Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Ok F I and kost HT two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3: And Amy Kay.
Speaker 1: Good morning. It's five o'clock. This is your wake up
Speaker 1: call for Thursday, August twenty second. We're live everywhere on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. Thank you for starting your day with us,
Speaker 1: whether you're listening in your car or and your home
Speaker 1: as you're getting the kids up and getting ready. Getting
Speaker 1: up was a little tough today. And this is just
Speaker 1: me whining because I know that we're all getting up early.
Speaker 1: But this Democratic National Convention, which I've told you I'm
Speaker 1: a junkie and I love watching all of this stuff,
Speaker 1: it's killing me because it's going late. Although I will
Speaker 1: say that Tim Walls did his speech last night and
Speaker 1: it was like ten minutes. It was perfect. Bill Clinton, however,
Speaker 1: rambled on and on, but that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad it's almost over because I need to
Speaker 1: get some sleep. But now it's time to wake up.
Speaker 1: So here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris will officially accept the Democratic nomination for president
Speaker 1: today on the final night of the DNC in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, accepted the nomination
Speaker 1: for a vice president last night and called former President
Speaker 1: Trump's agenda weird, wrong, and dangerous. Gary and Shannon are
Speaker 1: at the DNC. We're going to be talking with Gary
Speaker 1: before the top of the hour to get the latest
Speaker 1: from Chicago. What's up today as Kamala gets ready to
Speaker 1: accept the Democratic noweination that's coming up again at about
Speaker 1: five point fifty Twenty eight people have been arrested for
Speaker 1: allegedly stealing tractors from farms in Ventura County. Police say
Speaker 1: the tractors were taken earlier this month from farms near
Speaker 1: Camio and Oxnard. Most of the tractors recovered had been
Speaker 1: gutted and are missing batteries and wiring and other electrical components.
Speaker 1: Police they say they're still looking for more people who
Speaker 1: were involved in the tractor thefts. Job growth in the
Speaker 1: US has been revised from earlier numbers showing it was
Speaker 1: much weaker than first reported. The Bureau of Labor Statistics
Speaker 1: found there was an eight hundred and eighteen thousand less
Speaker 1: jobs from April of last year to March of this year.
Speaker 1: The revised findings come as the Federal Reserve ways a
Speaker 1: rate cut next month. Wake up call going out and
Speaker 1: about we're getting a little wild for some Friday night fun.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at the bottom of the hour at
Speaker 1: six oh five. It's handle on the news. The slipping
Speaker 1: and sliding is worse than they thought in Rencho Palace
Speaker 1: Verdies Bill's going to be telling you about that. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls
Speaker 1: has accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for vice president. Walls
Speaker 1: is a former high school football coach and used a
Speaker 1: football analogy last night to tell the crowd at the
Speaker 1: DNC what Democrats need to do to win the election
Speaker 1: in November. Get in the trenches and do the blocking
Speaker 1: and tackling.
Speaker 4: One inch at a time, one yard at a time,
Speaker 4: one phone call at a time.
Speaker 1: Walls thanked Vice President Harris for choosing him as her
Speaker 1: running mate, and he thanked President Biden for what he
Speaker 1: said were four years of strong, historic leadership. Oprah Winfrey
Speaker 1: was a guest speaker at the DNC. She reached out
Speaker 1: to independent and undecided voters.
Speaker 5: You know I'm telling you the truth that values and
Speaker 5: character matter most of all.
Speaker 1: She says, decency and respect are on the ballot. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, a fire that has burned at least
Speaker 1: sixteen acres in the Angelus National Forest near Sunland is
Speaker 1: fifty percent surrounded. The fire was reported late yesterday afternoon
Speaker 1: along North Big Tahanga Canyon Road. Firefighters from LA City
Speaker 1: and County have been assisting the Forest Service. The cause
Speaker 1: of the fires being investigated. Officials in La have some
Speaker 1: questions about the feasibility of a convention center expansion plan.
Speaker 2: The estimated one point four billion dollar project has a
Speaker 2: short timeline. City leaders have said if they move forward now,
Speaker 2: they need to know it'll be finished in time to
Speaker 2: host Olympic events in twenty twenty eight. City Administrator Matt
Speaker 2: Zaebo told the city Council's Tourism Committee this week, one
Speaker 2: lingering question is how much money can be generated by signage.
Speaker 6: Our position has been and will necessarily be, that we
Speaker 6: need to maximize the revenue associated with signage.
Speaker 2: The project would cost the city nearly thirty million dollars
Speaker 2: a year for thirty years. Zabo says revenue from signage
Speaker 2: and convention events should offset that. In downtown La Michael
Speaker 2: Monks kfi knew.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoite. So Stephen
Speaker 1: who a funk? Robert F. Kennedy Junior may endorse Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks like it's going to happen. Our ABC
Speaker 5: News reporting is that, according to multiple sources, that RFK
Speaker 5: Junior is considering dropping out of the race and endorsing
Speaker 5: Donald Trump as early as tomorrow. RFK Junior has said
Speaker 5: he's going to have a major address to the country tomorrow.
Speaker 5: He is scheduled to be in Arizona. That's the same
Speaker 5: state where Donald Trump is scheduled to be tomorrow, and
Speaker 5: there has been increasing talk in recent days about RFK
Speaker 5: Junior dropping out endorsing Trump. His own running mate, Nicole Shanahan,
Speaker 5: has said that this is under consideration and would require,
Speaker 5: in her words, a significant commitment by Trump to give
Speaker 5: Bobby true authority to execute. Also this week, Donald Trump Junior,
Speaker 5: the former president's son, said in an interview he loves
Speaker 5: the idea of giving some sort of role in some
Speaker 5: sort of major three letter entity or wherever it may be,
Speaker 5: and let him blow it up. You could think of
Speaker 5: maybe the FDA or some other government agency where Robert F.
Speaker 5: Kennedy Junior may be interested in having some authority or role.
Speaker 5: Just a few minutes ago, the former president was on
Speaker 5: Fox News he still is as we speak, and they
Speaker 5: asked him about this, and he wouldn't deny it. He
Speaker 5: simply said it'd be a nice thing. He praised Robert F.
Speaker 5: Kennedy Jr. As a something like a smart.
Speaker 1: Person or a very good person.
Speaker 5: It's interesting because recently, as Kennedy has had been doing
Speaker 5: better in the polls, Trump has been trashing him, calling
Speaker 5: him one of the most liberal lunatics ever to run
Speaker 5: for office and a phony radical left fool. Well, let's
Speaker 5: see what happens next. I should tell you that in
Speaker 5: the recent weeks, Robert F. Kennedy Junior has seen his
Speaker 5: support cratering since the race has changed since Joe Biden
Speaker 5: is out and Kamala Harris is In our ABC News
Speaker 5: Washington Post Eipsos poll a month ago had RFK with
Speaker 5: ten percent support. Now it's down to five because it
Speaker 5: seems to many people who had been supporting Robert F.
Speaker 5: Kennedy Junior are now supporting Kamala Harris or perhaps Trump.
Speaker 5: Maybe they saw him at the convention in Milwaukee and
Speaker 5: decided they would rather vote for him. The bottom line
Speaker 5: is RFK is seeing his support decline, he's running out
Speaker 5: of money, he's seemingly getting out of the race.
Speaker 1: And didn't he go to team Kamala first? I think
Speaker 1: I heard rumblings of that.
Speaker 5: Yep, we are reporting that there was an initial attempt
Speaker 5: on RFK Junior's part to try to reach out to Harris.
Speaker 1: Didn't get very far. So, I mean, it's a really
Speaker 1: interesting thing, Stephen, because it's like, Okay, well, if you
Speaker 1: won't support me, then I'll go over to Trump's team.
Speaker 1: It's like it's a just feels like a power grab.
Speaker 5: But for what, Well, that's a very good observation and
Speaker 5: a good question and what we'll have to see. I mean, ultimately,
Speaker 5: the idea of sort of horse trading for a patronage
Speaker 5: job in exchange for an endorsement is not altogether unheard
Speaker 5: of in American politics. It is unseemly, however, and especially
Speaker 5: when it's on display as this seems to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's such a it's so blatant. So
Speaker 1: but like you said, it's happened before, but does it
Speaker 1: happen kind of cross party like this. That's I think
Speaker 1: what makes it a little more unusual.
Speaker 5: Well, and especially given just you know, the unusual nature
Speaker 5: of the Trump candidacy in the last eight plus years
Speaker 5: and just the dynamic of American politics today, it could
Speaker 5: have the appearance of crassness and you know, just selfish
Speaker 5: kind of sort of indulgence in all this. But let's
Speaker 5: let's see what comes of it. We don't yet know
Speaker 5: exactly how it's going to play out. Although our sources
Speaker 5: are telling us that RFK Junior is interested in pursuing this,
Speaker 5: I should tell you I have to mention it. My
Speaker 5: colleague Jonathan Carl actually spoke yesterday to Robert F. Kennedy JR.
Speaker 5: RFK Junior would not confirm or deny our reporting. He
Speaker 5: wouldn't talk about Trump, but he did have plenty to
Speaker 5: say about Harris. He said he's disappointed by the way
Speaker 5: his former Democratic party coalesced behind her. He said, that's
Speaker 5: not democracy.
Speaker 1: Okay, Steven Portnoy, we'll be watching probably talking to you
Speaker 1: about this again very soon. Thank you so much. You
Speaker 1: bet all right, let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: LA County Sheriff's deputies have arrested two guys who allegedly
Speaker 1: pointed a bb gun out the window of an suv
Speaker 1: at Pepperdine University. The Student newspapers's the pair drove on
Speaker 1: to campus around three yesterday afternoon. They were arrested about
Speaker 1: a half hour later. California Senate Republicans have criticized legislation
Speaker 1: that would change how teachers deal with unlawful student behavior.
Speaker 1: The bill would make it optional, rather than mandatory, for
Speaker 1: students to be reported to law enforcement for drug possession,
Speaker 1: if they disturb a public school meeting, or if a
Speaker 1: teacher or staff is assaulted or threatened.
Speaker 4: But the bottom line is, the majority of Californians want
Speaker 4: to be safe. The majority of Californians are fed up
Speaker 4: with criminal outlaw situation here in California, and they want reforms,
Speaker 4: and this goes in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones says it's a dangerous risk
Speaker 1: for schools. Jones expects the bill will go before the
Speaker 1: Senate floor again sometime next week. Lawmakers in California have
Speaker 1: announced a deal with Google to fund local newsrooms. The
Speaker 1: agreement will shelve a bill that would have required Google
Speaker 1: to pay news outlets for distributing their content. Instead, at
Speaker 1: least two hundred and forty million will be funding newsrooms
Speaker 1: as well as AI programs for the next five years.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom says the deal supports hundreds of new journalists
Speaker 1: and rebuilds the California Press Corps. Union journalists repped by
Speaker 1: Media Guild of the West, reject the deal. The last
Speaker 1: four trains for LAX's much delayed automated people mover have
Speaker 1: arrived at the airport. The cars arrived from a manufacturer
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. The plan is to have of the forty
Speaker 1: four cars now at the airport start moving people around
Speaker 1: by January of twenty twenty six, ahead of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six World Cup and the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 1: Yep, California is a pretty fun place. A new wallet
Speaker 1: hug study just released says California ranks the second most
Speaker 1: fun state in America. Well, who the heck is going
Speaker 1: to beat us? Huh? Apparently Florida did. Florida is the
Speaker 1: most fun state. I don't know. I might buy that,
Speaker 1: but California is ranked number one in the number of
Speaker 1: restaurants per capita. We got some good food here. The
Speaker 1: number of movie theaters per capita. We got some good
Speaker 1: movie theaters too. I know that, like Nick and I
Speaker 1: love to go to the ones where they serve you
Speaker 1: food and for me cocktails. Also, amusement parks were number one.
Speaker 1: We have the most. We have the most performing arts
Speaker 1: theaters and the most fitness centers, which I do not
Speaker 1: partake in. But we were dragged down in the overall
Speaker 1: rankings because we're eleventh for casinos per capita, which is
Speaker 1: fine with me, and we also have we're fifteenth for
Speaker 1: the number of golf courses and country clubs. I would
Speaker 1: see where Florida might have a little more in the
Speaker 1: way of golf courses, but we're number two. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that. Oh, in the least fun state is West Virginia.
Speaker 1: Good to know. Former President Trump has held his first
Speaker 1: outdoor rally since his attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. He
Speaker 1: was surrounded by bulletproof glass At the rally in Ashboro,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Trump went after Kamala Harris, saying she'll destroy
Speaker 1: our country, just like she destroyed San Francisco. Traces of
Speaker 1: lead have been found in the tap water flowing into
Speaker 1: homes in Watts. Results of a study released yesterday show
Speaker 1: that many of the water samples that tested positive for
Speaker 1: lead were taken in public housing units where the pipes
Speaker 1: haven't been replaced since nineteen eighty five. Health experts say
Speaker 1: the lead poses the greatest risk to pregnant women and kids.
Speaker 1: Chick fil A is launching its own streaming platform. It's
Speaker 1: working with several production companies to create family friendly shows,
Speaker 1: particularly reality series. Oh great, just what we need more
Speaker 1: reality shows. At six o five, it's handled on the news.
Speaker 1: You can bet he's going to have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a take on the convention last night. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan, who is not
Speaker 1: inside the convention center. He's outside, And I have to
Speaker 1: tell you, Jim, I'm feeling a little bit like you've
Speaker 1: cheated on me.
Speaker 7: Yes, by the way, the Chick fil A channel interesting, I.
Speaker 1: Know, right, yeah, So let's get back to this cheating thing.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Yes, sorry, So you were.
Speaker 1: On with Gary and Shannon, huh.
Speaker 7: I've been on with him every day for what all right, yeah,
Speaker 7: well they're the afternoon crew. All right, I only do
Speaker 7: I do what I'm told to do. They can choose here.
Speaker 1: Okay. So, as the DNC heads to its big closing night,
Speaker 1: how are the protests going.
Speaker 7: Well, Yes, there was another big demonstration yesterday, peaceful, over
Speaker 7: a thousand people or so. I suspect. We're in Union
Speaker 7: Park and they held a rally there and then marched
Speaker 7: over to another small park near United Center, then marched
Speaker 7: back to the previous park and broke up and went home.
Speaker 1: So peaceful.
Speaker 7: One guy was upon a railroad bridge, one of these
Speaker 7: overhead l bridges, and waving a Palestinian flag. He came down,
Speaker 7: police told him to and he did. That was it
Speaker 7: as far as the big protests that happened. But it
Speaker 7: was a small, essentially a one man protest later in
Speaker 7: the evening at United Center that has attracted a lot
Speaker 7: of attention. Naming, we're talking about the Michigan uncommitted delegate
Speaker 7: boss Alawilla, who is demanding that a pro Palestinian speaker
Speaker 7: be given some time on the podium. Well, yesterday we
Speaker 7: heard from the parents of an American who's being held
Speaker 7: hostage in Gaza by Hamas. So yesterday Boss began this
Speaker 7: sit and he's still sitting on the steps outside the
Speaker 7: United Center making that demand.
Speaker 1: He's still there, yeah, okay, and.
Speaker 7: His supporters, a few supporters are as well as well.
Speaker 1: Okay. But so it's interesting because I had heard as
Speaker 1: many as like one hundred or like one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand people were going to show up to protest.
Speaker 1: It hasn't materialized like that at all.
Speaker 7: Well, it hasn't. And in fact, the crowd this twelve
Speaker 7: or thirteen hundred who gathered yesterday in marched, many of
Speaker 7: them are locals who stage that demonstration pretty much every weekend,
Speaker 7: the same pro Palestinian message that they're trying to get out.
Speaker 7: They do it every weekend, taking the same little march
Speaker 7: rout et cetera. And so yeah, this talk of tens
Speaker 7: and tens of thousands of protests. Of course, we have
Speaker 7: one more day of the convention, and we have two
Speaker 7: protests that are planned, simultaneous demonstrations that are planned. So
Speaker 7: we'll see how this shakes out. But to this point,
Speaker 7: I mean, the overwhelming numbers of Chicago police officers time
Speaker 7: off has been canceled for now have been able to
Speaker 7: control crowds pretty easily.
Speaker 1: Well that's I mean, that's good because I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of people were concerned that it was just
Speaker 1: going to be crazy and out of control. So again,
Speaker 1: did you're right to protest, do it all day long,
Speaker 1: but keep it peaceful. Now, things did get a little
Speaker 1: out of control. We didn't talk to you yesterday, but
Speaker 1: at the Israel outside the Israeli Consulate on Tuesday night
Speaker 1: it did.
Speaker 7: Right there. You had maybe one hundred fifty And this
Speaker 7: is a smaller, maybe more militant group, much harder edge
Speaker 7: in its online presence, did not have a permit for
Speaker 7: the protest that had staged there in front of the
Speaker 7: Israeli Consulate. And yes, the police were there. Of course
Speaker 7: they were in front of the consulate. It's a city building,
Speaker 7: it's a skyscraper across the street from anther skyscrapers. So
Speaker 7: the police were on either end of the block right
Speaker 7: to keep this group from going on into traffic for
Speaker 7: causing problems beyond this, But when this group physically began
Speaker 7: pushing against the police to try to get through, that's
Speaker 7: when it turned a little ugly. And this group then
Speaker 7: moved through the streets. You know, they essentially made a
Speaker 7: big circle around this one city block. The police said
Speaker 7: that's it. They called it in a and you know,
Speaker 7: a uncertified or un you know, a mass disturbance essentially,
Speaker 7: and began mass arrests. There was something like seventy people
Speaker 7: taking into custody on various charges. Two people were heard
Speaker 7: minor injuries. Three reporters were among those folks who were
Speaker 7: taken into custody.
Speaker 1: Reporters were taken into custody.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for you know, they kept telling everybody to get
Speaker 7: on the sidewalk during this demonstration, and once it started moving,
Speaker 7: I think these journalists got caught where they shouldn't have
Speaker 7: been and were taken into custody along with some of
Speaker 7: the demonstrators.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you'll be watching in case there's any trouble today.
Speaker 1: And then are you gonna cheat on me again today?
Speaker 7: I have not seen my afternoon schedule, but I would
Speaker 7: say probably so, yes.
Speaker 1: All right, fine, I hope you're having fun.
Speaker 7: I'm not having fun. Oh, this is hard work. It
Speaker 7: goes from three in the morning untill eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you, no, it's not fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, then you're like with me because I was
Speaker 1: saying at the top of the show, is like, I
Speaker 1: can't wait for this to be over because I'm a
Speaker 1: junkie and I love watching the convention and I'm really
Speaker 1: interested in it. But they go late and for somebody
Speaker 1: who gets up at two thirty in the morning.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well crimea river, I know, right.
Speaker 1: Wheah, wheah, Thank you so much. I have a great day, Jim.
Speaker 1: Say hi to Gary and Shannon for me. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 1: federal judge in LA has rejected an effort by lawyers
Speaker 1: for Hunter Biden to have a tax case against him
Speaker 1: tossed out. He's charged with failing to pay at least
Speaker 1: one point four million dollars in taxes. For Biden claims
Speaker 1: that federal prosecutors want to deliberately smear the character of
Speaker 1: the president's son. Attorney said during a hearing yesterday that
Speaker 1: jurors may hear possibly inflammatory details of Hunter Biden's personal
Speaker 1: life during the trial. Jury's selections expected to begin September fifth.
Speaker 1: A witness has helped police find a shoplifter at the
Speaker 1: Irvine Spectrum Center who was hiding under a blanket in
Speaker 1: the trunk of her Tesla. Irvine PDS Kyle Oldorp says
Speaker 1: the woman tried to claim she was hiding last week
Speaker 1: because people were chasing her and her vehicle.
Speaker 6: Officers were able to recover six hundred dollars worth of
Speaker 6: stolen Sappora items and about two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: Dollars worth of stolen Lululemon merchandise. Oldorp says the woman
Speaker 1: said she already had those items in her purse when
Speaker 1: she went into the shopping center. She was booked for
Speaker 1: resisting arrest, shoplifting, and using pliers as a tool for burglary.
Speaker 1: Video has been released that shows the fatal shooting of
Speaker 1: a dad in South La just weeks before the holidays.
Speaker 8: Mark What Scott was returning from Christmas shopping when two
Speaker 8: people got out of a car in one of them
Speaker 8: shot Scott. Scott's mother says there are four child car
Speaker 8: seats in her son's car when he was killed.
Speaker 1: And he usually would take the children with them, but
Speaker 1: he wanted to surprise them their gifts were in that car.
Speaker 8: Investigators say Scott was mistaken for a gang member last year.
Speaker 8: They say another man was injured in the shooting. A
Speaker 8: fifty thousand dollars reward has been offered for information leading
Speaker 8: to the killer's arrests and convictions. In South La Blake
Speaker 8: Trolley KFI News.
Speaker 1: The US government has approved four hundred million dollars in
Speaker 1: upgrades for a sewage treatment plant near the border. The
Speaker 1: money will go toward expanding the South Bay Wastewater Treatment
Speaker 1: Plant's ability to treat sewage flowing north from Mexico from
Speaker 1: twenty five to fifty million gallons a day. Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: kind of like the energizer budding, right, she just keeps
Speaker 1: going and keeps going. She's launching Dolly's Beauty makeup today.
Speaker 1: She'll be introducing the Heaven's Kiss lipstick collection, which includes
Speaker 1: the shade Jolene red very appropriate. The rest of the
Speaker 1: beauty line will be rolled out at a later date.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, the Dodgers take on the Tampa bay Rays.
Speaker 1: First pitch is going out at seven to ten. You
Speaker 1: can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on
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Speaker 1: of LA. Vice President Kamala Harris will officially accept the
Speaker 1: Democratic nomination for president today on the final night of
Speaker 1: the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Her running mate, Minnesota
Speaker 1: Governor Tim Wallas, accepted the nomination for vice president last
Speaker 1: night and called former Trump's former President Trump's agenda weird, wrong,
Speaker 1: and dangerous. More than fifty cats have been rescued from
Speaker 1: a woman's home in Irvine, some of them malnourished and
Speaker 1: in poor health. Willy say the woman was breeding and
Speaker 1: selling the cats for up to one thousand dollars apiece.
Speaker 1: The cats have been taken to Irvine Animal Care Center,
Speaker 1: where they're going to be treated and then hopefully put
Speaker 1: up for adoption. Taylor Swift says she was devastated to
Speaker 1: have to cancel her Vienna shows because of a terror plot.
Speaker 1: In a lengthy Instagram post, she said the cancelations filled
Speaker 1: her with fear and guilt because she had to cancel
Speaker 1: shows that so many people were planning to come to see.
Speaker 1: The post came after she wrapped up the European leg
Speaker 1: of her tour at six o five. It is handled
Speaker 1: on the news both former President Trump and independent presidential
Speaker 1: candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior are going to be in
Speaker 1: Phoenix tomorrow coincidence maybe not. At five point fifty, we're
Speaker 1: going to be talking with Gary of Gary and Shannon
Speaker 1: Live at the Democratic National Convention. We got former President Clinton,
Speaker 1: we got Oprah, we got Tim Walls. But where in
Speaker 1: the heck is Kamala Harris? That's what I want to know?
Speaker 1: Let zo Okay, you know that feeling, I just look
Speaker 1: at you. They just rest right now, Let's start to
Speaker 1: the zoo. Just love that line. How long ago was
Speaker 1: that movie? Jerry Maguire? It was forever ago. But one
Speaker 1: of my favorites, wake Up Call is going a little wild.
Speaker 1: Right here in La. We're going out and about for
Speaker 1: Zoo Friday Nights at the La Zoo going on this summer.
Speaker 1: We caught up with the marketing director for the Greater
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Zoo Association, Emily Marin. So Emily tell us
Speaker 1: why Friday night is such a great time to go
Speaker 1: to the zoo.
Speaker 6: We have Zoo Friday Nights, which is an all ages
Speaker 6: event where you can explore nearly the entire zoo during
Speaker 6: twilight and see what your favorite animals get up to
Speaker 6: during these cooler hours.
Speaker 1: Sound my favorite already. And so you mentioned the cooler hours.
Speaker 1: So it's hot during the summer, yeah, like ninety degrees
Speaker 1: out and stuff. So the animals kind of tend to
Speaker 1: be a little more chill during the day and they
Speaker 1: move around a little more in the evening as it
Speaker 1: cools off.
Speaker 6: So many of them do.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 6: During the afternoon, animals kind of wind down, they find shade,
Speaker 6: they can take naps. But in the twilight they many
Speaker 6: of them, like the giraffes, uh, come out and you
Speaker 6: can get these great views in the cooler, cooler hours
Speaker 6: here with the beautiful you know, sun setting behind the
Speaker 6: trees and the and the hills and it's just magical.
Speaker 1: And I love this because you know, the zoo is
Speaker 1: one of those places that it's there. You drive by
Speaker 1: it all the day. Yeah, as you're driving up the five,
Speaker 1: you're passing the zoo every day, Right, you kind of
Speaker 1: forget that it's here sometimes because it's just part of
Speaker 1: la So that's why you wanted to remind you, And
Speaker 1: Zoo Friday Nights is a great way to do that.
Speaker 1: You might hear a little music in the background because
Speaker 1: that's part of the event too.
Speaker 6: There's live music. There is a family dance party with
Speaker 6: a DJ and fun games. I know, so great.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: There is a paint party where you can paint a
Speaker 6: masterpiece of your own and take the canvas home, all
Speaker 6: for free with the ticket price. We have some of
Speaker 6: LA's best food trucks.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Oh, you don't even have to have dinner.
Speaker 1: You come on out, you have your stroll around the zoo,
Speaker 1: see some beautiful childlife.
Speaker 6: Yes, and we also have full bars for guests twenty
Speaker 6: one and older. So yeah, it's an all ages event,
Speaker 6: so there's something for everybody.
Speaker 1: And it's each Friday night through August. Yes, so we
Speaker 1: still have two more to go. So still that's a
Speaker 1: lot of time to do it. And then you mentioned
Speaker 1: that we can we have access to almost all of
Speaker 1: the zoo because you said at some other zoo events
Speaker 1: you only have parts of the zoo opens, right.
Speaker 6: This evening is about enjoying the zoo during this special
Speaker 6: time of day. So from six to eight, most of
Speaker 6: the zoo is open, and then our layer, our reptile house,
Speaker 6: is open until eight thirty. And then throughout the evening
Speaker 6: you'll encounter live music education stations, which I didn't mention
Speaker 6: before with my favorite the scoop on poop.
Speaker 1: Oh great, okay, it's so fun.
Speaker 6: It's interactive, but you're not actually handling poop, okay.
Speaker 1: And so just as a refresher, what some of the
Speaker 1: majestic animals that we're going to see? Of course the giraffes,
Speaker 1: which are some of my favorite and look, oh it's
Speaker 1: feeding time. Yes, So what are some of the other
Speaker 1: animals gorillas?
Speaker 6: We have our family group that you can see, which
Speaker 6: are so amazing with our youngster Angela.
Speaker 1: Okay, I gotta go see this, and.
Speaker 6: She's so rambunctious and wonderful. The elephants are out. You
Speaker 6: can explore our Australia section with kangaroos and koalas and
Speaker 6: castlewarries which are giant like dinosaur like birds. We have
Speaker 6: our Rainforests of the Americas exhibit with giant otter and
Speaker 6: jaguar and howler monkeys.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just giving the teaser on this. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to go run around and go see it, right,
Speaker 1: So Emily, tell me why, because there are people who go, oh,
Speaker 1: animals shouldn't be in zips and I get them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell me why. It's so important that they are.
Speaker 6: What we do here is all about conservation, and that's
Speaker 6: not just been I'm not just saying that the expertise
Speaker 6: that our keepers and other animal care staff and our
Speaker 6: veterinarians get from directly working with these animals benefits conservation
Speaker 6: efforts in the wild. Absolutely does. Our keepers go out
Speaker 6: in the field all the time to assist those efforts. Also,
Speaker 6: we fund a lot of conservation globally. We've helped the
Speaker 6: work of zoos. Through the work of zoos, we've literally
Speaker 6: brought back species like the iconic California condor. You guys
Speaker 6: just breaking near certain extinction. Yes, and that breeding success
Speaker 6: where our record breaking year with a number of chicks,
Speaker 6: most of whom are destined to be introduced into the
Speaker 6: wild and repopulating their wild range.
Speaker 1: To me, I feel like when you come and you
Speaker 1: see a graft, they're not over with us right now,
Speaker 1: but they were up close. I mean they were probably
Speaker 1: less than ten feet away. When you see that and
Speaker 1: experience it, I mean, it's it's that it's at empathy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we're in spired. You can't care about something,
Speaker 6: you can't save something that you don't care about, absolutely,
Speaker 6: and this is this place is where you develop those
Speaker 6: connections with wildlife and with nature. We have so much
Speaker 6: of a focus on native plants as well, which support
Speaker 6: pollinators who are so important to our ecosystem. So we're
Speaker 6: really inspiring that next generation of conservationists and it's all
Speaker 6: working together.
Speaker 1: I love that. And if you would like to come
Speaker 1: together with the La Zoo Zoo Friday Nights. Yes, when
Speaker 1: again is it? And where do we get more information?
Speaker 6: Go to lazoo dot org slash Zoo Friday Nights. Tickets
Speaker 6: are just twenty five dollars for adults, twenty for our children,
Speaker 6: and our members get the screaming deal of fifteen dollars
Speaker 6: per ticket. Falcon Street and parking is free, which is
Speaker 6: such a gift in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Right, Emily friend, thank you so much. It's Zoo Friday Nights.
Speaker 1: We're out and about for wake up call. Just two
Speaker 1: more weeks of Zoo Friday Nights are left, so this
Speaker 1: Friday and next Friday, because they're going through August. And
Speaker 1: I hadn't I mentioned I hadn't been to the zoo
Speaker 1: any It's really cool. I know that a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't believe in zoos, but like she said, you
Speaker 1: can't care about something you don't know about, and so
Speaker 1: it's a really a really great chance to go and
Speaker 1: see some just spectacular animals and food, trucks and music
Speaker 1: and a lot of fun. And I'm posting the interview
Speaker 1: on my Instagram at Amy Kking and also at KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty. I hope you'll follow me too at
Speaker 1: Amy K King and you can see some of the animals.
Speaker 1: Got to see gorillas, which were really really cool. Now
Speaker 1: let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A government agency
Speaker 1: is looking to force a fix for odors from the
Speaker 1: Chiquita Canyon landfill.
Speaker 2: Neighbors as far as five miles away have reported stink
Speaker 2: from the landfill in northwest La County. South Coast air
Speaker 2: Quality Management District Attorney Catherine Roberts says Chiquita Canyon has
Speaker 2: had many months to address the complaints and hasn't.
Speaker 9: They have now become a crisis because they were not
Speaker 9: correct they managed and as a result, most of the
Speaker 9: activities today are about immediate emergency actions.
Speaker 2: The district wants immediate mitigation efforts, including a three hour
Speaker 2: stop on some operations every morning during high winds. The
Speaker 2: issue is before the district's hearing board. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Authorities in Italy say they're trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: caused a luxury yacht to sink so fast off the
Speaker 1: coast of Sicily during a storm. Fifteen people were rescued
Speaker 1: on Monday. The yacht's chef was found dead soon after
Speaker 1: the boat capsized. Four bodies have been recovered by rescue divers,
Speaker 1: veterans sailor skip novaksas. Since the boat was anchored in
Speaker 1: the Mediterranean, there's a chance the doors could have been
Speaker 1: left open overnight.
Speaker 2: If the boat wasn't completely water at the deck, you'd
Speaker 2: have flooding going in and it wouldn't take long for
Speaker 2: the boat to lose its stability.
Speaker 1: Witnesses reported seeing a water spout or a tornado before
Speaker 1: the yacht went down. A brother and sister from Reno
Speaker 1: have become the youngest ever to kayak the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 1: ABC's Michelle Fransen says the old record was held by
Speaker 1: an eleven year old and a ten year old. The
Speaker 1: brother and sister paddled eighteen days, sometimes twenty miles each
Speaker 1: day to make the two hundred and eighty mile journey
Speaker 1: through the winding Majestic Canyon. She says. The girl is
Speaker 1: eyeing a new goal. She want to make, wants to
Speaker 1: make the women's junior team when she is fifteen. She's
Speaker 1: got a long way to go. Doesn't that sound great?
Speaker 1: Kayaking through the Grand Canyon? That would be absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1: By the way, thanks for starting your day with us.
Speaker 1: The number of people arrested at the US Mexico border
Speaker 1: has dropped by fifty percent. Customs and Border Protections says
Speaker 1: there were more than fifty six thousand migrant encounters along
Speaker 1: the southern border in July sixteen thousand. We're in the
Speaker 1: San Diego sector. The numbers have been going down since
Speaker 1: President Biden's executive order closed the border when asylum claims
Speaker 1: hit twenty five hundred during a seven day period. Police
Speaker 1: have released a video and offered a reward up to
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars for information leading to the person
Speaker 1: involved in a hit and run crash in Canoga Park
Speaker 1: that severely injured the driver of another car. The crash
Speaker 1: happened at one am August first on Tipanga Canyon Boulevard.
Speaker 1: The video shows a white four door Accura crashing into
Speaker 1: a gray BMW then driving off. Well, the stars have
Speaker 1: come out to support Vice President Kamala Harris, Stevie Wonder,
Speaker 1: John Legend, and Oprah Winfrey were all on stage last
Speaker 1: night at the DNC. Harris will be accepting the Democratic
Speaker 1: nomination for president tonight. We're just minutes away from handle.
Speaker 1: On the news this morning, the slipping, slipping and sliding
Speaker 1: is even worse than they thought in Rancho Palace. Verdies
Speaker 1: Bill's going to have the latest on that right now.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to our very own Gary Hoff
Speaker 1: and Morning Gary.
Speaker 9: What's going on? Amy?
Speaker 1: Well? I have to tell you that I I've been
Speaker 1: watching you guys on Instagram because you're doing some great
Speaker 1: posts from the Democratic National Convention, and someone commented on
Speaker 1: something that they said that they were disappointed because it
Speaker 1: was apparent that you were all in for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to kind of address that because I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the case, but wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: about it. So what's your goal for being at the DNC.
Speaker 9: Well, it's arguably the biggest event of the week period.
Speaker 9: It's one of the craziest election cycles we've seen in
Speaker 9: the last In my lifetime. So the idea of not
Speaker 9: being here would have been really frustrating. It was really
Speaker 9: frustrating that we weren't at the Republican National Convention for
Speaker 9: the same exact reason. I mean, imagine had we been there,
Speaker 9: if I mean to be honest, if the sales department
Speaker 9: had gotten their stuff together. But imagine that we had
Speaker 9: been there two days after there was an assassination attempt
Speaker 9: on a former president of the United States who happened
Speaker 9: to be the candidate. That would be massive. We could
Speaker 9: not ignore what was the potential for craziness here because
Speaker 9: by the time we had this thing figured out, and
Speaker 9: you know, we decided that we were going to be going, and.
Speaker 4: We had the.
Speaker 9: Capital, I should say, to get here, we were still
Speaker 9: talking about the potential for an open convention. I mean,
Speaker 9: this would have been this would have been massively historic.
Speaker 9: So the idea that I'm holding the water for one
Speaker 9: candidate over the other, it's pretty ridiculous. And I think
Speaker 9: people if people are saying that, they're just saying or
Speaker 9: they're just assuming that our presence here means that we're
Speaker 9: pulling for one party or the other. And what it
Speaker 9: means is we recognize that this is the biggest story
Speaker 9: of the week. So this is where we're going to be,
Speaker 9: and people just don't listen closely. They just want to
Speaker 9: assume that our presence here means something that it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so speaking of your presence there, I know
Speaker 1: you guys keep talking about being near that Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: statue because you're at the United Center, and so is
Speaker 1: watching because I'm I'm obsessed. So I'm watching all the
Speaker 1: channels and I had it on Fox last night and
Speaker 1: Brett Baar was walking around through that area and he
Speaker 1: goes and here's the Michael Jordan's statue, And I was like,
Speaker 1: where's Gary and Shannon? Where's Gary Shannon? But I didn't
Speaker 1: see you guys. So anyway, so let's talk about last night.
Speaker 1: What's your takeaway from last night?
Speaker 9: Well, I got to be honest, I think that Tim
Speaker 9: Walls did a good job of introducing himself to the public.
Speaker 9: I mean, he leaned very heavily into sort of just
Speaker 9: his biography. He didn't get into a lot of policy.
Speaker 9: He had a couple of digs at the Trump Vance
Speaker 9: ticket and that that was expected. But the most important
Speaker 9: thing that he did was basically say here's who I am,
Speaker 9: Here's what I believe in. This is my family. My
Speaker 9: son is a very ugly crier, but my kids are
Speaker 9: most important to me. I mean when he when he
Speaker 9: leaned forward and said to his family, you are my
Speaker 9: entire life and I love you forever. I mean, that
Speaker 9: was a really genuine I thought that was a really
Speaker 9: great moment. Maybe it's because I'm a dad, but it
Speaker 9: was one of those It was a time when he
Speaker 9: had to come out and introduced himself, not only to
Speaker 9: the general public, but I mean even the members of
Speaker 9: the Democratic Party. Nobody knows a lot about him. So
Speaker 9: he didn't get into a policy checklist, he didn't do
Speaker 9: any of that, but he just gave he sort of
Speaker 9: fleshed out that image of him being a folksy guy,
Speaker 9: him being the football coach, him being a teacher, him
Speaker 9: being a father, all of those things I think are important.
Speaker 9: That the thing they're going to have to do, the
Speaker 9: thing they being Vice President Harrison now Governor Wallas, is
Speaker 9: they're going to have to pivot. They're gonna have to
Speaker 9: take all of this good capital that they've received this
Speaker 9: week from having a joyous party, which is what this is,
Speaker 9: and turn that somehow into Okay, we've had a lot
Speaker 9: of fun. Now we've got to get down to business.
Speaker 9: Here is what policies we think we need to implement
Speaker 9: going forward, and they have not done that yet because
Speaker 9: they haven't had.
Speaker 1: To do that yet. Yeah, you know, And it's so
Speaker 1: funny that you mentioned that, because I was thinking about that.
Speaker 1: The video about freedom that they played it was before
Speaker 1: wals Walls came on, and it was this beautiful video
Speaker 1: and it was like, Hi, I'm Amy and I love freedom,
Speaker 1: and Hi I'm Gary and Freedom's you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a really beautiful video, but it didn't say anything,
Speaker 1: which is kind of what I think has been a
Speaker 1: big theme of the convention. It's all fluff and joy
Speaker 1: and not a lot of substance.
Speaker 9: Well, it is a four day television show. That that's
Speaker 9: the way it's that's the way it's produced, that's the
Speaker 9: way it's planned. That's why we have surprise guests like
Speaker 9: Oprah Winfrey. We'll see who comes up tonight. I mean,
Speaker 9: who I wouldn't be surprised. Oprah, you know, got her
Speaker 9: start here in Chicago. So think about whoever has you
Speaker 9: know is associated with Chicago. We could still see some
Speaker 9: surprise guests later tonight. I don't know who that would be.
Speaker 9: I'm not I'm not speculating, but I'm just saying that
Speaker 9: there could be some other people. Michael Jordan, who who who?
Speaker 9: You know mean something to the city. But you're right,
Speaker 9: there does not have to be policy here because Donald
Speaker 9: Trump and Jadie Vance haven't forced them to talk about policy,
Speaker 9: not yet. I mean, they need to stay on message.
Speaker 9: They need to make sure that you get policies out there,
Speaker 9: that their discussions are serious, factual, that they're not just
Speaker 9: doing character attacks or something like that to try to
Speaker 9: push that needle. Because, to be honest, none of these
Speaker 9: TV crews here care about doing a sit down interview
Speaker 9: with Kamala Harris. They just want to be part of
Speaker 9: the party. They just want to be part of the
Speaker 9: fun and the joy, to use their word, and there's
Speaker 9: no pressure for them to actually do anything that has
Speaker 9: that sheds any light on policies that they would plan
Speaker 9: for a Harris Walls administration.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like to find out what's what would happen
Speaker 1: once Kamala Harris becomes the most powerful woman in the world.
Speaker 1: You know, I just think it's so interesting that people
Speaker 1: are not curious.
Speaker 9: About that or more Well, and I think if you
Speaker 9: go back to the second night when Michelle Obama was speaking,
Speaker 9: she talked about this, this feeling something magical was happening,
Speaker 9: that we were very close to having like a new
Speaker 9: brighter day. Wait a minute, you've had one Republican president
Speaker 9: in the last sixteen years for four years. Wait, and
Speaker 9: right now you're in three and a half years in
Speaker 9: to a democratic administration. Where's that dark day that you're
Speaker 9: talking about? And why are you trying to delineate between
Speaker 9: the you know, they keep talking about you know, the
Speaker 9: Republicans want to talk about the past. Well, you're literally
Speaker 9: talking about four years ago and your guy has been
Speaker 9: in office for three and a half years. But you're
Speaker 9: talking about this being a dark time. It didn't make
Speaker 9: a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: That's a very interesting point, and Gary and Shannon are
Speaker 1: going to have many more interesting points. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: broadcasting live from nine to one right here on KFI.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to listen. Thanks Gary, Thanks Amy. All right,
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