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Speaker 2: into it. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Israeli
Speaker 2: Prime Minister Benjamin Nettyaho has asked the families of the
Speaker 2: six hostages who are recovered by Israeli forces or forgiveness,
Speaker 2: but he did not change his stance on maintaining an
Speaker 2: Israeli force in Gaza. We'll get a live report from
Speaker 2: Israel on where the ceasefire talks are at now between
Speaker 2: Israel and Hamas. COVID cases are surging in California and
Speaker 2: across the country. We'll tell you about the new vaccine,
Speaker 2: who should take it and when. And scammers have a
Speaker 2: new take on an old scheme with bitcoin. We're going
Speaker 2: to tell you what they're doing to get tens of
Speaker 2: millions of dollars each year and how you can protect yourself.
Speaker 2: Then at six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 2: The United Kingdom is suspending some arms exports to Israel,
Speaker 2: saying there is a clear risk the arms might be
Speaker 2: used in serious violation of humanitarian law. We're going to
Speaker 2: tell you why they made this decision and when it
Speaker 2: takes effect. All right, let's get started with some of
Speaker 2: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2: Mexican officials have warned the US about violent gang members
Speaker 2: from Venezuela illegally crossing the California Mexico border.
Speaker 3: Those public safety officials say members of Trend de Aragua
Speaker 3: or TDA, have been passing through the state of Chihuahua
Speaker 3: in high numbers on their way to the US. And
Speaker 3: the problem is, according to US customs officials, it's hard
Speaker 3: to vet these cartel members at the border because Venezuela
Speaker 3: doesn't share criminal background information with US. When officials said
Speaker 3: that cartel is like MS thirteen on steroids, agents say
Speaker 3: TDA specializes in transporting migrant women and girls across the
Speaker 3: border for sex trafficking and debt bondage. Steve Gregory ka
Speaker 3: If I News.
Speaker 2: A five year old boy is recovering from a mountain
Speaker 2: lion attack at Malibu Creek State Park in Calabasas. Officials
Speaker 2: say the boy and his family were having a picnic
Speaker 2: Sunday when the lion grabbed him by the head and
Speaker 2: started to run away with him. An aunt says the
Speaker 2: father heard someone scream the boy's name and went running.
Speaker 2: He then grabbed the mountain lion with his hands and
Speaker 2: fought until it let go of the boy. The child
Speaker 2: was treated for injuries and released, but had to go
Speaker 2: back to the hospital because of complications from injuries to
Speaker 2: his eyes. The mountain lion was euthanized. A man arrested
Speaker 2: for allegedly killing a couple at a nudist resort in
Speaker 2: Redlands is due to be arranged this morning in San Bernardino.
Speaker 2: Dan and Stephanie Minard haven't been seen for more than
Speaker 2: a week, and Redlands Police spokesman Carl Baker told KTLA
Speaker 2: bags of huge human remains were found in a bunker
Speaker 2: under their neighbor's house Friday.
Speaker 4: As far as we know, the remains that we've recovered
Speaker 4: are those of Dan and Stephanie, and there are no others.
Speaker 2: The San Bernardino County Corner is expected to positively identify
Speaker 2: those remains. This week. Code enforcement is expected to red
Speaker 2: tag the house where the remains were found. Excessive heat
Speaker 2: warnings have been issued for parts of southern California as
Speaker 2: late summer heat wave rolls in. Meteorologists Sam Zuber with
Speaker 2: the National Weather Service says temperatures will probably be between
Speaker 2: ten or twelve degrees above normal this week. She says
Speaker 2: a high pressure system is the reason.
Speaker 5: Even though we have the excessive key warning out for
Speaker 5: Wednesday through Friday, we are really looking at above normal
Speaker 5: temperatures for the next seven eight days.
Speaker 2: Zuber says nighttime temperatures will also be higher than normal
Speaker 2: into the weekend. The city of La is opening cooling
Speaker 2: centers to help people avoid the heat. The air conditioned
Speaker 2: spaces are free and open to pets. There are five
Speaker 2: sites across LA. Officials say libraries can also be used
Speaker 2: for cooling down. Mayor Bath says people on skid row
Speaker 2: will be offered cold drinks, seating, and shade at various
Speaker 2: cooling stations. A drug rate in La has led to
Speaker 2: the seizure of meth, cash and guns.
Speaker 6: Forty three pounds of meth, eleven thousand dollars in cash,
Speaker 6: and a handgun have all been recovered by the LAPD's
Speaker 6: Central Bureau. Major Narcotics Unit Commander Lillian Caranza posted on
Speaker 6: social media on Sunday that the bust likely saved lives
Speaker 6: from overdoses. She says skid Row is a target for
Speaker 6: out of town dealers who look to prey on drug
Speaker 6: addicts and that busts like this one are becoming more common.
Speaker 6: The LAPD says one person was arrested in the raid
Speaker 6: in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 2: News LA is a step closer to taking a comprehensive
Speaker 2: review of how LAPD officers are disciplined. City Councilman Tim
Speaker 2: mcoscar says the new plan approved by the Public Safety
Speaker 2: Committee would involve more departments and community members as part
Speaker 2: of the effort.
Speaker 3: This is an opportunity really for everyone to work towards
Speaker 3: a comprehensive review of the police discipline system.
Speaker 2: Mcosker led an effort at city Hall to push a
Speaker 2: ballot measure that would have allowed the police chief to
Speaker 2: directly fire officers for some offenses, among other charges. Mayor
Speaker 2: Bass vetoed it, saying it lacked clarity and support from
Speaker 2: rank and file officers. President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister
Speaker 2: Benjamin net Yahoo is not doing enough to secure a
Speaker 2: deal after six hostages were killed last week. ABC's Karen
Speaker 2: Travers joins us live from the White House with more
Speaker 2: on his response. Good morning, Karen, Good morning. All right,
Speaker 2: So what is the President saying now after the murders
Speaker 2: of these hostages.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean to start there.
Speaker 8: The President said he was outraged and devastated by the
Speaker 8: death of Hirsch Goldberg pulland the President and the Vice
Speaker 8: President spoke to his parents on Sunday to offer their condolences.
Speaker 8: The President said, as tragic as it is also reprehensible
Speaker 8: and hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.
Speaker 7: He'd about to keep.
Speaker 8: Working around the clock to secure a deal to secure
Speaker 8: the release of the remaining hostages, and that started yesterday
Speaker 8: with the Situation Room meeting that the President and Vice
Speaker 8: President were in with the Secretary of State, Director of
Speaker 8: the CIA, and other top national security officials, where they
Speaker 8: were working on next steps in this effort to secure
Speaker 8: this deal. Yesterday, though, the President, as you mentioned, was
Speaker 8: tough on Benjamin net Yahoo. He was asked if the
Speaker 8: Israeli Prime Minister was doing enough to reach a deal,
Speaker 8: and he said simply no. Later, he was asked by reporters,
Speaker 8: what do you want net Yahoo to do, and he
Speaker 8: didn't give specifics.
Speaker 7: He said, we're in the middle of a negotiation.
Speaker 8: The President also indicated that there could be a final
Speaker 8: offer presented this week, that the United States is getting
Speaker 8: close to presenting, getting close to finalizing a deal that
Speaker 8: could be kind of a last best thing. He was
Speaker 8: asked what would make this one different than others in
Speaker 8: the past that could get something done, and he said,
Speaker 8: hope springs eternal. We've heard the President be optimistic publicly
Speaker 8: in the past, but privately keeping that pressure on all
Speaker 8: of the parties involved. But we'll see if this time
Speaker 8: is the one that gets it done after having come
Speaker 8: close before only to see talks breakdown.
Speaker 2: Now, what has Netanyahu's response been to this pressure from
Speaker 2: the president?
Speaker 7: You know, there was a frustration expressed.
Speaker 8: From Israeli officials about the President's comments yesterday, you know,
Speaker 8: saying they are doing what they can to get this done,
Speaker 8: and of course pointing the finger back at Hamas, saying
Speaker 8: that it was Hamas who executed these six hostages. And
Speaker 8: you know that they have been the ones that have
Speaker 8: been trying to reach the deal, only to see Hamas
Speaker 8: back away. There's just a lot of finger pointing, no
Speaker 8: surprise there. The main sticking point right now, according to
Speaker 8: our sources, is this Philadelphi Corridor that the Israeli Prime
Speaker 8: Minister is insisting that they want to keep control of
Speaker 8: this narrow strip of tear territory that's.
Speaker 7: On the border of Gaza in Egypt. Hamas is drawing
Speaker 7: a line there and refusing.
Speaker 2: What do you think will ultimately or what could ultimately
Speaker 2: push the president into that final cease fire deal situation.
Speaker 2: Is there a breaking point here where the US just
Speaker 2: either walks away or has some major changes in their strategy.
Speaker 8: You know, it's hard to see the US completely walking away.
Speaker 8: Like there were Americans killed on October seventh, there were
Speaker 8: Americans that have been held hostage. There are still Americans
Speaker 8: held hostage. It's not like the United States has just
Speaker 8: been taking a mediator role in this. The United States
Speaker 8: has a stake in this, and that's why the administration
Speaker 8: has played such a critical part in this and such
Speaker 8: a deep role in this. There's also the desire by
Speaker 8: this administration from what we hear from senior officials and
Speaker 8: the president to reach the ceasefire deal in order to
Speaker 8: get more humanitarian aid into Gaza that desperately needed assistance.
Speaker 8: So there's a lot of factors here why I don't
Speaker 8: see that the United States would just say throw the
Speaker 8: hands up, walk away, because they have been so invested
Speaker 8: at this point. That said, you certainly got a sense
Speaker 8: yesterday that there's a real sense of urgency, a real
Speaker 8: sense of frustration in the administration, and sense that the
Speaker 8: pressure is growing right now on the President to get
Speaker 8: something done.
Speaker 2: And even if they reach a ceasefire deal, as you said,
Speaker 2: it could may it may just be temporary just in
Speaker 2: order to get aid, and it may not be in
Speaker 2: the long term. But I know they certainly would welcome
Speaker 2: the ceasefire deal. Well, thank you so much, Karen Travis.
Speaker 2: We appreciate your time this morning.
Speaker 7: Have a great day.
Speaker 2: Thank you too. All right, let's get back to some
Speaker 2: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 2: hour newsroom. A child was the bridge that started a
Speaker 2: friendly relationship between Trump and Harris Merch booths that share
Speaker 2: a corner in your Belinda, folks come.
Speaker 9: Here and they can be full of anger.
Speaker 10: Par supporter Sandra Roby says it all started when the
Speaker 10: five year old daughter of the Trump merch operator asked
Speaker 10: why she was set up at the city's designated spot
Speaker 10: for campaign stands.
Speaker 9: You know we were here first, and I say, this
Speaker 9: space is really intended for.
Speaker 2: All of us.
Speaker 9: How about this will take turns.
Speaker 10: She also gave the girl a cinnamon roll and that
Speaker 10: sealed the deal.
Speaker 9: Then a big gust of wind came and blew his
Speaker 9: whole Trump set up into your Belindo Bulevard.
Speaker 10: Trump supporter Josh Evans says he had gone to the
Speaker 10: car just for a sec when he sees this Trump
Speaker 10: stand flying away.
Speaker 2: This thing is in the middle of the streets. She
Speaker 2: has dragged it in and we're putting it back up together.
Speaker 9: I am in the middle of Yorblindo Boulevard and my
Speaker 9: Kamala T shirt putting the Trump stand back on the sidewalk.
Speaker 10: Evan says the insults from cars driving by are a
Speaker 10: little less when both sides are represented. Is really nice
Speaker 10: to see because if you don't see it very often,
Speaker 10: and the polarity is a big problem in the country.
Speaker 2: People are so divisive.
Speaker 10: They both say, while they do get along. They don't
Speaker 10: talk about politics at Yorba Linda Boulevard and lake View
Speaker 10: Corbin Carson k if I News.
Speaker 2: That is generally the best way to get along with someone.
Speaker 2: Just leave politics out of it and let's bond over
Speaker 2: cinnamon rolls, all right. A reparations bill that has advanced
Speaker 2: to the Governor's desk would create a process to review
Speaker 2: claims of land stolen by racist means. The bill is
Speaker 2: one of fourteen that has been proposed from one hundred
Speaker 2: policy recommendations by a reparations task force. The bill all
Speaker 2: depends on the legislature approving a state agency to implement
Speaker 2: the recommendations and then approving funding to pay for it all.
Speaker 2: A rush fire that's burned about six hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: acres in the San Jacino in San Jacinto in Riverside
Speaker 2: County is thirty percent surrounded. An evacuation warning for parts
Speaker 2: of Poppet Flats has been lifted. A cowfire official says
Speaker 2: the fire was started someday at a homeless camp. Investigators
Speaker 2: are trying to figure out if it was intentional. Six
Speaker 2: firefighters were treated for minor injuries.
Speaker 11: Just the price, where.
Speaker 2: As a gen xer I could probably let that music
Speaker 2: play for a little bit longer, but I guess I
Speaker 2: should get back to the news. Oasis vans in the
Speaker 2: UK are angry over surprise increases in the price of
Speaker 2: concert tickets. The band announced last week it was getting
Speaker 2: back together and playing fourteen dates next summer in Wales, England,
Speaker 2: Scotland and Ireland, and fans have complained that tickets listed
Speaker 2: at one hundred and eighty dollars when logging in sometimes
Speaker 2: more than doubled at checkout after they waited online for hours.
Speaker 2: British government officials say they'll be looking into the practice
Speaker 2: of dynamic pricing. Third party tickets have been going for
Speaker 2: nearly eight thousand dollars. The band says those third party
Speaker 2: tickets will be canceled by promoters if sold for more
Speaker 2: than face value. I mean, I want to see Oasis,
Speaker 2: but I don't know about eight thousand dollars. That feels.
Speaker 2: It feels like a lot. Los Angeles will open five
Speaker 2: cooling centers during the excessive heat warning this week. The
Speaker 2: air conditioned spaces are free and open to pets. They're
Speaker 2: expected to provide temporary relief to the public struggling with
Speaker 2: the heat. More than one hundred homes will lose electricity
Speaker 2: in Rancho Palace verdies tonight as Southern California. Edison continues
Speaker 2: implementing safeguards during the worsening landslides in the area. The
Speaker 2: latest power shut down is scheduled for seven o'clock tonight
Speaker 2: in the Seaview area, and one of two South American
Speaker 2: nationals rather allegedly linked to the arm robbery of a
Speaker 2: million dollar watch from a man sitting on the patio
Speaker 2: of a restaurant in Beverly Wiltshire Hotel is said to
Speaker 2: be a rain today. Then at six zh five it's handled.
Speaker 2: On the news. Two US Marines were ambushed and assaulted
Speaker 2: by a mob of Turkish nationalists. Will tell you what
Speaker 2: they said to the Marines, give you an update on
Speaker 2: their condition. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netniah who has asked
Speaker 2: the families of six hostages who were recovered by Israeli
Speaker 2: I fours for forgiveness, but he did not change his
Speaker 2: stands on maintaining an Israeli force presence along the Egyptian
Speaker 2: border with Gaza. ABC's Jordana Miller joins US Live from
Speaker 2: Jerusalem with the latest Good Morning Jordana.
Speaker 5: Good morning. That's right. In the nationally televised address, we
Speaker 5: heard the Prime Minister really for the first time publicly
Speaker 5: say that he has asked the families for forgiveness for
Speaker 5: failing them and failing to bring their loved one home alive.
Speaker 5: The Israeli armies found the bodies of those six hostages
Speaker 5: in a tunnel underneath Rafa, and they say they were
Speaker 5: executed at short range by Hamas and then abandoned. It
Speaker 5: was the weekend of funerals here and among those as
Speaker 5: well was Hersch Goldberg Pollin the American, the young American
Speaker 5: who was kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival. His parents,
Speaker 5: John and Rachel become really they were global warriors for
Speaker 5: a ceasefire. They never materialized and never been able to
Speaker 5: save their son. But the Prime Minister also doubled down
Speaker 5: or tripled down on his insistence that the Israli army
Speaker 5: must stay positioned along the Gosen side of the border
Speaker 5: with Egypt. And this is terrible news for the remaining
Speaker 5: ninety seven hostages in the Gaza strip because it means
Speaker 5: that you know, the chances of a seafire are very
Speaker 5: low if Nataniel doesn't show some flexibility on this issue.
Speaker 5: It looks like there's going to be no progress in
Speaker 5: the near future because Hamas has called that a non starter,
Speaker 5: and while the Washington and even some of is some
Speaker 5: of Nataniel's closest defense officials have provided other solutions and
Speaker 5: other options. N'thaanielle tried to our before the nation last
Speaker 5: night that this is something that he cannot compromise on.
Speaker 5: Psked you know, he may, he may, he may have
Speaker 5: some security merits in his argument. I mean the gods
Speaker 5: in Egyptian border was the main gateway for all of
Speaker 5: the arms and the militants and the machinery that came
Speaker 5: into the Gaza Strip with the help of Oragan funding
Speaker 5: to build up Hamas's very sophisticated and in formidable military
Speaker 5: capabilities and their underground fortresses tunnels. Having said that that
Speaker 5: Honel was in power for more than a decade, there
Speaker 5: were three mini wars with Hamas. I covered all of them.
Speaker 5: He never brought up the Philadelphia Quarter, he never sent
Speaker 5: Israeli truths to take it. You know, he was responsible
Speaker 5: for bringing in and approving billions of dollars that came
Speaker 5: into Hamas or Cutter. So it feels disingenuous for her
Speaker 5: now for him to claim this is the most important
Speaker 5: part of the war, you know, when he never it
Speaker 5: was never an issue before, and there are other solutions. So,
Speaker 5: you know, I think many people still believe that he's
Speaker 5: trying to just stay in power and please his far
Speaker 5: right partners, who otherwise, you know, would drop out of
Speaker 5: the government and bring him push him out of power.
Speaker 5: So to seem.
Speaker 2: I think we've lost you there just for a moment
Speaker 2: at the end.
Speaker 5: Oh, I was okay. I've been saying that today were
Speaker 5: not only did we see massive protests Sunday night about
Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty thousand thedrellies. Yesterday almost a million
Speaker 5: participated in a nationwide labor strike, and while it ended
Speaker 5: a couple of hours early, it's still brought trains and
Speaker 5: buses to a halt. It shut down Ben Gray the
Speaker 5: airport for a few hours in the early hours of
Speaker 5: the morning. And today we're we're going to see more
Speaker 5: protests here in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv. You know, Israeli
Speaker 5: is now feeling like, you know, they need to get
Speaker 5: on the streets and pressure in Antavio in numbers that
Speaker 5: we just haven't seen so in this war up until
Speaker 5: now and really try to get you know, hundreds of
Speaker 5: thousands of people in the street. That's their aim.
Speaker 2: Now Netania who has said that Israel won't be making
Speaker 2: any more concessions, but he says he thinks the pressure
Speaker 2: should be directed towards Hamas. Now, is Hamas being you
Speaker 2: know pressured at all? Are they even listening to the
Speaker 2: global response from people asking them to stand down?
Speaker 5: Well, remember Hamas, you know, Hamas is even if Nintenieo
Speaker 5: made every effort to show flexibility about let's say the
Speaker 5: Philadelphia Quarter and say, okay, the Israeli troops don't need
Speaker 5: to be there, the truth is that Hamas is also
Speaker 5: showing very little real willingness to kind of deal.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: Hamas is the other side of the equation. We talk
Speaker 5: about it less, and maybe we should talk about it
Speaker 5: more because in the Goss strips, you know, the people there,
Speaker 5: they don't have the same recourse that the Israelis have.
Speaker 5: They can't ask for accountability, they can't be in the streets,
Speaker 5: they can't go onto the international stage, and so you know,
Speaker 5: there's less kind of ground swell pressure against yeah, fifteymore
Speaker 5: because he's a terrorist thugs here, he's running a war
Speaker 5: that's killing thousands of his own people, you know, whether
Speaker 5: by in combat or through starvation. You know, he's endangered.
Speaker 5: Now there's a polio outbreak, and while there's good signs
Speaker 5: about the vaccine campaign, still there's dangers, health risks to
Speaker 5: people that are living in you know, terrible conditions because
Speaker 5: of this war. And Yas Cassimar, you know, he bears
Speaker 5: responsibility for half of this equation, and he also is
Speaker 5: not shown signs that he wants to cut a deal
Speaker 5: and reach us. He's fired because it would require him
Speaker 5: to relinquish control of the gods of strips. And we
Speaker 5: don't talk about this very much, but Jaska Seemar wants
Speaker 5: to stay in control. He wants the mouse to survive,
Speaker 5: and so he's going to do everything until possibly he's
Speaker 5: killed take hold on to power. And so Natanielle is
Speaker 5: not fully to blame for the problems in the seastfire negotiations.
Speaker 5: But he is a democratically elected leader of a country
Speaker 5: the whole. You know, it should hold him responsible for
Speaker 5: his side of the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, And I feel like you're right that is
Speaker 2: something that doesn't get brought up enough. Israel seems to
Speaker 2: be the main target here when people are talking about
Speaker 2: who can end this war, who can come to a
Speaker 2: ceasefire agreement, But people are forgetting that they're dealing with
Speaker 2: a major terrorist organization that is holding people hostage, and
Speaker 2: they're not probably willing to They're not being very easy
Speaker 2: to negotiate with. I'm going to just go out on
Speaker 2: a limb and say that, Jordana, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: We appreciate your time this morning.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Tukshin, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out a KI twenty four hour newsroom. The US
Speaker 2: six Fleet says two Marines have been attacked while on
Speaker 2: liberty in a port city of Turkey. In Turkey, ABC's
Speaker 2: Matt Sailor says video showing a mob holding onto one
Speaker 2: of the servicemen and shoving his sack over his head.
Speaker 12: Another serviceman runs in to defend his comrade and is
Speaker 12: himself grabbed. Authority say fifteen people were arrested after the incident,
Speaker 12: the suspects belonging to the Turkish Youth Union.
Speaker 2: He says, that's an anti American group that says it
Speaker 2: attacked in protest of the war. In gazap a five
Speaker 2: year old boy is recovering after being attacked by a
Speaker 2: mountain lion at Malibu Creek State Park. Officials say the
Speaker 2: mountain lion grabbed the boy by the head as he
Speaker 2: was playing with other children near the family's picnic area.
Speaker 2: California could soon pass a law that would require consent
Speaker 2: for the use of AI to replicate dead performers. Zag
Speaker 2: Aftra says the law would help the estates of dead
Speaker 2: performers maintain some control over AI created fakes and replicas
Speaker 2: in film, TV shows, and video games. And several good
Speaker 2: Samaritans saved three abandoned puppies from a dumpster and San Demus,
Speaker 2: a local employee heard the pumpies crying, then turn them
Speaker 2: over to an animal rescue group. Then at six oh five,
Speaker 2: its handle on the news the US has seized Venezuela
Speaker 2: president's airplane in the Dominican Republic. Will tell you why
Speaker 2: they took the plane and what was inside. Then if
Speaker 2: five p fifty scammers are using ATM machines as a
Speaker 2: way to take money from consumers, and will tell you
Speaker 2: how you can avoid the scam and protect your pocketbook.
Speaker 2: The CDC says that Timber and October are generally the
Speaker 2: best times for most people to get the COVID immunization,
Speaker 2: that there are still a lot of questions surrounding who
Speaker 2: should get the COVID shot, when and how often. Joining
Speaker 2: me now is doctor Michael Bennaderrett, Associate Medical Director of
Speaker 2: Hospital Epidemiology at Cedar SINAI. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 11: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: I understand, the FDA just approved a new COVID nineteen
Speaker 2: vaccine designed to more closely target recent virus strains, and doctor,
Speaker 2: can you tell me a little bit more about that.
Speaker 11: What we've seen with COVID is just continued evolution of
Speaker 11: the virus, So the virus continues to mutate, and we're
Speaker 11: in the middle of a relatively large COVID surge, and
Speaker 11: we've seen the surge is really dominated by these new
Speaker 11: variants that have been titled the FLIRT variants. So JM one, two,
Speaker 11: and three. The new vaccine formulation, it's really designed to
Speaker 11: target these newer variants with greater efficacy than the previous vaccines.
Speaker 11: So really this is an update to target the currently
Speaker 11: circulating strains of COVID.
Speaker 2: If someone has already had the COVID shot, whether it's
Speaker 2: in the past six months or maybe even the past year,
Speaker 2: when should they be getting the next one.
Speaker 11: So the CDC recommends that everyone received this updated vaccination,
Speaker 11: but you know, the details can be complicated, and I think,
Speaker 11: you know, some of these questions are best addressed with
Speaker 11: your physician, especially for patients that have medical conditions or
Speaker 11: you know, have other reasons to be concerned about severe COVID.
Speaker 11: For most people, it's been a while since our last shot.
Speaker 11: The last update was I think last fall, and so
Speaker 11: it's been a while since this formulation was updated, and
Speaker 11: so for those people that were vaccinated last year, this
Speaker 11: would be a great time to go ahead and get
Speaker 11: that shot. In general, we think of the activity of
Speaker 11: vaccines as highest within the first few months after vaccination.
Speaker 11: But I think what we're seeing right now is pretty
Speaker 11: widespread circulation of COVID, and you know, in the setting
Speaker 11: of widespread virus activity, it's not a bad idea to
Speaker 11: get that extra protection now. But again, in more complicated situations,
Speaker 11: there may be reasons why some people would want to wait.
Speaker 11: If you've been vaccinated very recently or were recently infected
Speaker 11: with COVID, there may be some reasons why you would
Speaker 11: want to delay that shot a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: I read an article in the La Times that was
Speaker 2: talking about how some people feel like they should wait
Speaker 2: towards the end of October because the instances of COVID,
Speaker 2: the COVID cases will be sort of on the upswing.
Speaker 2: Then do you think there's any reason to wait. Will
Speaker 2: it still be as effective if I get it now
Speaker 2: versus waiting until the end of October.
Speaker 11: It's a really interesting question, you know. I think this
Speaker 11: comes down to the seasonality that we've been seeing with COVID.
Speaker 11: So for the past two years, we've seen a large
Speaker 11: winter search of COVID, and I think most people are
Speaker 11: expecting that we'll see another searche this winter.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 11: For example, the last two years we saw COVID peak
Speaker 11: in winter alongside influenza and RSV and kind of that
Speaker 11: winter wave of virus activity. So those recommendations to wait,
Speaker 11: I think are based on the expectation that we're going
Speaker 11: to have a bad COVID season in winter. That being said,
Speaker 11: kind of having a bad COVID season right now. Right
Speaker 11: there's very high levels of COVID circulation, at least here
Speaker 11: in Los Angeles, but really across the nation. And so
Speaker 11: for that reason, delaying the vaccination does put you at
Speaker 11: risk necessarily of potentially acquiring COVID. Now, so I don't
Speaker 11: know if I would recommend waiting given the high activity
Speaker 11: of COVID we have currently.
Speaker 2: In the community because of this new vaccine, and because
Speaker 2: there's been years now of research done on it. Is
Speaker 2: it a safe vaccine to get? Are there going to
Speaker 2: be any major side effects that people should be aware of?
Speaker 11: It's absolutely a safe vaccine. That's really kind of a
Speaker 11: well established fact by now. We've got more experience in
Speaker 11: the past few years with COVID vaccine than we have
Speaker 11: with almost any other vaccine. I mean, there's really never
Speaker 11: been a vaccine rollout on the scale and magnitude of
Speaker 11: the COVID vaccination rollout, and so just give the amount
Speaker 11: of people that have had it and the fall up
Speaker 11: time that we have now had with these vaccines, we
Speaker 11: do know that they are extremely safe.
Speaker 2: And is it possible to get all your vaccines done
Speaker 2: in one fell swoop, especially for the elderly community and
Speaker 2: seniors and kids, Like, can we get the flu and
Speaker 2: RSB and covid? Can we just go in and get
Speaker 2: them all done at once.
Speaker 11: You absolutely can. That's what that's what I do every year.
Speaker 11: I get my COVID shot and my flu shot together.
Speaker 11: I there's no interaction between the two vaccines, so it's
Speaker 11: a very very different type of virus. It's actually a
Speaker 11: different type of vaccine, and so there's really no medical
Speaker 11: reason that you would want to delay them. Now that
Speaker 11: being said, some people do have vaccine reactions. You have
Speaker 11: a sore arm, or maybe a fever, or you just
Speaker 11: kind of feel down for a day. That's totally normal.
Speaker 11: That's not a bad effect. That's actually your immune system reacting.
Speaker 11: But I have heard that some people that they get
Speaker 11: those vaccines together feel that more strongly. And so if
Speaker 11: you are the kind of person that does get those reactions,
Speaker 11: maybe it's not the worst thing in the world to
Speaker 11: spread them apart a little bit so you don't feel really.
Speaker 5: Bad the next day.
Speaker 11: Nobody likes getting a shot, right. It's not fun to
Speaker 11: have a medical a nurse or a doctor put a
Speaker 11: needle in you, and a lot of people do feel
Speaker 11: bad the next day. There's just no denying that. But
Speaker 11: that being said, that's a heck of a lot better
Speaker 11: than getting COVID. There's really no comparing the two.
Speaker 2: Doctor Michael benderret from Cedar SINAI, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for sharing your time and expertise with us.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. An
Speaker 2: audit of publicly owned toilets and water fountains will soon
Speaker 2: begin in La.
Speaker 6: The Department of Parks and Recreation and the Library operate
Speaker 6: the bulk of publicly accessible restrooms and drinking water. LA
Speaker 6: City council Woman Unisses Hernandez says access to water is
Speaker 6: a crucial part of survival. The city council adopted her
Speaker 6: push to have rerecon parks and the library detail where
Speaker 6: these toilets and fountains are, what conditions they're in, and
Speaker 6: when they're available, as well as how they can be improved.
Speaker 6: Hernandez says it's become increasingly difficult for the public to
Speaker 6: find a place to pee or grab a drink in La.
Speaker 6: The reporters due back in thirty Days in downtown La.
Speaker 6: Michael monks KFI News.
Speaker 2: Mexican officials have told the US government about violent gang
Speaker 2: members from Venezuela illegally crossing the California Mexico border. Public
Speaker 2: safety officials in the state of chihuaba say they've seen
Speaker 2: a dramatic increase in the number of members from the
Speaker 2: Train de Argua I mean always say that right a Dagua,
Speaker 2: there we go or TDA passing through on their way
Speaker 2: to the United States. US Customs officials say it's hard
Speaker 2: to vet members of that cartel because Venezuela doesn't share
Speaker 2: criminal background information with the US. One officials said TDA
Speaker 2: is like MS thirteen on steroids. Lawyers for the family
Speaker 2: of a woman killed by LAPD officers outside of a
Speaker 2: Trader Joe's stores in Silver Lake say they've reached a
Speaker 2: nearly ten million dollar settlement with the city. I'm the
Speaker 2: LAPD store manager. Maylee Corrado was killed in twenty eighteen
Speaker 2: as police shot a man who had shot his grandmother
Speaker 2: and led officers on a chase. The lawsuit claimed the
Speaker 2: officers were negligent, went against their training, and used excessive force.
Speaker 2: A man arrested for allegedly killing a couple at a
Speaker 2: newdist resort in Redlands is due to be rained this morning.
Speaker 2: In San Bernardino, Dan and Stephanie Minard haven't been seen
Speaker 2: for more than a week. Redlands police told spokesman Carl
Speaker 2: Baker told KTLA that bags of human Marie remains were
Speaker 2: found in a bunker under their neighbor's house.
Speaker 4: As far as we know, the remains that we've recovered
Speaker 4: are those of Dan and Stephanie and there are no others.
Speaker 2: The San Bernardino County Corner is expected to positively identify
Speaker 2: those human remains this week. Code enforcement is expected to
Speaker 2: red tag the house where the remains were found. A
Speaker 2: man arrested for allegedly killing a couple at a newdist
Speaker 2: resort in Redlands is due in court this morning in
Speaker 2: San Bernardino, and officials in Mexico have told the US
Speaker 2: government violent gang members from Venezuela illegally crossing the California
Speaker 2: Mexico border, and the US sixth Fleet says two marines
Speaker 2: have been intact while on liberty in Port City in Turkey.
Speaker 2: We're going to find out a little bit more about
Speaker 2: what happened there.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 2: We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris says that US Steel should remain domestically owned.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you why. She says it's vital to maintain
Speaker 2: strong American steel companies. The FTC is warning people about
Speaker 2: a new take on an old scam, and it's costing
Speaker 2: consumers tens of millions of dollars. ABC's Jim Ryan joins
Speaker 2: us live from Dallas to tell us more. Good morning, Jim,
Speaker 2: morning Heather.
Speaker 14: Yeah, here's how it works. In simple terms. You're sitting
Speaker 14: at your laptop and suddenly a big message pops up
Speaker 14: and says, there's a problem. You've got a bug, a
Speaker 14: virus of some kind. Please call us and let's get
Speaker 14: this strained out. So you call that and they're very
Speaker 14: nice on the phone, these tech support people, and they
Speaker 14: tell you, look, yeah, will refund you the money that
Speaker 14: you paid for your virus protection. They refund you the money,
Speaker 14: but they accidentally sent you ten thousand dollars too much.
Speaker 14: For example, instead of one hundred dollars, they put in
Speaker 14: extra zeros and send you ten thousand bucks. You owe
Speaker 14: them the additional money, the nine nine hundred or whatever,
Speaker 14: and you need to make payment right in order to
Speaker 14: stay legal, stay good. I suppose, well it used to
Speaker 14: be that. Well, first of all, those aren't tech support people.
Speaker 14: They're scammers, right, And in order to pay them quote
Speaker 14: back the money that you quote owe them, you would
Speaker 14: have to go to the bank and get out money
Speaker 14: and buy gift cards and then provide them thembing the
Speaker 14: numbers on the gift cards and serial numbers so that
Speaker 14: they have access to that money. Well, now they're doing
Speaker 14: it a different way, Heather. The first part of the
Speaker 14: scam is exactly the same, the pop up on the window,
Speaker 14: on the computer, the phone call, the et cetera. But
Speaker 14: now increasingly they're having you pay with bitcoin through ATMs.
Speaker 14: There are thirty two thousand bitcoin style you know ATM
Speaker 14: style bitcoin machines in convenience stores and gas stations different
Speaker 14: places around the country. Now that's a tenfold increase in
Speaker 14: just the last couple of years. They're exploding. UK makes
Speaker 14: them illegal. You can't use them there because these ATM
Speaker 14: style bitcoin machines are illegal there. But yeah, so we
Speaker 14: had a perfect example here a couple of months ago,
Speaker 14: had they win. An elderly woman was contacted. She lived
Speaker 14: there and assisted living center. These scammers actually arranged an
Speaker 14: uber for her to take forty thousand dollars in cash
Speaker 14: to a bitcoin machine and in a convenience store and
Speaker 14: start pumping it into the machine and actually told her,
Speaker 14: you need to have FaceTime on so I can see
Speaker 14: that you're doing it. Somebody in the store realized what
Speaker 14: was going on and called the police. The police got
Speaker 14: her to stop. She was scared to death because these
Speaker 14: people that were intimidating her. So, yes, she didn't give
Speaker 14: a full forty thousand, but she did lose like twenty
Speaker 14: eight thousand Bitcoin actually agreed to refund that money to her.
Speaker 14: It's just it's another word to the you know, to
Speaker 14: elderly people, especially who are falling victim to these things.
Speaker 14: The elderly people are the most targeted for this kind
Speaker 14: of scam, one hundred and ten million dollars lost last
Speaker 14: year alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my next question is who's being targeted.
Speaker 2: How are they finding these these people and they're victims.
Speaker 14: Well, it's fishing, you know, and when you cast, when
Speaker 14: you're fishing, you cast a wide net. You're tried to
Speaker 14: get somebody to fall for it. You probably get to,
Speaker 14: you know, messages on your phone all the time, you know,
Speaker 14: a text message from some unknown number that says, hi,
Speaker 14: who is this? And you respond, start this conversation and
Speaker 14: you can loop yourself into something terrible. So yeah, they
Speaker 14: cast a wide net and they catch enough people to
Speaker 14: net one hundred and ten million dollars last year.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about the bitcoin machines themselves. These are
Speaker 2: they look like giant ats, just.
Speaker 14: A standard ATM.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're often very brightly colored at least you know
Speaker 2: what I have observed. Should we just be avoiding Is
Speaker 2: it the machines themselves or is it the action that
Speaker 2: these scammers are having people go and use these particular machines.
Speaker 14: It's not necessarily the machine really. I mean, they're a
Speaker 14: convenient thing. If you have a bitcoin account of wallet,
Speaker 14: you can add money to it with these machines. You
Speaker 14: can you know, check your balance, etc. Kind of thing
Speaker 14: through these bitcoin machines. But through the nature, by the
Speaker 14: very nature of bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general, it's almost
Speaker 14: impossible to trace. It's very hard to get a hold
Speaker 14: of if you lose it. I know people who have
Speaker 14: bitcoin wallets, they forget the password. They're one thousands of dollars,
Speaker 14: they just don't have access to it anymore. So it's
Speaker 14: not really the machine, and scammers know this. No matter
Speaker 14: where they are, whether they're in China or in you know, India,
Speaker 14: or in Russia or somewhere that the money is almost
Speaker 14: impossible to trace once it's fed into a machine like this.
Speaker 2: So these scammers when they're contacting their victims or reaching
Speaker 2: out to them and they maybe they've gotten them on
Speaker 2: the phone, what kinds of things are they saying to them?
Speaker 2: What are some red flags that people should be listening
Speaker 2: for to say, hey, this isn't this doesn't feel right,
Speaker 2: This feels like off the.
Speaker 14: Sense of urgency, You've got to do this now, or
Speaker 14: they're trying to guilt you into it. You know, the
Speaker 14: scammers says, I accidentally put extra zeros on here and
Speaker 14: I've sent you way too much money. You know, if
Speaker 14: my boss finds out, I'm gonna lose my job. They're
Speaker 14: playing on you know, it's called a con because that's
Speaker 14: short for confidence, right, They're trying to gain your confidence,
Speaker 14: and so the sense of urgency, this stuff that just
Speaker 14: doesn't quite add up. This trying to guilt you into
Speaker 14: owing money to somebody. Those are all red flags. And
Speaker 14: let older people in your life, your parents, your elderly neighbors,
Speaker 14: whoever it is, know about this kind of.
Speaker 2: Thing, all right, Well, this is actually very helpful information.
Speaker 2: I feel like every week there's a new you scam.
Speaker 2: What we can't, we can't we just live Jim.
Speaker 14: I wish it were that simple, you know. And whether
Speaker 14: it's so they take the old scam, the tech support
Speaker 14: scam and find a new way to get your money
Speaker 14: from you, and the bitcoin ATM seems to be the
Speaker 14: latest way to do that.
Speaker 2: Well, I know, at least for my mom, who is
Speaker 2: a senior citizen, if something like that happens, she's pretty
Speaker 2: good about messaging me and saying, Okay, somebody asked me,
Speaker 2: is asking me for money over text? Or I got
Speaker 2: a call from somebody asking me for money, And she'll
Speaker 2: always reach out and ask me, which I appreciate because
Speaker 2: there has been several times where I've been like, Mom,
Speaker 2: this is not real. Don't fall for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, So you maintain those relationships and you know, and
Speaker 14: it's embarrassing for an older person if they get looped
Speaker 14: into something. Let them know that, you know a lot
Speaker 14: of people do. Lots of really smart people have fallen
Speaker 14: for this, so you know, don't let them be embarrassed
Speaker 14: about letting you know about this.
Speaker 2: Saying that is great advice. Jim, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to talk with you.
Speaker 14: Thanks Heather, all right, have a good night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's get back to some of the
Speaker 2: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2: A fire in the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in
Speaker 2: Irwindale is about sixty percent surrounded. Two fires were reported
Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon near the two ten and six oh five freeways,
Speaker 2: and they became one. Cruz stopped the fire from growing
Speaker 2: in just a couple of hours. A Trump merchbooth and
Speaker 2: a Harris merchbooth are sharing a corner in yr Be, Linda,
Speaker 2: which is just fine despite constant insults from passing cars.
Speaker 2: Trump supporter Josh Evans says some things are more important
Speaker 2: than who you vote for.
Speaker 10: I said to her, it's good to have you here
Speaker 10: because I get called some pretty nasty things from the
Speaker 10: Kamala people. Yeah, you're going to hear the Trump people
Speaker 10: yelling at you, but it comes from both sides.
Speaker 2: Harris supporter Sandra Robi agrees.
Speaker 9: I'm very grateful to Josh because he has been an
Speaker 9: open heart and a caring individual. And I know not
Speaker 9: everybody on both sides is, but that's what it's going
Speaker 9: to take.
Speaker 2: We have to be the bridge. They both say they
Speaker 2: don't discuss politics with each other. All right, that's one
Speaker 2: way to do it. Can't we all just get along?
Speaker 2: A state senator from Guardina has advanced a reparations bill
Speaker 2: that would review claims of land stolen for racist reasons.
Speaker 10: The bill follows the return of Bruce's Beachs to a
Speaker 10: black family one hundred years after it was taken by
Speaker 10: Manhattan Beachs through eminent domain amid threats from the KKK.
Speaker 10: The bill currently sits on the Governor's desk and is
Speaker 10: one of fourteen bills born from one hundred policy recommendations
Speaker 10: by a reparations task force. All the bills depend on
Speaker 10: one bill that creates a state agency to implement the recommendations,
Speaker 10: and then the legislature would still have to agree to
Speaker 10: fund it, all including a recommendation for cash reparations to
Speaker 10: Black Americans. None of the current bills call for cash payouts.
Speaker 10: Cobin Carson Ko Fine News.
Speaker 2: The US six Fleet says two Marines have been attacked
Speaker 2: while on liberty in a port city in Turkey. ABC's
Speaker 2: Matt Sailor says video shows a mob holding onto one
Speaker 2: of the serviusman and shoving his sack over his head.
Speaker 12: Another serviceman runs in to defend his comrade and is
Speaker 12: himself grabbed. Authorities say fifteen people were arrested after the incident,
Speaker 12: the suspects belonging to the Turkish Youth Union.
Speaker 2: He says, that's an anti American group that says it
Speaker 2: attacked in protest over the war in Gaza. Japan is
Speaker 2: one of the hardest working nations on earth, so much
Speaker 2: so there is a term in Japanese to describe literally
Speaker 2: working yourself to death karroshi.
Speaker 13: Well, now the government is trying to change that as
Speaker 13: it deals with a growing labor shortage by encouraging employers,
Speaker 13: especially small and medium sized businesses, to adopt four day
Speaker 13: work weeks.
Speaker 2: ABC's Darya Albinger says the government has rolled out a
Speaker 2: work style reform campaign that promotes shorter hours and other
Speaker 2: flexible arrangements, plus overtime limits and paid annual leave. What
Speaker 2: if we can get some of that here at KFI,
Speaker 2: you guys, can we get any of that? All right?
Speaker 2: It has been a pleasure being with you guys these
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