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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Tuesday, November twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Amy King. Thanks for starting your day
Speaker 1: with us. Of course, it is the busiest travel day
Speaker 1: of the year, so maybe you're up early getting ready.
Speaker 2: To hit the road.
Speaker 1: There's only like eighty million people who are going to
Speaker 1: be traveling for the holiday weekend, and today is supposed
Speaker 1: to be the busiest day. I think they said three
Speaker 1: million people expected to pass through TSA security checkpoints by
Speaker 1: air today. We're gonna be talking to ABC Jim Ryan
Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes about that.
Speaker 2: He'll fill us in.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. The Menendez brothers
Speaker 1: will not be home for the holidays. Eric and Lyle
Speaker 1: made their first court appearances in decades yesterday. It was
Speaker 1: done virtually their lawyers and family members asked for the
Speaker 1: brothers to be re sentenced in the murder of their parents,
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine. The judge rescheduled a December eleventh
Speaker 1: hearing to late January. A federal judge says a San
Speaker 1: Jose State volleyball player can play in the upcoming women's
Speaker 1: Mountain West Conference tournament even though she's apparently transgender. Nine
Speaker 1: players have sued, challenging the conference's rules that allow transgender
Speaker 1: athletes to play. They claim it could be unsafe and unfair.
Speaker 1: They're appealing the judge's ruling. Santa has made one of
Speaker 1: his first appearances of the season, attending the tree lighting
Speaker 1: ceremonies at both the Grove and Los Angeles Union Station
Speaker 1: and Sinks Lance Bass American Idol winner Abby Carter, love
Speaker 1: Her and Robin Thicke all joined Santa at the Grove
Speaker 1: last night for the tree lighting, drone show and fireworks.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Menendez brothers'
Speaker 1: potential re sentencing has been delayed until at least late January.
Speaker 4: Eric and Leulman Indez appeared virtually in a courtroom in
Speaker 4: van Nis, where they had hoped to argue for their
Speaker 4: potential release after thirty five years in prison. The brothers
Speaker 4: murdered their parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 4: but say new evidence details sexual abuse by their father
Speaker 4: that would have benefited their cases back in the nineties.
Speaker 4: Their aunt, Joan Vandermullen, supports the brother's release. What kind
Speaker 4: of can do in its father's god, I can't stand
Speaker 4: The judge says he needs time to review seventeen boxes
Speaker 4: of documents and that hearings at the end of January
Speaker 4: are now scheduled. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A small plane that crashed while trying to make an
Speaker 1: emergency landing at Fullerton Airport has been taken to a
Speaker 1: tow yard to try to figure out what caused it
Speaker 1: to crash. The Mooney M twenty plane hit a tree
Speaker 1: yesterday and sheared a fire hydrant as it went down
Speaker 1: on art Jack. Fullerton Fire Department Division Chief John Miller
Speaker 1: says the pilot couldn't make it back to the airports.
Speaker 5: There was a fire hydrant that was hit, but other
Speaker 5: than that there was minimal damage. Other than to the
Speaker 5: airplane itself.
Speaker 1: Firefighters had to pull the pilot and his passenger out
Speaker 1: of the plane. Both were taken to the hospital with
Speaker 1: moderate injuries. LA School Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says a burglary
Speaker 1: at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School in South LA has caused
Speaker 1: more than one hundred thousand dollars damage. About twenty four
Speaker 1: doors were damaged over the weekend and a building was ransacked.
Speaker 6: Beyond the cost is the inconvenience this brings to the
Speaker 6: educational community, to the teachers, to the students themselves.
Speaker 1: Carvallo says more than one hundred and seventy break ins
Speaker 1: have been reported at schools across the district this year.
Speaker 1: He says the recent voter approval of the district's nine
Speaker 1: billion dollar bond measure will help by providing campus improvements
Speaker 1: like security cameras and alarm systems.
Speaker 2: Special Council Jack Smith.
Speaker 1: Has filed a motion to drop all four felony charges
Speaker 1: against President elect Trump in connection with efforts to overturn
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty presidential election. Smith also filed a similar
Speaker 1: motion yesterday to drop all charges over Trump's alleged efforts
Speaker 1: to store classified documents at his home in Florida. The
Speaker 1: Supreme Court put both cases in doubt this year when
Speaker 1: the Justice is ruled that Trump has some presidential immunity.
Speaker 1: Smith and his team are expected to resign before Trump
Speaker 1: takes office in January. Tiger Woods says he won't be
Speaker 1: playing in next week's Hero World Challenge, a tournament he
Speaker 1: hosts in the Bahamas. The golf legend is still recuperating
Speaker 1: from major back surgery in September. Wood says he is
Speaker 1: disappointed but is looking forward to being the tournament host.
Speaker 2: Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim ryans So.
Speaker 1: Jim Nick said that traffic right now is holiday light,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's going to last.
Speaker 6: Probably not no, because you've got something like seventy million
Speaker 6: people who are traveling by car. It's fifty miles or
Speaker 6: more for the holiday, and that's all going on across
Speaker 6: the country right now. So, yeah, what are you five morning?
Speaker 6: It's going to pick up here within the next couple
Speaker 6: of hours and it's going to stay that way for
Speaker 6: a few days. Record travel, we're well exceeded the highs
Speaker 6: of twenty nineteen. That's kind of the benchmark and has
Speaker 6: been for a few years amy as the point at
Speaker 6: which the pandemic came in and essentially shut travel down.
Speaker 6: We've fully recovered from that now.
Speaker 2: Isn't that good to know? And so they're saying it's
Speaker 2: the busiest travel day.
Speaker 1: Today is supposed to be the busiest travel day of
Speaker 1: the of the weekend.
Speaker 6: Today. Yeah, well, the next Monday we'll rival it, certainly
Speaker 6: at the airports as people fly back home after their
Speaker 6: long holiday weekend. So yes, today it's going to be
Speaker 6: very heavy. And we were already looking at some travel
Speaker 6: delays Northeast in Boston, New York and DC. They've got
Speaker 6: weather related flight delays, not a lot, but a few anyway,
Speaker 6: and including a couple of flights that are heading to
Speaker 6: southern California from Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: So even if you're here and the weather is not
Speaker 1: a factor, you probably should still call ahead because sometimes
Speaker 1: planes coming in and get delayed, and that delays.
Speaker 6: Year getting butterfly effect things across the country can affect
Speaker 6: you here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so the numbers are up from last year,
Speaker 1: but it's like a two or three percent increase, right,
Speaker 1: So it's not like we're going to see a marked
Speaker 1: difference from last year.
Speaker 6: Well probably not. No, Statistically, yes there is a difference,
Speaker 6: but in terms of the real impact on individual travelers,
Speaker 6: probably not. But it's still it would serve you well
Speaker 6: to get to the airport early, to maybe gas up
Speaker 6: and get out of there early as you start to
Speaker 6: hit the road. Gas prices are lower this year than
Speaker 6: last year, and you know that's certainly feeding into people's
Speaker 6: desire to go ahead and get out of town. I
Speaker 6: think the average across the country right now is three
Speaker 6: dollars a little over three dollars per gallon for regular. Oh,
Speaker 6: I know, I know. You want to hear the Texas number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the number in Texas?
Speaker 6: You really want to hear it? Uh huh forty seven cents? Again, No,
Speaker 6: it's average price around here is two sixty four for regular.
Speaker 6: I suspect yours is a little higher than that. It is.
Speaker 1: Last so I filled up yesterday it was four fifty
Speaker 1: nine a gallon. I just remember that.
Speaker 2: But that was how do you do that? I don't know,
Speaker 2: you just do it.
Speaker 1: In California right now, the average for regular is for
Speaker 1: forty four. And that's in California. It's yeah, it's usually
Speaker 1: higher in La too.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, my brother lives in San Francisco, and he's, oh,
Speaker 6: that's much anymore.
Speaker 2: That's why you know, last time I traveled, I took
Speaker 2: the train.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, a lot of people are doing that, yeah,
Speaker 6: trains traveling by train. It figures into the statistics this
Speaker 6: year too. So two does cruising. People are taking cruises
Speaker 6: like never before. One report by Oh my God.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine doing a Thanksgiving cruise because a cruise
Speaker 1: you eat the whole time anyway, and if you build
Speaker 1: in Thanksgiving around that, that would be well delicious and
Speaker 1: probably painful for your stomach.
Speaker 6: I spent Thanksgiving eight years ago something like that. It
Speaker 6: was right after Ferguson, So I was stuck in Saint
Speaker 6: Louis for Thanksgiving and an ABC team and I ate
Speaker 6: our Thanksgiving in a casino and it was the most
Speaker 6: depressing thing you've ever seen. It was so sad.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully you'll be home this Jearsey pro tips, What
Speaker 1: are some pro tips for people who are traveling?
Speaker 6: Always get there early, make sure you get there early.
Speaker 6: Be patient. You know that I think is really a
Speaker 6: lot of it is just keeping things in perspective. If
Speaker 6: you're traveling somewhere you're not working right, and so if
Speaker 6: you get a little flight delay, fine, just sit on relaxed,
Speaker 6: have a cup of coffee and read the paper, you know,
Speaker 6: because you're going to get there eventually. You'll have a
Speaker 6: nice time. Just try to chill out a bit. Philadelphia,
Speaker 6: they called the Wagging Tails Brigade. It's a team of
Speaker 6: twenty three dogs and their handlers and they wander around
Speaker 6: the airport letting and the vest on the dog. You
Speaker 6: know you see vests on police dogs. They keep back.
Speaker 6: Don't pet stay away the vest on these dogs, It says.
Speaker 1: Pet me, that is so cute, except if you don't
Speaker 1: like dogs, like one of my best friends complains, because
Speaker 1: it's just like, why are dogs in stores?
Speaker 2: She probably would not like to see dogs in airports either.
Speaker 6: Well, you don't have to go pet.
Speaker 2: It, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And then what's going on with the Charlotte workers strike?
Speaker 6: Yeah, there was a strike going on over there with
Speaker 6: Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The airports support workers. These are
Speaker 6: folks who go in and clean the planes between flights,
Speaker 6: and they wheel people in wheelchairs to the flights. You know,
Speaker 6: they do kind of the support work. Well, the folks
Speaker 6: at Charlotte say they can't even afford rent, They can
Speaker 6: barely afford to drive to the airport to get to work,
Speaker 6: and so they've gone on strike. It's not impacting flights
Speaker 6: much even at Charlotte, much less across the industry. But
Speaker 6: Charlotte being an American airlines hub, it's possible if you
Speaker 6: suddenly started seeing a slow down there at Charlotte, then
Speaker 6: that could ripple around the country again. Butterfly effects something
Speaker 6: happening at Charlotte affecting folks in that you know, John
Speaker 6: Wayne or Lai.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, any last final words?
Speaker 7: Am I.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we'll talk to you before Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6: Maybe tom Well, I'm working tomorrow. Well, I'll try to
Speaker 6: come up with something that you're interested in.
Speaker 2: Okay, do that would you? It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan, thank you all right, and don't forget to
Speaker 1: pack your patients.
Speaker 6: Pack some patience. I hate that cliches.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk to you soon, Jim.
Speaker 6: Thanks. Okay.
Speaker 1: So let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A couple
Speaker 1: from Rosemeat have been arrested for the death of their
Speaker 1: one year old daughter. The La County Sheriff's Departments' his
Speaker 1: deputies were called to a home on Strathmore Avenue earlier
Speaker 1: this month about a baby who was unconscious not breathing.
Speaker 1: They say the girl was unresponsive and had multiple injuries.
Speaker 1: She died at the hospital. A sibling was placed in
Speaker 1: protective custody. Stepfather and son team has been arrested for
Speaker 1: trying to steal from a store in Upland. Police say
Speaker 1: a police officer caught the teen in the store over
Speaker 1: the weekend, and while he was being detained, the stepdad
Speaker 1: was allegedly stuffing stolen closed into a suitcase. The stepfather
Speaker 1: tried to run off but was caught. He's out on
Speaker 1: parole and has outstanding warrants. He was arrested. The teen
Speaker 1: was cited and released to his mother. Most charges against
Speaker 1: more than two dozen protesters who blocked the Golden Gate
Speaker 1: Bridge and protests of the Israel Hamas war have been
Speaker 1: dismissed a judge throughout thirty two of the forty four
Speaker 1: charges against twenty six protesters.
Speaker 8: Throughout history, people have used protest and civil disobedience as
Speaker 8: a way of bringing about social change. These protesters are
Speaker 8: simply in that tradition.
Speaker 1: Rachel Liederman with the Center for Protest Law and Litigation
Speaker 1: says there's no precedent for the types of charges that
Speaker 1: have been filed against the group. Most of those counts
Speaker 1: were false imprisonment. The twelve charges that remain include federal
Speaker 1: counts of conspiracy. Authorities Inventor County are searching for a
Speaker 1: woman accused of running a home rental scam. Investigator Say
Speaker 1: Jennifer Singh advertised a home for rent in Semi Valley
Speaker 1: last year. She ended up promising to lease the home
Speaker 1: to a family for twenty five hundred dollars, but it
Speaker 1: turned out she didn't own the home and wasn't authorized
Speaker 1: to rent it. She took the family's twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars anyway. Detective say Singh did it again in March,
Speaker 1: this time stealing four thousand dollars from would be renters.
Speaker 1: Singh is facing two counts of grand theft. Democrat Derek
Speaker 1: Tran has declared victory in the forty fifth congressional district race,
Speaker 1: despite having only a slim lead over Republican Congresswoman Michelle Steele.
Speaker 1: The Orange County Registrar of Voters's Tran added another thirty
Speaker 1: six votes to his lead yesterday's now had by five
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty one votes. He has a fifty point
Speaker 1: one percent edge over Steel's forty nine point nine percent
Speaker 1: counting of ballots for the La County portion of the
Speaker 1: seat resumes today. It's not known how many more ballots
Speaker 1: are still to be counted. The fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon
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Speaker 1: Southern California. Can't wait to see you there. Heavy snowfalls
Speaker 1: expected as a strong winter storm moves through the central
Speaker 1: and southern Sierra Nevada. The National Weather Service has issued
Speaker 1: storm warnings winter storm warnings for Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon
Speaker 1: National Parks, and Mammoth Lakes. Mammoth Mountain could see three
Speaker 1: to five feet of snow. Mount Whitney could get over
Speaker 1: eight feet of snow. The Israeli Cabinet will vote today
Speaker 1: whether to approve a ceasefire deal with Hezbolah. Israeli Prime
Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the potential deal in principle.
Speaker 1: Will be getting the latest from Jerusalem with ABC stre
Speaker 1: Donna Miller in just a minute. Bab humbug, someone has
Speaker 1: vandalized the Ebenezer Scrooge tombstone featured in the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: four version of A Christmas Carol starring George C.
Speaker 2: Scott.
Speaker 1: The tombstone was left in the cemetery after filming and
Speaker 1: had become a tourist attraction. Officials in Shrewsbury, England or
Speaker 1: still deciding if the shattered tombstone at Saint Chad's Church
Speaker 1: will be replaced. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Jordana Miller in Jerusalem.
Speaker 2: So Jerdana.
Speaker 1: Yesterday when we talked, we talked about how a ceasefire
Speaker 1: deal was in the works but probably still weeks away.
Speaker 2: That timeline has been moved up.
Speaker 9: Wow, it has really moved up, and it's probably the
Speaker 9: first bit of really good news to report in more
Speaker 9: than fourteen months of this relentless and painful war. But
Speaker 9: it looks like Natagnell is prepared to put the US
Speaker 9: back speacefire with levinonto a vote in his security cabinet
Speaker 9: later today, and from what we understand sources telling ABC News,
Speaker 9: there is a majority of support and this cabinet is
Speaker 9: expected to approve a ceasefire. That means it could start
Speaker 9: as early as Wednesday morning, it's a sixty day seafire
Speaker 9: that would see Husbola forced to move about twenty miles
Speaker 9: north of Israel's border, beyond the Latani River, and it
Speaker 9: would also require the Israeli army to fully withdraw from
Speaker 9: southern Lebanon, and then the Lebanese Army along with UNIFIL,
Speaker 9: would be responsible for really policing southern Lebanon and keeping
Speaker 9: Husbala out. Even the US is set to play a
Speaker 9: role in monitoring the seasire.
Speaker 1: And as far as like what the two sides have
Speaker 1: to give up to come to a compromise. I would
Speaker 1: imagine that Israel wants out of Lebanon anyway. I don't
Speaker 1: they They don't want a long time.
Speaker 9: They they don't. But I think many people presume that
Speaker 9: the Israeli army would hold a security buffer. Certainly the
Speaker 9: residents of northern Israel wanted to see Israeli troops on
Speaker 9: the other side. It would give them a greater sense
Speaker 9: of security. But that's not going to happen, and so
Speaker 9: Israel the Prime Minister, he's really going to have to
Speaker 9: try to sell this deal to the residents of the
Speaker 9: north who've been you know, internally displaced now for more
Speaker 9: than a year, and they are fearful to go back,
Speaker 9: especially after the last few days where Osbala has shown
Speaker 9: that they still have capabilities. They can still fire dozens
Speaker 9: of rockets and drones on northern and even central Israel.
Speaker 1: And then who polices this to make sure that the
Speaker 1: two sides aren't firing at each other, because the ceasefires
Speaker 1: are so fragile.
Speaker 2: You know, just takes one rocket, took it out.
Speaker 9: Right, right. So the Lebanese Army, which did not play
Speaker 9: a major role policing the last agreement between the sides,
Speaker 9: is supposed to bolster its presence in southern Lebanon along
Speaker 9: with UNIFIL. And then again there's a committee that's going
Speaker 9: to be led by the US that will be watching
Speaker 9: and monitoring for violations. And Israel has signed an agreement
Speaker 9: on the side with the United States, which in essence,
Speaker 9: Washington is giving Israel backing for any major violations of
Speaker 9: the deal that are imminent or critical threats and giving
Speaker 9: Israel backing to go in and attack Hasbola that is
Speaker 9: across Lebanon, so it could be in southern Bay route,
Speaker 9: could be entire the Balbec Valley, or Southern Lebanon is
Speaker 9: all very concerned. You know, it does not want his
Speaker 9: Wola to come back into this area like it did
Speaker 9: twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Wait, did I just I'm not sure if I just
Speaker 1: heard you right? So if even if there's a cease fire,
Speaker 1: Israel could still fire on Hesbola positions.
Speaker 9: That's right. It Bola violates the deal. Oh okay, okay,
Speaker 9: going that, Yes, they violate the deal. They look like
Speaker 9: they're coming in.
Speaker 1: I got you, okay, all right, Well, hopefully next time
Speaker 1: we talked we'll have better news.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's we'll keep our fingers starts welling.
Speaker 6: It's good news.
Speaker 9: Yeah, all right, so for the next four hours, okay, texting.
Speaker 2: Name all right, thanks so much, shre Donna.
Speaker 1: The holiday shopping season kicks into high gear with Black Friday,
Speaker 1: Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday just days away.
Speaker 10: The US National Retail Federation forecasts that winter holiday sales
Speaker 10: will reach almost one trillion dollars in November and December,
Speaker 10: but the rate of spending growth is expected to be
Speaker 10: the slowest the country scene since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Sally Patterson says consumers are being more careful with their
Speaker 1: spending and will be hunting for deals. Target says it
Speaker 1: expects softer demand for things like electronics and home goods
Speaker 1: this holiday season. Anonymous tips have led to the arrest
Speaker 1: of nearly two dozen people in South LA for alleged
Speaker 1: illegal gambling, drug possession, and gun violations. The LAPED announced
Speaker 1: yesterday a warrant was served last week at an address
Speaker 1: on Figaroa Street in Your Century. They say investigators found
Speaker 1: gambling machines and illegal drugs, while two guns were recovered
Speaker 1: during a search. Most of the twenty two people busted
Speaker 1: were given citations and released. California may step in if
Speaker 1: the President elect should kill electric vehicle tax credits.
Speaker 4: Governor Newsom says the state could create its own rebate
Speaker 4: program to encourage zero emission vehicle purchases. Republican state Senator
Speaker 4: Roger Niello disagrees, argued the market to decide on its own.
Speaker 3: That would be a much better way to handle it,
Speaker 3: as opposed to exhausting state resources to fund that.
Speaker 4: Newsom says the program could be modeled on the state's
Speaker 4: old clean Vehicle rebate program, which funded nearly six hundred
Speaker 4: thousand new cars and trucks. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: President elect Trump's pick for borders are is headed to
Speaker 1: South Texas. Tom Homan is meeting today with Republican Governor
Speaker 1: Greg Abbott and lawmakers in Eagle Pass to talk about
Speaker 1: the border situation. Holman's also expected to take part in
Speaker 1: an event in Star County on land acquired by the
Speaker 1: State of Texas for additional border wall construction. The General
Speaker 1: Land Office has offered the land to the incoming administration
Speaker 1: for possible use as a deportation detention center. The European
Speaker 1: Space Agency has given the thumbs up for a plan
Speaker 1: for a robotic spacecraft to visit an asteroid. The plan
Speaker 1: is for the spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine. The asteroid is about as wide as
Speaker 1: the Empire State Building is to The agency says if
Speaker 1: it were to hit Earth, it would cause wholesale destruction
Speaker 1: hundreds of miles from the crash site. Warren Buffett has
Speaker 1: continued his Thanksgiving tradition of giving away his money. He
Speaker 1: gave away more than one point one billion dollars in
Speaker 1: Berkshire Hathaway Stock to four of his family foundations yesterday.
Speaker 1: Buffett says he has no regrets about his decision in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six to start giving away his fortune.
Speaker 1: He's worth almost one hundred and forty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 1: He's given away sixty billion so far. Okay, quick warning
Speaker 1: for you as we head into the holidays. I know
Speaker 1: that when we talked to sometimes when we talk to
Speaker 1: Rich dumurror tech guy, or Joel Larsgard who's the host
Speaker 1: of how to Money on KFY, we talk about your
Speaker 1: money and how people are trying to get it away
Speaker 1: from you. I got this text message the other day
Speaker 1: and it says the USPS package has arrived at the
Speaker 1: warehouse and cannot be delivered due to incomplete address information.
Speaker 1: Please con firm your address in this link within twelve hours.
Speaker 1: And then it's got a link that you're supposed to
Speaker 1: click through to, and they really do a pretty decent
Speaker 1: job of making it look real.
Speaker 2: It's not. And as Rich and.
Speaker 1: Joel will tell you, if you do click through, then
Speaker 1: you have potential malware or god knows what they're going
Speaker 1: to do or get you to do, or try to
Speaker 1: scam you out of your money.
Speaker 2: But for the Holloways holidays, just you.
Speaker 1: Know, keep your keep your little antennas up, be watching
Speaker 1: for these kinds of things because it just ticks me off.
Speaker 1: They look legit and they're not. So if if and doubt,
Speaker 1: contact the party that's contacting you, but on their official websites,
Speaker 1: their official phone numbers don't click through to stuff. A
Speaker 1: small plane has hit a tree and crashed in Fullerton.
Speaker 1: The crash happened as the pilot tried to make an
Speaker 1: emergency landing at Fullerton Municipal Airport yesterday afternoon. Two people
Speaker 1: on board have moderate injuries. A federal judge says a
Speaker 1: San Jose State volleyball player can play in the upcoming
Speaker 1: women's Mountain West Conference tournament even though she's allegedly transgender.
Speaker 1: Nine players have sued challenging the conference's rules that allow
Speaker 1: transgender athletes to play. They claim it could be unsafe
Speaker 1: and unfair. Four teams have forfeited their games against San
Speaker 1: Jose State this season. President elect Trump has announced plans
Speaker 1: to slap new tariffs on imported goods from Mexico, Canada,
Speaker 1: and China. Trump said in a post on truth Social
Speaker 1: that his administration will impose twenty five percent tariffs on
Speaker 1: all Canadian and Mexican goods to boost border security and
Speaker 1: crack down on the flow of fentanyl. The tariffs on
Speaker 1: Chinese goods will be ten percent on top of tariffs
Speaker 1: already imposed during Trump's first term. At six o five,
Speaker 1: iight's handle on the news. President elect Trump is off
Speaker 1: the hook when it comes to classified documents and alleged
Speaker 1: efforts to overturn an election.
Speaker 2: But is it for good?
Speaker 6: Right now?
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to mad's national Ambassador Tara Repka Flores.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Tara morning.
Speaker 1: So we know that the holiday season is notorious for
Speaker 1: parties and holiday celebrations, and with that people are drinking.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with holiday celebrations. The problem comes
Speaker 1: and it's potentially deadly when people go to parties and
Speaker 1: then get behind the wheels. So Thanksgiving is said to
Speaker 1: be one of the most dangerous holidays on the roadways.
Speaker 1: When is it most dangerous, TARRA and how bad is
Speaker 1: the problem?
Speaker 7: I think that Wednesday evening is usually one of the
Speaker 7: most challenging times. In twenty twenty two, there were one
Speaker 7: hundred and eighty four fatal accidents on the evening before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7: So MAD just really wants to remind everyone to plan ahead,
Speaker 7: make safety a priority. Plan for a sober driver or
Speaker 7: to take an alternate method of transportation.
Speaker 1: Okay, And the problem on that Wednesday evening is so
Speaker 1: bad they've even given it a name, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of a.
Speaker 2: Scary one.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 7: They call it blackout Wednesday. It is a very dangerous
Speaker 7: time to be on the road and it really requires
Speaker 7: all of us to be vigilant. Mad definitely recommends that
Speaker 7: if you see someone who seems to be driving impaired,
Speaker 7: that you call immediately. You could save someone's life. And
Speaker 7: again we asked everyone to plan ahead, never drive impaired.
Speaker 7: It's so important.
Speaker 1: And Tara, a drunk driver had a tragic and life
Speaker 1: altering effect on your life.
Speaker 2: Can you share that with us?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Absolutely. My son Alex Flrez was thirteen years old
Speaker 7: and in the eighth grade. He was walking to school
Speaker 7: on a Monday morning and a parent from the same
Speaker 7: school was driving her kids to school. All three of
Speaker 7: her kids were in the car and she hit Alec
Speaker 7: and he did not survive his injuries. Her blood alcohol
Speaker 7: was more than three times the legal limit when she
Speaker 7: was driving her kids to school, and you know, we
Speaker 7: lost our son that day.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. And how long ago was that?
Speaker 7: It was in twenty nineteen, Alex would be a freshman
Speaker 7: in college this year.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and I you take that tragedy and
Speaker 1: then you go and try to help others. I mean
Speaker 1: that speaks volumes about you, Trek, because I just can't
Speaker 1: even imagine going through what you have.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you for that. I think that I'm trying
Speaker 7: to honor alex memory and you know, make sure that
Speaker 7: no one else has to experience that we have. But
Speaker 7: I can't do it alone. I need everybody's help, and
Speaker 7: it's just very important. It's very important that everyone makes
Speaker 7: a plan before their their festivities, you know, during the
Speaker 7: holiday even hosts can really play a really active role
Speaker 7: in keeping everyone safe. You know, offer your guess a
Speaker 7: place to stay if they're going to be drinking, or
Speaker 7: make sure that they have arranged for a ride home,
Speaker 7: that they have a sober driver, or that they are
Speaker 7: using a ride share service or something like that. So
Speaker 7: it takes all of us to really plan and be
Speaker 7: active in making sure that we're all safe as holiday season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned the party host, which I think
Speaker 1: was really is really key because I mean, we're all
Speaker 1: there to have a good time, and I've hosted several parties.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want people to be enjoying themselves and
Speaker 1: celebrating and cutting loose a little bit, but then also
Speaker 1: keep an eye on them, you know, watch them and
Speaker 1: if you see that somebody's had a couple of drinks
Speaker 1: and you go, you.
Speaker 2: Know what, let's get you an ober or.
Speaker 1: I love your idea of just saying, hey, why don't
Speaker 1: you just crash here and drive home in the morning.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Absolutely. Party hosts even can the ride shares even have
Speaker 7: where you can provide a link and you can pay
Speaker 7: for people's rides and you can do that in advance.
Speaker 7: So I encourage people to look into that too. And
Speaker 7: for corporate holiday parties, I think that's a great idea
Speaker 7: as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, and it's not only the drivers who have been
Speaker 1: drinking who are at risk. It what should everyone remember
Speaker 1: when they are driving during the holidays, even if you
Speaker 1: haven't been drinking.
Speaker 7: Yeah, stay vigilant, and you know, call and report impaired
Speaker 7: drivers if you if you see someone who seems like
Speaker 7: they're in paired, call an alert law enforcement right away
Speaker 7: so they can try and get that person off the road.
Speaker 7: It's really important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know I was driving one time Tara, and
Speaker 1: it was I was on my way from Sacramento up
Speaker 1: to Medford and there was somebody on the freeway, so
Speaker 1: obviously just weaving and weaving, and it was freaking me out,
Speaker 1: and I didn't I was scared to pass them. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to get off the road, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to like keep an eye on them. And I called
Speaker 1: nine one one, and you know, they stayed on the
Speaker 1: phone with me, and I'm like, okay, we're crossing, you know,
Speaker 1: we're passing here, and that kind of stuff. They stayed
Speaker 1: on the line with me so they could get to
Speaker 1: the person and get them off the road. Because it
Speaker 1: was really a dangerous situation. And I would imagine, and
Speaker 1: that was during the day, like it happened at night
Speaker 1: or something like that, when everybodybody else is out partying,
Speaker 1: I can imagine it's much more dangerous. The prevention part
Speaker 1: is a big part of keeping people safe. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's not always easy to talk to your kids about
Speaker 1: these kinds of things. But how should parents talk to
Speaker 1: their kids about drinking and driving.
Speaker 7: I think parents should have open and honest conversations with
Speaker 7: their children before Thanksgiving about making safe choices and modeling
Speaker 7: good choices, right, show your kids how to you know,
Speaker 7: how to arrange for a sober driver and talk to
Speaker 7: them about it, talk about what you're doing so that
Speaker 7: they have they have a good example of how to
Speaker 7: do that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And if you're not sure how to start a conversation,
Speaker 1: Mad has a handbook out there to help you out.
Speaker 7: They do The Power of parent caanbook is a great
Speaker 7: resource for parents.
Speaker 2: Okay. And do they get that at the on Mad's website?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, and that's just is it mad dot org or
Speaker 1: mad dot com? Yes, Mad dot org. All right, And
Speaker 1: so before you get behind the weel this Thanksgiving holiday
Speaker 1: and all through the long holidays, we asked that you
Speaker 1: think about Tara, how profoundly her life has been affected
Speaker 1: by drunk drivers. Think about your family, your friends, your
Speaker 1: loved ones, and just don't do it. Tara, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for your time, and again, I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: for your loss, but I am inspired by how you're
Speaker 1: now turning around and helping.
Speaker 7: So thank you so much. We're we're so happy to
Speaker 7: be here and I'm glad that you're reminding people about
Speaker 7: how to be safe this holiday season.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks again, Tara, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7: Thanks you too.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's get back.
Speaker 1: To some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. LA City schools have asked for
Speaker 1: help after another break in.
Speaker 4: Superintendent Alberto Carvaljo says the district has been targeted by
Speaker 4: one hundred and seventy one incidents of burglary and vandalism
Speaker 4: just in this semester. The latest happened at Wadsworth Elementary
Speaker 4: in South LA. It was broken into and heavily damaged.
Speaker 4: Garvaldo called a news conference outside the school and says
Speaker 4: he's angry because Wadsworth serves what he calls some of
Speaker 4: the most vulnerable and fragile students in LA. He's asked
Speaker 4: anyone with info on the Wadsworth case to call police.
Speaker 4: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A man's been arrested in connection with an unprovoked attack
Speaker 1: on a homeless woman in Santa Monica. The man's accused
Speaker 1: of strangling the woman back on September twenty second. She
Speaker 1: also suffered trauma to her face. Witnesses say the woman,
Speaker 1: who was found in an alley, was repeatedly kicked and
Speaker 1: punched while she was on the ground. The man's been
Speaker 1: charged with attempted murder. He's doing court December eighteenth. The
Speaker 1: search is on for a woman who walked away from
Speaker 1: the female community re entry program in Santa Fe Springs.
Speaker 1: Authority say Christina Hammond was able to remove her ankle
Speaker 1: monitor yesterday and left it near her bed. Security video
Speaker 1: shows the thirty four year old woman walking out of
Speaker 1: the facility and climbing over a fence. She was wearing
Speaker 1: a gray jacket, gray sweatpants, gloves, and was carrying a
Speaker 1: blue bag. Hammond is serving a five year sentence for assault.
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Speaker 3: A new study shows a hot bath is better for
Speaker 3: an athlete's body than an ice bath after exercise. It's
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Speaker 3: you exercise intensely, muscle fibers are damaged in the hot
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Speaker 3: and get stronger. Other studies show ice water can relieve
Speaker 3: muscle soreness and can be best if there is an injury.
Speaker 3: Mark Ronner KFI News.
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Speaker 2: Today's the day the busiest travel day of the year.
Speaker 1: According to tripa A, nearly eighty million people are expected
Speaker 1: to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday. That's about one point
Speaker 1: seven million more than last year. Southwest Airline says it
Speaker 1: expects Sunday will be its busiest travel day as holiday
Speaker 1: travelers return home. A judge in Van Nuys has postponed
Speaker 1: a decision on a request to re sentence Eric and Lylemanendez,
Speaker 1: who are serving life sentences for killing their parents in
Speaker 1: their home in nineteen eighty nine. The judge heard arguments
Speaker 1: from lawyers and two relatives yesterday, then said he needed
Speaker 1: time and rescheduled a hearing that was initially set for
Speaker 1: December eleventh to January thirtieth. Democratic challenger Derek Tran has
Speaker 1: declared victory in the race for the forty fifth Congressional
Speaker 1: district seat three weeks after the election. Trans lead is
Speaker 1: just five hundred and eighty one votes out of almost
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifteen thousand votes counted. That's a point
Speaker 1: two percent lead. Tran is running down seat Republican Congresswoman
Speaker 1: Michelle Steele. Let's say good morning to the host of
Speaker 1: How to Money on KFI. It's Joel Large Scarred Joel.
Speaker 1: I'm watching my doze. It's still up.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I mean everybody who is into cryptocurrency right now,
Speaker 5: they're probably pretty happy with themselves. And I get it,
Speaker 5: like it's nice to see your investment go up in value.
Speaker 5: I still I still just want to caution you, Amy,
Speaker 5: and want to caution everyone else out there, like do
Speaker 5: you remember what happened with the Super Bowl twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: and like all those crypto commercials and then the subsequent
Speaker 5: crypto winter.
Speaker 2: Just just do be careful.
Speaker 5: Don't have too much exposure there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: And just so I'm sure that you are very worried
Speaker 1: about me, right, but I only have like two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I only have like two hundred dollars, and I'm still
Speaker 1: down because I put the money in and then it
Speaker 1: immediately I think we headed into that crypto winter when
Speaker 1: it was like worth two cents of share or something.
Speaker 1: But it's getting close to what my original investment was.
Speaker 5: Well, if we would dial back like twelve years and
Speaker 5: like going the way back machine kind of thing, and
Speaker 5: you had told all of us that this cryptocurrency thing
Speaker 5: and then that all the subsequent fads and stuff that
Speaker 5: were attached to it was going to happen, and that
Speaker 5: people were actually going to say, this is a viable
Speaker 5: asset class, and I'm excited about like investing in it for.
Speaker 6: The long term.
Speaker 5: I think we all would have laughed probably twelve years ago.
Speaker 5: The fact that it has staying power is fascinating, and
Speaker 5: I do think there's some there are some underlying reasons
Speaker 5: in particular for something like bitcoin, but I just want
Speaker 5: people to be really careful because it still is kind
Speaker 5: of untested in many ways. It's still relatively new, and
Speaker 5: you can't take like three years worth of data and extrapolated,
Speaker 5: unlike the stock market, where we have a lot more
Speaker 5: data and we have kind of underlying valuations that make
Speaker 5: sense for companies that produce products and services that we use.
Speaker 1: Yes, so be very careful. Here's something else to be
Speaker 1: very careful about. Holidays are coming up. People may do
Speaker 1: a little bit of overspending, which I know you already
Speaker 1: recommend against. But the credit cards that they're offering, their
Speaker 1: interest rates are ginormous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So these are store cards in particular, right, Like,
Speaker 5: I'm not an anti credit card guy. I think that
Speaker 5: credit cards can if you use them well, Like they
Speaker 5: can help you earn rewards, they can help you like
Speaker 5: just I really like credit cards for people who pay
Speaker 5: them off on time and in full every single month,
Speaker 5: and I've been able to get free flights or two
Speaker 5: percent cash back on other purchases, and so I like them.
Speaker 5: But these store cards are the worst kind of credit card,
Speaker 5: and they're the ones that I want people to mostly avoid.
Speaker 5: So there are a couple of exceptions. I think the
Speaker 5: Amazon and the Target credit cards are a little bit different,
Speaker 5: and especially if you are hyper loyal to one of
Speaker 5: those retailers. I think getting that credit card can make
Speaker 5: sense because you get five percent cash back whenever you
Speaker 5: spend those at those retailers. I've got the Amazon card
Speaker 5: and I use it just to shop at Amazon. But
Speaker 5: all of these other store cards. It's kind of crazy
Speaker 5: when the while the FED is cutting interest rates, these
Speaker 5: cards are saying we're gonna raise interest rates on you.
Speaker 5: So instead of like twenty two percent interest rate, a
Speaker 5: lot of these store cards are charging thirty five, thirty
Speaker 5: six percent interest five. Yeah, it's it's staggering. And the
Speaker 5: other thing is that they might say, hey, there's a
Speaker 5: zero percent intro offer, and you might say, no brainer,
Speaker 5: let me get this gap card, put three hundred bucks
Speaker 5: on it, and then I'm not gonna have to pay
Speaker 5: any interest on it for like twelve months or something
Speaker 5: like that. Well, many of these cards charge something it's
Speaker 5: called deferred interest, so that means you're gonna be retroactively
Speaker 5: charged interest for the entire time span going back to
Speaker 5: day one of the promotional period. If you don't pay
Speaker 5: it off before the end of that promo period, so
Speaker 5: a lot. It sounds good on the front end and
Speaker 5: then it can leave you like hurting in a big way.
Speaker 9: On the back end.
Speaker 2: Read the fine print most definitely.
Speaker 5: And just the store cards, like what you're gonna get
Speaker 5: ten percent off your order today? You're gonna save twenty
Speaker 5: or thirty bucks? Like, it's just not worth it. There
Speaker 5: are so much better credit cards out there with better
Speaker 5: offers and better sign up bonuses. Like I just don't
Speaker 5: want you to mess with store cards.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go from Joel, do not mess with
Speaker 1: store cards. Here's something else that can be a mess,
Speaker 1: and that's making returns. And I think we talked about
Speaker 1: this before that some companies are letting you not return
Speaker 1: your item, but you still get the credit back for it.
Speaker 1: But there are some things you need to know about
Speaker 1: this because it's not just a flat policy.
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, so this is interesting, like we're there were
Speaker 5: some recent stats from this company called return pro and
Speaker 5: I guess all they do is deal with returns and
Speaker 5: they gather statistics on how retailers are processing returns and
Speaker 5: they found that roughly sixty percent of retailers have an
Speaker 5: internal policy, which means they don't tell us about it.
Speaker 5: That allows us to keep some of the things that
Speaker 5: we buy when we're trying to return them. And basically
Speaker 5: what they're saying is that sorry, that that product's actually
Speaker 5: pretty cheap. We're not going to be able to resell it.
Speaker 5: There's nothing we can do if you return it, and
Speaker 5: so we'll give you the money back and you can
Speaker 5: keep it, don't bank on it. There are certain retailers
Speaker 5: that are starting to say, m if you're a perpetual returner,
Speaker 5: we are going to put the put the kaibash on
Speaker 5: you being able to return things so frequently, so watch out.
Speaker 5: There are certain companies saying, listen, if you are an
Speaker 5: over returner, we're not okay with that.
Speaker 1: So and it could change the policy. Like one time
Speaker 1: when you return something, they may say, don't send it back.
Speaker 1: The next time they may say, yeah, send it back.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 5: And then if you exactly and it's really hard to
Speaker 5: tell on the front end, I think I want people
Speaker 5: to know what the return policy is for the place
Speaker 5: they're shopping and then and it varies, and it often
Speaker 5: varies too during this time of year. Like return policies
Speaker 5: often change, right, and there's a little more leeway given,
Speaker 5: Like items purchased between now and Christmas Eve can be
Speaker 5: returned sometimes through January fifteenth, sometimes through the end of January.
Speaker 5: So you just have to be on it when it
Speaker 5: comes to returns, or you might be holding onto stuff
Speaker 5: and you might be out the money for things that
Speaker 5: you thought you could return. You thought you had a
Speaker 5: bigger window, but you might not actually have had that
Speaker 5: bigger window.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I ran into that when I got a a phone
Speaker 1: charger and didn't return it in time.
Speaker 5: And like, I think it's really important on the front
Speaker 5: end to say, how serious am I about this thing
Speaker 5: that I'm buying, because am I willing to go through
Speaker 5: the hassle and you know, take it to the UPS
Speaker 5: store or something like that, or to the local whole
Speaker 5: foods to return for Amazon stuff, Am I actually going
Speaker 5: to do that? Or is it just gonna like waste
Speaker 5: away in a junk drawer or something like that. So
Speaker 5: I just maybe a little more certainty on the front
Speaker 5: end that this is an item that I think I'm
Speaker 5: actually going to keep and use. I think can just
Speaker 5: cut down on the return hassle too.
Speaker 1: Okay, And for more great advice on spending and saving
Speaker 1: your money, you can listen to Joel at how to
Speaker 1: Money right here on KFI. It's Sundays from noon to two.
Speaker 1: You can also follow Joel for some great financial tips
Speaker 1: and advice at how to Money Joel Joel Larsgard. Have
Speaker 1: a wonderful Thanksgiving and we'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 5: You too, sounds good?
Speaker 2: Thanks Amy, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1: This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
Speaker 1: County South end from KFI, A chance of showers this morning,
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Speaker 1: tonight with lows in the forties and fifties. Then tomorrow
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