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Speaker 5: It is five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 4: This is your wake up call for Tuesday, January twenty First,
Speaker 4: I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 4: and happy that you're starting your day with us. I
Speaker 4: don't know about you, but I'm about inaugurationed out after
Speaker 4: everything that started early in the morning and then went
Speaker 4: through the day with NonStop coverage. I'm also Trump talked
Speaker 4: out because he does love to ramble on and and
Speaker 4: I think he spoke at every one of the places
Speaker 4: that he made stops at yesterday.
Speaker 5: But anyway, it.
Speaker 4: Was an interesting day and a fun day. And you
Speaker 4: know what, it's our government. I love it. I love
Speaker 4: the pomp and circumstance. I think it's fun to watch
Speaker 4: the transfer of power and see people be excited. And
Speaker 4: I found this quote about how things different are so
Speaker 4: different now than they used to be. But here's a quote.
Speaker 4: We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies.
Speaker 4: Though passion may have strained, it must not break our
Speaker 4: bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from
Speaker 4: every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and
Speaker 4: hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the
Speaker 4: chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they
Speaker 4: will be by the better angels of our nature.
Speaker 5: Who said that?
Speaker 4: That was Abraham Lincoln in his first inaugural address in
Speaker 4: eighteen sixty one. They just don't talk like that anymore.
Speaker 4: It was so eloquent. It was so eloquent. Anyway, here's
Speaker 4: what's ahead. On wake up call, and we got a lot.
Speaker 4: La Mayor bas says everyone needs to be on high
Speaker 4: alert because of the Santa Ana winds blowing through southern California.
Speaker 4: The National Weather Service has issued its particularly Dangerous Situation
Speaker 4: Wind warning through this morning for parts of Eli Inventura Counties.
Speaker 4: Winds in the mountains foothills could gust up to one
Speaker 4: hundred miles per hour. Mayorbet's city and county fire personnel
Speaker 4: are pre deployed to strike fast if a wildfire breaks out.
Speaker 4: LA County says all residents of Altadena can now return
Speaker 4: to their neighborhoods. The county posted on x that some
Speaker 4: areas are still under evacuation orders with soft closures. That
Speaker 4: means they will only be open to residents with valid
Speaker 4: proof of residents. President Trump has pardoned about fifteen hundred
Speaker 4: people convicted in the January sixth riots at the Oval
Speaker 4: office yesterday called the defendants hostages. He commuted six sentences
Speaker 4: and said those cases will be further investigated. The order
Speaker 4: directs the Department of Prisons to start releasing January sixth
Speaker 4: defendants immediately. President Trump had a very busy first day
Speaker 4: in office. We're going to find out more about the
Speaker 4: dozens and dozens of executive orders he signed with kfi's
Speaker 4: White House correspondent John Decker. That's coming up in about
Speaker 4: three minutes, just after five point thirty. We're going to
Speaker 4: be talking with Brady. Brady literally watched his home in
Speaker 4: Altadena burn to the ground as he drove out of
Speaker 4: the neighborhood and we got to catch up with him
Speaker 4: at Dream Center, LA and he's getting help from them
Speaker 4: right now. And so it's a it's an amazing story
Speaker 4: and we're excited to bring it to you. That's at
Speaker 4: five thirty. At five point fifty, Planet Fitnesses business is booming,
Speaker 4: But is it really because so many of us are
Speaker 4: hitting the gym or something else. We'll find out with
Speaker 4: Joel Larsgart. Joel Larsgard the House, a host of how
Speaker 4: to Money here on KFI again, that's at five fifty.
Speaker 4: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 4: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of course, the
Speaker 4: winds are our top story. A red flag warning remains
Speaker 4: in effect through tonight as strong gusty Santana wins our
Speaker 4: forecast to continue all day. National Weather Service meteorologist Rich
Speaker 4: Thompson says there will also be very relatively low humidity
Speaker 4: through Thursday, meaning critical fire weather conditions will last until then.
Speaker 8: Fortunately, by the weekend we should to see a distinct
Speaker 8: change in the weather and there actually is going to
Speaker 8: be a chance of some polight precipitation across the fire
Speaker 8: on Saturday and sandy.
Speaker 4: He says we should expect the breezy and very dry
Speaker 4: conditions to stay with us all week. A brush fire
Speaker 4: along the banks of the dry Santa Ana River bottom
Speaker 4: amidst stiff Santa Ana Wins, has been quickly put out
Speaker 4: by cruise. The fire started shortly after two yesterday afternoon
Speaker 4: near Mission Avenue or Mission Inn Avenue.
Speaker 5: Riverside.
Speaker 4: Fire says Wins were gusting about twenty five miles per
Speaker 4: hour at the time, but firefighters were able to surround
Speaker 4: it within about twenty minutes. President Trump says he'll help
Speaker 4: with the wildfires in La County.
Speaker 6: After he was sworn in, Trump criticized the federal government's
Speaker 6: response to natural disasters, from flooding in North Carolina to hurricanes.
Speaker 6: He also says the response in southern California has also
Speaker 6: not been sufficient.
Speaker 8: We can't let this happen.
Speaker 7: Everyone is unable to do anything about it. That's going
Speaker 7: to change.
Speaker 6: Trump says he plans to visit La County this week
Speaker 6: and says some of the attendees at his inauguration had
Speaker 6: lost homes in the Palisades fire.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4: Well, let's say good morning now too, kfi's White House
Speaker 4: correspondent John Decker. John, when we talked yesterday, I said,
Speaker 4: bub buckle up, it's going to be a wild ride.
Speaker 4: And the new president did not disappoint.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 3: He hit the ground running in terms of signing a
Speaker 3: slew of executive orders, not only at the event that
Speaker 3: he had at the Capitol One Arena, but also when
Speaker 3: he returned to the White House signed more executive orders
Speaker 3: in the Oval Office. And I expect more of that
Speaker 3: to happen today, his first full day as president.
Speaker 5: Is he going to spend most of his day at
Speaker 5: the White House.
Speaker 3: I would anticipate that, with one exception, He's doing a
Speaker 3: service at the National Cathedral. The First Lady will attend
Speaker 3: that this morning. Aside from that, all all this his
Speaker 3: other activities will be at the White House.
Speaker 4: He's got to be exhausted. I mean, he started yesterday
Speaker 4: at the Blairhouse, right. He stayed there, then went to church,
Speaker 4: then went to another and then one had tea with
Speaker 4: President Biden, and I mean, and then he was at
Speaker 4: the balls. When I went to sleep last night, they
Speaker 4: were still at the balls. And that was like eleven
Speaker 4: o'clock their time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got back to the White House around twelve
Speaker 3: thirty in the morning, and so you know, he typically
Speaker 3: is a late starter. That was the case in his
Speaker 3: first term as president. That being said, it is his
Speaker 3: first day. I think he's allowed the time to recover after,
Speaker 3: as you point out, amy a very long day yesterday.
Speaker 3: That is typical for a new president. It is a
Speaker 3: long day for them. But you know, look, Donald Trump
Speaker 3: has proven before that he's a pretty energetic president, even
Speaker 3: for his age.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so he signed all these executive orders, and
Speaker 4: let's talk about a couple of them, Like obviously the
Speaker 4: one where he pardoned everybody from January sixth is one
Speaker 4: of the big ones.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a huge one, but it should not surprise anybody.
Speaker 3: He spoke about that while campaigning for president, so you
Speaker 3: knew that if you were a voter going in, that's
Speaker 3: what Donald Trump intended to do. He followed through with
Speaker 3: that just the same way. I know we're not talking
Speaker 3: about this today, but one of the last acts of
Speaker 3: Joe Biden was pardoning five members of his own family.
Speaker 3: That did not surprise me either. You know, I think
Speaker 3: that he signaled by not answering that question that he
Speaker 3: was going to do that. So some pardons that taking
Speaker 3: place yesterday by both the outgoing president and the new president.
Speaker 4: Okay, and of the ones that you heard of, because
Speaker 4: there were so many of them. I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: have the complete list of all the executive orders, but
Speaker 4: being a lawyer, are there ones immediately that are thrown
Speaker 4: up red flags? Are you're going to yep, that one's
Speaker 4: going to be challenged, that one's going to be challenged?
Speaker 3: Well, you never know. I'm sure there will be challenges
Speaker 3: as it relates to some of his executive orders concerning
Speaker 3: border security and immigration. But as you know, he declared
Speaker 3: national emergency at our southern border. That is something that
Speaker 3: he also indicated that he would do, and the Supreme
Speaker 3: Court has already upheld a challenge as it relates to
Speaker 3: moving money from one account to another within the Pentagon
Speaker 3: to construct that border wall. And he may do that
Speaker 3: just once again, to construct more of that border wall
Speaker 3: at our border with Mexico through the use of that
Speaker 3: particular executive order.
Speaker 4: Okay, if we had the time, we'd ask you about
Speaker 4: like twenty other ones, including birthright citizenship. We'll save that
Speaker 4: for another day.
Speaker 3: One. Yeah, that one will have to wait. But you're
Speaker 3: right that one in particular, will find a challenge, and
Speaker 3: speaking as a lawyer, Amy, that one's going to be
Speaker 3: problematic in the sense that that is enshrine in the Constitution,
Speaker 3: and an executive order cannot do away with a institutional amendment.
Speaker 4: Okay, well again, it's going to be a wild ride,
Speaker 4: John Decker, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Appreciate your information.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 5: All right, take care.
Speaker 4: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 4: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Senate has
Speaker 4: confirmed Florida Congressman Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. He
Speaker 4: told lawmakers during his confirmation hearings last week that he's
Speaker 4: ready to implement Trump's America First agenda.
Speaker 10: How can America promote the cause of peace on earth
Speaker 10: if it is not first safe at home? What good
Speaker 10: is America to our allies if it is not strong?
Speaker 10: And how can America help end the suffering of God's
Speaker 10: children across the world if it is not first prosperous
Speaker 10: here at home.
Speaker 4: Rubio was confirmed yesterday with a ninety nine to nothing vote.
Speaker 4: He said to speak this morning at the State Department.
Speaker 4: The Senate has passed a bill that would require federal
Speaker 4: authorities to detain immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes.
Speaker 4: The Lake in Riley Act is named after a nursing
Speaker 4: student in Georgia who was murdered by a man from Venezuela.
Speaker 4: Trump spoke about that case during his campaign. The bill
Speaker 4: gives more weight to his plans to deport millions of
Speaker 4: people in the country illegally. Now heads back to the
Speaker 4: Republican controlled House. Health officials say neurovirus cases are rising
Speaker 4: in California and reaching levels not seen in over.
Speaker 5: A decade Across the US.
Speaker 4: The CDC says there were no specific treatments or vaccines,
Speaker 4: but a new one may be on the horizon. Work
Speaker 4: care preventative doctor Don Bucklin says Moderna is testing a
Speaker 4: potential neurovirus vaccine like the COVID vaccine.
Speaker 11: The intent of it is to give you either total
Speaker 11: immunity or have such a minor case of it that
Speaker 11: you barely notice.
Speaker 4: That would be nice, because that the old stomach flu
Speaker 4: is not fun, he says. Neurovirus causes two hundred thousand
Speaker 4: deaths worldwide every year, including about eight hundred here in
Speaker 4: the US. The FBI says it has a man in
Speaker 4: custody and connection with the killing of a Customs and
Speaker 4: Border Patrol agent in Vermont. The agent was shot and
Speaker 4: killed yesterday near Newport, COmON.
Speaker 5: Newboard three two Intertate ninety one another one sixty for
Speaker 5: their ports of the mail owners bondor is operating.
Speaker 4: The FBI says another person also thought to have been involved,
Speaker 4: was killed. The shooting happened about twenty miles from the
Speaker 4: Canadian border. Members of the Teamsters union have voted to
Speaker 4: authorize a strike against Costco.
Speaker 5: More than eighty five percent of the workers or in
Speaker 5: favor of hitting the picket lines that issue wages and benefits.
Speaker 4: ABC's Michelle Fransen says workers could walk out on February
Speaker 4: first unless they reach a deal before the current contract
Speaker 4: expires January thirty first. There are disagreements on wages and benefits,
Speaker 4: and the union says Costco has rejected proposals on things
Speaker 4: like seniority pay, paid family leave, sick time, and safeguards
Speaker 4: against surveillance. Carmel by the Sea has been recognized as
Speaker 4: one of the most delightful small towns in the country
Speaker 4: by HGTV. In twenty twenty four, Triple A named the
Speaker 4: town known for its fairy tail cottages, upscale shops, art galleries,
Speaker 4: and the historic Carmel Mission. Basilica as one of the
Speaker 4: best Sunset Magazine referred to it as a charming seaside
Speaker 4: hamlet with the surrounding ocean and forests. Okay, I want
Speaker 4: to go to Carmel by the seeow. I haven't been
Speaker 4: there for years and years. Fire crews are standing by
Speaker 4: in case any new fires breakout as strong winds continue
Speaker 4: to blow through southern California. A particularly dangerous situation warning
Speaker 4: for parts of Elli in Ventura Counties continues through ten
Speaker 4: this morning, with a red flag warning until two pm,
Speaker 4: and then there's a fire weather watch that'll be in
Speaker 4: effect from tonight untill tomorrow. Fire officials have lifted in
Speaker 4: evacuation order for a neighborhood in the Tapanga area east
Speaker 4: of Tapanga Canyon Boulevard, in the area of Koleima Drive
Speaker 4: and south of Encina Road. The area was reopened to
Speaker 4: residents only starting at noon yesterday. A protest rally against
Speaker 4: President Trump has been held outside La City Hall. Demonstrators
Speaker 4: say they are against mass deportations, which have already been
Speaker 4: authorized through an executive order. The rally was organized by
Speaker 4: several groups, including the International League of People's Struggles. At
Speaker 4: six so five, it's handle on the news. Republican lawmakers
Speaker 4: want answers after President Biden pardoned basically his whole family
Speaker 4: before Trump was sworn in as president. It's let's say
Speaker 4: good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, President Trump signed
Speaker 4: several executive orders relating to the border, and he's anxious
Speaker 4: to get going.
Speaker 5: So how are people getting going knowing that this is coming.
Speaker 9: Well, they're not going, that's the thing. So a lot
Speaker 9: of folks who had set up appointments through the CVP
Speaker 9: one app, which is this app that was set up
Speaker 9: and made available during the Biden administration. So basically what happened.
Speaker 9: Somebody coming, for example, from Honduras, makes their way up
Speaker 9: to Mexico and with their phone app, they get onto
Speaker 9: this with a CBP one app, they can make an
Speaker 9: appointment with a customs agent on this side and begin
Speaker 9: the immigration process, the interview, then they're given parole status,
Speaker 9: they come back and they continue. Well that app has
Speaker 9: gone dead today, so that's kind of the first step
Speaker 9: in this whole thing. So yeah, physical barriers are planned
Speaker 9: along the border, but this one practical barrier, the technological
Speaker 9: barrier has been pulled down by the new administration so
Speaker 9: that people can't even start the process of coming into
Speaker 9: the country.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: But was anybody surprised about that, because I mean, he's
Speaker 4: been saying I'm doing this on day one. So I mean,
Speaker 4: are there immigrant rights groups that are trying to help
Speaker 4: these people kind of navigate or are they just saying, you, guys,
Speaker 4: you're out of luck.
Speaker 5: Now this is a whole new game now.
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, people have cut off guard absolutely. The CBP
Speaker 9: one app gave appointments to fourteen hundred and fifty people
Speaker 9: every day at eight border crossings, so they come in
Speaker 9: on parole status through this online lottery system. And yeah,
Speaker 9: people are putting up that app at this second in
Speaker 9: Mexico saying Okay, I've got an appointment today with Customs,
Speaker 9: I can start this process. They're finding that that appointment
Speaker 9: has been canceled and the app has gone debt. So yeah,
Speaker 9: they're left in lumbo. The limbo was the word that
Speaker 9: won the immigration advocate in El Paso used to describe
Speaker 9: what's happening now. And they're trying to figure out how to.
Speaker 4: Navigate, okay, and with a CBP one app was that
Speaker 4: mainly people coming in and then claiming asylum and then
Speaker 4: making appointments. Yes, and so they come in, claim asylum,
Speaker 4: be released into the US, and then come back for
Speaker 4: their appointment.
Speaker 9: Right on parole status. So you know, don't break any laws,
Speaker 9: don't do anything, and make sure you come back for
Speaker 9: your next appointment or you will be kicked out of
Speaker 9: the country. And that has happened a lot.
Speaker 4: And now the President has declared a national emergency. So
Speaker 4: does that just I mean, are they going to lock
Speaker 4: down the border?
Speaker 5: Well, we know, yeah, in so far.
Speaker 9: I mean, how does that That's what you know, policymakers
Speaker 9: locking it down has been what they've been trying to
Speaker 9: do for decades, and people still find a way to
Speaker 9: get into the country illegally. And we've already seen what
Speaker 9: a deployment of military deployment might look like with the
Speaker 9: Operation Loan Star that Governor Greg Abbott has had for
Speaker 9: the last couple of years. Amy only ten billion dollars spent.
Speaker 9: And part of that is this deployment of Texas National
Speaker 9: Guard troops along the border. They know do the Concertina
Speaker 9: wire and they patrolled the river and you know, under
Speaker 9: their directive though. If somebody's coming across and they're in
Speaker 9: physical peril, are about to drown, they have to go
Speaker 9: in and save them and pull them out and bring
Speaker 9: them to this side and then start the deportation process.
Speaker 9: So we know at least a little about what that
Speaker 9: would look like.
Speaker 4: Okay, And then we also heard that there was going
Speaker 4: to be mass deportation raids like starting in Chicago as
Speaker 4: soon as today. But now the borders are Tom Holman
Speaker 4: has said, you know what, that's on hold because the
Speaker 4: information leaked then and it kind of killed the element
Speaker 4: of surprise.
Speaker 11: It did.
Speaker 9: And I'm not sure anybody was specific about where the
Speaker 9: Chicago's a big place, so you know, you could raid
Speaker 9: one factory or one warehouse or one apartment complex, and
Speaker 9: so yeah, maybe they're waiting to see exactly how they
Speaker 9: should look as opposed to how President Trump said it
Speaker 9: would look.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's interesting when you start thinking about when
Speaker 4: you drill down and start really thinking about how this
Speaker 4: could possibly be carried out. Like you said, in the
Speaker 4: practicality of raiding a warehouse, well, that's where people are working,
Speaker 4: so you're going to round them up and then shut
Speaker 4: down the warehouse because there's no workers there. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 4: so it's really it's going to be a sticky wicket.
Speaker 9: Well, you can see the potential ripple effect.
Speaker 4: You're right.
Speaker 9: So let's say that you go into a factory that
Speaker 9: assembles parts for you know, automobiles or for washing machines,
Speaker 9: so you shut it down. Those parts aren't making it
Speaker 9: to the washing machine assembly facility, whether they have undocumented
Speaker 9: workers there or not. The washing machine doesn't get sold,
Speaker 9: doesn't get delivered, nobody can buy it, and it's sitting there.
Speaker 9: You know, there are potential implications that we'll see over
Speaker 9: the next few months.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which seems really counterintuitive because Trump is such a
Speaker 4: pro you know, business guy, so to see like that,
Speaker 4: it would you know, like jam up the cogs of
Speaker 4: business is kind of counterintuitive to what he would normally
Speaker 4: think would be a good thing.
Speaker 9: Well, even here in Texas, you know, which broadly supported
Speaker 9: President Trump and supports Governor Greg Abbott, business leaders, especially
Speaker 9: on the border are saying, you know what, if you
Speaker 9: shut down the border, if you keep people from coming
Speaker 9: in and working legally, we're gonna have a hard time
Speaker 9: running businesses down here.
Speaker 4: Well we'll be watching, Jim Ryan, thank you so much
Speaker 4: for the information. All right, all right, talk to you soon.
Speaker 8: See me.
Speaker 4: As Santa Ana wins continue to blow through southern California,
Speaker 4: red flag parking restrictions remain in place in the city
Speaker 4: of Los Angeles till further notice. LA Fire says the
Speaker 4: restrictions are there to keep streets clear in high fire
Speaker 4: danger areas, to allow evacuations, and also to allow firefighters
Speaker 4: to get into the area if they're needed. Rick Pope
Speaker 4: with the LA Emergency Management Department says the city has
Speaker 4: a one stop guide for residents and businesses at lacity
Speaker 4: dot gov.
Speaker 5: He's encouraging people to use it.
Speaker 12: That site will link you to everything from updated evacuation
Speaker 12: orders and recovery resources to public health advisories and warnings
Speaker 12: that can help you return home safely.
Speaker 4: Pope says people can also apply for assistance from FEMA
Speaker 4: and other financial aid on the website. Former Vice President
Speaker 4: Harris has thanked firefighters in Altadena.
Speaker 2: Just hours following President Trump's inauguration, the former Vice President
Speaker 2: hopped on a seven forty seven with her husband back
Speaker 2: to California to tour the fire zone on Monday night.
Speaker 2: Harris took a moment to tell reporters that the firefighters
Speaker 2: from California are the best at what they do.
Speaker 8: They do this work to protect people they've never met
Speaker 8: out of a sense of duty and dare I say
Speaker 8: a calling to serve.
Speaker 2: Ninety three hundred homes and businesses have been destroyed from
Speaker 2: the wildfire burning in Alta, Dina. More than fourteen thousand
Speaker 2: acres have also burned. Andrew Caravella Kyfi News.
Speaker 4: Harris has a home in Brentwood, which was impacted by
Speaker 4: evacuations from the wildfire and Pacific Palisades. Former President Biden
Speaker 4: is also in California. Biden and the former First Lady
Speaker 4: Air vacationing in Santa Yes, just north of Santa Barbara.
Speaker 4: They're staying at the estate of a billionaire Democratic donor
Speaker 4: and friend of Biden. The former president last traveled to
Speaker 4: Santa Yes when he officially dropped out of his re
Speaker 4: election campaign and got behind Vice President Harris.
Speaker 7: I Mister Tambarine Man, Last Song to Me.
Speaker 4: The draft lyrics to Bob Dylan's Mister Tambourine Man have
Speaker 4: sold at auction four over a half million dollars. It
Speaker 4: was one of dozens of items auctioned off over the
Speaker 4: weekend in Nashville. Eighty three year old Dylan is a
Speaker 4: Nobel Prize winner whose career has returned to the spotlight
Speaker 4: with the new Movies darring Timothy Schallome. A complete unknown okay,
Speaker 4: observation from yesterday. I said I was inaugurationed out. Maybe
Speaker 4: I'm not quite. But during the actual ceremony, we were
Speaker 4: following it. We carried it for you live here on KFI.
Speaker 4: And you may have noticed it was supposed to happen
Speaker 4: at certain times. And from past inaugurations that I've covered,
Speaker 4: they have everything like down to the minute. This one
Speaker 4: was different. Their timing was all out of whack and
Speaker 4: they were probably like fifteen to thirty minutes off. And
Speaker 4: so right at high noon in on the East coast,
Speaker 4: which is nine o'clock our time, there was like this
Speaker 4: scramble to get to get Trump inaugurated, to get him
Speaker 4: officially to take the oath of office. So they moved
Speaker 4: everything around, and they pushed back the national anthem, they
Speaker 4: pushed back Carrie Underwood singing, and got him in like
Speaker 4: right around noon, just to make sure we'd have a
Speaker 4: president because Biden's job expired at noon. Anyway, speaking of Carrie, Underwood,
Speaker 4: a cappella singing.
Speaker 5: America. The Beautiful was just like one of the most
Speaker 5: spectacular things ever.
Speaker 8: Just did she just got it done?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they started, they had a glitch with the music.
Speaker 4: It kind of started, then it stopped, and then they
Speaker 4: stood around and waited for a minute, and then she goes,
Speaker 4: you guys, help me out here, and she just started
Speaker 4: singing and she has one of those just absolutely pristine voices.
Speaker 5: It was it was perfect right, and.
Speaker 4: It was it was fun because it was just, you know,
Speaker 4: a little bit of something off the script too, even
Speaker 4: though everything was kind of off the script because everything
Speaker 4: got out of order.
Speaker 5: But wow, Carrie Underwood, that was That was amazing.
Speaker 4: And one final note, did you notice that the inaugural luncheon,
Speaker 4: Because I said, I had it on all day and
Speaker 4: I was watching it. So they're out the luncheon and
Speaker 4: you know that Trump doesn't drink, and they came out
Speaker 4: and pop day diet coke for the president.
Speaker 5: He's a big diet Coke fan. So anyway, it was fun.
Speaker 8: Coke Zeero's better.
Speaker 11: Really.
Speaker 5: I did not like Coke zero, Oh, I hate it.
Speaker 4: I got to spend the afternoon Saturday at Dream Center,
Speaker 4: La doing the Fork Report because our little Neil Sevager
Speaker 4: was not feeling well, and luckily he's back and back
Speaker 4: with us and feeling better. But while I was out
Speaker 4: there watching the amazing work that Dream Center LA is
Speaker 4: doing to raise money and donations for all of the
Speaker 4: people affected by these wildfires that are going to be
Speaker 4: affected not only today and tomorrow, but for months and
Speaker 4: years to come, I got to meet a man who
Speaker 4: literally lost everything in the fire in Alta Dina. So
Speaker 4: let's say good morning to Brady. Thanks, thanks for coming
Speaker 4: and talking to us, And I want to talk a
Speaker 4: little bit about you and your story because people need
Speaker 4: to understand who they're going to be helping when they
Speaker 4: make a donation to Dream Center LA. So you were
Speaker 4: going about your business last week, yes, and tell us
Speaker 4: what happened.
Speaker 8: We kind of a warning that we were probably going
Speaker 8: to be evacuated.
Speaker 5: And what time did this happen?
Speaker 8: It was on the seventh round ten pm.
Speaker 5: Okay, so Tuesday night about that, Yeah.
Speaker 8: We may be evacuated. Then the next morning, roughly around
Speaker 8: four point thirty, the alarm went off stating we had
Speaker 8: to evacuate because fires were moving in and closer from
Speaker 8: the Eaton canyon side.
Speaker 5: Okay, and you're up in are you in Altadena?
Speaker 8: In Altadena? And at that point my wife and dialer
Speaker 8: were going to leave immediately, and I thought, well, maybe
Speaker 8: I could stick around and fight the fire, which I did.
Speaker 5: And how long did you do that?
Speaker 8: For about two and a half hours?
Speaker 4: And how did you fight a fire with one hundred
Speaker 4: mile an hour winds and fifty foot flames?
Speaker 8: Not very well? But I decided to wet the whole
Speaker 8: landscape of not only my yard, but my roof, my
Speaker 8: neighbor's yard or fence and everything around.
Speaker 5: And were you the only one there? Did everybody else?
Speaker 8: Everyone got out? My neighbors were gone. Everyone was pretty
Speaker 8: much gone at that point. So it seemed my neighbor's
Speaker 8: yard to the west seemed to have caught fire first,
Speaker 8: and the trees lent were right next to our fence
Speaker 8: that caught the fence on fire. And another part of
Speaker 8: the house on the north side ended up catching on
Speaker 8: fire from a tree on a neighbor's area.
Speaker 4: In northwest And how quickly did that all happen once
Speaker 4: the fires started, once they caught on the homes.
Speaker 8: It was over a two hour period, but it seemed
Speaker 8: like twenty minutes. It was so fast, and when did.
Speaker 4: You realize you were fighting a losing battle and needed
Speaker 4: to get out to save your own life.
Speaker 8: The air outside was really bad from the smoke, but
Speaker 8: when I went inside for a moment, it was worse
Speaker 8: inside the house, yeah, than the outside. And it was
Speaker 8: at that point that I decided to get out.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: And as we mentioned a few minutes ago, Brady shared
Speaker 4: some videos literally driving away watching your house burn down. Yes,
Speaker 4: how do you even put words to that?
Speaker 8: You can't. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done, and
Speaker 8: I just had to get out otherwise I was going
Speaker 8: to probably go down with it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and so you immediately you got out of
Speaker 4: the neighborhood and thank god you're okay, and you.
Speaker 5: Went to stay with your sister.
Speaker 8: We were going to We went to stay with my
Speaker 8: mother in law Arizona, just to get out of the
Speaker 8: arms away.
Speaker 5: Okay. So now you're back, and have you been able
Speaker 5: to go see the house yet? No?
Speaker 8: I tried, but it looks like the war zone. There's
Speaker 8: National Guard and sheriffs and highway patrol and anything you
Speaker 8: can imagine, but we're not allowed to go into the
Speaker 8: streets of where our home is.
Speaker 4: Okay, So then you came to Dream Center La. Yes,
Speaker 4: And what do you do when you come to Dream
Speaker 4: Center La? Because again, you guys have lost everything?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so what's your first step? What happened when you
Speaker 5: got here?
Speaker 8: Well, I was more than impressed by all of the
Speaker 8: things that are available from food, water, clothing, toys for
Speaker 8: kids and what have you. I mean, it's really an
Speaker 8: impressive operation here. I mentioned. Yeah, I'm not where I
Speaker 8: want to be, but someday I will and I'm certain
Speaker 8: that I'd love to be able to get back for
Speaker 8: what I've been able to receive in just this short
Speaker 8: period of time and stuff.
Speaker 5: It's pretty it's humbling to see how people have come.
Speaker 8: Forward, it really is. I can't wait to be able
Speaker 8: to help others like I'm myself and my family have
Speaker 8: been helped.
Speaker 5: I love I just I love that spirit.
Speaker 4: And Brady, you know what, I'm so glad you got
Speaker 4: out and I hope you, you know, will get back
Speaker 4: on your feet. And you're going to and it's going
Speaker 4: to be a long road, but we know that the
Speaker 4: Dream Center LA is going to be here to help you.
Speaker 5: They've got you know, they've they've got the relief.
Speaker 4: They've got the recovery, they've got the rebuilding, and they're
Speaker 4: going to be there holding your hand and helping you
Speaker 4: get back on your feet again. And so we're so
Speaker 4: happy that you're that you're here and your family is safe,
Speaker 4: and thank you for stopping by and you take care.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Brady, this is this, Brady is who Your donations are
Speaker 4: going to. Your monetary donations, your donations of water, your
Speaker 4: donations of chapsticks, sunscreen, work clothes, all those things.
Speaker 3: They need it.
Speaker 4: The people of Los Angeles need you now, and you
Speaker 4: have been turning out in droves. The line of cars
Speaker 4: when we were at Dream Center LA on Saturday was NonStop,
Speaker 4: both on the drop off side, I mean people were
Speaker 4: showing up with pickup trucks full of donations and also
Speaker 4: the pick up side of people needing to accept those donations.
Speaker 4: Dream Center LA is back open again today and taking
Speaker 4: your donations and all through this week from nine am
Speaker 4: to seven pm at twenty three oh one Bellvue in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. It's right an echo park, very easy to
Speaker 4: get to, and they've got a great little system set up,
Speaker 4: so you pull in, unload everything, and off you go.
Speaker 5: Dream Center LA doing an amazing job.
Speaker 4: You can also donate at KFI AM six forty dot com,
Speaker 4: slash donate and if you want to see what they're doing,
Speaker 4: you can go to my Instagram.
Speaker 5: We did a video of it at Amy K.
Speaker 4: King and I got to talk with the director of
Speaker 4: Disaster Services and gave me kind of a tour of
Speaker 4: what they're doing. But thank you for your donation so far,
Speaker 4: and if you can donate, please do. The need is great.
Speaker 4: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 4: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5: A quick correction on the fire.
Speaker 4: There is that brush fire burning in San Diego County
Speaker 4: that has grown to about eighty acres and it is
Speaker 4: still threatening property, evacuations or in place. Schools in the
Speaker 4: area are closed. And then there's another fire burning near Paula,
Speaker 4: which is north of the fire in Bonsal. It has
Speaker 4: burned seventeen acres for that one. The forward progress has
Speaker 4: been stopped for the brush fire the Lilac fire. That
Speaker 4: one is still going and growing. Powerful winds continue to
Speaker 4: blow through parts of southern California. The most severe warning
Speaker 4: is until ten am, with red flag warning until mid afternoon,
Speaker 4: and then a fire weather watch through tomorrow. Affected areas
Speaker 4: include the San Gabriel, Santa Clarita, and San Fernando valleys
Speaker 4: and the Malibu Coast. Governor Newsom has issued an executive
Speaker 4: order to speed up debris removal and protect wildfire affected
Speaker 4: areas ahead of expected rainfall this weekend. Burn scars across
Speaker 4: Alley County raise the risk of mudslides and flooding when
Speaker 4: it rains. Newsom says his order will speed up debris removal,
Speaker 4: it will strengthen flood defenses and stabilize hillsides. President Trump
Speaker 4: has pardoned fifteen hundred people involved in the January sixth
Speaker 4: riot at the US Capitol. Six sentences were commuted. The
Speaker 4: President said those will be investigated further. The order was immediate,
Speaker 4: and Trump said people should be released that could have
Speaker 4: started last night. We're just minutes away from handle on
Speaker 4: the news this morning, this just might kill Bill Costco
Speaker 4: workers may go on strike. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 4: to the host of How to Money on KFI, Joel
Speaker 4: lars Guard.
Speaker 5: Joel. Business is booming at Planet Fitness. But is it
Speaker 5: because we're all getting in shape?
Speaker 13: That's a really good question, and it's true, Like the
Speaker 13: Planet Fitness is growing like a weed. And what do
Speaker 13: you think about I mean, we are still right in
Speaker 13: the heart of Hey, my New Year's resolution is to
Speaker 13: get fit this year, and I got the gym membership,
Speaker 13: and I think that's gonna actually push me over the top.
Speaker 13: It's actually gonna help me, you know, achieve this goal
Speaker 13: that I've set out for myself. But and I think
Speaker 13: a lot of people flock to Planet Fitness in particular
Speaker 13: because for the longest time, memberships were ten dollars a month.
Speaker 13: I think it's fifteen dollars a month. Now when you
Speaker 13: think about some of the boutique gyms, you're spending a
Speaker 13: heck of a lot more than that ten x that
Speaker 13: for some folks to get their workout on every month.
Speaker 13: But so Planet Fitness. Because of that low price point,
Speaker 13: people sign up. But then, because like you know, you
Speaker 13: don't have much skin in the game, a lot of
Speaker 13: people actually don't go to workout. So I think I
Speaker 13: read that the average membership of a Planet Fitness gym
Speaker 13: is seventy two hundred people. If everybody showed up at
Speaker 13: the same time, can you imagine what it looked like.
Speaker 5: But luckily we all are procrastinators and don't show up.
Speaker 13: Luckily, for Planet Fitness. Fitness, they've announced I think they
Speaker 13: have like twenty seven hundred locations around the country and
Speaker 13: they've announced so.
Speaker 5: The opening more locations or yeah, oh okay.
Speaker 13: They want to get to five thousand in the next
Speaker 13: two years. So think about the Walgreens on every street
Speaker 13: corner or whatever. Like, that's what Planet Fitness is going
Speaker 13: to be like. And I've got no problems with Planet
Speaker 13: Fitness being a company that makes money, has a good
Speaker 13: business model, and man, if you are committed to working
Speaker 13: out and you like working out at Planet Fitness, you
Speaker 13: know that it's a pretty inexpensive price to be able
Speaker 13: to hit that gym up and get your workout on.
Speaker 13: But I think just what this highlights to me is
Speaker 13: that there are a lot of people who have good
Speaker 13: intentions and they spend money in hopes of achieving those
Speaker 13: good intentions. And I think I just want people to
Speaker 13: rethink fifteen bucks a month might not sound like a lot,
Speaker 13: but at the end of the day, it's one hundred
Speaker 13: and eighty bucks a year, and what could you do
Speaker 13: with money? And there are all sorts of things like
Speaker 13: that in our lives, where we say, oh, I'm going
Speaker 13: to sign up for the streaming service to watch this
Speaker 13: one thing, and then we don't cancel. Planet Fitness is
Speaker 13: just a symptom. I think of a culture that we
Speaker 13: live in where maybe we do sign up for things
Speaker 13: and then we forget to cancel. We don't use it
Speaker 13: like we thought we were going to. I hope people do,
Speaker 13: because you know, it's actually a decent value.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, I had a gym membership when
Speaker 4: I lived in Colorado and I had it for two
Speaker 4: years and went like twice.
Speaker 8: And you're not.
Speaker 13: That is I think that's like an average American sort
Speaker 13: of thing to do. So more power to you if
Speaker 13: you're using it and you are fulfilling your New Year's
Speaker 13: goal already and you're making progress, you're making headway. But
Speaker 13: just know, hey, if it's not working out, it's okay
Speaker 13: to cancel. That doesn't mean you've thrown into towel and
Speaker 13: then you know, I don't know's start to doing push
Speaker 13: ups at home?
Speaker 5: Okay, real quick, before we go.
Speaker 4: We are talking about the price of everything is or
Speaker 4: we've been talking about how the price of everything is
Speaker 4: so high. What's a surefire way to save a little
Speaker 4: money and still get a good quality product.
Speaker 13: I love store brands and store brands are proliferating. And
Speaker 13: the store brands that you're like your grandpa's store brands, sorry,
Speaker 13: like they've gotten a lot better. Maybe if you haven't
Speaker 13: tried store brands in a while, if you're super name
Speaker 13: brand loyal, store brands have gotten a whole lot better.
Speaker 13: And so one of those examples you just mentioned Costco
Speaker 13: Kirkland signature items. Costco typically strives to make those tastes
Speaker 13: better than the name brand equivalent, and I think much
Speaker 13: of the time they achieve that. Walmart launched this or
Speaker 13: earlier last year something called Better Goods, and so great
Speaker 13: value is like the hey, I'm looking for the absolute
Speaker 13: cheapest price point. That's that store brand for Walmart. But
Speaker 13: Better Goods is kind of trying to compete with like
Speaker 13: Trader Joe's on most with some of the funky flavors
Speaker 13: and kind of fun varieties of stuff they're bringing out.
Speaker 13: So if you are looking to save money at the
Speaker 13: grocery store, it's amazing how much you can lower your
Speaker 13: grocery bill if you offer store brands. And consumer reports
Speaker 13: they did this test like thirteen years ago of well,
Speaker 13: how good are the store brands versus the name brands?
Speaker 13: And most people couldn't tell a difference, or at least
Speaker 13: a meaningful enough difference. The store brands were perfectly palatable
Speaker 13: for people, So I would say, at least check those
Speaker 13: store brands out, and especially if you're going to like
Speaker 13: an Aldi. The cool thing is if you don't like it,
Speaker 13: they've got a money back guarantee. So it's like, what's
Speaker 13: the harm in trying the store brand and then taking
Speaker 13: it back if it stinks. But yeah, the truth is,
Speaker 13: when we're talking about grocery inflation, store brands could save
Speaker 13: you twenty thirty percent or more, twenty.
Speaker 4: To thirty percent. Okay, I'm buying more Signature select a
Speaker 4: host a out of Money on KFI Joel Larsgard every
Speaker 4: Sunday from noon to two right here on KFI. You
Speaker 4: can also follow Joel for great tips on how to
Speaker 4: money yourself better. That's a weird sentence, but it's actually accurate.
Speaker 4: That's at how to money, Joel. Thank you, Joel Larsguard.
Speaker 5: We'll talk to you next week, all right, Thanks Amy.
Speaker 4: Okay, just a couple more stories coming out of the
Speaker 4: KFI twenty four hour News before the top of the hour.
Speaker 4: Israel and Hamas have confirmed the next hostage release is
Speaker 4: going to happen on Saturday. A senior Israeli official confirmed
Speaker 4: the deal must take place on January twenty fifth, as
Speaker 4: outlined in the ceasefire agreement. Hamas says the second batch
Speaker 4: of prisoner exchange will take place on the scheduled date.
Speaker 4: Three women held hostage were released on Sunday. Ninety Palestinian
Speaker 4: prisoners were released from Israel in the exchange. Two Americans
Speaker 4: held by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been freed in
Speaker 4: a prisoner swap with the US. ABC's Shannon Kingston says
Speaker 4: the Americans were traded for an Afghan shehi hottest and
Speaker 4: a drug trafficker serving a life sentence in California.
Speaker 7: The family of Ryan Corbett, one of the Americans who
Speaker 7: had been detained by the Taliban since twenty twenty two,
Speaker 7: thanks both former President Biden and President Trump for brokering
Speaker 7: the deal that brought him home.
Speaker 4: The trade happened yesterday as Biden handed power over to Trump.
Speaker 4: President Trump assigned an executive order to avert a TikTok
Speaker 4: ban for now in the Oval office. Trump signed the
Speaker 4: order that gives TikTok seventy five days to either sell
Speaker 4: it or close it.
Speaker 8: I may not do the deal. I may do the deal.
Speaker 2: TikTok is worthless, worthless if I don't approve its clothes.
Speaker 8: I learned that from the people that own it.
Speaker 4: He says the app may be worth a trillion dollars
Speaker 4: if he gets a deal done. Trump went on to
Speaker 4: add that he feels the US should get half of TikTok.
Speaker 4: The app was dark for about sixteen hours from Saturday
Speaker 4: evening to Sunday morning when the law banning TikTok went
Speaker 4: into effect January nineteenth. This is KFI and KOSTHD two
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, Orange County Southland weather from KFI. Red flag
Speaker 4: warnings are still in effect through tonight for most areas,
Speaker 4: with gusts to about sixty miles an hour in the
Speaker 4: valleys in Malibu Coast, sunny sky's highs around seventy at
Speaker 4: the beaches Metro LA and Inlando c sixties to low
Speaker 4: seventies in the valleys in ie fifties in the Antelope Valley.
Speaker 4: We're going to see some clouds tomorrow morning, then partly
Speaker 4: cloudy with highs in the Lota mid seventy, about the
Speaker 4: same for Thursday, cooling down on Friday, with a decent
Speaker 4: chance of.
Speaker 5: Some rain this weekend.
Speaker 4: It's fifty six in Orange, forty seven Manhattan Beach, forty
Speaker 4: six in Studio City, and fifty five in Tustin. We
Speaker 4: lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5: I'm Amy King.
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