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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Thursday, December nineteenth.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Amy King. Just six sleep still Christmas.
Speaker 1: I've got a Christmas card yesterday Tricia said, you are
Speaker 1: my wake up joy every morning. Have a magical Christmas.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Trish. That's so sweet. Did you send out
Speaker 1: Christmas cards? Well, you're laughing about it. I didn't either.
Speaker 2: Cards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't gotten to it. I think I'm going
Speaker 1: to do New Year's cards this year. I've done that before.
Speaker 1: People like it. Yeah, okay, all right, we got a
Speaker 1: lot ahead on wake up call. So glad you're starting
Speaker 1: your day with us. Got our coffee. Of course, only
Speaker 1: some of us got our coffee. Producer Anna's running around
Speaker 1: screaming because our coffee machine is broken again. I bring
Speaker 1: coffee in from home just to be sure. Here's what's
Speaker 1: ahead on wake up call, which is six days until Christmas.
Speaker 1: Amazon warehouse workers in sam Bernardino Industry, Elmdale and Victorville
Speaker 1: have gone on strike. They want better wages, benefits, and
Speaker 1: working conditions. The continuing resolution to keep the government funded
Speaker 1: through March fourteenth is dead. President elect Trump announced yesterday
Speaker 1: he opposes the bill. In a statement, Trump and VP
Speaker 1: elect jd Vance said Republicans need to toughen up against
Speaker 1: the Democrats and call their bluff. If a bill isn't passed,
Speaker 1: a partial government shutdown would happen after midnight Friday. The
Speaker 1: Fed has lowered interest rates as expected, by a quarter
Speaker 1: percentage point, but Wall Street didn't react very well after
Speaker 1: learning that the Fed only plans to cut interest rates probably twice.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, the Dow Jones Industrial average took
Speaker 1: a dive, closing down eleven hundred twenty three points, the
Speaker 1: S and P five hundred lost one hundred twenty seven
Speaker 1: and the Nasdaq plummeted seven hundred and sixteen points. We're
Speaker 1: going to be talking TikTok with kfi's White House correspondent
Speaker 1: John Decker in less than five minutes. They're going to
Speaker 1: be getting an audience before the Supreme Court. We'll find
Speaker 1: out what's up with that. Also, ABC's Karen Travers is
Speaker 1: going to join us at five to see what lawmakers
Speaker 1: are doing to try to keep the lights on in DC.
Speaker 1: Of course, that government shut down looming if lawmakers can't
Speaker 1: get something done. We're going to take our Southern California
Speaker 1: sleigh ride to a very merry place that's coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour about five thirty five.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna like it. And presents are fun,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking with America's leading products safety attorney
Speaker 1: at five fifty. At six five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 1: Everyone is about to find out what an investigation dug
Speaker 1: up on former Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gates. Let's get
Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Workers at four Amazon warehouses
Speaker 1: in southern California have gone on strike, claiming Amazon refuses
Speaker 1: to recognize their union and negotiate fair contracts. They walked
Speaker 1: off the job early this morning. Amazon workers in New York, Illinois,
Speaker 1: and Georgia have also authorized strikes. Union official call the
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Speaker 1: says it does not expect an impact on its operations.
Speaker 1: That four thousand acre wildfire in Malibu is now one
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Speaker 1: California Edison customers throughout La County had their power cut
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Speaker 1: high winds. La Mayor Bass has placed a deputy mayor
Speaker 1: on administrative leave.
Speaker 4: The FBI searched the home of Deputy Mayor Brian k
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Speaker 4: bomb threat called into city Hall earlier this year. The
Speaker 4: LAPD says it ideed Williams as a suspect, but the
Speaker 4: department has a close relationship with him, so they turned
Speaker 4: it over to federal investigators. Williams is the deputy mayor
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Speaker 1: Republicans in Congress have rejected a bipartisan deal to keep
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Speaker 1: called on lawmakers to reject it, saying it needs to
Speaker 1: be free from giveaways to Democrats.
Speaker 5: The joint statement President elect Trump and Vice President elect JD.
Speaker 5: Vance blast the bipartisan compromise, saying it contains sweetheart provisions
Speaker 5: and Democrat giveaways and would see members of Congress getting
Speaker 5: a pay increase.
Speaker 1: The deal would have kept the government open through March.
Speaker 1: The government is scheduled to shut down if a deal
Speaker 1: isn't reached by tomorrow night. Elon Musk, who was picked
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Speaker 1: Department of Government Efficiency, called the spending bill outrageous and
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Speaker 1: sometimes spends weekends at her home in Brentwood. She has
Speaker 1: not been seen much at public events since Lucie in
Speaker 1: the election to President elect Trump. It is five h
Speaker 1: seven on your Thursday morning wake up call, just six
Speaker 1: days ago until Christmas. Let's say good morning too, okay
Speaker 1: if i's White House correspondent John Decker, Good morning John.
Speaker 1: TikTok is getting an audience before the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: But before we look forward, let's look back a bit.
Speaker 1: So let's go over what has led up to this.
Speaker 6: Well, there was a bipartisan bill that was passed by
Speaker 6: both the House and Senate, signed by President Biden that
Speaker 6: orders TikTok to either sell the company by January the
Speaker 6: nineteenth of twenty twenty five, a few weeks from now,
Speaker 6: or if they are unable to do that, then TikTok
Speaker 6: would be banned in the United States. Now, TikTok challenged
Speaker 6: that in the federal courts, the most recent court to
Speaker 6: hear this case was the DC Circuit Court of Appeals,
Speaker 6: and they ruled that this legislation signed by President Biden,
Speaker 6: is constitution it does not violate TikTok's First Amendment rights.
Speaker 6: The court said that the bill, the way it's written
Speaker 6: is narrowly tailored and takes into account the fact they
Speaker 6: say that TikTok poses a national security threat to the
Speaker 6: United States, and so amy. What TikTok has done is
Speaker 6: they are appealing that decision by the DC Circuit Court
Speaker 6: of Appeals. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear this
Speaker 6: case on January the tenth, just a few weeks from now.
Speaker 6: It's a hail Mary pass amy. If the Supreme Court
Speaker 6: does not overrule the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, then
Speaker 6: TikTok on January the nineteenth will be banned in the
Speaker 6: United States of America.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's look then dig into this a little bit. One,
Speaker 1: does TikTok have First Amendment rights? They're not US citizens,
Speaker 1: are not based in the US.
Speaker 6: Well, but they are a company, and they're arguing that
Speaker 6: the people that use TikTok have First Amendment rights as well.
Speaker 6: And there are as part of this case, it's not
Speaker 6: just TikTok that's suing the Attorney General Merrick Garland. It's
Speaker 6: also users of TikTok that are suing the Attorney General
Speaker 6: of the United States.
Speaker 1: Okay, And with this conservative court, which I would imagine
Speaker 1: is pro First Amendment, are there any thoughts on what
Speaker 1: that what the Court might do.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's a great question, Amy, And I never predict
Speaker 6: what the Supreme Court is going to do without first
Speaker 6: reading the briefs and those have not been delivered yet
Speaker 6: by either side, or listening to the oral arguments set
Speaker 6: for January the tenth. I'll be in the Supreme Court
Speaker 6: on January tenth, but as we get closer to that date,
Speaker 6: I will have read the briefs and you can ask
Speaker 6: me that question and I'll give you a sense about
Speaker 6: which way I think the Supreme Court is going to
Speaker 6: go in this particular matter.
Speaker 1: Okay. So, John, if they hear arguments on January tenth,
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, the laws set to go into
Speaker 1: effect January nineteenth, they usually don't come up with a
Speaker 1: decision that quickly. Are they expected to make a fast
Speaker 1: decision or would there be a stay in place? Or
Speaker 1: how could that all shake out or do we even know?
Speaker 6: Well, You're right. It is a quick turnaround in terms
Speaker 6: of an opinion that needs to be delivered by the
Speaker 6: Supreme Court by a date certain. In this case, it's
Speaker 6: January the nineteenth. The Supreme Court is capable of this.
Speaker 6: You remember earlier this year, Amy, when there was a
Speaker 6: challenge to a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to
Speaker 6: leave Donald Trump's name off the election ballot for its primary.
Speaker 6: The Supreme Court in January of twenty twenty four. Earlier
Speaker 6: this year, they agreed to hear this case. They put
Speaker 6: it on their docket a month later in February, and
Speaker 6: then a week later they came back with a decision
Speaker 6: in the matter. The reason being is because of the
Speaker 6: upcoming primary, they needed to make a decision on that
Speaker 6: particular case. And so similarly, I think they can turn
Speaker 6: around an opinion pretty quickly within nine days time after
Speaker 6: hearing oral arguments on January the tenth, and they must
Speaker 6: do that. In fact, TikTok's future rests with the US
Speaker 6: Supreme Court. That's their hell Mary pass. If the Supreme
Speaker 6: Court upholds the decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals,
Speaker 6: then TikTok is going out of business. It will no
Speaker 6: longer be an entity here in the US, but.
Speaker 1: It'll still be in other places.
Speaker 6: It will still be another place to kill it. But
Speaker 6: you know, I think it's such a popular app here
Speaker 6: in the US. It would have a major impact for
Speaker 6: those that use that popular social media app. So it
Speaker 6: has real consequences for sure.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to hear the arguments, and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to talk to you after you sit in on them, because, like,
Speaker 1: if they're arguing First Amendment rights and the TikTok users
Speaker 1: are saying, hey, it's our First Amendment right to get
Speaker 1: our stuff out on social media, could they say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, this isn't the only way you can
Speaker 1: get your things out. There's Facebook and Instagram and Twitter.
Speaker 1: There are other avenues. So it's really not violating your
Speaker 1: First Amendment rights.
Speaker 6: Well, that is certainly an argument, and you have to
Speaker 6: realize what the DC Circuit Court of Appeal said is
Speaker 6: that the legislation which passed the House bipartisan support, pass
Speaker 6: the Senate bipartisan support, and signed by President Biden, the
Speaker 6: legislation is narrowly tailored. The DC Circuit Court of Appeal said,
Speaker 6: because they say it takes into account these First Amendment rights.
Speaker 6: But what is overriding those First Amendment rights is national
Speaker 6: security concerns. TikTok, a company owned by a Chinese company
Speaker 6: called ByteDance, and the FBI other intelligence agencies have said
Speaker 6: TikTok poses a national security risk to the United States.
Speaker 6: And so if it's a big if, but if the
Speaker 6: Supreme Court over rules and overturns the decision by the
Speaker 6: DC Circuit Court of Appeals, they were essential, they would
Speaker 6: be essentially be saying we know better than the FBI,
Speaker 6: We know better than these other intelligence agencies as it
Speaker 6: relates to whether or not TikTok is a national security
Speaker 6: concern to the United States.
Speaker 1: Okay, so January tenth is the date you're going to
Speaker 1: be there, and we will talk to you after and
Speaker 1: hopefully before too, after you've got a chance to see resolutely.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, it's an important case for a lot
Speaker 6: of people across the country. We're talking about tens of
Speaker 6: millions of people that use TikTok on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: I know, how are we going to see people do
Speaker 1: dumb dances and stunts if we don't have.
Speaker 6: Ten times Instagram, Facebook or are other end for sure?
Speaker 1: All right, kafi's White House correspondent John Decker, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Byamy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the story
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 1: police chase in Orange County has ended in a fatal
Speaker 1: crash in La Palma. The guy trying to get away
Speaker 1: from police yesterday was wanted for theft in Fullerton. Pillase
Speaker 1: say the chase started when a detective witnessed the theft.
Speaker 1: They say the driver hit a car near Brookhurst Road
Speaker 1: in Orangethorpe Avenue, but kept going and got onto the
Speaker 1: ninety one. The chase ended at La Palma Avenue and
Speaker 1: Moody Street, where the driver crashed into a BMW. The
Speaker 1: driver of the BMW was a woman in her sixties.
Speaker 1: She died at the scene. The guy police were after
Speaker 1: was hurt in the crash. Governor Newsom says he's concerned
Speaker 1: about the cost of incarcerating more people now that Prop
Speaker 1: thirty six is in effect in California. It increases penalties
Speaker 1: for repeat drug and theft crimes a fast track to
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Speaker 5: At one hundred thousand plus one hundred and ten twenty
Speaker 5: thirty thousand dollars a year that the taxpayers will bear
Speaker 5: with no real outcome.
Speaker 1: The measure was approved by voters last month, with sixty
Speaker 1: eight percent in favor of it. It repealed parts of Prop.
Speaker 1: Forty seven, which which had changed some felony crimes to misdemeanors.
Speaker 1: Critics argued that gave rise to flash mob style robberies.
Speaker 1: The man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Speaker 1: in New York is in court in Pennsylvania, where he
Speaker 1: was arrested.
Speaker 4: The source close to accused killer Luigi Mangioni, says he's
Speaker 4: expected a wave extradition.
Speaker 1: ABC's Aer Katirski says that would clear the way to
Speaker 1: send Mangioni to New York City to face charges for murder.
Speaker 1: On December fourth, Mangioni was charged in New York this
Speaker 1: week with murder in furtherance of terrorism. California is making
Speaker 1: the MyShake app earthquake warning system available to more users.
Speaker 1: It's now being offered for Chromebook and map computers. The
Speaker 1: app has also had some of its functions enhanced, like
Speaker 1: visual and audio alerts and magnitude information. The app provided
Speaker 1: about fifteen seconds of warning to more than half a
Speaker 1: million users in northern California when two earthquakes hit earlier
Speaker 1: this month. I know the last time we had an earthquake,
Speaker 1: it was here in the studios that we felt and
Speaker 1: the mice Shake app gave me the warning after the
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Speaker 1: The Rancho Palacerities City Councils extended an emergency declaration because
Speaker 1: of landslides. The declaration now goes through February seventeenth. It
Speaker 1: affects the Portuguese Bend Community Association, Seaview and Portuguese Bend
Speaker 1: Beach Club neighborhoods. City geologists say the landslide under those
Speaker 1: neighborhoods is moving about two point seven inches a week.
Speaker 1: At six oh five at Tandle on the News, LA's
Speaker 1: Deputy mayor may have an explosive reason for being placed
Speaker 1: on leave. It's five twenty two and now we're going
Speaker 1: to say good morning to someone from ABC, Brad Garrett.
Speaker 1: We thought we were going to talk to Karen Travers
Speaker 1: about what's going on at the White House, and actually
Speaker 1: not at the White House, but in Congress with that bill.
Speaker 1: But instead we're going to talk to our buddy, Brad Garrett.
Speaker 1: He is our crime and terror analyst, and Brad, surprise,
Speaker 1: you're with us this morning, which we always enjoy. But
Speaker 1: I don't have my notes in front of me. So
Speaker 1: what are we talking about?
Speaker 7: So primarily I think, Amy, we can talk about the
Speaker 7: CEO shooting in New York. Yes, And mainly I think
Speaker 7: I talked to maybe you. I talked to people last
Speaker 7: week about sort of profiling the shooter. This is basically
Speaker 7: more a profile of his actions, what he did, when
Speaker 7: he didn't do and you know, just to throw this
Speaker 7: out on the front end, there's a there's a twenty
Speaker 7: twenty special tonight on this case, okay, which people might
Speaker 7: be interested in because I lay out in it a
Speaker 7: lot of the things I'm going to talk to you about. So,
Speaker 7: so the short answer is, when you walk into a crime,
Speaker 7: if you're a homicide detective FBI agent, you immediately start
Speaker 7: figuring or looking at, well, what exactly happened here and
Speaker 7: how did it happen? And so because you're in New
Speaker 7: York City, Amy, there's cameras everywhere, and they quick quickly
Speaker 7: realized that a they had the shooting, they had a
Speaker 7: suspect across the street. That's on camera. They have him
Speaker 7: crossing the street, shooting mister Thompson clean, getting on a bike,
Speaker 7: going into Central Park, and then disappearing at that point.
Speaker 7: They figured that part out too, but not initially. But
Speaker 7: the point being is this, you have a shooter that
Speaker 7: roams around Manhattan before the shooting, big, big no no.
Speaker 7: If you're going to go shoot somebody with all those cameras,
Speaker 7: and he's a smart kid, he would know that. Great
Speaker 7: shout of him inside Starbucks, shots of him on the street,
Speaker 7: and then he picks a location. Amy, That tells me
Speaker 7: a lot. The idea that you would shoot somebody the
Speaker 7: way he did in broad daylight as people are going
Speaker 7: to work on the street tells me this is more
Speaker 7: about making a statement maybe than the murder itself, not
Speaker 7: that that isn't obviously part of it. And so obviously
Speaker 7: we don't know what that means at this point because
Speaker 7: we don't know who mister Thompson is. But as you
Speaker 7: unfold this, you know, you realize he's a big time CEO.
Speaker 7: And one of the biggest healthcare companies in the country,
Speaker 7: and that if you wanted to make In other words,
Speaker 7: my thoughts are, if I were looking at this without
Speaker 7: knowing what it is, is this some sort of cause
Speaker 7: driven behavior, because a professional would never pick a location.
Speaker 6: Like that because he doesn't want to get caught.
Speaker 7: He's not going to have on some interesting, eye catching
Speaker 7: sort of backpack That tells you he's also not a professional.
Speaker 7: The way his shooting stance is not somebody that's professionally trained.
Speaker 7: And his weapon we don't know what it is at
Speaker 7: that point. Obviously there was something that's not right about it,
Speaker 7: like is it homemade? Is it something you know it
Speaker 7: ends up being a three D printer weapon. But all
Speaker 7: of those things suggest to me that you're not dealing
Speaker 7: with a professional here. And then using a bicycle. That's
Speaker 7: fine because it gets him out of New York quickly,
Speaker 7: but you also could be seen a hundred times spoke
Speaker 7: on cameras and by other people, something else a professional
Speaker 7: wouldn't do, and then getting on either getting on mass transit,
Speaker 7: getting in a cab, whe there's pictures of him getting
Speaker 7: either on a train or eventually a bus. All of
Speaker 7: that is high risk, you're going to get caught.
Speaker 1: So so you're saying he wanted to get caught.
Speaker 7: I'm saying that he is so into the cause, he's
Speaker 7: so into taking on the healthcare industry, that he doesn't
Speaker 7: really think through Like a lot of people commit crimes
Speaker 7: and they don't think through about how do I get
Speaker 7: away with this? He clearly didn't think about that. And
Speaker 7: you know, and and he creates writings that put him
Speaker 7: right in the middle of it and admit it. That's
Speaker 7: all tells me this is a person that's all cause driven.
Speaker 7: They think all about making a statement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was amazing how much we know about him.
Speaker 1: And then even like you said, he's making that statement
Speaker 1: even being taken into the courtroom and he starts screaming
Speaker 1: at reporters.
Speaker 6: You're right.
Speaker 7: And then if you go let me digress for a second,
Speaker 7: you go to the other side of this story. So
Speaker 7: he's having an extradition hearing this morning. There are so
Speaker 7: many people, they are amys. They're lining up a block
Speaker 7: around the courthouse to get into this hearing. People carrying
Speaker 7: signs these are quotes free MANGIONI. One guy's holding up
Speaker 7: with SONA says murder for profit is terrorism. So I
Speaker 7: give you an idea what people think about this. I mean, it's,
Speaker 7: you know, it's this really bizarre, the attraction of three things.
Speaker 7: Somebody that is attractive, which he is, somebody who takes
Speaker 7: on a cause, which many believe he has done, and
Speaker 7: he used violence to do it. Those three variables people
Speaker 7: are very attracted to, maybe sitting in their comfortable chair
Speaker 7: in their living room. They're not going to go out
Speaker 7: and shoot anybody, but they're fascinated with people, and they're
Speaker 7: clearly are attracted to what he physically looks like.
Speaker 1: Is it common for people to rally around a murderer.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of another case where the public
Speaker 1: support for a person who allegedly murdered somebody in cold
Speaker 1: blood on camera in front of a lot of people
Speaker 1: on a street in New York City got this kind
Speaker 1: of support.
Speaker 7: Well, I can't think of a murder case. I can
Speaker 7: certainly think of the sort of the desire to be
Speaker 7: connected to people who commit violent crimes. I mean, I
Speaker 7: mean Ted Bundy had multiple people proposing to him and
Speaker 7: a lot of people locked up. Scott Peterson, I mean,
Speaker 7: he goes on and on attractive people, Uh are going
Speaker 7: to attract some you know, obviously not well grounded people,
Speaker 7: but but it's there. You know, we could probably come
Speaker 7: up with a list.
Speaker 6: I mean, clearly people who.
Speaker 7: Believe in terrorist act. You can find millions of people
Speaker 7: that'll support what they're doing. I may not be in
Speaker 7: our backyard, but they believe that, they believe of the cause,
Speaker 7: they believe of you know, things seem to change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Greg Garrett, thank you so much. It's
Speaker 1: so I'm you know, I'm not a supporter obviously of MANCHIONI,
Speaker 1: but it is a fascinating, fascinating case and for someone
Speaker 1: who like you, who does this for a living, I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that it's just got your interest piqued as well.
Speaker 2: It does, all right.
Speaker 7: Anyway, watch the special tonight, all right?
Speaker 1: What it's ABC, And it's a twenty twenty special tonight. Correct,
Speaker 1: all right, ABC's Crime and Terror Analyst. God, it's an
Speaker 1: epic scene. I love that. Okay, Uh, have you do
Speaker 1: you like to be alone? Will stop crying too much?
Speaker 1: Solitude isn't good for you. Research out of Oregon State
Speaker 1: University happens to be my alma mater, and Ohio State
Speaker 1: University finds intense solitude like hiking alone in a forest,
Speaker 1: isn't as good as like reading in a cafe or
Speaker 1: listening to music while you're on your morning commute. The
Speaker 1: study finds what they call less complete solitude is better
Speaker 1: at restoring your energy and maintaining a feeling of connection
Speaker 1: with others. They say the findings are the same for
Speaker 1: extroverts and introverts. LA Deputy Mayor Brian Williams has been
Speaker 1: placed on administrative leave. The FBI rated his home Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the Mayor's offices. The raid is tied to an investigation
Speaker 1: into a bomb threat Williams allegedly made against city hall
Speaker 1: earlier this year. Williams has served as a deputy mayor
Speaker 1: for nearly two years. A man from carlsbat who messaged
Speaker 1: the fifteen year old girl who killed a teacher and
Speaker 1: another student from at her school in Madison, Wisconsin, has
Speaker 1: been ordered by a judge to surrender his guns. Authority
Speaker 1: say the man was planning his own attack on a
Speaker 1: government building. It's not clear if he was taken into custody.
Speaker 1: Actually we do know now he was detained. The Rancho
Speaker 1: Palos Verdes City Council has extended an emergency declaration because
Speaker 1: of landslides that'll go through February seventeenth. The declaration affects
Speaker 1: the Portuguese Bend Community Association, Seaview and Portuguese Bend Beach
Speaker 1: Club neighborhoods. A city geologist says the landslide under those
Speaker 1: neighborhoods is moving about two point seven inches a week.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning,
Speaker 1: ding dong. The deal is dead. Lawmakers are scrambling as
Speaker 1: a government shut down looms just two days away. Right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to America's leading product safety attorney
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Speaker 1: we all buy presents done, but sometimes we inadvertently make
Speaker 1: bad choices. So what are some things that people should
Speaker 1: be looking for when they're shopping for Christmas presents to
Speaker 1: make sure that they are safe.
Speaker 9: During the Christmas season. Product defects are very prevalent, and
Speaker 9: the general public has a false reliance on the government
Speaker 9: to keep us safe. But what consumers need to know
Speaker 9: is that the products we buy are not really as
Speaker 9: safe as we believe. We all assume that the products
Speaker 9: we buy and big stores and online have all been
Speaker 9: through some rigorous safety testing, but that's generally a false assumption.
Speaker 9: The vast majority of the products have little to know
Speaker 9: hazard analysis, and some have very little hazard analysis inside
Speaker 9: the manufacturing process. So the consumer typically relies on the
Speaker 9: government to make sure the products are safe, not realizing
Speaker 9: that the government really relies on the consumer as the
Speaker 9: first responder, the canary and the coal mine, if you will,
Speaker 9: to point out product defects in cases. And there are
Speaker 9: two very important websites that I think all your listeners
Speaker 9: should know about, Safer Products dot gov and Safercar dot gov.
Speaker 9: This is where the government wants consumers to report defects
Speaker 9: so that we can get ahead of the problem.
Speaker 1: Okay, And every year the group Watch, which stands for
Speaker 1: worst what is it? No, No, if they put out
Speaker 1: a worst Toys list, I don't want I can't remember
Speaker 1: what Watch stands for right now, but they put out
Speaker 1: the ten worst Toys list. So you're saying, basically, these
Speaker 1: toys get put out and then as people buy them,
Speaker 1: they start finding out that people are choking on them,
Speaker 1: or there's a burn thing, or there's somebody or the like.
Speaker 1: One of the one of the things on the list
Speaker 1: at the top of the list is a toy cult
Speaker 1: forty five pistol that looks like a real pistol, but
Speaker 1: they put it out anyway.
Speaker 8: Yes, you're exactly right.
Speaker 9: And if you go right now to Google and you
Speaker 9: type in list of consumer product recalls, it will take
Speaker 9: you directly to the Consumer Product Safety Commission website and
Speaker 9: you will see hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of products
Speaker 9: that the manufacturers thought were safe enough to put in
Speaker 9: a box and sell to the public. But somebody Marry
Speaker 9: in Colorado or Bob in New Jersey made a report
Speaker 9: and these things started to come to the surface. And
Speaker 9: that's a very critically important part of our safety system,
Speaker 9: and the government really relies on the public to let
Speaker 9: us know about these things.
Speaker 1: Okay, So don why, because you have dealt with these
Speaker 1: cases before. Why would toy makers and other companies put
Speaker 1: these things out knowing that there are lawyers just waiting
Speaker 1: to jump in if somebody gets hurt or.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 9: Manufacturers are necessarily and obviously focused on profit, especially during
Speaker 9: the holiday season. You know, a lot of companies rely
Speaker 9: on the holiday season as a make or break. They
Speaker 9: make twenty five to forty five percent of their annual
Speaker 9: revenue during the season, and there's a rush to get
Speaker 9: things to market. And we all know sometimes when you rush,
Speaker 9: safety step steps get missed or skipped altogether.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then when there's when it's something that more,
Speaker 1: that's more than just a light that doesn't light right,
Speaker 1: like the Grinch would say, it might be time to
Speaker 1: take legal action. And that's kind of where you come in.
Speaker 1: So do you take a lot of these cases where
Speaker 1: somebody has bought something and it turned out to be
Speaker 1: very dangerous.
Speaker 9: We do a lot of product defect litigation when someone
Speaker 9: is injured or killed. I get lots of calls all
Speaker 9: the time for somebody who says, my product is defective
Speaker 9: and it didn't hurt me yet, but I'm worried about it.
Speaker 9: And what I tell them and I tell everybody, is
Speaker 9: please do two things. Go to the Consumer Product Safety
Speaker 9: Commission Saferproducts dot Gov and report it. Go to the
Speaker 9: manufacturer and report it. Because this is the genesis of
Speaker 9: every recall that we see. Every time you open up
Speaker 9: the newspaper, and see a recall. This is where it starts.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you need to be proactive. And are there
Speaker 1: any things that you have in your time doing all
Speaker 1: of this and trying to help people stay safe. Are
Speaker 1: there things that people should be watching out for, because,
Speaker 1: like you said, we rely on the government to make
Speaker 1: sure that they're safe, but they're not. So what can
Speaker 1: people do to make sure that they're not buying bad
Speaker 1: gifts that are going to hurt themselves?
Speaker 8: Well, you just need to be vigilant.
Speaker 9: You need to look at things, you know, during the
Speaker 9: holiday season, small pieces, moving parts, batteries, products with pinch points,
Speaker 9: sharp edges. You know, what I always tell everyone is
Speaker 9: that when in doubt, ask a mother. Their safety senses
Speaker 9: are are very very intense, and statistically, men are the
Speaker 9: ones who get hurt the most.
Speaker 8: Go figure. So it went in doubt, ask a mom.
Speaker 1: Ask a mom. I love that, Okay, And then you
Speaker 1: wrote a whole book Defect Safety. And is this all
Speaker 1: about what we're talking about right now?
Speaker 9: Yes, it is. The book is about two things. Number One,
Speaker 9: it's kind of a legal guide for lawyers that do
Speaker 9: this to help them avoid some of the pitfalls and
Speaker 9: the problems that these cases have, but it's also a
Speaker 9: great story for the consumer, so the consumer can see
Speaker 9: how the civil justice system affects everyday safety in the background.
Speaker 8: We never know about it.
Speaker 9: Everybody that's listening right now has benefited through this process indirectly,
Speaker 9: where somebody had a case or reported a problem and
Speaker 9: a recall or a product got pulled off the shelf.
Speaker 9: And that's a critical part of our process. It's almost
Speaker 9: like the fourth arm of the government, if you will.
Speaker 1: Are you noticing don more and more of these kinds
Speaker 1: of toys are being put out or because there's people
Speaker 1: reporting them. Are the manufacturers being any more safe?
Speaker 9: Well, I like to think that the manufacturers are being safe,
Speaker 9: but there's such a flood of products. They come from
Speaker 9: all over the world.
Speaker 8: You know, the.
Speaker 9: Government just cannot manage. You know, everybody thinks it's on
Speaker 9: a shelf, it must have been tested by the government. No,
Speaker 9: it just doesn't happen. There's just not an ability for
Speaker 9: the government to do that. So in large part, safety
Speaker 9: is reliant on the manufacturer themselves. And of course they
Speaker 9: have budgets, bills to pay, they want to turn a profit,
Speaker 9: and so the safety level of safety that they assign
Speaker 9: has to fit within their their earnings and their profit matrix.
Speaker 9: Some companies are better than others.
Speaker 1: Yeah the almighty dollar. Okay. So where if somebody does
Speaker 1: get hurt or notices something that they think potentially could
Speaker 1: hurt them, what are the websites again that they can
Speaker 1: go and report them?
Speaker 8: Okay, there's two websites.
Speaker 9: The Consumer Product Safety Commission is for typical consumer products,
Speaker 9: and that's Safer Products dot gov, not dot com Safer
Speaker 9: Products dot gov. For motor vehicles, motorcycles, cars, things of
Speaker 9: that nature. There's a separate website called safercar dot gov.
Speaker 9: Safercar dot gov. Those are the two websites directly to
Speaker 9: the US government where they monitor these things. And that
Speaker 9: is really the genesis of every recall that you see.
Speaker 9: And the thing I want you to remember is that
Speaker 9: we all see recalls all the time, but every product
Speaker 9: that we purchase, they say, do you want a warranty
Speaker 9: on it?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 9: Why does a product have a warranty defects of workmanship
Speaker 9: or materials? Because these things are just getting put out
Speaker 9: to the public and we need to be vigilant and
Speaker 9: be careful.
Speaker 1: Okay. So if you want to put in a report,
Speaker 1: you might not only save yourself, but you might help
Speaker 1: somebody else too, So that's always a good thing, especially
Speaker 1: during the holidays. A product safety attorney and author of
Speaker 1: the book Defect Safety, Don Fountain, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your time and information this morning.
Speaker 8: Thank you for having me all right, take.
Speaker 1: Care all right.
Speaker 2: Bye.
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