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Speaker 1: By twenty one twenty or forty three fifty seven Mega
Speaker 1: twenty three. Yeah, I didn't do it. No winning lottery
Speaker 1: tickets sold from last night's five hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: million dollar Mega Millions drawing. Yes, that's why we're all
Speaker 1: here this morning. Next drawing is six hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven million on Friday. De buy lottery tickets. I do
Speaker 1: it every once in a while. I figure it's a
Speaker 1: cup of Starbucks and I'm in the lottery pool for
Speaker 1: the office. I don't spend a lot on it, but
Speaker 1: every once in a while when it gets up this big, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe just one or two. This is your
Speaker 1: wake up call for Wednesday, August twenty eighth. Good morning,
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. Because there was no winners. We're all
Speaker 1: starting our day together because I think if I would
Speaker 1: have won, I might be sleeping very soundly right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. Here's what's ahead on wake
Speaker 1: up call score one for CNN Vice President Harris and
Speaker 1: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. They're going to hold their first
Speaker 1: interview since announcing their run for the White House on CNN.
Speaker 1: Dana Bash will be doing the interviewing Thursday at six pm.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the first time Harris has
Speaker 1: done in interview since President Biden dropped has been for
Speaker 1: reelection more than a month ago. The power's been turned
Speaker 1: back on for about twelve hundred homes in Silmar. The
Speaker 1: powers turned off after a man climbed a power pole
Speaker 1: and refused to come down for hours yesday afternoon. That
Speaker 1: cut the power for the man's safety. The man eventually
Speaker 1: climbed down on his own and left the area. Interest
Speaker 1: rates in California have ticked down. The California Association of
Speaker 1: Reilters's the average thirty year fixed mortgage rate was at
Speaker 1: five point seventy five percent on Monday. The median home
Speaker 1: price was just down a little bit for a second
Speaker 1: month after hitting a record high in May. We're going
Speaker 1: to be checking in at five point twenty with the
Speaker 1: host of Rich on Tech, Rich Demiro, about a new
Speaker 1: feature that is for photos on Instagram. Also, Apple's about
Speaker 1: to unveil its latest and greatest and all those travel
Speaker 1: points you get, well rich is going to help us
Speaker 1: actually get somewhere with them. Also, Amy's on it coming
Speaker 1: up the bottom of the hour. It's dark, it's filled
Speaker 1: with drugs and death, and I can't get enough of it.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you about what that is. And another day,
Speaker 1: another indictment. We've got ABC Stephen Portnoy coming up before
Speaker 1: the top of the hour to help us unpack the
Speaker 1: latest indictment of former President Trump at six oh five.
Speaker 1: Its handle on the news. California is getting millions to
Speaker 1: put in more ev charging stations. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. California could be the first state to
Speaker 1: pass the legislation that would allow home loans for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: The bill would expand the California Dream for All program
Speaker 1: to allow immigrants living in California to use it. Republican
Speaker 1: State Minority Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones says the idea
Speaker 1: is crazy.
Speaker 4: The country can't afford to buy illegal immigrants homes.
Speaker 1: The bill would make it illegal immigrants eligible for up
Speaker 1: to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in taxpayer supported
Speaker 1: home loans. Governor Newsom has not said whether he will
Speaker 1: sign the measure if it reaches his desk by the
Speaker 1: August thirty first deadline. The man accused of beating a
Speaker 1: woman at a Metro train station in Pasadena and throwing
Speaker 1: her onto the two ten freeways pleaded not guilty to
Speaker 1: attempted murder and mayhem charges. The attack happened three weeks
Speaker 1: ago at the A line's Allen station. The woman suffered
Speaker 1: seriously injuries. La County Supervisor Catherine Barger says she expects
Speaker 1: a full report from Metro concerning security measures that will
Speaker 1: be put in place to ensure safety, especially during early
Speaker 1: morning commute hours. Ev drivers in La County will soon
Speaker 1: have a bunch of new charging stations available.
Speaker 5: The federal government has allocated fifteen million dollars to build
Speaker 5: the chargers. Federal Highway Administrator Shaleen bat says the new
Speaker 5: fleet will include fifteen chargers that can power up cars
Speaker 5: and minutes.
Speaker 6: And over one thousand Level two chargers that take a
Speaker 6: couple of hours to charge a vehicle.
Speaker 3: But they're going to get installed all over La County.
Speaker 5: The announcement yesterday was part of a nationwide investment of
Speaker 5: more than five hundred and twenty million dollars to make
Speaker 5: charging easier for drivers across the country. La County's chargers
Speaker 5: should be installed within the next year. Blake Trolley Kafi News.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's joyor Donna Miller in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: So in a sea of bad news, we did get
Speaker 1: a piece of good news. Israel liberated one of the
Speaker 1: hostages after three hundred and twenty six days of captivity.
Speaker 7: What do we know, Jordanna, that's right, the Israeli Army
Speaker 7: for the first time rescued a live hostage from inside
Speaker 7: a tunnel. It's also the first time that this hostage
Speaker 7: that was released as an Arab citizen, a Muslim, and
Speaker 7: the first time that there was no combat involved in
Speaker 7: his rescue. That is, the Israeli troops were operating in
Speaker 7: an area of southern Gaza and a complex tunnel network,
Speaker 7: and they were able to collect intel that there was
Speaker 7: a hostage, an Israeli Arab hostage alone in one remote
Speaker 7: part of this tunnel, and the troops cautiously worked their
Speaker 7: way through the tunnel, which is very dangerous because the
Speaker 7: tunnels are often booby trapped. They're often Hamas terrace hiding
Speaker 7: in the tunnels. They made their way through to the
Speaker 7: spot where they thought he was. They called out his
Speaker 7: name in Hebrew and identified themselves and asked him to
Speaker 7: identify himself. He did. He later told Israel's president he
Speaker 7: was overwhelmed to hear Hebrew because he'd been kept captive
Speaker 7: and in the dark for most underground, for most of
Speaker 7: his captivity, that is almost eleven months. And he responded.
Speaker 7: They broke through the door, the steel door, and whisked
Speaker 7: him out of this tunnel and onto a helicopter. He
Speaker 7: was admitted yesterday to a hospital in southern Israel. The
Speaker 7: doctors say that he's in stable condition. He did lose
Speaker 7: considerable weight, and he's actually just a few About an
Speaker 7: hour ago. He was just released, actually back to his family,
Speaker 7: who of course were of joy that he was rescued.
Speaker 7: He has eleven children. He's part of the Bedouin community
Speaker 7: in southern Israel, and he's one of eight Bedouins that
Speaker 7: Hamas took right. They didn't care that he was Muslim,
Speaker 7: you know, or an Arab, an Arab citizen. The fact
Speaker 7: that he lived in Israel was enough for them to
Speaker 7: keep him and under really inhumane conditions. He lost a
Speaker 7: lot of weight and said he wasn't treated any better.
Speaker 7: He told his family because he was a Muslim, he
Speaker 7: was fed bread and not every day, and you know,
Speaker 7: he's unfortunately he was kept for a while with a
Speaker 7: group of hostages, and just a couple hostages. Then he
Speaker 7: said he actually witnessed one hostage die right next to him,
Speaker 7: and then later he was on his own. And it
Speaker 7: appears that his captors abandoned him in this tunnel at
Speaker 7: some point when they realized that there were significant Israeli
Speaker 7: forces in the area.
Speaker 1: So when you say that they abandoned him, was it
Speaker 1: just like a few hours or was he alone for
Speaker 1: days or do we know?
Speaker 7: Yep, we're not sure yet. We're not sure yet. It
Speaker 7: could have been a couple of days, it could have
Speaker 7: been a couple hours. I think we're gonna have to
Speaker 7: wait until he speaks more about what happened. I mean,
Speaker 7: there was one report from a family member that his
Speaker 7: captors actually ran away, you know, just after hearing the
Speaker 7: troops near the near the spot where he was so
Speaker 7: just minutes before. But you know, I would have to
Speaker 7: say we should wait he was found though alone in
Speaker 7: the end. Yeah, so that that's good news at least
Speaker 7: that other people didn't die for his rescue, no civilian.
Speaker 1: And Jordana, do we was he when he was held?
Speaker 1: I don't know how much he said. I mean, was
Speaker 1: he tied up or was he just locked in a
Speaker 1: room or do we know that yet?
Speaker 7: We don't know the details. We do know that he
Speaker 7: said he barely saw any sunlight or daylight for most
Speaker 7: of the three hundred and twenty six days, and that
Speaker 7: he was kept initially with a group of hostages, then
Speaker 7: he was moved around many times. The estimate was close
Speaker 7: to ten times and in diminishing number, with diminishing numbers
Speaker 7: of other hostages. We are told that he was able
Speaker 7: to provide very important intelligence to the troops when they
Speaker 7: found him about who he'd seen recently that was alive
Speaker 7: and locations, and that may help the Israeli troops actually
Speaker 7: find more hostages, you know, God willing alive, but even
Speaker 7: to bring those that are back to Israel. But you know,
Speaker 7: the country was elated that he was brought, that he
Speaker 7: was rescued. But it also he's also the exception that
Speaker 7: proves the rule. You know, there's still over one hundred
Speaker 7: hostages held by Hamas and they cannot all be saved
Speaker 7: with rescue operations. The best way to bring them out
Speaker 7: is through a ceasefire deal. And so there's also a
Speaker 7: renewed push last night and today more people protesting across
Speaker 7: the country. Some protesters the families of hostages going up
Speaker 7: along to the Goaza border area today to call for
Speaker 7: the Israeli Prime minister to finalize a huge fire deal.
Speaker 7: There are talks ongoing, low level talks. There's an Israeli delegation,
Speaker 7: a low level delegation that is heading to Doha to talk,
Speaker 7: and many hoping that there will still be another US
Speaker 7: led high level round of talks in the coming days.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, Jardana, we will take the win that we
Speaker 1: got and we will hope for more. And thank you
Speaker 1: so much for all the details. And I think it's
Speaker 1: you know, a special especially good news like you said
Speaker 1: that he was able to get some information and that
Speaker 1: he's well and he's out of the hospital. So yeah,
Speaker 1: take the winds.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, yeah, we're gonna take the wind.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: One shopper has been robbed another was shot at by
Speaker 1: three robbers targeting people at Fashion Island in Newport Beach.
Speaker 3: It makes me not want to come here because I'm scared.
Speaker 2: Many shoppers said they were concerned that robbers grabbed the
Speaker 2: guy's wallet and watch as he sat in his rolls Royce.
Speaker 7: This isn't safe, This doesn't feel good, and I can't
Speaker 7: wait to leave right now.
Speaker 2: The robbers then tried to jack a Ferrari Monday night
Speaker 2: and started shooting when the driver took off, shattering a window.
Speaker 3: But not all shoppers are scared and I saw it
Speaker 3: on the news.
Speaker 6: But like Irving, company is pretty diligent about safeguarding their shoppers.
Speaker 2: A tourist was dragged to death under a getaway car
Speaker 2: in July during another robbery outside the mall at Island,
Speaker 2: Corbin Carson KFI News.
Speaker 1: Parents who allegedly kidnapped their kids in South LA were
Speaker 1: reportedly under supervised visitation with Child Protective Services when they
Speaker 1: escaped with the kids.
Speaker 8: The couple allegedly abducted four year old Wyman Bryant and
Speaker 8: his two year old sister Willow the first time last
Speaker 8: year after the kid's baby brother tested positive for drugs.
Speaker 3: Director of Search and.
Speaker 8: Rescue san Antonio Nina Glass says DCFS should have anticipated
Speaker 8: the parents taking the kids again.
Speaker 9: They took what Wyman and Willow and left the baby
Speaker 9: and ran out an emergency door that didn't have an alarm.
Speaker 8: Glass says the parents are drifters, living out of their
Speaker 8: car and are able to stay off the grid. CHP
Speaker 8: says the couple's likely driving a champagne colored Buick Enclave
Speaker 8: SUV with paper license plates. Chris Adler KFI news.
Speaker 1: Former high profile lawyer Tom Girardi has been convicted in
Speaker 1: LA of running a multimillion dollar Ponzi scheme. US attorney
Speaker 1: Martina Strauda says the scheme lasted ten years.
Speaker 4: Is insatiable appetite for money, so it led him to court.
Speaker 1: And to the verdict. Jardi was accused of using Pilford
Speaker 1: money to buy private jets, golf memberships, and jewelry. The
Speaker 1: eighty five year old disbarred lawyer gained popularity when his wife,
Speaker 1: Erica Jane, appeared on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. He
Speaker 1: was also known for his work in the case that
Speaker 1: inspired the Aaron Brockovich movie. He's set to be sentenced
Speaker 1: in December. You might want to dig around for old
Speaker 1: lottery tickets. Two multimillion dollar Mega Millions tickets sold in
Speaker 1: southern California are about to expire. Each ticket is worth
Speaker 1: about two million dollars. One was purchased at a seven
Speaker 1: eleven in Sun Valley, the other at a Stater Brothers
Speaker 1: in Cathedral City in Riverside County. The deadline to claim
Speaker 1: the Sun Valley ticket is Sunday. The other ticket expire
Speaker 1: September nineteenth. Governor Newsom has signed a bill that allows
Speaker 1: homeless people to stay in motels and hotels for longer
Speaker 1: than thirty days, and then another to focus on creating
Speaker 1: smaller housing units on single family home properties known as ADUs.
Speaker 1: The governor issued an executive order last month to clear
Speaker 1: homeless camps across the state. Special Council Jack Smith has
Speaker 1: indicted former President Trump once again with plotting to overturn
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. The indictment, filed yesterday, takes the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruling giving the president some immunity while in
Speaker 1: office into account and presents a narrowed down case accusing
Speaker 1: the President of leading a conspiracy to overturn the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election. We've got ABC's Stephen Portnoy coming up before
Speaker 1: the top of the hour to help us unpack all that.
Speaker 1: It's months away and we don't know who's going to
Speaker 1: be playing in the game yet, but tickets to the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Rose Bowl go on sale this morning
Speaker 1: at eight am. Tickets are expected to start at about
Speaker 1: one hundred ninety dollars and will be available on Ticketmaster
Speaker 1: at six poh five. It's handle on the news another day,
Speaker 1: another indictment for former President Trump. Bill's going to be
Speaker 1: talking about that too. Right now, let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to the host of Rich on Tech on KFI KTLA's
Speaker 1: tech reporter Rich DeMuro. Rich, we got the latest and
Speaker 1: greatest about to be unveiled for Apple.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is happening on September ninth.
Speaker 6: Good morning to Amy. This is a day earlier than expected.
Speaker 6: So everyone thought it was going to be on September tenth.
Speaker 6: They typically do these iPhone events on a Tuesday, but
Speaker 6: that is the presidential debate apparently, and then Wednesday, obviously
Speaker 6: September eleventh.
Speaker 10: Apple doesn't want to be on.
Speaker 6: That day, So here we are September ninth. New iPhone's
Speaker 6: iPhone sixteen. This is going to have the AI updates.
Speaker 6: So the thing that Apple is doing that's interesting is
Speaker 6: you can't get their new Apple Intelligence unless you have
Speaker 6: an iPhone fifteen Pro or later. So that means a
Speaker 6: lot of folks. If they want to get these AI features,
Speaker 6: which they've been very interested in, they're probably going to
Speaker 6: want to update. So we're probably expecting a lot of
Speaker 6: upgrades this time around. Otherwise, the phone, maybe a new
Speaker 6: button for taking pictures, which I know is interesting.
Speaker 10: It's like a dedicated capture button.
Speaker 6: Better chips obviously, And the slightly larger screens on the
Speaker 6: pro displays.
Speaker 1: How do you make a larger screen. I'm looking at mine.
Speaker 1: It goes all the way to the end. It's the
Speaker 1: phone bigger.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, well, you know it's they probably have a
Speaker 6: little bit there. The screens are just a tiny fraction
Speaker 6: of an inch bigger. So I think that they're just
Speaker 6: going to extend it just a little bit more, probably
Speaker 6: keep it about the same size. That's what we've seen
Speaker 6: with other smartphone makers as well. These phones expected to
Speaker 6: be in stores on September twentieth. But you know, this
Speaker 6: is a big deal for Apple for whether you are
Speaker 6: buying a new phone or not. They've got that new
Speaker 6: software iOS eighteen coming out that typically launches around the
Speaker 6: time of the new phones too, So no matter what
Speaker 6: you've got, you know tens of millions of people here
Speaker 6: in the US that are ready to get either a
Speaker 6: refreshed phone or a new phone.
Speaker 1: And is my iOS eighteen going to automatically update on my.
Speaker 6: Fifteen depends if you have that feature Installedypically, I don't
Speaker 6: recommend the automatic installation feature because it's just better to
Speaker 6: have a manual control over that. But it will be
Speaker 6: compatible with the iPhone ten R and up, So if
Speaker 6: you have the ten ARE and anything later than that,
Speaker 6: you are getting that update.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll be waiting because typically they're pretty secretive
Speaker 1: about what they're going to be unveiling. We know they're
Speaker 1: doing the Apple Intelligence, but do you have any other
Speaker 1: little hints of what's coming or are you expecting any
Speaker 1: surprises this go round?
Speaker 7: You know what?
Speaker 6: I think the last time Apple tried something new was
Speaker 6: the Vision Pro and I think they learned their lesson
Speaker 6: because that has not done so well.
Speaker 1: So are there still out there? Does anybody have them?
Speaker 10: Still out there thirty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: I think only the most enthusiastic Apple fans purchase those,
Speaker 6: or people that are trying to develop software. But it's
Speaker 6: a really tough place because there's not enough of them
Speaker 6: out there for people to want to use them or
Speaker 6: promote them or develop software for them. And so obviously
Speaker 6: it's just as a chicken before the egg kind of thing,
Speaker 6: like how do you get more people to use this
Speaker 6: if there's not more people developing for it.
Speaker 3: It's very very tricky right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting because there was such a big splash, and
Speaker 1: I remember when we talked about it when they first
Speaker 1: came out, but I literally haven't even heard anything about
Speaker 1: those in months.
Speaker 3: So no.
Speaker 6: In the last Apple event, they kind of did like
Speaker 6: a couple of little updates for it, but it was
Speaker 6: very very brief, and they'll probably mention something this time around.
Speaker 10: But I think this is going to be iPhone focused.
Speaker 6: iPhone is their baby, this is the biggest product they have,
Speaker 6: and this is going to be a big upgrade cycle
Speaker 6: with this artificial intelligence stuff, so I think they're going
Speaker 6: to focus a lot on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, So I think this is kind of a
Speaker 1: fun new feature on Instagram because when I do post photos,
Speaker 1: it's always frustrating that you can't put the little captions
Speaker 1: on them, yeah, like you do with your videos.
Speaker 6: I noticed this a couple days ago on Instagram, just
Speaker 6: like so many new options, and you know, it sounds silly,
Speaker 6: but people love Instagram. It is the hottest app right now,
Speaker 6: so besides tick, I guess, but I think for mainstream,
Speaker 6: like the average person, more people are using Instagram on
Speaker 6: a daily basis, whereas TikTok is more kind of like
Speaker 6: younger people as well. But anyway, all new things you
Speaker 6: can do on your reels and stories. You might notice
Speaker 6: when you go to type there's like all new text animations,
Speaker 6: all new fonts, all new effects that's available for your
Speaker 6: reels and stories. But if you want to post just
Speaker 6: like a regular picture, you know, like a standard old
Speaker 6: school picture, right, you can actually add text and images
Speaker 6: to those pictures as well, So that's new.
Speaker 10: And then I noticed this the other day.
Speaker 6: I was slipping through one of my friend's photo carousels
Speaker 6: and I was like, why is this keep going? And
Speaker 6: I was like, wait a second, how many pictures can
Speaker 6: you put in here?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 10: And the answer is they doubled it.
Speaker 3: It used to be ten.
Speaker 6: Now it's up to twenty pictures and videos per post,
Speaker 6: so you can share more of your vacation, so.
Speaker 1: You can do a larger like slideshowy kind of thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like when people post multiple pictures. You used to
Speaker 6: be ten was the limit. Now it's twenty.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and then I want definitely want to
Speaker 1: get to this one. This is what you're doing on
Speaker 1: ktla this morning. I've got a bunch of travel points
Speaker 1: that I've been racking up on my credit card and
Speaker 1: then using them as a whole other issue.
Speaker 6: Yes, and there's no reason to keep these things. The
Speaker 6: value of them goes down over time, So use them,
Speaker 6: use them, use them. A couple tools I'm talking about
Speaker 6: today on KTLA. The best is called Points.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 6: This is a brand new travel search engine that lets
Speaker 6: you basically compare options across all of these loyalty programs.
Speaker 6: So whether you have them with your credit card, whether
Speaker 6: you have them with an airline or a hotel. It's
Speaker 6: like a one stop shop, and it's really good. It's
Speaker 6: really fast. Most of it is free. But if you
Speaker 6: want to get like the super you know, supercharge Search,
Speaker 6: which lets you search across like multiple days, multiple weeks.
Speaker 6: You'll have to pay a little bit, but that's a
Speaker 6: really great tool. Points dot Com. Then a ward wallet
Speaker 6: I really like. That's a way to track all your
Speaker 6: balances across and also get alerts for expiring points, so
Speaker 6: that's great. And then points Pass. This is a cool
Speaker 6: browser extension. If you search Google flights like I do
Speaker 6: all the time, it actually puts the points equivalent right
Speaker 6: in the search results and it tells you is it
Speaker 6: better to use your points or better to pay cash
Speaker 6: depending on how much the points are.
Speaker 1: Oh, I like that one because I do that, but
Speaker 1: you have to toggle on the like when I go to
Speaker 1: the Alaska website, you have to toggle and use miles
Speaker 1: or use money.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and then do a calculation.
Speaker 6: Points guy actually has a calculator which I also link up.
Speaker 6: Because these points are all worth something. So you may say, oh,
Speaker 6: fifteen thousand points for a free hotel room, Well, that
Speaker 6: hotel room only costs one hundred and twenty nine dollars
Speaker 6: with with dollars, those points are worth five hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: So you need to do some math with this stuff.
Speaker 6: And this is where it gets very complicated, which is
Speaker 6: why I'm doing the story today, so you can use
Speaker 6: these tools to make sure you maximize the value of
Speaker 6: those hard earned rewards.
Speaker 1: I love those. And then are you going to post
Speaker 1: these because in case people are driving and didn't write
Speaker 1: them down.
Speaker 6: Already posted, just go to rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 6: You know, I make sure that this stuff is online
Speaker 6: because it's so frustrating when you hear me mention something
Speaker 6: and you cannot find it on my website. So if
Speaker 6: you go to rich on tech dot tv, it is
Speaker 6: right there, front and center. Five tools to maximize your points.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's going to make things so much
Speaker 1: easier because every time we talk, I'm always scrubb you know,
Speaker 1: like scribbling stuff down. I'm like, oh, I got to
Speaker 1: remember that. I got to remember that, And then I
Speaker 1: have a pile of papers of stuff that we've talked
Speaker 1: about that I need to go check out.
Speaker 6: Same thing with my radio show on the weekends. I
Speaker 6: have a light bulb biicon on on the website. If
Speaker 6: you hear something, it is on that little light bulb
Speaker 6: by icon immediately if you click. Because again, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm giving away a lot of good information. I want
Speaker 6: people to actually use this information and not be like, oh, now,
Speaker 6: where do I see that? Where'd I hear it?
Speaker 10: I'll never find it again?
Speaker 1: Never mind, and you'll get more of this great information
Speaker 1: when you listen to rich on Tech on KFI. It's
Speaker 1: Saturdays from eleven to two. Of course, also on KTLA
Speaker 1: you can watch this segment about the travel points today
Speaker 1: and where else can we find you?
Speaker 6: Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech. I'll maybe put
Speaker 6: some text on my pictures.
Speaker 1: Oh good, idea, Yeah, show us how it's done. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, rich Damia. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, bart Amy, you can score one for CNN
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. They're going
Speaker 1: to hold in their first interview since announcing their run
Speaker 1: for the White House. It'll be on CNN tomorrow night
Speaker 1: at six pm. This is going to be the first
Speaker 1: time Harris has actually done in interview since President Biden
Speaker 1: dropped his bid for reelection more than a month ago.
Speaker 1: Video game voice actors are going to be striking outside
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Studio today. The SAG after members want a
Speaker 1: new contract that protects against losing work to artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: The strike against a video game producer started on July
Speaker 1: twenty sixth. The opening ceremony for the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: Paralympic Games gets underway today in Paris. The Olympic Cauldron
Speaker 1: will be relt around eleven this morning. The Paralympics are
Speaker 1: going to be broadcast through September eighth on the USA
Speaker 1: Network and Peacock. At six oh five, it's handle on
Speaker 1: the news. The UN says the ocean is overflowing at
Speaker 1: five point fifty. Another day, another indictment. We've got ABC
Speaker 1: Stephen Portnoy coming up before the top of the hour
Speaker 1: to help us unpack that. Amy's on Itami's on, Amy's
Speaker 1: on it, AMI's on it? What am I on? I'm
Speaker 1: on the stream lots and lots and lots and lots
Speaker 1: and lots and lots and lots and lots of shows.
Speaker 1: How do you know which one to watch? What are
Speaker 1: the good ones? What are the bad ones? Hopefully I
Speaker 1: can help you sort that out because I'm watching a lot.
Speaker 1: I spent it. So when I say Amy's on it,
Speaker 1: I mean Amy's on the couch because I got to
Speaker 1: get all these shows ingested. So it's documentaries, it's TV shows,
Speaker 1: it's movies and a TV show that is dark and
Speaker 1: violent and filled with drugs and death, and it's just
Speaker 1: not a very positive show. But I love it. It's
Speaker 1: called The Mayor of Kingstown. It's on Prime Video. The
Speaker 1: third season is out, and now the full season is out.
Speaker 1: They were releasing it weekly, which drives me crazy because
Speaker 1: now that we're so used to streaming and binging, when
Speaker 1: I have to wait week to week, it's frustrating. But
Speaker 1: now the whole season is out. Jeremy Renner, in case
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, stars as an ex con who
Speaker 1: lives in Kingstown, which is a prison town, and he
Speaker 1: plays Mike McCluskey, who becomes the mayor, not the actual
Speaker 1: elected mayor, but they call him the mayor when his brother,
Speaker 1: the current mayor, is assassinated in his office. So Mike
Speaker 1: mcclusky's job is to keep the peace between the people
Speaker 1: inside the prison and the people outside the prison. And
Speaker 1: I talk to a friend who knows someone who knows
Speaker 1: someone who knows someone who works in a prison. They
Speaker 1: say that this is actually a lot like how prison
Speaker 1: towns are run, and it's very similar to what actually
Speaker 1: goes on, which I'm thinking, it's got to be a
Speaker 1: stretch because there is so much killing in the show.
Speaker 1: There is no way that that many people could be
Speaker 1: murdered and not have a raised eyebrows. The bad guys
Speaker 1: kill their rivals, the police kill the bad guys. The
Speaker 1: bad guys on the inside do unspeakable things to each other,
Speaker 1: They order hits on people on the outside. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just crazy the amount of violence, but it's incredibly intriguing.
Speaker 1: There are no real good guys in this show, but
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of like, oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: can't eve remember the name of the show, Oh succession.
Speaker 1: You know how, You're like, nobody's a good guy but
Speaker 1: you and you try to root for them, but you
Speaker 1: can't because they're all just bad people. Even the ones
Speaker 1: that you think are good are really not great, but
Speaker 1: you still like them and watch them. It's just the weirdest,
Speaker 1: weirdest thing. Season three wraps up a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but there could easily be more story to tell with this.
Speaker 1: Season four has not been confirmed, but it's a distinct possibility.
Speaker 1: But if you haven't seen it, season three is out.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen any of it, there's three whole
Speaker 1: seasons to binge and like I said, it's very addictive,
Speaker 1: it's very dark, and I like it a lot. Let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The hot weather in
Speaker 1: southern California could stretch into the fall. Forecasters say it's
Speaker 1: because of what they're calling a volatile weather pattern. ACU
Speaker 1: Weather long range forecaster Paul Pastali says it's been causing
Speaker 1: ongoing high pressure which has been dominating the weather.
Speaker 6: And so we think that this high will end up
Speaker 6: eventually weakening a little bit, taking a break as we
Speaker 6: get into early September, flattening out a little bit, but
Speaker 6: it could still come back.
Speaker 1: He says. The height ANDed threat of wildfires will continue
Speaker 1: at least through the beginning of September. A naked, homeless
Speaker 1: man has allegedly been causing disturbances outside people's homes in
Speaker 1: LA's Wilshire area.
Speaker 8: Neighbors have shown me surveillance video of the man walking
Speaker 8: across their property completely nude. This woman, says LAPD has
Speaker 8: been called at least thirty times in the man's been
Speaker 8: arrested twice, but she fears he'll be back.
Speaker 1: It's just it's hard, like you never now every day.
Speaker 1: It's like when I open the front door, is he
Speaker 1: going to be naked on my front porch.
Speaker 8: The man's family says he was once a hard working
Speaker 8: chef but got heavily addicted to drugs during the pandemic.
Speaker 8: Neighbors say the man was arrested Sunday for an alleged robbery,
Speaker 8: but worry he'll soon be back on the streets to
Speaker 8: hurt himself or someone else.
Speaker 1: Chris Adler kf I knew. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has
Speaker 1: admitted the Biden Whitehouse pressured his teams to censor certain
Speaker 1: COVID content, including humor and satire, during the pandemic. In
Speaker 1: a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg also says
Speaker 1: his company suppressed links to stories about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Speaker 1: ABC's Peter Kafka says Zuckerberg believes the government pressure was wrong.
Speaker 11: The Pendulum and Silicon Valley are sort of moving back
Speaker 11: away from let's moderate a lot too, maybe let's moderate less.
Speaker 11: But to be clear, if you run one of these
Speaker 11: big Internet companies, you have to moderate stuffs.
Speaker 1: Companies that don't will be under tremendous legal liability. Cross
Speaker 1: border strikes between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon last
Speaker 1: weekend have increased concerns about the war and Gaza spreading
Speaker 1: to other parts of the Middle East. There are worries
Speaker 1: Iran could get involved, but Pentagon's spokesman, Major General Pat
Speaker 1: Ryder says it is still contained.
Speaker 12: What you saw over the weekend, of course, was a
Speaker 12: much larger scale than what we've seen previously, but it
Speaker 12: is an our view, not a wider regional conflict at
Speaker 12: this stage.
Speaker 1: Iran has vowed revenge since Israel killed one of the
Speaker 1: most senior Hamas leaders in Tehran. The first person to
Speaker 1: break into the US Capitol building during the January sixth
Speaker 1: riots has now been sentenced to more than four years
Speaker 1: in prison. The man from Kentucky told a judge yesterday
Speaker 1: he still believes the twenty twenty election was, as he
Speaker 1: put it, taken from the American people. Michael Sparks was
Speaker 1: convicted of civil disorder, obstruction of a civil proceeding, and
Speaker 1: several other offenses for his actions in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: He's one of over twelve hundred people charged for the
Speaker 1: Capital Right. Former President Trump has put Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 1: Junior and former Democratic Congresswoman Tulci Gabbard on his presidential
Speaker 1: transition team. The transition team's responsibility is to make policy
Speaker 1: and staffing decisions if Trump is elected. Kennedy suspended his
Speaker 1: independent campaign and endorsed Trump last week. Gabbard endorsed tru
Speaker 1: Trump just a couple of days ago. Hey, it's shohe
Speaker 1: Otani Bobblehead Night at Dodger Stadium. Tonight, the Dodgers take
Speaker 1: on the Orioles at Dodger Stadium. The first pitch goes
Speaker 1: out at seven o'clock. You can listen to every play
Speaker 1: of every Dodgers game on AM five to seventy LA
Speaker 1: Sports live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth, and you
Speaker 1: can stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: app Keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports. The debate
Speaker 1: is on. Former President Trump says he has reached an
Speaker 1: agreement with Vice President Kamala Harris. On the debate September
Speaker 1: tenth in Pennsylvania on True Social Trump said the rules
Speaker 1: will be the same as the debate between he and
Speaker 1: President Biden. The former president says it'll be a stand
Speaker 1: up debate and they can't bring any notes it's going
Speaker 1: to be airing on ABC. Russia has diverted thirty thousand
Speaker 1: troops from the front lines of Ukraine to the Kurs
Speaker 1: region in Russia, which Ukrainian troops have claimed. Ukraine has
Speaker 1: laid claim to almost five hundred square miles of Russia
Speaker 1: since across the border a couple weeks ago. The Ukrainian
Speaker 1: commander in chief says Ukraine captured one hundred settlements and
Speaker 1: has taken nearly six hundred Russian prisoners. California plans to
Speaker 1: open over two hundred and fifty new locations to return
Speaker 1: cans and bottles. The state is going to spend seventy
Speaker 1: million dollars on the new recycling centers in thirty counties.
Speaker 1: The goal is to make recycling more convenient with special
Speaker 1: vending machines, mobile recycling centers, and drop off locations for bags.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from a handle on the news
Speaker 1: for the first time since she announced she's running for
Speaker 1: president more than a month ago. Kamala Harris will sit
Speaker 1: down for an interview, but she's not doing it alone.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
Speaker 1: here we go again. Former President Trump has been indicted again.
Speaker 9: Yes, this is a superseding indictment, which means it replaces
Speaker 9: the indictment in the January sixth case that was handed
Speaker 9: up a year ago. It is the same four charges
Speaker 9: that Trump allegedly conspired to defraud the US, obstruct an
Speaker 9: official proceeding, deprive Americans of their rights to have their
Speaker 9: votes counted. But importantly, this new indictment removes about nine
Speaker 9: pages worth of material that had referenced Trump's alleged actions
Speaker 9: as president, including enlisting officials within his own White House
Speaker 9: and Justice Department in the alleged conspiracy. So all of
Speaker 9: that has been taken out, and what's left is a
Speaker 9: story of a candidate for office who conspired with people
Speaker 9: involved in his campaign to plot to overturn the election results.
Speaker 9: And it's a statement made by Jack Smith that he
Speaker 9: believed he has enough evidence, which he's presented, he says,
Speaker 9: to a new grand jury to still convict Trump absent
Speaker 9: all the things that the Supreme Court said would be
Speaker 9: subject to presidential immunity.
Speaker 1: Okay, so he's saying that Trump wasn't acting as president
Speaker 1: when he did the things that he's accused of doing. Right,
Speaker 1: But he wasn't. Actually he was a wow. That's that's interesting,
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 9: Really points up, you know, a potential vulnerability for Jacksmith here,
Speaker 9: which is the argument that if Trump's defense lawyers are
Speaker 9: sure to make, which is that you can't separate the
Speaker 9: things that Trump did as a candidate from his actions
Speaker 9: as present while this indictment makes that attempt. And ultimately
Speaker 9: it'll be up to Judge Tanya Chuckin to decide one
Speaker 9: way or another and then potentially have it appealed to
Speaker 9: the d C.
Speaker 3: Circuit Court, maybe even the Supreme Court.
Speaker 9: Look lots of questions about what happens next, about the timeline,
Speaker 9: about you know, how it implicates the election, and how
Speaker 9: the election could implicate the case.
Speaker 3: There's no way to know what's going to happen next.
Speaker 9: The immediate first step would be an arraignment under this
Speaker 9: new superseding indictment. The Special Council's office said yesterday in
Speaker 9: a filing that Trump need not appear in court for that.
Speaker 3: We'll see if he takes them up on that or not.
Speaker 9: It's up to him, Okay, Ultimately, well, it was obviously
Speaker 9: just going to say, ultimately, how soon this moves to
Speaker 9: be in front of a jury is very much an
Speaker 9: open question.
Speaker 3: Nobody knows the answer to that this point, so we don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't even know if he would potentially have
Speaker 1: a court date before the election.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think it's highly unlikely that this will wind up
Speaker 9: before a jury for the election. There could be hearings
Speaker 9: and other things that will be of interest, but I
Speaker 9: don't know that the case is really going to get
Speaker 9: underway in earnest.
Speaker 3: I'd be very very surprised.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's so hard to keep all of these
Speaker 1: charges against Trump's stake clear. Could the lawyers also go
Speaker 1: back and do what they did in the classified documents cases,
Speaker 1: say that Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional.
Speaker 9: They can try that, but it has been tried before
Speaker 9: in the DC Circuit, which would involve the DC District Court,
Speaker 9: and it has failed. That arguments failed in the past,
Speaker 9: not most recently involving Jack Smith, but Robert Muller years ago,
Speaker 9: and it failed. Because you know, most judges and courts
Speaker 9: have looked at this question say a couple of things.
Speaker 9: One is they respect the statute the Congress passed that
Speaker 9: gives the Attorney General the power to appoint attorneys within
Speaker 9: the Justice Department to carry forward to certain cases, and
Speaker 9: they say that the tradition and experience, the history of
Speaker 9: Special councils over decades would demonstrate that there is this
Speaker 9: understood authority that Congress has funded with appropriations. But the
Speaker 9: argument in Florida was accepted by Judge Cannon in that
Speaker 9: case that Jack Smith acting as the Special Council violates
Speaker 9: the Constitution's appointments clause because he was not nominated by
Speaker 9: the President or confirmed by the Senate. And so Judge
Speaker 9: Cannon is pretty much the first judge to say that
Speaker 9: conservatives are right on that point. And Jack Smith is
Speaker 9: bringing a challenge of her ruling in that case before
Speaker 9: the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaker 1: All right, and we will be watching. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for helping us sort that out. Like I said,
Speaker 1: this is also so confusing. Very thankful to have Stephen
Speaker 1: Portner to help us out on that one. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA may turn
Speaker 1: to solar because of copper thefts that knock out street
Speaker 1: lights across the city.
Speaker 4: The city council was voted to have the Bureau of
Speaker 4: street light and create a report on the feasibility of
Speaker 4: solar powered street lights to replace the ones broken by thieves.
Speaker 4: Council wman Unsses Hernandez says the city should find a
Speaker 4: sustainable answer to the thievery.
Speaker 8: I believe it's time that we shift our focus on
Speaker 8: just investing imputative measures to also preventive solutions to uplift
Speaker 8: our communities.
Speaker 4: In the meantime, the city council also voted to explore
Speaker 4: etching its name on copper wire installed in La street lights,
Speaker 4: making it easier to identify in criminal investigations in downtown La.
Speaker 10: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Public health officials say the number of people in California
Speaker 1: getting valley fever is going up. Valley fever is caused
Speaker 1: by a fungus that grows in the soil, mainly in
Speaker 1: the Central Valley and Central Coast areas. People and animals
Speaker 1: can become sick when they breathe in dust that contains
Speaker 1: the fungus. Health experts say valley fever symptoms are like
Speaker 1: a cold, the flu, or even covid. They say the
Speaker 1: illness is not spread from person to person. An engineering
Speaker 1: report on the Men's Central jail in La shows it
Speaker 1: has some structural deficiencies that would not stand up to
Speaker 1: an earthquake. A report in the La Time says the
Speaker 1: feasibility study written in two thousand and six for the
Speaker 1: La County Department of Public Works shows one of the
Speaker 1: biggest problems is the jail doesn't have enough steel reinforcing
Speaker 1: bars to stop concrete from crumbling in a large quake.
Speaker 1: A lawyer for the ACLU tells The Times, if the
Speaker 1: jail collapses in an earthquake and people die, the county
Speaker 1: would be liable because county leaders were told about it
Speaker 1: nearly twenty years ago and didn't do anything. Nutrition company
Speaker 1: Meet Johnson has reached a settlement with the state of
Speaker 1: California in a lawsuit claiming it sold baby food without
Speaker 1: the required warnings for exposure to lead. Mead Johnson will
Speaker 1: pay nearly two million dollars as part of the settlement.
Speaker 1: California Attorney General Rob Bonta says me Johnson will also
Speaker 1: have to do compliance testing to ensure lead levels in
Speaker 1: its baby formulas are minimized. Animal control officers in Iowa
Speaker 1: are on the hunt for a water buffalo. They say
Speaker 1: it escaped from its owner while being loaded for slaughter.
Speaker 1: Officers shot at the animal on Saturday, but that didn't
Speaker 1: stop it. Some residents, like this woman say they can't
Speaker 1: believe it.
Speaker 10: What I mean, I was like, really a water buffalo?
Speaker 1: At first, I thought you're confused. Police rewarding the water
Speaker 1: buffalo is not friendly and say it has shown aggressive
Speaker 1: behavior and should not be approached. Good to know. I
Speaker 1: will heed that advice. This is KFI and KOST HD
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