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Speaker 6: Helps.
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be a good day,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I start pushing buttons and
Speaker 1: things start happening. It's Friday. We made it through. Boy,
Speaker 1: does this week just feel like it has been absolutely crazy?
Speaker 1: I think I'm going a hunker down on the couch
Speaker 1: for the weekend and just kind of shut down. But
Speaker 1: we're all moving on. The winds are dying down and
Speaker 1: life goes on. So here's what's a head on wake
Speaker 1: up call. Busy day for us more than one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty homes have burned to the ground in the
Speaker 1: wind whipped fire that's burning in Ventura County. Thousands of
Speaker 1: people have been forced out of their homes because of
Speaker 1: the fast moving fire that's burned more than twenty thousand acres.
Speaker 1: The winds fanning the flames are expected to die down
Speaker 1: by this afternoon. The California Air Resources Board is scheduled
Speaker 1: to vote today on a plan to speed up a
Speaker 1: timeline to reach the state's goal of reducing carbon production
Speaker 1: by twenty thirty now. If passed, it could spike gas
Speaker 1: prices by about fifty cents a gallon by next year.
Speaker 1: Triple A says the average price for a gallon of
Speaker 1: gas in California right now four fifty three a gallon,
Speaker 1: the second highest in the country. President elect Trump has
Speaker 1: tapped his campaign manager, Susie Wiles to be his chief
Speaker 1: of staff. Wiles was Trump's campaign senior advisor and ran
Speaker 1: his campaigns in Florida in built twenty sixteen and twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Trump says Wiles is tough, smart, innovative, and universally admired
Speaker 1: and respected. We'll be talking with ABC's Stephen Portnoy about
Speaker 1: the Trump team and putting that all together before he
Speaker 1: takes office. That's coming up in just a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes at five point twenty. And now that Halloween is over,
Speaker 1: we're moving on. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to be talking
Speaker 1: shopping for the holidays. A Dean Sharp is going to
Speaker 1: give us some tips that could say your house from
Speaker 1: burning down if a wildfire like the one Ventura County
Speaker 1: heads towards your neighborhood. That's at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: And then before the end of wake Up Call it
Speaker 1: about five point fifty, ABC's Will Gans is gonna tell
Speaker 1: us about the stripper movie that's already getting Oscar buzzs.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear about that. A stripper movie
Speaker 1: getting Oscar bus okay, and then after wake Up Call
Speaker 1: it's handled on the news, so stick around for that too.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Fire officials in
Speaker 1: Ventura County have been able to get into areas affected
Speaker 1: by the twenty thousand acre brush fire that started in
Speaker 1: More Park to assess the damage. Ventura County Fires and
Speaker 1: the Van Skiver says they've inspected two hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: eight properties.
Speaker 5: Of this, the teams discovered eighty eight were damaged and
Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty two were destroyed.
Speaker 1: Officials say the fire didn't grow much yesterday and crews
Speaker 1: were able to surround five percent of it. The fire
Speaker 1: started Wednesday was pushed by strong Santa Ana wins toward
Speaker 1: Camio and Somas. Thousands of people are under evacuation orders.
Speaker 1: Ten have been treated for smoke inhalation or other non
Speaker 1: life threatening injuries. The National Weather Services More Santa Ana
Speaker 1: wins are expected next week. La City Councilman Kevin d.
Speaker 1: Lyon appears to be losing his job. Election results so
Speaker 1: far show him trailing his challenger, Isabelle Herado, who has
Speaker 1: nearly fifty six percent of the vote to de Leon's
Speaker 1: forty four percent. DeLeon's been criticized since twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: when a recording was leaked in which he and other
Speaker 1: officials made racist comments. He refused calls to step down.
Speaker 1: Horado has claimed victory. De Leon has not conceded yet.
Speaker 1: President Elect Trump's return to the White House is rattled
Speaker 1: some local immigration groups.
Speaker 7: At a rally outside La City Hall, immigration activists called
Speaker 7: on the city to become a sanctuary as Trump plans
Speaker 7: for mass deportation. Marta Aravallo of the Central American Resource
Speaker 7: Center says action by the city Council is needed right away.
Speaker 1: The time to do that is now. We must send
Speaker 1: the message loqually and nationally.
Speaker 7: A proposal to make La a sanctuary for illegal immigrants
Speaker 7: has been floating around city Hall, but no final ordinance
Speaker 7: has been presented. Another rally has planned for tomorrow at
Speaker 7: Pershing Square downtown in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by a quarter point.
Speaker 1: It lowers the fed's benchmark rate to about four point
Speaker 1: six percent, down from a four decade high of five
Speaker 1: point three percent before September's meeting. The Fed says unemployment
Speaker 1: has moved up but remains low, while inflation has fallen
Speaker 1: closer to the Central Banks two percent target. The next
Speaker 1: Fed rate decision will be announced on December eighteenth, and
Speaker 1: I think yesterday when they were talking, they are expecting
Speaker 1: another interest rate cut in December. We shall see. Pink's
Speaker 1: hot Dogs is celebrating eighty five years with celebrity appearances
Speaker 1: and discounted hot dogs. Mayor Bass will join in the fun.
Speaker 1: Tonight with George Lopez. Comedian Gabriel Iglesias will make an
Speaker 1: appearance on Sunday, and Henry Winkler will be chowing down
Speaker 1: on Monday for the Chili Dogs for Charity event. The
Speaker 1: dogs are eighty five cents for eighty five minutes, starting
Speaker 1: at eight h five pm nightly until the twelfth. And
Speaker 1: we know that those lines that pinks get long. I
Speaker 1: would anticipate they'll be extra long for that pink celebration.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Steve,
Speaker 1: and Trump is starting to put his team together. But
Speaker 1: can he just say you're hired and you're hired or
Speaker 1: does he have to go through some sort of process
Speaker 1: and if so, what is it?
Speaker 8: Well, he has four thousand appointments he can make across
Speaker 8: the executive branch, thirteen hundred of them require Senate confirmation.
Speaker 8: But you know, when it comes to his key advisors
Speaker 8: in the White House, those roles do not require Senate confirmation.
Speaker 8: And so he has announced his first choice for the
Speaker 8: all important role of White House Chief of Staff. That
Speaker 8: corner office in the West Wing will for the first
Speaker 8: time be occupied by a woman, Susie Wilds the campaign
Speaker 8: co chair and campaign manager, has been tacked by Donald
Speaker 8: Trump to be his senior aide in the White House,
Speaker 8: one of the most important positions in the entire American government.
Speaker 8: And she is a longtime political operative who once served
Speaker 8: under Florida Governor Ron de Santis before they had a
Speaker 8: big falling out and she wound up going to run
Speaker 8: the Trump campaign successfully, and she's known as sort of
Speaker 8: a very effective manager of a team, but a backstage operator,
Speaker 8: someone who doesn't seek the spotlight. Trump likes that, and
Speaker 8: so he's chosen her to be chief of staff, and
Speaker 8: it is a historic choice.
Speaker 1: You know, I was surprised at this because until he
Speaker 1: did his acceptance speech or yeah, on Tuesday night or
Speaker 1: early Wednesday morning, whenever that actually happened, I had never
Speaker 1: heard her name, and I kind of follow politics. But
Speaker 1: you said she stays in the background, and she really does, or.
Speaker 8: Did, right, Yeah, So you won't find an example of her,
Speaker 8: you know, sitting for a television interview. She's not that type,
Speaker 8: at least not at the national level. But she is
Speaker 8: known to those of us who even more closely follow
Speaker 8: politics as someone who has been a major mover and
Speaker 8: shaker in the Republican Party, particularly in the state of Florida.
Speaker 8: And Trump clearly recognizes her. She's also the daughter of
Speaker 8: Pat Summerle, the late broadcasting legend. Yeah, and so Trump
Speaker 8: loves that too, Okay.
Speaker 1: And who was his first chief of staff? Was it
Speaker 1: Brien's previous?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 8: Well, right, so back to twenty seventeen. Ryan's previous who
Speaker 8: was the RNC chair, was recommended to Trump to be
Speaker 8: a manager of the White House staff because he knew
Speaker 8: things about how Washington worked. Well, that didn't last very long.
Speaker 8: Donald Trump made it through I think three and a
Speaker 8: half or four depending on how you count it, chiefs
Speaker 8: of staff. One of them he never even gave the
Speaker 8: dignity of the formal title. He kept sort of Nick
Speaker 8: Mulvaney held in a band, says, acting chief of Staff.
Speaker 8: But while he has really tremendous confidence, and why shouldn't he,
Speaker 8: she just got him elected exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, it'll be interesting to see if she has
Speaker 1: staying power because we know that he does burn through people,
Speaker 1: so how he has to. He doesn't directly hire those
Speaker 1: four thousand people. But that's a lot of people to
Speaker 1: put into place.
Speaker 8: Well, that's right, which is why, right? And I'll very
Speaker 8: briefly get into some very inside Washington want them. There's
Speaker 8: an arrangement for the incoming president's team to have access
Speaker 8: to General Services Administration GSA workspace here in Washington. Donald
Speaker 8: Trump has not yet signed the paperwork to allow his
Speaker 8: team to take over that space. And there's a couple
Speaker 8: of reasons that are suspected behind it. One is that
Speaker 8: there's a cap on contributions that would perhaps limit the
Speaker 8: Transition organization's effort to raise money. That comes along as
Speaker 8: sort of a string attached. And then there's a suspicion
Speaker 8: because in twenty sixteen, Trump did take advantage of the
Speaker 8: GSA workspace and some of those records returned over to
Speaker 8: the Mueller investigation without the White House being aware of it.
Speaker 8: And so maybe that's another reason why they don't want
Speaker 8: to take advantage of that workspace.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a question for you. Then, you said
Speaker 1: it limits their ability to raise money. Why do they
Speaker 1: need to raise money the campaign's over.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it's a great question. Look, Washington works in
Speaker 8: really mysterious ways, and you know, transition effort is just
Speaker 8: a way to collect cash. There really are not any
Speaker 8: costs that I can think of but it's a way
Speaker 8: for donors to curry favor with an incoming administration and
Speaker 8: a way for an administration to assess who it's best
Speaker 8: friends are. I don't know exactly what's done with the money,
Speaker 8: but it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I think I've heard a new favorite term,
Speaker 1: the Woncdom of Washington. Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much.
Speaker 9: How you bet?
Speaker 1: All right? I think that's so true. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: just so many weird little ins and outs to how
Speaker 1: things operate and work and rules, and again, that's why
Speaker 1: we have people like Steven Portnoy to help us kind
Speaker 1: of sort it all out. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. Three people in Argentina have been charged in
Speaker 1: connection with the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne.
Speaker 1: Argentina's public prosecutor says one person who was with Pain
Speaker 1: every day while he was in Buenos Aires, is charged
Speaker 1: with abandoning the singer after his death. A hotel employee
Speaker 1: and another person are charged with giving the singer cocaine
Speaker 1: during his hotel stay. In October, Pain fell from the
Speaker 1: balcony of his third floor hotel room. A toxicology report
Speaker 1: shows he had alcohol, cocaine, and other drugs in his system.
Speaker 1: The head of the California State Sheriff's Association says the
Speaker 1: passage of Prop thirty six this week will not lead
Speaker 1: to mass incarp incarcerations.
Speaker 5: This is about controlling crime, not creating victims, and forcing
Speaker 5: people back in the programs that worked over a decade ago.
Speaker 1: Sheriff Don Barnes says most people committing petty crimes are
Speaker 1: doing it to feed their addictions. The only time that
Speaker 1: many get help is after they've been arrested. Prop thirty
Speaker 1: six creates a new categy sglory of crime called treatment
Speaker 1: mandated felony. It allows a person to have their drug
Speaker 1: conviction set aside if they complete rehab. California voters have
Speaker 1: approved Proposition four. That's a measure that will allow the
Speaker 1: state to borrow ten billion dollars for projects that protect
Speaker 1: against wildfires and floods and improve responses to climate change.
Speaker 1: Most of the funds will improve water systems, with additional
Speaker 1: support for wildfire safety and rising sea levels. Irvine has
Speaker 1: forfeited a one million dollar deposit by abruptly nixing a
Speaker 1: twenty million dollar deal to buy property for a homeless shelter.
Speaker 10: The deal was for two buildings to be converted into
Speaker 10: the city's first homeless shelter. Councilman Mike Carroll says he
Speaker 10: was the only one to originally vote against the deal
Speaker 10: because it lacked transparency and wasn't vetted by city commission.
Speaker 1: There was no public input. I know that because the
Speaker 1: public that lives right near these buildings are sitting.
Speaker 3: There in front of me, and I have a petition
Speaker 3: over here with over one hundred names.
Speaker 1: I think basically against this.
Speaker 10: Carrol said this week the city needs homeless services, but
Speaker 10: city staff also didn't reveal that one group would the
Speaker 10: property and then instantly flip it to the city for
Speaker 10: four million dollars more. In Orange County, Corbin Carson caf I.
Speaker 1: News, Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has gone
Speaker 1: back to court after refusing to turn over assets as
Speaker 1: part of a one hundred and forty eight million dollar
Speaker 1: defamation judgment. ABC's Aaron Katursky says Giuliani was ordered to
Speaker 1: give valuable sports memorabilia, his Mercedes, and other items to
Speaker 1: two Georgia poll workers. He accused of fraud in the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty election.
Speaker 11: Giuliani's attorney says, well, some of it's in the storage unit.
Speaker 11: Some of it they don't have any control over. I've
Speaker 11: overheard Giuliani whispering that he doesn't know where some of
Speaker 11: the sports memorabilia is.
Speaker 1: Giuliani says the poll workers are not entitled to his assets.
Speaker 1: The judge yesterday said Giuliani may be held in contempt
Speaker 1: if he doesn't hand them over in the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: A police chief in South Carolina says there's no serious
Speaker 1: danger from forty three monkeys that escape from a research facility.
Speaker 1: He says the small monkeys are not infected with any disease,
Speaker 1: They're harmless and our little skittish. ABC's Sherry Preston says
Speaker 1: the monkeys got out on Wednesday.
Speaker 12: The employee at the facility is getting the blame for
Speaker 12: not closing their cage door.
Speaker 1: All the way. Law enforcement officials are using thermal imaging
Speaker 1: to try to find and retrap the primates poor little monkeys.
Speaker 1: There are a group of young females that have not
Speaker 1: yet been used for testing. This year's Rockeveller Center Christmas
Speaker 1: tree has been cut down in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The
Speaker 1: center chief gardener says it's a perfectly shaped, seventy four
Speaker 1: foot tall Norway spruce. It weighs eleven tons. It'll be
Speaker 1: decorated with fifty thousand lights and an eight hundred pounds
Speaker 1: Swarowski crystal tree topper. The tree lighting ceremony will be
Speaker 1: held on December fourth. It's the first tree to come
Speaker 1: from Massachusetts since nineteen fifty nine. Governor Newsom has toured
Speaker 1: the devastation from the more than twenty thousand acre fire
Speaker 1: that's destroyed more than one hundred and thirty homes and
Speaker 1: Camerio Moore Park and Somus. The governor declared a state
Speaker 1: of emergency to free a priest sources to help fight
Speaker 1: the fire that's just five percent surrounded. About ten thousand
Speaker 1: people are under mandatory evacuation orders. A federal judge has
Speaker 1: struck down a Biden administration program that allowed illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: married to American citizens for ten years to remain and
Speaker 1: work in the US while they seek US citizenship. The
Speaker 1: program that started in August effects about five hundred thousand people.
Speaker 1: Buying a home in La County is out of reach
Speaker 1: for most people. The California Association of Realtors says just
Speaker 1: eleven percent of people can actually afford to buy a
Speaker 1: median priced home, which is at nearly nine hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. In Orange County, the median price for
Speaker 1: a home is one point four million dollars, and just
Speaker 1: twelve percent of OC residents can afford that. At six
Speaker 1: oh five, it's handle awm theanews. Governor Newsom is calling
Speaker 1: a special session of the legislature to trump proof California.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Okay, Jim,
Speaker 1: Halloween is over, holiday shopping is about to hit fever pitch,
Speaker 1: and in spite of higher prices on everything, people are
Speaker 1: expected to spend more this year.
Speaker 4: Well, they are about nine hundred and two dollars per
Speaker 4: person for the holidays. That's gifts and decorations and food
Speaker 4: and all that. I'm sure you know a lot of
Speaker 4: folks considering the year, are having to pay them one
Speaker 4: point two million for a house. Led shoppers are going
Speaker 4: to spend a lot more than that, but the average
Speaker 4: nationwide is about nine hundred and two dollars at six
Speaker 4: hundred and forty one on gifts, and the rest of
Speaker 4: it on decorations and food and all the rest. So
Speaker 4: that's more than last year and more than the record
Speaker 4: year of twenty nineteen. So we're likely to see records
Speaker 4: spending according to the National Retail Federation on the holidays
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, but because prices are higher, we're probably not actually
Speaker 1: getting anything more, we're just spending more.
Speaker 4: Well, this is waited for inflation, so yeah, because everything
Speaker 4: costs more. Yeah, you'd expect to spend more, that's true,
Speaker 4: but they have waited this out for inflation. So these
Speaker 4: are hard numbers related to the hard dollars we're going
Speaker 4: to spend. Okay, but you're right, I mean, it's against this.
Speaker 4: Inflation is psychological too, so you would think that people
Speaker 4: who feel like, you know what, my dollar just didn't
Speaker 4: go very far, job security is not what it was,
Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. So I'm not going to spend
Speaker 4: as much this year, and yet people are still overcoming
Speaker 4: that and actually spending more per capita than they did
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: I know, and you know we've talked to our money
Speaker 1: guide Joel Larsgart about this several times, Like you should
Speaker 1: make a budget and not go above it. But then
Speaker 1: you see something and you go, oh, but my friend
Speaker 1: Debbie really needs that.
Speaker 4: Well, and you're right. Chances are when you see that,
Speaker 4: you're looking at it in person, right instead of it online.
Speaker 4: Twenty six percent of shoppers this year planned to do
Speaker 4: more in person shopping than they did last year. Now, granted,
Speaker 4: they're probably going to do more their shopping online, but
Speaker 4: more people are actually going out and doing at least
Speaker 4: some of their holiday shopping in the brick and mortars
Speaker 4: at the shopping mall or in the department store wherever
Speaker 4: they go.
Speaker 1: And do we know why that trend is happening. Is
Speaker 1: it like people are finally kind of saying, Okay, the
Speaker 1: pandemic is over, I can go back to the mall.
Speaker 1: Or is it just people are tired of being on
Speaker 1: their couches.
Speaker 4: Well, I think a little of that and the little
Speaker 4: of this. Sixty four percent of them say they want
Speaker 4: to physically see and touch the product. Thirty two percent
Speaker 4: enjoy the festive atmosphere or the lights and the decorations
Speaker 4: and Santa Claus in the middle of the mall and
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. But another third or so say
Speaker 4: they like being able to easily return items if they
Speaker 4: don't fit, or they don't work, or they're ugly.
Speaker 1: Right, So if they're going to return items that don't fit,
Speaker 1: it means they're actually shopping for themselves this holiday season well.
Speaker 4: Or need something an ugly item from somebody else, and
Speaker 4: they also slipped in the gift receipts so you could
Speaker 4: take it back, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Okay, So do we know, Jim, if we're going to
Speaker 1: see like great sales at the malls to get people
Speaker 1: to actually go to the mall instead of ordering online
Speaker 1: or is it going to be kind.
Speaker 4: Of that's kind of the competition. The competition, of course,
Speaker 4: it's not just between the brick and mortar stores and
Speaker 4: the online retailers. It's between retailers online and other retailers online.
Speaker 4: So it's sort of the Prime Day pitted against the
Speaker 4: Walmart sales, pitted against the Kam the Target sales, stuff
Speaker 4: like that. The other thing that the physical stores have
Speaker 4: to overcome is the flood of videos on YouTube and
Speaker 4: elsewhere of people rushing in and stealing armloads of merchandise
Speaker 4: or you know, taking over stores and robbing customers and
Speaker 4: robbing the stores. It's that sense of security about seventy
Speaker 4: eight percent of shoppers say they fear for their safety
Speaker 4: and security while they're shopping in person. The other part
Speaker 4: is that that stores sometimes don't have enough personnel on
Speaker 4: hand just to help them clerks. So those are some
Speaker 4: of the challenges that the brick and mortars are facing.
Speaker 4: Now that they all line retailers don't have to worry
Speaker 4: about it at.
Speaker 1: All, that's true. But I would imagine that the brick
Speaker 1: and mortars, the Macy's and the Nordstroms and Targets and
Speaker 1: stuff have got to be excited to see those numbers
Speaker 1: that they're expecting more people to actually go out and
Speaker 1: shop this year.
Speaker 4: Because absolutely, and if they can meet those challenges, the
Speaker 4: security challenges, the staffing challenges, then yeah, absolutely, then they
Speaker 4: can expect more of that. Maybe brick and mortar isn't
Speaker 4: debt and these numbers seem to show that that's the case.
Speaker 1: Okay, so here's the next question, Jim. Do we need
Speaker 1: to wait until Black Friday or are they starting sales
Speaker 1: now because Halloween's over and it's again it's open season
Speaker 1: on Christmas.
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And I think that's where we get this competition
Speaker 4: going that the on rentline retailers, and I've seen lots
Speaker 4: of ads for stores, you know, physical stores that are
Speaker 4: already starting some of their sales, especially the electronics stores.
Speaker 4: You know, they know that that's really the hot item
Speaker 4: every year. And if they can drop their prices down now,
Speaker 4: even if it's a lost leader and they take a
Speaker 4: little bit of a hit on it, if they can
Speaker 4: make it up on there you go. What is so this?
Speaker 4: This was fascinating a little bit depressing. I think, what
Speaker 4: is the most popular item on consumer's wish lists this year?
Speaker 4: Any idea?
Speaker 9: Amy?
Speaker 1: No, what is it?
Speaker 4: Think? Think impersonal? Think fits into an envelope? Think, oh,
Speaker 4: gift cards? You know, gift cards. Fifty three percent of
Speaker 4: shoppers have requested in this year. That's the most popular
Speaker 4: item on wish lists this year. That's kind of sad.
Speaker 1: It is like I like to try to get something
Speaker 1: that somebody wants. But every once in a while, though,
Speaker 1: there are some people who are just really hard to
Speaker 1: shop for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true, and it is more convenient. I suppose
Speaker 4: I've got a brother who lives in San Francisco. I mean,
Speaker 4: send him a gift card just because it's easy.
Speaker 1: I do think one of the good things to do
Speaker 1: if you do get a gift card, is when you
Speaker 1: go spend it, then send a thank you note so
Speaker 1: that the person who gave you the gift card knows
Speaker 1: you know what you got. Hey, thanks, I was able
Speaker 1: to go and get, you know, a massage or something
Speaker 1: because you gave me a gift card. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that's just.
Speaker 4: Something great idea, trying to personalize it. Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 1: Way to do that exactly. ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, and we'll see.
Speaker 4: At them all all right, see you there, all right.
Speaker 1: Republican Scott Ba's lead over Democratic state Senator Dave Minn
Speaker 1: has slipped to just six hundred and sixteen votes in
Speaker 1: Southern California's closest congressional race. Ball had held a more
Speaker 1: than eleven hundred vote lead as of Wednesday afternoon for
Speaker 1: their race for Orange County's forty seventh congressional district seat
Speaker 1: that was vacated by Representative Katie Porter. In District twenty
Speaker 1: seven Santa Clarita, Republican Representative Mike Garcia saw his lead
Speaker 1: over Democrat George Whitesides dropped to thirty two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty votes. Garcia had led by almost forty eight hundred
Speaker 1: votes at the conclusion of Wednesday's vote count for expecting
Speaker 1: an updated vote count later today. California Attorney General Rob
Speaker 1: Bonta says he is prepared for a second Trump White House.
Speaker 6: No matter who is in the White House, no matter
Speaker 6: who controls Congress. In California, we will keep moving forward.
Speaker 1: Banta said California will choose calm over chaos and implied
Speaker 1: the state would go to court to preserve any laws
Speaker 1: that may come under attack by the Trump administration. Banta
Speaker 1: says he's not afraid to take the administration to court.
Speaker 6: As Attorney General, I will continue to use the full
Speaker 6: force of the law, the full authority of my office
Speaker 6: to address injustice.
Speaker 1: Mante sued the administration one hundred and twenty three times
Speaker 1: during Trump's first term. Russian President Putin has congratulated President
Speaker 1: elect Trump on winning the election. ABC's Ian Pannell says
Speaker 1: Putin made the comment yesterday while at a forum in Russia, but.
Speaker 12: Russianly did congratulating Trump, praising him for acting quotes courageously
Speaker 12: like a man after that failed assassination in attempt, and
Speaker 12: he says campaign promises to restore relations with Russia and
Speaker 12: Ukraine will deserve attention.
Speaker 1: Putin says he would be ready to speak with Trump.
Speaker 1: An American citizen who allegedly spied for China has been
Speaker 1: arrested in Germany. Official say up until recently, the man
Speaker 1: worked for the US military.
Speaker 13: It's unclear exactly what role this suspect has or had
Speaker 13: with the US military. Also unclear if any information was
Speaker 13: actually transmitted.
Speaker 1: ABC's Marcus Morses. Is also unclear whether China's government agreed
Speaker 1: to receive any sensitive information. Louis Vutan is giving dogs
Speaker 1: a taste of the luxurious life with a new collection
Speaker 1: featuring a sixty thousand dollars dog house. The kennel trunk
Speaker 1: is designed with a monogram coated canvas exterior looks like
Speaker 1: a house with a pointed roof and windows to peep through.
Speaker 1: The collection also features a dog poop bag holder, a flaskholder,
Speaker 1: and a leathered dog bowl. Yeah that's what you can
Speaker 1: spend your Christmas money on. Governor Newsom has toured the
Speaker 1: devastation from the more than twenty thousand acre fire that
Speaker 1: has destroyed more than one hundred and thirty homes in Camarillo,
Speaker 1: Moore Park and somas. About ten thousand people are still
Speaker 1: under evacuation orders. People who live in the LA area
Speaker 1: are being told to stay inside and keep windows and
Speaker 1: doors closed because of a smoke alert prompted by the fire.
Speaker 1: A wood burning ban is also an effect across southern
Speaker 1: California because of high pollution levels. Progressive candidate Isabel Harado
Speaker 1: has declared victory over incumbent Kevin Daleon for the District
Speaker 1: fourteen seat on the La City Council. Herato was leading
Speaker 1: daily On by more than thirty three thousand votes. At
Speaker 1: last count, she has fifty six percent of the vote
Speaker 1: compared to Dallyon's forty four percent. A next update on
Speaker 1: the ballot count will be late this afternoon. Not clear
Speaker 1: how many ballots are outstanding. At six ZHO five, it's
Speaker 1: handle on the news. The Fed has cut interest rates,
Speaker 1: So what's next At five point fifty After this crazy week,
Speaker 1: I think we may all need a little escape. And
Speaker 1: ABC's Willgans is going to let us know what's new
Speaker 1: in theaters and on the stream, and at least one
Speaker 1: of them has to do with a stripper. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you about that right now. Let's say good morning to
Speaker 1: the host of Home on KFI. It's our house, whisper
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we had planned to talk about something in
Speaker 1: in fact, you're going to be talking about this stuff
Speaker 1: this week on your show this weekend, Yes, six to
Speaker 1: eight am on Saturday and nine to noon on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But before we get into that, we talked about that,
Speaker 1: it's probably more important today to talk about our homes
Speaker 1: and protecting them against wildfires, if that is possible, given
Speaker 1: the just crazy nature of how fast that wildfire just
Speaker 1: plowed through neighborhoods and destroyed homes. But there are things
Speaker 1: we can do to help reduce the risk of losing
Speaker 1: your home to a wildfire.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, and this kind of speed of devastation, this is
Speaker 5: the stuff that happens when the fire and wind mixed
Speaker 5: together in our open space areas, which we have so
Speaker 5: many of here in southern California. So I'm going to
Speaker 5: divide this into two parts. One is, if you have
Speaker 5: some time, if you're not currently being threatened by these fires,
Speaker 5: but you're taking a serious look at it, a sobering
Speaker 5: look at them, and maybe now maybe this time, you know,
Speaker 5: we always hope, is the time when a homeowner will think,
Speaker 5: especially if you're anywhere near, you know, within two miles
Speaker 5: of an open space, yeah, maybe I need to get
Speaker 5: the house, you know, more ready for fire.
Speaker 1: If the people in Camerio probably didn't think, oh, my
Speaker 1: house is going to go up in flames in a
Speaker 1: matter of moments, but it, like you just said, it's
Speaker 1: it is a reality. And with these winds, when they're
Speaker 1: blowing sixty eighty miles an hour and throwing the embers
Speaker 1: three miles ahead of the flames, you know, any everybody's vulnerable, exactly.
Speaker 5: And of course, so let's just use that one as
Speaker 5: the top of our list. I talk about it all
Speaker 5: the time. I preach on it year in, year out.
Speaker 5: Ember proof vents for or your attic and your roof eves.
Speaker 5: These are vents that will not allow those flying embers
Speaker 5: to get up inside your attic. And again I'm going
Speaker 5: to emphasize this, eighty percent of the homes that burn
Speaker 5: in wildfire season are not homes that are on the
Speaker 5: fire line. They are not right where the wall of
Speaker 5: flame is licking up against the house. Eighty percent of
Speaker 5: them are within that two mile range away from the fire,
Speaker 5: where hot embers have flown through the air the wind
Speaker 5: has carried them. They are still capable of igniting things,
Speaker 5: and they get sucked into attic spaces and they start
Speaker 5: burning homes from the inside out, which is not a
Speaker 5: great thing.
Speaker 1: Why do they get sucked into attic spaces?
Speaker 5: They get sucked into attic spaces because of the nature, unfortunately,
Speaker 5: of how attics are vented. They have these low vents
Speaker 5: around the eaves, and then they have upper vents near
Speaker 5: the top of the roof, and of course inside the attic,
Speaker 5: warm air rises, right, so as the warm air rises
Speaker 5: out of the top of the roof, vents those events
Speaker 5: are actually vacuuming air and particles into the attic space.
Speaker 5: And that's why. So an ember, it's not like it's
Speaker 5: targeting a house, but it's floating by and if it
Speaker 5: gets anywhere near an eve that has any kind of
Speaker 5: vacuum draft happening on it, just because that's the way
Speaker 5: it works, boom. The next thing you know, that ember
Speaker 5: is inside the attic, sitting on insulation and combustible materials.
Speaker 1: Yikes. Okay, so now what do we do to protect ourselves?
Speaker 5: So ember proof at events. These are vents that you
Speaker 5: can replace or add to your existing at events that
Speaker 5: actually have dampers built into them that won't that allow
Speaker 5: the air to pass through, but don't allow the embers
Speaker 5: to get from the outside in ok, they trap them
Speaker 5: so that they and they'll no cool off and nothing
Speaker 5: will ever happen. So that is always, always, always our
Speaker 5: first line of defense that we talk to people about.
Speaker 5: Of course, course if you've got a larger budget on hand,
Speaker 5: and you've got an older home that doesn't have its
Speaker 5: doors and windows updated, then you want to replace your
Speaker 5: doors and windows with fire raided windows and doors, especially
Speaker 5: on the side that faces the open space. That basically
Speaker 5: means windows and doors with tempered glass in them instead
Speaker 5: of standard annealed glass. And then of course clean up
Speaker 5: your trees. Make sure your trees are as trimmed well
Speaker 5: and thinned, especially this time of year, because this is
Speaker 5: the time of year to trim trees as possible. And
Speaker 5: please clear your defensible zone. If you're one of those
Speaker 5: homes pushed up against a wildfire open space area, you
Speaker 5: know your hoa wants it done, your city wants it done,
Speaker 5: and if you have been laxed and getting it done,
Speaker 5: get it done. A wall of wildfire flames can be
Speaker 5: twenty feet tall easily in windy conditions, thirty to forty
Speaker 5: feet tall and pumping out well above one thousand degrees.
Speaker 9: Fair night.
Speaker 5: Now, well, here's a question that not a lot of
Speaker 5: people know the answer to. How far away from that
Speaker 5: thousand degree wall of flames do firefighters need to stand
Speaker 5: to effectively defend a home? How farting three to four
Speaker 5: times the height of the flames. So if flames are
Speaker 5: thirty feet tall, they need at least at least one
Speaker 5: hundred feet away from those flames in order to make
Speaker 5: an effective defense. And that is what clearing that defensible
Speaker 5: zone is all about. Okay, Now, if you don't have
Speaker 5: much time, if you are really on the edge, if
Speaker 5: you are possibly going to evacuate, get stuff away from
Speaker 5: your house. Just get all the junk away from the
Speaker 5: walls of your house. If you can't amber proof your
Speaker 5: vents and you know you're about to be evacuated, tape
Speaker 5: them up. Just close them over, go around, tape up
Speaker 5: those lower vents on your attic, your gable vents. Close
Speaker 5: them off. It's not going to hurt your attic for
Speaker 5: a week or two to have the vents closed up.
Speaker 5: If you haven't changed them out. And lastly, here's a
Speaker 5: product everybody's always asking me, is there a silver bullet
Speaker 5: product out there? Well, they're as close to one as
Speaker 5: there can be. Firejel barricade. Fire Gel is a product
Speaker 5: that I absolutely love. They're not a sponsor here on KFI.
Speaker 5: I wish they were. You can find them at firegel
Speaker 5: dot com. But here it is several gallons of fire
Speaker 5: gel sitting in containers in your garage. They'll sit there
Speaker 5: for years and years and years, totally safe because you
Speaker 5: know they're fireproof. And instead of doing the wrong thing,
Speaker 5: being the hero and staying behind ignoring evacuation orders with
Speaker 5: your garden hose as if you are going to defend
Speaker 5: your house with a garden hose, which you're not. Right
Speaker 5: before you go, you hook up this these fire gel
Speaker 5: containers to your garden hose. They kind of spray out
Speaker 5: like a you know, like a liquid fertilizer does at
Speaker 5: the garden center, and you can spray fire gel across
Speaker 5: the backside of your home, across to structures, patio, furniture, plants.
Speaker 5: This stuff adheres, it sticks to the house. It'll stay
Speaker 5: there for twenty four to forty eight hours. The fire
Speaker 5: line if it reaches your home is going to pass
Speaker 5: by in minutes. And this will save your home. And
Speaker 5: when you get back home, whether it happened or not,
Speaker 5: you just get the hose out again and wash it
Speaker 5: all off and it's done.
Speaker 1: And it kind of probably looks like this line from Ghostbusters.
Speaker 5: Kind of like a white foamy gel. And so now
Speaker 5: you know you can. This is a one time purchase
Speaker 5: to save your home. For the average home, this about
Speaker 5: seven hundred dollars investment in this fire, Jael, And like
Speaker 5: I said, it just sits there for years and you
Speaker 5: don't have to worry about it doesn't go bad. But
Speaker 5: it is so worth having a home standing when you
Speaker 5: come back from evacuation.
Speaker 1: I would think a lot more people in southern California
Speaker 1: would want that.
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, and.
Speaker 1: What a small, small investment to save a million dollar
Speaker 1: home hopefully you know or.
Speaker 5: Too, Absolutely, no question about it. And it's you know,
Speaker 5: so many people feel powerless when it comes to having
Speaker 5: to evacuate, like the like what's gonna you know, And
Speaker 5: this is just a solid line of defense that you
Speaker 5: can leave at least with a little bit more peace
Speaker 5: of mind knowing that you know what we've we've fire
Speaker 5: hardened the side of the house that's going to have
Speaker 5: to face the fire, and you know we've got a
Speaker 5: pretty even shot.
Speaker 1: All right, Super important and good information. And here's another tip.
Speaker 1: Make sure you go back and take that tape off
Speaker 1: once you get back to the house. Yes, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so you're going to be talking about it was this
Speaker 1: way when we bought it this weekend. Give me a
Speaker 1: thirty second pitch for it.
Speaker 5: One of our most popular show themes, and that is,
Speaker 5: you know, so many people bought homes with problems already
Speaker 5: baked in and now they're like, huh, how do we
Speaker 5: fix this? How do we fix the the room edition
Speaker 5: that pushed out the backside of the house and made
Speaker 5: the previous room that used to have exterior windows a
Speaker 5: dark cave. You know, things like that, it was this
Speaker 5: way when we bought It's the phrase that I hear
Speaker 5: more often when I walk into homes for a console,
Speaker 5: people apologizing for their house and telling them and we
Speaker 5: didn't do this, it's been this way, but we need
Speaker 5: to know how to fix it.
Speaker 1: And you've got all these different things that you might
Speaker 1: run into when you buy it, and you're going to
Speaker 1: help them fix it, so be sure to tune into
Speaker 1: Home with Dean Sharp Saturday from six to eight am,
Speaker 1: and then Sunday from nine to two. You can also
Speaker 1: follow him at Home with Dean. Thank you, Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: appreciate very valuable advice this morning.
Speaker 5: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: Red flag warnings are said to expire in La in
Speaker 1: Ventor County Mountains at eleven this morning. Gustine north west
Speaker 1: winds will gust twenty to thirty miles per hour through
Speaker 1: the morning, but then we'll die down. Another Santa Ana
Speaker 1: wind event is possible next week. Newsom has called a
Speaker 1: special session of the legislature. He says it's so the
Speaker 1: state can prepare for Donald Trump's second term as president.
Speaker 1: Newsom says he'll take action to protect the state's policies
Speaker 1: on abortion rights, climate change, and immigrants support. Nominations for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Grammy Awards will be announced this morning,
Speaker 1: with Gail King, Jim Gaffigan, and several past Grammy winners
Speaker 1: announcing the nominees. The twenty twenty five Grammys will be
Speaker 1: awarded February second at Crypto dot Com Arena in La
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from Hamble on the News this morning,
Speaker 1: a Biden policy that allows illegal immigrants to stay in
Speaker 1: the States if they're married to a US citizen has
Speaker 1: been struck down. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Will Gans. So after the craziness this week, Will I
Speaker 1: and I imagine a lot of our wake up call
Speaker 1: listeners need an escape. And that's where you come in.
Speaker 1: If I want to go to a movie, what you got.
Speaker 9: I've got some good stuff for you. So, if you
Speaker 9: want to see a really good movie, although it might
Speaker 9: not be like the The Pink Cloud Escape, you're looking
Speaker 9: for Anora. Anora is in theaters and this is the
Speaker 9: movie that people are saying is really kicking off the
Speaker 9: race to Oscar Sunday. So gold Derby is a website
Speaker 9: that I like to check in on often and it
Speaker 9: keeps track of sort of the odds as to what
Speaker 9: films are going to do well on Oscar Sunday. And
Speaker 9: right now it has it ranked first in the most
Speaker 9: likely film to win Best Picture. So Anora is about
Speaker 9: an escort, an exotic dancer who ends up falling for
Speaker 9: one of her clients. And it is part comedy, so
Speaker 9: it is a little bit maybe like a pretty Woman,
Speaker 9: but it has a heavy R rating, and it takes
Speaker 9: sort of it takes sort of a dramatic turn. So
Speaker 9: it's a really really interesting film, and it has a
Speaker 9: stellar performance from its lead actress, a young actress named
Speaker 9: Mikey Madison who's going to go on to do incredible
Speaker 9: things after this. But if you're looking to sort of
Speaker 9: watch something that you'll probably hear a lot about heading
Speaker 9: into a world season, Anora is a good place to
Speaker 9: start in the theaters.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Mikey Madison, have we seen her before? I'm
Speaker 1: not familiar with that name yet.
Speaker 9: No, No, this is like her what a lot of
Speaker 9: people are calling her breakout role, so yeah, yeah, a
Speaker 9: star turn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and a story about a stripper who falls
Speaker 1: for a client.
Speaker 4: What Yep, that.
Speaker 1: Just doesn't sound like it's an oscar worthy thing. So
Speaker 1: now you have me intrigued.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's a lot of grit there. And and by
Speaker 9: the way, like this is not one to maybe take
Speaker 9: your it's definitely not one to take your kids too.
Speaker 9: And if you have any very very conservative, you know,
Speaker 9: minded people, there's a lot of R rated material in it,
Speaker 9: a lot of sex, yes, sex, nudity, all of the above. Language, Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to something else. And I
Speaker 1: love this. They made a movie. Is it a movie
Speaker 1: or a series? My old ass?
Speaker 9: It some movie, so okay, yes, and you can stream
Speaker 9: it at home on Amazon Prime Now. And despite the title,
Speaker 9: this one is actually so sweet. So the concept is
Speaker 9: it's a girl who's turning eighteen and she decides to
Speaker 9: do a little bit of drugs with her two best
Speaker 9: friends before they all go off to college. And while
Speaker 9: she's like hi, she basically hallucinates that she's speaking to
Speaker 9: the thirty nine year old version of herself, who's played
Speaker 9: by Aubrey Plaza, who's always very funny. And it's and
Speaker 9: you know, her older self is saying, you need to
Speaker 9: be spending more time with your parents. You'll never have
Speaker 9: this time back. And by the way, if you ever
Speaker 9: meet a guy named Chad, just stay away from him. Well,
Speaker 9: of course, she ends up meeting a guy named Chad,
Speaker 9: and it's just a really beautiful story about living in
Speaker 9: the moment and like embracing your family while you're all
Speaker 9: under one roof. It's so sweet.
Speaker 1: Okay, an interesting name, Okay, And Halloween is over and
Speaker 1: while I am a one holiday at a time, person.
Speaker 1: I'm a little laxed when it comes to Christmas movie
Speaker 1: and I think we're always looking for good new Christmas movie,
Speaker 1: So do you have one?
Speaker 9: So this is Meet Me Next Christmas. It's the number
Speaker 9: one movie on Netflix right now. It just came out
Speaker 9: on Wednesday. It is very in line if you like
Speaker 9: a Hallmark sort of you can kind of see the
Speaker 9: ending coming a mile away. You're not going to have
Speaker 9: to think too critically beautiful soundtrack. It's about a woman
Speaker 9: played by Christina Milion who meets a guy at an
Speaker 9: airport and he says, you know, I know, we're sort
Speaker 9: of two ships passing in the night, but if we
Speaker 9: want to give this thing a shot, meet me Next
Speaker 9: Christmas at the Pentatonics Christmas Concert in New York City.
Speaker 9: And so the movie picks up a year later where
Speaker 9: guess what, she's going to try and meet this guy,
Speaker 9: and Pentatonics is also in the movie. So that the
Speaker 9: music is very good, and it's just it's smaaltzy, it's warm,
Speaker 9: it's cozy, and if you're looking to sort of just
Speaker 9: give your brain a break, this Meet Me Next Christmas
Speaker 9: on Netflix is the perfect way to do that.
Speaker 1: See that's the escape. I think we need and I
Speaker 1: love a good Hallmark movie. Okay, Meet Me Next Christmas. Netflix,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Willgans, ABC's entertainer Extraordinaiy.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Amy. I have a good one, all right?
Speaker 1: Take care. Oh I'm so watching Meet Me Next Christmas.
Speaker 1: Don't you just need a break after this week? I do.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour news room. The brush
Speaker 1: fire that has burned through parts of Moore Park and
Speaker 1: Camerio and Ventura County has charred more than twenty thousand acres.
Speaker 1: Fire officials say it didn't grow much yesterday and teams
Speaker 1: were able to get in and inspect nearly three hundred properties.
Speaker 1: What they found is one hundred and thirty two homes
Speaker 1: and other buildings have been destroyed. Eighty eight more are damaged.
Speaker 1: The fire started Wednesday and spread quickly because of the
Speaker 1: Santa Ana Wins. Homes are still threatened. About ten thousand
Speaker 1: people are under evacuation orders. The fire is just five
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. A brushfire near Pyramid Lake south of Gorman
Speaker 1: has burned almost one hundred acres. The fire broke out
Speaker 1: along the five Freeway around noon yesterday. Firefighters say it
Speaker 1: is not growing anymore. The fire is twenty percent surrounded
Speaker 1: and hasn't burned any homes or built. A proposal to
Speaker 1: increase state incentives for Hollywood has been endorsed by LA County.
Speaker 7: The vote by the Board of Supervisors throws support and
Speaker 7: lobbying effort behind Governor Newsom's plan to raise the tax
Speaker 7: credit pool is seven hundred and fifty million dollars. Supervisor
Speaker 7: Jennis Hans as an ailing entertainment industry here needs it,
Speaker 7: and so do other parts of the economy.
Speaker 1: There are so many, you know, spinoff businesses that benefit
Speaker 1: every time there is a film shoot.
Speaker 7: TV and film production have free fallen in recent years
Speaker 7: because of strikes by writers and actors and increased competition
Speaker 7: outside of LA in California. In downtown La, Michael monks
Speaker 7: KFI news.
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