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Speaker 3: It's time for your morning wake up call.
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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Wednesday, August fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Amy King. So happy you're starting your
Speaker 1: day with us. I've got my coffee. I think I
Speaker 1: might need an extra dose. Our producer and needs extra
Speaker 1: extra coffee. Was up all night with her sick puppy.
Speaker 1: I hate when that happens too. You like plan for
Speaker 1: a good night's sleep and then something funky happens and
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, well sleep's not happening, sort of like
Speaker 1: the earthquake on Monday. I just went laid down having
Speaker 1: a nice nap and then boom.
Speaker 5: But that's okay.
Speaker 1: We adjust, right, It's all good and it's going to
Speaker 1: be a great day, and we're happy that you're here.
Speaker 1: So let's get started. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: Speaking of earthquakes, this year is the most seismically active
Speaker 1: year in Sokeal since nineteen ninety eight. Cal Tech seismologist
Speaker 1: Lucy Jones says we've had thirteen four point zero magnitude
Speaker 1: or larger quakes, including the four point four that rumbled
Speaker 1: near Highland Park and Pasadena. The quake was along the
Speaker 1: Puente Hills thrust fault system, which Jones says has the
Speaker 1: potential to cause major damage. US officials are on high
Speaker 1: alert for a potential Iranian attack on Israel. Iran has
Speaker 1: refused to back down on its promise to retaliate for
Speaker 1: the death of a Hamas leader in Tehran. Efforts to
Speaker 1: reach a ceasefire and Gaza are intensifying as formal negotiations
Speaker 1: are expected to resume this week. We're going to be
Speaker 1: getting the latest from the Middle East with ABC's Jeordana
Speaker 1: Miller in less than five minutes. A federal judge has
Speaker 1: ordered UCLA to ensure equal campus access to its Jewish students.
Speaker 1: The ruling yesterday comes after three Jewish students sued the
Speaker 1: school in June, claiming it enabled pro Palestinian protesters to
Speaker 1: block them from certain parts of campus. The lawsuit said
Speaker 1: UCLA helped enforce a jew exclusion zone.
Speaker 5: We're going to be talking tech with the host of
Speaker 5: Rich on Tech a little bit later this morning.
Speaker 1: Rich Dumuroes up in Mountain View for the unveiling of
Speaker 1: Google's new tech, which means more AI at the tip
Speaker 1: of your fingers. That's at five point twenty, and then
Speaker 1: Amy's on it. I'm getting spaced out. I'll let you
Speaker 1: know if I think you should too, that's coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. And then if you
Speaker 1: don't think that there's anything you can learn from your cats, well,
Speaker 1: a professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, a pretty
Speaker 1: prestigious university, would beg to differ. We'll find out more
Speaker 1: about the science of cats coming up before the top
Speaker 1: of the hour. Can't wait to talk to him. At
Speaker 1: six oh five, it's handle on the news. President Biden
Speaker 1: has awarded one hundred and fifty million dollars to fight cancer.
Speaker 1: It's part of his Moonshot program. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. A gun registered to an infamous cop killer
Speaker 1: has allegedly been used by two men from South America
Speaker 1: who were charged with robbing a man of a million
Speaker 1: dollar watch in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 5: The gun was registered to Christopher Dorner.
Speaker 6: We are still investigating how the gun came into their possession.
Speaker 1: Assistant US attorney Jenna mac cabe tells KTLA they're also
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how long the men have been
Speaker 1: in the US and what are the robberies they may
Speaker 1: have carried out. Last week, a man was having lunch
Speaker 1: with his wife and daughters at the Beverly Wilshire when
Speaker 1: his watch was taken at gunpoint. Officials say that gun
Speaker 1: belonging to Dorner was found Saturday during a raid at
Speaker 1: an Airbnb where the alleged robbers were staying. Dorner killed
Speaker 1: four people in twenty thirteen, including two police officers. He
Speaker 1: died during a standoff with police in Big Bear. Nine
Speaker 1: people have been arrested after pro Palestinian protesters blocked traffic
Speaker 1: on the southbound four H five in West La demanding
Speaker 1: a cease firing Gaza.
Speaker 7: Some of the protesters identify the Jews and near the
Speaker 7: Venice Boulevard off ramp with megaphones, causing gridlock in both directions.
Speaker 7: This Jewish protester says there's a genocide happening in Gaza
Speaker 7: and they needed to get the Democrats attention.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, it takes disruptions to sometimes get people to remember
Speaker 6: what's happening, especially when that is happening overseas.
Speaker 7: Protesters are calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to end
Speaker 7: all support for Israel, including supplying the country with weapons.
Speaker 7: CHP says those arrested yesterday morning will likely face misdemeanor
Speaker 7: charges once the city attorney takes over. Chris Sadler k
Speaker 7: i I News.
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris's running mate, Governor Tim Wallas, has made
Speaker 1: his first solo campaign appearance since being named to the
Speaker 1: Democratic ticket. Well spoke to a union convention in la yesterday,
Speaker 1: saying his Republican opponents are not looking out for union workers.
Speaker 8: The only thing those two guys knows about working people
Speaker 8: is how to work to take advantage of them.
Speaker 5: That's what they know about it.
Speaker 1: Well, so the convention. When unions are strong, America is strong.
Speaker 1: Time to say good morning to ABC's Geordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana,
Speaker 1: with the situation kind of near a boiling point in
Speaker 1: the Middle East, Iran is showing no signs of backing
Speaker 1: off its threat to attack Israel in retaliation for the
Speaker 1: killing of a Hamas political leader in Tehran.
Speaker 5: Can you give as the latest on this situation?
Speaker 9: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 9: The Iranians continue to threaten that they will strike Israel directly,
Speaker 9: and we're just not sure if it'll come, you know, alone,
Speaker 9: or with Habalah, one of their proxies, who also has
Speaker 9: a settle a score to settle with Israel, after Israel
Speaker 9: claimed the assassination of a top Hasbala commander two weeks
Speaker 9: ago in Beirut, just hours before the killing of the
Speaker 9: Hamas leader on Iranian soil in Tehran. But there is
Speaker 9: a little glimmer of hope here, and that is that
Speaker 9: Iran has not struck yet. And we're now it's now Wednesday,
Speaker 9: were on the eve a very important Gazza seatfire talks
Speaker 9: that are going to happen tomorrow in Doha, led by
Speaker 9: the United States by CIA chief Bill Burns, and that
Speaker 9: appears to have put a Ran and has Balah on pause,
Speaker 9: their plans to strike on pause. It looks like they
Speaker 9: both want to see what happens if there's progress made. Remember,
Speaker 9: Hasbala has said in the past that as soon as
Speaker 9: there is a Gaza seatfire, it will stop firing on
Speaker 9: northern Israel. That won't solve all the problems between Israel
Speaker 9: and Husbala, but it will help obviously bring down the
Speaker 9: tensions and the violence and may rein in even Hsbala's
Speaker 9: reprisal strike. So those talks happening tomorrow. The Israelis, the Americans,
Speaker 9: the Egyptians, and the Qataris are showing up. Hamas has
Speaker 9: given mixed messages about whether it will send a representative
Speaker 9: or not. But I want to underscore that progress can
Speaker 9: still be made in Doha without Hamas at the table
Speaker 9: because Egypt and Cutter are representing. They are mediators for
Speaker 9: Hamas and they can pass to Hamas bridging proposals or
Speaker 9: creative solutions for Hamas to weigh in on, you know,
Speaker 9: at a later time. So there's still it's still an
Speaker 9: important meeting tomorrow, and if progress can be made, that
Speaker 9: will you know, really lower the risk here of a
Speaker 9: major significance strike from Iran Hsbalah, that could, you know,
Speaker 9: and that will minimize the risk of also you know,
Speaker 9: igniting a regional war. So a lot the stakes are
Speaker 9: high tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned Jordana that you know, we've gone for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and Iran hasn't struck, and so
Speaker 1: that could be a good sign.
Speaker 5: Our people getting.
Speaker 1: More anxious and worried as each day goes by, or
Speaker 1: are they maybe starting to really feel like maybe an
Speaker 1: attack isn't imminent.
Speaker 9: I have to be honest, it's a roller coaster, and
Speaker 9: you know, all Israelis are on it, and there can
Speaker 9: be a day or two where everyone is quite anxious
Speaker 9: and you know, getting there, you know, making sure everything's
Speaker 9: in place in their safe rooms or bomb shelters when
Speaker 9: you know we're told to go there. And then there
Speaker 9: are days when it feels like today where okay, we can,
Speaker 9: we can you know, relax a little bit because it's
Speaker 9: almost certain nothing will happen in the next forty eight hours.
Speaker 9: And for those forty eight hours, you know, we can
Speaker 9: forget about this imminent strike.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 9: The danger, of course, is that if there is not
Speaker 9: progress made in Doha. It's crazy to say, but true,
Speaker 9: that by the weekend it could be back in a
Speaker 9: situation where we feel like, you know, there's a looming
Speaker 9: strike and we're all on you know, on hold, waiting
Speaker 9: for instructions to go into skit rooms or bomb shelters.
Speaker 1: And entered into the US has really increased its presence
Speaker 1: in the Middle East. Lots of ships and carriers and
Speaker 1: jets and that kind of stuff heading up to that area.
Speaker 1: Is that having or do people in Israel feel like
Speaker 1: that's having an effect on Maybe that why Iran's kind
Speaker 1: of put its plans on pause, or at least maybe
Speaker 1: hasn't paused them, but isn't doing anything right now.
Speaker 9: I do think that Israeli. First all, they're comforted and
Speaker 9: reassured by the fact that the American President, President Biden,
Speaker 9: has been so faithful in word and deed. Aside from
Speaker 9: you know, one dispute over munitions delivery. You know, there
Speaker 9: are several significant military assets in the region. The USS
Speaker 9: Abraham Lincoln, you know, is going to get here faster
Speaker 9: than expected. President Biden and the Pentagon announced that, you know,
Speaker 9: a missile guided submarine is in the region. The location
Speaker 9: is usually top secret. So these are efforts by President
Speaker 9: Biden to both deter Iran and Husbola, which appear to
Speaker 9: have worked to some extent, and messages that the United
Speaker 9: States will help defend Israel. It's in the end, Aaron
Speaker 9: launches a major aerial attack like it did back in April.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so for now, we've got talks coming tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Is it tomorrow that they are happening.
Speaker 9: That's right, Okay, that's right tomorrow in.
Speaker 1: Cutter okay, and we'll be watching and hope for the best.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Jordana Miller. Appreciate your input and
Speaker 1: your insight as Ahoway.
Speaker 9: Yes, thanks so much. Tuckson.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Fewer
Speaker 1: kindergarteners are getting vaccinated, according to the CDC, AAMC Research
Speaker 1: and Action Institute Executive director doctor Atoole Grover says a
Speaker 1: two percent drop may not seem like a lot, but
Speaker 1: that is three quarters of a million children who are
Speaker 1: at increased risk of getting things like measles.
Speaker 10: Now, measles we thought we had eradicated twenty four years ago,
Speaker 10: but now in the last couple of years, we've seen
Speaker 10: pockets spring up, largely in areas where there are more
Speaker 10: than a handful of unvaccinated people.
Speaker 1: Children born during the pandemic are slightly behind on their vaccinations.
Speaker 1: Children attending public schools in California must have vaccines for polio,
Speaker 1: hepatitis B, measles, MOMPS, rebella, chicken pox, and DETAP, which
Speaker 1: is diphtheria, tetanus and protessis before they go to kindergarten.
Speaker 1: A new booster for COVID nineteen is expected by the
Speaker 1: end of August or early September. Thirty eight year old
Speaker 1: cold case has been solved by investigators with the La
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 8: The unrelated death of a man in twenty nineteen got
Speaker 8: the ball rolling. February twenty first, nineteen eighty six, nineteen
Speaker 8: year old Kathy Small took off with the guy in
Speaker 8: Murietta wasn't seen again until the next day. In February
Speaker 8: twenty second, at about seven o'clock in the morning, South
Speaker 8: Pasadena Police Department received a call for service of a
Speaker 8: woman lying in the street. Lieutenant Patty Thomas says the
Speaker 8: case went cold, but that dead man found in South
Speaker 8: Pasadena would lead investigators to seventy year old Williamstuff, who's
Speaker 8: already serving a life sentence for the murders of twelve
Speaker 8: people in the eighties and nineties. At Sheriff's Headquarter, Steve
Speaker 8: Gregor king, if.
Speaker 1: I knows tropical Storm Ernesto is moving along the Outer Caribbean,
Speaker 1: Meteorologist Melissa Griffin says, it's building up as it moves
Speaker 1: through the islands. We have a hurricane watch and effect
Speaker 1: for the US and British Virgin Islands at a tropical
Speaker 1: storm morning is an effect for Puerto Rico. Ernesto could
Speaker 1: hit Bermuda this weekend as a Category two or even
Speaker 1: Category three storm. The US East Coast could feel Ernesto's
Speaker 1: impax's high surf and strong rip currents to early next week.
Speaker 1: And doctor Dre and Jimmy Iovine have teamed up to
Speaker 1: open a high school in the city of Inglewood. The
Speaker 1: district has been forced to close schools in the area
Speaker 1: because of a lack of funding, so Dre and Iovene
Speaker 1: say the school's interdisciplinary curriculum will train students to be
Speaker 1: innovative and entrepreneurial young leaders. They also say that they
Speaker 1: will be investing in state of the art technology for
Speaker 1: the new school. It should be opened by next summer
Speaker 1: on the campus of Krozier Middle School, which is scheduled
Speaker 1: to close at about the same time. Six neighborhoods in
Speaker 1: la will be receiving a total of five point four
Speaker 1: million dollars to improve their communities under a pilot program
Speaker 1: that gives residents the chance to help pick which projects
Speaker 1: will be done. Residents submitted more than a thousand ideas
Speaker 1: to improve our lead a Pacoima, Wilmington, Harbor City, skid Row,
Speaker 1: South Los Angeles, Baldwin Village, and Westlake. Governor Newsom has
Speaker 1: announced the seizure of more than two million illegal cannabis
Speaker 1: packages marked with the US Universal symbol of legal cannabis
Speaker 1: in California. His office announced yesterday that much of the
Speaker 1: packaging resembled popular food and candy brands that could appeal
Speaker 1: to kids, like Twinkies and Sweet Tarts. Officials say the
Speaker 1: sting operation was done recently in the La Toy District.
Speaker 1: Two great tastes, but will they taste great together? We're
Speaker 1: not talking about Reese's Peanut buttercups, but Oreo and Coca Cola.
Speaker 1: The companies have announced Oreo Coca Cola cookies with a
Speaker 1: coke inspired design and taste, along with red edible glitter.
Speaker 1: And then there's also a Coca Cola Oreo Zero sugar
Speaker 1: soda that tastes like classic coke with hints of Oreo.
Speaker 1: There's also going to be a frozen version of it
Speaker 1: available at seven eleven and McDonald's if it was April first,
Speaker 1: I was thinking I would be thinking it was an
Speaker 1: April first joke, but I might have to try. That's
Speaker 1: just weird enough, might be good. At six oh five,
Speaker 1: it's Handle on the news. Does it feel like there
Speaker 1: have been a lot of earthquakes this year? Well, that's
Speaker 1: because there have been and more are likely on the way.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's say good morning to the host
Speaker 1: of Rich on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro. Rich is calling in this morning from Mountain
Speaker 1: View because there's a big Google event today.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning to you. Amy. Well, actually today's the
Speaker 3: cleanup day for the Google event. They did announce everything yesterday,
Speaker 3: so I do have details on all the new Pixel
Speaker 3: phones which they did launch. Let's see one, two, three,
Speaker 3: four new models. And the interesting thing here, Amy, we've
Speaker 3: talked about phones for so many years. This was the
Speaker 3: first time that the hardware took a backseat to the
Speaker 3: software because Google is all about AI with these new phones. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: the camera is better, they're more durable, they might charge
Speaker 3: a little faster. The cameras are a little better, but
Speaker 3: it's all about what you can do on these devices
Speaker 3: with AI, and that's really what they focused on. A
Speaker 3: new weather app that gives you, like AI generated weather reports,
Speaker 3: better panoramic pictures, remember those thanks to AI bill to
Speaker 3: edit your photos. I mean the way that they showed
Speaker 3: people editing pictures on their smartphone. I'm telling you we
Speaker 3: can no longer believe anything. These phones also record your
Speaker 3: phone calls and give you notes when you're done. So
Speaker 3: the idea is, if you're driving, the plumber calls you says,
Speaker 3: you know, here's the order number whatever, you don't have
Speaker 3: to take notes anymore. It will send you that afterwards.
Speaker 3: And if you ever get stuck or stranded, they now
Speaker 3: have satellite sos, so you can text for emergency help
Speaker 3: even if you don't have cellular service, something that Apple
Speaker 3: introduced with the iPhone fourteen. Samsung is still the last
Speaker 3: holdout on that feature.
Speaker 1: Okay, but I want to go back to the recording
Speaker 1: the phone calls thing, because I think that that sounds
Speaker 1: like a really great thing. Like if you call your
Speaker 1: doctor and then you're like, what did the doctor tell
Speaker 1: me and all that and you don't remember it, I
Speaker 1: think that's that's going to be super helpful. But it
Speaker 1: also is concerning because they're recording your phone calls.
Speaker 3: Yes, but we have to understand, just like with the
Speaker 3: oreos you mentioned, in the future, there's going to be
Speaker 3: an Oreo flavor of everything. In the future, AI will
Speaker 3: be taking over everything and people will be wearing tendons
Speaker 3: that record their entire lives. Everything on their phone will
Speaker 3: be summarized. And so Google did take precautions to say
Speaker 3: that this is all happening on your device and so
Speaker 3: nothing is sent to the cloud whatsoever. And I think
Speaker 3: that also you have to activate it. It will tell
Speaker 3: both parties, Hey, this call is being recorded for call
Speaker 3: notes through Google. And I cannot wait for this feature
Speaker 3: because I will find it very helpful. Incidentally, Apple is
Speaker 3: doing the same exact thing. So again when we see
Speaker 3: two major companies doing something similar, we know that it's
Speaker 3: a trend and we just have to, you know, roll
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, well, and like I have the memory
Speaker 1: of a nat so I think that it could be
Speaker 1: very useful to me to remember.
Speaker 3: I can't wait for this. I can't. It's going to
Speaker 3: be so useful for all the times when my wife
Speaker 3: tells me to do stuff and then she hangs up
Speaker 3: and I go. Now, wait a second, what was I
Speaker 3: supposed to do?
Speaker 5: I love it?
Speaker 1: Okay, So then let's move on to oh, are the
Speaker 1: phones available?
Speaker 5: Now, that's what I want to ask.
Speaker 3: Phones available August twenty second. For some very very confusing amy,
Speaker 3: some of the phones are in stores in August twenty second.
Speaker 3: Some are in stores in September. Prices start at eight
Speaker 3: hundred dollars. The interesting thing that Google did here this year,
Speaker 3: by the way, is that you can get so there's
Speaker 3: a little baby phone, then there's two prophones in the middle.
Speaker 3: Then there's a foldable phone. The two pro phones in
Speaker 3: the middle of the lineup. You can choose if you
Speaker 3: want a smaller version or a larger version. They both
Speaker 3: have the same specs, so you can choose, like, I
Speaker 3: want a small phone, but I want the pro features,
Speaker 3: which is please more companies, please do that?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 1: Perfect, All right, Now let's move on, because two point
Speaker 1: seven billion data records have been hacked, and I'm guessing.
Speaker 4: That's all of us.
Speaker 3: Yes, apparently if we can search this, which I'm sure
Speaker 3: someone will, but up a website where you can search
Speaker 3: for your info, you know, so you can see if
Speaker 3: your info is in this hack. Yes, we're probably in there.
Speaker 3: I already got an email yesterday that said I was
Speaker 3: in It names, social security numbers, physical addresses. Apparently the
Speaker 3: address that it lists for people is old, like it
Speaker 3: may be an old address that you lived at, so
Speaker 3: this could be older data, but your social doesn't really change.
Speaker 3: So now that this data is out there on the
Speaker 3: dark web, well actually it's just out there in general
Speaker 3: now at this point, because they leaked it to everyone.
Speaker 3: It's tough. It puts us in a tough position because
Speaker 3: we have the AT and T data from last couple
Speaker 3: months ago mixed with this data, mixed with everything else.
Speaker 3: There's no more sacred data about us. It's all floating
Speaker 3: around online. So what do we do it. It's a
Speaker 3: tricky question because people are probably paying to get their
Speaker 3: information taken down from those you know, people finder sites,
Speaker 3: but this is completely different. This is like on the
Speaker 3: dark Web, which means they don't play by the rules,
Speaker 3: So your information is out there. The best I can
Speaker 3: say is Google is going to have this feature called
Speaker 3: Dark Web Monitoring available to everyone for free. You can
Speaker 3: sign up for that. That will only tell you that
Speaker 3: your infos out there, though maybe freeze your credit report
Speaker 3: is the best you can do here and just.
Speaker 1: Leave it frozen until you want to apply for a
Speaker 1: credit card or some other financial assistance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, apparently, from what I'm told from my radio callers,
Speaker 3: it's very easy to freeze and unfreeze it, like if
Speaker 3: you're needing to open up something. The other thing you
Speaker 3: should do is remain very critical of any email because
Speaker 3: what happens is the scammers now use this data to
Speaker 3: send you emails, and so they may send you something
Speaker 3: that has your personal information in it and you think
Speaker 3: it's real, but it's totally bogus, and they're just trying
Speaker 3: to get you to trick you into doing something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm so leery of any emails I got.
Speaker 1: I got something from AT and T, which is my provider,
Speaker 1: and it said, hey, I'm the business account guy and
Speaker 1: we want to go over and we can save you
Speaker 1: a bunch of money and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: I'm like, is that real? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I'm the same way with anything, Like
Speaker 3: I got an AT and T text yesterday and they said, oh,
Speaker 3: we need to upgrade your equipment and I was like,
Speaker 3: what equipment? And yes, I have AT and T. But
Speaker 3: same thing My mom sent me a text the other
Speaker 3: day and she said is this real? And it was
Speaker 3: about a you know, fraudulent alert for her bank, and
Speaker 3: I said, well, do you use this bank? She said yeah.
Speaker 3: I said, well, I think it looks fake. And it
Speaker 3: turns out it was real. And the phone number that
Speaker 3: was in the text was not the typical number that
Speaker 3: you would call in the back of the ATM card.
Speaker 3: So you just have to be very very careful, always
Speaker 3: in doubt, go to the website itself. Directly call the
Speaker 3: phone number on the back of your card now, not.
Speaker 5: The numbers that they give you.
Speaker 1: Now, do not do that. Okay, Oh my goodness, this
Speaker 1: is going to get harder and harder, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Rich, Oh, it is so tough with AI. And here's
Speaker 3: the deal. You have AI with all this information floating around.
Speaker 3: So now you and feed all the information about you
Speaker 3: or me into AI and say, hey, craft a email
Speaker 3: that says Rich needs to check his credit report because
Speaker 3: this and this happened with his old car and it's
Speaker 3: still you know, the A loan is still outstanding for it.
Speaker 3: And then I go, wait what I click? I log
Speaker 3: in and next thing you know, they've stolen my infl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so we got to be extra vigilant, everybody,
Speaker 1: we got gotta be careful. So for more great tech tips,
Speaker 1: you can listen to rich on Tech right here on KFI.
Speaker 1: He's on Saturdays from eleven to two. And even if
Speaker 1: you don't understand the technology, like I a lot of
Speaker 1: times don't super interesting, I actually feel like my brain's
Speaker 1: expanding a little bit.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 3: That's my goal. I love it, love to hear it.
Speaker 1: Okay, And you can, of course also see rich on KTLA.
Speaker 1: You can follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech
Speaker 1: and his website is rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 5: Lots of great stuff there too.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Rich, Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: Six neighborhoods in LA will be receiving a total of
Speaker 1: five point four million dollars to improve their communities under
Speaker 1: a pilot program that's giving residents the chance to help
Speaker 1: pick the projects that are done. Residents submitted more than
Speaker 1: one thousand ideas to improve our lead to Pacoima, Wilmington,
Speaker 1: Harbor City, skid Row, South La, Baldwin Village, and Westlake.
Speaker 1: The California legislatures passed a bill to reduce organized retail theft.
Speaker 1: The bill targets the sale of stolen goods on online marketplaces.
Speaker 1: If the governor signs it, it'll take effect July first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The legislation also authorizes local prosecutors to
Speaker 1: bring civil charges against both the marketplaces and the individuals
Speaker 1: for trafficking stolen goods online. Vice President Kamala Harris plans
Speaker 1: to unveil her economic policy in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday.
Speaker 1: It'll be the first policy centered speech by Harris since
Speaker 1: she entered the race for the White House after President
Speaker 1: Biden withdrew. The plans are said to include lowering costs
Speaker 1: for the middle class and taking on corporate scouching.
Speaker 5: At six so five it's handled on the news.
Speaker 1: A judge has ruled that UCLA has to make sure
Speaker 1: protesters don't block Jewish students from getting around on campus.
Speaker 1: On it, on it, What am I on? I'm on
Speaker 1: streaming on documentaries. I've been really into documentaries lately, but
Speaker 1: also TV shows, series, movies, sometimes books, sometimes Network TV.
Speaker 1: I'm starting something on Network TV again, and I haven't
Speaker 1: aside from the Olympics, which you know we all watched,
Speaker 1: But aside from that, I haven't watched a lot of
Speaker 1: Network TV recently. So this week I'm still on the
Speaker 1: stream and I'm streaming a movie called Space Cadet.
Speaker 5: It's on Prime Video. It was just released this year, and.
Speaker 1: It caught my attention because, you know, we've been talking
Speaker 1: with our friend NASA astronaut, Colonel Nick Haig, who is
Speaker 1: preparing for his trip to the International Space Station. It
Speaker 1: was supposed to happen like right about now, but because
Speaker 1: of those astronauts that are stuck up there because they
Speaker 1: took a ride on the Boeing star Liner and they
Speaker 1: can't come back yet because there's problems with the star Liner,
Speaker 1: his mission has been delayed. But anyway, that's what kind
Speaker 1: of sparked my interest, is because we've been talking to
Speaker 1: Colonel Haig. Space Cadet is a rom com. It's about
Speaker 1: Tiffany Rex Simpson who's played by Emma Roberts. She's adorable,
Speaker 1: she's super fun and in the movie, her childhood dream
Speaker 1: is to become an astronaut, and of course that dream's
Speaker 1: fallen by the wayside and she's working as a bartender
Speaker 1: and then she just says, you know what, I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to apply to the NASA Space Program, which
Speaker 1: is really kind of funny because when we were talking
Speaker 1: to Colonel Hag a few months ago they had opened
Speaker 1: up the space program. They were saying, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't have to be in the military to apply. You
Speaker 1: could apply have to be super smart with degrees and
Speaker 1: all that. But I've thought it was really funny. So anyway,
Speaker 1: she decides to apply for the NASA Space program. Of course,
Speaker 1: she gets in with a little help from her friends
Speaker 1: who make up some stuff, and then she has to
Speaker 1: navigate her way through the program that she is in
Speaker 1: no way qualified or prepared for, as she and others
Speaker 1: compete to get a spot on the space program. So
Speaker 1: it's a typical rom com. It's fun, the characters are sweet,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of romance. Of course, there's some deception.
Speaker 1: There's no big surprises in this movie. But it's cute
Speaker 1: and it's a fun little movie. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: it reminded me of Legally Blonde, but instead of law school,
Speaker 1: it's NASA Flight school.
Speaker 5: And while Emma is adorable, she's no Reese Witherspoon. But
Speaker 5: it's a fun movie.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna win any awards, but it's a nice
Speaker 1: thing to crash out on the couch with the air
Speaker 1: conditioner on on a hot summer evening and just enjoy it.
Speaker 1: It's called Space Cadet Prime Video. I think you should
Speaker 1: get spaced out too. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: A handgun registered to the infamous cop killer Christopher Dorner
Speaker 1: has resurfaced more than eleven years after his death. Federal
Speaker 1: investigators say the gun was used in a robbery outside
Speaker 1: the Beverly Wilshire Hotel last week, in which the robber
Speaker 1: stole a million dollar watch from a tourist. Dorner killed
Speaker 1: a couple in Irvine and also two police officers back
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen that led to a man hunt. Ended
Speaker 1: up killing himself in a cabin in Big Bear. I
Speaker 1: can't believe that that was eleven years ago. That was
Speaker 1: just the craziest thing. You remember that a prosecutor in
Speaker 1: La County issuing District Attorney Gascone, alleging retaliation for speaking
Speaker 1: out against against Gascone's policies.
Speaker 7: The complaint alleges Gascon suspended the prosecutor multiple times without
Speaker 7: pay for what he perceived to be disloyalty Deputy Dasha
Speaker 7: Sanna says Gascon harassed him for exposing the DA's office
Speaker 7: for trying to suppress evidence in the James Hannah Tubbs case.
Speaker 6: I was suspended from misgendering a child molester who was
Speaker 6: pretending to be transgender so that this individual could be
Speaker 6: housed with little girls.
Speaker 7: He says, for the last two years, Gascon has attacked
Speaker 7: his credibility and try to silence him. The whistleblower lawsuit
Speaker 7: filed yesterday accuses Gascon and other officials of intentionally inflicting
Speaker 7: emotional distress Chris Adler kf I News.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors in San Francisco have charged twenty six protesters who
Speaker 1: blocked the Golden Gate Bridge to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.
Speaker 1: Demonstrators stopped their cars on the bridge back in April,
Speaker 1: tossed their keys, and caused traffic jams that lasted for hours.
Speaker 1: They're now facing charges that include felony, conspiracy, false imprisonment,
Speaker 1: trespassing to interfere with the business, and refusal to disperse
Speaker 1: at a riot. A ban on demolitions in Boyle Heights
Speaker 1: has been approved by the La City Council.
Speaker 11: The neighborhood has a high concentration of renters, many immigrants,
Speaker 11: and senior citizens. City Councilman Kevin dal Leon says his
Speaker 11: motion to prevent rent stabilized and affordable housing units from
Speaker 11: being raised would buy some time for the community.
Speaker 8: So let us send a very clear message that Heights
Speaker 8: is not for sale.
Speaker 11: A new community plan is being developed for Boyle Heights,
Speaker 11: and Daileon says it should include more affordable housing, not less.
Speaker 11: He says developers have been tearing down properties and replacing
Speaker 11: homes with more expensive ones in downtown La Michael Monks
Speaker 11: KFI News.
Speaker 1: A member of the so called squad, has survived her
Speaker 1: run for reelection. Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Elon Omar won her
Speaker 1: primary race last night, defending her seat against a challenge
Speaker 1: from former Minneapolis City Councilman Don Samuels. Omar celebrated her
Speaker 1: win with supporters we run the politics of joy. Samuels
Speaker 1: had criticized Omar's condemnation of the Israeli government for its
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers are in Milwaukee to take on the Brewers tonight.
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Speaker 1: This year is the most seismically active year in southern
Speaker 1: California since nineteen ninety eight. Caltech seismologist Lucy Jones says
Speaker 1: we've had thirteen four point zero magnitude or larger quakes,
Speaker 1: including the four point four that rumbled near Highland Park
Speaker 1: and Pasadena on Monday. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has
Speaker 1: approved an almost twenty billion dollar weapons sale to Israel.
Speaker 1: The deal will include F fifteen's air to air missiles,
Speaker 1: tactical vehicles, and other explosives. The sale comes ays, Israel
Speaker 1: braces for what Iran says is an imminent attack in
Speaker 1: retaliation for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran.
Speaker 1: Amazon's making it easier to shop on social media. TikTok
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Speaker 1: them to shop on Amazon directly from social media apps.
Speaker 1: You can always cancel it. Apparently we're just minutes away
Speaker 1: from handle on the news this morning. Remember when Delta
Speaker 1: was basically grounded because of that crowd strike software debacle. Well,
Speaker 1: a lot of passengers still waiting to get their money back.
Speaker 5: It's five point fifty two.
Speaker 1: I want to say good morning now to Professor Jonathan
Speaker 1: Losses at Washington University at Saint Louis.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Jonathan.
Speaker 4: Good morning Mamy.
Speaker 5: So I wanted to talk.
Speaker 1: To you today because you're teaching a course that I've
Speaker 1: never heard of before, and I thought I got to
Speaker 1: talk to this to this guy. And so before we
Speaker 1: start talking, I want to read the part of the
Speaker 1: description of the course. Okay, so listen to what this
Speaker 1: sounds like. This is a capstone style course for upper
Speaker 1: level biology majors. The course will provide biology majors nearing
Speaker 1: graduation the opportunity to apply what they've learned in topics
Speaker 1: as diverse as speciation, molecular evolution, community ecology, and animal
Speaker 1: behavior to investigate and analyze questions concerning the biology of
Speaker 1: a species near and dear to the hearts of many,
Speaker 1: the Felis catus, also known as the domestic cat. The
Speaker 1: course is called the Science of Cats. I love this,
Speaker 1: so please tell us about this course, Jonathan, and what
Speaker 1: we can learn.
Speaker 4: Well, you can learn a lot about many different topics.
Speaker 4: I'm a scientist. I've spent my career studying lizards, but
Speaker 4: I've always loved cats, and it never occurred to me
Speaker 4: to do anything scientifically with cats until I realized that
Speaker 4: people are studying cats in the same way that I
Speaker 4: study lizards, and people study elephants and hippos and eagles
Speaker 4: using all the latest techniques radio tracking, DNA analysis and
Speaker 4: so on, and so I had the idea of teaching
Speaker 4: students how we study nature, just using cats as the example.
Speaker 4: So that's what the class is about.
Speaker 1: I love this, And what kind of practical things are
Speaker 1: people going to learn from studying our furly free feline friends.
Speaker 4: Well, There's two things. One is how a lot about cats,
Speaker 4: where they came from, why they do what they do,
Speaker 4: what the future may hold. So there's a lot to
Speaker 4: learn about the biology of cats. So we take them
Speaker 4: for granted, but they're fascinating animals. But they're also good
Speaker 4: examples of how we study nature in general, what approaches
Speaker 4: we can take to understand evolution, behavior, ecology, and other
Speaker 4: broad questions.
Speaker 1: Okay, and how long have you been studying cats, Jonathan.
Speaker 4: Well, well, only a couple of years. I'd say about
Speaker 4: four or five years, because, as I said, I've spent
Speaker 4: my career studying lizards, which have their own own qualities.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, And how long has the course been offered? Is
Speaker 1: this the first year?
Speaker 4: No, it's been taught three times. The first year I
Speaker 4: taught first year students freshmen, and then twice I've taught
Speaker 4: it to graduating seniors.
Speaker 1: Okay, and how is it being received? Like are people going, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like basket weaving, or are they going, oh,
Speaker 1: I could really learn some cool stuff.
Speaker 5: And then how are they finding it once they get in?
Speaker 4: Well, I think they're really enjoying it because they've been
Speaker 4: studying biology for their entire college career. But now they
Speaker 4: get to apply their knowledge to an animal they know
Speaker 4: and love to figure out, not about an earthworm or
Speaker 4: some obscure frog, but an animal they really care about.
Speaker 4: And we do a lot of fun things as well.
Speaker 4: We go to cat shows, and we go out to
Speaker 4: watch Beryl cats being fed, and we go to a
Speaker 4: cat shelter. So we supplement the course with some field
Speaker 4: trips that are very enjoyable.
Speaker 5: I love this. And Jonathan, do you have cats?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I do have cats. I'm looking at Winston right now.
Speaker 5: I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1: And what are a couple of things that we might
Speaker 1: not know about cats? Because I always think of my
Speaker 1: cat like we know that they don't really need us
Speaker 1: that much except for food, but there's a lot going
Speaker 1: on in their little brains.
Speaker 4: Well, that is absolutely true. I think perhaps the most
Speaker 4: surprising thing is we think of cats as kind of
Speaker 4: being asocial loaners, solitary animals, but it turns out that
Speaker 4: they're not, at least not always in some conditions. They
Speaker 4: have a high, highly social organization where they live in
Speaker 4: groups just like lions, and these are groups of related
Speaker 4: females that help take care of each other's kittens. And
Speaker 4: are very friendly to each other. So sometimes cats can
Speaker 4: be very social. They're the only other cat besides lions
Speaker 4: that do this.
Speaker 1: And so in a group of cats, and would it
Speaker 1: be similar to where there's usually one male and then
Speaker 1: a bunch of females.
Speaker 4: Yes, So the groups are composed of the females because
Speaker 4: the female kittens they grow up and stay with their family,
Speaker 4: whereas the males go off and then males try to
Speaker 4: try to be in control to mate with the females.
Speaker 4: It's not quite like lions because the males move around
Speaker 4: more than the male. Cats move around more than the
Speaker 4: male lions, but it's pretty similar.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what's next for you in your study of cats?
Speaker 5: So what's the next progression?
Speaker 4: Well, I think there are two issues. One is how
Speaker 4: cats have evolved since they became domesticated in Africa just
Speaker 4: three or four thousand years ago. They're very similar and
Speaker 4: that's why we sometimes call cats being only semi domesticated.
Speaker 4: But they have changed a few things, such as their
Speaker 4: meow is more pleasing to our ear and in a
Speaker 4: few other ways. So studying more precisely how cats have
Speaker 4: changed since their ancestors. And the other question that's very
Speaker 4: important in where you live in many other places, and
Speaker 4: that's the environmental impact of outdoor cats. We know they're great,
Speaker 4: they're great hunters, but just what effect are they having
Speaker 4: and what we can do about that?
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 1: And now, Jonathan, is there a book that you have
Speaker 1: or a website if people want to dig a little
Speaker 1: more into the science of cats since we're not in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis.
Speaker 4: Well, I did write a book called The Cats Meow
Speaker 4: that came out about a year ago, and I think
Speaker 4: it's a fun read. I hope people will like it
Speaker 4: as well. That would be the best place, I think.
Speaker 1: All right, Professor Jonathan Losses, Washington University at Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: teaching the science of cats and the author of The
Speaker 1: Cat's Meal. Thank you so much for your time this morning.
Speaker 1: I wish I was in Saint Louis. I would take
Speaker 1: this ver well.
Speaker 4: I always good to talk to a fellow cat lover.
Speaker 5: All right, take care you too.
Speaker 4: Bye bye.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5: I think I need to go get that book if
Speaker 5: that is fun.
Speaker 1: A federal judge in LA has criticized UCLA for what
Speaker 1: the judge says was the university's hands off policy during
Speaker 1: pro Palestinian protests this past spring. The judge yesterday said
Speaker 1: the university's handling of the demonstrations was unimaginable and abhorrent.
Speaker 1: He's issued a temporary injunction ordering UCLA not to allow
Speaker 1: discrimination against Jewish students. Demonstrators set up camps in April
Speaker 1: and blocked Jewish students from parts of campus. UCLA is
Speaker 1: expected to appeal to ruling. Nine people have been arrested
Speaker 1: for blocking traffic on the four or five in West
Speaker 1: La to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. This Jewish protester
Speaker 1: says other Jews joined the rally to bring an end
Speaker 1: to what she called a genocide.
Speaker 6: We do want to apologize to any working people, especially
Speaker 6: working class people who maybe work for hourly wages. We
Speaker 6: do want to apologize for any hardship that starting down
Speaker 6: the freeway has caused.
Speaker 1: Protesters sat down in a line across the freeway yesterday
Speaker 1: near the Venice off ramp and called on Vice President
Speaker 1: Harris to stop supporting Israel. The CHP says those arrested
Speaker 1: will likely face misdemeanor charges. The Department of Educations is
Speaker 1: ninety four percent of teachers use their own money to
Speaker 1: buy classroom necessities. This teacher in Sacramento says takes a
Speaker 1: lot to get a classroom ready for the new school year.
Speaker 1: It's not really fair for teachers.
Speaker 9: I think that a lot of them feel like they
Speaker 9: need to supplement with their own income in order to
Speaker 9: make their classroom more accessible and easier for students to learn.
Speaker 1: She estimate spending between five hundred to one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: per year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the cost
Speaker 1: of school supplies has gone up almost twenty four percent
Speaker 1: in just the last two years. Anaheim says the Men's
Speaker 1: and Women's Olympic Indoor Volleyball games could potentially be held
Speaker 1: at Honda Center in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 9: We're kind of built for this.
Speaker 3: We host tens of thousands of visitors every single day visit.
Speaker 2: Anaheim CEO Mike Waterman says, nothing's official yet, but the
Speaker 2: city is ready for the crowds after setting records last
Speaker 2: year with twenty five million visitors who spent six point
Speaker 2: five billion dollars in the city.
Speaker 3: The infrastructures here right We have a great transportation network
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Speaker 5: We have the hotel infrastructure.
Speaker 9: We have the largest convention center on the West coast.
Speaker 3: Waterman says.
Speaker 2: The city is also bidding to host several other Olympic
Speaker 2: Games in twenty twenty eight in Anaheim. Corbin Carson KFI News.
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