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Speaker 1: on wake up call. President Biden will headline the first
Speaker 1: night of the Democratic National Convention tonight. He was supposed
Speaker 1: to be accepting his party's nomination Thursday, but of course
Speaker 1: dropped out of the race three weeks ago. Former presidents
Speaker 1: Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are scheduled to address delegates
Speaker 1: tomorrow and Wednesday, leading up to Kamala Harris accepting the
Speaker 1: nomination on Thursday night. ABC's Karen Travers is on the
Speaker 1: ground in Chicago. We're going to be talking with her
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. DA George Gascones expected
Speaker 1: to announce criminal charges this afternoon in the murder of
Speaker 1: actor Johnny Whacter in downtown LA. Four people were arrested
Speaker 1: last week. Alien Romulus has opened in first place at
Speaker 1: the box office, took in forty to forty two million dollars.
Speaker 1: Deadpool and Wolverine still up there in second place in
Speaker 1: its fourth weekend of release. It ends with US is
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Speaker 1: this hour, we're going to be talking with a seventeen
Speaker 1: year old who's on a journey of more than sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred miles walking because his grandmother and her friends are
Speaker 1: having a hard time making ends meet. Very inspiring, so
Speaker 1: we hope you'll stick around for that. That's coming up.
Speaker 1: Before the top of the hour. At six oh five,
Speaker 1: it's handle on the news. Long Beach is going to
Speaker 1: start clearing homeless camps. Today, Let's get started with some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. The Democratic National Convention is about to get
Speaker 1: under way in Chicago. President Biden is said to give
Speaker 1: tonight's keynote address. He dropped his bid for reelection last
Speaker 1: month amid pressure from high level Democrats and endorsed Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris for the nomination. ABC's Chris John Cordero sis
Speaker 1: Harris is set to accept the party's nomination on Thursday.
Speaker 4: She and running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Wall stopped in
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh on a bus tour on word to the DNC
Speaker 4: in Chicago, the city expecting fifty thousand visitors.
Speaker 1: Harris says her acceptance speech is coming along. As she
Speaker 1: put it, LA Mayor Bass is in Chicago for the
Speaker 1: opening of the convention. I am very excited. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to be a part of this moment in history.
Speaker 1: I know that the enthusiasm is going to be.
Speaker 3: Off the charge.
Speaker 1: Bass is said to speak at the convention tonight. She
Speaker 1: told KTLA she's not going to be there later this week,
Speaker 1: when Harris actually accepts the nomination, she says she has
Speaker 1: to hurry home because as she put it, there's a
Speaker 1: lot going on in la you think. Secretary of State
Speaker 1: Anthony Blincoln says the time is now to wrap up
Speaker 1: a ceasefire agreement for the Israel Hamas war. He's in
Speaker 1: the Middle East for the ninth time since the war
Speaker 1: started in October.
Speaker 2: The folks of my visit is intensely on getting the
Speaker 2: hostages back, getting the ceasefire done.
Speaker 1: Mediators are meeting again this week in Cairo to try
Speaker 1: to finalize a deal. Blincoln met with Israeli President Isaac
Speaker 1: Herzog tel Aviv before he meets today with Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Lincoln will travel to Egypt tomorrow. We're
Speaker 1: going to get the latest out of the Middle East
Speaker 1: with ABC Jordana Miller. That's coming up at five twenty.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Tom. Ukraine is continuing to push into Russia.
Speaker 1: It's been over a week now.
Speaker 5: Good good morning. I mean, yeah, two weeks tomorrow and
Speaker 5: this incursion continues. And again they've done We heard over
Speaker 5: the weekend that hit a key bridge, which is important
Speaker 5: for blocking you know, Russian reinforcements and getting supplies through
Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. They've also now attacked two smaller bridges.
Speaker 5: So in that particular area about twenty five miles in length,
Speaker 5: it's very difficult to get supplies from Russia into their
Speaker 5: forces in Ukraine. Of course, the border is hundreds of
Speaker 5: miles long. They'll find other routes et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 5: but in that area it's it's it's doing what they
Speaker 5: said it wanted to be done. And Zelenski talked about
Speaker 5: it yesterday when he said, basically, we led to create
Speaker 5: a buffer zone in that area.
Speaker 1: Okay, and the cross border attacks tom seem to have
Speaker 1: surprised Putin. So what is he doing in response to that?
Speaker 1: Because who would have ever thought that Ukraine was going
Speaker 1: to push into Russia exactly.
Speaker 5: I mean we've been using this analogy today of a
Speaker 5: football game and if you're the offense and you tried
Speaker 5: going over the line of scrimmage and you're getting nothing
Speaker 5: and you're getting pounded. Uh So, you know, Ukraine has
Speaker 5: called an end around no one expected it. They've gone
Speaker 5: around the outside and got a very very soft, if
Speaker 5: you will, target in that. You know it was not
Speaker 5: heavily defensed by Russia because they're just moving arms through
Speaker 5: that part of Western Russia. So yeah, it's caught them
Speaker 5: by surprise, it's distracted them. The question is that they
Speaker 5: pulled some forces out of Ukraine to deal with this,
Speaker 5: or use other forces in Russi to deal with this situation.
Speaker 5: Were none of the wiser at this stage.
Speaker 1: Do we have any idea how many Russian force forces
Speaker 1: are in Ukraine.
Speaker 5: A specific number? No, I think back over a year ago.
Speaker 5: I think the numbers floated. Then we're three hundred thousand,
Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, specifically now a new
Speaker 5: number I haven't heard anything of late.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what are some of the achievements since they
Speaker 1: went in? You mentioned the bridge, which I've seen the
Speaker 1: video of that. Yeah, it's pretty spectacular when you see
Speaker 1: that kind of thing happen. But what have they done anything,
Speaker 1: I don't know, really impactful since going in there? Or
Speaker 1: is it like you said, is it just sort of
Speaker 1: a statement of here, let's push the ball this way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more of the latter. You know, for Russian forces,
Speaker 5: there are ways around getting their munitions to their troops
Speaker 5: in Ukraine. And again, are they gonna are the Ukrainian
Speaker 5: forces going to hunker down and you know, and and
Speaker 5: fight for that land. Probably not. The longer this goes on,
Speaker 5: there will be a scenario whereby they would be encircled
Speaker 5: if they don't head back across the border into Ukraine.
Speaker 5: So I mean, it's good from a morale booster. It
Speaker 5: is got in the very very short period of time
Speaker 5: of dealing with you know, some of the logistics going
Speaker 5: through that part of the region. But as I say,
Speaker 5: you know, there's more than one way to skin a cat,
Speaker 5: so the Russian forces will use other routes to get
Speaker 5: and resupply their troops in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Interesting tactic to say the least. So we'll be watching it.
Speaker 1: And then also we just heard today that in the
Speaker 1: Dnetsk region some people are being told they're telling families
Speaker 1: to get out of the a town because the Russian
Speaker 1: troops are they're advancing quickly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. I mean every single day along that long,
Speaker 5: long border, there are incremental gains by Russian forces, there
Speaker 5: are no gains by the Ukrainian forces. And depends upon
Speaker 5: where you are on that six hundred and twenty mile border,
Speaker 5: whether the Russians are coming today, are they coming next,
Speaker 5: week or coming next month, and all that.
Speaker 1: Money approved by the US to help Ukraine fight this
Speaker 1: war is it's not making a difference. It at least
Speaker 1: it doesn't appear to be. Or is it just because
Speaker 1: they haven't gotten all the stuff that we're giving them yet.
Speaker 5: Well, again, everybody's pointing to saying, you know, what this
Speaker 5: particular administration wants is to hold off defeat, if you will,
Speaker 5: until after November. It sounds very cynical, but that is
Speaker 5: one way of looking at it from a political point
Speaker 5: of view. They don't want anything to really change too
Speaker 5: much until after the election. You don't want a Ukrainian
Speaker 5: defeat the first week of November. Why that's going to
Speaker 5: affect you because that was your policy for the past
Speaker 5: two and a half years.
Speaker 1: That is, in fact, incredibly cynical, Tom, and I hadn't
Speaker 1: even thought of it that way, and that makes me
Speaker 1: really sad actually, So all right, thank you so much, Tom,
Speaker 1: appreciate all the information. We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 1: Good here, all right, let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: New rules have gone into effect over the weekend that
Speaker 1: change how real estate commissions work. At the close of escrow,
Speaker 1: sellers can now decide whether to pay the buyer's broker
Speaker 1: anything and if so, how much. Buyers will also have
Speaker 1: to negotiate how much they're willing to pay the agent
Speaker 1: representing them. Most listings won't be allowed to reveal that amount.
Speaker 1: The LAPED has offered a fifty thousand dollars reward for
Speaker 1: information about a deadly hit and run crash in North Hollywood,
Speaker 1: Please Say. The man who hit the woman is believed
Speaker 1: to be in his fifties. He briefly stopped after the
Speaker 1: crash at Victory Boulevard and Beck Avenue on Friday evening,
Speaker 1: but then a band in his car and ran off.
Speaker 1: The woman hit was taken to the hospital, where she
Speaker 1: later died. The Long Beach Health Department has received a
Speaker 1: one million dollar grant to reduce Hepatitis B infections.
Speaker 6: The money will help the city enhance existing Hepatitis B
Speaker 6: services by providing more resources. The project will prioritize communities
Speaker 6: at higher risk for infection, with a focus on Asian
Speaker 6: Americans and Pacific Islanders. The program is aimed at reducing
Speaker 6: acute Hepatitis B infection and providing more access to virus
Speaker 6: screening and vaccination. Long Beach is the first city to
Speaker 6: receive the project grant in the state. Officials say the
Speaker 6: initiative will help the effort to eliminate viral hepatitis as
Speaker 6: a public health threat by twenty thirty. Chris Adler KFI.
Speaker 1: News former New York Republican Congressman George Santos is expected
Speaker 1: to plead guilty to multiple criminal charges. ABC's Iikeja Chiesa's
Speaker 1: Santos has admitted to lying to voters about his education,
Speaker 1: his career, and family background, but this federal case is
Speaker 1: about fraud.
Speaker 2: Santos has insisted he is innocent and had vowed to
Speaker 2: fight criminal charges against him. Just last week, reaffirming his
Speaker 2: not guilty plea to twenty three felony charges, including fraud,
Speaker 2: identity theft, and misuse of campaign funds.
Speaker 1: Santos's trial was set to start in about a month.
Speaker 1: The hat worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana, Jones and
Speaker 1: the Temple of Doom has sold for over six hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars at auction. The brown felt Fedora sold for
Speaker 1: six hundred and thirty thousand dollars in la last week.
Speaker 1: The stunt double who also wore the hat, died last year,
Speaker 1: and that hat is from the Stunt Doubles personal collection.
Speaker 1: A group of twenty teens has smashed windows and ransacked
Speaker 1: three seven elevens within just minutes. The LAPD says the
Speaker 1: robberies happened Friday night in Hollywood. The first one happened
Speaker 1: at Librea at around eight pm. The group took off
Speaker 1: on bikes, then hit two more seven elevens nearby within
Speaker 1: just a few minutes. No arrests have been made. Former
Speaker 1: federal prosecutor Nathan Huckman has a sizeable lead over incumbent
Speaker 1: George gah Scone in the race for La County's district attorney.
Speaker 1: A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll shows forty
Speaker 1: five percent of voters favor Hawkman, twenty percent favor Gascone.
Speaker 1: The other thirty five percent of voters say they're still undecided.
Speaker 1: The election, of course, less than eighty days away. La
Speaker 1: Mayor Bass is in Chicago to speak at the opening
Speaker 1: night of the Democratic National Convention. She plans to talk
Speaker 1: about her relationship with Vice President Harris and how she
Speaker 1: says Harris has delivered for Angelino's youth and families across
Speaker 1: the nation. Harris swore Bus into office as mayor in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two at six oh fives, Handle on the news,
Speaker 1: Republicans have released an impeachment report on President Biden, but
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything. Bill's going to be talking about that.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to Giordana Miller in Jerusalem. Good morning, Jordana,
Speaker 1: Good morning Sector.
Speaker 7: Anthony Blincoln is here. He met this morning with the
Speaker 7: Israeli President. Just wrapped up a meeting with the Israeli
Speaker 7: Prime Minister, which we see from the readout of the
Speaker 7: Prime Minister's office, who said it was a positive meeting.
Speaker 7: And he's going to be talking with his most defense
Speaker 7: minister tonight. He's here. He says, to really try to
Speaker 7: get a Gaza seafire over the finish line, and of course,
Speaker 7: continue to prevent any kind of escalation here. That is,
Speaker 7: you know, to continue to make sure that Hazbola and
Speaker 7: Iran do not carry out our reprisal strikes, at least
Speaker 7: not now while this new push is on for a
Speaker 7: Gadza seasfire. The bad news is that Hamas put out
Speaker 7: a statement last night essentially rejecting the revised seafire that
Speaker 7: the US helped to craft in Dohab Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 7: So that doesn't really bode well. Let's see if Lincoln
Speaker 7: can make any head when he meets with Katari and
Speaker 7: Egyptian officials on the later legs of this trip, to
Speaker 7: try to see if that's you know, for show or
Speaker 7: if it's a real hard no.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: Here in Israel, he needs to try to convince the
Speaker 7: Israeli Prime Minister to perhaps speed up the withdrawal of
Speaker 7: Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip because Nataniel wants to
Speaker 7: keep some troops along the Egyptian Gaza border and along
Speaker 7: a corridor that cuts the Gaza Strip in half, basically
Speaker 7: cutting the northern from the southern half. We'll have to see.
Speaker 7: There's still a lot of details to be worked out,
Speaker 7: and you know, I don't think we're gonna I know,
Speaker 7: the US officials are hoping next week later this week Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 7: Sunday to close the deal in Cairo. I don't think
Speaker 7: that's possible, but maybe we consume, you know, another round
Speaker 7: of progress when the CIA chief comes back to the
Speaker 7: region to lead another summit at the end of the week.
Speaker 8: In Cairo.
Speaker 1: And it's not all that's surprising that Hamas came out
Speaker 1: with that statement because of what was said last week
Speaker 1: where they basically said, we're losing faith in the US's
Speaker 1: power to negotiate this ceasefire.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, Hamas, first of all, I mean that
Speaker 7: position that somehow they're losing faith in the United States.
Speaker 7: I mean, Hamas has not shown good faith as one
Speaker 7: of the negotiating partners for a very long time. And
Speaker 7: it's ironic, right because Hamas didn't even show up to
Speaker 7: the round of talks in Doha, and you know, they've
Speaker 7: not shown flexibility for many months. And it's not all
Speaker 7: about the United States. They like to put the United
Speaker 7: States in Israel in one camp as if the United States,
Speaker 7: you know, always takes is or outside. That is not always,
Speaker 7: that is not most often the case. And we know
Speaker 7: that the US has been putting tremendous pressure on the
Speaker 7: Prime Minister to show more flexibility, uh and trying to
Speaker 7: get from Nataniell's critics what's really happening inside the government
Speaker 7: and where nathanielle is. There's a lot of there's not
Speaker 7: a lot of trust between Nathaniel and the American administration.
Speaker 7: So but Hamas, you know, Amas was not at the talks.
Speaker 7: They were looped in later by negotiators and we're gonna
Speaker 7: have to wait and see what they say, which will
Speaker 7: take several days because they'll have to go into Gaza
Speaker 7: and get a response from Yaka Seoir, the leader of
Speaker 7: who's hiding under the tunnel, you know, in the tunnels
Speaker 7: underneath Gaza, And it takes several days to go back
Speaker 7: and forth. So we'll have to see what Hamas's position
Speaker 7: is in the end.
Speaker 1: Okay and Jordan, are they going to not be at
Speaker 1: the Egypt talks either or do we know?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we don't know yet.
Speaker 3: That's a good question.
Speaker 7: We don't know yet, So we're gonna have to wait
Speaker 7: and see. They haven't said anything either way, but they're
Speaker 7: going or they're not going. At this point, I'm I'm
Speaker 7: hoping there, you know, there's still something to report on
Speaker 7: that they do meet in Kyro later in the week.
Speaker 7: I hope things don't fall apart before then. There was
Speaker 7: progress made in Doha last week on Thursday Friday, there's
Speaker 7: no question about it, but there's still some you know, gaps,
Speaker 7: and there needs to be movement on both sides to
Speaker 7: get there. And remember an Attenie still facing the same situation.
Speaker 7: That is, if he ends the war, he's likely going
Speaker 7: to be out of power. And so you know, there
Speaker 7: are a lot of critics here who's saying Antenna is
Speaker 7: just playing games. He loves to negotiate and keep delaying
Speaker 7: and delaying and delaying. He did it a lot on
Speaker 7: the Israeli Telsonian track over the course of his time
Speaker 7: as Prime Minister. And maybe he's never going to actually
Speaker 7: find a deal. He's just playing for time until maybe
Speaker 7: he can some say, Killsinoir the head of Hamas, and
Speaker 7: do a little more damage. You know, we'll have to
Speaker 7: wait and see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I was a little more optimistic at the
Speaker 1: end of last week about this than the beginning.
Speaker 3: Of this week.
Speaker 1: All right, And then before I let you go, Jordana,
Speaker 1: I'm going to apologize to you and okay, wake up
Speaker 1: call people. She never once corrected me. I've been saying
Speaker 1: your name wrong for a year, so I've recalling you Jordana.
Speaker 1: And I said, you know, Conna, why don't you ask
Speaker 1: her if it's Jordana or Jordana because we don't talk
Speaker 1: before we go on the air, and so I said, ConA,
Speaker 1: will you ask her? So I apologize.
Speaker 7: It's oh, no worries at all. Really, it's not such
Speaker 7: a common name and it always gets mispronounced. I don't
Speaker 7: even pay I almost don't pay attention. Now, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to do my best to do it
Speaker 1: correctly moving forward. So thank you, Geordana Miller. Appreciate your
Speaker 1: input and your information. We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 7: Okay, meetion.
Speaker 1: Bye, All right, take care, let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. Charges are expected in LA in connection with
Speaker 1: the fatal shooting of General Hospital actor Johnny Whacter. He
Speaker 1: was killed in May by a group trying to steal
Speaker 1: the catalytic converter from his car. Four people were arrested
Speaker 1: last week. Wacor's family and friends say they want Da
Speaker 1: Gascone to push for the strongest possible punishment for the killers.
Speaker 1: Crenshaw High School in LA's Hyde Park neighborhood may not
Speaker 1: have enough players on the roster to play football this season.
Speaker 9: A spokesperson for LAUSD says the number of players cleared
Speaker 9: to participate this year has dipped below the level needed
Speaker 9: to field a football team. Lae Times reporter Eric Sondheimer
Speaker 9: says Crenshaw's enrollment has dipped below five hundred, and out
Speaker 9: of those only about fifteen have joined the football team.
Speaker 9: Since it opened, Crenshaw has produced more than two dozen
Speaker 9: NFL players, including LA Chargers linebacker Diane Henley. The school's
Speaker 9: first game is scheduled for Friday against Fairfax, but as
Speaker 9: of now, it's unclear if that game will be played.
Speaker 9: Heather Brooker, Okay, if I news, you know.
Speaker 1: There's a very interesting show that came out of Crenshaw
Speaker 1: High School. It's called All American and it's based on
Speaker 1: a guy who went to high school there and then
Speaker 1: went on to the NFL, Spencer James, and it was
Speaker 1: it was on the CW. I'm not sure where it
Speaker 1: is right now, but it was just a really fun,
Speaker 1: fun show and really interesting and I hope that they
Speaker 1: can figure out how to keep that football team playing.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 1: Trouble, the first of four supermoons this year could be
Speaker 1: seen early this morning. If I step outside right now,
Speaker 1: you'll probably still see it. A supermoon is when the
Speaker 1: full and she is a little bit closer to Earth,
Speaker 1: making it appear slightly bigger and as much as thirty
Speaker 1: percent brighter in the sky. This is also a rare
Speaker 1: blue moon, since it's the second full moon of the month.
Speaker 1: Today's event is the first of four such lunar spectacles
Speaker 1: this year. September's supermoon will coincide with a partial lunar eclipse.
Speaker 1: October's will be the year's closest approach, so maybe it'll
Speaker 1: be the brightest. There will also be a supermoon in November.
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris and her running mate have hit the
Speaker 1: campaign trail ahead of the Democratic National Convention. They toured
Speaker 1: around western Pennsylvania yesterday. Both Harris and former President Trump
Speaker 1: will be campaigning in the battleground state. Trump is holding
Speaker 1: a rally today at a manufacturing plant in York County, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: A CHP officer's in critical condition after being hit by
Speaker 1: a tesla on the five Freeway in New Hall. The
Speaker 1: officer was trying to push a disabled vehicle out of
Speaker 1: lanes north of the fourteen interchange when he was hit
Speaker 1: around three point thirty am yesterday. It apparently happened on
Speaker 1: a blind curve. The driver of the tesla remained at
Speaker 1: the scene and is cooperating with the investigation. Ernesto has
Speaker 1: once again strengthened to a hurricane as it turns toward Canada.
Speaker 1: The National Hurricane Center says Ernesto is creating life threatening
Speaker 1: surf and rip current conditions that are going to last
Speaker 1: for the next few days. The warnings stretched from Florida
Speaker 1: all the way up to Maine. At six oh five,
Speaker 1: it's handle on the news. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie
Speaker 1: Brown is threatening to sue former President Trump. Bill's going
Speaker 1: to tell you why. At five point fifty, we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking with a seventeen year old who's on
Speaker 1: a journey of more than sixteen hundred miles because his
Speaker 1: grandmother and her friends are having a hard time making
Speaker 1: ends meet. Interview you're not going to want to miss.
Speaker 1: Here's another one you don't want to miss. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. She's got her boots
Speaker 1: on the ground in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: So you got back from vacation just in time for
Speaker 1: the convention.
Speaker 10: Yep, headed straight to Chicago. So we've got lovely weather here.
Speaker 10: It's nice and cool. There's fifty thousand people that are here,
Speaker 10: in Chicago just for the convention, five thousand delegates, and
Speaker 10: you know, it's quite a scene, very different convention than
Speaker 10: what people were thinking about just a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 8: And I don't think you.
Speaker 10: Can really understand how complicated that is to change the
Speaker 10: convention so quickly like that.
Speaker 8: The planning for this has been.
Speaker 10: Going on for months, years, and they've had to change
Speaker 10: the focus to make it not just about Joe Biden anymore,
Speaker 10: but now about Kamala Harris, Tim Walls, their vision, their agenda,
Speaker 10: their biography, because really this is a chance for them
Speaker 10: to continue that introduction and you know, let voters know
Speaker 10: who they are, what they will do if they're elected
Speaker 10: in November.
Speaker 1: Which they really need to do, even though there's a
Speaker 1: lot of momentum on the campaign, but still, like as
Speaker 1: of a couple weeks ago, like seventy one percent of
Speaker 1: people in the US said they didn't know who Tim
Speaker 1: Walls even was.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so this is a big chance for you know,
Speaker 10: big audience stage to do that type of introduction. And
Speaker 10: you know, even as you are seeing the polls showing
Speaker 10: Harris having a significant bump over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 10: especially compared to where Joe Biden was just a month ago.
Speaker 10: You know, there are still you know, polls indicating people
Speaker 10: don't know what she stands for, what would she do
Speaker 10: if she were elected. So that's what they would like
Speaker 10: to focus on this week and lay out that vision
Speaker 10: for a Harris administration.
Speaker 8: Tonight. It's Joe Biden, though, who's in the spotlight.
Speaker 10: This is his chance to make a speech tonight, and
Speaker 10: then he leaves Chicago.
Speaker 8: He's not sticking around.
Speaker 1: Well I wouldn't either.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, he's going on vacation, so he'll be here
Speaker 10: tonight to you know, talk about his record, what he
Speaker 10: feels he accomplished over the last three and a half years,
Speaker 10: but also make a strong case for his vice president
Speaker 10: and her running mate. And we're told then he's going
Speaker 10: to hand off the convention to them, and you know.
Speaker 8: It's a passing of the torch.
Speaker 10: But this is certainly a bittersweet night for the president,
Speaker 10: his family, his close aides, who were really thinking that
Speaker 10: this was going to be a much different week just
Speaker 10: a couple of weeks ago for them, and things have
Speaker 10: obviously changed so dramatically since he dropped.
Speaker 1: Out and Karen having him speak on the first night
Speaker 1: isn't that kind of a slap in the face. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got Clinton and Obama coming up later, They've got
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama talking later in the week than the President
Speaker 1: of the United States.
Speaker 10: The Obamas speak tomorrow night, so they get Tuesday night
Speaker 10: primetime the former president and the former first Lady. But
Speaker 10: you know, I think that the idea of doing it
Speaker 10: this way is to really make the rest of the
Speaker 10: week about the future, the forward looking message, and it's
Speaker 10: hard to do that if the President is speaking, say
Speaker 10: on Wednesday, that's also the night that Tim Walls will
Speaker 10: be speaking, and then of course Kamala Harris speaking on Thursday.
Speaker 10: So I think by design they really wanted this to be,
Speaker 10: you know, here's his night. We can make him the centerpiece,
Speaker 10: like they do want this to be a sendoff, like.
Speaker 8: They want him to get his due.
Speaker 10: He will of course give another big speech in January
Speaker 10: as a more official farewell speed but this is probably
Speaker 10: the biggest audience that he's going to have over the
Speaker 10: next couple months as his presidency winds down.
Speaker 1: Yea, and I heard Senator Amy Klobish are talking about
Speaker 1: it yesterday and she said there's going to be a
Speaker 1: whole lot of love in the room for Joe Biden's Yeah, Oka, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And are they still going to do the role called
Speaker 1: the nominating role call like they did at the RNC
Speaker 1: or do they not do that because they held the
Speaker 1: zoom They.
Speaker 10: Did already do it officially. You know, she is officially
Speaker 10: the nominee. So they're going to do like a different
Speaker 10: type of version of that just to involve real people
Speaker 10: out there. There's really gonna be an emphasis on real
Speaker 10: American stories to go along with their themes and some
Speaker 10: of the policy issues that they want to highlight. That
Speaker 10: all will be in the primetime ten o'clock Eastern time hour,
Speaker 10: but they will be doing that earlier in the evening.
Speaker 1: Okay. And are Harrison wall Is going to be there
Speaker 1: to be part of the convention? Are they? So they're
Speaker 1: not waiting until later the week.
Speaker 8: They'll be there tonight, Okay, good President.
Speaker 10: They're going to be heading to Milwaukee for a rally
Speaker 10: this week though, and then coming back down to Chicago.
Speaker 8: So chefs get out on the campaign tron a little
Speaker 8: bit too.
Speaker 1: All right, And you're going to be there all week
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll be talking to you again.
Speaker 8: We'll be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, welcome back from vacation.
Speaker 8: Thanks, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: All right by Karen and also our very own Gary
Speaker 1: and Shannon are at the Democratic National Convention. They're going
Speaker 1: to be there all this week, so they're from nine
Speaker 1: to one right here on KFI. And with Gary and Shannon,
Speaker 1: you just never know what to expect. I am so
Speaker 1: looking forward to hearing them because I think they're going
Speaker 1: to have interesting interviews and insights on the convention. That's
Speaker 1: all I'll say. But anyway, that's Gary and Shannon all
Speaker 1: week at the Democratic National Convention. They're on KFI from
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Speaker 1: this fall right now, let's say good morning too, Elisio Hemenez,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Elysio, good morning, good morning. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for starting your day with us today. Now we got
Speaker 1: to tell you about Alysio. He is walking from Texas
Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. And there's a whole reason for it.
Speaker 1: It's not just for a nice long stroll. Why are
Speaker 1: you going there? And how long is it going to
Speaker 1: take you to get there?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going there to raise awareness about fall people
Speaker 3: security benefits and I should be there in about two
Speaker 3: to three days. I think i'll be there on Wednesdays
Speaker 3: in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Awesome, when did you start because you left from Lubbock, Texas.
Speaker 1: When did you start walking?
Speaker 3: I think it was July tenth, so I've been walking
Speaker 3: for like forty something days.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And do you walk every single day?
Speaker 7: Yep?
Speaker 3: Sunrise and sunset. How sometimes throughout the.
Speaker 1: Night and sometimes throughout the night. Now, why are you
Speaker 1: walking at night just because you want to get a
Speaker 1: little further, or because there's no natural stopping place for you.
Speaker 3: Kind of a little bit of both. I mean I'm
Speaker 3: walking so far every day. I mean sometimes your sun
Speaker 3: gets to me, so it's mostly to beat the heat
Speaker 3: for others. Other than that, it's to get farther off
Speaker 3: of okay.
Speaker 1: And do you have an Apple watch that's tracking your steps? No?
Speaker 3: Apple, my pone that's been talking to my steps.
Speaker 1: So about how many us?
Speaker 8: Oh sorry, that's okay.
Speaker 1: About how many steps are you doing a day?
Speaker 3: I feel like how many, like a million or I
Speaker 3: don't know if something like that.
Speaker 1: You're over a million collectively? So far, that's okay. So, Alicio,
Speaker 1: we got to talk more about this. You said a
Speaker 1: faulty social security system, but that just knowing that there's
Speaker 1: a faulty, faulty social security system doesn't inspire somebody to
Speaker 1: walk sixteen hundred miles. So what inspired you to do this?
Speaker 3: My grandma, honestly, I mean she struggles a lot with
Speaker 3: her social security benefit. I mean she worked for schools
Speaker 3: for like years and years and just for her benefits,
Speaker 3: just not to be in all and for her to
Speaker 3: put all that money into some security and barely get
Speaker 3: anything out over the years. It's just horrib us.
Speaker 1: And you and your grandmother's not the only one that
Speaker 1: you've seen struggling, is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, So who else in your circle of influence is
Speaker 1: having trouble?
Speaker 3: Watching my neighbors, I mean they struggle a lot. I
Speaker 3: mean they can even cut their yards, they can't pay
Speaker 3: for it because I mean, they don't get enough money
Speaker 3: from security. So I do it for free, and then
Speaker 3: I cut yards for free just in general with my nonprofit,
Speaker 3: and I see people that they struggle a lot, honestly.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, Elicio, tell us, then you said you're expected
Speaker 1: to arrive in DC on Wednesday. You've been walking about
Speaker 1: a month. Do you have I mean, are you hoping
Speaker 1: to meet with any lawmakers or you know, what's the
Speaker 1: endgame on all of this?
Speaker 3: Well, I meet with my congressmen, but I mean they
Speaker 3: haven't replied to me at all. I've been calling them
Speaker 3: every day. I've been reaching out to other representatives, but
Speaker 3: just nothing. I want to talk more about HR eighty
Speaker 3: two to build about soce of security, and I believe
Speaker 3: everyone would just benefit, don it.
Speaker 1: HR eighty two. Okay, we'll put that on our radar
Speaker 1: and I'm surprised that they're not getting back with you,
Speaker 1: but I hope that you continue to call. Do you
Speaker 1: have like family and friends trying to call.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, and I'm just trying to get everyone I
Speaker 3: can to call.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, let's let's get back to your journey for
Speaker 1: just a minute. What what's the best part of your
Speaker 1: journey so far? Because you've walked about probably about fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred miles by now, you got another hundred to go
Speaker 1: or two hundred to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, I said I'll take a million a million
Speaker 3: steps a man like one hundred thousand. That's why I'm
Speaker 3: that earlier. I father. Okay, yeah, bothering, it's not correct
Speaker 3: it I'm always a question though.
Speaker 1: Again the question is what's your What's been the best
Speaker 1: part of this journey so far?
Speaker 3: I would say either the people or the terrain. There's
Speaker 3: actually like a lot of nice people out here. And
Speaker 3: I thought it would just be like just mean people
Speaker 3: left and right, people kind of run me off the road,
Speaker 3: But there's just a lot of nice people out here.
Speaker 3: And also the terrain. I mean, it's so beautiful. There's
Speaker 3: freaks and rivers and here and just everything I've never
Speaker 3: seen before because I'm from West Texas and it's just flat,
Speaker 3: dry and dirty over there.
Speaker 1: And yeah, the terrain changes a lot. And are you
Speaker 1: walking on freeways, highways, city streets or combinations.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like a com a nation of city
Speaker 3: streets and country roads. Because I mean, are you got
Speaker 3: like like pulled over, but like a few cops put
Speaker 3: over and told me that I can't walk on the
Speaker 3: highway at all. So I've been having trouble with that,
Speaker 3: So I can't walk on the highways at all.
Speaker 1: Well, they probably want you to be safe. I mean
Speaker 1: people are driving it eighty minutes an hour. So and
Speaker 1: do you have you felt unsafe because you're making this
Speaker 1: journey on your own, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And have you felt unsafer? Do you feel pretty safe
Speaker 1: out there?
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I feel safe all the time, But
Speaker 3: now there's some times that safe, like throughout the night,
Speaker 3: like it where it's just me and I'm walking alone
Speaker 3: in the dark woods on the country road. Always get
Speaker 3: scared because like I don't know if there's like bigfoot
Speaker 3: or something, Well.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you won't run into him. So, now that your
Speaker 1: journey is almost over alicio or at least this part
Speaker 1: of it, I think that you probably are going to
Speaker 1: continue in it, maybe in a different way. What can
Speaker 1: people do to help you?
Speaker 3: Honestly, just reach out to your representative in your district
Speaker 3: and tell them about me. That's the best thing you
Speaker 3: could do. Honestly, I really don't need any money. That's
Speaker 3: just I just need more coverage by politics.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Alicio him and as a seventeen years old
Speaker 1: walking from Washington, d C. Or Washington walking to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. From Lubbock, Texas, a journey of more than
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred miles, and you're almost there. We wish you
Speaker 1: good luck, and I hope that you get to talk
Speaker 1: to some people once you get there, because you know,
Speaker 1: you're obviously very committed to this, and I think they
Speaker 1: need to listen to a young man like yourself.
Speaker 3: Thank you, miss all right, Thank.
Speaker 1: You so much, Alicio. I hope you have a great
Speaker 1: rest of your journey. And I hear your parents are
Speaker 1: going to come meet you in DC, so I bet
Speaker 1: it's going to be great to see them too. Thank you,
Speaker 1: miss all right, take care well, all right, bye, Bell,
Speaker 1: what an inspiring story. My grandmother's having a hard time,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to walk sixteen hundred miles to try
Speaker 1: to help her out. Okay, So what we can do
Speaker 1: is reach out to representatives and say, hey, Alicio Hamenez
Speaker 1: is on his way and he's trying to get in
Speaker 1: touch with you guys, at least meet with him about
Speaker 1: hr eighty two. Wow. The Democratic National Convention is about
Speaker 1: to kick off in Chicago. Mayor Brandon Johnson says it's
Speaker 1: an exciting time for a city.
Speaker 11: Chicago will be at the forefront as we launch this
Speaker 11: world into a new historic future with electing Vice President
Speaker 11: Harris and a former social studies teacher, Governor Wallas.
Speaker 1: Harris is set to get her party's nomination for president
Speaker 1: on Thursday, even though she and Walls did not run
Speaker 1: a primary campaign. President Biden, whom Harris replaced as the
Speaker 1: Democrat's presidential candidate, will give the keynote address at the
Speaker 1: convention tonight. Former President Trump's going to be campaigning as
Speaker 1: the Democrats hold their convention. ABC's Jacqueline Lee says Trump
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Speaker 10: Trump is set to barnstorm swing states with stops in Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Speaker 10: North Carolina, and Arizona.
Speaker 1: A poll from the British firm Focal data shows Trump
Speaker 1: trailing Harris in Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Nevada
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