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Speaker 2: It is five o'clock on the dot, and that means
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Speaker 2: call for Friday, December twenty seven, twenty twenty four. We
Speaker 2: won't be saying twenty twenty four much longer. I'm Michael
Speaker 2: Monks in for Amy King one last time this week.
Speaker 2: I hope you're doing well out there. I hope you're
Speaker 2: not too lost. I know these days get a little hairy,
Speaker 2: especially when Christmas falls on a Wednesday, so inconsiderately, so
Speaker 2: it messes up an entire week, and then we have
Speaker 2: a midweek holiday next week. Maybe you're lucky and you're
Speaker 2: off the entire time. Maybe you're not, and you've been
Speaker 2: joining us every day, wish we are grateful for. But
Speaker 2: just again, as a reminder, it is Friday, December twenty seven,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. It will be all day. Hang in there.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk a bit about the brain fog
Speaker 2: that happens in these weird couple of weeks every year
Speaker 2: around the holidays. We've also got news and interviews all
Speaker 2: hour long. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call and
Speaker 2: his historic hotel in downtown LA has been destroyed by fire.
Speaker 2: This is the Morrison Hotel. It was made famous in
Speaker 2: a nineteen seventy album by The Doors. It was fully
Speaker 2: engulfed in flames and what the LAFD classified as a
Speaker 2: major emergency yesterday and this story. Investigators are still working
Speaker 2: to determine if there is any connection to two severed
Speaker 2: human legs and two missing fishermen. The legs have washed
Speaker 2: ashore in Palos Verday's estates, near where the men disappeared
Speaker 2: this week in strong surf. We've been talking about those
Speaker 2: missing fishermen all week. The US Coast Guard had called
Speaker 2: off the search, and then this first leg washed up,
Speaker 2: and now a second limb has washed up. So investigators
Speaker 2: are looking into that and we're going to be monitoring.
Speaker 2: And there have been thirty consecutive Mega Million's drawings without
Speaker 2: a winner, and that means tonight's jackpot is north of
Speaker 2: a billion dollars. The one point one to five billion
Speaker 2: dollar prize is the ninth largest lottery jackpot in US history,
Speaker 2: so As I said yesterday, if your goal was to
Speaker 2: become a millionaire or even a billionaire, this year got
Speaker 2: another shot, so good luck. Tickets are two bucks not
Speaker 2: a bad investment. We'll also talk today about President Trump's
Speaker 2: Christmas wish list and how serious he might be about
Speaker 2: filling it. It's not full of things he can get
Speaker 2: at the mall. We're talking big gifts like Canada, the
Speaker 2: Panama Canal, Greenland. ABC News National correspondent Steven Portnoy will
Speaker 2: be with us to talk about that and how important
Speaker 2: are online reviews to you when you're making a decision
Speaker 2: to buy something. Probably did a lot of shopping here
Speaker 2: in the Christmas holiday season. Did you check out reviews
Speaker 2: before you pulled the trigger on a product, on a gift?
Speaker 2: I know, I rely on them heavily. I even try
Speaker 2: to return the favor by writing honest and thoughtful reviews
Speaker 2: because I'm so grateful for the reviews I see before
Speaker 2: I buy something. But there's a rise in fake reviews
Speaker 2: and advertisers may be using them to their advantage. ABC
Speaker 2: News correspondent Jim Ryan has some signs you can see
Speaker 2: to figure out what's real and what isn't and then
Speaker 2: We've got the house whisperer here. It is Friday. Dean
Speaker 2: Sharp is back, and this time he has equipped with
Speaker 2: all the tips you need as you think about your
Speaker 2: space in the new year. What's hot, what's not? We'll
Speaker 2: talk about it. I'm curious about whether Millennial Gray is
Speaker 2: going to last another year? How about you? And then
Speaker 2: coming up at six oh five, it is Handle on
Speaker 2: the New News again without Bill Handle. We're grateful to
Speaker 2: have Wayne Resnick with us at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: I'll be there and I sure hope that you will
Speaker 2: be as well. When word first started to spread of
Speaker 2: that plane crash this week in Kazakhstan, it seemed like
Speaker 2: a tragic accident. The plane hit some birds and had
Speaker 2: to make an emergency landing. It went down. Thirty eight
Speaker 2: people died, twenty nine lived, But the story has shifted
Speaker 2: since ABC News has reported there are early indications that
Speaker 2: the plane may have been shot down by our Russian
Speaker 2: anti aircraft system. Joining us now from the ABC News
Speaker 2: Foreign Desk is correspondent in nez De la Katera and
Speaker 2: as thank you so much for being with us this morning.
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: What are US officials citing as any early evidence or
Speaker 2: indicators that this plane may have been shot down.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have one US official telling ABC News that
Speaker 3: the plane was likely shot down by a Russian anti
Speaker 3: aircraft system. We also have a high level a Zeri
Speaker 3: government source telling us the same thing that there's the
Speaker 3: new evidence emerging that would point to that hypothesies. We
Speaker 3: just don't know at this point though. So the plane
Speaker 3: black boxes have been recovered. A commission has been created
Speaker 3: to investigate the crash. We know that representatives from Russia,
Speaker 3: azer by John Konzakstan are all participating in that investigation,
Speaker 3: but we likely won't know for several days just what happened.
Speaker 3: We're hearing different things from different countries. So initially there
Speaker 3: was a preliminary report from a Kanzakstan that said that
Speaker 3: it was a bird strike that would have led to
Speaker 3: engine failure. I spoke to an aviation expert yesterday who
Speaker 3: runs a company that still advises planes flying into Russia.
Speaker 3: He says, there's no way that it would have been
Speaker 3: a bird strike that caused this crash. That the damage
Speaker 3: that is visible on the fuselage, you know the pictures
Speaker 3: we've seen that they just don't line up with a
Speaker 3: bird strike. So his theory is also that it would
Speaker 3: have been hit by a Russian anti aircraft system, Russian
Speaker 3: air defenses. But again we just don't know at this point.
Speaker 2: I mean, there must have been in some unimaginable terror
Speaker 2: aboard that airplane. But we also have the rare occasion
Speaker 2: where a large plane has gone down and there are survivors.
Speaker 2: Have we heard anything from the folks who lived.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really remarkable. So you know, it's and I
Speaker 3: think that's also what makes this plane crash so unique.
Speaker 3: We so rarely see survivors. But yeah, the plane was
Speaker 3: able to land or crashed in Kazakhstan. It split apart
Speaker 3: in two Dozens of people were killed, but there were
Speaker 3: also dozens of survivors. Some were pulled from the wreckage,
Speaker 3: but you could see in the video that some are
Speaker 3: just able to walk away from the wreckage. They appear
Speaker 3: to be unharmed, we know in terms of their conditions.
Speaker 3: So there were Russian citizens, There were various citizens. They
Speaker 3: have now been for the most part flown of the
Speaker 3: Russians taken back to Russia, of the Azeri staking back
Speaker 3: to Azerbaijan. There are still six patients at the regional hospital.
Speaker 3: So those are people who are in critical condition, who
Speaker 3: probably aren't doing well enough to be taken home, But
Speaker 3: the rest of them have been flown home.
Speaker 2: Do we have any understanding about why this plane might
Speaker 2: have been shot down? I mean, what type of airspace
Speaker 2: was it in? What type of geopolitical conflict may have
Speaker 2: wandered into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the theory that some of these experts have
Speaker 3: is that we know the plane took off from bach
Speaker 3: Whu and ouser by John. It was heading to Grosney
Speaker 3: and Shechenya, but it was then diverted, flew over the
Speaker 3: cast and sea and crashed in Kazakhstann. So that in
Speaker 3: and of itself is bizarre, the fact that it deviated
Speaker 3: so far from its original route. The working theory is
Speaker 3: that there was a drone attack, a Ukrainian drone attack
Speaker 3: on Grosney at the same time as the plane was
Speaker 3: in the air. So this aviation expert, I suppose to,
Speaker 3: says that that's the case. We don't have that confirmed.
Speaker 3: The Ukrainians are not confirming that, but we do. You
Speaker 3: know that there had been Ukrainian drone attacks uh in
Speaker 3: that area in recent days. I don't know if it
Speaker 3: was you know, specifically at that same time, on the
Speaker 3: same day. But we know that in recent days Russian
Speaker 3: air defenses had been activated to shoot down those those
Speaker 3: Ukrainian drones. So the theory is that potentially the plane
Speaker 3: was you know, mistaken for a for a for a
Speaker 3: Ukrainian drone, the Russians accidentally, uh, you know, fired off
Speaker 3: their their air defenses. And the question I had was, well,
Speaker 3: you know, you think the aviation expert I was speaking
Speaker 3: with was talking about a surface to air missile being
Speaker 3: to blame here, and so you think missile plane there
Speaker 3: would just have been an explosion in the sky. But
Speaker 3: the way those those missiles often work is that they
Speaker 3: detonate close to the target, not necessarily making impact with
Speaker 3: the target, so that you know, it would have affected
Speaker 3: the plane, damage to the plane, but not necessarily caused
Speaker 3: it to blow up in the air. And that's why
Speaker 3: it was able to still head over the cast and
Speaker 3: seed and over into Kazakstan.
Speaker 2: I mean, we know there's a conflict between Russia and
Speaker 2: Ukraine going on, but there's a couple of other countries
Speaker 2: involved here. I mean, the plane comes from Azerbaijan, it
Speaker 2: goes down in Kazakhstan. What do we know about what
Speaker 2: an incident like this might do to any geopolitical landscapes
Speaker 2: in that part of the world.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, I think Russia is going to have
Speaker 3: a lot of questions to answer. You know, we start,
Speaker 3: we're seeing reports that the Russians are not going to
Speaker 3: be able to kind of touch the black boxes. But
Speaker 3: we also know that Russia has a lot of influence
Speaker 3: in Kazakhstan, and you know, it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 3: how all of this kind of impacts Russia's relationship with Kazakhstan,
Speaker 3: with Azerbaijan. I think the other big question is whether
Speaker 3: airlines continue to fly to these parts. You know, there
Speaker 3: are very few airlines that still international airlines that still
Speaker 3: fly to Russia. Yesterday we were getting worried that the
Speaker 3: Israelis so Elao has still been flying to Moscow throughout
Speaker 3: the Russia Ukraine War, and they have now suspended their
Speaker 3: flights to Russia. They cite developments in rushing the airspace.
Speaker 3: So we could be seeing more of that. We could
Speaker 3: be seeing more companies deciding it's just not safe to
Speaker 3: travel to Russia anymore.
Speaker 2: And as de La Kata is ABC News Foreign Desk
Speaker 2: correspondent and as thank you so much for being with
Speaker 2: us this morning. Thank you, and it is now five
Speaker 2: twelve in the morning here on your wake up call.
Speaker 2: I'm Michael Monks filling in for Amy King, so glad
Speaker 2: that you are with us today. Want to let you
Speaker 2: know larger than usual waves expected to slam the La
Speaker 2: County beaches again today and through the weekend. This was
Speaker 2: prompted warnings for people to use caution when wading into
Speaker 2: ocean waters do heed those warnings. The National Weather Service
Speaker 2: has issued a beach hazard statement warning of potentially treacherous
Speaker 2: conditions through Sunday afternoon all along the coast. They say
Speaker 2: a surf of four to six feet is expected, mostly
Speaker 2: on west facing beaches, and this could lead to what
Speaker 2: they call dangerous rip currents and breaking waves. There is
Speaker 2: an increased risk of ocean drowning. Rip currents can pull
Speaker 2: swimmers and surfers out to sea, and waves can wash
Speaker 2: people off beaches and rocks and capsize small boats near
Speaker 2: the shore. So forecasters have urged people to just stay
Speaker 2: out of the water or stay near the staffed lifeguard towers.
Speaker 2: They also urge people to stay away from rock jetties.
Speaker 2: We've also got another ban on indoor and outdoor wood
Speaker 2: burning common themes all week long. This is in place
Speaker 2: today and much of the Southland because of a forecast
Speaker 2: of high air pollution in the area. The residential woodburning
Speaker 2: ban will be in effect until at least eleven fifty
Speaker 2: nine tonight. We all know the drill by now, and
Speaker 2: that's for just about everyone in the South coast air basin,
Speaker 2: including the non desert portions of La Riverside and San
Speaker 2: Bernito Counties, San Bernardino Counties, and all of Orange County.
Speaker 2: Authorities are working to determine any potential connection to two
Speaker 2: men who went missing while fishing in rough surf off
Speaker 2: the shoreline, and the discovery of a limb and a
Speaker 2: severed leg that walks to shore on the Palace vera
Speaker 2: day's Estates coast. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner will
Speaker 2: investigate the remains to assess their possible connection to the
Speaker 2: missing voters. A new poll shows most Americans believe health
Speaker 2: insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing
Speaker 2: of United Healthcare CEO. The new poll from NRC at
Speaker 2: the University of Chicago finds that about eight in ten
Speaker 2: Americans say that the person who committed the killing has
Speaker 2: a great deal or a moderate amount of responsibility for
Speaker 2: the December fourth shooting of Brian Thompson, but others see differently.
Speaker 2: It looks like seven to ten, say, coverage denials or
Speaker 2: health insurance profits also bear at least a moderate amount
Speaker 2: of responsibility for Thompson's death. Luigi Mangoni is the suspect
Speaker 2: in that shooting, and he is seen as a heroic
Speaker 2: figure by some people who responded to that poll. Now,
Speaker 2: some people often mistake Tahoe as the snowiest place in California. However,
Speaker 2: according to a report I've read this morning, the Golden
Speaker 2: State's snowiest spot is just south of Lassen Peak in
Speaker 2: Shasta County, specifically around Bumpus Mountain. It averages about forty
Speaker 2: five feet of snow each year. The only other nearby
Speaker 2: places that get close to that are also around last
Speaker 2: And Peak, with about forty feet or more. That's according
Speaker 2: to an analysis of snowfall data from the National Weather Service.
Speaker 2: Here in southern California, you know, we don't get a
Speaker 2: whole lot of snow. We do in some places. So
Speaker 2: what do you think is the snowiest spot in southern California? Well,
Speaker 2: according to this report, it's in the San Bernardino National
Speaker 2: Forest around poop Out Hill with just under nine feet
Speaker 2: of snow coming up at the top of the hour
Speaker 2: around six oh five. We've got Handle on the news.
Speaker 2: Bill Handle and Company still off this week, but we've
Speaker 2: got your friend Wayne Resnick filling in. I'll be there
Speaker 2: with them and hope you will join us as well.
Speaker 2: Are you someone who relies on reviews when you're thinking
Speaker 2: about buying something online? Five stars can have a lot
Speaker 2: of pull, But how much do we know about these
Speaker 2: online strangers sharing their feelings about that washing machine or
Speaker 2: treadmill or three quarter zip. There are fake reviews all
Speaker 2: over and advertisers hype them anyway, So how are we
Speaker 2: supposed to know what is real and what isn't? There
Speaker 2: are reportedly ways. ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan joins US
Speaker 2: Live Now from Dallas. Good morning to you, Jim.
Speaker 4: First of miny, let's look at the problem. How pervasive
Speaker 4: is it these fake reviews? It's pretty pervasive. There's a
Speaker 4: company called the Transparency Company which looks over reviews to
Speaker 4: see which ones might be legitimate, which ones might not be.
Speaker 4: That analyze seventy three million reviews across three different sectors
Speaker 4: legal services, medical services, home services, and found that fourteen
Speaker 4: percent of the reviews were probably fake. That is, somebody
Speaker 4: sat down and for a profit, wrote a review for
Speaker 4: something and then tossed it out there, it goes into
Speaker 4: a clearinghouse. Then retailers can purchase that and put it
Speaker 4: up with their product. And the company found also found
Speaker 4: that of those seventy three million reviews, two point three
Speaker 4: million were probably written partly or entirely by AI. So
Speaker 4: you know, you've got these two different things competing out here.
Speaker 4: And by the way, the Federal Trade Commission issued a
Speaker 4: rule in August banning the sale or purchase of online
Speaker 4: reviews and requiring that the reviews be honest and about
Speaker 4: the particular product that they're supposed to be about.
Speaker 2: So we've got the possibility of fake reviews written by
Speaker 2: fake people.
Speaker 4: And sometimes no people. Wow, they're written by technology.
Speaker 2: Now what do we know about the advertisers and their
Speaker 2: knowledge about when they're hyping themselves by using this bed
Speaker 2: of lies.
Speaker 4: Well, they know they're doing it, you know, and that's
Speaker 4: and they're sort of hoping that they don't get caught
Speaker 4: because again, the FTC says you're not supposed to be
Speaker 4: doing this, and there are fines, there are sanctions for
Speaker 4: violations like this, and consumers can report suspected fake reviews
Speaker 4: to the FCC through their website. So you know, it's
Speaker 4: primarily smaller companies. Larger companies. Amazon doesn't want to get
Speaker 4: caught doing this, and so I think it has a
Speaker 4: room full of people making sure that the reviews for
Speaker 4: the products from the third party vendors are accurate. But
Speaker 4: a small company, one with just a few employees, is
Speaker 4: probably going to rely more heavily on reviews that it
Speaker 4: purchases to kind of beef up its website, its purchases,
Speaker 4: or its online presence.
Speaker 2: With regulators getting involved like this, that seems to suggest
Speaker 2: that reviews are important. I mean, what do we know
Speaker 2: about consumer reliance on reviews and influencing a purchase.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, personally, I know people who won't buy
Speaker 4: a product if it has bad reviews online or no reviews,
Speaker 4: and so whatever it is they're looking at buying, they're
Speaker 4: going to dive into those reviews. The smart consumer is
Speaker 4: going to dig down though, if the product you're looking
Speaker 4: at has six hundred reviews and the first few are
Speaker 4: just glowing reviews five stars, five stars, and talking about
Speaker 4: how great this thing is. Dig down a bit see
Speaker 4: about the not so positive reviews, and then dig deeper
Speaker 4: to see if down at number three hundred, four hundred,
Speaker 4: are those reviews actually about the product that's pictured at
Speaker 4: the top of that listing. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's
Speaker 4: completely random and has nothing at all to do with
Speaker 4: that particular product, but it's boosted the number of reviews.
Speaker 2: So are there any like strange language uses that you
Speaker 2: might be able to pick up on?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And in the same way that some product descriptions
Speaker 4: are sort of strangely worded and really not very you know,
Speaker 4: they don't seem to be written by an English speaker
Speaker 4: at all. But at the same time, so let's say
Speaker 4: you go online and you want to buy a vacuum cleaner. Okay,
Speaker 4: so you look at reviews for that particular vacuum and
Speaker 4: the review says, I love this product, this product is
Speaker 4: the best product I've ever purchased, and I'd buy this
Speaker 4: product again. I recommend this product. You know, it has
Speaker 4: nothing at all to do with vacuum cleaners. That was
Speaker 4: probably written by a person who's writing reviews randomly and
Speaker 4: getting paid for that. On the other hand, if the
Speaker 4: review says this hoover upright vacuum cleaner with the attachments
Speaker 4: that you know, allow it to get into the corners,
Speaker 4: and it's serial number fourteen three three one, model number
Speaker 4: six LG.
Speaker 5: I love this.
Speaker 4: You know that was probably written by Ai right, so
Speaker 4: somewhere in the middle, and those two extremes either very
Speaker 4: very vague or extremely painfully specific, it's probably not a
Speaker 4: real review that some consumer out there having tried the
Speaker 4: product posted.
Speaker 2: ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan, joining us live from Dallas,
Speaker 2: five star report. Jim would recommend thank you very much,
Speaker 2: talk to you again soon see you. I'm wondering how
Speaker 2: foggy your brain is right now the colder months of December.
Speaker 2: You know how it brings darkness more quickly, nights feel longer,
Speaker 2: and then we've got all these obligations around family stuff
Speaker 2: and shopping and parties, and maybe we're traveling, maybe we're
Speaker 2: eating too much junk. All of that adds up to
Speaker 2: a little bit of weirdness in your head, especially when
Speaker 2: your schedule has disrupted the way that it is. So
Speaker 2: some tips that I found online as you cope during
Speaker 2: this ongoing two week period where Christmas is landed midweek,
Speaker 2: New Year will land midweek. One of the recommition recommendations
Speaker 2: is to exercise every day. You know that's a regular
Speaker 2: recommendation for life in general, but exercising thirty to forty
Speaker 2: minutes even during these weird periods or when you know
Speaker 2: you're going to have some weird meals, it can boost
Speaker 2: your energy and your mental clarity. You should also eat
Speaker 2: wisely when you can choose protein. This this recommendation says,
Speaker 2: take some vitamins, cut back on the sugar, so maybe
Speaker 2: save room for just one crazy meal during the holidays. Also,
Speaker 2: make sure you're drinking good stuff like water. Reduce the
Speaker 2: alcohol intake, caffeine consumption. I've already violated that this morning.
Speaker 2: It's five thirty in the morning, I'm three cups in.
Speaker 2: And there are some rehydrating alternatives that have been recommended,
Speaker 2: like coconut water, even soup. They want you to aim
Speaker 2: for one liter of water per twenty kilograms of body
Speaker 2: weight every day. And this is the most interesting part
Speaker 2: that I see as a recommendation. Start your mornings with
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes of sunshine to rejuvenate your mind, mind and
Speaker 2: your body now. I don't know how we're supposed to
Speaker 2: do that when it's so dark as it is this
Speaker 2: time of year. So let me and the KFI team
Speaker 2: be your sun this morning, and thank you for starting
Speaker 2: your day with us. What does your house look like
Speaker 2: right now? Do you want to change it? Maybe we
Speaker 2: all have those thoughts right do you scrow Zillow looking
Speaker 2: for a dream home or maybe picking up some ideas?
Speaker 2: Are there some trends that you like, some that you're
Speaker 2: tired of? With the new year on the horizon and
Speaker 2: getting closer every hour, I know those thoughts are probably intensifying.
Speaker 2: So what colors, what design elements, what pieces of furniture
Speaker 2: do we need to have? We've got to scoop on
Speaker 2: what's hot and what's not. In twenty twenty five with
Speaker 2: our friend Dean Sharp, the House Whisper Dean, good morning
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 5: Good morning Michael. How you doing, Budd.
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. It's great to have you on as
Speaker 2: we end this week. And it's a great topic because
Speaker 2: I'm sure the only thing more polarizing than our politics
Speaker 2: is what we're supposed to use in our house for decor.
Speaker 2: What's the biggest thing we're gonna say goodbye it. Do
Speaker 2: you think in this upcoming year?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, I hope. I hope the biggest thing. Okay, this
Speaker 5: is going to sound a little anti climactic, but I
Speaker 5: hope the biggest thing that we say goodbye to is trends.
Speaker 5: I am not a huge you know, here's the thing
Speaker 5: in the design world. It's a big kind of feather
Speaker 5: your own nest thing that happens at the end of
Speaker 5: every year in which a lot of influencers and home
Speaker 5: designers and so called decore experts, you know, they get
Speaker 5: on the can and they tell everybody, Hey, this is
Speaker 5: what is you need to have in your home this year.
Speaker 5: I react against that quite a bit. And the reason is,
Speaker 5: you know, home design is nowhere close to kind of
Speaker 5: fashion design. It's not like, you know, after you've spent
Speaker 5: fifty sixty seventy thousand dollars on a remodel for your
Speaker 5: home home that you want to hear somebody like me
Speaker 5: come along and say, oh, that was so twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: It's time to change it all. You know, we're not
Speaker 5: throwing out an old blouse here. Okay, this is something
Speaker 5: that I hope that people have spent a lot of time,
Speaker 5: and I know they've spent a lot of money investing
Speaker 5: in their homes. So trends and things that are trending.
Speaker 5: Of course, things are always trending, but the idea of
Speaker 5: following them around or being led around by the nose
Speaker 5: by trends when it comes to home decor, I'm not there.
Speaker 5: I'm really not there because I live in the real world.
Speaker 5: We've got real world clients, and our listeners want to
Speaker 5: have their money go as far as possible. So one
Speaker 5: thing I will tell you this year as an encouragement
Speaker 5: for everybody is just forget about the whole idea that, oh,
Speaker 5: is my white kitchen out this year or not?
Speaker 2: Who cares.
Speaker 5: It's a ninety thousand dollars kitchen. It's gorgeous. Let's hang
Speaker 5: on to it for as long as possible.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And when you talk about timeless design principle, so
Speaker 2: that we can't say, hey, that's so twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: it's so any year, what does it mean? What are
Speaker 2: some key pieces of a timeless design?
Speaker 5: A timeless design is a design that has been thought
Speaker 5: through well number one. Number two it is, you know,
Speaker 5: and I'm a custom home designer. So another facet of
Speaker 5: a timeless design is one that has considered every possibility
Speaker 5: of your own story as a homeowner, that this works
Speaker 5: with you, that it's not just a gimmick or a
Speaker 5: thing or a fad or whatever, but this is really
Speaker 5: an expression of who you are and how you live.
Speaker 5: And then a timeless design is one that's executed with
Speaker 5: craftsmanship and with elegance, and it literally every design concept
Speaker 5: out there apart from ultra contemporary, meaning just like literally
Speaker 5: the thing that we're doing right now today, it's all
Speaker 5: out of date technically speaking, because everything is in the past.
Speaker 5: So whether it's Spanish revival that you want, whether it's
Speaker 5: you know, vintage farmhouse that you love, whether it's mid
Speaker 5: century Modern that you love, it's all past.
Speaker 2: So is it in?
Speaker 5: Is it hip right now? Well, technically know. But timeless
Speaker 5: means once it's done. And that's the cool thing about
Speaker 5: living in this age right now. I would say one
Speaker 5: of the things that's most unique about twenty first century
Speaker 5: design is that right now, if you do it well,
Speaker 5: it's in and it's cool.
Speaker 2: Period.
Speaker 5: Everything is just about have we pulled it off well?
Speaker 5: And that's true in the fashion world as well. If
Speaker 5: you want to you know, go retro with some bell
Speaker 5: bottom jeans from the seventies. Hey, if you pull it off, well,
Speaker 5: everybody's cool with it. Right. If you want to look
Speaker 5: mad Men nineteen early nineteen sixties, thin tie and sports,
Speaker 5: if you can pull that off, well, it's totally cool.
Speaker 5: Whatever we do, you pull it off well, and you
Speaker 5: know what, it is timeless, it's going to last.
Speaker 1: And so I guess what.
Speaker 2: I'm picking up from you today is when you're thinking
Speaker 2: about the way your space looks, you really should be
Speaker 2: playing to an audience of one, right, yourself.
Speaker 5: Exactly, exactly, an audience of one. And as long as
Speaker 5: that audience is is is very critical of things. In
Speaker 5: other words, if you really really dig into your own head,
Speaker 5: your own heart, and your own life so that your
Speaker 5: story ends up playing on that screen as it were,
Speaker 5: then you know what, it's gonna be a great movie.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a great movie.
Speaker 2: We're talking with Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer right here
Speaker 2: on wake Up Call on AM six forty k f. I.
Speaker 2: I know that you are pointing towards bringing nature into
Speaker 2: the house, or maybe bringing the house out into nature
Speaker 2: this year. What does that mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah, now here is something that you're gonna hear a
Speaker 5: lot of designers say is a trend. It's not, but
Speaker 5: I'm gonna name it for you. It's called biophilia. Biophilia
Speaker 5: is going to It's gonna be on the tips of
Speaker 5: a lot of tongues this year in the design world.
Speaker 5: Biophilia literally means the love of nature, and biophilic design
Speaker 5: is about bringing the power of nature inside, bringing outside
Speaker 5: inside as much as possible. That doesn't mean that we're
Speaker 5: planting grass in the living room. What it means, though,
Speaker 5: is that we are opening up vistas of our inside
Speaker 5: spaces so that we can view and or connect with
Speaker 5: the landscape outside. It's not a repeat, it is not
Speaker 5: a trend. It's actually an evolution in architectural thinking that
Speaker 5: is here to stay because it is very, very powerful
Speaker 5: architectural therapy. We are learning more and more every year
Speaker 5: how much the human side, our emotional balance, all of
Speaker 5: these things are connected to the time that we spend
Speaker 5: exposed to nature. Because you know what, after two million
Speaker 5: years of spending most of our time outside, we're realizing
Speaker 5: that the time we spend inside should be as connected
Speaker 5: to it as possible. It's what makes us stable calm
Speaker 5: and energized, and so architecture is moving in this direction
Speaker 5: of biophilia that is opening up that wall so that
Speaker 5: to all of that beautiful landscape just outside is a
Speaker 5: part of the vista. And when we sit, for instance,
Speaker 5: in the family room, that's a great investment in remodeling money.
Speaker 2: Dan, Before we let you get on with your mourning,
Speaker 2: I've just got a generic question about what may be
Speaker 2: a trend. I certainly see it in a lot of
Speaker 2: apartment listings. I see it in a lot of new
Speaker 2: homes that are hitting the market, and I'm wondering how
Speaker 2: much longer we can expect to see this dominant use
Speaker 2: of a color now known as lineal gray.
Speaker 5: Don't expect to see it much longer.
Speaker 2: Has it got a bad reputation? Now?
Speaker 5: You know what, There's nothing wrong with gray, but the
Speaker 5: pendulum swings, especially in color trends and so forever. I mean,
Speaker 5: we're talking about a color palette that for decades was
Speaker 5: dominated with cream colors kind beige on beige on beige,
Speaker 5: and then come the early two thousand, We're like, can
Speaker 5: we just do something other than beige? And so we
Speaker 5: swang to another neutral palette that was cooler away from
Speaker 5: the warm tones into the grays, and when they were
Speaker 5: first being used, you know, with a little bit of restraint,
Speaker 5: gray is a fantastic, fantastic tone to put into a room.
Speaker 5: But before you know it, everybody was going that way again.
Speaker 5: This is an issue I have with trends, and the
Speaker 5: next you know, everything is gray on gray on gray,
Speaker 5: and gray is just not that exciting and everybody has
Speaker 5: now burnt out on it. It's not to say that
Speaker 5: gray can't and shouldn't be part of any good color
Speaker 5: palette for a design space, but yeah, the trend of
Speaker 5: everything based in gray, millennial gray, as it were, that's over.
Speaker 5: That's over.
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for a return to the hunter green of
Speaker 2: my childhood. That would bring back some very nice memories.
Speaker 5: And you know what, hunter green is a bold, moody,
Speaker 5: amazing color and I'd love to see more of it
Speaker 5: in spaces.
Speaker 2: The Dean Sharp is the house whisperer. Dean remind our
Speaker 2: audience where they can hear you and where they can
Speaker 2: find you.
Speaker 5: All right, we're going to be talking all this weekend
Speaker 5: about exactly this. It's my list of predictions and trends.
Speaker 5: Even though I use the word qualifiedly for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: We're going to be Tomorrow morning, Saturday mornings from six
Speaker 5: to eight for you early rise and Sunday morning nine
Speaker 5: to noon.
Speaker 2: Beautiful. Thanks a lot, Dean, talk to you soon, Thanks Michael.
Speaker 2: Two human legs have now washed ashore in Pallas Fair Days,
Speaker 2: near the area where two fishermen have been missing since
Speaker 2: earlier this week. They had set out in the water
Speaker 2: during high surf warnings. The search for them has been
Speaker 2: called off by the US Coast Guard, and investigators are
Speaker 2: now looking into whether the missing fisherman case is connected
Speaker 2: to the human legs. There's a new law going into
Speaker 2: effect in California next week enforcing a practice known as daylighting.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to boost visibility at intersections by prohibiting parking
Speaker 2: within twenty feet of any marked or unmarked crosswalk. The
Speaker 2: law applies to all intersections statewide, regardless of whether a
Speaker 2: red curb or no parking signs are present. So keep
Speaker 2: an eye out for that. That's a big change. And
Speaker 2: did you watch any sports on Wednesday? Which happened to
Speaker 2: be Smith's day. Netflix. In spite of the technical challenges
Speaker 2: that they had throughout the broadcast, they set records as
Speaker 2: the most streamed NFL games in US history, but the
Speaker 2: NBA also held its own on regular old television. The
Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens victory over the Houston Texans on Netflix averaged
Speaker 2: twenty four point three million viewers on Wednesday, and then
Speaker 2: Kansas City's twenty nine to ten win at Pittsburgh averaged
Speaker 2: about twenty four point one million. That's according to early
Speaker 2: viewer figures released by Nielsen just yesterday. Now, the NBA's
Speaker 2: five games slate averaged about five and a quarter million
Speaker 2: viewers per game across ABC, ESPN, and all of those
Speaker 2: various platforms, according to the league and Nielsen. So, folks
Speaker 2: hanging out with family on Christmas and enjoying the old ballgame.
Speaker 2: And we are just minutes away from Handle on the
Speaker 2: news this morning. Bill Handle and company are are still
Speaker 2: on their little holiday break. So Wayne Resnick has end,
Speaker 2: so we'll look forward to that. I'll be there, hope
Speaker 2: you will be there to join us as well. Now
Speaker 2: Christmas is past, and President elect Donald Trump did not
Speaker 2: find under his tree the nation of Canada, or the
Speaker 2: Panama Canal or Greenland, a territory of Denmark. But the
Speaker 2: President elect has four more Christmases ahead at the White House.
Speaker 2: So is he serious about his recent messages about the
Speaker 2: US taking control of these three places. We're joined live
Speaker 2: now by ABC News National correspondent Steven Portnoy in Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. Stephen, thank you so much for being back
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 5: Hey, you bet, what do.
Speaker 2: We know about this? I mean, is the president serious
Speaker 2: about the state of Canada, the United States Canal and
Speaker 2: possibly turning Greenland into red, white and Blueland. Huh?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: But what we see is several are several posts by
Speaker 6: the President elect and public comments he's made that raised
Speaker 6: these issues, and it's now prompted the second rebuke this
Speaker 6: week from the Panamanian president, who describes the incoming American
Speaker 6: president's claims is nonsense. This idea that Chinese soldiers are
Speaker 6: operating the Panama Canal. Trump posted that on Christmas Day,
Speaker 6: and the Panamanian president insists there isn't a single Chinese
Speaker 6: soldier in the canal, So leave that on the table.
Speaker 6: There's a generalized concern expressed by the Trump administration that
Speaker 6: the Chinese have asserted their influence all over the developing world,
Speaker 6: investing in physical infrastructure in other countries to curry favor
Speaker 6: with those countries and bolster their international power.
Speaker 5: That's all true.
Speaker 6: When it comes to Panama. There are a couple of
Speaker 6: ports that are apparently under the control or ownership of
Speaker 6: Hong Kong based companies or a company. And there's also
Speaker 6: the expressed concern by Donald Trump that American shippers are
Speaker 6: being ripped off at the Panama Canal. The Panamanians deny that.
Speaker 6: They say that the rates are posted and only variable
Speaker 6: based on demand, which, of course market forces the control.
Speaker 6: That's the Panama issue. Trump has also been maligning the
Speaker 6: Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, calling him a governor of
Speaker 6: what would be America's fifty first state. America is not
Speaker 6: about to annex or invade Canada. There's certainly no support
Speaker 6: for that in the Congress. Nevertheless, what is Trump getting
Speaker 6: at and what is his aim? Well, today we've reported
Speaker 6: that a couple of members of Justin Trudeau's government are
Speaker 6: down at mar A Lago, his Foreign and Public Safety ministers,
Speaker 6: to talk about Trump's concerns about immigration and trade. So
Speaker 6: maybe there's some sort of agreement to be worked out.
Speaker 6: There's Trump's threatened to upend the US MCA agreement that
Speaker 6: he struck, and he's threatened to impose twenty five percent
Speaker 6: tarffs unless whatever he wants with respect to immigration and
Speaker 6: trade policy gets put into place. Then there's the idea
Speaker 6: of Greenland. Donald Trump would not be the first American
Speaker 6: president to indicate his desire to have the United States
Speaker 6: take control of that massive land mass. The island is,
Speaker 6: of course controlled by Denmark, and it has about fifty
Speaker 6: thousand residents. There's no particular desire on their part as
Speaker 6: far as I know, to become Americans, and the Danes
Speaker 6: say it's not for sale. But Donald Trump is now
Speaker 6: pointing to the modern interest that the US has not
Speaker 6: in geography, but in geology. There are rare earth minerals
Speaker 6: under the tetra. Who controls them and who profits from
Speaker 6: them will be of interest in the global struggles to come.
Speaker 2: You mentioned that there are Canadian officials in mar A Lago,
Speaker 2: and Canada is, you know, our brother lot of ways,
Speaker 2: I guess geopolitically, I mean, they're literally our neighbor, and
Speaker 2: they're an important neighbor. So what is this type of
Speaker 2: commentary doing to the relationship. Have there been any remarks
Speaker 2: in that respect.
Speaker 6: Well, look, I mean anytime Donald Trump says anything about anyone,
Speaker 6: there are questions about the impact. And he has said
Speaker 6: some not so nice things, if you will, about Canada.
Speaker 6: I don't know what that means. I don't know what
Speaker 6: impact it'll have, but clearly the Canadians are of a
Speaker 6: mind to address it. That's why they've sent their two
Speaker 6: top ministers down to Florida today to meet with the
Speaker 6: president elect's team. It's why Justin Trudeau himself has gone
Speaker 6: tomorrow Lago to meet with Trump. You know, sometimes Donald
Speaker 6: Trump says a lot of things and then can turn
Speaker 6: around and say some very nice things if he gets
Speaker 6: what's what.
Speaker 2: He wants Stephen, before you run. These are of course
Speaker 2: interesting topics, comparatively low stakes to just talk about in
Speaker 2: global politics. But are we learning anything new about Trump's
Speaker 2: foreign policy plans based on these conversations.
Speaker 6: I think every time Donald Trump says something we haven't
Speaker 6: heard before, we learned something new. What exactly is at
Speaker 6: the bottom of it, I think is still unclear, but
Speaker 6: it speaks to generalized grievances that the president elect has
Speaker 6: what exactly he's after more importantly, what exactly he can achieve,
Speaker 6: only time will tell.
Speaker 2: ABC News National correspondent Stephen Portnoy live in Washington, d
Speaker 2: C with us this morning. Stephen thinks so much and
Speaker 2: this is your wake up call here on KFI Am
Speaker 2: six forty on Michael Monks filling in for Amy King.
Speaker 2: We told you about this story yesterday where an elderly
Speaker 2: man had wandered away from his home in Malibu. He
Speaker 2: had dementia and he was missing for about three hours.
Speaker 2: So when the Sheriff's department got involved, they put a
Speaker 2: drone in the air and they found him within about
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. He was found shivering and cold in the brush.
Speaker 2: He was still clutching a TV remote. So a pretty
Speaker 2: scary situation and not something that's uncommon for folks who
Speaker 2: have older loved ones in their lives. It's a concern,
Speaker 2: but the Malibu Lost Hills Sheriff's Department is conducting a
Speaker 2: live demo today of the unmanned aerial system with thermal
Speaker 2: imaging that was recently used to rescue that seventy eight
Speaker 2: year old man in Malibu. They say Deputies Paraza and
Speaker 2: Ferrell deployed this piece of equipment with the thermal imaging
Speaker 2: camera and it helped locate this man within minutes. The
Speaker 2: drone technology pinpointed this man's location and guided the searchers there.
Speaker 2: So the search and rescue personnel who made it to
Speaker 2: the scene will conduct a demo of how this technology work.
Speaker 2: They're going to do that this morning. If you have
Speaker 2: any curiosity about that eleven o'clock at the Malibu Lost
Speaker 2: Hills Sheriff Station at two seven zero five zero Agore
Speaker 2: Road in Calabasas, so learn all about how that man
Speaker 2: was found. There's a sad story involving a teenaged actor
Speaker 2: that you might recognize from various movies. Sixteen year old
Speaker 2: actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of
Speaker 2: a moving vehicle in Alabama. The Jefferson County Corners office
Speaker 2: there says Meek was hurt on December nineteenth while on
Speaker 2: a street in Vestavia Hills, that's a suburb of Birmingham,
Speaker 2: and he died two days later. They have not issued
Speaker 2: any further statements about that incident. Meek made his on
Speaker 2: screen debut in twenty fourteen in the film The Santa Con.
Speaker 2: He's also been seen in Mcgiver. He was probably best
Speaker 2: known for his role in the twenty seventeen film Baby Driver.
Speaker 2: That's where he played a younger version of Ansel Elgord's
Speaker 2: titular character. A pizza deliverer in Florida has been charged
Speaker 2: with pushing her way into a motel room and a
Speaker 2: pregnant woman after dispute over a tip. The Aciola County
Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office says Brianna Alvelo has been charged with stabbing
Speaker 2: a woman in her motel room in Kasimi, Florida, a
Speaker 2: short time after delivering a pizza tour on Sunday. The
Speaker 2: woman gave Alvelo fifty dollars on a thirty three dollars
Speaker 2: and ten cent bill, expecting change. When Alvelo started walking away,
Speaker 2: the woman asked for her money back, and Alvelo told
Speaker 2: her they don't make change. The woman got a smaller
Speaker 2: dollar bill from her boyfriend, and Alvelo's tip ended up
Speaker 2: being two bucks. And speaking of two bucks, that's how
Speaker 2: much you can spend on a Mega Million's ticket today,
Speaker 2: Americans still dreaming of a really big Christmas present can
Speaker 2: keep it alive during tonight's Mega Millions drawing. The estimated
Speaker 2: jackpot is worth one point one five billion dollars. It
Speaker 2: could be the fifth largest in Mega Million's history. It
Speaker 2: is estimated to be the ninth largest lottery jackpot drawing
Speaker 2: in American history. So again, Mega Million's tickets cost two
Speaker 2: bucks apiece. The odds are steep, but the tickets are cheap.
Speaker 2: The odds in fact of winning this jackpot are one
Speaker 2: in three hundred two million, five hundred seventy five thousand,
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty and the odds of winning any
Speaker 2: prize in the Megamillion's drawing are one in twenty four.
Speaker 2: So you could even get your money back for playing.
Speaker 2: That's according to lottery officials. Good luck, two bucks, get
Speaker 2: yourself a quick pick, and maybe wake up a billionaire tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's not a bad way to finish twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: or to begin twenty twenty five. And this is k
Speaker 2: FI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County Southland Weather
Speaker 2: from KFI. We've got partly cloudy skies this morning, and
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you it's only gonna get cloudier as
Speaker 2: the day goes on. The warm spot in the region
Speaker 2: is in the San Fernando Valley with a higher round
Speaker 2: seventy today, Metro La, the Beaches, the San Gabriel Valley,
Speaker 2: hies around the mid sixties. Right now, it's forty eight
Speaker 2: in Lahabra, fifty three in Hawthorn, fifty two in Fountain Valley,
Speaker 2: and fifty in Culver City. We lead local live from
Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Our producer Michelle Cube,
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Speaker 2: your wake up Call. I'm Michael Monks. Amy King is
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