WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.160 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.439 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:15.759 KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's 4 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:17.800 time for your morning wake up call. 5 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:22.399 Here's Amy King. 6 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.679 Well, good morning, it's five o'clock straight up. This is 7 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:35.799 your wake up call for Thursday, February sixth I'm Amy King. 8 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.359 We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 9 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:44.320 I got good news this morning. Shamrock shapes are coming back. 10 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:48.920 I just heard that I haven't had a shamrock shake 11 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:52.600 for I don't know thirty years, but I think I'm 12 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:53.240 gonna change that. 13 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:55.799 It's a story with McRib Do we know as that's 14 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:57.439 backs or no, it. 15 00:00:57.399 --> 00:00:59.439 Comes back like in the fall for a little while. 16 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:00.320 Rip. 17 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:05.959 I don't think it's there now. Limited time online. Here's 18 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.879 what's ahead on wake Up Call. A second stronger storms 19 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.760 expected to bring more rain to southern California by tonight, 20 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.239 with three quarters to an inch of rain expected in 21 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:18.920 the Palisades and Eaten fire burn areas. Orchesters say there's 22 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:23.480 an increased chance of mud and debris flows. K Rails, sandbags, 23 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.400 and water control socks have been installed to try to 24 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:30.640 prevent damage if the land slides. President Trump assigned an 25 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.879 executive order banning transgender athletes from women's sports. Trump said 26 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:37.959 as he signed the order yesterday. From now on, women's 27 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:41.599 sports will only be for women. The order also requires 28 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:45.280 the immediate enforcement of the rules. Governor Newsom has had 29 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.120 to sit down with the President in the Oval Office. 30 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.560 They were scheduled to talk about disaster aid for wildfires 31 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:54.200 and water issues for about a half hour, but they 32 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:56.079 ended up talking for more than an hour and a half. 33 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:58.799 Newsom said in a social media video it was a 34 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.040 successful day. The White House hasn't weighed in on how 35 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:06.280 it went yet. Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker was 36 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.080 also in the Oval with President Trump yesterday. We're going 37 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:11.680 to get the scoop on that coming up at five twenty. 38 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.240 You know how people say, oh, people are so plastic, 39 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.560 Well it turns out they're right. ABC's Jim Ryan says, actually, 40 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.039 we are all a little bit plastic these days. Kind 41 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:28.919 of scary. Pasadena Humane has reunited fourteen hundred pets with 42 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:32.520 their people since the wildfire broke out in Altadena. Well, 43 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.599 we're going to be talking with PR and communications manager 44 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:40.360 Kevin McManus about donations, adoptions and some of our four 45 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:43.599 legged burn victim friends. That's coming up as we go 46 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:45.840 out and about at the bottom of the hour, so 47 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.560 we hope you'll stick around. Always love talking to Kevin 48 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:53.039 and the work they're doing at Pasadena Humane is absolutely amazing. 49 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:55.439 Let's get started with some of the stories coming out 50 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:58.960 of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. EPA administrator Lee 51 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.280 Zelden and other federal officials are set to join La 52 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.960 Mayor Bass on a tour of the Pacific Palisades. They're 53 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:09.280 expected to check on the progress of debris removal and 54 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.680 recovery from the fire there last month. EPA officials said 55 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:15.520 yesterday that more than a thousand people were working on 56 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.039 the hazardous waste removal effort in the Palisades and Eaton 57 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:23.080 Burn areas, but only about five percent of affected properties 58 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:26.560 have been cleared so far. A man's been arrested in 59 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:30.319 La for allegedly spray painting buildings during the latest immigration 60 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:34.759 protests downtown, hundreds of people marched again yesterday near city 61 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:39.680 Hall to protest President Trump's deportation policies. People say, or 62 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.360 police say, some people got routy in the afternoon and 63 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:46.199 started throwing bottles at officers. A dispersal order was given. 64 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.560 Protesters left the area and continued to march down Broadway. 65 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:54.319 Police say several demonstrators spray painted and vandalized property, including 66 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:58.000 a UPS truck and a Waymo vehicle, and there's no 67 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:01.439 driver in it to defend themselves. Hundreds of people have 68 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:05.039 been arrested in San Diego County under California's new Proposition 69 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.719 thirty six, which was approved by voters in November. 70 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.639 Four hundred and twenty nine people who would not have 71 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.560 been taken into custody for things like shoplifting and drug 72 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:15.800 crimes in San Diego have now been arrested. 73 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.839 We were hearing from our communities, from our retail establishments, 74 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:22.240 that they really felt they were being victimized by shoplifts 75 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.240 and other saft crimes. 76 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.199 San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez saying business groups can 77 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:27.839 now report crimes as they happen. 78 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:28.079 Well. 79 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.839 Suspects for battling addiction can also receive treatment. I'm chack Cronin. 80 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:36.680 City leaders say some street vendors in LA have become problems. 81 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:39.600 The city plans to improve its permitting process and its 82 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.519 enforcement effort against street vendors operating without a license. Concilman 83 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.120 John Lee says there needs to be more fairness because 84 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.240 brick and mortar restaurants, for example, are held to a 85 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:49.199 much higher standard. 86 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:53.279 If their temperature is off one degree, they get knocked down. 87 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:55.800 Why is it that we do not care about the 88 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.839 health and welfare of the people who are visiting these places. 89 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.399 The city's no vendings zones have been eliminated by a 90 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.639 court ruling. Officials have said that's led to more vendors 91 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.480 and more trash being left behind. Michael Monks KFI News. 92 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:13.199 More than three dozen beetles yep beetles have been seized 93 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.199 by Border patrol at Lax. The bugs were hidden inside 94 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.399 Japanese snacks and are valued at more than fourteen hundred dollars. 95 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:24.399 Customs and Border Patrol offishals say the beatles may look harmless, 96 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.639 but they could cause some serious trouble in local agriculture 97 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.560 and force if they get loose. They eat plants, leaves 98 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.399 and roots and lay eggs in tree bark. Offish will 99 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:35.639 say they'll look for a place to donate the beatles, 100 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:39.360 like a zoo. Now, let's say good morning to ABC's 101 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.120 Jim Ryan. So, Jim, you know, people always say, oh, 102 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.319 people are so plastic, but it turns out we kind 103 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:46.800 of all are. 104 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:50.079 I've never heard that people are like so plastic. 105 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:51.839 Well it's you know, in La. 106 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:53.160 Parts of us are. 107 00:05:53.439 --> 00:06:00.839 Yeah, are livers, livers, bones, brains. Okay, tell us more. 108 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:04.720 Talk to you tomorrow. No, the University of New Mexico 109 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.360 has done the studies published this week in Nature Medicine, 110 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.240 and it confirms what scientists have thought for some time 111 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:15.399 that microplastics, the tiny, tiny, in some cases microscopic pieces 112 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.360 of plastic out there in the environment are making their 113 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.360 way into our bodies. Not just in our bodies, amy, 114 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:24.319 but into our brain somehow, passing the blood brain barrier 115 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:26.800 and getting into the brain. It's not a good thing. 116 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.959 Why because well, they're also finding that it could be 117 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.680 associated with illnesses dementia for example. This is all based 118 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:38.360 on post mortem brain exams and the finding that these 119 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:42.879 microplastics are much more concentrated in the brains of people 120 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:47.279 who died with dementia. So yeah, it's concerning. I mean, 121 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.279 it's a time for panic, no, but yeah, it's something 122 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:50.959 to watch out for. 123 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:51.839 Okay. 124 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.480 And so there, like I was curious as to what 125 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.639 the plastic does because the plastics not a living thing, 126 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:03.839 but it gets into those living organisms, and then what 127 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:07.480 does it do. It like blocks the cells from talking 128 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:09.240 to each other exactly right. 129 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:11.480 It's not so much a poison the issue, although that's 130 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.399 not a good thing, but it could impede the function 131 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.079 of the brain, the actual synapses and the firing of 132 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.959 the internal workings of your brain. So yeah, that's the 133 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:25.720 big concern. There also could constrict blood flow and interfere 134 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.079 with the neural connections that make you and me think. 135 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:33.439 So, yeah, I probably got a lot of plastic in 136 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:33.920 my brain. 137 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.000 Then get away from plastic water bottles. 138 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:39.519 Okay, I was going to say, how is it getting 139 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:40.879 into our systems? 140 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:44.160 Well, yeah, if some of it comes from food, from meat, 141 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:48.079 from animals that have been exposed to plastics, but also 142 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:50.120 through some of the things that we do through plastic 143 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:52.639 water bottles. A lot of this the plastics that have 144 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.639 been found in people's brain are the kind that are 145 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:58.480 a part of the plastic water bottles. So if you 146 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.240 use a glass water bottle instead or a metal one, 147 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.040 some people hate that. I don't like drinking out of 148 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:06.959 a metal thing. But moving away from plastics is a 149 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.920 good way to try to limit your exposure, you know, 150 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:15.000 the single use water bottles, take out plastic containers. I mean, 151 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.439 if you have takeout once a month or something and 152 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.680 you use the plastic container and the plastic silverware, fine, 153 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:22.720 But if you do this more than a few times 154 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.399 a month, yeah, might consider dumping it onto a plate 155 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:29.279 and using your own silverware at home instead of the 156 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:32.519 plastic stuff, because those are all sources of potential sources 157 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.039 at least of this kind of plastic contamination. 158 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:38.039 Okay, I'm sitting here with the plastic fork right now. 159 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:42.360 So and does it include things like tupperware containers and 160 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:43.799 baggies and everything? 161 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.519 Yes, yes, yes, looking down the list of advice from 162 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.360 specialists in this kind of thing instead of putting you know, 163 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:52.399 your frozen meals. 164 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.639 Oh we lost you for a second. Sorry, Now that's okay. 165 00:08:57.720 --> 00:08:59.759 So you said frozen food and then we lost it. 166 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.200 Frozen food or those steam in the bag vegetables or rice. 167 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.440 I always think, you know what, I never steam the 168 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:07.840 vegetables in the bag because I'm like, that's like cooking 169 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:09.039 the plastic into the food. 170 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.600 Aha. There you go, You're on the right track. Okay, 171 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.080 you're plastic cutting board, you know, it starts getting worn 172 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:19.279 out and chipping off and flaking. Good with a wooden 173 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.039 one instead, you know, that's another way to kind of 174 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:26.200 cut into that plastic cookware. You know, you protect your 175 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.320 nonstick surface by using plastic utensils. Yeah, you might want 176 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:32.320 to go with wood there too. 177 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:39.919 Silicon considered plastic they use like the silicone. It's not 178 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:42.679 so that's a better way to go, it is. 179 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:44.879 That's a good alternative. You know, if you put if 180 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.200 you heat things there. You can buy silicone covers for 181 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:49.639 your ceramic bowls, so you dump the food in there, 182 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:52.519 covered with the with the silicone cover and then put 183 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:54.440 it in the microwave. That's that's a great way to 184 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:59.399 protect yourself. Again, and this is a lifetime sort of issue. 185 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:01.679 It's not just a one time exposure. Drinking out of 186 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:03.639 that plastic bottle today is not going to kill you, 187 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.399 but fifty years of drinking out of plastic bottles every 188 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:09.279 day could lead to this build up in your brain. 189 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:12.639 Okay, I have one question for you, Jim, Is there 190 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:15.000 any way to get it out of our bodies? 191 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:19.240 Well, your body processes things like that naturally, so things 192 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.960 that go in eventually kind of leach their way out 193 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.080 the same way they got in. And so that's the 194 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.200 good point. I mean, it's almost like quitting smoking. The 195 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:32.200 longer you've quit, the better your lung condition becomes. Does 196 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.679 it ever get back to one hundred percent? No, But 197 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.200 and your brain may still hold on to some of 198 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.519 that plastic stuff because we are still exposed all the time. 199 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:43.399 But limiting your exposure could could lower the levels of 200 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.159 this stuff in your brain. And there's no way to 201 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.120 test for it either. I mean, as I say, these 202 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.919 studies have done at the University of New Mexico, world 203 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.639 post mortem brains people who died. 204 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.679 All right, Time to go buy some pyres and bring 205 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:59.240 my silverware to work, So I'm not using plastic as much. 206 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:00.120 Thank you, Jim Ryan. 207 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.159 Yes, ma'am, that is. 208 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:06.039 I mean, it's weird to think about because it's everywhere. 209 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:08.960 I mean, like, how do you cut it out completely? 210 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.320 But maybe we make a little effort. 211 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:12.440 Here and there. 212 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:14.639 Let's get back to some of the stories coming out 213 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:17.519 of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Lawmakers in Washington, 214 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.919 d C. Have led protests against Elon Musk and his 215 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:25.480 Department of Government Efficiency. LA Congresswoman Maxine Waters took a 216 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:27.840 shot at the billionaire and his plans to cut parts 217 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:28.679 of the federal government. 218 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:36.960 We have got to tell Elon must nobody. We can't 219 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.720 all about private information. 220 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.960 Language Maxine, language, she cussed, she did. 221 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.720 Musk has been described by the White House as a 222 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:49.600 special government employee. Dairy cattle and Nevada have been infected 223 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.840 with a new type of bird flu that is different 224 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.919 from the version that has spread in herds since last year. 225 00:11:55.279 --> 00:12:00.279 Experts say it raises new concerns about wider spread and 226 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:03.879 the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people 227 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:08.120 who work closely with them. Piling on Sean Combs has 228 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:11.080 been sued by two more women and a man who 229 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.279 claimed that Combs forced them to go with him and 230 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:15.879 several other men to the Trump Hotel in the late nineties, 231 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.240 where they say they were raped and drugged. One of 232 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:21.960 the women says she was sexually assaulted by Combs and others. 233 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:25.120 The other says she was raped while Combs watched. Two 234 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:29.279 planes have collided on a taxiway at Seattle Tacoma International Airport. 235 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:33.639 The wing of a taxiing Japan Airlines plane hit the 236 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:37.720 tail of a Delta Airlines jet yesterday. The Delta plane 237 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:40.960 was parked and waiting to be de iced. One passenger 238 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.000 says she thought they hit ice. 239 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:44.919 The claim's kind of dult a table a. 240 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:45.919 We're in a car accident. 241 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:48.480 The Delta's tail was like lodged into the wing. 242 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:52.159 No injuries were reported. The National Transportation Safety Board has 243 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:56.159 started an investigation. Of course, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has 244 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:58.639 been hurt in a couple of falls at the US Capitol. 245 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.879 The eighty two year old fell down a small stead 246 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:04.159 of stairs yesterday outside the Senate Chamber and had to 247 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:07.279 be helped by other senators. He fell again during a 248 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.240 lunch conference while carrying a plate of food. He was 249 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.639 taken out of the Capitol in a wheelchairs of precaution. 250 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.159 A spokesperson says he had a minor cut to his 251 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.960 face and sprained his wrist, but was cleared to resume 252 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:22.600 his schedule. A lot of workers at Workday are about 253 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.080 to be out of work. The company told employees in 254 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:29.039 a memo yesterday that seventeen hundred workers were being laid off. 255 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:33.559 The company said AI will be used to expand operations 256 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:38.519 other tech based companies that recently faced job cuts include Salesforce, 257 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:42.840 Crewise and Amazon. A legend in black history has died. 258 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:46.360 Retired Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stewart, Junior, passed away peacefully at 259 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:49.919 his home on Sunday in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Stewart was 260 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:52.639 one of the last surviving Tuskegee airmen. Back in the 261 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.120 nineteen forties. He was one of the first one thousand 262 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:58.519 black pilots trained in Alabama during World War two and segregation. 263 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.840 Stewart earned the dist English Flying Cross for his bravery 264 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.600 and escorting bombers, and was one of four Tuskegee eramen 265 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:08.200 credited with downing three enemy aircraft in just one day. 266 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:12.360 Stuart was one hundred years old. Andrew Caravella KFI News. 267 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:16.720 La County Sheriff's dispatchers had to go old school, writing 268 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:20.840 down and then relaying information to deputies by phone and radio. 269 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:24.759 When the dispatch system crashed. The system was down for 270 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:27.120 just a few hours yesterday. It also crashed on New 271 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.799 Year's Eve and was down for a few days. The 272 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:33.879 computer aided dispatch system is nearly forty years old. More 273 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:36.440 than six thousand households in the Eton fire burn zone 274 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:39.399 have applied to have the Army Corps of Engineers clear 275 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:43.000 debris from their property free of charge. None of that 276 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:45.919 work has started yet. Debris removal has already started at 277 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:50.000 elementary schools in the Pasadena School District. Some debris removal 278 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:53.200 is underway in Pacific Palisades because residents have opted to 279 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:56.360 have private contractors do the work. Today's the deadline for 280 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.879 federal workers to accept the Trump administrations offered to pay 281 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.799 them through September if they agreed to resign. Forty thousand 282 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.759 federal employees have apparently taken the deal so far. That's 283 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:09.799 about two percent of the federal workforce. The buy out 284 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.240 is an effort from Elon Musk in his Department of 285 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:16.679 Government Efficiency to trim the federal workforce. Let's say good 286 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:21.440 morning now to kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. John 287 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:24.360 got to be in the Oval Office with a small 288 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.320 group of reporters yesterday with the President. 289 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:33.639 So dish a dish, Okay, I will dish for you Amy. 290 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:37.000 Yesterday I was in the Oval Office. And the reason 291 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:40.320 being is because Pam Bondi was sworn in as the 292 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:44.039 new US Attorney General. She was confirmed just the date 293 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:47.039 before by the full set of fifty four to forty six. 294 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:51.000 She won the support of one Democrat, John Fetterman, Senator 295 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:54.559 from Pennsylvania, and yesterday was the day that she was 296 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.240 sworn in. She was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice 297 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:03.279 Clarence Thomas and in the Oval Office yesterday perhaps two 298 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:08.039 three dozen of pambondy friends and family to witness her 299 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.279 swearing in. This was the first swearing in that was 300 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.519 conducted in the Oval office of President Trump's second term 301 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.240 in office. I was there and even got a question 302 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:20.759 that I that I asked of both the President and 303 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:23.919 the new Attorney General about what the priorities of the 304 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:27.440 Department of Justice will be now that Pambondy has been 305 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.840 confirmed and sworn in as the new age. I got 306 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.200 a very generic answer from both the President and from 307 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:36.080 the Attorney General Amy, but it's always, you know, great 308 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.440 to get a question answered by the President, and particularly 309 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:39.480 in the Oval office. 310 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.279 Yeah, so for people who only see him, like when 311 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.399 the cameras are what the cameras were on, because I 312 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.159 saw that swearing in ceremony that you're talking about. But 313 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.240 did they turn the cameras off and then you had 314 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:52.799 some time to talk to them or was it all 315 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:53.840 very official. 316 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:59.159 Yesterday, Oh, very official. So the ceremony takes place, the President, 317 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:03.120 as you saw yesterday, made some remarks, sworn it, then 318 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.960 Pambondi sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Then 319 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:12.359 Pambonni made some remarks, and that's when the President took 320 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:16.079 two questions, one for me, and then were ushered out. 321 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:17.519 We're ushered out of that room. 322 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.400 Qui as you can, thank you for coming, as you. 323 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:23.319 Can imagine, Yeah, thanks for coming, thank you exactly ushered 324 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:26.240 out of there. You know, that's not a surprise. Sometimes 325 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.960 he's the president is very talkative in the Oval office, 326 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:33.720 and you know, during the course of his second term, 327 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:36.640 sometimes he speaks for a full twenty twenty five minutes 328 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:39.680 and they're taking questions. I think yesterday is because of 329 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:42.079 the nature of why we were in there, which was 330 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.680 this swearing in. Just didn't want to talk about other topics, 331 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.960 and that's why my question focused on the reason why 332 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.519 we're in the Oval office in the first place, and 333 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.119 that was the swearing in of his new attorney general. 334 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:58.799 I'm always interested and fascinated John when they do these. 335 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:04.000 The reporter and he takes questions and it's obviously kind 336 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.599 of what they're there for. And like you mentioned, he 337 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:08.960 was there for one specific thing and then a reporter 338 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:12.599 or use asks something like just like something out of 339 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:14.000 the blue that has nothing. 340 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:15.839 To do with anything that they're trying to talk about. 341 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.000 I would imagine that's frustrating for anybody who's in office. 342 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:24.400 Well, it's frustrating sometimes when we want to focus on 343 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:28.279 what is the news of the day, and so sometimes 344 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:31.000 you have to be able to read the room. That's 345 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.960 the way I describe it, and I've said this to 346 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:38.279 my fellow reporters sometimes. You know, maybe it's because I've 347 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:41.799 been a White House correspondent going back to Bill Clinton's 348 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.519 first term in office. I've got a good sense of 349 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:46.839 the room. I've got a good sense of the president, 350 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.839 whoever it is, and I can tell if the president's 351 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.200 in a talkative mood, if he wants to take on 352 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:55.440 other subjects or not. And yesterday was one of those 353 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:57.920 days where he just wanted to talk about Pam Bondy, 354 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.079 the Department of Justice, the fact that she's just been 355 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:04.119 sworn in. He didn't want to talk about Gaza, for instance. 356 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:06.799 He didn't want to talk about Doge, and you just 357 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:09.480 wanted to focus on that, and sometimes if you want 358 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:12.000 to get a question answered, that's the reason why you 359 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:13.880 have to narrow the focus of your question. 360 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:16.200 Okay, okay, So then I have one last question for you, 361 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:19.599 because I have been, of course to the replica Oval 362 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:23.839 Office at the Raven Presidential Library, but I obviously haven't 363 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.160 been to the real one. Is what's it like in 364 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:27.960 the real one. Is there just another room or is 365 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.680 there really like this feeling about it? 366 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:34.279 No, it's a special room, you know. I mean, think 367 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.079 about all the presidents who've occupied the Oval Office, and 368 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:40.359 that is just why it's always been a thrill for 369 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:42.640 me to be in there. I've been in there dozens 370 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:46.440 of times over the years for various presidents. It never 371 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:47.119 gets old. 372 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:47.559 Amy. 373 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:50.119 And by the way, the Oval Office it looks the 374 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:53.759 same from Donald Trump's first term in office. Same desk, 375 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.960 same rug, same curtains. He put it back the way 376 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.000 it was when he left office and handed the keys 377 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:04.599 over to Joe Biden. Well, now he has the keys 378 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:06.640 and he put it back exactly the way it was 379 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:09.039 during his first term in the White House. 380 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:11.720 Well, he definitely has his own sense of style, so 381 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:13.680 that's not not really surprising. 382 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:17.599 But Kfi's White House course. But in John, ya go ahead. 383 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:19.799 Amy, if I may, if I may, I'm so sorry 384 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.039 just because you just made me think of something happens. 385 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:27.920 Taking first term, He's looking around the Oval Office and 386 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:31.119 he says, you know what, it doesn't look exactly the 387 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:33.039 way I want it. So he got the people that 388 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:36.240 you know, change light bulbs in there, and now it 389 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:42.079 has this engraved gold presidential sealed doorknob to get into 390 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:44.680 the Oval Office. That is an addition made by President 391 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:45.319 Donald Trump. 392 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:46.400 I love it. I love it. 393 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:48.400 See that's what Those are the things we learn when 394 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:50.519 we get to talk to you. Kfi's White House courspondent 395 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:52.480 John Decker, thank you so much for the information. 396 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:54.960 Thanks Amy, talk to you soon. 397 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:56.240 Dodger Star Show. 398 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:59.680 Hee Otani's former interpreter is do in court today to 399 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:03.599 be said for bank and tax fraud. Ibe Mitzuhara pleaded 400 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:07.039 guilty to stealing nearly seventeen million dollars from Otani to 401 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.319