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Speaker 3: Good morning. It's five oh one. This is your wake
Speaker 3: up Hall four. What is today?
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, November thirteenth.
Speaker 3: Why I was driving in this morning?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it's not even a super moon yet,
Speaker 1: but the moon was incredible. If you get a chance,
Speaker 1: step outside, take a look at it. It's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1: As driving west on the one thirty four towards the station,
Speaker 1: and the moon was just over the horizon and it
Speaker 1: was just ginormous, really pretty. Can't wait to see it
Speaker 1: when it's actually full. Also, I just heard that if
Speaker 1: you have election signs up in your yard, you got
Speaker 1: to get them down by Friday because you have ten
Speaker 1: days after the election to remove election signs. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that was a thing, although I didn't see
Speaker 1: very many elections signs either way this time like in
Speaker 1: past elections. Oh well, and did you catch Jay Leno
Speaker 1: on Conway last night? It was very cool. He's got
Speaker 1: it posted on Instagram The Conway Show. You want to
Speaker 1: see Jay Leno and he's such a good friend to KFI.
Speaker 3: Of course it's Tim Conway Junior. So that was fun.
Speaker 3: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1: A death certificate that has been made public says legendary
Speaker 1: Dodger pitcher Fernando Valenzuela died from septic shock. The document,
Speaker 1: obtained by TMC says two forms of cirrhosis contributed to
Speaker 1: his death on October twenty second. The document also indicated
Speaker 1: Valenzuela may have suffered from a rare brain disease. Fernando
Speaker 1: Valenzuela died just days before his sixty fourth birthday. Firefighters
Speaker 1: continue to gain ground in their battle against the wildfire
Speaker 1: that has burned more than twenty thousand acres in Camerio
Speaker 1: Moore Park and Somas. The fire is now fifty four
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. More than two hundred homes and other buildings
Speaker 1: burned to the ground. And the Santa Ana wind whipped fire.
Speaker 1: President Biden and President elect Trump will be sitting down
Speaker 1: together at the White House to talk policy as one
Speaker 1: prepares to take office the other prepares to leave. First,
Speaker 1: Lady Jill Biden invited Milania Trump to have tea at
Speaker 1: the White House, but Milania declined. We're planning to talk
Speaker 1: to Karen Travers about that in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: But I gotta let you in on a little inside baseball.
Speaker 1: Our technical producer Cono, he blew out a tire on
Speaker 1: the way into the station, So right now it's.
Speaker 3: Technical producer producer an. She's doing a great job.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if we can keep the wheels on
Speaker 1: the bus and get everything to you this morning. But
Speaker 1: let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A fight has
Speaker 1: led to a shooting inside a Ralph's grocery store in
Speaker 1: Sun Valley. One person was killed last night. At least
Speaker 1: one other person is in the hospital. Police say the
Speaker 1: shooting may have been in self defense. Several people charged
Speaker 1: in connection with a pro Palestinian protests at uc Irvine
Speaker 1: are doing court in Santa Anna. The protesters were arrested
Speaker 1: in May when they surrounded the school's physical sciences lecture hall.
Speaker 1: The Council on American Islamic Relations and other activists are
Speaker 1: demanding prosecutors dropped the charges against fifty people arrested in
Speaker 1: the crackdown. They say the university and the Orange County
Speaker 1: DA's office share a history of silencing Palestinian voices. President
Speaker 1: elect Trump continues to roll out his choices for his
Speaker 1: foreign policy team. He tapped former Director of National Intelligence
Speaker 1: John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, Arkansas Governor Mike Hoppet
Speaker 1: Huckabee as the US Ambassador to Israel, and Stephen Whitcoff
Speaker 1: to be a Special and Envoy to the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Trump also named Bill McGinley his Cabinet secretary in his
Speaker 1: first administration, at his as his White House counsel. President
Speaker 1: elect Trump's surprise defense officials by nominating Fox News host
Speaker 1: and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary.
Speaker 1: ABC's John Santucci says Hegseeth is an Army National Guard captain.
Speaker 5: He is a combat veteran had multiple tours in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq,
Speaker 5: and Afghanistan, according to the Trump team, and received two
Speaker 5: Bronze Stars ours for his.
Speaker 1: Service, but he says Hegseth has never had such a
Speaker 1: leadership role and no government experience. Special Counsel Jack Smith
Speaker 1: and his team apparently planned to resign before President ele
Speaker 1: Like Trump takes office. Smith's office has been working on
Speaker 1: how to wind down its criminal cases against Trump because
Speaker 1: of the Justices Department position that it cannot charge a
Speaker 1: sitting president with a crime. Newsweek says Smith's office has
Speaker 1: spent at least fifty million dollars prosecuting Trump. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: going to try this. Are we going to be able
Speaker 1: to talk to Nick and get a first look at traffic?
Speaker 1: Got to ask technical producer, producer in you think we
Speaker 1: can do it? No, we can't get Nick right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go right to Karen Travers. Then hold please Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're just joining us, kno blew out at tire.
Speaker 3: He's on his way.
Speaker 1: He'll be here at about five point fifteen, No, five
Speaker 1: point thirty, and Ann is trying to run the board
Speaker 1: right now and figure out how to bring up Karen
Speaker 1: Travers for us. Any luck, there's a phone pot I
Speaker 1: hear somebody running down the hall. Maybe do we Okay,
Speaker 1: how about this op. There's Rich he's gonna help. Okay, See,
Speaker 1: isn't this fun. We could give you more news right
Speaker 1: now while we're stalling, but it's more fun to do
Speaker 1: it this way. So Rich is now we have an
Speaker 1: engineer in here. It's live radio. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a great day, everybody, and again, thanks for starting your
Speaker 1: day with us.
Speaker 3: Maybe yours is going to be a little.
Speaker 1: Smoother than ours, but hey, you you roll with it,
Speaker 1: you run with it. And Rich is now examining the board,
Speaker 1: and there's Karen Travers.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Karen. I don't know if you can hear
Speaker 3: us talking about it. We were having like.
Speaker 4: A exciting anticipation to get on.
Speaker 3: I was very I know, She's like, just get me on,
Speaker 3: get me on the air. Okay, so great, let's let's go.
Speaker 1: Then the President and the next president have a sit
Speaker 1: down today at the White House.
Speaker 3: Tell us about it.
Speaker 4: Due eleven o'clock our time, they will sit down in
Speaker 4: the Oval Office, and you know it's going to be
Speaker 4: a highly anticipated meaning of course, we're going to be
Speaker 4: looking at for you know, all of the body language,
Speaker 4: what they say, how long the reporters are able to
Speaker 4: stay in the Oval office, do they take some questions.
Speaker 4: We'll see, But the White House says, you know that
Speaker 4: this is a chance for Americans to see an important
Speaker 4: part of the process when they talk about a peaceful
Speaker 4: transfer of power. Karine Jean Pierre said that the President
Speaker 4: will show in this meeting he cares about democracy and
Speaker 4: that he wants to show that the system works, that
Speaker 4: people should trust institutions and trust that norms do matter here,
Speaker 4: and that this is going to be an effective and
Speaker 4: smooth transition. They're very much sending a message, you know,
Speaker 4: to the American people that they're doing things differently than
Speaker 4: what happened four years ago when President Biden did not
Speaker 4: get an invitation like this. As President elect from the
Speaker 4: Trump administration, they want to do this differently. They want
Speaker 4: to show people that they are trying to set the
Speaker 4: next team up to hit the ground running and be successful.
Speaker 4: I went back and looked at twenty sixteen when President
Speaker 4: Obama invited then President elect Trump to the White House,
Speaker 4: and he said something like, you know, we want you
Speaker 4: to succeed because you your success is the country's success.
Speaker 4: And I think we're going to hear a similar sentiment
Speaker 4: today from Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Okay, I hope so, I hope so and so, and
Speaker 1: I was sorry. I was yelling towards the ridge to
Speaker 1: see if we can get the traffic guy onmins just
Speaker 1: a second. Things are a little wonky here today. Did
Speaker 1: you say in twenty twenty, we know that obviously things
Speaker 1: were very tense. So in twenty twenty the Biden Trump
Speaker 1: meeting did happen or didn't they not?
Speaker 4: There was no meeting like this. I mean you think
Speaker 4: back of like where we were exactly four years ago.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump was questioning the election results. He was challenging
Speaker 4: in court the election results, so he was not ready
Speaker 4: to extend an invitation to President elect Joe Biden. And
Speaker 4: obviously he didn't even go to the inauguration. That whole
Speaker 4: transition period was not what we have seen in the
Speaker 4: past and very much out of the norm.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then First Lady Jill also invited Malania Trump
Speaker 1: to come have tea, but Malania said no, thank you.
Speaker 4: We know from the First Lady's office that an invitation
Speaker 4: was extended for her to come up to have a
Speaker 4: meeting in the White House. Sources in Florida close to
Speaker 4: the first lady tell us that she is not going
Speaker 4: to be making a trip today. We didn't see her
Speaker 4: on the plane leaving Florida as we saw the President
Speaker 4: elect leaving mar A Lago and coming up here. But
Speaker 4: they did not give a reason as to why she
Speaker 4: was not making the trip.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So then after the meeting today, which is hopefully going
Speaker 1: to be a nice cordial here's what we've done.
Speaker 3: Here's what we're handing over to you.
Speaker 1: Are there other meetings between the president and the President
Speaker 1: elect before election day?
Speaker 3: Or is a suit? This is it?
Speaker 4: This will be it. I mean, there's nothing on the schedule.
Speaker 4: I don't anticipate anything being added. The next time would
Speaker 4: likely be on inauguration.
Speaker 1: Okay, and we'll be talking to you leading up to that.
Speaker 1: Karen Trivers, thanks for being patient with us today and
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on with us.
Speaker 3: No problem, all right, we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A former La
Speaker 1: School District middle school teacher is pleaded not guilty to
Speaker 1: charges of having sex with a teenage boy who was
Speaker 1: one of her students. Prosecutors say the ex teacher at
Speaker 1: John Burrow's Middle School in Hancock Park had sex with
Speaker 1: the boy in her car and gave him cannabis. If
Speaker 1: she posts bonded, she'll have to wear a GPS tracker,
Speaker 1: but for now remains in jail. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Speaker 1: in Pasadenas expected to lay off about three hundred twenty
Speaker 1: five workers. JPL director Lori Leshen sent a memo to
Speaker 1: staff yesterday saying the decision was made in an effort
Speaker 1: to address what she called the dynamic funding environment for
Speaker 1: the Space Agency, which means they need money. All employees
Speaker 1: were told to work from home today and that the
Speaker 1: number of planned layoffs is lower than per acted a
Speaker 1: few months ago. The job cuts about effect about five
Speaker 1: percent of the workforce. The fired FEMA worker accused of
Speaker 1: telling staff to skip hurricane damaged homes that had Trump
Speaker 1: signs on them, claims it didn't just happen in Florida.
Speaker 1: She says she was just following FEMA protocol.
Speaker 6: This is not isolated.
Speaker 1: This is a colossal event of avoidance, not just in
Speaker 1: the state of Florida, but you will find avoidance in
Speaker 1: the Carolinas. Former FEMA supervisor Maren Marnie Washington told the
Speaker 1: Roland Martin Unfiltered newscast that she is being made a scapegoat.
Speaker 1: The former Massachusetts Air National Guard member who leaked classified
Speaker 1: information to friends in an online video game forum has
Speaker 1: been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Jack to Chera
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty in March to six counts of transmitting national
Speaker 1: defense information and violating the Espionage Act.
Speaker 7: His actions compromise military plans, sources, and methods, and allowed
Speaker 7: our most significant adversaries access to some of our most
Speaker 7: closely guarded intelligence.
Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent in Charge Jody Cohen called to share
Speaker 1: a one of the most prolific leakers of classified information
Speaker 1: in American history. An explosion at a factory in Kentucky
Speaker 1: has killed two employees. Nearly a dozen people were hurt
Speaker 1: in the explosion yesterday at the plant known for producing
Speaker 1: color in soft drinks. Surgeon Jason Smith at the University
Speaker 1: of Louisville Hospital says they treated a range of injuries.
Speaker 8: There were a fair amount of burn injuries, a pretty
Speaker 8: significant amount of blast injuries as well from the penetrating
Speaker 8: and blunt injuries from the force of the explosion. As
Speaker 8: well as some crush injury for some debris had fallen
Speaker 8: on the paper.
Speaker 1: Some people had to be rescued. It's not yet known
Speaker 1: what chemicals were involved in the explosion. A pet squirrel
Speaker 1: named Peanut Yes You're familiar with Peanut by now taken
Speaker 1: from its owner and then euthanized in upstate New York,
Speaker 1: has tested negative for rabies. A raccoon, also taken in October,
Speaker 1: also euthanized and also to negative. When the New York
Speaker 1: Department of Environmental Conservation took the animals, the agency said
Speaker 1: it had received complaints that wildlife was being kept illegally
Speaker 1: and potentially unsafely. The man who had them says they
Speaker 1: were rescues in his animal sanctuary, and Peanut was very
Speaker 1: popular on social media. A Dodgers fan in LA says
Speaker 1: he was fired for calling in sick to be at
Speaker 1: the team's World Series victory parade. Somebody apparently saw him
Speaker 1: in the crowd Earlier this month. The fan posted on
Speaker 1: social media that they were fired for misconduct. The employer
Speaker 1: apparently had to shut down the store because there wasn't
Speaker 1: enough staff on the day of the parade. All eyes
Speaker 1: are going to be on Sofi Stadium when Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: and the Cincinnati Bengals visit Justin Herbert and the La
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Speaker 1: So keep it right here. Lots going on today, not
Speaker 1: only the chaos in the actual newsroom, but all around
Speaker 1: the world. Here's what we're following. La Mayor Bass and
Speaker 1: the city Attorney been working to speed up the release
Speaker 1: of a proposed sanctuary City ordinance to the city council.
Speaker 1: The City of La has prohibited the use of its
Speaker 1: resources from assisting federal immigration authorities in past years, but
Speaker 1: a sanctuary ordinance would formally codify these policies. Now that
Speaker 1: President Elect Trump has promised to start deporting illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: when he takes office. BFAA has barred US Airlines from
Speaker 1: flying to Haiti for thirty days after gangs shot and
Speaker 1: hit three planes. Bullets hit a Spirit Airlines plane on
Speaker 1: final approach into porta Prince Jet Blow and Americans said
Speaker 1: bullets also hit their planes as they left the airport.
Speaker 1: UNA has also suspended flights carrying humanitarian aid into the country.
Speaker 1: Santa Anna wind's been blowing through the Southland again. The
Speaker 1: National Weather Services Gusts up to fifty five miles per
Speaker 1: hour are expected in the canyons and passes today. The
Speaker 1: winds should die down tomorrow, but another Santa Anna wind
Speaker 1: event and potentially dangerous fire conditions are expected early next week.
Speaker 1: At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Bill's
Speaker 1: going to be talking about President elect Trump's visit to
Speaker 1: President Biden today. And now let's say good morning too,
Speaker 1: ABC's Geordanna Miller in Jerusalem. Good morning, Geordana, Hi am
Speaker 1: good to be with you.
Speaker 3: You too.
Speaker 1: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin nat Yahoo's warned that Iran or
Speaker 1: has warned Iran against attacking Israel again.
Speaker 3: What is he saying?
Speaker 6: That's right? The Prime Minister put out ostensibly a video message,
Speaker 6: he said was to the Iranian people, where he said
Speaker 6: it's a shame that the regime is investing in a
Speaker 6: war against Israel that he said they can't win, instead
Speaker 6: of investing in Iran and its people and its education.
Speaker 6: And he said he hopes one day that Israelis and
Speaker 6: Iranians can together build a more prosperous region. But in
Speaker 6: this seemingly kind of innocent message or or you know,
Speaker 6: diplomatic message to the people of Iran was a threat
Speaker 6: in it. And he said that if Iran attacks Israel,
Speaker 6: then Iran's economy will pay a heavy price. And that was,
Speaker 6: you know, it has been widely interpreted here in Israel
Speaker 6: as a veiled threat. Then Nataniel would go after Iran's
Speaker 6: oil fields and its energy sector what it did not
Speaker 6: do in its in the last Israeli reprisal strike. So
Speaker 6: you know, that was a way of really warning the
Speaker 6: which you know, in really since President Trump's election, we
Speaker 6: have not we have not heard the Iranians make overt
Speaker 6: threats of a strike against against Israel. But you know
Speaker 6: everyone here had been waiting for that strike. And we'll
Speaker 6: have to see. Perhaps the Iranians are rethinking their options
Speaker 6: in the face of Trump's election, and there are some
Speaker 6: initial reports in air media at least that Iran may
Speaker 6: wait and try to talk with the Trump White House
Speaker 6: and hold off on attack and another strike on Israel,
Speaker 6: which is good news.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, anytime there's less missiles and rockets flying, it's.
Speaker 3: A good thing.
Speaker 1: So then moving into Gaza, we're hearing from several AID
Speaker 1: groups that conditions are worse than ever. And this is
Speaker 1: the thirty days after the SOUS said Hey, Israel, you've
Speaker 1: got to get more AID in there or you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're putting our relationship at risk.
Speaker 6: A little bit, right, I mean, the US threatened to
Speaker 6: kind of arms embargo if Israel didn't dramatically boost AID
Speaker 6: into the Gaza Strip, and Israel was given thirty days
Speaker 6: to do so. Now, on the ground, Israel opened a
Speaker 6: couple new crossings into the Gaza Strip, one in the north,
Speaker 6: one in the center, and they also took away some
Speaker 6: of the red tape with getting AID in and brought
Speaker 6: ape directly into some of the areas in the far
Speaker 6: north of the Gaza Strip where there's been intense intense
Speaker 6: combat for weeks now, places like Jabalia and bit Lahia
Speaker 6: and Beate Lahune. It's really not enough. We haven't seen
Speaker 6: a huge jump to the numbers that the United States
Speaker 6: wanted to see, which was around three hundred trucks. Instead
Speaker 6: there's maybe one hundred trucks getting in a day to
Speaker 6: northern Gaza. But nonetheless, it seems that the steps Israel
Speaker 6: took were enough to convince the White House not to
Speaker 6: impose and arms embargo. But the United Nations and a
Speaker 6: lot of the aid organizations say the situation there is
Speaker 6: still so incredibly dire and that Israel really needs to
Speaker 6: do more because there's people that are they're not there's
Speaker 6: not famine, but they are a step away from starvation,
Speaker 6: and there's a lot of food insecurity, people who simply
Speaker 6: can't access food. So the situation in northern Gaza is
Speaker 6: still very very dire, but not bad enough where the
Speaker 6: US is going to take action against Israel.
Speaker 3: Okay and Geordana.
Speaker 1: As far as the AID trucks, you said that like
Speaker 1: one hundred are getting in a day, but they need
Speaker 1: like three times that many at least are the trucks
Speaker 1: just are they lined up and waiting or do they
Speaker 1: just not even head that direction because they don't have
Speaker 1: clear to get those trucks in, you know what I'm.
Speaker 6: Saying, right, So the humanitarian aid issue is a very
Speaker 6: complicated one. I mean, first you have the issue of
Speaker 6: supply getting the trucks into the Gaza Strip, which has
Speaker 6: been a challenge when crossings have been closed or the
Speaker 6: checking process of trucks has taken too long, right because
Speaker 6: there's a checking each truck. But then on the other side,
Speaker 6: once they're in the Gaza Strip, there's a huge problem
Speaker 6: of distribution, safely distributing the aid, getting the aid into
Speaker 6: the hands of people who need it. And at this stage,
Speaker 6: after a year of war, it is a very dangerous
Speaker 6: route from a border into central Gaza and all the
Speaker 6: way up to the north, there's looters, there's hamas is
Speaker 6: taking control of some of the aid. They're siphoning it,
Speaker 6: they're putting it in tunnels, they're creating warehouses and you know,
Speaker 6: putting armed men around the warehouses. So they're siphoning off
Speaker 6: some of it. And then sometimes you know, the UN
Speaker 6: is having problems even staffing people to bring the aid
Speaker 6: through the Gaza Strip because it's so dangerous, because it's
Speaker 6: so dangerous, because it's so dangerous. So Israel did open
Speaker 6: two crossings that for AID to go directly into the north.
Speaker 6: But remember there's intense combat there, right, Israel's been you know,
Speaker 6: for almost a month, a little more than a month,
Speaker 6: Israel relaunched a major ground offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza.
Speaker 6: So it's dangerous there. Yeah, And so it is, it's
Speaker 6: a complicated picture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what you mentioned looters.
Speaker 1: Are the looters Hamas because you mentioned looters and Hamas
Speaker 1: or are the looters just desperate Palestinians trying to get food?
Speaker 6: I mean there's there's really both. I mean Hamas is certainly,
Speaker 6: you know, they're the ones that have the arms, so
Speaker 6: they're the most dangerous looters. But there's other militant groups
Speaker 6: like Palestinian Islamic Jihads that operates in the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 6: There's gangs. Remember there's no real police force now in
Speaker 6: the Gaza Strip, and mainly because the police were affiliated
Speaker 6: and run by Hamas, and so Israel targeted the police
Speaker 6: in their war. Right, So you know, it is it
Speaker 6: is a desperate situation. The people of Gaza have paid
Speaker 6: really the heaviest and most tragic price in this war.
Speaker 6: I mean they have been on the move for a year.
Speaker 6: There's nowhere that's really safe, and they can't get out.
Speaker 6: There's nowhere to go unless you're one of the quote
Speaker 6: unquote lucky gosins. Maybe you have another passport, very few do.
Speaker 6: Maybe someone's sick with cancer and you can after waiting
Speaker 6: for months, you can get out. But otherwise you're trapped.
Speaker 6: You're trapped.
Speaker 1: And I hate to leave it there, but we kind
Speaker 1: of have to leave it there. But gosh, yeah it is.
Speaker 1: It's so sad. So but we'll keep watching it. We'll
Speaker 1: keep getting the information from you, and we appreciate it
Speaker 1: as always. Jordannah Miller in Jerusalem, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Senate
Speaker 1: Republicans are meeting in private to choose the next majority leader,
Speaker 1: who will replace longtime Senate leader Mitch McConnell. South Dakota
Speaker 1: Senator John Thune, Texas Senator John Cornyan, and Florida Senator
Speaker 1: Rick Scott have been scrambling to win the most votes
Speaker 1: in the secret ballot election. Scott's been campaigning outside the Senate.
Speaker 1: Cornyn and Thune have drawn closer to Trump in recent
Speaker 1: months after criticizing him for trying to overturn the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election. President elect TRUMPA has picked Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswami to lead a Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 7: Congress has not created such an office, so it's unclear
Speaker 7: how it would be funded. Elon Musk posting all actions
Speaker 7: of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online
Speaker 7: for maximum transparency. Anytime the public thinks we are cutting
Speaker 7: something important, just let us.
Speaker 3: Know, okay.
Speaker 1: ABC's Christian Cordero says that Trump has already chosen more
Speaker 1: than a dozen appointees to hold key positions in his
Speaker 1: upcoming administration. Trump says the new organization DOGE Department of
Speaker 1: Government Official Efficiency will not be a government agency, but
Speaker 1: an outside group that will offer the White House advice.
Speaker 1: Mammoth Mountain has gotten five inches of fresh snow, just
Speaker 1: in time for ski season that starts on Friday. The
Speaker 1: result the resort rather has also been making snow. They
Speaker 1: used specialized machines that spray a fine mist of water
Speaker 1: into the air and it freezes before it hits the ground.
Speaker 1: Temperatures tonight in the twenties. Leaders with the Council on
Speaker 1: American Islamic Relations have joined defendants and other activists at
Speaker 1: a news conference to call on prosecutors to drop charges
Speaker 1: against fifty people arrested in a crackdown on a pro
Speaker 1: Palestinian encampment at UC Irvine in May. The defense AND's
Speaker 1: are scheduled to be arraigned today in Santa Anna. President
Speaker 1: elect Trump says Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate
Speaker 1: Vivik Ramaswami will lead a new Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 1: Trump said in a statement yesterday that Musk and Ramaswami
Speaker 1: will be working from outside the government to, in his words,
Speaker 1: slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.
Speaker 1: Actor John Krasinski is People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. The Office star and the man behind
Speaker 1: a Quiet Place found out last night on The Late
Speaker 1: Show with Stephen Colbert about the Honor the forty five
Speaker 1: year old joke that he thinks it's going to result
Speaker 1: in him having to do more household chores, but he's
Speaker 1: willing to take the cons with the pros. John Krasinski,
Speaker 1: he's acutie Okay, let's see what I'm on this week.
Speaker 6: Amy's on it, AMI's on it, Amy's.
Speaker 3: On it, Dami's on it.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm on things that are in the stream or
Speaker 1: on the stream, or sometimes they're on the big screen.
Speaker 1: But there's so much content out there. I like to
Speaker 1: absorb as much as I can, take recommendations from friends
Speaker 1: on what to watch, and then share with you to
Speaker 1: see if maybe you can find out about a great
Speaker 1: new show that you hadn't heard about, or maybe a
Speaker 1: show that you missed, or maybe a show that you
Speaker 1: should miss because it's not so good. So this week
Speaker 1: I'm on Slow Horses. It's on Apple TV. Plus there's
Speaker 1: four seasons. The fourth season just dropped in September, and
Speaker 1: the final season or the final episode has already dropped,
Speaker 1: so the whole season is out and it is a
Speaker 1: really good season.
Speaker 3: Four binch.
Speaker 1: So Slow Horses is a show that I was late
Speaker 1: on the late to the game on Like I had
Speaker 1: seen that it was on the on Apple TV. I'd
Speaker 1: scrolled past. I think a couple of people said, oh,
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting, but I didn't hear a lot
Speaker 1: about it, and I even tried to watch it a
Speaker 1: couple of times, like I watched the first episode and
Speaker 1: just kept getting distracted and it just really wasn't excited
Speaker 1: about it, so I kind of went away from it.
Speaker 1: And then, for whatever reason, I don't know, a month
Speaker 1: or two ago, maybe I was out of things to watch,
Speaker 1: I went, oh, maybe I should give that Slow Horses
Speaker 1: another try. And I'm certainly glad that I did. The
Speaker 1: stories based on I five agents in the UK who
Speaker 1: mess up. They don't get kicked out of m I five,
Speaker 1: but they get reassigned to a sort of purgatory within
Speaker 1: the agency. So of course they're the outcasts and the misfits.
Speaker 1: They're treated like crap by both I five and the
Speaker 1: leader of their group, who is played by Gary Oldman,
Speaker 1: who's such a great actor, and his name in the
Speaker 1: show is Jackson Lamb.
Speaker 3: Kristen Stopped Kristin.
Speaker 1: Scott Thomas plays one of the heads of m I five,
Speaker 1: And it's another one of those stories where the characters
Speaker 1: are all super complicated, and of course they've all got
Speaker 1: demons and you can't really tell are they good or
Speaker 1: are they bad because they do bad things and they
Speaker 1: treat people badly. But then there are kind of glimmers
Speaker 1: of goodness that have you rooting for them, Unlike in
Speaker 1: shows like Succession, where they're just bad and you try
Speaker 1: but you can't root for them. There are characters in
Speaker 1: here that have those redeeming qualities. It's dark, lots of violence,
Speaker 1: there's some quirky humor, lots of action, but not so
Speaker 1: much that it's impossible to follow and you feel like
Speaker 1: it's just too much. It's a really good story to telling,
Speaker 1: and once you're hooked, I think you're gonna stay hooked.
Speaker 1: And when you watch it, tell me if you don't
Speaker 1: agree this with this that one of the most disturbing
Speaker 1: things in the show is that Gary Oldman, who is
Speaker 1: a spectacular actor, and I know it's part of his character,
Speaker 1: but he always looks like he needs a shower. It's
Speaker 1: a little distracting, but he does such a great, great show,
Speaker 1: unlike some of the other shows that I've been on.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to say that the fifth season has been confirmed,
Speaker 1: they've already shot it, and ahead of the fifth season premiere,
Speaker 1: it's already been renewed for a sixth season, which will
Speaker 1: be based on the sixth and seventh books in the series.
Speaker 1: This is all based on Books, a spy thriller, and
Speaker 1: I think that you should be on this one too.
Speaker 1: So when you have some time, do a good binge
Speaker 1: or just catch it one episode at a time. It's
Speaker 1: really really cool. Slow horses on Apple TV. I think
Speaker 1: you should be on it. Do I have a congratulation?
Speaker 3: So we do?
Speaker 1: We have a winner for our Chargers tickets. Vincent Munoz
Speaker 1: from Marietta pump to go see the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Are not the Dodgers. I think Bill. I think Bill
Speaker 3: said the Dodgers yesterday. Go Chargers.
Speaker 1: Right, We're pumped to see the Chargers at SOFI Stadium
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Congratulations, Vincent. Okay, let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. Oh and I'm happy to tell you that
Speaker 1: Cono is in the house. Do you have a new
Speaker 1: tire on? Do you have a replacement tyron? Replaced so
Speaker 1: you could only go like forty five miles an hour driving?
Speaker 3: No, because I don't even remember I did this before.
Speaker 3: I have popped a tire, so I have an old rim. Oh,
Speaker 3: so I have a tire.
Speaker 1: Oh, a real tire so you could speed? Okay, well
Speaker 1: we're happy that you're here. Maybe we can get back
Speaker 1: to some normalcy. All right, let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom.
Speaker 3: Dodger's picture.
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzuela's death certificate shows that he died of septic shock.
Speaker 1: Secondary causes listed as two types of cirrhosis, and the
Speaker 1: document shows a significant condition contributing to Valenzuela's death was
Speaker 1: probably a rapidly progressive brain disorder. Valenzuela died on October
Speaker 1: twenty second, at the age of sixty three. No cause
Speaker 1: of death was given at the time. President Biden has
Speaker 1: met with Israel's president at the White House and has
Speaker 1: reaffirmed the US's support of Israel. Present and Herzog said
Speaker 1: the meeting was productive and that Biden is committing to
Speaker 1: working until his last minute in office to ensure the
Speaker 1: security of Israel. Oakland's efforts to rename its airport to
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport suffered a setback.
Speaker 1: A federal judge has granted the City of San Francisco's injunction,
Speaker 1: saying that the new name the airport started using a
Speaker 1: few months ago would cause irreparable harm to San Francisco's airport.
Speaker 1: Oakland Airport officials for now can't use the new name
Speaker 1: in any promotions or advertisements. They have vowed to keep
Speaker 1: fighting to use the name. Okay, So I got to
Speaker 1: tell you a little story. The other day, Shannon was
Speaker 1: running up and down the hallways and she said, I
Speaker 1: think I need a diet coke and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want one too, and so she said, I'll get
Speaker 1: you one. So Shannon Farrin very generously went and bought
Speaker 1: me a diet coke and dropped it off and I
Speaker 1: tasted it, and I went, ew, that tastes weird. And
Speaker 1: I'm a huge diet coke fan. Not as big as
Speaker 1: Bill Handle, but I'm a huge diet coke fan. And
Speaker 1: so I was like, why does it taste weird? And
Speaker 1: then I started thinking it tastes different when it's in
Speaker 1: a can. So we thought we'd get a little pole
Speaker 1: go and see what you guys think. Nick Pouliochana, we're
Speaker 1: gonna pull internally first and then we'll go out to
Speaker 1: the world. What do you think cans or plastic bottles?
Speaker 5: What tastes so I like, we talked about so cans
Speaker 5: one hundred percent, unless it's a glass bottle.
Speaker 1: Okay, but those are really hard to find, okay. So
Speaker 1: so if it's cans or bottles, can can can correct okay,
Speaker 1: and can or bottle one can. But if I'm desperate enough,
Speaker 1: I'll take the bottle. Exactly. In desperation, you'll take whatever
Speaker 1: you can. Kno, Are you a diet coke person? Absolutely not, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're not You're not included in this. So we
Speaker 1: put the pole up on Instagram at Amy K King
Speaker 1: at Emmy K King did a little snappole and asked
Speaker 1: is diet coke better in a can or a bottle?
Speaker 1: Can's rule seventy nine percent to twenty one percent over
Speaker 1: the plastic bottles, although I did get several messages from
Speaker 1: people on Instagram saying bottles are better the glass bottles,
Speaker 1: but they don't have those or they're very hard to
Speaker 1: come by. So then I thought, why don't they do
Speaker 1: aluminum bottles because then you'd still get the really good taste,
Speaker 1: but it'd be easy to transport. I hope the diet
Speaker 1: coke people are listening. But can's rule, that's what we
Speaker 1: have determined. La Mayor Bass is working to fast track
Speaker 1: a sanctuary city ordinance. Bass says she met with the
Speaker 1: city attorney and we'll get the ordinance before the La
Speaker 1: City Council as soon as possible. The mayor says there are,
Speaker 1: in her words, growing threats to the immigrant communities here
Speaker 1: in La. President elect Trump has promised to deport people
Speaker 1: who are in the country illegally. A Massachusetts Air National
Speaker 1: Guard member it's been sense to fifteen years in prison
Speaker 1: for leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Jack Deschera pleaded guilty earlier this year to six counts
Speaker 1: of violating the Espionage Act. He apologized in court shortly
Speaker 1: before he was sentenced. Yesterday. In Boston, a federal appeals
Speaker 1: court has halted work on more than one hundred temporary
Speaker 1: housing units on Veterans Affairs property near the UCLA Baseball
Speaker 1: Stadium on again is on VA property. The temporary stay
Speaker 1: stops the placement of modular housing for homeless vets in
Speaker 1: the stadium's parking lot. The construction was ordered last month
Speaker 1: by US District Judge David O.
Speaker 3: Carter.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Shannon Kingston. Shannon, this
Speaker 1: is just crazy. Airlines being fired on by gangs in Haiti.
Speaker 1: What is the US doing to hopefully keep Americans safe?
Speaker 2: Good morning, Amy, Yes, it is crazy. Indeed, while after
Speaker 2: we saw images of bullet holes that were visible inside
Speaker 2: the cabin of a Spirit Airline flight that was forced
Speaker 2: to divert after trying to land in port of Prints,
Speaker 2: the FAA is now banning US commercial airlines from flying
Speaker 2: in or out of Haiti for at least the next
Speaker 2: thirty days. We also know that an American Airlines flight
Speaker 2: and a Jet Blue flight were hit in recent days
Speaker 2: by bullets in Haiti. Now that damage was discovered after
Speaker 2: those flights landed.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so they made it down. How close was
Speaker 1: the Spirit Airlines Jet two landing.
Speaker 2: Well, we know that it was approaching the airport. It
Speaker 2: was just really a couple hundred feet above the ground.
Speaker 2: And that is the danger zone as flights are coming
Speaker 2: into the tarmac there and they can be struck by
Speaker 2: these smaller arms. But this isn't the only incident, of course,
Speaker 2: or these I should say, these multiple incidents with commercial airlines.
Speaker 2: That's not the only thing that's happened. Un flights were
Speaker 2: hit in the end of October, and now that the
Speaker 2: airport has been forced to shut down for at least
Speaker 2: until next Monday. The flow of aid and aid worker
Speaker 2: personnel coming into the country has been completely stymied as well.
Speaker 1: Wow, and that's going to be bad, because Haiti is
Speaker 1: a mess right now, right like the absolutely right they
Speaker 1: had not only do they have gangs overrunning the government,
Speaker 1: but they had that earthquake and then they had some
Speaker 1: severe storms.
Speaker 3: They've just been pounded.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 2: The political turmoil has been going on for years. The
Speaker 2: country has not had an elected president since the last
Speaker 2: president was assassinated in twenty twenty one, and that really
Speaker 2: led to the rise of gangs that have really taken
Speaker 2: control of the country. So what we're seeing now the
Speaker 2: attempts to shut down the airport here, the flights in
Speaker 2: and out of the country. Really that's the gangs kind
Speaker 2: of flexing their muscle. The US has been trying to
Speaker 2: address the incident. The UN as well has been working
Speaker 2: to address the violence. They've launched a Multinational Security Task Force.
Speaker 2: It's headed up by Kenya. But really, you know, that's
Speaker 2: been in place for over a year. It's been slow
Speaker 2: to get going, and progress has been even slower, And.
Speaker 3: Does Haiti have a military.
Speaker 2: Really, what they're relying on is a Haitian National Police
Speaker 2: Force in conjunction with this multinational security force. They're the
Speaker 2: ones charged with restoring order and trying to combat the gangs.
Speaker 2: But these gangs are very heavily armed, and according to
Speaker 2: the UN, they're in control of about eighty five percent
Speaker 2: of the capital. So you can see it is clearly
Speaker 2: a real fight between these two entities.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then I would imagine because they've stopped the flights,
Speaker 1: there are going to be some US citizens who are
Speaker 1: there who are stranded right now.
Speaker 3: Are is the US doing anything to help keep them safe?
Speaker 2: That's right. The State Department does classify Haiti as a
Speaker 2: Level four country, meaning do not travel, but Americans are
Speaker 2: never banned by the US government from traveling really anywhere,
Speaker 2: so we do know there are hundreds of not thousands,
Speaker 2: of US citizens in Haiti right now. What the State
Speaker 2: Department is telling them to do is to get in
Speaker 2: contact with the US Embassy import of prints now. Even
Speaker 2: if they don't have an immediate need or immediate desire
Speaker 2: to leave the country, what they want to do is
Speaker 2: just try to keep tabs on them a bit and
Speaker 2: kind of gods demand for alternate routes out of the country,
Speaker 2: because as we can see, it's already poised. There's very
Speaker 2: few safe options to leave Haiti, and it seems that
Speaker 2: there's bound to be even fewer in the days and
Speaker 2: weeks ahead.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then so you were mentioning that there's no ban,
Speaker 1: but so there's not like tourists going to Haiti right now.
Speaker 2: Or are there if there are, there are very few tourists,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure there are, you know, perhaps a handful
Speaker 2: of people visiting there for those kinds of purposes. But
Speaker 2: really we're talking about there's a lot of missions to Haiti.
Speaker 2: People of course, have family members. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of dual citizens who you know, need to go back
Speaker 2: to the country for various reasons. So those really that's
Speaker 2: the bulk of the Americans of the country.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Shannon Kingston with ABC with the State Department correspondent, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: It is crazy, like firing at airplanes. Can you imagine that,
Speaker 1: like if that was happening at Lax craziness. We're just
Speaker 1: minutes away from handle on the news, you know, President Elect.
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to get the President elect from the
Speaker 1: former president or president and getting his terminology right. But
Speaker 1: President elect Trump is headed to the White House to
Speaker 1: meet with the current president President. It's they're going to
Speaker 1: sit down and talk policy as they talk about the
Speaker 1: transition of power. Bill's going to be talking about that.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A guy who
Speaker 1: tried to fraudulently sell an Andy Warhol is headed to
Speaker 1: federal prison.
Speaker 5: Warhol depicted former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin the piece in question,
Speaker 5: number forty four of only forty six prints, with an
Speaker 5: estimated value of one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: Prosecutors say Brian Light knew it was stolen from a
Speaker 5: home in la when a pawnshop called on him to
Speaker 5: help sell it. He had it shipped to an auction
Speaker 5: house in Dallas, which contacted the original gallery in West Hollywood,
Speaker 5: ultimately leading to the police being involved. Like pleaded guilty
Speaker 5: in federal court to interstate transportation of stolen goods. He
Speaker 5: faces ten years in prison. Michael Monks KFI News.
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Speaker 4: When President Biden and President Elect Trump sit down side
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Speaker 1: a peaceful transition looks like. Trump did not host Biden
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