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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Monday, September ninth.
Speaker 5: I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: Ready for another work week, another for Ready for another
Speaker 1: super hot day.
Speaker 5: It is going to cool down, just not yet.
Speaker 1: So I had had a huge weekend for me. This
Speaker 1: was a big deal. I did a ten k. Never
Speaker 1: done a ten k before. Don't know that I'll ever
Speaker 1: do one again, but it was super funny. It was
Speaker 1: the Disneyland Halloween ten k. And after the run that
Speaker 1: started at like five o'clock in the morning, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're at Disneyland, so you got to go play in
Speaker 1: the park, right, So we spent the day running around
Speaker 1: at a friend Heidi in town.
Speaker 5: I think I hit a new record.
Speaker 1: I had more than thirty three thousand steps, that's like
Speaker 1: sixteen miles. They did the half marathon on Sunday, so
Speaker 1: technically I did the half marathon. I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you more about it and I'll also tell you a
Speaker 1: couple of things I learned in my first, ever and
Speaker 1: possibly last ten k But let's get to the important stuff.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call, and here's the
Speaker 1: latest on that fire burning near Highland in San Bernardino County.
Speaker 1: The fire has burned more than twenty thousand acres in
Speaker 1: forced evacuation orders in Arrow Bear, Lake, Running Springs, Forest Falls,
Speaker 1: and Mountain Home Village. A nearly one thousand acre fire
Speaker 1: that started yesterday north of Glendora has forced people out
Speaker 1: of the Camp Williams and River communities.
Speaker 5: The first and possibly.
Speaker 1: Only debates between former President Trump and and Vice President
Speaker 1: Harris is just one day away. Over the weekend Trumpeldla
Speaker 1: rally in the battleground state of Wisconsin, Harris was in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: where she's been since Thursday, preparing for the debate. We're
Speaker 1: going to get the latest on that with ABC's Karen
Speaker 1: Travers coming up in just a couple of minutes. The
Speaker 1: Rams started their twenty twenty four season with a twenty
Speaker 1: six twenty overtime loss to Detroit last night. The Chargers
Speaker 1: scored a win for Jim Harbaugh on his first first
Speaker 1: game as head coach. They beat the Raiders twenty two
Speaker 1: to ten at SOFI Stadium. Hey, September is Suicide Prevention Month.
Speaker 1: Our very own Debora Mark is taking a closer look
Speaker 1: at how suicide affects both the people who do it
Speaker 1: or attempt it and how it affects those who are
Speaker 1: left behind. That's coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: You are not going to want to miss miss it.
Speaker 1: And Neil Savadra and I are not taking a plunge,
Speaker 1: but we are going to play Dar Devil's We're going
Speaker 1: over the edge and we need your help to do it.
Speaker 1: We're going to tell you about that before the top
Speaker 1: of the hour at six o' five. It's handled on
Speaker 1: the news. The mom of the suspected school shooter in
Speaker 1: Georgia from last week called the school before the shooting.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you about that.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Evacuation orders are
Speaker 1: in place in the San Bernardino County Mountains, where a
Speaker 1: fire that started in Highland has grown to more than
Speaker 1: twenty thousand acres. The fire has been burning since Thursday night.
Speaker 1: It's threatening more than thirty six thousand homes and other buildings.
Speaker 1: The areas under evacuation orders include the communities of Running Springs,
Speaker 1: Forest Falls, and Arrowbear. This man says he's staying at
Speaker 1: a Red Cross shelter with his dog because he has
Speaker 1: nowhere else to.
Speaker 6: Go, no family.
Speaker 7: That's in southern California, and I'm not driving seven hours
Speaker 7: to go see my kids or my ex wife.
Speaker 1: Lake Arrowhead, Crestline and Seven Oaks are under evacuation warnings.
Speaker 1: Governor Knewsom declared a state of emergency for the county
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Firefighters say the fire burns so hot
Speaker 1: on Saturday it created its own weather system that could
Speaker 1: spawn lightning and gusty winds. Another fifty four homes in
Speaker 1: Rancho Palace Vertes are having their electricity shut off because
Speaker 1: of the shifting land so Cal Edison is set to
Speaker 1: cut power at about six tonight for homes in the
Speaker 1: lower Portuguese Bend Beach Club area. Cox Communications will disconnect
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty six customers in the Portuguese Bend
Speaker 1: Community Association. Gas service was shut off Friday in the
Speaker 1: Western Seaview area and for twenty five homes in the
Speaker 1: Portuguese Bend Beach Club. It is five oh seven on
Speaker 1: your wake up call. Let's say good morning to ABC's
Speaker 1: Karen Travers. Karen, the big debate is tomorrow night, could
Speaker 1: be the only one. Yeah, tell us how they're preparing
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So the Vice President has been in Pittsburgh for the
Speaker 9: last couple of days, hunkered down with senior advisors, preparing
Speaker 9: for what could be the only debate of this election
Speaker 9: cycle between her and former President Donald Trump. She is
Speaker 9: traveling to Fillladelphia today to be ready and be there
Speaker 9: in advance of tomorrow night. But you know she's preparing
Speaker 9: is very traditional debate prep. She's doing mock debates. They
Speaker 9: set up a stage at her hotel with full lighting
Speaker 9: so she can.
Speaker 8: Do a recreation of what it will be like tomorrow night.
Speaker 9: On that stage, she has a stand in for Donald
Speaker 9: Trump as somebody who is kind of going full method actor,
Speaker 9: taking this role very seriously, and we're told that, you know,
Speaker 9: she is planning to focus a lot on Donald Trump
Speaker 9: and his record tomorrow night. You know, a lot of
Speaker 9: the campaign strategy for the last couple of weeks has
Speaker 9: been introducing herself to voters, defining herself and her message
Speaker 9: for voters.
Speaker 8: Certainly a lot of that at the DNC in August.
Speaker 9: But you know, now the campaign says they want to
Speaker 9: combat what they feel is Trump amnesia, voters forgetting what
Speaker 9: his four years in the White House were like. So
Speaker 9: look for her to really focus on that tomorrow on
Speaker 9: the debate stage and also try to go on the attack,
Speaker 9: to go after him and try to get under his
Speaker 9: skin and rattle him. As one person said, you know,
Speaker 9: to make Trump go full Trump.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so she's been hunkered down and she's doing
Speaker 1: all this prep.
Speaker 5: He isn't doing that so much. He was out at
Speaker 5: a rally over the weekend.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he has a different way of doing this.
Speaker 9: He did it before his debate with Joe Biden back
Speaker 9: in June. He did this the last couple cycles. And remember,
Speaker 9: you know, he's experienced at this. This is his seventh
Speaker 9: presidential debate because he's run for president three times. But
Speaker 9: one thing that's been interesting is that he is preparing
Speaker 9: more than he is letting on. He's not doing mock debates,
Speaker 9: they're not setting up a stage in a.
Speaker 8: Hotel for him.
Speaker 9: But he is doing policy sessions with a team of advisors,
Speaker 9: including Congressman Nat Gates, former Congresswoman Tulci Gabbard, who actually
Speaker 9: was on a debate stage with the vice president back
Speaker 9: in twenty nineteen. And we're also told that as part
Speaker 9: of the preparation, the former President's been briefed on Harris's
Speaker 9: past debates, including that very viral moment back in twenty
Speaker 9: twenty with Vice pre it might Pence when they were
Speaker 9: talking and she's fired back at him.
Speaker 8: I'm speaking. That one very viral.
Speaker 9: And we are told that Donald Trump has told his
Speaker 9: aides and allies that he does not want to let
Speaker 9: that happen and won't let that happen to him tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Okay, So do debates, Karen, from your experience, because I
Speaker 1: know you've been following this for a while, do they
Speaker 1: really change people's minds?
Speaker 8: I mean, look at what happened in June.
Speaker 9: I think that's always going to be the thing that
Speaker 9: we point out of Do debates matter? I think everybody
Speaker 9: will say, look where we are right now, Is something
Speaker 9: like that going to happen tomorrow night? I don't know,
Speaker 9: but you know, it's just the moments are unexpected. You
Speaker 9: don't know what the candidates are going to show up,
Speaker 9: like what question might trip somebody up, and they're significant.
Speaker 8: I think this one is so.
Speaker 9: Notable because there will be so many people tuning into this.
Speaker 9: I think there is a very significant interest across the
Speaker 9: country in this because it is the first time that
Speaker 9: they have ever appeared together.
Speaker 8: It's actually the.
Speaker 9: First time they've ever been face to face, which I
Speaker 9: think might be striking to people. They've just never had
Speaker 9: a chance to be together before because of course Trump
Speaker 9: did not show up the inauguration back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 9: So I think there's such a heightened interest in this,
Speaker 9: and the fact that this campaign is kind of, you know, turbocharged,
Speaker 9: with everything changing over the past couple of weeks, there
Speaker 9: is a potential for such a game changing moment tomorrow night,
Speaker 9: and there's a lot writing on it for both sides.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this probably is the only one we know
Speaker 1: that Trump wanted three. The Hairs campaign has only agreed
Speaker 1: to one. Do we have any rumblings that there might
Speaker 1: be another?
Speaker 5: Or is this it?
Speaker 9: There's you know, discussion, there's like tweets and talk about it,
Speaker 9: but this is the only one that is scheduled right now.
Speaker 9: I think, you know, the Hairs campaign had said like,
Speaker 9: he has to show up to this one before they
Speaker 9: would talk about anything else. He had wanted to do
Speaker 9: one before this one. They said no because that was
Speaker 9: not what was scheduled. This was the thing that had
Speaker 9: been put on the case. So we'll see what happens
Speaker 9: tomorrow night and where they can go from here. You know,
Speaker 9: it is a weird calendar season with this coming early.
Speaker 9: Usually they're like late September, early October. But this does
Speaker 9: take people off the campaign trail for a couple of
Speaker 9: days because of the prep work that goes into it.
Speaker 9: So there is that calculation for and against doing another debate.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll be watching and we appreciate your
Speaker 1: insights and hopefully we'll get to maybe get some feedback
Speaker 1: about what happened next time we talk to you.
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you, Karen, have a great day.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 1: man's been arrested for the fatal stabbing of a woman
Speaker 1: in Costa Mesa. Police recalled last night to an apartment
Speaker 1: on Victoria Street. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Speaker 1: The man was taken into custody. Investigators in Georgia's say
Speaker 1: the fourteen year old charged with killing four people at
Speaker 1: his high school had only registered at the school about
Speaker 1: two weeks before the shooting. The boys aunt said his
Speaker 1: mom had called a school counselor the morning of the
Speaker 1: shootings last week to warn the school about an extreme emergency.
Speaker 10: Thanks He had told the school counselor to go immediately
Speaker 10: and find her son to check on him. According to
Speaker 10: the suspect's aunt, the call was made nearly half an
Speaker 10: hour before the shooting.
Speaker 1: ABC's Allison Kosek says investigators are still looking into the
Speaker 1: timeline of phone calls and events. We're going to hear
Speaker 1: more about the shooting, how horrific it was, and how
Speaker 1: it actually could have been much worse. We're going to
Speaker 1: be talking to ABC's Jim Ryan in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Ground has been broken on a new homeless shelter for
Speaker 1: families in Pasadena.
Speaker 4: The organization Door of Hope says it's fifth shelter will
Speaker 4: be home to twenty families.
Speaker 5: Who must give it all a big ground.
Speaker 11: Of a bob.
Speaker 4: Local leaders on Friday joined David and Catherine Lee, jewelry
Speaker 4: retailers in the San Gabriel Valley, for whom the home
Speaker 4: is named. It's the former home of Reverend Andy Bales,
Speaker 4: who sold it to Door of Hope after retiring as
Speaker 4: CEO of Union Rescue Mission on skid Row. The Lee's
Speaker 4: donated a million dollars, while the City of Pasadena Supervisor
Speaker 4: Catherine Barker's office and others provided other gifts, totally more
Speaker 4: than four million dollars for the project.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned a little bit earlier, I did my
Speaker 1: first ten k. Don't know if you've ever done one,
Speaker 1: but had a couple of lessons learns and some reflections
Speaker 1: from it. And of course it was the Disneyland Halloween
Speaker 1: Time ten k. They did actually three races. They did
Speaker 1: a five k, a ten k, and then a half marathon.
Speaker 1: And my partner in crime, Nick polio'chini, also did the
Speaker 1: ten k with me and the five k the day before.
Speaker 5: How are you feeling today, Nick.
Speaker 3: I will tell you that my feet are still killing me.
Speaker 3: But I had a great time. You and I had
Speaker 3: a great time. I was definitely near tears at many
Speaker 3: many times, having not ever done either, just like you,
Speaker 3: never having done this before. But Yeah, it was an
Speaker 3: amazing time covering all of the Disneyland resort and running
Speaker 3: around all that stuff. So it was so much fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun because different than a lot of
Speaker 1: runs because well, first it wasn't time.
Speaker 5: So to be honest, I rocked most of it. Nick
Speaker 5: walked most of it.
Speaker 1: We did a few little spurts and we're going to
Speaker 1: be sharing some stuff on social media of the pictures.
Speaker 5: Yes, where it appears that we're running.
Speaker 1: We didn't do a lot of running, right, And you
Speaker 1: mentioned that it was emotional, So again, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever done any kind of a competitive run
Speaker 1: or anything, but we finished and we crossed the finish
Speaker 1: line and we went yay, we did it, and then
Speaker 1: I got emotional too. I kind of teared up, like
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of myself even though we just walked
Speaker 1: it and didn't So it was kind of a cool
Speaker 1: thing and you really feel this sense of accomplishment, which
Speaker 1: I thought was really cool.
Speaker 5: No, it's really cool.
Speaker 3: And I think the thing the thing that is timed
Speaker 3: if you're participating, not what we did, but if you're
Speaker 3: doing the half marathon, that is time because that if
Speaker 3: you're doing those marathons around the world. It does count
Speaker 3: toward those qualifiers, but for what we did with the
Speaker 3: five K, five K and the ten k, we know
Speaker 3: together those are not counting toward anything. But it really
Speaker 3: is a sense of accomplishment. And we ran past people
Speaker 3: that were raising money for charities, so that was really
Speaker 3: cool to see. We saw community organizations that were coming
Speaker 3: out and cheering people on, different cancer organizations out there,
Speaker 3: people with different childhood organizations were out there. It was
Speaker 3: such a unique experience, and especially because we've worked with
Speaker 3: the Children's Hospital Los Angeles before we do the Wigwagga Walk.
Speaker 3: We do things with Children's Hospital Orange County, so many
Speaker 3: different organizations, but this was such a different thing because
Speaker 3: we walked past and we ran past so many different people,
Speaker 3: just people in general, and different groups of people. People
Speaker 3: that were making friends first thing in the morning, and
Speaker 3: people that were just making friends as we were in
Speaker 3: the corrals as they call it, as you're lining up
Speaker 3: for the race and had never met before and we're
Speaker 3: just trading you know, all of the Taylor Swift era
Speaker 3: of trading friendship bracelets, and people were decked out in costumes.
Speaker 3: There's a whole different energy than you would ever experience
Speaker 3: at any other gathering, even at a Disney style thing.
Speaker 5: So it was really really fun. Okay, And here's a
Speaker 5: couple of things that I learned.
Speaker 1: One as we were going because I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know, but I had these ankle issues and it's
Speaker 1: a whole other thing, but it's just something you deal with.
Speaker 1: But my ankle has been bothering me a lot, so
Speaker 1: I didn't even know if I was going to be
Speaker 1: able to do it. And it was taking advil on Saturday,
Speaker 1: which I don't like to take a lot of aspurn
Speaker 1: and not that kind of stuff, but I was taking
Speaker 1: advil just to hopefully keep the pain down right. Well,
Speaker 1: while I was digging in my pocket to get my
Speaker 1: advill as we were backstage, because you're running inside the
Speaker 1: park and then you're running in the backstage area and
Speaker 1: then you go back inside and you kind of weave
Speaker 1: all over the resort. I was digging into my pocket
Speaker 1: to get an advil and I lost my credit card.
Speaker 5: It fell out right, What a great.
Speaker 1: Way to start the day, right, So then you realize
Speaker 1: then you get that sick to your stomach. If you've
Speaker 1: ever lost a credit card or had it stolen. You
Speaker 1: just freak out. So I filed my report and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I better kiss this buddy, but goodbye.
Speaker 1: But I thought, you know what, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: cancel it yet because it's Disneyland. I got my credit
Speaker 1: card back like eight hours later. But they it's another
Speaker 1: It's just a testament to Disney. Really, and you guys
Speaker 1: know that we're both Nick and I are big Disney fans.
Speaker 1: But it's a testament to Disney that I got a
Speaker 1: credit card returned that was lost fell out of my
Speaker 1: pocket in the park. So I mean kudos to Disney.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing I learned. I was really
Speaker 1: feeling sick. We did a lot of we were drinking
Speaker 1: our water and doing all that, and then we had
Speaker 1: a nice breakfast after the race, but I was still
Speaker 1: not feeling well and my friend Heidi, who came to
Speaker 1: town to cheer us on, said we need to get
Speaker 1: you a pickle. I was like, what are you talking about,
Speaker 1: and so got they'd sell those big giant pickles at Disneyland.
Speaker 1: I had a pickle and almost immediately felt better, and
Speaker 1: it was because I was replenishing the salt in my body.
Speaker 1: Even though I was drinking water. You know, you lose
Speaker 1: salt and stuff because you're sweating. Plus it was one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten degrees, so you're sweating profusely. So if
Speaker 1: you're ever feeling overheated and you've been sweating a lot
Speaker 1: and you're feeling a little off, get yourself a big
Speaker 1: giant dill pickle. It really I was amazed how immediately
Speaker 1: it made me feel better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look out, gettorade.
Speaker 3: Here comes the ultimate electrolyte for you.
Speaker 1: Well think about it, and a pickle a lot more
Speaker 1: natural than the gatorade.
Speaker 5: And like I said, so pickles can save your life.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we took some really stupid fun videos. We're
Speaker 1: putting those together and I'm going to put it up
Speaker 1: on my Instagram shortly. It's at amy Kking and at
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. It may be the first and
Speaker 1: last time you ever see us running a front ten k,
Speaker 1: but we invite you to come and check that out. Also,
Speaker 1: we'd love to hear you to follow me at amy
Speaker 1: K King and Nick POULIOCHANI where can they follow you?
Speaker 5: Because I'm sure you're posting stuff too.
Speaker 3: I will be posting stuff at this week with Nick
Speaker 3: and Nick Poliochanni, both of those on Instagram, so definitely
Speaker 3: check us out. We had a really really good time.
Speaker 1: Yes, we did the latest on the fire burning in
Speaker 1: San Bernardino County near Highland. More than twenty thousand acres burned,
Speaker 1: zero percent surrounded and lots of evacuations in the areas
Speaker 1: and fighting that fire in a one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: degree weather.
Speaker 5: My goodness.
Speaker 1: The extreme heat is about to move out of southern
Speaker 1: California and excessive heat warning though will remain in effect
Speaker 1: until eight pm. The National Weather Services We're going to
Speaker 1: cool down tomorrow. By Wednesday, temperatures are going to be
Speaker 1: back in the seventies and eighties. That's going to go
Speaker 1: through the rest of the week. The race for the
Speaker 1: White House is a virtual tie a day ahead of
Speaker 1: the first and possibly only presidential debate. A poll release
Speaker 1: yesterday by The New York Times in Santa College gives
Speaker 1: former President Trump a forty eight to forty seven percent
Speaker 1: lead over Vice President Harris. That is within the margin
Speaker 1: of error at.
Speaker 5: Six oh five.
Speaker 1: It's handle in the news. Classes in Kentucky have been
Speaker 1: canceled today in Central Kentucky anyway, as a search for
Speaker 1: a freeway shooter continues. Bill's going to tell you about that.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Unfortunately, we're
Speaker 1: talking about another shooter. The high school shooting at Appalachi
Speaker 1: High School last week was of course horrific. Four people
Speaker 1: were killed, nine others were shot, but they're thankfully going
Speaker 1: to survive. And you say, Jim, that it could have
Speaker 1: been much worse.
Speaker 12: Well, yes, that school and schools all over the country
Speaker 12: have been making preparations going into this school year, doing
Speaker 12: different things to try to quote harden the school as
Speaker 12: a target against this sort of activity. This district and
Speaker 12: thousands around the country have contracted with one particular company.
Speaker 12: The company called Crisis Alert Systems. It's made Atlanta based
Speaker 12: at firm, and it's kind of multifaceted that has teachers
Speaker 12: wearing the name badges or badges that have a button
Speaker 12: on them, and so if there's a minor emergency in
Speaker 12: a classroom, somebody has a nosebleed or some minor small thing,
Speaker 12: they can press the button a couple of times and
Speaker 12: help will be coming down from the principal's office. Press
Speaker 12: the button eight times, as the teachers and administrators did
Speaker 12: on Wednesday, at Apalachi High School and school resource officers
Speaker 12: are on the way, police are on their way, Strobe
Speaker 12: lights are flashing, a PA message is telling everyone to
Speaker 12: go onto lockdown, down mooade and the doors are automatically locked,
Speaker 12: and so that appears to have limited the damn. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 12: if you were related to or you either of the
Speaker 12: two students or the two teachers who died, this is
Speaker 12: a horrific loss, it really is, But the numbers could
Speaker 12: have been much much hiring me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's so hard to say that was the
Speaker 1: good news when it was happening. So do you think
Speaker 1: bringing parents into the mix in these school shootings and
Speaker 1: holding them accountable like the father has also been arrested
Speaker 1: sort of switching tack on you. Do you think that
Speaker 1: that's going to bring any change to the number of
Speaker 1: school shootings.
Speaker 12: It's hard to say. If it convinces a parent to
Speaker 12: somehow secure the weapons that might be in the house,
Speaker 12: or in the case of Apple Acgy not to give
Speaker 12: the kid an assault style rifle as a Christmas gift,
Speaker 12: then maybe so. But I mean it's sort of mixed
Speaker 12: result there. Because we had a case in Santa Fe,
Speaker 12: Texas down by Houston where a shooting in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 12: I think it was several people were killed in that
Speaker 12: school shooting. The student who was responsible has been found
Speaker 12: incompetent to stand trial, so parents sued his parents. Parents
Speaker 12: are the victims suit the parents of the suspect in
Speaker 12: that case for a million dollars, saying that they should
Speaker 12: have secured the weapons, they should have seen the mental
Speaker 12: health issues that their son was having, etc. The jury
Speaker 12: found in favor of the shooters' parents. They found that
Speaker 12: they were not liable for this, So there's kind of
Speaker 12: a mixed messaging there. The father out in Georgia faced
Speaker 12: criminal chargers. Those down in Santa Fe, Texas were looking
Speaker 12: at civil charges. Maybe that would be the difference there.
Speaker 12: But I think you're right. I mean, the specter if
Speaker 12: a parent looks at those guns in the gun cabinet
Speaker 12: which is not locked, and here's about a case in
Speaker 12: which a kid shot up a school and the parents
Speaker 12: were held responsible, if that convincesn't to lock that cabinet,
Speaker 12: then yeah, there could be some effect from it.
Speaker 1: Well, or, like you said, after the FBI came out
Speaker 1: and talked to that family because of a possible threat
Speaker 1: that was made a couple months later is when they're
Speaker 1: saying that the dad bought the kid a gun.
Speaker 5: I was like, what are you thinking?
Speaker 12: Right right? You know, they believe that. Even the the
Speaker 12: sheriff's investigators who went and talked to the family, talked
Speaker 12: to the father and talked to the son. They said, well,
Speaker 12: we don't see have any evidence that he was making
Speaker 12: threats on discord this gaming platform. The kid says he didn't,
Speaker 12: the dad says he didn't. So they more or less
Speaker 12: dismissed this whole thing, you know, despite warnings coming from
Speaker 12: the FBI. So but in a situation like when you
Speaker 12: have a system like this, a security system inside of school,
Speaker 12: it's not going to work unless that advance work has
Speaker 12: done that. You know, the first of all, the school
Speaker 12: has to have locking doors, has to have this PA
Speaker 12: system school wide, the strobe lights, and then you know,
Speaker 12: and working cameras. But how do you prevent something like that?
Speaker 12: You know, That's that's the hard part. This is all
Speaker 12: this stuff is a matter of responding to as opposed
Speaker 12: to preventing school shootings like this.
Speaker 5: That's the trick, and unfortunately we have to respond.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad to see that they are implementing these
Speaker 1: things too, hopefully.
Speaker 12: Yes, you know, six thousand schools around the country had
Speaker 12: that same system in place now within just the last
Speaker 12: couple of years. Eighty percent in Georgia, and schools around Florida, Nevada,
Speaker 12: and Alabama have similar systems.
Speaker 1: It is our reality. Jim Ryan, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the information. Appreciated. Thanks you all right, we'll talk
Speaker 1: to you soon. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming into the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LEDWP
Speaker 1: crews have been working overtime to restore electricity loss during
Speaker 1: the heat wave. More than fifteen thousand customers are still
Speaker 1: without power as of last night. Harvard Park, Hollywood, and
Speaker 1: Northridge are among the communities with the most customers impacted.
Speaker 1: A concert at the Hollywood Bowl had to be canceled
Speaker 1: last night because the power went out. The State Food
Speaker 1: Bank Association is met with Orange and La County food
Speaker 1: banks to address the latest USDA food security stats.
Speaker 2: The USDA report found more than forty seven million people
Speaker 2: struggled to put food on the table last year, which
Speaker 2: was three point two million more than in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: California Association of Food Banks CEO Station Elevenfields says despite
Speaker 2: California producing almost half of the nation's fruits and vegetables,
Speaker 2: almost nine million people in the state are short on food.
Speaker 13: As of June of this year, twenty six percent of
Speaker 13: families with children across California communities are food insecure.
Speaker 2: She says that status similar to the early months of
Speaker 2: the pandemic in Orange County.
Speaker 5: Corbin Carson kf I.
Speaker 1: News study finds Santa Monica is the fifth most expensive
Speaker 1: vacation destination in the US. Experts at travel agency Magical
Speaker 1: NEPAL have analyzed more than one hundred well known attractions
Speaker 1: across the country. Based on daily meal expenses, public transportation cost,
Speaker 1: accommodation rates, and attraction fees. Santa Monica costs six hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen dollars per day or nine hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight dollars per week. The most expensive destination is Aspen, Colorado,
Speaker 1: at seven hundred and seventy nine per day. The most
Speaker 1: affordable is Charleston, West Virginia, at one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: four dollars per person per day. A wildfire in the
Speaker 1: mountains of San Bernardino County continues to rage out of control.
Speaker 1: The fire that started Thursday has burned through more than
Speaker 1: twenty thousand acres of forest land. It's threatening nearly five
Speaker 1: thousand homes in Running Springs and highland. The fire is
Speaker 1: still zero percent surrounded. LA County firefighters are working to
Speaker 1: surround an eight hundred acre brush fire that has prompted
Speaker 1: road closures and evacuations. The fire started yesterday afternoon near
Speaker 1: East Fork and Glendora Mountain Roads. Highway thirty nine and
Speaker 1: Glendora Mountain and Glendora Ridge Roads have been closed. LA
Speaker 1: National Force officials have cleared visitors out of the area.
Speaker 1: A man has been rescued from a thirty six inch
Speaker 1: drainage pipe in Oxnar. The Ventura County Fire Department used
Speaker 1: robot technology to pinpoint the man's location, and then crews
Speaker 1: had to cut a hole in the pipe to get
Speaker 1: him out. He's been taken to the hospital. No word
Speaker 1: on how long he was in there or how he
Speaker 1: got in there. At six oh five, it's handle on
Speaker 1: the news. LA is getting a new area code. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's gotten into me. I did my very
Speaker 1: first ten K over the weekend, and now Neil and
Speaker 1: I are about to go over the edge to fight
Speaker 1: homelessness in LA We're going to tell you about that
Speaker 1: coming up in about fifteen minutes. September is National Suicide
Speaker 1: Prevention and Awareness Month.
Speaker 14: And experts say suicide remains one of the leading causes
Speaker 14: of death Nationally.
Speaker 15: We've seen a continual increase in the number of people
Speaker 15: dying by suicide, with approximately fifty thousand people dying by suicide,
Speaker 15: and here in California we have about four thousand people
Speaker 15: dying by suicide each year.
Speaker 14: Sherry Sinwelski is with Deede Hirsch Mental Health Services. In
Speaker 14: twenty twenty, there were eight hundred twenty nine suicides in
Speaker 14: La County, making it the eighth leading cause of death,
Speaker 14: and officials say more than thirty three hundred people tried
Speaker 14: to kill themselves that same year.
Speaker 15: It's a combination of stressors. It can be mental illness
Speaker 15: that they're struggling with particular things that are happening in
Speaker 15: their life. You know, we're still coming off of a
Speaker 15: pandemic where there was a lot of isolation. People of course,
Speaker 15: are facing financial constraints sometimes and all different types of
Speaker 15: events that are impacting their personal lives. And I think
Speaker 15: that those stressors have gotten more intense.
Speaker 7: Ah Well, a younger brother died by suicide twenty one
Speaker 7: years ago.
Speaker 14: That's Rick Mogel. The death of his brother would be
Speaker 14: the start of his journey as a bereavement counselor at
Speaker 14: DDE Hirsh. Did you ever feel embarrassed or did you
Speaker 14: ever feel uncomfortable or concerned about what people would say
Speaker 14: when you told them what happened to your brother.
Speaker 7: No, I was very forthcoming, shouting from the rooftops because
Speaker 7: I didn't want anybody to feel that. First of all,
Speaker 7: that ed suicide to find him, nor did it define me.
Speaker 14: But Rick says, if you're not comfortable talking about the
Speaker 14: details of a loved one's suicide, then don't.
Speaker 7: You have every right to say to somebody who wants
Speaker 7: to all the details that you have every right to
Speaker 7: say to somebody. It's too painful and I don't want
Speaker 7: to talk about it.
Speaker 8: So how are you doing? Just at all?
Speaker 5: This is Joey.
Speaker 8: I'm doing good.
Speaker 16: So I fell into.
Speaker 17: Massive, deep depression in twenty thirteen after my marriage fell apart.
Speaker 14: I met up with him at Northridge Park, a place
Speaker 14: he used to come to when he wanted to hide
Speaker 14: from people. This is actually the first time he's been
Speaker 14: back here since he tried to kill himself in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 14: He had moved into his parents' home after his marriage ended.
Speaker 17: So I tried to hang myself and I was out.
Speaker 14: Who found you?
Speaker 17: I woke up and I heard my dad knock on
Speaker 17: the door, and I don't know why there's no locks
Speaker 17: on my parents' doors. I don't know why he didn't
Speaker 17: come in. And I was on the ground and he said, Joey, okay,
Speaker 17: and I didn't want to see me, and I said, Dad,
Speaker 17: I'm fine, I'm fine. And that was that.
Speaker 16: I never told anybody for four.
Speaker 6: Years, nobody.
Speaker 17: My thought was I was a burden and that I
Speaker 17: had nothing to give, that.
Speaker 6: I had no hope, that I had no purpose, and
Speaker 6: that everyone to be better off if I wasn't around
Speaker 6: because I wasn't productive, I wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 17: So my thought process was.
Speaker 6: This will be better for everyone.
Speaker 14: I asked Joey if he ever thought about the people
Speaker 14: he would leave behind.
Speaker 16: I'm telling you that I thought I was committing an
Speaker 16: unselfish act. I thought I was doing something that would
Speaker 16: relieve everybody of pain. That's what I thought, and you
Speaker 16: can tell me it was selfish of me to do it,
Speaker 16: But I will tell you I didn't look at it
Speaker 16: that way. So when I hear people say this was
Speaker 16: such a selfish thing to do, well, every time I
Speaker 16: hear that, I hear that from somebody who's never been
Speaker 16: suffered mentally deeply.
Speaker 17: To that point, you know, I felt like I was relieving.
Speaker 17: Everybody's paid And honestly, I don't know that I thought
Speaker 17: about my kids at that time.
Speaker 16: It was such a painful time, and I wasn't seeing them,
Speaker 16: and I wasn't seen anybody.
Speaker 14: Joey says he's much better now. He's been in therapy,
Speaker 14: receive treatment, and even volunteered for the new nine to
Speaker 14: eight eight suicide Prevention hotline tomorrow. In part two, running
Speaker 14: down the hallway to her bedroom and there is my
Speaker 14: mom the morning I found my mother's suicide note for
Speaker 14: wake up call, I'm Deborah Mark.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: Did not know that If you missed any of Deborah's feature,
Speaker 1: you can hear part one again this afternoon on the
Speaker 1: John Cobalt Cobalt Show. It's going to play at three o'clock,
Speaker 1: and then really looking forward to hearing the rest of
Speaker 1: Deborah's feature that's going to play tomorrow morning, same time
Speaker 1: right here on wake up call. Very sobering, but it
Speaker 1: is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, such an important thing
Speaker 1: to highlight, So thanks Deborah. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. The triple digit heat is sticking around for
Speaker 1: at least a couple more days. Excessive heat warnings are
Speaker 1: in effect through eight tonight for much of the Greater
Speaker 1: LA area and for the Malibu Coast in La County Beach.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Services those coastal areas could hit ninety
Speaker 1: six today. The Santa Anna Mountains and foothills and Orange
Speaker 1: County inland areas are also under excessive heat warnings. Valleys
Speaker 1: in Riverside County are also under an excessive heat warning.
Speaker 1: They include the cities of Corona, Riverside, and Marino Valley.
Speaker 1: Downtown Riverside hit one oh seven yesterday. Former President Trump
Speaker 1: and Vice President Harris are a day away from their
Speaker 1: first debate, possibly the only debate of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four election.
Speaker 13: It'll be ninety minutes with two commercial breaks. The two
Speaker 13: ABC moderators will be the only people asking questions. There'll
Speaker 13: be no opening statements, but each will get two minutes
Speaker 13: to make closing remarks. No props or pre written notes
Speaker 13: are allowed. No topics or questions will be shared with
Speaker 13: the candidates in advance. They'll have two minutes to answer questions,
Speaker 13: two minute rebuttals, and one minute extra four follow ups.
Speaker 13: Their microphones will only be live when speaking in the
Speaker 13: other will be muted. There'll be no audience in the room.
Speaker 13: The debate will air live on ABC, Disney Plus and
Speaker 13: Hulu September tenth, starting at five o'clock.
Speaker 5: Heather Brooker CA if I knew, Thank you, Heather.
Speaker 1: The heat wave pounding southern California is about to break.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Service says the extreme heat will persist
Speaker 1: through today, where a record high of one twelve was
Speaker 1: recorded in downtown LA on Friday. Residents are being urged
Speaker 1: to stay indoors, stay hydrated, and check on neighbors. Former
Speaker 1: Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney says she's still a conservative but
Speaker 1: will vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president
Speaker 1: this November, and her father, Dick Cheney's going to do
Speaker 1: the same. She says a traditional conservative Republican party must
Speaker 1: be rebuilt after this election.
Speaker 5: Cycle Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1: Beetlejuice has scared its way to the top spot at
Speaker 1: the box office. The sequel to Tim Burton's nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: eight hit horror comedy took in one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: million dollars in its opening weekend. That makes it the
Speaker 1: second biggest September movie debut of all time. We're just
Speaker 1: minutes away from handle on the news this morning, a
Speaker 1: concert at the Hollywood Bowl had to be canceled because of.
Speaker 5: A power outage of all things.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to our own Neil Savadra,
Speaker 1: who's joining us a little bit early.
Speaker 5: Normally you'll hear him starting at six.
Speaker 1: But I said, Neil, come, can you come talk to
Speaker 1: me this morning because we're we're about to do something
Speaker 1: really crazy and we're both doing it together.
Speaker 17: Yay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what's gotten into me. First of
Speaker 5: ten k and now this.
Speaker 3: Look at you?
Speaker 5: Okay, this living your best life? Yeah, okay, this is
Speaker 5: what this is.
Speaker 1: We were approached by the folks at the Union Rescue Mission.
Speaker 1: You said, we're doing our fundraiser, our annual fundraiser, and
Speaker 1: we would love for you guys to participate. And Neil
Speaker 1: and I both went, Okay, we'll do it.
Speaker 5: So here's weird.
Speaker 1: And I actually I was kind of incentivized to do
Speaker 1: this because, you know, during the Olympics when Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: repelled down into the stadium to take the Olympic flag
Speaker 1: from Mayor Bass and bring it back to the good
Speaker 1: old us of A. I said, that's the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Union disku Mission people got
Speaker 1: wind of it, but anyway, they reached out and asked
Speaker 1: us to basically jump off a building.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tell us, tell us what it's going to be.
Speaker 11: Well, Amy and I went and checked it out. This
Speaker 11: is going to be on September twenty seventh and the
Speaker 11: twenty eighth. We're doing our over the Edge on the
Speaker 11: twenty seventh. It's at the La Hilton there in Universal City.
Speaker 11: You can see it right off the freeway there and
Speaker 11: it's there just help one campaign. So currently like seventy
Speaker 11: over seventy five thousand people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County.
Speaker 11: And the thing about the Union Rescue Mission that really
Speaker 11: hit me is they don't get help from the government.
Speaker 1: And you know why they don't get help from the
Speaker 1: far This is this is why I'm behind this too.
Speaker 11: Is because they are they have dry services, which means
Speaker 11: you can't come in and use drugs, you can't drink,
Speaker 11: you have to want help. And that hit me that
Speaker 11: so you have to have a place where people can
Speaker 11: come in and do drugs for the government to give
Speaker 11: you money.
Speaker 5: Which seems so crazy. Yeah, it's asked backwards.
Speaker 11: So to have the Union Rescue Mission say no, we're
Speaker 11: only going to help people that want help, that want
Speaker 11: to transition, that want these types of services truly to
Speaker 11: get better and get out of their their situation. I
Speaker 11: just dug that. And so not only did am I
Speaker 11: doing this alongside Amy, but they went on my monthly charity.
Speaker 11: So I'm a big believer that you should have at
Speaker 11: least three charities, even if you're only given a couple dollars,
Speaker 11: an international one, a national one, and a local one.
Speaker 11: And that way you're kind of covering your bases and
Speaker 11: it doesn't have to be crazy, crazy money. But you
Speaker 11: know that's they've been added to my local one. So okay,
Speaker 11: I just really believe in what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, and I feel the same way. And so.
Speaker 1: When we were talking with the people from a Union
Speaker 1: Rescue Mission. They said, you know, Mother Teresa once said,
Speaker 1: if you can't feed one hundred people, then just feed one.
Speaker 1: And as Neil mentioned, there's over seventy five thousand homeless
Speaker 1: in LA. It's too big, it's too many. We can't
Speaker 1: it's like your mind can't wrap yourself or you know,
Speaker 1: wrap itself around helping everybody. But if you could just
Speaker 1: help one person or one family, then it breaks it
Speaker 1: down and it.
Speaker 5: Makes it doable.
Speaker 1: And so that's the goal of this campaign is to
Speaker 1: help one So, like Neil said, doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a lot. If you can donate twenty bucks, if you
Speaker 1: can donate one hundred dollars, if you can donate more,
Speaker 1: that's great. But if you can't, that's okay because every
Speaker 1: bit's going to help. And as Neil said, these are
Speaker 1: the people who find themselves in this situation. They want
Speaker 1: out of it, they want to get back into housing,
Speaker 1: they want to have a better life. And the Union
Speaker 1: Rescue Mission feeds a ton of people, but they also
Speaker 1: have programs to transition people back into housing, to help
Speaker 1: them get back on their feet again. And I am
Speaker 1: so into a hand, you know, like reaching out a
Speaker 1: helping hand don't. I don't necessarily always love a handout,
Speaker 1: but a hand up is a great thing, and that's
Speaker 1: what I think that we're trying to help with. So
Speaker 1: here's what we're doing. As Neil mentioned on the September
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, we're going to go up to the top
Speaker 1: of the Universal Hilton and we're going.
Speaker 5: To winning four stories. Is it twenty four or twenty five?
Speaker 5: I'm going to say twenty five.
Speaker 11: Is twenty five, I believe, is the helopad or whatever.
Speaker 5: They're Okay, we're not going all the way up to
Speaker 5: the helopad now.
Speaker 11: I think we go off, which is you know, if
Speaker 11: you want to round up there, you're looking at two
Speaker 11: hundred and fifty feet basically.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you we when we went to
Speaker 1: look at it, because I said, I want to go
Speaker 1: and see what we're going to do before the day
Speaker 1: of so I can kind of mentally prepare for it.
Speaker 1: I about lost it when I looked over the edge
Speaker 1: of that billfolder, like that's.
Speaker 5: A long way down. But we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be wonderful, it's going to be safe, and
Speaker 1: there is a way for you to participate.
Speaker 5: Two.
Speaker 1: Because again this is their big fundraiser, and so we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking to you over the next few weeks
Speaker 1: about you know, please open up your wallets, give us
Speaker 1: a little bit. We can every little bit, how little
Speaker 1: bit helps, and again we're looking to help just one
Speaker 1: family at a time.
Speaker 5: But if you have one.
Speaker 1: Thousand dollars and you want to repel down the side
Speaker 1: of a building for a good cause, you.
Speaker 5: Can do that too.
Speaker 1: So you can join us, yep, one thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: you can repel off the Hilton in Universal City. And
Speaker 1: the way to find out information about this and how
Speaker 1: you can donate, we've got an iHeart page because we've
Speaker 1: got some other people from our sister stations participating is
Speaker 1: just help one, the number one just help one dot org.
Speaker 1: You can start donating now and we'll probably have some
Speaker 1: challenges along the way, but we'd love for you to participate.
Speaker 1: And again, homelessness is out of control. We've got to
Speaker 1: start getting a handle on it. And these people want
Speaker 1: the help and.
Speaker 11: The government's doing a his poor job. So the private
Speaker 11: you know sector is going to have to step in.
Speaker 11: And if you give five thousand dollars, we'll throw kno
Speaker 11: right over the side of the building with the smallest parachute. No,
Speaker 11: I don't know that for sure.
Speaker 5: Okay, so mark your calendar.
Speaker 1: September twenty seventh is the day that Neil and I
Speaker 1: are going over the edge to help fight homelessness. And
Speaker 1: again the number of the website to get more information
Speaker 1: or make a donation, Just help one the number one
Speaker 1: dot org. Just help one dot org. I can't I'm
Speaker 1: I'm scared to death, but also excited.
Speaker 11: I'll go first, Damy, so you have something to land on.
Speaker 5: Oh a nice stuff landing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Neil, thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A proposal in
Speaker 1: La to require pets to be microchiped has moved forward.
Speaker 4: More than thirty two hundred pets were reunited with their
Speaker 4: families last year by LA Animal Services. City officials say
Speaker 4: microchips are critical to such reunions. Any pet adopted from
Speaker 4: the city's shelter is already required to have one, but
Speaker 4: there's no city law mandating it in all cases. That
Speaker 4: could change the city Council's Neighborhoods Committee approved a motion
Speaker 4: last week directing Animal Services to explore the feasibility of
Speaker 4: requiring all pet dogs, cats, rabbits, and horses in LA
Speaker 4: to have a microchip. The Full Council considers it next
Speaker 4: in downtown LA. Michael Monks KFI News Lisa.
Speaker 1: In southern Kentucky, you're trying to find the person who
Speaker 1: shot at least twelve cars on a highway and injured
Speaker 1: five people. Investigators say they found an AR fifteen type
Speaker 1: rifle they believe was used in the shootings near London, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. Laurel County Sheriff John Root says a
Speaker 1: guy named Joseph Couch bought the rifle legally the morning
Speaker 1: before the shooting.
Speaker 12: You're not a failing or something.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: If you can go in and you fail to fight
Speaker 3: for work, anyone can purchase.
Speaker 5: The guns, please say.
Speaker 1: They also found the suspected shooters car abandoned near a
Speaker 1: remote wooded area. They say the shootings on the seventy
Speaker 1: five were calculated and planned. Chain restaurants and coffee shops
Speaker 1: in New York City are going to have to add
Speaker 1: new warning labels to their menus starting next month. The
Speaker 1: City's Sweet Truth Act will require restaurants to warn customers
Speaker 1: of menu items that contain at least fifty grams of
Speaker 1: added sugar. Restaurants that failed to comply will face hundreds
Speaker 1: of dollars in fines. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the
Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5: The first pitch goes out at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: You can listen to every play on AM five seventy
Speaker 1: LA Sports live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and
Speaker 1: you can stream all the games in HD on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. This is
Speaker 1: KFI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: Orange County. This has been your wake up Call.
Speaker 1: If you missed any of wake Up Call, you can
Speaker 1: listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to
Speaker 1: wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always
Speaker 1: hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through
Speaker 1: Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app.