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Speaker 1: Okay, good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake
Speaker 1: up call for Wednesday, July thirty, first last day of July,
Speaker 1: said Captain Obvious. So you know what that means? Less
Speaker 1: than six months till Christmas? Actually is it five months
Speaker 1: to Christmas? Well, that's right, less than six month? Was
Speaker 1: technically I was right? Yes, yeah. Having so much fun
Speaker 1: watching the Olympics. Are you guys watching? I mean it
Speaker 1: is I just dig it and of course basking in
Speaker 1: the glow of the gold for Team USA. So much
Speaker 1: fun to watch. We're getting our Olympic update from Paris
Speaker 1: with ABC's Ennez de la Catera. That's coming up at
Speaker 1: five twenty. Don't want to miss it. She's got some
Speaker 1: great fun insights from Paris. Here's what's ahead on wake
Speaker 1: Up Call. Two fires burning in the Inland Empire are growing.
Speaker 1: A fire in Iguanga has burned more than forty nine
Speaker 1: hundred acres now there are evacuation warnings up in the areas.
Speaker 1: The fire burns in steep rugged terrain. Another fire has
Speaker 1: broken out and is threatening homes in Apple Valley. That
Speaker 1: fire started yesterday afternoon and has been fanned by winds.
Speaker 1: It's zero percent surrounded. Hamasa's top political leader has been
Speaker 1: killed in an airstrike in Tehran, Iran. The assassination of
Speaker 1: Ismail Hanaya increases the risk of the conflict in the
Speaker 1: Middle East escalating to an all out war. Iran's supreme
Speaker 1: leader has vowed revenge against Israel, and I was in
Speaker 1: Iran to attend the inauguration of the country's new president.
Speaker 1: The FED is meeting today and could signal that it's
Speaker 1: ready to lower interest rates for the first time in
Speaker 1: four years. Inflation has been falling steadily, closer to the
Speaker 1: fed's two percent target, and the job market has cooled,
Speaker 1: with the jobless rate up about a half percent this year.
Speaker 1: The rate cut could come at the fed's September meeting
Speaker 1: at six oh five. It's handle on the news. The
Speaker 1: director of the controversial Project twenty twenty five has stepped down.
Speaker 1: Bill's going to tell you why. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. LA County has weighed its options following
Speaker 1: an executive order to remove homeless camps.
Speaker 4: The Board of Supervisors talked about the issue for several
Speaker 4: hours with homeless agencies, the Sheriff's Department, and County staff.
Speaker 5: Supervisor.
Speaker 4: Hilde Sally says it remains clear to her LA County
Speaker 4: won't be able to arrest its way out of homelessness.
Speaker 6: Our jails should never be used as an alternative for housing.
Speaker 1: We've said that for many, many years on this board.
Speaker 4: Instead, county leaders have said they will engage all eighty
Speaker 4: eight cities on adopting uniform policy on homeless camps so
Speaker 4: communities aren't left fighting with each other on what to
Speaker 4: do in downtown La.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1: News I Guaranteed Basic income program in LA that offered
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a month for a year to low
Speaker 1: income families has been called a success by the city.
Speaker 1: Participant Ashley Davis says it was life changing for her
Speaker 1: and her son.
Speaker 7: Times where I probably didn't know where the extra money
Speaker 7: would come from, or if I had an emergency that
Speaker 7: income helped me. I wasn't stressed about it like I
Speaker 7: probably usually would be.
Speaker 1: Two City Council members have pledged an additional two million
Speaker 1: dollars to kickstart a second round of the program. In
Speaker 1: the first year, thirty two hundred families were chosen out
Speaker 1: of more than fifty thousand applicants. More than a half
Speaker 1: dozen smash and grab robbers who hit stores across southern
Speaker 1: California have been sentenced to years in prison.
Speaker 8: Yeate We're given anywhere from one year to more than
Speaker 8: ten year prison terms. Attorney General Rob Bonta says the
Speaker 8: group stole more than one point five million dollars in
Speaker 8: items from high end retailers in La County, Orange County,
Speaker 8: and Riverside County.
Speaker 5: It appears that the stolen goods were divided among those involved.
Speaker 8: Five of the members are part of a viral mob
Speaker 8: that ransacked the nord Strums at the Westfield to Penga
Speaker 8: Mall and Canoga Park. A ninth person who took part
Speaker 8: in the thefts last year is awaiting sentencing. Downtown La
Speaker 8: Blake Trolly k if I News el.
Speaker 1: Hamber police say somebody's been putting fake parking tickets on
Speaker 1: cars around town. The tickets have a QR code on them,
Speaker 1: and if it's scanned it leads to a malicious website
Speaker 1: that officials say may end up with somebody having malware
Speaker 1: downloaded onto their devices. The al Hamber Police Department says
Speaker 1: the fake parking tickets don't look anything like the real
Speaker 1: ones the city uses. Well, what a treat for us.
Speaker 1: We get to talk to Rich d'murro early this morning.
Speaker 1: It's the host of Rich on Tech on KFI and
Speaker 1: KTLA Tech reporter Rich Jamiro. Rich, thanks for switching your
Speaker 1: schedule up so we can get our Olympic updates this week.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I don't want to get in between those athletes
Speaker 5: and their gold medals.
Speaker 1: Oh no, who would? Isn't it fun? Are you watching
Speaker 1: it all?
Speaker 5: We've been watching a little bit. We've got the Peacock
Speaker 5: service so we can watch you know, on demand, which
Speaker 5: is kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Except you know what, I have an issue with the
Speaker 1: Peacock service because it's so hard to navigate that thing.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 1: I want a list of what's coming up. I don't
Speaker 1: want all the little icons that you have to search
Speaker 1: around to find. It's really confusing to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we found the same thing, So I feel like
Speaker 5: the Olympics is always confusing, except when it was just
Speaker 5: linear on TV, it just played, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's fun to be able to kind of
Speaker 1: dip into some of the things that you might not
Speaker 1: normally see too.
Speaker 5: So yeah, like breakdancing or what was the thing? Yeah,
Speaker 5: whatever I watched, it was like the new thing.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the break dancing yet. I watched a
Speaker 1: little skateboarding the other day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, see it's fun.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you have to tell us about California putting
Speaker 1: car titles on the blockchain, and I would love to
Speaker 1: know what that even means.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it sounds really I mean, this is actually
Speaker 5: pretty groundbreaking. So they're digitizing forty two million car titles
Speaker 5: putting them on the blockchain. And if you're familiar with
Speaker 5: the blockchain, this is basically like the foundation of bitcoin.
Speaker 5: So the blockchain is sort of this like ledger online,
Speaker 5: a ledger of record that anyone can see, anyone can verify.
Speaker 5: And so the point of all of this is that
Speaker 5: if you want to transfer your title, it's immediate and
Speaker 5: you know, it might take two minutes versus going to
Speaker 5: the DMV. There's less fraud because anyone can verify who
Speaker 5: owns this title, and it's not a piece of paper anymore.
Speaker 5: So you know that little pink slip that you get
Speaker 5: that's your title. You got to remember where you put it.
Speaker 5: You know. Now you could literally just have this on
Speaker 5: an app and transfer it to someone. It's not going
Speaker 5: to happen overnight. Still got a while before this actually
Speaker 5: is going to be you know, consumer facing. But California
Speaker 5: took the first step of digitizing those titles, and then
Speaker 5: sometime next year we'll be able to actually access them
Speaker 5: and claim them and use them.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you know me by now, I'm always skeptical
Speaker 1: of technology, and so you said it's going to be safer,
Speaker 1: but doesn't it kind of open the door, Like what
Speaker 1: if there's some big hack and somebody starts taking your titles?
Speaker 5: Yeah? See, I actually trust this more than anything else
Speaker 5: because it's on the blockchain, and the blockchain, I mean,
Speaker 5: it's it's very complicated, but the blockchain is just basically
Speaker 5: an open ledger that anyone can verify, so it's verified
Speaker 5: by a network of computers. Like think about this. The
Speaker 5: DMV has a server somewhere that stores information, right and
Speaker 5: in this case, it's really just paperwork, So there's really
Speaker 5: you have to go for a backup whatever. So by
Speaker 5: the blockchain being you know, publicly available and publicly verifiable,
Speaker 5: it means that this is kind of taking this into
Speaker 5: the future. And I actually think it's safer than just
Speaker 5: one system sitting in a basement somewhere storing all this information.
Speaker 5: Now it's stored on the blockchain, which I think is
Speaker 5: a huge move actually by California.
Speaker 1: Okay, and it's not available right away, but be watching
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think that this is a move for other
Speaker 5: states to look at as well, to see how governments
Speaker 5: can incorporate this new advanced technology into their systems to
Speaker 5: make things more efficient for residents.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you're feeling a little lonely, you can get
Speaker 1: a friend for ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is so wild. You have to watch the video.
Speaker 5: This is a new AI powered necklace called Friend. And
Speaker 5: I don't know if this thing's a joke or real
Speaker 5: or what, but it's ninety nine bucks. It's going to
Speaker 5: ship next year. It literally just sits around your neck
Speaker 5: listening to everything that's happening around you, and it sends
Speaker 5: you to messages so you can talk to it. You
Speaker 5: can be like, wow, that was a great you know
Speaker 5: thing I just watched in the Olympics and it'll be like, yeah,
Speaker 5: don't you love skateboarders, Like it'll text you that. Yeah.
Speaker 5: This is so wild. It was created by a twenty
Speaker 5: one year old Avi Schiffman, and basically they said that
Speaker 5: they wanted to cure loneliness and it's so wild. You
Speaker 5: have to watch this this like this video they put
Speaker 5: on there on their website, this Friend video. It's just it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: well it's actually the website is interesting because they they
Speaker 5: bought the website friend dot com for like apparently like
Speaker 5: a lot of money, like eighteen million dollars or something crazy,
Speaker 5: So you can just go to friend dot com. But
Speaker 5: you have to watch the video because it's really like
Speaker 5: it looks like something out of like a sci fi joke,
Speaker 5: but apparently it'll be real.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: It sounds like the movie Her kind of a rudimentary
Speaker 1: version of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think that's what they're going for. But you know,
Speaker 5: people are already knocking this thing because you have to
Speaker 5: kind of for any like it may text you automatically,
Speaker 5: but you can like talk to it. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's just really weird. It's like this pendant that has
Speaker 5: a light on it. It's just like I'm watching it
Speaker 5: last night and I'm like, wait, what is going on here?
Speaker 5: Like is this real? But I will tell you, I
Speaker 5: do think that this idea of AI companionship is a
Speaker 5: real thing, and it will be something that we have
Speaker 5: in the future for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you're not very good at taking selfies and
Speaker 1: I'm pointing at myself, AI can help.
Speaker 5: Yes, you have to try this feature. It is now
Speaker 5: built into Instagram. So go to Instagram, tap into your messages,
Speaker 5: tap into the meta AI and then type in imagine me,
Speaker 5: and it will say, okay, can we take a few
Speaker 5: pictures of you. It'll take a few selfies of you,
Speaker 5: and now you can imagine yourself whenever you want in
Speaker 5: any scenario. So you can say, imagine me as a superhero,
Speaker 5: imagine me. And we just had so much fun with
Speaker 5: this over the past couple of days because you can
Speaker 5: literally say I did like imagine me as an old
Speaker 5: timey president, imagine me and Bridgerton, imagine me in Jurassic Park.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm telling you, any you gotta try this.
Speaker 5: It's so much fun, and everyone that's tried it says
Speaker 5: it is wasted half their day. Really, I've got the
Speaker 5: instructions on my website because it's kind of tricky to
Speaker 5: figure out where it is inside Instagram. But there's no
Speaker 5: extra app you need to download or anything. It's really
Speaker 5: slick and you can use it over and over for free.
Speaker 1: Okay, I definitely I'm going to try that and for
Speaker 1: more great tech tips. You can listen to Rich on
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Speaker 1: We got you covered, okay, perfect, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Rich.
Speaker 1: I gotta go figure out how to do this selfie
Speaker 1: thing that sounds so yeah.
Speaker 5: Do it on a break. You're going to waste your day,
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, all right.
Speaker 1: The union representing LA police officers has defended an officer
Speaker 1: caught on a viral video punching a black man who
Speaker 1: was being taken into custody. The LA Police Protective Lea
Speaker 1: says the portion of the encounter seen on video is misleading,
Speaker 1: lax context, and is being exploited by some for political reasons.
Speaker 1: The man's family is suing. Eighty two suspected copper wire
Speaker 1: thieves have been arrested after a massive raid in downtown La.
Speaker 1: The LAPD says two one thousand pounds of stolen copper
Speaker 1: wire was recovered. Copper wire theft has cost the city
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars in repairs in recent years.
Speaker 1: The City of La is giving restaurant owners more time
Speaker 1: to apply for the city's Alfresco dining Program permit. Today
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the last day for owners to
Speaker 1: apply for the permits to be allowed to permanently offer
Speaker 1: outdoor dining on sidewalks and streets and other spaces, but
Speaker 1: Mayorbaths announced yesterday the new deadline is December thirty, first,
Speaker 1: at six oh five. It's handle on the news. The
Speaker 1: acting head of the Secret Service kept it simple. He says,
Speaker 1: secret Service screwed up. Right now, let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to Inez de la Katera in Ferry Bojouriness.
Speaker 5: Oh sure, we did it, we did it.
Speaker 1: We did it. Yeah, okay, and we got it. And
Speaker 1: we're talking about the women's gymnastics team and you were
Speaker 1: there for it. You got to see it in person.
Speaker 6: I did it was absolutely amazing. I did have to
Speaker 6: leave halfway through, sadly I had live shots to get too,
Speaker 6: but I did catch the first half, so I got
Speaker 6: to see vaults and uneven bars and it was absolutely
Speaker 6: electric in there. It was BacT with kid flags everywhere
Speaker 6: anywhere you looked. And when they walked out, you know,
Speaker 6: into the room at the start of the competition, the
Speaker 6: crowd went absolutely wild. So you know, it was really
Speaker 6: fun to see that the crowd going even crazier, of
Speaker 6: course than they actually won the gold. So yeah, really
Speaker 6: a fun vibe here in Paris for the women's all
Speaker 6: around final in gymnastics.
Speaker 1: So cool and the best part of all of that. Okay,
Speaker 1: the best part is the gold, but the second best
Speaker 1: part is there so much more gymnastics to come. We're
Speaker 1: not done with gymnastics yet.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, We've got a lot, a lot more to look
Speaker 6: forward to. So the men, of course, just won the
Speaker 6: bronze tm USA, the women winning the gold. We now
Speaker 6: have the individual competitions to look ahead to. So this is,
Speaker 6: you know, individual athletes coming face to face. The men's
Speaker 6: happening tonight for the all around. The women's will be
Speaker 6: I believe it's tomorrow, and that one's going to be
Speaker 6: especially interesting to watch because you've got Simon Biles up
Speaker 6: against Sony Lee's so they are two all around champions,
Speaker 6: both coming face to face, both from from tm USA,
Speaker 6: so that's the first time that's happened. Another one to
Speaker 6: watch during that competition will be Rebecca and Rade, the
Speaker 6: Brazilian who is a total star as well, and she's
Speaker 6: the only one who really has a chance of challenging
Speaker 6: Simoon here who is favored to win the gold. So
Speaker 6: that's going to be an interesting matchup. It will be
Speaker 6: interesting to see how they challenge each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and as now I have a question for you,
Speaker 1: since you were there and you got to see it
Speaker 1: and feel it and all of that. Are the other
Speaker 1: teams having fun or are they just like going, oh God,
Speaker 1: here comes the US. I mean, what what what does
Speaker 1: that feel like to say it?
Speaker 6: So, I love fan base that was there as well,
Speaker 6: and they were they were very loud. They were maybe
Speaker 6: you know, there were fewer of them, but they were
Speaker 6: certainly very loud. The Brazilians you knew where the Brazilian
Speaker 6: fans were, and they're very, very good as well, So
Speaker 6: I think they were having fun. They had a bit
Speaker 6: of a scary moment where one of their as one
Speaker 6: of their gymnasts, injured herself during warm ups and she
Speaker 6: actually saw that black guy she yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the uneven bars and like they were doing something
Speaker 1: and she was in the background and you went, oh
Speaker 1: my god, she just yep, and it happens.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she split her eyebrow open. Yeah yeah, but she
Speaker 6: powered through, you know, and they still did well. They
Speaker 6: I mean, it was exciting for them. They won the
Speaker 6: bronze here and this was the first time they've ever medled.
Speaker 6: They typically finished last in competitions, so it was really
Speaker 6: a historic night for them as well, and Italy getting
Speaker 6: their first podium since nineteen twenty eight. They got the silver,
Speaker 6: so they did well and then you know, I mean everyone,
Speaker 6: it's crazy to go. I had never been to a
Speaker 6: competition like this, and that they're competing on all the
Speaker 6: different you know, rotations at the same time, so you've
Speaker 6: got you know, Brazil was on uneven bars, you know,
Speaker 6: say their poor routine, while someone else was doing the beams,
Speaker 6: so there's so much going on all at once, and yeah,
Speaker 6: it's really fun.
Speaker 1: I think one of the most amazing things is when
Speaker 1: ever the crowd's going wild when somebody comes off the
Speaker 1: uneven parallel bars or or they finish a floor routine
Speaker 1: and everybody goes crazy, and then there's somebody up there
Speaker 1: on a four inch beam doing backflips. I'm like, how
Speaker 1: do you tune out everything to stay on that beach?
Speaker 6: It's amazing, exactly, exactly, No, it's really incredible, and as
Speaker 6: a viewer you're not really sure where to look, but
Speaker 6: it was, it was. It was really cool, continuous say,
Speaker 6: you know, this is their big redemption after the Tokyo Olympics,
Speaker 6: where they won silver. They had been favored to win
Speaker 6: the gold. They won silver, which is still amazing, but
Speaker 6: they had their site set on gold, so they had
Speaker 6: called this their redemption Tour and they certainly didn't disappoint.
Speaker 6: Their floor routines were amazing. All three of them had
Speaker 6: very dynamic, stunning routines. Someone Biles pulling off her move
Speaker 6: Toning Lee did something that was, you know, even more
Speaker 6: complicated than than the routine she she did for qualification.
Speaker 6: So she really outdid herself.
Speaker 1: It was so fun to watch, and I have it
Speaker 1: recorded so I can watch it again and again. Okay,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a shocker. Our flag bearer Coco
Speaker 1: Golf is out.
Speaker 6: I know, such a bummer. I'm a big Cocoa golf band,
Speaker 6: so I was a bit bummed. Yet she so she
Speaker 6: was one of our flag bearers that were high hopes
Speaker 6: for her. She was eliminated from the women's single portion
Speaker 6: of the of the Games. She was defeated in the
Speaker 6: third round by Donna Beckich of Croatia, and she kind
Speaker 6: of lost her cool. At one point she had a
Speaker 6: lengthy argument with the umpire over a call. She was
Speaker 6: clearly getting more and more frustrated she was in tears
Speaker 6: by the end of it, and she later said she
Speaker 6: feels she always has to advocate for herself on the
Speaker 6: tennis court, so you know, that was a disappointment. But
Speaker 6: she does continue to compete in doubles, so we'll keep
Speaker 6: an eye on her during doubles.
Speaker 1: Okay, and tam Usa is even doing well in soccer.
Speaker 6: They are yes, moving to quarterfinals for the first time
Speaker 6: in twenty four years, Skinna, so that was a big deal,
Speaker 6: would be against Guinea.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, you dropped out for a second.
Speaker 6: They're sorry, Oh gotcha?
Speaker 11: Got so?
Speaker 6: And they I mean yeah, they're I mean tem say,
Speaker 6: racking up the metals and a bunch of different disciplines.
Speaker 6: So that's you know, from the getting medals and gymnastics
Speaker 6: of course, fencing, swimming, skateboarding. We're doing very well in basketball,
Speaker 6: so lots of I think we're also a great start.
Speaker 6: We now have we've we've we've been in the lead
Speaker 6: in terms of the total number of medals, but that continues.
Speaker 6: We are now at twenty six medals total with four gold,
Speaker 6: eleven silvers, eleven bronzes.
Speaker 1: Not too shabby and we still have twelve days to go.
Speaker 1: Uh and are are you going to watch competition today?
Speaker 6: So today I ran down to the send the triathlon
Speaker 6: was happening. Is they did go? You know we've been
Speaker 6: talking about this, how there were everybody was very skeptical.
Speaker 6: I was very skeptical as to whether.
Speaker 1: It would happen.
Speaker 6: The swimming portion of the triathlon was set to be
Speaker 6: held in the seen. The men's triathlon had to be delayed,
Speaker 6: was supposed to be held. Yes, it was delayed to
Speaker 6: today because of concerns over poor water quality. And they
Speaker 6: went ahead on today. So that was really something. I mean,
Speaker 6: it was historic. And no one's swimming in the set
Speaker 6: has been banned for over one hundred.
Speaker 5: Years due to poor water.
Speaker 1: Quo, let's do athlete.
Speaker 6: There we go exactly, all right, exactly, so hopefully they're
Speaker 6: all okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect And as Dela Katara, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for giving us the latest from Paris and sharing the
Speaker 1: excitement that you're feeling so much fun to hear you.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, wall a congressman from Orange County, has
Speaker 1: joined a task force of Democrats and Republicans to investigate
Speaker 1: the assassination attempt on former President Trump.
Speaker 10: This is not the first time I've heard that there's
Speaker 10: tension between a presidential campaign and the SUCOD Service.
Speaker 2: Congressman Lukearea says he was astounded and shocked at the
Speaker 2: security lapses he saw when the task force visited the
Speaker 2: shooting site in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 10: I'm hearing rumors about the Obama campaign having similar to.
Speaker 5: He says, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 10: But if I see the Trump campaign having these challenges,
Speaker 10: and we do see them, then it tells me that
Speaker 10: we need to revisit the Secret Service, how they do
Speaker 10: the job and what they need to do right.
Speaker 2: Corra says the task force announced Monday is nonpartisan because
Speaker 2: this is about protecting democracy, not.
Speaker 10: Looking at pointing any fingers, but rather making sure we
Speaker 10: have a system that reduces the possibility of another successful
Speaker 10: assassination of TAMP.
Speaker 2: The task force is required to report its findings to
Speaker 2: Congress by December.
Speaker 5: In Orange County, Corbin Carson k if I News, the.
Speaker 1: Man accused of starting the massive fire in northern California
Speaker 1: that's burned more than three hundred and eighty thousand acres,
Speaker 1: said in court it was an accident. He says his
Speaker 1: car rolled down a hill and caught fire. A witness
Speaker 1: says forty two year old Ronne Stout pushed a burning
Speaker 1: car down into a gully. She's or He's scheduled to
Speaker 1: be back in court tomorrow. Nearly two hundred homes and
Speaker 1: buildings have been destroyed in that fire. Israeli military says
Speaker 1: it wants to avoid a wider war with Hesbola, but
Speaker 1: it's ready for any scenario. Military spokesman Daniel Hudago says
Speaker 1: Israeli fighter jets eliminated a senior Hesbola military commander near Beirut,
Speaker 1: and a Hamas leader has been assassinated in an airstrike
Speaker 1: in Iran. Israel has not claimed responsibility for that one.
Speaker 1: How's this for a medal count? The US has become
Speaker 1: the first country in history to win more than three
Speaker 1: thousand Olympic medals. The US had twenty nine hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five headed into the twenty twenty four Games. Team
Speaker 1: USA won its twenty sixth medal yesterday. That makes it
Speaker 1: a record three thousand one. There are twelve days left
Speaker 1: of competition at six oh five. It's handled on the news,
Speaker 1: ammunition vending machines may be coming to California at five
Speaker 1: point fifty, We're going to go dig into Southwest new
Speaker 1: policy that they just announced to have assigned seats and
Speaker 1: find out how much that's going to cost you.
Speaker 7: Amy's on it, AMI's on it, as on.
Speaker 1: It, Aami's on it? What am I on? I'm on
Speaker 1: the stream? And uh, the reason that I'm on the
Speaker 1: stream is because there's so much content out there. You know,
Speaker 1: there's the shows that we all hear about, but then
Speaker 1: there's so many other shows, and so I dig around
Speaker 1: and try to find some stuff, and a lot of
Speaker 1: times I take recommendations from friends and family and co workers,
Speaker 1: and then I pass my recommendations on to you, maybe
Speaker 1: get you to watch a really interesting show, or maybe
Speaker 1: save you a little time if it's really bad, and say,
Speaker 1: don't even bother, but this one is a really interesting show.
Speaker 1: So it's on Netflix. And it's a documentary called I
Speaker 1: Am Vanessa Geehan And I can't remember where I found
Speaker 1: out about this, but it's a it's a documentary about
Speaker 1: a woman who disappeared, and you probably have heard the story.
Speaker 1: She went missing in April of twenty twenty. She was
Speaker 1: stationed at Fort Hood in Texas. She's twenty years old,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to tell you out of the gate,
Speaker 1: this is not a hate on the military piece. I
Speaker 1: am a strong supporter of the military. I always have been,
Speaker 1: always will be. But I think what this brings to
Speaker 1: light is that there are bad actors in pretty much
Speaker 1: every sector of our society, and sometimes the darkness spreads
Speaker 1: and sometimes a lot of people look the other way.
Speaker 1: And as time change, hopefully people change and organizations change,
Speaker 1: and maybe this story can bring about change. So Vanessa
Speaker 1: Gian's family was like, where'd she go? What happened? She
Speaker 1: just disappeared one day. They couldn't get any answers from
Speaker 1: the military, and they tried and tried and tried. So
Speaker 1: Vanessa Gian was a small arms artillery repairer in the army,
Speaker 1: and this shows how she loved her country, she loved
Speaker 1: her service, her struggles with being sexually harassed on base,
Speaker 1: her disappearance and then the search for her. Her sister
Speaker 1: posted that her sister had been sexually assaulted, and then
Speaker 1: other people started coming forward to share their stories about
Speaker 1: what was going on. And apparently this happened to both
Speaker 1: men and women at the base. And again, this is
Speaker 1: not an attack on the military. It's just the reality
Speaker 1: of what happens sometimes, and it's just a tragic story
Speaker 1: of Vanessa and how hopefully her tragedy leads to a safer,
Speaker 1: better world for the people who come after her. Vanessa's
Speaker 1: remains were found, and her story doesn't really end because
Speaker 1: history was made with Vanessa and some changes are coming
Speaker 1: because of what happened to her. And it's a beautiful
Speaker 1: and it's a heart wrenching story. But it's called I
Speaker 1: Am Vanessa Geean Documentary on Netflix, and I think it's
Speaker 1: definitely worth your time. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Huntington Beach says a court granting the city a year
Speaker 1: to zone for more than thirteen thousand affordable housing units
Speaker 1: is a win.
Speaker 2: Huntington Beach has fought the state affordable housing mandate since
Speaker 2: the plan was due in twenty twenty one. City attorney
Speaker 2: Michael Gates says, even though a judge ultimately ruled the
Speaker 2: city violated state law, pushing back against unrealistic housing mandates
Speaker 2: is worthwhile to protect against urbanization.
Speaker 9: The state wanted the court to penalize the city and
Speaker 9: basically order the city to update his housing element within
Speaker 9: one hundred and twenty days, and so it's been almost
Speaker 9: a year and a half since then, and then now
Speaker 9: we get another year.
Speaker 5: He says.
Speaker 2: The city will work on a zoning plan as ordered
Speaker 2: by a judge this month, but a lot can change
Speaker 2: in a year.
Speaker 5: In Orange County, Corbin Carson Kepi.
Speaker 1: News, prosecutors say the father of a teenage girl from
Speaker 1: Monterey Park has been charged with faking her disappearance.
Speaker 5: It's convicted on all charges.
Speaker 11: The La County Deanie's office says Jeffrey Chowell could get
Speaker 11: fined years in prison. Prosecutor Saint Chow's been accused of
Speaker 11: filing the false missing person's report and concealing his fifteen
Speaker 11: year old daughter. On July sixteenth, the girl was last
Speaker 11: seen on home surveillance video riding her bike. Chow had
Speaker 11: said she was head to do a relative's house, but
Speaker 11: never arrived For more than a week, people put up
Speaker 11: flyers and searched the area. Finally, on the twenty third,
Speaker 11: the girl was seen in front of a TV station
Speaker 11: in Glendale and was picked up by police. Prosecutors say
Speaker 11: Chow convinced the girl to go along with his plan
Speaker 11: Steve Gregory Tayafin News.
Speaker 1: He is brought to you by American Vision Windows. A
Speaker 1: twenty five year old woman who posed as a nurse
Speaker 1: and snatched a new born from her mother at a
Speaker 1: hospital in Marino Valley has pleaded guilty to kidnapping. In
Speaker 1: exchange for the guilty plea, the Riverside County DA dropped
Speaker 1: three other charges against Jessinia Mirren Miren tried to take
Speaker 1: the baby from Riverside University Medical Center in July twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Hospital staff confronted her and she was not
Speaker 1: able to leave the hospital with the baby, who was
Speaker 1: not hurt. A brush fire in Apple Valley and San
Speaker 1: Bernardino County is threatening homes. The fires burned about three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty acres since it started yesterday afternoon. Evacuations
Speaker 1: were ordered for a neighborhood south of Roundup Way and
Speaker 1: Bella Vista. A brushfire near Temecula has grown to over
Speaker 1: forty nine hundred acres. It started Monday. Riverside County fire
Speaker 1: officials say it's been pushed by the wind and the terrain.
Speaker 1: Four buildings were damaged, one was destroyed yesterday afternoon, and
Speaker 1: evacuation order was issued for homes south of Highway three
Speaker 1: seventy one north of the San Diego County line. The
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade are a big economic
Speaker 1: boon for LA. An economic report from the Pasadena Tournament
Speaker 1: of Roses says the two events pumped two hundred forty
Speaker 1: five million dollars into the Greater LA area and generated
Speaker 1: almost thirty six million dollars in tax revenue. The report
Speaker 1: says visitors didn't only spend money in Pasadena, but also
Speaker 1: in downtown La, Hollywood, Santa Monica, at Universal Studios, and
Speaker 1: of course Disneyland. Okay, we've all heard of going for
Speaker 1: the gold, but have you heard of going for the glade.
Speaker 1: Krispy Kream is encouraging fans to go for the glaze
Speaker 1: during the Summer Olympic Games. Yesterday, yesterday they had dollar donuts.
Speaker 1: Today they have dollar donuts. If you are a Krispy
Speaker 1: Kream Rewards member, I'm guessing it's pretty easy to sign up.
Speaker 1: You can get original glazed one buck no limit in shop,
Speaker 1: and you can also get them on the app and
Speaker 1: the website while supplies last. So Krispy Kreme is going
Speaker 1: all in for the Olympics. They've got the go Usa donut,
Speaker 1: which is very cute. It's an original glazed donut, hand
Speaker 1: dipped in white icing, decorated with patriotic red icing stripes
Speaker 1: and blue and gold sprinkles. It looks like a flag.
Speaker 1: It's very cute. And then also for the Olympics, they
Speaker 1: have their Passport to Paris collection, a Crem Bru lay donut,
Speaker 1: a double chocolate Eclaire donut, and the raspberry and Vanilla
Speaker 1: Krem donut. They'll be around for the duration of the games.
Speaker 1: Always a good excuse to go to Krispy Kreme and
Speaker 1: go for the glaze. Two fires burning in the Inland
Speaker 1: Empire are growing. A fire in Iguanga has burned more
Speaker 1: than forty nine hundred acres. There are evacuation warnings up
Speaker 1: in the area as the fire burns in steep rugged terrain.
Speaker 1: Another fire broke out yesterday afternoon. It's now threatening homes
Speaker 1: in Apple Valley. The fire is being fanned by wins
Speaker 1: and is zero percent surrounded. Vice President Harris is at
Speaker 1: the presidential campaign trail. She had her first real rally
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. She accused former President Trump of refusing to
Speaker 1: debate despite as she said, Trump and his VP pick
Speaker 1: jd Vance have a lot to say about her. Harris
Speaker 1: also went on to call out Trump on immigration, saying
Speaker 1: she will put her record against his any day late
Speaker 1: night hosts Jimmy Kimmel not returning to host the Academy
Speaker 1: Awards for a fifth time, entertainment outlets say turned the
Speaker 1: gig down, So for now, there is no host yet
Speaker 1: for the ninety seventh Academy Awards, which will be presented
Speaker 1: March second at the Doby Theater in Hollywood. Let's take
Speaker 1: good Morning now to aviation specialist Jay Ratlifte. Jay, we
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to you because Southwest is making some
Speaker 1: changes and I figured if anybody knew about it, it
Speaker 1: would be you.
Speaker 12: Good morning, well cleanly good morning. Yeah, we saw this
Speaker 12: com It's not like I'm a great profit here, but
Speaker 12: we knew Southwest was going to have to make some
Speaker 12: changes because coming into the year they were had a
Speaker 12: profit or achieve me a quarter where they didn't make money.
Speaker 12: And for Southwest Airlines, who prints money, they do better
Speaker 12: than anybody. They've been having some problems and we knew
Speaker 12: from a standpoint of from revenue they can make more
Speaker 12: money if they assign seats, and there's been a lot
Speaker 12: of pressure on Southwest to make that move, and I
Speaker 12: thought by the end of the year they would announce
Speaker 12: that they're going to do that, and they did it early,
Speaker 12: and I'm glad for it because it's long overdue. Because
Speaker 12: the thought is this, if we can give passengers assigned seats,
Speaker 12: it's going to change the boarding process at Southwest, which
Speaker 12: the best I can describe it for those that haven't
Speaker 12: flown Southwest, which is an incredible airline, it's like Black Friday.
Speaker 12: At the gate, it's open seating. You've got all these
Speaker 12: different groups, people are shoving all but before we can
Speaker 12: board them, we've got forty eight wheelchairs with everybody traveling
Speaker 12: with them. Most of these people don't need wheelchairs. They
Speaker 12: put forty eight wheelchairs on because that allows them to
Speaker 12: board early. And then at the other end, only three
Speaker 12: people need wheelchairs. We call those Jesus flights. But apparently
Speaker 12: everybody got healed during the flight. So now that it's
Speaker 12: assigned seating, we're going to get away from that. It's
Speaker 12: going to allow the process to be a lot more
Speaker 12: enjoyable and relaxed. And Southwest is going to need it
Speaker 12: because they're also going to bring in premium seats, the larger,
Speaker 12: a little bit more plush coach seats, more leg room,
Speaker 12: something that passengers have been screaming for at other carriers.
Speaker 12: Now Southwest is going to maybe third of their flight
Speaker 12: with these. It's going to make the travel experience so
Speaker 12: much different and so much better, and I'm glad to
Speaker 12: see it. And again I think it's long overdue.
Speaker 1: Okay, so are they putting in an actual first class
Speaker 1: or they're just going to do premium seating.
Speaker 12: Premium premium. In other words, it's still going to be
Speaker 12: coached seats on their Boeing seven thirty sevens, and they're
Speaker 12: going to have I think a third of the aircraft
Speaker 12: at most that's going to have the more extra leg
Speaker 12: room where they can charge more money. And the thought
Speaker 12: is that we've seen this with Delta American United, where
Speaker 12: they put in these economy plus seats, we'll call them
Speaker 12: so much in fact, that some of these airlines have
Speaker 12: actually got rid of a couple of their first class
Speaker 12: seats to make room for more of these coach seats,
Speaker 12: which is unthinkable that never would have happened before. But
Speaker 12: those are the seats right now that are in the
Speaker 12: highest demand. So Southwest is saying they're talking to a
Speaker 12: lot of their customers that haven't flown them much of late,
Speaker 12: that have gone to other carriers. They said, if we
Speaker 12: could have something similar to this on Southwest, we would
Speaker 12: come back. Southwest is look, we've listened, this is what
Speaker 12: they want, this is what we're going to do, and
Speaker 12: in the process go to this assigned seating, which means
Speaker 12: they can also charge the premium seats of Oh, you
Speaker 12: want an aisle seat, that's more money. You want a
Speaker 12: window seat that's more money, you want an ext row bulkhead. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 12: they're gonna they're gonna think this.
Speaker 1: So Jay, everybody's doing it. But at some point are
Speaker 1: people going to fight back against this because I mean,
Speaker 1: you're saying it's a great thing. I hate that there's
Speaker 1: these oh I can buy that seat for thirty nine dollars,
Speaker 1: and I can buy that one for forty nine dollars,
Speaker 1: and now the airlines will go, oh, if you want
Speaker 1: to sit next to each other, that's going to cost
Speaker 1: you extra. I mean, it just seems like they're it's
Speaker 1: just more fees and more fees.
Speaker 12: Well for the for the families traveling together that the
Speaker 12: they it should be and the way they've been pressured
Speaker 12: by the government to do so. They're going to make
Speaker 12: it where it's not going to be cost prohibited for
Speaker 12: a family to do so. And I'm glad to see
Speaker 12: that being the case, because you never want to be
Speaker 12: penalized just to have your family of four or five
Speaker 12: that's going to be sitting together. But airlines look at
Speaker 12: it this way. The option is yours. If you want
Speaker 12: to spend more on a nicer seat, you can. If
Speaker 12: you just want to pay for basic transportation and you're
Speaker 12: okay sitting in the middle seat, that's okay as well.
Speaker 12: Airlines are all about a telling us that we have options,
Speaker 12: which again be to your point exactly, is this just
Speaker 12: an excuse to feist to death? These ancillary fees raise
Speaker 12: billions of dollars of money for airlines and beyond just
Speaker 12: the cost of basic transportation. So they've started this maybe
Speaker 12: twelve fifteen years ago, and they started with a few
Speaker 12: fees with bags, check bag fees and other things which
Speaker 12: used to be free. And they have gotten to the
Speaker 12: point now where every time you turn around there's a oh,
Speaker 12: you want to make your seat assignment in advance I'm sorry,
Speaker 12: that's a fee too. So it really just it wears
Speaker 12: you out when you travel. And that's why you and
Speaker 12: I've talked before, you endure travel. We no longer enjoy travel.
Speaker 12: We endure it just to get to our destination.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The last time I flew on one of the low
Speaker 1: cost carriers, it's a Vello. They charge if you want
Speaker 1: to pick any seat, they charge you for it because
Speaker 1: their basic their basic fare is very low. So I
Speaker 1: I didn't and I said, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1: It's just a two hour flight. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: pay for it. And so I didn't, and then I
Speaker 1: lucked out and I ended up with a whole road
Speaker 1: to myself. But that doesn't always happen.
Speaker 12: So Georgia said, what do you think of that airline?
Speaker 1: I think they're great. I mean, for a low cost airline,
Speaker 1: they just charge you for absolutely everything. They charge you
Speaker 1: for carry on, they charge you for luggage, checking luggage,
Speaker 1: they don't have anyone.
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, that's an extra fee too, I know, and
Speaker 12: user a discount this this week.
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, they were very nice and and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean it's a like you said, you're enduring
Speaker 1: the travel. I was just going from point A to
Speaker 1: at point B. It wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 12: So real quickly, if I may on Southwest, the next
Speaker 12: shoot drop is going to be bags fly free. Eventually
Speaker 12: that's going to go yeah, And that's why we're on
Speaker 12: the same page here. They because they're going to say, look,
Speaker 12: rising fuel costs, we really hate to but we're gonna
Speaker 12: have to charge ten dollars a bag, and they're really
Speaker 12: going to just make it sound like it's the worst
Speaker 12: thing in the world. It's still going to be cheaper
Speaker 12: than other airlines. And believe me, they're loyal following is
Speaker 12: going to say, look, we understand. Of course, then that
Speaker 12: ten is going to go to fifteen, that's going to
Speaker 12: go to twenty. But it'll eventually get there. But they're
Speaker 12: leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table right now,
Speaker 12: and investors are pushing hard. Look, I don't want you
Speaker 12: to be like every other airline, but we've got to
Speaker 12: make some changes. And now that they've gone to assigned seats,
Speaker 12: anything is on the table and bags fly where you'll
Speaker 12: be A policy that I suspect in the next six
Speaker 12: months to a year is probably going to be amended
Speaker 12: some way where they can start seeing a little bit
Speaker 12: more revenue on the check bag side.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll definitely have to talk then to see if
Speaker 1: your prediction is correct. When are they going to roll
Speaker 1: this out, Jake.
Speaker 12: The sign seat sometime later this year. I think maybe September.
Speaker 12: It'sh October. They've got to reconfigure some of the planes
Speaker 12: so that they've got the premium seats available. That's going
Speaker 12: to take some time, and certainly before the end of
Speaker 12: the year we should see it, and then by next
Speaker 12: year across the system. And again I'm very excited about
Speaker 12: it because at least it gives us options and you
Speaker 12: have assigned seats. You can sit with your wife, husband,
Speaker 12: whoever you're traveling with, and at least if you're running late,
Speaker 12: you don't have to panic because you're the last person
Speaker 12: on the plane and you get whatever seats it's left over.
Speaker 1: All right, Jay Ratliffe, always a pleasure to talk to
Speaker 1: you and get your insights and your information. And again
Speaker 1: you predicted this one. We'll see if baggage claim or
Speaker 1: baggage fees are next.
Speaker 12: If it doesn't, call me back and say, Jay, you
Speaker 12: were wrong and I'm certainly.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 12: In thirty some years, I've gotten a lot of things wrong,
Speaker 12: but I've been a few things right.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks so much, Jay anytime. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Simone Biles and the
Speaker 1: US women's gymnastics team have secured the gold medal in
Speaker 1: the Olympic finals. The Americans total of one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy one point two topped Italy and Brazil. The crowd
Speaker 1: chanted Usa USA as biles so called redemption tour ended
Speaker 1: with her becoming the most decorated American gymnast of all time.
Speaker 1: She says she knew the tea was fine once her
Speaker 1: vault routine was over. The twenty twenty four Olympics are
Speaker 1: competing with a heat waves. Temperatures in Paris hit ninety seven.
Speaker 13: The National Weather Service says the heat wave is worse
Speaker 13: than the Mediterranean cities of Marseille and Nice that are
Speaker 13: hosting Olympic competitions like soccer and sailing, with attempts they
Speaker 13: are hitting the triple digits. Air conditioning is less common
Speaker 13: in French homes, shops and restaurants than here in the
Speaker 13: US and the athletes are feeling the heat. Simone Biles
Speaker 13: posted a video on Instagram saying the bus carrying the
Speaker 13: athletes has no AC for a forty five minute ride.
Speaker 13: Paris twenty twenty four. Organizers have aimed to cut the
Speaker 13: event's carbon footprint with measures like turning to an underfloor
Speaker 13: cooling system and insulation instead of using air conditioning units.
Speaker 13: Some countries, like the US, brought their own AC units.
Speaker 13: Other Brooker KFI News the.
Speaker 1: US was smart. Olympic triathletes in Paris have jumped into
Speaker 1: the River sin following some concerns about water quality. The
Speaker 1: women dove in today following an early morning drizzle, followed
Speaker 1: by the men a few hours later. Organizers say the
Speaker 1: DESI to move forward with the competition was a big
Speaker 1: win after the races had to be delayed for several
Speaker 1: days due to high bacteria levels in the Sene River.
Speaker 1: They say the latest water test showed compliance with quality standards.
Speaker 1: Swimming has been banned in the River Sene for like
Speaker 1: one hundred years until the Olympics. This is KFI and
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