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Speaker 1: September fifth. Good morning, I'm Amy King going out and
Speaker 1: about this morning. Oh we're going to be going out
Speaker 1: and about a little later this morning with wake up call.
Speaker 1: But as I headed out this morning to come in here,
Speaker 1: I was like, it feels like the middle of the
Speaker 1: day it was balmy, ever really cooled down and it's
Speaker 1: going to be hot. I tell you about that. Let's
Speaker 1: get right into it. Here's what ahead on wake up
Speaker 1: call inland areas of La and Ventura Counties. Lots of
Speaker 1: areas from the coast to the valleys are under excessive
Speaker 1: heat warnings through at least tomorrow night. The National Weather
Speaker 1: Services temperatures will be around ninety at the beaches up
Speaker 1: to about one point fifteen in the valleys. It will
Speaker 1: cool down a few degrees, but the heat is expected
Speaker 1: to stick around through the weekend. Police say eight of
Speaker 1: the nine people shot at Appalachi High School in winder Georgia,
Speaker 1: where students one was a teacher. Police previously announced that
Speaker 1: two students and two teachers were killed in the shooting
Speaker 1: at the high school. Yesterday. The fourteen year old alleged
Speaker 1: shooter surrendered and was arrested. We're going to be talking
Speaker 1: with ABC's Brad Garrett about the shooting and the shooter
Speaker 1: coming up at five twenty. He's always so great with
Speaker 1: insight into these terrible events. Vice President Harris and former
Speaker 1: President Trump have agreed to ground rules set forth by
Speaker 1: ABC for the presidential debate one week from today, which
Speaker 1: you just heard we're air here ONKFI. That includes muted microphones,
Speaker 1: which Harris's campaign objected to, saying they would shield Donald
Speaker 1: Trump from direct exchanges with Harris. Harris's team agreed to
Speaker 1: the conditions yesterday, saying they don't want to jeopardize the debate.
Speaker 1: Also coming up on wake Up Call, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: we're going out and about We're going on the Amtrak
Speaker 1: Pacific Surfliner. Going to want to hear about that. And
Speaker 1: before the top of the hour, we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking with John Patrick Poland with the home of the
Speaker 1: Brave Project and how our veterans have been totally shafted
Speaker 1: out of land that was left for them right here
Speaker 1: in LA. Also, let the online buyer beware. A couple
Speaker 1: of companies are in hot water for selling banned products
Speaker 1: on their sites. We're going to find out more about
Speaker 1: that with ABC's Jim Ryan in just a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: But right now, let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Schools in Barrow County, Georgia are closed for the rest
Speaker 1: of the week following the shooting at a high school yesterday.
Speaker 1: Authorities say a fourteen year old is going to be
Speaker 1: charged as an adult in the killings of two students
Speaker 1: and two tea at Appalachi High School. At least nine
Speaker 1: others were shot. They're all expected to survive. Local Sheriff
Speaker 1: jud Smith calls what happened pure evil.
Speaker 4: My heart hurts for.
Speaker 1: These kids, my heart hurts for our community.
Speaker 2: But I want to make it very clear that hate
Speaker 2: will not prevail in this county.
Speaker 1: Smith says they don't know what happened or why it happened,
Speaker 1: and that they may never know. The so called Pillowcase
Speaker 1: rapist may be released from state custody to a home
Speaker 1: in the Annealope Valley.
Speaker 5: Neighbors in and around Juniper Hills have been asked to
Speaker 5: give public feedback on the possibility of Christopher Hubbart being released.
Speaker 5: He's been convicted of more than three dozen rapes and
Speaker 5: sexual assaults, often using a pillowcase to muffle the screams
Speaker 5: of women he attacked. The crimes date back to the
Speaker 5: seventies and eighties, and after one release, he reoffended. In
Speaker 5: a second release, he violated conditions and was taken back
Speaker 5: into custody. LA County District Attorney George Gascone opposes Hubbard's
Speaker 5: release to Juniper Hills and wants to hear from the
Speaker 5: public via email before a court hearing on October first
Speaker 5: in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The two NASA astronauts taken to the International Space Station
Speaker 1: aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft won't be on board when it
Speaker 1: comes back to Earth tomorrow, butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams
Speaker 1: will stay in space as full crew members of the
Speaker 1: International Space Station until February. ISS Flight director Anthony Verea
Speaker 1: says they've been helping with the final prep work before
Speaker 1: Starliner undocs.
Speaker 2: We have been preparing through simulations, procedure reviews, and that's
Speaker 2: with the flight control team on the ground as well
Speaker 2: as the crew on orbit for the activities that are coming.
Speaker 1: The fully automated capsule will aim for a touchdown in
Speaker 1: New Mexico six hours after it undocks tomorrow evening. Right now,
Speaker 1: so let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
Speaker 1: I've shopped on TIMU a couple of times. Yeah, prices
Speaker 1: are crazy inexpensive. But apparently we need to look beyond
Speaker 1: the prices.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for a lot of reasons. This has been kind
Speaker 6: of a controversial thing for a couple of years, But
Speaker 6: the most recent controversy involves baby padded crib rails. The
Speaker 6: US Product Safety Consumer Product Safet Commission went to Congress
Speaker 6: a couple of years ago and said, Hey, these things
Speaker 6: are dangerous. Kids can suffocate, they get tangled up in
Speaker 6: these things. Take them off the market. So Congress did
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty two, well, at least according to one
Speaker 6: tech publication, that these rails, these pads were still available
Speaker 6: on both TIMU and she and within the last month
Speaker 6: or so. So the US CPS is going to look
Speaker 6: at that, launching an investigation. Timu and Shean say they
Speaker 6: are both cooperating with that probe. But it's only the
Speaker 6: latest bit of trouble that these two companies have faced
Speaker 6: in the last two years.
Speaker 1: Well, what's some of the other that they've faced in
Speaker 1: the last two years.
Speaker 6: Well, you know how stuff is so cheap. Having shopped there,
Speaker 6: you see how low cost the stuff is. Well, Senator
Speaker 6: Marco Rubio Florida says that that's because it's made with
Speaker 6: slave labor where these two companies are based. That's his suspicion,
Speaker 6: and so he wants an investigation done on that aspect
Speaker 6: of it. You've also got the data problems. There have
Speaker 6: been data breaches at both of these companies. That's not
Speaker 6: to be unexpected, I suppose, considering how big the companies are.
Speaker 6: But at least one lawsuit claims that TIMU will plant
Speaker 6: malware in the devices of users and then track the
Speaker 6: movements of those users to the detriment of American security
Speaker 6: because again, these companies are based in China, so lots
Speaker 6: of issues. And so you ordered stuff, what did you
Speaker 6: order from the If I could ask, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I think that I ordered. I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 1: I haven't done a lot. I think I got a
Speaker 1: pair of sparky shoes for my mom, Okay, And I
Speaker 1: think I got a couple of T shirts that were
Speaker 1: just like so stupid expensive, like I said, I mean
Speaker 1: like two dollars and they're not awful quality.
Speaker 6: Yeah, did you notice anything when you open up the box? No,
Speaker 6: Because I was one thing that I ordered from them
Speaker 6: a couple of years ago. The item, I don't remember
Speaker 6: what it was. I think it was something related to
Speaker 6: my bike that I ride, and it came opened the
Speaker 6: box and it wasn't what I ordered anyway. It was
Speaker 6: just sort of random stuff thrown in there.
Speaker 1: You like bonus gifts.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that kind of thing, Just weird things that kind
Speaker 6: of random. Looked like they emptied out their glove compartment
Speaker 6: or something and dumped it into a box. But it
Speaker 6: wreaked of gasoline, oh, or like petroleum or some chemical
Speaker 6: petroleum like chemical. And other people I've known who have
Speaker 6: received things like this, either unsolicited or the item that
Speaker 6: they ordered, they've noticed the same thing, the sort of weird, powerful,
Speaker 6: stinky gasoline smell that comes with it. And I don't
Speaker 6: know what it is. But that's beside the point. I
Speaker 6: imagine that it so are their hell concerns.
Speaker 1: Maybe, Okay, that's good to know too. Now I had
Speaker 1: heard and I don't know if it's all conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons they were offering the prices
Speaker 1: so low is they didn't care that they weren't making
Speaker 1: money on them, that they wanted to grab enough of
Speaker 1: the market share that they would force other companies out
Speaker 1: of business.
Speaker 6: Right, potential loss leaders situation, right, lose money.
Speaker 1: Like the whole site is a lost leader though, right.
Speaker 6: Like the chickens, the roasted chickens at Costco, they sell
Speaker 6: them super at a loss to get people to the
Speaker 6: back of the store. Could be the same thing, I suppose.
Speaker 6: And you know, the Chinese know what they're doing there,
Speaker 6: and and so it's a good question. And so what
Speaker 6: could the United States do about this? Could you know,
Speaker 6: Congress tried to block TikTok and you know another company,
Speaker 6: foreign company, Chinese company from doing business here. Could the
Speaker 6: same thing happened with Timu and Shean? Maybe? And by
Speaker 6: the way, these companies are both third party sellers. It's
Speaker 6: just like Amazon. Right, there's there there as kind of
Speaker 6: a clearinghouse for people who are selling items or at Sea.
Speaker 6: They come on to the site and they sell them
Speaker 6: there because people shop Amazon or shan or at Sea
Speaker 6: or Timu, and so these companies say, well, you know,
Speaker 6: we're trying to regulate our third party vendors, but what
Speaker 6: can we do about it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it'll be interesting to see, because yeah, how
Speaker 1: do you regulate that. I mean, it's a website. We
Speaker 1: can go there, we can buy stuff or are you
Speaker 1: going to get arrested if you buy stuff?
Speaker 6: Well, it usually doesn't extend that far. It's normally sanctions
Speaker 6: or regulations against the seller. But does that mean Timu
Speaker 6: as the seller or you know Joe's tire shop in
Speaker 6: Beijing where you ordered something and it was sold through Timu?
Speaker 6: Who knows?
Speaker 1: Okay, So Jim. Then the practical, because we always like
Speaker 1: to give a little bit of help. How can people
Speaker 1: protect themselves from potentially dangerous products or unscrupulous business practices?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the tough part. I mean, and especially with
Speaker 6: this like baby rail thing, this padded baby rail thing.
Speaker 6: Probably a lot of people didn't realize that Congress had
Speaker 6: banned those things a couple of years ago because of
Speaker 6: potential dangers to kids. And you know, I suspect TIMU
Speaker 6: was going to make the same argument. We didn't know
Speaker 6: about your ban, but we're going to We'll take it
Speaker 6: out the website. Would the team of this morning to
Speaker 6: see if I could still find those padded rails. They're
Speaker 6: not there, at least the ones that are mentioned by
Speaker 6: the Consumer Product Safety Commission. So just again, it's it's
Speaker 6: a matter of shopping carefully, realizing that this product that
Speaker 6: you're getting may or may not be on a prohibited
Speaker 6: list in this country or banded list. But you know,
Speaker 6: it's just a matter of watching out, being a careful consumer.
Speaker 1: Like everything, let the buyer beware. Just now, I'm going
Speaker 1: to go order something from Timo because I want to
Speaker 1: see if I get that weird toxic smell.
Speaker 6: It's very strange.
Speaker 1: I'll open it outside.
Speaker 6: Plastic, petroleum something and I don't know, but let's just
Speaker 6: hope you get what you order too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time and your information. If you want to follow Jim,
Speaker 1: it's at Jim Ryan t X like Texas because he
Speaker 1: calls us from Texas. Thanks Jim. All right, here, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom, Evacuation orders have been
Speaker 1: ungraded and warnings have been canceled in Riverside County, where
Speaker 1: a wildfire threatened homes in good Hope near Paris. The
Speaker 1: fire started yesterday afternoon and burned about one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty acres. It was twenty five percent surrounded as of
Speaker 1: last night. A federal grand jury has indicted an LA
Speaker 1: County sheriff's deputy for allegedly using excessive force.
Speaker 2: The indictment says when Trevor Kirk Pepper sprayed and threw
Speaker 2: a woman to the pavement, he violated her civil rights.
Speaker 2: In June of twenty twenty three, Kirk and another deputy
Speaker 2: responded to a grocery store in Lancaster after employees said
Speaker 2: the woman and her husband stole items from the store.
Speaker 2: Video shows the encounter between Kirk and the couple. The indictment,
Speaker 2: issued yesterday charges Kirk with a single count of deprivation
Speaker 2: of rights under color of law. The husband was cited
Speaker 2: for resisting an officer and petty theft. The wife was
Speaker 2: cited for assaulting an officer. Steve Gregory ka If I knowws.
Speaker 1: Police in Munich, Germany have fatally shot a man near
Speaker 1: a museum on the city's Nazi era history and the
Speaker 1: Israeli Consulate. The man had fired at police this morning
Speaker 1: before he was killed. Police officers had been alerted to
Speaker 1: a person carrying a long gun near downtown Munich. They
Speaker 1: say there's no sign anyone else was hurt during the shootout.
Speaker 1: The consulate was closed at the time. The head of
Speaker 1: the United Nations Nuclear watchdog agency has visited a nuclear
Speaker 1: plant in southern Ukraine a day after, saying the situation
Speaker 1: there is very fragile. The plant's operator says artillery shelling
Speaker 1: Monday damaged the plant's power access and blames Russia. International
Speaker 1: Atomic Energy Director Raphael Grossi says it's a tense situation.
Speaker 1: There's a war going on, so we have to prevent
Speaker 1: a nuclear accident. The plant is the biggest nuclear power
Speaker 1: plant in Europe and one of the ten largest in
Speaker 1: the world. Green Day had to leave stage for several
Speaker 1: minutes during a show in Detroit because of a drone Polisse.
Speaker 1: Someone flew the drone into Camerica Park Baseball Stadium at
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes into the show. Last night, police caught
Speaker 1: and detained the guy piloting the drone. He was outside
Speaker 1: the stadium and the show went on as it must.
Speaker 1: La County Sheriff's deputies have begun patrolling the voluntary evacuation
Speaker 1: zone in Rancho Palace Vertes. The deputies in vehicles, on
Speaker 1: ATVs and on horseback are there to deter break ins
Speaker 1: and vandalism. More than two hundred residents have had their
Speaker 1: power and gas service cut off because of the ground
Speaker 1: shifting under their homes, and many have left the area.
Speaker 1: Governor Knewsom declared a state of emergency for Rancho Palace
Speaker 1: Verties on Tuesday. A man's been stabbed on his way
Speaker 1: to catch a Metro train in Baldwin Hills. LAPD says
Speaker 1: it happened near the Metro station at Jefferson and Los
Speaker 1: Sienaga yesterday morning. The man stabbed was taken to the
Speaker 1: hospital with minor injuries. The attacker has not been found.
Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines is going to start offering new service from
Speaker 1: Burbank to San Jose. The direct flights are currently being
Speaker 1: offered at an introductory part of thirty nine dollars one
Speaker 1: way to fly between September twenty fifth and November nineteenth,
Speaker 1: Spirit and Southwest Airlines are now the only two airlines
Speaker 1: that fly direct between Burbank and San Jose. At six
Speaker 1: oh five, it's handled on the news. Your next COVID
Speaker 1: vaccine could cost you two hundred bucks. Bill's going to
Speaker 1: tell you about that. Right now. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. Unfortunately, this
Speaker 1: is the time that I get to talk to you, Brad,
Speaker 1: it's when something awful happens. So let's get started with
Speaker 1: what we know about the school shooting at Appalachi High
Speaker 1: School in Georgia, and then what do we know about
Speaker 1: the shooter.
Speaker 7: So if we go back to May of twenty twenty three, Amy,
Speaker 7: he was looming in an adjoining county, Jackson County, Georgia,
Speaker 7: and apparently the FBI got an anonymous tip that someone
Speaker 7: was threatening to commit a mascool. They were able to
Speaker 7: track that lead back to this kid's house in Jackson County.
Speaker 7: He would have been thirteen at that point. He according
Speaker 7: to law enforcement, he was interviewed I'm going to presume
Speaker 7: by local law enforcement, the Sheriff's Office Jackson County. The
Speaker 7: father was interviewed thirteen year old was interviewed. The thirteen
Speaker 7: year old denied that he had made these threats. The
Speaker 7: father stated he had a number of long guns in
Speaker 7: the house, not further defined, and apparently they were not
Speaker 7: able to corroborate through a gaming nap because that's where
Speaker 7: the post were made that this kid actually made them.
Speaker 7: I think they believe he did make them, but it's
Speaker 7: another one of those that something gets deleted. I don't
Speaker 7: know the particulars, but the short answer is it's sort
Speaker 7: of the whole thing sort of went away. And then
Speaker 7: the kid moves next door to Barrow County where his
Speaker 7: high school, his new high school is located. If you
Speaker 7: fast forward to a clash yesterday only is based on
Speaker 7: student interviews that were covered by the media. The student
Speaker 7: was sitting next to him, and she said, apparently he
Speaker 7: never talked in class. He skipped class a lot, and
Speaker 7: he got up and walked out the back door. Now
Speaker 7: the back door apparently this classroom goes outside, and he
Speaker 7: wanted to try to get back in a few minutes later,
Speaker 7: the student that saw him wouldn't let him in because
Speaker 7: he had a gun. So he goes to the next
Speaker 7: classroom over gets in However, he gets in and starts shooting,
Speaker 7: and fortunately that school had these locked door systems, and
Speaker 7: they also the teachers apparently have badges with a button
Speaker 7: on them that they can push that alerts law enforcement
Speaker 7: that there might be a mass shooting going on. Now,
Speaker 7: there's three cops assigned to that school. I think they
Speaker 7: all come running and they confront him and he gives up.
Speaker 7: That's why he's still alive. But the fill in the
Speaker 7: black that I think you're asking me about, were there
Speaker 7: any red flags? What did he say before, did he
Speaker 7: talk to students? Where did the weapon come from? We
Speaker 7: just don't know yet.
Speaker 1: But it appears that it's going to be kind of
Speaker 1: a rare opportunity because he didn't kill himself or he
Speaker 1: wasn't killed, And just from watching the networks and stuff,
Speaker 1: they were saying that he's he's been talking or at
Speaker 1: least they're talking to him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you know, it's not uncommon, no matter
Speaker 7: what their age, of people who commit these type of
Speaker 7: shootings are proud of them initially until they realize what
Speaker 7: they're they're up against. And my guess is he has
Speaker 7: and my guess is the parents were probably present because
Speaker 7: of his age, so so we'll see. I think we'll
Speaker 7: know more about mindset, we'll know more about where the
Speaker 7: weapon came from, we may know more about planning, you know,
Speaker 7: all the things that go into what typically happens prior
Speaker 7: to these events occurring.
Speaker 1: I know that most people don't agree with me on this, Brad,
Speaker 1: but I would love your take on this. You said
Speaker 1: that he initially was found out on a gaming site.
Speaker 1: My theory is it's probably not the only thing, but
Speaker 1: it's one of the contributing factors. Is that the kids
Speaker 1: are playing these hyper violent games and going around and
Speaker 1: killing everybody, and it desensitizes them, so they I think
Speaker 1: they're more likely to actually do something like this if
Speaker 1: they're already prone to it. I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: like everyday kids are, but maybe kids who have trouble
Speaker 1: with social skills or have some sort of a mental
Speaker 1: health issue or something like that that that contributes to that.
Speaker 1: Have you guys found that at all? Is there anything
Speaker 1: that ties.
Speaker 6: That to it.
Speaker 7: There's certainly been studies done on that, and there is
Speaker 7: a belief where you take a kid like you described
Speaker 7: that's already troubled and maybe already having dark or violent
Speaker 7: thoughts and they end up fusing fantasy with reality. And
Speaker 7: that's kind of what you're talking about, where that when
Speaker 7: you go into a school with an AR fifteen, which
Speaker 7: is now the most popular weapon in America, that he
Speaker 7: you know, is is he now in a video game?
Speaker 7: In other words, is it not real to him while
Speaker 7: he's doing it? Because you know, in most mass shootings,
Speaker 7: the shooters that survive will tell you they're not even
Speaker 7: thinking they're shooting human beings. It's all about anger, rage
Speaker 7: and power. They're and they're they're being powerful for a
Speaker 7: few minutes. But yeah, it may be something to that.
Speaker 7: Is it relevant to this kid?
Speaker 1: We don't know yet, Okay, And and it's helpful that
Speaker 1: maybe they can get in his head and maybe get
Speaker 1: some answers. But like you know we've talked about before,
Speaker 1: these things are so senseless and you can't predict necessarily
Speaker 1: what's going to do. I mean, what do you do
Speaker 1: if they come and question the kid and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: we think you made that threat and they throw a
Speaker 1: kid in jail for not actually doing anything.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, this is not I don't think going
Speaker 7: to realistic cat happen. Going back reportory, right, you're not
Speaker 7: going to throw them in jail. And you know, the
Speaker 7: real question is can you keep track of kids like this?
Speaker 7: And the short answer is no. I mean, if they're
Speaker 7: not under some juvenile court judges wing, or they're not
Speaker 7: on probation or parole, or they're not connected to some
Speaker 7: mental health facility that maybe mobiley checks on folks that
Speaker 7: are troubled. If you don't have any of those things
Speaker 7: going on, when you get to rural America, probably none
Speaker 7: of those are going to be going on. Not their
Speaker 7: false is the reality of the situation. You're going to
Speaker 7: have kids fall through the cracks because, let's face it,
Speaker 7: if I laid out twenty five school mass shooters, there's
Speaker 7: going to be red lights almost with every one of them.
Speaker 4: But who knew about them?
Speaker 7: That's the real issue.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating at least, in tragic at best. So Brad Garrett,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the insight and the information.
Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate it. We hope to talk to you,
Speaker 1: talk to you during happier news times soon.
Speaker 7: Take care, All right, take care.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man arrested
Speaker 1: for a fatal crash in Fontana who escaped from a
Speaker 1: hospital has been caught. The CHP says Noah Benuelos was
Speaker 1: caught about twelve thirty this morning. He was driving a
Speaker 1: white Jeep Cherokee yesterday when he was pulled over for
Speaker 1: speeding on the fifteen near Sierra Avenue, but then he
Speaker 1: took off. A fatal crash happened at Beach and Cherry
Speaker 1: Avenues a short time later. Officials sat Benuelos tried to
Speaker 1: run away but was caught. He then escaped at Arrowhead
Speaker 1: Regional Hospital in Colton after that. An excessive heat warning
Speaker 1: takes effect this morning for the Malibu Coast beaches in
Speaker 1: La County and the Pallas Verdes Hills the National Weather Services.
Speaker 1: Some of those areas could see temperatures in the triple digits,
Speaker 1: and excessive heat warning in the western San Fernando Valley
Speaker 1: remains in place until eight pm Saturday, and excessive heat
Speaker 1: warning will also be in effect through Saturday night in
Speaker 1: the Santa Clarita Valley, the inland coastal areas stretching into
Speaker 1: downtown La, the Santa Monica Mountains, Calabasas, the eastern San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Annealope Valley foothills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just going to be hot everywhere. Two more beaches
Speaker 1: have been added to La County's list of places to
Speaker 1: avoid swimming, surfing, or playing in the ocean because of
Speaker 1: high bacteria levels. The latest editions are Venice Beach and
Speaker 1: Outer Cabrio Beach in San Pedro. The list of beaches
Speaker 1: is now up to twelve. Police say eight of the
Speaker 1: nine people shot at Appalachi High School in winder Georgia
Speaker 1: were students. One of them was a teacher. Police had
Speaker 1: previously announced that two students and two teachers were killed
Speaker 1: in the shooting at the high school. Yesterday, The fourteen
Speaker 1: year old led shooters surrender and was arrested. Prosecutors say
Speaker 1: he will be charged as an adult. The CEO of
Speaker 1: Kroger has insisted that merging with Alberton Albertson's is going
Speaker 1: to lower prices, not increase them. Rodney McMullen testified at
Speaker 1: a federal hearing in Oregon yesterday that the day the
Speaker 1: merger goes through, prices would start coming down. The Federal
Speaker 1: Trade Commission is trying to block the twenty four point
Speaker 1: six billion dollar deal, saying it would eliminate competition and
Speaker 1: raise grocery prices. For a half million dollars, you can
Speaker 1: buy half a house in Monrovia. A tree crushed a
Speaker 1: house and split it in half four months ago. Now
Speaker 1: what's left of it is up for sale. Even though
Speaker 1: the house is red tagged. It's a one bedroom, one
Speaker 1: bath home. The real estate agent calls it an open
Speaker 1: concept floor plan that's clever at six oz five It
Speaker 1: is handled on the news. Trump and Harris have agreed
Speaker 1: to rules for their big debate that happens one week
Speaker 1: from today. So wake Up Call is going out and
Speaker 1: about as we do each week, and this week we
Speaker 1: went out and about on the Pacific Surfliner. Of course
Speaker 1: it's the Amtrak train. Normally I go to a place,
Speaker 1: but I guess now this time it was the destination.
Speaker 1: The deal was. I was heading up to Paseroblis for
Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend to see my best friend do a
Speaker 1: little wine tasting, and we were talking about traffic and
Speaker 1: the cars and all that stuff, and she said, have
Speaker 1: you have you taken the train? And I said no,
Speaker 1: but I maybe I should. So I did a little
Speaker 1: digging and said, well, okay, So from Burbank up to
Speaker 1: San Luis Obispo, which is as far as it goes,
Speaker 1: but there's other ways to get around. It's like sixty
Speaker 1: bucks each way or sixty five between sixty and sixty
Speaker 1: five dollars each way, and that's for a business class seat,
Speaker 1: and so I thought, okay, and then there's coach and
Speaker 1: there's business class, and I'm like, oh, I'll do business
Speaker 1: class because it was like twenty dollars more. And with
Speaker 1: business class you get a little bit bigger seat, you
Speaker 1: get a guaranteed seat, and you get some more leg room.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like buying Premium plus when you fly,
Speaker 1: and then you also get snacks and beverages and that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So I thought, I'll do that, and
Speaker 1: I got to tell you it was one of the
Speaker 1: most pleasant experiences I've had in quite a while. The
Speaker 1: trip takes five hours, so instead of driving, which is
Speaker 1: three and a half hours and could be more depending
Speaker 1: on traffic, especially through the Grapevine or if you're going
Speaker 1: up the one on one, the traffic into Santa Barbara's,
Speaker 1: you know, orror it can be horrific, especially on a
Speaker 1: holiday weekend. So it's a five hour ride, and it
Speaker 1: was lovely. The service was good, the train was clean,
Speaker 1: the seats were comfortable, and I got to relax. I
Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about traffic. I got to stretch out.
Speaker 1: There were snacks, there was wine, there was other beverages.
Speaker 1: I got to read a book. And the views are spectacular.
Speaker 1: So when you take off like I picked it up
Speaker 1: at Burber, you can take it like you know, you
Speaker 1: could start in San Diego if you want to, and
Speaker 1: take it all the way up because it's the surf Liner.
Speaker 1: But once you get to see me Valley, it gets
Speaker 1: really pretty. And then you hit the coast and you
Speaker 1: are literally on the coast. They're not kidding when they
Speaker 1: call it the surf Liner, and you're just tooling along
Speaker 1: and watching the waves, and you stop every now and again,
Speaker 1: and it's just the most relaxing experience. It was easy
Speaker 1: to get to the train, it was easy to get
Speaker 1: on the train, it was easy to get to the
Speaker 1: train returning. And if you're thinking about maybe doing something
Speaker 1: a little bit different, like even going up to Santa
Speaker 1: Barbara for the day, it's two hours from Burbank and
Speaker 1: it's a lovely, lovely drive or not drive a ride,
Speaker 1: And like I said, we went up to San Luis
Speaker 1: Obispo and so I had at least three hours of
Speaker 1: just staring out at the ocean, which I thought was
Speaker 1: just fantastic. So I'm going to put a video up
Speaker 1: on my Instagram at Amy K King also at KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty if you want to take a little
Speaker 1: look at it and see what I got to see
Speaker 1: and experience. Like I said, the Pacific Surfliner from Amtrak,
Speaker 1: it's a great way to travel. And if you're head
Speaker 1: in that direction, maybe you want to think about taking
Speaker 1: the train instead of driving next time. I would love
Speaker 1: for you to follow me as well at Amy Kking
Speaker 1: and take a look. I would love to see what
Speaker 1: you think, because it was, like I said, it was
Speaker 1: a really great ride. So let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. San Diego State Senator Brian Jones is opposing
Speaker 1: the possible release of the man who killed two people
Speaker 1: and wounded thirteen others at Santana High School and Santee
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one.
Speaker 3: We think it's inappropriate Brandy Williams to be paroled at
Speaker 3: this point in time. We've set up a petition on
Speaker 3: my website that people can go on to and fill
Speaker 3: out and sign, and we will make sure that the
Speaker 3: parole hearing and the governor's administration gets those petitions to
Speaker 3: know that there is not community support for him being
Speaker 3: led out of prison.
Speaker 1: Senator Jones is California needs to change its parole policies.
Speaker 3: California, we've gone sopt on crying and the public has
Speaker 3: had it. I think they're over it, and the public
Speaker 3: does not support these extreme recentencency majors that the Democrats
Speaker 3: and the governor continue and continue and continue to try
Speaker 3: to push through the legislative process.
Speaker 1: A parole hearing for Williams is set for September tenth.
Speaker 1: He served less than half of his fifty years to
Speaker 1: life sentence. A community group says lead has been found
Speaker 1: in the water supply in one neighborhood in LA.
Speaker 5: Some residents in Watts, especially in public housing, have been
Speaker 5: found to be dealing with contaminated water. City Councilman Tim
Speaker 5: oc Oscar says the group Better Watts Initiative discovered amounts
Speaker 5: of lead well above what the EPA says is allowed
Speaker 5: for drinking water which is zero no.
Speaker 1: Lead, no measure of lead is good for us, but
Speaker 1: this was an alarming level.
Speaker 5: The city Council yesterday voted to have the LEDWP investigate
Speaker 5: in partnership with the Housing Authority and Better Watts Initiative.
Speaker 5: Mcoscar says the report should include detail tales of where
Speaker 5: the contamination came from and how to fix it immediately.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks KFI News. The California Department of Tax and
Speaker 1: Fee Administration reports cannabis tax revenue for the second quarter
Speaker 1: of this year was two hundred and sixty three million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's a slight drop from the first quarter, when two
Speaker 1: hundred sixty six million was earned. The department says since
Speaker 1: cannabis tax came into effect in California in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: the state has earned more than six billion dollars. Retail
Speaker 1: sales of cannabis and cannabis products are taxed by the
Speaker 1: state and local governments. Former California Senate leader Gloria Romero
Speaker 1: says she's switched her party affiliation to Republican. She says
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party is no longer the party she once championed.
Speaker 1: She says the Republican Party under former President Trump became
Speaker 1: the champion of working people. Romero represented East LA and
Speaker 1: parts of the San Gabriel Valley Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice is expected
Speaker 1: to take in up to one hundred ten million dollars
Speaker 1: in its first weekend. The sequel to Tim Burton's nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight movie could end up being one of the
Speaker 1: best September debuts ever. And Nick and I are going
Speaker 1: to see it this afternoon. Can't wait to tell you
Speaker 1: all about it.
Speaker 4: Hive from Hollywood.
Speaker 7: It's Dancing with the Stuff Stuff.
Speaker 1: No damn he say money. A con artist from Germany
Speaker 1: convicted of swindling her friends, hotels, and banks back in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. It is going to be competing on Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars this season, even if she wears an
Speaker 1: ankle monitor. Anna Sorocan is better known as her false
Speaker 1: identity Anna Delvy. Her story was told in a Netflix
Speaker 1: mini series called Inventing Anna. It was Really Good. Sorocin
Speaker 1: was released from prison in twenty twenty one. She's currently
Speaker 1: on house arrest, which is why she has to wear
Speaker 1: the ankle monitor. Ice has yet to comment regarding Sorocan's
Speaker 1: house arrest. Conditions and accommodations to film in La So
Speaker 1: some of the other people who will be dancing this
Speaker 1: week actually this season, because they just revealed the cast
Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars Real Housewives star Favorite Parks
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills nine O two one zero alumni Tory Spelling,
Speaker 1: and then a couple of bachelor's and bachelorettes Joey Graziati
Speaker 1: and Jen Tran, and then Eric Roberts is going to
Speaker 1: be in on it today and Reginald ven Johnson. Reginald
Speaker 1: vel Johnson easy for me to say. I couldn't remember
Speaker 1: who he was until I looked it up, but he
Speaker 1: was the dad from Family Manders and was also in
Speaker 1: the Diehard movies. And then from Disney Zombies Zombies two
Speaker 1: is Chandler Kinney. And then there's a couple of athletes
Speaker 1: Danny Amidola and Dwight Howard and olympians Ilona Mayer and
Speaker 1: Steven Netterasik. You know who that is. That's Superman from gymnastics.
Speaker 1: He did the vault. It's not the vault though, it's
Speaker 1: called the pommel horse. But so Stephen Netterosik is going
Speaker 1: to be there. Also, Brooks Nater and the season starts
Speaker 1: September seventeenth on ABC. I'm still deciding whether I'm going
Speaker 1: to watch it again, but no decision left here. It's
Speaker 1: just time to head to traffic. Inland areas of La
Speaker 1: and Ventura County. Pretty much actually, most of southern California
Speaker 1: under excessive heat warnings through at least tomorrow night. Some
Speaker 1: have been extended through Saturday. The National Weather Services temperatures
Speaker 1: will be around ninety at the coast, up to one
Speaker 1: fifteen in the valleys. It'll cool down a few degrees,
Speaker 1: but the heat's expected to stick around through the weekend.
Speaker 1: Two more beaches have been added to a list of
Speaker 1: beaches off limits because of high bacteria levels. The County
Speaker 1: Department of Public Health says people should not swim, surf,
Speaker 1: or play in the water. New beaches added to the
Speaker 1: list of ten already designated with high bacteria levels are
Speaker 1: parts of Venice Beach and Outer Cabrio Beach in San Pedro.
Speaker 1: A complete list is available on La County Public Health's website.
Speaker 1: The NFL season gets underway tonight. The defending Super Bowl
Speaker 1: champion Kansas City Chiefs begin their quest for a three
Speaker 1: peat when they take on the Baltimore Ravens at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning,
Speaker 1: So Paris loves their Olympic rings so much they're leaving
Speaker 1: them up on the Eiffel Tower and not everybody's happy
Speaker 1: about that one. Let's say good morning now to John
Speaker 1: Patrick Polland who's with the Home of the Brave Project.
Speaker 1: Love the name already, and this story I think might
Speaker 1: make some of your blood boil. So John Patrick pulland,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us this morning.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1: So tell us what is the Home of the Brave Project?
Speaker 4: Sure? So I'm with another that called Long Lead, and
Speaker 4: we put out a feature called Home of the Brave
Speaker 4: And what we've done over the past three plus years
Speaker 4: is kind of chronicle the history of the West Lava.
Speaker 4: That land. A lot of people don't know what it is,
Speaker 4: but out there in West la between Brentwood and UCLA
Speaker 4: is three hundred and eighty eight acres of VA campus
Speaker 4: that was actually donated to the federal government in eighteen
Speaker 4: eighty eight, specifically the House Veterans. In the fifties, it
Speaker 4: housed about five thousand veterans and today it houses only
Speaker 4: two hundred and thirty three permanently. So the question is why.
Speaker 4: The answer is quite complicated.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's look at it just a little bit,
Speaker 1: so just to give people a frame of reference. So
Speaker 1: it's that nearly four hundred acre piece of land, and
Speaker 1: you said five thousand used to live on it, So
Speaker 1: it's is it all developed, it has like housing complexes
Speaker 1: or what's on the property.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, that's the wild thing about it. In the seventies,
Speaker 4: what happened, the Silmar earthquake happened, and they evicted all
Speaker 4: the veterans from the property. In the early or in
Speaker 4: about twenty thirteen, there was a lawsuit where veterans and
Speaker 4: house veterans actually settled with the government and the and
Speaker 4: said they were going to build twelve hundred units of housing,
Speaker 4: but they don't do it fast enough. So when we
Speaker 4: hit covid uh, I think a lot of your listeners
Speaker 4: might remember seeing intents along santacente h and what those
Speaker 4: tents were. You know, those were folks trying to survive
Speaker 4: and being near their services. So as a result, there's
Speaker 4: another lawsuit and that is currently you know, we're waiting
Speaker 4: for a judgment on that as we speak to see
Speaker 4: what will happen with that land. But it's not developed.
Speaker 4: It is, however, leased out, and that's what the veterans
Speaker 4: are very upset about.
Speaker 1: Okay, who's got Who's got it?
Speaker 4: It's been reseat to the one to UCLA, so that's
Speaker 4: where you'll find Jackie Robinson Stadium. Brentwood School is another release.
Speaker 4: They have a massive twenty two acre athletic facility there.
Speaker 4: So the vets are are unhappy that they're not living
Speaker 4: on the land that was set aside for them.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then let's go back to when that land was.
Speaker 1: It was donated specifically two veterans so they could have
Speaker 1: a place to be and live by. And who donated it, well.
Speaker 4: There were three wealthy landowners, industrialists that were living in
Speaker 4: the area. And there's this quote from the La Times
Speaker 4: that I love because after the donation it was called
Speaker 4: Sawtel Back then, the La Times wrote this, the skift
Speaker 4: will cause the land in that section to advance in value,
Speaker 4: and the trade thrown into the way of our merchants
Speaker 4: will be considerable. All of that land has, you know,
Speaker 4: spurred Brentwood, Westwood, bell Air. None of those things would
Speaker 4: be there if it wasn't for the donation.
Speaker 1: Of this land, and why wouldn't they be there.
Speaker 4: Because basically at that time that all that area was undeveloped. Okay,
Speaker 4: So what you do is you put you put veterans
Speaker 4: there with pensions and a post office, and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden you have instant commerce as a result of that.
Speaker 4: You know, that's when Brentwood came in. They actually you know,
Speaker 4: built that neighborhood alongside it. They actually took some of
Speaker 4: the land to make Santacente and Wilsir Boulevard.
Speaker 1: Actually okay, so now who controls it, John, Now that
Speaker 1: they were that they went ahead and leased it out.
Speaker 1: Who who did that or made that decision?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the basically and this was part of
Speaker 4: the most recent trial. You know, the federal government has
Speaker 4: a fiduciary interest in running that land and running it
Speaker 4: for the vets. But what they've been doing the VA
Speaker 4: has said, well, we don't want to manage land, we
Speaker 4: don't want to manage property, so let's lease it out,
Speaker 4: get some money for it, and then be able to
Speaker 4: do things with that money. But it's not ever really
Speaker 4: been clear that any of that has actually happened in
Speaker 4: the interests of the veterans.
Speaker 1: So the federal government actually has control of it and
Speaker 1: they're the ones who leased it out, that's correct, and
Speaker 1: the now and the vets are fighting to get it
Speaker 1: back now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't think that the vets will
Speaker 4: ever actually own it, but what they want to live
Speaker 4: on it, you know, they want to have housing on that.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's as of the most recent count, three thousand,
Speaker 4: eight hundred and seventy eight on housed veterans in La County.
Speaker 4: It's Los Angeles is the homeless veteran capital of America.
Speaker 4: And you know, to be able to put you know,
Speaker 4: as I said, there are five thousand veterans living on
Speaker 4: that property. Do the maths. You kick five thousand out
Speaker 4: and then you have almost four thousand on housed fifty
Speaker 4: years later, it's pretty obviously what's happened there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just amazing to me that the land was
Speaker 1: donated specifically for those people and then they were kicked
Speaker 1: out when that's what it is, like, how that decision
Speaker 1: was made, I don't get it. So they're trying to
Speaker 1: get control back of it, and there's the lawsuits going
Speaker 1: on right now, and we're expecting a decision about it
Speaker 1: pretty soon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's correct. So the whole story, I mean, and
Speaker 4: it's thirty five thousand words that we've written at Home
Speaker 4: Ofthebrave dot long lead dot com, you know, chronicles all
Speaker 4: the way back to eighteen eighty seven actually, But we're
Speaker 4: also doing daily, daily court briefings as well, so if
Speaker 4: you go to our website, you can sign up for those.
Speaker 4: And you know, we've been in We've had a reporter
Speaker 4: in the courtroom every single day and we're waiting for
Speaker 4: the for the judgment from David Carter. Judge David Carter,
Speaker 4: could be as soon as today, as late as Monday.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we're going to hope that the judge makes
Speaker 1: the right decision and let's the vets back on their
Speaker 1: property and to find out more again about this, John,
Speaker 1: what's the website.
Speaker 4: Surey dot long lead dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay, can you repeat that because you dropped out for
Speaker 1: a second.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, Home of thee Brave dot long Lead dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I look forward to reading more about it.
Speaker 1: I've read part of it and it does make my
Speaker 1: blood boil. I'm just like, let these people back onto
Speaker 1: the land that was designated for them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we owe it to them. We owe that much
Speaker 4: at least not more.
Speaker 1: Absolutely trick pulling home of the Brave Project. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for your time. And I hope people go
Speaker 1: and check this out. And not to be biased, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be biased. I hope the Vets score a
Speaker 1: win on this one. They deserve it.
Speaker 4: Looking in their favor. The question is how and how long?
Speaker 4: How much longer will they have to wait?
Speaker 1: Yep? Okay, thanks again, John, appreciate it. Thank you, bul
Speaker 1: And just like that, we're done with wake Up Call
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