection, they
Speaker 1: believe the pests have been eradicated. Remember when we first
Speaker 1: started hearing about them, I think it was during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh God, first the pandemic and now
Speaker 1: murder hornets. Okay, Lots going on around Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: surrounding areas as we head into the holidays, and our
Speaker 1: very own wil Cole Schreiber has his eyes on what's
Speaker 1: going on. So we're going to go to Will's weekend
Speaker 1: warm up. Will what you got going for the weekend
Speaker 1: that people might want to check out?
Speaker 2: Well, if you got family in town, maybe it's Christmas,
Speaker 2: you're feeling Christmasy and you want to get out and about.
Speaker 5: You know what, you better be feeling Christmas in my night.
Speaker 2: Home alone in concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall and
Speaker 2: the orchestra playing that John Williams music along with the movie.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 5: I love John Willy.
Speaker 2: There's the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade all weekend at night.
Speaker 5: Of course, have you gone to see that?
Speaker 4: I have never seen that, and the pictures look amazing.
Speaker 5: It's really spectacular. It's worth checking out.
Speaker 2: And of course the Festival of Lights and Riverside at
Speaker 2: the Mission Inn. That is amazing, just thousands and thousands
Speaker 2: of lights. And if you feel driving up into the hills,
Speaker 2: pretend you're in the North Pole. Santa's Village is up
Speaker 2: on Highway eighteen. So there's a lot of Christmasy stuff
Speaker 2: to do, plus skating rinks everywhere if you want to
Speaker 2: go break a limb, I mean, skate on some ice yea, yeah,
Speaker 2: you have many options downtown Santa Monica, Universal City, all
Speaker 2: over the place.
Speaker 5: Okay, and they rent skates. You don't have to have
Speaker 5: a I know. Okay.
Speaker 1: So those are just a few things that you can
Speaker 1: check out over the weekend. Thank you, will, Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 1: The California Public Utilities Commission has decided to keep the
Speaker 1: controversial Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.
Speaker 5: Open.
Speaker 1: In their decision yesterday, the commission said it's a reliable
Speaker 1: source of energy energy and needs to stay open to
Speaker 1: keep energy costs down. The Temechila Valley School Board has
Speaker 1: rescinded two policies after getting pressure from the state. One
Speaker 1: would require schools to tell parents if their child identifies
Speaker 1: as transgender. The other would ban all flags except the
Speaker 1: American and the California state flag. The board says it's
Speaker 1: going to rework the policies and they'll be back. Before
Speaker 1: you deck out your car with Christmas lights, the CHP
Speaker 1: is reminding drivers that multi colored holiday lights on cars
Speaker 1: us against the law. The h pieces drivers lights can
Speaker 1: our holiday lights rather can look like emergency vehicle lights
Speaker 1: and can confuse other drivers at six so five is
Speaker 1: handle on the news you know, you can't just eat one,
Speaker 1: and for some you shouldn't eat any at all. Free
Speaker 1: Too Lay is recalling some of its lazed potato chips.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen,
Speaker 1: a new bill was put up after the first one
Speaker 1: was torpedoed, and it was torpedoed two.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it failed. The Plan B that was put forward
Speaker 9: yesterday by.
Speaker 8: House Speaker Mike Johnson failed and it was because thirty
Speaker 8: eight Republicans voted against it. And that's a significant number
Speaker 8: of Republicans to vote against something that Donald Trump is
Speaker 8: calling for explicitly, and that's raising the limit on how
Speaker 8: much the government can borrow the debt ceiling. The bill
Speaker 8: yesterday would have funded the government through March, provided one
Speaker 8: hundred and ten billion dollars in disaster aid, but also
Speaker 8: raise the debt limit, suspended it for two years. Trump
Speaker 8: said it was a success, he was thrilled with that
Speaker 8: deal yesterday, but thirty eight Republicans went and decided him
Speaker 8: and voted against it.
Speaker 9: So now we are back at square one. It's unclear
Speaker 9: if there is a planned c There are some rumblings
Speaker 9: in the last couple of seconds, literally seconds from my
Speaker 9: colleagues up on Capitol Hill that there could be plans
Speaker 9: c coming up in the next few hours, but we
Speaker 9: don't know what it includes. How Speaker Mike Johnson had
Speaker 9: said earlier today that there would be votes this morning.
Speaker 9: We've got a plan.
Speaker 8: He was asked if there was a new agreement, and
Speaker 8: he would only say, we'll see. So it's just again
Speaker 8: not clear what they're going to try to put together
Speaker 8: that could get either Democrats back on board, that could
Speaker 8: make those thirty.
Speaker 9: Eight Republicans happy and still not safe.
Speaker 8: Thand the wrath of Donald Trump, who's loobbing things on
Speaker 8: social media about what he doesn't like about what they're considering.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So like, for example, if they said, Okay, we'll do
Speaker 1: this more bare bones continuing resolution but not extend the
Speaker 1: debt limit, then they might get it through Congress.
Speaker 5: But that doesn't But then you've got.
Speaker 8: Trump is not happy, yes, because he has demanded that
Speaker 8: in this eleventh hour demand. I mean, that was not
Speaker 8: part of the negotiations. That was a significant purple that
Speaker 8: he threw out there on Wednesday, that really through Republican
Speaker 8: leadership for a loop like that was not part of
Speaker 8: the conversation, and you know, interestingly, like it's really it's
Speaker 8: Republicans who have traditionally supported keeping a debt limit in
Speaker 8: place to keep a check on federal spending. It's Democrats
Speaker 8: who have called for getting rid of it so that
Speaker 8: you could have flexibility.
Speaker 10: Here.
Speaker 9: Interesting now how this is kind of changing.
Speaker 8: Trump politically just doesn't want to have to deal with
Speaker 8: it next year because that's when they would come up
Speaker 8: against the borrowing cap. He doesn't want to deal with
Speaker 8: it because it's a politically thorny issue, as you see
Speaker 8: with thirty eight Republicans voting against it last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this second bill that was defeated, it was
Speaker 1: like one hundred and something pages. The first one was
Speaker 1: like fifteen hundred pages.
Speaker 9: Just to kee.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so wouldn't even read too much in that. Like
Speaker 8: I mean, yesterday's bill did fund the government for the
Speaker 8: same amount of time.
Speaker 9: It also did have the disaster Aid too. That's an
Speaker 9: important part of this too. Like they could just pass
Speaker 9: a bill that just funds the government at the current
Speaker 9: level through March, just like kick the.
Speaker 8: Can do the basic minimum that they have to do
Speaker 8: to keep the lights on. But the disaster Aid is
Speaker 8: very important to so many lawmakers right now. That one
Speaker 8: hundred billion dollars that the White House requested. This is
Speaker 8: the last bill that is going to pass Congress this year.
Speaker 8: If that Disaster Aid doesn't get in there, it's not
Speaker 8: going out, and it's not clear it would ever go out.
Speaker 8: So they want it in there. And it's a red.
Speaker 9: State priority, it's a blue state priority.
Speaker 8: There's bipartisan overwhelming support for getting that out the door.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll be watching and see if they can
Speaker 1: come up with something, because the countdown is on.
Speaker 5: We got about eighteen hours ago.
Speaker 10: We'll see, all right.
Speaker 5: Karen Javers, thank.
Speaker 9: You, thanking for you. We got less out here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Karen Travers, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be off next week so I won't be
Speaker 1: talking to you, so have a merry Christmas too.
Speaker 9: Oh you're costing to talk again. The government is open,
Speaker 9: that's all.
Speaker 5: Right, perfect, take care, we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Thanks, bye bye.
Speaker 1: Metro says ridership in November hit a milestone with nearly
Speaker 1: twenty six million boardings on its buses and rail length lines.
Speaker 1: The transit agency says it was the twenty fourth consecutive
Speaker 1: month of year over year ridership growth. Metro says November's
Speaker 1: combined bus and rail ridership figures reached nearly eighty eight
Speaker 1: percent of its pre pandemic levels in twenty nineteen. The
Speaker 1: agency site's weekend and leisure trips is some of the
Speaker 1: main reasons for the continued growth in ridership. A man
Speaker 1: who managed a local city council campaign is accused of
Speaker 1: being an illegal Chinese agent.
Speaker 3: The campaign, run by Mike's Sun, was successful in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, and he and the city council member have
Speaker 3: traveled to China together since then. According to federal investigators.
Speaker 3: Neither the city nor the council member have been identified
Speaker 3: in court records. Investigators accused Son of trying to advance
Speaker 3: policies favorable to China as directed by the Chinese government.
Speaker 3: If convicted, Son could face up to fifteen years in prison.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks KFI News, a.
Speaker 1: Former neighbor of the man in Carlsbad who communicated with
Speaker 1: the Wisconsin school shooter, says he was creepy. The woman
Speaker 1: told TMC Alexander Poffendorff made her uncomfortable during the five
Speaker 1: years that they were neighbors. The FBI says Poffendorff told
Speaker 1: them he was planning an attack on a government building.
Speaker 1: A judge has ordered him to surrender his guns. A
Speaker 1: new billboard campaign is warning illegal immigrants not to cross
Speaker 1: the US Mexico border into Texas. Governor Greg Abbott says
Speaker 1: it's a new strategy to help secure the border.
Speaker 11: One says stop, if you cross the border illegally into Texas,
Speaker 11: you will be jailed. Another warns, don't come to Texas illegally,
Speaker 11: you will be arrested.
Speaker 1: The billboards inform illegal immigrants of what the governor calls
Speaker 1: the reality of what will happen to them if they
Speaker 1: try to enter Texas illegally. The billboards are posted in
Speaker 1: multiple languages, including Spanish, Chinese, and even Russian.
Speaker 5: The La Zoo is.
Speaker 1: Celebrating its first ever hatching of a parantine lizard. The
Speaker 1: La Zoo is one of only three in the US
Speaker 1: to successfully breed the species, which is one of the
Speaker 1: largest lizards on earth, behind the Komodo dragon. Zoo officials
Speaker 1: say the baby lizards are thriving, but they're not yet
Speaker 1: ready to be shown to the public. The Christmas rush
Speaker 1: at the airport is underway. The TSA says it expects
Speaker 1: even more people will travel through airports over Christmas than
Speaker 1: the record numbers that flew over the Thanksgiving holiday. The
Speaker 1: holiday travel crush comes as a freezing storm bears down
Speaker 1: on the eastern US. Safeco plans to stop offering new
Speaker 1: insurance policies for rental and condo customers starting January first.
Speaker 1: Existing customers can keep their current policies until twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Safeco is a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual, which is California's
Speaker 1: fourth largest home insurer. Vice President Harris has canceled her
Speaker 1: plans to come to LA She was supposed to fly
Speaker 1: in late last night, but her office announced yesterday that
Speaker 1: she's staying in DC instead. The office didn't say why
Speaker 1: or whether it was related to the possible government shutdown
Speaker 1: if flawmakers can't get that bill pass to fund the
Speaker 1: government by midnight. At six oh five, it's handled on
Speaker 1: the news. The US has deported more illegal immigrants in
Speaker 1: the last year than it has in the past decade.
Speaker 1: Bill's going to weigh in on that. At five point fifty,
Speaker 1: ABC's willgans on what's in theaters and a new die
Speaker 1: Hard style movie come into the stream.
Speaker 5: Interested to hear about that one.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to the host of
Speaker 1: Home on KFI. It's our house, whispered Dean Sharp, Good morning.
Speaker 4: Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 5: Okay, so I.
Speaker 1: Want to get started by looking forward a little bit,
Speaker 1: because it's almost time for New Year's resolutions, which people
Speaker 1: invariably break, and.
Speaker 5: I know that.
Speaker 1: Last year, my one of my resolutions was to really
Speaker 1: purge because my house is just getting too full. And
Speaker 1: I finally actually cleaned out the closet last weekend. So
Speaker 1: it took me a little bit to get to it,
Speaker 1: but it got me thinking about closets. And you know
Speaker 1: when I have a friend who did a total closet
Speaker 1: remodel and it's it's like more beautiful than anything I've seen.
Speaker 1: It looks like a palace. It's beautiful.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
Speaker 1: So I was starting to think about that, like as
Speaker 1: as you're looking to do projects for the new year,
Speaker 1: maybe starting small and starting in that closet, because you
Speaker 1: could go from palace all the way down to you know,
Speaker 1: a nice little bungalow.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, man, this is really a sticky subject. Okay really,
Speaker 4: because because I'll tell you this, I'm just going to
Speaker 4: be one hundred percent honest with everybody. Your storage problem
Speaker 4: in your home is you. You are you, You're your
Speaker 4: storage problem. It's true. It's so true. Now. I you know,
Speaker 4: there are a handful of homes out there that you
Speaker 4: walk through and think, Wow, it hardly has any storage whatsoever.
Speaker 4: I get that. I get that, I totally get that.
Speaker 4: I feel for you. But by and large, for most
Speaker 4: of us, we all have way too much stuff, and
Speaker 4: our organization issues are not with the physical space. Our
Speaker 4: organization issues are in our own head, with just the
Speaker 4: way we see things, the way we view things. Here's
Speaker 4: a perfect example. One of the things that I start
Speaker 4: by telling somebody who really needs to revamp their their
Speaker 4: closet organization or their their storage is to see their
Speaker 4: closet differently. And so I'll tell my clients Listen, if
Speaker 4: you can bring yourself to understanding this about your closet,
Speaker 4: it will change your life, I promise you. Okay, and
Speaker 4: it's this. A closet inside your home is not a
Speaker 4: long term storage area. It is a staging area for
Speaker 4: often used items. Okay, and people like waituh, And basically
Speaker 4: that means doing the time test on your clothes exactly.
Speaker 4: So that's the that's the point. That's the point. That's
Speaker 4: what I mean when when it's just when it's in
Speaker 4: our heads. So you know, and there are various ways
Speaker 4: to do that. Some people go off and buy little
Speaker 4: tags and hang them on their hangers. Some people do
Speaker 4: as simple as you know, you hang up clothes backwards,
Speaker 4: you know, facing opposite direction in the closet, and you
Speaker 4: wait six months and you see whether or not you
Speaker 4: have touched those clothes or not. And if you haven't
Speaker 4: over the course of six months, or if you want
Speaker 4: to be generous a year, all through all four seasons,
Speaker 4: then you know what, it's time to really consider the
Speaker 4: fact that you're not wearing that thing anymore and it's
Speaker 4: taken up space. So there are gorgeous, gorgeous closet companies
Speaker 4: out there that do amazing you know, California Closets is
Speaker 4: one of my favorites here in southern California. They just
Speaker 4: do amazing work. They can take a closet and just
Speaker 4: make it just sparkling. But the reason I go on
Speaker 4: about this is, you know, we've put in some amazing closets.
Speaker 4: I've put in one hundred thousand dollars closet unit before
Speaker 4: into you know, in a state and a state level closet.
Speaker 4: And still I come back three months later and the
Speaker 4: pack rat of a client that that ordered the closet,
Speaker 4: it is just overflowing and messy and you can't even
Speaker 4: see the beauty. I know, I'm not saying hoarding, I'm
Speaker 4: just saying kind of pack ratting. So the point is
Speaker 4: that we really got to get our heads around the
Speaker 4: idea that we've got too much stuff that we don't
Speaker 4: need as many clothes as most of us have. And
Speaker 4: purging is a is kind of a daily or weekly
Speaker 4: process for most successfully organized people because I like to say,
Speaker 4: you know, you go out in the world and things
Speaker 4: just cling to you. I mean, if you just live
Speaker 4: your life in the twenty first century, you come home
Speaker 4: and stuff new stuff is just attached to you somehow,