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Speaker 1: Up Golf? And may I just say I hope your
Speaker 1: day starts a little more smoothly than mine. That was
Speaker 1: a weird, little hiccup. The Lacity Council has delayed its
Speaker 1: vote on a proposal to increase the minimum wage for
Speaker 1: hotel and airport workers. The proposal would increase wages to
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars an hour next year and thirty dollars
Speaker 1: an hour by twenty twenty eight. The delay came because
Speaker 1: council members said and economic impact impact report lacked key details.
Speaker 1: The vote is now set for December eleventh, more than
Speaker 1: two weeks after the election. NBC News has projected voters
Speaker 1: in California have narrowly rejected a ballot measure that would
Speaker 1: have increased the state's minimum wage.
Speaker 8: Proposition thirty two.
Speaker 1: Would have bumped the minimum wage to eighteen dollars an
Speaker 1: hour by twenty twenty six.
Speaker 8: A man in.
Speaker 1: Florida has filed a class action lawsuit against Netflix over
Speaker 1: glitches during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake
Speaker 1: Paul Ronald claims that Netflix breached its contract when the
Speaker 1: stream went down or the picture got pixelated because of buffering.
Speaker 1: Thousands have complained. Netflix has called the streaming event a success.
Speaker 1: About sixty five million people watched or tried to watch.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A new audit
Speaker 1: has revealed financial mismanagement at the La Homeless Services Authority.
Speaker 9: The audit was requested by the La County Board of
Speaker 9: Supervisors in February, and now that it's out, Supervisor Lindsay
Speaker 9: Horvanz says the county may need to create its own
Speaker 9: internal department of Homelessness. The County Auditor Controller reports has
Speaker 9: LASSA lacked records to track the cash it handed out
Speaker 9: to contractors, and even failed to determine whether those contracts
Speaker 9: were fulfilled. LASA is an agency jointly managed by the
Speaker 9: county and the City of La. Both governments have expressed
Speaker 9: concern in recent years about the agency's finances and efficacy.
Speaker 9: Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1: News Democrat Derek Tran has added eighty three more votes
Speaker 1: to his congressional race lead over Orange County Republican congresswoman
Speaker 1: Michelle Steele. Tran is now three hundred and ninety seven
Speaker 1: votes ahead of Steel and has fifty point zero six
Speaker 1: percent of the vote. It's not known how many ballots
Speaker 1: still need to be counted. The first major winter storm
Speaker 1: of the season is hitting much of the West Coast.
Speaker 1: A so called bomb cyclone is slamming the region from
Speaker 1: Seattle all the way down to San Francisco. Dave Kenny
Speaker 1: with Pacific Gas and Electric says they're urging customers to
Speaker 1: be prepared.
Speaker 6: That's making sure that devices are charged. Electronic devices are charged.
Speaker 10: I stay away from any down power lines, a treat
Speaker 10: any down power line is live.
Speaker 1: Forecasters say southern California could get some rain from the
Speaker 1: tail end of the system starting late tomorrow. The real
Speaker 1: estate company Redfinn has revised its projected mortgage rate for
Speaker 1: the next year upwards to six point eight percent. That's
Speaker 1: more than a half a percentage point more than it
Speaker 1: had estimated before President Electrump won the election. A Redfinn
Speaker 1: aonymous is the difference is Trump and speculation that he'll
Speaker 1: go ahead with some tariffs you talked about during his
Speaker 1: latest presidential campaign. Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slam baseball
Speaker 1: from Game one of the World Series is going up
Speaker 1: for auction. Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the ball hitting to
Speaker 1: the right field pavilion was the first walk off Grand
Speaker 1: Slam in World Series history.
Speaker 9: A ten year old boy from Venice got a hold
Speaker 9: of the ball and passed it to his father, who
Speaker 9: was able to pick it up. SCP Auctions will be
Speaker 9: taking bids on the ball from December fourth through the fourteenth.
Speaker 1: The auction house says it could easily go for more
Speaker 1: than a million dollars. Show Hey Otani's historic fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty home run ball sold at auction last month for
Speaker 1: nearly four point four million dollars. So now let's move
Speaker 1: on and say good morning to kfi's White House correspondent
Speaker 1: John Decker.
Speaker 8: Good morning, John.
Speaker 5: Say good morning to Amy. Hope you're doing well today.
Speaker 1: I am, except for my ears being blown out, but
Speaker 1: that's a whole other issue. President elect Trump has made
Speaker 1: several controversial nominations. Of course, that none more controversial than
Speaker 1: former Florida Representative Matt Gates for attorney General. So Trump
Speaker 1: says he's not reconsidering the nomination. Now Gates is out
Speaker 1: lobbying to get the job. Tell us the latest and
Speaker 1: what's going.
Speaker 8: On with that.
Speaker 5: Well, it's an uphill fight in terms of winning confirmation
Speaker 5: to be the Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer
Speaker 5: of the United States. Matt Gates has not done himself
Speaker 5: any favors, first of all by insulting a significant number
Speaker 5: of Republican Senators who will ultimately potentially pass judgment on
Speaker 5: his nomination. And then, of course you have some very
Speaker 5: serious allegations that have been made against Matt Gates, sexual misconduct,
Speaker 5: sexual relations with a minor, illicit drug use, using campaign
Speaker 5: funds for personal use. All of that was investigated by
Speaker 5: the House Ethics Committee. The House Ethics Committee voted yesterday
Speaker 5: not to release that report, Amy, And you have to
Speaker 5: wonder why is that. You know, if there was information
Speaker 5: contained in that ethics support that exonerates Matt Gates, you
Speaker 5: want you'd want to get that information out there. And
Speaker 5: so I think it has put Republican senators in particular
Speaker 5: in a very difficult position. They want to be supportive
Speaker 5: of Donald Trump at the same time, this is this
Speaker 5: is a very damaged nominee to lead the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1: And in the Ethics Committee meeting, the vote there. It
Speaker 1: was basically a split down party line. So all the
Speaker 1: Democrats said, yes, release it, and all the Republicans said, nope,
Speaker 1: we're not releasing it.
Speaker 5: That's right. And then what we have is Republicans in
Speaker 5: the Senate want that information. They realize how important the
Speaker 5: position of attorney general is. They say that if we
Speaker 5: don't get the information from the report, we'll get the
Speaker 5: information by doing our own investigation. We'll have our own hearing,
Speaker 5: We'll bring those same witnesses before our committee, which would
Speaker 5: be very damaging to not only Matt Gates, but also
Speaker 5: to Donald Trump. I don't know if he wants to
Speaker 5: invest that much political capital in such a damaged nominee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if they do decide to do their own investigation,
Speaker 1: how quickly can they get that done?
Speaker 8: John?
Speaker 1: Can they start meetings tomorrow or the next day, or
Speaker 1: can they get it done before.
Speaker 8: He gets into office.
Speaker 5: What they actually envision is doing the investigation in real time,
Speaker 5: bringing some of those witnesses that have made these allegations
Speaker 5: against Matt Gates before the committee televised hearings that would
Speaker 5: happen in early January. So that is something that you know,
Speaker 5: if Matt Gates wants to put himself through all of that.
Speaker 5: You know, I guess that's his choice. It's just one
Speaker 5: of those things that is a distraction, a distraction from,
Speaker 5: you know, the early days of the Trump administration in
Speaker 5: what Donald Trump would like to get accomplished in those
Speaker 5: first early days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned last time we talked about the chaos
Speaker 1: that does seem to follow President elect Trump, and it's
Speaker 1: almost like it feels like and of course this is
Speaker 1: just me speculating that he kind of brings some of
Speaker 1: this stuff on himself. So why nominate somebody that controversial?
Speaker 1: There's got to be other people out there that would
Speaker 1: be qualified, you know.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, to your point, are there other individuals
Speaker 5: that you know would be loyal to Donald Trump but
Speaker 5: don't have baggage that could lead the Department of Justice? Absolutely?
Speaker 5: You know, I could think of a dozen Republicans who
Speaker 5: fit the bill. I don't know why. I mean, Donald
Speaker 5: Trump obviously feels that he wants to repay the loyalty
Speaker 5: that Matt Gates has demonstrated to him over the years.
Speaker 5: This is a highly coveted position. Matt Gates, as you
Speaker 5: alluded to, has already left his position in the House
Speaker 5: of Representatives And why did he do that? That was
Speaker 5: to prevent the release of this House Ethics report. That's
Speaker 5: the only reason why you would do such a thing.
Speaker 5: You take a look amy at Marco Rubio, who's been
Speaker 5: nominated to be the Secretary of State. He is still
Speaker 5: the senior Senator from Florida. He's not giving up his
Speaker 5: position a US Senator until he's confirmed as Secretary of State.
Speaker 1: And if they can't push Matt Gates through, are there
Speaker 1: any rumblings about who else might be kind of waiting
Speaker 1: in the wings or is that all just being kept
Speaker 1: under wraps right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they want to get to that. When
Speaker 5: they get to that. That being said, Donald Trump has
Speaker 5: already announced the number two and the number three positions
Speaker 5: at the Department of Justice. They're his former criminal lawyers
Speaker 5: that have represented him in various criminal matters that he's
Speaker 5: dealt with over the course of the past year. Potentially
Speaker 5: one of the two of them could be elevated to
Speaker 5: the top job at the Department of Justice. Senator Mike
Speaker 5: Lee of Utah has coveted the position of Attorney General.
Speaker 5: That's one name that I'm hearing that Donald Trump could
Speaker 5: turn to someone who's been very loyal to him as well.
Speaker 5: So I don't think they're at the stage yet where
Speaker 5: they're already looking for an alternative to mac Gates. I
Speaker 5: think they want to see how this process plays itself
Speaker 5: out over the course of the next several weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as you mentioned, loyalty, we've heard the word
Speaker 1: a few times just during our discussion. It's a big
Speaker 1: thing for Trump.
Speaker 8: We will be watching. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker appreciate the information.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much, Amie, have a great day.
Speaker 8: Thank us too.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some people in
Speaker 1: Hacianda Heights have had no telephone or internet service for months.
Speaker 11: It's because someone keeps stealing copper wire from the area.
Speaker 11: It's gotten so bad that now the internet service provider
Speaker 11: Frontier says it's offering up to five thousand dollars to
Speaker 11: anyone who provides information leading directly to the arrest and
Speaker 11: conviction of any person involved in the theft or damage
Speaker 11: to Frontier property. The ha Sanda Heights Improvement Association estimates
Speaker 11: about seven miles of neighborhoods in the city have no service.
Speaker 11: It's so bad that Los Alto's High School has taken
Speaker 11: matters into their own hands, now leaving the stadium lights
Speaker 11: overnight to prevent copper robberies in the area. Andrew Caravella
Speaker 11: KFI News.
Speaker 1: La Metros's ridership in October was up compared to last year,
Speaker 1: making it the twenty third month in a row with
Speaker 1: an increase year over year. The transit agency says twenty
Speaker 1: two and a half million bus riders for the month
Speaker 1: and an eight point six percent increase for rail passengers
Speaker 1: compared to a year ago. Metro says its weekday ridership
Speaker 1: has now reached eighty four percent of its pre pandemic levels,
Speaker 1: so still have the way to go. California is expected
Speaker 1: to avoid a major budget shortfall next year. The state
Speaker 1: faces a two billion dollar deficit this year, which is
Speaker 1: a big improvement from the forty seven billion dollar deficit
Speaker 1: last year. The California Republican Senator Roger Niello says, there
Speaker 1: is some bad news and.
Speaker 2: All that because of continued expenditure growth and not anticipated
Speaker 2: vigorous revenue growth that we're looking at twenty to thirty
Speaker 2: billion dollar deficits for the three fiscal years after twenty
Speaker 2: five twenty six.
Speaker 1: Malo says the state needs to do a better job
Speaker 1: of assessing outcomes of programs. The Legislative Analysts Office says
Speaker 1: as they review programs, if they're not doing what they're
Speaker 1: expected to the state needs to make cuts to reduce expenses.
Speaker 1: One of two men sentenced to death in LA for
Speaker 1: a takeover robbery and mass murder at a Bob's Big
Speaker 1: Boy in nineteen eighty wants a new sentence.
Speaker 12: Seventy nine year old Ricardo Renee Sanders has started legal
Speaker 12: efforts to have his prison sentence shortened. Recent state laws
Speaker 12: that allowed judges to reconsider prison terms could lead to
Speaker 12: Sanders being released on parole.
Speaker 1: Kay if I's Mark Mayfield Sais, Sanders and another man
Speaker 1: were convicted of forcing eleven customers and employees into a freezer,
Speaker 1: then shooting them in the back, firing until they ran
Speaker 1: out of bullets.
Speaker 8: Four people were killed.
Speaker 1: The ely keunny DIA's offices it will oppose Sanders' efforts
Speaker 1: to make him eligible for parole. How Speaker Mark Johnson
Speaker 1: has announced a new policy that bans transgender women, including
Speaker 1: Delaware congresswoman elect Sarah McBride from using women's restrooms on
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill. He says everyone should be treated with dignity
Speaker 1: and respect, but.
Speaker 13: A man is a man and a woman is a woman,
Speaker 13: and a man cannot become a woman.
Speaker 1: Johnson says the new a policy applies to all single
Speaker 1: sex facilities like restrooms and locker rooms in the Capitol
Speaker 1: and House office buildings. Earlier this week, a Republican congresswoman
Speaker 1: introduced a resolution that would require House members and staff
Speaker 1: to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological sex.
Speaker 1: A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the seventh time
Speaker 1: in a year. The first in a series happened in
Speaker 1: December of last year. Iceland's seismic monitors say the latest
Speaker 1: eruption late yesterday started with little warning and created a
Speaker 1: long fissure, but looked smaller than eruptions in August and
Speaker 1: in May. About fifty homes were evacuated. Hey, the fourteenth
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Speaker 1: to Caterina's Club. About forty thousand UC healthcare workers are
Speaker 1: on picket lines instead of on the job for a
Speaker 1: second day as a two day strike continues. The workers
Speaker 1: claim the University of California is bargaining in bad faith.
Speaker 1: The workers say they are understaffed and overworked and want
Speaker 1: better working conditions and pay. Former Florida Representative Matt Gates
Speaker 1: and President Alex trump pick for Attorney General. Matt Gates
Speaker 1: has met privately with Republican senators who have questions about
Speaker 1: the sexual misconduct and other allegations against him. At least
Speaker 1: one Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, says there was a lynch
Speaker 1: mob forming against Gates. Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Post
Speaker 1: Malone are going to headline Coachella twenty twenty five, the
Speaker 1: lineup which just announced yesterday. Other performers include Megan the Stallion,
Speaker 1: Travis Scott, Missy Elliott, and Charles X. Coachella happens the
Speaker 1: second and third weekends in April at the Empire Polo
Speaker 1: Club in Indio. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, President Trump's mass
Speaker 1: deportations are coming as soon as he gets back into office.
Speaker 1: A conservative estimates that's about eleven million people. So where
Speaker 1: does it all start and who are authority is going
Speaker 1: to go after first?
Speaker 14: So they're going to go after amy who they're already
Speaker 14: going after, which are convicted criminals, ones that are currently
Speaker 14: incarcerated in jails or prison, state, federal, etc. But they've
Speaker 14: been doing that across the board. They just file the
Speaker 14: tainterers and pick them up once they're released. So that's
Speaker 14: one aspect, but you know, it becomes a much more
Speaker 14: authority issue as you start trying to go into various
Speaker 14: neighborhoods around the country. I mean, obviously Los Angeles is
Speaker 14: extremely ethnically and finding people and let's say your communities
Speaker 14: that are undocumented, finding the right person, finding somebody that
Speaker 14: will help you. I mean, I've attracked fugitives all over
Speaker 14: the world, all across this country, and it's a really
Speaker 14: can be a really painstaking thing to do, and you
Speaker 14: really have to have people that are trained to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 14: if you sent the National Guard into some neighborhoods in
Speaker 14: Los Angeles. How far are they going to get? I mean,
Speaker 14: you just can't get online and expect to do anything
Speaker 14: other than because of disruption and perhaps chaos. So this
Speaker 14: thing is really going to take a lot of planning,
Speaker 14: and it's going to cost a lot of money.
Speaker 8: Can we have any idea about how much money?
Speaker 14: The estimates are at least three hundred and eighteen billion
Speaker 14: a year. They're talking about they have to spend a
Speaker 14: trillion dollars in the next ten years.
Speaker 3: I think here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 14: I think it will there will be an increase, but
Speaker 14: I don't know how big it's going to be. I mean,
Speaker 14: you have to hire a lot more people. Think about
Speaker 14: all the prisons you're going to have to build to
Speaker 14: detain these folks. I mean, we're talking there's two thousand
Speaker 14: people locked up in this country in jails and prisons.
Speaker 14: You're talking about rest and hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 14: on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do with them? Now?
Speaker 14: You're going to have to build facilities to hold them,
Speaker 14: and we all know how expensive prisons are. So this
Speaker 14: is going to take a lot of work and probably
Speaker 14: a lot of missteps initially, but we'll see how it
Speaker 14: sorts out. And that doesn't even address the whole economic
Speaker 14: side of walking up some of these undocuments. Your state
Speaker 14: in particular, when you look at construction and agriculture, the
Speaker 14: amount of undocumented migrants that work in those two categories
Speaker 14: is really high.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So and then, like you're saying, how they're going to
Speaker 1: do it is going to be tricky too, because so say,
Speaker 1: going to the agriculture and you've got a lot of
Speaker 1: undocumented workers.
Speaker 8: So what do they do.
Speaker 1: Do they show up at the fields and just round
Speaker 1: everybody up?
Speaker 14: I assume they would do that. Think about then, the
Speaker 14: the political and economic side of that of if you're
Speaker 14: a big agriperson in California and you know, ice and
Speaker 14: Customs and Border protection agents show up and you know,
Speaker 14: take away half the people that work for you.
Speaker 3: I mean, think about that for a second. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: so it's it's go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say, you know, Trump is
Speaker 1: Trump is pro business, So how does he square that
Speaker 1: if deportations take away a huge chunk of the workforce.
Speaker 14: I just think this is you know, it's it's easy
Speaker 14: as a politician to say all sorts of things and
Speaker 14: make it sound simplistic, and then those of us who
Speaker 14: have to sort it out and actually do it think
Speaker 14: about the you know, the overwhelming both logistics and ramifications
Speaker 14: of doing it.
Speaker 3: And so we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 14: And the idea they're going to use the military to
Speaker 14: do some of this is sort of I don't know
Speaker 14: how that's going to work. I mean, they historically have
Speaker 14: just been security at most locations, and maybe that's how
Speaker 14: they'll use them.
Speaker 3: But we'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think there's any any thought or hope
Speaker 1: that some might self deport?
Speaker 3: Maybe, but could do that in large numbers.
Speaker 14: But I mean, if you were undocumented and from Nicaragua
Speaker 14: to go back to no job in a corrupt government
Speaker 14: and a lot of violence or wherever it might be,
Speaker 14: aren't you going to stick around here? You have a job,
Speaker 14: you know, you're supporting your family. I don't know, well
Speaker 14: some of that go on. I'd be shocked if that
Speaker 14: goes on to big numbers. But again, we'll we'll have
Speaker 14: to see.
Speaker 1: Well, I think we're all we're all going to find
Speaker 1: out together, because, like you said, it's not an easy process.
Speaker 1: Trump's you know, seems bound and determined to do it,
Speaker 1: so we'll see if he can.
Speaker 3: Buckle in.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, ABC's Brad Garrett, thank you so much for your
Speaker 1: time and information today.
Speaker 3: You're welcome to take care y all right, you too.
Speaker 1: A plan to give pay raises to hotel and airport
Speaker 1: workers in La has stalled.
Speaker 9: The city council will revisit the twenty five dollars minimum
Speaker 9: wage next month after debating whether it would have a
Speaker 9: negative impact on the local economy. Counciloman Tracy Parks has
Speaker 9: an outside report in support of the raises was not
Speaker 9: as informed as she wanted it to be.
Speaker 11: The work product that came back is shoddy at best.
Speaker 8: That report is missing data and critical elements of the
Speaker 8: information and analysis.
Speaker 9: The rais would have been in effect next year and
Speaker 9: would continue to go up until reaching thirty dollars an
Speaker 9: hour when the Olympics arrive. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Former La County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas is expected to
Speaker 1: ask a federal appeals court to reverse his fraud and
Speaker 1: bribery convictions or grant him a new trial. A hearing
Speaker 1: is set for this morning. Ridley Thomas was sentenced last
Speaker 1: year to more than three years in federal prison for
Speaker 1: voting to support county contracts favoring USC while accepting benefits
Speaker 1: for his son from the university. He was a member
Speaker 1: of the La City council at the time. Ukraine says
Speaker 1: Russia has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile overnight, targeting a
Speaker 1: city in the central east part of the country. Ukraine's
Speaker 1: Air force says the missile was fired at Dnipro along
Speaker 1: with eight other missiles, and that the Ukrainian military shot
Speaker 1: down six of them. Two injuries were reported. At least
Speaker 1: one Western official is disputing that it was an ICBM.
Speaker 8: They say it was a regular ballistic missile.
Speaker 1: US officials say progress has been made in diplomatic efforts
Speaker 1: to bring an end to a more than a year
Speaker 1: of fighting between Israel and Lebanon. ABC's Geordana Miller says
Speaker 1: hundreds of Israeli and Lebanese civilians have been killed, tens
Speaker 1: of thousands have been forced to leave both sides of
Speaker 1: the border.
Speaker 15: US Special envoy Almost Hosting says the gaps are narrowing.
Speaker 15: Lebanon's chief negotiators says the sides agree on eighty percent
Speaker 15: of the US ceasefire proposal.
Speaker 1: She says, the draft proposal will be given to Israel's leaders. Today,
Speaker 1: the original karate Kid has received his star on the
Speaker 1: Hollywood Walk of Fame, Ralph Machio. Machio's star was unveiled yesterday,
Speaker 1: just days after the release of the second half of
Speaker 1: the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai on Netflix.
Speaker 8: Love that Show.
Speaker 1: Macchio will again reprise the role of Daniel LaRusso in
Speaker 1: the next film installment of the Karate Kid franchise. It's
Speaker 1: going to be called Karate Kid Legends and is set
Speaker 1: for release in May of next year. Macchio's star is
Speaker 1: next to the star of the late Pat Marita, you
Speaker 1: know mister Miyagi in the first three Karate Kid movies.
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Speaker 1: day one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disney California
Speaker 1: Adventure Park. Despite more eligible and registered voters in California,
Speaker 1: fewer of them actually voted in this year's election than
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Preliminary numbers show six to eleven percent
Speaker 1: fewer voters cast ballots. This could be the largest drop
Speaker 1: in turnout in a half century. California now automatically registers
Speaker 1: eligible voters. The final count and turnout will be confirmed
Speaker 1: in early December. The first openly trans congressman congresswoman elects
Speaker 1: as she is not in DC to find about bathrooms.
Speaker 1: Delaware Democrat Sara McBride says she will follow House Speaker
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson's rule that people can only use bathrooms that
Speaker 1: match their biological sex, even though she disagrees with it.
Speaker 1: The US is closing its embassy in Ukraine after warning
Speaker 1: of a possible significant air attack by Russian forces. The
Speaker 1: US Embassy in Kiev says it had received specific information
Speaker 1: about a potential attack and that its employees should shelter
Speaker 1: in place. The warning came after Ukraine's military used US
Speaker 1: missiles to strike Russia for the first time. And we're
Speaker 1: getting worried that Russia may have used an intercontinental missile
Speaker 1: ballistic missile against Ukraine for the first time. Overnight at
Speaker 1: six oh five, it's Handle on the news. The Ethics
Speaker 1: Committee has opted not to release a report on former
Speaker 1: Florida Congressman Matt Gates, who is Trump's pick for a
Speaker 1: cabinet position. At five point fifty. Want to do some
Speaker 1: stuffing for a good cause this Thanksgiving? Well, we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking with the founder of Big Sunday about
Speaker 1: one of the largest Thanksgiving volunteer events in the US.
Speaker 1: It's right here in LA. It's going to feed thousands
Speaker 1: of people this Thanksgiving. We'll let you know how you
Speaker 1: can help. It is time for our first Southern California
Speaker 1: sleigh ride of the season, and for this one, we're
Speaker 1: going to have our favorite elf, Nick Coliochini.
Speaker 16: Joined me.
Speaker 8: I am here.
Speaker 1: Because guess guess where Nick and I would go to
Speaker 1: start the holidays?
Speaker 8: Anyone? Anyone?
Speaker 17: Yes?
Speaker 1: The Mary's Place on Earth, the Disneyland Resort.
Speaker 8: So Nick, you about to go? Was it yesterday? The
Speaker 8: day before?
Speaker 6: I was there on Tuesday?
Speaker 1: On Tuesday, okay, and I was there on Saturday, which
Speaker 1: was the first full day of Christmas, and they had
Speaker 1: a couple of things that actually they didn't have the
Speaker 1: tree up in the Grand Californian yet, but they were
Speaker 1: very close.
Speaker 8: And there's a whole lot of decorations.
Speaker 1: And you know that if you listen to Wake Up Call,
Speaker 1: you know Nick and I we are big Disney. But
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, Disneyland at the Holidays is
Speaker 1: one of the coolest things.
Speaker 8: I had.
Speaker 1: One of my best friends, Debbie, was down and she's
Speaker 1: never been to Disneyland at the holidays, and she was like.
Speaker 8: This is so cool.
Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about what's going on
Speaker 1: and what's special and what makes it even more magical
Speaker 1: at the holidays than it is on a normal day.
Speaker 8: So first let's talk decorations.
Speaker 6: Sure, where do you want to start?
Speaker 10: Do you want which park do you want to start,
Speaker 10: or even Downtown Disney or the resort hotels. I mean,
Speaker 10: it literally encompasses the entire Disneyland resort.
Speaker 6: I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 10: It doesn't matter if you have a park to enter
Speaker 10: or a ticket to enter the parks. You can go
Speaker 10: to Downtown Disney. You don't need a ticket to go
Speaker 10: and enjoy all the magic. You can go to the
Speaker 10: resort hotels. They have the trees up at the hotels.
Speaker 10: Santa He visits all of the hotels, so if you
Speaker 10: want to go see Santa He will be visiting all
Speaker 10: of the hotels to be able to visit time and
Speaker 10: spend time with you. The characters visit all the hotels
Speaker 10: so you can get some time in with them there.
Speaker 10: So there's so many opportunities for you to go and
Speaker 10: have such a fun, magical and holiday oriented at Disney time,
Speaker 10: no matter where you're going to be headed there, so
Speaker 10: it's epic.
Speaker 1: The whole park is it has like a Christmas overlay,
Speaker 1: like one of my favorite places.
Speaker 8: Of course, it starts on Main Street.
Speaker 1: They have this like I don't know if it's one
Speaker 1: hundred feet tall, but they have this ginormous tree on
Speaker 1: Main Street and there's a great photo op with the
Speaker 1: castle in the background, which is fabulous. And then as
Speaker 1: you walk down Main Street the castle, which is already cool,
Speaker 1: they've got.
Speaker 8: It all decked out with ice and blue.
Speaker 1: It looks a lot like Frozen, but it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just so gorgeous at night and it lights up.
Speaker 1: And then as you head over into New Orleans Square.
Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite places where my Rits of
Speaker 1: the Caribbean is the way that they decorate it. It's
Speaker 1: just it's classic and it's so festive, and it just
Speaker 1: kind of gets you into the mood. That's what I
Speaker 1: love about what Disney does is it just takes everything
Speaker 1: and takes it to the next level.
Speaker 10: And the most exciting thing is that officially, as of Friday,
Speaker 10: Tiana's Bayou Adventure is now officially open. So that just
Speaker 10: opened on Friday for everybody to enjoy. So that's kind
Speaker 10: of Disney's special Christmas gift for you this holiday season.
Speaker 6: It's a little wet, it's a little chilly. I'm not
Speaker 6: gonna lie.
Speaker 10: I have not yet because I have not braved it
Speaker 10: because that is very damp for me and I am
Speaker 10: a so cal Yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 6: Get wet quite yet. No, I haven't done it yet.
Speaker 8: But yes, we didn't do it either. And here's why.
Speaker 1: Because it's brand new and from some people that we
Speaker 1: talked to at the park, you know, they're just kind
Speaker 1: of testing water levels and stuff, and so right now
Speaker 1: people are getting drenched even more than usual. The ride
Speaker 1: is spectacul it's one of my favorite rides in the
Speaker 1: park with the old Splash Mountain which is now Tianta's
Speaker 1: by You Adventure. But it just be prepared to get
Speaker 1: wet if you're gonna if you're gonna do that one, okay.
Speaker 6: Oh but it looks incredible, yeah it does.
Speaker 1: And then over across the street in Disney California Adventure.
Speaker 8: Do you have a favorite part of that park at Christmas?
Speaker 10: For me, I really love all the stuff that comes
Speaker 10: up for Viva Navidad and does all the street festival
Speaker 10: stuff that happens because I love all of like the conchos,
Speaker 10: like the the pondulce, the sweet Mexican bread. But then
Speaker 10: this year we've got a brand new expression because Mirabelle
Speaker 10: from Encantos, she has a brand new show that featured
Speaker 10: right at the Bay there for where you've got the
Speaker 10: backdrop of the Mickey's Fun Wheel, which is the Pixar.
Speaker 8: Power Racks now from Pixar correct right.
Speaker 10: Correct, So you've got right in front of Pixar Pier
Speaker 10: right across from Aerials Adventure the ride there.
Speaker 6: So you've got a brand new show there.
Speaker 10: Plus you've got the return of all the characters for
Speaker 10: Viva Navidad, which is that street festival, and then you've
Speaker 10: got Mickey and Friends that run down the corridor there
Speaker 10: with a really fun holiday show that comes through. So
Speaker 10: I really like everything kind of. I guess around Pixar
Speaker 10: Pier is probably my favorite.
Speaker 1: Area, okay, and then my favorite area is cars Land
Speaker 1: because they do so cool for Christmas and they like
Speaker 1: all they have posters and all kinds of things up
Speaker 1: around the decorations, and they they literally just tweak everything
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's Disney imagineering and they make
Speaker 1: it look so special, but they also make it more interactive,
Speaker 1: like there's other things that you don't see at other
Speaker 1: times in the year, or things that you do see
Speaker 1: that they've tweaked just a little bit for the holidays,
Speaker 1: so you notice that, you know, they're so into details
Speaker 1: and it's absolutely adorable. And of course matter has a
Speaker 1: sayd I had on and that kind of stuff, so
Speaker 1: that's very cool. And then we'd be remiss if we
Speaker 1: didn't mention the food really quick, and I haven't had
Speaker 1: much chance to try the specific holiday food, but they
Speaker 1: do have their Festival of the Holidays and they've got
Speaker 1: where they have the food carts set up are the
Speaker 1: key places in DCA, and they have some really yummy,
Speaker 1: yummy treats and you can get that Sip and Savor
Speaker 1: pass and you can try a bunch of different.
Speaker 10: Really a good way to save money. So that's a
Speaker 10: really good thing. That's a great thing. So the three
Speaker 10: things really quick to jump in that I tried this
Speaker 10: time where the Barbaco tamal so the Tamali deres or
Speaker 10: so beef tamali which had a beautiful like Tomentio Tomentia
Speaker 10: salsa on it. I also had the Cafe de Oya
Speaker 10: Cold Brew which had this adorable little red consha like
Speaker 10: this little potan dul say that I was talking about
Speaker 10: on top of it. And then also I had for vegetarians,
Speaker 10: they always have great options. They had a Queso fundido
Speaker 10: mac and cheese topped with vegan.
Speaker 6: Cherriso, which was really good. So those three options, all.
Speaker 8: The mac and cheeses are always really good. And that
Speaker 8: tamali was good.
Speaker 6: The tamali was delicious. It was really really nice and
Speaker 6: I love it. It was great.
Speaker 8: They have all over the park.
Speaker 1: They have a whole separate menu, Like almost all of
Speaker 1: the restaurants have some sort of themed food, and then
Speaker 1: like Jolly Holiday, which is on Main Street in the
Speaker 1: Disneyland Park. It's got all kinds of Christmas treats and
Speaker 1: it's just a It really is a magical experience. So
Speaker 1: if you're planning your trip to Disneyland, the Disneyland Resort,
Speaker 1: it's going on right on through the holidays and it
Speaker 1: is beautiful and fun. Oh and I forgot to mention too.
Speaker 1: We went, we watched Fantasmic and the fireworks. The fireworks
Speaker 1: show is spectacular. When they call it a nighttime spectacular,
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. And then at the end of the
Speaker 1: fireworks it snowed over in New Orleans Square.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I didn't know they've been Holiday Magic Yeah is
Speaker 10: so good that it's not new, but it's been around
Speaker 10: for a good number years. I believe in Holiday Magic
Speaker 10: is really really good. The Christmas presentation is so so good.
Speaker 1: So if you're heading to the Disneyland Park, now is
Speaker 1: a great time to go.
Speaker 8: It's the merriest place on earth, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, And through the Hollywood season, Hollywood season, through the
Speaker 1: holiday season, we're going to be taking our Southern California
Speaker 1: sleigh rides to other places around southern California that you
Speaker 1: might want to go check out.
Speaker 8: We hope you'll join us for that.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Nick.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsrooms show, Hey O
Speaker 1: Tani could add another big award to go with his
Speaker 1: World Series win.
Speaker 18: Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player will be announced today,
Speaker 18: and the clear front runner would be the Dodger show
Speaker 18: Hey O Tani, the first player to whoever hit fifty
Speaker 18: home runs and fifty solen bases in a season. Sure
Speaker 18: seems to be a lock, but no designated hitter has
Speaker 18: ever won the award. Did and pitch all years he
Speaker 18: recovered from shoulder surgery before joining the Dodgers. A win
Speaker 18: would give Otani his second consecutive and third overall MVP award.
Speaker 18: The New York metsas Francisco Lindor would be a possible alternative.
Speaker 18: Keep it here on KFI to hear if Otana gets
Speaker 18: the MVP to go along with his World Series win.
Speaker 18: Michael Krozier, KFI News, Come.
Speaker 1: On, it's gotta be Otani, doesn't it gotta be? Can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear La County prosecutors say one of two
Speaker 1: men charged with murdering a seventy five year old woman
Speaker 1: in her home in South Pasadena is the woman's grandson.
Speaker 8: Susan Miller was stabbed to death back in June. Her
Speaker 8: grandson and another manner charged with murder and first degree
Speaker 8: burglary with a person present. The grandson was detained after
Speaker 8: the murder, but was let go two days later. He
Speaker 8: was re arrested on Saturday. The other guy was arrested
Speaker 8: in November. And La Metro, a line train and a
Speaker 8: car have collided in South La. The crash yesterday happened
Speaker 8: in an unincorporated area near Watts person was taken to
Speaker 8: the hospital. It's not clear what caused the crash. It
Speaker 8: took hours to get the car off the tracks and
Speaker 8: restore train service. Cybersecurity experts say people with iPhones, iPads,
Speaker 8: or Mac products should update them immediately because of a
Speaker 8: security flaw. Alex Stone says the flaw may have been
Speaker 8: actively exploited.
Speaker 17: The flaw was uncovered by Google's Threat Analysis group, which
Speaker 17: focuses on countering targeted and government backtacking.
Speaker 1: Stone says downloading the latest update in the Apple settings
Speaker 1: will fix the vulnerability. Got to do that tonight, a
Speaker 1: new poll shows most Democrats would support Vice President Harris
Speaker 1: as the party's presidential nominee for twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 16: The poll released on Wednesday found forty one percent of
Speaker 16: likely Democratic voters say they would choose Harris over California
Speaker 16: Governor Gavin Newsom and Pennsylvania Governor John Shapiro, despite her
Speaker 16: loss in the recent election.
Speaker 1: KF's Tammy Trujillo says Newsom came in second with just
Speaker 1: eight percent support, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, who was
Speaker 1: Harris's VP pic, ranked below Shapiro on the list with
Speaker 1: six percent. Eighty five families in Rancho Palas Vertis have
Speaker 1: applied for their share of a forty two million dollar
Speaker 1: grant to buy them out from their homes that are
Speaker 1: shifting because of a landslide in the area. The homeowners
Speaker 1: have been told this week that they could find out
Speaker 1: if they'll get the buy out before Christmas. Approved applicants
Speaker 1: would get seventy five percent of their home's fair market value.
Speaker 1: The money's coming from a FEMA grant. The US is
Speaker 1: closing its embassy in Ukraine after warning of a possible
Speaker 1: significant air attack by Russiana forces. Ukraine says Russia has
Speaker 1: for the first time launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at
Speaker 1: the country. At least one official has disputed that, saying
Speaker 1: that the missile fired at Dnipro was a regular ballistic missile.
Speaker 1: Ukraine's military used US missiles to strike Russia for the
Speaker 1: first time. This week, two blockbuster movies they are expected
Speaker 1: to jumpstart the holiday box office. Wicked and Gladiator two
Speaker 1: both hit theaters officially tomorrow, but they'll be in select
Speaker 1: theaters today. In fact, Nick and I are going to
Speaker 1: see Wicked this afternoon. The Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arrivo
Speaker 1: adaptation of the Broadway musical is expected to earn at
Speaker 1: least one hundred million dollars in its first weekend. Gladiator
Speaker 1: two is expected to bring in about sixty five million dollars.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning,
Speaker 1: Democrats are shoring up judicial support before the Republicans take
Speaker 1: over in January. Right now, let's say good morning to
Speaker 1: David Levinson, the founder and executive director of Big Sunday.
Speaker 8: So, David, Thanksgiving is just a week away.
Speaker 1: It's time to be thankful for what you have and
Speaker 1: to give to people who don't have as much as you.
Speaker 1: And that's where you come in because you're getting ready
Speaker 1: for the thirteenth annual Big Thanksgiving stuffing event. Can you
Speaker 1: tell us what it is?
Speaker 4: Sure? Thing? What we do is every year we host
Speaker 4: a big event where we've fill thousands of beds full
Speaker 4: of Thanksgiving food. See if too grateful and hungry people
Speaker 4: all over the city. They'll be representing more than one
Speaker 4: hundred different nonprofits and schools. We're expecting over two thousand
Speaker 4: people of all ages and backgrounds to come and fill
Speaker 4: those bags. It's next Wednesday to twenty seventh. We start
Speaker 4: right at nine o'clock in the morning and we start
Speaker 4: distributing the bags at about ten pass so that people
Speaker 4: can get them on Wednesday so they have food and
Speaker 4: time for Thanksgiving on Thursday.
Speaker 8: I love that.
Speaker 1: So what I'm guessing that you still need volunteers.
Speaker 8: Or are you? Are you loaded up for volunteers.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. People we love volunteers. All ages
Speaker 4: are welcome, from very young to very old. They have
Speaker 4: to go on our website Big Sunday dot org to
Speaker 4: sign up. People cannot just show up on announced because
Speaker 4: we're actually at the Radford studios in Studio City, which
Speaker 4: will be a lot of fun. But people need to
Speaker 4: sign up. They can go to Big Sunday dot org.
Speaker 4: They can also if they're out of town, or you
Speaker 4: can make it. You can help by sponsoring bags of
Speaker 4: food for thirty five dollars apiece. We have an online
Speaker 4: registry can buy items starting at seventy five cents, or
Speaker 4: you can sponsor the whole event starting at one thousand
Speaker 4: dollars enough, you know, the whole thing at Big Sunday
Speaker 4: we believe is that absolutely everybody has some way they
Speaker 4: can help somebody else. Absolutely everyone has some time that
Speaker 4: they need help, and we all have to look out
Speaker 4: for one another.
Speaker 8: I love that and this is such a great time
Speaker 8: of year to do that.
Speaker 1: Where do you get all of the stuff to stuff
Speaker 1: the food boxes, David?
Speaker 8: Is that all privately funded or do you get donations?
Speaker 8: How does that working?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: You know what? We get to wherever we can. Our
Speaker 4: great friends at our great friends at Albertson's have been
Speaker 4: a very large donation this year to help us with
Speaker 4: the food. But people have always just kids have hosted
Speaker 4: collections at schools, people have done it at their offices,
Speaker 4: at their house, of worship in their neighborhood. You know,
Speaker 4: the whole thing is that everyone has their way to participate,
Speaker 4: and especially in such a divided and devisive time as
Speaker 4: we're in now, it's been wonderful to see people from
Speaker 4: every single walk of life finding a way that they
Speaker 4: can pitch in and we can all work together on this.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 1: And David, you said that, you know, like everybody needs
Speaker 1: help every once in a while, which I totally agree with.
Speaker 1: How do you find the people who who maybe need
Speaker 1: that extra help this holiday? You know what?
Speaker 4: They come from all all places, And I'll tell you somebody,
Speaker 4: sometimes it's very easy to see how people need help.
Speaker 4: If you drive by an encampment, as we all have,
Speaker 4: it's pretty easy to see the kind of help that
Speaker 4: person needs. Sometimes people's help. Somebody might be living in
Speaker 4: a palace in bel Air and they might have their
Speaker 4: pain that might be a little tougher to see. And
Speaker 4: so that's why we say we always try to assume
Speaker 4: the best and everyone see the best in everyone, to
Speaker 4: bring out the best in everyone because we all have something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, And then you said that you're going to
Speaker 1: be doing the stuffing event at Radford Studios why is
Speaker 1: that going to be such a special special place for
Speaker 1: the villain?
Speaker 4: Right we're on my three Sun Street and from in
Speaker 4: front of some famous houses you've seen on TV shows.
Speaker 4: They leave it to Beaver House. They'll be fun and
Speaker 4: people are coming, you know, with their offices, with their
Speaker 4: school groups of the faith groups, lots of family, lots
Speaker 4: of people coming on their own, coming with friends. So
Speaker 4: that will be fun. And your folks should know that
Speaker 4: we're so busy through the whole holiday season. We have
Speaker 4: our Big Sunday Holiday List with over seven hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty ways to help over the holidays, and just a
Speaker 4: week later on December eight, we're having our annual Big
Speaker 4: Sunday Holiday single long where our guests of on our
Speaker 4: kids from ability first with special challenges and that's part
Speaker 4: of our holiday toy drive. One thing folks should know
Speaker 4: is we don't give out bags of food or toys
Speaker 4: to individuals. We do it through nonprofits and schools. So
Speaker 4: if you're with a nonprofit or school Thanksgiving, all the
Speaker 4: bags are spoken for. But with toys, Big Sunday dot
Speaker 4: Org and people can look us up and we're always
Speaker 4: here to help.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 6: Cool.
Speaker 1: And then if we have people who can volunteer here
Speaker 1: next Wednesday when you're actually doing the big Thanksgiving stuffing event,
Speaker 1: Like how much time do they need?
Speaker 8: Is it an all day thing or just a few
Speaker 8: hours or how does that work?
Speaker 4: The event is from nine till noon, and we do
Speaker 4: it so that we can get the bags distributed and
Speaker 4: we have a nice community breakfast for all the volunteers
Speaker 4: that because we're really about community building people think are
Speaker 4: about community services of our community building and finding a
Speaker 4: place for everyone to pitch in and help out and connect.
Speaker 4: So they need to go to Big Sunday dot org.
Speaker 4: The event will fill up so at a certain point
Speaker 4: that we're not going to be able to take any
Speaker 4: extra volunteers because we'll be full. So they can go
Speaker 4: to Big Sunday dot org and sign up right now
Speaker 4: if they're listening.
Speaker 1: And isn't that a good problem to have, David, that
Speaker 1: you have so many volunteers you can't take anymore.
Speaker 4: It's a wonderful problem to have, as I said, in
Speaker 4: such a brought moment as we're in in our country's history,
Speaker 4: that so many people from all backgrounds and every direction
Speaker 4: are nice and just want to help, whether it's volunteering
Speaker 4: whether it's sponsoring bags of food or just being nice
Speaker 4: to someone else, it's wonderful.
Speaker 8: I think we could all use a little kindness.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you can volunteer your time a few hours
Speaker 1: in Studio City a week from today.
Speaker 8: You can volunteer your money.
Speaker 1: You can donate, donate up from starting a seventy five
Speaker 1: cents all the way to one thousand bucks. Whatever you
Speaker 1: can do. They need your help. And again it's Big
Speaker 1: Sunday dot org. The thirteenth annual Big Thanksgiving Stuffing Event
Speaker 1: is a week from yesterday next Wednesday, the twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: the day before Thanksgiving. David Levinson, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your time this morning, and best of luck with
Speaker 1: your event.
Speaker 4: Ed. Thanks for having me and I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: You got it.
Speaker 5: Let's feed a lot of people happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8: All right, you too, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Thousands of University
Speaker 1: of California workers continue their two day strike today, calling
Speaker 1: for better pay and better working conditions. Union spokesperson Todd
Speaker 1: Stenhouse says the UC system is bargaining in bad faith.
Speaker 13: They even went so far as to announce that they
Speaker 13: were going to impose hundreds of dollars in healthcare increases
Speaker 13: on workers who are already not able to afford the
Speaker 13: rent to put food on the table.
Speaker 1: Stenhouse says the workers are understaffed, have heavy workloads, and
Speaker 1: their wages are not keeping up with the cost of living.
Speaker 1: University officials say they've met frequently with the union to
Speaker 1: try to reach an agreement. The two day strike ends
Speaker 1: at midnight tonight. Ridership on La Metro has gone up again, the.
Speaker 9: Transit agency says. October mark the twenty third consecutive month
Speaker 9: of year over year growth. Metro says its weekday ridership
Speaker 9: is now at eighty four percent of its pre pandemic level,
Speaker 9: and on the weekends it's at ninety seven percent recovered.
Speaker 9: According to the data released this week, twenty two and
Speaker 9: a half million rides were taken on Metro buses in
Speaker 9: the month, and on the rail lines there was an
Speaker 9: eight point six percent increase in passengers compared to October
Speaker 9: of last year. Michael Monks I.
Speaker 1: News, the judge overseeing the case AFO University of Idaho's
Speaker 1: students murdered in twenty twenty two, will keep the death
Speaker 1: penalty on the table for the accused killer. Alex Stone
Speaker 1: says Brian Coburger is due to go to trial next summer.
Speaker 17: Coberger's attorneys claimed capital punishment should not be allowed because
Speaker 17: it would violate Coburger's constitutional rights and contemporary standards of decency.
Speaker 1: He says the judge's ruling goes against the defense team's
Speaker 1: request to throw out the death penalty.
Speaker 8: Option.
Speaker 1: Authority say they now know the identity of the man
Speaker 1: who sexually assaulted and killed a seventeen year old girl
Speaker 1: in Riverside County more than forty years ago. The Riverside
Speaker 1: County DA's office's DNA evidence shows Lewis Williamson was involved
Speaker 1: in the rape and murder of Esther Gonzalez, who was
Speaker 1: last seen alive when she left her parents place in
Speaker 1: Beaumont in nineteen seventy nine. Williamson died in Florida ten
Speaker 1: years ago, and a Chinese born crypto entrepreneur, now owns
Speaker 1: arguably the most expensive fruit in the world justin Sun.
Speaker 19: The winning bid of six point two million dollars for
Speaker 19: a banana tape to a wall with duct tape. The
Speaker 19: conceptual art piece was sold Wednesday night at Southeast Contemporary
Speaker 19: Art Auction. The artwork by Mauricio Catalan is called Comedian
Speaker 19: not Banana Tape to a wall with duct tape. Sun
Speaker 19: watched the bidding from Hong Kong and said afterward that
Speaker 19: in the coming days you'll eat the banana as part
Speaker 19: of this unique artistic experience. Mark Ronner, KFI News.
Speaker 8: I love it. Nice little bit of breakfast there.
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