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Speaker 1: call for Thursday, June nineteenth. I'm Amy King live everywhere
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Speaker 3: It's juneteenth.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that means will we're gonna have light traffic today
Speaker 1: because that's stuff clothes.
Speaker 5: It's looking that way.
Speaker 3: Good, yeah, good, nice, easy. Hopefully.
Speaker 1: There's actually lots of cool June teen celebrations going on
Speaker 1: around the south Land. And I ask producer, and you
Speaker 1: really understand what June teenth that's all about?
Speaker 3: And she was like that not super clear. So we're
Speaker 3: going to dig into that a little bit at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating, fascinating and tragic at the same time.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you're looking at me like I'm not awaken.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Okay, here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1: The Bus family has reportedly agreed to sell its majority
Speaker 1: ownership of the Lakers to Dodgers Call owner Mark Walter
Speaker 1: for ten billion dollars. ESPN says Genie Buss is going
Speaker 1: to remain team governor to the NBA, so she'll still
Speaker 1: have a place on the team.
Speaker 3: If it does go through.
Speaker 1: The deal will be the highest priced sale of a
Speaker 1: pro pro sport franchise in the world. The Dodgers are
Speaker 1: going to announce plans to assist LA's immigrant communities. The
Speaker 1: team's been taking some heat on social media for not
Speaker 1: taking a stance on the ongoing immigration enforcement around LA.
Speaker 1: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO says Iran will pay a
Speaker 1: heavy price after a missile hit a hospital in southern Israel.
Speaker 1: Dozens of people, including children, were injured. Israel and Iran
Speaker 1: have been hitting each other with missiles for nearly a week.
Speaker 1: Hundreds have been killed in Iran, dozens have been killed
Speaker 1: in Israel. Is the US going to get involved in
Speaker 1: the conflict. Well, we'll get the latest from ABC's Karen
Speaker 1: Travers at the White House that's coming up in about
Speaker 1: three minutes. The jury has come back with a not
Speaker 1: guilty verdict for Karen Reid. She was accused of running
Speaker 1: over her police officer boyfriend and then leaving him to
Speaker 1: die in the Snow. ABC's crime and terror analyst Brad
Speaker 1: Garrett is going to join us at five twenty to
Speaker 1: tell us how lawyers convinced the jury that she didn't
Speaker 1: kill him, and ABC's Jim Ryan joins us right before
Speaker 1: the top of the hour a five point fifty about
Speaker 1: how that former police chief in Arkansas got out and
Speaker 1: stayed out of prison for so long before he was recaptured.
Speaker 1: A man on the lamb, those escape stories are always
Speaker 1: so fascinating to me. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: A controlling stake of the LA Lakers is being sold
Speaker 1: for a record setting ten billion dollars.
Speaker 6: The Bus family is handing over majority ownerships to billionaire
Speaker 6: Mark Walter, already a key figure in LA Sports as
Speaker 6: co owner of the Dodgers. Genie Buss will stay on
Speaker 6: as team governor, preserving a link to her family's legacy.
Speaker 6: Matt money Smith, from kfi's sister station AM five to
Speaker 6: seventy LA Sports, says Walter's deep pockets will only help
Speaker 6: the Lakers.
Speaker 7: And Mark Walter. You're talking about the Guggenheim Group and
Speaker 7: tens of billions of dollars worth of just straight cash
Speaker 7: that they can pump into the team Money.
Speaker 3: Says, that's good news for fans.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you'll see that the fan base of
Speaker 7: each recognized, Oh wow, this is going to kind of
Speaker 7: put us more on the same level as opposed to
Speaker 7: the Lakers being a step behind the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: The Blockbuster deal marks the biggest sale in US sports history.
Speaker 3: Heather Brooker KFI News, that's a lot of dope. Lakers legend.
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson has praised the news of the Lakers sale,
Speaker 1: calling Mark Walter the perfect choice to carry on the
Speaker 1: bus legacy. Johnson cited his shared success with Walter and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, saying that Genie Buss made the right call
Speaker 1: and can now comfortably pass the baton to a trusted
Speaker 1: friend and business partner. LA City Hall has agreed to
Speaker 1: lend millions to the LAPD to cover recent overtime costs.
Speaker 8: Emergency Move takes five million dollars out of the city's
Speaker 8: reserves and offers it to the police as a loan.
Speaker 8: Kelslman John Lee says the recent demonstrations against immigration enforcement
Speaker 8: have stretched the LAPD's resources, forcing many to work overtime.
Speaker 8: This is going to allow us to pay for the
Speaker 8: overtime that was again unexpected by LPD, but unfortunately it
Speaker 8: had to be spent. The city administrator has been tasked
Speaker 8: with the payback plan to get that money back in
Speaker 8: the reserves. It's estimated the protest have so far cost
Speaker 8: the city in total close to twenty million dollars. Michael
Speaker 8: Monks KFI News, the.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Press Club, and two news organizations have sued
Speaker 1: La County, claiming the County Sheriff's Department targeted members of
Speaker 1: the media with non lethal but dangerous munitions and used
Speaker 1: excessive force against its members covering the anti ICE protests.
Speaker 1: A similar suit was filed earlier in the week against LAPD.
Speaker 1: Hell By, the woman who sang the national anthem in
Speaker 1: Spanish at a Dodgers game over the weekend, has been
Speaker 1: honored at La City Hall. Nesa says the team asked
Speaker 1: her not to sing the Spanish version. La City Councilwoman
Speaker 1: Monica Rodriguez has Nessa took a courageous stand for Latinos
Speaker 1: in the wake of widespread immigration enforcement.
Speaker 9: We are the majority of faces in the city of
Speaker 9: Los Angeles. We are what keeps this economy moving across
Speaker 9: this country.
Speaker 3: We are what makes Los Angeles strong.
Speaker 1: Nesa said she was banned from Dodgers Stadium after the performance.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers have disputed that.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers at
Speaker 1: the White House. Good morning, Karen, So, Israel is continuing
Speaker 1: to pound Iran. Iran is firing back missiles at Israel.
Speaker 1: They just hit a hospital in southern Israel. President Trump
Speaker 1: has met with his national security team. So where does
Speaker 1: the US stand on possibly getting involved?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 11: The President said yesterday that he said I haven't made
Speaker 11: the final and I'd like to make.
Speaker 12: The final decision one second before it's due, because he
Speaker 12: said things change, especially with war. Sources tell us that
Speaker 12: the President has approved attack plans for Iran, but he
Speaker 12: has not decided yet whether to move forward with them.
Speaker 12: He is said to be waiting to see if Iran
Speaker 12: would be willing to discuss ending its nuclear program.
Speaker 11: That's according to sources familiar with the matter.
Speaker 12: Yesterday, when he was asked about the possibility of taking
Speaker 12: military action against Iran, the President said, I may do it,
Speaker 12: I may not do it.
Speaker 11: Nobody knows what I'm going to do, but he said
Speaker 11: I can tell you this. Iran's got a lot of trouble.
Speaker 12: The President's been under a lot of pressure from Israeli
Speaker 12: Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyahu to get more involved in this
Speaker 12: military effort. The United States is the only country that
Speaker 12: has that thirty thousand pound bunker buster bomb that has
Speaker 12: the capability of getting deep into Iran's underground new enrichment facility.
Speaker 11: It's inside a.
Speaker 12: Mountain, it's protected by thick concrete, and that's what the
Speaker 12: President said to be considering as an.
Speaker 11: Option to take that out to really hamper to their.
Speaker 12: Possibility of building and sustaining a nuclear program.
Speaker 1: So when when they talk about the US getting involved in,
Speaker 1: President which is sort of the hallmark of his presidency,
Speaker 1: I might, I might not, And nobody's going to know
Speaker 1: until I make the decision. Could it be, or do
Speaker 1: you hear any rumblings that it? Could it be that
Speaker 1: it's just like a one time thing. We're sending in
Speaker 1: the bomber with the with the bunker buster and it's
Speaker 1: a one time thing and then we're out again.
Speaker 10: Could be?
Speaker 12: I mean, that depends I think on what Iran does.
Speaker 12: They certainly promised retaliation, saying you know that the Americans
Speaker 12: should know that Iran will not surrender and any intervention
Speaker 12: by the US would be met with a forceful response
Speaker 12: and irreparable damage. That was a message from the supremem leader.
Speaker 12: So you know, that is the next potential stage. Then
Speaker 12: if the Iranians target US personnel in the region, US assets,
Speaker 12: whether it's bases or embassies, things like that, then what
Speaker 12: happens next? And is the United States drawn into this?
Speaker 11: That is a big question.
Speaker 12: It's a big unknown, and it's certainly something that many
Speaker 12: within the president's own party are very concerned about right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so there are because we may forget that
Speaker 1: we've got is it thousands of troops over very close
Speaker 1: to where all.
Speaker 11: Of this is, forty thousand in the region.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Iran wouldn't have to come here. They could
Speaker 1: attack troops there. And what about like diplomats, people at
Speaker 1: embassies and that kind of thing that there would they
Speaker 1: become targets as well?
Speaker 3: Possibly they could be.
Speaker 12: I mean that's not for me to either say, but
Speaker 12: some American diplomats and family members who are authorized to
Speaker 12: leave in Israel are now being thrown out of the
Speaker 12: country by the US military as part of the concern
Speaker 12: of what could potentially happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then I know you've got about ten seconds.
Speaker 1: What's the vibe on Capitol Hill? Is it support for
Speaker 1: intervention or kind of a hands off attitude?
Speaker 12: You know, I think that there are some within the
Speaker 12: President's party who are concerned. This is a president who
Speaker 12: ran against new wars, against foreign engagement. There are Democrats
Speaker 12: who are concerned about this too. I think the interesting
Speaker 12: thing to see too is that beyond Capitol Hill and lawmakers,
Speaker 12: but just a divide within, like the MAGA Coalition, some
Speaker 12: very vocal against this.
Speaker 11: The President seemed to brush this off yesterday, saying, you
Speaker 11: know that this isn't his choice to do this either,
Speaker 11: but if it's a choice between fighting and Iran having
Speaker 11: a nuclear weapon, he said, you have to do what
Speaker 11: you have to do.
Speaker 3: Okay. ABC's Karen Travis at the White House. Thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Have a great day, you two thinks.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Just
Speaker 1: getting word into the KFI newsroom that Hurricane Eric has
Speaker 1: made landfall in western Wahaka, Mexico. It's now turned up
Speaker 1: to a Category four storm and just to like an
Speaker 1: hour or two ago, it was a category three. It's
Speaker 1: packing one hundred and forty miles per hour wins. Israeli
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu has condemned the Iranian strike on
Speaker 1: the main hospital in southern Israel. He says Israel will
Speaker 1: exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran. The
Speaker 1: hospital said the strike caused extensive damage. The IDFs Brigadier
Speaker 1: General Fi Defrin says dozens of people were hurt.
Speaker 7: This hospital serves over one million Israelis, including Bedwins, Jews, Christians,
Speaker 7: and Arabs alike.
Speaker 1: The hospital was closed after the strike except for life
Speaker 1: threatening cases. Iran's Foreign minister is said to meet with
Speaker 1: his European counterparts in Geneva as Israeli airstrikes continue to
Speaker 1: target Iran. The country's state run news agency says that
Speaker 1: the foreign minister will travel to Switzerland for meetings tomorrow.
Speaker 3: US Capitol police say.
Speaker 1: Pizzas are being sent anonymously to lawmakers across the country.
Speaker 1: ABC's Stephen Portnoys's authorities are trying to figure out who's
Speaker 1: sending them.
Speaker 13: Pizzas have been anonymously sent to the homes of lawmakers
Speaker 13: both Republicans and Democrats in the House, as well as
Speaker 13: the current and former leadership of the US Capitol Police.
Speaker 13: In the wake of the Minnesota state lawmaker shootings, the
Speaker 13: pizza deliveries are now being viewed as a more alarming
Speaker 13: tacit threat that the anonymous center knows where an official lives.
Speaker 1: Capitol Police call the unsolicited pizza deliveries troubling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be pretty freaky, very strange. Although if
Speaker 3: you're hungry, I would eat them. I'm just saying you
Speaker 3: to eat a pizza from an anonymous person.
Speaker 1: Heck, yeah, okay, Well we have to have a talk
Speaker 1: off the air, okay. The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee's
Speaker 1: ban on gender affirming care for transgender children. ABC's Devin
Speaker 1: Dwyer says Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative
Speaker 1: majority that the law banning puberty blockers and hormone treatments
Speaker 1: for transmners does not violate the Constitution's Equal Protection clause.
Speaker 14: Just as Sonya sotam I origined by the Liberals, really
Speaker 14: dissented in sadness.
Speaker 3: That was her word.
Speaker 14: She read her descent aloud from the bench, which is
Speaker 14: something that rarely happens. At the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: She said the decision will open the door to more
Speaker 1: state discrimination against trans teens. An ACLU lawyer called the
Speaker 1: decision a devastating loss for transgender people. The Federal Reserve
Speaker 1: has left interest rates right where they are. This was
Speaker 1: the fourth straight time interest rates have been left alone.
Speaker 1: Rates are hovering between four and a quarter and four
Speaker 1: and a half percent. President Trump has been pressuring FED
Speaker 1: chair Jerome Powell to cut rates. He called Powell's rate
Speaker 1: decision not to cut them stupid. New guidelines for alcohol
Speaker 1: consumption could be a big change.
Speaker 4: The US reportedly is about to change guidance on that
Speaker 4: Reuters reporting the updated dietary guidelines for Americans will no
Speaker 4: longer recommend limiting alcohol to one or two drinks a day. Instead,
Speaker 4: it will suggest we simply drink in moderation.
Speaker 1: ABC's Wing Habit says Canada has adopted a more cautious stance,
Speaker 1: warning that health risks begin to increase after just two
Speaker 1: drinks per week. Tomorrow will be the longest day of
Speaker 1: the year.
Speaker 2: The summer solstice falls on June twentieth in the US
Speaker 2: and on the twenty first in Europe. On that day,
Speaker 2: the earth will achieve its maximum tilt toward the sun,
Speaker 2: allowing for more hours of sunlight in the northern Hemisphere
Speaker 2: and kicking off the summer months. The closer you get
Speaker 2: to the north Pole, the more extra sunlight you'll enjoy.
Speaker 2: Residents in Fairbanks, Alaska, for instance, will see nearly twenty
Speaker 2: two hours of daylight, and the southern hemisphere, meanwhile, Friday
Speaker 2: will mark the winter solstice, making it the shortest day
Speaker 2: of the year. Mark ronnor KFI News.
Speaker 1: My brother and his girlfriend went up to Norway was
Speaker 1: for the winter solstice, and they said it was the
Speaker 1: most bizarre thing because I think they went north of
Speaker 1: Norway and they said the sun never quite came up.
Speaker 1: It got light, but it was always sort of that
Speaker 1: twilight and they never actually saw the sun.
Speaker 5: Even Alaska, it's fascinating in deep summer or the deep winter.
Speaker 4: Just bizarre. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and some sunshine all the time. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like me, I like some sunshine, but twenty two hours
Speaker 1: a day, that's too much. The latest ice raids in
Speaker 1: the Southland have targeted the Pasadena area. Congresswoman Judy Chu
Speaker 1: says multiple operations were carried out in her district and
Speaker 1: some residents may be being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
Speaker 1: Witnesses say they saw about a half dozen people being
Speaker 1: taken into custody at a bus stop near an elementary school.
Speaker 1: City officials say Pasadena police are not involved and do
Speaker 1: not enforce federal immigration laws. Wildfire season could be a
Speaker 1: tough one this year. Forecasters say high temperatures are expected,
Speaker 1: the snowpack is melting quickly, and the landscape is drying out,
Speaker 1: which increases the risk of fires. Forecasters say even small
Speaker 1: fires could grow quickly. Fires are a threat pretty much
Speaker 1: year round now in California, but peak fire season is
Speaker 1: still June to October. Banks are closed, there's no mail,
Speaker 1: the stock market is dark, and federal offices are closed.
Speaker 1: For June teenth, national holiday marks the day June nineteenth,
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five that word finally reached to Texas that
Speaker 1: the slaves had been freed. Word got to Texas more
Speaker 1: than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Events
Speaker 1: marking the holiday will be held in Alta, Dina, Palmdale, Pacoima,
Speaker 1: and Manhattan Beach six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Speaker 1: You can bet he'll be weighing in on what's happening
Speaker 1: in Israel and Iran. Apparently the President has approved an
Speaker 1: attack plan but hasn't said whether we're going to do
Speaker 1: it or not. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 3: So, Brad, we just got.
Speaker 1: Word yesterday that Karen Reid was found not guilty of
Speaker 1: driving her car over her boyfriend and basically leaving her
Speaker 1: for dead. In the first trial, it was a hung jury.
Speaker 1: What was the difference in this trial?
Speaker 10: I think the real key in me here is the
Speaker 10: term beyond a reasonable doubt that the jury is told
Speaker 10: that of times of if you have doubt, if you
Speaker 10: have reasonable doubt, then you have to quote the person.
Speaker 10: And I think in this case, and there's a lot
Speaker 10: of facts and pieces of information that we don't have
Speaker 10: time to go through, but I'm going to jump through
Speaker 10: some of them for you as to why the jury
Speaker 10: had some reasonable doubt. You go from how the crime
Speaker 10: scene where o'keith that's the Boston p D police officer,
Speaker 10: boyfriend of Karen Reid, where he was found. Apparently they
Speaker 10: used Dixie cups to collect snow that had blooded them,
Speaker 10: that didn't store it properly. The uh, this is a
Speaker 10: party that I think presumably is just made up of
Speaker 10: cops primarily that they send all sorts between each other
Speaker 10: inappropriate text messages about Karen Reid. Two of the officers well,
Speaker 10: I think was an ATF agent. They got their phones
Speaker 10: to pen and they got rid of their phones. Now
Speaker 10: and it goes on and on, these little things that
Speaker 10: make the caves tarnished. And there were enough of them
Speaker 10: in this case, including a Flarensi expert who contended that
Speaker 10: Karen Reid's car did not the injuries to O'Keefe, the
Speaker 10: victim in this case, are not consistent with the car
Speaker 10: being driven over him and to give him severe head injuries. Now,
Speaker 10: obviously the prosecution had somebody that said the opposite of that.
Speaker 10: But the point being, all of these things were a
Speaker 10: build up to the jury. That keep in mind, maybe
Speaker 10: in the first trial that was a hung jury, the
Speaker 10: jury said that they had already excluded murder in the
Speaker 10: case and they were only hung up on manslaughter and
Speaker 10: that's why they hung. So this is another great example
Speaker 10: of did she do it? I think it's quite possible
Speaker 10: she did do it, but it doesn't matter right because
Speaker 10: the jury founder not guilty. She's acquitted, she's und free,
Speaker 10: and that's why we have the system we have. You know,
Speaker 10: if the system doesn't do what it's supposed to do,
Speaker 10: things like this, unfortunately can happen.
Speaker 1: So the jury might think, yeah, we think she did it,
Speaker 1: but there were not one hundred percent sure, and so
Speaker 1: then they can't come back with the guilty verdict.
Speaker 10: Is just all right, I mean if the key is
Speaker 10: beyond a reasonable doubt, I mean there is some there
Speaker 10: is some reasonable doubt here between what forensic guests vers
Speaker 10: are saying through. You know, what they found apparently on
Speaker 10: the bumper of Karen's car was hair of who keeps
Speaker 10: the boyfriend? Now I think they lived together. He probably
Speaker 10: drove that car, so I have to know more context
Speaker 10: about where it was found out it was found, what
Speaker 10: part of his body, the hair probably came from all
Speaker 10: those things that we don't know at this point. But
Speaker 10: it's you know, and that's what you have the system.
Speaker 10: I mean, you don't want people convicted of if there's
Speaker 10: a possibility they didn't do it. But you know, in
Speaker 10: this case, I you know, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 10: if it had all been done properly and you didn't
Speaker 10: have all the shenanigans by the police. You know, she
Speaker 10: may well have been found guilty.
Speaker 1: So interesting, so interesting, and like stuff like picking up
Speaker 1: the blood in the snow with a dixie cup. I mean,
Speaker 1: did they come back and say, why didn't we wait
Speaker 1: for the forensics people to get there? Were they worried
Speaker 1: that this that the snow was going to melt and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have the evidence?
Speaker 3: I mean what, I.
Speaker 10: Don't clearly the snow wasn't going to melt. I mean
Speaker 10: you're talking boss in the middle. Yeah, the idea that
Speaker 10: that's going to melt any time since. So, I don't know.
Speaker 10: I'd love to know the backstory. And my guess is
Speaker 10: one of these cool investigative reporters that have followed this case,
Speaker 10: we'll write a book about this and then we'll know more.
Speaker 10: But it's it is a fascinating case, and it's, let's
Speaker 10: face it, this is not the kind of murder case
Speaker 10: that typically you and I would talk about. But because
Speaker 10: it has so many twists and turns, and because of
Speaker 10: a snake a little little national and I think international
Speaker 10: interest in the case, here we are talking about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just real quick, you mentioned the texts that
Speaker 1: were not favorable toward Karen Reid. So do the the
Speaker 1: other officers just didn't like their didn't like her, didn't
Speaker 1: like their relationship, or were some of those.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think they believe that she clearly
Speaker 10: did drive over him. You know. Another discrepancy is that, yes,
Speaker 10: she had a broken tail light, she did go back.
Speaker 10: What happened is when he didn't come home. Obviously he's
Speaker 10: not coming home, but he didn't come home. She starts
Speaker 10: frantically texting him, calling girlfriends, and they go back at
Speaker 10: like five thirty six in the morning to the house
Speaker 10: and they start searching the grounds and they Karen actually
Speaker 10: finds them, you know, which some people thought was interesting
Speaker 10: how she know where to look because he was covered
Speaker 10: with snow. But you know, be that what it made.
Speaker 10: There's a real debate about her tail light that when
Speaker 10: her car was finally seized, and it wasn't seized by
Speaker 10: the police for a period of time days maybe weeks,
Speaker 10: certainly days that the officer deceives that says her tail
Speaker 10: light actually was cracked but not broken. So you get
Speaker 10: into then why are there pieces of a tail light
Speaker 10: at the scene, So again, more reasonable doubt stuff, I suppose, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So is she done I mean, or can can
Speaker 1: they retry her on anything or else?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 10: So she's und free, she's down free. I mean once
Speaker 10: you're once you're found that guilty, you it's all about
Speaker 10: double jeopardy, right, you can't be retried for something despite
Speaker 10: the fact that you know people may well believe that
Speaker 10: she did it. It doesn't matter legally. Now she does
Speaker 10: face just like an O. J. Simpson faced a civil
Speaker 10: trial a wrongful death. A civil trial though not may
Speaker 10: come up with diver verdict. We'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll be watching that. ABC's crime ter analyst Brad Garrett,
Speaker 1: thanks so much as.
Speaker 10: Always, welcome to take care of him.
Speaker 3: All right, I talked to you soon.
Speaker 1: A twelve year old boy has been killed when the
Speaker 1: car he was riding in crashed into a parked box
Speaker 1: truck in Sherman Oaks. The crash happened yesterday morning on
Speaker 1: North Woodman Avenue near moor Park Avenue. Three others were
Speaker 1: taken to hospitals. Leaders in Pico Rivera have condemned immigration
Speaker 1: raids at stores like Food for Less and Lows. The
Speaker 1: number of people detained is not known. Protests have followed,
Speaker 1: stretching from city Hall to Washington Boulevard. The mayor of
Speaker 1: Santa Anna is facing calls for her to step down.
Speaker 1: People who live in the city say they want the
Speaker 1: mayor to stand up for the immigrants who live there.
Speaker 15: Instead of notifying your city of ice presence, you chose
Speaker 15: to remain silent, and you scolded your reps that told
Speaker 15: you to apply pressure. Instead of showing support to peaceful protesters,
Speaker 15: you chose to paint them as rioters.
Speaker 1: Mayor Valerie Amescua recently condemned the violence that happened during
Speaker 1: the protests against ice raids. Hundreds of people showed up
Speaker 1: to city Hall at a meeting this week, and when
Speaker 1: Mayor Mmesco walked in, the crowd greeted her with booze.
Speaker 1: A military contractor in San Diego has pleaded guilty to
Speaker 1: hiring illegal immigrants. John Washburn admitted to employing at least
Speaker 1: ten of them at San Diego Powder and protective coatings.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors say some of them lived in a warehouse that
Speaker 1: stores Navy submarine parts. The illegal workers apparently were kept
Speaker 1: away from military bases to avoid screening. Amazon is trying
Speaker 1: to challenge way Mo.
Speaker 9: Amazon is gearing up to make ten thousand robotaxis annually
Speaker 9: at a plant near Silicon Valley. Amazon started looking at
Speaker 9: the robo taxi market five years ago when it shelled
Speaker 9: out one point two billion dollars for a self driving
Speaker 9: startup called Zeus. This is the brand behind a ride
Speaker 9: hailing service the plans to charge for rides in Las
Speaker 9: Vegas late this year. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is also
Speaker 9: vying to join the autonomous race.
Speaker 3: Deporah mark kof I News.
Speaker 1: I'm still way too nervous to get into a rivorless
Speaker 1: carbon Maybe that's just me. SpaceX rocket being tested in
Speaker 1: Texas has exploded at the launch site.
Speaker 16: In preparation for its tenth spaceflight. Starship was sitting on
Speaker 16: a test stand at the SpaceX facility on the South
Speaker 16: Texas coast. Just after eleven PM, a small plume of
Speaker 16: smoke spat from an upper section of the rocket.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan says moments later it exploded. SpaceX put
Speaker 1: out a statement saying all personnel are safe and accounted
Speaker 1: for and that there are no hazards to nearby communities.
Speaker 1: The Bus family has agreed to sell its majority stake
Speaker 1: in the Lakers to Mark Walter and TWG Global for
Speaker 1: a record ten billion dollars. Walter holds stakes in several
Speaker 1: sports organizations, including the Dodgers, the La Sparks, the Billy
Speaker 1: Jean King Cup, Cadillac Formula One team, and the Professional
Speaker 1: Women's Hockey League. Hurricane Eric has made landfall in Mexico's
Speaker 1: western state of Wahaka. The Nation Hurricane Center in Miami
Speaker 1: says maximum sustained winds or clocked at one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five miles per hour, with gusts higher than that.
Speaker 1: The storm was downgraded just a little bit before it
Speaker 1: made land call for a landfall, from a Category four
Speaker 1: to a Category three. Long Beach has become the latest
Speaker 1: city in SoCal to approve drinking on the street. The
Speaker 1: Long Beach City Council is okay the establishment of entertainment
Speaker 1: zones along Ocean Boulevard and around the Long Beach Arena, Terrace,
Speaker 1: Theater and Pacific Ballroom. It's expected to be open this summer.
Speaker 1: Santa Monica just opened it's entertainment zone along the Third
Speaker 1: Street Promenade last week at six oh five. It is
Speaker 1: handle on the news, and of course we're going to
Speaker 1: be talking more about the sale of the Lakers to
Speaker 1: the co owner of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you can have one sports team, why
Speaker 3: not have ten?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay, today is June teenth For most of us, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, it's not just federal holiday, so offices
Speaker 1: are closed, federal offices are closed, no mail, that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. But it's obviously a much bigger holiday than that,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be marked around the Southland this
Speaker 1: They're starting out in Pacoima with Ople's Walk for Freedom
Speaker 1: and it starts at six o'clock, so if you're not there,
Speaker 1: it's a little too late. But I was fascinated by
Speaker 1: it because I'm like, who is Opel and why what's
Speaker 1: her walk for freedom? So the walk actually start, that's
Speaker 1: the walk will start at seven am. Da da da
Speaker 1: d oh. Registration is at six. If you want to
Speaker 1: run down there, you've got time, okay.
Speaker 3: So Ople is Opel Lee. She is now ninety eight
Speaker 3: years old.
Speaker 1: She campaigned for decades to get June teenth made into
Speaker 1: a federal holiday, and of course that came to fruition
Speaker 1: on June seventeenth, twenty twenty one, when President Biden signed
Speaker 1: the juneteenth National Independence Day Act.
Speaker 3: Lee was there for the signing. Ceremony.
Speaker 1: Can't imagine that must have been so such a huge
Speaker 1: thing because he'd been campaigning for it for so long.
Speaker 1: She's known as the Grandmother of June teenth for the
Speaker 1: walking campaign she started when she was eighty nine years
Speaker 1: old to get the day declared a national holiday.
Speaker 3: And she walks two and a half miles.
Speaker 1: And so I'm guessing that Ople's Walk for Freedom this
Speaker 1: morning is going to be two and a half miles.
Speaker 1: It honors the two and a half years it took
Speaker 1: to inform the enslaved people in Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Speaker 1: Of course, that was issued by President Lincoln on September
Speaker 1: twenty second, eighteen sixty two. He declared all slaves were
Speaker 1: free as of January first, eighteen sixty three. Okay, So
Speaker 1: June teenth marks the anniversary of when Union Army General
Speaker 1: Gordon Granger rode into town and read General Order number
Speaker 1: three in Galveston, Texas. It happened on June nineteenth, eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty five, and it began with the people of Texas
Speaker 1: are informed that, in accordance with the proclamation from the
Speaker 1: Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.
Speaker 3: So it was like two.
Speaker 1: And a half years before they got word that they
Speaker 1: were free.
Speaker 5: There was probably a lot all of stubbornness and resistance
Speaker 5: and back in that day that took the caused it
Speaker 5: to take that long to get there, because yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean things did go faster than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't take two and a half years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would be interesting to dive into why it took
Speaker 1: so long. Did they prevent them, did they forget that
Speaker 1: there were still slaves in Galveston? I mean, who knows?
Speaker 1: But anyway, so that's why they're doing Opal's Walk for Freedom.
Speaker 1: And then Alta Dina Historical Society is marking Juneteenth with
Speaker 1: the luncheon Faces of Resilience, the African American cultural legacy
Speaker 1: before and after the Eaton Canyon fire still affecting people
Speaker 1: so much. The luncheon is noon to one thirty at
Speaker 1: Loma Alta Park and you can still buy tickets either
Speaker 1: in advance or at the door. A Juneteene celebration, including
Speaker 1: live music, a classic car show, food vendors, and other
Speaker 1: fly friendly activities is being held.
Speaker 3: At Pons Lawn Square.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how to say that in Palmdale from
Speaker 1: eleven to three. Also, there's a ceremony for June teenth
Speaker 1: in Manhattan Beach at Bruce's Beach from ten to eleven.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's the one that was recently given back
Speaker 1: to the family that it was taken from. And then
Speaker 1: also in honor of Juneteenth. Admission to the Natural History
Speaker 1: Museum of La County and La the Librea tar Pits
Speaker 1: from three to five this afternoon is complimentary.
Speaker 3: Have you been to the tar Pits lately? I don't.
Speaker 3: I think it's a weird correlation with Juneteenth, but they're
Speaker 3: really cool. Also, the ferris wheel at Pacific Park.
Speaker 1: On the Santa Monica Pier will be illuminated in red, white,
Speaker 1: and blue patterns representing the Juneteenth flag, along with green,
Speaker 1: red and gold animations inspired by the Pan African flag.
Speaker 1: So celebrate Juneteenth. I just think it's so two and.
Speaker 5: A half years and a half years no Internet.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour news room. The State
Speaker 1: Department says foreign citizens who apply for student visas will
Speaker 1: have their social media accounts screened. Department officials said Wednesday
Speaker 1: that new student visa applicants will be asked to make
Speaker 1: their social media accounts public so they can be reviewed,
Speaker 1: and that officers at US consulates will be looking for
Speaker 1: any indication of hostility towards the citizens, culture, government institutions,
Speaker 1: or founding principles of the United States and Iranian missile
Speaker 1: has hit the main hospital in southern Israel. Officials at
Speaker 1: the hospital said it did extensive damage, but there were
Speaker 1: no serious injuries. At least forty people were hurt. At
Speaker 1: the same time, Israel has carried out strikes on Iran's
Speaker 1: Aaric heavy water reactor in its latest attack on Iran's
Speaker 1: sprawling nuclear program. Iranian State TV said the facility had
Speaker 1: been evacuated before the attack. Iran's Supreme leader is not
Speaker 1: backing down despite talk of US involvement in the Iran
Speaker 1: Israel conflict well.
Speaker 3: The Ayatola, saying surrender to what the Iranian nation cannot
Speaker 3: be surrendered. We will not accept any kind of submission.
Speaker 10: He warned. The US would suffer irreparable consequences if it
Speaker 10: intervenes militarily.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jarine Shaw says non essential US diplomatic staff and
Speaker 1: their families have been evacuated in Israel. Downey is offering
Speaker 1: online ice rate information for residents and businesses. The site
Speaker 1: has comprehensive information about recent immigration enforcement activity and explains
Speaker 1: what the city can and can't do. The mayor and
Speaker 1: council members say they want residents to be aware of
Speaker 1: their rights. They're also looking into offering webinars and workshops
Speaker 1: to businesses that are affected by the raids. The website
Speaker 1: is downyca dot org Slash your Rights. An assembly member
Speaker 1: from the Farms of California says he supports immigration, but
Speaker 1: people do want law and order.
Speaker 17: We can't incentivize criminal activity by allowing people or even
Speaker 17: allowing farmers or different individuals to take advantage of those
Speaker 17: that have committed a crime coming into this country.
Speaker 1: Fresno assembly Member David Tangapa says guest worker programs or
Speaker 1: farm worker programs don't work unless there is some sort
Speaker 1: of blanket amnesty. Says people need to become citizens to
Speaker 1: stay here. He recently sponsored his mother becoming a legal
Speaker 1: citizen and says people need to follow the rules and
Speaker 1: have trust in the system. A brushfire near Paris in
Speaker 1: Riverside County has been stopped at about fifty acres. All
Speaker 1: evacuation orders have been lifted. The fire was reported late
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon in Mead Valley. Firefighters from multiple agencies were
Speaker 1: sent to put it out. The response included four CalFire
Speaker 1: air tankers and two water dropping helicopters. Jaws turns fifty
Speaker 1: this weekend. The Killer Shark movie instill the sense of
Speaker 1: fear and people for years, but biologist Great Schoemal says
Speaker 1: people have softened on sharks over the decades.
Speaker 18: Don't be afraid of them, you know, understand them. Maybe
Speaker 18: you'll even see one, which is kind of cool. You know,
Speaker 18: they're fascinating animals and they're very, very important to a
Speaker 18: healthy ecosystem.
Speaker 1: I would only like to see one at the Aquarium
Speaker 1: of the Pacific.
Speaker 3: Even fed the sharks.
Speaker 1: No no, No, no, no No. Jaws was released in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. Nominated for four Academy Awards, it won three,
Speaker 1: including one for that suspenseful score.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The city of Santa Ana's dropped a proposal that would
Speaker 1: have required police to post warnings of ice sweeps. The
Speaker 1: idea was scrapped after city leaders got a letter from
Speaker 1: US Attorney Bill Asale that such a policy would endanger officers,
Speaker 1: disrupt criminal investigations, and could expose city leaders and staff
Speaker 1: to possible federal charges and prosecution. Israeli strikes on Iran
Speaker 1: have killed at least six hundred and thirty nine people.
Speaker 1: Human rights groups more than thirteen hundred others have been
Speaker 1: injured since the bombing started a week ago. Most of
Speaker 1: Iran's missiles launched on Israel have been intercepted by Israel's
Speaker 1: Iron Dome, but some did get through, including a missile
Speaker 1: that landed on a hospital in southern Israel overnight. Someone
Speaker 1: just missed out on one and a half million dollars.
Speaker 1: The California Lottery says a winning powerball ticket from December
Speaker 1: was never claimed. Winners have six months to claim a prize,
Speaker 1: and Monday was the deadline. The money will now go
Speaker 1: into funds that will support local public schools. The lottery
Speaker 1: says over a billion dollars in latt of winnings have
Speaker 1: gone unclaimed a billion dollars. The largest was a sixty
Speaker 1: two million dollars Super Lotto Plus jackpot back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning,
Speaker 1: Israel says it will intensify its attacks against Iran after
Speaker 1: a missile hit a hospital that we just told you
Speaker 1: about in Southern Iran. Bill's going to be talking about
Speaker 1: that right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 3: Hey, so, Jim, we have to go back a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. The guy who escaped.
Speaker 1: From a prison in Arkansas and was on the loose
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks is now back in custody.
Speaker 1: But so we want to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: how he got out and then how he was able
Speaker 1: to escape and how he was able to get away
Speaker 1: from law enforcement for so long.
Speaker 16: I wish the Coen Brothers would get a hold of
Speaker 16: this story and do something with it, because it is
Speaker 16: like a movie script.
Speaker 1: There's so many escapes, and that other one from Louisiana
Speaker 1: in New Orleans where ten people got out, I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's got to be a movie at some point.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 16: This one is really something though, and very cinematic. The guy, Okay,
Speaker 16: Grant Harden is the guy. He's fifty six years old.
Speaker 16: He used to be a police chief in a small
Speaker 16: town in Arkansas. He's had police jobs over the years
Speaker 16: and trusted law enforce her until twenty seventeen, when he
Speaker 16: got fired from a city police force. Took it out
Speaker 16: on an employee by shooting and killing the guy. He's
Speaker 16: taken it to custody. They run a DNA check and
Speaker 16: find a perfect match his DNA to a rape that
Speaker 16: happened twenty years earlier. He was convicted of the rape,
Speaker 16: convicted of the murder, sent to prison for eighty years.
Speaker 16: Was doing time at the Calico Rock Medium Security prison
Speaker 16: in Arkansas and biding his time and watching and looking
Speaker 16: and building trust among the jail staff, the prison staff there.
Speaker 16: Eventually got a job in the prison kitchen, and that
Speaker 16: really was the key to his ability to escape amy.
Speaker 3: Okay, so how well, okay.
Speaker 16: So he takes an old prison a prison jumpsuit. They're white, right,
Speaker 16: unless you're high risk than when they're in, which case
Speaker 16: they're orange. But his was white, and so he in
Speaker 16: the kitchen. Of course, what do they have there. They've
Speaker 16: got tea and coffee, spices and things that can be
Speaker 16: used to dye clothing, right, you soak something white in
Speaker 16: coffee and tea or potentially or he also had access
Speaker 16: to felt depens because they used them to mark mark,
Speaker 16: you know, the containers for food. And he may have
Speaker 16: just sat there over the months and years really and
Speaker 16: colored the white jumpsuit to look black anyway, he made
Speaker 16: it look enough like a jail or a prison guard's
Speaker 16: uniform that on May twenty fifth, he put the thing on.
Speaker 16: He had sort of a makeshift vest and a ball cap,
Speaker 16: and in surveillance video you can see him pushing a cart.
Speaker 16: He pushes it very casually over toward an access point
Speaker 16: and he's buzzed on through and walks away. That was
Speaker 16: it so just And of course he was captured what
Speaker 16: twelve days later, He was only a mile and a
Speaker 16: half away, So you apparently had no help. There's no
Speaker 16: indication he had help from inside or from outside.
Speaker 1: So this so reminds me too of like Shawshank Redemption,
Speaker 1: because there was a line in it where they say
Speaker 1: that it takes pressure and time, and he had the time,
Speaker 1: Like you said, he could have been doing this for
Speaker 1: months and months and months.
Speaker 16: Right well, and building up that trust. You know, only
Speaker 16: trustees are allowed to work in the prison kitchen, and
Speaker 16: he apparently was trusted enough. This was a medium security prison,
Speaker 16: and I suspect that prison operators around the country are
Speaker 16: reading this case very carefully to see what should we
Speaker 16: be doing to prevent this kind of thing. Where we are.
Speaker 16: He now, by the way, has added charges on his
Speaker 16: rap sheet, and he's been moved to the maximum security
Speaker 16: prison in Arkansas, from which no one has ever escaped.
Speaker 16: He's locked in his cell twenty three hours a day
Speaker 16: with only this small slit in the door to look through. Ye,
Speaker 16: his little twelve days of freedom are costing him quite dearly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would imagine he'll be wearing orange, no
Speaker 1: longer white?
Speaker 16: Probably So. Did I even name the gads as Grant
Speaker 16: Harden is his name? Did I say that? I might
Speaker 16: not have named him the whole time.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: But I think we all know what you're talking about
Speaker 1: because it captured our interest in our imagination. And I
Speaker 1: think you're right it should be a movie because it's
Speaker 1: just it's so fascinating Coen Brothers.
Speaker 16: If you're listening, by the rights exactly.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the information. That's
Speaker 1: really really interesting.
Speaker 16: See avey.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Speaker 1: The longtime owners of the La Lakers are selling their
Speaker 1: majority stake in the team. Klac's Matt money Smith says
Speaker 1: it was probably an easy decision for the bus family.
Speaker 7: They know. They probably just looked at the number and said,
Speaker 7: we can still be involved, but we're no longer calling
Speaker 7: the shots, but they'll still be part of the Lakers.
Speaker 1: The buses are selling to Dodgers call owner Mark Walter.
Speaker 1: The sale still needs final approval from the NBA. Jerry
Speaker 1: Buss purchased the La Lakers, along with the La Kings
Speaker 1: and the Forum for sixty seven and a half million
Speaker 1: dollars in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 3: This ten billion dollars.
Speaker 1: The La City Council's approved a five million dollar loan
Speaker 1: to the LAPD to cover overtime. Officers have been kept
Speaker 1: on for extra hours in recent weeks as demonstrations against
Speaker 1: federal immigration enforcement have spread around the city. The council's
Speaker 1: decision takes the money from the city's reserves and asks
Speaker 1: the city administrator to come up with a plan for
Speaker 1: the police department to pay it back. It's estimated the
Speaker 1: total cost to the city in the wake of the
Speaker 1: protest has been about twenty million dollars, which includes damage
Speaker 1: to city property and clean up efforts. More employees are
Speaker 1: sending workers shopping for their own health insurance.
Speaker 9: Companies are giving employees money to buy their own coverage
Speaker 9: in what's known as individual coverage reimbursement arrangements instead of
Speaker 9: offering a plan through work. Advocates say this approach provides
Speaker 9: small companies that could not afford insurance a chance to
Speaker 9: offer something that also caps a growing expense for employers
Speaker 9: and fits conservative goals of giving people more purchasing power
Speaker 9: over their coverage. But this approach places the risk for
Speaker 9: finding the right coverage on the employee depor Mark Koffi news.
Speaker 1: Well, the Dodgers are dominating the Padres and just left
Speaker 1: the room, winning their third straight against San Diego last
Speaker 1: night thanks to Will Smith.
Speaker 3: Allowed and long strike for Suarez. Now the O two pitch,
Speaker 3: Smith pushes a fly ball.
Speaker 4: Right center field.
Speaker 3: Tatis on their own at the warning track at.
Speaker 9: The law it's gone, it's gone, and this game is over.
Speaker 12: Over.
Speaker 1: Just got be all the reach of.
Speaker 4: For no no tatist Junior.
Speaker 8: Will Smith comes.
Speaker 12: Home and now we go home.
Speaker 3: They celebrate in front of the play.
Speaker 8: Oh walk up home wrong for Will Smith.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers win in the ninth, four to three.
Speaker 3: And I love La playing in the background. That's my
Speaker 3: favorite favorite thing.
Speaker 1: Well, Tonight, in celebration of June teenth, It's Black Heritage
Speaker 1: Night and the Dodgers take on the Padres one more
Speaker 1: time at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: First pitch goes out at seven.
Speaker 1: You can listen to all Dodger games all season long
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