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Speaker 1: Good morning. It's five o'clock on this Monday, November eleventh,
Speaker 1: Veterans Day. Happy Veterans Day. Special thank you to my
Speaker 1: brother Rob, my baby brother, my uncles Dave and Roger,
Speaker 1: my best friend's husbands Monty and Travis, all proudly served
Speaker 1: our country. If you know a veteran, be sure to
Speaker 1: thank them today. And if you want to do something
Speaker 1: more than say thank you, there are so many places
Speaker 1: you can go today to honor the veterans. We're going
Speaker 1: to be telling you about some of them coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. Lots of ways to
Speaker 1: say thank you for the brave men and women who
Speaker 1: serve our country. Here's what's I head on this Monday
Speaker 1: morning wake up call. The winds have died down. Firefighters
Speaker 1: are gaining ground against the wildfire in Ventura County that
Speaker 1: has destroyed more than two hundred destroyed or damaged more
Speaker 1: than two hundred homes in Camarillo moor Park and Somas.
Speaker 1: The fire hasn't grown over the weekend. Firefighters now have
Speaker 1: the more than twenty thousand acre fire thirty one percent surrounded.
Speaker 1: The California Air Resources Board has approved rule changes that
Speaker 1: could spike gas prices in the state by up to
Speaker 1: fifty cents a gallon. CARB says these changes are key
Speaker 1: to a climate program aimed at reducing planet warming emissions
Speaker 1: from transportation fuels. Three ballot processing centers in California have
Speaker 1: received bomb threats. Election workers were evacuated from a ballot
Speaker 1: center in Orange County on Tuesday. Another bomb threat prompted
Speaker 1: evacuations and a bomb squad being called out to a
Speaker 1: center in Riverside County. A third bomb threat was emailed
Speaker 1: Saturday at the Norwalk headquarters in LA. The FBI is
Speaker 1: investigating similar threats across the country. There are several houses
Speaker 1: house races that still haven't been decided a week out
Speaker 1: of the election. We're going to check in with ABC
Speaker 1: Stephen Portnoy at five point fifty to find out what's
Speaker 1: still outstanding and what's at stake, and a couple of
Speaker 1: those races are right here in California. We also have
Speaker 1: this is a treat gets your dial in fingers ready,
Speaker 1: We've got tickets to see the Beach Boys at the
Speaker 1: Cerrito Center for the Performing Arts November twenty first. It's
Speaker 1: coming up this hour during wake Up Call, Beach Boys.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The brush fire
Speaker 1: that's burned more than twenty thousand acres and more destroyed
Speaker 1: or damaged over two hundred homes in Ventura County is
Speaker 1: now thirty one percent surrounded. Evacuation orders in some areas
Speaker 1: have been downgraded to evacuation warnings, and a shelter set
Speaker 1: up in came Rio has been shut down. During a
Speaker 1: town hall meeting yesterday, Deputy fire Chief Chad Cook says
Speaker 1: firefighters did one hundred and thirty six active rescues when
Speaker 1: the fire started last week.
Speaker 3: Those are not easy. I will tell you. I wish
Speaker 3: I could play video for you. A lot of you
Speaker 3: lived through it. Well, you're talking zero visibility, you're talking,
Speaker 3: you're hampered by wind, you're talking hampered by embers.
Speaker 1: Fire officials say the fire didn't grow much over the weekend,
Speaker 1: but it's still creeping and smoldering in steep rugged terrain
Speaker 1: with dry vegetation. A landscaper has been arrested for looting
Speaker 1: in an area under an evacuation order inventor A County.
Speaker 1: The guy allegedly stole an electric bicycle from a man
Speaker 1: whose property was damaged. The man told sheriff's deputies he
Speaker 1: parked the bike in his driveway Friday, walked around his
Speaker 1: front yard, then noticed his bike was gone. He also
Speaker 1: saw the neighbor's landscaping crew in the area. Sheriffs, She'll
Speaker 1: say one of them admitted to taking the bicycle. A
Speaker 1: race for Congress out of Santa Clarita in the Antelope
Speaker 1: Valley has flipped. Democrat George Whitesides now leads the Congressman
Speaker 1: Mike Garcia by more than forty seven hundred votes. Whitesides
Speaker 1: was trailing by almost a thousand votes on Friday, but
Speaker 1: then Saturday's count of unprocessed ballots put him ahead by
Speaker 1: more than two thousand, and his lead has kept growing.
Speaker 1: Both candidates have posted on social media that every vote
Speaker 1: needs to be counted. In A congressional race out of
Speaker 1: Orange County, State Senator Dave min has a slight lead
Speaker 1: over former assembly Member Scott Baugh, who's a Republican man
Speaker 1: leads by just under three thousand votes. Ball was head
Speaker 1: early on Wednesday and maintained his small edge through Thursday night.
Speaker 1: The registrar will release the next tally of votes at
Speaker 1: five o'clock this afternoon. A judge in Manhattan is set
Speaker 1: to decide whether to uphold the verdict in the hush
Speaker 1: money case against President elect Trump or dismiss it on
Speaker 1: presidential immunity grounds. Judge Jan Marshawn has said he will
Speaker 1: rule tomorrow on Trump's request to toss the conviction because
Speaker 1: of a Supreme Court ruling that presidents have broad protection
Speaker 1: from prosecution. Okay, let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Karen Travers. Karen, a week after the election, Trump's getting busy, huh.
Speaker 4: You know, he has been busy filling out senior staff positions,
Speaker 4: starting with his chief of staff last week.
Speaker 5: Susie Wilds.
Speaker 4: This is kind of expected that his campaign manager would
Speaker 4: be moving with him into the White House.
Speaker 5: You know, she's credited as somebody who kind of.
Speaker 4: Kept the trains running on time inside the campaign and
Speaker 4: is somebody who's very loyal to Donald Trump, and that
Speaker 4: was a big factor for him, and she was very
Speaker 4: critical for his success in this White House bid. Once
Speaker 4: you pick the chief of staff position, things sort of
Speaker 4: flow from there. That's the one you have to start
Speaker 4: with before you start doing any of the other one
Speaker 4: in the White House or in the cabinet. But he
Speaker 4: has interestingly announced over the weekend on social media who
Speaker 4: is not joining him in the White House or in
Speaker 4: his cabinet, saying that former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and
Speaker 4: former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be a
Speaker 4: part of the second Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Did he say anything, Karen, like, did he make nasty
Speaker 1: remarks or did he just say they're not.
Speaker 5: Going to be there, just that they're not going to
Speaker 5: be there.
Speaker 4: You know, they had both endorsed him in his race
Speaker 4: for the White House, but had been critical of him,
Speaker 4: and of course Haley ran against him in the Republican primary.
Speaker 5: And when you look back, you know.
Speaker 4: There were allies of Trump, supporters of Trump who felt
Speaker 4: like she stayed in the race too long and was
Speaker 4: critical of him during that race. And the longer she
Speaker 4: stayed in the more you had the negative headlines about
Speaker 4: Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Now, which is funny because didn't when did she drop out?
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was quite a while ago,
Speaker 1: like it was so early in the season.
Speaker 4: Spring yees, of course, But he got a lot of
Speaker 4: votes in battleground states, you know, just off the top
Speaker 4: of my head, she got one hundred and sixty thousand
Speaker 4: votes in Pennsylvania two months after she dropped out. So
Speaker 4: I think that her presence still loomed large even after
Speaker 4: she got out of the race, and that's still stung
Speaker 4: for the Trump team, and they don't forget things easily.
Speaker 4: So she is not going to be a part of this.
Speaker 4: It's not even clear she wanted to be a part
Speaker 4: of this, but he announced over the weekend that she
Speaker 4: and Pompeo will not be joining him in the second term.
Speaker 1: But Pompeo did say he was interested in it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know off the top of my head, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd seen where he'd said, Yeah, I'd be totally
Speaker 1: in for it. But okay, so do we know who
Speaker 1: else he's looking at at this point?
Speaker 5: Well, we have confirmed.
Speaker 4: This morning that he has selected Congresswoman elist Stephonic to
Speaker 4: be his nominee to be the US ambassador to the UN.
Speaker 5: He said he is honored to nominate her and called her.
Speaker 4: An incredibly strong, tough and smart America first fighter.
Speaker 5: This was not unexpected.
Speaker 4: That's a position, of course that requires conformation, but that
Speaker 4: was a big announcement this morning.
Speaker 1: Okay, and with Stephanics she's in the house right, yes,
Speaker 1: and with the House in the balance because we don't
Speaker 1: know the outcome of you know, all of the races yet,
Speaker 1: are they willing to give her up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's from a pretty safe district.
Speaker 4: I don't think this would be anything that would swing
Speaker 4: towards the Democrats, but you know, I think this is
Speaker 4: of course something they consider in the sense of senators
Speaker 4: and how that would work in different states, and whether
Speaker 4: governors can appoint people they have calculation in the Senate,
Speaker 4: and in terms of filling positions with cabinet you know,
Speaker 4: if you're going to look to fill cabinet positions by
Speaker 4: turning to senators, and how the succession rules are in
Speaker 4: each individual state.
Speaker 1: Okay, And do we know, Karen, like you said that
Speaker 1: once the chief of staff is announced, the other ones
Speaker 1: just sort of start falling into place. Is there a
Speaker 1: timeline or can he just kind of do it as
Speaker 1: he wants to do it?
Speaker 4: You know, he can do it as he wants to
Speaker 4: do it, take it time, do it quickly. I mean,
Speaker 4: you don't even have to have everything filled by January twentieth, obviously,
Speaker 4: you know you have to start moving on things.
Speaker 5: I think with what your.
Speaker 4: White House team ready to go to hit the ground running,
Speaker 4: but cabinet positions, you know that's going to take some
Speaker 4: time still, Okay.
Speaker 1: And then going back to the chief of staff pick
Speaker 1: Susie Wiles, do you are you familiar with her? Because
Speaker 1: I think I was talking to Stephen last week and
Speaker 1: I was saying I had never heard of her until
Speaker 1: election night when he thanked her.
Speaker 4: And I think that's kind of a big part of
Speaker 4: her appeal right now. And you know the fact that
Speaker 4: she is low key, the fact that she had stayed
Speaker 4: out of the spotlight compared to previous campaign managers, previous
Speaker 4: senior officials in the White House or on his campaigns,
Speaker 4: who were very much in the spotlight. That's not what
Speaker 4: she's known for. She's known for running a tight ship.
Speaker 4: She's known for deferring the media attention. It's just not
Speaker 4: her style. But that's been a big part of then
Speaker 4: her success in this campaign and in being able to
Speaker 4: outlast others. You know, he went through a lot of
Speaker 4: campaign managers the first time around, he did not this
Speaker 4: time around.
Speaker 1: Okay, And a quick side question, since you're the ABC
Speaker 1: White House correspondent, will we be talking to you going
Speaker 1: forward in the new Trump administration?
Speaker 5: That seems to be the plan of Okay.
Speaker 1: All right, Karen Travis, Thank you so much. It's you know,
Speaker 1: when we talked to Karen, I love this because there's
Speaker 1: so many goings on in the government and I love
Speaker 1: to like find out kind of the inner workings. So
Speaker 1: we love the insight that we get. Thank you so much, Karen.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LA Unified
Speaker 1: School District is investigating racist text messages sent to some
Speaker 1: of its black students, including this one. I was immediately disturbed.
Speaker 5: It made me feel scared afraid.
Speaker 1: This woman's sixteen year old daughter received one of the
Speaker 1: texts last week.
Speaker 4: You've been identified as a slave and you're going to
Speaker 4: be You're going to need to report on this date.
Speaker 1: At this time, they knew her name, and.
Speaker 4: The demographic was specifically targeting to black kids.
Speaker 1: The texts are similar to those that have been sent
Speaker 1: to people in more than a dozen states. The texts
Speaker 1: mentioned slavery, forced labor, and picking cotton. We're going to
Speaker 1: be finding out more about this with ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at five point twenty. An armed man
Speaker 1: wearing a ski mask has stolen a corvette from a
Speaker 1: driver at a gas station in Palmdale. Ellie Kenny Sheriff's
Speaker 1: officials say the carjacking happened shortly after midnight yesterday at
Speaker 1: the Mobile station on East Palmdale. One person has been
Speaker 1: killed and sixteen others were heard in a shooting during
Speaker 1: homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama. The least say
Speaker 1: A man was arrested leaving the scene of the shooting
Speaker 1: early yesterday. They say he had a handgun with a
Speaker 1: machine gun conversion device. Tuskegee has canceled classes for today.
Speaker 1: A group of researchers says in the US says China
Speaker 1: has built a land based prototype nuclear reactor to power
Speaker 1: future aircraft carriers. They say they came to the conclusion
Speaker 1: after pouring over satellite images and public documents from a
Speaker 1: span of several recent years. Climate experts are talking money
Speaker 1: as the United Nations Climate negotiations start in Azerbaijan. They
Speaker 1: say curbing and coping with global warming is going to
Speaker 1: cost one trillion dollars or more, but only about one
Speaker 1: hundred billion in financial aid is now going to poor nations.
Speaker 1: Santa has been spotted in a Riverside City fire truck.
Speaker 6: The Riverside Fire Department has started its version of the
Speaker 6: Spark of Love Toy Drive. From today through December thirteenth,
Speaker 6: firehouses in the city will accept new unwrapped toys, sports equipment, blankets,
Speaker 6: and gift cards for underserved kids in the city. The
Speaker 6: Spark of Love Toy Drive has collected more than nine
Speaker 6: million toys at fire stations across southern California over the
Speaker 6: last twenty five years. Donations can also be made directly
Speaker 6: to the Riverside City Firefighters Foundation. The campaign asks donors
Speaker 6: not to leave toys outside the fire station when firefighters
Speaker 6: are out on calls. Corbin Carson KFI News.
Speaker 1: Okay, as I mentioned, it is Veteran's Day. Sure to
Speaker 1: thank a veteran when you see them today. There are
Speaker 1: several celebrations. If you want to go and join a community,
Speaker 1: be part of a group and we'll be telling you
Speaker 1: about a few of those here are just a couple
Speaker 1: of them. A Veterans Day celebration is being held in
Speaker 1: Lach crescent It's at eight o'clock this morning, so still
Speaker 1: time to get there. It's at American Legion Post two
Speaker 1: point eighty eight and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Speaker 1: sixteen fourteen will host the event. It's for all veterans
Speaker 1: in active duty military. It includes a presentation of colors
Speaker 1: by the Crescenta Valley High School, Air Force Junior Reserve
Speaker 1: Officer Training Corps, and an Armed Forces medley performed by
Speaker 1: the American Legion Color Guard. It's at two Strike Park
Speaker 1: on Rosemont Avenue in Lach Crescente and that one gets
Speaker 1: underway at eight o'clock. And then in Alhambra they're doing
Speaker 1: a the event at It's also a Continental breakfast and
Speaker 1: music that is at ten followed by a ceremony at
Speaker 1: eleven am at Alhambra Park Veterans Memorial. And in Pasadena
Speaker 1: at the Pasadena City Hall, they're doing a Veterans Day
Speaker 1: event that includes Colonel Juan Mora, Chief of Staff, fortieth
Speaker 1: Interstry Division in Infantry Division, and a Yellow ceremony, a
Speaker 1: yellow ribbon ceremony to honor the two D Battalion, twenty
Speaker 1: three D Marine Corps Regiment and a flyover by the
Speaker 1: Condor Squadron. That's happening starting at ten am. That's the
Speaker 1: Pasadena Salutes our veterans. Lots of celebrations, lots more will
Speaker 1: be telling you about in case you want to attend
Speaker 1: one this morning. Arizona is officially in the win column
Speaker 1: for President elect Trump. NBC News has projected Trump will
Speaker 1: win the swing state. Arizona was the last state to
Speaker 1: finish counting presidential ballots, and the wind gives the less
Speaker 1: swing state anyway, and the wind gives Trump eleven more
Speaker 1: electoral votes. With the win in Arizona, Trump has swept
Speaker 1: all of the swing states in the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1: Cuba has been rocked by a pair of powerful earthquakes.
Speaker 1: The US Geological Services A five point nine quake hit
Speaker 1: at seven point fifty yesterday morning, followed an hour later
Speaker 1: by a six point eight quake. Several more smaller quakes
Speaker 1: have also rattled the island nation. The quakes were centered
Speaker 1: about two hundred and fifty miles away from Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1: No injuries were reported at the US Naval base Cuba
Speaker 1: has been hit by two hurricanes in the last month. Man,
Speaker 1: they just can't catch a break. Venom The Last Dance
Speaker 1: has added another sixteen million dollars to its box office
Speaker 1: tally and remains number one at theaters for the third week.
Speaker 1: The horror film Heretic and the Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Speaker 1: opened in second and third places. Talk about opposites. Right
Speaker 1: at six oh five, it's handled on the news. President
Speaker 1: Biden and President elect Trump have a sit down planned
Speaker 1: at the White House. That is now the Bidens and
Speaker 1: will soon be Trump again. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim, out of the blue.
Speaker 1: Someone's been sending some just really awful text people in
Speaker 1: more than a dozen states, including here in California.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, I just saw a story on KBC
Speaker 7: Channel seven about that, about family receiving some of these kids.
Speaker 7: That's really one troubling aspect of this that, yes, the
Speaker 7: text messages telling people to report to a plantation to
Speaker 7: pick cotton art being received just by adults or seniors,
Speaker 7: but by kids, preteens and teenagers who are going to
Speaker 7: their parents, their grandparents saying what is this all about?
Speaker 7: And yeah, So that's really troubling. The other really troubling
Speaker 7: aspect is that many of these messages are being sent
Speaker 7: to recipients by name, so you know, it's dear John Smith, greetings, etc.
Speaker 7: And then goes on with this bizarre message there. Some
Speaker 7: of the messages also might contain a threat, and that's
Speaker 7: what the FBI is looking into, and certainly FBI dot
Speaker 7: gov is one place where you can report if you
Speaker 7: receive one of these messages. Don't know if any more
Speaker 7: have been received, but in fourteen states, including California, people
Speaker 7: have received these.
Speaker 1: How many people don't know how many.
Speaker 7: No indication of how many people, but in fourteen states,
Speaker 7: we know that people of color have received these messages.
Speaker 1: Amy, okay, And what are they saying? Specifically?
Speaker 7: The threat goes like there or the message says greetings
Speaker 7: so and so by name in many cases greeting you know,
Speaker 7: greetings John Smith. You're being ordered to report to a
Speaker 7: plantation or even a specific plantation to pick cotton. A
Speaker 7: van will pick you up. There's something to that effect.
Speaker 7: You are in plantation group W or plantation group, and
Speaker 7: that plantation group thing seems to change from recipient to recipient.
Speaker 7: So and again, some of the messages were told can
Speaker 7: play or contain a threat that says if you do
Speaker 7: not do this, you will be killed. So you know,
Speaker 7: it's really serious stuff. It's not just a First Amendment thing.
Speaker 7: This isn't just somebody saying expressing some kind of idea.
Speaker 7: This is people making actual threats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know that they're going to be looking
Speaker 1: into The FBI's looking into it. LAUSD here is looking
Speaker 1: into it. I think LAPD be involved. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: they want to find who this is. Are there any
Speaker 1: indications of hints whether it might be from within the
Speaker 1: US or since we know that Russia and Iran have
Speaker 1: been trying to mess with our election, that maybe it's
Speaker 1: coming from outside.
Speaker 7: It may be coming from outside. The Attorney General in
Speaker 7: Louisiana and several attorneys general have demanded action about this
Speaker 7: and launched their own investigations within the states where these
Speaker 7: messages have been sent and received, and she says the
Speaker 7: Attorney General in Louisiana says that some of the messages
Speaker 7: were sent using an email service that routes through Poland,
Speaker 7: But does that mean the message is originated there? Not necessarily.
Speaker 7: There's also a company in this in the United States
Speaker 7: called text Now, which is a mobile provider that allows
Speaker 7: people to create phone numbers, and it has told ABC
Speaker 7: that some of its users might have created some of
Speaker 7: these messages, and those accounts now have been shut down
Speaker 7: and the information turned over to the FBI. So, you know,
Speaker 7: we may be getting to the bottom of this. The
Speaker 7: FBI and the FCC is working on this. You can
Speaker 7: see the kind of it spider web that has been
Speaker 7: created the IP addresses, phone numbers and other information that
Speaker 7: might lead to the people responsible amy.
Speaker 1: What do you think the likelihood is that they actually
Speaker 1: catch somebody?
Speaker 7: Boy, you know, it's hard enough for them to catch
Speaker 7: people who are perpetrating crimes, financial crimes, you know, something
Speaker 7: like this could be even more difficult. But and it
Speaker 7: is troubling. I mean, you've got kids receiving messages directed
Speaker 7: at them by name, making these really awful, awful statements,
Speaker 7: and you know, this is really nasty stuff.
Speaker 1: I would be interesting not to do it, of course,
Speaker 1: but like interested to see how they kind of figure
Speaker 1: that out. Because you're saying that they're getting personalized messages.
Speaker 1: So is it just computer algorithm algorithms that are spitting
Speaker 1: it out? I mean, because so many people have been
Speaker 1: afed affected.
Speaker 7: Sure, yeah, and that may be it could be information
Speaker 7: received on the dark web. You know, they're finding names
Speaker 7: out there. It's easy enough if you do some social
Speaker 7: engineering to look at people's Facebook pages. But this is
Speaker 7: being done so quickly and in such apparently large numbers
Speaker 7: that this isn't a person individually sitting down and doing
Speaker 7: this without some AI help potentially or using algorithms, as
Speaker 7: you say, and to put these things together and then
Speaker 7: to send them out. Why, who knows. I mean, if
Speaker 7: it's a foreign actor. We've heard about interference or attempts
Speaker 7: to interfere in the election, so this may be an
Speaker 7: extension of that to try to create division or deepen divisions,
Speaker 7: political divisions, racial divisions.
Speaker 1: Like we don't already have enough, right people are. I
Speaker 1: think that's a nice place to put a pin in
Speaker 1: it right now. Jim Ryan, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information. I hope this stops quickly.
Speaker 7: Thanks heby.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: California Air Resources Board has voted to make significant updates
Speaker 1: to the state's low carbon fuel standard. That's expected to
Speaker 1: cause higher gas prices. The changes, approved late on Friday,
Speaker 1: will increase the state's emission reduction targets and fund charging
Speaker 1: stations for zero emission vehicles, which, of course you know
Speaker 1: we need more of. They will also phase out incentives
Speaker 1: for capturing methane emissions from dairy farms to turn into fuel.
Speaker 1: Air regulators said last year the changes could raise gas
Speaker 1: prices by forty seven cents a gallon by next year.
Speaker 1: Others say prices will go up more than sixty cents
Speaker 1: per gallon. Dozens of people in Amsterdam have been detained
Speaker 1: for taking part in an a legal demonstration following violent
Speaker 1: clashes targeting fans of an Israeli soccer club. Amsterdam's mayor
Speaker 1: banned all demonstrations over the weekend because of teens on
Speaker 1: scooters seen attacking Israeli fans Thursday and Friday. A wildfire
Speaker 1: burning on the border of New York and New Jersey
Speaker 1: has killed a park's employee. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says a
Speaker 1: tree fell on the eighteen year old volunteer forest ranger Saturday.
Speaker 8: While fighting a fire north of New York City.
Speaker 9: Extreme drought conditions fueling nearly six hundred fires in recent
Speaker 9: weeks across New Jersey and New York.
Speaker 1: The fire that killed the park's employee has burned more
Speaker 1: than twenty five hundred acres and is threatening buildings, including
Speaker 1: an historic site dating back to the Revolutionary War. An
Speaker 1: entertainment auction has had buyers boldly bidding where no buyer
Speaker 1: has bid before.
Speaker 8: The Star Trek themed bid Long and prosper Live auction
Speaker 8: was held at the Infinity Festival in Hollywood over the
Speaker 8: weekend and included more than two hundred props from Star
Speaker 8: Trek's original series as well as spinoff films. Some of
Speaker 8: that Star Trek's space swag included Captain Kirk's long lost
Speaker 8: phaser from the sixties TV series that sold for over
Speaker 8: nine hundred thousand dollars. Late actor Leonard Nimoy's spock robe
Speaker 8: and headband from Star Trek four The Voyage Home, sold
Speaker 8: for over forty five thousand dollars. The auction brought in
Speaker 8: about three point six million dollars. That's a lot of latinum.
Speaker 8: Andrew Caravella k if I News.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of what latinum. What's latinum. I'm a
Speaker 1: Star Trek fan. I've never heard of latinum. Okay, anyway,
Speaker 1: nine hundred thousand dollars for his phaser, wouldn't that be
Speaker 1: fun to have?
Speaker 2: I love Amy?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Amy? What's latinum's latinum? Gold press latinum? It's what they
Speaker 2: always would They used to like gamble with when they
Speaker 2: would always do all the different things. No old press latinum.
Speaker 2: It was the little bars that they would use, like
Speaker 2: the FARRANGI would use and everything.
Speaker 1: The FARRANGI who are the f are you're talking about
Speaker 1: the newer star Trek. I'm I'm captain, I know, but
Speaker 1: FRANGI were there too. I'm gonna have to google this.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, Amy's on it.
Speaker 1: You got war girl of course is right.
Speaker 8: It's a precious liquid metal that comes in gold ingots
Speaker 8: ooh currency.
Speaker 2: In the original slide with yeah, yeah, yeah, it is
Speaker 2: from Captain Kirk's era.
Speaker 1: Okay, I will believe both of you. I don't doubt
Speaker 1: that I've forgotten it. But what's it called latinum latinum?
Speaker 2: It's gold pressed latinum. It's weird because like from from
Speaker 2: our world, gold is like the standard from their time,
Speaker 2: it's latinum is And it's funny because they used gold
Speaker 2: to press. From our era, they used gold to press
Speaker 2: what's important from their era, which is latinum. We use
Speaker 2: what is precious from our time period to press what's
Speaker 2: prescious from theirs.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 1: I still have never heard of it. Okay, the California
Speaker 1: Air Resources Boards it proved a new clean air standard.
Speaker 1: It's expected to raise gas prices by about fifty cents
Speaker 1: a gallon. In a twelve to two vote to boardvoed
Speaker 1: in favor of clean air standards to cut emissions by
Speaker 1: thirty percent by twenty thirty. Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones
Speaker 1: says this is a shameless effort to hike gas prices
Speaker 1: to force Californians into electric vehicles. A church in South
Speaker 1: LA has been severely damaged when a car crashed into
Speaker 1: several parked cars, flipped and crashed into the side of
Speaker 1: the First ame Zion Church. The car burst into flames
Speaker 1: yesterday around three am. The church's pastor says the damage
Speaker 1: is pretty extensive. The church was still able to hold
Speaker 1: Sunday morning services. Democrat George Whiteside has taken the lead
Speaker 1: over Mike Garcia for the twenty seventh district seat in
Speaker 1: northern La County. Whiteside is now leading by fewer than
Speaker 1: one thousand votes. In Orange County, Republican incumbent Michelle Steele
Speaker 1: has widened her lead over Democrat Derek Trand almost seven
Speaker 1: thousand votes. Also, an OC Democrat Dave men Now has
Speaker 1: a lead of almost three thousand votes over Republican Scott Bob.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking more about this and what's
Speaker 1: at stake with ABC SE Stephen Portnoy. That's coming up
Speaker 1: at five point fifty at six oh five, it's handle
Speaker 1: on the news a really good chance that la is
Speaker 1: about to become a sanctuary city following President Elect Trump's
Speaker 1: win in the twenty twenty four presidential election. So with
Speaker 1: all the late night comedians' reactions to the election been
Speaker 1: really interesting. I think Stephen Colbert visibly mad doing promos
Speaker 1: about how upset he is. Jimmy Kimmel was crying on
Speaker 1: TV about the election. So I was really curious to
Speaker 1: see what Saturday Night Live was going to do the
Speaker 1: week after the election. They've had such great opening skits
Speaker 1: leading up to the election, with Maya Rudolph playing Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris and Danik Carvey doing one of the funniest
Speaker 1: impressions I've seen. It was of President Biden. So Saturday's
Speaker 1: opening skit opened with a very somber tone, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, no, it's going to be a protest
Speaker 1: kind of open and here we go. So here's how
Speaker 1: it started. A clouza plaza plus.
Speaker 10: On Tuesday, Americans went to the polls and elected Donald
Speaker 10: Trump to be the next president of the United States.
Speaker 11: To many people, including many people watching this show right now,
Speaker 11: the results were shocking and even horrifying.
Speaker 12: Donald Trump, who tried to forcibly overturn the results of
Speaker 12: the last election, was returned to office by an overwhelming majority.
Speaker 13: This is the same Donald Trump who openly called for
Speaker 13: vengeance against his political enemies.
Speaker 10: Now, thanks to the Supreme Court, there are no guardrails.
Speaker 11: Nothing to protect the people who are brave enough to
Speaker 11: speak out against him.
Speaker 13: And that is why we at SNL would like to
Speaker 13: say to Donald Trump, we have been with you all along.
Speaker 10: We have never wavered in our support of you, even
Speaker 10: when others doubted you.
Speaker 14: With every single person on this stage believed in you.
Speaker 15: Every single person on this stage voted for.
Speaker 11: You because we see ourselves in you. We look at
Speaker 11: you and think that's me.
Speaker 5: That's the man I want my future children to look.
Speaker 16: Up to and mister Trump, your honor. We know that
Speaker 16: you say things that are controversial sometimes, but really you're
Speaker 16: just speaking the truth. And I hate how the lamestream media,
Speaker 16: Michael Cha tries to spin it to make you look coolish.
Speaker 13: So if you're keeping some sort of list of your enemies,
Speaker 13: then we should not be on that list.
Speaker 3: And it's c h E Cha.
Speaker 10: And if we find out someone here voted for Kamala,
Speaker 10: we will wrap them out so fast like our three
Speaker 10: disgusting new cast members, so real quick, left right, fast
Speaker 10: boat Ashley Padilla and Emil Joachim.
Speaker 13: You can find their home home addressed is online.
Speaker 15: Hail Trump, but the rest of us Hell Trump voted
Speaker 15: for you at least once.
Speaker 12: I voted for you fifty times in Pennsylvania, Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's how it started out. And then then they
Speaker 1: had the Donald Trump character and I can't remember the
Speaker 1: actor's name, who doesn't, but he came out as the
Speaker 1: super buff Trump. And then Dana Carvey dumped his Biden
Speaker 1: character and did Elon Musk instead. So I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they handled it like Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live would handle it. You know, Trump made gains in
Speaker 1: the election in the black vote, the Hispanic vote, the
Speaker 1: Asian vote, women, young people, kind of all across the board.
Speaker 1: So the cast in its end of the opening skit
Speaker 1: had a message to the younger men.
Speaker 15: So all young men who helped elect Trump and Elon,
Speaker 15: we know you felt unseen these past four years.
Speaker 10: So we say to you, young men, there's no need
Speaker 10: to feel down.
Speaker 13: Young men. Pick yourself off the grounds.
Speaker 11: Young men, time to put on your crown.
Speaker 16: Did you use me.
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Touche? Well done? Saturday Night Live. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour news room. So Saturday Night Live might have
Speaker 1: been spoofing all of that. But a history teacher at
Speaker 1: Valley View High School in Moreno Valley has been placed
Speaker 1: on administrative leave for using profanity in class while making
Speaker 1: anti Trump remarks during a discussion with students. He told
Speaker 1: the class last week that Trump embodies some of Hitler's
Speaker 1: ideas and that they could end up in concentration camps
Speaker 1: in their lifetime. The teacher's rant was caught on video
Speaker 1: and went viral on social media. Israeli strikes over the
Speaker 1: weekend have killed dozens of people in Lebanon and northern Gaza.
Speaker 1: ABC's Britt Clenitz says one of the strikes yesterday hit
Speaker 1: a refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Speaker 11: Now the idea of saying it quote eliminated dozens of
Speaker 11: terrorists there.
Speaker 1: It's not clear how the US presidential election might affect
Speaker 1: the war against Hamas and Hesbellah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Speaker 1: Netanyahu says he has spoken three times with President elect
Speaker 1: Trump since the election and says they see eye to
Speaker 1: eye regarding the Iranian threat and all of its components.
Speaker 1: Isra's president is set to meet tomorrow with President Biden.
Speaker 1: And visitor tags at La City Hall could soon become
Speaker 1: a thing of the past.
Speaker 14: Visitors to the seat of city government currently slap on
Speaker 14: a sticker, but some visitors end up taking them off
Speaker 14: and leaving them on walls or furniture. City council in
Speaker 14: bob Bloomenfield says the city may take a page from
Speaker 14: the state government where visitors don't have to wear tags
Speaker 14: at all, so.
Speaker 16: You don't have to waste plastic or anything else because
Speaker 16: all of the employees have badges.
Speaker 14: The city council approved a motion last week asking various
Speaker 14: departments to come up with a new plan which could
Speaker 14: include no tags or tags that could be reusable and
Speaker 14: clipped on and returned in downtown La.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks k if I knew again, it is Veterans Day.
Speaker 1: If you want to participate, there's so many Veterans Day
Speaker 1: ceremonies and events going on around the Southland. Here's a
Speaker 1: couple more of them. In Burbank. There's a Veterans Day
Speaker 1: celebration starts with the Burbank Community Band doing a concert
Speaker 1: at ten fifteen, and then there's a ceremony to honor
Speaker 1: all veterans starting at eleven, and there is a flyover
Speaker 1: of the Condor Squadron. I mentioned that they were going
Speaker 1: to be flying over Pasadena. They're also going to be
Speaker 1: flying over Burbank. It's happening at the m Cambridge Park
Speaker 1: War Memorial at the corner of Amherst Drive in San
Speaker 1: Fernando Road. Again, that gets into way at ten fifteen,
Speaker 1: and then if you want to head to the Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan Presidential Library, which I highly recommend anyway, even if
Speaker 1: you don't go on Veterans Day, it's really a really
Speaker 1: beautiful and very interesting and informative thing to go see.
Speaker 1: But anyway, for Veterans Day. They're doing musical entertainment, civil
Speaker 1: War encampment. They're going to have some military vehicles on display,
Speaker 1: and also a Veterans Day program that starts at ten.
Speaker 1: The program that gets underway at eleven includes an honor
Speaker 1: guard in music and remarks by the keynote speaker, and
Speaker 1: also the Condor Squadron is going to be flying over
Speaker 1: the Reagan Presidential Library. Condor Squadron's busy, very busy today
Speaker 1: this Veterans Day. Firefighters continue to gain ground on the
Speaker 1: fire that's destroyed one hundred and sixty eight homes and
Speaker 1: other buildings and damaged another sixty seven in Ventura County.
Speaker 1: The fire hasn't really grown since Friday. It's burned through
Speaker 1: more than twenty five hundred acres and is now thirty
Speaker 1: one percent surrounded. Evacuation orders for about ten thousand residents
Speaker 1: are still in place, either orders or warnings. The FDA
Speaker 1: is proposing to stop sales of a common ingredient found
Speaker 1: in most over the counter decongestans. Researchers have determined that
Speaker 1: oral phenylephrine doesn't actually work. It's an ingredient in many
Speaker 1: common cold and flu products, including tailan al Benadryl and
Speaker 1: day Quill. A man found living in the crawl space
Speaker 1: of a house in East la has been arrested. The
Speaker 1: people who live in the house in El Cerino called
Speaker 1: police after hearing loud noises coming from under the house.
Speaker 1: They say they thought it was animals. Police used teargas
Speaker 1: to flush the man out after taking him out didn't work,
Speaker 1: or talking him out rather didn't work. He's facing trespassing charges.
Speaker 1: The familiesays the guy may have been staying there for
Speaker 1: up to six months. We're just minutes away from a handle.
Speaker 1: On the news this morning, Israel's Benjamin Nettagnah, who has
Speaker 1: acknowledged for the first time that Israel was behind that
Speaker 1: pager attack against Hesbola in Lebanon. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to ABC's Stephen portnoy So. Stephen. Starting with the presidential race,
Speaker 1: former President Trump made it a clean sweep over the weekend.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he won all of the battleground states. ABC News
Speaker 9: projected that Trump will win in Nevada and Arizona, and
Speaker 9: so he winds up with a larger share of the
Speaker 9: electoral College than he had in twenty sixteen, a larger
Speaker 9: share than Joe Biden had in twenty twenty, the best
Speaker 9: showing the electoral college since Barack Obama's reelection run in
Speaker 9: twenty twelve, and ultimately it demonstrates how the country has
Speaker 9: moved in his direction. But what we're still waiting on
Speaker 9: is the makeup of the House of Representatives, and it
Speaker 9: will wind up, I think, being a narrow Republican majority.
Speaker 9: But Republicans, I would say, are likely to hold the majority.
Speaker 9: I don't know that necessarily they'll improve on it.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 9: In fact, it may shrink, it may grow by one.
Speaker 9: We'll just have to see. But you know how difficult
Speaker 9: it has been for the Republicans to operate in the House,
Speaker 9: given how narrow their majority is. I don't see it
Speaker 9: growing substantially. We're still waiting on sixteen districts, including several
Speaker 9: in California, and one of these days, I'll understand why
Speaker 9: it takes you guys so long to count your ballots.
Speaker 1: I was just going to ask you, Steven, why does
Speaker 1: it take so long to get these stupid ballots counted?
Speaker 9: If I were in Sacramento, i'd have the answer. I
Speaker 9: don't know the answer. The bottom line is we're still waiting,
Speaker 9: and so you know, I think more than twenty percent
Speaker 9: of the of the expected vote in California still yet
Speaker 9: to come in, And so a couple of these districts,
Speaker 9: particularly in the central not central coast, but I don't
Speaker 9: know what you call that region, part of the center
Speaker 9: of the state, is still up for grabs, and I
Speaker 9: guess we'll wait to see what happens. But in the
Speaker 9: sixteen districts are still outstanding, Republicans have a lead in
Speaker 9: eight of them, Democrats have a lead in the other eight.
Speaker 9: If those leads hold, you'll have a House that looks
Speaker 9: very much the same in terms of the Republican majority
Speaker 9: as they currently.
Speaker 1: Enjoy because we have how many now can like official.
Speaker 9: Well, we count two hundred fourteen for the Republicans, two
Speaker 9: hundred and five for the Democrats. That's total of four
Speaker 9: hundred and nineteen of the four hundred and thirty five.
Speaker 1: So if they held the way the numbers are looking now,
Speaker 1: the Republicans would have two twenty two and they need
Speaker 1: two eighteen for control.
Speaker 9: You got it right, So they would have a narrow
Speaker 9: majority that's akin to the majority they had when the
Speaker 9: Congress that we're currently in began almost two years ago,
Speaker 9: where it was difficult for Kevin McCarthy to hold the gavel.
Speaker 9: He wound up losing it. It was difficult for the
Speaker 9: Republican Speaker, Mike Johnson to get much through. And so
Speaker 9: let's see what happens. You know, the whole idea of
Speaker 9: Trump being able to do what he wants with unified
Speaker 9: government depends on Republican unity. And if the majority is
Speaker 9: as thin as it has been for the last couple
Speaker 9: of years, it could be tough depending on what he
Speaker 9: wants to get done, but it also might serve as
Speaker 9: a moderating force. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And one of the races that you were talking
Speaker 1: about in California that is still contested is out of
Speaker 1: Santa Clarita and Anelope Valley. Democrat George Whiteside is now
Speaker 1: leading Mike Garcia, the Republican, by more than forty seven
Speaker 1: hundred votes. So Garcia had the lead, and over the
Speaker 1: weekend it flipped.
Speaker 9: I see it right here, eighty four percent of the
Speaker 9: expected vote in California's twenty seventh district. Whiteside, the Democrat,
Speaker 9: ahead of Garcia fifty percent to forty nine percent, but
Speaker 9: against sixteen percent of the expected votes. Still outstanding and
Speaker 9: ABC News is not projected a winner in that.
Speaker 1: Race, and we will continue to follow it. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Stephen Portnoy. I appreciate it as always, you beat.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ooh, how about
Speaker 1: more election results. Voters in California have rejected a measure
Speaker 1: amending the state constitution to ban forced labor in prison.
Speaker 1: Nearly fifty four percent of voter said no to Proposition six.
Speaker 1: Supporters of the measure say inmates are often paid less
Speaker 1: than a dollar an hour to fight fires, clean sells,
Speaker 1: and do landscaping work at cemeteries. The work is voluntary
Speaker 1: in exchange for credits toward an inmate's sentence. More than
Speaker 1: two dozen monkeys that escape from a facility in South
Speaker 1: Carolina have been captured. ABC's Dave Packers's eighteen others are
Speaker 1: still running around, but they're staying close to home.
Speaker 2: Police saying the privates are hanging around the perimeter fence
Speaker 2: of the facility, cooing at their fellow primeates still inside.
Speaker 2: Their behavior calm and playful.
Speaker 1: The little monkey's got away Wednesday when a worker failed
Speaker 1: to close a door properly. The monks, a monkey's catched over.
Speaker 1: The captured over the weekend were said to be doing well,
Speaker 1: and one of them had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Speaker 1: A new Star Wars trilogy is in the work. Slucasfilm
Speaker 1: has tapped Simon Kinberg to write and produce a new
Speaker 1: Saga of films. Kimberg co created the hit animated series
Speaker 1: Star Wars Rebels and served as a consultant on The
Speaker 1: Force Awakens. It comes as other Star Wars projects remain
Speaker 1: in development from filmmakers including Donald Glover, Teiko Watiti and
Speaker 1: James Mangold. Of course, we did mention that today is
Speaker 1: Veterans Day and there are celebrations and events being held
Speaker 1: all over the place to say thank you to our veterans.
Speaker 1: A lot of veterans and families gather the Battleship Iowa
Speaker 1: in San Pedro called the Battleship of Presidents. Also, they're
Speaker 1: celebrating Veterans Day at the Queen Mary. This is for
Speaker 1: veterans and active duty personnel and their families. There's free
Speaker 1: admission to the Queen Mary today from ten to six
Speaker 1: and all kinds of Veterans Day activities. You do need
Speaker 1: to pre register, and that one is for veterans and
Speaker 1: active duty personnel. You can pre register on Queen Mary's website.
Speaker 1: This is very cool. The City of Santa Monica is
Speaker 1: doing a Veterans Day ceremony and they're gonna have guests
Speaker 1: and speakers and the three hundredth Army Band is going
Speaker 1: to be performing. And then tonight the Pacific Wheel at
Speaker 1: Pacific Park of course on the pier is going to
Speaker 1: have an enormous American flag lit up and the seals
Speaker 1: representing the Fined five Armed Services. That happens starting at sunset.
Speaker 1: And let's see City of Santa Clarita's co hosting an
Speaker 1: event that honors veterans and includes Veterans Day remarks by
Speaker 1: local veterans. That's happening at eleven am at the Veterans
Speaker 1: Historical Plaza. And there is a Veterans Day Parade, the
Speaker 1: twenty first Anuel Parade in San Fernando Valley honoring those
Speaker 1: who served past and present. That begins at eleven eleven
Speaker 1: this morning. It starts at Laurel Canyon and San Fernando
Speaker 1: Mission Boulevards and Mission Hills South on Laurel Canyon to
Speaker 1: Paxton in Pacoima. Please thank the vets today. They've provided
Speaker 1: so much to us and literally put their lives on
Speaker 1: the line for us. Very humbling. This is KFI and
Speaker 1: kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local
Speaker 1: live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King.
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