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Speaker 1: It's five o'clock on your Tuesday morning wake up Call.
Speaker 3: It's September seventeenth. I'm Amy King driving in.
Speaker 1: I saw what's almost full? Did you see that moon?
Speaker 1: And it's a super moon, a super harvest moon. It's
Speaker 1: gonna peak tonight at seven point thirty our time, seven
Speaker 1: thirty five, going to appear full for about three days
Speaker 1: from Monday through Thursday, according to uh NASA says that,
Speaker 1: and it's beautiful. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1: Firefighters are gaining more ground on the massive fires burning
Speaker 1: in southern California. The largest is burning near Rightwood and
Speaker 1: Mount Baldwy Baldy. It's nearly fifty five thousand acres twenty
Speaker 1: five percent surrounded, up from eleven percent the day before.
Speaker 1: Sixty six homes and other buildings have been destroyed. About
Speaker 1: a dozen others have been damaged. A Christian pasture from
Speaker 1: Garden Grove is back home after spending nearly two decades
Speaker 1: in a prison in China. The US State Department confirmed
Speaker 1: the release of David Lynn yesterday. It's not clear why
Speaker 1: he was released. Lynn, who is now sixty eight, was
Speaker 1: convicted of contract fraud in China in two thousand and
Speaker 1: six and sentenced to life in prison. Secret Service agents
Speaker 1: have found Soviet era rifle, backpack and video camera where
Speaker 1: they say would be assassin Ryan Rouse staked out from
Speaker 1: up to twelve hours along the Trump golf course in
Speaker 1: West Palm Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3: We're going to find more about the would be.
Speaker 1: Assassin with ABC's Peter Harrow Lumbus coming up in less
Speaker 1: than five minutes, and then at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: we're going to find out who this routh guy is
Speaker 1: how close he came to taking a shot at the
Speaker 1: former president.
Speaker 3: ABC's Steve Portnoy has that for us.
Speaker 1: Also coming up before the top of the hour, Joel
Speaker 1: Larsgard is going to let us know how we may
Speaker 1: be able to start saving some money at the grocery store,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be nice? And home equity loans and whether
Speaker 1: one is right for you. Wake of Calso wants to
Speaker 1: send you to the spookiest place on Earth. It's Halloween
Speaker 1: time at Disneyland. We're going to be telling you more
Speaker 1: about that. Let's get started with some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 1: wildfire that started in Tribuco Canyon in Orange County and
Speaker 1: burned nearly two hundred homes and other buildings is now
Speaker 1: thirty one percent surround it. The fires burned more than
Speaker 1: twenty three thousand acres in Orange and Riverside County since
Speaker 1: last week. It hasn't really grown since since last week,
Speaker 1: so that's good news. Officials say their priorities were on
Speaker 1: the east and the west sides the fire. Cooler temperatures
Speaker 1: have helped firefighters make some progress, and helicopter water drops
Speaker 1: on Santiago Park helped put some of the flames out there.
Speaker 1: The surge in COVID cases across California is starting to wane.
Speaker 4: Unlike the flu for the past several years, COVID has
Speaker 4: seen rising cases in the winter and summer. USC virologist
Speaker 4: doctor Paula Cannon told the La City Health Commission last
Speaker 4: week that's because of our behavior in warmer weather.
Speaker 1: We go indoors and we turn on the air conditioning,
Speaker 1: we close our windows, and that reduces the amount of
Speaker 1: pressure we get, and the virus is very happy when
Speaker 1: we do that.
Speaker 4: Another spike in cases could come this winter, but Cannon
Speaker 4: says the new boosters on the market this fall should
Speaker 4: fight off serious illness in downtown La.
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Speaker 1: La Kenny Sheriff's investigators say the deaths of two people
Speaker 1: found it inside a home that burned in Glendora art suspicious.
Speaker 1: One of those found dead yesterday was a seventy one
Speaker 1: year old man. The Sheriff's department says he was found
Speaker 1: inside a bedroom. A second person, believed to be the
Speaker 1: man's wife, was also killed. Sheriff's Lieutenant Steve j Jong
Speaker 1: says the couple was having marital issues and police had
Speaker 1: been involved before.
Speaker 5: They were here about a month earlier in regards to
Speaker 5: a domestic violence incident.
Speaker 3: No one was arrested in that incident.
Speaker 1: Family members say the wife had recently filed for divorce.
Speaker 1: Music mogul Sean Combs, known as Ditty, has been arrested
Speaker 1: in New York following a string of sexual assault lawsuits.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jason nathans And says Combs was arrested last night
Speaker 1: in Manhattan.
Speaker 2: We know that Combs has been hit with lawsuit after
Speaker 2: lawsuit from women to alleged they were physically and sexually
Speaker 2: abused by Combs and his colleagues, sex trafficked, and more.
Speaker 6: Combs has denied all allegations against him.
Speaker 1: The US Attorney's officers the arrest was based on a
Speaker 1: sealed indictment, which they expect to unseal this morning. More
Speaker 1: people have tuned in to watch the Emmys this year.
Speaker 1: Viewership for the awards show jumped fifty four percent to
Speaker 1: six point nine million viewers, following a record low ceremony
Speaker 1: in January. The show in early twenty twenty four aired
Speaker 1: on Fox. Sunday nights broadcast aired on ABC. In the
Speaker 1: key adults eighteen to forty nine ratings, The ratings were
Speaker 1: up seventeen percent.
Speaker 3: AB says.
Speaker 1: ABC says it also outperformed the last time ABC hosted
Speaker 1: the event in twenty twenty. Earlier this year, ABC also
Speaker 1: saw a boost in ratings for the Oscars. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's Peter Haralambuss.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Peter.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being on with us, Hey, we're learning more
Speaker 1: about the guy arrested in connection with a second attempted
Speaker 1: assassination on former President Trump in the last couple of months.
Speaker 3: Tell us who this guy is that.
Speaker 5: We know so far, so we're beginning to get a bigger,
Speaker 5: better picture of fifty year old fifty eight year old
Speaker 5: Ryan Ruth. He was a struggling roof contractor who has
Speaker 5: connected in North Carolina and Hawaii, who seems to have
Speaker 5: held erratic political views and set out on a far
Speaker 5: flung mission to help Ukraine fight off Russia's invasion. The
Speaker 5: exact motive for why he ended up doing this, why
Speaker 5: he showed up on Trump's golf course on Sunday waited
Speaker 5: out for twelve hours with a Soviet style rifle, remains unclear.
Speaker 5: But this is certainly a figure whose social media history
Speaker 5: investigators are combing through as they try to understand what
Speaker 5: compelled him to do this.
Speaker 1: And Peter, he you mentioned Hawaii and North Carolina ties.
Speaker 3: Do we know where he's currently living or was before
Speaker 3: he got arrested.
Speaker 5: It appears he was spending some time in North Carolina.
Speaker 5: His neighbors who we spoke to, said that they spotted
Speaker 5: him back on his property there. Recently, it appears he moved, though,
Speaker 5: from North Carolina in twenty eighteen to Hawaii. The neighbors
Speaker 5: we've spoken to kind of described him as a weird
Speaker 5: loaner type, although they've noted that they're still very much
Speaker 5: surprised by the that he would ever do anything like this.
Speaker 5: We've heard some interesting stories. One neighbor in North Carolina
Speaker 5: who lived next to Ruth for three to four years,
Speaker 5: noted that he often had guns around the house and
Speaker 5: weirdly had a live horse inside his living room. She
Speaker 5: noted that people didn't even believe her that this neighbor
Speaker 5: of hers had a horse, and she took photos of it.
Speaker 5: Another neighbor described Ruth as sketchy, that he kind of
Speaker 5: weirdly paced around all the time and sent off weird vibes.
Speaker 5: Though the neighbors in Hawaii offered a kind of a
Speaker 5: kinder picture, noting that he seemed to just be a
Speaker 5: normal guy who was reasonably friendly and that they were
Speaker 5: overall very surprised by any of this conduct.
Speaker 1: Okay, and we mentioned you mentioned that he had been
Speaker 1: basically lying in wait for twelve hours outside the Trump
Speaker 1: International Golf Club. Do we know how long he had
Speaker 1: been in Florida, Like has he been there for a
Speaker 1: week or did he drive down just for this.
Speaker 5: That's something we're still trying to figure out because it's
Speaker 5: all very unclear. What's even more ambiguous and kind of
Speaker 5: concerning is the fact that Trump's movement to this golf
Speaker 5: course was unplanned. It's not like he's a sitting president
Speaker 5: to us to declare his intention and his schedule to
Speaker 5: go from one place to another. This was kind of
Speaker 5: a surprise move on behalf of the former president. The
Speaker 5: fact that he was waiting there in the early hours
Speaker 5: of the morning on Sunday when this was, you know,
Speaker 5: something that wasn't announced, That the former president hadn't even
Speaker 5: theoretically made up his mind to go play golf is
Speaker 5: kind of shocking, and law enforcement are probing that and
Speaker 5: trying to figure out what exactly was going on there.
Speaker 5: They've said that they don't have any evidence at this
Speaker 5: point that he received any assistance, but they're still looking
Speaker 5: into whether or not he had any kind of advanced
Speaker 5: information or kind of any intel that allowed him to
Speaker 5: make this move and be in position for Trump to
Speaker 5: be playing just the three hundred to four hundred yards away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then the other question I would have is
Speaker 1: has he done this before, Like, if he didn't have
Speaker 1: some sort of advanced notice or found out from somebody
Speaker 1: that Trump was going to be playing, did he just
Speaker 1: randomly go down and camp out there just in case
Speaker 1: that we just never knew about.
Speaker 5: It's hard to say, And I think it's also important
Speaker 5: to note that Ruth himself has a lengthy rap sheet
Speaker 5: going back all the way until nineteen ninety seven. For example,
Speaker 5: there was a two thousand and two incident in which
Speaker 5: he barricaded himself inside his business while armed with an
Speaker 5: assault weapon guiltimately pleaded guilty to a felony count of
Speaker 5: possessing a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 6: He's pleaded guilty.
Speaker 5: To other crimes. He's been sued multiple times, So there
Speaker 5: appears to have been some kind of history, including that
Speaker 5: two thousand and two incident with firearms, very erratic behavior
Speaker 5: that concerned law enforcement. In fact, we know that there
Speaker 5: was a tip to the FBI in twenty nineteen about
Speaker 5: him possessing a firearm that wasn't acted upon because they
Speaker 5: could not verify the complaintant's information.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we know that he's right now He's charged
Speaker 1: on two charges, one felony in possession or a convict
Speaker 1: or whatever convicted felon in possession of a weapon, and
Speaker 1: also for scratching out the serial number on a weapon.
Speaker 3: So that's two charges. But is he going to face
Speaker 3: more In.
Speaker 5: All likelihood, prosecutors are going to come back with more
Speaker 5: charges at this point. For now, it seems like those
Speaker 5: were the lowest hanging fruit. In a way, it seems
Speaker 5: expected that we're going to see more charges about this
Speaker 5: entire scheme over the coming weeks and months. For now,
Speaker 5: he has an arragement technically scheduled at the end of
Speaker 5: the month on September thirtieth.
Speaker 1: And it'll be interesting, Peter, because he didn't actually do anything.
Speaker 3: He didn't fire the weapon.
Speaker 1: He was just there, So it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: what charges they come up with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll have to see. And you're right, he didn't
Speaker 5: fire a weapon. He still possessed one. He had a
Speaker 5: criminal record due to conviction, which makes it a crime.
Speaker 5: But we'll have to see what prosecutors draw up in
Speaker 5: terms of, you know, kind of offering context to what
Speaker 5: this crime was and what exactly had happened to here.
Speaker 5: Certainly a lot of unanswered questions.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, but you did answer some of them for us
Speaker 1: and we appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Peter. We look forward to talking to you again soon.
Speaker 6: Thanks much having me all right, let's get back.
Speaker 1: To some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. A person has been shot by
Speaker 1: an off duty officer who stepped in during a road
Speaker 1: rage confrontation in Murieta. The man shot multiple times yesterday
Speaker 1: and a shopping center parking lot is in critical condition.
Speaker 1: No one else was hit by the gunfire, and the
Speaker 1: Hemmet police officer wasn't hurt. The officer is cooperating with
Speaker 1: the investigation. Two people have been killed, including a man
Speaker 1: who the LAPD says shot and killed someone in a
Speaker 1: parking lot in a North Hollywood mall.
Speaker 3: Parking lot.
Speaker 1: Lease say they fired on a man in a parking
Speaker 1: garage when he pointed a gun at them early yesterday
Speaker 1: morning on Victory Boulevard. The other man was found shot
Speaker 1: in the head in a car in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: People who want forced labor out of prisons in California
Speaker 1: have asked voters in LA for their support.
Speaker 7: Proposition six would ban prisons from punishing inmates who refused
Speaker 7: to work. Democratic Assemblyman Reggie Jones Sawyer says seven other
Speaker 7: states have recently passed similar measures.
Speaker 8: Seventy percent of the voters in Alabama, seventy nine percent
Speaker 8: of the voters in Tennessee, and eighty one percent of
Speaker 8: voters in Vermont voted to remove these provisions.
Speaker 7: The measure would allow prisons to set up voluntary work
Speaker 7: programs where inmates can work to reduce their sentences. The
Speaker 7: measure got little pushback in the state legislature. Blake Trolly
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Speaker 1: Cooler temperatures and higher humidity are helping firefighters diglines around
Speaker 1: the fires burning in southern California. The fire in the
Speaker 1: San Bernardino Mountains is now forty nine percent surrounded and
Speaker 1: really hasn't grown since yesterday. The fire New right Wood
Speaker 1: and Mount Baldy thirty five percent surrounded, and the one
Speaker 1: that started in Tribute co Kenyon or Tribute Cookenyon just
Speaker 1: over a week ago is thirty one percent surrounded.
Speaker 3: None of the fires has grown much in the last
Speaker 3: few days.
Speaker 1: Homeowners, businesses, and local leaders have their opportunity to say
Speaker 1: what they think of new plans to reform the insurance
Speaker 1: market in the state. A virtual public hearing is being
Speaker 1: held today at ten. The plans have been in the
Speaker 1: works since several insurance providers stopped offering coverage in California.
Speaker 1: Online comments can be submitted up until the meeting starts.
Speaker 1: Most voters say Taylor Swift's endorsement for Vice President Harris
Speaker 1: has no impact on how they will vote. In a
Speaker 1: new ABC Episodes poll, six percent of respondents said they
Speaker 1: were more likely to vote for the Democratic presidential nominee
Speaker 1: after Swift's endorsement. Thirteen percent said they're less likely to
Speaker 1: vote for Harris because of it. At six oh five,
Speaker 1: it's Handle on the news, Sean did he Combs is
Speaker 1: going to find out what the charges are against him.
Speaker 1: He was taken into custody last night in New York City.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1: So it's been talked about for months and months, Jim,
Speaker 1: and now it appears the Fed may actually be poised
Speaker 1: to lower interest rates when and how much?
Speaker 9: Tomorrow and maybe half a percent? So yeah, the Fed
Speaker 9: will open Market Committee opens its meeting today. Amy, it'll
Speaker 9: wramp it up tomorrow, and at that time it's expected
Speaker 9: to announce that interest rates will be cut. There's something
Speaker 9: called a CME FED Watch, which estimates interest rate charges
Speaker 9: and changes. It says there's a thirty seven percent chance
Speaker 9: the Fed will cut rates by twenty five basis points
Speaker 9: a quarter percent, a sixty three percent chance it would
Speaker 9: go bigger than that at half a percent, and almost
Speaker 9: a zero percent chance that nothing will be done at all.
Speaker 9: So now bankers and others are watching this carefully and
Speaker 9: they do expect that interest rates will be coming down well,
Speaker 9: and the.
Speaker 1: Fed drum pal has been talking about it for months
Speaker 1: and saying, okay, things are getting better, things are getting better.
Speaker 9: Right, And he was criticized after the last meeting in
Speaker 9: July when interest rates were not where they were held
Speaker 9: right where they were, there was no decline. And then
Speaker 9: within a day or two we had unemployment rates that
Speaker 9: came in very high, much higher than anybody had anticipated.
Speaker 9: That was probably though, because of Hurricane Barrel, and a
Speaker 9: lot of people were put out of work from that.
Speaker 9: So things stabilized somewhat, and today, finally two months later,
Speaker 9: it is expected that the interest rates will be pulled
Speaker 9: down somewhat.
Speaker 3: So the question is is it going to do the trick.
Speaker 9: Will you do the trick in terms of the whole economy, maybe,
Speaker 9: maybe not, But will it do the trick for individual consumers? Probably? Yeah.
Speaker 9: If you're planning on borrowing money, it will cost less
Speaker 9: for you to do that. So if you're thinking about
Speaker 9: taking out a loan for a car or a home,
Speaker 9: you should do better in terms of your interest rate.
Speaker 9: But on the flip side, if you put money into
Speaker 9: a high yield savings account you've been collecting about five
Speaker 9: percent on that, that rate will fall back down because
Speaker 9: essentially what you're doing is lending money to the bank, right,
Speaker 9: and so the bank will see it's return improved somewhat.
Speaker 9: That means your return on your CD or your high
Speaker 9: yield savings account's going to drop just a bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you mentioned that prices will go down on
Speaker 1: credit cards and home loans that kind of stuff. Is
Speaker 1: there going to be an immediate drop or does it
Speaker 1: take a while to catch up.
Speaker 9: It does take a while, and it'll take time to
Speaker 9: soak out into the market, into the mortgage companies and
Speaker 9: into the banks. And speaking of credit cards, you know
Speaker 9: they adjust their rates fairly soon after the Fed changes
Speaker 9: the federal funds. Right, so you can expect interest rates
Speaker 9: on your Visa, your American Express, your Master or whatever
Speaker 9: your card is to drop just a little bit. It's
Speaker 9: not going to be a huge amount because credit cards
Speaker 9: charge so much anyway, righty two twenty three percent?
Speaker 3: How much they're charging.
Speaker 9: No, No, it's horrible, and so even a little decline
Speaker 9: it's not going to impact that so much. You know,
Speaker 9: the best advice is just to avoid using them if
Speaker 9: you can.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then, Jim, here's my other question, because even
Speaker 1: I'm curious as to what the car the companies can
Speaker 1: charge them what they do charge because the interest rates
Speaker 1: have been.
Speaker 3: Up there, we haven't seen a drop in three or
Speaker 3: four years.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so at one point the mortgage rates were
Speaker 1: up over seven percent. Yes, well there hasn't been an
Speaker 1: interest rate drop, but the interest rates on thirty year
Speaker 1: loans have dropped by more than a percent. They're down
Speaker 1: at like six percent or just over six percent. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't understand how that happens.
Speaker 9: Well, right, I mean, the Fed is not setting the
Speaker 9: interest rate for every mortgage company at every bank out there.
Speaker 9: They can kind of work on their own. But the
Speaker 9: key interest rate that the FED can control has an
Speaker 9: influence on those other institutions. So it's not as though
Speaker 9: the Feds it's done, says okay, Bank of America, you're
Speaker 9: going to charge you six and three quarter percents you
Speaker 9: know on a mortgage or your mortgage company that much.
Speaker 9: They don't do that. But the things that the FED does,
Speaker 9: when it sets this prime or this this key interest rate,
Speaker 9: it kind of takes the lead and so the others
Speaker 9: will follow that almost, you know, individually and almost universally
Speaker 9: for the next few months.
Speaker 1: So could mortgage company could they drop rates down to
Speaker 1: five percent right now if they wanted to?
Speaker 9: You know, I think they could. Yeah, And if you
Speaker 9: shop around, you're not going to find anything that low,
Speaker 9: but you could find that things will get down there
Speaker 9: at some point in the future. And you know, the
Speaker 9: FED has been bringing rates down from what like zero
Speaker 9: percent in twenty twenty two to about five and a
Speaker 9: quarter five and a half percent in July last and
Speaker 9: that's where it has stayed ever since. So you know,
Speaker 9: it may be time now and if you want to
Speaker 9: start to and obviously the banks know that you do
Speaker 9: that too, that you start shopping around looking for a
Speaker 9: that high interests or that high yield savings account, and
Speaker 9: you can find those and it's not usually the big
Speaker 9: banks that give you the best return on those, it's
Speaker 9: the smaller banks.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Jim Ryan, Well we'll watch.
Speaker 1: I'm going to wait to buy anything because I think
Speaker 1: the rates are coming down more so there.
Speaker 6: I think you're right.
Speaker 9: You know, there may be further interest rates to cuts
Speaker 9: through the rest of the year. That's what a lot
Speaker 9: of economists are expecting. This could just be the start.
Speaker 9: But again, tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon is when the Fed will
Speaker 9: make its decision.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, thank you, Jim Ryan.
Speaker 9: See emmy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police
Speaker 1: in Orange County are looking for kids found in a
Speaker 1: child porn operation linked to a couple from Lake Forest.
Speaker 10: So it was also evidence that there might be distribution
Speaker 10: of the material.
Speaker 6: Coas to Mason.
Speaker 11: Police spokeswoman Roxy Fiad says, Jonathan Garduno first tried to
Speaker 11: hook up with a fifteen year old girl who turned
Speaker 11: out to be a sex crimes investigator.
Speaker 10: Detectives continued their investigation involving Gardeno and also conducted his
Speaker 10: living girlfriend, Kyla Kawfield to the crime.
Speaker 6: She says.
Speaker 3: The two were arrested Friday but quickly bailed out.
Speaker 10: We feel it's important to our community know that bill
Speaker 10: schedules are not set by the police department, but are
Speaker 10: based on the legal charging penal.
Speaker 11: Codes in Orange County. Corbin Carson kf I News the.
Speaker 1: CHP's asking for your help in identifying a boy found
Speaker 1: riding a scooter on the one ten Freeway near downtown La.
Speaker 1: The boy, who is between ten and thirteen, is nonverbal.
Speaker 1: He was found on Sunday evening riding the scooter in
Speaker 1: the express lanes of the southbound of one ten near
Speaker 1: Jefferson Boulevard. There are no missing persons reports matching his description.
Speaker 1: Cyclists now have another four miles of dedicated bike paths
Speaker 1: to ride along on San Fernando Road. The bike lanes
Speaker 1: that opened yesterday complete the third and final phase of
Speaker 1: a ten mile San Fernando bike path that runs from
Speaker 1: Banford to Cohasset Streets. This afternoon, the Dodgers take on
Speaker 1: the Marlins in Miami, with first pitch going out at
Speaker 1: three forty. You can listen to every play of every
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Speaker 1: wildfires in southern California are about to get help from
Speaker 1: the California National Guard. Troops are being trained this week
Speaker 1: and are expected to be deployed early next week. This
Speaker 1: is the first time in three years National Guard hand
Speaker 1: crews have participated in the wildfire battle. Ohio Governor Mike
Speaker 1: DeWine says the bomb threats being called into the town
Speaker 1: of Springfield are not credible and are originating from overseas.
Speaker 1: DeWine said, thirty three threats have been called in and
Speaker 1: they're all hoaxes. The cities come into the spotlight after
Speaker 1: former President Trump said during the debate that Haitian immigrants
Speaker 1: there are eating cats and dogs. Jane's Addiction has canceled
Speaker 1: the rest of its tour after lead singer Perry Farrell
Speaker 1: lunged at guitarist Dave Navarrow during a show Friday night
Speaker 1: in Boston. The band says it has made the difficult
Speaker 1: decision to take some time away as a group, the
Speaker 1: band's current tour w post and on October sixteenth at
Speaker 1: the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles at six o five's
Speaker 1: handle on the news, Elon Musk is going to stepped
Speaker 1: in it again, but you wouldn't know it if you
Speaker 1: didn't actually see his post because he pulled the comment
Speaker 1: from X and Find fifty. Joel Larsguard is going to
Speaker 1: let us know how he may be able to save
Speaker 1: you some money at the grocery store and also home
Speaker 1: equity loans whether they are right for you. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, the would
Speaker 1: be shooter was lying in wait for the President to
Speaker 1: come by during a round of golf on Sunday. How
Speaker 1: much danger was Trump really in?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, think of it.
Speaker 12: You had a man who arrived, according to the FBI,
Speaker 12: at Trump's West Palm Beach golf Club around two am Sunday,
Speaker 12: didn't leave until he was found and fired at by
Speaker 12: Secret Service nearly twelve hours later, and only because a
Speaker 12: quick thinking agent saw the barrel of the Soviet style
Speaker 12: rifle poking through the bushes through the fence line, and
Speaker 12: he the agent engaged the would be gunman ran and
Speaker 12: in the end he was caught by police fifty miles
Speaker 12: north on I ninety five.
Speaker 6: So what we're learning is more about.
Speaker 12: This man, fifty eight year old Ryan Routh, who's now
Speaker 12: charged with two counts possessing a firearm while he's a
Speaker 12: convicted felon, and he had a lengthy rap sheet and
Speaker 12: possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The authorities
Speaker 12: say that they are scouring through his social media posts,
Speaker 12: talking with people who knew and have known him to
Speaker 12: see if they can substantiate a case that he intended
Speaker 12: to kill the former press.
Speaker 1: So I'm still curious if he was waiting there for
Speaker 1: twelve hours, had he done this before, because what they
Speaker 1: keep saying Trump hadn't announced his schedule, like people didn't
Speaker 1: really know he was going to golf that day.
Speaker 12: This certainly was an off the record movement in the
Speaker 12: parlance of the Secret Service, which is to say, it
Speaker 12: wasn't a publicly announced or even this sssarily set upon
Speaker 12: an advance or this decided in advance. According to the
Speaker 12: Secret Services Acting Director, he wasn't even supposed to be there,
Speaker 12: whatever that means. But the bottom line is the Secret
Speaker 12: Service didn't know that that was the plan for the day,
Speaker 12: because sometimes Trump changes his plans and it was sort
Speaker 12: of a spur of the moment thing. The question was
Speaker 12: asked whether Ryan Routh had been to the Palm Beach
Speaker 12: Golf Club before, and there was no.
Speaker 6: Answer given to that question.
Speaker 12: Looks like some either some more evidence has to be
Speaker 12: dug up or they weren't prepared to answer the question.
Speaker 1: And do we know if he just like drove down
Speaker 1: from North Carolina right then, or if he maybe had
Speaker 1: been in Florida for a while.
Speaker 6: Oh, I have no information about that, okay.
Speaker 1: And was Trump he wasn't actually in the line of
Speaker 1: sight because Routh was kind of camped out like a
Speaker 1: hole ahead of where Trump was right.
Speaker 12: Well, of course, I mean, look, just the fact that
Speaker 12: the way the protocol works, you have the Secret Service
Speaker 12: ahead of the former president while he's golfing at this
Speaker 12: particular golf club on this particular date. So it was
Speaker 12: the agent's ahead of Trump. Trump was on whole five apparently,
Speaker 12: and the agent was at whole six, and so the
Speaker 12: agent intercepted before Trump could be in the line of sight.
Speaker 3: Okay, It's just so fascinating.
Speaker 1: The whole thing I'm glad they caught him, And it
Speaker 1: was really interesting to me how how they caught him,
Speaker 1: because what somebody saw and reported the license plate number,
Speaker 1: and then they tracked that and found him fifty miles
Speaker 1: down the road.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 12: I mean, it really speaks to the power of technology
Speaker 12: these days and the idea that you know. In fact,
Speaker 12: it was set in court papers that the license plates
Speaker 12: on the Nissan that he drove were switched stolen from
Speaker 12: a Ford, So he must have thought that that was
Speaker 12: enough to evade detection. And according to the sheriff of
Speaker 12: Martin County, Florida, where he was arrested, because he was
Speaker 12: traveling in a relatively normal rate of speed up I
Speaker 12: ninety five fifty miles north, he must have thought he
Speaker 12: was getting away with it. In fact, they did catch
Speaker 12: him and he surrendered without incident after being pulled over.
Speaker 12: One other thing we could talk about briefly is the
Speaker 12: question about resources within the Secret Service. Yes, because the
Speaker 12: Secret Service Director said yesterday that the agency needs to
Speaker 12: undergo a paradigm shift to move from what he described
Speaker 12: as a reactive model to a readiness model, and it's
Speaker 12: time for hard conversations with Congress about an agency that's
Speaker 12: already understaffed and stretched too thin. Exactly how Ronald Row
Speaker 12: intends to reform the agency where he's not even the
Speaker 12: formally appointed director, he's the acting director. Big questions, no
Speaker 12: easy answers. The Secret Service's budget has ballooned in the
Speaker 12: past decade, while it's staffing on the protective Detail has shrunk.
Speaker 6: Oh, how could that be? Why is that? Reader?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 12: We don't know those answers, but it's why there's some
Speaker 12: curiosity skepticism up on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 6: Is the problem more money?
Speaker 12: Is it leadership?
Speaker 6: We don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll be watching and hopefully they'll get it figured out.
Speaker 1: Stephen Fortnoy, thanks so much for the information as always.
Speaker 1: You bet all right, Let's get back to some of
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Speaker 1: Right here on KFI, It's Joel Larsgard. Morning, Joel, Morning,
Speaker 1: Maybe okay, let's talk home equity. Everybody knows that home
Speaker 1: values have skyrocketed, which means that if you paid one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty thousand dollars for a house and it's
Speaker 1: now worth five hundred thousand, you got some equity in there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you sure do.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: This is a blessing and a curse. Mostly a blessing, right,
Speaker 13: but it also in some ways like monopoly money for
Speaker 13: a lot of people, because they're like, uh, I bought
Speaker 13: this house in twenty seventeen, and now I've got hundreds
Speaker 13: of thousands of dollars. And obviously it's a good problem
Speaker 13: to have, but you're like, what do I do with it?
Speaker 13: Because it's kind of sitting there on the sidelines, not
Speaker 13: really doing much. But I couldn't have fathomed when I
Speaker 13: bought a house five or six years ago that essentially
Speaker 13: the value was going to double or more and then
Speaker 13: I was going to have this much in home equity.
Speaker 13: And I'm seeing all of these articles now and all
Speaker 13: these headlines essentially kind of encouraging people to think about
Speaker 13: using their home equity wisely. Or there was this article
Speaker 13: in Bloomberg and it said Americans have a new piggybank
Speaker 13: to raid their houses. And that sort of troubles me
Speaker 13: because I'm worried that, especially as stimulus money has gone
Speaker 13: away completely and people's bank accounts are getting a little
Speaker 13: bit smaller, the thing that seems easiest to tap and
Speaker 13: the largest source of money that people can kind of
Speaker 13: start to bring into their lives is from their home
Speaker 13: equity through a heelock or through a home equity loan.
Speaker 13: And yeah, rates might be coming down incredibly soon, but
Speaker 13: they're not going to come down in a massive way.
Speaker 13: And I'm just worried that people are going to start
Speaker 13: seeing those headlines and then they're going to be like, cool,
Speaker 13: let me grab this home equity for whatever it is
Speaker 13: I want to spend money on. And it's not that
Speaker 13: using your home equity doesn't make sense in some cases,
Speaker 13: that it's really hard to use it well, and especially
Speaker 13: at today's rates, I think a lot of people are
Speaker 13: going to use it poorly.
Speaker 1: Okay, So how can we protect ourselves against that? Because,
Speaker 1: like you said, if you've got that money, maybe you
Speaker 1: should use it to you know, increase your wealth. But
Speaker 1: what are some good guidelines to make sure that you
Speaker 1: do it the right way?
Speaker 13: Yeah, So the average American has something like three hundred
Speaker 13: thousand dollars in home equity right now, and not all
Speaker 13: of that is tappable. So the thing is what I
Speaker 13: would do if for most people, it is to not
Speaker 13: use your home equity at all, to not think of
Speaker 13: that as a tappable source of money. The real reason
Speaker 13: that people can and should use home equity is to
Speaker 13: do reasonable home renovations, right And so even that, I think,
Speaker 13: if hey, if you don't need to do any home renovations,
Speaker 13: if you're happy with the way your home currently is now,
Speaker 13: this is money that will accrue to you eventually upon
Speaker 13: the sale of that home. And so yeah, can you
Speaker 13: tap into it for doing some work to the house,
Speaker 13: renovating a bathroom, redoing your kitchen if it's if it's
Speaker 13: thirty years old, it's.
Speaker 6: Long in the tooth.
Speaker 13: Yes, But just know, like, hey, that money is part
Speaker 13: of your net worth, and when you eat into that,
Speaker 13: not only do you put your home at risk because
Speaker 13: you're borrowing against your home, but you're also putting you're
Speaker 13: doing damage to your overall net worth at the same time.
Speaker 6: So it's okay to tap into it reasonably.
Speaker 13: If you are going to tap into it, make sure
Speaker 13: you have a payoff timeline that is reasonable, and I
Speaker 13: think typically what I mean by that, I like to
Speaker 13: see people being able to pay off that home equity
Speaker 13: loan or line in two to three years. And so
Speaker 13: if you don't feel like you can do that, then
Speaker 13: it might make sense to just save up longer and
Speaker 13: until you actually can pay off that pay off that home,
Speaker 13: pay off that home renovation with cash, or be able
Speaker 13: to at least reduce the timeline that's going to take
Speaker 13: to pay off that loan.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, let's move on to something.
Speaker 1: We're talking about big old things houses now we're talking
Speaker 1: little tiny things air pods.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, did you have you like seen some of
Speaker 13: the information coming out about the air pods? They seem
Speaker 13: really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We talked to rich Demiro about the new air
Speaker 1: pods last week.
Speaker 3: And so I'm go ahead.
Speaker 6: What did he say.
Speaker 1: He said that he thought they were very cool, okay,
Speaker 1: and he said that they're smaller than they used to be,
Speaker 1: and he's he talked about what you're about to talk about,
Speaker 1: and that's that they can be double functioned.
Speaker 3: As hearing aids.
Speaker 13: Right to me, this is the killing because I've not
Speaker 13: sometimes the apple products can be not really that much
Speaker 13: better than some of the other competitors, and they can
Speaker 13: be two to three times the price. Right, So, air
Speaker 13: pods in years past, I don't really get excited about
Speaker 13: them because they're two hundred plus dollars. The AirPod are
Speaker 13: like two hundred plus dollars like headphones. Think about the
Speaker 13: other over the air headphones. I'm like, no, there's no
Speaker 13: way I would buy those, They're so expensive. But when
Speaker 13: you think about what Apple has been able to do
Speaker 13: with the hardware and the software on these new AirPods,
Speaker 13: and what's going to mean in terms of the people
Speaker 13: being able to hear the AirPods doubling is hearing aids.
Speaker 13: And hearing aids have been really expensive and hard to
Speaker 13: get fitted for for a long time, and even until
Speaker 13: a couple of years ago, we were talking about it
Speaker 13: being illegal to buy hearing aids over the counter. And
Speaker 13: now think about how much progress has been made and
Speaker 13: how much the price has gone down, and how much
Speaker 13: better some of these devices have gotten in short order.
Speaker 6: So I love what Apple has done with the AirPods.
Speaker 13: I think it's we're going to see a lot more
Speaker 13: people with white buds sticking out of their ears. But
Speaker 13: it's going to be like it's it's amazing how how
Speaker 13: many people it's going to help, and how it's going
Speaker 13: to become so easy for so many people to hear
Speaker 13: better in their everyday lives through kind of what Apple
Speaker 13: has been able to build. So I think it's I
Speaker 13: think it's super impressive. They're expensive headphones, they're cheap hearing aids.
Speaker 1: Right, because hearing aids can be like four or five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Although my mom just got hers at Costco.
Speaker 1: Bill Handle will be happy to hear.
Speaker 13: And the place to go for so many years has
Speaker 13: been Costco because they have the most reasonable price compared
Speaker 13: to their competitors. But now we're starting to see a
Speaker 13: line of hearing aids in the two to six hundred
Speaker 13: dollar range, including these air pods that are pretty darn good.
Speaker 13: They might not be as expertly fitted, but they're going
Speaker 13: to have a lot of the same abilities, and so
Speaker 13: especially for people with minor hearing loss, there's a lot
Speaker 13: more to choose from now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so many people are walking around with the
Speaker 1: stupid earbuds hanging out of their ears already.
Speaker 3: Anyway, it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 13: Right, It's become normalized and so people aren't going to
Speaker 13: look at you like you're a weirdo, because say, everybody's
Speaker 13: doing it.
Speaker 3: I still think it's weird to see people walking around
Speaker 3: with them, but that's just me. Okay, Amazon is getting
Speaker 3: into cheap groceries.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I like seeing this because there's been a big
Speaker 13: spot light shown on the grocery space and there's been
Speaker 13: talk of price gouging in the grocery aisle. I think
Speaker 13: it's just been overhyped and really there's still a lot
Speaker 13: of competition in the grocery space. And then Amazon launching
Speaker 13: this new Amazon Saver line of groceries on its website
Speaker 13: is just another shot across the bow to to some
Speaker 13: of the lower costs of players out there, like All
Speaker 13: the Trader Joe's another fairly inexpensive grocer, and I love
Speaker 13: seeing just another competitor and the fact that, yeah, Amazon's
Speaker 13: been in the grocery game. But what they realize is
Speaker 13: there's a big segment of shoppers who say, just give
Speaker 13: me the maple syrup and make it inexpensive, and that's
Speaker 13: what All the has done so well. Right, They're they're
Speaker 13: kind of like the Costco of grocery. Stores where everything's
Speaker 13: still kind of in the packaging in the boxes, and
Speaker 13: because it takes fewer employees roaming the aisles, they are
Speaker 13: able to lower the costs of groceries for everyone, and
Speaker 13: they're kind of no. Frill's line of products has just
Speaker 13: made all the a good place to go if you
Speaker 13: just want to save money. So if you're like, I
Speaker 13: want to save money on my groceries and I want
Speaker 13: to do it quick, it's all about where you shop,
Speaker 13: and all these so good at that. But now Amazon
Speaker 13: is saying, listen, all they needs some competition on the
Speaker 13: low end, and they've got this Amazon Saber line. So
Speaker 13: I'm curious to see you know, it's starting off small,
Speaker 13: but nothing's more than five bucks. And yeah, I'm curious
Speaker 13: to see where this goes because this is what people
Speaker 13: are clamoring for.
Speaker 6: Is is cheaper groceries?
Speaker 1: And is it the it's the same Amazon model though,
Speaker 1: is you order the things online and they get delivered,
Speaker 1: So it is.
Speaker 6: Right, right, Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: And it is it only non perishables or is it
Speaker 1: also like refrigerated stuff?
Speaker 6: No, so there is.
Speaker 13: It's mostly non perishables, right, So, but it's like canned goods,
Speaker 13: but there is like turkey breast and coffee creamer and
Speaker 13: stuff like that too, So yeah, it's I mean, I'm
Speaker 13: going to try to place in order soon. I want
Speaker 13: to see kind of how this shakes out, and I
Speaker 13: want to see the quality of the goods. And I
Speaker 13: know everybody's kind of got their different opinion about what
Speaker 13: makes good groceries. And some people are like, I wouldn't
Speaker 13: shop anywhere but whole foods.
Speaker 6: And I get that. I know, more power to you.
Speaker 13: The choice that we have in the grocery space along
Speaker 13: like a spectrum of like super fancy to really inexpensive
Speaker 13: is incredible.
Speaker 6: But I love that we just have another competitor now.
Speaker 1: Okay, And you'll have to let us know once you
Speaker 1: do check it out, I will, all right. Joe Larsgard,
Speaker 1: host of how to Money on KFI and for more
Speaker 1: great advice on how to spend and how to save
Speaker 1: your money, you can listen every Sunday from noon to
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Speaker 3: You can also follow Joel.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that he posts some great tips on how
Speaker 1: to save money on his social media out out at
Speaker 1: how to Money.
Speaker 3: Joel.
Speaker 6: Thank you Joel, Thanks Amy.
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