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Speaker 6: Good morning. It's five oho one this Monday morning. On
Speaker 6: your wake up call. It's November eighteenth.
Speaker 1: That means one week and one month, so five weeks
Speaker 1: until Christmas. Oh god, I just stressed myself out. I
Speaker 1: got to do some shopping. Hey, happy to be here today.
Speaker 1: I want to say thanks to Michael Krozer filling in
Speaker 1: for a wake up call on Friday.
Speaker 6: I hear he did a great job.
Speaker 1: Of course was great because I took the day off
Speaker 1: because one of my best friends flew down and it
Speaker 1: was her birthday weekend, so we went to my favorite place,
Speaker 1: Disneyland happens to be one of her favorite places too,
Speaker 1: so I wasn't imposing myself on a bit, had a great,
Speaker 1: great time, And because I took Friday off, I turned
Speaker 1: my alarms off so I wouldn't wake up at two
Speaker 1: thirty on Friday morning. Guests who forgot to turn her
Speaker 1: alarm back on. I'm lucky to be here, but I did.
Speaker 1: I woke up at two o'clock and went something off
Speaker 1: and yeah, I had, in fact turn off my alarm clock,
Speaker 1: but luckily the internal clock was still working. So hope
Speaker 1: you are ready to get your day started. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot going on, so let's go. Here's what's ahead
Speaker 1: on wake up call. A pilot and three people on
Speaker 1: board a single engine CESSA have been injured when they're
Speaker 1: playing crashed at the Pomona Drag Strip during the National
Speaker 1: hot Rod Association finals. Two of the people hurt before
Speaker 1: noon yesterday have critical injuries. No one on the ground
Speaker 1: was hurt. The races were suspended, but then resumed about
Speaker 1: two hours later. Democratic challenger Derek Tran has pulled ahead
Speaker 1: of Republican incumbent Michelle Steele in the race for the
Speaker 1: forty fifth congressional district. At one point, Tran was trailing
Speaker 1: by about eleven thousand votes and now leads by thirty
Speaker 1: six votes. The vote count show Steel is ahead in
Speaker 1: the Orange County portion of the district, but Tran has
Speaker 1: a large lead in La County. And Israeli strike in
Speaker 1: CenTra Old Bay Route has killed the chief spokesman for Hezbola.
Speaker 1: It was the latest in targeted killings of Seeing Your
Speaker 1: husbal officials. Two others were killed in another strike in
Speaker 1: central Beirute last night. We'll get the latest on the
Speaker 1: war with ABC's Geordana Miller in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Four people on
Speaker 1: board a small plane have survived a crash at the
Speaker 1: Pomona Fair Plex during the National hot Rod Association Finals.
Speaker 3: Was a single engine plane that made contact with a
Speaker 3: couple of vehoples before ultimately hit the ground.
Speaker 1: LA County Fires Jonathan Torres says two of the people
Speaker 1: on the plane have critical injuries, two have moderate injuries.
Speaker 1: The plane went down yesterday in an RV area where
Speaker 1: drivers and others stay for the races. No one in
Speaker 1: the RV area was hurt. The races were interrupted for,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, about two hours. California's Attorney General has
Speaker 1: criticized a judge's ruling that a measure approved by voters
Speaker 1: in Huntington Beach to require voter ID is not prohibited
Speaker 1: by state law. Measure A was approved earlier this year.
Speaker 1: It amended the city charter to authorized Huntington Beach to
Speaker 1: implement the ID requirement for in person voters in city elections.
Speaker 1: It would go into effect in twenty twenty six. Attorney
Speaker 1: General Rob Banta says the state remains confident in the
Speaker 1: strength of its case. Things were a little shaky and
Speaker 1: the inland Empire over the week, and a three point
Speaker 1: four quake hit Fontana Saturday afternoon, Yust geological services. Another
Speaker 1: three point four quake jolted the area about six hours later.
Speaker 1: Two people have been killed and ten others were hurt
Speaker 1: in two separate shootings along a parade route in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Police say gunfire broke out around three point thirty yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Eight people were shot. A ninth made it to the
Speaker 1: hospital on his own. Forty five minutes later, shots were
Speaker 1: fired again. One person died at the scene, another died
Speaker 1: at the hospital. President Biden has authorized Ukraine to use
Speaker 1: US made long range missiles against Russia. ABC's Patrick REvil
Speaker 1: says there are limits and Ukraine cannot attack Moscow with
Speaker 1: the missiles.
Speaker 7: Not only can the missiles not reach Moscow, Crane is
Speaker 7: probably going to be limited at the moment to using
Speaker 7: these missiles in the Koersk region, the Russian border region
Speaker 7: that Ukraine managed to gain a foothold in with its
Speaker 7: own surprise offensive back in the summer. Essentially that means
Speaker 7: just firing just across the border into Russia.
Speaker 6: He says.
Speaker 1: US equipment is already being used in that area. A
Speaker 1: US official says Russia's decision to send in North Korean
Speaker 1: troops is an escalation of the conflict. Mike Tyson says
Speaker 1: he has no regrets after losing in the ring to
Speaker 1: YouTube star j Paul. Aul won the highly anticipated match
Speaker 1: Friday night by unanimous decision. Tyson said this is one
Speaker 1: of those situations when you lost but still one, adding
Speaker 1: that there are no regrets to getting in the ring
Speaker 1: one last time. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Giordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, Israel isn't letting off the
Speaker 1: gas in its efforts to knock down Hasbalah.
Speaker 6: What's the latest the.
Speaker 2: Israeli Army says it has assassinated another top has Bala leader,
Speaker 2: this time going after their longtime international press spokesperson, a
Speaker 2: man named Mohammed Afif. And in an unusual uh you know,
Speaker 2: daytime bombing, not in the suburbs of Beirut, which is
Speaker 2: a Hasbala stronghold, but in central day Root, the Israeli
Speaker 2: army struck a building where a fief was on late
Speaker 2: Sunday and killed him. Levenue officials say at least three
Speaker 2: others were killed in that strike, and Hasbala has claimed
Speaker 2: you know him as a quote unquote martyr. And it's
Speaker 2: another you know, it's another blow against their kind of
Speaker 2: obviously their leadership, but also their ability to communicate their message.
Speaker 2: A fief was you know again for more than a
Speaker 2: decade the face of Hesbala Andre Donna.
Speaker 1: Is this another example of is it's real, like really
Speaker 1: being meticulous and taking their time and waiting and then
Speaker 1: jumping in at the last second. Because it's been a
Speaker 1: few of the assassinations they were like months in the making,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 2: I mean, Israel has said that they will take out,
Speaker 2: you know, the enemies of the state, including top leaders
Speaker 2: of Husbala and Hamas, and they track the movements of
Speaker 2: these leaders very carefully. They wait for the right moment
Speaker 2: until the intelligence is ironclad, and then they have not
Speaker 2: hesitated to carry out these very bold assassination attempts. And
Speaker 2: remember this last one yesterday happened right as you know,
Speaker 2: the diplomatic you know, diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire have
Speaker 2: really gone into overdraw. Heard from Lebanese officials late last
Speaker 2: night that they have responded positively to the US ceasefire proposal,
Speaker 2: and it appears that momentum is building. We're hearing out
Speaker 2: of Lebanon, though it hasn't been announced yet in Washington,
Speaker 2: that almost Hochstein cousident, Biden's special envoy will be coming
Speaker 2: back to the region, possibly as early as tomorrow to
Speaker 2: the Root and then Wednesday to Israel to discuss this
Speaker 2: ceasefire deal. And so even in the midst of these negotiations,
Speaker 2: Israel is not letting up on its it strikes against
Speaker 2: Haasbala and by the way, Amy that also includes in
Speaker 2: southern Lebanon. Right, Israel continues to operate in southern Lebanon
Speaker 2: in those villages, you know, intense combat with Hasbella fighters
Speaker 2: clearing out weapons, you know, every few hours, the Israelian
Speaker 2: armies releasing footage of its activities and stuff on Lebanon.
Speaker 1: Okay, then and the activities in southern Lebanon, we're not
Speaker 1: hearing of the same kind of devastation that we've seen
Speaker 1: in Gaza. Is it the same or is it much
Speaker 1: more targeted?
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately it is much the same. Oh, Okay, we've
Speaker 2: seen it is We've seen not only have not only
Speaker 2: have we here at ABC talked to many soldiers who've
Speaker 2: come out who've told us about the incredible destruction, but
Speaker 2: was also seen in satellite images that Israel is really trying.
Speaker 2: You know, they've destroyed many villages that doped the border
Speaker 2: as they fight has Bollah and they destroy and confiscate weapons.
Speaker 2: They've also blown up a lot of tunnels that they've found.
Speaker 2: These are not cross border tunnels, but they're combat tunnels,
Speaker 2: if you will, or locations for storing weapons and for
Speaker 2: you know, allowing fighters in a future war, if you will,
Speaker 2: to rest and sleep, you know, and eat. They found,
Speaker 2: you know, really living quarters underground as much as they
Speaker 2: found Gaza, and they've blown blown up those tunnels. So
Speaker 2: there has been you know, a lot of destruction of
Speaker 2: these villages along the border, and there are dozens of
Speaker 2: them that have you know, suffered. There are not many civilians.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's important to say there are not many
Speaker 2: civilians in these villages. The fighting is really much more
Speaker 2: symmetrical between Israel and a fighting you know, a professional
Speaker 2: army which is Husbalah and not. There aren't as many
Speaker 2: casualties civilian casualties the way we've seen in Gaza, right.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Jordan of the ceasefire that you're talking about,
Speaker 1: I just wanted a clarification that is, between Israel and
Speaker 1: in Lebanon, in Lebanon not involving guys, separate, separate talks.
Speaker 2: It's exactly exactly exactly, it's a separate track, and it's
Speaker 2: a proposal that the US put on the table between
Speaker 2: Israel and Lebanon. It would require Hsbola, for example, to
Speaker 2: move beyond the Latani River that's about twenty miles off
Speaker 2: of Israel's northern border, and it would create certain mechanisms
Speaker 2: for preventing Usbola from coming back to the area and rearming.
Speaker 2: And those are going to be the really tough points
Speaker 2: to negotiate who is going to be in southern Lebanon.
Speaker 2: UNIPHIL obviously didn't do a good enough job last time.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, thank you so much for the update,
Speaker 1: Jordana appreciate it as always.
Speaker 2: Talk soon, Yeah, we'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 6: A deadly E.
Speaker 1: Coli outbreak affecting eighteen states, including California, has been linked
Speaker 1: to organic carrots, the CDC said yesterday. One death and
Speaker 1: fifteen hospitalizations have been reported among them, and more than
Speaker 1: three dozen confirmed cases nationwide. Several brands of bagged baby
Speaker 1: organic carrots and whole carrots have been recalled by Grimway Farms.
Speaker 1: An Orange County choir teacher is being charged for allegedly
Speaker 1: having a month's long sexual relationship with a student. Officials
Speaker 1: at sant Ana High School say the student was a
Speaker 1: seventeen year old male who told investigators the relationship went
Speaker 1: on for about six months. Police say the thirty seven
Speaker 1: year old teacher admitted that she had a relationship with
Speaker 1: the student. Six people have been hurt at a house
Speaker 1: party in Riverside that turned violent.
Speaker 3: Police confirmed Four people were shot and two others were
Speaker 3: stabbed late Saturday night.
Speaker 8: Investigators say stem from a fight.
Speaker 6: One of the people who was stabbed as he suspected gunmen.
Speaker 1: Kay if I's Mark Mayfield says the guy in the
Speaker 1: hospital or actually the guy is in the hospital and
Speaker 1: is expected to survive. One of the others hurt is
Speaker 1: in critical condition. President elect Trump has picked fcc A
Speaker 1: Commissioner Brendan Carr to be the agency's permanent chairman. ABC's
Speaker 1: Peter Harry Lumbus says car is one of Elon Musk's
Speaker 1: biggest supporters. Car Is publicly defended Musk's companies, including accusing
Speaker 1: the FCC of regulatory harassment by denying Musk's satellite company
Speaker 1: a nearly nine hundred million dollars grand Carlumbus says Musk
Speaker 1: has been heavily involved in Trump's transition process, spending days
Speaker 1: with the President elect at mar A Lago and publicly
Speaker 1: weighing in on some cabinet picks. President Electrump's nominee for
Speaker 1: Secretary of Defenses admitted to paying a woman as part
Speaker 1: of a civil confidential settlement agreement, but denies allegations of
Speaker 1: sexual assault. Pete Hegsas's lawyer said there was a consensual
Speaker 1: encounter between Hegseth and the woman in twenty seventeen, but
Speaker 1: he says the sexual assault allegation is just an attempt
Speaker 1: to get money from Hegseth. Police in Monterey investigated the
Speaker 1: allegations at the time, no charges were filed. A Southwest
Speaker 1: Airlines jet in Texas has been shot at as it
Speaker 1: prepared to land or actually to head to Indianapolis. The
Speaker 1: bullet hit the cockpit on Friday. The plane returned to
Speaker 1: the gate. No one was hurt. This passenger said it
Speaker 1: was scary to find out what happened.
Speaker 6: You surprising something like that to happen. Yeah, lets you
Speaker 6: know at a time anything you happened. PILLI say. The
Speaker 6: shooting is believed to have been random.
Speaker 1: A banana duct taped to a wall could sell for
Speaker 1: up to a million dollars or more at auction. Sotheby's
Speaker 1: New York said the yellow banana on a white wall
Speaker 1: attached by silver duct tape is called Comedian. It debuted
Speaker 1: at an art show in Miami Beach in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Soyeby says the fruit has been replaced regularly, so it's
Speaker 1: not rotted out and stays yellow. It'll be auctioned off
Speaker 1: starting November twentieth. A million dollars for a banana. I
Speaker 1: think they're like seventy seven cents a pound, aren't they.
Speaker 1: An LA metro bus driver's been shot and is in
Speaker 1: critical condition in the hospital. Lapd says she had stopped
Speaker 1: her bus and got out on Saturday to meet up
Speaker 1: with her ex boyfriend on her break. She was standing
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk when the ex boyfriend allegedly shot her.
Speaker 1: Than to Offlisa looking for forty five year old Dorian Holt.
Speaker 1: President Biden has given the ok for Ukraine to use
Speaker 1: long range missiles to strike Russia. That marks a major
Speaker 1: US policy shift for the closing days of the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: We're going to find out the latest one that with
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers in just a second. The late music
Speaker 1: icon Quincy Jones is now an OSCAR winner. Jones, who
Speaker 1: died earlier this month at the age of ninety one,
Speaker 1: was posthumously awarded an honorary Lifetime Achievement Oscar at the
Speaker 1: Governor's Award in Hollywood last night. Six so five attendle
Speaker 1: on the News California is removing what has been deemed
Speaker 1: a derogatory term against Native American women from places around
Speaker 1: the state. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen,
Speaker 1: there's a question about how much President elect Trump is
Speaker 1: going to support Ukraine and it's war with Russia. So
Speaker 1: what is President Biden doing in his final days to
Speaker 1: ensure US support?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, this is a big h line. The administration
Speaker 5: is now authorizing Ukraine to use long range missiles inside Russia,
Speaker 5: something the president had prohibited specifically up until this point.
Speaker 5: A third US official tells us that the focus expected
Speaker 5: is to be in Curse and the reason for this
Speaker 5: change is because of Russia bringing in North Korean troops
Speaker 5: into the fight, which the administration sees as an escalation
Speaker 5: in this conflict. As of this morning, we are told
Speaker 5: that Ukraine has not yet used these long range missiles
Speaker 5: inside Russia, but they have a range of about one
Speaker 5: hundred and ninety miles, and so they could go into
Speaker 5: that Curs region where there are fifty thousand Russian troops
Speaker 5: ten thousand North Korean troops attempting to recapture what Ukraine
Speaker 5: had seized a couple of months ago. And this again,
Speaker 5: as you mentioned, it's a big deal because the Ukrainians
Speaker 5: have been lobbying publicly, very strongly President Zelinski, making a
Speaker 5: forceful case publicly to make this change and privately even
Speaker 5: stronger to the administration that this was necessary for their
Speaker 5: continued efforts on the battlefield. But the administration had been
Speaker 5: hesitant to do this because of questions about how effective
Speaker 5: it would be, saying that they don't have these missiles
Speaker 5: in large numbers, and talking about how more effective maybe
Speaker 5: the long range drones that Ukraine has been using to
Speaker 5: strike inside Russia. They're cheaper, they say, and also they
Speaker 5: have greater quantity of them. But then the big thing too,
Speaker 5: of course, is concerns about seeing this being seen by
Speaker 5: Russia as an escalation, a big step by the United States.
Speaker 1: Okay, And the missiles that they are being authorized to use,
Speaker 1: are those going to be sent to them? Do they
Speaker 1: already have them and they're just sitting on them kind
Speaker 1: of waiting or what's the status of them.
Speaker 5: They do have some, and I do think that they
Speaker 5: would have to use they would get others. But I
Speaker 5: do believe that they have some. They just haven't been
Speaker 5: able to use them to strike inside of Russia. It's
Speaker 5: been like that's where the prohibiting of where they could
Speaker 5: use them. They could use them to strike at Russia
Speaker 5: in certain places that Russia had taken of Ukrainian territory.
Speaker 5: But this is now going into Russia, which marks the
Speaker 5: big difference.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then the missiles versus drones thing, So do the
Speaker 1: missiles just do more damage or have the capability of
Speaker 1: doing more damage than the drones.
Speaker 5: I'd have to look into the specifics on that for you.
Speaker 5: That's not my area of actually.
Speaker 6: Okay, but we could check on that, okay. Great.
Speaker 1: And then the president is also shifting away from Ukraine.
Speaker 1: He was down in Peru and making moves to keep
Speaker 1: the fight against climate change going in his final days
Speaker 1: in office.
Speaker 6: What's going on with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He made a historic visit to the Amazon yesterday in Brazil.
Speaker 5: As he left Peru, I was heading to Brazil for
Speaker 5: the G twenty summit, which starts today. He made a
Speaker 5: call for future generations to protect wildlife in that very
Speaker 5: important area. He said, every minute the world is chopping
Speaker 5: down the equivalent of ten soccer fields worth of forest.
Speaker 5: He also says he's leaving his successor, President elect Trump
Speaker 5: and the country a strong foundation to build on in
Speaker 5: terms of US climate policy, as he put it, if
Speaker 5: they choose to do so.
Speaker 1: All right, Karen Travis, thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 1: Appreciated as always. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: The LAPED is trying to find a man they say
Speaker 1: hit a woman with a car in Canoga Park, then
Speaker 1: got out and stabbed her. The woman survived the attack
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon. She's in critical condition. The reason for the
Speaker 1: attack is not clear. Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter
Speaker 1: eleven bankruptcy protection as it deals with billions in losses
Speaker 1: and debts.
Speaker 8: Spirit Airlineses last annual profit came in twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 8: the company simply hasn't been able to find its financial
Speaker 8: footing since a judge blocked its merger with rival jed
Speaker 8: Blue Airways in January, Compounding the intense competition in the
Speaker 8: low fare airline industry.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan says Spirit issued a statement this morning
Speaker 1: say It saying it will continue to sell tickets and
Speaker 1: fly its normal routes through the bankruptcy process. The trial
Speaker 1: of an illegal immigrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student
Speaker 1: Lake and Riley continues this morning. Prosecutors set on Friday
Speaker 1: Forensic and video evidence proves illegal immigrant Jose Ebarra murdered
Speaker 1: Riley in February. They told the judge that Eborro went
Speaker 1: out hunting for females on the day he tried to
Speaker 1: Rapeer and then bashed her skull with a rock. Ibarra's
Speaker 1: defense attorneys called the evidence circumstantial. Federal investigators are looking
Speaker 1: into a hack of the email system used by the
Speaker 1: Library of Congress. Officials say the hack happened between January
Speaker 1: and September. Initial reports say the attack was carried out
Speaker 1: by an unidentified foreign adversary. The US Capitol Police have
Speaker 1: turned over the investigation to the FBI.
Speaker 6: The MTA in New.
Speaker 1: York is set to vote on the governor's plan to
Speaker 1: charge people nine dollars to drive into Manhattan during peak traffic.
Speaker 1: The governor's original congestion pricing push was fifteen dollars. Supporters
Speaker 1: call it a win win to raise money for mass
Speaker 1: transit and reduce traffic. State Assemblyman David Webern says it's
Speaker 1: another tax that working New Yorkers can't afford.
Speaker 9: Anchel Burton's associated with congestion pricing will shut down businesses
Speaker 9: across New York City will force them to pass on
Speaker 9: the added cost to consumers.
Speaker 1: The Congestion Pricing Plan vote is expected to pass the
Speaker 1: MTA Board, but it'll need a thirty day review period
Speaker 1: followed by the federal government signing off on it. President
Speaker 1: elect Trump has promised to terminate the plan once he
Speaker 1: gets into office. One of the US's most famous gymnastics
Speaker 1: coaches has died. A spokesperson for USA Gymnastics announced the
Speaker 1: death of Bella Coroli over the weekend. He helped build
Speaker 1: USA Gymnastics into an Olympics and international competition powerhouse starting
Speaker 1: in the eighties and right on through the twenty tens. Corolin,
Speaker 1: his wife, coached Mary lou Retten Nadia Kamenici. Bella Coroli
Speaker 1: was eighty two. Hey, last week we were talking about
Speaker 1: manners on Thursday, pet peeves and bad behaviors in the
Speaker 1: workplace and such. Well before the weekend, I went and
Speaker 1: got my nails. Do you know you have to get
Speaker 1: your nails done for Disneyland? And I'm sitting in my
Speaker 1: nail salon and there's a woman sitting across from me
Speaker 1: getting a pedicure, and she's getting a French manicure on
Speaker 1: her feet, and the gal who's doing her nails kept going, Okay,
Speaker 1: is that right?
Speaker 6: Does this look right? Does this look right?
Speaker 1: Because you know, when you do a French manicure, you
Speaker 1: do the clear and then you do the white strip
Speaker 1: across the top on the tips of the nails. And
Speaker 1: the whole time she kept saying, yeah, it's fine, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine, and I'm just kind of chilling. And then
Speaker 1: she gets done with doing the manicure, and the woman
Speaker 1: looks down and goes, that doesn't look good and starts
Speaker 1: just going off on the pedicurist or the manicurist whatever,
Speaker 1: and I just I felt so bad, and it just
Speaker 1: reminded me of our conversation about people just behaving badly
Speaker 1: and manners, and I was so uncomfortable. I almost said something,
Speaker 1: but then I thought, now she'd probably you know, beat
Speaker 1: me up or something. But just everybody's under a lot
Speaker 1: of stress. Let's be kind, shall we please. My nails
Speaker 1: turned out great, though. The final evacuation warnings for the
Speaker 1: wind whipped wildfire in Ventura County have been lifted. Everyone
Speaker 1: who has or had a home in the area has
Speaker 1: been allowed to go back. Two hundred and forty eight
Speaker 1: homes and buildings were destroyed. Another one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven were damaged in the nearly twenty one thousand acre
Speaker 1: fire that is now ninety eight percent surrounded. The cause
Speaker 1: of the fire that started November sixth has still not
Speaker 1: been determined. Low humidity and high winds of elevated fire
Speaker 1: danger in the mountains and valleys of La in Ventura Counties.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Services Santa Ana WINS will increase fire
Speaker 1: danger in the Santa Clarita Valley, the San Fernando Valley,
Speaker 1: Santa Monica and Santa Susana Mountains, Malibu and Eastern Ventura
Speaker 1: Valleys through Thursday. The restaurant that inspired thousands of Panda
Speaker 1: Express restaurants is back open for business in Pasadena. The
Speaker 1: Panda Inn held its grand reopening over the weak and
Speaker 1: following two years of renovations. The original Panda In opened
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy three. There are now nearly twenty five hundred,
Speaker 1: one hundred Panda Expresses in the US and around the world.
Speaker 1: At six five to handle on the news leaders of
Speaker 1: Hesba Lah have got to be nervous. Israel's taken out
Speaker 1: another one. At five point fifty, we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking with a member of the Entertainment Software Association about
Speaker 1: what about what kids want for Christmas this year and
Speaker 1: whether what they want is a good idea for them
Speaker 1: to have. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's
Speaker 1: Steve Robert. Steve, President elect Trump has chosen his cabinet picks.
Speaker 1: The question is will Republicans back those picks.
Speaker 4: Well, that's right, Amy. You know, I keep thinking of
Speaker 4: this old early warning system we used to hear on
Speaker 4: radio and TV. We're periodically that break into programming and
Speaker 4: say this is a test, this is a test. Well,
Speaker 4: that's what I'm thinking this morning. This is a test.
Speaker 4: This is not just about Donald Trump's picks. At least
Speaker 4: four occasions, for instances, even Republicans have raised their eyebrows
Speaker 4: and said, these people are not qualified for these jobs
Speaker 4: for Attorney General, Defense Secretary, Secretary of JHS, and Director
Speaker 4: of National Intelligence. But I think Trump is doing this
Speaker 4: very deliberately. Let's remember back in the days when he said,
Speaker 4: when I'm president, I get to do whatever I want.
Speaker 4: And that's the way he's always approached his job. Well,
Speaker 4: he's daring Republicans in the Senate to stop him, daring
Speaker 4: them to turn down any of his picks. And look,
Speaker 4: Trump won the election fairly and squarely. Republicans elected the
Speaker 4: Senate fairly in a majority, fifty three vote majority, fairly
Speaker 4: and squarely. That's not in question. What's in question is
Speaker 4: whether the Senate has any kind of independence, any kind
Speaker 4: of ability to say, look, we are in dependently elected,
Speaker 4: we have a mandate to advise and consent on the
Speaker 4: President's nominations, and going forward, we're going to exert some
Speaker 4: kind of independence. And so this is not just about
Speaker 4: individual appointments to the cabinet, in my view, it's about
Speaker 4: a precedent that will govern the relationships between the president
Speaker 4: and the Congress of the next at least for the
Speaker 4: next two years.
Speaker 6: Well and for after the president elect.
Speaker 1: Trump was elected last time, he did get a lot
Speaker 1: of pushback from the Houses of Congress, and so it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see whether he does now or it
Speaker 1: really has become Trump's party.
Speaker 4: Look, yeah, and look, there are several differences. First of all,
Speaker 4: Trump is a much more experienced person, much more adept
Speaker 4: at using the levers of power. Secondly, over the years,
Speaker 4: he has driven out many Republican dissidents. People who have
Speaker 4: just agreed with them have either voluntarily left the Congress
Speaker 4: because they're so uncomfortable in a Trump dominated party. Look
Speaker 4: at Senator Mitt Romney, very good example, who has voluntarily
Speaker 4: retired and will not be in the news. And some
Speaker 4: people were retired involuntarily. Liz Cheney, the congresswoman from Wyoming,
Speaker 4: stood up to Trump, and he sponsored a primary challenge
Speaker 4: who destroyed her in the primary and drove her out
Speaker 4: of Congress. So it's not a risk free move for
Speaker 4: any Republican because Trump has shown his willingness and his
Speaker 4: ability to punish anybody who stands in his way. But
Speaker 4: the fact is there there are Republicans who have said, wait,
Speaker 4: there are limits, and we were elected separately and we
Speaker 4: have an independent responsibility. And that's the tension. And I
Speaker 4: do think amy that it's possible, even likely, that we
Speaker 4: Republicans will block at least one of Trump's cabinet picks then,
Speaker 4: the most likely being Matt Gates, the choice for attorney general.
Speaker 4: He's so completely unqualified for this job, according to many Republicans,
Speaker 4: let alone Democrats that and he has such a seeming past.
Speaker 4: He's been investigated by the Justice Department for sex trafficking
Speaker 4: drug use. But what could happen is, Look, Republicans can
Speaker 4: only fight so many battles. You only have so many chances,
Speaker 4: And so if they block Gates, as I think they will,
Speaker 4: what could have then happened is other manifestly unqualified appointees
Speaker 4: like Robert Kennedy to take over the Health and Human Services.
Speaker 4: They're going to sail through because you can only you
Speaker 4: only have so many battles you can fight.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, and Steve you mentioned that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people saying that Matt Gates is unqualified, and I'm not
Speaker 1: disputing that at all. I'm curious, like, to be Attorney General,
Speaker 1: what kind of qualifications do you need?
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, you have to be a lawyer. Okay,
Speaker 4: Matt Gates went to law school, but he practiced law
Speaker 4: I think for two years before he entered politics, so
Speaker 4: he has virtually no experience in the actual business of law.
Speaker 4: Plus you get the question of sort of moral character.
Speaker 4: And this is a guy who faced an investigation by
Speaker 4: the Justice Department, who's been investigated by Republicans in the
Speaker 4: House for ethical violations. A report was about to be
Speaker 4: issued last Friday, quite critical of his behavior, and it
Speaker 4: was truncated because he resigned from Congress two days before
Speaker 4: the report was supposed to be issued. And I'm not
Speaker 4: even fellow Republicans. Have one Republican from Ohio Sate, thank
Speaker 4: god he quit. We hated them around the house. So
Speaker 4: and and Senator Murkowski is a Republican from Alaska, said
Speaker 4: this is not a serious appointment. He's not a serious person.
Speaker 4: So I discount and disregard partisan Democratic criticisms, but I
Speaker 4: do pay attention to Republicans.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, and then real quick because I know you
Speaker 6: got to run. But when do actual confirmation hearings begin?
Speaker 1: Does that happen like on January twentieth, or can they
Speaker 1: start doing that before he's before Trump's in office.
Speaker 4: I think they'll start earlier. And these hearings are important.
Speaker 4: Often they're rubber stamps, but you know, even the Democrats,
Speaker 4: even though they're in the minority, they do get to
Speaker 4: ask questions. And one Republican I start quoted saying, why
Speaker 4: would Matt Gates put himself through a confirmation hearing that
Speaker 4: he knows he has to know he's going to be
Speaker 4: so uncomfortable, but we'll see what happens. But my prediction
Speaker 4: is mate Gates will be stopped and everybody else will
Speaker 4: get through.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, we'll be watching and then we'll talk to
Speaker 6: you and check.
Speaker 1: Your mouth on that deal, right, Steve Roberts, ABC political analysts,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
Speaker 1: news from. More than a dozen wild parrots have been
Speaker 1: shot in the San Gabriel Valley. Wildlife experts say the
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Speaker 1: Johnson has defended President elect Trump's controversial cabinet nominations. Johnson
Speaker 1: says Trump's picks will disrupt the status quo by design.
Speaker 1: He says the agencies they'll be heading need reform, and
Speaker 1: the American people know that. Trump's picks include former Florida
Speaker 1: Congressman Matt Gates for Attorney General and Fox News host
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth for Secretary of State. All right, sorry, Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense.
Speaker 6: Defense.
Speaker 1: More hateful text messages have been sent to people across
Speaker 1: the US. Message is sent after the election targeted Black people.
Speaker 1: This time they're aimed at Hispanic and LGBTQ people. They
Speaker 1: mentioned deportation and re education camps. Community activist Earl Ho'fari
Speaker 1: Hutchison in Alasis, there is a climate of hate.
Speaker 6: It's not new, but I think it has intenseifive.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, since the election.
Speaker 1: The FBI, the Department of Justice, and other agencies are
Speaker 1: investigating the messages. An E Coli outbreak link to organic
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Speaker 1: Johnson and Chris Evans, took in more than thirty four
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Speaker 1: but the movie didn't have the strong opening that was
Speaker 1: hoped for. It cost about two hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars to make. We're just minutes away from Handle on
Speaker 1: the news this morning, Rush is going after Ukraine's power
Speaker 1: grid again. This was a big one. We got the
Speaker 1: holidays just around the corner. Want to know what the
Speaker 1: kids are asking for? I thought we should probably go
Speaker 1: to the experts. So we'd like to welcome to wake
Speaker 1: up call the senior vice president of the Entertainment Software Association,
Speaker 1: Aubrey Quinn. Good morning, Aubrey, good morning, Thanks for having me. Sure, Hey,
Speaker 1: before we get started, I just I'm curious as to
Speaker 1: what the Entertainment Software Association is and does.
Speaker 3: Sure, it's a great starter question. Entertainment Software Association or ESA,
Speaker 3: is a trade association that represents the US video game industry,
Speaker 3: and one of the many projects we take on is
Speaker 3: research and reporting on who plays video games, what they play,
Speaker 3: why they play, the benefits we all experience when we
Speaker 3: play games. So it's my privilege to talk about the
Speaker 3: power of play.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, with the holidays just around the corner, Aubrey,
Speaker 1: what are kids asking for this season?
Speaker 6: I think I have an idea, but I'll let you
Speaker 6: tell us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we asked kids what presence they are hoping to
Speaker 3: get this holiday season, and the number one item is
Speaker 3: video games, with seventy six percent of US kids ages
Speaker 3: ten through seventeen asking for video games, coming ahead of
Speaker 3: money and gift cards, closed accessories, even other forms of
Speaker 3: electronics or tech items. So if you're trying to figure
Speaker 3: out what to get the kids in your life, video
Speaker 3: games are really safe, be okay?
Speaker 6: And is it just the boys who want the video games?
Speaker 3: No, it holds true for both girls and boys. Two
Speaker 3: thirds of girls we talked to say they want video games,
Speaker 3: and it's still the number one item for girls as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then Aubrey, what kinds of video games are
Speaker 1: they asking for? Is it the you know, the shooter
Speaker 1: games or are there different video games that they're now
Speaker 1: gravitating towards.
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 3: It really depends on the kid. One thing I'd say
Speaker 3: about the shooter games, which of course popular, a lot
Speaker 3: of them are rated M mature, which means seventeen and older.
Speaker 3: So the video game industry has been rating video games
Speaker 3: for over thirty years. In the same way movies and
Speaker 3: TV shows have age ratings, so do video games. So
Speaker 3: one of my first big pieces of advice for parents
Speaker 3: who are looking at bring video games into their home
Speaker 3: is just do a quick search for the ESRB age
Speaker 3: rating and for the name of the game that that
Speaker 3: kid is asking for, and make sure that it's rated
Speaker 3: E for everyone E ten plus p fourteen depending on
Speaker 3: the age of your kids, the maturity level, your family values.
Speaker 3: Just want to make sure you're comfortable with the games
Speaker 3: that you're bringing in. But back to your question, I
Speaker 3: mean kids all want different things. Some kids are specifically
Speaker 3: asking for video game consoles. Nearly fifty percent are still
Speaker 3: looking for a switch and Xbox or PlayStation. Some are
Speaker 3: looking for in game currencies. Think of this as gift
Speaker 3: cards you can use within a specific game, and some
Speaker 3: are looking for that specific game either a physical console
Speaker 3: game or you can download digitally most games, and about
Speaker 3: a quarter of kids are asking for one specific game
Speaker 3: or another.
Speaker 1: Oh so you don't have to go into the store
Speaker 1: and buy the games, you can download them.
Speaker 6: A lot of.
Speaker 3: Games have changed so much since when I first started
Speaker 3: playing games as a kid in the eighties. You can
Speaker 3: even get game subscription services, so think of this like
Speaker 3: a Netflix or a Hulu or one of these streaming services.
Speaker 3: There are game subscription services on different platforms, and you
Speaker 3: can give your kids access to a ton of games
Speaker 3: with those subscription services instead of getting individual games.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then as far as like Xbox and PlayStation,
Speaker 1: those are still super popular or about how much are
Speaker 1: those going for these days?
Speaker 3: I don't have those numbers right in front of me.
Speaker 3: I think there are a couple hundred dollars to consoles,
Speaker 3: and there are three major ones, so you have the
Speaker 3: Nintendo Switch, the Stony Interactive Entertainment PlayStation, and the Microsoft Xbox.
Speaker 3: A couple hundred dollars for each of those. But one
Speaker 3: thing I like to remind all consumers is that the
Speaker 3: bang for your entertainment buck with video games.
Speaker 2: Is enormous, truly.
Speaker 6: Video games.
Speaker 3: I take my kids to see a movie, you know,
Speaker 3: our whole family goes twenty dollars a person. We watch
Speaker 3: a movie for two to three hours. I bought my daughter,
Speaker 3: you know, Sims, this video game that she loves to
Speaker 3: play on her Xbox, and she has played for hundreds
Speaker 3: of hours, building worlds, creating families, creating communities. It's really
Speaker 3: fun to watch her creative juices at work.
Speaker 1: Okay, good to hear that they only that they're not
Speaker 1: only asking for the shooter games. I know those are popular,
Speaker 1: but there's so much other, so many other things out there.
Speaker 1: How can parents protect their kids from that? I know
Speaker 1: you said to look at for that rating. What are
Speaker 1: some other things they should do?
Speaker 3: Yep, for sure, start with the ESRBH ratings as I mentioned,
Speaker 3: like movies and TV show So it's not everything is
Speaker 3: appropriate for every age. But also every system that we've
Speaker 3: talked about has parental controls and that means you can
Speaker 3: set up limits by age rating screen time, who they
Speaker 3: can interact with online, if they can spend money, and
Speaker 3: how much that they can spend. So make sure you
Speaker 3: look at the parental controls that are on the system
Speaker 3: that's in your house and put those in place for
Speaker 3: what makes sense for your kid and your family.
Speaker 1: Okay, So bottom line is parents, it's video games. Okay,
Speaker 1: but yeah, stay in control and stay involved. And where
Speaker 1: can we get more information about EESA if people are interested, Aubrey.
Speaker 3: Yep, you can check out THEEESA dot com or you
Speaker 3: can also learn more about those age ratings at es
Speaker 3: RB dot ard.
Speaker 1: Okay, Aubrey Quinn, thank you so much of the senior
Speaker 1: vice president with Entertainment Software Association. Appreciate your time and
Speaker 1: information this morning.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Happy holidays.
Speaker 6: All right you too.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the CAMPI twenty four hour news from four people
Speaker 1: on board a small plane have survived a crash in Pomona.
Speaker 1: The pilot and three others were in the plane yesterday
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Speaker 1: the ground was hurt. The first case of a new
Speaker 1: form of m pox formerly monkey pocks, has been detected
Speaker 1: in the US. Public Health officials in California say the
Speaker 1: infected person had traveled to eastern Africa and was treated
Speaker 1: in northern California when they returned. Officials say the person's
Speaker 1: symptoms are improving and the risk to the general public
Speaker 1: is low.
Speaker 4: Four three two one ambition and full power and lift off.
Speaker 1: SpaceX has completed another successful Falcon nine rocket launch from
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Speaker 1: The rocket was carrying twenty Starlink Internet satellites, including thirteen
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Speaker 1: You know how sometimes you can look up in the
Speaker 1: sky and see the rockets lifting off. I think I
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