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Speaker 2: It's time for your morning wake up.
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Speaker 2: Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1: It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up
Speaker 1: call for Monday, December tewod. I'm Amy King. We're live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the Iheat Radio App. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: getting your day started with us today. Hope you had
Speaker 1: a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. So we're starting with with Charlie
Speaker 1: Brown because Christmas is here where you know. It's fair game.
Speaker 1: Now we've passed. There's no holidays left until the big one.
Speaker 1: I didn't get nearly as much done as I had planned.
Speaker 1: I had Friday off, and so I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to get everything decorated.
Speaker 7: I'm going to get my Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: I got the decorations out, I got some of them up,
Speaker 1: but I didn't get the tree.
Speaker 7: But I'll do that this week. And also, if you are.
Speaker 1: Doing your shopping, five fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and
Speaker 1: Christmas this year then last, not to put any pressure
Speaker 1: on you. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. President
Speaker 1: Biden has pardoned his son Hunter. He said in a
Speaker 1: statement yesterday that no reasonable person who looked at the
Speaker 1: facts in his cases can reach a conclusion that Hunter
Speaker 1: wasn't singled out only because he is the President's son.
Speaker 1: The pardon covers both his conviction on charges and federal
Speaker 1: tax evasion charges. We're going to be talking more with
Speaker 1: Karen Travers about that to find out what else it covers.
Speaker 7: That's coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: A man has been killed in an officer involved shooting
Speaker 1: in Santa Anna. The man, in his early thirties was
Speaker 1: shot by two officers last night. Police say the man
Speaker 1: appeared to be holding a loaded rifle, but it turned
Speaker 1: out to be a fake. It's not clear what led
Speaker 1: to the shooting. People filled their plates and their shopping
Speaker 1: carts over the Thanksgiving weekend Black Friday, online shopping has
Speaker 1: set a new record high of ten point eight billion
Speaker 1: dollars in sales. Adobe Analytics says that's more than double
Speaker 1: what online consumers spent in twenty seventeen, and it 'tis
Speaker 1: the season for holiday scammers. ABC's Jim Riyan's going to
Speaker 1: let us know how to protect your money from Christmas grenches.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at five twenty. How your money can
Speaker 1: go five times further in taking care of dogs and
Speaker 1: cats at Pasadena Humane as they get ready for their
Speaker 1: forever homes. We'll be talking with Kevin McManus from Pasadena
Speaker 1: Humane at five fifty. Also, I tried a new side
Speaker 1: dish for Thanksgiving. It's up on Instagram at Amy K.
Speaker 1: King if you want to take a look at it.
Speaker 1: It looked good, but Cono will attest to the fact
Speaker 1: that it didn't taste so great, right.
Speaker 2: Kono you You tried very.
Speaker 1: Hard because I'm always looking for new dishes for the
Speaker 1: holidays and stuff. So we tried this one and it
Speaker 1: didn't really turn out. But I'm not a quitter, so
Speaker 1: I tweaked it and we're gonna try it again. That's
Speaker 1: coming up in just a couple of minutes. Oh. Also,
Speaker 1: I got to carve the Thanksgiving turkey this year. It
Speaker 1: didn't go quite as planned. I'll tell you what happened.
Speaker 1: But let's get started with some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. President
Speaker 1: Biden has pardoned his son Hunter, who was convicted in
Speaker 1: Maryland of federal gun charges and was due to be
Speaker 1: sentenced this month. The younger Biden had also pleaded guilty
Speaker 1: to tax evasion in California. ABC's Karen Travers's The pardon
Speaker 1: was announced last night, despite the White House having repeated
Speaker 1: said the President had no intentions of doing it.
Speaker 3: President Biden has not spoken about his son Hunter's legal issues,
Speaker 3: but in his statement Sunday night, he says it was
Speaker 3: quote clear that Hunter was treated differently by federal prosecutors.
Speaker 1: In June, President Biden said he would abide by the
Speaker 1: jury's decision in Hunter's felony gun trial. The LAPD says
Speaker 1: a woman who hasn't been seen since she missed her
Speaker 1: connecting flight at LAX November eighth, intentionally missed the flight.
Speaker 1: Her family says her phone last pinged at LAX on
Speaker 1: November eleventh. She was supposed to be headed back east.
Speaker 1: Hanna Kobayashi's father was in town. He jumped off a
Speaker 1: parking structure and died last week near the airport.
Speaker 7: Hannah Kobias she is still missing.
Speaker 1: A brush fire that burned nearly three hundred acres near
Speaker 1: Fontana has been surrounded. The fire started Thursday afternoon and
Speaker 1: was pushed into Riverside County by strong winds that led
Speaker 1: to an evacuation warning for parts of Harrupa Valley. The
Speaker 1: evacuation warning was lifted shortly after noon Friday. The fire
Speaker 1: department had the fire one hundred percent surrounded as of
Speaker 1: la last night. Highway three point thirty into San Bernardino
Speaker 1: into the Mountains has reopened. It was closed in September
Speaker 1: because of damage from the wildfire that burned nearly forty
Speaker 1: four thousand acres. The road offers a shorter route to
Speaker 1: Running Springs and Big Bear. Cal Trans has nearly completed
Speaker 1: phase one of a ten million dollar emergency project to
Speaker 1: repair the roadway, with phase two to set set to
Speaker 1: begin on Wednesday. Did you have a Turkey coma this year?
Speaker 1: We were talking about whether that whole trip to Fan
Speaker 1: thing is real, because you actually eat so little turkey.
Speaker 1: But I think it was because I got home and
Speaker 1: pretty much just passed out after Thanksgiving, So maybe it's real.
Speaker 7: Who knows.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh, before we delve into the new cast role,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you about my turkey carving experience. So
Speaker 1: we had a small gathering, there were like five of us,
Speaker 1: and instead of cooking the turkey on our own this year,
Speaker 1: we ordered out.
Speaker 7: And this bird was beautiful. It came on a platter.
Speaker 1: It was perfectly gold and brown, and its little legs
Speaker 1: were sticking up in the air, and it had grapes
Speaker 1: and it was you know, I mean, it looked beautiful.
Speaker 7: And so.
Speaker 1: We were trying to decide who was gonna carve it,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, I'll carve it because I took
Speaker 1: Martha Stewart one oh one and she I have this
Speaker 1: magazine from like twenty years ago that has how to
Speaker 1: carve the turkey, get it off the bird, and then
Speaker 1: you serve it on this platter and it's all arranged
Speaker 1: and it looks beautiful like everything that Martha Stewart does.
Speaker 7: So we went to do that and I'm like, here,
Speaker 7: I'll do it.
Speaker 1: So we get the big knife out and everybody standing around,
Speaker 1: and I start to try to carve the bird, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, is this an organic turkey or something.
Speaker 7: There's like no breast.
Speaker 1: It was just like something was off and I couldn't
Speaker 1: figure it out. So I'm trying to carve it and
Speaker 1: I'm getting like little chunks of meat and the legs
Speaker 1: weren't coming out right, and I was like, what is
Speaker 1: wrong with this bird? So after a few minutes, I went,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it's upside down. It was the breast was
Speaker 1: on the bottom. So remember we were talking last week
Speaker 1: and Neil Savader said, no, no, don't, don't could get
Speaker 1: breastside down.
Speaker 7: You don't really need to, but it was.
Speaker 1: And so once we flipped it upright, then I was
Speaker 1: able to carve it and it turned out beautiful and
Speaker 1: it was delicious. And I will actually beg to differ
Speaker 1: with Neil on this because it was very, very very moist.
Speaker 1: It was delicious. So I started out looking kind of
Speaker 1: stupid because I'm like, I could carve the diurky and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, where's the breast? But it all worked
Speaker 1: out great and it tastes good. Speaking of tasting good,
Speaker 1: as you know, we tried the recipe that I found
Speaker 1: on Instagram. It's a miracle whip, jello, apple sauce, cranberry surprise.
Speaker 1: And we tried it on Thanksgiving morning to see if
Speaker 1: maybe this was going to be a new tradition. And
Speaker 1: ConA and I were the only ones here and uh, ConA,
Speaker 1: what what was your reaction to what we what we made? E?
Speaker 2: It was? Uh, it was tart. It was quite tart. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it had a was it the mirror had? I
Speaker 2: love miracle whip. That's just why it's odd because I
Speaker 2: thought it would be good and it was not.
Speaker 7: It was not. It was not. It looked good.
Speaker 1: It came out of its little mold and again it's
Speaker 1: on Instagram at am Ka King if you want to
Speaker 1: take a look at it. But it didn't taste good.
Speaker 1: So then we said we gotta try again. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm not giving up on this recipe because there were
Speaker 1: some good parts to it, like the apple sauce in
Speaker 1: it actually was kind of tasty. The cranberries were kind
Speaker 1: of good. So here's what I did. I took out
Speaker 1: the miracle whip and I put in cool whip, so
Speaker 1: it's whipped cream. So time for a new taste test,
Speaker 1: and we have Oscar in here this morning. He's gonna
Speaker 1: taste it. I'm gonna taste it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very nervous.
Speaker 1: Don't be nervous. Okay, here we go. I cut it
Speaker 1: up and it's actually holding its form better too. It's
Speaker 1: not collapsing like it did on Thursday.
Speaker 7: Dumb.
Speaker 2: Now that I can do see, it's much better. Right, Okay,
Speaker 2: it is way better.
Speaker 1: So we'll put the recipe on it, we'll post it
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Oscar, you're not trying yours. You did it,
Speaker 1: you liked it. Okay, So the difference was again it's
Speaker 1: strawberry jello, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, and whip cool whip
Speaker 1: instead of miracle whip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one. This one's delicious.
Speaker 7: Really, so like you would eat this at Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's going in to see cons think the
Speaker 2: apple and the jello or not overpowering, But I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's a very delicious treat right now.
Speaker 7: It doesn't have that miracle whip funk. And I'm too.
Speaker 7: I love miracle whip, but it was not good in
Speaker 7: this thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe they meant to say cool whip.
Speaker 7: No, because they kept showing the miracle Whip jars. Go
Speaker 7: and get another can of miracle whip.
Speaker 2: This things.
Speaker 7: We did.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you're looking for a new side dish,
Speaker 1: we'll put a picture of it on Instagram.
Speaker 7: You can see it.
Speaker 1: It actually tasted good. I'm so excited. Now when can
Speaker 1: I make it? I'm gonna have to wait a whole year.
Speaker 1: I guess I could make it at Christmas, because you know,
Speaker 1: there's only twenty three days till Christmas. Not to freak
Speaker 1: anybody out, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: unofficial start of the holiday shopping season is underway. Black
Speaker 1: Friday and Small Business Saturday are over, but Cyber Monday
Speaker 1: is here. Retailers say Cyber Monday is the last chance
Speaker 1: for shoppers to get those big deals. Some people say
Speaker 1: they prefer shopping from home because it's just like easier,
Speaker 1: more convenient to order online.
Speaker 7: Usually, yeah, no one like waits onlines.
Speaker 6: Amazon Death and if you get it and you don't
Speaker 6: like it, you could just send it back.
Speaker 1: Adobe Digital Analytics as Cyber Monday this year could be
Speaker 1: the biggest online shopping day in US history estimating retailers
Speaker 1: could break in thirteen point two billion dollars in sales.
Speaker 1: A man has been shot and killed near some railroad
Speaker 1: tracks in a commercial area in Vernon. Authority say the
Speaker 1: man was found unresponsive shortly after one am yesterday near
Speaker 1: the tracks on Charter Street, just south of the La River.
Speaker 7: He died at the scene.
Speaker 1: A man who has been shot and killed in Lancaster,
Speaker 1: LA Kenny Sheriff's deputies found the man in a driveway
Speaker 1: on Division Street east of Sierra Highway around one thirty
Speaker 1: yesterday morning.
Speaker 7: He died later at the hospital.
Speaker 1: LA County's new District Attorney is set to be sworn
Speaker 1: in tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Nathan Hawkman coasted a victory on election day, ousting incumbent
Speaker 5: DA George Gascone sixty to forty percent. Hawkman argued during
Speaker 5: the campaign that Gascone was soft on crime and that
Speaker 5: a new direction was needed at the DA's office. He's
Speaker 5: promised to bring a quote hard middle approach to prosecution
Speaker 5: what he calls sense of common sense and proportional. Hawkman
Speaker 5: swearing in is scheduled for noon on Tuesday outside the
Speaker 5: Hall of Justice in downtown LA. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The White House has responded to a video that appears
Speaker 1: to show an American hostage in Gaza.
Speaker 5: They called the release of the video a cruel reminder
Speaker 5: of Hamas's terror against citizens of multiple countries, including our own.
Speaker 1: ABC's and As de laic Terra says Hamas released the
Speaker 1: video showing American hostage Aiden Alexander speaking to the camera.
Speaker 1: Alexander was taken hostage during the October seventh attack while
Speaker 1: serving in the IDF near Gaza. There has been broad
Speaker 1: condemnation of the video by US lawmakers. House Speaker Mike
Speaker 1: Johnson has mapped out the Republicans' plans for the first
Speaker 1: one hundred days of the incoming administration. Republicans control the
Speaker 1: House and the Senate, but ABC's Reclin says the numbers
Speaker 1: are going to make things really difficult, especially in the House.
Speaker 9: If the current results hold, then Republicans will have secured
Speaker 9: a two hundred and twenty to two hundred and fifteen
Speaker 9: advantage in the next Congress.
Speaker 6: That's actually two more Democrats than who serve right down.
Speaker 1: Kleine says, that's the tightest governing majority in almost a century.
Speaker 1: Stilantis CEO Carlos Taveres has stopped down our step down
Speaker 1: rather after nearly four years in the top spot of
Speaker 1: the jeep and ram maker, the world's fourth largest car maker,
Speaker 1: has been struggling with flumping sales.
Speaker 7: It says the.
Speaker 1: Board accepted Tavar's resignation yesterday as head of PSA Pougeot
Speaker 1: Tavares took over the Netherlands based company in January of
Speaker 1: twenty one when it merged with Fiat Chrysler. It's North
Speaker 1: American operations had been the company's main source of profits.
Speaker 1: The owner of an Irish pub in Fountain Valley is
Speaker 1: asking for his sign back.
Speaker 2: Bring the sign back, no questions asked.
Speaker 1: Bill Madden, who owns Silky Sullivan's Restaurant and Irish pub,
Speaker 1: tells KTLA somebody swiped the sign from behind the business
Speaker 1: on Friday.
Speaker 2: Doesn't make any sense to me, because what are they
Speaker 2: going to do with it?
Speaker 6: They say, Oh, I got Silkie sign in my backyard.
Speaker 2: If anyone sees it, they'll go there. They're looking for
Speaker 2: that sign. They want that sign.
Speaker 1: The sign was under a tarp while the pub moved
Speaker 1: to a new place across the street. President Biden has
Speaker 1: gone back on his pledge not to pardon his son,
Speaker 1: announcing in a statement yesterday that he will pardon Hunter.
Speaker 1: Biden said he believed Hunter was singled out because he's
Speaker 1: the president's son, and that's wrong. The pardon will also
Speaker 1: cover his conviction on gun charges and on federal tax
Speaker 1: evasion charges. We're gonna talk more with Karen Travers about
Speaker 1: this in about less than fifteen minutes. The World Central
Speaker 1: Kitchen has paused its operations in Gaza following an Israeli
Speaker 1: attack on one of its vehicles that killed several workers,
Speaker 1: and Israeli official accused one of the workers in the
Speaker 1: vehicle of being a terrorist connected to last year's October
Speaker 1: seventh attack on Israel. Mowana has sailed into the first
Speaker 1: spot at the box office with a Thanksgiving holiday weekend
Speaker 1: record two hundred and twenty one million dollars in five days.
Speaker 1: Wicked took in as much in its second weekend as
Speaker 1: in its first, with over one hundred and seventeen million
Speaker 1: dollars in ticket sales. Gladiator two was third at six
Speaker 1: oh five. It's handle on the news Bible sales are surging.
Speaker 1: Bill's going to tell you why, but right now, let's
Speaker 1: check in with ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, the holiday
Speaker 1: shopping season has arrived. There was Black Friday, Small Business Saturday,
Speaker 1: and as I just mentioned, today is Cyber Monday. And
Speaker 1: this season you might not only find good deals, you
Speaker 1: might find out you got scammed.
Speaker 9: And that's where the Grinch comes in, right, Yeah, you
Speaker 9: are a mean one, mister Grinch. And those stammers are
Speaker 9: out there. They know that thirteen billion dollars will be
Speaker 9: spent today. Thirteen billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Just today, just today.
Speaker 1: Guys, over the Monday, over the weekend, they were saying
Speaker 1: it was like ten point eight it's huge.
Speaker 9: Adobe Analytics. Yeah, they're expecting consumers to spend about thirteen
Speaker 9: point two billion today. That's six percent more than last year,
Speaker 9: which would be the season, the year's biggest shopping day
Speaker 9: for e commerce. Not too surprising there, but yeah, those
Speaker 9: scammers know that there are profits to be taken out there,
Speaker 9: and so they're willing to take consumers. So, and one
Speaker 9: of the most pipelines right now, and you've probably goten
Speaker 9: one of these amy This the text message that says, hey,
Speaker 9: you've got a package that we need to deliver to you.
Speaker 9: We're the Postal service. Please click on the link below
Speaker 9: and give us your proper address and building information, et cetera.
Speaker 9: And it's time just perfectly to coincide with this season
Speaker 9: when so many people are ordering things online, expecting things
Speaker 9: to be delivered by the Postal Service or by ups,
Speaker 9: and so they get this text that says, oh man,
Speaker 9: my package is sitting there and they can't deliver it
Speaker 9: to me, and unfortunately people fall for it. You can
Speaker 9: see how that would be fairly, you know, believable. It
Speaker 9: stands the reason that you'd be expecting a package and
Speaker 9: maybe get this note from the postal service.
Speaker 2: Well, postal service.
Speaker 9: Doesn't do that, doesn't send text messages out to say
Speaker 9: that they need extra information to make their delivery. And
Speaker 9: so not only is it victim I consumers, it's also
Speaker 9: victimizing the post office because suddenly people don't want to
Speaker 9: do business with the post office.
Speaker 1: Well, and here's the other thing, is I do get
Speaker 1: notifications when I'm getting a package.
Speaker 9: Delivered, Yes, yeah, legitimate one saying yeah, or even a
Speaker 9: picture of the package being delivered right, or the letter
Speaker 9: or whatever.
Speaker 2: The postal service offers that as a service.
Speaker 9: But you just have to be very very careful and
Speaker 9: not click links on anything that's called a smishing scam
Speaker 9: because it's an SMS message as opposed to a phishing scam,
Speaker 9: which is.
Speaker 7: An email gotcha.
Speaker 1: Okay, So when they do that, though, what are they doing?
Speaker 1: Are they hacking into your system or are they trying
Speaker 1: to get your personal information so they can steal it.
Speaker 9: They're getting you to hand it over to them, right,
Speaker 9: because this text comes to you and they need your
Speaker 9: address and your billing information, your credit card information to
Speaker 9: make this delivery happen. And so you provide it to them.
Speaker 9: You hand it over and next thing you know, that
Speaker 9: information is your credit card being compromised. People are using it,
Speaker 9: it's being sold on a dark web. It just have
Speaker 9: to be extremely careful about that.
Speaker 1: Okay, what are some of the other scams that are
Speaker 1: out there? Because I've seen that USPS one several times.
Speaker 9: Actually, that's ridiculous. The puppy scam, this is a good one.
Speaker 9: Let's say you want to give your kids a puppy
Speaker 9: for Christmas, and so you find something on Facebook, Marketplace
Speaker 9: or on Craig's List or something. People still use Craigslist,
Speaker 9: I guess they do, and you give money over and
Speaker 9: there's no product, there's no puppy there that it's kind
Speaker 9: of been used to refer to all sorts of scams
Speaker 9: that do that, that offer a product, whether it's a
Speaker 9: puppy or something else, a car, a lawn more, or
Speaker 9: whatever it is that you're purchasing and then there is
Speaker 9: no seller, there's no deal, but you have lost your money.
Speaker 9: They call that overall kind of the puppy scam.
Speaker 1: And do we have any guestimates on like how bad
Speaker 1: it is like by the numbers?
Speaker 9: Hard to say because people aren't willing to talk about.
Speaker 1: That, right if they're getting rich scam, you're like, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell anybody.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's embarrassing and you're afraid you might get scammed
Speaker 9: again somehow. But I mean specific scams like the non payment,
Speaker 9: non delivery scams, the puppy scam. They cost consumers three
Speaker 9: hundred nine million dollars last year. Credit card fraud accounted
Speaker 9: for one hundred and seventy three million dollars in losses
Speaker 9: according to the FBI's Internet Complaint Center. And they're the
Speaker 9: ones that you can complain to if something like this
Speaker 9: happens to you, make sure you contact your bank, contact
Speaker 9: your credit card company, and yeah, you reach out to
Speaker 9: the FBI's complaint center too.
Speaker 1: Okay, and what are some others like? Are there any
Speaker 1: hard and fast rules to protect yourself?
Speaker 9: Yes, before you even log on, check your antivirus software.
Speaker 9: Make sure that that is up to date so your
Speaker 9: computer is protected from people trying to hack in. Make
Speaker 9: sure you're typing in the URLs correctly. Let's say you
Speaker 9: want to go to Walmart dot com and do some
Speaker 9: shopping there, and you leave out the the A for
Speaker 9: example wl M A R T something, you miss it
Speaker 9: by a letter. Well, the scammers have the mark on
Speaker 9: all of those websites, the ones that are misspelled, right,
Speaker 9: They probably have a wlmart dot com And if you
Speaker 9: mistype it, you're gonna end up at their site and
Speaker 9: spending money with them that you won't be getting ato merchandise.
Speaker 9: But you've given them your credit card information.
Speaker 1: Again, and it reminds me of I think we were
Speaker 1: talking about after the hurricane, to make sure that you
Speaker 1: went to the right Red Cross.
Speaker 9: Yes, and that's relevant because tomorrow is Giving Day, Tuesday,
Speaker 9: Giving Tuesday, Right, we had Black Friday, we had Saturday,
Speaker 9: Small Business, Small Business, Saturday, Cyber Monday. Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday,
Speaker 9: and so people will be giving to charity. So again, yeah,
Speaker 9: I'd be very careful that, for example, you go to
Speaker 9: Redcross dot org instead of Redcross dot com or something.
Speaker 7: All right, So just keep an eye out, be vigilant.
Speaker 9: Yeah, or unplug all your electronics, turn off the light
Speaker 9: and go to the store. Yeah, grow up in a
Speaker 9: corner and cry.
Speaker 7: We're not doing that.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned this earlier, but there are five fewer
Speaker 1: shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year than last
Speaker 1: since Thanksgiving was so.
Speaker 9: Late, right, It's just the order shorter window, and so
Speaker 9: people are probably spending more during each trip.
Speaker 7: All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much. I'll talk
Speaker 7: to you soon.
Speaker 1: Speaking of giving, the fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon is upon us.
Speaker 1: Chef Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty five
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Speaker 1: you'll get a coupon book that's worth fifteen bucks. And
Speaker 1: of course we want you to join us tomorrow. It's
Speaker 1: Giving Tuesday. We're going to be at the Anaheim White House.
Speaker 1: We're broadcasting live all day from five am, starting with
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Speaker 1: six forty dot com slash Pastathon Can't Wait Prayer Vigil's
Speaker 1: been held for a nine year old boy who was
Speaker 1: shot and killed in Compton over the weekend. Police say
Speaker 1: Princeton Jones was shot in front of his grandparents home
Speaker 1: on Haskins Avenue Saturday. Police haven't re released any information
Speaker 1: on the shooter or said whether anyone has been arrested,
Speaker 1: but they are expected to release some more details today.
Speaker 1: California lawmakers are going to be sworn into office in
Speaker 1: Sacramento today, even though two races in the state have
Speaker 1: not yet been decided. Normally, the swearing in ceremony would
Speaker 1: be pretty much it, but this year a special session
Speaker 1: is also being convened. Governor Newsom called for it. He
Speaker 1: says it's to safeguard the state against Trump administration policies
Speaker 1: that he says will target California. Christmas has come early
Speaker 1: for Hollywood, as moviegoers spent a record four hundred twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars at the movies over the five day Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 1: Mawana two led the way with its own Thanksgiving record
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty one million in ticket sales at.
Speaker 7: Six oh five.
Speaker 1: It's handle on the news. President elect Trump is switching
Speaker 1: things up at the FBI f I fifty Pasadena Humane
Speaker 1: is taking care of the animals as they wait for
Speaker 1: their forever homes. How your donation on Giving Tuesday will
Speaker 1: go five times as far. We'll be telling you about that,
Speaker 1: but right Now let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers.
Speaker 7: Karen, we have a presidential pardon.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: The President last night issued a statement saying that he
Speaker 3: is pardoning his son Hunter, which just a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks left in office. For the president, this was something
Speaker 3: he had said he would not do, something he told
Speaker 3: ABC's David Yor back in June he had ruled out.
Speaker 3: But the President and his statement, said that his son
Speaker 3: had been selectively and unfairly prosecuted. He believed that there
Speaker 3: had been raw politics infecting the process, he said, and
Speaker 3: it led to a miscarriage of justice. And the President
Speaker 3: ended his statement by saying, I hope Americans will understand
Speaker 3: why a father and a president would come to this decision.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, Hunter pleaded guilty to the tax evasion charges in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and was supposed to be sentenced I think
Speaker 1: December sixteenth. And then the other thing that he's being
Speaker 1: pardoned for is for illegally having the gun, which is
Speaker 1: also a federal gun charge. Right.
Speaker 3: Yes, he was convicted in June on federal gun charges.
Speaker 3: He had lied on a federal form about his drug
Speaker 3: addiction when he bought a gun in twenty eighteen. So
Speaker 3: this pardon covers those charges, both of them federal charges,
Speaker 3: but also any uncharged crimes between fourteen and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: So it is a sweeping pardon. And you know, I
Speaker 3: think there's a lot of question then for the legal
Speaker 3: experts about, you know, whether or not the president was
Speaker 3: concerned that there would be more to come in a
Speaker 3: Trump administration. You know, the president elect had been very
Speaker 3: critical of Hunter Biden and the Biden family in general
Speaker 3: and promising, you know, retribution for political enemies. But the
Speaker 3: President in his statement last night said quote, there's no
Speaker 3: reason to believe it will stop here.
Speaker 7: Enough is enough, okay.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious as to how you pardon something that
Speaker 1: you haven't been charged with.
Speaker 3: Presidents can do that to kind of cover things that have.
Speaker 7: Not come And is that has that happened before?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'd have to go back and look and see how
Speaker 3: that's been done. I think this has been done before.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like i'd actually look and see exactly when.
Speaker 3: But yes, I don't think this is unprecedented, Okay.
Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, he had said several times, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pardon him. I'm going to follow what
Speaker 1: the Justice Department says. Courine Jean Pierre came out. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's not happening. There's no way. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: anybody who's really surprised that he did. But what's the reaction,
Speaker 1: because I can imagine the Republicans are having a field
Speaker 1: day right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's been mixed. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: you even have some Democrats who have questioned the President
Speaker 3: doing this, saying, you know, it's not the right move
Speaker 3: for him to make. The governor of Colorado said that.
Speaker 3: But then you know allies of the president saying he's
Speaker 3: a dad and that this was an unfair prosecution of Hunter,
Speaker 3: that he was being targeted simply for what his last
Speaker 3: name was and who he was. I think the big
Speaker 3: question for the White House today and President's traveling right
Speaker 3: now is what changed. The legal circumstances didn't change, So
Speaker 3: when did the timeline for the president change and what
Speaker 3: made him change his decision?
Speaker 7: Okay, so what happens next?
Speaker 1: I mean with the statement, does that mean that he
Speaker 1: is pardoned or that there will be pardoned?
Speaker 3: Okay, this superficial last night, and he will not serve
Speaker 3: any of the jail time that he was facing when
Speaker 3: he was going to be sentenced later this month. In
Speaker 3: both of those cases, he will face none of that
Speaker 3: jail time.
Speaker 7: Okay. ABC's Karen Travers, thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 7: We appreciate it. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Thanks all, right,
Speaker 7: talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. South Pasadena police
Speaker 1: detective criticized over an alleged Nazi gesture has resigned, so.
Speaker 8: Los Angeles Times reports and Mark Lillianfeld left his job
Speaker 8: last week after a police investigation found he violated department rules.
Speaker 8: The allegations stem from a training session hosted by the
Speaker 8: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in twenty twenty three, where
Speaker 8: Lilianfeld was a lecturer.
Speaker 1: Kfis Mark Mayfield says Lilianfield allegedly made several racist comments
Speaker 1: and threw his arm up in a Nazi like salute.
Speaker 1: The Sheriff's department investigation included a do not re hire designation.
Speaker 1: A jerry in New York is sent to hear closing
Speaker 1: arguments in the trial of a marine veteran charged with
Speaker 1: killing a homeless man on the subway after putting him
Speaker 1: in a choke hold. A kfi's Natalie Migliori says Daniel
Speaker 1: Penny is charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide for the
Speaker 1: death of Jordan Neely last year. Prosecutors said Penny went
Speaker 1: way too far when he tried to protect fellow passengers
Speaker 1: from Neely, who was allegedly threatening people. The defense has
Speaker 1: disputed the medical examiner's determination of the cause of death.
Speaker 1: They say Neeley's death was not consistent with a choke
Speaker 1: hold because he never lost consciousness before he died. The
Speaker 1: defense claims Neely died of a combination of factors, including
Speaker 1: his sickle cell trait, schizophrenia, the struggle and restraint by Penny,
Speaker 1: and also k two in intoxication. Three people have been
Speaker 1: sent to the hospital following a massive house fire in
Speaker 1: the high Desert.
Speaker 6: Two our v's were also impacted by the fire. Two
Speaker 6: elderly people and a young adult somehow managed to safely
Speaker 6: get out of the house. They had minor to serious
Speaker 6: injuries when first responders got there and were taken to
Speaker 6: the hospital. Fire officials in Apple Valley are trying to
Speaker 6: figure out what sparked the fire, which occurred at three
Speaker 6: thirty Sunday morning. Witnesses say that they heard multiple pro
Speaker 6: paint tanks explode. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: A hospital in San Bernardino is asking for the public's
Speaker 1: help in identifying a man found unconscious in a motel six.
Speaker 1: Doctors at Saint Bernardine Medical Center say he was brought
Speaker 1: into the hospital last month. He's Hispanic in his forties,
Speaker 1: five foot six, with brown hair and black eyes. He
Speaker 1: remains in critical condition. A house fire in Elmonte has
Speaker 1: left seventeen people out of their homes. Alifire says the
Speaker 1: fire started shortly after noon yesterday on Penmar Avenue in
Speaker 1: two town homes. The fire put up a huge plume
Speaker 1: of black smoke. It spread into a third town home
Speaker 1: through the attic. Took firefighters about a half hour to
Speaker 1: put the fires out. So much for neither snow nor rain,
Speaker 1: nor heat nor gloom of night, You know the post
Speaker 1: office motto. The US Postal Service has suspended mail service
Speaker 1: to Canada. Canadian postal workers are on strike. The USPS
Speaker 1: said the temporary suspension is going to affect priority express mail,
Speaker 1: first class mail, and package international service to Canada until
Speaker 1: further noticed. The ninety second Hollywood Christmas Parade has made
Speaker 1: its way through the streets of Hollywood. Mayor of Kingstown
Speaker 1: and Avengers star Jeremy Runner served as the Grand Marshal.
Speaker 1: If you're not one of the thousands who lined the
Speaker 1: three point two mile route last night, you can watch
Speaker 1: the parade. It'll air on the CW December fifteenth. We're
Speaker 1: just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
Speaker 1: people spent as I mentioned, a record amount of dollars
Speaker 1: on Black Friday. What the heck did they buy? Bill's
Speaker 1: going to tell you. Right now, let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to Pasadena Humane's PR and communications manager and our friend
Speaker 1: Kevin McManus. Good morning, Kevin, Good morning.
Speaker 9: How are you?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Fabulous, fabulous And you're getting ready for a big day
Speaker 1: because tomorrow is a big day for Pasadena Humane because
Speaker 1: it's Given Tuesday and when they donate for Giving Tuesday,
Speaker 1: there's a bonus.
Speaker 4: That's right. We were really excited about this. We have
Speaker 4: a mega match going on, a mega so every Yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't really figure out the math myself, but they
Speaker 4: have you know, degrees are required for this, but now, seriously,
Speaker 4: a one dollar donated will be matched up to it
Speaker 4: turns into five dollars through magic. And so we have
Speaker 4: the opportunity to if we can raise one hundred thousand
Speaker 4: dollars tomorrow and give you tuesday, then we'll a donor
Speaker 4: will match that four times, so we'll you know, be
Speaker 4: in line for half a million dollars tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, okay, And you'll take any donation amount or
Speaker 1: is there set amounts.
Speaker 7: Is it that's come time or monthly.
Speaker 4: Or how do you do it one time? Any amount helps,
Speaker 4: any amount goes to get us to that that one
Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars to get that match, okay.
Speaker 7: And what does that money go.
Speaker 4: To, Kevin, Oh my gosh, all of the programming that
Speaker 4: we do for animals in our community all year long.
Speaker 4: So everything from animals at the shelter who are waiting
Speaker 4: for adoption, lost some sound pets who need to get
Speaker 4: back home.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, we have an extensive veterinary program at the shelter,
Speaker 4: So any animal that comes to us that's injured or
Speaker 4: hurt or in any way, we can help fix them.
Speaker 4: And that's actually what you know. The poster dog for
Speaker 4: our match this year is is dog named Moto, who
Speaker 4: required quite a bit of extension, extensive vet care. What
Speaker 4: happened about, Oh my gosh, he came in. He had
Speaker 4: this giant it turned out to be a four pound
Speaker 4: mass on his leg. That yeah, it was thankfully it
Speaker 4: was benign, but we had to remove we like I
Speaker 4: had a removed this thing. It was like the size
Speaker 4: of the softball. And this poor guy, he was having
Speaker 4: trouble walking. He wasviously in pain. But they successfully remove
Speaker 4: the mass and he's fitted with this cool little boot
Speaker 4: that helps him walk around. Just the nerve damage from
Speaker 4: the mass. Really, yeah, it will affect him forever, but
Speaker 4: you know, he's now walking around pain free, which is
Speaker 4: thanks to thanks to donors who have really helped us
Speaker 4: care for animals like Moto all year long.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's good to know that it's not only
Speaker 1: going to pay for taking care of the animals who
Speaker 1: are waiting for their forever homes, but also animals who
Speaker 1: need your help.
Speaker 7: It might you know, they might not.
Speaker 4: Get exactly Okay, yeah, yeah, and sorry, I'm just going
Speaker 4: to mention to that point exactly. One of our programs
Speaker 4: that helps fund is our Helping Pause program where folks
Speaker 4: in the community who have pets can come to us,
Speaker 4: and you know we can help in some way sometimes
Speaker 4: with that care or pet food things that will help
Speaker 4: them keep their pets at home.
Speaker 1: I love that, okay, And we would be remiss if
Speaker 1: we didn't only talk about raising money to care for
Speaker 1: the animals, but also the animals who are being taken
Speaker 1: care of while they wait for their forever homes. So, like,
Speaker 1: what kinds of dogs and cats do we have available
Speaker 1: for anybody who might be just kind of leaning turtle?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 4: Well, we we have, always, always, we have dogs and
Speaker 4: cats who are waiting for and in need of forever homes.
Speaker 4: We always we have rabbits, We have hamsters, guinea pigs,
Speaker 4: you name it. Any animal that comes to our door
Speaker 4: from our area, we'd be taken and house until they
Speaker 4: find their forever home. I am lucky enough to have
Speaker 4: just adopted two cats from us least a few weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, And so they're running around keeping me
Speaker 4: entertained and got me up earlier that I even hoped for.
Speaker 1: You didn't even need So did you get adult cats
Speaker 1: or did you get younger ones?
Speaker 4: There are both adults, one a year and that actually
Speaker 4: wanted a little bit younger, she's probably about six months,
Speaker 4: but also needed that care from our team, and I,
Speaker 4: you know, seeing her nearly every day, I fell in
Speaker 4: love and couldn't let her sit at shelter for one day.
Speaker 4: For the longer.
Speaker 9: I love that.
Speaker 7: You know, if I worked and if I had your job,
Speaker 7: I'd have fifty cats for.
Speaker 4: Sure, No kidding. It's been quite a battle of wills.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Kevin, now you mentioned that you got one,
Speaker 1: that it's younger, but it's not a brand new kitten.
Speaker 1: What are some of the advantages Because I know that
Speaker 1: there are wonderful adult cats there that are there and
Speaker 1: they're not as attractive necessarily to people because I think, oh,
Speaker 1: I want a kitten or I want a puppy. What's
Speaker 1: the advantages of having an adult dogger cat?
Speaker 4: You know, I'm living this like one hundred percent right now.
Speaker 4: Like the adult cat is so much more mature, he's
Speaker 4: so much cleaner, he's you know, completely letterbox trained, just
Speaker 4: you know, in his personality. We fell in love with
Speaker 4: his personality because he was just super affectionate. Now going
Speaker 4: at the shelter, that's exactly what we got, you know.
Speaker 4: So there's that that benefit of you know, having a
Speaker 4: lot of of knowledge of how that animal, whether it
Speaker 4: be a dog or cat or anything, will behave in
Speaker 4: there in your home. It's kind of like you' vetted
Speaker 4: a right exactly. Yeah. So the littler one is, you know,
Speaker 4: a challenge, a loving challenge. But just she's the reason
Speaker 4: I'm up this sort. He was asleep, you know, curled
Speaker 4: up next to my feet.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But when they're grown, you're going to and that's part
Speaker 1: of the fun of having a kitten.
Speaker 7: But you know, like you they The other thing that I.
Speaker 1: Think about adopting an adult cat is I swear because
Speaker 1: I got, well I got I've gotten two cats from
Speaker 1: shelters now. But the first one I got was Cassandra,
Speaker 1: and she knew that I rescued her, like you know
Speaker 1: that they realize it, and you know, it just creates
Speaker 1: an even stronger bond with you.
Speaker 7: Like the kittens are like whatever.
Speaker 2: But the adult cats better.
Speaker 1: I really think that they get it. And I think
Speaker 1: probably dogs too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh, I think even more so with dogs. You know,
Speaker 4: you know, they're you know, there's a you know, cats
Speaker 4: can because of their independent nature, you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's you know, just who they are. But dogs they
Speaker 4: do kind of rely on people more than cats do,
Speaker 4: and so they you know, when they're in a shelter,
Speaker 4: they're often very confused. They have definitely been in a
Speaker 4: home before, so it's you know, it can be really
Speaker 4: troubling and anxiety and inducing for them.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you can help Pasadena Humane take care of
Speaker 1: those dogs and those cats and those puppies and they
Speaker 1: and kittens until they get into their forever home and
Speaker 1: also maybe help somebody like Moto who needs some extra help.
Speaker 1: Where can we donate for giving Tuesday and again tell
Speaker 1: us about the match.
Speaker 4: Well, it's all you can, of course, send a check
Speaker 4: if you want to come buy the shelter, drop off cash,
Speaker 4: you know whatever, or do it online. That's obviously the
Speaker 4: easiest for everybody. It's passing in humane dot org. There's
Speaker 4: as soon as you open that page, there will be
Speaker 4: a pop up for the match. And yeah, like I said,
Speaker 4: anything that is donated before midnight tomorrow and it's already
Speaker 4: started to be honest, so you know, we're hoping for
Speaker 4: a big push tomorrow. But you know, anything, anything helps
Speaker 4: to get us to that match, and it's through midnight
Speaker 4: tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Love it and your money goes like five times as
Speaker 1: farst it doesn't get any.
Speaker 7: Better than that.
Speaker 1: When you're thinking about giving Tuesday, think about Pasadena Human
Speaker 1: Kevin McManus. I hope you get tons and tons of dollars,
Speaker 1: and I hope you get lots of dogs and cats
Speaker 1: adopted this holiday season.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
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