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Speaker 4: Y eight is five oh one. This is your wake
Speaker 4: up call for Friday, January twenty fourth. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 4: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning, made
Speaker 4: it through another week. Looks like we got a handle.
Speaker 4: Not we, but firefighters got a handle on the latest
Speaker 4: two fires. We'll be telling you about that. Somebody's going
Speaker 4: on vacation, somebody's going to be uh yes. Leaving the
Speaker 4: wake up call in the capable hands of Michael Monks
Speaker 4: for a couple of days. I got girls flying in
Speaker 4: from southern Oregon and northern Oregon and we're gonna go
Speaker 4: have a girl's birthday weekend.
Speaker 7: Watch out.
Speaker 4: Uh oh, gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. I
Speaker 4: mentioned evacuations and those fires and stuff, and we had
Speaker 4: told you, I think yesterday that producer Anne had to
Speaker 4: go and evacuate her horse because the fire was burning
Speaker 4: a little too close to where she keeps her keeps him,
Speaker 4: and so they took him to the Pierce College, the
Speaker 4: Large Animal Shelter. Doing well. He's going to stay there
Speaker 4: a couple more days, probably till Saturday. Gonna bring him
Speaker 4: home on a Saturday, right, Anne, yep, okay, And so
Speaker 4: he's doing fine. I don't know if he likes his neighbors.
Speaker 4: He's next to a very vocal pig. But anyway, glad
Speaker 4: to hear that. So hopefully more more are of the
Speaker 4: animals who've been in temporary shelters are going to get
Speaker 4: to go home pretty soon. Carla is our editor here
Speaker 4: at KFI. She does the morning editing with me, and
Speaker 4: she sent me a note yesterday and goes, I just
Speaker 4: realized today's my thirtieth anniversary with KFI. We like to
Speaker 4: stick around here. And her first day on the job
Speaker 4: was in nineteen ninety five, the day that opening statements
Speaker 4: in the oj trial were given. What a day to start, right,
Speaker 4: So happy anniversary, Carla. We love having you here. Here's
Speaker 4: what's the head on way kept call. Forecasters or actually
Speaker 4: firefighters continue to gain ground on the new fires burning
Speaker 4: it in southern California. The fire that started yesterday in
Speaker 4: Camera Rio, forcing the evacuation of CSU Channel Islands is
Speaker 4: seventy percent surround it. It burned ninety four acres. The
Speaker 4: Hues fire in Castaic that quickly exploded to more than
Speaker 4: ten thousand acres is thirty six percent surrounded. Governor Newsom's
Speaker 4: expected to greet President Trump on the tarmac when Trump
Speaker 4: arrives in California to take a closer look at the
Speaker 4: fire damage. Trump has been highly critical of how Newsom
Speaker 4: has handled the fires and is calling on him to
Speaker 4: release water from up north to southern California. We're going
Speaker 4: to find out more about his trip with kfi's White
Speaker 4: House correspondent John Decker in about three minutes. Emergency crews
Speaker 4: are working to prevent mudslides and toxic ash from doing
Speaker 4: more damage to the wildfire burn areas. They're removing vegetation,
Speaker 4: shoring up hillsides, and putting up sandbags and k rails.
Speaker 4: The LA area is expecting a quarter to a half
Speaker 4: inch of rain starting tomorrow. A little bit later this hour,
Speaker 4: we're going to be digging into the Oscar nominations with
Speaker 4: ABC's Willgans that's at five point fifty. Also Olympic medals.
Speaker 4: This is very interesting from the twenty twenty four Summer
Speaker 4: Games in Paris are a little tarnished. ABC's Jim Ryan's
Speaker 4: going to tell us what is up with that, and
Speaker 4: then Dean Sharp is going to join us at the
Speaker 4: bottom of the hour. He says, getting rid of all
Speaker 4: the trees and bushes from your property. That's not the
Speaker 4: best way to protect your home from a wildfire. Let's
Speaker 4: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 4: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Bone dry conditions and
Speaker 4: Santa Ana wins have kept firefighters in La and Ventura
Speaker 4: County's busy, but meteorologist Lee Goldberg says relief is on
Speaker 4: the way this weekend.
Speaker 6: I'm sure wins, higher humidity, even some modern rain and
Speaker 6: mountain snow.
Speaker 2: The only concerned isolated down boards if they hit the
Speaker 2: burn scars.
Speaker 7: We have to be concerned about mudslides.
Speaker 4: He says. A red flag warning issued by the National
Speaker 4: Weather Service is in effect until ten this morning. The
Speaker 4: fire that's burned more than twenty three thousand acres in
Speaker 4: the Pacific Allisades area is seventy five percent surrounded. More
Speaker 4: evacuation orders were lifted yesterday, this time in and around
Speaker 4: the Tuna Canyon area. The City of Pasadena's urging residents
Speaker 4: impacted by the fire and Eaton Canyon to take precautions
Speaker 4: as rain is expected this weekend, along with possible mud
Speaker 4: and deble debris flows. The fire burned about fourteen thousand acres,
Speaker 4: destroyed more than nine thousand homes and other buildings. In
Speaker 4: Altadena and Pasadena. It is ninety five percent surrounded. Some
Speaker 4: schools around Altadena have reopened after a two week long
Speaker 4: closure because of the fire. Campuses around Altadena, Pasadena, and
Speaker 4: Sierra Madre that didn't burn have been thoroughly cleaned and
Speaker 4: environmental tests have been done. Teacher Yanzi Chevez says she
Speaker 4: welcomes students back to class.
Speaker 8: And I get through this together because that's what the
Speaker 8: community is about, our team and building each other together
Speaker 8: and making us stronger.
Speaker 4: Schools that haven't reopened yet are expected to resume classes
Speaker 4: by the end of the month. Let's take first look
Speaker 4: at your morning commute and say good morning to Will Coleschreiber,
Speaker 4: We've already got problems. There's a crash in Burbank on
Speaker 4: the one thirty four. You're right outside our door here
Speaker 4: at the one thirty four.
Speaker 2: It's going to be the westbound side right before Buena
Speaker 2: Vista crash there on the right shoulder, and as I
Speaker 2: look at the slowing, I'm actually seeing more slowing on
Speaker 2: the eastbound side, so we'll take a look at that.
Speaker 2: There may be lanes on both sides blocked, but that's
Speaker 2: the situation there in Burbank if you're trying to get
Speaker 2: through this Pulvita Pass. Unfortunately, we still have supulvit of
Speaker 2: Boulevard shut down northwest of the freeway right there at
Speaker 2: Getty Center, so you cannot use the Pulvita as an
Speaker 2: alternate to the four or five. They're repairing some utilities
Speaker 2: that were damaged in a fire the other night and
Speaker 2: that continues unfortunately, so I expect this Pulvita Pass to
Speaker 2: be very busy today. Eastbound side of the sixty eighth
Speaker 2: Downy Road crash there, somebody went off the side of
Speaker 2: the roadway and ended up facing sideways and lanes.
Speaker 5: Watch out for that.
Speaker 2: With Southern California's most accurate traffic report. So I'm Will Coleschreiber.
Speaker 4: Okay, we are expecting John Decker kfi's White House correspondent,
Speaker 4: and can we see if we can dial him up.
Speaker 4: He's gonna give us some more information about what's going
Speaker 4: on with President Trump's visit to Southern California. That he's
Speaker 4: supposed to take off from the White House pretty soon,
Speaker 4: and he's actually going to make a stop in North
Speaker 4: Carolina before he comes here. While we're waiting for John,
Speaker 4: are we working on getting him? Kno? And Okay, well
Speaker 4: it's going to be a Friday.
Speaker 2: Well you know what we checked yesterday, me and one
Speaker 2: of our people here, Jason, on the flight restrictions for today,
Speaker 2: and they don't go into effect until about two forty five,
Speaker 2: So it's gonna it could it could toy with your
Speaker 2: afternoon commute a little bit as he moves around.
Speaker 4: If you know, anytime a president comes into town, it
Speaker 4: makes a mess, and especially if we're going into like
Speaker 4: the Alta Dina area. Can you imagine the.
Speaker 2: Two ten I'd also seen some reports that he's only
Speaker 2: planning an aerial tour, so that would make driving easier
Speaker 2: but you know, well, probably that'll.
Speaker 4: Be interesting to see because remember when President Bush did
Speaker 4: the aerial tour of Katrina and then just got hammered.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is expected to touch down though, because as
Speaker 4: we mentioned, Governor Newsom is expected to greet him on
Speaker 4: the tarmac, and that'll be interesting to see what comes
Speaker 4: of that. We've got several sources saying that that's what
Speaker 4: Newsom is planning to do, but they're kind of they
Speaker 4: don't exactly get along. It's not like their besties, not really. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so we'll have to wait and see. So two forty five,
Speaker 4: which makes sense because he's going to North Carolina. First, right,
Speaker 4: how about we tell you about this The Dream Center
Speaker 4: and iHeartMedia Los Angeles. As you know, we've been working
Speaker 4: together to help victims affected by the wildfires across Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: and your donations are being used right now to deliver
Speaker 4: air purifiers, electronics, food supplies, and more to areas in
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Speaker 4: you can go to Dream Center LA at twenty three
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Speaker 4: to find and they are still taking donations. And you
Speaker 4: guys have turned out in droves to help out the
Speaker 4: wildfire victims, and again, you know, it's like the fires
Speaker 4: are out and there's even there's more calm now, but man,
Speaker 4: the need is great and it's going to stay that
Speaker 4: way for a very very long time. Here are some
Speaker 4: of the things that they still need. Non perishable food items,
Speaker 4: canned goods, snacks, ready to eat meals, bottled water, sports drinks,
Speaker 4: hygiene products, toothpaste like they don't have toothpaste and toothbrushes.
Speaker 4: They lost everything. Shampoos, soap, baby supplies. Always need those diapers,
Speaker 4: formula wipes, baby food, as I mentioned, the air purifiers
Speaker 4: and masks, and flashlights, batteries, even portable chargers. And again
Speaker 4: they're taking those donations through today. I'm not sure if
Speaker 4: they're going into the weekend, but I know it's at
Speaker 4: least through today. We'll check from nine am until seven pm.
Speaker 4: So if you could load up a load up your
Speaker 4: car and take some donations, that would be great. Otherwise,
Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty dot com slash donate. Okay, we've
Speaker 4: got John Decker, kfi's White House correspondent. Good morning, John.
Speaker 3: Good morning to you, Amy. How are you doing today?
Speaker 8: We're good.
Speaker 4: So, John, the President's headed to our hood, but he's
Speaker 4: going to make another stop first, so let's talk about
Speaker 4: what his plans are for today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's visiting two disaster results. He's going to visit Ashville,
Speaker 3: North Carolina first, and of course Ashville still recovering from
Speaker 3: two hurricanes that hit Western Carolina in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: They're still about twelve thousand North Carolinians who are homeless
Speaker 3: because of those two hurricanes.
Speaker 4: How many?
Speaker 3: And then he'll fly all twelve thousand, I mean, an
Speaker 3: enormous number that community is just is reeling as a
Speaker 3: result of those two hurricanes. And then Amy will fly
Speaker 3: across the country to Los Angeles, Southern California. I don't
Speaker 3: have to tell you. We see the pictures, we see
Speaker 3: the video, families, communities that have lost everything, and I
Speaker 3: think that you know, you tell me if I'm incorrect.
Speaker 3: I think that the community of Asheville, the people of
Speaker 3: southern California want to know that the federal government is
Speaker 3: committed to rebuilding, to making these areas the beautiful places
Speaker 3: that they were before the wildfires hit in early January.
Speaker 4: Well, I think I think you are right. And you've
Speaker 4: heard the President say several times that he feels like
Speaker 4: North Carolina just sort of got ignored after the hurricanes,
Speaker 4: and here twelve thousand people are still out of homes
Speaker 4: and it's not like it's Sonny in seventy like it's
Speaker 4: been here. I mean, they're going through winter in North Carolina,
Speaker 4: so it's got to be just an extra, an extra
Speaker 4: hardship on them. And I was also talking to a
Speaker 4: friend because we had some fires tear through southern Oregon
Speaker 4: and a took out a couple of small towns a
Speaker 4: few years ago, and we were talking about like FEMA
Speaker 4: response and that kind of stuff, because FEMA always kind
Speaker 4: of gets slammed in these kinds of things. And they
Speaker 4: were saying, you know, they came and they set up
Speaker 4: all these FEMA trailers, but nobody ever lived in them,
Speaker 4: and then they started leaking, and so they basically spent
Speaker 4: all this money that nobody ever benefited from. So it'll
Speaker 4: be interesting to see, I mean, like how closely we're watching,
Speaker 4: especially in the era of Trump, where he's talking about
Speaker 4: government waste and you know, not using the money the
Speaker 4: right way, and whether he does something about it.
Speaker 3: Well, that's correct. Amy. He's criticized the federal response as
Speaker 3: it relates to western North Carolina, and he's criticized the
Speaker 3: state response as it relates to the wildfires in California.
Speaker 3: So there's going to be a political element to today's
Speaker 3: trip as it relates to which is too bad. But
Speaker 3: you know, I think that you know that's I think
Speaker 3: to a certain extent, the residents of these two regions
Speaker 3: of our country want to look forward. They don't want
Speaker 3: to look backwards in terms of what happened and the
Speaker 3: response that was or was not taken by officials. They
Speaker 3: want to look forward to figure out how they're going
Speaker 3: to rebuild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So for President Trump's trip, while we were waiting
Speaker 4: for our connection with you, we were talking and will
Speaker 4: Cole Schreiber is our traffic eye, and he said that
Speaker 4: Trump's expected to get in later this afternoon, and there's
Speaker 4: talk that he may just do an aerial fly by
Speaker 4: and not go into the fire damaged areas. And that
Speaker 4: just reminded me that you're sort of in a damned
Speaker 4: if you do, damned if you don't situation, because if
Speaker 4: you just fly over to stay out of everybody's way,
Speaker 4: then you get criticized for not getting your feet on
Speaker 4: the ground, and if you go into the areas, they go, oh,
Speaker 4: you're getting in the way of relief.
Speaker 6: Do we know what he I get that.
Speaker 3: I get that. I've traveled with President Trump before after
Speaker 3: a natural disaster. I flew on Air Force One with
Speaker 3: the President down to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, and
Speaker 3: not only did he do a fly by, we were
Speaker 3: right behind in another helicopter, but he also was down
Speaker 3: on the ground meeting with all of those residents who
Speaker 3: at the time were dealing with the fact that their
Speaker 3: community didn't even have electricity. So my guess is he's
Speaker 3: going to get on the ground. He's going to see
Speaker 3: this firsthand, and to your point, he's going to do
Speaker 3: it in such a way that he doesn't get in
Speaker 3: the way of those people that are continuing to fight
Speaker 3: these wildfires in southern California.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Well, we'll see what happens when he gets here,
Speaker 4: because we don't have any real details of what a
Speaker 4: schedule is, but I'm sure lots of people will be watching.
Speaker 4: And then I want to tell you this too. So
Speaker 4: John Decker, of course, the White House correspondent with the
Speaker 4: press pool. And you just mentioned that you've traveled with
Speaker 4: the president before. You're not going to be on the
Speaker 4: plane with him today, but you will be in the future.
Speaker 4: And so once that happens, Wake Up Call wants to
Speaker 4: know things like what kind of food do you get
Speaker 4: and do you hang out with the president and that
Speaker 4: kind of stuff, So we'll be asking you those questions
Speaker 4: in the future.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll give you a little preview. Best food I've
Speaker 3: ever had on any per airplan, and I've flown first
Speaker 3: class in Emirates, so that gives you a sense about
Speaker 3: how good meals are on Air Force one. So I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to that first day trip yep, that President
Speaker 3: Trump takes and who knows, maybe it's to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: We'll have to wait and see. In the week's ahead.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, rub it in ABC's on ABC's kfi's I'm
Speaker 4: used to saying ABC, but kfi's White House correspondent John Decker,
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, John. We look forward to talking
Speaker 4: to you more.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Amy.
Speaker 4: Byeba Ra The fire that started in Eaton Canyon above
Speaker 4: Alta Dina is ninety five percent surrounded. Everyone forced to
Speaker 4: evacuate the areas being allowed back into their neighborhoods, but
Speaker 4: there are some restrictions. The Palisades fire that burn more
Speaker 4: than twenty three thousand acres, is seventy five percent surrounded.
Speaker 4: Real estate agent's been accused of price gouging a couple
Speaker 4: who lost their home in the Eton fire. California Attorney
Speaker 4: General Rob Bonta says Mike Coobesi told the couple the
Speaker 4: rental price was thirty eight percent higher than it was
Speaker 4: initially advertised. Raising prices more than ten percent during a
Speaker 4: state of emergency is illegal. More than two hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy state banks, credit unions, and lenders say they'll provide
Speaker 4: a mortgage relief for property owners impacted by the wildfires.
Speaker 4: At six SO five, Handle on the News, a judge
Speaker 4: has given President Trump his first executive order setback. Will
Speaker 4: tell you about that right now, Let's say good morning
Speaker 4: to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, maybe there is somethings
Speaker 4: that made in America thing, there's something wrong with the
Speaker 4: Olympic medals.
Speaker 9: You let this be a lesson to Los Angeles. Don't
Speaker 9: skimp on the chromium trioxide.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, the chromium trioxide. That's right, what is chromium
Speaker 4: trioxide track.
Speaker 9: Side is chrome. So if you see in nineteen fifty
Speaker 9: seven Chevy bel Air and it still has all the
Speaker 9: chrome on, it's because of the chromium trackside. That stuff
Speaker 9: lasts a long time. It's used to protect metals, makes
Speaker 9: them shiny, but it's been banned in the European Union
Speaker 9: because it's also very very toxic, and so it's not
Speaker 9: used there anymore. They've had to find substitutes.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 9: The paras Olympics that happened a few months ago, the
Speaker 9: Summer Olympics in twenty twenty four. They were the Parisians
Speaker 9: were tasked with creating the medals that all the winners
Speaker 9: of the silver, the gold, the bronze there in Paris
Speaker 9: were awarded. But within just a few days, some of
Speaker 9: the metal winners, especially the bronze medal winners, saw that
Speaker 9: their medals were looking kind of scuffy. They finished was
Speaker 9: flaking off.
Speaker 2: They were just.
Speaker 9: Looking horrible, flaking off factures. They looked really bad. It
Speaker 9: looks like they were run over and buy a car
Speaker 9: and then dipped in acid or something. But they're just
Speaker 9: not very good. So about one hundred athletes sent them
Speaker 9: back and said please replace these with something better, and does.
Speaker 4: It look like they will be doing that?
Speaker 9: The International Olympic Committee says, yes, we're gonna go ahead
Speaker 9: and do that, and they think they've struck on a
Speaker 9: formulation that's better serve. You know, they's gonna work better
Speaker 9: to preserve They're preserved these things forever.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 9: The metal you've probably heard about this last week in
Speaker 9: nineteen oh four Olympic gold medal, which was actually made
Speaker 9: of gold back then, was recently auctioned to offer five
Speaker 9: hundred thousand dollars something like that. They're not made fully
Speaker 9: of gold anymore. They gold medals are actually silver that
Speaker 9: are plated with gold. The silver metals are silver. The
Speaker 9: bronze medals are silver, but they also have copper and
Speaker 9: iron and zinc some other materials in them, and so
Speaker 9: that may have contributed also to this, the flaking of
Speaker 9: the finish.
Speaker 4: I feel like we got jipped, Like, if you get
Speaker 4: a gold medal, it should be gold.
Speaker 9: Well, it is gold kind of fortunately percentage of it.
Speaker 4: Hey, okay, And how is Louis Vatan involved in this?
Speaker 9: LVMH is the parent company to Louis Vauton and Hennessy
Speaker 9: and a jewelry company called I think chal May, and
Speaker 9: chal May was given the job of designing these things,
Speaker 9: designing the metals. And so when the chromium or when
Speaker 9: the varney started coming off of them, somebody turned to
Speaker 9: LVMH And said, hey, what's going on with your medals here?
Speaker 9: And they were like, uhh, no, the we designed them,
Speaker 9: but they were created by Lemne des Paris, the French mint. Okay,
Speaker 9: so it was the French mint. Now that's taking responsibility
Speaker 9: for the bad formulation of the varnish.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I if you get a chance, I just
Speaker 4: googled it and it popped up on Instagram. If you
Speaker 4: haven't seen like what you're talking about, it looks like
Speaker 4: they were dropped in the water and maybe rescued from
Speaker 4: the Titanic or something. They would look really like they're
Speaker 4: just old and falling apart and it kind of corroded.
Speaker 9: It looks like the little boy Scout thing that I
Speaker 9: found that I had when I was a kid, and
Speaker 9: I found recently. Was like, hey, this looks terrible.
Speaker 4: Oh you got a boy Scout metal?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh I love that. Jim Ryan, thank you so much.
Speaker 9: Thanks Tom.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll talk to you soon. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 4: A hiker has been shot on the US side of
Speaker 4: the border with Mexico. San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond
Speaker 4: says human smugglers were involved.
Speaker 3: We've had a couple of hikers who were hiking near
Speaker 3: the border come up upon a group of people that
Speaker 3: had two smugglers that were.
Speaker 4: Both armed Border Patrol agentsy. The American was with other
Speaker 4: people hiking on Imperial County or in Imperial County when
Speaker 4: they were shot at just east of Hakumba. The injured
Speaker 4: hiker was airlifted to the hospital. A homeless parolee has
Speaker 4: been arrested in Riverside for allegedly breaking into an apartment,
Speaker 4: sexually assaulting a woman and stealing some of her things.
Speaker 4: The police were called Monday morning to the University Village
Speaker 4: Towers apartments. They say the woman reported hearing a fire
Speaker 4: alarm in the building and then a knock on her door.
Speaker 4: When she answered, the guy forced his way in. Police
Speaker 4: say the man arrested. Julian Madrigal is on parole for
Speaker 4: home and Asian robbery. The trial of rapper Asap Rocky
Speaker 4: is due to start today in La A jury of
Speaker 4: five men and seven women was seated yesterday. Four alternates
Speaker 4: still need to be picked. The rappers charged with shooting
Speaker 4: at a former friend in twenty twenty one. President Trump
Speaker 4: is pledged to fight the decision by a judge in
Speaker 4: Washington State blocking his executive order on birthright citizenship. The
Speaker 4: judge calls Trump's order a blatant violation of the Constitution,
Speaker 4: but Trump says that's to be expected.
Speaker 10: Obviously. Will look, they put it before a certain judge
Speaker 10: in Seattle.
Speaker 8: I guess right, and there's our surprises with that judge.
Speaker 4: The judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan more than forty years ago,
Speaker 4: is considering a long term injunction. The company and once
Speaker 4: prominent family behind the drug oxy Conton has agreed to
Speaker 4: increase their financial contribution to resolve mass opioid litigation involving
Speaker 4: prosecutors across the US. New York State Attorney General Letitia
Speaker 4: James says the Sackler family and their company per Due,
Speaker 4: helped cause the opioid crisis decades ago and have been
Speaker 4: avoiding accountability. This will help communities heal from the devastating
Speaker 4: losses are wrought by addiction, and this will support treatment
Speaker 4: and recovery programs.
Speaker 7: Across New York and the nation.
Speaker 4: The Sacklers and Purdue Pharma are increasing their financial contribution
Speaker 4: to seven point four billion dollars after the Supreme Court
Speaker 4: overturned a prior settlement. Costco has struck down some anti
Speaker 4: DEI efforts.
Speaker 6: A think tank recently sent the retail giant to proposal
Speaker 6: saying is shuld conduct an evaluation to see if DEI
Speaker 6: or diversity, equity and inclusion policies pose any risk to
Speaker 6: the company.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, Costco's board of directors fired back at the conservative group,
Speaker 6: which is called the National Center for Public Policy Research,
Speaker 6: voting down the proposal. The board says the company defends
Speaker 6: respect and inclusion as there are now nationwide efforts to
Speaker 6: strike DEI practices. Costco support for DEI programs is a
Speaker 6: sharp contrast from positions taken by other big consumer brands
Speaker 6: like Walmart, Lows, and Amazon. Andrew Caravella news.
Speaker 4: President Trump heads to Los Angeles to take a look
Speaker 4: at the wildfire devastated areas in Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
Speaker 4: In Pasadena, Governor Newsom and County Supervisor Catherine Barger invited
Speaker 4: Trump to come see the damage. It's not clear if
Speaker 4: Trump's going to meet with either of them, but we're
Speaker 4: hearing that Newsom is expected to meet Trump on the
Speaker 4: tarmac when he lands. Pete Hegseth has taken another step
Speaker 4: toward becoming the next Secretary of Defense. In a first
Speaker 4: Senate vote yesterday, his confirmation was advanced fifty one to
Speaker 4: forty nine. Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voted against
Speaker 4: hag Seth. A confirmation vote is scheduled on the floor
Speaker 4: later today. Firefighters keep gaining ground on the fire and
Speaker 4: Pacific Palisades. It's now seventy five percent surrounded. Officials say
Speaker 4: the latest damage assessment shows almost sixty eight hundred homes
Speaker 4: and other buildings were destroyed, nine hundred four others were damaged.
Speaker 4: At least eleven people were killed in the fire. And
Speaker 4: speaking of the sixty eight hundred homes and other buildings
Speaker 4: were destroyed or nine hundred four were damaged. And that's
Speaker 4: just going to lead us right into Dean Sharp, the
Speaker 4: host of Home on Cafi in the House whisper, because
Speaker 4: in this situation, the fire was burning so hot and
Speaker 4: so fast. We don't know if there's anything that could
Speaker 4: have been done. But as people look to fireproof their homes.
Speaker 4: There's some things that you might think you should do,
Speaker 4: but maybe shouldn't exactly.
Speaker 7: And good morning, Amy, Good morning. One of the things
Speaker 7: that we've been hearing too much about in the last
Speaker 7: couple of weeks are people kind of overreacting to the
Speaker 7: fire situation, thinking, all right, that's it. I don't want
Speaker 7: this to happen to me, and so we're just cutting down.
Speaker 7: We're cutting down all of our big trees, we're clearing
Speaker 7: out all of the things that could possibly burn. We're
Speaker 7: just gonna kind of it's almost like old drought thinking.
Speaker 7: If you remember when everybody was thinking about, well, maybe
Speaker 7: I should just pull out all my landscape, just put
Speaker 7: in gravel and desert plants, and that way I've got
Speaker 7: nothing burning near my house and my house will be safer.
Speaker 7: That is not actually a good idea on a couple
Speaker 7: of levels. Number One, well watered, green verdant plants slow
Speaker 7: a fire down, they don't speed it up. Okay, So
Speaker 7: the general rule, the general rule. And I'm all about
Speaker 7: clearing out brush and dry stuff, but the general rule
Speaker 7: is this, if it's dead and dry, get rid of it.
Speaker 7: If it's green and living, keep it and increase it. Now,
Speaker 7: there's some exceptions to that, and the exceptions are there
Speaker 7: are certain trees out there that just don't fare well
Speaker 7: in wildfires. Resinous trees, pine trees, trees. It's a tree
Speaker 7: that has a lot of resins inside of it. Uh,
Speaker 7: A pine tree, eucalyptus tree, so like something that has
Speaker 7: sap in it. Yeah, well, I mean all trees have sap.
Speaker 7: All trees have sap. Okay, but a resinous tree, like
Speaker 7: you know, you walk through a forest and you're like, hmm, oh,
Speaker 7: it smells wonderful. Right. The reason that a pine forest
Speaker 7: smells the way it does is that those resins inside
Speaker 7: that tree are so active. Same with a eucalyptus tree
Speaker 7: when you're like, can you smell that eucalyptus? These are
Speaker 7: trees that they burn. Those resins inside that wood they burn.
Speaker 7: They're like they're they're like the wax on on a candle,
Speaker 7: as far as you know, feeding the wick. Once it
Speaker 7: starts to burn.
Speaker 4: The kind of ooze a little bit.
Speaker 7: They ooze, and they burn and burn incredibly incredibly hot
Speaker 7: and fast.
Speaker 4: Okay, then I have a question for you that is
Speaker 4: completely not a we wouldn't find these in southern California.
Speaker 4: But it is a maple tree, a resinous tree.
Speaker 7: A maple tree is a different kind of tree. No,
Speaker 7: it's not.
Speaker 4: Actually, I was just thinking it would be. It would
Speaker 4: be because you know, it oozes stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, again, it's not sap. Okay, it's a specific kind
Speaker 7: of sap compound. So so eucalyptus and pine trees. I'm
Speaker 7: not saying that you can't have them on your property,
Speaker 7: but those should not be near the house, which.
Speaker 4: Is crazy because everybody's got eucalyptus trees.
Speaker 7: They're everywhere. No, and they're not native to California either.
Speaker 7: They don't actually, no, they don't belong here. They were
Speaker 7: brought here as fire, as a as a frost and
Speaker 7: wind stops for farming, and they don't actually belong in
Speaker 7: southern California. One of our feature trees in southern California
Speaker 7: is not native to California.
Speaker 4: The palm trees aren't either.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's only one species of palm tree and you
Speaker 7: have to find it out past palm springs and palm springs.
Speaker 7: But as far as La, you know, almost l every
Speaker 7: image of La is like, oh, the palm trees, and yeah,
Speaker 7: none of them, none of them technically belong here. And
Speaker 7: a palm tree, we talk about fire resistant vents right
Speaker 7: because of embers flying a palm tree this is its job,
Speaker 7: and a fire it just becomes an ember hydrant. If
Speaker 7: you've ever seen a palm tree burning in a wildfire,
Speaker 7: embers are just flying off that thing like crazy. So
Speaker 7: those kinds of trees should not be hanging over our homes,
Speaker 7: sitting right next to our homes. That's not safe. But
Speaker 7: every other kind of green, verdant, full tree actually helps
Speaker 7: block embers from getting to the house, and to clear
Speaker 7: them out is to essentially create a bowling alley effect.
Speaker 7: We've just cleared the lane for embers to get directly
Speaker 7: to our structures that mean so much to us. And
Speaker 7: so trees help, trees help, green plants help. What about
Speaker 7: jack Aranda's Jackaranda tree is fine, not a problem.
Speaker 4: Is It's my favorite.
Speaker 7: So but the moral of the story here is that
Speaker 7: we do not need to overreact by removing green. It's actually,
Speaker 7: if you ask any fire expert, green moist fuel. That's
Speaker 7: how they refer to it. Is the kind of stuff.
Speaker 7: It's not that they won't burn, but the fire really
Speaker 7: has to work hard to burn through moist materials, and
Speaker 7: so it slows a fire down. And the other thing
Speaker 7: is the fact that the presence of all of these
Speaker 7: and you've talked to you, and I've talked about this before,
Speaker 7: the presence of all of these green trees and this
Speaker 7: lush landscape in southern California actually cools our region, brings
Speaker 7: more moisture into our region. And if we had more
Speaker 7: of it, we would have less dry brush, less dry weather,
Speaker 7: and less fires to begin with.
Speaker 4: So we really should go green around our homes.
Speaker 7: We really do need to go green around our homes.
Speaker 7: Don't overreact. Again, if you've got dangerous trees hanging over
Speaker 7: your house or right next to your house, that's something
Speaker 7: to think about. Otherwise, go green.
Speaker 4: Okay, and Dean, this weekend, you're having an all call
Speaker 4: weekend on your show, right, Yes, we are, Okay, So
Speaker 4: what does that mean?
Speaker 7: What that means is that we're just taking a break
Speaker 7: from you know, we're taking a breath from all of
Speaker 7: the massive amount of material and information that we've been
Speaker 7: pumping out, and we're giving our listeners the opportunity to
Speaker 7: talk about whatever it is that they want to talk about.
Speaker 7: I'm sitting on this side of the microphone. We open
Speaker 7: up the phones and anything you want to talk about
Speaker 7: regarding your home. If you've still got fire questions, absolutely,
Speaker 7: if it's anything else regarding your home, you set the
Speaker 7: agenda for the weekend.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll call Weekend on Home with Dean Sharp right
Speaker 4: here on KFI. You can listen tomorrow six to eight
Speaker 4: am and Sunday nine am to noon. You can also
Speaker 4: follow Dean at Home with Dean as always, thanks for
Speaker 4: the great advice. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 7: Thanks, am all right.
Speaker 4: Federal prosecutors have released a recorded phone call in which
Speaker 4: they say show hey, Otani's former interpreter tried to transfer
Speaker 4: three hundred thousand dollars from Otani's bank account to himself.
Speaker 4: What is the reason for this transaction.
Speaker 3: For a car Loan?
Speaker 4: Prosecutors say the caller was not Otani but Ipe Misuhara.
Speaker 4: What is your relationship to the paye.
Speaker 9: All he worked on?
Speaker 4: The caller was asked if there would be any future
Speaker 4: transfers to the friend and he said possibly. Misahara pleaded
Speaker 4: guilty last year to bank fraud and filing a false
Speaker 4: tax return after stealing almost seventeen million dollars from Otani.
Speaker 4: The ex interpreter was supposed to be sentenced today, but
Speaker 4: that sentencing has been pushed back to early next month.
Speaker 4: Robert F. Kennedy Junior gets his turn before senators next week.
Speaker 4: His confirmation hearing for his nomination to be the Health
Speaker 4: and Human Services Secretary scheduled for Wednesday. Trump's pick to
Speaker 4: be the Secretary of Homeland Security. North Dakota Governor Christy
Speaker 4: Noam could be confirmed over the weekend. Newly sworn in
Speaker 4: Secretary of State Marco Rubios headed to Central America and
Speaker 4: the Caribbean to push the Trump administration's agenda on immigration.
Speaker 4: One of the issues Rubio could raise is Trump's interest
Speaker 4: in getting the Panama Canal back under US control. Missouri
Speaker 4: Republican Senator Josh Holly says he agrees with Trump that
Speaker 4: China's involvement in the canal is a violation of a
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy seven agreement.
Speaker 11: We paid for the Panama Canal, we built the Panama
Speaker 11: and I don't think that they have followed the treaty
Speaker 11: and we never should it given to the Patawa Canal.
Speaker 7: I think it was a mistake.
Speaker 4: Well, China doesn't actually operate the canal. Chinese owned companies do.
Speaker 4: President Trump has refused to rule out using the US
Speaker 4: military to retake the waterway, and armed visitors managed to
Speaker 4: get past security at the US Capitol while confirmation hearings
Speaker 4: were underway. ABC's Pierre Thomas says the man even went
Speaker 4: on a tour of the building.
Speaker 10: Sol Wheny say the man set off magnetometers at the
Speaker 10: Capitol visitor Center and was then subjected to additional screening
Speaker 10: by a Capitol police officer who failed to find the firearm,
Speaker 10: which was discovered as the man left the Library of
Speaker 10: Congress following his tour.
Speaker 4: Thomas said Capitol police officers will have to go undergo
Speaker 4: mandatory refresher training on security screenings. Magnetometer. That's going to
Speaker 4: be my word of the day, although it's going to
Speaker 4: be hard to use it in a sentence. Cooler temperatures
Speaker 4: and calmer winds are settling into the Southland, with rain
Speaker 4: expected this weekend. Red flag warnings expire at ten this morning.
Speaker 4: Most areas are going to see temperatures drop from around
Speaker 4: eighty yesterday to the high sixties today and then into
Speaker 4: the fifties this weekend. Two and a half billion dollars
Speaker 4: in wildfire aids coming to southern California. Lawmakers passed the
Speaker 4: funding yesterday and the governor signed it. The bills, supported
Speaker 4: by both Republicans and Democrats, include more funding to rebuild
Speaker 4: schools and homes. State Senator Scott Wiener says they are
Speaker 4: all on the same team when it comes to supporting
Speaker 4: LA and helping people recover. Drought conditions are getting worse
Speaker 4: in southern California. That's according to Noah's Drought Monitor, which
Speaker 4: warned back in October that parts of California had already
Speaker 4: reached extreme or near record levels and they expect those
Speaker 4: conditions to get worse, which they have. We're just minutes
Speaker 4: away from handling the news this morning. Another round of
Speaker 4: hostage releases is set for this weekend in Gaza. Right now,
Speaker 4: let's say good morning to ABC's Will gans Will. About
Speaker 4: twenty four hours ago, the Oscar nominations were released, and
Speaker 4: so we've had a little time to dig into them.
Speaker 4: Any big surprises, I yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Would say there are a few surprises.
Speaker 11: Is two of the surprises that I am, you know,
Speaker 11: most excited about are the acting nominations for Sebastian Stan
Speaker 11: and Jeremy Strong for their work in The Apprentice, which is,
Speaker 11: you know, a movie about Donald Trump as a as
Speaker 11: a young real estate vogul coming up in the seventies
Speaker 11: and eighties in New York City. You know, obviously this
Speaker 11: movie is going to make everyone.
Speaker 5: Feel a certain type away.
Speaker 11: But both of their performances are so good, and the
Speaker 11: fact that Jeremy Strong is nominated for Supporting Actor means
Speaker 11: he's nominated against.
Speaker 5: His brother from Succession, Kiaran Culkin.
Speaker 11: And anytime we get to see those two interacting together,
Speaker 11: it's always a good time. You know, It's it's competitive
Speaker 11: but hilarious, and you know they always sort of roast
Speaker 11: each other on the carpet and stuff like that. So
Speaker 11: I was excited to see nominations for those two.
Speaker 4: Those two guys, all right, what about what else?
Speaker 5: A complete unknown?
Speaker 11: So you know, we knew that Timothy Shallomey would be
Speaker 11: nominated for playing Bob Dylan in this movie, but it
Speaker 11: also got a Best Director nomination, and it got nominations
Speaker 11: in the Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress categories. So really,
Speaker 11: one of my major takeaways after the nominations yesterday was like, Okay,
Speaker 11: we really need to pay attention to how the Academy
Speaker 11: feels about a Complete Unknown. That's a lot of momentum
Speaker 11: heading into Oscar Sunday. The fact that it got all
Speaker 11: those major categories. So I mean, obviously Amelia Perez picked
Speaker 11: up thirteen nominations, but with all those those big nominations
Speaker 11: for a complete unknown, I think it might be a
Speaker 11: front runner now when you know, earlier we might have
Speaker 11: just thought of it as a vehicle for Timmy Shallomy.
Speaker 4: Okay, and then so Wicked got a lot of nominations.
Speaker 4: It used to be sort of unheard of almost that
Speaker 4: a blockbuster like that would get nominated, but that seems
Speaker 4: to be changing a little. We've seen a little more
Speaker 4: of that. Where are you How are you feeling about Wicked?
Speaker 5: I mean, I feel good about it.
Speaker 11: The other thing, too, is that I do think that
Speaker 11: a movie like that, which is sort of the out
Speaker 11: of this bunch you know of nominees this year, I
Speaker 11: think it's the most feel good. It provides obviously a
Speaker 11: lovely sense of escapism, which I think maybe a ton
Speaker 11: of people are.
Speaker 5: Looking for these days.
Speaker 11: So it doesn't surprise me that it did very well.
Speaker 11: And I think that those you know, the way that
Speaker 11: people want to feel and need to feel right now, particularly.
Speaker 3: In Los Angeles.
Speaker 11: You know, that could help Wicked a lot heading into
Speaker 11: Oscar Sunday in March.
Speaker 5: So, you know, I'm thrilled that it did so well.
Speaker 11: It's definitely was my favorite watch, the easiest watch, the
Speaker 11: most enjoyable watch for me, out of this list of
Speaker 11: ten movies. So I'm really happy that it did so well.
Speaker 11: And of course Cynthia and Arianna, you know, I'm hoping
Speaker 11: that we might get to see them perform together on
Speaker 11: Oscar Sunday because they sort of change the rules about
Speaker 11: what music will be performed that day.
Speaker 4: That could be fun. The other thing that I was
Speaker 4: thinking about when I was looking through the nominations was
Speaker 4: the Best Actors category. And You've got to me more
Speaker 4: from the substance, which I know you said you liked
Speaker 4: it not for the faint of heart. I did not
Speaker 4: like it, But I think, to me, did she did
Speaker 4: a good job, but she didn't make me feel anything.
Speaker 4: You know, she did a good job in the role.
Speaker 4: Cynthia Rivo made me cry. She did such an amazing job,
Speaker 4: and I would I would love to see something like
Speaker 4: that be rewarded. We'll have to wait and see, but
Speaker 4: I kind of doubt it, but it'd be nice.
Speaker 5: I'm with you.
Speaker 11: And the big thing about the difference between like a
Speaker 11: Demi Mour performance and a Cynthia Rivo performance is sort
Speaker 11: of the way you.
Speaker 5: Walk out of that theater.
Speaker 11: So with Demi Moore, obviously, the last shot of that
Speaker 11: movie is pretty gross and it's like you do see her,
Speaker 11: you see her face or whatever. But compare that to
Speaker 11: how you feel walking out of Wicked when you've just
Speaker 11: watched Cynthia Rivo totally crushed to find gravity and you're like, yes,
Speaker 11: like of.
Speaker 5: Course Cynthia is.
Speaker 11: It's like she stays on your mind and in your
Speaker 11: heart and so you know, I'm with you.
Speaker 5: It would be amazing to see her rewarded for that.
Speaker 11: And by the way, if Cynthia wins on Oscar Sunday,
Speaker 11: that would complete her egot. You knows one Oscar short,
Speaker 11: so I mean that would be yeah, something spectacular.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure we're going to be rehashing all of
Speaker 4: this on March third, because the awards are being handed
Speaker 4: out on March second. ABC's Willgans thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Amy. Great to talk to you always.
Speaker 4: All right, talk to you next week. Let's get back
Speaker 4: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 4: twenty four our newsroom. President Trump is expected to visit
Speaker 4: La today to see the fire damage, but cafi's Daniel
Speaker 4: Martindale says details of the visit haven't been released by
Speaker 4: the White House.
Speaker 8: Trump spoke about the deadly fires during his inaugural address
Speaker 8: on Monday. Trump has been highly critical of Governor Gavin
Speaker 8: Newsom's handling of the wildfire situation. Earlier this week, the
Speaker 8: President told Fox News he doesn't think the federal government
Speaker 8: should give California anything until the state changes certain policies.
Speaker 4: Those policies have to do with forest management and allowing
Speaker 4: more water to flow to southern California from up north.
Speaker 4: More than two hundred and seventy financial institutions have agreed
Speaker 4: to provide mortgage relief to property owners impacted by the fires.
Speaker 6: A three month for barons we'll go to those who
Speaker 6: have lost homes in La in Ventura counties. In a
Speaker 6: statement on Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom think the institutions and
Speaker 6: said that California will continue to support survivors and expedite
Speaker 6: relief and recovery for fire victims. The move is similar
Speaker 6: to action taken by five major banks last week. Newsom
Speaker 6: has also extended the state tax filing deadline to October
Speaker 6: fifteen for La County residents. Homeowners have until April twenty
Speaker 6: twenty six to file their property taxes. Andrew Caravella Kafi
Speaker 6: news The.
Speaker 4: Cal State University System is facing a proposed eight percent
Speaker 4: cut in state funding, which could affect more than four
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty thousand students. Governor Newsom's budget plan includes
Speaker 4: just over three hundred and seventy five million dollars in
Speaker 4: reductions and delays of roughly two hundred and fifty two
Speaker 4: million in funding, which campuses say will increase financial strain
Speaker 4: on the system. Currently, sixty percent of CSU funding comes
Speaker 4: from the state. The rest is from tuition and fees.
Speaker 4: La County health officials and volunteers are going to be
Speaker 4: hosting workshops at music and cultural festivals across the county
Speaker 4: as part of an effort to counter the fentanyl crisis.
Speaker 4: While attendee wait to go into stadiums and other venues,
Speaker 4: they'll have a chance to learn about the risks of fentanyl.
Speaker 4: They'll also get training and certification on how to administer narcam,
Speaker 4: a life saving opioid overdose reversal medication. This is KFI
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Speaker 4: from KFI. Red flag warnings run out at ten o'clock.
Speaker 4: Still have some gusty winds on the way. Sunshine this
Speaker 4: morning and then some clouds rolling in this afternoon. Highs
Speaker 4: will be in right around seventy for the beaches Metro
Speaker 4: La inland O c low seventies for the valleys in
Speaker 4: Ie low sixties in the Antelote Valley. Cloudy with the
Speaker 4: forty percent chance of rain tomorrow and then rains likely
Speaker 4: tomorrow night and Sunday. Snow's expected at about the thirty
Speaker 4: five hundred to four thousand foot level hies through the weekend.
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