Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: Rather sobering start to our day with the plane crash
Speaker 1: into the Potomac. We're going to get to the latest
Speaker 1: on all of that throughout the morning as more details
Speaker 1: become available. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. No
Speaker 1: one is expected to have survived the crash of an
Speaker 1: American Eagle jet with an Army black Hawk helicopter near
Speaker 1: Reagan National Airport. Twenty eight bodies have been pulled from
Speaker 1: the Potomac River. There were sixty four people on the
Speaker 1: plane and three on the helicopter. ABC Stephen Portnoy's going
Speaker 1: to be joining us in a few minutes and give
Speaker 1: us all the latest. We just got an update from
Speaker 1: the officials in DC, and as I mentioned, they've changed
Speaker 1: the search and recovery effort into the search and rescue
Speaker 1: effort into a recovery effort, saying that they don't expect
Speaker 1: anyone to survive. The La City Council has delayed a
Speaker 1: vote on rental protections for wildfire victims. The proposal apparently
Speaker 1: needs more work. The protections would prevent residents from being
Speaker 1: evicted and also prevent rent increases for a year. It
Speaker 1: would apply to all apartments in the city of La
Speaker 1: The Israeli military says eight more hostages have been released
Speaker 1: inside Gaza.
Speaker 2: They've made their way to Israel.
Speaker 1: The release of seven of the hostages, including five Thai nationals,
Speaker 1: was delayed as a crowd of Palestinians surrounded the hostages
Speaker 1: as they were turned over to the Red Cross. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Search and rescue crews
Speaker 1: near d C have spent the night searching the frigid
Speaker 1: Potomac River for survivors and bodies following the crash of
Speaker 1: an American Airlines subsidiary jet and an Army helicopter BOCA.
Speaker 3: Helicopter and the plane craft in the river east of
Speaker 3: the appost and the Runway three three.
Speaker 1: Search and rescue operation has changed to a recovery operations
Speaker 1: at this point.
Speaker 4: We don't believe there are any survivors from this accident,
Speaker 4: and we have recovered twenty seven people from the plane
Speaker 4: and one from the helicopter.
Speaker 1: DC Fire Chief John Donnelly says there were sixty four
Speaker 1: people on the plane and three on the helicopter that
Speaker 1: was out on a training mission last night. California Congressman
Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell says he landed at the airport about twenty
Speaker 1: minutes before the crash.
Speaker 2: He didn't see it.
Speaker 1: He says he started learning about the collision as he
Speaker 1: got into his car. Swalwell is on the Homeland Security Committee.
Speaker 1: He says it's important to learn what led to the
Speaker 1: collision and make sure a crowded airspace is still safe.
Speaker 1: The Lacity Council has voted to make sure one of
Speaker 1: its allies is placed on the city's debris removal task Force.
Speaker 1: Councilwoman Emelda Padilla says her district is full of landfills
Speaker 1: and she wants to make sure the council has a
Speaker 1: voice in removing waste from the wildfire sites.
Speaker 5: We must collaborate as one with our federal, state, and
Speaker 5: county partners to ensure that recovery of its move with
Speaker 5: urgency and reflect our shared value of fairness, health, and
Speaker 5: environmental stewardship.
Speaker 1: The council's vote places the Chief Legislative Analyst or a
Speaker 1: designee from that office, on the task force. The CLA
Speaker 1: keeps councilmembers craft or helps council members craft legislation and
Speaker 1: analyze budget details. Dua Lipa, Billy Eilish, Billy, Joel Jack Black,
Speaker 1: James Taylor, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, and Moore have
Speaker 1: donated items for a Grammy auction that will go to
Speaker 1: wildfire relief. The Julians Auctions Music Cares Charity Relief auction
Speaker 1: starts at eleven a m. Sunday at the Recording Academy
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica and online at Juliansauctions dot Com. Sixty
Speaker 1: seventh Annual Grammy Awards will take place later that day
Speaker 1: from the Peacock Theaterancrypto dot Com arena.
Speaker 2: Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1: One of the other big things going on around the
Speaker 1: country is, of course, deportations, which begs the question, our
Speaker 1: churches still a sanctuary?
Speaker 6: Well, no, that's the short answer. But they never really
Speaker 6: were aiming. It's always been legal for ICE agents to
Speaker 6: go into houses of worship, or into schools, or into
Speaker 6: women's shelters or hospitals and take people into custody if
Speaker 6: they had evidence that those folks were in the country. Illegally,
Speaker 6: but it's been the policy, the long standing policy that
Speaker 6: those places, those sensitive areas are off limits to ICE agents,
Speaker 6: and so they just wasn't done previously. Well, everything's on
Speaker 6: the table now. President Trump has taken that the sensitive
Speaker 6: area's designation off of those places off limits that ICE
Speaker 6: agents are not supposed to go into, and so we
Speaker 6: may start seeing raids in those places before too long.
Speaker 2: But so far we haven't seen them, not.
Speaker 6: Yet, not as far as anyone knows. There have been factories,
Speaker 6: there have been workplaces, apartments and places like that where
Speaker 6: people have been taken into custody. We've heard about master
Speaker 6: portations that have already begun and people being flown back
Speaker 6: to their home countries or to Mexico. So far, no
Speaker 6: word on whether any of these actual school rates or
Speaker 6: hospital or church rates have taken place.
Speaker 1: And at this point with the deportations, is it still
Speaker 1: focused on the criminals, as officials have said, that's what
Speaker 1: they're going for first.
Speaker 6: Yes, And that's what I think immigration attorneys are telling
Speaker 6: their clients and clients that are school districts and our
Speaker 6: churches that you know, don't worry about it too much.
Speaker 6: I mean, at least the stated goal of Tom Homan
Speaker 6: and the others involved in the administration on this front
Speaker 6: is that only people who are here illegally, people who
Speaker 6: have committed not here illegally, but have committed other crimes
Speaker 6: while they were here, that they will be targeted. But
Speaker 6: you know, there's also talk of removing naturalization, about removing
Speaker 6: birthrights citizenships. So you know, I think, again, pretty much
Speaker 6: anything is on the table at this point, and there
Speaker 6: are supporters for that. A poll conducted by the AP
Speaker 6: and NORC found that about twenty percent support this new rule.
Speaker 6: Twenty percent of Americans fifty seven though strongly or somewhat
Speaker 6: oppose this new policy.
Speaker 2: Which new policy, the new.
Speaker 6: Policy as taking away this sensitive area's designation.
Speaker 2: That is oh okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: You had mentioned birthright citizenship, and so I didn't want
Speaker 1: to mix the two up because that one is that
Speaker 1: one is on hold, and as a judge said, it's
Speaker 1: a it violates the constitution. So they'd have to change
Speaker 1: the constitution to eliminate that right.
Speaker 6: That was really clear cut. But this other other section
Speaker 6: of policy, not law, but policy previously said don't go
Speaker 6: into churches, they're off limits as sanctuary. As a sanctuary churches, synagogues, temples,
Speaker 6: whatever that house of worship might be. But yeah, you're right.
Speaker 6: I mean the law is the law, but policy is.
Speaker 2: Different, okay. And how are church leaders pushing back or
Speaker 2: are they or can.
Speaker 6: They can the same way anybody else does, hire a
Speaker 6: lawyer and you know, and make your congregations aware as
Speaker 6: school districts. Likewise, that was reading about the San Diego
Speaker 6: Junior College District, the community college district that is telling
Speaker 6: its staff, no, don't allow ice agents to come into campus.
Speaker 6: They don't have a legal authority to do so. And
Speaker 6: our attorneys are fighting back. So yeah, they're hiring attorneys,
Speaker 6: they're they're making their thoughts known, and meanwhile congregations and
Speaker 6: student groups are holding demonstrations against the practice.
Speaker 1: Yep, we've got story about that coming up in just
Speaker 1: a matter of minutes. ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for the information. As always, we'll talk to you
Speaker 1: again soon.
Speaker 6: Appreciate it.
Speaker 7: All.
Speaker 1: Right, let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As we
Speaker 1: were just talking about immigration, a hot topic right now.
Speaker 1: DEA agents in San Diego have been pulling double duty.
Speaker 1: Special agent in charge of the San Diego Division, says
Speaker 1: they're focused on their mission to stop manufacturing and distribution
Speaker 1: of drugs.
Speaker 8: DEA has prioritized our drug investigations involving those violent illegal.
Speaker 3: Criminals, but we will work with a greater visit our partnerships.
Speaker 2: With our federal acts in order to keep Americans safe.
Speaker 1: Agent Clark says several federal agencies are involved in the
Speaker 1: immigration enforcement efforts.
Speaker 8: Week, DEA has been assisting in enforcement action with our
Speaker 8: partners from Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 3: Specifically, we were working with ICE.
Speaker 4: Enforcement Removal Operations and Homeland Security Investigations or AHSI.
Speaker 1: More than forty five hundred people have been taken into
Speaker 1: custody and deported in the first week of President Trump's presidency.
Speaker 1: The president says the US will use its naval base
Speaker 1: at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, house up to thirty thousand illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: Online Security Secretary Christy Noam says the administration is still
Speaker 1: figuring out how to make that all work. That is
Speaker 1: something that the White House is working on to use
Speaker 1: resources that we currently have there at Guantanamo Base, so
Speaker 1: it will go through the process. The facility has been
Speaker 1: used for decades to hold detained migrants. A plan to
Speaker 1: freeze rents and block some evictions in la has stalled.
Speaker 8: City council members engaged in a heated debate, with some
Speaker 8: members saying others were using the wildfires to push their
Speaker 8: political agendas. Councilman John Lee says victims of the Palisades
Speaker 8: fire need help, but not at the expense of property
Speaker 8: owners all over the city. Let's focus on doing that
Speaker 8: in a way that doesn't harm housing providers and discourage
Speaker 8: investment in the very housing our city desperately needs. Supporters
Speaker 8: argued their constituents may not have lost homes, but they
Speaker 8: have lost income and jobs. The issue was sent back
Speaker 8: to committee for consideration. Michael Monks KFI News, the.
Speaker 1: Owner of a mansion in Malibu where a twenty two
Speaker 1: year old college student died in a fire in the
Speaker 1: mansion in twenty twenty one, has filed a fifty million
Speaker 1: dollar lawsuit against trip Advisor and two of its subsidiaries.
Speaker 1: The lawsuit claims Trip Advisors should have shown more care
Speaker 1: in leasing the home to a woman who allowed more
Speaker 1: guests than were allowed for an event it featured potentially
Speaker 1: risky sky lanterns. The owner says twenty people were at
Speaker 1: the home at the time of the fire, when there
Speaker 1: only should have been two. Two people have been taken
Speaker 1: into custody after a report of a person with a
Speaker 1: gun at a high school in the Crenshaw area. Polise
Speaker 1: say they got the call about a person with the
Speaker 1: gun at Susan Millery Dorsey Senior High School yesterday about
Speaker 1: ten thirty am. The report followed what appears to be
Speaker 1: an unrelated bomb threat at Stella High Charter Elementary in
Speaker 1: the West Athens area. A hospital nurse in Uganda has
Speaker 1: died of ebola. It's the first recorded fatality since the
Speaker 1: last outbreak ended in twenty twenty three. The nurse worked
Speaker 1: in the capital of Kampala. Official say he developed a
Speaker 1: fever and was treated at several locations in Uganda before
Speaker 1: multiple lab tests confirmed that he had ebola. Tests done
Speaker 1: after his death found it was the Sudan strain. The
Speaker 1: Federal Reserve has decided to keep interest rates the same,
Speaker 1: despite a call from President Trump to cut them bed
Speaker 1: chairs your own palaces. The benchmark rate charged to banks
Speaker 1: will remain in the four point twenty five to four
Speaker 1: point five percent range.
Speaker 6: For twenty twenty four. As a whole GDP looks to
Speaker 6: have risen above two percent, bolstered by resilient consumer spending.
Speaker 1: Powell said, despite inflation remaining at an elevated level, the
Speaker 1: economy has expanded at a solid rate. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking with ABC's Stephen Portnoy. We're
Speaker 1: going to get the latest on the plane and helicopter
Speaker 1: crash in Washington, d C. In which officials are now
Speaker 1: saying they do not expect to find any survivors and
Speaker 1: have pulled twenty eight bodies from the waters of the
Speaker 1: Potomac River. The world is always changing, and there's bad
Speaker 1: things that happen, and I guess we just roll with it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
Speaker 1: news room. A state bill to give fire victims up
Speaker 1: to a year of mortgage relief is moving forward in
Speaker 1: the state legislature. The bill would let borrowers affected by
Speaker 1: the fires stop paying mortgages for six months with no penalties, fees,
Speaker 1: or interest. Their relief could be extended another six months
Speaker 1: if the property owner requests it. Riverside County's Board of
Speaker 1: Supervisors has passed a resolution to take a look at
Speaker 1: how data is collected on illegal immigrants and DACA recipients.
Speaker 1: Supporters say it's a step towards supporting vulnerable populations. Supervisors
Speaker 1: say it will not prevent law enforcement actions against criminals.
Speaker 1: US Figure Skating says a group of young skaters and
Speaker 1: coaches were on the American Eagle flight that crashed into
Speaker 1: the Potomac River after colliding with an Army Blackhawk helicopter
Speaker 1: near Reagan National Airport in DC. Two former Russian world
Speaker 1: champion skaters were also on the flight, and that brings
Speaker 1: us to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Good morning, Stephen. You know,
Speaker 1: flying into Reagan National Airport one of the most picturesque
Speaker 1: approaches I've ever seen. You fly over the Lincoln Memorial,
Speaker 1: you see the Washington Monument. But last night it turned
Speaker 1: a tragedy. What happened, That's.
Speaker 9: What everyone wants to figure out. But it happened. At
Speaker 9: eight forty eight pm last night, an American Eagle regional
Speaker 9: jet inbound from Wichita, Kansas, was on a standard approach
Speaker 9: to Runway thirty three. At the same time, an Army
Speaker 9: Blackhawk helicopter was conducting a training mission over the Potomac
Speaker 9: River and the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy last hour said
Speaker 9: that both aircraft were on standard patterns. How it is
Speaker 9: that they collide it is the key question. But you're
Speaker 9: absolutely right Amy to note how beautiful that landing is
Speaker 9: and house house unusual it is in this day and
Speaker 9: age to fly over these prominent buildings and at least
Speaker 9: see them out the window. But that is what happens.
Speaker 9: It's all within sight of the US capital. The airport
Speaker 9: is just across the is on the banks of the
Speaker 9: Potomac River and just across the river from DC. It
Speaker 9: always has to been, of course, and you know, the
Speaker 9: pattern for landing is steep and you have to be
Speaker 9: an experienced pilot to do it because of the security
Speaker 9: restrictions in that airspace. But also in that airspace are
Speaker 9: a bunch of military and law enforcement helicopters that are
Speaker 9: constantly buzzing over the sky. You can only fly a
Speaker 9: helicopter if you are law enforcement or military. It's not
Speaker 9: open to tourism or any other kind of commercial helicopter traffic.
Speaker 6: And so.
Speaker 9: These are supposed to be experienced pilots. In the case
Speaker 9: of the training mission, obviously there are questions about it,
Speaker 9: but we don't have answers. What we do know is
Speaker 9: this was not a survivable accident and that there were
Speaker 9: sixty seven people whose lives seem to have been lost.
Speaker 9: Twenty eight bodies have been recovered from the icy waters
Speaker 9: of the Potomac. The operation could take several days. The
Speaker 9: waters were about thirty six degrees at the time of
Speaker 9: the crash and the river had been frozen over for weeks,
Speaker 9: but because it reached into the fifties this week, the
Speaker 9: thaw meant that that the rescuers can dive into the
Speaker 9: incredibly frigid, near freezing water. But it's not a solid
Speaker 9: ice sheet at the top, so it's a gruesome, horrible scene.
Speaker 9: The debris field is said to go for about four
Speaker 9: miles south because of the current and the wind. The
Speaker 9: effort is to try to recover evidence and of course
Speaker 9: recover the victims, and so far twenty eight bodies have
Speaker 9: been pulled out of the water. In terms of who
Speaker 9: was on the plane, the US Figure Skating Championships were
Speaker 9: just held in Wichita, Kansas, and figure skaters and their
Speaker 9: families and coaches were among those said to be on
Speaker 9: board that American Eagle flight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned that the debris fields about four miles.
Speaker 1: So did the entire plane and the helicopter both crash
Speaker 1: into the river or do we know if some of
Speaker 1: it ended up on land.
Speaker 9: Well, there's no indication that the crash happened over land.
Speaker 9: I mean, I think what happened is that the two
Speaker 9: aircraft landed in the wall and that the wind and
Speaker 9: current had blown various parts of it down downstream, and
Speaker 9: so that's complicating the recovery effort to be sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, And you mentioned that this was not survivable.
Speaker 1: Survivable is that because of the water because it's so cold,
Speaker 1: or is it just the crash was that extreme?
Speaker 9: That is not clear, okay, But again, thirty six degree
Speaker 9: water is not the kind of water you can live
Speaker 9: in for very long. The rescue effort was instant. There
Speaker 9: are rescue boats ready to go on the Potomac River,
Speaker 9: and within let's say, ten or fifteen minutes, the boats
Speaker 9: were already in the water looking for survivors. None were found,
Speaker 9: but bodies were recovered quickly and through the night. Since
Speaker 9: the last eleven and a half hours they had been
Speaker 9: pulling bodies out more than two dozen. No survivors found.
Speaker 9: There were initial it seems erroneous reports otherwise last night
Speaker 9: that perhaps people had survived that those reports sadly are
Speaker 9: not true.
Speaker 1: And then you mentioned that the black Hawk helicopter was
Speaker 1: on a training mission, and that does that raise any
Speaker 1: red flags or like you said, they still have to
Speaker 1: be super experienced pilots even if they're out on training
Speaker 1: missions to be flying in that area.
Speaker 9: I have no degree of insight into this beyond the
Speaker 9: idea that it wouldn't make a lot of sense to
Speaker 9: have an Army black Hawk helicopter flying in this very
Speaker 9: secure national security space without someone who had some experience
Speaker 9: at the controls, without the crew, the whole crew having
Speaker 9: some experience. Now how much experience, I don't know whether
Speaker 9: this was a you know, when you could have a
Speaker 9: training mission just to kind of sort of keep yourself sharp,
Speaker 9: doesn't necessarily mean that you're doing it for the first time.
Speaker 9: I don't know what happened, and we're going to have
Speaker 9: to find out, but you know, the key question is,
Speaker 9: and some of this there's some clues in the air
Speaker 9: traffic control radio recording that there was a call from
Speaker 9: the tower to the helicopter, you know, to make sure
Speaker 9: that they saw the canadair jet coming in for a landing,
Speaker 9: and the pilot indicated on the radio. It seems that
Speaker 9: he did see the plane.
Speaker 2: Ow the pilot of the helicopter, the pilot of the plane.
Speaker 9: Pilot of the helicopter, the plane plane, the plane's going
Speaker 9: really fast coming in for a landing, doesn't really have
Speaker 9: much ability to move fast. Helicopter on a different trajectory
Speaker 9: may have more agility. And so the idea is that
Speaker 9: the air traffic asked the helicopter to be sure they
Speaker 9: saw that plane, and the response it seems it was
Speaker 9: a yes. Now was it the right plane they were eyeing?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so bizarre because I'm assuming you've seen
Speaker 1: the video too. But you see the video, you see
Speaker 1: what appears to be the you know, the I don't
Speaker 1: know if they call him headlights on planes, but you
Speaker 1: see the plane, the light from the plane, and you
Speaker 1: see the helicopter light just making a bee line in
Speaker 1: that direction.
Speaker 9: I have to believe that the pilots of the plane
Speaker 9: had no idea what hit them because of the fact
Speaker 9: that they're coming in for a landing. It's probably I
Speaker 9: don't know, one or two hundred miles an hour at
Speaker 9: that altitude you want to slow down.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 9: There's probably some records I could look up, if you know,
Speaker 9: I probably should, just to get a sense of how
Speaker 9: fast that plane was coming in. But those pilots have
Speaker 9: to be focused on the runway, on their instruments. I'm
Speaker 9: by no means an aviation expert. I barely know politics,
Speaker 9: but I can tell you, as a sort of an
Speaker 9: experienced Washingtonian that this is normal to have planes coming
Speaker 9: in at that hour at that you know, at that altitude,
Speaker 9: in that path is exactly what you'd expect as It's
Speaker 9: also common to see military aircraft buzzing around at the
Speaker 9: same time. So how these two things happen? Let me
Speaker 9: put it this way. Experts have been fearing something like
Speaker 9: this for a very long time, and we've been so
Speaker 9: fortunate in this country to have gone more than fifteen
Speaker 9: years since a major air disaster. But that streak has ended.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and you mentioned that people that they've been
Speaker 1: fearing that. I heard last night that there are takeoffs
Speaker 1: and landings like every thirty to forty five seconds or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 9: That's right through the day and into the early hours
Speaker 9: of the evening. Overnight. That airport goes dark for the
Speaker 9: most part because of sound and flight restrictions to protect
Speaker 9: the residents. But that is one of the most heavily
Speaker 9: trafficked air corridors in the country and under the most
Speaker 9: secure conditions, which means you really have to know what
Speaker 9: you're doing to be in the air there. This is
Speaker 9: not generally it's not open to amateurs anymore. Time was,
Speaker 9: but not anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, it's certainly a mystery, and we'll be anxiously awaiting
Speaker 1: to see if we can find out what happened. It
Speaker 1: doesn't change that more than likely sixty seven people were
Speaker 1: killed last night, of course.
Speaker 9: Yeah, as always, these investigations take place so that we
Speaker 9: can learn from and prevent these things from happening again.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, appreciate it as always, Thank
Speaker 1: you for the information you bet.
Speaker 2: Okay, when we come back, we are going to keep
Speaker 2: you updated.
Speaker 1: We'll get you any new information that comes out about
Speaker 1: this plane crash, the crash between the American Eagle regional
Speaker 1: jet and a black Hawk helicopter.
Speaker 2: But we're going to switch.
Speaker 1: Gears just a little bit and when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to dig into that lawsuit that was sparked
Speaker 1: by the movie. It ends with us ABC's Juju Chang
Speaker 1: has Lively versus Baldoni for US really interesting. I watched
Speaker 1: the movie because I don't know anything about the lawsuit
Speaker 1: or what would have sparked it. So we're going to
Speaker 1: check in with Juju Chang, who's doing a special on
Speaker 1: it on ABC tonight.
Speaker 2: Ohing like that.
Speaker 9: That's right through the day and into the early hours
Speaker 9: of the evening. Overnight, that airport goes dark for the
Speaker 9: most part because of sound and flight restrictions to protect
Speaker 9: the residents. But that is one of the most heavily
Speaker 9: trafficked air corridors in the country and under the most
Speaker 9: secure conditions, which means you really have to know what
Speaker 9: you're doing to be in the air there. This is
Speaker 9: not generally, it's not open to amateurs anymore. Time was,
Speaker 9: but not anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, it's certainly a mystery, and we'll be anxiously waiting
Speaker 1: to see if we can find out what happened. It
Speaker 1: doesn't change that more than likely sixty seven people were
Speaker 1: killed last night.
Speaker 9: Of course, as always, these investigations take place so that
Speaker 9: we can learn from and prevent these things from happening again.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, appreciate it as always, thank
Speaker 1: you for the information you bet Okay, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we are going to keep you updated. We'll get you
Speaker 1: any new information that comes out about this plane crash,
Speaker 1: the crash between the American Eagle regional jet and a
Speaker 1: black Hawk helicopter. But we're going to switch just a
Speaker 1: little bit and when we come back, we're gonna dig
Speaker 1: into that lawsuit that was sparked by the movie. It
Speaker 1: ends with us ABC's Juju Chang has Lively versus Baldoni
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 2: Really interesting.
Speaker 1: I watched the movie because I don't know anything about
Speaker 1: the lawsuit or what would have sparked it. So we're
Speaker 1: going to check in with Juju Chang, who's doing a
Speaker 1: special on it on ABC.
Speaker 2: Tonight, south Line.
Speaker 1: Weather from KFI becoming sunny. High's in the fifties to
Speaker 1: low sixties. Low's in the thirties and forties. Tonight partly
Speaker 1: cloudy with highs in the upper fifties to mid sixties.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow warm it up into the sixties to mid seventies.
Speaker 1: So got a nice weekend on the way.
Speaker 2: Let's say good morning.
Speaker 1: Now to ABC's Juju Chang Chang, who's hosting a special tonight,
Speaker 1: and it's about the movie. It ends with us, not
Speaker 1: actually the movie, but two stars of the movie and Juju.
Speaker 1: We wanted to talk to you, not only because we
Speaker 1: can't wait to watch your special nightline special, but also
Speaker 1: to kind of find out what exactly is going on,
Speaker 1: because I will tell you, I'm aware of this lawsuit,
Speaker 1: but I don't quite get what it is, and so
Speaker 1: that's why we wanted to talk to you. So tell
Speaker 1: us about what sparked this and where we are in.
Speaker 6: It's absolutely true.
Speaker 3: That's how a lot of people feel amy they're scratching
Speaker 3: their heads at this lawsuit counter lawsuit, and you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3: It's not about the movie anymore. It's about the drama
Speaker 3: behind the scenes of the movie. It all started, you know,
Speaker 3: as a quirky summer premiere, with Blake Lively and her
Speaker 3: husband just Ryan Reynolds walking the pink carpet as they
Speaker 3: do as Hollywood royalty, and then her co star was
Speaker 3: ushered in and ushered away, Justin Baldoni, who was also
Speaker 3: the director. Now about a month ago it all began
Speaker 3: and exploded out into the public because Blake Lively filed
Speaker 3: a lawsuit claiming sexual harassment right saying that there was
Speaker 3: unwanted touching. She didn't feel safe, others on set felt that,
Speaker 3: but in addition, she said one she reported it. The
Speaker 3: director and co star retaliated against her is her claim
Speaker 3: by hiring a crisis tr team and creating a smear
Speaker 3: campaign against her. Now a lot of people took Blake's
Speaker 3: side after this, because she did in fact get a
Speaker 3: lot of negative press during the press tour. But then
Speaker 3: another bombshell, justin Baldoni's team files a counter lawsuit and
Speaker 3: says no, no, no hold on those texts that her
Speaker 3: team filed, saying that his crisis PR team was going
Speaker 3: to bury her with bad press. He says those texts
Speaker 3: were taken out of context and that in fact it
Speaker 3: was Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, her powerful husband who
Speaker 3: was trying to rest control of the movie get away
Speaker 3: from him. So he countersues her for four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3: Then the scene in question where Billake Lively says there
Speaker 3: was unwanted touching during a dancing that scene gets released
Speaker 3: in its raw footage three takes of it, and so
Speaker 3: all her fans are left to wonder at wait, whose
Speaker 3: side are we watching here? It was a little became
Speaker 3: a little bit of a rorshock test that you saw
Speaker 3: what you want to saw see Justin Baldoni's team said, see,
Speaker 3: this proves unclear of any behavior that was inappropriate. But
Speaker 3: then Blake's team says, no, this proves exactly what we
Speaker 3: were saying, that he's touching her and kissing her in
Speaker 3: an unscripted moment. So the drama continues to play out,
Speaker 3: and we talked to an intimacy coordinator who talks about
Speaker 3: sort of where the lines are in the sand. We
Speaker 3: talked to a crisis PR expert because many people feel
Speaker 3: that this really drew back the curtain on this sort
Speaker 3: of invisible world of crisis PR and digital PR that
Speaker 3: happens in Hollywood. And a lot of people say, really,
Speaker 3: it's just the lawyers who benefit here because both sides
Speaker 3: of the as you say, the stars people don't know
Speaker 3: what to think anymore. It makes everybody look bad.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and like you're talking about that scene that
Speaker 1: was released which I watched, and then I watched the
Speaker 1: movie yesterday because I wanted to see the movie in
Speaker 1: its entirety and at least from my vantage point, it
Speaker 1: didn't look like anything that was out of the ordinary
Speaker 1: for a movie like this.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and that's what Justin Baldoni's team is suggesting. That's
Speaker 3: why they released the video, right, saying the dancing shows
Speaker 3: that he was acting within character. Her team says, actually,
Speaker 3: this shows that they were talking out of character, that
Speaker 3: he engaged in kissing and nuzzling when that was not scripted.
Speaker 3: She was pulling away in their view, and this was
Speaker 3: exactly why they needed an intimacy coordinator at all times,
Speaker 3: because there wasn't one during that dance scene because it
Speaker 3: wasn't supposed to be intimate. And if you listen to
Speaker 3: what she's saying to him, she says, let's just have
Speaker 3: the characters talk. Let's not have them kiss, Let's just
Speaker 3: have them talk. And again, you see what you want
Speaker 3: to see. If you believe Justin's side, you believe the
Speaker 3: Justin theory. If you believe Blake's side, you believe the
Speaker 3: Blake theory. And that's why there's so much confusion about
Speaker 3: who's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm wondering, too, Judu if like people are
Speaker 1: sort of staying away from this and really not getting
Speaker 1: into the weeds of it and really finding out what
Speaker 1: is going on because of the whole thing between Johnny
Speaker 1: Depp and Amber Heard because it sounds vaguely familiar, I
Speaker 1: mean different, but sort of along the same thing. Is
Speaker 1: like they two Hollywood elites and they start going after
Speaker 1: each other because they're unhappy and exactly.
Speaker 3: And I think one of the things that you see
Speaker 3: among fans is that there is this real skepticism that
Speaker 3: their fans are no longer taking stars ward for their
Speaker 3: you know, at their word rather and so now this
Speaker 3: is a new era of people who are very sophisticated.
Speaker 3: A lot of this drama is being dissected on TikTok
Speaker 3: and other social media platforms, where people say they have
Speaker 3: a they've read through the legal documents and they know
Speaker 3: that the truth. But the truth is there are hundreds
Speaker 3: of pages of documents now it filed in legal lawsuits
Speaker 3: that one observer point it out, it's about the length
Speaker 3: of the novel. It ends with us, which started this
Speaker 3: whole thing, and it really has a lot of people
Speaker 3: scratching their heads about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so is this does it appear that it's
Speaker 1: headed to a trial or when might that happen?
Speaker 3: Or do they so reportedly a court date, Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: reportedly a court date in March of this year. But
Speaker 3: if you talk to legal experts, there's a real sense
Speaker 3: that they will likely settle out of court. Sony is
Speaker 3: named in one of the lawsuits. You know, Ryan Reynolds
Speaker 3: is named in one of the lawsuits we're talking about
Speaker 3: big Bucks. But more than that, if Sony gets depot,
Speaker 3: like if there are subpoenas for documents, there is all
Speaker 3: sorts of discovery that would open up all sorts of
Speaker 3: cans of Warrens. The legal experts we talk to think
Speaker 3: that there's it's very likely that this will end up
Speaker 3: being settled court.
Speaker 1: And this is why we talk to you, Juju Chang,
Speaker 1: because now I'm very interested in what is going.
Speaker 2: On with this.
Speaker 3: We have to watch tonight Impact by Nightline.
Speaker 1: You got it, Thank you, Juju Tang. Impact by Nightline
Speaker 1: on Hulu. You can watch it, and I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to if not live stream it, I'll be watching
Speaker 1: it after that happens. But super interesting, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: really really interesting and crazy like Hollywood crazy stuff. Let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Officials in the DC
Speaker 1: area say they do not expect to find any survivors
Speaker 1: of a collision between an American Airlines regional jet and
Speaker 1: an Army black Hawk helicopter.
Speaker 4: We're now to point where we are switching from a
Speaker 4: rescue operation to a recovery operation.
Speaker 1: DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly says the collision
Speaker 1: was reported last night as the plane was about to
Speaker 1: land at Reagan National Airport.
Speaker 4: Very quickly this call escalated. It became apa know the
Speaker 4: responders realized that they had a plane crash and immediately
Speaker 4: escalated to a response that ultimately included about three hundred people.
Speaker 1: He says conditions were extremely frigid, with strong wind and
Speaker 1: ice on the water. Transportation set Terry Sean Duffy says
Speaker 1: the plane was found inverted and in three pieces in
Speaker 1: the river. Twenty eight bodies have been recovered. US Figure
Speaker 1: Skating says several athletes and coaches were on the flight
Speaker 1: that crashed near DC gafis Mark Mayfields As.
Speaker 2: The organization released a statement last.
Speaker 7: Night saying a group of young athletes, coaches, and family
Speaker 7: members were returning from the National Development camp being held
Speaker 7: in Wichiton, Kansas. These statement said the organization was devastated
Speaker 7: by the unspeakable tragedy.
Speaker 1: Former Russian world champion skaters of Genia Shishkova and Vadim
Speaker 1: Naumov were also on the flight. Their son Maxim, competed
Speaker 1: in Wichita, but wasn't on the plane. The couple won
Speaker 1: the World Figure Skating Champion Championship in pairs in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four. Some high school students in San Jose have
Speaker 1: walked out of class to protest ICE beat deportations. San
Speaker 1: Jose Mayor Matt Mayhon says hundreds of students were joined
Speaker 1: by community members to demonstrate against immigration officers targeting illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants in the Bay.
Speaker 11: We do not enforce somemgration laws, just as we don't
Speaker 11: enforce the IRS's laws or the EPA's laws. We enforce
Speaker 11: violent and property crime in our community.
Speaker 1: Students say some of their classmates are living in fear
Speaker 1: because they don't know if ICE agents will storm into
Speaker 1: their school and take them into custody. There are more
Speaker 1: demonstrations in the South Bay scheduled for this weekend, but
Speaker 1: right now, we've been talking about sad and tragic news
Speaker 1: all morning, so we're going to switch gears and talk
Speaker 1: about something fun and happy. And so let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to Sandy Steers with friends of Big Bear Valley.
Speaker 1: Jackie and Shadow have been busy. Sandy, three eggs. Let's
Speaker 1: tell us the latest.
Speaker 10: Yes, Jackie just laid her third egg and they've been
Speaker 10: very busy incubating the eggs, and Shadow bringing fish and
Speaker 10: food for Jackie and keeping everything going in the middle
Speaker 10: of isle of snow on the nest.
Speaker 2: Now, I saw that yesterday.
Speaker 1: Jackie got up yesterday morning because I am obsessive and
Speaker 1: watch them a lot right now, and she got up
Speaker 1: and she flew off and just left the eggs unattended.
Speaker 1: Is that normal or is that? Is that unusual?
Speaker 10: It's not unusual. Sometimes they do that. They just have
Speaker 10: to change. But right now they may be doing delayed
Speaker 10: incubation because the eagles, when they are going to lay
Speaker 10: more than one egg, will not incubate the first ones
Speaker 10: full time until they've laid the whole clutch because they
Speaker 10: want them to hatch closer together so the chicks have
Speaker 10: a better chance of survival.
Speaker 1: Oh, so she lays the egg and then they don't
Speaker 1: get it warmed up and cooking their latter.
Speaker 10: Warmed up, but just not as much as sitting on
Speaker 10: it full timely fascinating.
Speaker 1: And then because they were laid like three days before apart,
Speaker 1: so the first one was on the twenty second, and
Speaker 1: then a couple of days later we got another one,
Speaker 1: and then we got another one. So will they hatch
Speaker 1: in like three day intervals?
Speaker 2: If they do hatch, not.
Speaker 10: With the delayed incubation. That's why they do that, so
Speaker 10: that they hatch closer together, usually only about a day apart,
Speaker 10: and that way they're closer to the same age. And
Speaker 10: Jackie always lays them three days apart, and eagles in
Speaker 10: general it's three to five days apart that.
Speaker 6: They lay the eggs.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now we're going to be watching the nest
Speaker 1: and last year, unfortunately she also laid three eggs, but
Speaker 1: none of them hatched. So when are we looking at
Speaker 1: hatching to start this time?
Speaker 10: Probably around well late February or more likely first or
Speaker 10: second of March. That kind of timeframe is when we
Speaker 10: start watching.
Speaker 2: Okay, and where can people watch?
Speaker 10: On friends A Big Bear Valley dot org. That's our
Speaker 10: website and both the cams are on there. We have
Speaker 10: a white angle camera and also a nest camera so
Speaker 10: they can letch you.
Speaker 1: The one okay, and then one last question for you, Sandy.
Speaker 1: There's three eggs, now, could there be a fourth? Or
Speaker 1: is that just out of the question.
Speaker 10: It's possible. Eagles have laid four eggs before. It's fairly rare,
Speaker 10: but it's possible.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll be watching, Sandy Steers, and hopefully we can
Speaker 1: check in with you as we get closer to pitpwatch
Speaker 1: that's when you get really close to the hatching, they
Speaker 1: call it pip watch.
Speaker 10: Yes, all right, absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, we're very excited and hoping we'll see some eglets
Speaker 1: in a few weeks.
Speaker 10: Yes, me too, Thank you, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1: So much, Sandy, appreciate it. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: our newsroom. Search and rescue efforts, as I mentioned, have
Speaker 1: changed to recovery efforts in the Potomac River near Washington.
Speaker 1: D C. Officials say they do not expect to find
Speaker 1: any survivors following the mid air crash of an American
Speaker 1: Airlines Commuter jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter. Twenty eight
Speaker 1: bodies have been recovered. The plane was approaching Reagan National
Speaker 1: Airport last night about eight forty. Retired Marine Corps Colonel
Speaker 1: Steve Ganyard says air traffic controllers had radioed the plane
Speaker 1: and the helicopter.
Speaker 7: The tower told the helicopter that your traffic is the
Speaker 7: regional jet.
Speaker 2: Do you see it?
Speaker 5: And the helicopter says, yes, we see it.
Speaker 2: He says, the crew was told to stay back.
Speaker 9: Perhaps they picked a point of light, or they picked
Speaker 9: an airplane that was not the regional jet, and they
Speaker 9: thought everything was fine.
Speaker 1: The helicopter, carrying three soldiers was on a training flight.
Speaker 1: There were sixty passengers and four crew members on the plane.
Speaker 1: More rain is headed to southern California.
Speaker 5: That means renewed concerns about mudslides into brif flows and
Speaker 5: the recent burned scars. The storm is expected to last
Speaker 5: from Tuesday to Thursday of next week. The National Weather
Speaker 5: Service is calling for a quarter of an inch to
Speaker 5: an inch of rain.
Speaker 1: Hey if I's Daniel Martindale says this storm is expected
Speaker 1: to be warmer than the last one, which decreases the
Speaker 1: chance thunderstorms. META has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed
Speaker 1: by President Trump over its decision to suspend Trump's accounts
Speaker 1: after the January sixth attack on the US capital. Under
Speaker 1: the deal, Facebook's parent company will pay twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 1: Meta says twenty two million will go to the fund
Speaker 1: to build Trump's presidential library. The rest will go to
Speaker 1: pay legal fees and other plaintiffs. And Dave Matthews has
Speaker 1: dropped out of the Fire Aid and the Grammy Music
Speaker 1: Cares gala because of a family emergency. A post from
Speaker 1: the Dave Matthews Band says there is a critical illness
Speaker 1: in the family. The event to honor the Grateful Dead
Speaker 1: is scheduled for tomorrow. Fire Aid is tonight. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's happening at the Into It Dome and the Kia
Speaker 1: Forum gets underway at six o'clock. The second concert gets
Speaker 1: underway at seven point thirty. It's going to be live
Speaker 1: streamed and broadcast all over the place, and if you'd
Speaker 1: like to listen to it, it's going to be airing
Speaker 1: on the iHeart music radio stations right here in southern California,
Speaker 1: including our friends up at MYFM, KISSFM, Yep Coast. They'll
Speaker 1: all be airing it. This is KFI and kost HD
Speaker 1: two Los Angeles, Orange County South lad weather from KFI.
Speaker 1: Clouds this morning, becoming sunny with highs in the fifties
Speaker 1: at the beaches. Around sixty for Metro La and Inland
Speaker 1: Orange County, sixty in the Valley's low sixties in the
Speaker 1: ie fifties for the Anelope Valley. Partly cloudy with lows
Speaker 1: in the thirties and forties tonight. A mix of sun
Speaker 1: and clouds tomorrow, with highs in the upper fifties to
Speaker 1: mid sixties, and then warming into the upper sixties to
Speaker 1: mid seventies. For Saturday and Sunday, It's fifty two and
Speaker 1: Dana point fifty two in Long Beach, thirty seven in Lancaster,
Speaker 1: forty six in Pasadena. We lead local live from the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has
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