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Speaker 1: It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up
Speaker 1: call for Friday, January thirty. First Wow. One month down,
Speaker 1: eleven to go. You know that means like eleven months
Speaker 1: till Christmas. Thought i'd go there early. Good morning. Thank
Speaker 1: you for getting your day started with us today. We
Speaker 1: certainly appreciate it. Looking for a happy, happy Friday. Did
Speaker 1: you watch a fire aid last night?
Speaker 4: A little bit?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I went to tune in at six and I'm like, going,
Speaker 1: it's not on. I'm watching KTLA. It's like they're doing news.
Speaker 1: I went to Apple TV, I went to Paramount Plus,
Speaker 1: I went to Disney Plus and I'm like, where where
Speaker 1: is this concert?
Speaker 4: I read the same thing, searched Olliver right, and.
Speaker 1: Then I was doing some show prep and I saw
Speaker 1: the wire story it said, oh, it's been delayed an hour.
Speaker 1: They decided that yesterday afternoon, so it didn't start till seven.
Speaker 4: But what a show was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there were times I wondered how iHeart the
Speaker 2: iHeart FM stations were actually airing it because there were
Speaker 2: a couple of words in there, and some of the acts.
Speaker 1: Were there were the N word, and I believe there
Speaker 1: was an F bomber two. So yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought that one of the coolest parts was when Building
Speaker 1: Crystal came out at the at the beginning of it
Speaker 1: and started talking because, as you know he or may
Speaker 1: not know, he lost his home in Pacific Palisades and
Speaker 1: he was wearing this blue hoodie sweatshirt and he said,
Speaker 1: this is the.
Speaker 4: This is what I was wearing.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my gosh, and you could tell
Speaker 1: he was getting teary about it, and it was just like, wow,
Speaker 1: It's just how far reaching this all was.
Speaker 4: Was just crazy.
Speaker 1: And then the women in Altad, you know, there was
Speaker 1: a family of five, I think it was the mom
Speaker 1: and four daughters, and they said, we had like generational homes,
Speaker 1: and she said, of the five of us here on stage,
Speaker 1: four lost homes. And You're just like, how do you
Speaker 1: even come back from that? Like all those memories not
Speaker 1: just from one family house but from the whole family.
Speaker 1: But amazing. And I'm hoping that it's I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: will Gans about this, but I'm hoping that it'll be
Speaker 1: replaying because I didn't get to see the whole thing,
Speaker 1: but I did wake up at like midnight and it
Speaker 1: was still going.
Speaker 4: Uh, it was crazy. It was great.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I want to see what I missed, like
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga and I missed most of Billie Eilish and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Here's what's the head on wake
Speaker 1: Up called. Two black boxes from the deadly midair collision
Speaker 1: over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport have been recovered.
Speaker 1: They're now reportedly on the way to the National Transportation
Speaker 1: Safety Board lab. We're going to check in with ABC's
Speaker 1: Stephen Portnoy. He's gonna get us the latest on that
Speaker 1: in about two or three minutes. I'm in from Long Beach.
Speaker 1: Has been sentenced to six months in prison for pointing
Speaker 1: lasers at police. Helicopters and planes. Gop say. Forty eight
Speaker 1: year old Mark Barger pointed a high powered laser at
Speaker 1: Long Beach Police helicopters, commercial airliners, and private planes near
Speaker 1: the Long Beach Airport in January of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Traveling to northern California this weekend could be rather treacherous.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Services issued a winter storm warning for
Speaker 1: heavy snow and strong winds in the southern Sierra Nevada,
Speaker 1: Yosemite National Park and other areas. Up to three feet
Speaker 1: of snow and winds gusting to about fifty miles per
Speaker 1: hour are expected through Sunday morning. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. People from several cities in the San
Speaker 1: Gabriel Valley Foothills have spoken out against a toxic waste
Speaker 1: processing site for the Eat and Fire in Altadena. Supervisor
Speaker 1: Hilda Salisa's residents can rest assured the federal operation will
Speaker 1: not harm their communities.
Speaker 5: Our role is to be also eyes and ears and
Speaker 5: to help articulate and give that information to the public
Speaker 5: so that there is some sense of trust, accountability, and transparency.
Speaker 1: There have been two nights of town hall meetings with
Speaker 1: officials from the EPA about the site at Lario Park
Speaker 1: in Irwindale. It's been decided that toxic waste will now
Speaker 1: travel along the two to ten Freeway from the burn
Speaker 1: Zone in Altadena instead of along city streets. ICE agents
Speaker 1: have been carrying O rage raids in LA despite its
Speaker 1: sanctuary city designation. Gayfy's Phil Hewlett says raids started across
Speaker 1: the country when President Trump lifted restrictions on ICE operations
Speaker 1: at sensitive locations like schools, churches, and hospitals.
Speaker 6: This week, arrests were made in conjunction with the Drug
Speaker 6: Enforcement Agency and the Department of Homeland Security in several
Speaker 6: undisclosed Los Angeles neighborhoods. Many of those arrested are said
Speaker 6: to have criminal backgrounds.
Speaker 1: ICE officers from Ro Los Angeles have posted photos on
Speaker 1: social media showing some of the arrests made. One guy
Speaker 1: is a Mexican gang member with convictions for domestic violence.
Speaker 1: Another is a foreign fugitive wanted by authorities in El
Speaker 1: Salvador for homicide. Santa Ana School District officials have put
Speaker 1: together a six minute video to show staff step by
Speaker 1: step how to handle a visit from ice officers. District
Speaker 1: officials say families and the district are worried about President
Speaker 1: Trump's executive order to start mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: This say good morning too. Will Cole Schreiber is going
Speaker 1: to check a crash for us in Southads.
Speaker 2: The problems here as you head south on the one
Speaker 2: ten freeway at Manchester, the two right lanes are blocked
Speaker 2: with this crash. An overturned box truck is one of
Speaker 2: the vehicles is involved here, so it may take a
Speaker 2: while to clean up. We're keeping an eye on that
Speaker 2: one for the most part. It's Friday morning light out there,
Speaker 2: but we have a couple of other things going on
Speaker 2: ten westbound before sunset. Before sunset Avenue installed in the
Speaker 2: carpool lane four H five northbound right around Norno to
Speaker 2: the north end of the valley.
Speaker 4: There stalled truck.
Speaker 2: In lanes there and another stretch of the four H
Speaker 2: five this time it's northbound in Long Beach right around Cherry.
Speaker 4: Looks like that on ramp blocked partially by a crash.
Speaker 2: With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports, I'm Will Coleschreiber.
Speaker 6: Thank you all.
Speaker 1: It's five oh seven on your Friday morning wake up call.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Port Andite. You know, Stephen,
Speaker 1: I know you've been working in DC for more than
Speaker 1: twenty years, so why you might not be an aviation expert.
Speaker 1: You certainly know Reagan National Airport and provided such great
Speaker 1: information yesterday. We wanted to talk with you again today
Speaker 1: to find out what we've learned since yesterday.
Speaker 7: Well, the big development from the investigation side is the
Speaker 7: recovery of the flight data recorders, the black boxes from
Speaker 7: the airplane, the Canada Air Regional Jet. Now, the question
Speaker 7: is not that anyone has suggested that the pilots of
Speaker 7: that plane did anything wrong. The question is exactly how
Speaker 7: high in the air was that plane at the time
Speaker 7: of the collision with the Blackhawk helicopter. The public speculation
Speaker 7: has been that it was three hundred and fifty feet
Speaker 7: above sea level. Because of publicly available data on apps
Speaker 7: such as flight tracker and the radar, this, that and
Speaker 7: the other, and with that as a basis, people are saying, ah,
Speaker 7: the helicopter was flying too high in the air. The
Speaker 7: problem is that data when a plane is so low
Speaker 7: to the ground might not necessarily be accurate. The altimeter
Speaker 7: of the plane will have the most accurate information and
Speaker 7: that's going to be recorded on the black boxes, so
Speaker 7: those will be analyzed by the NTSB. So that's important
Speaker 7: from the investigation side. Also, we're looking ataping of the
Speaker 7: control tower, and we've learned yesterday that they were down
Speaker 7: to one controller who was responsible for monitoring incoming planes
Speaker 7: to Reagan National Airport and the military helicopters and other
Speaker 7: law enforcement helicopters that fly the same corridor, and that's
Speaker 7: a key question whether the air traffic controller was overwhelmed
Speaker 7: or had too much responsibility at that moment. It is
Speaker 7: not entirely out of the ordinary for that sort of
Speaker 7: staffing to occur. It generally happens later in the evening
Speaker 7: when the flight patterns at Reagan National Airport are much
Speaker 7: lower because overnight for noise restrictions, mainly to protect the
Speaker 7: residents of the area, there's not a lot of traffic
Speaker 7: in that airport. There are no flights taking off after
Speaker 7: a certain hour. Flights may come in for a landing
Speaker 7: or take off if they're delayed, but that is not typical.
Speaker 4: It's rare.
Speaker 7: It happens, but it's not the way it's supposed to
Speaker 7: from a schedule standpoint, all of which is to say
Speaker 7: they're going to look at everything. They're going to look
Speaker 7: at the equipment, they're going to look at the conditions,
Speaker 7: they're going to look at the actions of the people
Speaker 7: on the helicopter, the plane and in the control tower.
Speaker 1: And the NTSB is saying they're going to look at everything,
Speaker 1: but they're not going to say what it is until
Speaker 1: they've had a chance to look over everything, which I'm
Speaker 1: sure is it's got to be frustrating because people want answers.
Speaker 7: Now, Well, yeah, I mean, look, it doesn't help establish
Speaker 7: a pattern of facts to have the President of the
Speaker 7: United States come out and suggest without evidence that this
Speaker 7: has something to do with diversity hiring practices. My colleague
Speaker 7: Mary Bruce asked the President yesterday, as to my colleague
Speaker 7: Karen Travers, did do you have any evidence that this
Speaker 7: had anything to do with the race or gender of
Speaker 7: the people involved? And he said no, essentially, but it's
Speaker 7: common sense what leads him to that conclusion. He didn't
Speaker 7: offer any evidence. We don't know what the president has
Speaker 7: been told, but he hasn't shared it with the public.
Speaker 7: If he has reason to believe it, and so instead
Speaker 7: the question is exactly you know what happened? We do
Speaker 7: hear radio traffic between the control tower and the helicopter
Speaker 7: where the controller says more than once, you've got eyes
Speaker 7: on that crjjet right, And I'm using you know, normal parlance.
Speaker 7: They don't, they speak and coded, you know, their normal jargon.
Speaker 7: But the answer was, yes, they do see. And the
Speaker 7: question is what plane were they looking at?
Speaker 4: Rightly?
Speaker 1: Not talking about yesterday. The planes are coming and going.
Speaker 1: They're taking off and landing like every thirty or forty
Speaker 1: five seconds. So even though they have eyes on a plane,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean it's the plane that's right.
Speaker 7: And maybe that, you know, they say to CRJ, maybe
Speaker 7: they saw another A three twenty and I thought that
Speaker 7: was it. We don't know, but it's all going to
Speaker 7: be part of the.
Speaker 1: Investigation, all right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thanks again for the
Speaker 1: information you all right, let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: The two young girls who investigators say were kidnapped by
Speaker 1: their father have been found safe. Jonathan Maldonado Cruz has
Speaker 1: been arrested on suspicion of murdering the girl's mother in
Speaker 1: King's County, about thirty miles south of Fresno. Her body
Speaker 1: was found Tuesday that led to an AMBER alert through
Speaker 1: southern California. Maldonado Cruz gave himself up yesterday at the
Speaker 1: US Mexico border in Sandy Sidro and turned over his
Speaker 1: two and three year old daughters.
Speaker 4: They're both okay.
Speaker 1: Some people who live in Altadena say they're not getting
Speaker 1: as much attention from the government in the wake of
Speaker 1: the wildfires. Donnie Kinsey tells KTLA the people who are
Speaker 1: looking at Altadena are hoping to buy the properties of
Speaker 1: his longtime neighbors.
Speaker 3: From what I've seen with my friends and their parents, yes,
Speaker 3: they're getting offers early and you know, low bids on
Speaker 3: their properties.
Speaker 1: Kinsey says he lost his home and business in the
Speaker 1: Eaton fire. He says he feels like the Palisades fire
Speaker 1: has gotten most of the attention in relief efforts. A
Speaker 1: convicted felon who walked away from a conservation camp in
Speaker 1: Acton has been captured in Bakersfield. The guy had been
Speaker 1: missing since Tuesday. The California Department of Correction says Jesse
Speaker 1: Mesa will be put in prison and possibly prosecuted in
Speaker 1: La County on escape charges. In twenty twenty two, he
Speaker 1: began serving a sixteen year sentence for assault with a
Speaker 1: firearm and other charges out of Kern County. Driverless Tesla's
Speaker 1: will soon hit the streets of California.
Speaker 3: The robo taxi service should be ready to go live
Speaker 3: by the end of this year. That's according to Tesla
Speaker 3: CEO Elon Musk, who also says that the state of
Speaker 3: Texas is going to get its roll out over the summer.
Speaker 3: Tesla is looking to compete with the autonomous taxi service
Speaker 3: called Waimo, which started offering rides right here in La
Speaker 3: just as past November. Tesla's self driving approach utilizes cameras
Speaker 3: and simple sensors rather than using expensive tech and detailed maps.
Speaker 3: The specific cities in the LA area for the initial
Speaker 3: deployment of the road with taxis have not been announced.
Speaker 3: Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: Buster Farms says it's closing its turkey processing planned in
Speaker 1: northern California and laying off hundreds of workers. Fuster Farms
Speaker 1: says changing market demand is forcing the company to close
Speaker 1: in Stanislaus County more than five hundred workers will lose
Speaker 1: their jobs, but apparently the company will offer them jobs
Speaker 1: in other plants nearby. The company didn't say if the
Speaker 1: closure is tied to outbreaks of the bird flu. President
Speaker 1: Trump's pick to lead the FBI has been questioned by
Speaker 1: members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democratic Senator from Minnesota
Speaker 1: Amy Klobachar asked Cash Betel whether he keeps an enemy's
Speaker 1: list with people like former Attorney General Bill barr on it.
Speaker 4: It's not an enemy's list. That is a total mischaracterization.
Speaker 2: I ask you, and I actually used the words you
Speaker 2: use for the list, which was deep state, right, that's
Speaker 2: what you put it.
Speaker 1: That is a glass sent to the Attorney General of
Speaker 1: the United States. Democrats pushed for assurances that Patel would
Speaker 1: not seek retribution against President Trump's adversaries or investigate people
Speaker 1: or organizations for political reasons. Bettel was confronted by senators
Speaker 1: with a series of statements, including referring to January sixth
Speaker 1: rioters as political prisoners. A global study shows good oral hygiene,
Speaker 1: including flossing, reduces your risk of stroke. Mark Mayfield says
Speaker 1: a study out of the University of South Carolina looked
Speaker 1: back at flossing habits of thousands of people dating back
Speaker 1: twenty five years.
Speaker 7: The main findings were that people who said they floss
Speaker 7: their teeth at least once a week had it between
Speaker 7: twenty two and forty four percent lower risk of suffering
Speaker 7: a stroke.
Speaker 1: The study out also found the lower stroke risk was
Speaker 1: independent of whether people had routine dental checks or how
Speaker 1: often they brush their teeth. You see, Davis and other
Speaker 1: researchers say they're going to try to talk to et
Speaker 1: with the help of humpback whales. Doctor Fred Sharp's hiss.
Speaker 1: Researchers will believe that they recorded what might be the
Speaker 1: very first human whale communication in the waters off southeast Alaska.
Speaker 1: Sharp says he hopes to eventually use the whale communication
Speaker 1: to help detect and interpret signals coming from outer space.
Speaker 1: You know, he could have just asked Spock for help.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, there's a whole Star Trek movie.
Speaker 1: I know, Star Trek four, Hello when we come back.
Speaker 1: LA mission stepping up to help those who lost everything
Speaker 1: in the Eton fire.