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Speaker 3: Easy for me to say, right, Can I say it again?
Speaker 3: It's going to be that kind of day.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a fabulous day. How do I know?
Speaker 3: I feel it?
Speaker 1: Got my coffee, got my oatmeal. Being healthy. I wasn't
Speaker 1: healthy yesterday, but that's a whole other story. Hey, did
Speaker 1: you see the supermoon? If you haven't stepped outside this morning,
Speaker 1: you probably haven't. But it looks huge. I missed the
Speaker 1: partial eclipse. I don't even think it was dark during
Speaker 1: the partial eclipse last night. But the Harvest supermoon is
Speaker 1: shining over the skies of southern California.
Speaker 3: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Sean Ditty.
Speaker 1: Combs is going to be in court this afternoon to
Speaker 1: appeal a judge's denial of bail for the hip hop
Speaker 1: mogul Colmbs is facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges. He
Speaker 1: offered to post a fifty million dollar bond and where
Speaker 1: a GPS monitor. The judge said no. ABC's Derek Dennis
Speaker 1: is going to join wake Up Call with more on
Speaker 1: what's going on with Ditty before the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of handheld pagers have exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon
Speaker 1: and Syria, killing at least nine twelve people, including members
Speaker 1: of the Hesbolag group and a young girl. Officials in
Speaker 1: Lebanon say three thousand were war owned. Yesterday. Hesba Laf
Speaker 1: blames the explosions on Israel. Israel isn't commenting. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Jordanah Miller in Jerusalem more about this
Speaker 1: in just a moment. Rain could be on the way
Speaker 1: for parts of the Southland. The National Weather Services there's
Speaker 1: a forty percent chance of light rain tomorrow in the
Speaker 1: San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita and Ventura County skies. Will
Speaker 1: clear then, and temperatures are going to warm into the
Speaker 1: eighties nineties for the first day of fall on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Rapper Diddy has
Speaker 1: been held without bond after pleading not guilty to federal
Speaker 1: sex trafficking and racketeering charges in New York. Aaron Katirski says,
Speaker 1: the rappers accusers claim he prayed on young women looking
Speaker 1: to make it in the industry, like.
Speaker 4: A mob boss at the top of what prosecutors called
Speaker 4: a criminal enterprise, to abuse, coerce and threaten women into
Speaker 4: freakofs as they were called these extended sexual performances.
Speaker 1: Diddy's say the rapper is looking forward to clearing his name.
Speaker 1: They say he is a self made entrepreneur, a loving
Speaker 1: family man, and proven philanthropist who uplifts the black community.
Speaker 1: A defense attorney in LA says Ditty's case has a
Speaker 1: lot of layers to it. Louse Shapiro tells k advised
Speaker 1: John Cobalt, the rappers lawyers will try to prove that
Speaker 1: Ditty's actions and relationships were consensual.
Speaker 2: These are not children. R Kelly.
Speaker 5: We dealt with miners, epstein or miners.
Speaker 1: These are not miners.
Speaker 5: These are adults that can make decisions that voluntarily went
Speaker 5: to meet with Didty.
Speaker 3: Shapiro says.
Speaker 1: Lawyers will also try to make the case that the
Speaker 1: women are out for the rapper's money and are trying
Speaker 1: to turn his world upside down.
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Speaker 1: Homeowners in southern California want the state to get reasonably
Speaker 1: priced home insurance back on the market.
Speaker 6: The state is considering a deal with insurance companies that
Speaker 6: would bring policies back to wildfire areas while allowing steep
Speaker 6: rate hikes. Chatsworth resident Bruce Breslaw says his rate has
Speaker 6: gone way up in the current proposal is not a
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Speaker 7: We need a law bringing these regulated insurers back into
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Speaker 6: Breslau joined Consumer watch Dog outside La City Hall yesterday
Speaker 6: as State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara hosted a virtual public
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Speaker 2: Michael Monks KFI News, the.
Speaker 1: Home insurance isn't the only tough one car insurance. I
Speaker 1: just paid mine. It was up like twenty percent from
Speaker 1: the last six month insurance policy. The Federal Reserve is
Speaker 1: expected to issue its first rate cut since March of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. ABC's Elizabeth Shulsey says, an interest rate cut,
Speaker 1: we'll make taking out a loan cheaper for businesses and consumers.
Speaker 8: What this really symbolizes is the beginning of a series
Speaker 8: of interest rate cuts. So over the next year two years,
Speaker 8: the fat is going to bring rates back down.
Speaker 1: The federal funds rate currently stands between five and a
Speaker 1: quarter and five and a half percent.
Speaker 3: Small You need somebody there.
Speaker 1: The singer and songwriter who co wrote hits like Best
Speaker 1: of My Love, New Kid in Town, and Smoke Gets
Speaker 1: in Your Eyes and also helped define the southern California
Speaker 1: Country Rocks in the mid nineteen seventies has died. JD.
Speaker 1: Souther was seventy eight years old, only lonely. It was
Speaker 1: a top ten hit for him in the seventies. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Geor Donna Miller in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: George Donna, hundreds of pagers simultaneously exploded in Lebanon in
Speaker 1: Syria yesterday.
Speaker 3: It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie.
Speaker 3: So tell us what happened?
Speaker 7: Absolutely. It has just stunned Hasbola and the Lebanese people.
Speaker 7: Israel has not claimed this attack that potentially targeted the
Speaker 7: pagers of Husbala members and simultaneously sent a message that
Speaker 7: detonated these pagers, turning them into little bombs that you know,
Speaker 7: caused serious damage injuries to thousands of Elebenies and in
Speaker 7: some cases killed. Twelve are dead. Most of those are
Speaker 7: Husbala members supporters, but there are dozens of civilians that
Speaker 7: were injured and at least two children that were killed.
Speaker 7: Israel not claiming this attack, as we've said, but sources
Speaker 7: telling you DC News Israel was behind this strike. And
Speaker 7: one of the most fascinating parts of the story is
Speaker 7: when exactly with Israel able to implant these explodes, these
Speaker 7: explosives inside individual beepers, three more than three thousand of
Speaker 7: them that were then distributed to Hasbala fighters. It took
Speaker 7: a lot of obviously intel informants. It was a large
Speaker 7: operation in front mole um understands six months of.
Speaker 1: Planning, six months of planning, and it's three thousand pagers
Speaker 1: and so why do they have pagers and not phones? Right?
Speaker 7: That's an important point. Hasbolla at the beginning of this war,
Speaker 7: Hsbula's leader, Hasan no Thrala told his numbers of the
Speaker 7: of the Iranian backed militia to get rid of their
Speaker 7: cell phones because they are so vulnerable to really surveillance. Right,
Speaker 7: there's locators, they can try to hack the phones and
Speaker 7: get data and learn about Husbala's plans. And so a
Speaker 7: kind of alternative communications system just for the terror group
Speaker 7: was initiated, and it was through pagers, very rudimentary, right,
Speaker 7: only SMS, and it's in a closed network if you will,
Speaker 7: and you know, and and Israel somehow managed obviously to
Speaker 7: penetrate that system and find out the type of pages
Speaker 7: that were being used when there were going to be
Speaker 7: an updated version coming through, and they either were the
Speaker 7: front company that manufactured these beepers or they intercepted the
Speaker 7: supply chain and again somehow put in small amounts of
Speaker 7: very very potent explosives and then they detonated them. It
Speaker 7: appears through a message that was sent at the same
Speaker 7: time to all of these pagers.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like that the bombing in Tehran that
Speaker 1: took out that one the leader, the militant leader that
Speaker 1: it had been planned for such a long time, and
Speaker 1: it was like they were lying in wait, just waiting
Speaker 1: for the perfect moment to execute it.
Speaker 7: So you're speaking of the right, the explosion that killed
Speaker 7: if Mohania, thehead of Hamas. Yeah, in one of the
Speaker 7: one of the guest residences of the regime when you visiting. Absolutely,
Speaker 7: that was an operation that you know, again Israel has
Speaker 7: not claimed it, but we know that Israel was behind it,
Speaker 7: and they were able to find out that the explosive
Speaker 7: had been brought into that residence months before, but they
Speaker 7: were able to find out where exactly he was sleeping
Speaker 7: and apparently move it around and then detonate it remotely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing. So thank you so much, Jordanna for the information.
Speaker 7: You're welcome. I was just going to say that Hazbola
Speaker 7: has vowed to retaliate very strongly, and now in Israel
Speaker 7: we're again in a kind of waiting game to see
Speaker 7: what's next.
Speaker 1: And we will be watching. Thanks so much, Jordana, appreciate
Speaker 1: the information. Tuxton, all right, let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. I would have talked to her longer, but
Speaker 1: she had a heart out I had many more questions
Speaker 1: for her, but she's very popular today because that is
Speaker 1: an amazing, crazy story, and like I said, we'll.
Speaker 3: Following it and we'll let you know what happens.
Speaker 1: Back to stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. Southern California, Edison is cutting power to fifty
Speaker 1: homes in Rolling Hills by this evening as the ground
Speaker 1: continues to move.
Speaker 9: SEE had already cut service to two hundred forty homes
Speaker 9: and portions of Portuguese Bend, the Beach Club, and the
Speaker 9: Seaview Community. SEE spokesperson Gabriella Ornelli says the land movement
Speaker 9: is getting worse than threatening equipment.
Speaker 7: Southern California Edison has experienced a significant increase in the
Speaker 7: number of repairs needed to continue to safely provide power.
Speaker 9: Fifty homes in the Quelbridge community will lose power today
Speaker 9: by six pm. Thirty five homes in the same area
Speaker 9: had gas shut off Monday. Chris Adler KFFI News.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's get you an update on the fires.
Speaker 1: There's still burning, but the good news is firefighters are
Speaker 1: getting an upper hand on them now. They've held the
Speaker 1: spread and growth of the nearly twenty four thousand acre
Speaker 1: wildfire that started in Tribuco Canyon in Orange County and
Speaker 1: burned into Riverside County.
Speaker 3: It's not growing at this point.
Speaker 1: Temperatures are lower and that's helping the fires thirty one
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. Officials say down power lines are still dangerous
Speaker 1: for firefighters and the public since they can be re
Speaker 1: energized by generators and solar panels. The fire that's burned
Speaker 1: almost fifty five thousand acres in the Angelus National Forest
Speaker 1: is now thirty five percent surrounded. Some evacuation warnings were
Speaker 1: lifted yesterday and orders were downgraded to warnings in both
Speaker 1: the Right Wood and Mount Baldy communities. Firefighters say Cruise
Speaker 1: have also been making progress building lines to prevent the
Speaker 1: fire from getting into the community of Lytle Creek. Damage
Speaker 1: inspection teams have been working in the San Bernardino Mountains
Speaker 1: to find homes and other buildings damaged by the fire
Speaker 1: that started in Highland. So far, they've identified four buildings
Speaker 1: on different sides of the fire that were damaged.
Speaker 3: One was destroyed.
Speaker 1: Fire crews have also been dealing with drones flying into
Speaker 1: the fire area. They've asked people not to do that
Speaker 1: the fire has been burning since September fifth. The man
Speaker 1: acoust of starting the fire's been arrested. It's burned more
Speaker 1: than thirty nine thousand acres and is nearly fifty percent surrounded.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom assigned a couple bills aimed at protecting actors
Speaker 1: and other performers from unauthorized use of their digital likenesses.
Speaker 1: The bills provide legal protections for performers during their lifetimes
Speaker 1: as well as after death and around the digital replication
Speaker 1: of their image or voice. We're making sure that no
Speaker 1: one turns over their name, image and likeness and unscrupulous
Speaker 1: people without representation. Newsom says, no one should have to
Speaker 1: worry about becoming someone else's unpaid digital puppet. So living
Speaker 1: artists aren't the only ones releasing concerts in theaters. Whitney
Speaker 1: Houston's concert in South Africa to celebrate President Nelson Mandela's
Speaker 1: election in nineteen ninety four, he is going to.
Speaker 3: Hit theaters October twenty third.
Speaker 1: The limited theatrical screening will feature the late singers never
Speaker 1: before released concert for a New South Africa in Dvan.
Speaker 1: This afternoon, The dotch Just take on the Marlins in
Speaker 1: Miami with the first pitch going out at three point forty.
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Speaker 3: The best casino in.
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Speaker 1: The City of Norwalk is extending its emergency ordinance that
Speaker 1: bans homeless shelters and supportive housing facilities. The Norwalk City
Speaker 1: Council voted yesterday to extend the band to August of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. That is despite threats of a lawsuit
Speaker 1: from Governor Newsom. Santa Anna police locked down McFadden Institute
Speaker 1: of Technology after getting a report of an active shooter
Speaker 1: at the middle school. Students and teachers were released a
Speaker 1: couple hours later. After the lockdown was issued yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: no evidence of a shooter was found. The LAPD says
Speaker 1: several social media threats were made to schools around the
Speaker 1: county yesterday, and Burbank police also reported a social media
Speaker 1: threat to a school there. The singer and songwriter who
Speaker 1: co wrote hits like Best of My Love, New Kid
Speaker 1: in Town, and Smoke It's in your eyes and also
Speaker 1: helped define the southern California country rock sound of the
Speaker 1: mid seventies has died.
Speaker 3: JD.
Speaker 1: Salther was seventy eight at six oh five. It's handled
Speaker 1: on the news. Deal or no deal, fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: in exchange for bail. A judge said no deal. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to the host of Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro.
Speaker 2: Morning Rich, Hey, good morning shoe Amy.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I just.
Speaker 1: Sent you this note last night late because I was
Speaker 1: hunting around for something that I'm looking for for a
Speaker 1: Christmas present, and I was like, is this the best
Speaker 1: price that I'm going to get? Because I'm doing my
Speaker 1: planning for shopping now even though Christmas was three months away,
Speaker 1: and I thought, wouldn't it be cool if there was
Speaker 1: a way that I could know when these things go
Speaker 1: on sale so you could buy them and you know,
Speaker 1: save a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there is some places, Yes, well there's there's
Speaker 2: a couple.
Speaker 10: It's not as good as it used to be because
Speaker 10: you know, prices are so dynamic nowadays that it's tough
Speaker 10: to track them all. But the thing that I use,
Speaker 10: I like the most is called PayPal Honey drop List.
Speaker 10: So drop list is basically Honey is like a yead.
Speaker 10: It's your chrome or your browser. It's an extension and
Speaker 10: it helps you, you know, pops up and it tells you, hey,
Speaker 10: this price might be better or whatever saves you money. Puts
Speaker 10: coupon codes in there. But the Ney thing is you
Speaker 10: can anything that you add to your Amazon shopping list
Speaker 10: or anything from a variety of websites. It will track
Speaker 10: the prices on those items and it will alert you
Speaker 10: when they drop. And so I get one of these
Speaker 10: like emails every day because I have so many things
Speaker 10: in my Amazon save the list. But yeah, it's great,
Speaker 10: and so that's the one I use the most. Called again,
Speaker 10: it's called Honey, and it's called drop list. So when
Speaker 10: you install the extension, you have to like agree to
Speaker 10: this little drop list thing, but it's pretty good. The
Speaker 10: other one that's good if you're just tracking Amazon stuff
Speaker 10: is Camel Camel Camel. You can put a URL of
Speaker 10: an Amazon item in there and then you can say,
Speaker 10: you know, send me an alert when this price drops
Speaker 10: or if it price drops by one hundred dollars or
Speaker 10: ten percent or whatever. And then finally, the other one
Speaker 10: is Google Shopping. It's not as fully functional because a
Speaker 10: lot of this is like pay for play, it's like
Speaker 10: sponsored stuff, but you can you can find a lot
Speaker 10: of pricing information in there as well, and I like
Speaker 10: how they highlight stuff that's actually on sale and like
Speaker 10: various categories like with big discounts.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I think I think that's going to be
Speaker 1: good for a lot of wake up call listeners because again,
Speaker 1: we're going to be spending money and holidays are just
Speaker 1: around the corner. So talking to a friend yesterday and
Speaker 1: she said, holy, holy crap, it's almost October, so you
Speaker 1: know if they're going to be here before you know it,
Speaker 1: and maybe time to start looking at how you can
Speaker 1: save now.
Speaker 10: The other one, by the way, Yahoo's Shopping. They have
Speaker 10: a price tracker as well. I know Yahoo is a
Speaker 10: brand of Yesteryear, but they still do have some decent products,
Speaker 10: and the price tracker inside Yacht Who's Shopping is a
Speaker 10: decent way to do it as well. I don't personally
Speaker 10: use it, but I know that I've talked to experts
Speaker 10: shopping experts that do like it.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Okay, you tried snapchats new augmented reality glasses is this
Speaker 1: kind of is this.
Speaker 3: It all like Apple Vision or or what is? What
Speaker 3: are these?
Speaker 2: Somewhat? So they made a lot of fun of Apple.
Speaker 10: Yesterday they had their uh, Snap had their big partner
Speaker 10: summit yesterday in Santa Monica, So it was there all day,
Speaker 10: and you know, it's where they brag a lot about
Speaker 10: how many people use Snapchat and how they're using it
Speaker 10: and all this stuff. But they knocked Apple a lot,
Speaker 10: which I find really interesting because I'm sure the iPhone
Speaker 10: user base is like their biggest in sall, so they
Speaker 10: got to be very careful here. But they made a
Speaker 10: lot of fun of the fact that Apple Vision pro
Speaker 10: is so big and bulky and expensive and it clouds
Speaker 10: out your world. Like their whole thing is, let's connect
Speaker 10: in the real world, right right. So these new snap spectacles,
Speaker 10: this is actually their fifth generation. They look like sunglasses
Speaker 10: but big and bulky, kind of like street glasses kind of, yeah,
Speaker 10: except even bigger and bulkier.
Speaker 2: So just imagine like with big like big side. It's big.
Speaker 10: Everything rims, everything is just big, the frames, but that's
Speaker 10: because there are tiny little screens inside the lenses and
Speaker 10: a battery and cameras, and so when you put these
Speaker 10: things on, you're actually seeing an augmented reality view of
Speaker 10: the world. And so you can overlay, like you look
Speaker 10: at your hands and the menu pops up, you can
Speaker 10: throw things, you can I mean, I did this really
Speaker 10: cool art installation yesterday where you know, you look at
Speaker 10: this world spinning in front of you, and then you
Speaker 10: kind of reach out and pinch and like push the
Speaker 10: asteroids away.
Speaker 2: I mean it was really really cool.
Speaker 10: Okay, but it's a very basic kind of technology right now,
Speaker 10: and it's not for everyone. It's just for developers to
Speaker 10: come up with apps. But it seems like it's got
Speaker 10: a lot of potential and you can see the world
Speaker 10: around you. I think that's what the big thing here is.
Speaker 10: Like I played basketball yesterday. Sadly I didn't make in
Speaker 10: any of my shots, which was really sad on camera,
Speaker 10: but but nobody did in my group, so I didn't
Speaker 10: feel so bad. But yeah, So the whole idea is
Speaker 10: that you can augment reality on top of your world.
Speaker 3: Okay, so are those available? Are they still always out?
Speaker 10: No, they're available now. Developers can get them ninety nine
Speaker 10: dollars a month. You have to minimum a year, so
Speaker 10: they're actually you're kind of like actually renting.
Speaker 3: Them so for a year.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so they really want people to come up with
Speaker 10: like applications for these so it's not really about like
Speaker 10: the average person just yet.
Speaker 2: Okaybe next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, tell us about the Instagram changes because it was
Speaker 1: a big thing yesterday when they announced, oh, teen accounts
Speaker 1: are being changed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is actually quite a big deal.
Speaker 10: I think this is actually a great move by Instagram
Speaker 10: because you know, there's so many teens that are dealing
Speaker 10: with you know, anxiety, depression, sleep issues, low self esteem, cyberbullying,
Speaker 10: addiction to these apps, just general distraction if they're not addicted.
Speaker 10: But anyway, so starting yesterday, teens under sixteen, by default,
Speaker 10: their accounts will be private. They'll only be able to
Speaker 10: message folks or people that they follow. Instagram will limit
Speaker 10: sensitive content by default, so no videos of fights or
Speaker 10: cosmetic procedures. You can't be tagged by anyone unless they're
Speaker 10: your follower. AI will detect and hide like bullying comments,
Speaker 10: any harmful comments. You'll get a reminder to stop using
Speaker 10: the app after sixty minutes, and at night it will
Speaker 10: go into sleep mode from ten pm to seven am,
Speaker 10: so you don't get notifications and then parents have to
Speaker 10: approve changes. And I know what you're gonna ask, Amy, Well,
Speaker 10: can't kids just lie about their age? Instagram has a
Speaker 10: whole bunch of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 10: eight ways that they are going to try to verify
Speaker 10: kids' ages, including using AI, so they're ahead of it.
Speaker 3: They know who we are.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, they know they're not They're not stupid. And
Speaker 10: believe me, kids have been lying about their age on
Speaker 10: Instagram forever. Instagram knew that. It's just they didn't care,
Speaker 10: and now they're caring more, which I do think is
Speaker 10: a good a good thing.
Speaker 3: So, Richie, here's my question about that.
Speaker 1: Did the didn't they do it on their own or
Speaker 1: did they do it preemptively because somebody's gonna stop some
Speaker 1: regulations on it?
Speaker 10: Well, you're talking about the US government, which you know,
Speaker 10: have we seen any major regulations against tech companies ever?
Speaker 2: Not really, So.
Speaker 10: This is probably preemptive because they don't want regulations from
Speaker 10: the government. But I think there's also a small movement
Speaker 10: of parents realizing that this stuff is not very good
Speaker 10: for their kids, and schools and teachers and so I
Speaker 10: think this is a good thing. I think TikTok is
Speaker 10: still the big issue out there.
Speaker 3: Well, and doubtfield that TikTok's going to do anything at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then before we let you go, we know
Speaker 1: that we touched you last week because the new Apple
Speaker 1: product line came out, the iPhone sixteen, the Apple Watched ten,
Speaker 1: the AirPod four, And now you've had some time to
Speaker 1: play with them.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 10: Yeah, And I know we're run out of time, so
Speaker 10: I'll just tell you this. This is the year to upgrade.
Speaker 10: Apple has reached their stride. They have done a fantastic
Speaker 10: job with all of these products.
Speaker 2: It's their best yet.
Speaker 10: iPhone sixteen, sixteen plus pro models, AirPods four with noise cancelation, incredible.
Speaker 10: The Apple Watch is thinner, it's lighter. There's no blood
Speaker 10: oxygen monitoring, which is kind of a bummer, but there.
Speaker 10: It's just every every single product this year is improved
Speaker 10: in a way that is meaningful. And I think that
Speaker 10: if you upgrade, if you need to upgrade, or if
Speaker 10: you want to upgrade, it's going to be probably one
Speaker 10: of the best years in recent history.
Speaker 1: Which is interesting because I just saw something that like
Speaker 1: the orders and the pre orders for those products are
Speaker 1: actually down this year.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I go by what people are asking me,
Speaker 10: and I'm getting a lot of interest in this stuff,
Speaker 10: and I think that you know, people, not everyone gets
Speaker 10: it the first day. You know, it's coming out Friday.
Speaker 10: Not everyone's going to be in line Friday, So pre
Speaker 10: order doesn't necessarily mean Plus, I think the fact that
Speaker 10: the AI stuff is not coming day of but once
Speaker 10: people start seeing their friends using the AI stuff and
Speaker 10: how that can be helpful, I think that's also going
Speaker 10: to push a lot of upgrades.
Speaker 1: Okay, awesome, Well we'll be watching and you know what,
Speaker 1: Christmas is coming up, and I need a new Apple Watch.
Speaker 10: This is a slow runway. The new Apple Watch ten
Speaker 10: is really this is a great year for it.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 10: I've been wearing it and it's actually the first time
Speaker 10: I've ever worn it to bed because it's so.
Speaker 2: Thin and light, it's you don't really.
Speaker 3: Feel it, and the battery lasts longer.
Speaker 10: Right, they're not saying that, but yeah, supposedly supposedly.
Speaker 3: All right, rich Tamira, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You can listen to rich He's got all kinds of
Speaker 1: great tech advice and tips for you Saturdays from eleven
Speaker 1: to two right here on KFI. You can follow him
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. His website is rich on Tech
Speaker 1: dot TV.
Speaker 3: Thank you Rich all right, Amy, take care? All right.
Speaker 3: I mentioned that Christmas is around the corner.
Speaker 1: Well that's a ways off still, because now we got
Speaker 1: to focus on Halloween, and it is Halloween Time at
Speaker 1: the Disneyland Resort. KFI AM six forty wants to give
Speaker 1: you a chance to experience the frightful fun at the
Speaker 1: Disneyland Resort now through October thirty. First, you're gonna find
Speaker 1: fiendishly tasty treats. Oh my gosh, there's so many. I
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Speaker 1: Disneyland Resort. Love Halloween Time at Disneyland. The nearly two
Speaker 1: week old fire in the San Bernardino Mountains has burned
Speaker 1: more than thirty nine thousand acres. It's forty nine percent
Speaker 1: surrounded the largest of the SoCal fires is at almost
Speaker 1: fifty five thousand acres and evacuation orders have been downgraded
Speaker 1: to warnings in right Wood and Mount Baldy.
Speaker 3: Good news there.
Speaker 1: The fire in Orange and Riverside Counties is holding at
Speaker 1: more than twenty three thousand acres and is thirty one
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the entire Justice
Speaker 1: Department is investigating the apparent attempted assassination at the golf
Speaker 1: club where former President Trump was playing around Sunday. That
Speaker 1: would be assassin is in custody and is facing gun
Speaker 1: charges for now. Florida Governor Rond DeSantis also announced yesterday
Speaker 1: the state of Florida is going to be doing its
Speaker 1: own investigation. A cabin pressure issue, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is free on a Delta Airlines flight from Salt Lake
Speaker 1: City to Portland has caused passengers ears and noses to bleed.
Speaker 1: A Delta spokesperson apologized to the customers on the flight.
Speaker 1: They were put on another plane and Delta's technicians have
Speaker 1: fixed the pressurization issue. Well, that sounds horrible at six
Speaker 1: oh five. It's handled on the news straight out of
Speaker 1: a James Bond movie. Hundreds of pagers exploded simultaneously in
Speaker 1: Lebanon and Syria. How it was pulled off and who
Speaker 1: pulled it off. That's coming up.
Speaker 3: At five point fifty.
Speaker 1: We're going to find out more again about the depth
Speaker 1: of the depravity of Sean Diddy combs with ABC's Derek Dennis.
Speaker 3: AMI's on it, Damien's on it, Amy's on it.
Speaker 8: Aami's on it.
Speaker 3: What am I on?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm mostly on streaming. I love TV shows. I'm
Speaker 1: watching a great one now. I love movies. I love documentaries.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just regular movies not on the stream, and
Speaker 1: every once in a while it's a regular TV show.
Speaker 1: There actually are a few TV shows that I might
Speaker 1: check out this fall because they looked kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes I go old school and read a book.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I don't really find
Speaker 1: a lot of time to read books these days, but
Speaker 1: every once in a while, I kind of get in
Speaker 1: the mood. And this one came recommended by my boss,
Speaker 1: Robin Bertolucci, and I thought, you know, that sounds really interesting,
Speaker 1: so I better.
Speaker 3: Check it out.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: The book is called The Women.
Speaker 1: It's written by Kristin Hannah, and I needed a good
Speaker 1: book when I was going to take that train ride
Speaker 1: on the Pacific Starliner or the surfwriter, sorry, the Pacific
Speaker 1: Surfwriter up to see my friend in San Luis Obispo
Speaker 1: and Paso Roblis a few weeks ago, and this was
Speaker 1: the perfect book. So it's a total page turner, keeps
Speaker 1: you reading chapter after chapter, and there are twists and
Speaker 1: turns along the journey. So it's the story of a
Speaker 1: nursing student, Frankie McGrath. She hears the words women can
Speaker 1: be heroes that pretty much changes her life. And this
Speaker 1: is all happening in the sixties. She's lived a life
Speaker 1: of privilege. She grew up in San Diego's Coronado neighborhood,
Speaker 1: and her brother, like many others in her family, joins
Speaker 1: the military, and you know, the guys joined the military,
Speaker 1: the women aren't their nurses and wives and that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. So she decides she needs to go and
Speaker 1: join the military too, because she wants to go to
Speaker 1: Vietnam be closer to her brother. So she gets approved
Speaker 1: to join the army and is sent to Vietnam to
Speaker 1: be a nurse, and Frankie is immediately thrown into the
Speaker 1: horrors of war on the first day, and it's explained
Speaker 1: in very graphic detail. It you know, it's hard to read,
Speaker 1: but it's a reality of what war is, and this
Speaker 1: war was different from any of the US had fought before.
Speaker 1: The conditions are unbearable, the weather, the blood, the infection,
Speaker 1: the heat, the dirt, all of that. And yet she
Speaker 1: makes friends, and she learns how to save lives, and
Speaker 1: she learns how to handle the lives that she can't
Speaker 1: save with compassion and empathy. And while she's there, she
Speaker 1: finds love, and she loses love, and she gets friends
Speaker 1: and she loses friends. So it's really her whole journey
Speaker 1: through this awful, awful time. And then that's just the
Speaker 1: beginning of it, because she has to come home. And
Speaker 1: if we know that the soldiers who served in Vietnam
Speaker 1: weren't exactly welcomed with open arms, and so she experiences
Speaker 1: that and has difficulty with that, and so it tells
Speaker 1: the story of how that happens. The book is beautifully written,
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned, it has twists and turns and
Speaker 1: lots of shocking events, and there are parts that just
Speaker 1: warm your heart. And then of course there are parts
Speaker 1: that just absolutely break your heart, and I will tell
Speaker 1: you it brought me to tears at times, both when
Speaker 1: she's in Vietnam and after she gets home. And it's
Speaker 1: called The Women, and it's kristin Hannah, and you can
Speaker 1: eat you can eat it.
Speaker 3: You can read it in bite sized pieces pieces, or
Speaker 3: you can do like I did. And I read it
Speaker 3: in a weekend.
Speaker 1: I read it on the train up, and I read
Speaker 1: it on the train back, and I finished it when
Speaker 1: I got home. It was just so so good. Can't
Speaker 1: recommend it enough. It's called The Women. That's what I'm on.
Speaker 1: I think you should be on it too. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Recovery work has started in
Speaker 1: the fire zone in the Angelus National Forest.
Speaker 6: The Yelly County Board of Supervisors has ratified its emergency declaration,
Speaker 6: expediting access to recovery tools. The county's Emergency Management Director,
Speaker 6: Kevin McGowan says it will still take time to gain
Speaker 6: all those necessary tools and funding.
Speaker 8: I would ask that everyone have patients through what is
Speaker 8: a long road to recovery.
Speaker 3: But we put our heart and soul into it and
Speaker 3: we'll get it.
Speaker 1: Done.
Speaker 6: The fire has destroyed more than fifty four thousand acres
Speaker 6: and dozens of homes in the area. The county has
Speaker 6: updated information at La County dot gov slash emergency Michael
Speaker 6: monks I News.
Speaker 1: A man accused of shooting a man who stole a
Speaker 1: Honda Civic in West Riverside has pleaded not guilty to
Speaker 1: murder and other charges.
Speaker 3: Riverside police say.
Speaker 1: Forty one year old Tony Ortiz saw a man break
Speaker 1: into the civic around midnight on July twenty fourth, and
Speaker 1: then shot him as he drove away. The man died
Speaker 1: a few hours later in the hospital. Polis say the
Speaker 1: civic did not belong to Ortiz. Two men are accused
Speaker 1: of targeting a family in southern California in an extortion
Speaker 1: scheme aimed at illegal immigrants.
Speaker 11: The men allegedly told the family that if they did
Speaker 11: not pay fifteen hundred dollars, their relative, an illegal immigrant
Speaker 11: from Guatemala, would be taken to Mexico and killed. Federal
Speaker 11: prosecutors say the men running the scheme are both illegal
Speaker 11: immigrants from Honduras. One of the men was arrested on
Speaker 11: his way to what he thought was in exchange with
Speaker 11: the Guatemala man's family in Norwalk. The family had called
Speaker 11: police ahead of the meeting. The other was arrested in
Speaker 11: New Mexico. Last month, more than fifty migrants were rescued
Speaker 11: from a stash house in New Mexico. The men are
Speaker 11: allegedly tied to Blake Trolly k if I News.
Speaker 1: A US appeals court has upheld Gilaane Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction.
Speaker 1: The former associate to billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, was trying to
Speaker 1: get her sex trafficking conviction for helping to recruit and
Speaker 1: groom underage girls for Epstein overturned. She is serving a
Speaker 1: twenty year sentence. Epstein died by suicide in jail while
Speaker 1: awaiting his sex trafficking trial. So Cow Gases once it
Speaker 1: shuts off a gas to fifty homes in the Quail
Speaker 1: Ridge community this evening. It's going to be done, cutting
Speaker 1: service to customers on the Palace Verdes Peninsula. For now,
Speaker 1: dozens of homes in Rancho Palace Vertices have lost their
Speaker 1: gas and electricity because of land movement under homes. The
Speaker 1: man accused of starting the more than thirty nine thousand
Speaker 1: acre fire in the San Bernardino Mountains has pleaded not
Speaker 1: guilty to nearly a dozen counts of arson. Prosecutor say
Speaker 1: Justin Halstenberg tried to set other fires before he ignited
Speaker 1: a fire in Highland which has affected more than one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand residents. His next court hearing is set for Monday.
Speaker 3: Rats.
Speaker 1: San Francisco and Los Angeles have been ranked the second
Speaker 1: and third most rodent infested cities in the US.
Speaker 3: Oh goodie best.
Speaker 1: Control company Terminix looked at which of its three hundred
Speaker 1: branches got the most rodent control calls last year. Terminix
Speaker 1: says mice and rats are common in cities because most
Speaker 1: rodent populations are attracted to high population densities with mild
Speaker 1: climates and easy access to food. New York is ranked
Speaker 1: number one. We're just minutes away from handling the news.
Speaker 1: This morning cut, four years in the making could be coming.
Speaker 1: But will it be enough to keep the economy plugging along?
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that right now. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to ABC's Derek Dennis. So, Derek Sean Diddy Coombs is
Speaker 1: in a whole world of hurts, So let's kind of
Speaker 1: go over the charges against him and then where we're
Speaker 1: at now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, three federal charges basically racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking, transportation
Speaker 5: to engage in prostitu shit, essentially kidnapping, very serious charges.
Speaker 5: They could get him between fifteen years and life in
Speaker 5: prison if convicted on all of them. So Diddy right
Speaker 5: now is in a New York City jail. He was
Speaker 5: sent to jail without bail yesterday, though his attorneys are
Speaker 5: going back to court today to try an appeal his
Speaker 5: no bail condition and to get him out essentially until
Speaker 5: his trial. But the judge made it pretty clear yesterday
Speaker 5: that she considered he could be a flight risk, he
Speaker 5: could tamper with witnesses in the case, and he certainly
Speaker 5: she felt was a danger to the community. And so
Speaker 5: it'll be interesting to see how his attorneys argue against
Speaker 5: that when they go back to court today.
Speaker 1: And showing the money was no object, he offered to
Speaker 1: post fifty million dollar bond.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean a pretty staggering amount. Included not only
Speaker 5: the surrendering of his passport, which he had already surrendered
Speaker 5: even leading up to this, but the passports of his children,
Speaker 5: which is sort of extraordinary when you consider it involved
Speaker 5: putting his home up for collateral, the selling of his
Speaker 5: private plane, a pretty major bail package that was of
Speaker 5: no consequence to the judge. She denied that all right
Speaker 5: out and sent him to jail. And so the hearing
Speaker 5: today will try to get around all of that. But
Speaker 5: the charters were so serious that the judge felt he
Speaker 5: could be danger and this put him in jail pending
Speaker 5: his trial. And so, but a trial is still months away.
Speaker 5: There'll be a lot of motions, a lot of arguing
Speaker 5: back and forth on both sides of revidence over witnesses
Speaker 5: and the like, and so if and when there's a trial,
Speaker 5: it won't be until the new year at the earlier.
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay, so Derek, then here's a question for you.
Speaker 1: If the judge denies his bail again today because you
Speaker 1: said his lawyer's going to go back and ask for
Speaker 1: it again, can he just keep going back and keep
Speaker 1: going back or at some point do you say, you
Speaker 1: know what I've said, no twice or three times, you
Speaker 1: can't keep asking or can they just keep asking?
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 5: It essentially is done. You get one appeal in this
Speaker 5: and that's it unless there was something you know, extraordinary
Speaker 5: that would change the set of facts, you know, for
Speaker 5: the judge to consider but you know, off the top
Speaker 5: of my head, it just doesn't seem to be anything
Speaker 5: that would preclude him or at least get him around,
Speaker 5: you know, secon another attempt at getting out in an
Speaker 5: appeal of his bail hearing. So yeah, this is pretty
Speaker 5: much it. So today would be pretty consequential in his case. Obviously,
Speaker 5: he wants out of a New York City jail. Not
Speaker 5: really accustomed to those kinds of conditions coming from the
Speaker 5: lap of luxury. And that's where this case all stems
Speaker 5: from these parties, wild parties they did he would hold
Speaker 5: at his homes where there was alleged drug use, sexual
Speaker 5: activity that was criminal, people forced into sex against their will,
Speaker 5: there was prostitution involved and the like, and that has
Speaker 5: really been the crux of the case here.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the defenses arguing.
Speaker 1: We talked to one of our hosts, John Cobolt, talked
Speaker 1: to a defense attorney yesterday, and the attorney said, what
Speaker 1: they'll argue is that all of these people who were
Speaker 1: involved in all these what were they called freak offs
Speaker 1: or something like that, that they were all trying to
Speaker 1: get into the music industry. So they were all there voluntarily.
Speaker 1: They weren't coerced or made to stay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's been the argument of his attorneys as well,
Speaker 5: that you know, the federal government shouldn't be in people's bedrooms,
Speaker 5: you know. But these charges go beyond that. They go
Speaker 5: to the heart of what is considered criminal activity. The
Speaker 5: luring of people to a home, the kidnapping of people
Speaker 5: to a home to engage in sex acts against their
Speaker 5: will with drugs involved. I mean, obvious criminal activity is
Speaker 5: at the center of the case. So this is more
Speaker 5: than consensual sex, which is what did these and lawyers
Speaker 5: are trying to argue. This is criminal activity where people
Speaker 5: are doing things against their will and that's why the
Speaker 5: charges are what they are.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when you see the prosecutors come out yesterday, they
Speaker 1: were very impressive with just this laundry list of everything
Speaker 1: that they say has gone on and what they plan
Speaker 1: to prosecute. So it'll be interesting to see what did
Speaker 1: it comes up with on this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's been described as prosecutors literally throw
Speaker 5: the book at him. Some of the most serious charges
Speaker 5: there are when it comes to sex acts and kidnapping
Speaker 5: and you know, the transportation of people over state lines
Speaker 5: for sex and the like. You know, you don't get
Speaker 5: much more serious than a racketeering charge and those so, yeah,
Speaker 5: very serious enough that the judge is holding him without
Speaker 5: bail behind bars. We'll see what the hearing turns out
Speaker 5: to be today if his lawyers have anything else that
Speaker 5: they can throw at it in order to try to
Speaker 5: change the directory of Dibby's being held behind bars, But
Speaker 5: it doesn't seem likely today.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Derek Dennis, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information.
Speaker 3: We appreciate it. Sure, all right, take care.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Israel's intelligence service,
Speaker 1: the Masade, and the Israeli military have been blamed for
Speaker 1: thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon. ABC's Martha Radit says,
Speaker 1: Hesblah claims it twelve people were killed yesterday and nearly
Speaker 1: three thousand were hurt when the pagers belonging to its
Speaker 1: militants exploded.
Speaker 12: This was really an extraordinary attack. All over Lebanon has
Speaker 12: Bola operators carrying these pagers, thousands of them exploded. Video
Speaker 12: we have seen shows very severe injuries in some cases.
Speaker 12: Israel has not commented, but Lebanon is blaming Israel, saying
Speaker 12: they will take revenge.
Speaker 1: The New York Times says explosives were planted next to
Speaker 1: the battery in each of the pagers, along with a
Speaker 1: switch embedded to detonate them remotely. Again, Israel has not commented.
Speaker 1: Groundbreaking will be held this morning for a first of
Speaker 1: its kind costco with eight hundred apartment units in South La.
Speaker 1: More than one hundred and eighty of those units will
Speaker 1: be reserved for low income tenants. The rest will be
Speaker 1: offered as affordable and workforce housing. A go fund me
Speaker 1: efforts been has raised more than forty four thousand dollars
Speaker 1: so far for of Vala at Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood,
Speaker 1: who was beaten and left in critical condition. The man
Speaker 1: was attacked Saturday night. He's in the hospital in the ICU.
Speaker 1: He has injuries to his head, neck and body. Police
Speaker 1: are still looking for the guy who did it. Men
Speaker 1: and women on the La City Council can now use
Speaker 1: either restroom outside the chamber.
Speaker 6: There used to be just one restroom for council members
Speaker 6: and their staff during meetings, but then in the early fifties,
Speaker 6: ros Wyman was elected council president. Paul Krekorian says that
Speaker 6: prompted a change. The men who then served on the
Speaker 6: city council were forced to add a woman's bathroom here
Speaker 6: to accommodate council member Wyman. Now there are seven women
Speaker 6: on the council and many more on their staffs. Krekorian
Speaker 6: says both bathrooms are now available to everyone to cut
Speaker 6: down the long lines on the women's side in downtown La.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks KFI News it.
Speaker 1: Were just over a week away from going over the
Speaker 1: edge to raise awareness and money for the Union Rescue Mission.
Speaker 1: I'm going over the edge. I'm taking Nil Sevadra with me.
Speaker 1: We're both going to repel down the Hilton at Universal
Speaker 1: City twenty five floors. It's about two hundred and fifty feet,
Speaker 1: but we're going to repel down the side of the
Speaker 1: building to raise money and awareness for the Union Rescue Mission.
Speaker 1: Did you know that there's more than seventy five thousand
Speaker 1: homeless in La. That's a lot. It's pretty much too
Speaker 1: much to wrap your brain around. You can't help all
Speaker 1: of them, but we can help just one and your
Speaker 1: donation can help do that. And Union Rescue Mission is
Speaker 1: a totally legit place to donate to They don't get
Speaker 1: federal funding. They get one hundred from charity Navigator gives
Speaker 1: them a one hundred score eighty five cents of every
Speaker 1: dollar goes directly to the people who need it most.
Speaker 1: And the people are people who want to get off
Speaker 1: the streets. Very important and we can help them. So
Speaker 1: you can help by donating at just help one dot org.
Speaker 1: Go to the Team iHeart page and make your donation again.
Speaker 1: Both Neil and I are going over the edge and
Speaker 1: we need your help, so please join us. We're going
Speaker 1: to do it next Friday, September twenty seventh.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a little nervous, but it's all for a
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Speaker 1: We hope you can help. Doesn't matter if it's a
Speaker 1: big donation, little donation will take it all. This is
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Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
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