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 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:15.759 KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 4 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:17.960 It's time for your morning wake up call. 5 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:22.600 Here's Amy King. 6 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:31.399 Good morning, It's five o'clock. This is your wake up 7 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:36.119 call for Thursday, June nineteenth. I'm Amy King live everywhere 8 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:37.679 on the iHeartRadio app. 9 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:39.520 It's juneteenth. 10 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:44.000 Hopefully that means will we're gonna have light traffic today 11 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:45.840 because that's stuff clothes. 12 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:46.960 It's looking that way. 13 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:50.280 Good, yeah, good, nice, easy. Hopefully. 14 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.960 There's actually lots of cool June teen celebrations going on 15 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:58.600 around the south Land. And I ask producer, and you 16 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:00.799 really understand what June teenth that's all about? 17 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:02.560 And she was like that not super clear. So we're 18 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:04.519 going to dig into that a little bit at the 19 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:05.239 bottom of the hour. 20 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:10.000 It's fascinating, fascinating and tragic at the same time. 21 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:15.560 Yes, yes, you're looking at me like I'm not awaken. 22 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.439 I'm sorry. Okay, here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. 23 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.760 The Bus family has reportedly agreed to sell its majority 24 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.599 ownership of the Lakers to Dodgers Call owner Mark Walter 25 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.719 for ten billion dollars. ESPN says Genie Buss is going 26 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:33.519 to remain team governor to the NBA, so she'll still 27 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:35.000 have a place on the team. 28 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:36.719 If it does go through. 29 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.319 The deal will be the highest priced sale of a 30 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:44.159 pro pro sport franchise in the world. The Dodgers are 31 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:47.599 going to announce plans to assist LA's immigrant communities. The 32 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.040 team's been taking some heat on social media for not 33 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:53.120 taking a stance on the ongoing immigration enforcement around LA. 34 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.879 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO says Iran will pay a 35 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:00.959 heavy price after a missile hit a hospital in southern Israel. 36 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.920 Dozens of people, including children, were injured. Israel and Iran 37 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:07.280 have been hitting each other with missiles for nearly a week. 38 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.240 Hundreds have been killed in Iran, dozens have been killed 39 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.080 in Israel. Is the US going to get involved in 40 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.800 the conflict. Well, we'll get the latest from ABC's Karen 41 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:17.879 Travers at the White House that's coming up in about 42 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:20.680 three minutes. The jury has come back with a not 43 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.879 guilty verdict for Karen Reid. She was accused of running 44 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:26.520 over her police officer boyfriend and then leaving him to 45 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:29.560 die in the Snow. ABC's crime and terror analyst Brad 46 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:31.199 Garrett is going to join us at five twenty to 47 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.479 tell us how lawyers convinced the jury that she didn't 48 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:38.120 kill him, and ABC's Jim Ryan joins us right before 49 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:40.319 the top of the hour a five point fifty about 50 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.919 how that former police chief in Arkansas got out and 51 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:45.599 stayed out of prison for so long before he was recaptured. 52 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.159 A man on the lamb, those escape stories are always 53 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:51.680 so fascinating to me. Let's get started with some of 54 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.439 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 55 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:57.599 A controlling stake of the LA Lakers is being sold 56 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.000 for a record setting ten billion dollars. 57 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.960 The Bus family is handing over majority ownerships to billionaire 58 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.719 Mark Walter, already a key figure in LA Sports as 59 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:08.080 co owner of the Dodgers. Genie Buss will stay on 60 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.919 as team governor, preserving a link to her family's legacy. 61 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:13.439 Matt money Smith, from kfi's sister station AM five to 62 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.439 seventy LA Sports, says Walter's deep pockets will only help 63 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:17.360 the Lakers. 64 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.520 And Mark Walter. You're talking about the Guggenheim Group and 65 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:24.400 tens of billions of dollars worth of just straight cash 66 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.120 that they can pump into the team Money. 67 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:27.520 Says, that's good news for fans. 68 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:29.159 Yeah, I think you'll see that the fan base of 69 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.000 each recognized, Oh wow, this is going to kind of 70 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.360 put us more on the same level as opposed to 71 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:35.360 the Lakers being a step behind the Dodgers. 72 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.560 The Blockbuster deal marks the biggest sale in US sports history. 73 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:43.680 Heather Brooker KFI News, that's a lot of dope. Lakers legend. 74 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:46.919 Magic Johnson has praised the news of the Lakers sale, 75 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:49.919 calling Mark Walter the perfect choice to carry on the 76 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.319 bus legacy. Johnson cited his shared success with Walter and 77 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.879 the Dodgers, saying that Genie Buss made the right call 78 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.120 and can now comfortably pass the baton to a trusted 79 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:02.199 friend and business partner. LA City Hall has agreed to 80 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.840 lend millions to the LAPD to cover recent overtime costs. 81 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:08.639 Emergency Move takes five million dollars out of the city's 82 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:10.800 reserves and offers it to the police as a loan. 83 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:14.960 Kelslman John Lee says the recent demonstrations against immigration enforcement 84 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.720 have stretched the LAPD's resources, forcing many to work overtime. 85 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:21.319 This is going to allow us to pay for the 86 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:25.199 overtime that was again unexpected by LPD, but unfortunately it 87 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:27.399 had to be spent. The city administrator has been tasked 88 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:29.319 with the payback plan to get that money back in 89 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.079 the reserves. It's estimated the protest have so far cost 90 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.439 the city in total close to twenty million dollars. Michael 91 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:37.120 Monks KFI News, the. 92 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:41.120 Los Angeles Press Club, and two news organizations have sued 93 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:46.000 La County, claiming the County Sheriff's Department targeted members of 94 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.000 the media with non lethal but dangerous munitions and used 95 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:53.680 excessive force against its members covering the anti ICE protests. 96 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:57.000 A similar suit was filed earlier in the week against LAPD. 97 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:05.920 Hell By, the woman who sang the national anthem in 98 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.160 Spanish at a Dodgers game over the weekend, has been 99 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.279 honored at La City Hall. Nesa says the team asked 100 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.680 her not to sing the Spanish version. La City Councilwoman 101 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:18.240 Monica Rodriguez has Nessa took a courageous stand for Latinos 102 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.160 in the wake of widespread immigration enforcement. 103 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:25.319 We are the majority of faces in the city of 104 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.879 Los Angeles. We are what keeps this economy moving across 105 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:29.639 this country. 106 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.759 We are what makes Los Angeles strong. 107 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.680 Nesa said she was banned from Dodgers Stadium after the performance. 108 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:38.600 The Dodgers have disputed that. 109 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:42.759 Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers at 110 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:48.720 the White House. Good morning, Karen, So, Israel is continuing 111 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:52.360 to pound Iran. Iran is firing back missiles at Israel. 112 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.680 They just hit a hospital in southern Israel. President Trump 113 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.040 has met with his national security team. So where does 114 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.480 the US stand on possibly getting involved? 115 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:01.680 Yeah? 116 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.720 The President said yesterday that he said I haven't made 117 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.000 the final and I'd like to make. 118 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:10.279 The final decision one second before it's due, because he 119 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.800 said things change, especially with war. Sources tell us that 120 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:18.680 the President has approved attack plans for Iran, but he 121 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:21.560 has not decided yet whether to move forward with them. 122 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:23.879 He is said to be waiting to see if Iran 123 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.759 would be willing to discuss ending its nuclear program. 124 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:29.879 That's according to sources familiar with the matter. 125 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.480 Yesterday, when he was asked about the possibility of taking 126 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.639 military action against Iran, the President said, I may do it, 127 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:37.759 I may not do it. 128 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:40.240 Nobody knows what I'm going to do, but he said 129 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.920 I can tell you this. Iran's got a lot of trouble. 130 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.600 The President's been under a lot of pressure from Israeli 131 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:49.000 Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyahu to get more involved in this 132 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.560 military effort. The United States is the only country that 133 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:56.079 has that thirty thousand pound bunker buster bomb that has 134 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:01.399 the capability of getting deep into Iran's underground new enrichment facility. 135 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:02.439 It's inside a. 136 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.240 Mountain, it's protected by thick concrete, and that's what the 137 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.040 President said to be considering as an. 138 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:11.720 Option to take that out to really hamper to their. 139 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.639 Possibility of building and sustaining a nuclear program. 140 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:21.319 So when when they talk about the US getting involved in, 141 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.680 President which is sort of the hallmark of his presidency, 142 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:26.560 I might, I might not, And nobody's going to know 143 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:30.959 until I make the decision. Could it be, or do 144 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.240 you hear any rumblings that it? Could it be that 145 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:35.439 it's just like a one time thing. We're sending in 146 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:39.319 the bomber with the with the bunker buster and it's 147 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:41.680 a one time thing and then we're out again. 148 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:43.360 Could be? 149 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.680 I mean, that depends I think on what Iran does. 150 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:50.000 They certainly promised retaliation, saying you know that the Americans 151 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.439 should know that Iran will not surrender and any intervention 152 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:56.600 by the US would be met with a forceful response 153 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.319 and irreparable damage. That was a message from the supremem leader. 154 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.639 So you know, that is the next potential stage. Then 155 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:09.959 if the Iranians target US personnel in the region, US assets, 156 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:13.040 whether it's bases or embassies, things like that, then what 157 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.360 happens next? And is the United States drawn into this? 158 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:17.800 That is a big question. 159 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.000 It's a big unknown, and it's certainly something that many 160 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.720 within the president's own party are very concerned about right now. 161 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.199 Yeah, and so there are because we may forget that 162 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:32.360 we've got is it thousands of troops over very close 163 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:33.000 to where all. 164 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:35.840 Of this is, forty thousand in the region. 165 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.159 Yeah, so Iran wouldn't have to come here. They could 166 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:44.360 attack troops there. And what about like diplomats, people at 167 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:46.559 embassies and that kind of thing that there would they 168 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:47.600 become targets as well? 169 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:49.320 Possibly they could be. 170 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.240 I mean that's not for me to either say, but 171 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.120 some American diplomats and family members who are authorized to 172 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.360 leave in Israel are now being thrown out of the 173 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:01.360 country by the US military as part of the concern 174 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:02.639 of what could potentially happen. 175 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:05.039 Okay, and then I know you've got about ten seconds. 176 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:08.759 What's the vibe on Capitol Hill? Is it support for 177 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.120 intervention or kind of a hands off attitude? 178 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.159 You know, I think that there are some within the 179 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.080 President's party who are concerned. This is a president who 180 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:23.720 ran against new wars, against foreign engagement. There are Democrats 181 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.440 who are concerned about this too. I think the interesting 182 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.360 thing to see too is that beyond Capitol Hill and lawmakers, 183 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:33.000 but just a divide within, like the MAGA Coalition, some 184 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:34.759 very vocal against this. 185 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:38.360 The President seemed to brush this off yesterday, saying, you 186 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:40.799 know that this isn't his choice to do this either, 187 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.360 but if it's a choice between fighting and Iran having 188 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:45.480 a nuclear weapon, he said, you have to do what 189 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:46.080 you have to do. 190 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.639 Okay. ABC's Karen Travis at the White House. Thanks so much. 191 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.000 Have a great day, you two thinks. 192 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:52.720 All right, let's get back to some of the stories 193 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.080 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Just 194 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.600 getting word into the KFI newsroom that Hurricane Eric has 195 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.960 made landfall in western Wahaka, Mexico. It's now turned up 196 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:06.320 to a Category four storm and just to like an 197 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.679 hour or two ago, it was a category three. It's 198 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:13.080 packing one hundred and forty miles per hour wins. Israeli 199 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.720 Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu has condemned the Iranian strike on 200 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.279 the main hospital in southern Israel. He says Israel will 201 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.080 exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran. The 202 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.519 hospital said the strike caused extensive damage. The IDFs Brigadier 203 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:30.480 General Fi Defrin says dozens of people were hurt. 204 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:36.679 This hospital serves over one million Israelis, including Bedwins, Jews, Christians, 205 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:37.840 and Arabs alike. 206 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:41.159 The hospital was closed after the strike except for life 207 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:44.320 threatening cases. Iran's Foreign minister is said to meet with 208 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:48.559 his European counterparts in Geneva as Israeli airstrikes continue to 209 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.480 target Iran. The country's state run news agency says that 210 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.360 the foreign minister will travel to Switzerland for meetings tomorrow. 211 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.000 US Capitol police say. 212 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:02.000 Pizzas are being sent anonymously to lawmakers across the country. 213 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.679 ABC's Stephen Portnoys's authorities are trying to figure out who's 214 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:06.200 sending them. 215 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.960 Pizzas have been anonymously sent to the homes of lawmakers 216 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:12.080 both Republicans and Democrats in the House, as well as 217 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:14.759 the current and former leadership of the US Capitol Police. 218 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.399 In the wake of the Minnesota state lawmaker shootings, the 219 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:19.840 pizza deliveries are now being viewed as a more alarming 220 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:23.080 tacit threat that the anonymous center knows where an official lives. 221 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:26.639 Capitol Police call the unsolicited pizza deliveries troubling. 222 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:31.320 Yeah, that would be pretty freaky, very strange. Although if 223 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.759 you're hungry, I would eat them. I'm just saying you 224 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:36.559 to eat a pizza from an anonymous person. 225 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.279 Heck, yeah, okay, Well we have to have a talk 226 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:42.799 off the air, okay. The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's 227 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:47.120 ban on gender affirming care for transgender children. ABC's Devin 228 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.559 Dwyer says Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative 229 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.320 majority that the law banning puberty blockers and hormone treatments 230 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:58.919 for transmners does not violate the Constitution's Equal Protection clause. 231 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.919 Just as Sonya sotam I origined by the Liberals, really 232 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.480 dissented in sadness. 233 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:04.279 That was her word. 234 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.080 She read her descent aloud from the bench, which is 235 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.039 something that rarely happens. At the Supreme Court. 236 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.720 She said the decision will open the door to more 237 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:16.919 state discrimination against trans teens. An ACLU lawyer called the 238 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:21.159 decision a devastating loss for transgender people. The Federal Reserve 239 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:24.080 has left interest rates right where they are. This was 240 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:27.000 the fourth straight time interest rates have been left alone. 241 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.480 Rates are hovering between four and a quarter and four 242 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:33.840 and a half percent. President Trump has been pressuring FED 243 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.279 chair Jerome Powell to cut rates. He called Powell's rate 244 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:42.399 decision not to cut them stupid. New guidelines for alcohol 245 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.840 consumption could be a big change. 246 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.399 The US reportedly is about to change guidance on that 247 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:51.840 Reuters reporting the updated dietary guidelines for Americans will no 248 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:55.519 longer recommend limiting alcohol to one or two drinks a day. Instead, 249 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:57.960 it will suggest we simply drink in moderation. 250 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.759 ABC's Wing Habit says Canada has adopted a more cautious stance, 251 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:06.159 warning that health risks begin to increase after just two 252 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:10.039 drinks per week. Tomorrow will be the longest day of 253 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:10.399 the year. 254 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:13.080 The summer solstice falls on June twentieth in the US 255 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.200 and on the twenty first in Europe. On that day, 256 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:17.759 the earth will achieve its maximum tilt toward the sun, 257 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.519 allowing for more hours of sunlight in the northern Hemisphere 258 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:23.000 and kicking off the summer months. The closer you get 259 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.360 to the north Pole, the more extra sunlight you'll enjoy. 260 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.600 Residents in Fairbanks, Alaska, for instance, will see nearly twenty 261 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.720 two hours of daylight, and the southern hemisphere, meanwhile, Friday 262 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.440 will mark the winter solstice, making it the shortest day 263 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:36.679 of the year. Mark ronnor KFI News. 264 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.679 My brother and his girlfriend went up to Norway was 265 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.000 for the winter solstice, and they said it was the 266 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:45.720 most bizarre thing because I think they went north of 267 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:49.600 Norway and they said the sun never quite came up. 268 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.240 It got light, but it was always sort of that 269 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:54.600 twilight and they never actually saw the sun. 270 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.919 Even Alaska, it's fascinating in deep summer or the deep winter. 271 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:00.759 Just bizarre. Yeah. 272 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.399 Yeah, and some sunshine all the time. I mean, I 273 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:06.080 like me, I like some sunshine, but twenty two hours 274 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.600 a day, that's too much. The latest ice raids in 275 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:13.120 the Southland have targeted the Pasadena area. Congresswoman Judy Chu 276 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:17.159 says multiple operations were carried out in her district and 277 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:22.080 some residents may be being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. 278 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:24.639 Witnesses say they saw about a half dozen people being 279 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.559 taken into custody at a bus stop near an elementary school. 280 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.960 City officials say Pasadena police are not involved and do 281 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:35.559 not enforce federal immigration laws. Wildfire season could be a 282 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.000 tough one this year. Forecasters say high temperatures are expected, 283 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:42.840 the snowpack is melting quickly, and the landscape is drying out, 284 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:46.159 which increases the risk of fires. Forecasters say even small 285 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:49.200 fires could grow quickly. Fires are a threat pretty much 286 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:51.759 year round now in California, but peak fire season is 287 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:55.519 still June to October. Banks are closed, there's no mail, 288 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:58.279 the stock market is dark, and federal offices are closed. 289 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:02.360 For June teenth, national holiday marks the day June nineteenth, 290 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:06.120 eighteen sixty five that word finally reached to Texas that 291 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:09.679 the slaves had been freed. Word got to Texas more 292 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:14.399 than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Events 293 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:17.440 marking the holiday will be held in Alta, Dina, Palmdale, Pacoima, 294 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:21.679 and Manhattan Beach six oh five. It's handle on the news. 295 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:24.399 You can bet he'll be weighing in on what's happening 296 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:29.120 in Israel and Iran. Apparently the President has approved an 297 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.120 attack plan but hasn't said whether we're going to do 298 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.320 it or not. Let's say good morning now to ABC's 299 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:36.840 Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. 300 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:38.600 So, Brad, we just got. 301 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:42.240 Word yesterday that Karen Reid was found not guilty of 302 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:45.679 driving her car over her boyfriend and basically leaving her 303 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.039 for dead. In the first trial, it was a hung jury. 304 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:50.960 What was the difference in this trial? 305 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:54.840 I think the real key in me here is the 306 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:59.399 term beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury is told 307 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:03.759 that of times of if you have doubt, if you 308 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:08.320 have reasonable doubt, then you have to quote the person. 309 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.879 And I think in this case, and there's a lot 310 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.039 of facts and pieces of information that we don't have 311 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:16.679 time to go through, but I'm going to jump through 312 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:20.399 some of them for you as to why the jury 313 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:26.279 had some reasonable doubt. You go from how the crime 314 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:30.519 scene where o'keith that's the Boston p D police officer, 315 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:36.120 boyfriend of Karen Reid, where he was found. Apparently they 316 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:39.200 used Dixie cups to collect snow that had blooded them, 317 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:45.000 that didn't store it properly. The uh, this is a 318 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.039 party that I think presumably is just made up of 319 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:51.240 cops primarily that they send all sorts between each other 320 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:56.240 inappropriate text messages about Karen Reid. Two of the officers well, 321 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:59.600 I think was an ATF agent. They got their phones 322 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:02.679 to pen and they got rid of their phones. Now 323 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:05.440 and it goes on and on, these little things that 324 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:09.079 make the caves tarnished. And there were enough of them 325 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:15.519 in this case, including a Flarensi expert who contended that 326 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:21.160 Karen Reid's car did not the injuries to O'Keefe, the 327 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:25.720 victim in this case, are not consistent with the car 328 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:29.759 being driven over him and to give him severe head injuries. Now, 329 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.839 obviously the prosecution had somebody that said the opposite of that. 330 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.839 But the point being, all of these things were a 331 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:39.200 build up to the jury. That keep in mind, maybe 332 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:43.759 in the first trial that was a hung jury, the 333 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:48.519 jury said that they had already excluded murder in the 334 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.240 case and they were only hung up on manslaughter and 335 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.720 that's why they hung. So this is another great example 336 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.279 of did she do it? I think it's quite possible 337 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.119 she did do it, but it doesn't matter right because 338 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:04.240 the jury founder not guilty. She's acquitted, she's und free, 339 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:06.720 and that's why we have the system we have. You know, 340 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.440 if the system doesn't do what it's supposed to do, 341 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:12.680 things like this, unfortunately can happen. 342 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.680 So the jury might think, yeah, we think she did it, 343 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.440 but there were not one hundred percent sure, and so 344 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:22.039 then they can't come back with the guilty verdict. 345 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.319 Is just all right, I mean if the key is 346 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.799 beyond a reasonable doubt, I mean there is some there 347 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.079 is some reasonable doubt here between what forensic guests vers 348 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:37.720 are saying through. You know, what they found apparently on 349 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:42.880 the bumper of Karen's car was hair of who keeps 350 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:46.759 the boyfriend? Now I think they lived together. He probably 351 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:49.920 drove that car, so I have to know more context 352 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:52.000 about where it was found out it was found, what 353 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.319 part of his body, the hair probably came from all 354 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:57.599 those things that we don't know at this point. But 355 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:00.799 it's you know, and that's what you have the system. 356 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.519 I mean, you don't want people convicted of if there's 357 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.920 a possibility they didn't do it. But you know, in 358 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:10.079 this case, I you know, I don't know. I mean, 359 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:12.559 if it had all been done properly and you didn't 360 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:16.039 have all the shenanigans by the police. You know, she 361 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:17.480 may well have been found guilty. 362 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:22.279 So interesting, so interesting, and like stuff like picking up 363 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.920 the blood in the snow with a dixie cup. I mean, 364 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:28.839 did they come back and say, why didn't we wait 365 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.000 for the forensics people to get there? Were they worried 366 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:33.079 that this that the snow was going to melt and 367 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:34.079 they wouldn't have the evidence? 368 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:36.079 I mean what, I. 369 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:38.839 Don't clearly the snow wasn't going to melt. I mean 370 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:43.440 you're talking boss in the middle. Yeah, the idea that 371 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:46.200 that's going to melt any time since. So, I don't know. 372 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:48.839 I'd love to know the backstory. And my guess is 373 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:53.279 one of these cool investigative reporters that have followed this case, 374 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:56.799 we'll write a book about this and then we'll know more. 375 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:01.119 But it's it is a fascinating case, and it's, let's 376 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.759 face it, this is not the kind of murder case 377 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.480 that typically you and I would talk about. But because 378 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:09.480 it has so many twists and turns, and because of 379 00:20:09.559 --> 00:20:13.480 a snake a little little national and I think international 380 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:16.960 interest in the case, here we are talking about it. 381 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:20.720 Yeah, and just real quick, you mentioned the texts that 382 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:25.599 were not favorable toward Karen Reid. So do the the 383 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:28.319 other officers just didn't like their didn't like her, didn't 384 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:31.000 like their relationship, or were some of those. 385 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:34.920 Yeah, I mean, I think they believe that she clearly 386 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:39.119 did drive over him. You know. Another discrepancy is that, yes, 387 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:41.319 she had a broken tail light, she did go back. 388 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:44.119 What happened is when he didn't come home. Obviously he's 389 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:46.440 not coming home, but he didn't come home. She starts 390 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:49.880 frantically texting him, calling girlfriends, and they go back at 391 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.680 like five thirty six in the morning to the house 392 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:56.039 and they start searching the grounds and they Karen actually 393 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:59.799 finds them, you know, which some people thought was interesting 394 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:02.160 how she know where to look because he was covered 395 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:05.240 with snow. But you know, be that what it made. 396 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:09.240 There's a real debate about her tail light that when 397 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:13.000 her car was finally seized, and it wasn't seized by 398 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:16.079 the police for a period of time days maybe weeks, 399 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:19.440 certainly days that the officer deceives that says her tail 400 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:22.519 light actually was cracked but not broken. So you get 401 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.839