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Speaker 1: Good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake up
Speaker 1: call for Monday, November fourth. I'm Amy King. Do you
Speaker 1: have a good weekend? Did you have a successful fallback?
Speaker 1: I didn't even have to change many clocks? Does it
Speaker 1: for you automatically? Isn't that nice? Except for the one
Speaker 1: that's really high up on the wall that I have
Speaker 1: to climb up on a chair for. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if this affected you this morning, but I woke up.
Speaker 1: I normally get up at two thirty, and I woke
Speaker 1: up at one thirty, which yesterday would have been two thirty.
Speaker 1: My internal clock hasn't adjusted yet. Also, Halloween is down
Speaker 1: at the King Household. All the spooky stuff is gone
Speaker 1: and put away for the year.
Speaker 4: Hall.
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving is up. Have you done your decorating yet? I'm
Speaker 1: itching for Christmas, but I gotta wait one holiday at
Speaker 1: a time, Gotta wait till after Thanksgiving. Here's what's ahead
Speaker 1: on wake up call this day before election Day, Santa
Speaker 1: Ana wins are blowing through southern California. A red flag
Speaker 1: warning for high fire danger is in effect until six
Speaker 1: o'clock tonight, with wind gus up to sixty miles per
Speaker 1: hour expected in the northern San Fernando Valley. The strongest
Speaker 1: winds are expected in Thousand Oaks, Santa Clarita, Rancho Cucamonga,
Speaker 1: and the Lake Arrowhead area. More than seventy two million
Speaker 1: people have cast their ballots early in this election. That
Speaker 1: is for both mail in and in person voting across
Speaker 1: the country. Political analysts say early voting could prove decisive,
Speaker 1: with the number of ballots cast by new voters in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four setting records in many states. We're going
Speaker 1: to be checking in with ABC's Karen Travers in a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes to find out what Vice President Harris
Speaker 1: is doing on this day before election Day, and then
Speaker 1: we'll find out where the Trump train is rolling with
Speaker 1: ABC's Steve Portnoy. Stephen Portnoy at six twenty and at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, Lots of election stuff today,
Speaker 1: We're going to be crunching numbers with ABC's Steve Roberts
Speaker 1: to see if we can get a little insight into
Speaker 1: who might actually win, because everybody's saying it's just too
Speaker 1: close to call. Legendary music producer, composer, and songwriter Quincy
Speaker 1: Jones has died. His family says he died peacefully last
Speaker 1: night at his home in bel Air. He produced the
Speaker 1: TV series The Fresh Prince of bel Air. He produced
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's thriller Frank Sinatra's Mac the Knife, and worked
Speaker 1: with hundreds of musicians during his career. Quincy Jones was
Speaker 1: ninety one. This weekend, you can take a run or
Speaker 1: a walk at the beach for a really good good cause.
Speaker 1: It's the Heroes of Hope Run at Dackwiler State Beach.
Speaker 1: We're going to tell you about that before the top
Speaker 1: of the hour, so we hope you'll stick around for
Speaker 1: all of wake up Call. Lots of great stuff planned
Speaker 1: for you today. Let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Can't even imagine if we just put a list of
Speaker 1: all the songs and all the artists that this man
Speaker 1: was involved with. Legendary music producer Quincy Jones has died.
Speaker 1: His publicista as Jones died last night at his home
Speaker 1: in bel Air, surrounded by family. They put out a
Speaker 1: statement saying Jones's death is an incredible loss, but they
Speaker 1: celebrate the great life he lived and know there will
Speaker 1: never be another like him. Jones once said in an
Speaker 1: interview with Billboard Magazine, It's important to believe in yourself, know.
Speaker 5: Who you are, learned to love who you are, because
Speaker 5: you can't love anybody else if you will love hisself.
Speaker 1: Q, as he was known, had twenty eight Grammys. He
Speaker 1: started out as musician and later worked with a long
Speaker 1: list of artists from Count Bassie to Frank Sinatra to
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. He also produced We Are the World in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five. Quincy Jones again was ninety one News
Speaker 1: brought to you by one eight hundred. Got junk and
Speaker 1: La County fire truck is overturned while headed to a
Speaker 1: cliff rescue in the San Gabriel Mountains. Engine thirty two
Speaker 1: veered off the road yesterday and apparently fish tailed as
Speaker 1: the driver tried to straighten it out. That caused the
Speaker 1: truck to overturn. It landed on its side. Three fire
Speaker 1: crew members were treated at the hospital. Highway thirty nine
Speaker 1: near the San Gabrielle Reservoir was closed for about three hours.
Speaker 1: Two young men had been heard during a street takeover
Speaker 1: in Anaheim. A driver apparently lost control Friday and drove
Speaker 1: into a crowd of spectators at Orangewood Avenue and State
Speaker 1: College Boulevard. The injured nineteen year olds were found on
Speaker 1: the ground. Police that the injuries range from broken bones
Speaker 1: to abrasions. At least one had broken ribs. Striking Boeing
Speaker 1: workers are set to vote whether to accept a new
Speaker 1: contract offer or continue their strike, which started in mid September.
Speaker 1: The latest contract offer would give workers a thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent pay raise over four years. Union members recently rejected
Speaker 1: an offer that included a thirty five percent salary bonus
Speaker 1: and an earlier thirty percent pay hike. Workers have also
Speaker 1: been demanding the restoration of traditional pensions, but the company
Speaker 1: says that is not happening. Let's say good morning to
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen, we're in the home stretch
Speaker 1: and the candidates between the two of them are making
Speaker 1: nine stops today.
Speaker 2: So it's busy yusy final day, and it was a
Speaker 2: busy weekend out on the campaign trail. The Vice President
Speaker 2: was in Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday, then she
Speaker 2: was in Michigan all day yesterday. She of course made
Speaker 2: that surprise stop in New York City on Saturday night
Speaker 2: to appear on Saturday Night Live. And today it's all
Speaker 2: about Pennsylvania. She has five different stops in Pennsylvania today,
Speaker 2: underscoring how important this campaign believes that that state is
Speaker 2: right now for her chances of winning. It's her eighteenth
Speaker 2: trip to Pennsylvania's and she launched her campaign in late July,
Speaker 2: and today.
Speaker 1: She's going to be all over the state.
Speaker 2: She starts off with a meeting with volunteers who are
Speaker 2: heading out to knock on doors and try to get
Speaker 2: people out to vote tomorrow. Then she heads to two
Speaker 2: different events aimed at shoring up Latino voters. Her campaign
Speaker 2: really sees an opening there and that they've seen movement
Speaker 2: among that voting group after those comments by a comedian
Speaker 2: last week at the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2: So they're really trying to lock that in because there's
Speaker 2: a sizeable Puerto Rican population in Pennsylvania. Tonight, then two
Speaker 2: big concert rallies Pittsburgh, first with Katie Perry and then
Speaker 2: finishing the whole campaign season off in Philadelphia at the
Speaker 2: Art Museum on those famous steps from the Rocky movie.
Speaker 2: Remember Rocky ran up the steps. She's going to be
Speaker 2: speaking at the top of them. She'll be joined by
Speaker 2: Lady Gaga, the Roots, other musical acts and Oprah.
Speaker 1: Wimfrey and Rocky. She's still there.
Speaker 2: The statue is there. It's not at the top of
Speaker 2: the steps, it's kind of off to the side at
Speaker 2: the bottom. But it's a big tourist destination, no surprise,
Speaker 2: and she will be delivering her remarks at the top
Speaker 2: of the steps there. They're anticipating a very large crowd
Speaker 2: tonight in Philadelphia eclock too. It's a really late rally,
Speaker 2: so she's kind of, you know, pushing it to the
Speaker 2: edge of the election eve time there.
Speaker 1: Okay, then on election Day Karen there. Are they not
Speaker 1: allowed to make appearances or do they still make more
Speaker 1: appearances tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Oh no, she could if she wanted to. I mean
Speaker 2: nothing right now that we know of on her schedule.
Speaker 2: She's going back to DC tonight. She'll be in DC tomorrow.
Speaker 2: You know, I think she would likely do maybe some
Speaker 2: radio interviews. I think you'll see your pop up on
Speaker 2: social media, but you know, they also wait for returns
Speaker 2: to come in. And Tomorrow night, her election event is
Speaker 2: scheduled to take place at Howard University, her alma mater
Speaker 2: here in d C. She has strong ties still to
Speaker 2: the university. She did her debate prep there before that
Speaker 2: September debate against Donald Trump. But we were expecting to
Speaker 2: see her at some point tomorrow night as the votes
Speaker 2: come in.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a question for you. So she's doing
Speaker 1: all of her campaign appearances today in Pennsylvania. Trump is
Speaker 1: also going to be in Pennsylvania, but then he's hopping
Speaker 1: over to Michigan for his last one, and she's choosing
Speaker 1: not to go to Michigan today and also canceled something
Speaker 1: in Michigan on Saturday Night to go over to Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live instead.
Speaker 2: No, no, she didn't. She was in Michigan all day yesterday.
Speaker 2: She did multiple stops in Michigan. She was just flying
Speaker 2: to Michigan. She eventually got there. She was going from
Speaker 2: North Carolina on Saturday, flying to Detroit, and they made
Speaker 2: the stop in New York City to do Saturday Night
Speaker 2: Live and then went on to Detroit. She was always
Speaker 2: scheduled to start her day yesterday in Detroit.
Speaker 1: Okay, so she was canceled. Okay, so she didn't cancel
Speaker 1: anything in Michigan. Or she's not avoiding Michigan. She just
Speaker 1: did it yesterday and is spinning today in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Three plus stops yesterday in Michigan. She spent a whole
Speaker 2: day in Michigan yesterday.
Speaker 1: I am amazed at both candidates and their team's stamina
Speaker 1: for what they're doing. It's just crazy. This just traveling
Speaker 1: around and go and stop after stop. So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: that they're going to get a little bit of sleep
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Maybe I doubt it.
Speaker 6: I doubt it.
Speaker 2: The results are going to come in pretty late because
Speaker 2: the voting I'll take a.
Speaker 1: While, so I doubt it. All right, Well, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for the update, Karen. We'll be talking to
Speaker 1: you again very soon. Have a great date, all right
Speaker 1: you too. Let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 1: man has been found dead inside a boat that overturned
Speaker 1: off the coast of Redondo Beach. Five people were rescued,
Speaker 1: including a child. The overturned boat was reported just after
Speaker 1: one yesterday afternoon, about a mile off shore. The distress
Speaker 1: call was made by cell phone to the Redondo Beach
Speaker 1: Harbor Patrol. Five people, including the captain, were found clinging
Speaker 1: to the boat. Divers found the missing man who became
Speaker 1: trapped inside. La Metro has celebrated a new ridership milestone.
Speaker 7: Buses and trains across the system saw an average of
Speaker 7: one million daily riders in September. It's first time reaching
Speaker 7: that height since before COVID CEO Stephanie Wiggins told the
Speaker 7: Metro Board last week the agency strategies are attracting a
Speaker 7: variety of passengers.
Speaker 8: This growth has been powered not only by our regular writers,
Speaker 8: but by connecting writers to the diverse communities we serve.
Speaker 7: Writership was up ten percent on Metro's rail lines in
Speaker 7: September compared to a year earlier. Buses saw an increase
Speaker 7: of seven percent year over year in downtown La Michael
Speaker 7: Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: California has been ranked number four in a report on
Speaker 1: states that do the best to help people deal with obesity.
Speaker 1: The nonprofit organization smile Hub released its report on the
Speaker 1: best States for health and Wellness in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Smile Hub Business manager Luke Powers's California ranks well because
Speaker 1: it encourages healthier living.
Speaker 4: I think the strong performance in OBEs rate aligns with
Speaker 4: expectations for a state that prioritizes the active and healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Federal health officials say about seventy five percent of adults
Speaker 1: in the US are classified as overweight or a beast
Speaker 1: seventy five percent. The governor of Oklahoma has declared an
Speaker 1: emergency in six counties impacted by tornadoes that hit the
Speaker 1: state over the weekend. Governor Kevin sid announced yesterday about
Speaker 1: one hundred homes were damaged and about thirty thousand households
Speaker 1: are without power.
Speaker 9: We've got more storms coming, so don't rely on don't
Speaker 9: rely on the sirens. Make sure you're watching your news
Speaker 9: and your cell phone's taking cover when you can.
Speaker 1: No deaths were reported yesterday, but several people were taken
Speaker 1: to hospitals. The governor also announced crews are making sure
Speaker 1: polling stations have power for tomorrow's election.
Speaker 3: Three two one.
Speaker 1: A six story mural of Dodgers' picture Fernando Valenzuela has
Speaker 1: been uncovered in Boil Heights, days after what would have
Speaker 1: been Fernando Vealezuela's sixty fourth birthday. He died on October nineteenth.
Speaker 1: The artist who painted the mural, Robert Vargas, said during
Speaker 1: a ceremony yesterday, that the mural is all about representation.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers bought Valenzuela's contract from a team in Mexico
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine, and in nineteen eighty one, he
Speaker 1: helped the team from La win the World Series over
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees in six games. Balinzuela also pitched
Speaker 1: for the Angels, the Orioles, the Phillies, the Padres, and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals before becoming a Dodgers broadcaster. Nearly seven million
Speaker 1: voters in California have already cast their ballots ahead of
Speaker 1: election Day. That's about thirty percent of the ballots mailed out,
Speaker 1: but elections officials expect those numbers to go up higher
Speaker 1: when ballots cast over the weekend are added in. A
Speaker 1: magnitude three point three earthquake has rumbled Riverside County. The
Speaker 1: US Geological Survey says the quake hit at three twenty
Speaker 1: this morning near Lakinta, about seventeen miles southwest of Palm Desert.
Speaker 1: Beware of bears. Officials say bears near Lake Tahoe are
Speaker 1: getting ready to hibernate, so they're eating a lot right now,
Speaker 1: up to forty thousand calories a day. That means they'll
Speaker 1: likely be snooping through neighborhoods to find food. Officials say
Speaker 1: residents should keep trash in garbage carts or bear boxes,
Speaker 1: pet food inside, and keep outdoor grills clean. I would
Speaker 1: have never thought of the outdoor grills, but probably a
Speaker 1: good idea. Let's stay good morning now too. ABC's Stephen Portnoy,
Speaker 1: So President Trump is hitting a lot of stops on
Speaker 1: his last day before the election. We talked to Karen
Speaker 1: just a minute ago, so we thought we'd give you
Speaker 1: a chance to tell us what the former president is
Speaker 1: up to.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 10: The former president has four events on this last day
Speaker 10: of the campaign. It is a packed schedule. He begins
Speaker 10: his day in Raleigh, North Carolina, a state where he's
Speaker 10: scheduled four rallies in the final days of the campaign,
Speaker 10: A must win state for him. He won it by
Speaker 10: a percentage point four years ago and needs to hold
Speaker 10: it this time around. So he's got one more rally
Speaker 10: in North Carolina on this final day in Raleigh, then
Speaker 10: two stops in Pennsylvania, another must win state. He begins
Speaker 10: in Reading and then travels west to Pittsburgh, and then
Speaker 10: finally he caps off this cycle, this candidacy with an
Speaker 10: event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which happens to be the
Speaker 10: same city where he ended his twenty sixteen and twenty
Speaker 10: twenty campaigns for the presidency. So it's something of a
Speaker 10: Trump campaign tradition.
Speaker 1: And he won Michigan in twenty sixteen, that lost it
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, right correct.
Speaker 10: In fact, the margin for Trump in twenty sixteen was
Speaker 10: just ten seven hundred votes, but it was significantly larger
Speaker 10: for Biden in twenty twenty one hundred and fifty four thousand,
Speaker 10: so practically a factor of I guess a factor of
Speaker 10: ten there. And ultimately, in the end, Biden won that
Speaker 10: state with nearly three percentage points. And so Trump really
Speaker 10: wants to win that back for the Republicans. We'll see
Speaker 10: if he can do it.
Speaker 1: I have a question for you. He's been at rally
Speaker 1: after rally after rally, and Harris is doing it too.
Speaker 1: At this point, what is the point of the rallies
Speaker 1: Because the people who are attending these rallies are probably
Speaker 1: already supporting the rally the candidate for the rally they're attending.
Speaker 10: At this point. It's a about base motivating, it's about
Speaker 10: reminding people to get out to vote if they haven't already.
Speaker 10: It's about the positive presuming it is media attention, particularly
Speaker 10: in local markets that a rally can produce, and it's
Speaker 10: about being a physical presence. It's about demonstrating to the country,
Speaker 10: to your supporters from coast to coast, that you're in
Speaker 10: this to win it, and that you're working hard until
Speaker 10: the very last. Historically, these rallies have been helpful to
Speaker 10: each of these campaigns because they've been able to, through
Speaker 10: their registering for them, collect data on voters. And so
Speaker 10: you know, when you sign up to attend a rally,
Speaker 10: they capture your phone number and your email address, and
Speaker 10: they can use that data to bombard you with messages
Speaker 10: and then layer it over, perhaps with a voter file
Speaker 10: that then can track whether you have voted. And it's
Speaker 10: helpful for the campaigns to hold these events just as
Speaker 10: ways of capturing people's personal information, which sounds pernicious, but
Speaker 10: it's kind of sort of the way that campaigns are conducted.
Speaker 10: These days, it's all about collecting data to pound you
Speaker 10: over the head with these messages of hurry up and
Speaker 10: vote and send money and tell your relatives and friends
Speaker 10: to do the same.
Speaker 1: I would imagine people in swing states have got to
Speaker 1: be absolutely exhausted because we're inundated with the with the
Speaker 1: ads here and we're not a swing state, so we're
Speaker 1: not seeing any while. We're seeing some Trump Kamala, but
Speaker 1: we're not seeing a ton.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I mean, look, I think you know, we as
Speaker 10: a country have this collective problem every couple of years
Speaker 10: where we are just exhausted by the end of these
Speaker 10: campaigns and they never really do seem to end. And
Speaker 10: there are times where we look at overseas and we say, man,
Speaker 10: they seem to have it right, where they have just
Speaker 10: very very tight and narrow windows and strict controls on
Speaker 10: how these campaigns are run and even on how public
Speaker 10: opinion surveys are used by journalists in the final days.
Speaker 10: I don't subscribe to much of that, but I think
Speaker 10: the bottom line is that there, you know, we just
Speaker 10: happen to live in a society where we're perpetually engaged
Speaker 10: in this idea of self government, and it wasn't exactly
Speaker 10: the intent of the founders, perhaps, but it is where
Speaker 10: we are today, and it's an opportunity, whether it's the
Speaker 10: hot district attorney race in Los Angeles County, or the
Speaker 10: Senate race in the state of California, or the national
Speaker 10: vote and the whole question of the presidency. Really interesting
Speaker 10: to me yesterday how Kamala Harris didn't want to answer
Speaker 10: how she would vote. I believe it's on Prop. Thirty six.
Speaker 1: She'd I saw that, yeah, and so she said she's
Speaker 1: castor ballot. She sent it to California. But when they
Speaker 1: asked how she would vote on it, of course, this
Speaker 1: is the one that repeals part of Prop. Forty seven,
Speaker 1: which made a lot of felonies into misdemeanors, she wouldn't say.
Speaker 10: Right, And so it matters. Every vote matters, and it's
Speaker 10: I guess I'm talking myself in circles here, but the
Speaker 10: bottom line is gotta go and vote, folks.
Speaker 1: Aren't you excited for tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Can't wait?
Speaker 1: Actually it's not even tomorrow because it's not going to
Speaker 1: be decided tomorrow most likely.
Speaker 10: And that's the thing. You know, our partners at five
Speaker 10: point thirty eight, who are just you know, these data
Speaker 10: have done this great chart where you can sort of
Speaker 10: track hour by hour and see what the expected vote
Speaker 10: county is in each of the states. In California, I
Speaker 10: don't know what it is with you guys, but you
Speaker 10: lag behind the rest of the country, and so, you
Speaker 10: know what, it's a lot of us. Well, sure, I
Speaker 10: understand respect that, Thank goodness for it. But it's this
Speaker 10: whole idea of how to count all these ballots and
Speaker 10: report the results for the rest of the country. We
Speaker 10: may not know the makeup, for example, the House of
Speaker 10: Representatives for a long time because of the contested races
Speaker 10: in the Golden State and how long it'll take for
Speaker 10: all those ballots to be counted and reported out. So
Speaker 10: I guess we'll all just have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have another question for you, because you just
Speaker 1: mentioned the House. We're getting the polling that is showing
Speaker 1: the presidential race is just so tight. Are they showing
Speaker 1: that the House and the Senate races are that tight too,
Speaker 1: or is it really just the presidential thing that's neck
Speaker 1: and neck.
Speaker 10: On a national level, we have survey data that looks
Speaker 10: at what we call the generic ballot. We put the
Speaker 10: question to voters across the country, who would you like
Speaker 10: to see in control of Congress? Which has often been
Speaker 10: a predictor of the outcome. Well, guess what our five
Speaker 10: thirty eight polling average is this morning of this question,
Speaker 10: with about a half point in favor of the Democrats,
Speaker 10: which is obviously within the margin of error, and it
Speaker 10: indicates that we cannot predict how it's going to go.
Speaker 10: Earlier in this cycle, the Democrats enjoyed a lead, in
Speaker 10: a narrow lead, in that generic ballot. For example, in September,
Speaker 10: it was about two percentage points in favor of the Democrats.
Speaker 10: Now it's zero point six percent in favor of the Democrats.
Speaker 10: It's a tie, and that means that that razor thin
Speaker 10: majority the Republicans could wind up being the same smaller
Speaker 10: or an equally small majority for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: We do not know, okay, but we will be watching
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you again very soon. Stephen Bortnoy,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, as always for the information. You
Speaker 1: bet all right, let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Three crew members are injured after an LA County fire
Speaker 1: truck flipped over. It happened shortly after five point thirty
Speaker 1: last night on Highway three thirty nine above Azusa, near
Speaker 1: the San Gabriel Reservoir. The fire truck was on its
Speaker 1: way to a cliff rescue call. Authority say it fishtailed
Speaker 1: enrolled onto its side after it veered off the road
Speaker 1: a bit. All of the injuries were considered minor. A
Speaker 1: man who allegedly kidnapped his ex girlfriend in Almonte and
Speaker 1: led police on a chase has been arrested in Orange County.
Speaker 1: The woman told police her ex showed up at her
Speaker 1: workplace with a gun on Saturday night, argued with her,
Speaker 1: and then forced her into her car. She was able
Speaker 1: to call a friend, who called police and shared the
Speaker 1: woman's location through the Find My iPhone app The chase
Speaker 1: near ended near the four or five and Westminster Avenue
Speaker 1: in Westminster. An FCC commissioners called out Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: over a surprise appearance by Vice President Harris. She appeared
Speaker 1: with Saturday Night Live Alumnaya Rudolph, who plays the VP
Speaker 1: in skits on the show leading up to the election.
Speaker 11: NBC has said it will comply with any regulatory obligations.
Speaker 11: SNL executive producer Lauren Michael's indicate just last month that
Speaker 11: neither candidate would appear on the show, citing concern about
Speaker 11: the FCC's equal time provision.
Speaker 1: Dimberts's NBC gave former President Trump's campaign free airtime for
Speaker 1: a sixty second ad during a NASCAR race Yesterday. The
Speaker 1: Israeli military says it has carried out a ground raid
Speaker 1: into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks.
Speaker 1: It was the first time in the current war that
Speaker 1: Israel announced its troops had operated in Syrian territory. Three
Speaker 1: astronauts who spent six months aboard the Chinese space station
Speaker 1: have returned to Earth. The crew came out of their
Speaker 1: capsule after touching down early this morning in China's Inner
Speaker 1: Mongolia region. A replacement three person crew arrived at their
Speaker 1: space station last week. Southern California, Edison says up to
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty four thousand customers in La Orange,
Speaker 1: Ventura and San Bernardino counties could see their powers shut
Speaker 1: off today because of strong gusty winds. A red flag
Speaker 1: warning for high fires in effect until six pm. The
Speaker 1: strongest wind gusts up to sixty miles per hour are expected.
Speaker 1: In the northern San Fernando Valley, Boeing machinists will vote
Speaker 1: on a new contract that could bring an end to
Speaker 1: the more than seven week long strike. The Union for
Speaker 1: the thirty three thousand workers is encouraging members to vote
Speaker 1: in favor of the new deal, which includes a thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent pay increase over four years, a twelve thousand
Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus, and increased company contributions to four oh
Speaker 1: one k's TGI Fridays has filed for bankruptcy. The executive
Speaker 1: chairman of TGI Fridays says the main driver for the
Speaker 1: restaurant chain's money problems was the COVID nineteen pandemic. About
Speaker 1: fifty of the restaurants have already closed, seven in California
Speaker 1: planned to close, some will stay open as bankruptcy proceedings
Speaker 1: move forward. At five point fifty this weekend that you
Speaker 1: can take a run or a walk at the beach
Speaker 1: for a really good cause. It's the Heroes of Hope
Speaker 1: Run at Dackweiler. We're going to let you know how
Speaker 1: you can get involved and what important cause it's supporting.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 1: That's come out up in about fifteen minutes but right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to ABC's Steve Roberts, a news
Speaker 1: political analyst. So, Steve, the race is in a dead
Speaker 1: heat nationally and in the swing states. Vice President Harris
Speaker 1: is leading in some former President Trump leading in others.
Speaker 1: Is this the closest race we've ever seen?
Speaker 4: Yes, I think so, And if you look at the
Speaker 4: numbers this morning, there's sort of encouraging signs for both sides. Amy,
Speaker 4: you look at our ABC poll out this morning, Harris
Speaker 4: has a national lead of three points forty nine six.
Speaker 4: New York Times reports that late deciders are breaking marginally
Speaker 4: for Harris fifty five forty four, very important number. The
Speaker 4: electorate is close to fifty four percent female, and that's
Speaker 4: an enormous benefit to Harris because there's a huge gender
Speaker 4: gap this year and it's been true for Democrats for generations.
Speaker 4: Now they have to run up the score among women voters.
Speaker 4: That there are more women voters. It works for the Democrats,
Speaker 4: but there are two signs that work for Trump. One
Speaker 4: is that the single most important state in the country's
Speaker 4: Pennsylvania nineteen electoral votes. It could well decide this election.
Speaker 4: Whoever wins Pennsylvania could be president and Trump has clearly
Speaker 4: cut into Harris's lead in every poll in that state
Speaker 4: now calls it a dead heat. The other number that
Speaker 4: is extremely important is seventy four. That is the number
Speaker 4: in our ABC poll this morning, the percentage of Americans
Speaker 4: say the country is headed in the wrong direction. And
Speaker 4: that includes fifty percent of Harris. It includes fifty percent
Speaker 4: of Harris Amy. That tells you that the basic structure
Speaker 4: of this election has not changed with all of the turmoil,
Speaker 4: all of the sudden changes, whether it's Biden pulling out,
Speaker 4: Trump getting shot, the basic structure, the basic premise of
Speaker 4: this election has been the same from the beginning, and
Speaker 4: that is it's a change election, and that works for
Speaker 4: Donald Trump's advantage.
Speaker 1: And it seems, like you said, with all of the
Speaker 1: advertising and the rallies and the events that have happened
Speaker 1: and everything, we're still so closely divided. I mean, like
Speaker 1: half of the country is going to be really upset
Speaker 1: on Wednesday or whenever we get the results.
Speaker 4: Let me give you an astounding statistic. Okay, so four
Speaker 4: years ago, Donald Trump got forty six point nine percent
Speaker 4: of the vote. I looked this morning at the website,
Speaker 4: five thirty eight. This is a very good, independent, highly
Speaker 4: professional website that averages all the national polls. Donald Trump
Speaker 4: was at forty six point nine percent, exactly the same
Speaker 4: number down to the decimal point of what he got
Speaker 4: four years ago. So that reinforces your point. We've now
Speaker 4: had two extremely close selections. The country is very, very
Speaker 4: closely divided. Donald Trump has a very high floor, but
Speaker 4: a very low ceiling in terms of his ability to
Speaker 4: attract votes. He's never broken forty seven percent, let alone
Speaker 4: fifty percent. And but what this also means is that
Speaker 4: over ten years now, both sides have increasingly polarized, increasingly frustrated,
Speaker 4: increasingly depicting the other side not just as wrong.
Speaker 1: But as evil, I know, nasty.
Speaker 4: You know, there's Donald Trump, you know, both sides. You know,
Speaker 4: there's Harris calling Trump a fascist, and Trump calling Harris,
Speaker 4: you know, a demented you know, and stupid woman. And
Speaker 4: here's the danger here. If this does come down to
Speaker 4: one state like Pennsylvania, which is mirroring what happened in
Speaker 4: Florida twenty four years ago, there's huge differences, you know,
Speaker 4: because it's not it's you have the Internet. Now, you
Speaker 4: have the ability of people to spawn and distribute misinformation disinformation,
Speaker 4: conspiracy theories almost instantaneously you Donald Trump has told voters,
Speaker 4: now this is the third election where he's basically sung
Speaker 4: the same song, which is the only way we could
Speaker 4: lose is if the other side cheats. And so in
Speaker 4: two thousand, it's not as if anybody really thought if
Speaker 4: Gore Bush was elected it was going to be the
Speaker 4: end of the world. This year, people are so much
Speaker 4: more hateful, so much more fearful that if the other
Speaker 4: side wins, it's going to be the apococalypse. And so
Speaker 4: if you have anything like amy, a repeat of Florida
Speaker 4: twenty four years ago, I'm afraid that this could be
Speaker 4: an highly explosive and incendiary situation. Look, we've already had
Speaker 4: a January sixth We've already had an arm and insurrection
Speaker 4: at the Capitol and try to overturn an election four
Speaker 4: years ago. So this is not just people spinning out theories.
Speaker 4: This has already happened once, and I'm afraid it could
Speaker 4: be even worse this time.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering too, Steve, and I don't know if any
Speaker 1: of your analysis shows us that it's more about, like
Speaker 1: you said, if Gore one or Bush one, nobody thought
Speaker 1: the world was going to be over and with this one,
Speaker 1: the way that both candidates are going after each other
Speaker 1: in both parties, is it more about the.
Speaker 4: Candidate than yes, yes, yeah, this is not necessarily about issues.
Speaker 4: Sure they disagree on issues profoundly on some issues, you know,
Speaker 4: on abortion or on immigration policy. I'm not minimizing that.
Speaker 4: But you're absolutely right and saying the core of this
Speaker 4: is personal. The core of this is and they're closing
Speaker 4: arguments in many ways, are all personal. They're not about
Speaker 4: issues so much. Look what is Harris The tagline on
Speaker 4: her final adds, Many of them say Donald Trump unhinged, unstable,
Speaker 4: and unchecked. That's not about an issue. Sure, abortion is
Speaker 4: out there and the background is an issue, but the
Speaker 4: core of her message is you cannot trust Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: and the core of his message is you cannot trust
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris. This goes well beyond the longer list of issues.
Speaker 4: This is much more personal. This is getting to people's
Speaker 4: character and judgment much more than any specific issue. And
Speaker 4: that's one of the reasons why the emotions are so high,
Speaker 4: because look, you can disagree on issues, and you can
Speaker 4: compromise issues, you know, when it comes down to legislative debates,
Speaker 4: but character is harder to compromise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well we will be watching and hope
Speaker 1: everybody can take a collective deep breath and chill and
Speaker 1: just accept what happens starting tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Or work with that.
Speaker 1: I know, well, I'm a hopeful person. I'm an optimist, Steve.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the.
Speaker 4: Look. I believe in the American system and I think
Speaker 4: in the and the American public will support it, assure.
Speaker 1: So thanks Steve. We'll talk to you soon. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. One person has been killed
Speaker 1: and five hundred to one thousand gallons of jet fuel
Speaker 1: has leaked onto the roadway in a tanker truck rollover
Speaker 1: crash in South la Please say, the driver of the
Speaker 1: tanker truck lost control on the one ten late Saturday night,
Speaker 1: rolled and came to rest on top of a black car.
Speaker 1: One person in that car was killed, two others where injured.
Speaker 1: Officials say the leak has been contained. Dawson's Creek actor
Speaker 1: James Vanderbeek has announced he has cancer. Andrew Dimbert says
Speaker 1: the actor was kind of forced to make the news.
Speaker 11: Public, saying he revealed the diagnosis earlier than he wanted
Speaker 11: because I was informed that a tabloid was going to
Speaker 11: run with the news. Apologies to all the people in
Speaker 11: my life who had planned on telling myself.
Speaker 1: Vanderbeek is forty seven. Dimbert says the number of people
Speaker 1: under fifty five diagnosed with colorectal cancer has doubled since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. Doctors are now recommend recommending you get
Speaker 1: your first colonoscopy at forty five instead of fifty. Doctors
Speaker 1: say some factors that put people at risk include poor diet,
Speaker 1: lack of exercise, smoking, and heavy alcohol use, or, as
Speaker 1: my doctor said to me, it's just bad luck. Starbucks
Speaker 1: is welcoming the holiday season with a fresh lineup of
Speaker 1: festive cups with the theme Merrier Together.
Speaker 6: The cups are inspired by elements like roasting coffee beans,
Speaker 6: holiday lights, and Starbucks's signature green color. The coffee giant
Speaker 6: says each design, such as Joyful Connection and lyrical Landscape,
Speaker 6: captures the warmth of the holiday season. The collection introduces
Speaker 6: vibrant colors and a siren wave detail, which Starbucks says
Speaker 6: offers a cheerful touch to every sip. Starbucks hopes the
Speaker 6: design inspire joy and togetherness through their unique motifs. The
Speaker 6: cups will be available starting November seventh. Andrew Caravella KFI
Speaker 6: News and.
Speaker 1: The Christmas season is here. Sec Services increasing security head
Speaker 1: of the election. Fences are being reinforced at the White
Speaker 1: House and the Naval Observatory in DC. The Secret Services
Speaker 1: is not because of a specified threat, just part of
Speaker 1: overall preparations for election Day and its aftermath. Similar security
Speaker 1: increases are being done at the Palm Beach Convention Center,
Speaker 1: where former President Trump will hold his election night watch party.
Speaker 1: One person has been killed and five others, including a child,
Speaker 1: have been rescued after a boat capsized off the coast
Speaker 1: of Bredondo Beach. First Responders found five people clinging to
Speaker 1: the twenty five foot overturned boat yesterday afternoon. The person
Speaker 1: who died became trapped inside. Authorities haven't set yet what
Speaker 1: caused the boat to capsize. Almonte police a woman's Find
Speaker 1: My iPhone apt has helped them find a woman who
Speaker 1: was allegedly kidnapped by her ex boyfriend. Poli say the
Speaker 1: woman was taken at gunpoint from her workplace on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: The kidnapper led police on a chase for more than
Speaker 1: twenty miles. The woman's friend was able to find her
Speaker 1: location and shared it with police. They then tracked him
Speaker 1: down and arrested the guy and rescued the woman along
Speaker 1: the four or five in Orange County. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to Lisa Malar, who is with Together in
Speaker 1: Hope the Heroes of Hope Race. Good morning, Lisa, Good morning,
Speaker 1: So Lisa, everybody gets a chance to be a superhero
Speaker 1: this Sunday. Please tell us about the Heroes of Hope Race.
Speaker 5: Oh great, Yeah, the seventeenth year of our Superheroes of
Speaker 5: Hope Race for Brain Tumor Research, and it's a very
Speaker 5: special day of hope and remembrance that helps to fund
Speaker 5: very much needive research for brain tumors for children and
Speaker 5: adults at Children's Hosto Los Angeles, UCLA and Cedar Sinai.
Speaker 1: So does the money raised here? Does it all stay here?
Speaker 4: It does?
Speaker 5: That's a great thing about our event. Excuse me. We're
Speaker 5: a small nonprofit and so we really like to make
Speaker 5: sure that the people that are donating can kind of
Speaker 5: have some control over what they do. They're fun so
Speaker 5: when they register they can donate to the team that
Speaker 5: they want, and that team also can choose what hospital
Speaker 5: they want to fund, and they're of course always welcome
Speaker 5: to fund all three.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then the cool thing, like you just said,
Speaker 1: the money stays here. But this race draws people from
Speaker 1: all over the country.
Speaker 9: It does.
Speaker 5: We've had people from I mean, I come from Virginia,
Speaker 5: which is kind of crazy, but that's how it started.
Speaker 5: And we have people that come from all over the
Speaker 5: United States. A lot of people from Las Vegas area, Nevada, Arizona,
Speaker 5: of course, northern California as well as southern California.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this one's kind of near and dear to
Speaker 1: me because my grandfather died of a brain tumor. My
Speaker 1: favorite aunt also had a brain tumor. And of course
Speaker 1: our friend Ronda, a huge Dodgers fan who I get
Speaker 1: to sit by at some of the games. She's a
Speaker 1: survivor and so she participates. As how we found out
Speaker 1: about you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there is Moronda's sixteenth year this year. That's where
Speaker 5: one does almost every single one.
Speaker 1: That's great. How many people are by brain cancer.
Speaker 5: A lot too many. I lost my brother when he
Speaker 5: was twenty nine years old. But it's the leading cause
Speaker 5: of solid tumor death and children. It's the number one
Speaker 5: cause of cancer death in men under the age of
Speaker 5: thirty nine. And it's probably a quarter of a million
Speaker 5: people living with brain tumors right now.
Speaker 1: And do we have any kind of knowledge of what
Speaker 1: are some of the risk factors, Is there anything specific
Speaker 1: that is leading to this, and is it getting worse
Speaker 1: or is it just kind of awful.
Speaker 5: It's always been kind of awful. There is no known
Speaker 5: correlation at this point as to what causes it. Doctors
Speaker 5: that I've talked to believe that it could be a
Speaker 5: combination of genetics as you saw, it's kind of like
Speaker 5: in your family. It's kind of in my family as well.
Speaker 5: We've had several people in our family that has them,
Speaker 5: as well as the environmental exposure like radiation, things like that.
Speaker 5: So that's what they're taught talking about. But the problem
Speaker 5: really is that it's your brains. It's very difficult to treat.
Speaker 5: You can't take out your brain. You can take out
Speaker 5: pieces of it, but it grows back very quickly and
Speaker 5: the brain controls every function. So it's just in an
Speaker 5: area where it's very difficult to treat and On top
Speaker 5: of that, the brain has a blood brain barrier that
Speaker 5: protects itself from chemotherapy, so it's very hard to get
Speaker 5: the medicines to work. So it really is important to
Speaker 5: fund research. And also about twenty percent of all cancers
Speaker 5: will spread to the brain, and Ronda had melanoa that's
Speaker 5: spread to the brain, and so it's really important that
Speaker 5: we continue to fund it because at some point, probably
Speaker 5: everybody's going to be touched by a brain tumor in
Speaker 5: some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's move on to how we how we're
Speaker 1: going to raise money through this superhero event, the Heroes
Speaker 1: of Hope Race. When is it, where is it and
Speaker 1: who who can be part of it?
Speaker 5: It is on this Sunday, November tenth at doc Why
Speaker 5: our State Beach right behind lax Implia Dora. It starts
Speaker 5: at eight am for a five K and eight thirty
Speaker 5: am for a ten K. What we do ask everybody
Speaker 5: to get in before seven thirty because it gets a
Speaker 5: little crowded trying to get into that parking lot. Anybody
Speaker 5: can participate. We have women, men, children, there's doctors from
Speaker 5: all the different hospitals, nurses, caregers, people who have lost
Speaker 5: loved ones, superraintobers, people who have brain tumors, dogs on
Speaker 5: leashes can come. We have a kid's fun run at
Speaker 5: the end about nine thirty and all the kids get
Speaker 5: tutoo's and superhero capes. It's the cutest thing ever to
Speaker 5: watch them. And all you have to do is register
Speaker 5: at ww dot superheroeshope dot org. You can come as
Speaker 5: an individual, you can join a team, and if you
Speaker 5: can't make it, you can be a virtual runner as well.
Speaker 5: And if you can't do any of that, you can
Speaker 5: at least donate. So we hope everybody will try to
Speaker 5: participate in some way because it's super important.
Speaker 1: Okay, you mentioned you can virtually do because we have
Speaker 1: a lot of people listening on the iHeartRadio app who
Speaker 1: get to stream us because they're in different markets, So
Speaker 1: how would they be involved? Virtually?
Speaker 5: Just go to www dot superheroeshope dot org and click
Speaker 5: on a register to run a walk and click on
Speaker 5: virtual runner and I'll walk you through the process of
Speaker 5: registration and after the event's over, we'll send out a
Speaker 5: metal and a T shirt. And all you have to
Speaker 5: do is basically email us your route and your time.
Speaker 1: Okay, and is this a timed run or is it
Speaker 1: or can you walk it? If you want to walk?
Speaker 4: It's both.
Speaker 5: You can definitely walk it if you want. Ron This
Speaker 5: team likes to walk. We have a lot of people
Speaker 5: who like to walk. But it is also time for
Speaker 5: competitive runners. So we have a ten k and a
Speaker 5: five k and a professional time and company that's there
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, and that's this Sunday. What a beautiful way to
Speaker 1: start your day, taking a walk or a run along
Speaker 1: the beach and raising money for such an important cause.
Speaker 1: Superheroes of Hoope dot org is where you can get
Speaker 1: more information and register for the run or the walk.
Speaker 1: Lisa Millar, thank you so much. I hope you raise
Speaker 1: a ton of money.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. Have a great day.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Two
Speaker 1: LAPD officers have been heard in a crash in LA's
Speaker 1: Harbor Gateway area. Both were taken to the hospital early yesterday,
Speaker 1: where they were treated for minor injuries. The LAPD says
Speaker 1: the officers were in a patrol vehicle that overturned when
Speaker 1: it collided with another car at South Figueroa Street and
Speaker 1: West Rosecrans Avenue. The team driver of the other car
Speaker 1: was arrested on suspicion of DUI. Daily ridership on metro
Speaker 1: buses and trains in La averaged a million people a
Speaker 1: day in September compared to a year earlier. CEO Stephanie
Speaker 1: Wiggins says is the first time ridership has hit that
Speaker 1: number since before the pandemic.
Speaker 8: This milestone is a tribute to all of our efforts
Speaker 8: over the past three years to recover ridership by making
Speaker 8: our system cleaner, safer, more comfortable and reliable and easier.
Speaker 1: For all our customers. Metro Buses took nearly twenty one
Speaker 1: million trips in September, with a six percent increase in
Speaker 1: ridership compared to last year. On the rail lines, there
Speaker 1: was a year over a year increase of ten percent
Speaker 1: in passengers. A federal judge has ruled that IOWA can
Speaker 1: continue challenging the validity of hundreds of ballots from potential
Speaker 1: non citizens. The ruling on Sunday was a defeat for
Speaker 1: critics who said the effort threatened the voting rights of
Speaker 1: people who have recently become US citizens. Germany's top diplomat
Speaker 1: has arrived in Ukraine for what appears to be a
Speaker 1: show of European support for Kiev ahead of the US
Speaker 1: presidential election. Germany is Ukraine's second largest weapons supplier after
Speaker 1: the US. Germany's foreign minister says her country stands firmly
Speaker 1: by Ukraine's side. Venom The Last Dance has injected itself
Speaker 1: into the top spot at the box office. In its
Speaker 1: second weekend of release, it took in over twenty six
Speaker 1: million dollars. The Wild Robot came in second. The horror
Speaker 1: movie Smile Too is in third, Conclave is fourth, and
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks and Robin Wright's new movie Here finished fifth,
Speaker 1: earning just over five million dollars in its debut weekend.
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