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Speaker 1: what's ahead on wake up Call. Hurricane Helene continues to
Speaker 1: gain strength as it motors across the warm waters of
Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico. It's now a Category two storm.
Speaker 1: The National Hurricane Center says some areas of the Big
Speaker 1: Bend area in Florida could see up to a twenty
Speaker 1: foot storm surge when the storm makes landfall later today.
Speaker 1: Hurricane and storm warnings extend into Georgia, North and South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Ela County Supervisor Janis Hahn is again called for a
Speaker 1: system to prevent people from carrying weapons onto metro buses
Speaker 1: and trains. It comes after a metro bus passenger was
Speaker 1: shot and killed allegedly by the man who hijacked a bus,
Speaker 1: and says the driver was protected by a barrier the
Speaker 1: transit agency helps to have installed on all its buses
Speaker 1: by the end of the year. The head of the
Speaker 1: Israeli Army says the military is preparing for a possible
Speaker 1: ground operation in Lebanon. Is comments follow Hesbelah's launch of
Speaker 1: a ballistic missile towards Tel Aviv. Israel intercepted it. We'll
Speaker 1: be talking more about this with ABC's geor Donna Miller
Speaker 1: in about fifteen minutes. Hey, Neil and I are going
Speaker 1: over the Edge to raise money for the Union Rescue Mission.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's tomorrow. We're going to be finding
Speaker 1: out more about the Union Rescue Mission, what it does
Speaker 1: and how it actually helps homeless people get off the
Speaker 1: streets for good, and why you should feel good about
Speaker 1: donating your heart earned money to this cause. That's coming
Speaker 1: up at before the top of the hour. And also
Speaker 1: so much to see, so much to do as we
Speaker 1: head toward Halloween. So we're going out and about for
Speaker 1: a boo preview of a place that I think will
Speaker 1: amaze you. And we also have tickets so you can
Speaker 1: do your own boot preview of Dark Harbor at Queen Mary.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at the bottom of the hour. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man who allegedly
Speaker 1: hijacked a Metro bus and killed a passenger in La
Speaker 1: is facing a charge of murder.
Speaker 4: Lamont Campbell was arrested after an hour long slow speed
Speaker 4: chase on the bus from South LA to the Arts
Speaker 4: District Downtown LA. Mayor Karen Bass says the city and
Speaker 4: Metro will continue to work to improve on the transit system.
Speaker 5: Every Angelino has the right to go about their lives safely,
Speaker 5: especially on our public transportation system.
Speaker 4: There was a driver and two passengers aboard the bus
Speaker 4: when Campbell allegedly hijacked it at some point, shooting and
Speaker 4: killing one of those passengers in Downtown La.
Speaker 1: Michael monks KFI News. Five women and a man have
Speaker 1: been shot in South LA. Most of them were shot
Speaker 1: in the legs, but they said they don't believe any
Speaker 1: of the women hurt yesterday were the intended targets. At
Speaker 1: least one of the people shot was in critical condition.
Speaker 1: Investigators say the three shooters maybe teenagers. People in parts
Speaker 1: of Florida are getting ready for Hurricane Helene. Forecasters say
Speaker 1: the storm's going to reach the state late tonight, although
Speaker 1: the effects are going to last for a lot longer
Speaker 1: than that. Florida Governor Rond De Sanda says the storm
Speaker 1: is moving fast.
Speaker 3: It's projected to leave up to twelve inches of rainfall,
Speaker 3: and the storm surge could reach ten to fifteen feet
Speaker 3: in some areas, which is, of course, very very significant.
Speaker 1: Forecasters are even saying some areas could see a storm
Speaker 1: surge as high as twenty feet. Helene is now a
Speaker 1: Category two storm. It's forecast to be a Category four
Speaker 1: hurricane by the time it makes landfall in Florida's Big
Speaker 1: Bend area. New York Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted
Speaker 1: by a federal grand jury. He's the first mayor in
Speaker 1: the city's history to be charged while in office. The
Speaker 1: indictment remains sealed, but the initial investigation focused on campaign
Speaker 1: finance violations. In a statement released last night, Adams denied
Speaker 1: the charges.
Speaker 6: It is now my belief that the federal government intends
Speaker 6: to charge me with crimes. If so, these charges will
Speaker 6: be entirely false based on loves.
Speaker 1: Adams isn't expected to be in court until next week.
Speaker 1: Applications to refinance home loans have jumped twenty percent in
Speaker 1: the last week compared to a year ago, when interest
Speaker 1: rates were up near eight percent. Applications are up one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five percent. Average rates for a thirty
Speaker 1: year fixed rate mortgage it averaged just over six point
Speaker 1: one percent. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen
Speaker 1: portnoy So. Stephen. President Zelensky of Ukraine has appealed to
Speaker 1: the UN to keep funding its war efforts against Russia.
Speaker 1: The Biden administrations so far supporting those efforts. But things
Speaker 1: aren't exactly going well between Zelensky and former President Trump.
Speaker 1: Get a little.
Speaker 7: Testy, testy, awkward, tense, acrimonious yesterday. Well what's going on?
Speaker 8: Being with?
Speaker 7: Where to start? Look if vloidmyer. Zelensky did an interview
Speaker 7: with The New Yorker earlier this week in which he
Speaker 7: said that Trump quote really doesn't know how to stop
Speaker 7: the war, even if he might think he knows how.
Speaker 7: He's called JD. Vance radical, an ignorant of European history,
Speaker 7: someone who ought to read a book about European history
Speaker 7: well in North Carolina. Trump responded to Zelenski and what
Speaker 7: he called nasty aspersions being cast by the Ukrainian president. Quote,
Speaker 7: we continue to give billions of dollars to a man
Speaker 7: who refuses to make a deal in Zelensky. At the
Speaker 7: UN yesterday, Vladimir Zelenski insisted he would not capitulate to
Speaker 7: international demands for pressure to agree to a negotiated settlement
Speaker 7: because the negotiated settlement, he says, would result in his
Speaker 7: country seating territory to Russia. He says Russia is twenty
Speaker 7: times the size of Ukraine and the idea that it
Speaker 7: wants more land is and his words insane. He says
Speaker 7: that Russia wants to attack his country's nuclear power plants,
Speaker 7: which could result in a nuclear disaster. Vladimir Putin wants
Speaker 7: some sort of internal document with respect to nuclear doctrine
Speaker 7: in his country to be changed to make it easier
Speaker 7: for Russia to use nuclear weapons, perhaps even in Ukraine.
Speaker 7: And Zelenski is urging the West to stand strong together,
Speaker 7: while Republicans increasingly see this as a partisan question. House
Speaker 7: Republicans are now accusing Zelensky of trying to interfere in
Speaker 7: the US election. They point to a flight he took
Speaker 7: this past weekend on a seventeen US Air Force aircraft
Speaker 7: to do the battle ground state of Pennsylvania. He went
Speaker 7: on a tour of a munitions factory, and Republicans say
Speaker 7: that because he was accompanied by first of all, flown
Speaker 7: on a military jet, and then accompanied by Josh Shapiro,
Speaker 7: the governor of Pennsylvania, who's a surrogate for the Harris campaign,
Speaker 7: they see it as a Harris campaign stop, and so
Speaker 7: they say that Zelenski's trying to medle in the election
Speaker 7: on behalf of Democrats. Today, Zelensky meets with President Biden
Speaker 7: at the White House and the President is announcing that
Speaker 7: he's releasing or authorizing the eight billion dollars more and
Speaker 7: congressionally approved funding for Ukraine to get it out the
Speaker 7: door as quickly as he can while he still can,
Speaker 7: the thought being that perhaps if the administration were to
Speaker 7: change hands to Republicans, so that might be the last
Speaker 7: opportunity for Ukraine to receive American support. And to hear
Speaker 7: it from Donald Trump, you have to wonder.
Speaker 1: Now there was top that Zelensky was going to meet
Speaker 1: with former President Trump. Do we know if that's going
Speaker 1: to happen now?
Speaker 7: I don't see it happening. I also don't see any
Speaker 7: kind of meeting with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House,
Speaker 7: as Lenski's up on Capitol Hill today as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, So he's meeting with Biden, and then he's meeting
Speaker 1: separately with Vice President Harris.
Speaker 7: And with congressional leaders. So I should take members of Congress.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 7: The point is Republicans are trying to keep their distance,
Speaker 7: and increasingly they're trying to express their disappointment and frustration
Speaker 7: with Zelenski and say that he is too close to
Speaker 7: the Democrats. So it's a tense and awkward time and
Speaker 7: a dangerous time for Ukraine.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information. Appreciated. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom says a set of bills he signed restricting
Speaker 1: oils and gas wells represents a step forward in the
Speaker 1: state's ongoing efforts to cut pollution. The bills signed yesterday
Speaker 1: prohibit the operation of low oilction and gas wells in
Speaker 1: the Baldwin Hills Conservancy. LA County Supervisor Holly Mitchell says
Speaker 1: the bills are in the community's best interests.
Speaker 5: People are living, going to school, working, having recreation experiences
Speaker 5: in proximity that has caused multi generational harm.
Speaker 1: Newsom says the legislation builds on efforts to protect communities
Speaker 1: from pollution and hold big oil accountable. Power utilities and
Speaker 1: various levels of government in SoCal are working with a
Speaker 1: research company in the Bay Area to figure out the
Speaker 1: best ways to handle the risk of wildfires. EPRI does
Speaker 1: research and testing into ways to help energy providers prevent
Speaker 1: and prepare for wildfires and also improve their resiliency. Climate
Speaker 1: resilience analyst Jacob Martian says they use a variety of
Speaker 1: tools to do it.
Speaker 2: Siatellite images, we can use advanced weather forecasts, and increasingly
Speaker 2: we were using artificial intelligence to make predictions about this.
Speaker 1: He says it's unrealist to think wildfires will be eliminated completely,
Speaker 1: but he thinks progress is being made when it comes
Speaker 1: without a deal with them. Bodycam video shows a man
Speaker 1: stabbing his mother in front of a home in Irvine,
Speaker 1: right before police kill him.
Speaker 5: The night Down.
Speaker 2: Means after the guy id'd as Paul Montizare from Las
Speaker 2: Vegas can be seen crouching over his mother.
Speaker 9: Not to Night, Not to Night.
Speaker 2: Montazaarre appears to then charge the officer with the knife
Speaker 2: in his hand. Earlier this month, right as another officer
Speaker 2: shows up. The man and his mother both died at
Speaker 2: the scene shots fire.
Speaker 1: Mail Down has a knife in his hand.
Speaker 2: In Orange County, Corbin Carson camp I News Congress has
Speaker 2: avoided a government shutdown just weeks before the November election.
Speaker 1: The House and Senate approved Billy yesterday that keeps federal
Speaker 1: agencies funded through December twentieth. Speaker Mike Johnson says his
Speaker 1: chamber did its job.
Speaker 4: We are not going to return to the Christmas comedy
Speaker 4: bus spending tradition, and that's a commitment I've made to everyone.
Speaker 1: Lawmakers will face another round of fiscal negotiations at the
Speaker 1: end of the year. The A's will play their last
Speaker 1: game in Oakland this afternoon against the Texas Rangers. Of course,
Speaker 1: the A's are moving to Las Vegas. Team owner John
Speaker 1: Fisher has apologized to fans for the team's departure saying
Speaker 1: he wishes he could talk to every fan personally and
Speaker 1: tell them we tried, but apparently that's not good enough
Speaker 1: for Brian Johansson with the fan group Baseball's Last Dive Bar.
Speaker 2: We just asked that they have just an ounce of
Speaker 2: decency and respect for these final games, and they can't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: First pitch of the last A's game at Oakland Coliseum
Speaker 1: goes out at twelve forty five. It's Halloween time at
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Speaker 1: is sending a team of firefighters to Florida to assist
Speaker 1: with Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. The hurricane is now Category
Speaker 1: two storm. The team members are from Riverside, Orange County,
Speaker 1: San Diego, Sacramento, and Oakland. Governor Newsom says the firefighters
Speaker 1: from the state's Urban Search and Rescue Task Force Incident
Speaker 1: Support Team that's a mouthful, will be immediately deployed to Florida.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has vetoed a bill to help black families
Speaker 1: reclaim or be compensated for and seized by the government.
Speaker 1: The bill would have created a process for families to
Speaker 1: file acclaim with the state if they believed the government
Speaker 1: sees their property through eminent domain because of discrimination. The
Speaker 1: lights are going to stay on. In Washington, the House
Speaker 1: and Senate have passed a bill to keep the government
Speaker 1: funded through December twentieth. The funding bill generally keeps agencies
Speaker 1: operating at current levels. Lawmakers are going to have to
Speaker 1: pass another bill to keep the government funded through the
Speaker 1: holidays and into next year. At six oh five, it's
Speaker 1: handled on the news New York Mayor Eric Adams is
Speaker 1: being indicted by the federal government. We're just getting word
Speaker 1: that federal agents have seized Mayor Adam's phone during a
Speaker 1: search at dawn. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: jordonah Miller in Jerusalem. So Jordana's things continue to escalate.
Speaker 1: Hesba law file fires a missile at Tel Aviv, which
Speaker 1: is intercepted, and Israel says it's time to prepare for
Speaker 1: a ground invasion.
Speaker 10: Right and then late this morning we also found out
Speaker 10: that Israel's participating in talks on a ceasfire between Israel
Speaker 10: and Lebanon. That doesn't mean we have there's a deal
Speaker 10: that's been agreed to by both sides and nothing is imminent.
Speaker 10: But we're seeing at the same time intense fighting, cross
Speaker 10: border fighting between Israel and Lebanon what looks like we
Speaker 10: could lead quickly to a full war. On the other side,
Speaker 10: diplomacy led by the United States again trying to pull
Speaker 10: the sides back from war. Yesterday, for the first time,
Speaker 10: has Balla fired a ballistic missile on Tel Aviv. It
Speaker 10: was intercepted. There were no injuries, but it is a
Speaker 10: proof of Hasbala's capabilities. And by the way, it's only
Speaker 10: one ballistic missile. They surely could fire many more. This
Speaker 10: was just a way of Husbala letting everybody know how
Speaker 10: far they can reach into Israel. It was over one
Speaker 10: hundred and twenty miles from hsbalas from Lebanon's borders, right
Speaker 10: where Hasbella operates out of. We also saw the Israeli Army,
Speaker 10: the chief HERZLV, saying to troops that he's preparing to
Speaker 10: put their boots on the ground in southern Lebanon, and
Speaker 10: that Israel has called up two reserve brigades about six
Speaker 10: thousand soldiers, so that as the Israeli Armi says, it
Speaker 10: can advance, it's the next stage of its military operations,
Speaker 10: its war plans. And that is after Israel already pulled
Speaker 10: out a division of troops from Gaza about ten thousand
Speaker 10: and moved.
Speaker 1: Them to the north.
Speaker 10: So you can see that Israel is advertising and messaging
Speaker 10: that it is getting ready for a potential ground offensive.
Speaker 10: And I think there's a few things happening here at once,
Speaker 10: and they're linked the threats of what Israel could do
Speaker 10: next and what Hasbela could do next. With their missile
Speaker 10: strike and the news of the diplomacy, it's all building
Speaker 10: up in a sense, Israel is trying to put pressure,
Speaker 10: I think, and scare Hasbala into really choosing diplomacy over war.
Speaker 10: And Hasbala with that missile strike still, you know, is
Speaker 10: keeping everyone guessing about what it really wants next.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 10: Has Bula has said it will not stop firing until
Speaker 10: there's a seatfire in Gaza, and there is no ceasefire
Speaker 10: in Gaza. The fighting is still continuing there, so you
Speaker 10: know where exactly are we headed. I think we're really
Speaker 10: gonna have to watch closely. But this is again another
Speaker 10: very very volatile moment, and the Prime Minister of Israel,
Speaker 10: Benjamin Attania, has just arrived in New York and he
Speaker 10: is set to address the UN General Assembly tomorrow, so
Speaker 10: I think we won't see anything dramatic couple of days
Speaker 10: until he's back here.
Speaker 1: Well, and you've got me thinking, which is always dangerous,
Speaker 1: but you know, the wheels start spinning when you think, okay,
Speaker 1: if they're talking diplomacy, as Hesbola kind of ramps up
Speaker 1: and Israel's threatening the ground operation, it almost like sets
Speaker 1: the stage for them to say, Okay, you guys, we
Speaker 1: can This gives us basically an opportunity to step back
Speaker 1: and do the diplomacy and say, okay, we've both shown
Speaker 1: that we've got some mighte here, but let's step back.
Speaker 1: Kind of gives them both out.
Speaker 10: Right, hopefully right exactly. I mean, it's a face saving
Speaker 10: measure that may may let Hasbala climb down from the ladder,
Speaker 10: and it may let Israel as well. But as is
Speaker 10: always the case, you know, what are the We don't
Speaker 10: exactly know the intentions of the Prime Minister of Israel
Speaker 10: nor the leader of Hasbola huffon Thestralla. Uh, you know,
Speaker 10: he's making a big hit. He admitted that his organization
Speaker 10: has taken a big hit over the last week. Certainly
Speaker 10: they have plenty of capabilities left. I mean, we don't
Speaker 10: talk about it because we're focused on the damage as well,
Speaker 10: doing to the rockets and the hardware that are embedded
Speaker 10: in civilian areas in southern Lobanon above ground. But remember
Speaker 10: has Bulla also has thousands of rockets underground and thousands
Speaker 10: of rockets in Beyrout underground, so they're you know, they've
Speaker 10: taken a hit, but they are not. They're not defeated,
Speaker 10: and Israel knows that, you know, a war against Habullah
Speaker 10: would be bloody and destructive. And I think the United
Speaker 10: States is trying to say, can't we get to the
Speaker 10: solution that you're going to get to at the end
Speaker 10: of a bloody, again and destructive war. Can't we get
Speaker 10: to that now? Let's let's see back and talk about
Speaker 10: a ceasefire now, and then we'll deal with Gaza after,
Speaker 10: because they won't they won't be connected.
Speaker 1: All right, And then, as you said, in the immediate future.
Speaker 1: Natanyahu is in New York and is speaking to the
Speaker 1: General Assembly at the United Nations. But that's not today,
Speaker 1: that's tomorrow.
Speaker 10: It's tomorrow. He's giving his speech at nine point thirty
Speaker 10: eastern right, and you know, we can we can't expect
Speaker 10: him to lay out Israel's case. It's what he calls
Speaker 10: the just war against him US and now increasingly against Osbala.
Speaker 10: He will link Israel's enemies to Iran, their patron and supporter,
Speaker 10: and talk about you know that Israel's really on the
Speaker 10: front lines in the fight against Iran, which seeks to
Speaker 10: be stabilize and really take over the Middle East, and
Speaker 10: that Israel's on the front lines of fighting a kind
Speaker 10: of culture of hate and a genocidal culture that a
Speaker 10: kind of fanatical I flam that is hijacked modern yflam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, we will be watching and listening and
Speaker 1: and hoping that that diplomatic solution presents itself.
Speaker 8: Let's hope.
Speaker 1: So all right, thanks so much, ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A federal judge
Speaker 1: has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to lock down
Speaker 1: UCLA's Jackie Robinson Stadium at the VA in West La.
Speaker 1: It'll be off limits starting at noon until the university
Speaker 1: comes up with a proposal for the stadium grounds to
Speaker 1: benefit the military veterans for whom the land was originally deeded.
Speaker 1: US District Judge David o'carter voiced frustration yesterday with UCLA
Speaker 1: and other leaseholders for not offering satisfactory uses for the land.
Speaker 1: He also criticized the VA, saying they illegally leased parts
Speaker 1: of the West La campus to UCLA's baseball team, the
Speaker 1: affluent Brentwood School, an oil company and other private interests.
Speaker 1: A man in Santa Barbara County has been arrested for
Speaker 1: allegedly setting off an explosive device at a courthouse in
Speaker 1: Santa Maria. Officials say the man through a bag with
Speaker 1: an explosive past the weapons checkpoint yesterday. Shane Mellon was
Speaker 1: in one of the courtrooms when it happened.
Speaker 11: There was some like sweater or something sitting there smoldering
Speaker 11: at someone's screaming, and four or five individuals trying to
Speaker 11: restrain that guy.
Speaker 1: Five people were taken to the hospital with non life
Speaker 1: threatening injuries. Police say the twenty year old arrested was
Speaker 1: due to be arraigned on a gun charge when the
Speaker 1: explosion happened. Books on the American Library Association's banned list
Speaker 1: will soon be available for free at LAX.
Speaker 4: The vote by the La City Council during Banned Books
Speaker 4: Week taps into a partnership with the library and the
Speaker 4: Airport Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez says she's motivated to help people
Speaker 4: circulating through the airport who may come from places where
Speaker 4: the titles are off the shelves, to figure out a.
Speaker 10: Way for us to expose more of these banned books
Speaker 10: for so many travelers with coming in and out.
Speaker 4: Of lax QR codes at the airport will lead travelers
Speaker 4: to access a temporary library card no matter where they're from,
Speaker 4: to check out digital copies in downtown La.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks KFI News. So the Dodgers beat the Padres
Speaker 1: four to three last night at Dodgers Stadium. Go Blue Show,
Speaker 1: Hey Otani stole his fifty sixth base. A win tonight
Speaker 1: would clinch the National League West for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 1: you can watch as the Dodgers take on the Padres.
Speaker 1: It's their series finale at Dodger Stadium. First pitch goes
Speaker 1: out at seven o'clock. You can listen to every play
Speaker 1: of every game on AM five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and you can
Speaker 1: stream all the games live in HD on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: app keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports. Governor Newsom,
Speaker 1: with much pomp and circumstance, was in Inglewood yesterday to
Speaker 1: sign three oil industry related bills into law. The bills
Speaker 1: address the idle oil wells that Newsom says continue to
Speaker 1: leak toxins into the air and the ground. Newsom says
Speaker 1: the new laws will place the responsibility to cap and
Speaker 1: clean the idle oil wells back on the oil companies.
Speaker 1: The city of Malibu is cracking down on people parking
Speaker 1: RVs and other vehicles overnight on Pacific Coast Highway. City
Speaker 1: officials say they're just following Governor Newsom's mandate to enforce
Speaker 1: existing laws that prohibit overnight parking in public spaces. New
Speaker 1: York Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on federal criminal charges.
Speaker 1: We don't yet know what the charges are. They're still seal.
Speaker 1: Federal prosecutors are expected to announce details of the indictment
Speaker 1: today at six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Speaker 1: More countries. They're calling for a ceasefire in Israel as
Speaker 1: Israel tells its troops to prepare for a ground operation
Speaker 1: into Lebanon. So much to see and so much to
Speaker 1: do as we head into the Halloween scary season, So
Speaker 1: we're doing Boop reviews for you, checking out some things
Speaker 1: that you might want to go and see for yourself.
Speaker 1: This week, we're going out and about for the return
Speaker 1: of Dark Harbor. We caught up with the creative genius
Speaker 1: behind Dark Harbor Amy Holloman, so Amy, Dark Harbor has
Speaker 1: been dark for a few years, but now has risen
Speaker 1: from the dead and is back at the Queen Mary.
Speaker 1: How exciting is that?
Speaker 9: Extremely exciting. I think so many people didn't think Dark
Speaker 9: Harbor could come back. So it's an honor, a challenge
Speaker 9: and our pleasure to bring back Dark Harbor after four
Speaker 9: years of being dormant.
Speaker 1: Four years, and I know that you've had your first
Speaker 1: few nights of it, and so far it's like record breaking.
Speaker 1: People are coming out for it. That's right.
Speaker 9: We've seen great attendance so far, and people just seem
Speaker 9: to be having a great time, screaming, laughing, smiling, sneaking
Speaker 9: into the speakeasies, having a drink, loosening up a bit,
Speaker 9: and then bab.
Speaker 1: We get him again. She's going to be doing that
Speaker 1: to me a lot. Okay, so Amy, tell us if
Speaker 1: people haven't been to Dark Harbor before. We're in the
Speaker 1: entrance way, and this is just so impressive. I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine what's going to be inside the mazes. But
Speaker 1: what kind of mazes do we have this year? What
Speaker 1: coul people have?
Speaker 9: Okay, we have five mazes from Dark Harbor. We're bringing
Speaker 9: back the original Feast that's inside the ship. It's the
Speaker 9: only remaining Dark Harbor maze from the past, but we're
Speaker 9: making the prequel to the story this year, where you
Speaker 9: see the butcher doing everything he can to rise the
Speaker 9: ranks to become the head chef aboard.
Speaker 1: We also have Lullaby, which.
Speaker 9: Is the story about the little girl Scary Mary, who
Speaker 9: died in the pool.
Speaker 1: I've heard of Scary Mary. You gotta watch out.
Speaker 9: Our third maze on the ship that's brand new this
Speaker 9: year is Infirmary Okay, and this is where we learn
Speaker 9: about a love story between the graceful gil Icon and
Speaker 9: a new character, the surgeon doctor Edwin Masters.
Speaker 1: I will love hell into it, he gets, explaining. Okay,
Speaker 1: what else we have?
Speaker 9: We have two mazes in the Harbor. One is the
Speaker 9: ring Master's Big Top Terror, where the ring Master is
Speaker 9: putting together all of their henschees as they call them,
Speaker 9: to bring fear and instill in the Circus of the Damned.
Speaker 1: And then lastly we have.
Speaker 9: Our new double maze Breakout where the story of B
Speaker 9: three forty.
Speaker 1: And then that's the Room that is America.
Speaker 9: The most haunted hotel room in America, maybe the world,
Speaker 9: where Samuel the Savage was locked up after murdering two
Speaker 9: people and mysteriously ended up dead.
Speaker 1: Seemed like the room was.
Speaker 9: Torn to shatters, to tatters. We don't know what happened
Speaker 9: in there. Yeah, but we're bringing that story off the
Speaker 9: ship every night. Sam the Savage is brought out in
Speaker 9: chains by two prison guards who bring him to the
Speaker 9: Seaside prison and breakout. But could a prison hold Samuel Savage?
Speaker 1: Of course not? Okay, of course not. So he breaks
Speaker 1: out and then.
Speaker 9: You, you, Amy, tonight will be in the steps of
Speaker 9: Samuel the Savage on the run through the Seaside village
Speaker 9: trying to escape and once again to murder all those
Speaker 9: who come to.
Speaker 1: Dark Harbor or the Creamery. So we're pretty excited about that, okay.
Speaker 1: In this experience, this is a scary one. This is
Speaker 1: not for the faint of heart, because you've got you've
Speaker 1: got what they call them scare actors, but you've got
Speaker 1: people jumping out at you and that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: all over the place.
Speaker 9: Right, It's an intense, high startled experience.
Speaker 1: I we we do.
Speaker 9: Ever have a festival like atmosphere all over the grounds
Speaker 9: where you can get food, drinks, you can even go
Speaker 9: to our Voodoo Bayou where you can chill out, So
Speaker 9: you could come with your friends even if you're a
Speaker 9: little scared, if that's okay. You just have to be
Speaker 9: ready for potentially some clowns, some scary stilt walkers or
Speaker 9: chainsaws in the streets. But besides that, once you get
Speaker 9: to the Voodoo Bayou, you can have some'mores, you can
Speaker 9: smoke kuka. There's almost a little bit of everything for somebody.
Speaker 9: A Dark Harbor this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then there's a full on carnival. Two. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's rides. So we have thrill rides.
Speaker 9: So we brought back the Sinister Swings Kick. Those are
Speaker 9: from original Dark Harbor and we're working with that rides company.
Speaker 9: We have all different kinds of rides and one of
Speaker 9: them is this cool old timey carousel, but they retrofitted
Speaker 9: it to match Scary Mary and it's a black like carousel.
Speaker 1: We also have a double.
Speaker 9: Wheel that's the only one on this half of the
Speaker 9: country where you go up high and you spin.
Speaker 1: So lots of different types of thrills. Okay. And when
Speaker 1: is Dark carpor open this holiday season?
Speaker 9: So Dark Harbor is open select nights all the way
Speaker 9: till November two, when we celebrate Dia delos Mortos, and
Speaker 9: they can go to Dark Harbor Halloween dot com to
Speaker 9: see what nights we're open. We're always open Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 9: most Thursdays, we pick up Wednesdays mid October and even
Speaker 9: some Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: Okay, any why do you love this so much?
Speaker 9: I love this because I like to entertain people and
Speaker 9: fear entertainment.
Speaker 1: It gets you out.
Speaker 9: Of your normal, everyday life and you get to sort
Speaker 9: of in some ways, it's a relief from the worries
Speaker 9: of the world. You can just sink your teeth in,
Speaker 9: get scared and then last and it brings you closer
Speaker 9: together and people you came with, whether you're holding not
Speaker 9: to your family, your loved blond or your friends. It's
Speaker 9: really a bonding experience. So we're excited to bring this
Speaker 9: back to Long Beach.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling when a bond with a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Tonight, aymy Holliman, genius extraordinaryor come out to
Speaker 1: Dark Harbor. That's where we are out and about for
Speaker 1: our book preview.
Speaker 12: All right, okay, soon, and we want to scare you soon.
Speaker 12: So we're going to give away tickets. We have two
Speaker 12: pair of tickets to give away Dark Harbor, and let's
Speaker 12: give them away right now.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred five to zero one KFI it's eight hundred
Speaker 1: five to zero one five three four. We have two
Speaker 1: pair of tickets to give away to Dark Harbor at
Speaker 1: the Queen Mary and let's do colors thirteen and thirteen
Speaker 1: right lucky number thirteen and also fourteen again, two pair
Speaker 1: of tickets to go see Dark Harbor. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you it is impressive and and I got to go
Speaker 1: out and check it out. I even went through a
Speaker 1: maze and Anne, who loves these things and I hate
Speaker 1: them because I'm scared, she kept pushing me in front
Speaker 1: of her and grabbing my arm. I was like, Ann,
Speaker 1: I'm the one who's scared, and she's like, oh whoops.
Speaker 1: So anyway, but really, really a cool experience. Also, you
Speaker 1: can buy tickets at Darkharbor Halloween dot com and check
Speaker 1: out our boot preview on my Instagram at Amy Kking
Speaker 1: and at KFI AM six forty. We're going to be
Speaker 1: posting that on Instagram in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Give you a little sneak peek, and of course I
Speaker 1: would love it if you would follow me, Let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four our newsroom. A Metro bus passenger in
Speaker 1: LA's Westlake district allegedly made threatening remarks to a driver,
Speaker 1: but the operator declined to press charges. Police were called
Speaker 1: yesterday to where the bus was on First Street and
Speaker 1: Beverly Boulevard. They say no weapon was found. Metro says
Speaker 1: it recognized its operators are understandably on edge and encourages
Speaker 1: them to take advantage of support offered through their Employee
Speaker 1: Assistant program. LA's Metro Board of Directors is meeting a
Speaker 1: day after a guy hijacked a bus in South LA
Speaker 1: and killed a passenger. Mayor Bass is expected to be
Speaker 1: at the meeting this morning. The board's expected to call
Speaker 1: for a report back on overall preparation plans for the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight Olympic and Paralympic Games. City officials have
Speaker 1: already declared a no car Olympics in twenty twenty eight
Speaker 1: plenty to use about three thousand buses. Health officials hoping
Speaker 1: to encourage more people to get a COVID nineteen vaccine
Speaker 1: have published a report saying there is a likely link
Speaker 1: between COVID and diabetes. It suggests the virus is creating
Speaker 1: inflammation in the pancreas. Baylor Infectious disease expert doctor Peter
Speaker 1: Hotez says this study comes as a growing number of
Speaker 1: parents questioned the impact of COVID on kids and are
Speaker 1: not getting them vaccinated. LA County Supervisor Janis Han and
Speaker 1: LA Mayor Bass have called for more police to be
Speaker 1: on trains and buses after a man hijacked a bus
Speaker 1: in South LA and shot and killed a passenger. The
Speaker 1: driver and another passenger were rescued. The alleged hijacker was
Speaker 1: arrested yesterday Early Yesterday morning, six people have been injured
Speaker 1: and a man has been arrested in connection with an
Speaker 1: explosion inside a courtroom in Santa Maria, north of Santa Barbara.
Speaker 1: The man apparently threw a bag in an area where
Speaker 1: he was going through security before the explosion happened yesterday morning.
Speaker 1: Meta has unveiled updates to its virtual reality headset and
Speaker 1: ray Ban smart glasses along with AI advances. CEO Mark
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg also showed off Orion, which is a prototype for
Speaker 1: a holographic augmented reality glasses which he calls the most
Speaker 1: advanced glasses the world has ever seen. Well, you're not
Speaker 1: going to see him for a while because there's no
Speaker 1: word on when they might be available to the public.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning,
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has vetoed a reparations bill while and what's next, Well,
Speaker 1: here's what's next for me. We're just one day away.
Speaker 1: I'm going over the edge to raise money for the
Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission. We're repelling off the Universal get nervous
Speaker 1: saying it. We're repelling off the Universal Hilton twenty five
Speaker 1: stories down to raise money to fight homelessness. And so
Speaker 1: we wanted to dig a little deeper into what the
Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission is and what it does, because I
Speaker 1: think it's really important to understand how Union Rescue Mission
Speaker 1: is different than other organizations. So let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to the vice president of Philanthropy and Social Enterprise with
Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission, Richard Newcombe.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Amy, thrilled to be here with you.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm thrilled and terrified to be here with you.
Speaker 1: So tell us exactly real quick before we talk about
Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. What Neil Sevadra and I have
Speaker 1: gotten ourselves into.
Speaker 11: We're shooting for two million dollars and we repelling off
Speaker 11: the roof of the Universal Hilton Hotel on September twenty
Speaker 11: seventh and twenty eighth. And that's what you signed up
Speaker 11: for all day Friday. You're coming right, you're looking at
Speaker 11: checking out.
Speaker 1: No, I'm coming. I'll be there. We're both Neil and I.
Speaker 1: We're going over the edge because we want we believe
Speaker 1: in this in the Union Rescue Mission, and we want
Speaker 1: to help you raise money. Okay, So let's talk about this, Richard,
Speaker 1: because people are skeptical of donating to homeless programs. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just want to kind of the elephant in the
Speaker 1: room because so much money has been thrown at this problem,
Speaker 1: and homelessness is getting worse. We all see it every
Speaker 1: day just driving around town. So let's talk about the
Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission and how it is different from other
Speaker 1: programs that are fighting homelessness.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 11: We sense that the citizenry of Los Angeles is frustrated
Speaker 11: with the homeless situation. It doesn't seem to be improving.
Speaker 11: It didn't go up on the last account and went
Speaker 11: down by two hundred people from seventy five thousand, five
Speaker 11: hundred to seventy five thousand, three hundred. But people aren't
Speaker 11: seeing a real change, and so we I've launched a
Speaker 11: campaign that is part of this event called just Help One,
Speaker 11: because we want people to not give up the fight.
Speaker 11: The seventeen million people in metropolitan Los Angeles, what if
Speaker 11: each of us stepped up to help one person? And
Speaker 11: so we're trying to let people know. It's an awareness campaign.
Speaker 11: We have billboards all over town, We're running radio ads
Speaker 11: on iHeartRadio stations and rallying people to our cause. Because
Speaker 11: Union Rescue Mission has been in Los Angeles for one
Speaker 11: hundred and thirty three years, we receive no government general
Speaker 11: operating funding and we get a perfect one hundred rating
Speaker 11: from Charity Navigator because eighty six cents of every dollar
Speaker 11: is going to life saving life transformation of programs.
Speaker 8: Okay, so yeple and fall short.
Speaker 11: Yes, Yeah, we want to talk.
Speaker 1: About the government funding. Neil and I have talked about it,
Speaker 1: but I want to hear it from you. You guys
Speaker 1: don't get any government money.
Speaker 11: Why because if you take funds from the city, county,
Speaker 11: or state, you have to run your facilities under the
Speaker 11: harm reduction model, which means people are allowed to use
Speaker 11: drugs and alcohol in your facility, which we do not.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and that's really powerful because if you think
Speaker 1: about it, it's the people who want to get help
Speaker 1: who are coming to you.
Speaker 8: Correct, And I think correct.
Speaker 11: Last night, last night we had thirteen hundred human beings
Speaker 11: under roof at our three facilities, sober living facilities. Nine
Speaker 11: hundred of them were moms, dads and kids. In over
Speaker 11: one hundred and fifty were seniors. What kind of chaos
Speaker 11: would ensue if drugs and alcohol flowed freely in those environments.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The other thing that I think is great about
Speaker 1: your organization is that you were telling us about like
Speaker 1: the transitional housing. So you're feeding thousands of people, but
Speaker 1: you're also working to actively help people get off the
Speaker 1: streets and get back into housing.
Speaker 12: Correct.
Speaker 11: We have lots of supportive programs that we offered, but
Speaker 11: people need to embrace it. Yes, I'm looking for change.
Speaker 11: One of them is Hope Garden's Family Center out in
Speaker 11: Silmar from moms and children. It's two to three years.
Speaker 11: You know, you get your ged, you get money management skills,
Speaker 11: We help you train for a job, We help you
Speaker 11: find a job, We help you save. We had two
Speaker 11: moms graduate recently, one at Save seventeen thousand and one
Speaker 11: at Save twenty you know, and now they're moving on
Speaker 11: to a self sustaining life.
Speaker 8: Eighty percent success right at Hope Gardens.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. See. So, like you said, we can't there's
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand people. We can't help them all, but
Speaker 1: we can help them one at a time, and especially
Speaker 1: help the ones who want the help.
Speaker 8: And Union Rescue Mission welcome. Then seventy five.
Speaker 11: Hundred human beings in the past year. That's ten percent
Speaker 11: of the entire homeless population. So we're making a significant impact.
Speaker 11: We are doing it efficiently and effectively. We hope the
Speaker 11: citizenry of Los Angeles will rally around us.
Speaker 8: And help us do more.
Speaker 1: Okay, so in the immediate future, tell us how we're
Speaker 1: going to rally around it. So one way is to
Speaker 1: make a donation just help one dot org. And we
Speaker 1: now have a tab on the homepage for the Team iHeart.
Speaker 1: You can go directly to it and make a donation
Speaker 1: to support Neil and me and others from some of
Speaker 1: our other sister radio stations who are going to be
Speaker 1: going over the edge. And then if you want to
Speaker 1: conquer a fear and maybe repel down a twenty five
Speaker 1: story building, how do you do that, Richard?
Speaker 11: They go to that same website, just help one the
Speaker 11: number one dot org and sign up. You know, there's
Speaker 11: three buttons. It's a registered sponsor and then it's got
Speaker 11: iheart's button and so people.
Speaker 8: We'd love to have more participants. We do have the slots.
Speaker 11: Some available on Friday, lots available on Saturday.
Speaker 8: And it's safe.
Speaker 11: This has been going on for twenty years in North
Speaker 11: America and the only person went to a hospital had
Speaker 11: an allergic beasting. Nobody's ever going to hurt. I've done
Speaker 11: it eight times. It's a little scary to go over
Speaker 11: the edge. At first you look down. You are up
Speaker 11: there with me, right and we look down. But it's
Speaker 11: a blast, and afterwards it's exhilarating. And every participant within
Speaker 11: two to three hours afterwards, it gets a video that
Speaker 11: includes drone footage and you personally going from the roof
Speaker 11: to the bottom, and they get that and they can
Speaker 11: post that on social media, email a text it with
Speaker 11: him two to three hours after their experience.
Speaker 1: Richard Nucombe, thank you so much for coming on because
Speaker 1: I think, like I said, people are skeptical and this
Speaker 1: is an organization you can get behind and whether you
Speaker 1: can donate ten dollars or one hundred or one thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: will take it. We need it and people need it.
Speaker 8: God bless you.
Speaker 1: Thanks you all right, take care, pretty amazing stuff and
Speaker 1: we're going over the edge tomorrow and hope that you
Speaker 1: will join in the fight and make a donation again,
Speaker 1: whether it's a dollar or one hundred dollars or one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, we would appreciate anything that you can give.
Speaker 1: It's just help one dot org. And there's a Team
Speaker 1: iHeart button right there on the front page. And then
Speaker 1: go and you can donate to me so I can
Speaker 1: beat Neil because I think I'm ahead of him now.
Speaker 1: He was ahead of me a little while ago, but
Speaker 1: I think I'm ahead now And want to say a
Speaker 1: few thank yous, just real quick. Wendy Smart donated Kathleen
Speaker 1: Lucas thanks to Joe Gadeon, Carol Ustavich, Justina Bircham, Diana Sebray.
Speaker 1: So many people are donating, and again, every little bit helps.
Speaker 1: You can help just one, So just help one. The
Speaker 1: number one dot org and then join us because we're
Speaker 1: going over the edge tomorrow. Neil's going to do it
Speaker 1: I think at eleven o'clock and I'm doing it sometime
Speaker 1: between three and four. This is KFI and KOST HD
Speaker 1: two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This
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