Speaker 1: It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 2: This is your wake up call for Wednesday, December fourth.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy king excited. You're starting your day with us.
Speaker 2: Twenty one days till Christmas? Can you believe that Christmas
Speaker 2: is that close? Where did this year go?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: Driving in it.
Speaker 2: Did feel a little Christmas see, because it was super foggy.
Speaker 2: So if when you head out this morning, just be
Speaker 2: aware that I'm sure it's not in all areas, but
Speaker 2: all the way into Burbank it was pretty darn foggy.
Speaker 2: This morning felt a little bit eerie, a little bit wintry.
Speaker 2: Kind of liked it. I want to say a big
Speaker 2: thank you. We're back in the studio today, of course,
Speaker 2: because yesterday we were at the Anaheim White House for
Speaker 2: Pastathon twenty twenty four. We are so close to our goal.
Speaker 2: As of ten o'clock last night, and this is not
Speaker 2: all the totals. More money is coming in, but as
Speaker 2: of ten o'clock last night, nine hundred and forty five
Speaker 2: thousand dollars let me be more precise, nine hundred forty five,
Speaker 2: two hundred three dollars and seventy eight thousand, nine hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty five pounds of pasta and sauce had come in.
Speaker 2: And we're not done yet because thanks to our partners
Speaker 2: at Wendy's and also Smart and Final, you can still
Speaker 2: make donations. You can shop at any Smart and Final,
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Speaker 2: the Wendys are participating in southern California. If you donate
Speaker 2: five dollars or more, you get a coupon book for
Speaker 2: Wendy's goodies. And of course you can donate online at
Speaker 2: KFIAM six forty dot com slash pastathon.
Speaker 1: Also, it was really cool.
Speaker 2: You know, the crowds are generally light at five am,
Speaker 2: because hey, if I didn't have to be up, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be, and I would imagine if you didn't have
Speaker 2: to be up, you wouldn't be. But it was fun
Speaker 2: because we had some Wake Up Call listeners stop by
Speaker 2: and that was really fun to get to see people
Speaker 2: face to face. So again, thanks for everybody who came out,
Speaker 2: Thanks to everybody who donated, And we'll be updating those
Speaker 2: totals because I think I think they're going to go
Speaker 2: up quite a bit. Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call.
Speaker 2: Former federal prosecutor Nathan Hackman has been sworn in as
Speaker 2: the d DA of La County, replacing George Gascone, whose
Speaker 2: reform policies were overwhelmingly rejected by voters last month. A
Speaker 2: stretch of the Dana Point coastline has been closed by
Speaker 2: a more than three thousand gallons sewage spill. The OC
Speaker 2: Healthcare Agency says a sewer line broke yesterday near Salt
Speaker 2: Creek Beach, spilling thirty three hundred and seventy five gallons
Speaker 2: into the ocean water. The ruptured line has been fixed,
Speaker 2: but officials say the ocean water is still contaminated and
Speaker 2: it's not safe to go in. South Korea's president has
Speaker 2: lifted a short lived call for martial law. President Yun
Speaker 2: Stirkyo said he made the declaration because opposition parties were
Speaker 2: sympathizing with North Korea and controlling parliament. The South Korean
Speaker 2: parliament quickly voted to end martial law, and Yo backed down.
Speaker 2: Earlier troops had entered Seoul to protect parliament from protesters.
Speaker 2: We're actually going to be talking with ABC's State Department
Speaker 2: correspondent Shannon Kingston about this, going to dig a little
Speaker 2: deeper into it, find out exactly what happened and what's
Speaker 2: going to happen next.
Speaker 1: That's coming up before the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: We've got Tech Talk today with Rich Dmiro at five
Speaker 2: point twenty. Apparently your Apple watch is now going to
Speaker 2: start talking to your tesla. That a whole lot more.
Speaker 2: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 2: of a KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County District
Speaker 2: Attorney Nathan Hackman has been sworn into office.
Speaker 4: Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger administered the oath to Hawkman, who
Speaker 4: cruised a victory in November's election over incumbent George Gascon.
Speaker 4: Hawkman says he won't a dare to either extreme swing
Speaker 4: of the ideological pendulum, including calls to be soft on crime, and.
Speaker 5: The other end the pendulum swing mass incarceration policies that
Speaker 5: sought to do the same.
Speaker 4: Hawkman says he will lead the office with what he
Speaker 4: calls the hard middle approach, a system that's fair to
Speaker 4: defendants and victims.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 2: The La City Council is expected to finalize its Sanctuary
Speaker 2: City ordinance. It will prohibit city resources or personnel from
Speaker 2: being used to help enforce federal immigration laws. The council
Speaker 2: unanimously approved the proposed ordinance after the election last month,
Speaker 2: but made some changes so it needed a second vote.
Speaker 2: The ordinance would go into effect within ten days after
Speaker 2: the mayor signs it. Burbank police say a brush fire
Speaker 2: in the city may have been deliberately set. A man
Speaker 2: suspected of starting a fire yesterday morning. Their son set
Speaker 2: Kenyon and Orange Grove Drive has been detained. About five
Speaker 2: acres of open land burned before firefighters were able to
Speaker 2: put the flames out. President elect Trump's pick Ford Defense
Speaker 2: Secretary Pete Hegseth has met with Republican senators in Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. To get their support, but Hegseth is facing
Speaker 2: allegations of sexual and personal misconduct. Abc Selina Wang says
Speaker 2: The New York Times has an email from Hegsath's mother
Speaker 2: criticizing his conduct toward women.
Speaker 6: Hegseth's mother had told The New York Times that at
Speaker 6: the time she had immediately sent a.
Speaker 7: Follow up email to our son apologizing for sending that note.
Speaker 2: Wings says the mother's email was sent in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: You know that little pause you just heard, because you
Speaker 2: know when you have your email open, and it pops
Speaker 2: up and you get like a pop up screen that
Speaker 2: stops you from doing anything else.
Speaker 1: That just happened until I figured out how to close it.
Speaker 2: Okay, the US Capitol Christmas Tree has been lit for
Speaker 2: the holidays.
Speaker 4: Three two one, There you go.
Speaker 8: Hey.
Speaker 2: The ceremony last night was hosted by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Speaker 2: Alaska fourth grader Rose Berke won an essay contest and
Speaker 2: was the one who got to push the button to
Speaker 2: light the eighty foot tall Sitka spruce. The tree traveled
Speaker 2: thousands of miles from Washington or to Washington actually also
Speaker 2: from Alaska from the top ungest National Forest.
Speaker 1: Right now, we.
Speaker 2: Got to get to ABC's Jordana Miller, who is in Jerusalem. Jordana,
Speaker 2: as if Israel doesn't have enough on its hands, the
Speaker 2: IDEF has carried out a strike in Syria.
Speaker 8: That's right. The IDEA says it targeted has Bolla's main
Speaker 8: mediator or or the main person that is a kind
Speaker 8: of link to uh to Hasballa the pits in Syria,
Speaker 8: and he has hit a car, hit on a car
Speaker 8: near Damascus. I mean it follows a pattern we've seen
Speaker 8: really for several months of Israel going after top of
Speaker 8: balla leaders no matter where they are, that is, you know,
Speaker 8: in UH, in Syria, in Lebanon, UH, and taking them
Speaker 8: out as they continue to kind of uh, you know,
Speaker 8: decap potato, if you will, the leadership of his ballots.
Speaker 8: And they've done it now during the ceasefire right now,
Speaker 8: Israel claim that this senior leader posts a threat to
Speaker 8: Israel and his operations, and it was on Syrian soil UH.
Speaker 8: And as you know, the Syrians are facing their own
Speaker 8: offensive from rebels in the north, and so they're a
Speaker 8: little distracted, which may have contributed to the timing of
Speaker 8: this targeted assassination. But it is in line with what
Speaker 8: we've seen over several months, and it will not jeopardize
Speaker 8: the fire between Israel and Lebanon.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's what I was going to ask you,
Speaker 2: because we know that that one is UH is very delicate.
Speaker 2: How is the ceasefire going, because we know that there
Speaker 2: have been some some shots fired across the border.
Speaker 8: Right so we saw you know, some real uh intense
Speaker 8: exchanges of fire on Monday and a little bit into Tuesday.
Speaker 8: But now I have to say it's been quiet on
Speaker 8: the Israeli Lebanies quarter for about twenty four hours right
Speaker 8: as we mark the one week anniversary of the seasfire.
Speaker 8: And even though it's being described I think wrongly in
Speaker 8: the media as fragile, the truth is this seasefire is
Speaker 8: holding up and I do not believe there are compelling
Speaker 8: reasons why Israel or Lebanon flash has Bala would like
Speaker 8: to go back to a full scale war, which is
Speaker 8: basically what it was. Even though you know Israel hadn't
Speaker 8: declared it as such or the world hadn't. It was
Speaker 8: a full out war for several months. And now look
Speaker 8: at what's happening in Syria. The offensive, the surprise offensive
Speaker 8: of the rebels has taken Seria's attention and will likely
Speaker 8: require Hasbala to help up Assad and protect his forces.
Speaker 8: So Hasballa now they don't need they don't you know,
Speaker 8: they were already in bad shape after months of fighting
Speaker 8: with Israel. They need to try. Iran's going to try
Speaker 8: to basically rebuild the organization. They're not in any position
Speaker 8: to fight. And also the Israeli army, you know, they've
Speaker 8: had reservist fighting for over a year. They need to rest.
Speaker 8: They are running low on some ammunitions, and they really
Speaker 8: have achieved a lot, you know, unless they want to
Speaker 8: take their forces all the way to Bay Route, which
Speaker 8: they don't right now, right they want to turn their
Speaker 8: focus back to Gaza to finish the Gaza war and
Speaker 8: ultimately do wrong. So I don't think there's any real
Speaker 8: reasons why these two sides would go back into a war.
Speaker 8: I do expect we will see more intermittent realms of
Speaker 8: violence between the sides, but that does not mean that
Speaker 8: Sasefire is going to fall apart.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, good to finally here so positive news because
Speaker 2: it's been you know, not great for over a year.
Speaker 2: So thank you so much. Jordana Miller. Appreciate the information.
Speaker 2: As always, We'll talk to you soon. But let's get
Speaker 2: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 2: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A two year old boyfriend, Chrisline,
Speaker 2: has been fatally shot by his seven year old brother
Speaker 2: in Rancho Cucamonga, Gloria, Huerta with the San Bernardino County
Speaker 2: Sheriff's Department says the boys were in a pickup truck
Speaker 2: outside of store Monday when the older one found a
Speaker 2: gun in the glovebox.
Speaker 7: The mom, as I understand, it, had just gotten to
Speaker 7: the location. She was unloading some things off the back
Speaker 7: of the truck and the children were in the cab
Speaker 7: of the truck, and that's where the shooting occurred.
Speaker 2: She tells KTLA. Deputies found the toddler had been shot
Speaker 2: in the head. He died at the hospital. Officials say
Speaker 2: the gun should have been stored properly. The Supreme Court
Speaker 2: has heard arguments in a case involving compensation for Holocaust
Speaker 2: survivors and their heirs. It would be for property confiscated
Speaker 2: during World War Two before people were sent to death camps.
Speaker 2: The original suit was filed fourteen years ago against Hungary.
Speaker 2: Justice Katanji Brown Jackson says, it'll be hard for the
Speaker 2: court to prove who might have taken what.
Speaker 9: Unless you can show that they currently it is in
Speaker 9: the United States or is owned by the company today
Speaker 9: or by the foreign state today. I don't know how
Speaker 9: you satisfy this jurisdictional cook.
Speaker 2: At the center of the case is whether survivors can
Speaker 2: bring Hungary into US courts under an exception to the
Speaker 2: Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act involving property taken in violation of
Speaker 2: international law. A new report by Meta says artificial intelligence
Speaker 2: did not play a major role in election disinformation. ABC's
Speaker 2: Mike Debuski says Meta claims AI enabled disinformation campaigns did
Speaker 2: not materialize in a significant way on its platforms.
Speaker 3: The company says that AI political content represented less than
Speaker 3: one percent of all fact check misinformation in the months
Speaker 3: leading up to the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 2: Meta also says it took down twenty new covert inflames
Speaker 2: operations across the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the US.
Speaker 2: Disneyland is offering a deal to Southern California residence residents
Speaker 2: can buy a three day one park ticket for as
Speaker 2: little as sixty seven dollars per day per person. The
Speaker 2: tickets can be used between January first and May fifteenth
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five. Southern California residents will need to
Speaker 2: show proof of residency to purchase and also to use
Speaker 2: the tickets. When we come back, your Apple Watch is
Speaker 2: soon going to start talking to your Tesla. Google Maps
Speaker 2: is getting one of Ways's best features right now. Let's
Speaker 2: say good morning too, Katla's tech reporter and the host
Speaker 2: of Rich on Tech on KFI. It's Rich DeMuro. Good morning, Rich.
Speaker 2: Do we not have Rich?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: There he is, Good morning.
Speaker 3: Rich, I am here. Good morning to you.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 2: We're having all kinds of little techy glitches this morning.
Speaker 2: It must be gremlins in the system.
Speaker 1: So Walmart now owns Visio.
Speaker 3: Why is all about advertising? So Visio is one of
Speaker 3: the leaders in basically figuring out what you're watching and
Speaker 3: using that data to sell to advertisers or to target
Speaker 3: advertising towards you. And Walmart saw this and said, you
Speaker 3: know what, why not pay two point three billion dollars
Speaker 3: for this company?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 5: And so they've yeah, they've.
Speaker 3: Completed that acquisition. Visio has this thing called Smartcast, which
Speaker 3: is sort of their operating system, like a Roku or
Speaker 3: fire TV, and Walmart of course is going to integrate
Speaker 3: that with their ad platform. So what does this mean
Speaker 3: for consumers? It means that Visio TVs will definitely be
Speaker 3: much more prominent at Walmart. They'll probably be cheaper, and
Speaker 3: they will probably have more advertising on them.
Speaker 1: They're pretty decent TV, aren't they? Are they worse? At
Speaker 1: some point?
Speaker 3: I've always liked Visio. I have a video. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: this is one of the first TVs I ever featured.
Speaker 3: They had the best price for a TV many many
Speaker 3: years ago, and they continue to push down. I think
Speaker 3: they probably single handedly pushed down prices of all TVs
Speaker 3: over the years because they were so aggressive in their
Speaker 3: pricing for what you get.
Speaker 2: Oh well, then I like Video or Visio because now
Speaker 2: you can get a sixty inch TV for like four
Speaker 2: hundred bucks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, but more.
Speaker 2: Than TVs, the big thing is the advertising that it
Speaker 2: so it tracks people when you're watching TV or what's
Speaker 2: the deal with that?
Speaker 1: Why is it worth so much?
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much all of the TVs at this point
Speaker 3: do that. They have something called automatic content recognition. Visio
Speaker 3: sort of pioneered this kind of scans what you're watching
Speaker 3: on your TV screen, and there's actually a big lawsuit
Speaker 3: many years ago because they weren't very upfront about this.
Speaker 3: But you can turn that feature off on most smart
Speaker 3: TVs at this point if you go into the settings,
Speaker 3: Usually it says something like ACR or smart features or
Speaker 3: data features, and that's basically they're saying, look, we're going
Speaker 3: to watch what you look at on this screen, and
Speaker 3: then we're going to use that information to sell to
Speaker 3: advertisers to target you with ads.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got to go ACR smart features. I always
Speaker 2: get such good tips from you guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you if you google the name of your
Speaker 3: TV like Sony ACR and you search that, it will
Speaker 3: usually tell you how to turn that feature off or
Speaker 3: automatic content recognition. For most of the smart TVs they have.
Speaker 2: It, and it's just like one more thing where what
Speaker 2: you're watching is being watched by you know, the ominous
Speaker 2: big brother or whatever. Right, so you can turn that
Speaker 2: off if you don't want to. But does it really
Speaker 2: matter in the grand scheme of things is the question.
Speaker 3: I think the less data the better, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: why not? Why help them? You're not If they were
Speaker 3: paying you every month for the use of your TV data, sure,
Speaker 3: i'd say, okay, fine, that's worth you know, twenty five
Speaker 3: dollars a month, whatever it is. But since they're not,
Speaker 3: and they just have it on by default most of
Speaker 3: the time, why give them more data than they need?
Speaker 3: They're already collecting so much on us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, you know, I feel that way about
Speaker 2: I don't know how you feel about this, but about
Speaker 2: like surveys when you go shopping and go, hey, how
Speaker 2: is your shopping experience. I'm like, well, are you going
Speaker 2: to give me fifty percent off something next time I
Speaker 2: come in? I mean, like, what's what's what's my motivation
Speaker 2: for doing this?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I feel the same way I get every
Speaker 3: time I fly. They send me like a survey that's,
Speaker 3: by the way, like fifteen minutes to complete, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: you know, I love you. You got me there safely, But like,
Speaker 3: why am i your you know, pay me give me
Speaker 3: something for that?
Speaker 1: For Mike share the love a little bit. Okay, So
Speaker 1: you know I have a soft spot for Ways.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great app, and since I'm the
Speaker 2: voice of Ways, I get to tell.
Speaker 1: People where to go.
Speaker 2: But Ways is uh doing or Google Maps is actually
Speaker 2: doing something that Ways has been doing, and you think
Speaker 2: that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so it's it's interesting because Google owns
Speaker 3: versus both Google Maps and Ways. But you know, some
Speaker 3: people like Ways better, some people like Google Maps better,
Speaker 3: which is fine. But I think Google is learning that
Speaker 3: there are some synergies they can use from these two apps. So,
Speaker 3: for instance, one of Ways's best features are these crowdsourced
Speaker 3: incident reports. Right, if you're driving, you could say oh,
Speaker 3: police up ahead, or oh my gosh, there's something on
Speaker 3: the road or there's an accident, and so you can
Speaker 3: report those things and other drivers have a heads up.
Speaker 3: And so now Google is actually going to be sharing
Speaker 3: that information. So it goes both ways. Like I was
Speaker 3: driving back from Santa Barbara this weekend and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden it popped up on my map and said, hey,
Speaker 3: there's police ahead or a traffic camera and I was like, wait,
Speaker 3: what on Google? And of course you can confirm that
Speaker 3: or say it's gone, So that will be shared between
Speaker 3: these two apps. The more the merrier, I guess with this,
Speaker 3: because the more people reporting, the better this data is
Speaker 3: and the safer drivers can be.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like I was driving home from the Anaheim Whitehouse yesterday
Speaker 2: and there were three or four reports. One was police,
Speaker 2: you know, and then they ask you the thing is
Speaker 2: it still there? I'm like yeah, yeah, but one was
Speaker 2: there was this slow down, and I was like, what
Speaker 2: is that? And then I looked down at ways and
Speaker 2: it said there's something on the roadway. I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: good to know. But then when we got there nothing
Speaker 2: was there. So I'm like, okay, so did all that
Speaker 2: traffic just slow down because somebody pinged it, or maybe
Speaker 2: they had just cleared it or something. But anyway, I
Speaker 2: always think it's interesting to know what's going on, especially
Speaker 2: when they're slowdowns. So Tesla is making an Apple Watch app.
Speaker 2: So does that mean you can start talking to your car?
Speaker 2: Can you start your car with your watch? What's it
Speaker 2: going to be?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do a couple of things.
Speaker 5: This is something that, by the way.
Speaker 3: You had to use a third party app for if
Speaker 3: you wanted this functionality in the past, and you had
Speaker 3: to pay for it. So the fact that Tesla's doing
Speaker 3: this now first party is much more secure and it's
Speaker 3: also free, so that's going to be a nice thing.
Speaker 3: But what can you do with this app? Of course,
Speaker 3: you can use your watch as a digital phone key,
Speaker 3: which is really nice.
Speaker 5: So that's nice.
Speaker 3: You can lock and unlock your car, You can check
Speaker 3: to see how much charge you have left on your battery.
Speaker 3: You can warm up your car remotely. Again, these are
Speaker 3: all things you could do on the standard app on
Speaker 3: your phone, but now having it on your watch is
Speaker 3: really nice because you can go phoneless or just one
Speaker 3: more way to control your car. They're adding some other
Speaker 3: things too. This is really useful for people to have
Speaker 3: a Tesla. If you are, you can now set your
Speaker 3: arrival energy at destination. What does that mean? So typically
Speaker 3: when you take a trip in a Tesla and you
Speaker 3: get to your hotel, you may get there with like
Speaker 3: one percent battery or five percent battery, and you may
Speaker 3: not know where your next charge is coming from. So
Speaker 3: with this, you can now say I want a twenty
Speaker 3: percent charge when I get to my hotel, which means
Speaker 3: even if there's no charger there or they're all filled up,
Speaker 3: I will still be able to get to where I
Speaker 3: need to get the next day or whatever.
Speaker 2: Well, then so does it I'm confused on that because
Speaker 2: if you say I'm going here and I want to
Speaker 2: have twenty percent battery when I get there, what if
Speaker 2: your car doesn't have that range?
Speaker 1: Does it tell you to stop and charge up? Issue?
Speaker 5: Exactly?
Speaker 3: That's the main thing. So it'll or not just charge
Speaker 3: most of the time. If you're on a big long trip,
Speaker 3: you know road trip, you're gonna have to charge, But
Speaker 3: this will say instead of charging for five minutes, we
Speaker 3: want you to charge for ten minutes to make sure
Speaker 3: you have that twenty percent when you get get to
Speaker 3: your destination.
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds very cool.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're out of time, so we can't talk about
Speaker 2: this cameo thing, but I want to hold it till
Speaker 2: next week.
Speaker 1: Can we do that?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll just tell you got to tune in next weeks.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about how you can become a
Speaker 2: cameo celebrity. You can find out all the information that
Speaker 2: we've talked about, plus a whole heck of a lot
Speaker 2: more by following a rich on Instagram at rich on Tech. Also,
Speaker 2: his website is rich on tech dot tv, and of
Speaker 2: course you can listen to Rich He's the host of
Speaker 2: rich on Tech right here on KFI Saturdays from eleven
Speaker 2: to two.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Rich.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All right when we come back, Amy's on it.
Speaker 2: It's a new take on a classic Christmas story that
Speaker 2: is sure to get you in the Christmas spirit. That's
Speaker 2: your hint. Thank you to everybody who came out and
Speaker 2: donated to Pastathon twenty twenty four, either by visiting and
Speaker 2: dropping off your pasta and sauce at the Anaheim White House,
Speaker 2: or maybe just going to the website and making a donation,
Speaker 2: or stopping in Wendy's and making a five dollars donation
Speaker 2: when you get that cool little coupon book. You can
Speaker 2: also go to shop at Smart and Final and make
Speaker 2: your donation when you check out, and you can still
Speaker 2: make those donations because we are still taking in the money.
Speaker 2: Chef Bruno feeds twenty five thousand meals a week for
Speaker 2: Katerina's Club and gosh, you guys, you've been so generous
Speaker 2: and if you want to open up your hearts in
Speaker 2: your walle it's just a little bit more donate to
Speaker 2: help feed kids. It's a great cause. Everything donated goes
Speaker 2: right to the kids. One hundred percent goes to Katerina's Club.
Speaker 2: So again, thank you so much. We're getting really close
Speaker 2: to our goal. I think with just a little extra push,
Speaker 2: we're going to get there. Here's what we're following in
Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La City Council
Speaker 2: is expected to finalize language of a sanctuary City ordinance
Speaker 2: and then adopt it at today's council meeting.
Speaker 1: The ordinance would ban city.
Speaker 2: Resources and personnel from being used to help federal agencies
Speaker 2: enforce immigration laws. The city council unanimously voted in favor
Speaker 2: of the proposed ordinance last month, but then it had
Speaker 2: to make a few changes to language in it, so
Speaker 2: it requires a second vote. California's Attorney General Rob Bonta
Speaker 2: has unveiled two new bills to protect reproductive rights. One
Speaker 2: would let the Attorney General's office go after local governments
Speaker 2: the block abortion providers in their municipalities. The other would
Speaker 2: stop criminal charges from being filed against anyone who makes, provides,
Speaker 2: or distributes abortion medications. Ac DC's gear and Up to
Speaker 2: hit the road. The band's Power Up Tour gets under
Speaker 2: way April tenth in Minneapolis. It wraps up in Cleveland
Speaker 2: May twenty eighth, and yes, they're making a stop in LA.
Speaker 2: The tour rolls into the Rose Bowl on Friday, April eighteenth.
Speaker 2: Tickets go on sale on Friday at.
Speaker 1: Six o five. Its handle on the news.
Speaker 2: President elect Trump may be weighing his options as more
Speaker 2: opposition mounts against his pick for Secretary of State, Army
Speaker 2: veteran Pete Hegseth. At five point fifty, We're going to
Speaker 2: dig into what the heck is happening in South Korea
Speaker 2: with ABC's Shannon Kingston and how there's a rising chorus
Speaker 2: of calls to kick the President out of Office.
Speaker 8: Aamie's on it.
Speaker 5: Aami's on it, Aami's on it, Damie's on it.
Speaker 10: What am I?
Speaker 2: I'm on streaming shows, movies, documentaries, series And because it
Speaker 2: is the season, we're turning our attention to Christmas right now,
Speaker 2: so hopefully I'll let you know about a couple of
Speaker 2: good Christmas movies that you can curl up with the
Speaker 2: family and enjoy.
Speaker 1: And here is one that I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2: I think it came out in twenty twenty two and
Speaker 2: I didn't hear about it at all. I discovered it
Speaker 2: actually last Christmas season. It's called Spirited. It's on Apple TV.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it even went to the box office. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't remember hearing about it at all, but it's
Speaker 2: just one of my favorites at this time. It takes
Speaker 2: a look at a Christmas Carol, but this time it's
Speaker 2: from the perspective of the ghosts as opposed to Scrooge.
Speaker 2: There's Italian there, you'll understand when you watch it. But
Speaker 2: the ghosts live in a musical afterlife. They do supernatural
Speaker 2: simulations and try to redeem lost soul. So they take
Speaker 2: a whole year to plan on how they're going to
Speaker 2: haunt the person and get them to change and become
Speaker 2: a better person so they are not a lost soul anymore.
Speaker 2: It stars Will Ferrell, It stars Ryan Reynolds. Two of
Speaker 2: my favorites, Octavia Spencer love her, and then there's someone else.
Speaker 2: You're going to recognize them. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: who it is, but you'll know it when you hear
Speaker 2: the voice. The story is set in the present and
Speaker 2: the past and the future, and Will Ferrell is the
Speaker 2: ghost of Christmas past. He's got his heart set on
Speaker 2: haunting and changing one person. The characters do break out
Speaker 2: in song quite a because, as I said, it is
Speaker 2: a musical, and in this afterlife, the whole world is
Speaker 2: a musical, so it's very It's sort of it's natural
Speaker 2: in that people break out into song. The music is
Speaker 2: solid like the songs are catchy, they're fun. I've got
Speaker 2: them running through my head right now because I just
Speaker 2: recently watched the show and my favorite song is called
Speaker 2: Good Afternoon. I'm not going to tell you any more
Speaker 2: about it because I don't want to spoil it, but
Speaker 2: when you hear it, you're gonna understand why I love
Speaker 2: it so much. It's called good Afternoon comes about in
Speaker 2: the middle of the show, and who knew Will Ferrell
Speaker 2: and Ryan Reynolds could sing and dance. It's really it's
Speaker 2: just super fun. It's a well thought out story, the
Speaker 2: story unfolds, all the pieces come together, the story arc
Speaker 2: is strong. It's really entertaining, and if you haven't seen Spirited,
Speaker 2: I think it's a great watch for this Christmas season.
Speaker 2: Might even become a Christmas classic. It's a little too
Speaker 2: soon to tell. It just came out two years ago,
Speaker 2: but it's a great movie and a great musical, and
Speaker 2: in fact, this would be so fun on stage. I
Speaker 2: wonder if maybe they'll make a musical. You know how
Speaker 2: they took Wicked, the Broadway show and made it into
Speaker 2: a movie. Maybe they'll take Spirited and make it into
Speaker 2: a Broadway show. At any rate, it's on Apple TV.
Speaker 1: I'm on it. I think you should be too. It's
Speaker 1: called Spirited.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 2: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hundreds of workers
Speaker 2: in la are set to lose their jobs next year.
Speaker 1: They may get some help from the County.
Speaker 4: Phillip sixty six, as it plans to close its two
Speaker 4: local refineries in Carson and Wilmington, a move that could
Speaker 4: impact hundreds of employees. Supervisor Janis Han says the county
Speaker 4: needs a plan to help them.
Speaker 10: The closure will result in the loss of estimates six
Speaker 10: hundred full time jobs and three hundred contractor positions, many
Speaker 10: of which are held by highly skilled workers in specialized field.
Speaker 4: County staff has been directed to come up with the
Speaker 4: plan within sixty days, which would include jobs, policemen and
Speaker 4: training programs, including possible employment within the county government.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 2: Two men and a woman have pleaded guilty for their
Speaker 2: part in a home invasion robbery at a house in
Speaker 2: Newport Beach in which the homeowner shot one of the
Speaker 2: burglars and then another one of the burglars apparently took
Speaker 2: his own life. They were given six and nine year sentences.
Speaker 2: The robbery happened April sixteenth at a home on Vista Lucci,
Speaker 2: in what investigators are calling a targeted attack. A man,
Speaker 2: two women, and a child were in the house when
Speaker 2: the group broke in. The only city councils approved extending
Speaker 2: a much debated lease for a hangar facility at Anni's Airport.
Speaker 2: The vote yesterday was eleven to two. Council members Imelda
Speaker 2: Padilla and Hugo Soto Martinez were the two that voted no.
Speaker 2: In closed session, council members voted eight to five to
Speaker 2: settle a lawsuit over the city Council's rejection of the
Speaker 2: lease back in March, The Long Beach Police Department says
Speaker 2: the death of a woman hit by a transit bus
Speaker 2: has been ruled a suicie. The woman was hit last
Speaker 2: week at Shoreline Drive in Seventh Street. Billy said at
Speaker 2: the time the woman was in the roadway and outside
Speaker 2: of a crosswalk. Holiday shopping can come with package thievery,
Speaker 2: but ABC's Alexis Christoffers says there's at least one new
Speaker 2: way to fight back.
Speaker 7: There is a startup company called porch Pals now selling
Speaker 7: insurance for those victimized bags. It's like under and twenty
Speaker 7: dollars a year for two thousand dollars worth of coverage.
Speaker 1: She says.
Speaker 2: It may not be fool proof, but it helps. So
Speaker 2: now we have to pay to protect our packages from thieves.
Speaker 2: Gotta love it, be warned, it is a little fuggy
Speaker 2: in areas, makes it feel a little bit more like
Speaker 2: the Christmas season, but it was pretty thick on my
Speaker 2: way into work, so be careful of that. Here's what
Speaker 2: we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 2: man in southern California in the country illegally, has been
Speaker 2: arrested for allegedly shipping weapons from the US to North Korea.
Speaker 2: Prosecutors say the man hid the weapons in shipping containers
Speaker 2: at the Port of Long Each Those containers were being
Speaker 2: shipped to Hong Kong and would eventually be transported to
Speaker 2: North Korea. President elect Trump's legal team has called for
Speaker 2: a judge to dismiss his thirty four count felony conviction
Speaker 2: for falsifying business records tied to a hush money payment
Speaker 2: made to poor an actress Storing Daniels. Trump's attorneys argued
Speaker 2: that President Biden's pardoning of his son Hunter echoed Trump's
Speaker 2: complaints about his own politically motivated prosecution. The Rockefeller Center
Speaker 2: Christmas Tree will be lit tonight. The seventy four foot
Speaker 2: tall Norway spruce, trucked in from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, has
Speaker 2: been adorned with more than fifty thousand multi colored led lights.
Speaker 2: So beautiful, let's say Good morning. Now to ABC's State
Speaker 2: Department correspondent Shannon Kingston. Good morning, Shannon. This seems to
Speaker 2: have come out of nowhere. The president of South Korea
Speaker 2: declared martial law, but that's already been lifted. So bring
Speaker 2: us up to speed on what the heck is happening
Speaker 2: in South Korea.
Speaker 6: Well, good morning. South Korea is not usually the Korea
Speaker 6: that's a problem here in Washington. It's more often North Korea,
Speaker 6: like that story you just mentioned, But yesterday that all changed,
Speaker 6: and this really was unexpected. It caught everybody off guard
Speaker 6: from the South Korean political establishment, two officials here in Washington,
Speaker 6: when the South Korean leader, President Yuni, tried to impose
Speaker 6: martial law, really revoke all civilian rights because of what
Speaker 6: he said was, you know, use vague terms to describe
Speaker 6: some kind of North Korean plot that had infiltrated the
Speaker 6: political opposition party. Well, really, we know this was really
Speaker 6: an instance of frustration boiling over, and he tried to
Speaker 6: use that martial law to check his political opposition. But
Speaker 6: that was a play that backfired big time.
Speaker 2: So he was frustrated with his political opposition and tried
Speaker 2: to say, oh, you know what, it's because the opposition
Speaker 2: has been infiltrated by the North Koreans, and that's why
Speaker 2: he declared martial law. Because again, I'm so confused on this,
Speaker 2: and I would imagine our wake up call listeners are too,
Speaker 2: because it just kind of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 6: Right, And you know, that's a long and short of
Speaker 6: it the way you just perfectly summarized it right there.
Speaker 6: And you know, I think it's important to note that
Speaker 6: there always is a little bit of interference attempts, at
Speaker 6: least from North Korea going on in South Korea. It's
Speaker 6: just a way of life. But every official here in
Speaker 6: Washington that I've talked to said it's nowhere near the
Speaker 6: level it would need to be to impose these really
Speaker 6: draconian wartime measures on South Korea. So this was just,
Speaker 6: you know, a kind of convenient excuser and attempt to
Speaker 6: drum up a convenient excuse to take this dramatic step.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he declared martial law and then the parliament
Speaker 2: said no, you can't do that, and he backed down.
Speaker 6: That's right, But there's a lot of drama between the
Speaker 6: declaration of martial law and then what happened, because really
Speaker 6: we saw almost immediately, the South Korean military pour onto
Speaker 6: this streets of the country. I mean, I'm talking military
Speaker 6: vehicles and circling the National Assembly Building, their capitol building.
Speaker 6: Protesters clashing with those members of the military, and also
Speaker 6: you know, helicopters landing in soccer fields, so this was
Speaker 6: really like flipping a switch. But those lawmakers did fight
Speaker 6: their way in. We even saw legislative aids deploying kind
Speaker 6: of fire extinguishers to distract the military so they could
Speaker 6: all get in place for the boat.
Speaker 2: Okay, And then did protesters get into the Parliament building.
Speaker 2: I saw what looked like protesters storming and building, but
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure what building it was.
Speaker 6: So they were very much i mean the outside of
Speaker 6: the building, coming in slightly on the perimeter. Some might
Speaker 6: have made it into the building, but really lawmakers and
Speaker 6: protesters they were on the same side here, so they
Speaker 6: were kind of working together as opposed to the military,
Speaker 6: where you know, we did definitely see some tense moments
Speaker 6: where clashes could have really escalated. We haven't had reports
Speaker 6: coming through of any kind of major violence at this point.
Speaker 8: That's that's thankful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And now has calm been restored now or what's
Speaker 2: the situation now.
Speaker 6: Well, we're still seeing massive protests, demonstrations on the street,
Speaker 6: thousands of people coming out to really reject even yun
Speaker 6: attempting to impose martial law for any length of time
Speaker 6: on the country. And there's also a lot of political turmoil.
Speaker 6: I mean, really, this is just the tip of the
Speaker 6: iceberg of what we're going to see going forward, because
Speaker 6: even though June has faced almost two dozen impeachment attempts,
Speaker 6: what's been different here is the mass Because usually the
Speaker 6: opposition party, they're about ten votes shy of what they
Speaker 6: would need to actually impeach him. The Conservative Party they
Speaker 6: usually lined up behind you, and that's his party. But
Speaker 6: we haven't seen that level of support ever since he
Speaker 6: really crossed the rubicon here and declared martial law. They
Speaker 6: did not vote to uphold that order, and it's really
Speaker 6: unclear if they're going to be able to back him again.
Speaker 2: Do we know when a next impeachment attempt might happen?
Speaker 2: I mean, is it like any day now?
Speaker 6: Well, it's the ball is already rolling. We are expecting
Speaker 6: that vote could happen as soon as this Friday. It
Speaker 6: could slide into next week. It's just a matter of
Speaker 6: getting all the ducks in a row.
Speaker 2: Okay, and then a quick question, Shannon is if they
Speaker 2: impeach the president, is it like here where the president
Speaker 2: doesn't have to really do anything or does an impeachment
Speaker 2: mean he gets removed from office?
Speaker 6: Well, if they're able to successfully impeach Union, and that's
Speaker 6: something that has happened in South Korea in fairly recent history,
Speaker 6: just the last within the last decade, because there are
Speaker 6: a lot of corruption charges that run through that government.
Speaker 6: But if they are able to impeach him, really that
Speaker 6: his prime minister that he appointed will step in, but
Speaker 6: it's unclear how long the prime minister would actually be
Speaker 6: in power before they could establish elections and have that
Speaker 6: to democratically elect another leader. Is there are a lot
Speaker 6: of question marks that are going to need to be
Speaker 6: figured out here, so the instability is unlikely to resolve
Speaker 6: itself any time soon.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you helped us sort out what we could.
Speaker 2: We know that there are a lot more questions yet
Speaker 2: to be answered, and we'll be watching news. ABC News
Speaker 2: State Department Correspondent, Shannon Kingston, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: the info this morning.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thank you. Amy.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 2: ban on indoor and outdoor woodburning is in place across
Speaker 2: much of southern California because of high air pollution in
Speaker 2: the forecast. The residential woodburning ban will be in effect
Speaker 2: until at least midnight tonight for everyone in the South
Speaker 2: coast air basin, including the non desert areas of La
Speaker 2: Riverside and San Bernardino County and all of Orange County.
Speaker 2: The order does not apply to mountain communities above three
Speaker 2: thousand feet, the Coachella Valley or the high desert New
Speaker 2: La County DA Nathan Hoffman has been sworn in. He
Speaker 2: says he will reject extreme political ideologies as he leads
Speaker 2: the office.
Speaker 6: Blanket policies are inherently lazy. You have to look at
Speaker 6: each case individually, the individual defended and their background, the
Speaker 6: crime committed, and the impact on the victim.
Speaker 2: Akmann was sworn in yesterday by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Speaker 2: before a large crowd of supporters and elected officials outside
Speaker 2: the Hall of Justice. LA County Supervisor Katherine Barger has
Speaker 2: assumed the role of board chairs.
Speaker 4: Barger has taken the chair's position for the second time.
Speaker 4: The supervisors rotate every year. She says one of the
Speaker 4: top priorities for her in the year ahead is to
Speaker 4: improve public safety.
Speaker 9: I hear from residents every day that they want to
Speaker 9: feel more secure in their communities.
Speaker 1: That's going to require us to invest in public safety
Speaker 1: resources as well.
Speaker 4: Barger is the only Republican on the Board of supervisors,
Speaker 4: but says partisan politics shouldn't play a role in the
Speaker 4: county's policymaking.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 2: The World Wildlife Fund says hundreds of new species of
Speaker 2: plants and animals have been found in the Congo basin.
Speaker 1: Among these discoveries a new coffee plant, an owl with
Speaker 1: a catlike call, and a dragonfly named after a Pink
Speaker 1: Floyd album.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to hear the owl that sounds like
Speaker 2: a cat, ABC's Michelle for Instances. According to the Wildlife Fund,
Speaker 2: seven hundred and forty two new species have been discovered
Speaker 2: in the Congo in the last ten years. And the
Speaker 2: final college football rankings have been released and Oregon is
Speaker 2: number one after going twelve and zero in the regular season.
Speaker 2: The Ducks are followed by Texas, Penn State, Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and Georgia, Oregon, Texas, SMU and Boise State
Speaker 2: are all expected to be the teams that get a
Speaker 2: first round by in the college football playoffs, which get
Speaker 2: underway December twentieth. This is KFI and KOST HD two
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, Orange County Southland weather from KFI. Morning fog
Speaker 2: and low clouds, then mostly sunny with highs in the
Speaker 2: mid sixties at the Beach's upper sixties for Metro La
Speaker 2: and Inland Orange County, low to mid seventies in the
Speaker 2: valleys and Inland Empire, sixties in the Anelope Valley. Overnight
Speaker 2: loads tonight in the forties and then becoming sunny again
Speaker 2: tomorrow with highs in the upper sixties to near eighty.
Speaker 2: Sunny Friday and Saturday with hisand the seventies to about eighty,
Speaker 2: cooling down five to ten degrees for Sunday. It's fifty
Speaker 2: four in Santa Ana, forty four in Woodland Hills, fifty
Speaker 2: six in Irvine, and fifty six in Ciritos. We lead
Speaker 2: local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm
Speaker 2: Amy King. This has been your wake up call and
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