Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. It's Tiffany Hobbs here with you. It's Saturdays
Speaker 2: with Tiffany. And if you are a USC fan and
Speaker 2: alum like myself, I hope Petro's Papadakus is listening one
Speaker 2: of my fellow schoolmates there, then you recognize this song.
Speaker 3: Oh, it just puts me in a good.
Speaker 2: Space, a really good space. It's almost patriotic. That's the
Speaker 2: USC fight song. Thank you Raoul for that sends a
Speaker 2: little shiver down my spine because I remember being an
Speaker 2: undergrad and hearing that song and what it signified. What
Speaker 2: it symbolized was so much school pride.
Speaker 3: But a lot of people right.
Speaker 2: Now are dealing with some complicated emotions surrounding USC and
Speaker 2: their tuition. We had to start the show with our song,
Speaker 2: and I will get into what's going on with USC's
Speaker 2: tuition in just a moment. Welcome to the show, everyone,
Speaker 2: What a show we have. Not only will we be
Speaker 2: covering the local news, there's some big local stories, but
Speaker 2: we will talk to our resident legal correspondent who will
Speaker 2: be on with us at five point thirty Louise Shapiro
Speaker 2: about some major cases that are in the news, from
Speaker 2: updates on the Menindez brothers, to what's going on with
Speaker 2: that OC superior or judge judge oh goodness, what is
Speaker 2: his name, Judge Jeff Ferguson, And.
Speaker 3: He's been in the news, and we'll give you.
Speaker 2: Some updates as to why he has been, as well
Speaker 2: as covering what's going on with that Columbia student who
Speaker 2: may or may not be deported.
Speaker 3: Mamood Khalil and.
Speaker 2: Lou Shapiro will talk to us about that from a
Speaker 2: legal perspective. We always love when he comes on with
Speaker 2: his insight and his legal expertise. That's at five point thirty.
Speaker 2: At six o'clock, we're gonna take a deeper dive.
Speaker 3: We're gonna look.
Speaker 2: At why Los Angeles streets might be safe in some regards.
Speaker 2: But one of those regards is certainly certainly not as
Speaker 2: a driver, as a commuter, or even as a pedestrian
Speaker 2: for that matter, because of how many severe and fatal
Speaker 2: car crashes we experience every year. So we'll get into
Speaker 2: what's going on with safety on our streets. Some of
Speaker 2: the things that are compromising safety and what we have
Speaker 2: to look forward to as we get closer to these
Speaker 2: major events in the next few years where our streets
Speaker 2: will certainly be crowded. Then at six point thirty we
Speaker 2: will have Marcus Coval. He's the founder of Liam's Life Foundation.
Speaker 2: And if you've been listening to KFI, Heather Brooker's been
Speaker 2: talking about Marcus and the Liams Life Foundation in her newscast.
Speaker 2: Mark is running the LA Marathon tomorrow for his son,
Speaker 2: and he will tell us why, what led to this
Speaker 2: moment and what Liam's Life Foundation aims to get as
Speaker 2: he runs this marathon and going forward, and it has
Speaker 2: to do with blood alcohol content levels, sobriety and ebriation,
Speaker 2: driving while drunk, all of those things. And I'll let
Speaker 2: Marcus explain his story when he comes on at six thirty.
Speaker 2: And before we go any further, can we just take
Speaker 2: a moment to mourn the likely passing of EGLT number
Speaker 2: three or number two or number one. We're not quite
Speaker 2: sure which eglit it is. But of the three eglts
Speaker 2: that we all have been watching and covering on the
Speaker 2: news on your social media through the Friends of Big
Speaker 2: Bear Valley live cam, unfortunately one of the Eglitz has
Speaker 2: been confirmed as having passed away. We don't know the cause.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm giving an obituary for Elit. We
Speaker 2: don't know the cause. We don't know what's happening in
Speaker 2: the aftermath or what will happen now in the aftermath
Speaker 2: of the passing of the eglet. There's lots of speculation
Speaker 2: about what mom and dad Jackie in Shadow may do.
Speaker 2: But what we do know is that the Friends of
Speaker 2: Big Bear Valley have confirmed, unfortunately that one of those
Speaker 2: little eglts has in fact passed away, leaving two. But
Speaker 2: as we just saw with an update, the two remaining
Speaker 2: eglets are doing well. They're thriving, They're strong, and they're thriving.
Speaker 2: People have been asking customary question, you know, yesterday, what
Speaker 2: do you have plans for the weekend? Tiffany, what are
Speaker 2: you doing this weekend? And I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: What am I? What are I'm sitting in front of
Speaker 2: my camera or in front of my screen, and I'm
Speaker 2: watching Friends of Big Bear Valley and this live stream
Speaker 2: of these eglets.
Speaker 3: That's all I care to do.
Speaker 2: That's what I find myself doing in between anything else
Speaker 2: I have planned. I have been glued to the screen
Speaker 2: finding out what's going on with these cute little eglets,
Speaker 2: and they're very dedicated parents. I suggest you do the same.
Speaker 2: You can find a live stream on YouTube. You can
Speaker 2: find all these stories on the KFI website as well
Speaker 2: as we continue to update the progress of.
Speaker 3: These little eglts.
Speaker 2: It is riveting, it is interesting, and unfortunately it's taken
Speaker 2: a sad turn, but it's definitely something that we are
Speaker 2: lucky to see. We're lucky to see there are one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten feet up, I think, so the fact
Speaker 2: that we can see what's going on moment by moment
Speaker 2: is nothing short of a technological miracle. So check out
Speaker 2: Jackie's shadow and they're two remaining eglts and wish them well.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Something else I would love to wish well, but I
Speaker 2: don't know, would be the new USC students who are
Speaker 2: coming in. Those students who are expecting to start in
Speaker 2: August become freshmen at USC, my alma mater, and unfortunately,
Speaker 2: there's a huge discrepancy between when I started at USC
Speaker 2: in two thousand and one and what students are facing
Speaker 2: in twenty and twenty five and what they will continue
Speaker 2: to face. As the trend goes on. And what that
Speaker 2: trend is is an increase in tuition, an increase intuition
Speaker 2: that is happening yearly.
Speaker 3: And it's not a small increase.
Speaker 2: No, We're talking ten thousand dollars over the last five
Speaker 2: years now amounting two almost ninety nine thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: tuition per year at USC. That mirrors the increase of
Speaker 2: last year. Again, this is a trend. It's going, it's going.
Speaker 2: They've raised tuition for the sixth year in a row,
Speaker 2: and again that estimated cost of attendance is just shy
Speaker 2: of one hundred thousand dollars. Under President Carol Folks Tenure.
Speaker 2: The increase has to do with rises and costs for
Speaker 2: tuition fees, other necessities, how textbooks and meal plans. And
Speaker 2: I think when USC does really well, as they are
Speaker 2: with their basketball program, with their football program, things have
Speaker 2: to compensate and tuition goes up. Of course, USC has
Speaker 2: been approached for comment about this and they've said they
Speaker 2: have no comment.
Speaker 3: Either pay or don't.
Speaker 2: But if you're paying, expect to pay nearly one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars per year for undergraduate education at USC. If
Speaker 2: you have children who are under eighteen. I have something
Speaker 2: else to warn you of. If you're planning to visit
Speaker 2: a hotel in California, you may not be able to
Speaker 2: take your kids because this hotel has just instituted a
Speaker 2: ban on all children or all guests under the age
Speaker 2: of eighteen. I'll tell you the name of the hotel,
Speaker 2: what they're planning on doing, and why they could find
Speaker 2: themselves in hot water. On the other side of the break,
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Speaker 3: Tiffy Hobbs here with you. It's Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 2: Until seven tonight, and we are with friend of the station,
Speaker 2: Friend of the show, Louse Shapiro. Wonderful attorney offers great
Speaker 2: insight into current cases, which we'll be getting into shortly,
Speaker 2: but before we do any of that, Welcome back to
Speaker 2: Saturdays with Tiffany. Lou Thanks for coming on with us.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Always enjoyed being with you and love your energy.
Speaker 3: Thank you louse.
Speaker 2: Shapiro, Like I said, I you are friend of the show,
Speaker 2: and I'm hoping that we can have you on with
Speaker 2: regularity because I just love the opinions that you have
Speaker 2: and the facts that you inform us of. So again,
Speaker 2: thank you for being willing to come on. Can we
Speaker 2: get into some cases.
Speaker 4: Shapiro, Let's jump right into it.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: So the very first case I want to discuss is
Speaker 2: what's going on with this judge, this Orange County Superior
Speaker 2: Court judge, Jeff Ferguson. He just completed a murder trial.
Speaker 2: And I say completed and with a bit of nuance.
Speaker 2: It's not as easy, not as cut and dry as that.
Speaker 2: But this case, a murder trial, ended in a mistrial
Speaker 2: after eight days of deliberation, in which the jury deadlocked
Speaker 2: eleven to one. Eleven said guilty, one said not guilty.
Speaker 2: The charge Jeff Ferguson is being charged with, or was
Speaker 2: being accused of, shooting and killing his wife, Sheila Ferguson
Speaker 2: Cheryl Ferguson in twenty twenty three, after a dinner in
Speaker 2: which they enjoyed themselves drank heavily, went back to their
Speaker 2: home in Anaheim Hills and what Jeff Ferguson said happened
Speaker 2: is what is causing a lot of confusion, a lot
Speaker 2: of dissension, and what maybe led to this one holdout.
Speaker 2: Jeff Ferguson, this OC judge, said that he got home,
Speaker 2: he was having an exchange with his wife. He had
Speaker 2: a gun and a holster on his ankle. He took
Speaker 2: the gun out of the holster and attempted to put
Speaker 2: it on a table. As he attempted to put the
Speaker 2: gun on the table, his shoulder gave out. This is
Speaker 2: what he's saying. His shoulder gave out, and as he
Speaker 2: tried to put the gun down, there was just this kerfuffle,
Speaker 2: this fumble, and it resulted in the gun going off
Speaker 2: and shooting his wife, Sheryl Ferguson, square center in the chest.
Speaker 3: Now, I've never shot anyone. The night is still young.
Speaker 2: Who knows traffic is bad, We'll see, But I do
Speaker 2: know if I were to injure anyone, the first thing
Speaker 2: that I'm doing is I'm attempting to render aid. And
Speaker 2: what's being said is that Jeff Ferguson did not render
Speaker 2: a to his dying wife in that moment. Yet, with
Speaker 2: all of the evidence pointing towards something that may have malice.
Speaker 2: As far as intent, he is now dealing with the mistrial.
Speaker 4: This is it is.
Speaker 2: Pausing effectively until the next steps. So if I may
Speaker 2: ask you, what do you think, lou, why do you
Speaker 2: think this deadlock eleven to one verdict actually happened?
Speaker 4: All right? So it really comes down to intent versus accident.
Speaker 4: The defense was that Ferguson accidentally shot his wife when
Speaker 4: he put that gun on the table, like you set out.
Speaker 4: The prosecution painted a different picture and they really focused
Speaker 4: in on two facts that showed it was intentional versus accidental.
Speaker 4: One was the fact that he and his wife were
Speaker 4: in an argument already. So the fact that they're in
Speaker 4: a heated argument, words aren't being exchanged, there is somewhat
Speaker 4: motive there to do something like that. And again, if
Speaker 4: somebody is under the influence of alcohol severely, then they're
Speaker 4: going to do things that they wouldn't normally do. But
Speaker 4: if they're angry, drunk, bad argument, bad things can happen
Speaker 4: from that. The other piece of evidence that they presented
Speaker 4: with the text that he sent to his staff after
Speaker 4: and his text was I just lost it. I just
Speaker 4: shot my wife. I won't be in tomorrow. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4: I think focusing on I just lost it was an
Speaker 4: admission of I can't believe what I just did intentionally,
Speaker 4: And I think that text, coupled with the argument that
Speaker 4: they were in, was too much for the majority of
Speaker 4: the chers to ignore, and therefore they went with the
Speaker 4: murder charge versus the manslaughter, which just calls for an accident.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense to me, and that is sensible.
Speaker 2: Do you think that perhaps the district attorney came in
Speaker 2: with an overcharge that a second degree murder charge may
Speaker 2: have been a bit too heavy handed. Maybe if they
Speaker 2: had gone in with a manslaughter charge or some lesser charge,
Speaker 2: we'd be looking at a different result right now with
Speaker 2: this case.
Speaker 4: Yeah, had they just asked for a manslaughter then they
Speaker 4: almost certainly would have gotten a conviction, because the eleven
Speaker 4: to one for murder means that the other eleven that
Speaker 4: we're going for murder would have agreed to even a
Speaker 4: lesser charge. If they're agreeing to murder. It was that
Speaker 4: one holdout was like, I'm not willing to go to
Speaker 4: the murder, I'm willing to go to manslaughter. Then they
Speaker 4: would have had a unanimous verdict and look for someone
Speaker 4: his age getting a manslaughter conviction. He's seventy two years old.
Speaker 4: Manslaughter with the gun. It's not a walk in the park,
Speaker 4: especially out of Orange County.
Speaker 3: So that's a life sentence at that point.
Speaker 4: For Yeah, that's right, at that point, it's very right. So,
Speaker 4: but that's not also how Orange County rules. It's a
Speaker 4: very conservati jurisdiction. When they prosecute, they like to go,
Speaker 4: they like to show the full effect of the law,
Speaker 4: and that's what they did in this case. And that's
Speaker 4: why they're going to be retrying him exactly.
Speaker 2: And that's what I wanted to get to finally, for
Speaker 2: this to wrap up with this case before we go
Speaker 2: on to the next. But DA Todd Spitzer out there
Speaker 2: in Orange County, as you said, very conservative area, and
Speaker 2: they are heavy handed. They do invest in strategies that
Speaker 2: do push the furthest extent of the law and what
Speaker 2: they're able to do legally and judicially.
Speaker 3: What do you think is next?
Speaker 2: I know Todd Spitzer is saying they're retrying this case
Speaker 2: in a few weeks. What do you forecast as far
Speaker 2: as what's coming for Judge Fergus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so if you were, Judge Ferguson, You're going to
Speaker 4: want to try this case as many times as possible
Speaker 4: to avoid going in on a life sentence. So it's
Speaker 4: very tasking to go to trial. It's financially draining, emotionally
Speaker 4: draining and all that, but it sure beats being in
Speaker 4: a prison cell somewhere. So for Jeff Ferguson, this was
Speaker 4: a victory. He did not expect to walk out with
Speaker 4: a not guilty in this case. So a hung jury
Speaker 4: for the defense is the best on these facts that
Speaker 4: probably one could walk away with, and he got that.
Speaker 4: So while it may not appear that way to the
Speaker 4: public that he had a victory from an legal perspective,
Speaker 4: given what he was facing and dealing with, he did
Speaker 4: well on this.
Speaker 3: Thank you for that analysis.
Speaker 2: You definitely it educated me more on what's going on because,
Speaker 2: like many in the country, I was wondering, how could
Speaker 2: this happen? Seemed very cut and dry, But like you said,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of nuance when it comes to these
Speaker 2: sorts of charges, and Judge Ferguson is benefiting right now
Speaker 2: anyway from those gray areas. Lou Can we keep you
Speaker 2: on to talk about the Menindez Brothers. In the next segment,
Speaker 2: what do you say yes, looking forward to it?
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 2: K I AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs Here with You until seven pm. It's Saturdays
Speaker 2: with Tiffany and we're talking to attorney Lou Shapiro. We're
Speaker 2: going to get into the Menindez brother's case. When we
Speaker 2: come back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI.
Speaker 2: AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Tiffany Hobbs Here with You.
Speaker 2: Saturdays with Tiffany, and we're talking to our wonderful friend,
Speaker 2: our very smart friends, smarter than us, Lou Shapiro, attorney,
Speaker 2: and he's giving us an analysis on the current big
Speaker 2: legal cases in the news.
Speaker 3: We just covered Judge Ferguson and now we're.
Speaker 2: Getting into what's going on with the Menindez brothers. They
Speaker 2: seem to not go away, and you would think after
Speaker 2: thirty five years at this point, I think, Lou, that
Speaker 2: this story would start to wane. But with the popularity
Speaker 2: of the Netflix series, with the popularity of this resurgence
Speaker 2: and interest in the case of the Menindez brothers, there
Speaker 2: are a lot more possibilities on the table, and one
Speaker 2: of those possibilities about the future for Eric and Lyle
Speaker 2: Menindez is a potential resentencing. However, our new DA Nathan
Speaker 2: Hakman is not a fan of the Menindez brothers, seemingly
Speaker 2: like George Gascone was. And Nathan Hawkman has said that
Speaker 2: he is not going to hear any cause for a
Speaker 2: reduction in sentence due to quote legitimate reasons. What does
Speaker 2: that mean, Lou What is what does Nathan Hakman have
Speaker 2: on the Mendez brothers.
Speaker 4: Well, Nathan Hoffman is coming from the position that there's
Speaker 4: a new sheriff in town. He's not the a gascon.
Speaker 4: He's going to look at a case very carefully and
Speaker 4: early before showing any type of leniency. And in this situation,
Speaker 4: his review of the case, he says, shows that the
Speaker 4: Menendez brothers for years, lied, presented false evidence, did not
Speaker 4: take accountability for their actions. And he says, unless than
Speaker 4: until they are willing to say and take ownership of
Speaker 4: what they did instead of trying to, let's say, justify
Speaker 4: or explain it. He says, if they're willing to do that,
Speaker 4: then we will reconsider our position and Hawkman knows that
Speaker 4: they're probably not going to do that because that would
Speaker 4: cut against everything that they have stood for up until now.
Speaker 2: Do you think that, given the popularity of the net
Speaker 2: series and again this interest renewed interest in the case,
Speaker 2: that the Menendez brothers may be receiving preferential treatment when
Speaker 2: it comes to these additional looks at their cases. Is
Speaker 2: this weighing in their favor in any way?
Speaker 4: So? I think a lot of people sitting in custody
Speaker 4: are hearing about this case, and there's resentment. They're asking
Speaker 4: their friends and family, why do the Menendez brothers get
Speaker 4: all these second looks at their case? What about my case?
Speaker 4: You know, everybody has a story, and the Menendez brothers
Speaker 4: had the fortune of their story being told over several
Speaker 4: types of documentaries and this one caught fire and the
Speaker 4: therefore it's helping them sort of get into that spotlight
Speaker 4: and get several different looks at the case. So, in
Speaker 4: a sense, yes, they are getting preferential treatment. Is it
Speaker 4: amounting to anything though practically for them so far it
Speaker 4: has not. It has just been disappointment after disappointment. We'll
Speaker 4: see what Newsan does, and I'm sure we'll get to
Speaker 4: that momentarily.
Speaker 2: Now d A Hawkman again is not presenting himself as
Speaker 2: a fan of the Menendez brothers as they seem to do.
Speaker 2: Seem to have quite a few fans that they're amassing.
Speaker 2: He talked about not meeting Da Hawkman, not meeting the
Speaker 2: criteria for resentencing. What would that criteria look like, what
Speaker 2: does that entail? How could the Menandez brothers in fact
Speaker 2: qualify for resentencing.
Speaker 4: So he's saying that he's willing to consider resentencing if
Speaker 4: they are willing to take ownership of certain facts in
Speaker 4: the case that they haven't yet done. So, for example,
Speaker 4: he wants them to admit that this murder of their
Speaker 4: parents was thoroughly planned out, that where they bought the gun,
Speaker 4: why they left out of La County to get it,
Speaker 4: they how they why they bought the movie ticket that night.
Speaker 4: He wants all that to be like, this is what
Speaker 4: we did, this is why did it. A big issue
Speaker 4: for Hawkman is the what's called lack of like imminency.
Speaker 4: And if you're going to argue self defense, then generally
Speaker 4: it's because someone is pointing a gun at you and
Speaker 4: you have to shoot first. That is traditionally self defense
Speaker 4: and Hawkman is saying that this is not that case,
Speaker 4: and the Menenda's brothers have been trying to paint the
Speaker 4: narrative as if that is the case, that it was
Speaker 4: like they were facing imminent danger from their parents. Were
Speaker 4: they facing danger, He's saying, maybe, But was it imminent?
Speaker 4: Did they have to go get a gun and you know,
Speaker 4: do what they did. Maybe they could have gone to
Speaker 4: law enforcement instead. Do they have time to do that?
Speaker 4: If they had time to go out of La County
Speaker 4: and get a gun and get a movie ticket and
Speaker 4: plan alibis and all that, then they probably have time
Speaker 4: to go to law enforcement in the alternative. And that's
Speaker 4: what he wants to hear from Menendo's brothers to consider,
Speaker 4: resentencing that.
Speaker 2: He wants them to admit that they did it, and
Speaker 2: that they meant to do it in the first place.
Speaker 2: None of this oh we had cause or you know,
Speaker 2: we were kind of back and forth about it. He
Speaker 2: wants it to be very black and white. We did it,
Speaker 2: and we're taking full responsibility. Precisely, before I let you go,
Speaker 2: I'd love to talk just for maybe a minute and
Speaker 2: a half about what's going on with this Columbia student.
Speaker 2: His name is Mahmoud Khalil. He's facing deportation after being
Speaker 2: arrested and accused of being a pro Palestine protester. The
Speaker 2: Trump administration is saying that he is a Hamas supporter
Speaker 2: and that anyone in this position, a protester on a
Speaker 2: college campus, is essentially public Enemy number one that we
Speaker 2: are not going to as an administration allow for this
Speaker 2: sort of protesting to go on.
Speaker 3: What do you think is going to happen with this case.
Speaker 4: Lou Okay, So we're hearing a lot of back and
Speaker 4: forth on this case, and there's there's something very important
Speaker 4: that's missing in the discussion that I think will turn
Speaker 4: on this and that is was it just speech or
Speaker 4: was it action as well? Yes, Khalil was just engaged
Speaker 4: in speeds as hateful and as offensive as it can
Speaker 4: be to other students. Free speech is generally protected in
Speaker 4: this country unless it is going to incite violence, right.
Speaker 4: That's really the only exception where the government can get
Speaker 4: it can infringe on that. So a lot of people
Speaker 4: are rushing judgment on both sides, but those facts need
Speaker 4: to be fleshed out. What exactly was he doing on
Speaker 4: this campus? Did he take over the library? Did he
Speaker 4: not take over the library. Was he involved in that?
Speaker 4: Was he not involved in that? What was was it
Speaker 4: just speech? Was it more than that? And until that
Speaker 4: comes out, it's really hard for anyone to say this
Speaker 4: is what needs to be done. But of course we
Speaker 4: know how social media is. There's always that rush to
Speaker 4: judgment on both sides, and I don't think that's ever
Speaker 4: going to change.
Speaker 2: Well, Lou, I certainly enjoy your judgment, your analysis. Thank
Speaker 2: you for weighing in on what's going on with Judge
Speaker 2: Jeff Ferguson out of Orange County, the Menindez Brothers update,
Speaker 2: and that quick and very again insightful analysis of what's
Speaker 2: going on with Columbia student my mood Khalil.
Speaker 3: I always enjoy you.
Speaker 2: You are welcome back anytime, Lou Shapiro, friend of the
Speaker 2: station and friend of mine, and again I thank you
Speaker 2: for your time.
Speaker 4: You got it. Always good to be with you. Tiffany,
Speaker 4: k I.
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Speaker 2: I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs here with you Saturdays with Tiffany, and you
Speaker 2: just heard Lou Shapiro, attorney Lou Shapiro on to talk
Speaker 2: about some of the big news cases that we've been
Speaker 2: covered here at the station, and he gave his insight
Speaker 2: and analysis about what's going on with the Menindez brothers,
Speaker 2: what's going on with Judge Ferguson out of Orange County,
Speaker 2: what's going on with that Columbia student who's facing deportation,
Speaker 2: Mahmood Khalil. So make sure you listen back to that
Speaker 2: on KFIAM six forty dot com under special features. It
Speaker 2: was a wonderful, wonderful conversation, and we always love to
Speaker 2: have Lou on something else that we're tracking. It's coming
Speaker 2: out of the KFI News Center and they again will
Speaker 2: continue sharing developments with us through the course of the night.
Speaker 2: President Trump has now launched what is being considered the
Speaker 2: biggest US military operation in the Middle East since he
Speaker 2: took office. What happened, well, President Trump launched this military
Speaker 2: operation in Yemen against the Houthis, and what he is
Speaker 2: saying is that what he is seeing is that the
Speaker 2: Houthis are a bit too a bit too sympathetic in
Speaker 2: this situation with what's going on in the Middle East
Speaker 2: and that unless they stop, quote, hell will rain down
Speaker 2: upon you. That's what Trump is saying to the Houthi region.
Speaker 2: The Hoothi Political Bureau is calling these attacks a war crime.
Speaker 2: A war crime. This took place early this morning, Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: Now Sunday there for them, but early Saturday morning, and
Speaker 2: we'll continue tracking those developments as the day goes on.
Speaker 3: As well.
Speaker 2: Trump has invoked an eighteenth century law to declare invasion
Speaker 2: by gangs and speed up deportations. And what that is
Speaker 2: is the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight.
Speaker 3: It's only been.
Speaker 2: Used twice before, and this time he is invoking it
Speaker 2: to declare the target being trend Day Arragua, saying that
Speaker 2: it is a hostile force acting at the behest of
Speaker 2: Venezuela government. So we will continue tracking those developments again
Speaker 2: throughout the night and throughout the weekend. Let's get into
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Speaker 3: It says guests who.
Speaker 2: Are eighteen and over are the only ones welcomed. However,
Speaker 2: the decision to ban children essentially is being met with
Speaker 2: some legal issue shoes. The lawyers are fighting. You have
Speaker 2: one lawyer, Robert Pattillo, who's a civil rights attorney. He
Speaker 2: says it's fine you can discriminate against children because essentially
Speaker 2: they're not a protected class. And then you have another lawyer,
Speaker 2: Chris Dolan, owner of Dolan Law Firm in San Francisco
Speaker 2: and LA, who says that any hotel that bans miners
Speaker 2: in California violates Civil Code fifty one, which is also
Speaker 2: known as the un ru Civil Rights Act, which provides
Speaker 2: blanket legal protections against discrimination in California businesses. He says
Speaker 2: hotels are a part of this business qualification in California specifically,
Speaker 2: cannot discriminate against children without facing major legal repercussions. But
Speaker 2: for now, if you want to visit a hotel that
Speaker 2: is a luxury hotel, it's offering a train, quill, relaxing,
Speaker 2: explorative and peaceful stay by the beach. Hurry up and
Speaker 2: get down to that Alila Maria or Madria Beach resort
Speaker 2: in Encinitas.
Speaker 3: It's pricey.
Speaker 2: You're paying for the premium of having silence and no children.
Speaker 2: But until things change, they will be a premiere child
Speaker 2: free resort. Another California city in the news is a
Speaker 2: city that has topped the list once again amongst the
Speaker 2: happiest cities in all of America. So this list came
Speaker 2: out of wallet hub and they again analyzed all the
Speaker 2: cities in America based on certain criteria, and those criteria
Speaker 2: for the largest cities in America involved emotional and physical
Speaker 2: well being, income and employment always a great talking point,
Speaker 2: and community and environment.
Speaker 3: So let's look at the.
Speaker 2: Top ten happiest cities in the US according to wallet Hub,
Speaker 2: and we'll just talk about the ones in California specifically.
Speaker 2: Raoul Can we have a drum roll for this as
Speaker 2: we talk about the top five cities for California specifically,
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you where La falls as well. Coming
Speaker 2: in at number ten, we have Huntington Beach. Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2: We love Huntington Beach. We have quite a few collaborations
Speaker 2: with Huntington Beach. Have that air show out there, beautiful
Speaker 2: air show. Huntington Beach comes in at number ten. Number nine,
Speaker 2: drum roll. We have San Francisco. And a lot of
Speaker 2: people probably would go what San Francisco costa living alone,
Speaker 2: probably would take it off of any list when it
Speaker 2: comes to emotional wellbeing, right, But San Francisco made the
Speaker 2: list nine.
Speaker 3: Number three, there's that drum roll.
Speaker 2: Irvine, Irvine, California. A beloved city, beloved city, many people
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 3: I enjoy Irvine.
Speaker 2: I've visited Irvine many times for different events, and I
Speaker 2: always want to stay. I find myself wanting to, you know,
Speaker 2: investigate what property might look like out there, and I'm
Speaker 2: always quickly reminded that I can't afford that Irvine is beautiful.
Speaker 2: Coming in at number two, San Jose. As we're going
Speaker 2: from out there in the OC kind of up north
Speaker 2: now to San Jose. I don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of things to say about San Jose, but
Speaker 2: I know driving through it. It's pretty, it's green, coming
Speaker 2: in at number one on this list of top ten
Speaker 2: happiest cities in the US, the California edition You'll Never
Speaker 2: Guess It Fremont, California.
Speaker 3: Freemont, California and why.
Speaker 2: Low separation and divorce rate, high life satisfaction rate, low
Speaker 2: depression rate, high average life expectancy, and a decent household income.
Speaker 2: So they top the list amongst those cities in California
Speaker 2: that are considered to be the happiest. Amongst this new
Speaker 2: story by wallet hub or this new survey by wallet hub,
Speaker 2: Where does LA fall? Number seventy seven? We are way
Speaker 2: down the list if you think about big cities. There
Speaker 2: are one hundred and eighty two of the largest cities
Speaker 2: that were analyzed. LA falls just below that fifty percentile.
Speaker 2: We are number seventy seven, which I guess is kind
Speaker 2: of like a SA average. Many of us might grade
Speaker 2: it differently, And one of the reasons we might grade
Speaker 2: Los Angeles differently has to do with the safety of
Speaker 2: our streets. Is it a safe place to drive? Are
Speaker 2: there exorbitant amounts of collisions on our Los Angeles streets?
Speaker 3: Should you be worried?
Speaker 2: If you are driving, or if you're a pedestrian where
Speaker 2: there are cars. Well, in our next segment, Deeper Dives,
Speaker 2: we'll get into just how unsafe Los Angeles is and
Speaker 2: the components that make up that lack of safety. KFI
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