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Speaker 1: and we're going to be talking to our friend Nick Haig.
Speaker 3: You may remember him. We've talked to him several times.
Speaker 1: He is a Space Force guardian and a NASA astronaut
Speaker 1: and it's Colonel Nick Haig who is up on the
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Speaker 1: several times as he was doing his training and leading
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Speaker 1: And we get to talk to him live from space
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. Very exciting. So let's
Speaker 1: get going with everything going on, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on. So here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers plan to pay tribute to legendary pitcher Fernando
Speaker 1: Valenzuela before Game one of the World Series. It starts
Speaker 1: Friday night at Dodgers Stadium. Valenzuela died yesterday at the
Speaker 1: age of sixty three. La Metro will be unveiling a
Speaker 1: new pilot program designed to keep writers safer at bus
Speaker 1: and train stations. Officials are going to show off the
Speaker 1: system at Union Station. It detects concealed weapons. It comes
Speaker 1: a day after a man was stabbed at a Metro
Speaker 1: station in downtown La The technology is only being tested
Speaker 1: it out at Union Station for now. The La Times
Speaker 1: has decided not to endorse a presidential candidate for the
Speaker 1: first time since two thousand and four. The paper's owner
Speaker 1: didn't say why. The Trump campaign says the La Times
Speaker 1: decision is a humiliating blow to Vice President Harris. You know,
Speaker 1: I watched her interview on NBC because with less than
Speaker 1: two weeks away, everybody's out there just crisscrossing the key
Speaker 1: battleground states and trying to earn those last votes. And
Speaker 1: Harris did a couple of interviews today. One was on NBC,
Speaker 1: and so I thought, I'm going to watch that because
Speaker 1: we're still, you know, wanting to know more about her
Speaker 1: and who she is and what kind of president she
Speaker 1: might be. They played four minutes. Really at five twenty,
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking with KTLA tech reporter Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro about a new tool that can take control of
Speaker 1: your computer.
Speaker 3: Okay, that scares me.
Speaker 1: Also, Google is taking steps to protect you from scams.
Speaker 1: We've got Jim Ryan coming up in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. Next time you hail a taxi, you might
Speaker 1: have to look up. And speaking of looking up, if
Speaker 1: you look way up and out of this world, you
Speaker 1: may catch a glimpse of the International Space Station. And
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, our friend's Base Force Guardian Colonel Nick
Speaker 1: Hague is up there. We're going to be talking with
Speaker 1: him live from the space station. Coming up at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour at six oh five, it's handle
Speaker 1: on the news. McDonald's is not loving this. An E
Speaker 1: Coli outbreak in ten states tied to quarter pounders. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Legendary Dodgers pitcher Fernando
Speaker 1: Valenzuela has died at a hospital in La. The team
Speaker 1: made the announcement yesterday on X just days before the
Speaker 1: Dodgers play in the World Series. Baseball Commissioner Rob manfred
Speaker 1: says Valenzuela will be honored during the series at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1: The cause of Valenzuela's death was not released. The Mexican
Speaker 1: pitcher won the National League Psy Young Award and Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year in nineteen eighty one when he helped
Speaker 1: the Dodgers win the World Series and inspired Fernando Mania.
Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
Speaker 5: It is the most puzzling, wonderful, rewarding thing I think
Speaker 5: we've seen in baseball in many, many years.
Speaker 1: That's announcer Vince Scully. Valenzuela left his job on the
Speaker 1: Dodgers Spanish language TV broadcast last month without explanation, and
Speaker 1: was reported to have been in the hospital earlier this month.
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzuela was sixty three. Ironically, a mural of Fernando
Speaker 1: Valenzuela is going up in Boyle Heights. The muralist, Robert Vargas,
Speaker 1: started painting the Fernando Mania Forever mural just yesterday and
Speaker 1: said he hopes to complete it by November first, which
Speaker 1: would have been Valenzuela's birthday. Vargas also painted the sho
Speaker 1: hey Otani mural on the side of the Mianco Hotel
Speaker 1: in Little Tokyo, LA County. DA George Gascon says he'll
Speaker 1: have an announcement soon on a possible re sentencing of
Speaker 1: the Menendez brothers. Their lawyers have been pushing for a
Speaker 1: re sentencing based on what they say is new evidence
Speaker 1: supporting their brother's claims of sexual and physical abuse by
Speaker 1: their father. Gascone says his office has been working on
Speaker 1: a response to the defense arguments.
Speaker 6: Ten days ago. I said I would make a decision
Speaker 6: within ten days or so. I planned to have a
Speaker 6: decision by the end.
Speaker 2: Of this week.
Speaker 1: Lyle and Eric Mendez were sentenced to life in prison
Speaker 1: for the murder of their parents in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1: OC supervisor Andrew Doe has resigned and will forfeit two
Speaker 1: properties and more than two point four million dollars as
Speaker 1: part of a bribery plea deal.
Speaker 7: The scheme essentially functioned like Robin Hood in reverse.
Speaker 5: US attorney Martinez Trada says Doe stole COVID relief money
Speaker 5: meant to feed the poor and gave it to himself.
Speaker 7: Mister Doe publicly touted the meals program as a benefit
Speaker 7: to his constituents. He was featured in video saying that
Speaker 7: the organization was providing twenty seven hundred meals per week
Speaker 7: to the needy.
Speaker 4: That was not true, he said yesterday.
Speaker 5: Up the nine point three million dollars dough directed to
Speaker 5: a nonprofit, just a bit more than one point three
Speaker 5: million dollars actually went to feeding seniors at the Federal
Speaker 5: Courthouse in Orange County, cor Ben Carson k if I knew.
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know that you might
Speaker 1: have heard the buzzers in the background. Nick gave us
Speaker 1: a heads up yesterday that they were going to be
Speaker 1: testing fire alarms in his building. I hope it doesn't
Speaker 1: drive you crazy this morning, Nick, look up in the sky.
Speaker 1: It's a bird.
Speaker 3: It's a plane. It's a taxi. Let's say good morning
Speaker 3: to ABC's Jim Ryan. Good morning, Jim.
Speaker 8: Yeah, air taxis they're coming. They cleared for takeoff. Essentially,
Speaker 8: the FAA has taken the next logistical step in this
Speaker 8: whole thing. Amy I've been I'm on page sixty four
Speaker 8: of the eight hundred and eighty page document the FAA
Speaker 8: released this week the rules regulations how this will compare
Speaker 8: these air taxis to previous aircrafts. So the issuance of
Speaker 8: this document really opens the floodgates to the companies that
Speaker 8: have been designing and building and hope to produce these
Speaker 8: small aircraft in the next few years they'd be used. Essentially,
Speaker 8: let's say you wanted to get from t Mecula to
Speaker 8: lax Well in a few years from now. You'll pull
Speaker 8: out your phone and you'll have an app, something like
Speaker 8: the uber app or the lift app. You'll punch that
Speaker 8: and you can hail a ride on an air taxi.
Speaker 8: A small tilt rotor aircraft will fly out to your
Speaker 8: location wherever that might be, or a designated landing zone.
Speaker 8: You'll climb on board, flying over to lax There you.
Speaker 1: Go wow, but it doesn't sound or maybe it will
Speaker 1: eventually like drop down onto the street in front of
Speaker 1: your house or like more designated you're going to have
Speaker 1: to go to a landing space.
Speaker 8: That's a great question that the FAA is looking at that,
Speaker 8: and it's at least in the beginning, is going to
Speaker 8: designate locations sort of like you know helipads. But again,
Speaker 8: I mean you've seen helicopters land in unusual locations, and
Speaker 8: technically this aircraft could do the same thing and probably
Speaker 8: fit into a smaller space because these aircraft generally are
Speaker 8: smaller than a standard helicopter. And so yeah, I mean,
Speaker 8: initially you probably would go to a designated unlike or
Speaker 8: go to that designated spot. You'll be picked up and
Speaker 8: then taken over to the airport and presumably have easy
Speaker 8: access into the field if you're cleared through security before
Speaker 8: you get on.
Speaker 1: Okay, and do we know how many people the taxis
Speaker 1: are going to.
Speaker 8: Carry depends on the company that's building it and what
Speaker 8: they've designed into it. Most of these carry three passengers
Speaker 8: with a pilot, maybe four to six passengers. They'll be
Speaker 8: fairly small. And if you remember, if you've seen the
Speaker 8: V twenty two Osprey, the tilt rotor aircraft that the
Speaker 8: Marines have adopted, built by Bell Helicopter Textron, this is
Speaker 8: much like that, except much much smaller and infinitely quieter
Speaker 8: than any helicopter or airplane flying right now.
Speaker 3: And what about luggage. If you're going to lax and
Speaker 3: it only fits three people.
Speaker 8: There you go. I mean, they've got to design this
Speaker 8: thing with those things in mind with the luggage capabilities,
Speaker 8: they're weight requirements. I was just now looking at some
Speaker 8: of the weight requirements the car or the potential payload
Speaker 8: that these things could carry depending upon their size. So
Speaker 8: I mean the FAA, this eight hundred and eighty page
Speaker 8: document lays out a lot of that stuff. Of course,
Speaker 8: much of it refers to other FAA documents related to training,
Speaker 8: for example, so you know, at the point where it
Speaker 8: says pilot training, Yes, pilots will be trained initially by
Speaker 8: the company that manufactured the aircraft, and then it says,
Speaker 8: see the helicopter pilot provisions of far whatever it is.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, okay, and do we have any idea
Speaker 1: like how much it's going to cost.
Speaker 8: You mean, I mean the aircraft themselves are going to
Speaker 8: be you know, these are these are million dollar aircraft,
Speaker 8: But in terms of how much it might cost you
Speaker 8: to book the thing, I don't think they've gotten that
Speaker 8: far ahead yet. I mean, they've been busy dealing with
Speaker 8: the FAA and dealing with the engineering of these these
Speaker 8: but I mean, I'm told that it'll be similar to
Speaker 8: the cost of a an Uber Black. So let's say
Speaker 8: you wanted to fly.
Speaker 9: From really to LaGuardia.
Speaker 3: That's not bad.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not sure what the uber, but I guess
Speaker 8: that's top of the line uber, right, that may be
Speaker 8: a limousine or something, so it be similar to the
Speaker 8: price of renting a limousine from midtown Manhattan out to LaGuardia.
Speaker 3: Okay, and I miss this if you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: Do we have any idea when they might actually have
Speaker 1: something to roll out?
Speaker 8: Well, this is really the first government stell. I mean,
Speaker 8: this is a comprehensive set of rules implemented by the FAA.
Speaker 8: So with this in hand, those designers, those companies that
Speaker 8: have been working on these things have a blueprint now,
Speaker 8: at least a regulatory blueprint to go on. And so
Speaker 8: I had to expect these things within the the next
Speaker 8: couple of years. But they're already under development. They're flying
Speaker 8: at least in a test bed capacity. I've been looking
Speaker 8: at videos from the various companies that make them, and
Speaker 8: they're very cool.
Speaker 1: And do we know where they might first try to
Speaker 1: roll them out? I'm thinking of like if they put
Speaker 1: it into a city like I would think that like
Speaker 1: Dallas would be a better choice than San Francisco, just
Speaker 1: because it's flat.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a good idea. I mean, because it's flat.
Speaker 8: That's a good point there. In visibility and the visual
Speaker 8: requirements of these things are something to take into account. Yeah,
Speaker 8: maybe someplace like a Dallas Fort Worth, maybe someplace. You know,
Speaker 8: maybe it'll be John Wayne and carrying passengers from somewhere
Speaker 8: in a less congested area than LA. But you know,
Speaker 8: it's going to be baby steps essentially, but they're gonna
Speaker 8: be baby steps taken fairly quickly.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I just can't help but think of the Jetsons. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan, appreciate it. All right, all right, let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A candidate for the Fullerton
Speaker 1: City Council is going to stay on the ballot even
Speaker 1: though he's not allowed to take office if he wins.
Speaker 1: The Orange County DA's office is Scott Markowitz is ineligible
Speaker 1: because he falsely claimed he witnessed thirty people signing his
Speaker 1: nomination papers. Marco Wwitz pleaded guilty this week to false
Speaker 1: affidavits and was sentenced to one day time served plus
Speaker 1: community service. The man arrested for allegedly beating a valet
Speaker 1: at Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood is homeless.
Speaker 10: Ory and Gray allegedly committed a series of unprovoked attacks
Speaker 10: before beating the valet.
Speaker 4: They ranged from a battery to assaulted deadly weapon.
Speaker 10: LA County Sheriff's Detective Brandon zef says Great punch the
Speaker 10: valet in the face and allegedly stomped on the valet's
Speaker 10: head as he was unconscious. The valets spent three weeks
Speaker 10: in the hospital following the attack.
Speaker 4: In September.
Speaker 10: Deputy spotted and arrested Gray and West Hollywood last week.
Speaker 10: Gray has a prior record that includes property crimes and
Speaker 10: indecent exposure in West Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Blake Trolley KFI News.
Speaker 1: LAPD officers have arrested Demand for a series of armed
Speaker 1: robberies at food trucks in seven eleven stores in the
Speaker 1: San Fernando Valley. The robberies happened last month in the
Speaker 1: Mission area Van Nuys in North Hollywood. Billy Say detectives
Speaker 1: got a search warrant for the alleged robbers home and
Speaker 1: found clothes he had worn during the crimes. A car
Speaker 1: allegedly linked to the robberies was impounded. Two people convicted
Speaker 1: of murder in La seventeen years ago, so may be
Speaker 1: freed from prison.
Speaker 9: Lombardo Plasios was fifteen years old and Charlotte Playtez was
Speaker 9: twenty and pregnant when they were arrested for killing a
Speaker 9: gang member on Sunset Boulevard in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 9: LA County District Attorney George Gascon says he believes they're
Speaker 9: innocent and is asked that they be released.
Speaker 6: The evidence that we presented to the court overwhelming supports
Speaker 6: their conclusion.
Speaker 9: Gascone says the pair was convicted after being badgered by interrogators,
Speaker 9: but that the actual killer may have now been identified.
Speaker 9: A judge will hear the petition next week in downtown La.
Speaker 9: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A production company behind the movie Blade Runner twenty twenty
Speaker 1: forty nine, has sued Tesla, claiming that Elon Musk's company
Speaker 1: fed images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image
Speaker 1: generator to create unlicensed promotional materials for its Robotaxi. The
Speaker 1: company says it doesn't want the movie associated with Tesla
Speaker 1: because of what it calls Musk's extreme political and social views. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're just about fifteen minutes away from hooking up with
Speaker 1: the International Space Station, so we hope you'll stick around
Speaker 1: for that. And when we come back, we're talking tech
Speaker 1: with the host of Rich on Tech on KFI. Rich
Speaker 1: to muro Chat. GPT's main competitor has a new function.
Speaker 1: It can take controller of your computer. Rich is going
Speaker 1: to tell us whether that's a good thing or not.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking to NASA Astronaut Space Force
Speaker 1: Guardian Colonel Nick Haig live on the International Space Station
Speaker 1: in just about between ten and fifteen minutes. We're hooking
Speaker 1: up with the Johnson Space Center and we're excited to
Speaker 1: talk to our friend Colonel Nick Hag in just a
Speaker 1: few minutes. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. Walmart's going to pay more than seven
Speaker 1: million dollars to resolve allegations that it illegally dumped waste
Speaker 1: in California landfills. The settlement comes after the California Attorney
Speaker 1: General said dozens of audits found thousands of containers of
Speaker 1: toxic aerosols and liquid wastes, including spray paints, bleach, and
Speaker 1: medical waste. UCLA has been sued for violating First Amendment
Speaker 1: rights during a pro Palestinian protest. More than two hundred
Speaker 1: people were arrested for not leaving the camp they set
Speaker 1: up on campus in April. The lawsuit claims the university
Speaker 1: and uce regions unlawfully caused the arrests of students and
Speaker 1: faculty engaged in nonviolent protest. LA Dodgers star Slugger show
Speaker 1: Hey Otani's historic fifty to fifty ball has sold at
Speaker 1: auction for four million, three hundred and ninety two thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: It's the highest price paid for any sports ball sold
Speaker 1: in history. Otani hit the ball for a home run
Speaker 1: in Miami last month, becoming the first player in Major
Speaker 1: League history to hit fifty home runs and steal fifty
Speaker 1: bases in the same season. At six oh five, it's
Speaker 1: handle on the news. John Kelly has a warning about
Speaker 1: former President Trump. Bill's going to tell you all about that.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to the host of rich On
Speaker 1: Tech KTLA Tech reporter Rich Stimuro.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Rich, Hey, Good morning to you.
Speaker 5: Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you send a rather ominous tease to us
Speaker 1: today that chat GPT's biggest competitor can now take control
Speaker 1: of your PC.
Speaker 11: Yeah, this is just where AI is going. So Claude,
Speaker 11: which is the AI that I love to use. It's
Speaker 11: really good. It's chat gbt's biggest competitor. They have announced
Speaker 11: a feature where it can now control desktop applications through
Speaker 11: a new computer use API. So this is in beta,
Speaker 11: but you can program if you're smart and you know
Speaker 11: what you're doing. You can program the AI to control
Speaker 11: your mouse, type on your keyboard, click things. It can
Speaker 11: browse the web. It can interact with any website or application.
Speaker 11: But yeah, this is pretty wild to me because if
Speaker 11: you are smart and you're sort of a programmer. Of
Speaker 11: course right now, later on anyone't be able to do this.
Speaker 11: You can literally make this AI do things on your
Speaker 11: computer that is just wild to me.
Speaker 4: So the example they give is like.
Speaker 11: Booking a flight, or you know, there's just so many
Speaker 11: things that you can think of that you might let
Speaker 11: this thing do. But want it's out in the public,
Speaker 11: people will see what they do with it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So basically you tell it what to do and
Speaker 1: then it just does it.
Speaker 3: Like you'll say, computer, please book me a flight.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and that's so the idea here is that this
Speaker 11: is in beta. They don't know what people are going
Speaker 11: to do with this, and so they're just gonna let
Speaker 11: this out into the world and see, obviously there are
Speaker 11: some safeguards that they told people. They said, look, you know,
Speaker 11: we won't do social media postings, we won't interact with
Speaker 11: government websites, we won't access sensitive data on your computer
Speaker 11: unless you give us permission.
Speaker 4: But given that, you know exactly.
Speaker 11: But again, this is a test to see what people
Speaker 11: do with this, because their reasoning is that in the
Speaker 11: future there's gonna be a lot more of this, so
Speaker 11: we'd rather have this in a controlled, safer method of
Speaker 11: use before everyone in the world has access to this
Speaker 11: and they use it for you know, obviously evil purposes.
Speaker 1: Okay, what if you have a shopaholic a and it
Speaker 1: just starts ordering stuff off Amazon for you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, look, the possibilities are endless with this
Speaker 11: kind of thing, and that's the beauty of putting this
Speaker 11: out into the world is that we will see what
Speaker 11: people do with it. You might run a small business
Speaker 11: and there's just one little simple thing you do every
Speaker 11: single morning that you can now automate. Or you may
Speaker 11: have a work at home job and now you can
Speaker 11: do something else where it downloads a file every morning,
Speaker 11: and it summarizes it for you. I mean, there's so
Speaker 11: many possibilities that are beyond just like you doing what
Speaker 11: you do on your computer. You can have this sort
Speaker 11: of AI agent do this for you. And we're going
Speaker 11: to hear a lot more about these in the future,
Speaker 11: believe me.
Speaker 3: So yeah, this could be cool, but I could see
Speaker 3: where it could be.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I just think of you said
Speaker 1: work at home, and it made me think of when
Speaker 1: we were working at home, not at this job, at
Speaker 1: another job that I had where all the salespeople had
Speaker 1: to report in every day and basically say this is
Speaker 1: everything that I did and these are the people that
Speaker 1: it contacted, and this is what I worked on and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. You could just tell your AI just hey,
Speaker 1: make up a schedule for me and you oh absolutely yeah.
Speaker 11: I mean, look, there's gonna be there's gonna be positive
Speaker 11: benefits to this and negative benefits. And some people will
Speaker 11: use it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 11: Look, when people are working from home, they have those
Speaker 11: mouse jigglers, you know that made it look like their
Speaker 11: computer was being used all day long.
Speaker 3: Wait a second, I never heard of that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: this is like a known thing. Oh I told you
Speaker 3: I'm not techy.
Speaker 11: If you work from home, literally people go on Amazon,
Speaker 11: look up mouse jiggler. It just literally moves your mouth
Speaker 11: all day long so that you're you know, monitoring software
Speaker 11: from your work says. Oh, this person's working all day.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's technically available now, and like you said,
Speaker 1: really techy people can use it, and then do we
Speaker 1: have any idea when it might roll out for dummies like.
Speaker 11: Me, Uh, it's gonna be a while. It looks like
Speaker 11: it's you know, this is very early stage, so I mean,
Speaker 11: it still struggles with scrolling and zooming, so you know,
Speaker 11: I think we're still we still got the leg up here,
Speaker 11: but we'll see. I mean, I just think of one
Speaker 11: thing of like those bots. You know, we already have
Speaker 11: the problem with bots with tickets, so I'm just wondering
Speaker 11: if this is going to make it even worse when
Speaker 11: anyone can just program this to like buy the tailor
Speaker 11: Swift tickets in advance or something.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh wow, yeah, or get into a Disney
Speaker 1: queue or yeah. Okay, Google's texting app is now going
Speaker 1: to protect you from scams and from nudes.
Speaker 11: Now, this I thought was actually pretty good because a
Speaker 11: lot of people we talked to a couple of weeks
Speaker 11: ago about how they're switching over. Most of the Android
Speaker 11: devices are now using Google Messages. We're getting so many
Speaker 11: scam text messages these days, so now they're going to
Speaker 11: have on device machine learning AI that will scan your
Speaker 11: messages and basically figure out if they're a scam. So
Speaker 11: the two they're starting with our package delivery scams and
Speaker 11: job scams. So when it senses those coming in, it
Speaker 11: will just throw those into the spam box. That's the
Speaker 11: first thing. It's also going to give you sensitive content warning,
Speaker 11: so if you try to send a nude image, it'll say, hey,
Speaker 11: you know the repercussions of.
Speaker 3: This, don't do that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and it also will blur them if you receive one. Now,
Speaker 11: for adults, this is opt in. If you're using your
Speaker 11: phone under eighteen, you have to opt out, which means
Speaker 11: this will be enabled by default. So again just kind
Speaker 11: of protecting people, giving them that one extra layer because
Speaker 11: the nude image exchange apparently is pretty big these days.
Speaker 4: Let's see what else.
Speaker 11: Improved link protection, so this will warn you when there's
Speaker 11: a link from an unknown sender. It will block suspicious links.
Speaker 11: And already, by the way, Google says they are protecting
Speaker 11: two billion messages every month, so they're like blocking two
Speaker 11: billion suspicious messages every single month.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so and you guys have probably dealt with this too.
Speaker 1: You get something saying, hey, the USPS is holding your package.
Speaker 1: Click this link if you want to get it released.
Speaker 1: Not the USPS, but sometimes these look real, Like I
Speaker 1: get something from PayPal. It's not from PayPal, but it
Speaker 1: sure looks like it could be from PayPal.
Speaker 3: So this is.
Speaker 1: Going to flag those kinds of things, yes, And I
Speaker 1: think cool.
Speaker 11: What I always say that the scammers do is they
Speaker 11: take a real message, like let's say you have Chase
Speaker 11: Bank and they're like, hey, did you just make a
Speaker 11: transaction at Target for you know, seventeen dollars. Those are
Speaker 11: real messages that banks send out, like those fraud alerts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: So what the scammers do is they take that and
Speaker 11: they twist it a little bit and they basically emulate that,
Speaker 11: and so you think, you're you know, you've seen that before,
Speaker 11: and so you interact with it and you're like, oh,
Speaker 11: wait a second, I just logged in with my social
Speaker 11: and my password, so hopefully this stuff will become more automated.
Speaker 11: It's almost like email spam protection now but in text.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good news. We like that, okay. And then
Speaker 3: here's something else that I like.
Speaker 1: There's Canva, which is a video editing program that I
Speaker 1: know a number of.
Speaker 3: People around here use it.
Speaker 1: I haven't tackled it yet, but it's going to let
Speaker 1: you add Disney to your designs.
Speaker 11: Yeah. I love Canva. Love love love Canvas. So it
Speaker 11: does image editing, video editing, whatever you want. It's basically
Speaker 11: I don't know if you remember this name back in
Speaker 11: the day, but like print shop, like, it's basically an
Speaker 11: online you know, you just design whatever you want, whether
Speaker 11: it's a social media posts, whether it's a poster, a document, whatever.
Speaker 11: And so they've added some Disney designs inside so you
Speaker 11: can use like legitimate Disney characters and things inside Canva,
Speaker 11: which is pretty cool. I looked at the last night.
Speaker 11: They have like little invitations and things that use the
Speaker 11: Disney characters. And yes, you can always drag and drop
Speaker 11: a Disney character that you find from outside, you know,
Speaker 11: Canva into your program. But these are officials so they
Speaker 11: look real and they're also licensed so that when you
Speaker 11: print these things out. It looks better and it's you know,
Speaker 11: you're just on the up and up, especially if you're
Speaker 11: using these things for I think it's just personal use
Speaker 11: but in education, but I think there's some professional use
Speaker 11: cases here too.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you want more information on the things
Speaker 1: that we've been talking about, you can go too Rich's
Speaker 1: website which is rich on Tech dot TV, And of
Speaker 1: course you can listen to Rich as he talked about
Speaker 1: this and lots more that has to do with the
Speaker 1: tech universe on Rich on Tech Saturday from eleven to
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Speaker 3: You can follow him at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: And you can see him of course on KTLA because
Speaker 1: he is t KTLA's tech reporter, Rich Demiro, thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Amy.
Speaker 3: Have a great day you too. Okay.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we are going out of this world,
Speaker 1: connecting with Space Force Guardian NASA astronaut commander of the
Speaker 1: Crew nine mission to the International Space Station, Colonel Nick Haig.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking to him live from the International Space
Speaker 1: Station in just moments. Here's what we're following in the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom as those final prefers preparations
Speaker 1: are underway. The Dodgers are mourning the loss of one
Speaker 1: of the most iconic players in team history, just two
Speaker 1: days before the start of the Dodgers Yankees World Series,
Speaker 1: pitcher and broadcaster Fernando Valenzuela, whose phenomenal start to the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one season ignited Fernando Mania so sad he
Speaker 1: died yesterday. Fernando val Swaler was sixty three. Andrew Doe
Speaker 1: has resigned as Orange County's District one supervisor. The announcement
Speaker 1: yesterday came after Doe agreed to plead guilty to federal
Speaker 1: corruption charges for funneling COVID relief money into a nonprofit
Speaker 1: agency where his daughter served as an executive. An investigation
Speaker 1: showed Orange County gave the nonprofit more than thirteen million
Speaker 1: dollars before his daughter bought a million dollar home in Testin.
Speaker 1: More than two million votes have already been cast in California.
Speaker 1: With less than two weeks before election day, County elections
Speaker 1: officials started sending vote by mail ballots to registered voters
Speaker 1: over two weeks ago. Voters who didn't register by Monday's deadline,
Speaker 1: you're not out of luck. You can still cast your
Speaker 1: provisional ballot on election day. Okay, we're getting ready to
Speaker 1: connect to the International Space Station. We've been talking to
Speaker 1: Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Hag for months now, and
Speaker 1: now we get to talk to him live on the
Speaker 1: International Space Station.
Speaker 4: Are you ready for the event, Houston? I am ready
Speaker 4: for the event.
Speaker 1: Excellent KFI radio.
Speaker 3: This is Mission Control Houston.
Speaker 4: Please call station for a voice check station.
Speaker 3: This is Amy King with kfi's wake up call. How
Speaker 3: do you hear me?
Speaker 4: Amy? This is Nick and I can hear you loud
Speaker 4: and clear.
Speaker 3: Oh right, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Nick Haig, Colonel Nick Haig, Space Force Guardian, NASA astronaut,
Speaker 1: live from the International Space Station.
Speaker 3: We are thrilled to talk to you this morning.
Speaker 4: It's awesome to be able to connect with you again.
Speaker 4: I've loved kind of periodically checking with you leading up
Speaker 4: to getting up here, and now I'm here, so floating
Speaker 4: in space, and I.
Speaker 1: Love this because we actually can see you. And just
Speaker 1: so you know, we're going to put this out on
Speaker 1: our social media and our website and everything after it's done,
Speaker 1: and I believe it's also on NASA Plus now. But Nick,
Speaker 1: I want to go back just a little bit because
Speaker 1: the last time we talked, you were doing your final training,
Speaker 1: and then we were supposed to talk to you as
Speaker 1: you got closer to launch time. But then everything changed
Speaker 1: because you all had to make accommodations to bring Sonny
Speaker 1: and Butch home as they as we know, they went
Speaker 1: up in June on the Starliner and weren't able to
Speaker 1: come back on that. So your mission changed, and during
Speaker 1: that time you got a promotion, and now you're the
Speaker 1: commander of your mission. So I'd love to go back
Speaker 1: to launch day as a lot of my friends and
Speaker 1: I were watching on Earth and watching you launch from
Speaker 1: Cape Canaveral and I said, hey, our friend Colonel Nick
Speaker 1: Haig is right there on that rocket. So there's a couple. First,
Speaker 1: you're a mission commander for the first time. Congratulations. You're
Speaker 1: the first Space Force guardian to head to the International
Speaker 1: Space Station and even the lawn location was a first.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us about that? What was different about
Speaker 1: this one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for the first time on Space Launch Complex forty,
Speaker 4: which is on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station side
Speaker 4: of the launch complex there at Kennedy Space Center and
Speaker 4: the Space Force side, we launched humans into space and
Speaker 4: so we now have that capability from two different launch
Speaker 4: pads to launch people to the International Space Station using
Speaker 4: our US providers. But yeah, you point out a lot
Speaker 4: of interesting interesting First, I think the thing that is
Speaker 4: constant and all of that is change. And really, you know,
Speaker 4: life for everybody is full of change and surprise. And
Speaker 4: if you had asked me when we first were talking
Speaker 4: six months ago, if it was just going to end
Speaker 4: up being Alex and I launching up here to create
Speaker 4: room to have Butcher and Sonny join our crew and
Speaker 4: do our mission up here, I would have never expected
Speaker 4: to have that. But the ability to do that is
Speaker 4: really the strength of our training program and the strength
Speaker 4: of the professional astronaut and cosmonaut core is we adapt
Speaker 4: to what life throws at us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I remember during our earlier conversations you kept saying,
Speaker 1: we do this plan, and then we plan for the
Speaker 1: things to fail and fall apart so we can come
Speaker 1: up with contingencies. And it's just on our end. It
Speaker 1: seems like you guys have taken care of this seamlessly.
Speaker 1: Can we go back to the launch for just a second.
Speaker 1: Do you remember, as you're sitting there strapped to a rocket,
Speaker 1: as you have said, being getting ready to be hurled
Speaker 1: into space as you're counting down to zero. What goes
Speaker 1: through your mind? And what does it feel like when
Speaker 1: liftoff starts.
Speaker 4: It's when you're sitting there, You're full of all kinds
Speaker 4: of emotions. And I think the emotions have gradually changed
Speaker 4: for me over the course of my launches. The you know,
Speaker 4: the first launch, you really don't know what to expect,
Speaker 4: and so five years ago that was a lot of adrenaline,
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of anticipation, a lot of nervousness,
Speaker 4: not wanting to make a mistake, and to be perfect
Speaker 4: in the moment. As I've progressed, you know too, this
Speaker 4: is the third launch now. I think the difference this
Speaker 4: time is is I kept thinking about all the people
Speaker 4: that make it possible. You know, you sit there on
Speaker 4: the launch pad for about two and a half hours
Speaker 4: before you ever launch, and there's not much to do,
Speaker 4: so you think a lot. And I kept thinking about
Speaker 4: all the people that make it possible for us to
Speaker 4: do this type of mission, you know, and that's that,
Speaker 4: you know, the NASA teams that prepare us, the SpaceX
Speaker 4: teams that prepare us, the Space Station program itself, our
Speaker 4: international partners, there's so many there, but you know, it
Speaker 4: was even more special sitting on Launch Complex at forty
Speaker 4: there on the Space Force Station, because I felt even
Speaker 4: more connected to that other part of this gigantic team
Speaker 4: that makes it possible. And that's the you know, the
Speaker 4: Space Force guardians around the globe that do some fundamental
Speaker 4: things that make it possible for us to operate up here,
Speaker 4: like GPS and you know, debris avoidance and making sure
Speaker 4: that we stay safe and nothing runs into us while
Speaker 4: we're orbiting the Earth. So it just it really makes
Speaker 4: you feel connected. And that was the difference this time around.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about life on the space station,
Speaker 1: Colonel Haig. First of all, how many of you are
Speaker 1: now up there on the space station. I just saw
Speaker 1: one of your fellow astronauts go floating by behind you.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So currently, right now, we have eleven people on the
Speaker 4: space station, and today is kind of an exciting day.
Speaker 4: Crew eight is preparing to undock, so four of our
Speaker 4: crewmates are getting ready to hop into their capsule and
Speaker 4: return to Earth and splash down on Friday. So there's
Speaker 4: a buzz of anticipation and excitement. I'm happy for them
Speaker 4: to be able to get back to their families. It's
Speaker 4: also it's also an exciting time because it's turning over
Speaker 4: another chapter, another crew handover. You know, they're passing the
Speaker 4: baton to us, if you will, and that baton passing
Speaker 4: has been happening continuously for two and a half decades.
Speaker 4: And their floats matted, screaming by getting ready to go
Speaker 4: up into his dragon and continue packing and getting ready
Speaker 4: to leave.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that brings us back to where you were
Speaker 1: planning for contingencies, because we got a note from NASA
Speaker 1: yesterday even saying, hey, we're set to go, but things
Speaker 1: might change because Crew eight is getting ready to head
Speaker 1: home and so we might have to delay.
Speaker 3: But luckily we didn't have to.
Speaker 1: When we get to talk to you today, so I
Speaker 1: want to ask you some like silly things. One, what
Speaker 1: time is it on the space station?
Speaker 4: So we use Greenwich time, So it's currently twelve forty two, okay.
Speaker 1: And we were wondering about like oxygen and water because
Speaker 1: we know that you have to have resupply missions to
Speaker 1: bring you food and supplies and stuff. Do they have
Speaker 1: to bring air up there? Do you somebody just went
Speaker 1: over your head? Do you have to recycle air. Do
Speaker 1: you recycle water? How does that work?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's a fairly closed loop system, meaning we
Speaker 4: have to recycle everything. And currently if we focus on water,
Speaker 4: the station is operating about ninety eight percent of the
Speaker 4: ability to recycle the water that we use. And so
Speaker 4: even right now, there's air conditioners that are scrubbing this
Speaker 4: air and as we perspire moisture, they're condensing that, putting
Speaker 4: it back into a system that purifies it so we
Speaker 4: can drink it. And so we're able to recover ninety
Speaker 4: eight percent of the water that we consume, which is
Speaker 4: important because water is really dense, it's really heavy, and
Speaker 4: things that are heavy or expensive to launch. It'll be
Speaker 4: even more important when we start having a sustained presence
Speaker 4: on the Moon to be able to recycle without having
Speaker 4: to resupply and use our resources that are in place already.
Speaker 3: So you kind of have an endless supply now that
Speaker 3: it's there.
Speaker 4: It's pretty endless, but we still rely on cargo vehicles
Speaker 4: every month or two to bring up some supplies to
Speaker 4: resupply us. One of the things that we are working
Speaker 4: on but we haven't figured out yet is how do
Speaker 4: we grow all the food that we need so that
Speaker 4: we don't have to resupply with food. Currently, we resupply
Speaker 4: all of our food from the ground, and so we
Speaker 4: rely on those transport vehicles to bring us up food
Speaker 4: every couple months to make sure we've got enough to eat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So is that some of the experiments that
Speaker 1: you're working on is growing things on the space station?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 4: While I'm up here, we're going to conduct roughly two
Speaker 4: hundred different experiments, and several of those are focused on
Speaker 4: how do we grow things in space? How do we
Speaker 4: grow leafy greens that are fairly easy to grow without
Speaker 4: having to grow and consume without having to process them
Speaker 4: too much. We're in the infancy of figuring out how
Speaker 4: to do that in space, and it's going to be
Speaker 4: critical going forward that we figure out how to do
Speaker 4: that in mass.
Speaker 1: So it's not quite like Matt Damon on Mars just yet,
Speaker 1: but you're getting there.
Speaker 3: If you're just joining us.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick hag live
Speaker 1: on the International Space Station and Colonel Haig, I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you a couple of questions about living together
Speaker 1: on the space station, because you said there's eleven of
Speaker 1: you a couple are going home very quickly. But do
Speaker 1: you guys just kind of grab and go or like
Speaker 1: for meals, do you sit down and have dinners together?
Speaker 3: How does that work?
Speaker 4: So our workday is roughly seven thirty in the morning
Speaker 4: till seven thirty in the evening before the workday starts,
Speaker 4: and after the workday starts, or when we have breakfast
Speaker 4: and dinner, and those meals tend to be more communal.
Speaker 4: We all will gather around in the galley. You can
Speaker 4: see in the back behind me there's a table back there.
Speaker 4: That's where our food warmers at. That's where our little
Speaker 4: refrigerators are at. So we gathering there and just enjoy
Speaker 4: each other's company while we have breakfast and dinner. Lunch
Speaker 4: can be a little hit and miss because the day
Speaker 4: is pretty regimented up here and everybody has a list
Speaker 4: of assigned activities and we're trying to get them all done,
Speaker 4: and so lunch basically is a grab and go type mentality.
Speaker 1: Okay, and is there let's be honest, is the food
Speaker 1: good on the space station or is it not so great?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the food is great up here. There's plenty of it,
Speaker 4: and there's a variety of flavors. You know, this morning
Speaker 4: I was able to have some coffee with cream and sugar.
Speaker 4: I had some citrus fruit salad, some strawberries, oatmeal with
Speaker 4: blueberries in it, and a vegetable kish That's what I
Speaker 4: had this morning. It's delicious, no complaints.
Speaker 3: Sounds better than the breakfast that I'm having. Okay.
Speaker 1: So we had talked earlier that you had been training
Speaker 1: for spacewalks and you were doing it in that big
Speaker 1: old pool and it was very much like life in
Speaker 1: space except for the bubbles that you see in the pool.
Speaker 1: Have you had a chance to go on a spacewalk
Speaker 1: since you got to the space station?
Speaker 4: So far, no spacewalks.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: We are planning to do a couple spacewalks later in
Speaker 4: our expedition. The timing of those depends on a lot
Speaker 4: of different factors. You were talking about how we might
Speaker 4: have to adjust real time today just for the undocking
Speaker 4: of Crewate. There are a series of major events between
Speaker 4: now and when we would do the spacewalks that will
Speaker 4: drive the final timing. But I look forward to going
Speaker 4: out the hatch when the opportunity presents itself.
Speaker 1: And here's another question for you, Colonel Hag. Does everybody
Speaker 1: get to do a spacewalk or do you guys have
Speaker 1: to do like rock paper scissors to see who gets
Speaker 1: to go out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's more like rock paper scissors. Unfortunately, there's not
Speaker 4: enough spacewalk. I wish. I wish everybody could go out
Speaker 4: and experience a spacewalk. Sometimes there's an expedition where there's
Speaker 4: no work that needs to be done on the outside.
Speaker 4: Spacewalks are a dangerous activity, a risky activity that we take,
Speaker 4: and so we only go out when we have to.
Speaker 4: And so the things that compel us to go out
Speaker 4: there are to fix things that are broken, to kind
Speaker 4: of maintain our laboratory. The other things we go out
Speaker 4: to do are put science in place, or to repair
Speaker 4: science experiments or increase the capabilities of the station. So
Speaker 4: we don't go out all the time, but when we do,
Speaker 4: we sure try to enjoy it all.
Speaker 1: Right again, if you're just joining us, we're talking to
Speaker 1: Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who is also a
Speaker 1: NASA astronaut, just happens to be buzzing around the Earth
Speaker 1: at about seventeen thousand miles an hour on the International
Speaker 1: Space Station. Colonel hag how many sunrises and sunsets do
Speaker 1: you get in a day?
Speaker 4: Roughly sixteen, so about every forty five minutes. If you
Speaker 4: float over to the Kupola windows, you're going to see
Speaker 4: a sunrise or a sunset.
Speaker 1: And what's your so far you've been up there for
Speaker 1: a few weeks. Now, what's your favorite thing about being
Speaker 1: on the International Space Station.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of things that you really enjoy, so
Speaker 4: it's tough for me to say this is my favorite thing.
Speaker 4: Going over and watching the Earth glide by is unbelievable.
Speaker 4: In ten minutes, we can go all the way from
Speaker 4: Washington State, all the way down to the tip of
Speaker 4: the you know, the Florida Peninsula and Key West and
Speaker 4: see the entire US glide by, and you can look
Speaker 4: down with your naked eye and you can see the
Speaker 4: city city, roads and buildings, and it feels so close,
Speaker 4: even though you know you're two hundred and fifty miles away. Uh,
Speaker 4: that's it's just it's all inspiring to have that perspective.
Speaker 4: But you know, when you come back inside, it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's fun to be able to do tricks and
Speaker 4: flips and be upside down and what she's doing right now,
Speaker 4: continue to talk and and and so that never gets old.
Speaker 4: We have our own little competition of you know, who
Speaker 4: can do as many flips without wrecking into something or
Speaker 4: transit the lab in the most dynamic way. But I
Speaker 4: think the singular most favorite thing I like doing up
Speaker 4: here is doing things with with other humans. You know,
Speaker 4: that shared experience of whether we're we're competing in and
Speaker 4: doing zero G gymnastics or whether we're both looking out
Speaker 4: the window. That shared experience makes it even more special.
Speaker 1: Okay, then another quick question. We're running out of time,
Speaker 1: so I got to try to get a couple in there.
Speaker 1: But you were just doing some flips and we were talking,
Speaker 1: and I've been thinking about zero gravity, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: what does it feel like if you're upside down in space?
Speaker 3: Do you even know if you're upside down?
Speaker 4: If I close my eyes and I flip upside down,
Speaker 4: I can't tell I'm upside down. So the only way
Speaker 4: we can decide which ways up and which ways down
Speaker 4: is visually, and for the most part, it really doesn't
Speaker 4: make any difference. Inside the station, we use every surface,
Speaker 4: so this lab is covered with wires, and it's covered
Speaker 4: with sunny just passed underneath me. It's covered with experiments
Speaker 4: on each side, and computers and cameras, and so we
Speaker 4: tend to not touch anything, just these blue handrails that
Speaker 4: I end up grabbing on. So it's up down makes
Speaker 4: no difference.
Speaker 1: Well, you are up there, and we are so excited
Speaker 1: to be able to talk to you, Colonel Nick Haig.
Speaker 1: We know you got to go because you've got experiments
Speaker 1: to do and you've got to help some people pack
Speaker 1: to get home. It has been an absolute pleasure to
Speaker 1: talk to you on the International Space Station.
Speaker 4: Parting words, Yeah, Amy, I just want to say thank
Speaker 4: you for you know, talking with me over the past
Speaker 4: six to I think almost eight months now and helping
Speaker 4: me share this experience. Space flight and the human exploration
Speaker 4: of space is so important. It's so life changing, and
Speaker 4: anybody that has the dream of getting involved with it,
Speaker 4: I urged them to just chase that passion. There is
Speaker 4: room for everyone as we explore deeper into space.
Speaker 1: Thank you again, Colonel Nick Haig, live from the International
Speaker 1: Space Station. Ooh, and we did it just when we
Speaker 1: were supposed to. We had at five point fifty two
Speaker 1: and it's five point fifty two and he is off
Speaker 1: and doing his thing.
Speaker 3: Wow, what a treat.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've talked to him a few times,
Speaker 1: and in fact, if you want to go back and
Speaker 1: listen to some of those interviews, they're still up on
Speaker 1: our website at KFIAM six forty dot com slash space.
Speaker 1: I went back and listened to him because I you know,
Speaker 1: like he said, it's been six months since we started
Speaker 1: talking and just absolutely fascinating. He talks in previous interviews
Speaker 1: about what the size of the space station is. You
Speaker 1: know how big it is that you could literally drop
Speaker 1: the whole space station, including the solar sales, into a
Speaker 1: stadium like end to end. It's about the size of
Speaker 1: a football field. But their living space is about the
Speaker 1: size of a four or five bedroom house. And then
Speaker 1: he talks on another one of the interviews about what
Speaker 1: it's like to sleep.
Speaker 3: He said, it's the best sleep he's ever had.
Speaker 1: He has this little like a cubby and he can
Speaker 1: close the doors and turn everything off, the lights and
Speaker 1: the sound, and he says, you just kind of float around,
Speaker 1: and he said it's the best sleep he's ever had.
Speaker 1: So again, thank you to NASA and for everybody setting
Speaker 1: all of this up, and the people at Space Force
Speaker 1: who've allowed us to do this. Colonel Nake Nick Eggs
Speaker 1: such a treat to talk to I hope we get
Speaker 1: to talk to him again when he gets back on
Speaker 1: to Earth. And it was fun if you go, if
Speaker 1: you see the video which we're going to post on
Speaker 1: our website, we saw Sonny of Sonny and Butch, the
Speaker 1: ones who are kind of stuck up on there for months.
Speaker 1: She went floating by and then recording again the Crew
Speaker 1: eight capsule.
Speaker 3: They're coming home. So how fun? How fun?
Speaker 1: All Right, We've got a few minutes Les's and wake
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Speaker 10: Luna says he's remaining neutral on Prop thirty six. He
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Speaker 7: I don't want my workplace to continue to be complicit
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Speaker 1: seventy million dollars worth of illegal cannabis in just the
Speaker 1: last three months. That's according to recent numbers from Governor
Speaker 1: Newsom's office. The s Newsom says California is continuing the
Speaker 1: charge in cracking down on illicit cannabis markets to help
Speaker 1: protect consumers and support the legal cannabis industry. A couple
Speaker 1: nonprofits say they want to have a statue of Mountain
Speaker 1: Lion P. Twenty two in Griffith Park as a memorial
Speaker 1: to the Big Cat. He lived in Griffith Park for
Speaker 1: about ten years before he had to be put down
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two because of long term health problems.
Speaker 1: President of Friends of Griffith Park, Jerry Hans says P
Speaker 1: twenty two helped change the way people look at living
Speaker 1: alongside wildlife in urban settings.
Speaker 12: We now realized the possibilities of co existing and appreciating
Speaker 12: abundant wildlife, even right here in such a large city.
Speaker 1: The group Friends of Griffith Park is partnering with the
Speaker 1: National Wildlife Federation and LA Recreation and Parks Department for
Speaker 1: the memorial. McDonald's customers are not loving that quarter pounders
Speaker 1: have been linked to an E. Coli outbreak in ten
Speaker 1: states from Wisconsin to Oregon. At least forty nine people
Speaker 1: have become sick. One person has died. The most cases
Speaker 1: are in Colorado. The CDC says it's working with McDonald's
Speaker 1: to determine what ingredient in the burgers was contaminated. It
Speaker 1: could be onions, or it could be beef. No E
Speaker 1: Coli cases have been reported in California, and lebron and
Speaker 1: Bronnie James have become the first father son duo to
Speaker 1: play in an NBA regular season game together. They checked
Speaker 1: into last night's game against the Timberwolves together with four
Speaker 1: minutes left in the second quarter. The Lakers beat Minnesota
Speaker 1: one ten to one oh three.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Want to say thank you to Space Force guardian and
Speaker 1: NASA astronaut Colonel Nick Haig, and to Space Force's Angel
Speaker 1: Roscoe who got us connected with Nick in the first place,
Speaker 1: and Nick Pouliochini who got us connected with Angel, and
Speaker 1: all so Sarah at NASA. What a fun time we
Speaker 1: had talking with Colonel Haig live on the International Space Station.
Speaker 1: We're going to post it on our website along with
Speaker 1: all the other interviews we've done with Colonel Haig, that
Speaker 1: is at KFIAM six forty dot com slash space. And
Speaker 1: we're also going to see if we can get the
Speaker 1: zoom call because I was able to see Colonel Haig
Speaker 1: as we were having the conversation. We're going to see
Speaker 1: if we get that zoom call setup so we can
Speaker 1: post it on our social media. It'll be online at
Speaker 1: Amykking and also at KFI AM six forty And of
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Speaker 1: Amy Kking, Thanks again to everybody for making that happen.
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Speaker 1: County Southland weather from KFI. Sunny with highs in the
Speaker 1: seventies at the beach's load of mid eighties for Metrola
Speaker 1: and Inland o c eighties still o nineties in the
Speaker 1: valleys and Inland Empire, mid upper eighties in the Anelote Valley.
Speaker 1: A few degrees cooler tomorrow through Saturday, with highs in
Speaker 1: the low to mid seventies at the beach seventies to
Speaker 1: about eighty four Metro LA and Inland Orange County load
Speaker 1: uper eighty's in the Valley's ie and High Desert. It's
Speaker 1: fifty eight in Dana point sixty in Long Beach, fifty
Speaker 1: seven in Orange, sixty three in Sherman Oaks. We lead
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Speaker 1: I guess I'm just a little tongue tied after our day,
Speaker 1: but thanks to everybody, I'm Amy King. This has been
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