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Speaker 1: This is not it's five o'clock, straight up. This is
Speaker 1: your wake up call for Wednesday, December eleventh, two weeks
Speaker 1: until Christmas. Two weeks. I'm way behind, way behind. Lots
Speaker 1: of Christmas shopping still to do. Oh and my tree
Speaker 1: is still up. I told you about that. Still not decorated.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to get that done before the weekend.
Speaker 1: It seems kind of sad to sit there and stare
Speaker 1: at a tree with no lights and decorations on it.
Speaker 1: Still pretty though. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: Evacuation orders remade in effect for about two thousand homes
Speaker 1: in Malibu because of the fire that's burned almost thirty
Speaker 1: nine hundred acres and is zero percent surrounded. About six
Speaker 1: thousand more homes are under evacuation warnings. Road closures include
Speaker 1: Los Virgines Road and Mulholland Highway and PCH between Tepenga
Speaker 1: Canyon Boulevard and Canaan Doom Road. We're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: with ABC's Alex Stone about some of the people who
Speaker 1: did not leave their homes. They stayed back to help
Speaker 1: save others. That's coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Time is running out for the Los Pedrino's Juvenile Hall
Speaker 1: in Downey to be cleared out. The California Board of
Speaker 1: State and Community Corrections ordered all the inmates to be
Speaker 1: moved out by tomorrow after the facility failed its latest
Speaker 1: inspection earlier this month. A state inspector says there is
Speaker 1: not enough staff or security cameras and the facility is unsuitable.
Speaker 1: Health officials in Marine County are investigating a possible case
Speaker 1: of bird flu in a child. If confirmed, it would
Speaker 1: be the second case of bird flu in a child
Speaker 1: in California. A child in Alameda County tested positive last month.
Speaker 1: Health officials are working to determine the source of the
Speaker 1: child's exposure. Coming up on wake up call, how you
Speaker 1: can buy a car on Amazon. And also I've got
Speaker 1: a bone to pick with Rich Demiro about his holiday
Speaker 1: shopping guide. That's coming up at five twenty five point
Speaker 1: thirty five. Amy's on it always looking for good shows.
Speaker 1: I found a fun movie that you might want to
Speaker 1: curl up on the couch with the kids, Blankets of
Speaker 1: hot chocolate and watch the origins of Santa the new
Speaker 1: take on it. Kind of interesting. That's coming up at
Speaker 1: five point thirty five. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Thousands of people in Malibu remain under evacuation orders as
Speaker 1: a fire that started in Malibu Canyon has grown to
Speaker 1: almost thirty nine hundred acres. It started late Monday night
Speaker 1: and has burned at least seven homes or other buildings.
Speaker 1: LA County Sheriff's Captain Jennifer Seidou says evacuation centers have
Speaker 1: been set up to help people who still can't go home.
Speaker 7: We have security patrols throughout our affective areas. We will
Speaker 7: not tolerate anyone coming to this community to re victimize
Speaker 7: our community members.
Speaker 1: A shelter set up at the Palisades Recreation Center has
Speaker 1: been moved to the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District
Speaker 1: Professional Development and Learning Center building. That's a mouthful. It's
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. Another shelter has been opened in Calabasas.
Speaker 1: An audit of the LA Homeless serviss authorities performance over
Speaker 1: a five year period shows one in four city funded
Speaker 1: beds were not used and it cost LA taxpairs about
Speaker 1: two hundred eighteen million dollars. City Controller Kenneth Mahia's office
Speaker 1: has released the findings of the audit, which showed how
Speaker 1: LASA handled transitioning people from interim to permanent housing. It
Speaker 1: showed that between twenty nineteen and twenty three, only one
Speaker 1: in five interim shelter residents were moved into permanent housing,
Speaker 1: while more than half returned to homelessness or unknown outcomes.
Speaker 1: The man charged with killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Speaker 1: in New York is fighting extradition from Pennsylvania. He shouted
Speaker 1: at reporters yesterday as he was taken to court for
Speaker 1: a hearing region.
Speaker 5: Experiences.
Speaker 1: The New York's governor says she plans to sign a
Speaker 1: warrant to force Luigi Mangioni's extradition defense attorney Thomas Dickey
Speaker 1: says his client plans to plead not guilty to all charges.
Speaker 2: The burden's always on the government, thank god, and that's
Speaker 2: start burden, and they're going to have to produce some
Speaker 2: evidence and we're anxious to see it.
Speaker 1: He's asking people not to rush to judgment. In Mangioni's case,
Speaker 1: a man who says he bought two of the same
Speaker 1: winning Mega Millions lottery tickets and Encino is suing because
Speaker 1: he only got paid for one of them. The tickets
Speaker 1: were sold in December of last year, and the one
Speaker 1: that was not claimed recently expired. It was worth nearly
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars. The man suing says he bought
Speaker 1: both tickets but lost one of them. He submitted a
Speaker 1: claim for the misplaced ticket on December fourth, three days
Speaker 1: before the expiration date. Let's now check in with ABC's
Speaker 1: Alex Stone. Alex, the wildfire burning in Malibu has burned
Speaker 1: almost thirty nine hundred acres. We just got new numbers
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes ago, and it has destroyed a few homes.
Speaker 1: Where are we with the fire now.
Speaker 8: Amy, Good morning, Yeah, round seven homes, but they're going
Speaker 8: to send out teams today to really count figure out,
Speaker 8: so that number is going to change. Seven homes destroyed,
Speaker 8: I know I saw one, and then there was one
Speaker 8: next door that had some damage. But they think around
Speaker 8: that number destroyed, and then probably another eight or nine
Speaker 8: that have damage. But the fire itself it looks a
Speaker 8: lot better today in that there is still fire above
Speaker 8: the Carbon Canyon area, but the flames are no longer
Speaker 8: around homes. The wind has come way down, humidity levels
Speaker 8: are going up a little bit, and I think this
Speaker 8: story is going to be one about Pepperdine and what
Speaker 8: they were able to do in their library to make
Speaker 8: it essentially fireproof but fire resistant, and then what the
Speaker 8: neighbors were doing where they bought their own fire hoses,
Speaker 8: had water pumps that they were pulling water out of
Speaker 8: their swimming pools because they knew they had to do it.
Speaker 8: This is one of those guys, al Gellis.
Speaker 9: He told me, we basically have these gas powered water
Speaker 9: pumps with fire hoses. We drench our house so no
Speaker 9: fire could start ever, And that freed me to go
Speaker 9: put out fires in five other people's homes, save five
Speaker 9: other people's homes.
Speaker 8: He said that they had been planning for what yesterday
Speaker 8: morning was and that they had bought these fire hoses,
Speaker 8: knowing that and the equipment to go with them, that
Speaker 8: firefighters would not be able to get in. And they
Speaker 8: were not able to get in. And they are in
Speaker 8: a canyon, Sarah Canyon, where they knew that they were
Speaker 8: going to be cut off, and they were when the
Speaker 8: fire was coming in, and it was every man and
Speaker 8: woman for themselves.
Speaker 9: It was pretty insane.
Speaker 1: And it's so thick.
Speaker 9: My eyes were burning, My voice is so hoarse, and
Speaker 9: I don't even know how much smoke on hill.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he showed me videos of their battle. Aye, just
Speaker 8: walls of fire everywhere as they were just trying to
Speaker 8: knock down all the fire that was coming at them,
Speaker 8: everything that they could do. And I mean, he says,
Speaker 8: in that moment, they didn't know if they were going
Speaker 8: to live, They didn't know if they were going to
Speaker 8: save their homes, and they did, and firefighters they couldn't
Speaker 8: get there to held them out.
Speaker 9: There was so much fire in here. It was insane.
Speaker 1: Insane.
Speaker 8: Now, of course firefighters don't want you to do this.
Speaker 8: When they tell you to get out, they want you
Speaker 8: to get out. But this is a group of neighbors
Speaker 8: who that they had decided, look, that they weren't just
Speaker 8: going to let their homes burn, that they were going
Speaker 8: to be ready for this day, knowing that this day
Speaker 8: was going to come living in Malibu, that every couple
Speaker 8: of years that there is a bad fire that comes through,
Speaker 8: and that they were ready for it. And he said
Speaker 8: it felt pretty good.
Speaker 9: What a night did something for the community, all about
Speaker 9: giving back, doing things for other people, being grateful for
Speaker 9: what you have because it could all go in a second.
Speaker 8: But yeah, to about thirty eight hundred acres right now,
Speaker 8: no containment around it. That number will probably come up
Speaker 8: today and a lot of firefighters fifteen hundred who were
Speaker 8: on it right now, twenty thousand people evacuated. Some people
Speaker 8: may be allowed to begin going home today, and then
Speaker 8: there's even a chance ay Mamy have some rain tomorrow,
Speaker 8: so a.
Speaker 1: Twenty four chance, but it's a little.
Speaker 8: Yeah, at least it's gonna be something and bring up
Speaker 8: the moisture levels, the humidity levels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alex, I want to talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about the guy who you were talking to who made
Speaker 1: his own little fire station basically, so they have pumps
Speaker 1: that they put in their swimming pools, So that's about
Speaker 1: ten thousand gallons. And then what about the hoses. Because
Speaker 1: when I first saw the story, hearing that the guy
Speaker 1: was trying to save neighbors homes and that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, he's out there with a garden hose,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, good luck. But this was
Speaker 1: much more industrial.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is not a garden hose at all. This
Speaker 8: is a fire hose. You know what you would think
Speaker 8: of when you see firefighters pulling out their hoses and
Speaker 8: they've got the really thick like kevlar braided or whatever
Speaker 8: the material is hoses that come out that they are
Speaker 8: big and they are thick, and that's what they were using.
Speaker 8: And they had it hooked up to the pump. It
Speaker 8: had gas powered pump, and they moved it around from
Speaker 8: house to house and they saved about five of them.
Speaker 8: One of their neighbors lost their house completely. And they
Speaker 8: would just dip one end of the hose, end of
Speaker 8: the pool and just go to town and completely wet their homes.
Speaker 8: They were shooting up to the palm trees when they
Speaker 8: would light, so then those embers didn't fly all over
Speaker 8: the place and the wind and the hillsides is that
Speaker 8: the hills would go. They were hitting that and just
Speaker 8: exhausting any amount of water that they had. His shirt
Speaker 8: had bird marks all in it. I mean, they put
Speaker 8: up a heck of a fight to save their canyon,
Speaker 8: and for the most part, they were able to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's such a it's a great story,
Speaker 1: but it's also kind of a cautionary tale because, like
Speaker 1: you said, the firefighters don't want them in there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but in that moment, you know, even the firefighters
Speaker 8: are kind of like, well, they can do whatever they
Speaker 8: want to do because they couldn't get in and no
Speaker 8: help was coming. And they knew that in a lot
Speaker 8: of the Malibu Canyon roads where you go in and
Speaker 8: it's windy in and it's tight when there's fire on
Speaker 8: all sides, firefighters aren't coming. So they pretty much, you know, said, look,
Speaker 8: it was dangerous. They could have died doing it. But
Speaker 8: if that's what they want to do, it's up to them.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Alex Stone, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information. Really really fascinate you got it.
Speaker 8: Thanks baby.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two
Speaker 1: people have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a
Speaker 1: doctor in Woodland Hills. Polly said the doctor was ambushed
Speaker 1: in August as he was leaving his medical practice on
Speaker 1: Topega Canyon Boulevard. Investigators say he may have been targeted.
Speaker 1: Detectives yesterday said a woman from Riscita and a man
Speaker 1: from Texas are facing charges. The judge who presided over
Speaker 1: Danny Masterson's rape trial says she'll refer two defense lawyers
Speaker 1: and a private investigator to regulatory agencies to look into
Speaker 1: allegations the actor's legal team contacted former jurors at their
Speaker 1: homes without consent. She says how Masterson's defense got hold
Speaker 1: of personal juror information is a mystery to the court.
Speaker 1: Masterson was convicted last year of raping two women and
Speaker 1: is serving a state prison sentence of thirty years to life.
Speaker 1: President elect Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, Pete Hegseth,
Speaker 1: was back in Washington, d c. Meeting with Senate members
Speaker 1: to try to get their support for his confirmation. Hegg
Speaker 1: Seth met yesterday with Alaska republic and Senator Lisa Murkowski,
Speaker 1: who has voiced concerns about the nomination. I appreciate, appreciate
Speaker 1: her very much. It was a wonderful meeting and a
Speaker 1: great discussion, Murkowski says. They had a good exchange, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what the process bears. The House Task Force
Speaker 1: investigating the Secret Services failures in two attempts on President
Speaker 1: elect Trump's life has delivered its final report. ABC's Stephen
Speaker 1: Portnoy says it makes recommendations on how to stop incidents
Speaker 1: like that and reforms for lawmakers to consider.
Speaker 10: By partisan House panel says the Secret Service should work
Speaker 10: with Congress to ensure employment at the agency is quote
Speaker 10: more sustainable and rewarding by reducing the pace of travel
Speaker 10: and ensuring proper payment of overtime.
Speaker 1: He says. The panel says Congress should look at moving
Speaker 1: the Secret Service out of the Department of Homeland Security
Speaker 1: so he can better advocate for its own budgetary needs
Speaker 1: as an independent agency. A new ap Nork poll shows
Speaker 1: just two in ten Americans approve of President Biden's decision
Speaker 1: to pardon his son Hunter. Biden had repeatedly said he
Speaker 1: would not pardon his son for his convictions on weapons
Speaker 1: and tax evasion charges. But then changed his mind over
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving weekend and pardoned his son over On December first,
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced in his tax
Speaker 1: EVAs case in California next week. Santa Ana wins are
Speaker 1: expected to continue pushing the flames of the fire burning
Speaker 1: in Malibu. The National Weather Service says a red flag
Speaker 1: warning with a PDS designation is in place until this evening.
Speaker 1: PDS stands for a particularly dangerous situation, which is rarely used.
Speaker 1: Humidity levels are low. With the strong winds, wildfire danger
Speaker 1: is extremely high. The man charged with the murder of
Speaker 1: the CEO of United Healthcare in New York is fighting
Speaker 1: his extradition from Pennsylvania. Luigi Mangioni was arrested at a
Speaker 1: McDonald's in Altoona Monday and appeared in court yesterday. He's
Speaker 1: being held without bail. New York Mayor Cathy Hokals expected
Speaker 1: to issue a governor's order to speed up extradition. We're
Speaker 1: going to be talking ABC's Peter Haralambo's at five point
Speaker 1: fifty about what may have motivated mangione to kill Caitlin
Speaker 1: Clark has been named Time Magazine's Athlete of the year,
Speaker 1: the former Iowa Hawkeye and current Indiana Fever guard at
Speaker 1: an historic rookie year, breaking the NCAA career scoring record
Speaker 1: in the spring and then winning WNBA Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year in the fall. Clark returns to the court with
Speaker 1: the Fever in spring of twenty twenty five. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to the host of Rich on Tech
Speaker 1: right here on KFI KTLA's Tech Guy, Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 6: Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you Amy, real quick,
Speaker 6: some breaking news in the tech world. Oh, the new
Speaker 6: iOS eighteen point two is going to be available today,
Speaker 6: which brings even more AI features to your phone, like
Speaker 6: the ability to create images with a Mooji playground and
Speaker 6: all kinds of cool stuff. So and chachibtree at chat
Speaker 6: cibt as well. So be on the lookout, okay.
Speaker 1: So, and is that an automatic one or do we
Speaker 1: have to go and force that one on?
Speaker 6: No, you got to go and do it. But unless
Speaker 6: you have the automatic updates and you'll get it probably
Speaker 6: you know, overnight tonight or the next night. It's still
Speaker 6: not showing up on my phone, but sometime today eighteen
Speaker 6: point two if you're daring, you know, some people like
Speaker 6: to wait a couple of days before they jump in,
Speaker 6: So that might be my advice at this point, And.
Speaker 1: Isn't it, Because when they first get pushed out sometimes
Speaker 1: there's some glitches in them.
Speaker 6: There could be. I mean historically there's been some in
Speaker 6: the past, so you know, it's one of these things.
Speaker 6: It's been tested by a lot of people. But when
Speaker 6: you get it into the hands of like millions and
Speaker 6: millions of people all at once, that's when some other
Speaker 6: ugly bugs can rear their heads.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think I'm going to play the waiting game
Speaker 1: on that one. So Amazon sales just about everything, and
Speaker 1: now we can add cars to the list.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I am so all about this Amazon
Speaker 6: Autos right now, it's just one company, Hyunday, and it's
Speaker 6: they're teaming up with local dealers because you know in
Speaker 6: the US most of the cars they're sold through local dealerships.
Speaker 6: But you can do everything else online. You can outfit
Speaker 6: your car exactly how you want it. You can put
Speaker 6: the options in, you can see exactly what the out
Speaker 6: thedoor price is going to be, and you can sign
Speaker 6: all your paperwork and then all you have to do
Speaker 6: is go to the dealership to pick up your car
Speaker 6: and right now they're giving you a twenty three hundred
Speaker 6: dollars gift card to Amazon if you buy a car
Speaker 6: through Amazon. And I'm not kidding, Amy, I'm not sure
Speaker 6: if you've ever bought a car online. I did with
Speaker 6: my last one. I got a Tesla and of course
Speaker 6: it's all done online, and it was the best experience
Speaker 6: of my life.
Speaker 1: Why is it so great?
Speaker 6: You don't have to haggle, you don't have to deal
Speaker 6: with anyone, You just I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 6: gone into an auto dealership and had to deal with
Speaker 6: that final room where they have the square of paper
Speaker 6: with the four squares and they say, let's see what
Speaker 6: we can do now, and it's just they keep you
Speaker 6: there as long as humanly possible.
Speaker 1: It is intimidating.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well they're doing it every day. You're doing it
Speaker 6: once every three to four years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, so and is that available now?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I actually I put an auto in my cart
Speaker 6: yesterday and all of a sudden, it was like I
Speaker 6: got an email that was like, hey, do you want
Speaker 6: to complete this purchase? You still have it? I was like, wait,
Speaker 6: I was just testing this out, Like don't charge me, thankfully,
Speaker 6: it's not a one click process like the rest of Amazon.
Speaker 1: Well I was going to say, is there a buy
Speaker 1: now button?
Speaker 6: No, thankfully because no, But this will be interesting just
Speaker 6: to see how many other you know, this is obviously
Speaker 6: a dance with Amazon, because you know, these automakers don't
Speaker 6: want to give up this process because they obviously make
Speaker 6: a lot of money on add ons and things that
Speaker 6: people get extended warranty stuff like that. But they also
Speaker 6: want to be kind of tech forward, and so I
Speaker 6: guess Hyundai is the first one to kind of dive
Speaker 6: into that world.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then also on another tech thing that has
Speaker 1: to do with automobiles, GM is ditching robotaxis.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this was kind of a surprise. Apparently the people
Speaker 6: that work there as well. You've heard of cruise, you know,
Speaker 6: they're GM robotaxi program. Yes, but they've had a bunch
Speaker 6: of problems. Remember up in San Francisco, people are like
Speaker 6: stopping them with cones. They had like an accident and
Speaker 6: you know, or drag someone into the car, and so
Speaker 6: they paused this program for a while. And now GM,
Speaker 6: I think they've just had enough headaches. They said, you
Speaker 6: know what, We're done with this, we're no longer going
Speaker 6: to do this robo taxi program, but we're still going
Speaker 6: to take the technology that we've learned and developed from
Speaker 6: this taxi program to our cars. So GM has something
Speaker 6: called super Cruise, which is sort of their hands free
Speaker 6: auto driving, and they are going to use some of
Speaker 6: this technology for that. But that doesn't mean that they're
Speaker 6: going to lose a lot of money in this situation,
Speaker 6: because you know, Cruise is a big is a big
Speaker 6: part of their company, and a lot of people are
Speaker 6: employed there. So Waimo is kind of the last man
Speaker 6: standing here at this point.
Speaker 1: I still haven't taken one. Have you taken a robotaxi?
Speaker 6: I did. I took the Weaimo up in San Francisco,
Speaker 6: though not here in La yet, so it you know,
Speaker 6: it's great, and I use the self driving on the
Speaker 6: Tesla and it's all. You know, I think the Waimo
Speaker 6: is different because it's got the light ar on the radar.
Speaker 6: But you know, we're gonna have to get used to
Speaker 6: this idea of our cars driving us.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, now I have to get to the really
Speaker 1: important thing. I got a beef with you.
Speaker 6: Uh oh yeah, I'm worried about this.
Speaker 1: So it has to do with your holiday guide, which
Speaker 1: you can find on your website, right, yes, okay, so
Speaker 1: it's on rich on tech dot TV and you have
Speaker 1: all these great suggestions for tech gifts for the holidays.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 1: One of the ones we talked about was the wall
Speaker 1: crawling gecko.
Speaker 6: Yes, oh, I know, I've seen things happening to me.
Speaker 6: Yeah what you can't get it? I can't get it.
Speaker 6: Mine has been people.
Speaker 1: Listened to Wake Up Call and took your recommendations that
Speaker 1: I can't get a damn gecko. I know.
Speaker 6: I got an email from Amazon delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed,
Speaker 6: and it just keeps getting delayed. So I don't know
Speaker 6: what to say. I mean, the Christmas is going to
Speaker 6: be ruined, That's all I can say.
Speaker 1: I know, they're only like they're twenty five bucks at Walmart,
Speaker 1: and it keeps teasing me because I go in and
Speaker 1: I put it in my cart and it says by now,
Speaker 1: and then they go sorry, not available.
Speaker 6: Oh no, even there. Well this is a hot gift apparently,
Speaker 6: so I guess we were right. We were on the
Speaker 6: cutting edge. And yeah, ok at okay, here okay, Walmart
Speaker 6: arrive in three days let's see. Can I order it
Speaker 6: by now?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 6: At the car. Oh, we're sorry, this item's long. That's
Speaker 6: false advertising. Walmart. Come on.
Speaker 1: I think Target had some at some point, and I
Speaker 1: saw one time it said you could go into the store.
Speaker 1: They said it's in the Rosemead store. I'll one eleven
Speaker 1: or something like that. But I'm like, I'm not driving
Speaker 1: out to Rosemead. So anyway, that's my beef. But I
Speaker 1: really want to get that I have. I have fourteen
Speaker 1: days now to see if they restock them.
Speaker 6: Good luck, because mine has been delayed to like December
Speaker 6: seventeenth or something.
Speaker 1: So well then there's still hope.
Speaker 6: And I ordered it before I told you on the radio.
Speaker 1: Oh all right. This is KTLA's Rich Jimmuro. He's also
Speaker 1: the host of Rich on Tech right here on KFI.
Speaker 1: You can hear him Saturdays from eleven to two. You
Speaker 1: can find that holiday gift giving guide, but don't try
Speaker 1: to order the get go on his website, rich on
Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. You can also follow Rich on Instagram
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech.
Speaker 6: Thanks Rich, Thanks Amy, good luck, Hey.
Speaker 1: Thanks. More than two thousand people have been ordered to
Speaker 1: evacuate their homes as the fire burning and Malibu continues
Speaker 1: to burn out of control. This guy stayed behind to
Speaker 1: help protect his neighbor's houses.
Speaker 9: A lot of people we evacuated, so we were able
Speaker 9: to kind of step in and save their houses and
Speaker 9: some of their animals. And yeah, it was you know,
Speaker 9: we ought to be grateful for every moment because you
Speaker 9: never know how fast it's going to change.
Speaker 1: La County Sheriff Robert Luna has this message for people
Speaker 1: refusing to leave.
Speaker 5: You need to evacuate.
Speaker 3: It saves lives and it actually impacts the lives of
Speaker 3: our first responders.
Speaker 1: La Kenny Fire Chief Anthony Maroney says at least seven
Speaker 1: homes or other buildings have been destroyed by the fire.
Speaker 1: Another eight were damaged. The fire burned nearly thirty nine
Speaker 1: hundred acres. An LAPD helicopter is crashed at a training
Speaker 1: base in Orange County.
Speaker 11: The crush landing happened early Tuesday afternoon on the Joint
Speaker 11: Forces training base in Los Alamados. The two pilots were
Speaker 11: practicing low altitude maneuvers when a strong wind gust tipped
Speaker 11: the chopper onto its side.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the two pilots aboard were rescued,
Speaker 1: neither had to go to the hospital. A judge is
Speaker 1: blocked the proposed merger between grocery chains Kroger and Albertson's.
Speaker 3: A judge sided with the FTC on Tuesday, which argued
Speaker 3: the merger would have eliminated head to head competition between
Speaker 3: the two chains. It also said it would have led
Speaker 3: to higher prices for shoppers.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Brian Schucks as a merger was set to be
Speaker 1: worth twenty five billion dollars, but the judge's ruling effectively
Speaker 1: kills it. The grave site of an abolitionist in Alta,
Speaker 1: Dina has been declared a County Historic landmark. Owen Brown
Speaker 1: was the son of John Brown, whose famous raid on
Speaker 1: Harper's Ferry in Virginia helped spark the movement to end
Speaker 1: American slavery and eventually led to his execution in eighteen
Speaker 1: fifty nine. Owen Brown, who participated in that raid, was
Speaker 1: able to avoid being captured and later relocated to Pasadena.
Speaker 1: All four Malibu campuses in the Santa Monica Malibu School
Speaker 1: District will remain closed through tomorrow due to power outages, evacuations,
Speaker 1: and road closures prompted by the fire. That's burning in Malibu.
Speaker 1: We just got an update on the size of the fire.
Speaker 1: It's now almost thirty nine hundred acres and is zero
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. The former marine who was acquitted of negligent
Speaker 1: homicide and the choke hold death of a homeless man
Speaker 1: on a subway in New York City says he would
Speaker 1: have felt guilty if Jordan Neely had hurt anyone as
Speaker 1: he threatened to do. In an interview with Fox News,
Speaker 1: Daniel Penny said he would take a million court appearances
Speaker 1: and people calling him names and hating him just to
Speaker 1: keep one of those people on the subway from getting
Speaker 1: hurt or killed. A judge is blocked a twenty five
Speaker 1: million dollar merger of grocery chains Kroger and Albertson's. The
Speaker 1: judge yesterday sided with the FTC, which argued the merger
Speaker 1: would have eliminated head to head competition between the two
Speaker 1: chains and also would have led to higher prices for shoppers.
Speaker 1: The judges ruling effectively kills the merger at six so
Speaker 1: five at tamble on the news, Israel's on the attack
Speaker 1: in Syria. We'll tell you why. I fifty, the man
Speaker 1: charged in the killing of United Healthcare CEO may have
Speaker 1: been inspired by the unibomber. ABC's Peter Harlumbus has more
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 9: AMI's on it, Damien's on it, Amy's.
Speaker 1: On it, Damie's on it. What am I on? I'm
Speaker 1: on the stream. I'm on TV shows and movies and documentaries.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, I go low tech and
Speaker 1: do books, taking recommendations of course, because there's so much
Speaker 1: content out there, it's like, how do you know what
Speaker 1: to even watch? And one of the things that is
Speaker 1: a little bit overwhelming right now is Christmas movies because
Speaker 1: when you go onto your apps like Netflix, there's a
Speaker 1: whole category. They look like there's a lot of Hallmark movies.
Speaker 1: But what do you know? What do you pick? So
Speaker 1: I take recommendations, watch them, and then let you know
Speaker 1: if I like them or not. Maybe that'll help you
Speaker 1: make a decision too. So there's two this week really quickly.
Speaker 1: Abc'swell Gance told us about Falling for Christmas last week
Speaker 1: with Lindsay Lohan, and I thought, well, that might be
Speaker 1: kind of cute, so I thought I'd better watch it.
Speaker 1: I did. It has Lindsay Lohan and Jack Wagner, So
Speaker 1: Lindsay's character is of course, she's well off. She's Daddy's
Speaker 1: little girl. Dad Jack Wagner wants her to take over
Speaker 1: his business, so she's up in the mountains. She gets
Speaker 1: in a ski accident she loses her memory. Enter the
Speaker 1: cute owner of the little struggling winter resort and his family,
Speaker 1: who helps her recover as she tries to find out
Speaker 1: who she is. And if you love Hallmark movies, you'll
Speaker 1: problem like this one. Now, no great performances, pretty predictable
Speaker 1: from the start. It's kind of cute. I don't know
Speaker 1: that i'd be on this one again. But if you're
Speaker 1: looking for like a hallmarky kind of Christmas movie, Falling
Speaker 1: for Christmas is on Netflix. Okay, here's another one. It's
Speaker 1: called Klaus. It's an animated movie. It has some familiar
Speaker 1: voices in it. Jason Schwartzman, Norm MacDonald, Joan Cusack, Rashida Jones, JK. Simmons,
Speaker 1: So some familiar voices, but I think they do such
Speaker 1: a good job. Like I was just watching it last
Speaker 1: night and when I was like, now, who is that?
Speaker 1: It sounds a little bit familiar, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: who it was. But anyways, so the story is Klaus.
Speaker 1: It's a rich, lazy young man named Jasper. He still
Speaker 1: is being pampered because he's lived a life of privilege.
Speaker 1: His dad wants him to become productive and of course
Speaker 1: he's failing because he's lazy and entitled. So his dad
Speaker 1: thinks he's going to make one last effort as getting
Speaker 1: his son to step up to the plate, and so
Speaker 1: he basically because the dad's the postmaster gender general, makes
Speaker 1: him go set up a new post office in a
Speaker 1: place called Smirnsburg. And smearns Bertberg is this desolate, lifeless
Speaker 1: little island town. There's no color, there's no joy. It
Speaker 1: feels a bit like Halloween town in a really dark way. Uh,
Speaker 1: jasperg gets a less than warm reception, but then his life,
Speaker 1: of course begins to change because what this is is
Speaker 1: a Santa origin story. And he meets a secret toy
Speaker 1: made maker but he's not claused. His name is Klaus,
Speaker 1: and together they form a weird little friendship and they
Speaker 1: you find out how Santa kinda came to be and
Speaker 1: how that goodness and all of that stuff kind of
Speaker 1: changes the town. It's a very sweet story. It's just
Speaker 1: a new twist on Santa Claus. It's one you've probably
Speaker 1: never seen before and probably haven't thought of before. So
Speaker 1: it was really cool because it's not you know, the
Speaker 1: traditional Night before Christmas or I know that's not an
Speaker 1: origin story, but and it's kind of a mix of
Speaker 1: old and new. It looks like animation rather than CG.
Speaker 1: It looks like classic animation, which I really really like.
Speaker 1: It's it's fun. It's a little bit dark, but not
Speaker 1: so much that you need to shelter the kids or something.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels a little bit like maybe like
Speaker 1: the characters are a little bit like Nightmare before Christmas,
Speaker 1: but not quite so extreme. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: makes sense, but anyway, it's Klaus. It's a good watch.
Speaker 1: It's fun for kids. Grown ups are going to like
Speaker 1: it too. It's on Netflix and I'm on it. I
Speaker 1: think you should be on it in time for Christmas too.
Speaker 1: I think there's still a little to squeeze it onto
Speaker 1: your Christmas viewing list. Two weeks from today is Christmas.
Speaker 1: In case you forgot, Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: The fire burning in the hills of Malibu has burned
Speaker 1: nearly four thousand acres. It is zero percent surrounded.
Speaker 5: Strong winds and low humidities will continue to challenge firefighters
Speaker 5: on the line and in the air as they struggle
Speaker 5: to contain the stubborn fire.
Speaker 1: La County Fire Chief Anthony moroneys as the fires destroyed
Speaker 1: seven homes or other buildings and damaged eight others. Two
Speaker 1: thousand residents have been ordered to leave their homes. Six
Speaker 1: thousand more are under evacuation warnings. A man shot by
Speaker 1: police in Buena Park has died. Officers recalled yesterday about
Speaker 1: a possibly armed man seen walking in lanes on the
Speaker 1: five Freeway near Artiza Boulevard. The shooting happened during a
Speaker 1: confrontation with the man. Police didn't release more details. The
Speaker 1: police Department and the State Attorney's General Office are investigating.
Speaker 1: Burbank police say an officer involved shooting in October was
Speaker 1: an accident.
Speaker 6: Investigators have determined that this officer involved shooting was the
Speaker 6: result of.
Speaker 9: An unintentional discharge of the involved officer's duty weapon during
Speaker 9: a high risk traffic stop.
Speaker 1: Police Lieutenant Derek Green says the bullet went through the windshield,
Speaker 1: but no one was hit. The officer who fired has
Speaker 1: been with the department for fourteen years. Police say officers
Speaker 1: were looking for a stolen vehicle when they pulled over
Speaker 1: a white Ford van near Buena Vista and Van Owen
Speaker 1: Streets around one am. The driver was eventually arrested on
Speaker 1: suspicion of stealing the van and driving under the influence.
Speaker 1: Palestinian medical officials say Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip
Speaker 1: have killed at least twenty nine people overnight. They say
Speaker 1: one strike hit a home where displaced people had taken shelter.
Speaker 1: Officials say another strike hit near the entrance to a hospital.
Speaker 1: The military says it tries to avoid harming civilians and
Speaker 1: accuses militants of hiding among them. Health officials say women
Speaker 1: should have the option of taking their own test samples
Speaker 1: for cervical cancer screening. Maybec's Chuck Siebertson says the aim
Speaker 1: is to get more women screened to check for cancer
Speaker 1: causing HPV.
Speaker 4: Draft recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force advised
Speaker 4: women in their twenties to still get a PAP test
Speaker 4: every three years, then from age thirty to sixty five,
Speaker 4: women can get an HPV test every five years.
Speaker 1: The panel says test samples can be collected by a
Speaker 1: doctor or the patient herself in a mobile clinic or
Speaker 1: medical office. The recreational fishing season for dungeness crab is
Speaker 1: now open for part of northern California. Health officials say
Speaker 1: it is now safe to eat crabs caught from the
Speaker 1: California Oregon border down to just north of Eureka. The
Speaker 1: commercial crab season for Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del nort Counties
Speaker 1: remains closed until December thirty first because of poor crab quality.
Speaker 1: The state has secured federal funds to fight the fire
Speaker 1: burning in Malibu. Governor Newsom says a Fire Management Assistance
Speaker 1: grant from FEMA will make sure that money is available
Speaker 1: to pay for firefighting resources needed to battle the fire
Speaker 1: that started late Monday night in Malibu Canyon and has
Speaker 1: grown to almost thirty nine hundred acres. The La City
Speaker 1: Council's voted to expand renter's protection programs under Measure ULA,
Speaker 1: the so called mansion tax that was passed last year.
Speaker 1: ULA funds anti homelessness efforts. The council's action means the
Speaker 1: city can now access hundreds of millions of dollars for
Speaker 1: eviction defense, rental assistance, and income support for seniors and
Speaker 1: people with disabilities. Former New York City Congressman Anthony Wiener,
Speaker 1: who were signed from Congress in twenty eleven because of
Speaker 1: a sexting scandal, maybe trying to make a comeback. He
Speaker 1: has filed paperwork for a possible run for the New
Speaker 1: York City Council. He tried to run for the mayor
Speaker 1: of New York City in twenty thirteen, but that fell
Speaker 1: apart when another sexting scandal came to light. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning to ABC's Peter Harralumbus's.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Peter, Good morning Amy, thanks so much for
Speaker 5: having me.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for coming on. We need your your expertise
Speaker 1: in explaining this one. We've got Luigi Manji charged with
Speaker 1: murder of the United Healthcare ceo outside the Hilton Hotel
Speaker 1: in Midtown, Manhattan, which was a week ago. What have
Speaker 1: we found out about the man accused of gunning down
Speaker 1: the ceo in cold blood?
Speaker 5: So Luigi Maanngione in many ways is kind of an
Speaker 5: enigma at this point in terms of what might have
Speaker 5: motivated him. We know plenty about his background, though at
Speaker 5: this point he came from a very wealthy family in Baltimore.
Speaker 5: He was the valedictorian of an elite all boys school.
Speaker 5: He was a successful engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 5: and he seemed to be a socially engaged adult, young
Speaker 5: adult who had a decent job working for an automotive website.
Speaker 5: You know, he was interesting. According to his colleagues, he
Speaker 5: was intellectual, but he didn't have what they believed kind
Speaker 5: of he didn't really exhibit any kind of warning signs
Speaker 5: according to the friends and family we've spoken to there,
Speaker 5: saying that basically he is a completely different person than
Speaker 5: the person they knew, and we're digging a little bit
Speaker 5: into his past to get a sense of what might
Speaker 5: have motivated him. According to a confidential NYPD assessment, Manjorda
Speaker 5: might have believed that this was symbolic takedown of the
Speaker 5: healthcare insurance industry, that he viewed himself as a hero,
Speaker 5: and that he might have been inspired by the unibomber.
Speaker 5: And now there's a threat possibility that he's now being
Speaker 5: kind of appreciated and celebrated online in a way that
Speaker 5: could make him a martyr.
Speaker 1: According to the NYPD, I've seen websites where you can
Speaker 1: buy merchandise with his picture on it. T shirts and
Speaker 1: hats and such.
Speaker 5: I've seen compilation videos in which people kind of put
Speaker 5: together a bunch of photos of his Instagram. I've seen
Speaker 5: folks talking about how they'd love to go visit in jail.
Speaker 5: And according to the NYPD, that's kind of an alarming
Speaker 5: sign that this is a person who committed, in their eyes,
Speaker 5: a cold blooded murder brazenly in the streets of New
Speaker 5: York City, and by this and being celebrated online, it
Speaker 5: could encourage other people who hold extreme beliefs to basically
Speaker 5: do the same thing, embolden them to act, inspire a
Speaker 5: copycat attack. Basically, this is all happening, as we're saying,
Speaker 5: just the flurry of activity in support of him online,
Speaker 5: and there's now a threat that the NYPD is encouraging
Speaker 5: CEOs to kind of increase their security and prepare themselves
Speaker 5: for what could be an increased threat environment.
Speaker 1: That's terrifying to say the least. So you mentioned in
Speaker 1: the Unibomber that he may have thought that the Unibomber
Speaker 1: was sort of a model for him. He had a
Speaker 1: manifesto of sorts, didn't he He.
Speaker 5: Did have writings, and those writings did kind of criticize
Speaker 5: the healthcare industry as basically too expensive, too corrupt, and
Speaker 5: not really helping Americans be healthier. He mentioned how the
Speaker 5: United States spends the most on healthcare compared to any
Speaker 5: other country, yet we're ranked number forty two in the
Speaker 5: world to police sources. He also had a spiral notebook
Speaker 5: in which he even discussed the possibility of embracing a
Speaker 5: unibomber's technique using explosives that we ultimately opted against that idea.
Speaker 5: We also know that he left a review on the
Speaker 5: Unibomber's manifesto's good Reads page. He called the manifesto interesting
Speaker 5: and described Kaczynski, who murdered three people and injured dozens,
Speaker 5: as a political revolutionary.
Speaker 1: Has he admitted to killing Brian Thompson.
Speaker 5: So police are calling his writings and admittance that those
Speaker 5: writings basically stayed it clear as day, But his lawyer
Speaker 5: is maintaining his innocence, saying that he could he's seen
Speaker 5: no evidence that suggests Brian that his client is actually
Speaker 5: the murderer of Brian Thompson, And though one pushed on
Speaker 5: GMA this morning about whether or not his client confessed
Speaker 5: he had a client to answer, sending attorney client privilege,
Speaker 5: so more to see. We saw a kind of unhinged
Speaker 5: version of Mangona yesterday as he was being dragged into court.
Speaker 5: He was shouting at the press that this was quote
Speaker 5: completely unjust and an insult to the intelligence of the
Speaker 5: American people.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you had said that he may something happened.
Speaker 1: Are we knowing if he had a family member or
Speaker 1: maybe him that was denied care or something like that.
Speaker 1: Is there some do we know of some sort of
Speaker 1: a spark that may have kind of small.
Speaker 5: Rolling investigators are actively looking into that possibility that he
Speaker 5: might have been motivated by a denied insurance claim, for example.
Speaker 5: One piece of information we did learn yesterday is that
Speaker 5: he did have a flurry of health issues. We found
Speaker 5: the Reddit page that we believe is from Mangoni himself,
Speaker 5: in which you frequently posted about his health issues. He
Speaker 5: said he had brain fog, he said he had debilitating
Speaker 5: spinal issues, sciatica kind of a ton of issues. But
Speaker 5: interestingly enough, in those posts, he doesn't rail against the
Speaker 5: healthcare industry, he doesn't criticize United Health. In fact, the
Speaker 5: active encourages other people to get spinal surgeries done, saying
Speaker 5: how much it improved his quality of life. So there's
Speaker 5: nothing in there that's a clear motive, and it's kind
Speaker 5: of confusing people about what might have triggered him over
Speaker 5: the last six months. We know his friends lost touch
Speaker 5: with him, his family reported him as missing in California,
Speaker 5: and that he basically went kind of completely out of
Speaker 5: touch with all the people who knew him leading up
Speaker 5: to this incident. So certainly more questions than answers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a lot of answers so far, but
Speaker 1: there are so many more questions. ABC's Peter Harlumbus, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for the information. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thanks march Any, All right, take care.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The wind driven
Speaker 1: fire in Malibu has grown to more than three thirty
Speaker 1: nine hundred or not more than thirty nine hundred almost
Speaker 1: thirty nine hundred acres. It continues to burn out of control.
Speaker 1: About two thousand homes and other buildings remain under mandatory
Speaker 1: evacuation orders. At least seven homes or buildings have been destroyed.
Speaker 1: About fifteen hundred firefighters are assigned to the fire. The
Speaker 1: National Weather Service has a particularly Dangerous Situation red flag
Speaker 1: warning expired yesterday along the Malibu coast, but standard red
Speaker 1: flag conditions are in place until this afternoon. The fire
Speaker 1: in Malibu spread so fast many were forced to leave
Speaker 1: their homes.
Speaker 12: The fire doubled in size and short order overnight, and
Speaker 12: resident Johnny Constantine, who says he lives on pch says
Speaker 12: the alert, then the warning and then the evacuation order
Speaker 12: all came fast too.
Speaker 5: Just beyond guard to start packing, but you ain't got
Speaker 5: to go yet.
Speaker 2: But then it was like the thirty minutes later the
Speaker 2: evacuation order, It's.
Speaker 1: Like everybody get out, and then it was like all
Speaker 1: hell broke loose.
Speaker 12: The Red Cross set up shelters in the area for evacuees,
Speaker 12: including up the Palisades Rec Center where Constantine went. Another
Speaker 12: at Pierce College hosted large animals that had to leave home.
Speaker 12: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: An outgoing mayor in northern California, says if Democrats want
Speaker 1: to change their fortunes in future national elections, they need
Speaker 1: to change things up. Sacramento Mayor Darryl Steinberg says they
Speaker 1: can start by acknowledging that the public educations system is
Speaker 1: disconnected from the workforce.
Speaker 2: Why can't we teach these core academic subjects in ways
Speaker 2: that come alive for young people, and then we'll inspire
Speaker 2: more young people to actually pursue pathways that can include
Speaker 2: college but may not but connect them to the modern workforce.
Speaker 1: In an opinion piece in The La Times, Steinberg says
Speaker 1: it's also an important component of any strategy to rebuild
Speaker 1: an invigorated democratic coalition. New York's Attorney general says she
Speaker 1: will not drop the civil fraud case against President elect Trump.
Speaker 1: Letitia James says she is waiting for an appeals court
Speaker 1: decision that our use presidents are not immune from civil litigation.
Speaker 1: Trump was found guilty of inflating the value of properties
Speaker 1: to get more favorable loans. He was ordered to pay
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty four million dollars in fines. An
Speaker 1: appeals court has indicated it is open to reversing the
Speaker 1: decision against Trump. New Census Bureau data shows a lot
Speaker 1: of Americans are not prepared for retirement. ABC's Chuck Sievertson says.
Speaker 1: Investment firm Vanguard says older customers have an average balance
Speaker 1: of two hundred and forty five thousand dollars, and the
Speaker 1: median is just eighty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: About half of Americans between fifty five and sixty six
Speaker 4: have no retirement savings at all, say Census Bureau data,
Speaker 4: and women are in worse shape than men.
Speaker 1: That is scary. Experts advise people with little or no
Speaker 1: nest egg to work longer, to save and invest more,
Speaker 1: choose lower cost mutual funds, and delay getting Social Security
Speaker 1: until the age of seventy. This is KFI and KOSTHD
Speaker 1: two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland weather from KFI. Red
Speaker 1: flag warnings for high fire danger with wind gus up
Speaker 1: to about forty miles per hour remain in effect until
Speaker 1: this evening party. Cloudy skies today with highs in the
Speaker 1: upper sixties at the beaches, low to mid seventies for
Speaker 1: Metro LA and Inland o c. Sixties to mid seventies
Speaker 1: in the valleys and Inland Empire fifties for the Antelope Valley.
Speaker 1: Clouds tomorrow with a twenty percent chance of rain in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Highs in the sixties to low seventies. It's
Speaker 1: fifty four in Anaheim fifty three Redondo Beach, forty seven
Speaker 1: in Claremont, fifty four in Encino. We lead local live
Speaker 1: from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King.
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