WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.120 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:08.679 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:15.759 App KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 4 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:22.920 It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy Kick. 5 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:32.000 Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your 6 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:37.840 wake up call for Monday, September thirtieth, last day of September. 7 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.240 You know that means less than three months till Christmas. 8 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:41.920 I'm Amy King. 9 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.840 We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app radio app. 10 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.679 So glad that you're getting your day started with us. 11 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:55.359 Went over the edge on Friday, fundraiser for Union Rescue Mission. 12 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:56.640 It was a drop so nice. 13 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.439 I did it twice. I'll tell you about that coming 14 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:01.159 up in a little bit. 15 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:02.640 The second time. I took a friend with me. 16 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:08.040 Also, we're gonna be telling you kind of rehash what 17 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:12.400 happened and say right now, thank you, think you, think you, 18 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.439 thank you, thank you to anyone who donated. 19 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:18.040 We're still taking donations. 20 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:22.079 And we're getting really, really, really close to our goal. Also, 21 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.760 our friend Colonel Nickhaigu, who we've talked to on Wakeup 22 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.560 Called several times, has begun his six month mission at 23 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:31.480 the International Space Station. He launched from Cape Canaveral on 24 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:34.519 Saturday and has now arrived at the space station. 25 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:37.159 Here's what's ahead on wakeup call. 26 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:39.959 The fire burning and the San Bernardino Mountains has flared up, 27 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:44.120 forcing new evacuations. The fire was burning toward seven Oaks 28 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.719 and mandatory evacuations were ordered late yesterday afternoon. Angelus Oaks, 29 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.480 about ten miles away, is under an evacuation warning. Israel 30 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.120 says it has killed a second Hesbal law leader as 31 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.439 it continues to pound Lebanon. The IDF posted on social 32 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:03.120 media that Nabille Coupe was directly engaged in terrorist attacks. 33 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:07.840 Haug's death comes two days after IDF airstrikes killed Hezbollah 34 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:11.360 leader Hassan Nozralla. We're going to get the latest on 35 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:14.199 that with ABC's Jordana Miller. That's coming up in less 36 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:17.560 than five minutes. Vice President Harris had some star power 37 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:20.960 on hand for a fundraiser in la and raked in 38 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.120 the cash. She raised twenty eight million dollars at the 39 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:29.400 event in downtown yesterday. Elenis Morrissett halle Berry performed at 40 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.039 the fundraiser, in which tickets went for between five hundred 41 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:36.120 dollars and just under a million dollars. The people who 42 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:39.039 paid the most were listed as event chairs and got 43 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.199 to be at a reception with Harris and apparently some 44 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.479 other perks as well. Let's get started with some of 45 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.039 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 46 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:48.680 Officials in North Carolina are working to get water and 47 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:52.400 other supplies to areas devastated by what was Hurricane Helene. 48 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.800 The storm left a trail of destruction across the Southeast, 49 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:00.240 killing more than ninety people across several states. Millions of 50 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.400 people are still without power. A county manager in North Carolina, 51 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:08.840 April Pinder, says officials are doing what they can to 52 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:10.240 get help to where it's needed. 53 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:13.360 We need food and we need water. My staff has 54 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:16.919 been making every request possible to the state for support, 55 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.439 and we've been working with every single organization that has 56 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:21.240 reached out. 57 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.000 A lot of areas that are left isolated by floodwaters. 58 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:28.199 Forecasters say a new tropical depression in the eastern Atlantic 59 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:30.439 could become a hurricane by the middle of the week. 60 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:34.919 President Biden is set to visit the Southeast this week. 61 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.039 In a statement yesterday, the White House said Biden intends 62 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.000 to travel to the hurricane impacted areas, but will do 63 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.039 so when it will not disrupt emergency operations. A California 64 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.520 Department of Forestry and Fire Protection employee charged with starting 65 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.800 five brushfires in northern California spent months as an inmate firefighter. 66 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.080 He had been convicted of causing a fatal crash in 67 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.639 San Bernardino in twenty sixteen while he drove intoxicated. Robert 68 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.280 Hernandez was arrested just over a week ago for allegedly 69 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.439 starting the fires. He worked as an apparatus engineer, operating 70 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:13.639 and maintaining fire engines and water tanks during emergency responses. 71 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:19.600 Four three two one, big technical power and with. 72 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:22.079 Crude eye. 73 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.079 SpaceX has sent a rocket into space that will be 74 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:30.079 the ride home for two astronauts stuck on the International 75 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:34.040 Space Station since June. The Dragon capsule docked at the 76 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:38.319 space station yesterday, carrying NASA's Colonel Nick Haig and Russian 77 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:43.600 astronaut Alexander Gerbonov. Haig said before the launch that they 78 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.360 were going up with two empty seats for Butch Willmore 79 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:47.639 and Sunny Williams. 80 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.000 We've been on orbit months already, and one of the 81 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.279 biggest challenges ahead for Alex and I. One of the 82 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.240 most exciting aspects is how are we going to integrate 83 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:57.160 into their crew. 84 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:00.319 The Dragon Capsule is set to return to Earth early 85 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.920 next year. Wilmore and Williams went to space on the 86 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.680 Boeing Starliner, but couldn't return on the craft because of 87 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:12.600 thruster failures and helium leaks. La County has taking a 88 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:17.000 step toward removing illegal cannabis dispensaries from online search engines. 89 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.360 The Pew Research Center says there are more than fifteen 90 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.680 hundred cannabis dispensaries in La County, about ten percent of 91 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.240 all of them in the US, but the state's Department 92 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:28.160 of Cannabis Control reports only three hundred and eighty four 93 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.319 dispensaries in the county are legally licensed. The La County 94 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.279 Board of Supervisors voted last week they have county attorneys 95 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:36.839 report back with info on whether it's possible to have 96 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:39.800 the illegal ones taken off search engines. The motion says 97 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.639 the county once Google, YELP and others to remove the 98 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.839 illegal dispensaries because their product isn't regulated and they don't 99 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.560 pay taxes. In downtown La Michael monks Kfi News. 100 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:54.480 Former President Trump has criticized Vice President Harrison immigration while 101 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.120 at a rally in Pennsylvania. He told supporters yesterday, the 102 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.800 policies of the Biden Harris administration have left thousands of 103 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.680 terror have let thousands of terrorists into the country. 104 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.160 You know, I had one year where border patrol said 105 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.079 no terrorists came in. I had another year where they 106 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:14.040 said eleven came in. Thousands of terrorsts are pouring into 107 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:14.959 our country now. 108 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.920 He says the border was much more secure when he 109 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:22.279 was President. Drum's comments followed Vice President Harris's visit to 110 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.399 the border in Arizona. She says she will reform America's 111 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.120 border security with common sense approaches. 112 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.120 It's five oh seven on your Monday morning. 113 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:36.360 Wake up call at say good morning to ABC's Georgia 114 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:42.120 or Jordanah Miller in Jerusalem, Jordana. The Israeli military is 115 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.399 not letting up on the gas at all. Just two 116 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.800 days after they took out the leader of Hesbalah in 117 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:48.800 an air strike, they struck again. 118 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:51.079 That's right. 119 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:56.959 It has been uh, you know, incredibly fast paced weekend 120 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:02.079 from the assassination of a lead long time later three 121 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:06.480 years half in Estralla to carrying out widespread and in 122 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:11.120 ten strikes on the Uti rebels in Yemen. That's almost 123 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.279 one thousand miles away from Israel's border, but we saw 124 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.959 dozens of fighter jets taking part in that. Remember, Israel 125 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.879 had a score to settle with the UTIs. They've been 126 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:29.759 firing really since October on Israeli cities on cargo shipping 127 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:34.000 in the Red Sea, sometimes killing people, doing damage to 128 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:41.800 those shipping those cargo shipping lanes. And recently three of 129 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:46.399 their missiles made it through Israel's air defense systems and 130 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.120 crashed down in Israel, and there was a drone that 131 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.680 hit and killed one Israeli. So Israel had vowed to 132 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.360 respond to the Jutis, and this is it. They went 133 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:59.680 and carried out bombing raids on the port, but the 134 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:04.879 Huts used to get their weapons from Iran, and they 135 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:10.279 carried out strikes on some fuel depots and power grids, 136 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.319 and you know, by all measures, this was really an 137 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:21.040 impressive operation given that, you know, again it is very 138 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:23.920 far from Israel's borders, and I think that was the 139 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:27.720 message that Israeli leaders and not only the Prime Minister 140 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.319 but also the Defense minister. You know, they wanted to 141 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.159 send veiled messages really to Iran that you know, wherever 142 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.639 you are, if you're enemy, we can reach you and 143 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.080 strike you. And that that was a message I think 144 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.519 that that the leaders were making towards Iran as Iran 145 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:48.720 vows to avenge some of their military leaders that were 146 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.919 killed when Hastin Nosrala was taken out over the weekend. 147 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.200 Okay, I was just going to ask you what is 148 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.879 the response from Iran, Ben, because I think that Israel 149 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:02.879 has shown several times over the last few months that 150 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:07.240 they can go in and almost precision target certain people. 151 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:12.000 They've you know, they've done that in Beirut, they did it. 152 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:13.200 With the turned Damascus, they did it. 153 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:13.679 Yeah. 154 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.960 Yeah, So Iran is saying, hey, watch out, We're going 155 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:23.000 to retaliate, but they're being kind of vague. 156 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.120 Right, I mean, Iran is saying, you know, the assassination 157 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:29.720 of the Sorella won't go unanswered, and the killing of 158 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:34.960 some of their top commanders in that same strike, you know, 159 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.960 will they will respond to it. But Iran been very 160 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:44.639 careful not to telegraph or announce that they're going to 161 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.759 do a direct strike on Israel. I think there's debate 162 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:53.320 inside Iran's top leadership about what to do next. Right, 163 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.559 that huge attack on Israel and April was a major, 164 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.480 major failure. Israel and the Allies shot down most of 165 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:07.919 those missiles and UH cruise missiles and drones, and so 166 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.600 I don't think Iran's gonna do a repeat of that. 167 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.480 But clearly this is another major setback for Iran. UH. 168 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:20.039 You know, after Israel assassinated a small honeya UH in Tehran. 169 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.559 Although they didn't claim that strike, it's clear they were 170 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:23.159 behind it. 171 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:23.919 UH. 172 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:28.240 And now they've dealt major blows to Hasbala, which is 173 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:34.320 supported and funded by Iran. I mean, this is their 174 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:39.120 terrorist proxy, if you will, in Lebanon. They've invested billions 175 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.720 and they've seen their proxy suffer major defeats in the 176 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:49.279 last two weeks. Now it has has Balah been you know, 177 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:53.759 has has Bala been defanged entirely. No, they still have 178 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:57.840 lots of capabilities and Israel's been clear to say that 179 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.120 and they're going to continue striking has Bala. But Iran 180 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.840 I think it's trying to figure out exactly how it's 181 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:09.840 going to respond given you know, the threats, and clearly 182 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.120 the Iranians are nervous that if they do something big, 183 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.320 that Israel will carry out strikes on Iranian soil. 184 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.480 And then the other thing that is still being talked 185 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.399 about Jordana is that a senior US official is saying 186 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:30.080 that Israel is getting ready for a ground encourasion into Lebanon. 187 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.799 So what would the goal of being of putting troops 188 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.039 across the border be. It wouldn't be to keep and 189 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:40.639 occupy that territory or anything, right, Well, it's. 190 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.200 Unclear, and I think that's a good question. First of all, 191 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:47.759 it is very clear that the Israelis are getting ready 192 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:51.720 for a ground operation in southern Lebanon. They're talking about it, 193 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:56.360 They're openly talking about it, and so it is clearly 194 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.759 now you know, one of the options that Israel could 195 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:05.799 move on in the coming days, we could see them 196 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:09.960 move into southern Lebanon. We know from US and Israeli 197 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:14.759 sources that already ground for special operations. Small units are 198 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:18.759 going back and forth over the border into Lebanon doing 199 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:25.159 reconnaissance and other operations there. Because Hasbullah abandoned the area 200 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:28.000 right along the border, They've moved out a few kilometers, 201 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.279 so Israel appears to be clearing out the area right 202 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:34.960 around the border for a possible incursion being would be 203 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.519 of course, and it's not sure, We're not clear how long. 204 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:42.240 But Israel wants to go in and clear out for 205 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.200 up to ten miles on the other side of the border. 206 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:50.879 They want to destroy Hasbula's military assets there, the rocket launchers, 207 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:56.840 the weapons, you know, the bunkers, the watch towers. They 208 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:02.480 want to just destroy all of the military infrastructure that 209 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:05.960 Hesbala has spent more than a decade building up in 210 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:10.679 southern Lebanon and often around villages and inside villages, inside home. 211 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:13.039 So just basically creating a buffer. 212 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.159 Zone, right right, Well, we're not clear if Israel would 213 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:24.600 hold on to a buffer zone temporarily or permanently. It 214 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:27.200 is one of the options because Israel, of course wants 215 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.639 to make sure that Habela doesn't come back in and 216 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:34.240 pose a threat to its northern residence. Right, so holding 217 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:38.039 a buffer security buffer is likely, you know, one of 218 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:40.360 the plans, but we don't know how wide or how 219 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:40.919 long they. 220 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:41.840 Would hold that buffer for. 221 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:45.600 All right, Well, we will be watching Jonona Miller in Jerusalem. 222 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.360 Thank you so much for the update. As always, we 223 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:48.240 appreciated a ton. 224 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:50.039 Thank you. 225 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.360 All right, let's get back to some of the stories 226 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.240 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Beverly 227 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:58.639 Hills police say the fatal stabbing of a man witnesses 228 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:02.000 say was being aggressive and tried to grab a toddler 229 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.120 was done in self defense. A guy who tried to 230 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.000 help Saturday says the attacker had an empty look on 231 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:11.559 his face and was clearly having a psychotic break or 232 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:15.399 drug reaction. The father who was confronted got into a 233 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.120 fight with the man and ended up stabbing him. A 234 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.799 man's behind bars on suspicion of stabbing his girlfriend to 235 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.799 death at a home in Simi Valley, Lease, thirty four 236 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:28.279 year old Raymond Revas stabbed his girlfriend in the face, chest, 237 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.759 and abdomen Friday night in front of her five children. 238 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:34.919 He was arrested. He was on. 239 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.240 Post release community supervision at the time of the murder. 240 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:40.960 That means he's also accused of violating the terms of 241 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:46.559 his probation. Revs is expected in court tomorrow. A chaotic 242 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.360 scene unfolded in San Bernardino late Saturday night after a 243 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.879 street takeover ended with a crash. Video footage shows a 244 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:58.919 pickup truck colliding with a tree. Police arrested two men. 245 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:02.080 Several others were taken to hospitals. Further details about the 246 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:04.679 street takeover, including the number of cars involved and the 247 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:07.159 cause of the crash, have not yet been released. 248 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:14.279 I've seen the Morning, Burning Gold and all the Mountain the. 249 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:20.679 Sky singer songwriter Chris Christopherson has died. A family spokeswoman 250 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:24.519 says Christopherson died Saturday at his home in Hawaii. He 251 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:27.720 was known for his country music, but also for acting. 252 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:31.720 He played the leading Mansite opposite Barbara streisand in A 253 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:36.440 Star Is Born and Ellen Burnston and Alice Doesn't Live 254 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:40.399 Here Anymore. He also did shootout westerns and cowboy dramas, 255 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:44.279 and was a Rhodes scholar who knew Chris Christopherson was 256 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.840 eighty eight. About fifty first responders from Orange County Fire 257 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.759 Authority have traveled to North Carolina to assist with Hurricane 258 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:54.720 Helene relief efforts. The team's going to be doing search 259 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.840 and rescue, urban searches and evacuations. We're going to be 260 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.200 talking with ABC's Jim Ryan in just a second get 261 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.480 the latest on relief and rescue efforts. A security guard 262 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.639 on a Metrolink train has been stabbed. It happened last night, 263 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:10.159 just before ten, as a train was rolling into the 264 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:13.519 Vincent Grade Station and Act in Palmdale. Police say the 265 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:16.279 guard was able to subdue the stabber until police got 266 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:17.799 there and took the guy into custody. 267 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:20.960 The guard's conditions not known. Train service was interrupted for 268 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:21.559 about an hour. 269 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.159 NASA commander Nick Haig and his Russian cosmonaut colleague have 270 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:28.759 begun their six month mission on board the International Space 271 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:32.519 Station following a successful SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral's Saturday. 272 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:35.679 Two other astronauts got bumped from the trip to make 273 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:38.559 room for Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore to come back 274 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.440 with them. In February, of course, their ride, the Boeing Starliner, 275 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.600 came back to Earth with no crew on board because 276 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:47.080 of some safety concerns with the capsule. Let's say good 277 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:51.279 morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, the storm has passed, 278 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.360 but the effects of the storm remain. 279 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.120 Yes. In fact, I just looked at the National Hurricane 280 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:58.600 Center map and Holleen doesn't show up there at all. 281 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.159 That means it's fizzled out to nothing, essentially, kind of 282 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.000 a low pressure zone and that's it. But we're also 283 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:07.440 watching a couple of other disturbances out there in the 284 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.119 in the Caribbean. That's where there's a a has a 285 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.240 chance of growing into the next tropical storm and moving 286 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.640 into the Gulf. There's one called a tropical depression out there. 287 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:20.759 Joyce is the name of that one, and then one 288 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:23.240 that only has a number at this point. So suddenly 289 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.759 the tropics have gotten very, very active and the Atlantic 290 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:29.799 is beginning to roil up some of these big storms. 291 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.920 When is what is the dates of hurricane season? 292 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:34.200 Is it? 293 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:34.400 Like? 294 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.599 I can't remember. It's like August Law generally. 295 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.319 Goes to November one, So yeah, it starts in the summer, 296 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:44.079 it goes all the way to November first, But there's 297 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.960 nothing to say. And I've covered hurricanes that came closer 298 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:50.400 to Christmas than to November first. It's that's kind of 299 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.559 the bracket that the National Hurricane Center puts around it. 300 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.319 And this year there was a lot of talk that 301 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:59.759 it was going to be an incredibly active storm season. 302 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.240 Has it been so far, because if we're just up 303 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:03.200 to j now. 304 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.119 Yeah, well, you're right. And the last year, I think 305 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:09.359 maybe the year before we ran out of letters, right, 306 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.480 they had to go to I think the Greek alphabet 307 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:16.480 or something. But so we are we're kind of at 308 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.200 the middle of the alphabet if you gauge the number 309 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:24.160 of storms by that system of numbering them. But you know, 310 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.200 we had that month long lull too where nothing was 311 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:31.000 happening out there, and now suddenly it's gotten really active again. 312 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:35.519 So yeah, this was predicted to be a historically busy 313 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:38.480 and active Atlantic hurricane season and now it's kind of 314 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:39.920 shaping up that way. If you like, at the map 315 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.599 right now, with one, two, three, five different areas on 316 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:45.440 this big map of the whole Atlantic. 317 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:49.640 Okay, so let's go back to Helene. We know that, unfortunately, 318 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:52.400 dozens of people have been killed. I'm seeing numbers as 319 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.519 high as like one sixteen. That's not official yet that 320 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.640 we know of. What are the fatalities from. 321 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:04.599 Well, in many of the cases, you get flooding rains 322 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:08.599 coming in that weakens the root system of even healthy trees. 323 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.480 Trees fall, and people die in many cases from that 324 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.599 from trees falling on their homes around them. We're going 325 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:17.759 to have drowning fatalities, especially in a place like Ashville, 326 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:21.039 which now is underwater. Essentially a beautiful town. You know, 327 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:24.279 it's the city, it's almost ninety one ninety two thousand 328 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:28.079 people and it's more or less underwater, so those drowning 329 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.480 fatalities are happening there. But the longer we go without electricity, 330 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:35.599 the longer and the greater the damage or danger from 331 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:41.000 dying from carbon monoxide poisoning because you're using a generator 332 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:46.480 or electrical equipment that powers people's medical supply start to 333 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:50.039 run out, medical devices, they start to die, and so 334 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:52.880 you know, that's why job number one is trying to 335 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.240 get the power back on. And if you look right now, 336 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:57.680 there are still one hundred and thirty thousand people in 337 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.720 Florida without electricity. Florida was the point of landfall, but 338 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:03.319 the worst of the damage has been done to the 339 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:08.559 north of there, Georgia, the Carolinas. In North Carolina, five 340 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.599 hundred thousand homes and businesses are without power, seven hundred 341 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.920 and fifty thousand in South Carolina. So getting that power 342 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:18.240 back on is really key to starting a recovery process. 343 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.319 Yeah, and I've seen several interviews Jim with people over 344 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:25.319 the weekend as I was watching news shows and stuff. 345 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:28.960 They were saying and they were in the storm's path, 346 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:31.599 but they said they were caught off Guard and didn't 347 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:34.000 think that the storm would hit them that hard. I mean, 348 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:36.000 what else could officials have done. They said, get the 349 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:37.319 heck out go now. 350 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:41.240 Well they did, and you know Florida, they absolutely evacuation 351 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.720 orders were posted and people were heating those evacuations. But Asheville, 352 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:49.079 North Carolina, is three hundred miles away from the nearest shoreline, 353 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.480 three hundred miles and so living that far inland, people think, 354 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:55.720 and there's no way I'm going to get any damage 355 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:59.519 or feel the effects of hurricane or tropical storm Halllene. 356 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:02.160 Remember that they'd already had a lot of rain in 357 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:05.799 that area before, and so it didn't take much to 358 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:08.359 tip the scale. And when Helene comes in with ten 359 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:11.400 or twelve inches of rain added on to what was 360 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:14.240 already happening out there in the mountains, you get this 361 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:16.160 flooding effect. So I think you're right. I think it 362 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:21.079 was an effect of people not simply believing that they 363 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:23.559 could be impacted by this. Yeah. 364 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:27.079 I have a good friend who is in just outside 365 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:31.799 of Greenville, South Carolina, and they said that they were 366 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:34.720 in the eye for a while and it had diminished 367 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.440 it was tropical storm at that point, but still they 368 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:39.880 they're way inland and they ended up in the eye 369 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:43.200 of the storm. They lost some pretty big, big, huge 370 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:45.480 trees on their property, but otherwise they lucked out. 371 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.680 Yeah, well right, and you just don't think about that 372 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.960 about especially from a Gulf hurricane. Maybe that was why 373 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:56.119 people were in a little complacent maybe up there in 374 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:59.319 the Carolinas. If you have a hurricane coming in from 375 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.759 the Atlantics, coming straight in to the west from the Atlantic, 376 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:08.279 sure you can anticipate some damage or some deaths. But 377 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:11.160 this one came up from the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds 378 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:14.680 and hundreds of miles away. The power outages extend from 379 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.519 the southern tip of Florida all the way up to Ohio. 380 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:20.680 That's what eight hundred miles. So a large and very 381 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:21.839 damaging storm. 382 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:24.079 Okay, so the big thing now is getting that power 383 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:25.960 back on. It's like two million people are still in. 384 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.359 The dark, correct, about two million right now? And look 385 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:32.680 at the bout getting supplies out there, and in many 386 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:34.799 cases that has to be done by helicopter because these 387 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:38.000 areas are caught off physically, the roads and bridges have 388 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:41.759 been washed away, and you also have no cell service, 389 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:44.519 internet service. So for right now, I mean the number 390 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:47.519 of people unaccounted for is still quite high, but simply 391 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:51.559 because they can't be reached right and once once cell 392 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:54.079 service is restored, once people have power back on, then 393 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:56.039 they'll be able to check in with their friends or 394 00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:58.640 with the Red Cross or whoever, and those numbers will 395 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:02.359 begin to fall. But unfortunently, we probably will have more fatalities, 396 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:03.079 all right. 397 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.079 And as the cleanup continues, we're going to keep our 398 00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:06.000 eyes on. 399 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.599 Choice, yep, choice out there. 400 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:11.839 ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much, appreciated as always, 401 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:12.880