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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Friday, August thirtieth.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King, a before Labor day. If you're traveling
Speaker 1: heading out over the weekend, the good news is the
Speaker 1: busiest travel day was yesterday. People ditch town early, so
Speaker 1: the few of us who were left, maybe traffic will
Speaker 1: be lighter today.
Speaker 4: Nick Pauliocinio Keep has helped checked in on that.
Speaker 1: Did you watch the Big interview last night? I have
Speaker 1: to say it was very underwhelmed. I was really looking
Speaker 1: forward to it because, you know, the Vice president hasn't
Speaker 1: spoken publicly in an interview setting since she decided that
Speaker 1: she was running for president or announced that she was
Speaker 1: running for president, and I.
Speaker 4: Really wanted to find out more.
Speaker 1: But I really feel and I don't know how you
Speaker 1: feel about this, obviously, but I don't feel like I
Speaker 1: got the specifics. I heard a lot of tap dancing
Speaker 1: from both Harrison Walls and from CNN really softballs. I
Speaker 1: think Dana Bash asked a couple of questions that were
Speaker 1: pretty good, but she didn't press nearly as hard as
Speaker 1: the Sunday shows, which I watched religiously every week, and
Speaker 1: I was like, maybe just hit a little hard, kind
Speaker 1: of push him to actually give you an answer. I
Speaker 1: wanted to know why she covered for Biden for so
Speaker 1: long and when she knew that he was diminished, because
Speaker 1: we all saw it. If she was in the room
Speaker 1: with him, she had to have seen it. But anyways,
Speaker 1: it was interesting. I'm glad she's speaking. I hope that
Speaker 1: they do more of these because I want to hear more.
Speaker 1: I think that she didn't really explain why she flip
Speaker 1: flopped on things, although CNN says, oh, yeah, she totally
Speaker 1: explained it.
Speaker 4: I don't buy that. But anyway, let's move on, because
Speaker 4: that's just politics. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1: I'm unaccused of trying to kidnap his sister's kids in Upland,
Speaker 1: as led police on a chase before being arrested. The
Speaker 1: kid's mom had warned sheriff's deputies that her brother was unstable.
Speaker 1: When they caught the guy, he reportedly told them he
Speaker 1: wanted to take the children to heaven. Both kids are okay.
Speaker 1: Property owners in Los Angeles may soon see a twenty
Speaker 1: two percent hike in their sewer service bills if the
Speaker 1: city approves new rates today. A city department says the
Speaker 1: increases are needed to maintain operations and invest in aging infrastructure.
Speaker 1: If approved, rates would go up twenty two percent in October,
Speaker 1: followed by a series of smaller increases that would end
Speaker 1: up almost doubling bills by twenty The Israeli military says
Speaker 1: it has killed five more militants, including a local commander
Speaker 1: in the occupied West Bank. Israel says the raids are
Speaker 1: aimed at preventing attacks against Israel. We're going to be
Speaker 1: talking more about this with ABC's Geordana Miller in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. We're also going to be talking
Speaker 1: about the house Whisperer at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: about how you can make your backyard a relaxing, healthy
Speaker 1: space and a place that you want to hang out
Speaker 1: and if you want to get away from it all
Speaker 1: and travel somewhere that's not crowded with tourists. The Taliban
Speaker 1: is calling. Yeah, seriously, that's coming up before the top
Speaker 1: of the hour at six oh five, It's handle on
Speaker 1: the news. The boor's head plant linked to a lasteria
Speaker 1: outbreak is a mess. Inspectors found bugs, mold, and puddles
Speaker 1: of blood inside. Let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris says the most important aspect of her
Speaker 1: policy decisions since she ran for president in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: is that her values haven't changed. She said in an
Speaker 1: interview on CNN last night that one example is her
Speaker 1: position on illegal immigration.
Speaker 5: I spent two terms as the Attorney General of California
Speaker 5: prosecuting transnational criminal organizations violations of American laws.
Speaker 4: My values have not changed.
Speaker 1: Haris says her day one agenda as president would include
Speaker 1: implementing her plan for what she calls an opportunity economy,
Speaker 1: citing her recent economic proposals to lower costs for Americans.
Speaker 1: A bill that would allow illegal immigrants to qualify for
Speaker 1: home loans is now up to Governor Newsom.
Speaker 6: The bill specifies that qualifying illegal immigrants can participate in
Speaker 6: several state backed home purchase programs. Democratic assembly Woman Wendy
Speaker 6: Correo says illegal immigrants contribute more than eight billion dollars
Speaker 6: to the general Fund.
Speaker 7: Conversations that suggest that immigrants are taking away from hard
Speaker 7: working Californians with other legal status that is a complete
Speaker 7: betrail of the facts.
Speaker 6: Republicans have argued the bill will incentivize illegal immigrant Newsom
Speaker 6: has until the end of next month at a side
Speaker 6: on the bill Blake Trolly k if I News.
Speaker 1: Police in Redlands have smashed their way into a home
Speaker 1: at a newdist resort looking for a man they say
Speaker 1: could be involved in the disappearance of an elderly couple.
Speaker 1: Police used a battering ram yesterday to crash through the
Speaker 1: front of the house and then sent a robot with
Speaker 1: a camera inside, But the guy police were looking for
Speaker 1: wasn't there. Redlands Police Department spokesman Carl Baker says they
Speaker 1: got a tip that led them to the guy's house.
Speaker 8: We received a phone call from somebody with information who
Speaker 8: said that they knew who the subject was who was
Speaker 8: involved in the disappearance of Dan and Stephanie Menhard.
Speaker 4: The Menards and their dog Cuddles have not been seen
Speaker 4: since Saturday.
Speaker 1: A New Labor Day survey says two out of three
Speaker 1: people believe they're working harder this year than last year.
Speaker 1: The Wallet Hubs survey also shows three out of four
Speaker 1: people think inflation is erasing all their hard work. Ninety
Speaker 1: three percent say they want to raise to keep up
Speaker 1: with inflation. I just want to raise. I don't care
Speaker 1: about keeping up with inflation. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to ABC's Geordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, the fighting in
Speaker 1: Israel to destroy militants is not only happening in Gaza.
Speaker 1: There's also action being taken in the occupied West Bank.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 5: We're on day three of the Israeli armies what they
Speaker 5: call a counter terrorism operation in the northern West Bank,
Speaker 5: and that's in the arees of Janine, nabilis tool Karam.
Speaker 5: This is an area that long before the Gaza War,
Speaker 5: the Palestinian security forces had really lost control of, and
Speaker 5: in the year preceding the war in Gaza, we saw
Speaker 5: almost thirty Israelis killed by attackers. They came out of
Speaker 5: this region, that is, with the shooting attacks and deadly
Speaker 5: stabbing attacks. So Israel has been going into this area
Speaker 5: steadily during the war, and now they've launched a kind
Speaker 5: of the largest scale operation in a few years, and
Speaker 5: they're be aiming to arrest terrorists, not necessarily to kill them,
Speaker 5: but some that they've been after.
Speaker 9: There's been very.
Speaker 5: And they've gotten a few very notorious terrorists from both
Speaker 5: Samas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The death toll, according to
Speaker 5: the Israeli is they killed about sixteen militants and the
Speaker 5: Palestinian helped visualty. Over twenty have died.
Speaker 1: And are these kinds of attacks, Geordana, I know that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of well, you killed this guy, so
Speaker 1: we're going to strike back and retaliate. Is this sparking retaliation?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think there's a lot of discrepancy or
Speaker 5: dispute over whether targeted assassinations in general are effective or
Speaker 5: whether they've just you know, they just contribute to a
Speaker 5: cycle of violence and they instead of preventing attacks, they
Speaker 5: actually fuel new recruits, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 9: So I think there's I think.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of debate about that, and certainly for the.
Speaker 9: Bigger terrorist group.
Speaker 5: I mean, for a long time, Israel stopped carrying out
Speaker 5: targeted assassinations because it was seen as somewhat ineffective. With
Speaker 5: some of these smaller groups, it might it might be
Speaker 5: a little more effective. And remember Hamas in the West things,
Speaker 5: there's still not a large terrorist group there. They don't control,
Speaker 5: they don't control the area.
Speaker 4: Okay, So those those operations are continuing.
Speaker 1: And then back in Gaza, we heard that a case
Speaker 1: of polio has been reported and with fears that that
Speaker 1: could spread.
Speaker 4: What are they doing.
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 5: So I mean a little bit of good news report,
Speaker 5: which is that both Israel and Hamas have agreed to
Speaker 5: limited pauses in the fighting in certain locations to help
Speaker 5: a polio vaccination campaign roll out. There is one reported
Speaker 5: case of polio in the Gaza Strips, a young ten
Speaker 5: mumble that is paralyzed, and that's after traces of poliovirus
Speaker 5: were found in the very war damaged.
Speaker 9: Sewage system of Gaza.
Speaker 5: So Israel's working already with the UN about a million
Speaker 5: doses of the polio vaccine and the refrigeration to keep them.
Speaker 5: Should see these limited pauses start sometime next week.
Speaker 4: So here's my observation, Jordana.
Speaker 1: They're taking steps to protect the children, which is wonderful,
Speaker 1: and then the children are being killed in the fighting.
Speaker 1: It just seems so like just incongruous. That's my big
Speaker 1: word for the day. It just doesn't add up, you know,
Speaker 1: like if you're going to stop the fighting to save
Speaker 1: the children, that stop the fighting.
Speaker 9: I hear you, I see, I also see the incongruity
Speaker 9: of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know that decision. Unfortunately,
Speaker 9: that decision is not in the hands of the people
Speaker 9: of Gaza who are suffering the most, right, it's in
Speaker 9: the hands of the of the leader that you know,
Speaker 9: I mean Yessinore who runs the Gaza strip. He's you know,
Speaker 9: he's a dictator, just he he just doesn't have clothes
Speaker 9: on like someone you know, like Putin for example. Right,
Speaker 9: he's just a more boorish, aggressive version. But he's a dictator,
Speaker 9: lives by a radical Islamic ideology. And uh, you know,
Speaker 9: the people of Gaza are suffering, and on the other side,
Speaker 9: the Israeli Prime Minister is trying to politically survive.
Speaker 5: And the whole system here got a deal and it's
Speaker 5: going to come down to him as well.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, maybe maybe Polio will help them push
Speaker 1: them over the edge to get to that season. Who knows,
Speaker 1: anything could happen, right, all right, Jor Dana Miller, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for the information today, and we'll.
Speaker 4: Talk to you next week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: One of the two doctors charged in the death of
Speaker 1: Friends actor Mayor Matthew Perry is due in federal court
Speaker 1: in La Doctor Mark Chavez is expected to plead guilty
Speaker 1: today to conspiring to distribute the surgical anesthetic ketamine. Chevez
Speaker 1: reached a plea agreement with prosecutors earlier this month. He
Speaker 1: would be the third person to plead guilty in the case.
Speaker 1: Perry died last year of a fatal overdose. Two Bourbon
Speaker 1: police officers have been cleared of wrongdoing after being accused
Speaker 1: of dumping a homeless man onto a sidewalk in North Hollywood.
Speaker 3: JEEF Mike Alvin.
Speaker 11: He said he was disappointed that people, including La City
Speaker 11: Council President Paul Grekory and rushed to judgment based only
Speaker 11: on a short viral video clips.
Speaker 3: The video that was posted the optics don't provide a
Speaker 3: compleet story.
Speaker 11: Albanist hold the Burbank City Council Tuesday night. Their investigation
Speaker 11: shows the man was not homeless. In fact, he rents
Speaker 11: an apartment. In June, the man walked away from a
Speaker 11: hospital naked and demanded officers take him to North Hollywood.
Speaker 11: Officers dropped him off near Krekorian's office. Krekorian said he
Speaker 11: was outraged by the officer's conduct. Steve Gregory kaya Finos.
Speaker 1: The HP says a missing fourteen year old girl, her
Speaker 1: newborn baby, and her fifteen year old sister in law
Speaker 1: have been found. The three had been missing from El
Speaker 1: Serno since Sunday night. The baby girl has been diagnosed
Speaker 1: with a heart condition and needs daily medication, so officials
Speaker 1: say they found them, but haven't released any more details
Speaker 1: about it. The NASA astronaut who holds the record for
Speaker 1: most time spent in space, is urging his two stuck
Speaker 1: in space colleagues to stay positive and keep up the
Speaker 1: good work. Frank Rubio says he's been talking with Sunny
Speaker 1: Williams and Butch Wilmore for the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: They were supposed to only be at the International Space
Speaker 1: Station for a week, but now they're going to be
Speaker 1: there until February because of issues with the Boeing Starliner.
Speaker 1: He says they're staying busy and are setting a great example.
Speaker 1: Three people charged in the shooting death of former General
Speaker 1: Hospital actor Johnny Whacter, including two facing murder charges, have
Speaker 1: pleaded not guilty. A fourth person has indicated he will
Speaker 1: plead guilty at a later date to lesser charges. The
Speaker 1: two men facing murder charges are eighteen years old. Students
Speaker 1: have brought four guns onto LA School District campuses since
Speaker 1: the school year started August twelfth. The most recent was
Speaker 1: a semi automatic pistol found in a ninth grader's backpack
Speaker 1: at John C. Fremont High in South LA on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: No one's been hurt. The students with the weapons were
Speaker 1: all arrested. Some of the show hay O Tani bobbleheads
Speaker 1: that were handed out to forty thousand fans at the
Speaker 1: Dodgers game Wednesday night are being offered up online for
Speaker 1: as much as twenty thousand dollars. Fans waited fro up
Speaker 1: to twelve hours to get one of the bobbleheads of
Speaker 1: show hay holding his dog decoy. Some gold bobbleheads were
Speaker 1: handed out too, and those are the ones being offered for.
Speaker 4: The most money online at six o five. It's handle
Speaker 4: on the News.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump says if he's elected, he'll make either
Speaker 1: the government or insurance companies pay for IVF treatments. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Sherry Preston.
Speaker 4: Sherry, we've all had it happen. It's ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 1: Your boss is texting or emailing or maybe even calling
Speaker 1: about something that just can't wait, and you feel compelled
Speaker 1: to answer.
Speaker 4: But you don't have to anymore if you live in Australia.
Speaker 10: Absolutely right. They passed something that's literally called the right
Speaker 10: to Disconnect law, and what it means is that employees
Speaker 10: in a lot of cases cannot be punished for refusing
Speaker 10: to read work emails or respond to work phone calls
Speaker 10: or texts from their employers outside of work hours. What
Speaker 10: they're saying is that during the pandemic, a lot of
Speaker 10: lines were blurred, work from home, work from work. When
Speaker 10: can I call? When can I be off? When can't I?
Speaker 10: And they're saying it's got to stop. So they passed
Speaker 10: this law and employers and employees can be fine tens
Speaker 10: of thousands of dollars if they abuse this kind of thing.
Speaker 10: It's really interesting they've already got a law like this
Speaker 10: in France, now Australia. Several countries in Latin America do
Speaker 10: as well, but whether it comes to this country.
Speaker 9: It's probably doubtful.
Speaker 1: Well except that lawmakers in California did introduce a right
Speaker 1: to disconnect law this year, but I don't know that
Speaker 1: it went anywhere I was. I was looking at it.
Speaker 1: Let's when I started, when I realized I was going
Speaker 1: to be talking to you. I was like, didn't we
Speaker 1: introduce something like that.
Speaker 10: That's California. That's California. You know, guys, you're doing all
Speaker 10: kinds of things that the rest of us going, what, okay, anyway,
Speaker 10: I mean what it's really interesting. We got to say
Speaker 10: too that like in the news business, there's doesn't stop
Speaker 10: when it's nine to five o'clock, you know, nine to five,
Speaker 10: and only news happens during the days and weekend. So
Speaker 10: that's kind of off the table. A lot of employers
Speaker 10: are saying, you know, we have emergencies too in our business.
Speaker 10: So what they do for people who have off hours
Speaker 10: and for people you know that things that they're considered emergency.
Speaker 10: They have an actual department in the Australian government called
Speaker 10: the Fair Work Commission. They got to take into account
Speaker 10: an employees role and employees' personal circumstances, how and why
Speaker 10: the contact from work was made, and then it has
Speaker 10: the power to issue a piece and desist order. And
Speaker 10: if the company still doesn't do that, they can really
Speaker 10: find up to about fifteen thousand dollars for an employee
Speaker 10: and about seventy thousand dollars for an employee er. And
Speaker 10: you know, they'll make the decision. They'll be the ones
Speaker 10: that will look through it and go, you know, can
Speaker 10: we can I do this or can I not do this?
Speaker 1: Okay, Sherry, I understand the part about the employers getting
Speaker 1: in trouble, but the workers, like if if i got
Speaker 1: a text from my boss and said, oh I'm going
Speaker 1: to answer that, I could get fined.
Speaker 10: No no, no, no, your boss could though other boss could
Speaker 10: be fined Okay, yeah, I mean separately from your company.
Speaker 10: Separately from your company.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: And they're saying, they're saying that that you know, Australians
Speaker 10: work about two hundred and eighty hours over and above
Speaker 10: what they actually are on the clock for working and
Speaker 10: totally up eighty eight billion dollars, and they're saying, look,
Speaker 10: it's time to actually set these lines. But no, you
Speaker 10: can actually find an employee for doing this, like say
Speaker 10: a boss, okay to the company is you know what
Speaker 10: I mean, an employee. You're the employee, but he's your boss,
Speaker 10: your manager, and they're the one I said, he or
Speaker 10: she or they has, you know, for for for for
Speaker 10: doing that. That's that's what how it rolls. It's interesting
Speaker 10: that they've already got it in some places talking about
Speaker 10: it in California.
Speaker 9: You know, whether it.
Speaker 10: Passes worldwide highly doubtful, but it's something that really sparks
Speaker 10: this conversation about what's my personal time, what's my worktime?
Speaker 10: And when can I seriously literally be off the clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I I think you made such a good
Speaker 1: point about the blurred lines caused by the pandemic because
Speaker 1: I remember sitting on my couch working on my computer
Speaker 1: from home, not at this job, but at another job,
Speaker 1: and you know, working in it. It would be seven, eight,
Speaker 1: nine o'clock at night, and I'd go, oh, I'll just
Speaker 1: do this, I'll just do that. And because you're not
Speaker 1: clocking in and clocking out, it's kind of it gets
Speaker 1: a little wunky.
Speaker 10: Well it does. And it's like you talk to a
Speaker 10: lot of people who work from home. I don't know
Speaker 10: if you guys are in the studio or not.
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 10: Yeah we are, but yeah, and it makes a difference.
Speaker 10: It does. You're like, okay, I'm going to work now,
Speaker 10: I'm leaving work now. If something happens, I know they're
Speaker 10: going to call me. I know it's going to be
Speaker 10: for something big. But when a lot of people who
Speaker 10: work from home say, or you know, said, during the pandemic,
Speaker 10: I felt like I was never off. I felt like
Speaker 10: I was on twenty four to seven. And a lot
Speaker 10: of bosses are saying, well, you got the privilege from
Speaker 10: working in your pajamas, so we can call you whenever.
Speaker 10: And the employees are saying, no, if I'm getting the
Speaker 10: work done, I'm being productive. You don't have the right
Speaker 10: to do that. Interesting, And you know, the pandemic changed
Speaker 10: everything for how people work. It really did. I mean
Speaker 10: home work. And you know you can work from wherever.
Speaker 10: So when you work from wherever, should you have the
Speaker 10: privilege of being able to not answer your work emails.
Speaker 10: It's going to be up to companies, but in Australia
Speaker 10: you can go to court for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know, is my news director Chris Little
Speaker 1: would be very cranky if I didn't answer his emails
Speaker 1: and texts.
Speaker 10: Cherry Preston, Well, good luck with that. Some little thing
Speaker 10: for this day. Okay, here, here's the deal. Just give
Speaker 10: them anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Cherry Preston, thank you so much for
Speaker 4: the information. And uh, you know, I I love this idea.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if it comes to the US,
Speaker 1: but like you said, in the US.
Speaker 4: Probably not.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Great to catch up with you, guys. I haven't
Speaker 10: talked to you in a while.
Speaker 1: All right, well we would. We hope that we'll get
Speaker 1: to catch up with you again very soon. Have a
Speaker 1: wonderful weekend.
Speaker 4: Thanks Sherry, you too.
Speaker 10: No phone calls after work?
Speaker 4: Okay, you got it.
Speaker 1: Here's some of the stories we're working on in the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two people have been killed
Speaker 1: in a violent crime spree in Ventura County. A man
Speaker 1: was fatally stabbed yesterday afternoon in a car with two
Speaker 1: other people inside in Oxnard. The attacker ran off, then
Speaker 1: police got a nine to one to one call from
Speaker 1: a home in Camerio. As deputies arrived, a man showed
Speaker 1: up at a police station reporting an assault. A seventy
Speaker 1: five year old woman attacked died at the hospital. Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Captain Dean Worthy says a man in his forties was arrested.
Speaker 10: They do all know one another.
Speaker 11: It sounds like they travel in the same circle and
Speaker 11: group friendships.
Speaker 4: He says drugs may have been a factor in the crimes.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump says IVF costs will be covered by
Speaker 1: insurance if he's elected president.
Speaker 12: Under the Trump administration, your government will pay for or
Speaker 12: your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all
Speaker 12: costs associated with IVF treatment fertilization for women.
Speaker 1: Trump told a rally in Michigan yesterday his administration would
Speaker 1: also push for allowing new parents to deduct major newborn
Speaker 1: expenses from their taxes. A delegation from Ukraine is headed
Speaker 1: to Washington. D c ABC's and Flaherty says the group
Speaker 1: hopes to convince the White House to loosen restrictions on
Speaker 1: using long range weapons to strike deep inside Russia. In
Speaker 1: addition to there being a limited number of the types
Speaker 1: of missile systems that Ukraine wants, Russia has moved its
Speaker 1: aircraft deeper inside its country, making it harder to reach
Speaker 1: the targets. She says it's unlikely the White House would
Speaker 1: change its policy. The US Postal Services it is making
Speaker 1: preparations to make sure mail in ballots are secure and
Speaker 1: delivered in a timely matter for the November fifth election.
Speaker 1: Those plans include additional pickups, extra deliveries, and speeding up
Speaker 1: the mail sorting process. The Postal Services in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: and twenty two, over ninety nine percent of mail in
Speaker 1: ballots were delivered within seven days.
Speaker 4: That seems like that's a long time.
Speaker 1: The California Senate has approved a bill that would allow
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants to qualify for up to one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars in home loans.
Speaker 4: The Assembly will take up the issue next.
Speaker 1: They have until tomorrow to hold a vote because the
Speaker 1: legislature ends tomorrow. If passed, the governor would have until
Speaker 1: the end of September to pass it. Almost nine million
Speaker 1: fentinyl pills and more than forty six hundred pounds of
Speaker 1: fentanyl powder has been seized by California law enforcements so
Speaker 1: far this year. Governor Newsom's office says the large hall
Speaker 1: is due in part to increased National Guard presence at
Speaker 1: the Santy Sidro O Tai Mesa, Takate, and Calexico Ports
Speaker 1: of Entry. This is music to my ears. Sleeping in
Speaker 1: on the weekends may help lower your risk of heart disease.
Speaker 1: A study of more than ninety thousand patients out of
Speaker 1: China shows that those who use their weekends to get
Speaker 1: caught up on sleep they missed during the busy work
Speaker 1: week were almost twenty percent less likely to develop heart
Speaker 1: disease than those who don't get those extra disease. At
Speaker 1: six so five at handle on the news, a federal
Speaker 1: judge has demanded answers about where millions of dollars allocated
Speaker 1: to fight the homeless problem. Up problem in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: is going? Easy for me to say at five point fifty.
Speaker 1: Taliban tourism.
Speaker 4: It's a thing.
Speaker 1: But right now, let's say good morning to the house.
Speaker 1: Whisper the host of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp morning, Jean.
Speaker 3: Well, now I feel conflicted. Wow, my six a m.
Speaker 3: Saturday morning show is gonna, you know, encourage people to
Speaker 3: maintain heart disease.
Speaker 1: Uh, well, I don't know what to tell you on
Speaker 1: that one. Mm, well maybe they can sleep in on
Speaker 1: Sunday morning.
Speaker 3: Everybody get your sleep now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because your show's not till nine o'clock on no Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. Sleep in on Sunday, wake up early
Speaker 3: on Saturday. Yeah. There you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you know, I've had backyards and I've had
Speaker 1: houses that had bad backyards and good backyards. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about building a fabulous backyard habit.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know you said the secret word right
Speaker 3: at the end, their habitat. We are we've been as
Speaker 3: designers pushing for several years now to increase the amount
Speaker 3: of habitat that our clients are including in their backyard.
Speaker 3: Now that may seem like a strange thing because you're like,
Speaker 3: well haven't you always been just you know, encourage people
Speaker 3: to plant gardens and have lush, beautiful backyards. That's very,
Speaker 3: very true. But there is a difference there. At least
Speaker 3: there can be a big difference between a lovely, lush,
Speaker 3: expensive garden and habitat when it comes to, you know,
Speaker 3: how we do it, and the real key there has
Speaker 3: to do with what you plant and how you plant
Speaker 3: it in such a way that you're actually drawing nature
Speaker 3: in not just the plants themselves, but the other things
Speaker 3: about nature that we really love and that really touch
Speaker 3: us and move us as well, like birds, for instance,
Speaker 3: bringing birds into your yard. It's not a mystery anymore,
Speaker 3: although people scratch their heads all the time. In fact,
Speaker 3: it was just a couple of weeks ago I was
Speaker 3: at a design consult and this individual had spent an
Speaker 3: inordinate amount of I mean a lot of money, way
Speaker 3: more money than you and I would imagine spending typically
Speaker 3: on a backyard. I mean over two hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: on plant material. In their backyard. It was lush, it
Speaker 3: was green, it was all sorts of beautiful. And I said,
Speaker 3: so what's the issue, and they're like, there are no birds.
Speaker 3: There are no birds. We did all this and we
Speaker 3: got nothing. And as we started to analyze, what we
Speaker 3: realized is they had not planted a single native plant
Speaker 3: in their backyard. They were all exotics. Exotics meaning in
Speaker 3: the technical sense that just plants not here from southern California,
Speaker 3: not natural to southern California. And I said, well that's
Speaker 3: the problem right there. They said, well, we don't understand.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of places for birds to nest and you know, shade,
Speaker 3: but really what it comes down to is their food.
Speaker 3: Insects insects in southern California have coevolved with the plants
Speaker 3: in southern California, and an insect doesn't know what to
Speaker 3: do with a non native plant. They have no use
Speaker 3: for it. They I mean, they literally have no use
Speaker 3: for it. And so as a result, very very few
Speaker 3: insects in the backyard, if any at all, and no insects,
Speaker 3: no birds. And so what we did was we started
Speaker 3: suggesting making some changes to this yard and to switch
Speaker 3: out some of the plant material as much as possible
Speaker 3: with equivalently green and lush and beautiful but native plants.
Speaker 3: They are doing that right now, and they said, they
Speaker 3: just reported to me early this week. They said, you
Speaker 3: know what, already already, strangely enough, we're starting to hear
Speaker 3: bird song in our backyard. And that is building habitat.
Speaker 4: If you build it, they will come.
Speaker 3: Exactly, It's exactly right. I mean, it's shocking. You know,
Speaker 3: I think we're all used to kind of the down
Speaker 3: and depressing you know story. You know, you know, pave
Speaker 3: Paradise put up a parking lot, right, and that's true.
Speaker 3: But what we don't realize is if you are willing
Speaker 3: to pull back some of that paving if you're willing
Speaker 3: to pull back some of those wrong turns along the way,
Speaker 3: just how quickly nature wants to dive back into that
Speaker 3: available space.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that would lead us then to big trees.
Speaker 1: Because at one of the houses I had up in Portland,
Speaker 1: I had this massive one hundred foot tall pine trees.
Speaker 4: Was absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was a pain in the butt because you couldn't
Speaker 1: get grass to grow underneath it. But I absolutely loved it,
Speaker 1: and I loved going out there and sitting out there,
Speaker 1: and like you said, there were birds chirping in that tree.
Speaker 3: Every day exactly. Yeah, yeah, I mean there's always a
Speaker 3: big trees are the cornerstones of great landscape, by the way,
Speaker 3: so absolutely right. They are these amazing structures. They create
Speaker 3: all sorts of shade, especially here in southern California. They
Speaker 3: can literally change the ecosphere of your the temperature of
Speaker 3: your property. You think, well, okay, I'm in a plant tree,
Speaker 3: but nobody else around me is planting trees, so it's
Speaker 3: not really going to affect anything. Not true, Not true.
Speaker 3: I live in just such a neighborhood. Tina and I
Speaker 3: have got something like fourteen trees on our property that
Speaker 3: we've planted ourselves, and on any given day, even blazing
Speaker 3: hot summer days we are our backyard is on average
Speaker 3: four to six degrees cooler than the street out in
Speaker 3: front of us and our neighbor's property around us. So
Speaker 3: trees can do amazing things, just even to your local
Speaker 3: environment of your yard it's elf. But again, you know,
Speaker 3: we want to be honest about it. There are always
Speaker 3: given takes. Like you just said, you know, you couldn't
Speaker 3: get anything to grow under a tree. Trees are very
Speaker 3: selfish in that way. They don't want any They don't
Speaker 3: want anything growing under them. What they want to do
Speaker 3: is drop their own leaves or needles and let those
Speaker 3: compost in and you know, refeed on them, and they
Speaker 3: don't want other things growing under them. So you learn
Speaker 3: to landscape accordingly. You know what a tree loves underneath itself,
Speaker 3: a nice little deck area where human beings can sit
Speaker 3: under the shade and they don't have to compete with
Speaker 3: other things growing.
Speaker 4: I love that, so that you know what I'm just
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 13: I don't know if you guys do, but I have
Speaker 13: like the best picture of a big old tree and
Speaker 13: a deck and some flowers and probably a my tie
Speaker 13: or something in my hand, but I mean it just
Speaker 13: sounds so inviting.
Speaker 1: So you're going to be talking about building your backyard
Speaker 1: habitat this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yes, we are. On Sunday specifically, We've got several guests
Speaker 3: in studio, including somebody that you might know. Uh, We're
Speaker 3: going to have a representative on from Poison Free Canejo,
Speaker 3: the founder of Poison Free Canes.
Speaker 4: It's the Big Boss. That's Robin, the.
Speaker 3: Boss, Robin Berta Lucci. Actually literally I don't know. I
Speaker 3: haven't done an official poll, but I'm not sure anybody
Speaker 3: has heard Robin. Robin's voice on the air on KFI
Speaker 3: for a long time. And so we're actually gonna have
Speaker 3: our boss on the air with me on Sunday talking
Speaker 3: about the proper way to deal with rats and rodents
Speaker 3: and the improper way and that's avoiding you know, poisons
Speaker 3: that affect our local wildlife. So Robin will be expressing
Speaker 3: her passions and telling us her story on Sunday, as
Speaker 3: well as some reps from the Audubon Society. It's going
Speaker 3: to be a great show.
Speaker 1: I love that, Okay, So six to eight Saturday and
Speaker 1: then nine to noon Sunday right here on k it's
Speaker 1: home with Dean Sharp.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Dean can't wait.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy, all right when we come back.
Speaker 4: Taliban tourism, Yeah, it's a thing.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump says if he gets elected, he wants
Speaker 1: to make IVF treatment free for families. His comments came
Speaker 1: at a rally in Michigan. He also suggested earlier in
Speaker 1: an NBC interview that he would vote to repeal Florida's
Speaker 1: six week abortion band, saying that amount of time is
Speaker 1: just too short. Migrants have been trying to get on
Speaker 1: school buses in San Diego. A group tried to stop
Speaker 1: a school bus and get on board near downtown San
Speaker 1: Diego Tuesday. Then Wednesday, twenty, migrants tried to get on
Speaker 1: a bus with students on board at a bus stop.
Speaker 1: The mul Delzura Union School District says bus drivers have
Speaker 1: now been told to drive past bus stops where migrants
Speaker 1: are lingering. Retailers will be required to check photo ID
Speaker 1: of anyone under thirty who's buying tobacco products. The FDA
Speaker 1: says it's a rule included in legislation from twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: raised the minimum age for sale of tobacco products from
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty one, The director of the FDA's Center
Speaker 1: for Tobacco Products, says the new restrictions are another step
Speaker 1: toward protecting our nation's youth from the health risks of
Speaker 1: tobacco products. We're just minutes away from handle on the
Speaker 1: news this morning. If you're headed to the Grand Canyon
Speaker 1: for Labor Day, you're probably going to need to find
Speaker 1: a new place to stay. Bill's going to tell you why. Okay,
Speaker 1: picture this. You're standing with an ancient archaeological landscape nestled
Speaker 1: among the high mountains of the Hindu Kush. There are white,
Speaker 1: snow capped mountains, there's greenery, there's blooming trees spread across
Speaker 1: the valley. Well, that's what twenty two year old Ben
Speaker 1: Herskovich saw. He said it was one of the most
Speaker 1: beautiful places he's ever been to in his whole life.
Speaker 4: Where is it?
Speaker 1: Afghanistan, the country not exactly known as a vacation hotspot,
Speaker 1: has seen an increase in tourism since the Taliban took over.
Speaker 1: So Herskevitz is like thousands of miles away from home,
Speaker 1: but he's there, immersing himself in Afghanistan's scenic landscape, and
Speaker 1: there's ancient history there, and he said, it's really cool
Speaker 1: because there's not a lot of people there, Like if
Speaker 1: you go to Rome or you go to Paris, there's
Speaker 1: just hordes and hordes of tourists, and here you're kind
Speaker 1: of all alone.
Speaker 4: Well, of course you are.
Speaker 1: Now when I say that it's open for tourism, the
Speaker 1: Taliban encourages it, but there's not that many people going.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, six hundred and ninety one tourists
Speaker 1: visited Afghanistan, but then in twenty twenty two it was
Speaker 1: up to twenty three hundred and then seven thousand in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Taliban officials say the growth of the
Speaker 1: tourism industry has a positive effect on the country's economy.
Speaker 1: That's according to the Ministry of Culture. They've even created
Speaker 1: a department under the Taliban's Ministry of Culture to provide
Speaker 1: services to tourists and also to train students in the
Speaker 1: tourism industry and hotel management. But should you go, that
Speaker 1: is the question. Here is the answer from Western governments.
Speaker 1: Here's the warning. Afghanistan carries a Level four do not
Speaker 1: travel advisory from the US State Department, which cites terrorism,
Speaker 1: risk of wrongful detention, civil unrest, kidnapping, and crime as
Speaker 1: reasons for its rating. The United Kingdom is also advised
Speaker 1: against all travel to Afghanistan. You know that it makes
Speaker 1: me so sad because I would love to see those places,
Speaker 1: and I remember when all those stuff erupted in Iraq,
Speaker 1: Like Iraq is supposed to have some of the most
Speaker 1: beautiful historical sites and we probably will never get to
Speaker 1: go there because it is just not a good idea.
Speaker 1: It makes me want to travel more because you know,
Speaker 1: you never know. Oh, like I got to go to Israel.
Speaker 1: Obviously nobody's going to Israel now probably not nobody, but
Speaker 1: you know what.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just not probably the tourist spop.
Speaker 1: But we did a cruise and we went around the
Speaker 1: Holy Lands and it was an amazing journey. But it's
Speaker 1: just with wars breaking out. I've heard Russia is gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Not going there either. If you're going to go to
Speaker 1: a state park, you could go for free. You know,
Speaker 1: they have the day passes that are like twenty five
Speaker 1: forty five bucks or something like that. Well, if you want,
Speaker 1: libraries have free passes to California parks. There was a
Speaker 1: program that was implemented a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be cut because of the budget shortfall,
Speaker 1: but in the most recent budget deal it was renewed
Speaker 1: for another year. So day passes allow for free parking
Speaker 1: at more than two hundred state parks for vehicles if
Speaker 1: you've got nine or fewer people, And that's great news
Speaker 1: because you know sometimes you know still have the extra cash.
Speaker 1: So if you want a state park pass, head down
Speaker 1: to your library. Again, it's like ten bucks or more.
Speaker 1: It's not a huge amount, but maybe money's tight, so
Speaker 1: that's where you can go get it. Orange County Public
Speaker 1: Libraries loaned out nearly ten thousand passes to local residents
Speaker 1: in the last year.
Speaker 4: Free state park passes very cool.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Democratic Vice presidential
Speaker 1: nominee Tim Walls says he will not apologize for speaking
Speaker 1: passionately on issues that are dear to him. In an
Speaker 1: interview on CNN last night, Wall says he always says what's.
Speaker 9: On his mind, whether it's guns in schools or protecting
Speaker 9: of reproductive rights.
Speaker 10: The contrast could not be clear between what we're running
Speaker 10: against the vice president's position on this has been clear.
Speaker 1: Walls is said to debate his Republican counterpart JD. Evans
Speaker 1: on October first, that one's going to be on CBS.
Speaker 1: Trial has started in LA for the man accused of
Speaker 1: killing a UCLA grad student working at a boutique furniture
Speaker 1: store in Hancock Park. Rihanna Coopfer was stabbed forty six
Speaker 1: times in twenty twenty two. Deputy da Habib Balion told
Speaker 1: the jury yesterday the young woman had sent a text
Speaker 1: message to one of her managers saying a guy in
Speaker 1: the store was giving her weird vibes.
Speaker 3: Right time Terry Stride read that text. Brianna Kusberg is
Speaker 3: already lay dead in her blood on the cross house floor.
Speaker 1: The prosecutor also told jurors that Sean Smith left behind
Speaker 1: an audio recorder that captured him killing. Smith is facing
Speaker 1: a murder charge. It includes the special circumstances, allegation of
Speaker 1: lying in wait, and the use of a knife. OC
Speaker 1: Animal Care could soon change its procedures following years of
Speaker 1: criticism about access to adoptions, understaffing, and euthanasia rates.
Speaker 2: The shelter's interviewing consultants to create a new strategy for
Speaker 2: the future. OHS Animal Care Director Monica Schmidt says the
Speaker 2: criticisms are just one part of a main focus to
Speaker 2: update policies that have changed because of the pandemic's effect
Speaker 2: on animal shelters nationwide.
Speaker 4: A lot of folks.
Speaker 3: Have opinions and ideas, and that's.
Speaker 14: One of the things that we will rely on this
Speaker 14: expert for this proposal, is that they will help us
Speaker 14: guide how to receive all of that good input.
Speaker 3: She says.
Speaker 2: Proposals for consultants are being accepted till next week, with
Speaker 2: a new strategy expected next year. In Orange County, Corbin Carson.
Speaker 1: Kf I News, Democratic lawmakers in California have passed a
Speaker 1: bill banning local governments from adopting voter ID laws. The
Speaker 1: city of Huntington Beach approved a voter ID requirement this
Speaker 1: year that was said to take effect in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Republican lawmakers opposed the state bill. Assembly Republican leader James
Speaker 1: Gallagher says, a lot of states have ID provisions.
Speaker 3: I've never understood why people are against voter ID.
Speaker 1: State Assemblyman Bill A. Saley introduced an amendment that would
Speaker 1: have explicitly banned illegal immigrants from voting, but it failed.
Speaker 1: In San Francisco, illegal immigrants are allowed to vote in
Speaker 1: local school board elections. A city council committee voted to
Speaker 1: give more teth to LA's law prohibiting landlords from harassing tenants.
Speaker 1: Some property owners, like Marissa Levin, says the proposal is
Speaker 1: too broad and it penalizes good landlords dealing with bad tenants.
Speaker 3: There's a very.
Speaker 14: Important distinction between doing something with the intention of harming
Speaker 14: a tenant and doing something with indifference to its impact.
Speaker 14: Yet the proposed definition treats the two as.
Speaker 4: One and the same.
Speaker 1: The law is supposed to prevent landlords from threatening tenants
Speaker 1: withholding repairs and other issues. Supporters have said since its
Speaker 1: original adoption three years ago, thousands of complaints have been filed.
Speaker 1: A new survey finds seventy seven percent of people admit
Speaker 1: there are days when they're just too tired to cook
Speaker 1: after work. The study by Talker Research looked into the
Speaker 1: habits of two thousand Americans and how they balance their
Speaker 1: busy schedules in today's fast paced world. One fifth of
Speaker 1: those surveyed said that they are sometimes so exhausted while
Speaker 1: cooking they fall asleep. The poll also found thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent of people said they're justice busy on the weekends.
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