WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:04.040 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:08.599 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:13.640 App KFI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. 4 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:17.800 Hey, it's time for your morning wake up call. 5 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:22.440 Here's Amy King. 6 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:29.079 Good morning. 7 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:32.880 It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake 8 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:36.200 up call for Wednesday, September twenty fifth. 9 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.560 I'm Amy King. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. 10 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.479 We got a lot going on, including a wild chase 11 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:45.479 that involved a hijacked metro bus. 12 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:47.759 It's come to an end in downtown LA. 13 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:51.399 Deputy Chief Donald Graham says the chase went on for 14 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:54.399 about an hour before the bus was stopped this morning. 15 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:57.920 One person was taken into custody. A passenger and the 16 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.280 driver were rescued. Another person on the bus was shot 17 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:05.400 several times and later died at the hospital. The La 18 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:09.439 County Board of Supervisors has voted to oppose Proposition thirty 19 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:10.920 six in the November election. 20 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:12.959 The measure would reverse Prop. 21 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:16.680 Forty seven, which reduced some drug possession charges and thefts 22 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:19.760 under nine hundred and fifty dollars from felonies to misdemeanors. 23 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:23.159 Prop thirty six would also allow for stiffer penalties for 24 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:27.200 thieves involved in flash mob style robberies. For the eighth 25 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.599 straight year, UCLA has been named the best public university 26 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.359 in the country by US News and World Report. UCLA 27 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.439 was also named the top university for military veterans and 28 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:41.920 has top ten programs in computer science, engineering, teaching, and nursing. 29 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:42.920 We're going to be. 30 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.040 Talking with ABC's Jim Ryan in just a couple of 31 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.280 minutes about Brett Farbes's revelation that he's got Parkinson's and 32 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.560 he's not the only former football player who is suffering 33 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:56.400 years after retiring from the game. We'll be talking tech 34 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.840 with KTLA's Rich DeMuro about a new Google streaming box. 35 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:04.760 It's apparently loaded with goodies, and open Ai is rolling 36 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:06.239 out a new voice. 37 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:07.879 Is it a good one? We'll find out. 38 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:10.960 That's coming up at five point twenty at the bottom 39 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:11.439 of the hour. 40 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:12.199 Amy's on it. 41 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:16.439 I'm on a super creepy, super creepy, but very compelling 42 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:18.800 show that I think you're going to want to hear about. 43 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:21.199 Let's get started now with some of the stories coming 44 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:25.919 out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A person 45 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:28.439 has been fatally shot on a metro bus that was 46 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:32.080 hijacked in South La fully say a man took hostages 47 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.960 early this morning and led police on a chase for 48 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.919 more than an hour before police were able to stop 49 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:39.560 the bus with a spike strip. 50 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:43.360 When the bus came to a stop, officers used their 51 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.680 training that we received from the MTA to disable the 52 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.439 bus so that it could not move further, and officers 53 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:52.360 from our SWAT team set up on the bus made 54 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.560 entry to the bus for a dynamic rescue. 55 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:55.080 He says. 56 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.960 SWAT officers rescued the driver and a passenger and arrested 57 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.560 the hijacker. One person had been shot several times and 58 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:03.759 died at the hospital. 59 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:05.520 A woman in la has. 60 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:10.159 Filed a lawsuit against Sean Combs, saying that he violently 61 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.159 raped her in New York in two thousand and one. 62 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.680 The lawsuit alleged Combs drugged the woman and that he 63 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.560 and his bodyguard viciously raped her in a recording studio 64 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:20.960 while filming the assault. Dahlia Graves spoke out publicly for 65 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.039 the first time, saying she suffered PTSD, anxiety and depression. 66 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.680 Ever since, it has been hard for me to trust 67 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:33.000 others to form healthy relationships, oh even fear safe in 68 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:36.319 my own skin. It appears that the lawsuit filed yesterday 69 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.639 as the first case Combs has faced since his sex 70 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.840 trafficking indictment last week. Graves is now the eleventh woman 71 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:45.879 to accuse Combs of sexual assault Chris Adler kf I News. 72 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.840 Israel and Hesbilah have continued to exchange heavy fire following 73 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:53.280 the deadliest day in Lebanon in almost two decades. 74 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.520 Israel says it killed. 75 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.520 A commander of the Iran backed militant group in an 76 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:04.199 airstrike in Beyrout yesterday. UN chief Antonio Gaterez posted on 77 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:07.759 x that Lebanon is at the brink and the world 78 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:11.280 cannot afford for the country to become another Gaza. Members 79 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.560 of Congress, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson or said 80 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:17.199 to vote on a measure to temporarily keep the government funded. 81 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.199 The bill being voted on today would keep the government 82 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.920 going through December twentieth. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer says 83 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.600 a shutdown would hurt American Donald. 84 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.360 Trump told the hard right shut the government down if 85 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.800 Congress won't agree to his poison pill proposals. 86 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:36.120 The short term extension includes more than two hundred and 87 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:38.959 thirty million dollars in extra funding for the Secret Service 88 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:43.120 to help protect candidates during the election cycle. League of 89 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:45.480 Legends has gotten caught up in the middle of a 90 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.920 fight between sag After and a company that provides voiceover 91 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:53.439 services for the Blockbuster online multiplayer game. The union called 92 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.439 a strike against League of Legends yesterday, saying the company 93 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.120 has tried to get around the ongoing video game strike 94 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:03.560 by higher non union actors to work on an unrelated title. 95 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.519 Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. 96 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:10.759 So, Jim Brett Farv was testifying before Congress about an 97 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.920 investigation into charges that he had taken some public money 98 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:17.040 and used it for himself. Yes, and in what seemed 99 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.199 like an offhand comment, he said he'd lost money investing 100 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.920 in a company he thought would help other people, but 101 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.600 that it was too late for him because he was 102 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:27.480 just recently diagnosed with Parkinson's. 103 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:32.040 Yeah, a real bombshell fell at that moment during that hearing. 104 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.240 And I'm not sure there were questions that came up. 105 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:36.519 Tried to see, you know, the full testimony this morning, 106 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.959 but yeah, it was during the Houseways and Means Committee 107 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.759 that he made this. He had this revelation, you know, 108 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:44.000 some synics have said, well, he's trying to shift attention 109 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:47.800 away from his problems back in Misissippi with this welfare situation. 110 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.279 He didn't present a doctor's note or anything, but I 111 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.439 think people are taking his word at it, considering that 112 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:54.240 he was in the NFL for twenty years and then 113 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:57.199 he had a college career before that. He says in 114 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.480 the past, he said that he had something like a 115 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:03.879 thousand concussions over that time, and concussions have been linked 116 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:05.560 to Parkinson's. 117 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:08.160 And he's not the only one. 118 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:12.560 There are a lot of former NFL players who are 119 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.240 suffering now after years after they played well. 120 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.680 Absolutely, and not just from Parkinson's but potentially other problems 121 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:23.360 as well. There's something called chronic traumatic encephalopathy. This is 122 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:27.040 a brain condition that also has been linked to repeated 123 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:31.879 head trauma. It does like Parkinson's right, but players who 124 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:36.639 believe that they have ct often have worse mental health 125 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.639 issues than those who don't think they have CTE. And 126 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:42.399 in other words, researchers writing in the General in the 127 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:45.079 American Medical Association this week say that the mirror of 128 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:49.279 fear or the dread about CT and a lifetime of 129 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.680 mental health decline is actually contributing to the mental health 130 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.920 problems of former football players. See, the problem with CTE 131 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:59.319 is that it can't be diagnosed until and autopsy has 132 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:03.639 done after obviously the person has died. So these ex 133 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.839 players may be worrying themselves into new metal health problems. 134 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:12.079 Yeah didn't San Diego Chargers Junior stay out? Yeah at CTE, 135 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:13.040 he did. 136 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.079 I mean that was confirmed through his autopsy after he died, 137 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:19.319 and so you know, maybe it's a fine line, maybe 138 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.439 the distinction between Parkinson's and CTE and all the rest. 139 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:28.000 But still, these researchers are finding that that like twenty 140 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.839 five percent of the players or current or former who 141 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.720 believe they have CTE have had suicidal thoughts or behaviors 142 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:38.720 compared to only five percent who don't think they have CTE. 143 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:41.879 You know, it's again, it's it's not something that can 144 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:43.519 be diagnosed until after death. 145 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:47.160 So worrying about it makes you more likely to have it. 146 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.759 No, worrying about it can give you, you know, drive 147 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:55.600 you into metal health issues, can cause depression, can cause 148 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:59.360 suicidal thoughts. So no, it doesn't cause CTE. But you know, 149 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:02.279 it would be that the person this ex player doesn't 150 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:06.079 have ct at all, But he is so concerned and 151 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:09.319 about it that he's having other mental health issues. 152 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:13.279 Yeah, and this is also relevant now because of Miami 153 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.800 Dolphins quarterback he just had his third concussion. 154 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.360 Yeah, and there's Tuck that he should retire. 155 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.959 Right And if you saw that play, the nasty hit 156 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:25.519 on tour this past weekend against Buffalo, that he's just 157 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:27.439 lying there. And I was just watching another video an 158 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:32.600 assessment from a neurologist and describing the symptoms that he 159 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.039 was having there on the field to his hands start 160 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.320 to flax in his arms or his legs. He seem 161 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.639 completely dazed and confused. And yeah, there is talk now 162 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:44.919 that you know what, maybe before you get into a 163 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:46.559 lifetime of problems, you should let it go. 164 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:50.200 Well, the problem is there's the cat. 165 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.639 The big carrot is the millions of dollars that they 166 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.159 have access to as NFL stars. 167 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.399 Yeah, and I think and a lot of these players 168 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.519 live like that. You know, they've got suddenly they've got 169 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:05.600 millions of dollars. They may have come from humble beginnings, 170 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:08.799 but suddenly with all this money, and it's a short career, 171 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:12.200 you know, four or five years if you're lucky. Far 172 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:15.320 I had had twenty years so I think it stands 173 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.480 the reason that he has has some effects from all 174 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:20.600 those concussions and hard hits. 175 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.039 Anything they can do aside from changing to flag football. 176 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:29.720 Well no, you know, the padded helmets, shortening the kickoff 177 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.720 that we've seen here, pulling players out if they lose 178 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:34.960 their helmet, you know, pulling them out for one play 179 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:38.120 and assessing them for concussion. So things are being done 180 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:41.639 in that regard. But look back eighty years ago or 181 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.039 so when players were wearing leather helmets to play football, 182 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:46.799 you know, and that was sort of and there was 183 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.799 a stigma associated with, you know, trying to protect yourself 184 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:52.600 from injury. Not so anymore. 185 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.879 Well, and then I think we were talking about this. 186 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.480 I was talking about it with my editor Carla, and 187 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.720 she said, and rugby they don't have any protection. 188 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:03.879 Yeah, and they still just go at it. 189 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:06.600 Right, you know, And it's I think there is still 190 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:09.639 kind of that that tough guy, that maquismo that has 191 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:12.240 players out there literally risking their lives. 192 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.679 Yeah, all right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much 193 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.159 for the information. Seem all right, let's get back to 194 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:18.840 some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty 195 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.240 four hour newsroom. A man who authorities say staked out 196 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:24.720 former President Trump for twelve hours and wrote about his 197 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.159 desire to kill the former president, has been indicted on 198 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:32.639 charges of attempted assassination. Ryan Routh was arrested earlier this 199 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:36.320 month and initially was charged with firearms offenses. The upgraded 200 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:40.440 charges reflect the Justice Department's assessment that he methodically plotted 201 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:42.600 to kill Trump as he played around of golf at 202 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:44.200 Trump International Golf Club. 203 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:45.799 Despite a new. 204 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:49.440 Order from the La City Council, some RV's remain illegally 205 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:50.639 parked on city streets. 206 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.679 The city's Department of Transportation says the City Attorney's office 207 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.799 advised its workers not to fully enforce the city council's 208 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:00.440 vote to immediately start towing RVs and other vehicle parked 209 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.320 in peak traffic lanes or near red curbs. Councilman Kevin 210 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:06.039 daley On says council members want answers. 211 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:06.840 So they're violating the laws. 212 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.399 We have to move the rbs out of the red 213 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:12.720 curbs for the safety themselves, for the safety of others. 214 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.480 Leon and others found a motion requesting a report from 215 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.600 the City Attorney's office explaining the discrepancy between the City 216 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.759 Council's will and enforcement of the measure in downtown La 217 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:23.840 Michael Monks KFI News. 218 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.919 A woman from Corona's been arrested for allegedly stealing another 219 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.360 woman's purse out of her car at Greenacre's Mortuary in Bloomington. 220 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:34.600 Detectives say the thief used the woman's credit cards and 221 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:38.039 then was caught last week driving a stolen twenty twenty 222 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:42.720 Jaguar that she had bought using a stolen identity. Authorities 223 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:44.919 believe she may be linked to a similar theft at 224 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:50.080 Montecito Memorial Park. In mortuary in Lamlinda, Orange County says 225 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.240 Andrew Doe is the first supervisor to be censured by 226 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.600 the Board of Supervisors in county history. 227 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.960 The FBI rated Supervisor Andrew Doe's home and several other 228 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:02.559 properties as part of investigation into millions of missing COVID 229 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:06.639 relief dollars that were allegedly spent for personal gain. Supervisor 230 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:09.120 Katrina Fully says Doe needs to resign. 231 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:12.039 Because he continues to be enriched by his salary and 232 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:15.600 benefits that the taxpayers are paying when he is not 233 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.120 here to do his job, and he has created this 234 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:20.480 terrible scandal in our County. 235 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:22.720 Dough has not attended a board meeting since the raids 236 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:26.159 last month and has not commented publicly in Orange County. 237 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:28.120 Corbin Carson kaf I News. 238 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.279 A woman from Pollock Pines in San Diego County brought 239 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:33.559 home more than just some good memories from a trip 240 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.840 to Yosemite National Park. Phoebe Stokes says a few days 241 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:41.320 after she got home from her weekend trip, her dogs 242 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:43.879 sniffed out something under the hood of her car. 243 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:47.159 Opened the hood and this big, fat, mer furry marmot 244 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:50.279 jumped out and immediately ran back under my hood and 245 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.440 are from underneath into the engine. 246 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:57.279 Stokes called first responders. They took apart the car and 247 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:02.279 found the marmot inside. Marmots are large ground squirrels, very cute. 248 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.080 A wildlife agency is going to take the marmot on 249 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.320 another ride back to its home in Yosemite. It is 250 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.720 Halloween time at the Disneyland Resort and KFI AM six 251 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.000 forty and Wake Up Call want to give you a 252 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:18.200 chance to experience the Frightful Fund for yourself at the 253 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.159 Disneyland Resort now through October thirty. First, you'll find fiendishly 254 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:26.559 tasty treats There's like hundreds of different menu items that 255 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.759 are all special for Halloween time and look delicious. There's 256 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.240 Thrills for one and all, and a bootiful decor to 257 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:38.919 both Disney California Adventure and Disneyland Park. I love cars 258 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.840 Land at Halloween time. Keep it right here because wake 259 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:44.039 Up Call is going to have your chance to win 260 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:47.000 a four pack of one day one park tickets to 261 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:50.480 the Disneyland Resort. Police have arrested a person who they 262 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:54.120 say hijacked a metro bus, shot a passenger, then let 263 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.360 police on a chase through South La into Downtown LA. 264 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:00.240 The chase lasted for more than an hour, so us 265 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:02.840 was stopped by a swat team shortly after two am 266 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:06.279 around South Alamedia and Sixth Street. The person who was 267 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:09.519 shot several times died a short time later at the hospital. 268 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.519 Firefighters continue to gain ground on those three big wildfires 269 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.679 burning in southern California. The fifty five thousand acre fire 270 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.399 that threatened right Wood and Mount Baldy is ninety one 271 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:22.240 percent surrounded, The fire in the San Bernardino Mountains seventy 272 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:25.279 five percent surrounded, and the fire that started in Tribuco 273 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:28.440 Canyon is eighty eight percent surrounded. The fires have destroyed 274 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:30.879 almost two hundred and fifty homes and other buildings and 275 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.639 injured more than two dozen people. Tropical Storm Halleene will 276 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:37.320 keep NASA astronaut Nick Haig, you know, friend of the 277 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.159 wake Up Call, and a Russian cosmonaut on the ground 278 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:43.240 a little bit longer. The Crude SpaceX launch of the 279 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.279 Crew nine mission from Cape Canaveral had to be pushed 280 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:49.399 back to September twenty eighth because of the storm that's 281 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:52.360 supposed to hit Florida as a Category three hurricane late 282 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:55.320 tomorrow at six oh five Tandle on the news. Another 283 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.320 sign that things are heating up, Israel has intercepted a 284 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.639 Hesbola fired ballistic missile near Tel Aviv. Let's say good 285 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:07.759 morning now too, the host of Rich on Tech right 286 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.840 here on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich Diemrro Good morning. 287 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:13.559 Rich, Hey, good morning to you. Amy. 288 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.399 Okay, so we're hearing that open AI is rolling out 289 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.519 a new voice and this is this the same voice 290 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.679 that there was a lot of controversy because it's sounded 291 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:24.480 like Charlotte Scarlett Johanson. 292 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.240 Yes, this is that feature. So this is the one 293 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:32.480 it's called the Advanced Advanced Voice Mode. Now, the downside 294 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.840 is this is only for the advanced users, so the 295 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.240 people that pay like twenty bucks a month for chat ebt. 296 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.360 But you know, there's a lot of them out there, 297 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:41.840 and it's also the reason why as soon as I 298 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.279 saw the presentation months ago. By the way, this has 299 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:47.240 been like so delayed, I signed up immediately because I 300 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:50.360 was like, I need that in my life. But I've 301 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.879 since moved on. I canceled my subscription, so I am 302 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:56.519 now still on my claud that I like. But I 303 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.919 have used a similar thing in Google, So Google Gemini 304 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.919 has a very similar live voice option, and I can 305 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.039 just tell you that it's quite incredible and it's quite 306 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:07.919 different than what we're used to because most of the 307 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:11.000 time we're just chatting with these things by text. To 308 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.320 actually have a conversation and an emotional conversation where it 309 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:17.960 actually in flex when you're excited, and it does all 310 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.240 these kind of things that make it more human like. 311 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.320 And so that is now finally. 312 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:27.559 Available, okay, and still only available though for paid subscribers. 313 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:29.320 Yeah, you have to have paid, but it might be 314 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:31.200 you know, if you're really into this stuff, it might 315 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:32.840 be worth it just to try it out. But there 316 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:36.399 are ten nine total voices. There are supposed to be ten, 317 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:38.519 but you know, they had to scrap that one that 318 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:42.240 sounded like Scarlett Johansson, which was sky the you know, 319 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:43.320 the raspy voice. 320 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:48.600 Okay, and is it like five four women and five men. 321 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:56.000 Then well they're all nature themed. So you've got arbor, maple, soul, spruce, veil. 322 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.200 Those are the new nature themed voices. 323 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:01.120 Okay, So we don't know if they're girls are boys. 324 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:03.559 Well there, it's kind of like a mix. You know, 325 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:06.039 you have a bunch, you have guys, you have girls, 326 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.000 you have you know, just all kinds of ranges. Now, 327 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:11.720 I will tell you if you want to try something 328 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:16.079 that's free that's an alternative to this. So yes, so 329 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:19.599 google their Gemini Live, which is their version of this. 330 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:23.640 They they initially had it only for their paying subscribers, 331 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:26.759 but now they are rolling that out to everyone for free. 332 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.279 So I don't think it's the entire system that you 333 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.200 get for the paid but you know, I've been playing 334 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:35.400 with it on the pixel phone and it's quite interesting. 335 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.960 You could literally have if you're walking down the street, 336 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.640 you could just have a conversation with this AI and 337 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:43.799 it sounds like a human and it's pretty incredible, So 338 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.000 I would definitely check it out. In Google's app. It's 339 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.079 called Gemini Live and this is if this is if 340 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.079 you want to pay for it. This is open AI. 341 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:53.680 Okay, And I mean, is it like her? 342 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.319 I mean, hopefully you're not going to have that same relationship, 343 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.559 but I'm hearing that people are kind of getting to 344 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:02.079 know their AI and you know, like treating them like 345 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:02.839 their friends. 346 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:06.039 Yeah, I think I think. Look, I mean, yes, these 347 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:09.319 do have memory features, which means it does remember things 348 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:12.160 that you said, and it does feel very human like. 349 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.640 I don't think you're going to be fooled into thinking 350 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:17.799 this is a human. But I will tell you it 351 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.119 is pretty uncanny just how much of a conversation back 352 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:24.000 and forth you can have and you can say, you know, 353 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:25.839 help me like I had it, you know, help me 354 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.319 with something, and it just kind of like chatted me 355 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:30.960 or you know, walked me through like what I might encounter. 356 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:35.000 It's just it's pretty wild. I think it's worth checking out. 357 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.440 Okay, worth checking out. Note to self That means I 358 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.319 have to download some sort of an app. I still 359 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.079 haven't tried any kind of AI. It scares me. 360 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:44.400 I think I think you should try it. 361 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.359 Okay, all right, on the advice of Richidimiro. See we 362 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.319 all take his advice, right. 363 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:49.960 Okay. 364 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:56.880 So there is a top tech YouTuber who has launched wallpapers. 365 00:18:57.759 --> 00:18:59.640 It's an app and you have to pay fifty bucks 366 00:18:59.680 --> 00:18:59.960 a year. 367 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.559 Yeah, and people were not happy. So this is MKBHD. 368 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:04.400 Have you heard of him? 369 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:04.599 No? 370 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:09.279 Okay, So he's pretty much the top tech YouTuber, millions 371 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.160 and millions of subscribers, you know, does all the reviews 372 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.240 on the phones and things like that. People really like 373 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.920 him because he does a good job. He's thorough and 374 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:21.279 his stuff looks really good. So obviously people need to monetize. 375 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:25.440 And so yesterday, in coordination with his iPhone review video, 376 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:28.319 he came out. Everyone always asks like, what's the wallpaper 377 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:30.440 on your phone? What's that wallpaper? So he came out 378 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:34.720 with a new wallpaper app called Panels, and immediately the 379 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:38.480 response was like really bad. Like people were like, this 380 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:42.000 is a bad app. It's fifty dollars a year for 381 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:45.079 wallpapers that you can get for free. It's twelve dollars 382 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:47.000 a month. There are ads that wants to track my 383 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:51.519 location and the overwhelming majority of people were just very 384 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:53.839 critical of this app. Now, I got to give this 385 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:55.599 guy credit. You know, obviously you have to try to 386 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:57.960 monetize and do different things, and he was doing something 387 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.839 that kind of fit his brand. But he said, look, 388 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:04.519 I understand the criticism, and I will come back and 389 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.240 try to make this better. But would you pay fifty 390 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:08.799 bucks for wallpapers on your phone? 391 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:09.160 Well? 392 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.720 No, And I wonder how much he made before people 393 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:17.559 started complaining, like, because he's got like for the Smartphone Awards, 394 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.720 he's got five point nine million views. I don't know 395 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:22.079 how many followers he's got, but think about I mean, 396 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:23.599 I've one hundred thousand people did it. 397 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:24.599 He's a grazillionaire. 398 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:27.839 Yeah, even if one percent of his followers did it, 399 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:31.759 so and that's a tiny number of millions. So yeah, 400 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:34.200 I mean, look, and the reality is you got to 401 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:37.440