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Speaker 4: It's five oh one.
Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Thursday, January twenty third.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Amy King. But we're waking up to
Speaker 1: another fire. Actually two. The good news is it looks
Speaker 1: like firefighters are really making some great progress. Although I
Speaker 1: got to tell you, I was watching the fire last night,
Speaker 1: the one in Castaic, the Hughes fire, and they're telling
Speaker 1: us and we've, you know, we've got some lines around it,
Speaker 1: and we're the fire's looking really good, and I'm looking
Speaker 1: and seeing these massive flames and it looks like topping
Speaker 1: the hillsides and they look towering, I mean, and it
Speaker 1: looks a lot like what we were seeing with the
Speaker 1: fire in Pacific Palisades and in Alta Dina. And they're
Speaker 1: saying things look great. I was like, well, they must be.
Speaker 1: They must be great from your vantage point. But it
Speaker 1: does look like they really were, because the fire hasn't
Speaker 1: really grown much overnight, and they even released the water
Speaker 1: dropping helicopters, so they're not currently flying, or they were flying,
Speaker 1: and the planes are dropping the fazchek or the fire retardant,
Speaker 1: so man, they attack this one.
Speaker 4: And that's great news.
Speaker 1: As you get up and ready, we've got all the
Speaker 1: information for you about the two new fires and the
Speaker 1: ones that are getting closer and closer to containments.
Speaker 4: So keep it right here on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1: Plus, we've got a lot of other stuff going on today,
Speaker 1: and I want to say thanks to Valentine from MYFM, who's.
Speaker 4: Been great giving information.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been on MYFM for I think eighteen
Speaker 1: years now. He's been on our ear twice in the
Speaker 1: last week. I'm thinking he's got the KFI bug. It
Speaker 1: is a lot of fun. Here's what's ahead on Wake
Speaker 1: Up Called. Firefighters have been working through the night to
Speaker 1: keep the fire in Castaic from growing. It's burned about
Speaker 1: ten two hundred acres. It's fourteen percent surrounded.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Thirty one thousand people remain under evacuation orders and another
Speaker 1: twenty three thousand are under evacuation warnings. Four thousand firefighters
Speaker 1: are working the fire on the ground and until just recently,
Speaker 1: from the air as well.
Speaker 4: A fire that.
Speaker 1: Broke out in the Sepulvita Pass has been stopped. It
Speaker 1: grew to forty acres along the four or five freeway
Speaker 1: before firefighters stopped forward progress. Evacuation orders issued in the
Speaker 1: area and warnings issued in the area have been lifted.
Speaker 1: We are also on Oscar Watch this morning. Rachel Senne
Speaker 1: and Bow and Yang will be announcing the nominees in
Speaker 1: twenty three categories starting at five thirty at the Samuel
Speaker 1: Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The ninety seventh Academy Awards
Speaker 1: ceremony is happening March second, of course, at the Dolby
Speaker 1: Theater in Hollywood. We'll let you know who's nominated for
Speaker 1: what they're being announced this morning. During wake Up Call
Speaker 1: the Business of Burglaries, ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Brad
Speaker 1: Garrett says it is booming.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk to him at five twenty and.
Speaker 1: If you need a break from the fires, we have
Speaker 1: found the perfect place you can go and for first
Speaker 1: responders and those affected by the wildfires, a very special
Speaker 1: offer for you. Let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KMFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: More than fifty thousand people under evacuation orders or warnings
Speaker 1: because of that fire that started near Lake Hughes in Castaic.
Speaker 1: It's burned more than ten thousand acres. Cal Fire says
Speaker 1: it was reported shortly before eleven yesterday in a remote
Speaker 1: area east of the Lake.
Speaker 4: La Kenny.
Speaker 1: Sheriff Luna said yesterday that part of the jail in
Speaker 1: Castaic also had to be evacuated, and discussing this.
Speaker 5: With our partners from the fire department who are experts
Speaker 5: in this area, they recommended we agreed that the one
Speaker 5: facility PD Soeuth would be evacuated that had approximately four
Speaker 5: hundred and seventy six inmates.
Speaker 1: He says they were moved to another part of the campus.
Speaker 1: Sheriff Lona said thousands of other inmates at two other
Speaker 1: jails in the evacuation zone were sheltering in place. Firefighters
Speaker 1: have stopped the fire in the Supulvida Base in the
Speaker 1: burned forty acres in Brentwood, evacuation warnings were issued last night,
Speaker 1: but they've been lifted. The fire was reported around eleven
Speaker 1: pm near the northbound four or five in the Supulvida Pass.
Speaker 1: CalFire says the wind was light and fire crews were
Speaker 1: able to fight the flames from the ground and from
Speaker 1: the air.
Speaker 4: Let's say good morning.
Speaker 1: To ABC's Stephen portnoy So, Stephen, the Lake and Riley
Speaker 1: Act has passed both the House and the Senate.
Speaker 4: Now tell us what it is and what's next.
Speaker 6: Well, it's named for the young Georgia nursing student who
Speaker 6: was killed last February. Lake and Riley authorities have charged
Speaker 6: a Venezuelan man who was previously arrested for minor crimes
Speaker 6: in New York and Georgia and released from both jurisdictions
Speaker 6: prior to the killing. The measure requires the federal detention
Speaker 6: of immigrants here illegally if they've been arrested for certain
Speaker 6: low level crimes such as shoplifting and larceny, in addition
Speaker 6: to more serious offenses. Now the question becomes, how do
Speaker 6: you carry.
Speaker 4: That ball forward?
Speaker 6: This bill has now passed the Senate and the last
Speaker 6: night the House, it's going to be signed into the
Speaker 6: law by Donald Trump as the first bill enacted by
Speaker 6: the new president. The complication becomes, you know, this is
Speaker 6: a pretty big ask of immigration and Customs enforcement, which
Speaker 6: would be charged with detaining these migrants who are charged
Speaker 6: with crimes because this suspicions. The expectation is that they
Speaker 6: will be turned over to federal authorities. ICE prior to
Speaker 6: the turnover, and administrations warned that this mandate would cost
Speaker 6: taxpayers twenty seven billion dollars in the.
Speaker 4: First year alone.
Speaker 6: So how it will be funded, how will they build
Speaker 6: these detention facilities? That is a question for another day,
Speaker 6: because there's no money attached to the Lincoln Riley Act.
Speaker 6: But forty six Democrats got on board with it in
Speaker 6: the House along with Republicans, as an emblem of how
Speaker 6: Democrats view the politics of this issue.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what you know, everything's so divided and to
Speaker 1: get forty six votes is kind of a it's a
Speaker 1: decent number.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, for a bill that touches on immigration and
Speaker 6: as seen as a crackdown. It's a big deal. So
Speaker 6: you had you know, it's bipartisan.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then let's move on to the January sixth pardons.
Speaker 1: Some of the judges involved in convicting the j six
Speaker 1: rioters are now speaking out.
Speaker 6: What are they saying, Well, look, they're speaking out through
Speaker 6: their filings, through the orders. I should say, the judges
Speaker 6: want something of the last word for history. Here, the
Speaker 6: absolute word is that they defendants, the convicts have been pardoned,
Speaker 6: and except in the cases of fourteen people who have
Speaker 6: their sentences commuted, what the judges are doing in this
Speaker 6: case is they are in their orders dismissing the cases,
Speaker 6: layering them with a pretty harsh rhetoric. For example, Judge
Speaker 6: Tanya Chutkin of recent fame writes in one dismissal order
Speaker 6: that no pardon can change the tragic truth, nor can
Speaker 6: it quote whitewash the blood, feces and terror that the
Speaker 6: mob left in its wake. One of her colleagues on
Speaker 6: the Federal court bench here in Washington, Beryl Howell, said
Speaker 6: no process of national reconciliation can begin when poor losers
Speaker 6: whose preferred candidate loses an election are glorified.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're obviously not happy about this all happening.
Speaker 1: President Trump did sort of defend his position on this.
Speaker 1: Do you know what he's been saying about it.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, what he says is that these individuals. First
Speaker 6: of all, he doesn't seem to have a full grasp
Speaker 6: of all of the people he pardoned. He has been
Speaker 6: asked about why he would grant partons to some of
Speaker 6: the people who are most violent against police, and he
Speaker 6: didn't seem to have all the full facts, But what
Speaker 6: he says is that these people have been in jail
Speaker 6: long enough and it's time for everyone in the country
Speaker 6: to move on. That murderers are not treated as poorly.
Speaker 6: That's his argument, Okay.
Speaker 1: And there was talk that they were going to look
Speaker 1: at the cases, because there's fifteen hundred, that they would
Speaker 1: look at him sort of case by case, because it's
Speaker 1: obviously that some people were not as involved, didn't do
Speaker 1: the same kind of damage as others. But that obviously
Speaker 1: didn't happen. Do we know why it was just a
Speaker 1: blanket pardon nope? Okay, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: As always, we appreciate the information.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's now check in with National Weather Service
Speaker 1: meteorologist Aril Cohen. Let's get a check on what's going
Speaker 1: to happen with the weather. We know it's been blustery.
Speaker 1: Are we still expecting those winds to continue?
Speaker 3: Ariel exactly. We have wind gusts now over seventy miles
Speaker 3: per hour over the western San Gabriel Mountains. A lot
Speaker 3: of other mountain spots are in the fifty to sixty
Speaker 3: mile an hour range across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties
Speaker 3: where we have bone dry conditions, single digit relative humidity
Speaker 3: values combining with these strong winds to create very favorable
Speaker 3: environment for fires to be spreading. We have the huge
Speaker 3: fire ongoing right now. The suppul of the fire occurred overnight,
Speaker 3: and so as we go through the daytime hours today
Speaker 3: Thursday and into Friday morning, we could be looking at
Speaker 3: the continued risk for any wildfires to grow rapidly and
Speaker 3: explosively across the area. Very dramatic switch with the weather
Speaker 3: this weekend as a cold storm system overtakes the area,
Speaker 3: bringing much needed precipitation to many places, although a couple spots,
Speaker 3: especially on scars, if they get a couple thunderstorms top
Speaker 3: up over their areas, could experience debrief flows.
Speaker 1: Okay, and is there what's the chance of the thunderstorms,
Speaker 1: because we know that we've talked about rain, but it's
Speaker 1: not supposed to be really heavy except in the event
Speaker 1: of a thunderstorm, right, so.
Speaker 3: Most places will be a beneficial rain on the order
Speaker 3: of say a half inch to an inch. However, there
Speaker 3: will be the potential for a few spots we're talking
Speaker 3: about a ten to twenty percent chance for thunderstorm activity
Speaker 3: to form. Even some of the locally heavy showers we
Speaker 3: experience over the weekend will have the potential to produce
Speaker 3: high enough rainfall rates that we could be looking at
Speaker 3: a localized burned scar flooding, debrisflow, rockslide, mudslide situation. It's
Speaker 3: a very low chance of that happening. The heaviest cell
Speaker 3: would have to go over one of those very primed
Speaker 3: regions from the fire activity. But it's not a situation
Speaker 3: that's impossible. And so those that need extra time you
Speaker 3: might want to start preparing for what you would do
Speaker 3: and how you would get emergency information in case we
Speaker 3: were to have those impacts, and we may not have
Speaker 3: a whole lot of confidence in that particular outcome occurring
Speaker 3: at any location until right before it happens.
Speaker 1: Okay, and the thunderstorm characteristics Ariel, like you're talking, we're
Speaker 1: talking about showers, then we talk about those cells of
Speaker 1: thunderstorms in there.
Speaker 4: What makes them unique to regular rainfall.
Speaker 3: Well, this overall system, because it's a colder system, is
Speaker 3: also going to be containing more showery activity. We're not
Speaker 3: going to be having a steady light rain per se,
Speaker 3: the overall totals won't be particularly significant, but it's going
Speaker 3: to come more in impulses on and off. It's going
Speaker 3: to be something that's not necessarily going to be steady,
Speaker 3: as I said earlier, And so you know, when we
Speaker 3: have a couple of the more intense showers set up,
Speaker 3: can't rule out a couple of lightning strikes, and that
Speaker 3: character of the precipitation would be what would be most
Speaker 3: likely to produce flooding concerns and debris flows if it
Speaker 3: sets up over the burn scars. Also, snow levels are
Speaker 3: going to be very low for the system. Certainly some
Speaker 3: of the lowest we've seen this winter so far, as
Speaker 3: those two thousand feet, which could bring several inches of snow,
Speaker 3: maybe even upwards of our foot in the San Gabriels
Speaker 3: as we head through the weekend to early next week,
Speaker 3: and is.
Speaker 1: Where the fire is burning in Castaic. Is that high
Speaker 1: enough an elevation to get snow.
Speaker 3: Or No, It'll be a mix, certainly the portions of
Speaker 3: the fire that are attecting those Some of the lower
Speaker 3: elevations may be more on the lines of a cold rain,
Speaker 3: but certainly the higher elevations will be susceptible to snow.
Speaker 4: Okay, so be ready just in case.
Speaker 1: But we're going to keep our fingers crossed that we
Speaker 1: get those light showers and it's not going to affect
Speaker 1: the burn scars. But as you said, we need to
Speaker 1: be ready because, as we have found out in the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, the weather can be very volatile
Speaker 1: in southern California exactly.
Speaker 3: And the additional work that you take now to be
Speaker 3: prepared will help you from prevent you from being caught
Speaker 3: off guard when the potentially destructive weather comes. Even it's
Speaker 3: a low chance, you got to be ready ahead of time.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: Ariol Cohen with the National Weather Service, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your information this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Stacee.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Red flag warnings for Mostavelli and Ventura Counties have been
Speaker 1: extended until ten tomorrow morning because of the Santa Ana wins.
Speaker 1: Bone dry conditions and low humidity. Winds are expected to
Speaker 1: gust up to fifty miles per hour today but should
Speaker 1: start dying down this evening. Governor Newsom sending specialized debris
Speaker 1: flow teams to southern California ahead of expected rain this weekend.
Speaker 1: Teams and specialized equipment are being prepositioned to help protect
Speaker 1: communities and natural resources in the burn areas of Pacific
Speaker 1: Palisades and Alta. Dina and two men have pleaded guilty
Speaker 1: to charges that they stole about three hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: worth of shoes off a train in the Mohave Desert.
Speaker 1: Men took the shoes into Anaheim after stealing them back
Speaker 1: in November. They were sentenced to just four months in jail.
Speaker 1: Police were able to find the guys because Nike had
Speaker 1: placed a GPS tracker on boxes of shoes at six
Speaker 1: so five its handle on the news, California may have
Speaker 1: a problem getting money for wildfire relief. That problem, President Trump.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's crime and Terrorism
Speaker 1: analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 4: So, Brad, most people travel to see the world, but
Speaker 4: more and more we're seeing people who travel to the
Speaker 4: US to.
Speaker 7: Rob us commonly referred to as burglary tourists.
Speaker 4: It's scary that it has a name.
Speaker 7: I'm with you on that, and I think there's a
Speaker 7: reason for that. Amy if you look at well, let's
Speaker 7: go to the most recent one that's been in the news,
Speaker 7: and it's the burglary of the home of the Cincinnati
Speaker 7: Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. Sometime after that burglary, the Ohio
Speaker 7: Highway Patrol stop the car for suspicious reasons found four
Speaker 7: people from the country of Chile inside had fake id's,
Speaker 7: apparently had items in the car that apparently came from
Speaker 7: or may have come from Burrough's house. And you know,
Speaker 7: it sets up the following scenario when you look at
Speaker 7: other cases around the country where groups of people from
Speaker 7: Chile from other places in South America come here, and
Speaker 7: in particular, if the country a life, Chili have a
Speaker 7: thing called the Visa Waiver program, which means they can
Speaker 7: come to the US without a visa. Now, you know,
Speaker 7: you and I can travel to Europe and we don't
Speaker 7: need a visa. However, there are a lot of safeguards
Speaker 7: of our names, social security numbers, etc. Go through computers,
Speaker 7: go through all sorts of security checks. The problem is,
Speaker 7: I don't think Chili does any of those, and so
Speaker 7: people show up here. Now granted that they have some
Speaker 7: record here or there's something in the system, but I
Speaker 7: think most of these people don't. So they come to
Speaker 7: the US, they use fake IDs. Once they get here,
Speaker 7: and they end up burglarizing basically what I would call
Speaker 7: the rich and the famous. Some we talk about, some
Speaker 7: we don't. And what they do is they burglarize the
Speaker 7: homes they have, you know this ninety day tourist visa.
Speaker 7: They steal things that they can liquidate turn to cash.
Speaker 7: They use a fake FastPort and go to a local bank,
Speaker 7: let's say in Los Angeles, convert or basically take the
Speaker 7: money that they've gotten from the stolen goods and send
Speaker 7: it back to their home country and then go home.
Speaker 7: And apparently there is a constant stream of these people
Speaker 7: from various places. It's not just Chili to come in
Speaker 7: and do this. And I think if you talk to
Speaker 7: your friends to the LAPD, I think they would tell
Speaker 7: you that obviously there's a lot of houses that are
Speaker 7: burglarized in the Los Angeles area every night, but that
Speaker 7: did some of those burglaries fall into the profile of
Speaker 7: what I just described.
Speaker 1: And haven't there It's gotten so bad in LA they've
Speaker 1: set up a special task force.
Speaker 7: Right, and I think they've got border and Customers protection people,
Speaker 7: which you would need to help track people as they
Speaker 7: come in. Uh, I mean, And of course I think
Speaker 7: the real problem to me is that in I think
Speaker 7: LAPD would tell you this that if you don't catch
Speaker 7: them quickly, it makes it difficult because what's their real name?
Speaker 7: You know, where are they? Did they you know, did
Speaker 7: they come in or they have Los Angeles for a
Speaker 7: period of time then they left? Uh, And so it
Speaker 7: becomes a brill dilemma. And I think that's why you
Speaker 7: need every aspect of the federal government, in particular customers,
Speaker 7: border protection, ICE, et cetera, to help you track people.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have a question for you, Brad.
Speaker 1: Do we know, we know these are groups of people,
Speaker 1: but are they just random bad actors or are they
Speaker 1: tied to gangs or cartels or how are they?
Speaker 4: Who are they?
Speaker 7: Okay? So I think it's a combination because I've been
Speaker 7: asked a number of times because they end up talking
Speaker 7: about these high profile burglaries. It seems like quickly that
Speaker 7: I don't see any indicators that there's like a you know,
Speaker 7: a national overview in other words, like is there a
Speaker 7: gang that's controlling all this? Are there gangs involved? I'm
Speaker 7: sure there are. I mean, I think there's one group
Speaker 7: of burglaries that they have linked to Venezuelan gangs. So
Speaker 7: I think it's a combination, but it's hard for me
Speaker 7: to believe. Amy. If you are a you know, somebody
Speaker 7: from Merle Chili, you figure out how you can do
Speaker 7: this and you end up in Los Angeles, how would
Speaker 7: you even know where to go? And so there's God
Speaker 7: to be the intermediaries, that is what I'm saying that
Speaker 7: guide you along the way. They'd get a percent and
Speaker 7: get a cut of whatever you steal. And they even
Speaker 7: give you some intel of like oh yeah, that's football player.
Speaker 7: That basketball player will be gone the next two days
Speaker 7: because they're in you know, Cincinnati playing a game, and
Speaker 7: that there won't be anybody or at least that person
Speaker 7: won't be in their homes. And if you look at
Speaker 7: these break in they're not sophisticated. I mean they smash
Speaker 7: out windows, smash out doors, they do. Some of them
Speaker 7: carry Wi Fi jammers because if you have a wireless
Speaker 7: system on your house, if they cam the signals just
Speaker 7: like jam and the cell phones around certain buildings here
Speaker 7: where I live in DC, where your phone won't work
Speaker 7: because they don't want to frequency being shot around that
Speaker 7: particular location. But they take those are inexpensive. You can
Speaker 7: buy those on Amazon, and so you jam the signal
Speaker 7: if you know, that may affect the ability of your
Speaker 7: security system to contact their their security company. It may
Speaker 7: also affect the ability of your cameras to work, if
Speaker 7: in fact they're wireless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which makes it harder to defend yourself. And it's
Speaker 1: crazy that this thing has gotten so out of control.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the task force will be able to figure some
Speaker 1: stuff out and make some inroads. Brad Garrett, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Appreciate the information. Who knew it was this bad?
Speaker 3: You welcome? Thank you right.
Speaker 4: Take care.
Speaker 1: The fire that's burned more than twenty three thousand acres
Speaker 1: in the Pacific Palisades area is now seventy percent surrounded.
Speaker 1: Some areas have been reopened to residents only, but dozens
Speaker 1: of neighborhoods are still under mandatory evacuation orders. The fire
Speaker 1: has destroyed thousands of homes and other buildings since it
Speaker 1: started on January seventh. At least eleven have been killed.
Speaker 1: The fourteen thousand acre fire that started in Eaton Canyon
Speaker 1: above Alta Dina is ninety five percent surrounded. More than
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred firefighters are working on it. Evacuation orders have
Speaker 1: been lifted, but nearly six hundred people remain in shelters.
Speaker 1: The fires destroyed more than nine thousand homes and other
Speaker 1: buildings and killed at least seventeen people. The fire in
Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades has cost the city of an out of
Speaker 1: la and estimated three hundred eighty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: City employees overtime was twenty four million dollars of that
Speaker 2: initial estimate. The rest is damaged to city owned property
Speaker 2: and infrastructure. City administrator Matt Zabo says the lot of
Speaker 2: it may be reimbursed.
Speaker 8: It is our tasks to identify funds that we may
Speaker 8: ask this council to transfer on a short term basis.
Speaker 2: The city lost twelve parks and two rec centers at
Speaker 2: a cost of one hundred fifty five million dollars, while
Speaker 2: the loss of the Palisades Library was estimated at fifty
Speaker 2: five million dollars. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's too early. Did you hear that?
Speaker 1: I said three hundred eighty five thousand. It was three
Speaker 1: hundred eighty five million. I'll just say that I was
Speaker 1: seeing if you were paying attention to wake up call
Speaker 1: this morning. Firefighters on the ground and from the air
Speaker 1: have continued to fight the fire, burning and castic that
Speaker 1: started around ten thirty yesterday morning and within hours grew
Speaker 1: to more than ten thousand acres. Fire retardant lines are
Speaker 1: drawn around the wind whipped fire. The five through the
Speaker 1: Grapevine was closed for a few hours yesterday but has reopened.
Speaker 1: Firefighters have doug lines around the Palisades fire more and
Speaker 1: more as more evacuation orders are lifting. The fire seventy
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. Firefighters are working to stop any flare ups
Speaker 1: as Santa Ana wins blows through the region. Red flag
Speaker 1: warning has been extended until tomorrow morning. President Trump has
Speaker 1: instructed his secretaries of Commerce and Interior to come up
Speaker 1: with a plan to get more water to southern California.
Speaker 1: He says he wants the plan that will, as he
Speaker 1: put it, put people over fish on his desk in
Speaker 1: three months. The move challenges updated regulations from the Biden
Speaker 1: administration and Governor Newsom. At six oh five, it is handle.
Speaker 4: On the news.
Speaker 1: President bab of Trump wants Greenland, which has prompted a
Speaker 1: Danish politician to drop the F bomb. Okay, we're doing
Speaker 1: a special out and about today going to the cat
Speaker 1: Cafe Lounge in West LA. Normally, this is a place
Speaker 1: that you go and you have coffee and you can
Speaker 1: hang out and play with cats. But during this time,
Speaker 1: with the wildfires affecting so many, that is so stressful
Speaker 1: for so many, it could be a bit of a
Speaker 1: break or a respite and a safe haven for you.
Speaker 1: So we caught up with Athenis Stamos to find out
Speaker 1: what Cat Cafe Lounge is doing to help the people
Speaker 1: affected by the fires.
Speaker 9: Sure. Well, so we're a nonprofit cat cafe and unfortunately
Speaker 9: not a shelter, so we're not able to help people
Speaker 9: house animals right now, and so.
Speaker 4: We're like, what can we do? Yep?
Speaker 9: And I think people really need a little calm right now,
Speaker 9: and so we are offering free thirty or seventy minute
Speaker 9: visits to anyone who was had to evacuate from the fires,
Speaker 9: lost their homes first responders. They can go to the
Speaker 9: website and use the code of per relief that's pure
Speaker 9: our relief to book the or visit. And you know,
Speaker 9: cats are so calming and they really bring you to
Speaker 9: the present moment. Yeah, and so we're really hoping that
Speaker 9: being able to come here to a safe space and
Speaker 9: just kind of get away from the noise and the news,
Speaker 9: which can be so overwhelming. Just take a pause, take
Speaker 9: a pause, and you know, sit with these cats and
Speaker 9: be in the present moment. They're purrs, are very relaxing
Speaker 9: and spending time with cats, you know, release the serotonin.
Speaker 4: And look at Thomas, he's so happy.
Speaker 1: You know, this is so I think this is great because,
Speaker 1: like you said, this time is so stressful, so many
Speaker 1: people are affected. And even if you just get to
Speaker 1: escape for a little while, if you've been affected by
Speaker 1: the wildfires, check out this kiddie.
Speaker 4: If you've been affected by the.
Speaker 1: Wildfires, you can come down and sit and have a
Speaker 1: coffee and relax and play with kiddies and you just
Speaker 1: never know, you might end up taking one home. Because
Speaker 1: the these cats are all up for adoption. They are
Speaker 1: all up for adoption.
Speaker 9: We work this guy's a little Feistysams, Thomas, He's very
Speaker 9: feisty all. So we work with a rescue partner, kitt
Speaker 9: and Rescue La Okay, And so all the cats here
Speaker 9: are rescues either from the street shelters, and they kit
Speaker 9: and Rescue helps us with the health of the colony.
Speaker 9: So all adoptions are through them.
Speaker 1: So I want to take a look around a little
Speaker 1: bit because you said that they're out. They're not in cages,
Speaker 1: which is so great, so you kind of get to
Speaker 1: see their personalities.
Speaker 4: How they would normally react.
Speaker 1: If you look around here, there are little climbing places.
Speaker 1: There's a cat freeway along to the ceiling.
Speaker 4: And then also if you come out here, what do
Speaker 4: we have out here?
Speaker 9: So as we walk through the cafe, we have a
Speaker 9: kitten lounge to our rights, and then we have our CaTiO.
Speaker 9: And this did help us during the pandemic. It was
Speaker 9: built during that so.
Speaker 4: And it was such a good, great idea that you said,
Speaker 4: let's just keep it open.
Speaker 9: The cats really love it. You know a lot of
Speaker 9: times shire cats in shelter environments just don't thrive, and
Speaker 9: you know, unfortunately that can mean you being euthanized. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and so you know, this really can help shire cats
Speaker 9: who kind of need to realize that humans are safe
Speaker 9: and everything's okay?
Speaker 4: Is that still Thomas is still Thomas?
Speaker 10: He loves following you around.
Speaker 4: I'm going to miss this guy, okay. And he just
Speaker 4: got adopted.
Speaker 1: And since you guys opened in what eighteen eighteen eighteen,
Speaker 1: how many cats have been adopted.
Speaker 9: Approximately one two hundred and thirteen something like that.
Speaker 4: I love that. I love that. And how many cats
Speaker 4: are here.
Speaker 1: At any given time thirty five plus.
Speaker 4: Okay, so there's lots of room for them to run.
Speaker 1: As you can see, they're running and jumping and playing,
Speaker 1: which is just what cats should do. And I if
Speaker 1: you're a cat liver, I mean like this is a
Speaker 1: little slice of heaven for me because it's just so
Speaker 1: fun to see them just hanging out Athena. Again, tell
Speaker 1: us how people come and take advance this And if
Speaker 1: you're not a first responder or somebody affected by the fires,
Speaker 1: you can still come down and do this.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah absolutely, I mean, you know, anyone can come
Speaker 9: and get cat therapy. When we are a nonprofit, any
Speaker 9: donation for entry really helps us out. Worder mouth is
Speaker 9: so important to us. People can volunteer if they like.
Speaker 9: There's other ways to get involved.
Speaker 1: And what's the website to go if you want to
Speaker 1: make a reservation.
Speaker 9: Sure, it's just a catcafe lounge dot com Cat Cafe Lounge.
Speaker 9: If you need to get away chill out for a
Speaker 9: little bit, you're a first responder or affected by the fires,
Speaker 9: you get to do it free for right now, and.
Speaker 4: Is that through to January? When is that?
Speaker 9: We're running that as long as possible.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, we.
Speaker 9: Definitely have had a chunk of people using so far,
Speaker 9: but it's going to be just as long as we
Speaker 9: can sustain that since we also need to stay open
Speaker 9: and function perfect.
Speaker 10: And of course, even if you're not a first responder
Speaker 10: or affected by the fires, what a fun way to
Speaker 10: come and spend an afternoon at Cat Cafe Lounge and
Speaker 10: to set up an appointment time make a reservation. Again,
Speaker 10: it's cat Cafe Lounge dot com and anyone can go.
Speaker 10: But if you are a first responder or you're affected
Speaker 10: by the wildfires, so maybe you just need to go
Speaker 10: chill out and get away from it and go have
Speaker 10: some coffee and play with some cats. When you book
Speaker 10: your cat therapy session, just put in per relief he
Speaker 10: u r R and then relief and you can also
Speaker 10: take a look at the Cat Cafe Lounge. I'm gonna
Speaker 10: be posting it on my Instagram at Amy Kking.
Speaker 4: Very fun.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna sometimes I do like a little
Speaker 1: tease and say, hey, tune in tomorrow and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about this, I'm gonna figure out. I got
Speaker 1: to post this other one because they don't always go
Speaker 1: as planned. I had one cat like freak out and
Speaker 1: attack another cat while I was trying to.
Speaker 4: Pre record it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, but that's gonna be on my Instagram at
Speaker 1: Amy Kking also at KFI AM six forty and would
Speaker 1: love for you to follow me as well. So if
Speaker 1: you are so inclined, please go take a look at
Speaker 1: the Cat Cafe. I love what they're doing to help. Again,
Speaker 1: just we just need a break. Because Valentine was talking
Speaker 1: about before wake Up Call started, everybody's just on edge.
Speaker 1: We're all just because of this ongoing situation. We get
Speaker 1: a new fire breaking out yesterday, and then we get
Speaker 1: one late last night, which fortunately they've put a stop to,
Speaker 1: but it's just kind of got everybody on edge. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A new committee
Speaker 1: has been formed at la City Hall to lead the
Speaker 1: city's fire recovery.
Speaker 2: The city Council voted to create the ad hoc Committee,
Speaker 2: one that would oversee state and federal aid, city departments,
Speaker 2: work and rebuilding. City council woman Monica Rodriguez says, while
Speaker 2: national and state governments are also showing up, it's the
Speaker 2: local government that must lead.
Speaker 11: We are the ones that need to be on the
Speaker 11: front lines, leading this conversation, attuned to the needs of
Speaker 11: our communities, but making sure that no community is left
Speaker 11: behind in that conversation.
Speaker 2: The members of the committee have not yet been determined.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Lost my place because we're watching the We're watching the
Speaker 1: nominations for the Oscars. We're going to share some of
Speaker 1: those with you because they're not broadcasting them as they
Speaker 1: normally do because of the fires. But we'll get you.
Speaker 1: We'll get you some of those. Right now, they're doing
Speaker 1: the lesser nominations. I guess they're all big, but they've
Speaker 1: done like the animated short and that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: so we're waiting for the big dogs. President Trump's getting
Speaker 1: ready to send ten thousand troops to the US border.
Speaker 1: An internal government memo apparently says the troops are going
Speaker 1: to help border patrol agents shut off access to asylum
Speaker 1: in the US, and we'll use Department of Defense bases
Speaker 1: to hold those awaiting deportation. Last night, the Defense Department
Speaker 1: confirmed it was sending an additional fifteen hundred active duty
Speaker 1: troops to the southern border on top of the twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred service members already stationed there. More than a
Speaker 1: half dozen police officers in Texas have been shot while
Speaker 1: answering a call about a man attempting suicide. Police Chief
Speaker 1: William McManus says the first officer to arrive last night
Speaker 1: was shot.
Speaker 12: Six others, such a point to that were.
Speaker 9: Shot at well.
Speaker 1: All were taken to the hospital. The shooter was later
Speaker 1: found dead. It's not clear if he killed himself or
Speaker 1: if he was shot by SWAT officers. Some mobile phones
Speaker 1: with TikTok app installed have been put up for auction
Speaker 1: on eBay. Some have been listed for hundreds or even
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars, but most don't have any takers. The
Speaker 1: ban on TikTok in the US over the weekend was
Speaker 1: short lived, but the app is still not available in
Speaker 1: the Google or Apple app stores. That means people who
Speaker 1: never downloaded it can't get to it now. Thirty one
Speaker 1: thousand people are under evacuation orders. Another twenty three thousand
Speaker 1: are under evacuation warnings as a fast moving wildfire burned
Speaker 1: through the mountains of Castaic. Fire officials say having a
Speaker 1: large number of ground and air support has helped give
Speaker 1: them an upper hand. About four thousand firefighters battling this one.
Speaker 1: The fires burned through about ten two hundred acres so
Speaker 1: far hasn't destroyed any homes. Despite another round of gusty
Speaker 1: Santa Ana wins, firefighters have continued to gain ground against
Speaker 1: the fire and Alta, Dina and Pasadena. The fires now
Speaker 1: ninety five percent surrounded. All residents have been allowed back
Speaker 1: into the burn area. Some areas are restricted to residents
Speaker 1: only they have to show proof that they live in
Speaker 1: the area. The House has passed the Lake and Riley Act.
Speaker 1: The law requires ICE agents to detain illegal immigrants who
Speaker 1: are charged, arrested, or convicted of nonviolent crimes. It's named
Speaker 1: after the Georgia nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant.
Speaker 1: It passed two sixty three to one fifty six and
Speaker 1: will be the first bill sent to President Trump to
Speaker 1: sign into law this term.
Speaker 4: We're just minutes away from.
Speaker 1: Handle on the news this morning, ticktalks in talks to
Speaker 1: save its app in the US. Okay Oscar nominations were
Speaker 1: just announced, and here's We're just going to run through
Speaker 1: a few of them.
Speaker 4: Are not going to give you all of them.
Speaker 1: There's twenty three categories, and quite frankly, I don't care
Speaker 1: about some of them, but I do care about some
Speaker 1: of them, like Best Picture. Up for Best Picture are
Speaker 1: several Remember they can have up to ten in a category.
Speaker 1: Now A Noorra The Brutalist, a Complete Unknown, Conclave Dune
Speaker 1: Part two. It's kind of surprising, Amelia Perez, I'm still here.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of I'm still here? I haven't heard
Speaker 1: of that movie. Here's another one I haven't heard of,
Speaker 1: Nickel Boys. Then The Substance, which we did a little
Speaker 1: Amy's on it yesterday. That's up for Best Movie, and Wicked,
Speaker 1: which I've seen a couple of times. I doubt wicked'll
Speaker 1: get it, but I sure liked it. Up for Best Actress,
Speaker 1: Cynthia Arrivo from Wicked, Carla Sophia Gasconne, Amelia Perez, Mikey
Speaker 1: Madison for Anora, Demi Moore for the Substance, and Fernanda
Speaker 1: Torres I'm still here Best. Let's see Best Actress, Best Actor,
Speaker 1: Adrian Brodie for The Brutalist, Timothy Charlemaye a Complete Unknown,
Speaker 1: Charala May Coleman Domingo for Sing Sing another movie I
Speaker 1: haven't heard of, Ralph Finds for Conclave, Saw That One,
Speaker 1: and Sebastian Stand for The Apprentice, and then up for
Speaker 1: Best Director, Sean Baker for Anora, Brady Corbett for The Brutalist,
Speaker 1: James Mangold for a Complete Unknown, Jacques Audiere for Emilia Perez,
Speaker 1: and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance. I probably said that wrong,
Speaker 1: but those.
Speaker 4: Are the big ones. And again.
Speaker 1: The award ceremonies being held on March second at the
Speaker 1: Dolby Theater in Hollywood. And I've got a lot of
Speaker 1: movies to see if i want to know what I'm
Speaker 1: seeing when I watch the oscars, I like to try
Speaker 1: and see as many as I can, but a lot.
Speaker 4: Of times you run out of time.
Speaker 1: Hey, with the fires breaking out, there was something that
Speaker 1: I saw last night that I wanted to pass along
Speaker 1: to you share with you. There was one of the
Speaker 1: guys that was being interviewed on TV, as he was
Speaker 1: told to get out of his home, held up a
Speaker 1: piece of paper that had the six peas on it,
Speaker 1: and he said, this is from my mom.
Speaker 4: She takes such good care of us.
Speaker 1: She gave us this list of the six pie's and
Speaker 1: the six PE's are the six things that you need
Speaker 1: to get before you go because you have your ready
Speaker 1: set go plan. And I thought this was really a
Speaker 1: good reminder because I know that last week or two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, when the fire broke out and running in canyon,
Speaker 1: that was the one that got closest to me and
Speaker 1: kind of scared me a little bit. And of course
Speaker 1: then there's a lot of you who had to literally
Speaker 1: get your stuff and go. Here's a little guideline for you.
Speaker 1: The six piece People and pets, that's number one. Then papers,
Speaker 1: phone numbers, important documents, prescriptions, then also vitamin's, eyeglasses, pictures,
Speaker 1: and irreplaceable memorabilia. When we talked to Brady at the
Speaker 1: Dream Center LA, he had lost his home in Altadena.
Speaker 1: He's the one we told you about where he was
Speaker 1: literally watching as is his house burned down. He said
Speaker 1: he's going to miss a lot of those things, the
Speaker 1: memories that he had. And so if you have special pictures,
Speaker 1: grab those personal computers, that's an easy one. And then
Speaker 1: plastic credit cards atm cards, any cash you have on hand,
Speaker 1: So people and pets, papers, prescriptions, pictures, personal computers and plastics.
Speaker 1: Good reminder because as we found out yesterday with that
Speaker 1: fire in Castaic, they can break out kind of anywhere
Speaker 1: and you might have to go super quick. That fire
Speaker 1: in Castaic has torn through more than ten thousand acres.
Speaker 1: Some schools in the area are closed today. Roads have
Speaker 1: been closed. More than thirty thousand people are under evacuation orders.
Speaker 1: No homes have burned. About four thousand firefighters, fixed wing
Speaker 1: aircraft and water dropping helicopters have been fighting the fire.
Speaker 1: The water dropping helicopters have been released, so that's a
Speaker 1: good sign. The judge who ordered Southern California Edison to
Speaker 1: preserve any possible evidence of what may have sparked the
Speaker 1: deadly fire in Altadena that started in Eaton Canyon. The
Speaker 1: judge's order stems from a lawsuit filed by a woman
Speaker 1: whose home was destroyed by the fire in Altadena. The
Speaker 1: woman's lawyer was concerned the utility might destroy evidence. The
Speaker 1: people who say they want to hear or they I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: The people who say they want to tear down Marilyn
Speaker 1: Monroe's old house in Brentwood are going to have to wait.
Speaker 2: Awhile the owners of the house where Monroe died in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty two, also own the house next door. The
Speaker 2: city of la blocked the house in Brentwood from being
Speaker 2: demolished by designating it a Historical Cultural Landmark. The owners
Speaker 2: say the city violated the law in doing so. They
Speaker 2: argue the mid century actress only lived there sporadically for
Speaker 2: six months before she oweded, but their attorney lost his
Speaker 2: home in the Palisades fire, so a jury trial, originally
Speaker 2: scheduled for March, has been pushed back to June. Michael
Speaker 2: Munk KFI News.
Speaker 1: Before we had I I want to tell you that,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, you could get these evacuation orders at
Speaker 1: the last second and you just have to be ready
Speaker 1: to go. And our very own producer and found that
Speaker 1: out last night. I got a text from her and
Speaker 1: she said, I had to get the I had to
Speaker 1: take my horse to a shelter or a rescue center
Speaker 1: or an evacuation center.
Speaker 4: What happened.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we got a text from our barn manager around
Speaker 8: eleven o'clock in the afternoon and she said.
Speaker 12: Buyer's not really close close, but it's moving this way
Speaker 12: pretty quickly, so you guys might want to get your
Speaker 12: horses out of here.
Speaker 8: So it was a mad dash to get a trailer,
Speaker 8: to get somebody.
Speaker 12: Out there, get the horse. We took them to Pierce College.
Speaker 4: Which is where a lot of people have been taking
Speaker 4: it for all of the fires. Yeah. Yes, and large
Speaker 4: animal shelter. They're amazing.
Speaker 8: And there's goats there and donkeys and pigs and and
Speaker 8: you have a pig next to your horse, a pig
Speaker 8: in the stall next to our horse.
Speaker 4: And the pigs I'm very happy about being so.
Speaker 8: Unhappy, squealing, grunting, and they were just throwing food into
Speaker 8: us mouth just to get him to be quiet. But
Speaker 8: I checked on him actually this morning on my way in,
Speaker 8: and they're doing okay.
Speaker 12: He's doing good. He's just like, what the heck.
Speaker 4: Is going on here?
Speaker 1: Love the people at Pierce College that they've been so's
Speaker 1: an important resource during these fires. All right, thank you, An,
Speaker 1: We're glad you your horse is safe. This is KFI
Speaker 1: and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County Southland weather
Speaker 1: from KFI. Red flag warnings have been extended until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: Because of those Santa Ana winds and low humidity levels,
Speaker 1: win gots up to about fifty miles per hour are
Speaker 1: expected in the valleys and mountains.
Speaker 4: It's going to be sunny and really warm.
Speaker 1: His in the seventies at the beaches, low eighties for
Speaker 1: Metro La and inland O c seventies to low eighties,
Speaker 1: and the valleys in i E. Low sixties for the
Speaker 1: Annelo Valley.
Speaker 4: It's going to be.
Speaker 1: Cooler Tomorrow, still sunny his in the sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: and then cloudy with a slight chance of rain Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: better chance of some rain Saturday afternoon, and rain is
Speaker 1: likely Saturday night and into Sunay. It's sixty seven in Anaheim,
Speaker 1: fifty three in Redondo Beach, sixty four in Woodland Hills,
Speaker 1: and fifty three in Inglewood. We lead local live from
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and Whose
Speaker 1: Horse Is Safe, and technical producer Kono and traffic specialist
Speaker 1: Will I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up Call,
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