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Speaker 1: your wake up call for Friday, February seventh. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Happy to have
Speaker 1: you along for the ride this morning. I think it
Speaker 1: might be a wild ride. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: wild ride on the roads. Just so you know, heads
Speaker 1: up if you're heading out to work this morning. The
Speaker 1: roads are wet and there is some standing water. I
Speaker 1: hit a couple of little hydroplaning. Not super bad. It's
Speaker 1: been a lot worse. I mean there's not like huge
Speaker 1: flooding areas, but there is some Will's going to keep
Speaker 1: you all updated on that and my advice, and we're
Speaker 1: never supposed to tell you what to do. But my
Speaker 1: advice is just slowed down a little bit. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there was somebody driving in that and I usually, I
Speaker 1: will admit I usually speed a little bit on my
Speaker 1: way to work because there's nobody on the roads. But
Speaker 1: there was somebody who was going about seventy five and
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, stop. And for the last couple
Speaker 1: of days, Will's been telling us there's a lot of
Speaker 1: single car spinouts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you can't stop. You can't. I mean you're
Speaker 4: on roller skates out there when it's wet like this.
Speaker 1: Exactly, So be safety first.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: It's February seventh, one month since the fire started. One month,
Speaker 1: can you believe that? And yesterday we talked to Kevin
Speaker 1: McManus at Pasadena Humane because we've been telling you they've
Speaker 1: reunited like fourteen hundred animals with their owners, and they're
Speaker 1: housing hundreds of pets that have already been reunited, but
Speaker 1: their owners don't have a place to live right now,
Speaker 1: and so they're sheltering those pets for them until they
Speaker 1: find they're a more permanent place to stay. And we
Speaker 1: mentioned that we were going to put some video up
Speaker 1: and that is now up on my Instagram. At amy
Speaker 1: K King. Would love for you to follow me, but
Speaker 1: it's at amy K King, and we have some pictures
Speaker 1: of beautiful dogs and cats and little cats in their
Speaker 1: bandages and stuff from the burns. But the good news
Speaker 1: is most of them are getting better, so that's great.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake up call this Friday morning.
Speaker 1: The heaviest of the rains from this second storm moving
Speaker 1: through southern California are happening pretty much now, with rain
Speaker 1: tapering off later today. The National Weather Services storm is
Speaker 1: unlikely to trigger mud and debris flows and for the
Speaker 1: most part, should bring the area beneficial rains with minimal impacts.
Speaker 1: Nearly three hundred people who lost their homes in the
Speaker 1: fire in Altadena are going to have to leave the
Speaker 1: Pasadena Convention Center where they've been staying for the last month.
Speaker 1: Plans are to relocate them closer to Altadena. The Red
Speaker 1: Cross that says they'll continue to provide shelter until people
Speaker 1: can find that permanent housing. Ev sales in California are
Speaker 1: slowing down. For the past two years, one in four
Speaker 1: new cars sold in California where electric vehicles. The sales
Speaker 1: trend seems to have stabilized at a rate that could
Speaker 1: jeopardize the state's goal of phasing out new gas powered
Speaker 1: vehicles by in the next few years. Next year, as
Speaker 1: Californnia law mandates thirty five percent of all new vehicle
Speaker 1: sales must be zero emission. Super Bowl is two days away.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan says people are placing their bets on
Speaker 1: just about everything. We're going to be talking to him.
Speaker 1: At five twenty, water bills go up, but it's not
Speaker 1: because you're using more water. We're going to talk to
Speaker 1: the house whisper about that. That's at five point thirty.
Speaker 1: Pretty interesting stuff. And also at five point fifty, ABC's
Speaker 1: Wild Gans is on the stream with a movie, a
Speaker 1: docu series, and a streaming series that he says you
Speaker 1: don't want to miss. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: EPA administrator Lie Zelden has toured the Eton and Palisades
Speaker 1: fire burn areas as work continues on Phase one cleanup.
Speaker 1: He says no American has ever seen anything like this
Speaker 1: ever before, and he says hopefully no American we'll ever
Speaker 1: have to see something like this ever again. He says
Speaker 1: the goal is to finish Phase one in thirty days.
Speaker 1: Phase one removes hazardous materials, and once that work is finished,
Speaker 1: the Army Corps of Engineers will expand its Phase two
Speaker 1: clearance of debris, which is expected to take at least
Speaker 1: a year to fully complete. The man accused of setting
Speaker 1: a brushfire near the Chatsworth Reservoir has been charged with
Speaker 1: two felonies. Alejandro Martinez was detained by witnesses on Monday
Speaker 1: after he allegedly started the fire. La Canti Sheriff's deputies
Speaker 1: showed up to arrest him. He's now charged with arson
Speaker 1: an attempt to burn. He could face more than six
Speaker 1: years in prison. La City leaders say it takes too
Speaker 1: long to build houses.
Speaker 6: The city council has voted to explore speeding up the
Speaker 6: permit process for single family homes. Councilwoman Nitthia Rahman says
Speaker 6: it takes an average of eight hundred days between permitting
Speaker 6: and construction to get one built.
Speaker 7: Right now, about half of the Planning Department's work is
Speaker 7: tied up in permit approvals that are for relatively simple projects.
Speaker 6: She says a self certification option for skilled professionals like
Speaker 6: architects could help clear that logjam. The Department of Building
Speaker 6: and Safety has been instructed to figure out what that
Speaker 6: program might look like.
Speaker 4: Michael Monks k if I Knews.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's jordonah Miller in Jerusalem,
Speaker 1: So Jordana. Everyone seems to hate President Trump's idea to
Speaker 1: have the US take control of Gaza, except Israel, and
Speaker 1: they're apparently liking it and planning to make it happen.
Speaker 8: Well, I would say, the Israeli government loves this plan, right,
Speaker 8: which we can understand because it's a conservative government and
Speaker 8: a far right government, and they've always fantasized about somehow
Speaker 8: moving Palestinians out so they could come, you know, into
Speaker 8: an area that they consider, you know, as part of
Speaker 8: Israel or should be settled by Israelis. But I would say,
Speaker 8: you know, the Israeli public and the rest of the country,
Speaker 8: you know, they don't love this idea so much. You know,
Speaker 8: the idea of moving two million people forcefully, you know,
Speaker 8: out of the Gaza strip. You know, it's it's and
Speaker 8: there's legal problems with it, right, It's a violation of
Speaker 8: international laws. Some call it a war crime.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 8: And then it's you know, and then this and it
Speaker 8: has all kinds of moral issues, right, So I think
Speaker 8: I think it's you know, it's safe to say that
Speaker 8: NATANIELI supports it and his government and of course part
Speaker 8: of his government is the defense minister who ordered the
Speaker 8: army to look into how they could plan right, plan
Speaker 8: for uh, you know, Gosins who voluntarily want to leave.
Speaker 8: But just to be clear, nothing on the ground in
Speaker 8: Gaza has changed, uh, you know, no one, no one,
Speaker 8: there's there's first of all, dozens don't want to leave
Speaker 8: the Gaza strip number two. Where would they go? Right,
Speaker 8: because everyone in the region doesn't want to be a
Speaker 8: part of displacing Palestinians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you. On
Speaker 1: a practical level, where do they go?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, this is I mean, this is a plan
Speaker 8: that you know, it it realistically, it cannot be implemented
Speaker 8: really really, you know unless you bring the American army
Speaker 8: here or ask the Israelis to you know, forcefully displaced people.
Speaker 8: And there's nowhere they're going to go because the Egypt
Speaker 8: and Jordan, you know, and the Saudis and other places
Speaker 8: in Europe. By the way, no one wants to be
Speaker 8: part of moving Palestinians off of the land, because this
Speaker 8: is a conflict over land, right, and you know, and
Speaker 8: all of a sudden, you know, what we don't talk
Speaker 8: about with this outlandish proposal the president you know, dropped
Speaker 8: on everyone is that it very much, you know, challenges
Speaker 8: the two state solution because it takes Gaza out of
Speaker 8: the equation, right, And Gaza was always part of the
Speaker 8: two state solution, even in President Trump's own twenty twenty
Speaker 8: Mid East Peace Land. It was there, right, it was there,
Speaker 8: and it was ultimately going to be connected to the
Speaker 8: West Bank through tunnels and highways. But if you go
Speaker 8: ahead and try to push everybody out, take over and
Speaker 8: turn it into what he called the revier of the
Speaker 8: Middle East, well then you've now just taken a huge
Speaker 8: chunk of the land that Palestinians is their future state.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's really at the bottom of it where
Speaker 8: the anger and outrage comes from.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so, Jordana, you said that nothing had changed
Speaker 1: in Gaza right now, like as so we know that
Speaker 1: the fighting has stopped and.
Speaker 8: Where we're in the eeast fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my question is is the aid getting in? That
Speaker 1: was the big you know, one of the big things
Speaker 1: is these people have been cut off and starving for
Speaker 1: a year and a half. Are they getting aid into
Speaker 1: Gaza on a regular basis or in a nut Are
Speaker 1: they getting enough.
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean the u N and Ocha, the one
Speaker 8: of its agencies is reporting that you know, over eight
Speaker 8: hundred trucks of eight or getting in a day. The
Speaker 8: problem is distributing the aid and getting it to people
Speaker 8: who need it. It's a huge operation and the u N,
Speaker 8: you know, I don't think there's enough staff on the
Speaker 8: ground in Gaza for you know, for logistics, you know,
Speaker 8: getting people to put the aid on trucks, driving the
Speaker 8: trucks through. I mean, thankfully you think there's not combat anymore,
Speaker 8: but that doesn't mean that they can easily traverse roads
Speaker 8: that have been destroyed. You have to make sure you're
Speaker 8: not going to, you know, go near munitions that haven't exploded.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 8: It's there's a lot of sanitation systems that need to
Speaker 8: be repaired, and water systems and electricity. So it's a
Speaker 8: you know, it is an absolute mess there and the
Speaker 8: aid is getting in, but again we're seeing the problem
Speaker 8: of distribution. So that's a you know, that is one
Speaker 8: of the central problems. And I know we've talked about that,
Speaker 8: you know, over and over again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we know that it's not anything that's going
Speaker 1: to get fixed anytime soon, but we do seem to
Speaker 1: be taking some steps in the right direction. So ABC's
Speaker 1: Jerdannah Miller in Jerusalem, thank you so much, as always
Speaker 1: for the information. Have a good weekend. Yeah, take care.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The former interpreter
Speaker 1: for Dodgers star Shohei Otani has been sentenced in Orange
Speaker 1: County to four years and nine months in federal prison.
Speaker 1: Acting US Attorney Joseph McNally says Ibe Musuhara took advantage
Speaker 1: of Otani, who trusted him.
Speaker 10: The sentence, both the prison time and restitution reflect the
Speaker 10: seriousness of the offense and send a strong message to
Speaker 10: others who might decide to engage in this criminal conduct.
Speaker 1: Misihara stole nearly seventeen million dollars from Otani by gaining
Speaker 1: access to the player's bank account and pretending to be
Speaker 1: him when interacting with bank representatives. Zahara was also ordered
Speaker 1: yesterday to pay more than eighteen million dollars in restitution
Speaker 1: to Otani and a federal judge is temporarily blocked President
Speaker 1: Trump's buyout plan for federal employees. ABC's Christian Cordero says
Speaker 1: the decision yesterday came hours before the midnight deadline for
Speaker 1: workers to make a decision.
Speaker 9: The judge set a hearing for Monday to consider blocking
Speaker 9: the buyout offer. Ten days ago, more than two million
Speaker 9: federal employees received an email with a choice resign now
Speaker 9: and be paid through September or run the risk of
Speaker 9: being laid off.
Speaker 1: Labor unions say the buyouts are illegal. An administration official
Speaker 1: has said more than sixty thousand federal workers have already
Speaker 1: accepted the buyout offer. A plane with ten people on
Speaker 1: board is missing in Alaska. It disappeared yesterday afternoon while
Speaker 1: headed from a town in western Alaska to Nome. There
Speaker 1: were nine passengers and one pilot. The plane's exact location
Speaker 1: is not known, but the Coastguard says it was about
Speaker 1: twelve miles off shore when its position was lost. The
Speaker 1: Critics' Choice Awards are going to be presented tonight at
Speaker 1: Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. And Wicked each have eleven nominations.
Speaker 1: Dune Part two and Amelia Perez each have ten. All
Speaker 1: four of those films are nominated for Best Picture, along
Speaker 1: with A Complete Unknown, Anorra, The Brutalist, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing,
Speaker 1: and The Substance. In the TV categories, FX's Showgun leads
Speaker 1: all nominees with six nominations, including one for Best Drama Series.
Speaker 1: Former Vice President Harris has toured the Palisades fire burn
Speaker 1: area and met with firefighters and thanked them for what
Speaker 1: they've been doing. EPA administrator lie Zelden visited both the
Speaker 1: Eton and Palisades fire zones yesterday, saying the damage is
Speaker 1: unlike anything Americans have ever seen before. Officials are warning
Speaker 1: that there are people posing as law enforcement or Immigration
Speaker 1: and Customs enforcement agents. LA School Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says
Speaker 1: they are aware of people claiming to be ICE agents
Speaker 1: approaching people, which is generating fear in the community. The
Speaker 1: NCAA's officially banned transgender athletes from women's college sports. The
Speaker 1: decision comes after President Trump signed an executive order about
Speaker 1: it on Wednesday at six o five. Handle on the
Speaker 1: News Project twenty twenty five's co author now has a
Speaker 1: place in the Trump administration. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to ABC's Jim Ryan got a big game this weekend,
Speaker 1: eight million dollars for commercials and more money than that
Speaker 1: on the line because people are betting on well everything.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, absolutely everything, and now they can do so legally.
Speaker 5: Amy in twenty eighteen, the Supreme Court said, yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 5: you states out there, you decide whether your people can
Speaker 5: gamble legally on sports. And about thirty eight states now
Speaker 5: have taken up the Supreme Court on that offer. At
Speaker 5: California is not one of them, as you know, neither
Speaker 5: is Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma, Texas.
Speaker 1: So we just do it yearly.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: So we're just doing it illegally.
Speaker 5: I know, scoff laws, office pools, betting on you know,
Speaker 5: going online. I don't people do it. They do whether
Speaker 5: they're whether it's legal or not. But in terms of
Speaker 5: legal sports betting, one point three nine billion dollars will
Speaker 5: be bet on the Super Bowl, according to the American
Speaker 5: Gaming Association. That's a record, you know, I get that.
Speaker 1: But it just seems like, you know, just throwing a
Speaker 1: lot of that money away, you know, when you look
Speaker 1: at other things that we've got going. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a month since our wildfires. Maybe everybody just sends a
Speaker 1: dollar a.
Speaker 5: Billion dollars would go a long way toward making repairs
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 1: I know, right, Okay, So what are people betting on?
Speaker 5: Well, they're betting on the outcome of the game. The
Speaker 5: Campas City are favored slightly, at least a little bit
Speaker 5: their favored. But will Travis Kelsey proposed to Taylor Swift
Speaker 5: during the game?
Speaker 1: Oh geez, really, yes, really, I'm going to do I'm
Speaker 1: going to do the odds off on that one.
Speaker 5: The odds say no, The odds makers say that no,
Speaker 5: he won't propose to Taylor Swift during the game. Will
Speaker 5: how long will the national anthem be? Will it be
Speaker 5: under one hundred and twenty point five seconds or over
Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty five seconds? Bet MGM odds show
Speaker 5: that it will be over one hundred and twenty seconds,
Speaker 5: which will be the first song that Kendrick Lamaris sings
Speaker 5: at halftime. You can bet on pretty much anything. Will
Speaker 5: any player or coach cry during the national anthem? That's
Speaker 5: a push.
Speaker 1: I cried during the national anthem?
Speaker 5: Okay, But will Travis Kelton the great picture of Travis
Speaker 5: sitting there with tears in his eyes during the national anthem? Thus,
Speaker 5: three years ago, maybe yeah, but yeah, it's an emotional
Speaker 5: but still the odds, the odds makers say that it's say,
Speaker 5: yes minus one fifteen, no, minus one fifteen, So it's
Speaker 5: a push, okay.
Speaker 1: So and these are called bets, right, prop bits like
Speaker 1: how many of them are there?
Speaker 5: Oh you know, Amory? Yeah easily? It just depending, you know,
Speaker 5: and it changes throughout the course of the game too.
Speaker 5: Will you know, will so and so be the next
Speaker 5: person to catch a pass? Well, so and so you
Speaker 5: know how long will the next field goal attempt be?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it changes throughout the course of the game. But yeah,
Speaker 5: there are as many prop bets, is there are, you know,
Speaker 5: possibilities for each aspect.
Speaker 4: Of the game.
Speaker 1: Okay, And who are you rooting for, mister Ryan rooting
Speaker 1: for or anybody?
Speaker 5: Really don't have a favorite me either.
Speaker 1: I'm a Niners fan, so I don't, are you. I
Speaker 1: don't have a horse in this in this vice?
Speaker 5: Neither do I. The Cowboys were out and Cowboys may
Speaker 5: never win again, but you know, they've got three super
Speaker 5: Bowls under their belt. But it seems that I've covered
Speaker 5: super Bowls at the game. I'm trying to count how
Speaker 5: many five or six or something like that, And you
Speaker 5: have to stay kind of down the and impartial. So
Speaker 5: I think that's kind of my habit now even if
Speaker 5: I'm not there, that I don't have a favorite, I
Speaker 5: don't care so much and just cover the game or
Speaker 5: the profits.
Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate your We appreciate your efforts, mister Ryan.
Speaker 5: Why care of Travis Kelsey proposes to Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1: Not in the least, I hope if that's a if
Speaker 1: it really is a real relationship, in real love that
Speaker 1: they do that privately.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe let's make a better subserbation ABC, Jim Ryan,
Speaker 1: thank you so much.
Speaker 4: All right, seeya, all right.
Speaker 1: Two men from Hacienda Heights have been charged with smuggling
Speaker 1: contraband from China into the US through the ports of
Speaker 1: LA and Long Beach. The federal charges are conspiracy and
Speaker 1: illegally removing goods from customs custody. The men allegedly directed
Speaker 1: cargo containers flagged for secondary inspection by US Customs and
Speaker 1: Border Protection to off site locations. Then the contra band
Speaker 1: was swapped for filler cargo and the containers were returned
Speaker 1: to be inspected. A nineteen year old man's accused of
Speaker 1: running over and killing a pregnant woman in Riverside. The
Speaker 1: baby was medically delivered at Riverside Community Hospital late Sunday
Speaker 1: and listed in critical condition. Isaac Garcia was arrested the
Speaker 1: next day on suspicion of murder, hit and run, and
Speaker 1: unlawful sex with a minor. He was allegedly in a
Speaker 1: sexual relationship with the pregnant woman's younger sister and sped
Speaker 1: off when confronted by her family. Elon Musk says the
Speaker 1: Department of Government Efficiency has its eyes on the nation's
Speaker 1: air traffic control system. Gafi's Mark Mayfield says Democrats call
Speaker 1: that a scary suggestion.
Speaker 11: Texas Congressman Greg Kazar says this is another instance where
Speaker 11: Musk is grandstanding. The billionaire, though wrote on x that
Speaker 11: he has President Trump's support. The plan, he claims is
Speaker 11: to make rapid safety upgrades to the nation's air traffic
Speaker 11: control system.
Speaker 1: President Trump said yesterday the country's air traffic control system
Speaker 1: needs and overhaul. USC will replace the traditional valedict orient
Speaker 1: speech at this Springs commencement ceremony with what it calls
Speaker 1: a student commencement speaker. The university says it's being done
Speaker 1: to open the process to a larger pool of applicants
Speaker 1: rather than just being open to students who have great
Speaker 1: GPAs the university says, the new process recognizes academic achievement
Speaker 1: along with other abilities. Okay, one quick beef, as we're
Speaker 1: leading up to Super Bowl, and you know that I
Speaker 1: don't have a horse in the race on this one.
Speaker 1: But you know what I hate. I hate that we
Speaker 1: have seen all the Super Bowl ads already, not all
Speaker 1: of them. Like, so these companies spend eight million dollars
Speaker 1: and they want to get their money's worth. But what
Speaker 1: it takes away kind of the Aha, it takes away
Speaker 1: the fun of it, the anticipation. It's like, it's like
Speaker 1: if they played the game before the game was played.
Speaker 4: I think you've already seen the Billy Crystal ad and.
Speaker 1: The Billy Crystal ad here it is hell.
Speaker 4: Something wrong not doing it?
Speaker 2: No good.
Speaker 4: Probably can't have that.
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting in the cafeteria like they were before.
Speaker 1: And when Harry met Sally.
Speaker 4: It starts, what's happening?
Speaker 1: Oh man, Oh my god, oh god, just a little
Speaker 1: violent there. This one's real. Okay, So it's a Hellman's
Speaker 1: commercial and she's like, that's a great sandwich. But it's
Speaker 1: kind of cute, but I would have so much rather
Speaker 1: waited and seen it during the game. It's a trend
Speaker 1: like they've been doing it for years, but I wish
Speaker 1: they'd stop. If you're listening, stop, I would think that
Speaker 1: they would get more of their money's worth if they waited. Agreed, agreed,
Speaker 1: All right, Well you got two of us who think
Speaker 1: the same. We like that for ourmer. Vice President Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris has toured the Palisades fire burn area, met with
Speaker 1: firefighters and thanked them for their efforts. K Rails and
Speaker 1: sandbags are in place, and tensions remain high in the
Speaker 1: Palisades and Eaten fire burn areas as a second storm
Speaker 1: moves through, but the National Weather Service's rainfall rates at
Speaker 1: their peaks should be about a third of an inch
Speaker 1: an hour, which is not expected to trigger any major
Speaker 1: mud and debris flows or flooding. A man's been arrested
Speaker 1: for allegedly using fake EBT and ATM cards to steal
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in public assistance in Lancaster. Prosecutors say
Speaker 1: the guy was caught trying to withdraw thirteen thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in an anti skimming operation last weekend. Prosecutors say he'd
Speaker 1: already taken out more than four thousand dollars with the
Speaker 1: fake cards. He's pleaded not guilty to charges. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to the house whisper and the host
Speaker 1: of home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. So Dean, we
Speaker 1: know that water prices have gone up, a lot of
Speaker 1: our water bills have gone up, but our water usage
Speaker 1: is way the heck down.
Speaker 12: You know, right, And I know a story on this
Speaker 12: last week, but I just thought this is worth celebrating,
Speaker 12: This is worth giving everybody in southern California a serious
Speaker 12: round of applause on because you know, it's a big thing.
Speaker 12: Do you remember, do you remember when we're gonna find
Speaker 12: you if you water your lawn on the wrong day
Speaker 12: and you got to tear out your lawn and we're
Speaker 12: all gonna die and there's nothing left.
Speaker 4: And now.
Speaker 12: Per person, water usage in southern California has dropped to
Speaker 12: its lowest in thirty five years. So you know, well done,
Speaker 12: Southern Californians. Well done.
Speaker 1: Okay, So why is it just because people are more aware?
Speaker 1: Is it because water prices are higher, or do we
Speaker 1: have more efficient.
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 12: Well, I mean, the water district gives is patting themselves
Speaker 12: on the back for finally getting on the ball and
Speaker 12: reclaiming more rain water, like what's happening today, reclaiming more
Speaker 12: of that water. But the largest bulk of it, in
Speaker 12: my opinion, comes from a couple of simple things. Finally,
Speaker 12: people have just taken the advice switched over their mass
Speaker 12: air based sprinkler systems to drip irrigation. And there a
Speaker 12: lot of people, a lot a lot of people have
Speaker 12: installed these bridge valves and recirculation pumps in their home.
Speaker 12: What's that, Well, this is the simple thing. You and
Speaker 12: I have talked about it before. It's the idea that
Speaker 12: this one little device placed at the furthest sink away
Speaker 12: from your water heater allows hot water to be drawn
Speaker 12: through the house further without wasting it, so that when
Speaker 12: you turn on that faucet or you turn on that
Speaker 12: shower in the morning, you're not waiting three minutes to
Speaker 12: get in for the hot water to show up. And
Speaker 12: it's a small thing experience ventially that we've talked about
Speaker 12: for years now, but so many homeowners have done this
Speaker 12: because the fact of the matter is waiting that two
Speaker 12: or three minutes for the hot water to show up.
Speaker 12: That's two or three minutes of water going down the drain,
Speaker 12: and that is singlely responsible for hundreds of billions of
Speaker 12: gallons of water being wasted in southern California. And that
Speaker 12: simply is not happening the same way anymore. Combined that
Speaker 12: with people irrigating their property differently, and we're in a
Speaker 12: good place.
Speaker 1: I like that. I think it's because the low flow toilets.
Speaker 4: Low flow toilets now.
Speaker 12: Low flow toilets have been around for a long time,
Speaker 12: but yeah, incrementally, brick by brick, we have just stepped
Speaker 12: away from heavy water usage. And now again I think
Speaker 12: everybody deserves a round of applause, okay, which is not
Speaker 12: to say is not to say there it is. It's
Speaker 12: not to say we should all just turn all the
Speaker 12: tap and walk away. It's just I think it's become
Speaker 12: our lifestyle now and it's no big deal anymore.
Speaker 4: And that's great. That's where we were hoping to get to.
Speaker 1: Okay, we don't, we have almost no time, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to just touch base really quick. We got that
Speaker 1: report from NASA and JPL this week that the Palace
Speaker 1: Verde is shifting, and during a month last fall it
Speaker 1: was like four inches a week. You're saying that it's
Speaker 1: up to twelve inches per week in some areas. Do
Speaker 1: those guys have any hope of saving their homes or
Speaker 1: are they just is it inevitable that they're eventually they're
Speaker 1: all just going to crumble.
Speaker 4: No, they don't, and they really don't.
Speaker 12: This actually, the Portuguese Bend landslide has actually been happening
Speaker 12: since late nineteen fifties. It has been shifting and moving,
Speaker 12: and now recent there are last couple of heavy rains
Speaker 12: through the last couple of bad winters set it off.
Speaker 12: It is a deep slip zone. It is happening way
Speaker 12: way down below them. Part of the reason it's moving
Speaker 12: is because of the homes and the weight and the
Speaker 12: road systems that have been built on top of it.
Speaker 12: And it is a massive, massive amount of soil that
Speaker 12: is now shifting. There's no reinforcing it, there's no retaining
Speaker 12: walls that are going to stop it. And now it's moving.
Speaker 12: As you said, you know, up to certain areas twelve
Speaker 12: inches a week. That is simply not going to be stopped.
Speaker 12: So those hundreds of homes that have already been affected.
Speaker 12: I'm afraid that they are just going to have to
Speaker 12: find a way of walking away from those very very
Speaker 12: likely the majority of that area is going to be
Speaker 12: reallocated as open space on the peninsula.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Dean, what are you gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: on the show this weekend.
Speaker 12: Well, we've got a very special show on Sunday whose
Speaker 12: topic I am not revealing yet. But Saturday tomorrow morning,
Speaker 12: we're taking calls and we're discussing more of these design
Speaker 12: oddities from around southern California.
Speaker 1: Ooh, that sounds fun. Okay, six to eight tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: right here on KFI, and then nine to noon with
Speaker 1: a secret guest on Sunday. It's the house Whisper and
Speaker 1: the host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp, Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thanks Inge. All right, now, let's move on to money
Speaker 1: and say good morning to Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 1: The jobs report coming out? Is it out? Is it out?
Speaker 1: It's out? Happy Friday?
Speaker 13: First of all, it is. Yeah, it's the event of
Speaker 13: the week for Wall Street. We wait for this. This
Speaker 13: gives us a better indication on the health of the economy.
Speaker 13: It's something that the federal Reserve looks that closely to
Speaker 13: make its decision on interest rates. So America added one
Speaker 13: hundred and forty three thousand jobs in January. That was
Speaker 13: lower than what Wall Street expected, so a bit of
Speaker 13: a surprise, But another month of solid additions to the
Speaker 13: labor market, plus the unemployment rate take lower, so that's
Speaker 13: a bit of good news. Four percent. In December it
Speaker 13: was at four point one percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Speaker 13: that's the group of fun folks that bring us this report.
Speaker 13: They actually said that the wildfires had no discernible effect
Speaker 13: on employment for the month. Also, the wintry weather and
Speaker 13: the cold that we've been seeing. We've been seeing a
Speaker 13: lot of cold here in New York that has had
Speaker 13: no effect on these numbers.
Speaker 1: Courtney, I get excited about cat videos, and you get
Speaker 1: excited about the jobs report. I think that's funny.
Speaker 13: That's so true. I'm like, this is the exciting time
Speaker 13: of the month for us here.
Speaker 1: As I was.
Speaker 13: Digging a little bit into the report too, it said
Speaker 13: that the sectors that did the most hiring included healthcare, retail,
Speaker 13: and social assistance. So it's exciting to see things like this.
Speaker 13: Where are the jobs moving? What kind of jobs.
Speaker 1: Are being created in the United States.
Speaker 13: This is fun, exciting stuff, and that's why we're seeing
Speaker 13: the markets have a bit of reaction to this. At first,
Speaker 13: when the numbers came out, they Wall Street looked at it.
Speaker 13: They sent futures down a bit. But right now we
Speaker 13: were starting to climb back. We're a little bit higher.
Speaker 13: We talked about f is the indication of where the
Speaker 13: markets are going, and it looks like Dow futures are higher,
Speaker 13: up forty points.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's good news. Okay. So we had talked
Speaker 1: about Starbucks trying to kind of claw their way back
Speaker 1: after having several quarters of down business, and one of
Speaker 1: the things they're doing is they're letting the baristas write
Speaker 1: little notes on cups again.
Speaker 3: Hell a little bit of love.
Speaker 13: Well, Starbucks customers are starting to see messages scrawled with
Speaker 13: the sharpie wishing folks a great weekend. We're simply saying, enjoy.
Speaker 13: The chain's rolling out this new policy, hoping that the
Speaker 13: notes or the doodles are a better way to connect
Speaker 13: with customers if they actually get your name right, I'm Colleen.
Speaker 13: A lot of times, lots of patrons say that the
Speaker 13: messages are lighting up their day, but other customers are
Speaker 13: saying what are people doing?
Speaker 1: On TikTok.
Speaker 13: One lady actually shared a video of her boyfriend's cup
Speaker 13: with a winking face drawn on it, and she posted,
Speaker 13: Starbucks really going to start some trouble with.
Speaker 1: This new policy. Oh you have a jealous girlfriend see
Speaker 1: red flag in my opinion, yeah, the Starbucks person, but
Speaker 1: the jealous girlfriend. Than thanks going on there.
Speaker 13: All right, But workers are having a bit of concern
Speaker 13: with all of this because they say that this is
Speaker 13: going to slow down service. And this is something that
Speaker 13: Starbucks has been trying to fix. We've been talking about
Speaker 13: this for a bit. But one store said a barista
Speaker 13: is actually being reassigned to focus exclusively on riding on
Speaker 13: the cup sturing business.
Speaker 1: Don okay, I want that job, Bloomberg Courtney, Donaho. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for the information. We can't wait to
Speaker 1: talk to you again on Monday, because we get to
Speaker 1: talk to you every day on wake up call right
Speaker 1: about this time. Thanks so much. Have a great week,
Speaker 1: all right, you two courney. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: our newsroom and La County Sheriff's Deputy's been found guilty
Speaker 1: of using excessive force during a shoplifting investigation outside of
Speaker 1: supermarket in Lancaster. The indictment said Trevor Kirk assaulted and
Speaker 1: pepper sprayed a woman in June of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: then used his sheriff's department radio to call in a
Speaker 1: misleading report that he had been in a fight. He's
Speaker 1: facing up to ten years in federal prison when he
Speaker 1: sentenced in April. The Department of Justice is suing Illinois
Speaker 1: and the City of Chicago for interfering with the Trump
Speaker 1: administration's immigration enforcement policies.
Speaker 11: Lawsuit also seeks to sweep away so called sanctuary laws.
Speaker 11: The DOJ sign of the national Emergency declared by President Trump,
Speaker 11: and the Department is looking to block enforcement of state
Speaker 11: and local laws that interfere with the government's enforcement of
Speaker 11: immigration law.
Speaker 1: Caff E's Mark Mayfield says Attorney General Pam Bondi sent
Speaker 1: a memmo this week saying sanctuary cities should not get
Speaker 1: Justice Department grants. San Clemente says it will install surveillance
Speaker 1: cameras along the coast to watch for boats carrying illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants over the border. Caffy's Phil Hewlett says the city's
Speaker 1: been a popular drop off spot for Ponga boats from Mexico.
Speaker 11: Passengers typically attempt to run up the bluff and get
Speaker 11: into waiting cars on or near Interstate five.
Speaker 14: Over the years, boats have capsized in the surf, leading
Speaker 14: to injuries and death.
Speaker 1: The US Border Patrol has been asked to install the
Speaker 1: cameras and then to monitor them around the clock room. Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody has amassed outside of the news booth because I
Speaker 1: have my sparkly tennis shoes on today.
Speaker 4: Are very shiny.
Speaker 1: They are very shiny.
Speaker 2: Syndrome and your color blind.
Speaker 1: Because they're black and not red. Okay, Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: to handle them. We got Nil Savedra and producer Ann
Speaker 1: gawking at my shoes. It's because they're so darn cute.
Speaker 4: You're jealous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Anyway, here's what we're following in the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four our newsroom. Uh, the rain has triggered some
Speaker 1: debris flows in the Palisades fire burn area. Some mud
Speaker 1: and brie came down onto pch and Malibu about three
Speaker 1: this morning. Crews with bulldozers where were to clear rocks
Speaker 1: and mud from the roadway. For a fifth straight day,
Speaker 1: hundreds of people have taken to the streets to protest
Speaker 1: President Trump's deportation policies. Several hundred people rallied outside the
Speaker 1: LA Finance Building in Van Nuys yesterday. Many of them
Speaker 1: were students seen holding signs and Mexican. There were also
Speaker 1: protests in East LA outside Venice High School and the
Speaker 1: Wilshire Federal Building. Millions of Americans are expected to call
Speaker 1: in sick on Monday, the day after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: A twenty twenty four pay Comm survey shows six day requests.
Speaker 1: We're sixty three percent higher on the Monday after Super
Speaker 1: Bowl than on an average day. More than ninety percent
Speaker 1: of managers at US companies approved those sick days after
Speaker 1: the game. We're just minutes away from handle on the
Speaker 1: news this morning, so cocaine is no worse than whiskey.
Speaker 1: Bill's going to tell us who's saying that right now.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Will Gans.
Speaker 3: Will.
Speaker 1: The oscars are about six weeks away, and we've got
Speaker 1: some watchin to do to catch up.
Speaker 3: We do, we do, so if you plan on taking
Speaker 3: a sick day on Monday, I've got some great.
Speaker 2: Recommendations for you.
Speaker 3: Okay, Sing Sing is the movie that Coldyn Domingo is
Speaker 3: nominated for Best Actor.
Speaker 2: He plays.
Speaker 3: It's a true story of a guy who is insinc
Speaker 3: saying wrongfully convicted and gets involved in a theater group
Speaker 3: within the prison system that sort of helps inmates get
Speaker 3: in touch with their emotions and be able to express
Speaker 3: themselves more thoughtfully and clearly and things like that. And
Speaker 3: the really cool thing, first of all, Coleman Domago is
Speaker 3: amazing in this movie. It's why he's nominated for Best Actor.
Speaker 3: But the really cool thing is that several of the
Speaker 3: other cast members of this film are playing themselves, so
Speaker 3: they are formerly incarcerated people who did go through this
Speaker 3: theater program and are now a part of this movie
Speaker 3: telling the story about it, which.
Speaker 2: Is really cool.
Speaker 3: And you know, the performances in it are amazing, and
Speaker 3: the end of it is hopeful and uplifting, which is
Speaker 3: just what the doctor ordered, at least for me these days.
Speaker 3: So this movie is now available to stream at home.
Speaker 3: It was in theaters and you can watch it. I
Speaker 3: watched it just through my cable provider on demand, but
Speaker 3: it's on Amazon Prime and all the good places too,
Speaker 3: So okay, I can't recommend that one enow r.
Speaker 1: Okay, writen that down. Okay, then we all love Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live, or at some point in our lives maybe
Speaker 1: have might not anymore, you know. I mean it kind
Speaker 1: of waxes and wanes for me. But there's a new
Speaker 1: docu series on Peacock about it.
Speaker 3: Yes, And it's so funny that you say that, because
Speaker 3: that's like one of the opening lines of this docu
Speaker 3: series as well, is people being like, well, when I
Speaker 3: was growing up, it was Data Carvey and Chris Barley
Speaker 3: and it was amazing, and now it's you know, so
Speaker 3: everybody does have an attachment to certain eras of the show.
Speaker 3: But this docu series is four episodes, and the first
Speaker 3: episode is about the audition process that the cast members
Speaker 3: have to go through. So yeah, so they each get
Speaker 3: five minutes, and all of these auditions are filmed, so
Speaker 3: you'll have Tracy Morgan sitting down to watch his audition
Speaker 3: and then he's sort of telling you about what it
Speaker 3: was like doing that, and then they have the casting
Speaker 3: director there, and then the next episode is about bringing
Speaker 3: that Cowbell.
Speaker 2: Sketch to life.
Speaker 3: So it's it's told in a cool way. It's not
Speaker 3: just linear, like here's what it was like in the sixties.
Speaker 3: Here's what it was like, you know. So it's it's
Speaker 3: a cool concept, and it's four episodes and they're all
Speaker 3: already on Peacock and they're about an hour each and
Speaker 3: all of this is, as you know, leading up to
Speaker 3: the fiftieth anniversary of SNL, which they're celebrating next weekend
Speaker 3: on NBC.
Speaker 1: By the way, my favorite part of Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: is Weekend Update NDS down.
Speaker 2: Just the best. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They do such a good job with it, okay, an.
Speaker 3: Amy Era, Yeah, yeah, And everyone has their favorite Weekend
Speaker 3: Update anchored.
Speaker 1: I love the guys. Now it's Michael Chen and gosh,
Speaker 1: I can't remember his name right now.
Speaker 2: Colin Joe, Yeah, Colin Joe's Yeah, I love them.
Speaker 1: I love them. And it's not a new movie, but
Speaker 1: there is something new on your Netflix menu.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it is pun intended, well done. The menu
Speaker 2: is the name of the movie.
Speaker 3: It's Ray Fines and he plays like this like the
Speaker 3: world's greatest chef. And Amya Taylor Joy is a woman
Speaker 3: who is part of a couple and they get a
Speaker 3: reservation at this exclusive restaurant and this exclusive location, and
Speaker 3: once they get there, they sort of realize that things
Speaker 3: are not as they seem and something a little more
Speaker 3: sinister is going on and they have to get out
Speaker 3: of there, but they don't know how. So it's it's
Speaker 3: a thriller, and it's not new, but it's new to Netflix.
Speaker 2: And so for anyone who may have missed it when
Speaker 2: it came out a couple of years ago, you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's.
Speaker 3: A pretty good psychological thriller that's not you know, it's
Speaker 3: an interesting movie. So if you're looking for something to
Speaker 3: keep you on the edge of your seat this weekend
Speaker 3: leading up to the super Bowl or on your sick
Speaker 3: day on Monday, it's a pretty good movie.
Speaker 1: From Conclave to the Menu. Yeah, of any kallis absolutely
Speaker 1: and I'm going to say that Will knows of what
Speaker 1: he speaks a recommendation from last week. I'm still watching
Speaker 1: it because it's still coming out section or episode by episode.
Speaker 1: But if you haven't started watching Paradise yet, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: You must crazy crazy, so.
Speaker 1: Good, so good. Yes, le' not say anything more because
Speaker 1: we're out of time. Just go watch it, will Gans,
Speaker 1: you can follow I'm at will Gans. That's g a
Speaker 1: n SS. Thank you so much. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 2: All right, have a great weekend.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I've got so many things on my list to watch.
Speaker 1: He does a good job recommending stuff. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four our newsroom. Former Vice President Kamala Harris has
Speaker 1: toured the Pacific Palisades area and met with evacuees and
Speaker 1: first responders.
Speaker 9: My first time seeing it in person.
Speaker 1: She says, extreme weather events like the deadly fires in
Speaker 1: La County have become increasingly common.
Speaker 7: We have to have a system that is not only
Speaker 7: about responding during the crisis and after, but we have
Speaker 7: to build up the resources to deal with the inevitability
Speaker 7: of it.
Speaker 1: She says. She toured the destruction left behind by the
Speaker 1: Palisades fire with La County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath before meeting
Speaker 1: with the displaced residents at the Westwood Recreation Center. Kanye
Speaker 1: West is asking President Trump to free.
Speaker 14: Show West posted on x Thursday, writing free Puff in
Speaker 14: all caps. He later appealed directly to President Trump, posting
Speaker 14: a request to quote please free my brother Puff.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Michael Kassner says the rap mogul is in jail
Speaker 1: awaiting trial on federal charges of human trafficking and sex abuse.
Speaker 1: A large asteroid has been seen in NASA imagery, possibly
Speaker 1: spiraling toward Earth. Kfi's Brian Schuk says it's the only
Speaker 1: asteroid with an impact probability above one percent.
Speaker 6: The number changes day by day, but the NASA Jet
Speaker 6: Propulsion Laboratory said the object, named twenty twenty four y
Speaker 6: R four, is on its risk list.
Speaker 1: He says that's because scientists have found a gradual increase
Speaker 1: in the asteroid's impact probability in the months since they
Speaker 1: discovered its existence, so we got that to look forward to.
Speaker 1: This is KFI and kosd HD two Los Angeles, Orange
Speaker 1: County Southland weather from KFI. Rain this morning, showers this afternoon.
Speaker 1: High's in the upper fifties to mid sixties. Cloudy tonight
Speaker 1: with lows in the forties. Mostly cloudy Tomorrow morning, becoming
Speaker 1: sunny for the afternoon. Still a chance for showers, maybe
Speaker 1: even snow in the high Desert. Highs will be in
Speaker 1: the fifties to low sixties, and then we'll see mostly
Speaker 1: sunny skies for Super Bowl Sunday. Highs in the low sixties.
Speaker 1: Another chance for rain, rolls in starting next Tuesday. It's
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