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Speaker 1: Dodgers and Walker Buehler eight Nothing over the Mets. I
Speaker 1: was such a great, great game. Of course I didn't
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Speaker 2: I got yelled Debt tonight get my morning pop Tart,
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Speaker 1: them back. Well, Happy early birthday. Here's what's ahead on
Speaker 1: wake up column, we got a lot. Nearly two dozen
Speaker 1: relatives of the Menendez brothers have pleaded for the release
Speaker 1: of Lyle and Eric, who have spent more than thirty
Speaker 1: years in prison for murdering their parents.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be talking with.
Speaker 1: Nightline hosts ABC's Juju Chang in just a couple minutes.
Speaker 5: More about this.
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris has defended the Biden administration's policy on immigration.
Speaker 1: On her first ever interview with Fox News, sat down
Speaker 1: with Brett Bhaer and said it was a priority to
Speaker 1: fix the problems on the border, including getting more judges
Speaker 1: and processing asylum cases quicker. We're going to talk more
Speaker 1: about how Harris did in her first sit down with
Speaker 1: ABC's Britney Shepherd.
Speaker 5: That's coming up at five point twenty.
Speaker 1: La Mayor Karen Bass has issued an executive directive to
Speaker 1: clean up the city before the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 1: The directive instructs various divisions to enhance infrastructure and city services,
Speaker 1: repair streets, and clean out parks. The mayor says it's
Speaker 1: part of her larger goal to make La more livable
Speaker 1: leading up to the games. We've got a Boo preview
Speaker 1: for you today coming up at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: a place where you can get scared and scrubbed at
Speaker 1: the same time. It's going to make sense, I promise.
Speaker 1: And the Great Shakeout is happening today. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to one of the people behind the Great Shakeout, find
Speaker 1: out more about that. It's coming up in just a
Speaker 1: few hours. Let's get started with some of the story. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to him before the top of
Speaker 1: the hour. The Great Shakeout is coming up in a
Speaker 1: few hours. Just wanted to make that clear. Let's get
Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The fifty three year old
Speaker 1: woman shot by a coworker at Santa Monica College has died.
Speaker 1: Police say the shooter shot and killed himself when surrounded
Speaker 1: by police on Tuesday in Hawthorne. The man had a
Speaker 1: history of arrest, but college officials say they can only
Speaker 1: consider convictions in their hiring decisions and are unaware of
Speaker 1: an applicant's arrest. History classes Santa Monica College are being
Speaker 1: held online through Sunday because of the shooting. Fifty people
Speaker 1: have now been charged for pro Palestinian protests that involved
Speaker 1: taking over a building at uc or Vine.
Speaker 2: Most were charged with failure to disperse from a riot,
Speaker 2: while a few were charged with resisting arrest and vandalism.
Speaker 2: Hundreds of people were involved when the two week protests
Speaker 2: ramped up in May, resulting in a massive law enforcement response.
Speaker 2: Ten of the protesters who were charged in September were
Speaker 2: doing court yesterday and are likely facing diversion instead of
Speaker 2: jail time. The other charges were filed yesterday. The group
Speaker 2: of fifty includes three UCI faculty and twenty six students
Speaker 2: in Orange County. Corbin Carson kf.
Speaker 1: I News the race for president remains tight less than
Speaker 1: a month before election day. ABC's Brittany Shepherd says new
Speaker 1: polling is out in a couple of swing states.
Speaker 2: Most were charged with failure to disperse from a riot,
Speaker 2: while a few were charged with resisting arrest and vandalism.
Speaker 2: Hundreds of people were involved when the two week protests
Speaker 2: ramped up in May, resulting in a massive law enforcement response.
Speaker 2: Ten of the protesters who were charged in September were
Speaker 2: doing court yesterday and are likely facing diversion instead of
Speaker 2: jail time. The other charges were filed yesterday. The group
Speaker 2: of fifty includes three UCI faculty and twenty six students
Speaker 2: in Orange County. Corbin Carson kf.
Speaker 1: I News have a two games to one lead going
Speaker 1: into Game four of the National League Championship Series against
Speaker 1: the Mets.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers shot out New York eight nothan last night.
Speaker 5: In Game three.
Speaker 1: Dodgers manager Dave Roberts's Walker Buehler's strike three pitch against
Speaker 1: batter Sam Our Friends, not San Francisco Lindor, just Francisco Lindor,
Speaker 1: was the pitch of the game.
Speaker 5: The crowd was into it.
Speaker 4: They were gaining momentum and to get the break and
Speaker 4: ball down below the zone and get a great hitter
Speaker 4: out was huge show.
Speaker 1: Heyo Tani blasted a three run shot. Geeky Hernandez and
Speaker 1: Max Munsey also went deep for the Dodgers. Game four
Speaker 1: is tonight at City Field. It's five seven on your
Speaker 1: Thursday morning wake up call. Let's say good morning to
Speaker 1: ABC Nightline host Juju Chang.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Juju, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Thirty four years after the Menendez brothers were convicted of
Speaker 1: murder for killing their parents, there is a renewed effort
Speaker 1: to free Eric and Lyle.
Speaker 5: Why now?
Speaker 6: Why now is a good question.
Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of people think it has to
Speaker 4: do with the Netflix series is the Ryan Murphy drama
Speaker 4: and the Netflix documentary. But these efforts have been underway
Speaker 4: for a while, and yet the DA in Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: as you know, George Gascon has said that he's going
Speaker 4: to make a resentencing recommendation or not by the end
Speaker 4: of October. So things are really heating up. And then
Speaker 4: yesterday a kind of unprecedented move, twenty members of the
Speaker 4: Menendez family, all from both sides, Kitty and Jose really
Speaker 4: gave an emotional plea for the brother's freedom, and they
Speaker 4: basically said, you know, the matriarch of the group, Joan Vandermullen,
Speaker 4: who was Kitty Menenda's sister at the age of ninety two,
Speaker 4: stood up at the microphone with her voice cracking, saying
Speaker 4: that they were just desperate boys trying to escape in
Speaker 4: explicable and unspeakable abuse. So there's new evidence involved, there's
Speaker 4: new renewed energy because frankly, the TikTok generation has become
Speaker 4: so obsessed with this case.
Speaker 1: And what is the new Evan And have they shared
Speaker 1: what it all is? I know there's a letter.
Speaker 4: Sure, sure, there's a letter that has been around for
Speaker 4: a while, but it was recently submitted as at a
Speaker 4: Habeas Corpus ruling. And what it is. It's a letter
Speaker 4: from Eric to his cousin, who testified in the first
Speaker 4: trial that Lyle had confided in him as a boy
Speaker 4: that his father was molesting him. This letter was written
Speaker 4: months before the murders by the younger brother Eric, and
Speaker 4: he describes being terrified that his dad is going to
Speaker 4: come in his room. He describes, you know that it's
Speaker 4: happening again, and it's worse for me Andy, and it
Speaker 4: corroborates the motive because so many people at the time thought, well,
Speaker 4: it was greed. They went on that lavish spending spree,
Speaker 4: and the brutality of the double murder with shotgun blasts
Speaker 4: everywhere was really jarring, right, And so that letter substantiates
Speaker 4: that he was in fact confiding in this cousin that
Speaker 4: this abuse was ongoing for twelve years. He says, up
Speaker 4: until you know the murders. The other piece of evidence
Speaker 4: is the Menudo pop star who has come forward recently
Speaker 4: and said that Jose Menendez menendez brother's father molested him
Speaker 4: as well in that Beverly Hills home when he was
Speaker 4: a member of that band, and that he had kept
Speaker 4: silent in shame for so many years. But that too
Speaker 4: corroborates that what Karen Vandermullen, their cousin, said to me
Speaker 4: in this Hulu special that what it shows the world
Speaker 4: in her view, is that Jose Menendez was a predator,
Speaker 4: a sexual predator, not.
Speaker 6: Just to his kids, but to other people's kids.
Speaker 4: And we interviewed a lot of people, Rosie O'Donnell, the
Speaker 4: Da Mark Arragos, a lot of people to sort of
Speaker 4: flesh out all that has changed in the thirty five years.
Speaker 5: How is Rosie O'Donnell a part of this?
Speaker 4: So she has come out in our Hulu special and
Speaker 4: she's talked about it in recent years that she is
Speaker 4: an abuse survivor herself, and for many years she they
Speaker 4: had had a back and forth, Lyle and she had
Speaker 4: gone back and forth, and she said she wasn't ready
Speaker 4: to come forward, but she reached out to Lyle and
Speaker 4: they have become genuine friends. She has visited them multiple
Speaker 4: times in prison. She has seen Eric's artistic murals on
Speaker 4: the wall. She is in constant contact with the brothers.
Speaker 4: She actually refers to herself as the Big Ciss, if
Speaker 4: you will. And she said that when she heard that
Speaker 4: testimony thirty five years ago, she started shaking, and as
Speaker 4: an abuse survivor, she said she knew what was real.
Speaker 4: She felt that it was real. And when the second
Speaker 4: trial came in and it excluded all of the sexual
Speaker 4: abuse evidence from the first trial, which you'll remember was
Speaker 4: a hung jury. In the second trial, all of that
Speaker 4: abuse was excluded from the trial and they got a
Speaker 4: conviction because the jurors only had two options, first degree
Speaker 4: life in prison without parole or set them free. And
Speaker 4: so the jurors chose first degree murder, and what Rosie
Speaker 4: said was that guilty verdict, in her mind, was a
Speaker 4: slap in the face of all abuse victims because those
Speaker 4: brothers were not believed. And so in the thirty five
Speaker 4: years since, the jurors had back then said they didn't
Speaker 4: believe a father would do that to their son. But
Speaker 4: in the thirty five years since, we've had I mean literally,
Speaker 4: there was the Catholic priests scandal, one of which was
Speaker 4: just settled in la yesterday, I think, right, exactly, right, exactly.
Speaker 4: We've lived through the Me Too movement. So many men
Speaker 4: have come forward and said yes, in fact, men can
Speaker 4: be raped and abused as well. And we've learned so
Speaker 4: much in thirty years about what trauma does to the brain,
Speaker 4: and what trauma does to people and how they act
Speaker 4: out in maybe unconscionable ways, you know, horrible ways. And
Speaker 4: nobody's trying to excuse the murders. Nobodys saying that they're innocent.
Speaker 4: What they're saying is that had manslaughter been on the table,
Speaker 4: they would have gotten twenty years, maybe twenty five. And
Speaker 4: they've now served thirty five years in prison, And so
Speaker 4: there's a credible case to be made. What Rosie says
Speaker 4: is they are model prisoners. They work with prison hospice,
Speaker 4: they have you know, they counsel other prisoners who've had
Speaker 4: sexual trauma. They've done, gotten degrees, all of this with
Speaker 4: no hope of parole, and so they've been model prisoners
Speaker 4: in many people's view, including their defense attorney Mark Cargos,
Speaker 4: that for the past twenty years they've been model prisoners
Speaker 4: because they are rehabilitated and that is one of the
Speaker 4: criteria that the La DA George Gascon is looking at
Speaker 4: for a resentencing, and that could happen in October. It
Speaker 4: could happen like soon for the election, right, yes. And
Speaker 4: I asked him about the timing of that too, I said,
Speaker 4: is this political? And you know he said, oh, you
Speaker 4: really think that Netflick's conspired with me for this?
Speaker 6: And you know, I said, well.
Speaker 4: I said, well, you know, stranger things. And then he said, look,
Speaker 4: this is this has been in the works for a
Speaker 4: long time. His view is that this hurts me more
Speaker 4: than it helps me in the election, although other people disagree.
Speaker 4: Other people think that you know, you get your name
Speaker 4: in the headlines, you spell my name right, and it's Okay,
Speaker 4: but obviously the Menendaz family are desperate to not make
Speaker 4: this about politics. They're saying, this is not about politics.
Speaker 4: This is about reevaluating the impact of torture's sexual abuse
Speaker 4: on young boys and re examining this case in a
Speaker 4: new light thirty five years later.
Speaker 1: Okay, and it's called Impact by Nightline Menendez Brothers, monsters
Speaker 1: or victims.
Speaker 4: And we're streaming now on Hulu. But you know what
Speaker 4: twenty twenty is doing a two hour special tomorrow night,
Speaker 4: Friday night on ABC, but Hulu is streaming now, so
Speaker 4: you could click right now on Hulu and watch our
Speaker 4: exhaustive reporting with family members, with Rosie, with the DA,
Speaker 4: with Mark Virago's, even with a therapist who treated Eric
Speaker 4: and Lyle way back in the day.
Speaker 5: Well did you We're going to ask him to wait
Speaker 5: till after wake up call is over.
Speaker 4: After wake up call, don't click until after wake up call.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you can watch it on Hulu or you
Speaker 1: can watch it because what twenty twenty is doing.
Speaker 4: Especially Friday night. Okay to our special.
Speaker 1: Juju Chang, thank you so much for the information and
Speaker 1: the insight that I'm going to go watch it after weak.
Speaker 4: Thanks Amy, all right, thank you, thank you, Right.
Speaker 1: Bud, Let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The California
Speaker 1: Board of Community Corrections has ordered La County to close
Speaker 1: its Los Padrino's juvenile detention facility in Downy.
Speaker 7: Official say the county did not submit a solid proposal
Speaker 7: to correct staffing issues and other operational concerns. The county
Speaker 7: has sixty days to remove and relocate roughly three hundred
Speaker 7: juvenile offenders, who are mostly waiting for their day in court.
Speaker 7: State inspectors in July said they noticed little to know
Speaker 7: staff at the facility about twenty percent of the time,
Speaker 7: including the lack of staff to take kids to and
Speaker 7: from medical appointments. This is the third time the county
Speaker 7: has tried and failed to meet state mandated requirements at
Speaker 7: Los Padrinos. Steve Gregory King if.
Speaker 1: I News two brothers from Sudan have been charged with
Speaker 1: hacking computers at government agencies and hospitals globally, including at
Speaker 1: Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Officials say the hack at Cedars
Speaker 1: caused a shutdown of the emergency department, which forced incoming
Speaker 1: patients to be redirected to other medical facilities for about
Speaker 1: eight hours.
Speaker 5: One direction.
Speaker 1: Fans have been mourning the death of group member Liam Payne,
Speaker 1: who died in a fall from a hotel balcony in Argentina.
Speaker 1: Hotel staff called for help yesterday, saying there was an
Speaker 1: aggressive man destroying his room who might be under the
Speaker 1: influence of drugs or alcohol. Color said they were concerned
Speaker 1: because the third floor room the man was in had
Speaker 1: a balcony. The Buenos Aires Security Ministry said in a
Speaker 1: statement that Payne jumped from the balcony. Police are still investigating.
Speaker 1: Liam Payne was thirty one. The Dodgers blanked the Mets
Speaker 1: ate nothing last night to take a two games to
Speaker 1: one lead in the National League Championship Series Game four
Speaker 1: tonight at City Field in New York.
Speaker 5: First pitch goes out at five oh eight.
Speaker 1: You can listen to the game live from the Galpin
Speaker 1: Motors Broadcast booth on AM five seventy LA Sports and
Speaker 1: in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seven
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports. Phillips sixty six says it's going to
Speaker 1: close its La Area refinery next year because of uncertainty
Speaker 1: about the future sustainability of the facility. The announcement comes
Speaker 1: after Governor Newsom signed a new law requiring oil companies
Speaker 1: to keep reserves of gasoline to reduce the chance of
Speaker 1: gas price spikes. About nine hundred workers going to be affected.
Speaker 5: A majority of.
Speaker 1: People living in California have considered leaving. An Emerson College
Speaker 1: poll found more than fifty five percent say they have
Speaker 1: thought about moving out of the state because of the
Speaker 1: high cost of living. Thirty five percent say they have
Speaker 1: had to make trade offs between paying for food and housing.
Speaker 1: In the past month, the Dodgers have taken a two
Speaker 1: games to one lead in the best of seven National
Speaker 1: League Championship Series. Walker Buehler kept the Mets bats quiet
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers beat New York eight nothing. Game four
Speaker 1: is tonight at City Field in New York at six
Speaker 1: oh five. It's handle on the news. The Archdiocese is
Speaker 1: paying out almost a billion dollars.
Speaker 5: We'll tell you about that right now.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Brittany Shepherd.
Speaker 5: Brittany, good morning.
Speaker 1: We saw the first sit down with Vice President Harrison
Speaker 1: Fox News, first time they've actually ever had to sit down.
Speaker 1: Did she answer the questions, how'd she do.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's her first foray onto the network. And I'll say,
Speaker 8: if you're a Democrat, you think she did a great job,
Speaker 8: And if you're a Republican, you think she really bungled it.
Speaker 6: Surprise to no one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, here, but it was interesting. There was so much
Speaker 8: hype and pressure around her recording Democrats, essentially crossing enemy
Speaker 8: lines and sitting down with someone at Fox. I know
Speaker 8: you've probably seen and heard all the pressure for Hars
Speaker 8: to do more.
Speaker 6: Media interviews mainstream.
Speaker 8: She's been doing podcasts, she's been really trying to diversify
Speaker 8: where she's appearing to people. And I think critically, before
Speaker 8: getting the substance of this, I think it's important to
Speaker 8: note that the folks who were watching Fox are probably
Speaker 8: not tuning into Kamala Harris rallies or these zoom calls,
Speaker 8: you know, celebrities for Hairs, all these different groups. Right,
Speaker 8: this is the first time people are probably hearing from her,
Speaker 8: either in her own words this cycle or outside clips
Speaker 8: contextualized by Fox newsposts or by Trump. So this is
Speaker 8: there's a lot on the line here to convince what
Speaker 8: I believe to be a very small subset of voters
Speaker 8: who might be watching Fox but soured on Trump. Maybe
Speaker 8: they supported Nicky Haley and are open to crossing party lines.
Speaker 8: A lot of factors swirling, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, a new polls are showing that like ten
Speaker 1: percent of Trump voters and ten percent of Harris voters
Speaker 1: are saying that they could be swayed.
Speaker 8: Right, It's like, what's even the spring voter anymore?
Speaker 6: A median voter.
Speaker 8: It's so hard to contextualize who these folks might be.
Speaker 8: But in a vote where the margins are so thin,
Speaker 8: according to this Morning our Fight thirty pulling average has
Speaker 8: something arounding air less than three points, right, right, even
Speaker 8: ten once thousand votes in suburbs, they really really really matter.
Speaker 8: So as part of the content of the interview, I
Speaker 8: felt like there were three big moments. A lot of
Speaker 8: it was clashing, you know, Brett and Vice Presdent Harris.
Speaker 8: We're talking over each other a lot, I think, really
Speaker 8: making a lot of good, big for TV moments, but
Speaker 8: maybe not so useful for the American voter.
Speaker 4: Moments.
Speaker 8: Immigration differences between her in bided and what those that
Speaker 8: administration might look like differently, and the direction of the country,
Speaker 8: the contrast between presidency under Trump and a presidency under Harris,
Speaker 8: and in that conversation she called Trump unstable, which she
Speaker 8: has before, but the first time she's taking this to
Speaker 8: Fox directly.
Speaker 1: So you said, there were three moments. I got immigration
Speaker 1: and direction of country. What's the other one?
Speaker 8: The difference between her invited, you know, and I think
Speaker 8: there was a lot of flack that she got for
Speaker 8: her answer on the View when the women of the
Speaker 8: View asked, Harris, you know, what's the difference between you
Speaker 8: and a Biden presidency? And she wasn't able to deliver
Speaker 8: I think a solid answer there, So maybe maybe we
Speaker 8: can start there.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 8: She really tried to make a clear distance between who
Speaker 8: she is and who she was is vice president under Harris,
Speaker 8: saying gladly, quote, my presidency will not be a continuation
Speaker 8: of Joe Biden's presidency.
Speaker 5: Which is completely different than what she said on the View.
Speaker 8: Yes, okay, yes, And she wasn't able to articulate policy
Speaker 8: shifts or differences in the agenda, saying and said that
Speaker 8: her difference is is that she's a different person, brings
Speaker 8: her own life experiences.
Speaker 6: She isn't a creature of Washington in the way Joe
Speaker 6: Biden is.
Speaker 8: Who's the Senate for over three decades and is someone
Speaker 8: who's really like entrenched and what it means to be
Speaker 8: I we call.
Speaker 6: Capitol w Washingtonian.
Speaker 8: So she's saying she is, you know, she is a
Speaker 8: different person of different experiences and Attorney Trade General California
Speaker 8: obviously brings a lot of lived experience with her race
Speaker 8: and ethnicity, obviously very different. Would be the number first,
Speaker 8: and that is the pivotal difference. When she was kind
Speaker 8: of pushed to go, well, what would your policy.
Speaker 6: On X, Y and Z look like? You know, she
Speaker 6: she pivoted a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a a lot of pivoting, and which
Speaker 1: moves on to the next thing, the immigration. They started
Speaker 1: with that, and there was no acknowledgment that there's been
Speaker 1: any mistakes on the border from her, which I think
Speaker 1: was a huge miss really because it's so apparent to
Speaker 1: everybody that things were have gone wrong at the border,
Speaker 1: and she just kept saying, oh, we were going to
Speaker 1: fix it, we were fixing it, we were fixing it,
Speaker 1: and they didn't do it.
Speaker 8: She definitely didn't play ball with the framing of the question,
Speaker 8: and I think it was right out of the gate,
Speaker 8: right that was that first question about how many undocumented
Speaker 8: immigrants have entered the US under the Biden Harris administration.
Speaker 8: She didn't give a number. Brett's started throwing out numbers.
Speaker 8: Do you think it's one million, three million? And Harris responded, Brett,
Speaker 8: let's just get to the point, okay. And this is
Speaker 8: where she did at least address something directly. The point
Speaker 8: is that we have a broken immigration system that needs
Speaker 8: to be repaired, and she tried to move the conversation
Speaker 8: in that direction and kind of away from the figures
Speaker 8: he was trying to nail down right at the job
Speaker 8: because I think at least you could tell from her
Speaker 8: tone she wasn't buying what he was selling with at
Speaker 8: least the framing of that question. And she tends to
Speaker 8: do that right, and I've interviewer before before she was
Speaker 8: vice president. If she's not driving with the framing of
Speaker 8: your question, she's just gonna she's not even going to engage,
Speaker 8: which I understand if you're working for her, But if
Speaker 8: you're just trying to get more information, if you're just
Speaker 8: watching it the first time you're hearing from her, especially
Speaker 8: if somebody who's listening to Fox daily, you're not going
Speaker 8: to be satisfied with that answer.
Speaker 1: Right, And yet people that people who don't watch Fox
Speaker 1: uh normally would be satisfied with that answer because to
Speaker 1: me and I watch everything, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: dodging on that one.
Speaker 8: You know, it's a good question. I think if you're
Speaker 8: someone who's a diehard hair of supporter, you're just in
Speaker 8: the same way people who are diehard Trump supporters. They're
Speaker 8: willing to kind of put on blinders because they know
Speaker 8: that they have a task at hand in November, so
Speaker 8: they're like, well.
Speaker 6: Whatever needs to happen.
Speaker 8: But I think if you're someone who is truly concerned
Speaker 8: with Imma green in up ticking crime and migrant you know,
Speaker 8: influx of migrants, you might be well, I want to
Speaker 8: hear more, right, especially because the administration has caught so
Speaker 8: much black in beginning when she said please do not
Speaker 8: come or you know, over the border she was handed
Speaker 8: the importon triangle countries. It took forever for them to
Speaker 8: get to actually go to the.
Speaker 4: Border, you know.
Speaker 8: So I think that it wouldn't be an.
Speaker 6: Answer that was satisfied people who really want to learn
Speaker 6: more about that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but your point, you know, you know, she knows
Speaker 8: what the edits are going to be right. She knows
Speaker 8: that everything's gonna cut and clips, so coming off as strong,
Speaker 8: which I think is something that more than policy. Trump
Speaker 8: has been calling her an idiot lately. Right, she wants
Speaker 8: to show people who are listening to Trump every.
Speaker 6: Day, I'm no idiot. You know, I'm a strong person.
Speaker 6: I'm as strong as he is.
Speaker 8: And I think that's that's as important as some of
Speaker 8: the policy right now too.
Speaker 5: I think she was successful in that part.
Speaker 1: And I could talk to you about this for like
Speaker 1: hours because I'm so fascinated with politics. And overall, where
Speaker 1: was there one thing that she you think she did
Speaker 1: really well?
Speaker 5: In one thing she did really bad?
Speaker 6: Well, i'll answer your second question first.
Speaker 8: I think just not being able to clearly articulate a
Speaker 8: couple of different policy areas, you know, especially on immigration
Speaker 8: and any economy, because that goes are the weak points
Speaker 8: and to say go to my website to learn more.
Speaker 6: That's not effective. It's on good TV, first of all,
Speaker 6: and it's if.
Speaker 8: You're someone who's just tuning in to get information having
Speaker 8: to do another task and I'm not time to do that.
Speaker 8: Your dishes to clean, you have a life to live.
Speaker 8: I don't think that that was very successful.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, while successful.
Speaker 8: I think being able to go on Fox and articulate
Speaker 8: yourself as somebody who is strong and willing to fight
Speaker 8: something that Donald Trump is known to do. You know,
Speaker 8: he goes everywhere, he answers every phone, and he'll say
Speaker 8: whatever he wants to say, showing that she showing that
Speaker 8: she can.
Speaker 6: Match that in tone. I think at least that was successful.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hope she does more again that people I think
Speaker 1: have been clamoring going who is she, what is she
Speaker 1: standing for? Why she changed positions on because she has
Speaker 1: on several things and they want to know why, and
Speaker 1: they want to know what her policies are. So I
Speaker 1: hope she does some more before the election.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just three weeks, I know. I believe we're already here.
Speaker 1: All right, Brittany Shepherd, thank you so much for the
Speaker 1: information and your insight.
Speaker 5: We appreciated a ton anytime. All right, take care.
Speaker 1: The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay
Speaker 1: eight hundred and eighty million dollars to settle childhood sex
Speaker 1: abuse claims by more than thirteen hundred people. With this agreement,
Speaker 1: the archdiocese will have paid out about one and a
Speaker 1: half billion dollars to resolve sex abuse cases over the
Speaker 1: past two decades. Another forty people have been charged in
Speaker 1: connection with pro Palestinian protests on the UC Irvine campus
Speaker 1: last spring. Among those charged were two UCI professors, a
Speaker 1: teaching assistant.
Speaker 5: And twenty six students.
Speaker 1: Disney is offering a new way to skip the lines,
Speaker 1: but it's going to cost you. The Lightning Lane Premiere
Speaker 1: Pass will be available starting next week. It'll let you
Speaker 1: skip the lines and get on most of the larger
Speaker 1: rides pretty much anytime you want. You don't have to
Speaker 1: make a reservation. It's four hundred dollars and does not
Speaker 1: include your ticket for admission. At six oh five, it's
Speaker 1: handle on the news. Jimmy Carter has fulfilled his end
Speaker 1: of life goal. I'll tell you what that is. At
Speaker 1: five point fifty, we're talking great shakeout. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: you ready to drop cover and hold on. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's time for the Boo Preview. So many fun things
Speaker 1: to do as we head through the spooky season. This week,
Speaker 1: we went out and about for the Boo Preview to
Speaker 1: Lakewood and caught up with Veronica Young with the Haunted
Speaker 1: car Wash yes, Haunted car Wash.
Speaker 5: During the day, the car wash.
Speaker 1: Is like any other, but when the sun goes down,
Speaker 1: the spooks come out. So Veronica, please tell us about
Speaker 1: the Haunted car Wash.
Speaker 9: So we are here at Carwood car Wash in Lakewood
Speaker 9: and we're hosting the Haunted car Wash this year. Here
Speaker 9: we've added a brand new theme. So when you get here,
Speaker 9: you will be our guests will be attending our funeral
Speaker 9: and we'reking their way in to the cemetery. I.
Speaker 1: Oh and we have some of some of the haunts
Speaker 1: and scary stuff that's already So this is a cemetery theme.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: So we've got dead dogs and our friendless skelets and gardens.
Speaker 5: So tell us what happens when you do you get
Speaker 5: out of your car? Do you stay in your car
Speaker 5: the whole time? How does it operate? No, it's a
Speaker 5: drive through experience.
Speaker 9: Everyone stays in their car. They will drive through and
Speaker 9: make their way into the car wash tunnel.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 9: So they do get a car wash as well.
Speaker 5: Oh, I love them.
Speaker 1: And can you pack as many people as you can into.
Speaker 9: The car as many people as you can legally get
Speaker 9: in your car?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, tell me why you started doing haunted car washes.
Speaker 1: So we started in oh, pandemic pandemic, so Halloween was
Speaker 1: canceled and that was Yeah, that was the reason why
Speaker 1: we we thought we needed to do something for the
Speaker 1: community to you know, celebrate, do a little give them
Speaker 1: a little something to do. Yes, there was nothing to
Speaker 1: do and it was super successful, Yes, it was.
Speaker 5: So you've been doing it ever since. So we've been
Speaker 5: doing it ever since, okay.
Speaker 1: And which was the first one, It was like, what
Speaker 1: the first Orange County? Okay, So there are now three
Speaker 1: different car washes. So there's this one in Lakewood, and
Speaker 1: then tell me about the Anahem carrsh so Anaheim.
Speaker 9: When you arrive there, you'll be greeted by some evil clowns.
Speaker 9: So then they are okay, yeah, so that's a clown
Speaker 9: theme over there.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 9: It's the same concept where you drive through and stay
Speaker 9: in your car, get a car wash, and get scared,
Speaker 9: and get scared because as you're going through the car wash,
Speaker 9: there are.
Speaker 5: Things that will pop out at you.
Speaker 9: There are people that will.
Speaker 5: Pump out at you. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: And then there there's also one in Dwarty that's opening
Speaker 1: up on the eighteenth and it'll be open then through
Speaker 1: Halloween as well.
Speaker 9: It'll be open the last those two weekends.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, And what's that thing? And that theme is wasteland.
Speaker 1: So there's three of them and where can we find
Speaker 1: out more information about them?
Speaker 5: The Haunted car Wash dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay, easy, easy, and it's a car load of people
Speaker 1: and it's a fun way to end one ticket on
Speaker 1: one ticket, come out, enjoy it, get a little scared,
Speaker 1: and get your car clean too. Yes, all right, baroniicay Young,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, You're welcome, Thank you for coming
Speaker 1: oo And that is our boob preview for this week,
Speaker 1: the Haunted car Wash. You can go to Instagram Haunted
Speaker 1: car Wash La and at Haunted car Wash OC. I
Speaker 1: love that something good came out of the pandemic and
Speaker 1: love the way that entrepreneurs and business people found ways
Speaker 1: to you know, survive and thrive that nasty, nasty time.
Speaker 1: You can go to the Haunted car Wash dot com
Speaker 1: to buy your tickets, and you do need to buy
Speaker 1: your tickets and reserve your spot ahead of time, and
Speaker 1: you can find out what days it's open and all
Speaker 1: of that stuff.
Speaker 5: It was really really fun.
Speaker 1: And for I think it was thirty between thirty three
Speaker 1: and thirty five dollars for a whole car load. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a cool way to go and do something fun
Speaker 1: with your friends. You can follow me at Amy Kking.
Speaker 1: You can also see a little glimpse of the Haunted
Speaker 1: car wash at KFI AM six forty. Again at Amy
Speaker 1: Kking would love for you to follow me. You can
Speaker 1: see other boot previews that we've done this holiday season,
Speaker 1: and we've got a couple more fun Boom previews coming
Speaker 1: up before the Halloween Day of Spooking arrives.
Speaker 5: Day of Spooking. That's not really a thing anyway.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Republican lawmakers in California,
Speaker 1: you're trying to hit the brakes on a possible new
Speaker 1: gas tax.
Speaker 3: Lawmakers are urging the California Air Resources Board to postpone
Speaker 3: a vote next month on changes to a clean fuel
Speaker 3: program until the changes and their potential costs are made public.
Speaker 3: State Senator ros Lisio cho Abog, who helped pen a
Speaker 3: letter to the board, says higher costs will affect everyone
Speaker 3: no matter what they.
Speaker 10: Drive, even if you have electric vehicles or you have
Speaker 10: solar panels in your homes. Guess what products and services
Speaker 10: that you use utilized fossil views and they will also
Speaker 10: be impacted.
Speaker 3: The board says, how businesses past compliance costs onto consumers
Speaker 3: is their decision.
Speaker 7: Blake Charlie kafin News.
Speaker 1: President Biden's announced a student loan cancelation program for public
Speaker 1: workers has granted relief to more than a million Americans.
Speaker 1: The Public Service Loan forgiveness program was created in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, but was updated two years ago so
Speaker 1: more people could qualify. Several of the loan forgiveness programs
Speaker 1: announced by the Biden administration have been blocked by the courts.
Speaker 1: A time capsule buried at the National World War One
Speaker 1: Museum and Memorial in Kansas City has been dug up.
Speaker 1: The nineteen twenty four box contained a letter from President
Speaker 1: Calvin Coolidge, a Kansas City Star printing plate, a copy
Speaker 1: of the US Constitution, and various tubes of seeds like
Speaker 1: cowpees and oats. Museum curator Christopher Warren says the bomb
Speaker 1: Squad had to be called because the capsule included nineteen
Speaker 1: twenties era film with nitrate, which becomes flammable as it deteriorates.
Speaker 11: So we deal with one hundred year artifacts every day,
Speaker 11: but these haven't been seen for one hundred years, which
Speaker 11: makes it even more Specially though it's exciting to open
Speaker 11: up things that human eyes have not had contact with for.
Speaker 1: So many years, Warren says, the capsule wasn't a mystery
Speaker 1: because they knew what items should be on inside. So
Speaker 1: the Dodgers played last night, and I mentioned earlier that
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the game. I listened to the game
Speaker 1: on AM five seventy, which is of course a fabulous option,
Speaker 1: but I would have loved to have watched it, but
Speaker 1: it can't because it's not on regular TV right now.
Speaker 1: This game was on Fox Sports one, and I got
Speaker 1: to watch a couple of the other games for the
Speaker 1: Division series because I got the free trial for Fubu Fubo,
Speaker 1: but it was for a week and so I had
Speaker 1: to cancel it and I can't get another one.
Speaker 5: And then I'm like, well, where else can you watch it?
Speaker 1: Well, you can watch it on Hulu Plus Live, which
Speaker 1: is like one hundred dollars, maybe it's seventy, and it
Speaker 1: couldn't do the free trial for Hulu plus Live because
Speaker 1: I already have a Disney bundle that Hulu's included of
Speaker 1: in I have Direct TV, but I couldn't do it
Speaker 1: on Direct TV because to get the Sports bundle it's
Speaker 1: like one hundred and twenty five bucks. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what happened to the days when you can watch games
Speaker 1: on TV? This is ridiculous. It's a playoff, I understand.
Speaker 1: I don't understand, but for the regular season maybe, but
Speaker 1: this is the playoffs. And it's not only baseball, because
Speaker 1: Anne and I were talking, it's football.
Speaker 12: Too, absolutely, and it's ridiculous at this point. It's like
Speaker 12: I was saying, it's like a scavenger hunt because there's
Speaker 12: so many potential places for these things. These games be
Speaker 12: airing that you're looking through all these different areas.
Speaker 5: Is its streaming? Is it? Is it regular TV? Is
Speaker 5: a cable? Is it?
Speaker 4: It? Just?
Speaker 5: It's nuts.
Speaker 1: It is nuts, And I don't think it's gonna get better.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna get worse because as they do
Speaker 1: these deals and try to get oh we.
Speaker 5: Can make money here, Oh we can make money here.
Speaker 1: Let's just screw all the people who are the big
Speaker 1: fans like that Dodger fans in LA can't watch a
Speaker 1: playoff game.
Speaker 5: That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's just absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how you feel
Speaker 1: about it, and and I are ticked. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: they say, oh, sign up for the NFL package. Okay,
Speaker 1: well that's seven hundred dollars almost, I know, right for
Speaker 1: something that we used to just wake up and turn
Speaker 1: on the TV on Sundays.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's the way of the future. But
Speaker 1: we're not happy about it. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: there's anything we can do about it.
Speaker 5: And I've exhausted my free drive time for everything all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, I'm still gonna cheer on the Boys
Speaker 1: in Blue, but I'll just do it on AM five
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5: Except I do think. I do think tonight's game is
Speaker 5: back on regular TV. I'll check.
Speaker 1: SpaceX has sued the California Coastal Commission rejecting the company's
Speaker 1: request to increase the number of rockets it launches from
Speaker 1: Vandenberg Space for Space. The lawsuit claims the commission's decision
Speaker 1: is naked political discrimination against the company's owner, Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: Ending homelessness in LA in the next decade would cost
Speaker 1: the city about twenty two billion dollars. That's the estimate
Speaker 1: from a new LA Housing Department report. With more than
Speaker 1: forty five thousand homeless people in LA, that works out
Speaker 1: to four hundred and ninety thousand dollars per person and
Speaker 1: triple what city leaders have budgeted. The Dodgers two wins
Speaker 1: away from the World Series after beating the Mets eight
Speaker 1: nothing in Game three of the National League Championship Series.
Speaker 1: Keike Hernandez, Shohei Otani, and Max Munsey eat each hit
Speaker 1: home runs for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: The Mets host Game four at City Field. First pitch
Speaker 5: goes out at five to oh eight.
Speaker 1: Well, the Great Shakeout is happening today, So to get
Speaker 1: ready for it, let's say good morning to the man
Speaker 1: with the longest title ever. Here we go, Global Coordinator
Speaker 1: Great Shakeout, Earthquake Drills, Executive director of Earthquake Country Alliance
Speaker 1: and director of Public Education and Preparedness for the California
Speaker 1: Earthquake Center.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark Bendian.
Speaker 13: Good morning. You made it through that title.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we've got the Great Shakeout coming up later
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 5: Tell us about it and what we need to do.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Shakeout's an annual opportunity to learn and practice how
Speaker 13: to be safe, how we can protect ourselves during earthquakes,
Speaker 13: and also to practice other aspects of our emergency plans.
Speaker 13: It started back in two thousand and eight and it's
Speaker 13: gone global. We have more than fifty seven million people
Speaker 13: worldwide this year practicing earthquake safety, over nineteen point three
Speaker 13: million in the US and ten point five million today
Speaker 13: in California.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what time is it going to happen, and
Speaker 1: what's going to happen when.
Speaker 13: By tradition, we do at the same time as the date,
Speaker 13: So today is October seventeenth, and the time will be
Speaker 13: ten seventeen am when people will practice drop, cover and
Speaker 13: hold on, getting down low so you're not knocked down,
Speaker 13: covering yourself, getting under something if you can, for further protection,
Speaker 13: holding on to it in case it starts to move.
Speaker 13: If you can't do that, you can stay seated, cover
Speaker 13: your head. If you're somebody who uses a wheelchair, cover
Speaker 13: and hold on. Lock the wheel first, then cover and
Speaker 13: hold on. If you're still in bed, you can stay
Speaker 13: in bed, put a pillow over your head. If you're outdoors,
Speaker 13: just get down low. It's all about protecting yourself from
Speaker 13: things that might be falling or flying where you are,
Speaker 13: which is actually the greatest source of injuries during earthquakes.
Speaker 5: Okay, And a big thing that you said.
Speaker 1: I was reading an article that you had and it
Speaker 1: says don't move, which is my inclination is direct.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the research shows that people who really are trying
Speaker 13: to move somewhere are getting knocked down and injured more
Speaker 13: than if they stay where they're at. They're more likely
Speaker 13: to trip and fall or you know, the ground shaking
Speaker 13: up and down violently, not in the little earthquakes that
Speaker 13: we've had recently, but you know, in big earthquakes can
Speaker 13: really be impossible to move. We no longer have for decades,
Speaker 13: have no longer advocated going to get in a doorway.
Speaker 13: It doesn't protect you from anything that's falling or flying
Speaker 13: in the room you're at, and running outside is also dangerous,
Speaker 13: as things are falling off buildings, roof tiles, and there
Speaker 13: are things far less than any building collapse issue we
Speaker 13: need to be concerned about.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: And so the drill, which is drop, cover and hold
Speaker 1: on it seems kind of simplistic. And to say, hey, okay,
Speaker 1: we're ten seventeen, let's all do this. It does seem
Speaker 1: a little simplistic, but why why Mark? Is it important
Speaker 1: that we do this in practice?
Speaker 13: It's all about building that muscle memory. We're asking people
Speaker 13: to do this one minute once a year, you know
Speaker 13: it probably should be doing it. Schools do it more often,
Speaker 13: and schools are a big part of shakeout. Part of that.
Speaker 13: More than about half of the ten point five million
Speaker 13: in California today who've registered at shakeout dot org are
Speaker 13: from schools, including universities, businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, people at
Speaker 13: home all are involved in a lot of information about
Speaker 13: what to do and how to join is again at
Speaker 13: shakea dot org and also at Earthquake Country dot org.
Speaker 13: We have the seven steps to earthquake safety, what to
Speaker 13: do before, during, and after.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, what's that earthquake country.
Speaker 13: Dot quakecountry dot org. We have information in sixteen languages
Speaker 13: there too, so lots for everybody to learn and to
Speaker 13: practice today as part of the Shakeout.
Speaker 1: Okay and Mark, if we haven't registered to participate in
Speaker 1: the drill or I know that KFI is going to participate,
Speaker 1: so you'll be hearing tones on KFI at ten seventeen.
Speaker 5: But do you have to.
Speaker 1: Register to get the alerts in will we be getting
Speaker 1: alerts on our phone?
Speaker 13: Registering doesn't give you is not how you get alert. However,
Speaker 13: there is going to be a test of the mi
Speaker 13: Shake Earthquake early Warning app, which can give a few
Speaker 13: seconds of notice after the earthquakes detected, but before it
Speaker 13: gets to you, and that's going to be happening at
Speaker 13: ten seventeen as well. If you have the mi Shake
Speaker 13: app on your phone, and we recommend that people who
Speaker 13: haven't logged into that in a while do so, and
Speaker 13: make sure that you have your home location set in
Speaker 13: order to get the test alert.
Speaker 1: I have my Shake app right here, and then is
Speaker 1: there a significance mark to ten seventeen.
Speaker 13: No, it's literally a tradition that we set years ago
Speaker 13: with a former radio personality, Jack Pope Joy and I
Speaker 13: spoke when you're what's the right time to do an
Speaker 13: earthquake drill for the news? And it wasn't at the
Speaker 13: top of the hour, and we said let's do it
Speaker 13: at that happened to be a year it was. We
Speaker 13: said let's do it at ten fifteen because it was
Speaker 13: going to be on October fifteenth, and that's just been
Speaker 13: the tradition ever since.
Speaker 1: Okay, well yeah here at KFI that ten fifteen wouldn't
Speaker 1: work in the top and the bottom of the hour
Speaker 1: would not work because we're in the middle of a
Speaker 1: newscast and that's very important.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so that's why it's ten seventeen today on ten seventeen.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it, So, Mark Benthion, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: repeat your title again, but it's impressive, and thank you
Speaker 1: so much for your time. And again the websites where
Speaker 1: people can get more information and where do they shine?
Speaker 13: Also my shall time to sign up for Shakeout even
Speaker 13: if your drill is going to be on another day,
Speaker 13: it could be any day of the year at shakeout
Speaker 13: dot org. And then learn all about the seven steps
Speaker 13: to earthquake safety what to do before, during, and after
Speaker 13: at Earthquakecountry dot org.
Speaker 5: Okay, and don't forget to get the mind shake app.
Speaker 13: I've got mine, get yours too through your app store
Speaker 13: on your phone. I'll give you warning of a four
Speaker 13: point five or greater earthquake and the test alert today
Speaker 13: at ten seventeen.
Speaker 1: Perfect, and get ready to drop, cover, cover and hold on.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Mark, appreciate it.
Speaker 13: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Okay, you know what else is going on today.
Speaker 1: We've got a shuttle moving through the streets of Downey.
Speaker 1: We talked to the president of the Columbia Memorial Science
Speaker 1: Center on Monday because they have the Shuttle Inspiration, which
Speaker 1: is a full sized mock up and was used to
Speaker 1: actually be the design to build the shuttles that went
Speaker 1: into space, and they're moving it to the Columbia Memorial
Speaker 1: Science Center and making this new exhibit and it's going
Speaker 1: to move through the streets of Downey. You can listen
Speaker 1: to that interview was really interesting on the wake Up
Speaker 1: Call podcast on the iHeartRadio app. And of course you
Speaker 1: can listen today's show or yesterday's show, any show on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. This is KFI and KOST HD, two
Speaker 1: LUs angels, Orange County. We lead local live from the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and technical producer
Speaker 1: and birthday Boy Kono. Also traffic specialist Nick Back from
Speaker 1: New York City. I'm Amy King. This has been your
Speaker 1: wake up call. You've been listening to wake Up Call
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