Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
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Speaker 1: Good morning. It's five o'clock. Time to get your day started.
Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Wednesday, October second.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: As I say on many mornings, gosh, we got a
Speaker 1: lot to get to today, but gosh, we got a
Speaker 1: lot to get to today. So I'm glad you're here
Speaker 1: and getting your day started with us. Did you watch
Speaker 1: the debate? As you have heard me say before, I'm
Speaker 1: a junkie these kinds of things. I love to watch
Speaker 1: these things. And even though it widely is accepted that
Speaker 1: the vice presidential debate doesn't have that much of an impact,
Speaker 1: because there are so few I want to see and
Speaker 1: I want to hear, and I think that my takeaway
Speaker 1: from the debate last night, we'll get into it more,
Speaker 1: was that it was mostly civil, which was a nice change.
Speaker 1: It was incredibly informative, which was good. I think that
Speaker 1: Walls looked like a deer in the headlights at the start,
Speaker 1: but then I think he kind of caught his stride
Speaker 1: and I think he had some good points, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was very interesting between Tim Walls and JD.
Speaker 1: Van said, they go, you know, I kind of agree
Speaker 1: with you on that. You know, I kind of agree
Speaker 1: with you on that, but then they, you know, veer
Speaker 1: back off and to make their points. I think Vance
Speaker 1: came across as cool and calm and had lots of
Speaker 1: information and fact checked the fact checkers, which I thought
Speaker 1: was a very interesting point. And I can't even remember
Speaker 1: what he was talking about. But they said, do you
Speaker 1: have any evidence of that? He said, actually I do,
Speaker 1: and it's from this department, and we'll put it up
Speaker 1: on X. And after the debate they put the report
Speaker 1: up on X. It had to do with housing, but
Speaker 1: it was super interesting, and like I said, I think
Speaker 1: that it was civil and that was nice to see.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead. On wake up Call. A red flag
Speaker 1: warning for high fire danger is in effect for the
Speaker 1: western San Gabriel Mountains the five and fourteen freeway corridors.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Services to expect highes up to one
Speaker 1: hundred and six degrees and win gusts up to thirty
Speaker 1: five miles per hour, along with low humidity. Those factors
Speaker 1: mean any fire could quickly become a major wildfire. Iran
Speaker 1: has warned Israel against responding to its missile attack. In
Speaker 1: a post on X, the Iranian mission to the UN
Speaker 1: said if Israel responds, a crushing response will follow. We're
Speaker 1: going to check in with ABC's Jerdonna Miller get the
Speaker 1: latest from Israel, and also I'm looking forward to talking
Speaker 1: to her and unfortunately hearing her person perspective on what
Speaker 1: happened because she had to go into a bomb shelter yesterday.
Speaker 1: I Ammy nominated actor John Amos has died. His rep
Speaker 1: says he died of natural causes. In August. Amos starred
Speaker 1: as the older Kunta Kinte in Roots. He also had
Speaker 1: roles on the Mary Tyler Moore show, West Wing, Good Times,
Speaker 1: and of course Coming to America. His son says Amos
Speaker 1: was a man with the kindest heart, with many fans
Speaker 1: considering him their TV father. John Amos was eighty four.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Democratic Governor Tim
Speaker 1: Walls and Republican Senator J. D. Vance have met for
Speaker 1: the first and only vice presidential debate this election cycle.
Speaker 1: They were civil toward each other, as I mentioned, for
Speaker 1: most of the debate, even though they disagreed on a
Speaker 1: lot of issues, one of them is democracy. Vance says
Speaker 1: censorship is a threat to democracy.
Speaker 4: It's big technology companies silencing their fellow citizens, and it's
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris saying that rather than debate and persuade her
Speaker 4: fellow Americans, she'd liked sensor people who engage in misinformation.
Speaker 1: Walls says people hear what a president says, and what
Speaker 1: Trump said after the twenty twenty election has caused current
Speaker 1: divisiveness to.
Speaker 5: Deny what happened on January sixth, the first time in
Speaker 5: American history that a president or anyone tried to overturn
Speaker 5: a fair election and the peaceful transfer of power. And
Speaker 5: here we are four years later in the same boat.
Speaker 1: It's not clear what effect the debate might have on
Speaker 1: the November election. Senior elections analyst at five point thirty
Speaker 1: eight Jeffrey Skelley says the race between Vice President Harris
Speaker 1: and former President Trump is very close.
Speaker 6: It is looking like a race that could potentially be
Speaker 6: decided by one state.
Speaker 1: There's always a tipping point stage, whether it's a close
Speaker 1: election or a landslide. Historically, vice presidential debates haven't had
Speaker 1: a huge impact on the presidential race, but Skelley said
Speaker 1: last night's matchup could have an outsized impact because the
Speaker 1: race is so close. Ellie County health officials are warning
Speaker 1: people not to get away from the heat by going
Speaker 1: to certain in beaches. They say high bacteria levels at
Speaker 1: nine area beaches exceed health standards. Those beaches include Venice Beach,
Speaker 1: Marina del Rey, Paradise Cove, San Pedro, Santa Monica Pier,
Speaker 1: to Panga Canyon Beach in Malibu, and the Manhattan Beach Pier.
Speaker 1: The Department of Public Houses people should not swim, surf,
Speaker 1: or play in the water in those areas. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's Jordanah Miller in Jerusalem. Iran
Speaker 1: has launched at least one hundred and eighty missiles into Israel.
Speaker 1: They were launched into several areas of the country, including
Speaker 1: where you were. So before we talk more about it,
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about what you had
Speaker 1: to do when the sirens rang out yesterday.
Speaker 7: It was pretty scary. Though I do have to say
Speaker 7: we had about a two hour warning from the government
Speaker 7: and the army that the United States had picked up
Speaker 7: warning signs that Iran was going to launch something. So
Speaker 7: we were told two hours before to get our you know,
Speaker 7: to be prepared, to go into the safe room, to
Speaker 7: have it ready, to stay in there, and we were
Speaker 7: told it was going to be an extensive strike and
Speaker 7: we might have to spend some time in there. It
Speaker 7: wouldn't be the normal go in and leave ten minutes later,
Speaker 7: and we had to stay in there and wait for
Speaker 7: a notice from the army to leave. So, you know,
Speaker 7: I think we people were kind of in their head
Speaker 7: prepared a little bit. Two hours doesn't sound like a
Speaker 7: lot of time, but in wartime that's a lot. So
Speaker 7: on my phone at about seven forty five it started
Speaker 7: to sirens went off from my phone and the Israeli
Speaker 7: Army's new alert system, and I took my one and
Speaker 7: a half year old, who is just about to fall asleep,
Speaker 7: and my four year old and the nanny. We all
Speaker 7: went into a safe room that has been you know,
Speaker 7: stocked and prepared really for most of this war, and
Speaker 7: we just stayed in there, you know, Thank God, for
Speaker 7: the iPad turned up those cartoons, you know, drained out
Speaker 7: the sirens from outside, and it drained out the explosions
Speaker 7: of the interceptions. I mean, you know, I heard, we
Speaker 7: heard I would say, fifteen or twenty interceptions and they
Speaker 7: were pretty you know, they were pretty loud. And that's
Speaker 7: more than I heard the last strike back in April.
Speaker 7: In April, I heard maybe five. So you know, this
Speaker 7: strike there were fewer launches. Right last time, Aron struck
Speaker 7: with three hundred and fifty, three hundred and thirty cruise missiles,
Speaker 7: drones and ballistic missiles. This time it was about two hundred,
Speaker 7: but they were all ballistic missiles with you know, a shorter,
Speaker 7: shorter launch to target time right there about, which is
Speaker 7: about twelve minutes, and there were several waves of those,
Speaker 7: and they're more powerful. So you know, actually this strike
Speaker 7: was a more intense strike than the one in April
Speaker 7: in terms of you know, deaths. There was one Palestinian
Speaker 7: killed in Jericho from what looks like a direct hit
Speaker 7: from either a rocket, a missal, or from shrapnel. That
Speaker 7: was a great tragedy on the Israeli side. There were
Speaker 7: several people injured from shrapnel, but no one killed, no
Speaker 7: soldiers and no civilians. People really listened to the orders,
Speaker 7: and Angel of course knew Aroma was going to target
Speaker 7: certain military bases and those were evacuated, so nobody was
Speaker 7: killed there. The Army said there was some damage to
Speaker 7: a few military bases, but nothing that would impair operations
Speaker 7: and nothing that you know, knocked out systems. They were
Speaker 7: what they're calling, you know, there was administrative building hit
Speaker 7: in one base. It does look like the missile of
Speaker 7: this time hit. Last time they only hit one base
Speaker 7: in the outskirts, the air base in the south, but
Speaker 7: this time it looks like they did. The missiles did
Speaker 7: manage to hit a few of the bases in the
Speaker 7: north and one in the center. Again they say not
Speaker 7: not major damage, but some limited damage.
Speaker 1: Okay. Seems to be sort of a best outcome for
Speaker 1: a very terrifying situation. Jordanah Miller, I know that you
Speaker 1: are a woman in demand. Today we're going to let
Speaker 1: you go, but thank you for the information. We're glad
Speaker 1: you're safe, and we look forward to our next conversation. Okay.
Speaker 1: Jordana is you know she's in Jerusalem, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was kind of important because it it doesn't hit
Speaker 1: home for us, and it's hitting home for her and
Speaker 1: like hearing that she's down in a bomb shelter with
Speaker 1: their kids. I mean, that's powerful and like I said,
Speaker 1: best outcome. But it'll be interesting to see what happens
Speaker 1: next because even though Iran is saying, oh, don't retaliate,
Speaker 1: Israel's known for retaliating and they're not going to sit
Speaker 1: back and just let this all happen to them. So
Speaker 1: we will be watching. Also coming up at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour, my edition of Amy's on It this week.
Speaker 1: It's what I'm on is something that is incredibly relevant
Speaker 1: to what we were just talking about, and I think
Speaker 1: it's it's a must watch. We'll tell you about that again.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at the bottom of the hour. Let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The nearly forty four
Speaker 1: thousand acre fire in the San Bernardino Mountains continues to
Speaker 1: threaten Angelus Oaks and Seven Lakes. Ralph Gonzalez of the
Speaker 1: US four Services firefighters did catch a bit of a break.
Speaker 1: Yesterday's a ruins of ship for Ruler that's caught for
Speaker 1: the East instead up for the Southwest that we've seen
Speaker 1: for a couple of days, which is favorable to us
Speaker 1: because it burnt back and through the black The fire
Speaker 1: flared up on Sunday. Both of the communities mentioned are
Speaker 1: under mandatory evacuation orders. The fire's been burning since September fifth.
Speaker 1: More than one hundred people say they are about to
Speaker 1: file lawsuits against rapper producer Sean Combs over allegations of
Speaker 1: sexual assault.
Speaker 8: Attorney Tony Busby says he received more than three thousand
Speaker 8: calls from people claiming to have been attacked by Combs,
Speaker 8: and they settled on one hundred and twenty cases representing
Speaker 8: people from twenty five states.
Speaker 9: Conduct occurred over more than twenty years.
Speaker 8: Busby says the youngest person abused was nine at the time,
Speaker 8: along with a fourteen year old and fifteen year old.
Speaker 8: Busby says of the one hundred twenty cases, sixty or
Speaker 8: men sixty year women.
Speaker 9: I expect that through this process, many powerful people will
Speaker 9: be exposed, many dirty secrets will be revealed.
Speaker 8: Holmes pleaded not guilty to federal charges last month. He
Speaker 8: remains in custody. Steve Gregor rita if I.
Speaker 1: News thelapds's officers are looking for the person who stabbed
Speaker 1: Demand to death near the LA Convention Center. Officers found
Speaker 1: the man lying on the sidewalk yesterday on the corner
Speaker 1: of Washington Boulevard and Oak Street. They had been stabbed
Speaker 1: several times and at the scene. Two new state laws
Speaker 1: claimed to prevent Huntington Beach from disenfranchising voters and banning
Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus books. A lot of this is grandstanding by
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom.
Speaker 2: Huntington Beach city attorney Michael Gates, as voters approved a
Speaker 2: requirement that voters must show id during city elections.
Speaker 10: It's in the California constitution that charter cities can control
Speaker 10: their local elections.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 2: The other law sign Sunday would stop the city from
Speaker 2: keeping explicit books away from children.
Speaker 11: The state can pass all the laws at once, but
Speaker 11: it kept force Huntington Beach to buy certain books and
Speaker 11: put them on the shelves.
Speaker 2: Huntington Beach is also fighting the state in court over
Speaker 2: affordable housing mandates and the state's new law that prevents
Speaker 2: schools from notifying parents about gender issues. In Orange County,
Speaker 2: Corbin Carson kf I needs at least.
Speaker 1: Twenty three people have been killed when a school bus
Speaker 1: exploded in Thailand. Both students and teachers were among the
Speaker 1: forty passengers on the bus that exploded outside Bangkok. Fully
Speaker 1: say an investigation is being done to see if the
Speaker 1: school bus company was responsible for the explosion. Dodgers ledge
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzuela's in the hospital a week after he stepped
Speaker 1: away as the Dodgers' Spanish language broadcast because of an
Speaker 1: unspecified health problem. The sixty three year old is not
Speaker 1: expected to be broadcasting during the playoffs. Valenzuela became a
Speaker 1: pitching penom in nineteen eighty one, becoming the first rookie
Speaker 1: of the year to win the Cy Young Award. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers also won the World Series that year. Geologists say
Speaker 1: the land side in the Portuguese Ben neighborhood in Rancho
Speaker 1: Palace Vertes is slowing down. At last night city council meeting,
Speaker 1: geologist said the land was moving up to thirteen inches
Speaker 1: a week, but now it has slowed to a rate
Speaker 1: of eight inches per week. That's still a lot of movement.
Speaker 1: Several of the teens accused of ransacking seven eleven stores
Speaker 1: around Los Angeles had been caught because their parents turned
Speaker 1: them in a group of between twenty and forty teenagers
Speaker 1: ransacked and robbed at least fourteen stores between mid July
Speaker 1: and mid September. The LAPD says several parents brought their
Speaker 1: kids to police stations after recognizing them in surveillance videos
Speaker 1: released last week. The matchup isn't set yet, but start
Speaker 1: times for games one and two of the National League
Speaker 1: Division Series at Dodgers Stadium have been announced. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: will play the winner of the Padres Braves Wildcard series
Speaker 1: at five point thirty eight on Saturday five eight on Sunday.
Speaker 1: The Padres won game one of the best of three
Speaker 1: last night. For ZIP I see you an, I see
Speaker 1: you cheering. The Dodgers are still going to beat you
Speaker 1: guys if we end up playing you, at least I hope.
Speaker 1: So at six o five it's Handle on the news.
Speaker 1: The vice presidential candidates went toe to toe. We'll find
Speaker 1: out what Handle had to say about that, but right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning too, the host of Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech on KFI KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro, who I
Speaker 1: got to run into at the night of the Jack
Speaker 1: event in Calabasas.
Speaker 3: That was fun, I know, wasn't that so fun?
Speaker 12: And what a great event. And they even had some
Speaker 12: tech there. They had that I don't know if you
Speaker 12: saw it, the GOVI Smart House which with.
Speaker 3: All the lights of the haunted House.
Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, if you look for cool ways to decorate
Speaker 1: your house, the gov folks, they've got you dialed in.
Speaker 1: And we got we got a little selfie with Rich
Speaker 1: and with Nick and producer and and that's up at
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty and it's also on my story
Speaker 1: at at Amy K. King. Go check it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to see the faces behind the voices.
Speaker 7: I know, right.
Speaker 1: I came up to Rich and really came your biggest fan,
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh my god, who is this.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I get this all the time. Here would
Speaker 3: you like an autograph? No, I'm just kidding. It was
Speaker 3: so great to run into you guys. That was so fun.
Speaker 1: It was fun. And you know what, something that happened
Speaker 1: at that event leads me to the first thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about, and that is the new
Speaker 1: SOS that shows up on your iPhone because out there
Speaker 1: I didn't have any service and I was like, what's
Speaker 1: this SOS? It's on my What is that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Apple changed this.
Speaker 12: It might have been with the last iOS update, but
Speaker 12: that's basically instead of having no signal, they're letting you know.
Speaker 12: It's very confusing, I will admit, but they're letting you
Speaker 12: know that even though you don't have a signal, your
Speaker 12: phone would still be able to dial nine one one.
Speaker 3: So that's what that means on your phone.
Speaker 12: So if you see SOS, that means that if you
Speaker 12: tried to make a regular phone call, it wouldn't go through,
Speaker 12: but if you tried to call nine one one it would.
Speaker 12: And then there's another icon. If you see a little
Speaker 12: satellite next to the next to the SOS, that means
Speaker 12: that your phone, if you have an iPhone fourteen, fifteen
Speaker 12: or sixteen, can actually use satellites to both call for
Speaker 12: help and also text message folks as well.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's good to know. Yeah, good to know. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Verizon outage. I was talking to my friend Amy
Speaker 1: and she said, I couldn't. I couldn't call anybody, I
Speaker 1: couldn't text anybody. I couldn't I didn't know where I
Speaker 1: was going because I didn't have my maps feature because
Speaker 1: her Verizon service. She was one of hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people who didn't have it yesterday.
Speaker 12: Yeah, this is pretty wild. This was actually Monday that
Speaker 12: it was out for day.
Speaker 3: That's what I meant.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I know, we forget, but this happened to me
Speaker 12: as well. And I'm not kidding. I was out and
Speaker 12: about all day long and my phone just did not work.
Speaker 12: I couldn't believe it. I was like, wait, what is
Speaker 12: going on here? I've never seen an outage linger for
Speaker 12: this long. It was from about seven am until maybe
Speaker 12: about three pm it started coming back online. Many people
Speaker 12: across the nation. We don't know the number of people,
Speaker 12: but it was definitely a lot. Verizon has not said
Speaker 12: anything about it. They have not said a word. The
Speaker 12: last time they tweeted about it was on Monday. They said,
Speaker 12: we have fully restored today's network disruption service has returned.
Speaker 12: If you're still having issues, we recommend restarting your phone.
Speaker 12: We apologize for any inconvenience. But they have not given
Speaker 12: an answer as to why this happened. They have not
Speaker 12: given an explanation, and people are wondering, you know, do
Speaker 12: I get a credit?
Speaker 3: Like what happened here? I want to know, And a.
Speaker 12: Lot of people switch services too, According to the stories
Speaker 12: that people sent me.
Speaker 1: Really just from being out of service for a few
Speaker 1: hours because we're so connected to everything.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's probably like the last straw, and you know,
Speaker 12: if they needed a reason to do it. But from
Speaker 12: my experience, my wife had she doesn't have Verizon, so
Speaker 12: she was fine. I had Mint Mobile on the test line,
Speaker 12: that was fine, but my standard Verizon plan was definitely
Speaker 12: impacted the whole day.
Speaker 1: Well, and I do think it's interesting, and of course
Speaker 1: this affects you because you're the tech guy. But like,
Speaker 1: we just freak out if we don't have our phones
Speaker 1: for like an hour or two. When before we had
Speaker 1: cell phones, we would be kind of off the grid
Speaker 1: for hours and days and nobody worried about it, but
Speaker 1: now we just feel like we have to have that
Speaker 1: with us all the time.
Speaker 12: Well, I think the other difference is that people don't
Speaker 12: have landlines. A lot of people rely on these, so
Speaker 12: if you were you know, look, if you have someone
Speaker 12: like an elderly person at home and they only have
Speaker 12: a Verizon phone and that's it to not be able
Speaker 12: to get in touch with them for hours on end,
Speaker 12: that's a problem. And some people, you know, due to costs,
Speaker 12: they may not have Wi Fi at home either, because
Speaker 12: you know that's expensive. They just use their phone for everything.
Speaker 12: So you know, we've come to this point where we
Speaker 12: rely on these things so much and for everything. And
Speaker 12: by the way, Amy, a lot of people are switching
Speaker 12: to that home service that gives you in over the
Speaker 12: cell phone line. So it's like the more we rely
Speaker 12: on these wireless networks, the bigger these outages impact us.
Speaker 1: Well, it'd be interesting too to see if Ryson ever
Speaker 1: tells tells its customers what the heck happened? I mean,
Speaker 1: was it a hack? Did somebody unplug something? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: what what happened?
Speaker 12: It will probably end up being a software update that
Speaker 12: they pushed something through, but I think they're going to
Speaker 12: have to tell us just because they are regulated by
Speaker 12: the FCC, and you know there are people there that
Speaker 12: want to know.
Speaker 3: The SCC did say they were aware of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So moving over to another high tech thing. Competition's
Speaker 1: heating up for AI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is interesting.
Speaker 12: So you know, these search engines are going through a
Speaker 12: major transformation. You know, Google Search for many years was
Speaker 12: all the same. You typed in something, it gave you
Speaker 12: a link, you clicked the first one. If that didn't work,
Speaker 12: you clicked the second one. But these these new generative
Speaker 12: AI kind of searches do away with all of that,
Speaker 12: and people have gotten a taste of it through chat GBT.
Speaker 12: They just type in, hey, give me ten of the
Speaker 12: best you know destinations for hiking in the US, and
Speaker 12: you don't need to look at twenty different websites. It
Speaker 12: just gives you a list and it gives you the research.
Speaker 12: So that's a problem for Google and all these other
Speaker 12: companies because they relied on the search advertising. So I
Speaker 12: tell you all that because Bing is now doing their
Speaker 12: generative search, they're slowly stepping into this amy because they
Speaker 12: don't want to ruin everything all at once. And so
Speaker 12: Bing now has generative search, which means when you get
Speaker 12: into BANG, if you use that for your search engine,
Speaker 12: you can type something in and it will say do
Speaker 12: a deep search, and it will give you kind of
Speaker 12: like I call it a book report. You know, it
Speaker 12: goes through all the websites and it kind of summarizes
Speaker 12: everything for you. Just one more way to try that out.
Speaker 1: Which I think is really interesting because I have a
Speaker 1: couple of different browsers on my computer and sometimes I
Speaker 1: google stuff and sometimes I end up doing the bang
Speaker 1: searches and the Google does the AI assist. It's the
Speaker 1: AI overview now yeah, up at the top, which makes it,
Speaker 1: like you said, very convene. And when you go to
Speaker 1: bing it's that it's those lists of all the different
Speaker 1: articles and stories about it that you have to click through.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, this is dumb. I don't
Speaker 1: like this. Where's the other one.
Speaker 12: Where's the new way where I can just not have to?
Speaker 12: I mean, it really is convenient, ye, but again it's
Speaker 12: convenient for the end user. It's horrible for Google because
Speaker 12: you know, remember we used to click those links up
Speaker 12: to the top that were ads, and so they would
Speaker 12: make a cut of that, and, by the way, a
Speaker 12: lot of money off of that, and they don't make
Speaker 12: much money off of this generative stuff right now.
Speaker 1: Well do'll see. I'm sure they'll figure out oh way
Speaker 1: to monetize it. But in fact, I did my Google
Speaker 1: search today and said, what is tile because the other
Speaker 1: thing that we're planning to talk about was tile, And
Speaker 1: it told me, oh, it's trackers.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 12: So you know, back in the day, Tyle was the
Speaker 12: tracker to get. Then we had the air tag come
Speaker 12: along and now we have Android trackers. But Tile was
Speaker 12: purchased by a company called Life three sixty. They now
Speaker 12: have four new tiles that are better than ever. And
Speaker 12: what's interesting about these is that they don't operate on
Speaker 12: the apples Find my Network or Google's Find my Network.
Speaker 12: They actually do their own network with all the people
Speaker 12: that have this app installed, either Life three sixty or Tile.
Speaker 12: And so basically these work with iPhone and Android and
Speaker 12: they're little Tile trackers. You put them on your keys,
Speaker 12: you put them in your wallet, you stick them on
Speaker 12: your remote control and then you can find them.
Speaker 3: The unique thing here.
Speaker 12: Is that they have this SOS feature, So you can
Speaker 12: put this on your keychain and you can tap the
Speaker 12: button a couple of times and it will send a
Speaker 12: discrete alert to someone that you identify, you know as
Speaker 12: your contact if you feel like you're in danger.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So and you track down things by using
Speaker 1: your phone to track down like your keys or you're
Speaker 1: remote right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do it in two ways.
Speaker 12: You can see it on a map or you can
Speaker 12: actually ring the little tracker. And they're pretty loud, and
Speaker 12: the battery lasts anywhere from a year to three years.
Speaker 12: Some are user replaceable, some are not, and the prices
Speaker 12: range from twenty five to thirty five dollars. I think
Speaker 12: these are best if you have a family that has
Speaker 12: a bunch of iPhones and Androids in the family. So
Speaker 12: if you're all iPhone, you probably want to go with
Speaker 12: air Tags. If you're all Android, you probably want to
Speaker 12: go with Google. But if you've got a mix of
Speaker 12: phones in your family, this is a nice way to
Speaker 12: keep track of everyone, okay.
Speaker 1: And you can find out more information about everything that
Speaker 1: we've been discussing on Rich's website rich on Tech dot TV,
Speaker 1: And of course you can find out about this and
Speaker 1: so much more when you listen to the rich on
Speaker 1: Tech right here. I blanked on what the name of
Speaker 1: the show was Saturdayday. I know That's why I was like,
Speaker 1: what rich on Tech Saturday from eleven to two right
Speaker 1: here on KFI. You can also watch him on KTLA
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Speaker 12: Thank you, Rich, I'm running into KTLA right now. See you,
Speaker 12: letter Amy, All right.
Speaker 1: Take care. Some of the cargo coming into the US
Speaker 1: has been rerouted west as doc workers at thirty six
Speaker 1: ports from Maine to Texas strike for the first time
Speaker 1: in decades. Port of LA Executive Director gen When Soroka says,
Speaker 1: dock workers in LA we're ready for this.
Speaker 11: Retailers and manufacturers have been planning for this day by
Speaker 11: advancing inventories and bringing in more cargo through the ports
Speaker 11: of Long Beach in Los Angeles. We've had a tremendous
Speaker 11: year so far, and our peak season was off the charts.
Speaker 1: Soroca says. If the strike lasts longer than a week,
Speaker 1: there could be a small backup of ships, cargo, trains,
Speaker 1: and trucks along the coast, but consumers are not going
Speaker 1: to see a significant difference. A judge in La County
Speaker 1: will decide whether the so called Pillowcase rapist can be
Speaker 1: released to Juniper Hills in the Annealt Valley.
Speaker 10: Residents and elected officials who opposed the relocation of serial
Speaker 10: rapists Christopher Hubbert from prison to a home in rural
Speaker 10: LA County shared written statements with a judge in Hollywood,
Speaker 10: LA County Sheriff's Captain Richard Cartmill says, last time Hubbert
Speaker 10: was released, protests near his home became disruptive.
Speaker 8: I foresee a similar similar community response in this case
Speaker 8: has already gained momentum through social media groups, community based organizations,
Speaker 8: and news coverage.
Speaker 10: Hulbert was convicted of dozens of rapes and now at
Speaker 10: seventy four years old, is slated to be released. Hubbert's
Speaker 10: future location is in the hands of that judge, Michael
Speaker 10: Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom assigned a law that holds driverless car companies
Speaker 1: accountable for traffic violations. Before the law was signed, autonomous
Speaker 1: vehicles were not subject to traffic tickets because the law
Speaker 1: only mentioned drivers being responsible for violations and self driving
Speaker 1: cars don't have drivers. President Biden says his top priority
Speaker 1: is getting the areas impacted by Hurricane Helene the help
Speaker 1: and support they need. The President's going to tour areas
Speaker 1: hit by the deadly storm later today. He's going to
Speaker 1: apparently do it by air. Biden said, despite all the preparations,
Speaker 1: Helene was a storm of unprecedented and historic proportions. About
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty people have been killed, more than
Speaker 1: five thousand pounds of fentanyl powder, and nine million fentomonal
Speaker 1: pills have been seized in California since the start of
Speaker 1: the year. Governor Newsom's office says that Colgar Cauards Counter
Speaker 1: Drug Task Force seized over seven hundred and seventy two
Speaker 1: thousand pills in just August. The White House says the
Speaker 1: US continues to work with Israel to assess the impact
Speaker 1: of Iran launching more than one hundred and eighty ballistic
Speaker 1: missiles at Israel. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says the
Speaker 1: US is going to continue to monitor for further threats
Speaker 1: from Iran. Following the attack, Iran warned Israel that a
Speaker 1: crushing response would follow any retaliation. At six oh five,
Speaker 1: Handle on the news, East Coast ports are shut down,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty much business as usual at the ports
Speaker 1: of Long Beach and LA at least for now. At
Speaker 1: five point fifty, Governor Newsom has signed a billint a
Speaker 1: law that will, for the first time in the US,
Speaker 1: ban most rat poison. We're going to talk about what
Speaker 1: that means, why we need it, and if we can't
Speaker 1: poison them, how are we going to get rid of
Speaker 1: the rats. We've got a specialist who's coming on with
Speaker 1: us to tell us more about that.
Speaker 7: Aamies on its damis honest as on its on it?
Speaker 1: What am I on? I'm on streaming shows, documentaries, series, movies,
Speaker 1: and with so much information and so much entertainment out there,
Speaker 1: how in the heck do you know what to watch?
Speaker 1: I take recommendations from friends and then hopefully pass that
Speaker 1: along to you on what might be a good investment
Speaker 1: of your time or maybe if you should skip it.
Speaker 1: And this recommendation came from a producer and we were
Speaker 1: talking about the events going on in Israel and that
Speaker 1: the year anniversary of the October seventh attack on Israel
Speaker 1: is coming up, I mean, like it's Monday. And she
Speaker 1: asked me if you watched We Will Dance Again? And
Speaker 1: I said no, and what is it? And so we
Speaker 1: started talking about it, and I thought, I don't want
Speaker 1: to watch this, and then I thought I need to
Speaker 1: watch this. So it's called We Will Dance Again. It's
Speaker 1: on Paramount Plus. I get it my Prime Video subscription.
Speaker 1: It's the story of the October seventh massacre from the
Speaker 1: Nova Music Festival. Several areas of Israel were attacked that morning.
Speaker 1: This one focuses more specifically on the people who were
Speaker 1: at that music festival, what they saw, the horror they experienced,
Speaker 1: and its first hand accounts of what happened that day.
Speaker 1: The documentary starts with scenes of hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 1: burned out cars just literally littering a roadway and also
Speaker 1: bloody bomb shelters, and I was like, I haven't seen
Speaker 1: that before. And that was really just the beginning. So
Speaker 1: they talked to the survivors and one of them says,
Speaker 1: I'm never going to be the person I was before
Speaker 1: the attack on October seventh. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who I'm going to be now. And that's within the
Speaker 1: first two minutes of it. So the story is told
Speaker 1: by the people who lived through through the terrorist attack.
Speaker 1: You are shown the story by cell phone videos and pictures,
Speaker 1: and it's not only from the Israelis who were attending
Speaker 1: the Nova Music Festival. There are other videos that will
Speaker 1: absolutely shock and horrify and infuriate you. The attack started
Speaker 1: just as the festival was getting underway. I didn't know
Speaker 1: this is it like it was a rave. So it
Speaker 1: got underway in the middle of the night, but really
Speaker 1: officially started when the sun came up, and early on
Speaker 1: October seventh, when the sun came up at six twenty
Speaker 1: eight in the morning is when the explosions started. And
Speaker 1: they quickly called an into the festival and told people
Speaker 1: to go home, but they weren't able to leave. Some
Speaker 1: of them were, some of them weren't, and even the
Speaker 1: ones who got out that didn't mean that they were safe.
Speaker 1: Possibly the most chilling part is the Hamas body cam
Speaker 1: and propaganda video that's woven into the story. I don't
Speaker 1: want to tell you anything about it because I want
Speaker 1: you to watch it to see what the terrorists did
Speaker 1: and what they said, and how they were joyful at
Speaker 1: times as they were murdering people. Absolutely horrifying and hard
Speaker 1: to watch, Like I said, but I think it's a
Speaker 1: must watch. It's amazing, it's heartbreaking, it's horrific, it's tragic.
Speaker 1: The stories of survival and the stories of the people
Speaker 1: who didn't survive all very amazing. We will dance again.
Speaker 1: I'm on it, and I think you should be too.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Republican Senator JD.
Speaker 1: Vance and Democratic Governor Tim Walls have touched on a
Speaker 1: range of issues during their vice presidential debate. The discussion
Speaker 1: last night included abortion, immigration, and the conflict between Israel
Speaker 1: and Iran. Walls blames former President Trump for helping the
Speaker 1: Iranians become a nuclear threat.
Speaker 5: We had a coalition of nations that had boxed Iran's
Speaker 5: nuclear program in the inability to advance it. Donald Trump
Speaker 5: pulled that program and put nothing else in its place.
Speaker 5: So Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than they
Speaker 5: were before.
Speaker 1: Vance countered comments saying Trump delivered stability in the world
Speaker 1: when he was in office by establishing effective deterrence.
Speaker 4: Iran, which launched this attack, has received over one hundred
Speaker 4: billion dollars in unfrozen assets thanks to the Kamala Harris administration.
Speaker 3: What do they use that money for?
Speaker 4: They use it to buy weapons that they're now launching
Speaker 4: against our allies.
Speaker 1: The vice presidential debate was the only one scheduled for
Speaker 1: this election. The Jewish New Year begins at sundown. With
Speaker 1: tensions escalating in the Middle East, some law enforcement agencies
Speaker 1: around La planned to increase patrols around synagogues and other
Speaker 1: houses of worship. The increased patrols, which were already planned,
Speaker 1: have been punctuated because of Iran's missile attack on Israel yesterday.
Speaker 1: Commercial space in Pasadena now has an easier path to
Speaker 1: becoming housing.
Speaker 6: New laws approved by city Council would streamline the review
Speaker 6: process and allow for square footage to be added for amenities.
Speaker 6: Mayor Victor Vordo says it's been a long time coming
Speaker 6: to get the rules approved.
Speaker 9: We've talked about increasing housing opportunities without increasing our built
Speaker 9: out environment.
Speaker 6: City officials say they researched other cities, including LA to
Speaker 6: model their rules off of. The new laws were approved Monday.
Speaker 6: Blake Charlie k if I News New.
Speaker 1: York City Mayor Eric Adams has expected to be back
Speaker 1: in court today, with the judge expected to set a
Speaker 1: timetable for his criminal corruption trial. Yesterday, Adams insisted he
Speaker 1: can still run the city and will not be stepping
Speaker 1: down as mayor, despite several calls to do so.
Speaker 9: I have to continue what I have in this team
Speaker 9: and what we have started, and we're going to today,
Speaker 9: and that's what the people of this city must understand.
Speaker 1: Adams is pleted not guilty to charges alleging he accepted
Speaker 1: bribes and illegal campaign contributions. Children's Hospital of Orange County
Speaker 1: says about fifteen children a year are visiting the er
Speaker 1: because they fell out of a second story window. Definitely
Speaker 1: that are under five, but two is the peak age.
Speaker 2: Chalk Injury Prevention coordinator Mackenzie Ferguson says, when it's warm
Speaker 2: like it is this week, the windows are open and
Speaker 2: sometimes toddlers are climbing on a bed or furniture that
Speaker 2: maybe shouldn't be near a window.
Speaker 1: A lot of families think a screen will keep a
Speaker 1: child in, but the screen is not meant to keep
Speaker 1: kids in. A screen's meant to keep bugs out.
Speaker 2: Bergson says the kids typically end up with skull fractures.
Speaker 2: She says falls are the leading cause of child er visits,
Speaker 2: with one hundred eighty two falls last year and one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty nine already this year.
Speaker 3: In Orange Corbin carsen kef.
Speaker 1: I News, evacuation orders remain in place for Seven Oaks
Speaker 1: and Angelus Oaks as a flare up continues to threaten
Speaker 1: the communities. In the San Bernardino Mountains. Evacuation warnings are
Speaker 1: in place for Boulder Bear, Boulder Bay, and Big Bear Lake.
Speaker 1: Highway three thirty and thirty eight are closed. Highway eighteen
Speaker 1: is open for people evacuating the area. The fires. Seventy
Speaker 1: six percent surrounded one of the doctors charged in the
Speaker 1: death of actor Matthew Perry scheduled to enter as guilty plea.
Speaker 1: Doctor Markschevez is expected to plead guilty today to conspiring
Speaker 1: to distribute ketamine. He could get up to ten years
Speaker 1: in prison. Perry, of course, the former Friends star, was
Speaker 1: found dead in his hot tub about a year ago.
Speaker 1: Going to the beach to beat the heat may not
Speaker 1: be such a hot idea. Nine beaches in Ela County
Speaker 1: are going to be off limits because of high bacteria
Speaker 1: levels in the water. The county Health Department is advising
Speaker 1: swimmers and surfers to stay out of the water at
Speaker 1: beaches including Mother's Beach in Marina del Rey, parts of
Speaker 1: Venice Beach, Inner Cbrio Beach, and near Santa Monica Pire.
Speaker 1: A complete list is available at public Health dot Lacounty
Speaker 1: dot gov slash beach. They'll also have signs posted we're
Speaker 1: just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk might want to get some financial advice. X
Speaker 1: is apparently worth eighty percent less than what he bought
Speaker 1: it for. Yikes, Okay, I have to tell you we
Speaker 1: were talking with rich Demiro about the Verizon outage. I
Speaker 1: didn't have a Verietison outage, and I don't have Verizon
Speaker 1: phone service I have AT and T, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask a question about my bill. There's this weird
Speaker 1: charge on it, and I'm like, what is that? And
Speaker 1: it says, oh, this is a subscription or something, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. And it might be
Speaker 1: that I'm paying for headphones, or it might be voicemail
Speaker 1: or something like that. But I thought, I need to
Speaker 1: get on the phone because I keep seeing it on
Speaker 1: my bill and I don't do anything about it. So
Speaker 1: I finally sat down and called AT and T and
Speaker 1: they said, we're experiencing an unusually high volume of calls
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And I thought, well, I'm just sitting
Speaker 1: here on the couch and watching my shows and doing
Speaker 1: some stuff on the computer, so I'll just sit on
Speaker 1: hold for a while. So I sat on hold and
Speaker 1: sat on hold and sat on hold, or like, uh,
Speaker 1: I think it was at least forty five minutes. I
Speaker 1: mean it was a long time. And then and then
Speaker 1: they keep having all their little things. We're excited to
Speaker 1: talk to you. We'll have somebody get to you as
Speaker 1: soon as possible. And you know this customer no service thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about it. But I
Speaker 1: just by the time somebody actually picks up the phone,
Speaker 1: I am already so just at the boiling point that
Speaker 1: I just want to explode on these people. And it's
Speaker 1: not their fault, I know, because they're going through the cycling,
Speaker 1: through the calls and stuff, but I just I get
Speaker 1: so wound up. So finally, after about forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: I get that click and then it rings. I'm like, aha,
Speaker 1: I'm through, and then I get the message our offices
Speaker 1: are currently closed. Please call back during normal business hours.
Speaker 1: Thanks AT and T. That was lovely. Okay, we were
Speaker 1: supposed to be talking to an environmental health legal director,
Speaker 1: senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. We're having
Speaker 1: trouble getting through to him this morning, but just wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of touch on this. We'll see if we
Speaker 1: can schedule him for another time. But Governor Newsom has
Speaker 1: signed a law. It's the first in the nation. It
Speaker 1: restricts the use of all blood thinning rat poisons. So
Speaker 1: with rat poison, what kills the rats isn't the poison,
Speaker 1: but what kills them is the anticoagulant. So basically it's
Speaker 1: a blood thinder. And the problem with these things is
Speaker 1: it does take out the rats. But rats aren't predators, right,
Speaker 1: so they're in the food chain, so like they get
Speaker 1: eaten by other animals, they get eaten by mountain lions.
Speaker 1: Remember p. Twenty two when he had all that mange,
Speaker 1: it was our most famous mountain lion. They said that
Speaker 1: he had rat poison in his system, because again he's
Speaker 1: an apex predator, and it works its way up the
Speaker 1: food chain. And Nick Poliochina and I went out to
Speaker 1: a wildlife rescue center and there were several animals there
Speaker 1: that were being treated because they had ingested rat poison.
Speaker 1: I think there was a coyote there that coyotes eat rats.
Speaker 1: They eat cats and dogs too if you're not careful,
Speaker 1: but they eat rats, and it gets into the food chain,
Speaker 1: and it can start at a lower level and work
Speaker 1: its way up and get all the way up to
Speaker 1: like mountain lions. And we have Eileen who's one of
Speaker 1: our news anchors, who's here hanging out with us this morning,
Speaker 1: and she said a friend's dog ate a rat and
Speaker 1: that rat had food poison or had been poisoned, and
Speaker 1: so the dog ended up dying. So the governor assigned
Speaker 1: this bill that bands that there are some exceptions and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff that I was hoping to dig
Speaker 1: a little deeper into. But I think the upshot of
Speaker 1: it is we're going to try to get this out
Speaker 1: of the food chain, which I think is a good
Speaker 1: thing for the whole circle of life stuff because we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be poisoning the rats and end up poisoning all
Speaker 1: the other animals. It's kind of a scary, scary side
Speaker 1: effect of it. But then the bigger question I have
Speaker 1: that I guess we're gonna to wait till another day
Speaker 1: to find an answer to, is what the heck are
Speaker 1: we going to do about all the rats? Because rats
Speaker 1: are a problem. I had a one friend she had
Speaker 1: them like they had completely infested her attic. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were like everywhere, so you have to get rid
Speaker 1: of them. But if you can't poison them, what do
Speaker 1: you do? Because it's important to control the population, right.
Speaker 1: So we'll try to get Jonathan on with us another
Speaker 1: day and see if we can dig a little deeper
Speaker 1: into that. But let's get back to stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Health Ministry
Speaker 1: in Gaza says at least fifty one people had been
Speaker 1: killed in Israeli airstrikes on southern Gaza. People who live
Speaker 1: in the Comunis area say Israel carried out heavy air
Speaker 1: strikes overnight as ground forces staged an incursion into three neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: One man says the explosions and shelling were massive. Iran's
Speaker 1: firing of missiles into Israel has stoked concerns about a
Speaker 1: massive regional war in the Middle East. Republican National Committee
Speaker 1: Chair Michael Wattley says America needs to stay and with Israel.
Speaker 8: America has been weak because we have not shown our
Speaker 8: friendship and to our ally Israel like we need to be.
Speaker 1: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Iran will pay a price
Speaker 1: for its missile barrage. Yesterday. State lawmakers have approved a
Speaker 1: bill to stop gas prices from spiking, especially in late
Speaker 1: summer when demand for gas goes up. The legislation authorizes
Speaker 1: energy regulators in California to set requirements for companies to
Speaker 1: maintain a certain level of fuel on hand using existing
Speaker 1: storage to keep gas prices from suddenly going up when
Speaker 1: refineries go offline for maintenance. The Assembly also advanced a
Speaker 1: bill requiring state energy officials to release a report by
Speaker 1: July one of twenty twenty five on proposals to increase
Speaker 1: the supply of gas. More babies in California will now
Speaker 1: have access to breast milk regardless of insurance. Governor Newsom
Speaker 1: signed a bill to make it easier to provide donor
Speaker 1: milk for newborns who are in the NICUU. The milk
Speaker 1: comes from women who are lactating. It is screened and
Speaker 1: is pasteurized. More than one point one million passengers have
Speaker 1: passed through Long Beach Airport between June and August, making
Speaker 1: it the airfield's busiest ever summer travel season. Delta, Hawaiian
Speaker 1: and Southwestern now offering NonStop flights to twenty four destinations,
Speaker 1: which is more than has been offered in the airport's
Speaker 1: one hundred year history. It's a nice little airport. I
Speaker 1: still prefer Burbing, that's my favorite, but Long Beach is
Speaker 1: a good one too. This is KFI and kost HD
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Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This
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