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Speaker 1: wake up call for Monday, September thirtieth, last day of September.
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Speaker 1: Went over the edge on Friday, fundraiser for Union Rescue Mission.
Speaker 3: It was a drop so nice.
Speaker 1: I did it twice. I'll tell you about that coming
Speaker 1: up in a little bit.
Speaker 3: The second time. I took a friend with me.
Speaker 1: Also, we're gonna be telling you kind of rehash what
Speaker 1: happened and say right now, thank you, think you, think you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you to anyone who donated.
Speaker 3: We're still taking donations.
Speaker 1: And we're getting really, really, really close to our goal. Also,
Speaker 1: our friend Colonel Nickhaigu, who we've talked to on Wakeup
Speaker 1: Called several times, has begun his six month mission at
Speaker 1: the International Space Station. He launched from Cape Canaveral on
Speaker 1: Saturday and has now arrived at the space station.
Speaker 3: Here's what's ahead on wakeup call.
Speaker 1: The fire burning and the San Bernardino Mountains has flared up,
Speaker 1: forcing new evacuations. The fire was burning toward seven Oaks
Speaker 1: and mandatory evacuations were ordered late yesterday afternoon. Angelus Oaks,
Speaker 1: about ten miles away, is under an evacuation warning. Israel
Speaker 1: says it has killed a second Hesbal law leader as
Speaker 1: it continues to pound Lebanon. The IDF posted on social
Speaker 1: media that Nabille Coupe was directly engaged in terrorist attacks.
Speaker 1: Haug's death comes two days after IDF airstrikes killed Hezbollah
Speaker 1: leader Hassan Nozralla. We're going to get the latest on
Speaker 1: that with ABC's Jordana Miller. That's coming up in less
Speaker 1: than five minutes. Vice President Harris had some star power
Speaker 1: on hand for a fundraiser in la and raked in
Speaker 1: the cash. She raised twenty eight million dollars at the
Speaker 1: event in downtown yesterday. Elenis Morrissett halle Berry performed at
Speaker 1: the fundraiser, in which tickets went for between five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars and just under a million dollars. The people who
Speaker 1: paid the most were listed as event chairs and got
Speaker 1: to be at a reception with Harris and apparently some
Speaker 1: other perks as well. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Officials in North Carolina are working to get water and
Speaker 1: other supplies to areas devastated by what was Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 1: The storm left a trail of destruction across the Southeast,
Speaker 1: killing more than ninety people across several states. Millions of
Speaker 1: people are still without power. A county manager in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: April Pinder, says officials are doing what they can to
Speaker 1: get help to where it's needed.
Speaker 3: We need food and we need water. My staff has
Speaker 3: been making every request possible to the state for support,
Speaker 3: and we've been working with every single organization that has
Speaker 3: reached out.
Speaker 1: A lot of areas that are left isolated by floodwaters.
Speaker 1: Forecasters say a new tropical depression in the eastern Atlantic
Speaker 1: could become a hurricane by the middle of the week.
Speaker 1: President Biden is set to visit the Southeast this week.
Speaker 1: In a statement yesterday, the White House said Biden intends
Speaker 1: to travel to the hurricane impacted areas, but will do
Speaker 1: so when it will not disrupt emergency operations. A California
Speaker 1: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection employee charged with starting
Speaker 1: five brushfires in northern California spent months as an inmate firefighter.
Speaker 1: He had been convicted of causing a fatal crash in
Speaker 1: San Bernardino in twenty sixteen while he drove intoxicated. Robert
Speaker 1: Hernandez was arrested just over a week ago for allegedly
Speaker 1: starting the fires. He worked as an apparatus engineer, operating
Speaker 1: and maintaining fire engines and water tanks during emergency responses.
Speaker 4: Four three two one, big technical power and with.
Speaker 2: Crude eye.
Speaker 1: SpaceX has sent a rocket into space that will be
Speaker 1: the ride home for two astronauts stuck on the International
Speaker 1: Space Station since June. The Dragon capsule docked at the
Speaker 1: space station yesterday, carrying NASA's Colonel Nick Haig and Russian
Speaker 1: astronaut Alexander Gerbonov. Haig said before the launch that they
Speaker 1: were going up with two empty seats for Butch Willmore
Speaker 1: and Sunny Williams.
Speaker 5: We've been on orbit months already, and one of the
Speaker 5: biggest challenges ahead for Alex and I. One of the
Speaker 5: most exciting aspects is how are we going to integrate
Speaker 5: into their crew.
Speaker 1: The Dragon Capsule is set to return to Earth early
Speaker 1: next year. Wilmore and Williams went to space on the
Speaker 1: Boeing Starliner, but couldn't return on the craft because of
Speaker 1: thruster failures and helium leaks. La County has taking a
Speaker 1: step toward removing illegal cannabis dispensaries from online search engines.
Speaker 6: The Pew Research Center says there are more than fifteen
Speaker 6: hundred cannabis dispensaries in La County, about ten percent of
Speaker 6: all of them in the US, but the state's Department
Speaker 6: of Cannabis Control reports only three hundred and eighty four
Speaker 6: dispensaries in the county are legally licensed. The La County
Speaker 6: Board of Supervisors voted last week they have county attorneys
Speaker 6: report back with info on whether it's possible to have
Speaker 6: the illegal ones taken off search engines. The motion says
Speaker 6: the county once Google, YELP and others to remove the
Speaker 6: illegal dispensaries because their product isn't regulated and they don't
Speaker 6: pay taxes. In downtown La Michael monks Kfi News.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump has criticized Vice President Harrison immigration while
Speaker 1: at a rally in Pennsylvania. He told supporters yesterday, the
Speaker 1: policies of the Biden Harris administration have left thousands of
Speaker 1: terror have let thousands of terrorists into the country.
Speaker 7: You know, I had one year where border patrol said
Speaker 7: no terrorists came in. I had another year where they
Speaker 7: said eleven came in. Thousands of terrorsts are pouring into
Speaker 7: our country now.
Speaker 1: He says the border was much more secure when he
Speaker 1: was President. Drum's comments followed Vice President Harris's visit to
Speaker 1: the border in Arizona. She says she will reform America's
Speaker 1: border security with common sense approaches.
Speaker 3: It's five oh seven on your Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Wake up call at say good morning to ABC's Georgia
Speaker 1: or Jordanah Miller in Jerusalem, Jordana. The Israeli military is
Speaker 1: not letting up on the gas at all. Just two
Speaker 1: days after they took out the leader of Hesbalah in
Speaker 1: an air strike, they struck again.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 4: It has been uh, you know, incredibly fast paced weekend
Speaker 4: from the assassination of a lead long time later three
Speaker 4: years half in Estralla to carrying out widespread and in
Speaker 4: ten strikes on the Uti rebels in Yemen. That's almost
Speaker 4: one thousand miles away from Israel's border, but we saw
Speaker 4: dozens of fighter jets taking part in that. Remember, Israel
Speaker 4: had a score to settle with the UTIs. They've been
Speaker 4: firing really since October on Israeli cities on cargo shipping
Speaker 4: in the Red Sea, sometimes killing people, doing damage to
Speaker 4: those shipping those cargo shipping lanes. And recently three of
Speaker 4: their missiles made it through Israel's air defense systems and
Speaker 4: crashed down in Israel, and there was a drone that
Speaker 4: hit and killed one Israeli. So Israel had vowed to
Speaker 4: respond to the Jutis, and this is it. They went
Speaker 4: and carried out bombing raids on the port, but the
Speaker 4: Huts used to get their weapons from Iran, and they
Speaker 4: carried out strikes on some fuel depots and power grids,
Speaker 4: and you know, by all measures, this was really an
Speaker 4: impressive operation given that, you know, again it is very
Speaker 4: far from Israel's borders, and I think that was the
Speaker 4: message that Israeli leaders and not only the Prime Minister
Speaker 4: but also the Defense minister. You know, they wanted to
Speaker 4: send veiled messages really to Iran that you know, wherever
Speaker 4: you are, if you're enemy, we can reach you and
Speaker 4: strike you. And that that was a message I think
Speaker 4: that that the leaders were making towards Iran as Iran
Speaker 4: vows to avenge some of their military leaders that were
Speaker 4: killed when Hastin Nosrala was taken out over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was just going to ask you what is
Speaker 1: the response from Iran, Ben, because I think that Israel
Speaker 1: has shown several times over the last few months that
Speaker 1: they can go in and almost precision target certain people.
Speaker 1: They've you know, they've done that in Beirut, they did it.
Speaker 4: With the turned Damascus, they did it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Iran is saying, hey, watch out, We're going
Speaker 1: to retaliate, but they're being kind of vague.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean, Iran is saying, you know, the assassination
Speaker 4: of the Sorella won't go unanswered, and the killing of
Speaker 4: some of their top commanders in that same strike, you know,
Speaker 4: will they will respond to it. But Iran been very
Speaker 4: careful not to telegraph or announce that they're going to
Speaker 4: do a direct strike on Israel. I think there's debate
Speaker 4: inside Iran's top leadership about what to do next. Right,
Speaker 4: that huge attack on Israel and April was a major,
Speaker 4: major failure. Israel and the Allies shot down most of
Speaker 4: those missiles and UH cruise missiles and drones, and so
Speaker 4: I don't think Iran's gonna do a repeat of that.
Speaker 4: But clearly this is another major setback for Iran. UH.
Speaker 4: You know, after Israel assassinated a small honeya UH in Tehran.
Speaker 4: Although they didn't claim that strike, it's clear they were
Speaker 4: behind it.
Speaker 1: UH.
Speaker 4: And now they've dealt major blows to Hasbala, which is
Speaker 4: supported and funded by Iran. I mean, this is their
Speaker 4: terrorist proxy, if you will, in Lebanon. They've invested billions
Speaker 4: and they've seen their proxy suffer major defeats in the
Speaker 4: last two weeks. Now it has has Balah been you know,
Speaker 4: has has Bala been defanged entirely. No, they still have
Speaker 4: lots of capabilities and Israel's been clear to say that
Speaker 4: and they're going to continue striking has Bala. But Iran
Speaker 4: I think it's trying to figure out exactly how it's
Speaker 4: going to respond given you know, the threats, and clearly
Speaker 4: the Iranians are nervous that if they do something big,
Speaker 4: that Israel will carry out strikes on Iranian soil.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that is still being talked
Speaker 1: about Jordana is that a senior US official is saying
Speaker 1: that Israel is getting ready for a ground encourasion into Lebanon.
Speaker 1: So what would the goal of being of putting troops
Speaker 1: across the border be. It wouldn't be to keep and
Speaker 1: occupy that territory or anything, right, Well, it's.
Speaker 4: Unclear, and I think that's a good question. First of all,
Speaker 4: it is very clear that the Israelis are getting ready
Speaker 4: for a ground operation in southern Lebanon. They're talking about it,
Speaker 4: They're openly talking about it, and so it is clearly
Speaker 4: now you know, one of the options that Israel could
Speaker 4: move on in the coming days, we could see them
Speaker 4: move into southern Lebanon. We know from US and Israeli
Speaker 4: sources that already ground for special operations. Small units are
Speaker 4: going back and forth over the border into Lebanon doing
Speaker 4: reconnaissance and other operations there. Because Hasbullah abandoned the area
Speaker 4: right along the border, They've moved out a few kilometers,
Speaker 4: so Israel appears to be clearing out the area right
Speaker 4: around the border for a possible incursion being would be
Speaker 4: of course, and it's not sure, We're not clear how long.
Speaker 4: But Israel wants to go in and clear out for
Speaker 4: up to ten miles on the other side of the border.
Speaker 4: They want to destroy Hasbula's military assets there, the rocket launchers,
Speaker 4: the weapons, you know, the bunkers, the watch towers. They
Speaker 4: want to just destroy all of the military infrastructure that
Speaker 4: Hesbala has spent more than a decade building up in
Speaker 4: southern Lebanon and often around villages and inside villages, inside home.
Speaker 3: So just basically creating a buffer.
Speaker 4: Zone, right right, Well, we're not clear if Israel would
Speaker 4: hold on to a buffer zone temporarily or permanently. It
Speaker 4: is one of the options because Israel, of course wants
Speaker 4: to make sure that Habela doesn't come back in and
Speaker 4: pose a threat to its northern residence. Right, so holding
Speaker 4: a buffer security buffer is likely, you know, one of
Speaker 4: the plans, but we don't know how wide or how
Speaker 4: long they.
Speaker 5: Would hold that buffer for.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we will be watching Jonona Miller in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the update. As always, we
Speaker 1: appreciated a ton.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills police say the fatal stabbing of a man witnesses
Speaker 1: say was being aggressive and tried to grab a toddler
Speaker 1: was done in self defense. A guy who tried to
Speaker 1: help Saturday says the attacker had an empty look on
Speaker 1: his face and was clearly having a psychotic break or
Speaker 1: drug reaction. The father who was confronted got into a
Speaker 1: fight with the man and ended up stabbing him. A
Speaker 1: man's behind bars on suspicion of stabbing his girlfriend to
Speaker 1: death at a home in Simi Valley, Lease, thirty four
Speaker 1: year old Raymond Revas stabbed his girlfriend in the face, chest,
Speaker 1: and abdomen Friday night in front of her five children.
Speaker 3: He was arrested. He was on.
Speaker 1: Post release community supervision at the time of the murder.
Speaker 1: That means he's also accused of violating the terms of
Speaker 1: his probation. Revs is expected in court tomorrow. A chaotic
Speaker 1: scene unfolded in San Bernardino late Saturday night after a
Speaker 1: street takeover ended with a crash. Video footage shows a
Speaker 1: pickup truck colliding with a tree. Police arrested two men.
Speaker 1: Several others were taken to hospitals. Further details about the
Speaker 1: street takeover, including the number of cars involved and the
Speaker 1: cause of the crash, have not yet been released.
Speaker 7: I've seen the Morning, Burning Gold and all the Mountain the.
Speaker 1: Sky singer songwriter Chris Christopherson has died. A family spokeswoman
Speaker 1: says Christopherson died Saturday at his home in Hawaii. He
Speaker 1: was known for his country music, but also for acting.
Speaker 1: He played the leading Mansite opposite Barbara streisand in A
Speaker 1: Star Is Born and Ellen Burnston and Alice Doesn't Live
Speaker 1: Here Anymore. He also did shootout westerns and cowboy dramas,
Speaker 1: and was a Rhodes scholar who knew Chris Christopherson was
Speaker 1: eighty eight. About fifty first responders from Orange County Fire
Speaker 1: Authority have traveled to North Carolina to assist with Hurricane
Speaker 1: Helene relief efforts. The team's going to be doing search
Speaker 1: and rescue, urban searches and evacuations. We're going to be
Speaker 1: talking with ABC's Jim Ryan in just a second get
Speaker 1: the latest on relief and rescue efforts. A security guard
Speaker 1: on a Metrolink train has been stabbed. It happened last night,
Speaker 1: just before ten, as a train was rolling into the
Speaker 1: Vincent Grade Station and Act in Palmdale. Police say the
Speaker 1: guard was able to subdue the stabber until police got
Speaker 1: there and took the guy into custody.
Speaker 3: The guard's conditions not known. Train service was interrupted for
Speaker 3: about an hour.
Speaker 1: NASA commander Nick Haig and his Russian cosmonaut colleague have
Speaker 1: begun their six month mission on board the International Space
Speaker 1: Station following a successful SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral's Saturday.
Speaker 1: Two other astronauts got bumped from the trip to make
Speaker 1: room for Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore to come back
Speaker 1: with them. In February, of course, their ride, the Boeing Starliner,
Speaker 1: came back to Earth with no crew on board because
Speaker 1: of some safety concerns with the capsule. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, the storm has passed,
Speaker 1: but the effects of the storm remain.
Speaker 9: Yes. In fact, I just looked at the National Hurricane
Speaker 9: Center map and Holleen doesn't show up there at all.
Speaker 9: That means it's fizzled out to nothing, essentially, kind of
Speaker 9: a low pressure zone and that's it. But we're also
Speaker 9: watching a couple of other disturbances out there in the
Speaker 9: in the Caribbean. That's where there's a a has a
Speaker 9: chance of growing into the next tropical storm and moving
Speaker 9: into the Gulf. There's one called a tropical depression out there.
Speaker 9: Joyce is the name of that one, and then one
Speaker 9: that only has a number at this point. So suddenly
Speaker 9: the tropics have gotten very, very active and the Atlantic
Speaker 9: is beginning to roil up some of these big storms.
Speaker 3: When is what is the dates of hurricane season?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 3: I can't remember. It's like August Law generally.
Speaker 9: Goes to November one, So yeah, it starts in the summer,
Speaker 9: it goes all the way to November first, But there's
Speaker 9: nothing to say. And I've covered hurricanes that came closer
Speaker 9: to Christmas than to November first. It's that's kind of
Speaker 9: the bracket that the National Hurricane Center puts around it.
Speaker 1: And this year there was a lot of talk that
Speaker 1: it was going to be an incredibly active storm season.
Speaker 1: Has it been so far, because if we're just up
Speaker 1: to j now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you're right. And the last year, I think
Speaker 9: maybe the year before we ran out of letters, right,
Speaker 9: they had to go to I think the Greek alphabet
Speaker 9: or something. But so we are we're kind of at
Speaker 9: the middle of the alphabet if you gauge the number
Speaker 9: of storms by that system of numbering them. But you know,
Speaker 9: we had that month long lull too where nothing was
Speaker 9: happening out there, and now suddenly it's gotten really active again.
Speaker 9: So yeah, this was predicted to be a historically busy
Speaker 9: and active Atlantic hurricane season and now it's kind of
Speaker 9: shaping up that way. If you like, at the map
Speaker 9: right now, with one, two, three, five different areas on
Speaker 9: this big map of the whole Atlantic.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's go back to Helene. We know that, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: dozens of people have been killed. I'm seeing numbers as
Speaker 1: high as like one sixteen. That's not official yet that
Speaker 1: we know of. What are the fatalities from.
Speaker 9: Well, in many of the cases, you get flooding rains
Speaker 9: coming in that weakens the root system of even healthy trees.
Speaker 9: Trees fall, and people die in many cases from that
Speaker 9: from trees falling on their homes around them. We're going
Speaker 9: to have drowning fatalities, especially in a place like Ashville,
Speaker 9: which now is underwater. Essentially a beautiful town. You know,
Speaker 9: it's the city, it's almost ninety one ninety two thousand
Speaker 9: people and it's more or less underwater, so those drowning
Speaker 9: fatalities are happening there. But the longer we go without electricity,
Speaker 9: the longer and the greater the damage or danger from
Speaker 9: dying from carbon monoxide poisoning because you're using a generator
Speaker 9: or electrical equipment that powers people's medical supply start to
Speaker 9: run out, medical devices, they start to die, and so
Speaker 9: you know, that's why job number one is trying to
Speaker 9: get the power back on. And if you look right now,
Speaker 9: there are still one hundred and thirty thousand people in
Speaker 9: Florida without electricity. Florida was the point of landfall, but
Speaker 9: the worst of the damage has been done to the
Speaker 9: north of there, Georgia, the Carolinas. In North Carolina, five
Speaker 9: hundred thousand homes and businesses are without power, seven hundred
Speaker 9: and fifty thousand in South Carolina. So getting that power
Speaker 9: back on is really key to starting a recovery process.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've seen several interviews Jim with people over
Speaker 1: the weekend as I was watching news shows and stuff.
Speaker 1: They were saying and they were in the storm's path,
Speaker 1: but they said they were caught off Guard and didn't
Speaker 1: think that the storm would hit them that hard. I mean,
Speaker 1: what else could officials have done. They said, get the
Speaker 1: heck out go now.
Speaker 9: Well they did, and you know Florida, they absolutely evacuation
Speaker 9: orders were posted and people were heating those evacuations. But Asheville,
Speaker 9: North Carolina, is three hundred miles away from the nearest shoreline,
Speaker 9: three hundred miles and so living that far inland, people think,
Speaker 9: and there's no way I'm going to get any damage
Speaker 9: or feel the effects of hurricane or tropical storm Halllene.
Speaker 9: Remember that they'd already had a lot of rain in
Speaker 9: that area before, and so it didn't take much to
Speaker 9: tip the scale. And when Helene comes in with ten
Speaker 9: or twelve inches of rain added on to what was
Speaker 9: already happening out there in the mountains, you get this
Speaker 9: flooding effect. So I think you're right. I think it
Speaker 9: was an effect of people not simply believing that they
Speaker 9: could be impacted by this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a good friend who is in just outside
Speaker 1: of Greenville, South Carolina, and they said that they were
Speaker 1: in the eye for a while and it had diminished
Speaker 1: it was tropical storm at that point, but still they
Speaker 1: they're way inland and they ended up in the eye
Speaker 1: of the storm. They lost some pretty big, big, huge
Speaker 1: trees on their property, but otherwise they lucked out.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well right, and you just don't think about that
Speaker 9: about especially from a Gulf hurricane. Maybe that was why
Speaker 9: people were in a little complacent maybe up there in
Speaker 9: the Carolinas. If you have a hurricane coming in from
Speaker 9: the Atlantics, coming straight in to the west from the Atlantic,
Speaker 9: sure you can anticipate some damage or some deaths. But
Speaker 9: this one came up from the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds
Speaker 9: and hundreds of miles away. The power outages extend from
Speaker 9: the southern tip of Florida all the way up to Ohio.
Speaker 9: That's what eight hundred miles. So a large and very
Speaker 9: damaging storm.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the big thing now is getting that power
Speaker 1: back on. It's like two million people are still in.
Speaker 9: The dark, correct, about two million right now? And look
Speaker 9: at the bout getting supplies out there, and in many
Speaker 9: cases that has to be done by helicopter because these
Speaker 9: areas are caught off physically, the roads and bridges have
Speaker 9: been washed away, and you also have no cell service,
Speaker 9: internet service. So for right now, I mean the number
Speaker 9: of people unaccounted for is still quite high, but simply
Speaker 9: because they can't be reached right and once once cell
Speaker 9: service is restored, once people have power back on, then
Speaker 9: they'll be able to check in with their friends or
Speaker 9: with the Red Cross or whoever, and those numbers will
Speaker 9: begin to fall. But unfortunently, we probably will have more fatalities,
Speaker 9: all right.
Speaker 3: And as the cleanup continues, we're going to keep our
Speaker 3: eyes on.
Speaker 9: Choice, yep, choice out there.
Speaker 3: ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much, appreciated as always,
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy, all right.
Speaker 1: New mandatory evacuations have been ordered in the San Bernardino
Speaker 1: Mountains because of a wildfire flare up. The community of
Speaker 1: Seven Oaks is now being threatened by the fire that
Speaker 1: has burned more than forty thousand acres since September fifth.
Speaker 1: The fire is more than eighty percent surrounded, but fire
Speaker 1: activity picked up in two areas over the weekend, and
Speaker 1: evacuation warning has been issued for Angelus Oaks and the
Speaker 1: Boulder Bay area of Big Bear as well. Night flying
Speaker 1: helicopters were working in an area west of Seven Oaks
Speaker 1: last night but had to stop because of poor visibility.
Speaker 1: A lawyer in Houston, Texas says his firm is representing
Speaker 1: more than one hundred people who claim they were sexually
Speaker 1: assaulted and abused by Sean Combs. Attorney Tony Busby says
Speaker 1: some of his clients were miners at the time of
Speaker 1: the assaults. Combs was arrested two weeks ago following a
Speaker 1: federal indictment for racketeering and sex trafficking.
Speaker 3: He's still in custody. He has pleaded not guilty.
Speaker 1: Sunday has marked the end of an era for a
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball team in California.
Speaker 10: Ball club named Oakland Athletics is officially no more. They
Speaker 10: closed out on the road beating the Seattle Mariners in
Speaker 10: their season finale. Now, when the twenty twenty five MLB
Speaker 10: season begins, the A's will still exist, but the name
Speaker 10: Oakland will no longer be there. A's manager Mark Cottsey
Speaker 10: says that his jersey is going to the Baseball Hall
Speaker 10: of Fame. The A's played their final home game in
Speaker 10: Oakland on Thursday, where Kotze gave an emotional final speech.
Speaker 2: This is where home began, and this is hopefully where
Speaker 2: home finishes.
Speaker 3: Could be more proud to represent this organization.
Speaker 10: Next season will be played in Sacramento. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: The A's new ballpark is supposed to be ready to
Speaker 1: go in Las Vegas in twenty twenty eight when we
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 3: I know we talked about it a lot.
Speaker 1: Long Beach police are on high alert following four stabbings
Speaker 1: in twelve hours. The first happens Saturday night along pch
Speaker 1: during a fight between a group of people. Two more
Speaker 1: stabbing happened a couple hours later, within thirty minutes of
Speaker 1: each other. The last one happened early yesterday at the
Speaker 1: same place as one of the other stabbings, but apparently
Speaker 1: it wasn't related. Patrols have been increased in the areas
Speaker 1: in response. The death toll from Hurricane Helene is up
Speaker 1: around one hundred across four states. North Carolina has been
Speaker 1: one of the hardest hit areas, with officials calling the
Speaker 1: destruction of biblical proportions. In the city of Ashville, homes
Speaker 1: and buildings have been flattened, roads have been washed away,
Speaker 1: and much of the cities without power. Food and water
Speaker 1: is being shipped in, and power crews are working around
Speaker 1: the clock to get the power back on. Back to
Speaker 1: back earthquakes have rattled the Southland. The US Geological Survey
Speaker 1: says a three point two magnitude quake hit off the
Speaker 1: coast of Malibu shortly after two point thirty on Saturday,
Speaker 1: followed by another three point two a half hour later
Speaker 1: between Fontana and Rancho kukamonga. Time's running out. It could
Speaker 1: be a major port strike coming up this week. That's
Speaker 1: coming up at six oh five with Handle on the news,
Speaker 1: and at five point fifty, we're gonna dig.
Speaker 3: A little deeper into our buddy, Colonel.
Speaker 1: Nick Haig, who is a Space Force Guardian and now
Speaker 1: the commander of a mission to the International Space Station
Speaker 1: and it's going to be spending the next six months
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 3: We've talked to him several times.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a little look back at some
Speaker 1: of the conversations that we've had with him, because it's
Speaker 1: quite a fascinating journey. As you know, I went over
Speaker 1: the edge on Friday to raise money for the Union
Speaker 1: Rescue mission, and I'm right out of the gate just
Speaker 1: want to say thank you, thank you, thank you to
Speaker 1: anybody who donated. We so so so appreciate your your
Speaker 1: efforts and we know that this is your hard earned
Speaker 1: money and you're choosing to trust us that we're giving
Speaker 1: you good information, that this is a good organization to
Speaker 1: donate to. And I'm telling you that people at Union
Speaker 1: Rescue Mission are actually made a difference. And so thank
Speaker 1: you so much for your donations. We so appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Neil Sevadra and I both went over, and I haven't
Speaker 1: talked to Neil since then, but I hear that he
Speaker 1: said it was fun, but he's a one and done
Speaker 1: and he doesn't plan on doing that again.
Speaker 3: Now I went over the edge.
Speaker 1: So we're up on top of the Hilton at Universal
Speaker 1: Studios and it's twenty five stories up and it's a
Speaker 1: little bit intimidating, and so they do all the training
Speaker 1: before you go over. They get you in all your rigging,
Speaker 1: and they do your safety checks and all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: But at the whole time we're getting ready to do this,
Speaker 1: and Nick Pouliochini was with me. He was basically filming
Speaker 1: my little adventure on Friday, and I just had this
Speaker 1: pit in my stomach, like, Okay, I'm about to just
Speaker 1: like go dangle off off a building about three hundred
Speaker 1: feet in the air. But it once you get over
Speaker 1: the edge and start not repelling but you start lowering
Speaker 1: yourself down, it is it's a hoot.
Speaker 3: And it was.
Speaker 1: It was fun and it was exhilarating and we got
Speaker 1: to the bottom and I went, this was so great.
Speaker 1: And then after talking to some of the people at
Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission and talking to Nick, who you're there.
Speaker 3: Right, Nick? Yeah, I'm here, Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1: And after I was like, you know, this was really
Speaker 1: fun and Nick said, oh, yeah, that looks like fun.
Speaker 1: I go, well, do you want to go? And he said,
Speaker 1: well yeah. So I went and talked to our friends
Speaker 1: at the Union Rescue Mission. I said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: try to raise some more money. Can Nick go with
Speaker 1: me and I'll go again? And so they worked it
Speaker 1: out so we got to go back on Saturday and
Speaker 1: we both got to go.
Speaker 2: Down and it was absolutely incredible and it was everything
Speaker 2: that Amy said more so, I can't even begin to describe.
Speaker 2: When you are going down, you know, twenty six stories
Speaker 2: from the top, and you have the reflection of the
Speaker 2: one on one the Hollywood Freeway of a building behind you,
Speaker 2: and you have nothing but you know the Hollywood Hills
Speaker 2: and just you and you know the background of something
Speaker 2: that you've grown up and just you know, you've driven
Speaker 2: the car up and down that the Coanga Pass. It's
Speaker 2: incredible just being it's a view of Hollywood that you
Speaker 2: would have never experienced. And to be able to see
Speaker 2: that point of view of a place that you have
Speaker 2: traveled many many times throughout your lifetime and be able
Speaker 2: to not only see that and then know that that
Speaker 2: is also a unique perspective. And being able to support
Speaker 2: a unique charity and to support a really good cause
Speaker 2: at the same time. It was just a really really
Speaker 2: cool experience.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So tell us how nervous you were, because the first
Speaker 1: time I went right I was.
Speaker 3: I was hoping I wouldn't cry, but.
Speaker 2: I did, you know, and I have to say because
Speaker 2: you and I were there along, and I think that
Speaker 2: was the unique thing is I went through every single
Speaker 2: step of the process with you from getting gear on
Speaker 2: on Friday, and so I was there. I just didn't
Speaker 2: do any of it with you on Friday. I was
Speaker 2: there when you put your gear on. I went through
Speaker 2: all four safety checks with you, and they were extremely
Speaker 2: thorough every step of the way. We did everything together.
Speaker 2: I just didn't go over the edge on Friday. I
Speaker 2: went over the edge to do on Saturday.
Speaker 3: And here's what's cool too.
Speaker 1: When you go over the edge, you're you're repelling down,
Speaker 1: although it's not it's different than rock climbing repelling, but
Speaker 1: you're basically you can walk down the building or you
Speaker 1: can just kind of.
Speaker 3: Just kind of go down and not touch the building
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to walk down the building and
Speaker 1: then at some point I got turned around because if
Speaker 1: you the ropes are far enough for a way that
Speaker 1: if you lose your footing kind of you're turned around.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, and I was trying to
Speaker 1: scramble to turn around and look at the building again,
Speaker 1: and then I thought, well, dang, this is.
Speaker 3: A great view.
Speaker 1: So I just kept going down and down as I
Speaker 1: was looking out over the hills, which was which was
Speaker 1: fun too.
Speaker 3: And then tell me about the first time you looked down.
Speaker 2: The first time I looked down, it really is a
Speaker 2: wild perspective because especially there's a beautiful pool at the
Speaker 2: Universal Hilton, and that's exactly all you see when you
Speaker 2: look down that, and you know the handful of people
Speaker 2: that are there that are staying at the Hilton, that
Speaker 2: are enjoying and looking out at you and going what
Speaker 2: what this is pretty wild.
Speaker 3: That's quite the view.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and it also you have this natural reaction
Speaker 2: of like, oh, well, I'm probably not supposed to be here.
Speaker 2: That's kind of you get and like you said, you
Speaker 2: have that pit in your stomach. But this is something
Speaker 2: I used to in boy Scouts when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: I used to rock climb and I used to repel.
Speaker 2: But that was the thing that you and I talked
Speaker 2: about on Saturday. Even though I had repelled and rock
Speaker 2: climbed many times when I was a kid, which is
Speaker 2: twenty five thirty years ago, I'd never done anything like this,
Speaker 2: and I think that was the thing that I realized
Speaker 2: this was this is the first time that I'd done
Speaker 2: anything like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really cool and so and I know
Speaker 1: that while we were talking about it and letting you
Speaker 1: know that you could also do it, we had I
Speaker 1: had a few people message me saying I want to
Speaker 1: do this after because we posted on social media and
Speaker 1: I said, you can reach out. So we know that
Speaker 1: a bunch of you did. And I hope that your
Speaker 1: experience was as amazing as ours was. And again I
Speaker 1: want to say thank you to the people from over
Speaker 1: the Edge who are were fantastic and made us feel
Speaker 1: safe as we were dangling two hundred and fifty feet
Speaker 1: above off a building. And then of course the people
Speaker 1: at the Union Rescue Missions such a good cause. If
Speaker 1: you want to get some more information about it, or
Speaker 1: you want to make a donation, we would love to
Speaker 1: hit thirty thousand for a Team Our Heart and.
Speaker 3: We're so close. We're so close.
Speaker 1: So if you have it in your heart to make
Speaker 1: a small donation or a big donation, we take that too.
Speaker 1: It's just help the number one dot org. Just help
Speaker 1: the number one dot org and go to Team iHeart
Speaker 1: and then you can go you can go to Amy King,
Speaker 1: or you can go to Nick Pouliochane because he of
Speaker 1: course joined the team so he could go over the edge.
Speaker 1: But again, thank you to everybody who donated. I would
Speaker 1: love to list all the names of everybody, but there's
Speaker 1: just too many. There's so many that donated and I
Speaker 1: so so so appreciate it, and I know Neil Svader
Speaker 1: appreciates it, Nick does, and of course.
Speaker 2: The Union thank you.
Speaker 1: So if you get a chance to jump off a building,
Speaker 1: not jump, if you get a chance to repel off
Speaker 1: a building, I highly highly recommend it. It was exhilarating and
Speaker 1: terrifying and it's going for a good cause. So thank
Speaker 1: you again for the donations. Let's get thanks. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was so happy to have my buddy Nick. We got
Speaker 1: to post a video of us.
Speaker 2: Yes, we've gotten a couple of pictures too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got some fun pictures. We'll put that on
Speaker 1: our social media and that would be at Nick Pouliochanni
Speaker 1: and at Amy K. King and we'll probably put it
Speaker 1: up on at KFI AM six forty as well. Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris has raised twenty eight million dollars at a
Speaker 1: fundraiser in Los Angeles. She was at the Marriotte at
Speaker 1: La Live yesterday. Tickets range from between five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a person two as much as a million dollars for
Speaker 1: four tickets. That million dollars gets you a reception with Harris,
Speaker 1: lunch and a photo. She told supporters that her campaign
Speaker 1: is going to win and pledged to sign a bill
Speaker 1: restoring abortion rights when she's president. Harris's campaign says she
Speaker 1: raised twenty seven million dollars Saturday at a fundraiser in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Hesbela's deputy leader has vowed to continue fighting Israel.
Speaker 1: Following an Israeli strike in Beirut that killed a Hesbela commander.
Speaker 1: ABC's Marcus Moore says Israeli strikes have killed Hassan Nazreala
Speaker 1: and six of his top commanders in the last ten days.
Speaker 11: Iran's president reacting to the attacks on Iran's proxy, saying quote,
Speaker 11: we cannot accept such actions as they will not be
Speaker 11: left unanswered. He said, a decisive reaction is necessary.
Speaker 1: Hesbela's deputy secretary general says if Israel decides to start
Speaker 1: a ground offensive, Hesbelah fighters are ready to fight and
Speaker 1: defend Lebanon, where the group is based. Prince fans will
Speaker 1: soon be able to stay at the Music Icon Icons Home.
Speaker 12: Prince's childhood home in Minneapolis, was restored by Lisa and
Speaker 12: Wendy of The Revolution band. It'll be available on Airbnb
Speaker 12: from October twenty sixth to December fourteenth. Fans can reserve
Speaker 12: a one night's day with up to four guests for
Speaker 12: seven dollars per person, in reference to Prince's favorite number.
Speaker 12: The lower level of the home has been outfitted with
Speaker 12: purple velvet wallpaper and an eighty stereo full of songs
Speaker 12: that inspired Prince eighties inspired clothing, wigs, accessories, and makeup,
Speaker 12: including lipstick, will be available.
Speaker 3: Yes, Heather Brooker, Hey a fine news.
Speaker 1: I can't decide if that sounds really cool or just
Speaker 1: really kind of creepy, because I think he died in
Speaker 1: the house, didn't he Southern California will experience summer like
Speaker 1: temperatures with high hitting triple digits in some areas. Heat
Speaker 1: advisories will go up tomorrow morning. In the mountains Inland
Speaker 1: m iron Anaalote Valley, They're going to last through Wednesday evening.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Services LA is expected to see hi's
Speaker 1: in the upper eighties and tempsils stay that way until
Speaker 1: at least Thursday. Govinor Newsom assigned a bill that requires
Speaker 1: large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization. The
Speaker 1: bill also expands healthcare benefits to LGBTQ plus families who
Speaker 1: were looking to have kids, and changing the definition of
Speaker 1: infertility for insurance purposes. It was a wild weekend at
Speaker 1: the box office. The animated Wild Robot earned thirty five
Speaker 1: million dollars in its opening weekend. That puts it in
Speaker 1: first place. Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice finished second after three
Speaker 1: weeks at number one. Another animated movie, Transformers one was third.
Speaker 1: Francis Ford Coppola's passion project Megalopolis, pretty much bombed in
Speaker 1: its opening weekend. It took in about four million dollars.
Speaker 1: It cost one hundred million dollars to make. We're just
Speaker 1: minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, Hezbollah
Speaker 1: has confirmed that a seventh top commander has been killed
Speaker 1: in Israeli strikes.
Speaker 3: What to expect next?
Speaker 1: You know, we got to talk to Colonel Nick Haig
Speaker 1: as he trained for his mission to the International Space Station.
Speaker 1: It was originally set to launch in mid to late August,
Speaker 1: but it got pushed back because they had to reconfigure
Speaker 1: how they were going to get things done to get
Speaker 1: those stranded astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wellmore home. Of course,
Speaker 1: you'll remember that they were going to go up in
Speaker 1: June for a week. They went up on the Boeing Starliner,
Speaker 1: and then there were issues with the star Liner and
Speaker 1: they said, you know what, let's not risk it. Let's
Speaker 1: bring the star Liner home empty and bring the astronauts
Speaker 1: home later. So they had to do all kinds of
Speaker 1: shifting around of different astronauts and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And we've talked to Colonel Higgs several times this year
Speaker 1: about his mission and what a treat because he's so
Speaker 1: great to talk to and and so great at talking
Speaker 1: about what he's doing. So he said that the NASA
Speaker 1: and the astronauts, they were built for problems like this,
Speaker 1: having astronauts stranded in space basically for six, seven, eight
Speaker 1: months instead of a week. He says, they prepare for
Speaker 1: this kind of thing all the time. So what's that
Speaker 1: training leading up to the launch look like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's a lot of the last of type
Speaker 5: of things. So for almost a year and a half
Speaker 5: to two years, I've been focused on training to get
Speaker 5: ready to go to the space station. Some of that's
Speaker 5: focused on getting to the space station, and then some
Speaker 5: of it's focused on working and living on the space station.
Speaker 5: And we have these whole training programs that are stretched
Speaker 5: out over this year and a half and we do
Speaker 5: things three, four or five times. Now we're finally getting
Speaker 5: to the last time of all of these things. And
Speaker 5: so each one of those moments is it just kind
Speaker 5: of since chills down my next that, hey, this is
Speaker 5: the last time the next time I'm going to do this,
Speaker 5: I'm going to be in space. Yeah, it's exciting. It's
Speaker 5: spacewalk training, it's robotics training to be able to use
Speaker 5: the robotic arm on the International Space Station. We're doing
Speaker 5: some very integrated simulations where we're going to simulate launching
Speaker 5: to the space station and returning from the space station
Speaker 5: on the draving capsule and that it's the full team.
Speaker 5: So it's pretty exciting because everybody comes together and it's
Speaker 5: a mission control that's in Hawthorne here in Los Angeles
Speaker 5: for SpaceX, but it's also the mission control team in
Speaker 5: Houston and then US and the capsule and all working
Speaker 5: together to practice what we do when things don't go
Speaker 5: to plan, because ninety five percent of the stuff we
Speaker 5: practice are things to what do we do when something
Speaker 5: doesn't happen, And so these simulations have lots of failures
Speaker 5: in them, and we figure out how to face the failure,
Speaker 5: fix it, and continue the mission.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminds me of I believe it was Apollo
Speaker 1: thirteen Tom Hanks and there something goes wrong on their
Speaker 1: mission to the Moon, and all of a sudden they're like, uh, oh,
Speaker 1: we're screwed basically, and here's what we have. Okay, now
Speaker 1: let's figure out how to fix this so we can
Speaker 1: get these guys home. I mean, it's just got to
Speaker 1: be amazing the contingencies that you guys have to have
Speaker 1: in place, and then also planning for the unexpected.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5: It's just a true privilege to be part of this
Speaker 5: program and that team, that gigantic team of people, and
Speaker 5: the energy and the investment and the the just the
Speaker 5: sheer intellect of that group to be able to face
Speaker 5: those problems figure them out. And you know, that's that's
Speaker 5: what gives me the confidence to, you know, to strap
Speaker 5: onto a rocket and launch into space. It's because I
Speaker 5: know I've got that team supporting me and we're going
Speaker 5: to tackle whatever gets thrown our way.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you were talking about spacewalk training. What does
Speaker 1: spacewalk training on Earth look like.
Speaker 5: It's a mix because really the only place that you
Speaker 5: can do it is in space. So we do lots
Speaker 5: of pieces of it. Some of that is virtual reality based,
Speaker 5: so we put on a VR headset and we practice
Speaker 5: doing a spacewalk virtually. A part that a lot of
Speaker 5: people know about is our Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, so big pool,
Speaker 5: gigantic Pool, where we have a life sized mockup of
Speaker 5: the space station underwater under about forty feet of water,
Speaker 5: and we get in an actual spacewalk spacesuit and go
Speaker 5: under the water and practice where we can float, and
Speaker 5: it stimulates pretty close what it's like to float around
Speaker 5: on the outside of the space station. And then we
Speaker 5: go through all the procedures that we would plan to
Speaker 5: do on orbit and practice them, and then practice what
Speaker 5: happens when those procedures don't work. But I got to
Speaker 5: tell you that the underwater training is as close as
Speaker 5: you can get on Earth to what it's like up there.
Speaker 5: The first time I went out to hatch on a
Speaker 5: spacewalk on the space station, it was nighttime I opened
Speaker 5: the hatch, we started crawling around on the outside of
Speaker 5: the space station, and my prevailing thought was, Han, this
Speaker 5: feels just like I'm in the neutral Buoyancy laboratory, And
Speaker 5: I was looking that the only thing that was missing
Speaker 5: was the bubbles coming up from the safety divers that
Speaker 5: are on scuba gear around us.
Speaker 1: Can you even imagine what that must feel like, not
Speaker 1: only underwater, but then out in space and Colonel hag
Speaker 1: is now experiencing the real deal again. We look forward
Speaker 1: to following his successful mission to the International Space Station.
Speaker 1: He's going to be up there for the next six months,
Speaker 1: so look forward to talking to him maybe when he
Speaker 1: gets back to Earth again. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories of coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. Members of a fire crew from San
Speaker 1: Diego have been hurt in a crash while headed to
Speaker 1: help with storm recovery on the East Coast. Alex Stone
Speaker 1: says the three were hurt when They're Ford F three
Speaker 1: point fifty crashed early yesterday on Interstate twenty near the
Speaker 1: border of Texas and Louisiana.
Speaker 8: San Diego Fire says they were trying sported by air
Speaker 8: ambulance to Shreveport, Louisiana. Their injuries range from moderate to critical.
Speaker 8: One is a battalion chief and two our captains.
Speaker 1: Truck was part of an eighteen vehicle caravan that left
Speaker 1: southern California Friday. LA County's two DA candidates have faced
Speaker 1: off in a debate ahead of the November fifth election.
Speaker 1: Federal Prosecutor Nathan Hockman has criticized incumbent George Gascone for
Speaker 1: reforms that he calls soft on crime. Gascone says that's
Speaker 1: what voters chose when they elected him in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Coming lay down by my side, killimon in line.
Speaker 8: All A'm digging is your time, help make it.
Speaker 1: Singer songwriter Chris Christopherson has died. A family spokeswoman says
Speaker 1: he died Saturday at his home in Hawaii. He was
Speaker 1: known for his country music, but also for acting member
Speaker 1: He played the leading man opposite Barbara Streissan in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six, Is a Star Is Born. He also did
Speaker 1: shoot out westerns and cowboy dramas, and was a Rhodes
Speaker 1: scholar and a military veteran. Didn't even know that Chris
Speaker 1: Christofferson was eighty eight. This is KFI and KOST HD
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Speaker 1: technical producer KNO and also traffic specialist and my over
Speaker 1: the Edge buddy, Nick Paulijochini. I'm Amy King. This has
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