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Speaker 1: It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up
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Speaker 1: had a great weekend. I got some stuff done. I
Speaker 1: did get a Christmas tree. Very proud, very happy with that,
Speaker 1: he said. I gotta say, I like to go to
Speaker 1: the Christmas tree lots. I love the whole feel of
Speaker 1: going to the small Christmas tree lots, but the trees
Speaker 1: are getting so darn expensive. I cheated this year. I
Speaker 1: went to Home Depot, but they had a really nice
Speaker 1: noble tree. So it's up, not decorated, but it's up,
Speaker 1: so that's good. Didn't get any shopping done. How are
Speaker 1: you guys doing on your shopping? Because we got sixteen
Speaker 1: days so technically, because you can't count Christmas as a
Speaker 1: data shop. Fifteen days, I have not made much headway.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Got a lot
Speaker 1: going on this morning. Thousands of Syrians have poured into
Speaker 1: the streets, firing off the laboratory gunfire as rebels took
Speaker 1: over Damascus over the weekend and President Bashar al Assad
Speaker 1: fled the country. Asad has been given asylum in Moscow.
Speaker 1: His family is with him. We're gonna be talking more
Speaker 1: about this, who's in control, what it means for the region,
Speaker 1: and a whole lot more with ABC's Jordana Miller. That's
Speaker 1: coming up at five. Twenty five year old girl has
Speaker 1: been killed in an attack by her family's dogs in Kovina.
Speaker 1: Police she was attacked yesterday afternoon by a rottweiler and
Speaker 1: a Rottweiler mix in the backyard. They and two other
Speaker 1: dogs were removed from the home by animal control. Another
Speaker 1: family member had some minor injuries from the attack. Santa
Speaker 1: Ana Win's expected to blow into southern California, increasing the
Speaker 1: risk of fire danger. A red flag warning for high
Speaker 1: danger will be in effect from ten am through Wednesday
Speaker 1: in the valleys and Riverside County mountains. When gusts above
Speaker 1: fifty miles per hour expected. The red flag warning is
Speaker 1: also an effect in Malibu and the Ventura County coast.
Speaker 1: In just a couple of minutes, we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking about a planned community being built not far from here,
Speaker 1: where kindness is king. In fact, kindness is a requirement
Speaker 1: if you want to live there. And speaking of living there,
Speaker 1: there are now wolves living here in California again, and
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking to somebody from the Department
Speaker 1: of Fish and Wildlife to find out more about where
Speaker 1: they are, what they're doing, and how they are so
Speaker 1: important to a healthy ecosystem. Let's get started with some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. Syrian rebels who toppled the regime of Vishar
Speaker 1: Asad have freed prisoners from his notorious dungeons. Those freed
Speaker 1: include a writer who was sent to be executed yesterday.
Speaker 1: ABC's Andrew Dimbert says the rebels took Damascus over the weekend,
Speaker 1: ten days after they began their advance across the country.
Speaker 4: Rebel fighters stormed the presidential palace in Damascus as people
Speaker 4: top symbols of the Assad regime across the country. Videos
Speaker 4: posted online show a group of men appearing to find
Speaker 4: Asad's extensive car collection, including high end Porsches and Ferraris.
Speaker 1: Human rights groups, whistleblowers and former detainees say torture has
Speaker 1: been systematic in Syria and that secret executions have been
Speaker 1: reported at more than twenty sites run by Syrian intelligence.
Speaker 5: A long last Thesad regime's fall.
Speaker 1: President Biden calls the fall of the Assad regime a
Speaker 1: historic event. He says Asad's main support has come from Iran, Hesbola,
Speaker 1: and Russia, but that has shifted dramatically.
Speaker 5: This regime brutalized and tortured and killed. There are hundreds
Speaker 5: of thousands of Vinis Syrians.
Speaker 1: He says. There is now risk and uncertainty with the
Speaker 1: question of what comes next in Syria, but he says
Speaker 1: the US will work with partners and stakeholders in Syria
Speaker 1: to help them seize an opportunity. Rapper Jay Z has
Speaker 1: been accused in a federal lawsuit of raping a thirteen
Speaker 1: year old girl in New York.
Speaker 6: Victim claims she was drugged and assaulted by both Diddy
Speaker 6: and jay Z while a third celebrity watched Jay Z
Speaker 6: vehemently denying the claim, writing, these allegations are so heinous
Speaker 6: in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint.
Speaker 1: ABC's Alison Kossik says the lawsuit claims the assault happened
Speaker 1: in two thousand, when the girl was driven to an
Speaker 1: MTV Video Music Awards after party. The lawsuit was first
Speaker 1: filed in October against Combs and amend yesterday to include
Speaker 1: Jay Z, whose real name is Sean Carter. La County
Speaker 1: Sheriff Robert Luna and his deputies have helped spread some
Speaker 1: holiday cheered to five hundred disabled foster kids in their
Speaker 1: annual Holiday of Hope Bringing Joy to Foster Kids event.
Speaker 1: It was held at the department's training facility in Whittier.
Speaker 1: The department has been providing support for foster kids who
Speaker 1: have had to endure abuse and neglect in the county
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty five. It's five oh six on your
Speaker 1: Monday morning wake up call. You know how everybody talks
Speaker 1: about being kind, Well, there is a community being built
Speaker 1: that takes kindness to a whole new level. So let's
Speaker 1: say good morning to the general manager of a new
Speaker 1: community called Silverwood. It's John o'hannian, John, I wanted to
Speaker 1: start with a press release you guys all put out.
Speaker 1: It's got my curiosity absolutely peaked. And here's what it says.
Speaker 1: Silverwood is a new DMB Master Planned community located in
Speaker 1: the Mojave River Valley. It's being built differently. There will
Speaker 1: be homes, community centers, schools, and parks, but most importantly,
Speaker 1: there will be kindness. John o'hannion, please tell us about
Speaker 1: Silverwood and what you mean by there will be kindness.
Speaker 7: It's one of the things we really wanted to try
Speaker 7: to do is to create a sense of community, a
Speaker 7: feeling of small town California, kind of the way it
Speaker 7: used to be in California. And one of the principles
Speaker 7: that we all talked about is, let's have as a
Speaker 7: foundational element of a pledge of kindness that our residents
Speaker 7: are going to free each other respectfully with kindness. They're
Speaker 7: going to react together in a manner that is befitting
Speaker 7: a small town and how people know each other and
Speaker 7: try to treat each other respectfully. And so that became
Speaker 7: a base tenant for us as we started developing the project.
Speaker 7: The first thing we did was we put together some
Speaker 7: ideas on what kindness means and what would represent in
Speaker 7: our unity, and we put together a pledge of kindness
Speaker 7: and we started off with all of our employees and
Speaker 7: our subcontractors are consultants. We talked to each of them
Speaker 7: about this concept and said, we want you to kind
Speaker 7: of get involved with us and this idea. Let's do
Speaker 7: this together. Let's do something that's special. And it's really
Speaker 7: paid some dividends. It's been fun so far.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's really interesting too, John, because you
Speaker 1: said you mentioned contractors, and I'm like, I've dealt with
Speaker 1: some contractors who aren't exactly kind.
Speaker 7: The contractors, surprisingly have really grabbed a hold of this.
Speaker 7: I hear they've been working together and cooperating and so
Speaker 7: it has translated into a more efficient workplace.
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, So I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about the community itself that you are planning. What's it
Speaker 1: going to look like.
Speaker 7: It'll include when we finish it, fifteen over fifteen thousand homes, commercial,
Speaker 7: all the support services that would go with that. It's
Speaker 7: unique in that we're on a very large piece of property,
Speaker 7: close to one thousand acres, so we have a lot
Speaker 7: of open space. We have over one hundred and sixty
Speaker 7: six miles of trails and past sales within the community.
Speaker 7: It's been designed as an active outdoor community. In that regard,
Speaker 7: we're doing three hundred and eighty some acres of parks,
Speaker 7: which is probably triple what is normal in a master
Speaker 7: plant community. And then we end up with over half
Speaker 7: of our acreage set aside as open space, So pretty
Speaker 7: unique master plant community. It will end up having five
Speaker 7: elementary schools, a high school, of middle school, you know,
Speaker 7: all the medical and support that would go along with
Speaker 7: that as well. So it's a community that was viewed
Speaker 7: from the perspective of the future residents, not just from
Speaker 7: the perspective of the real estate development team.
Speaker 5: But what's it like to live here?
Speaker 7: What's it going to be like long term? And that
Speaker 7: again gets back that whole idea of a kindness initiative
Speaker 7: that we started with is how do we create an
Speaker 7: environment where people get a connection to the community, feel
Speaker 7: a closeness to it. It's a special place.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what are residents required to do because they
Speaker 1: have to make the pledge before they buy property, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're going to include it in their packet. So
Speaker 7: when your your property information, when you come in and
Speaker 7: you learn, you're learning about the project. The pledge of
Speaker 7: kindness is part of that. So our community ambassadors, when
Speaker 7: you come out to the Welcome Center and you want
Speaker 7: to learn about the project and find out if it's
Speaker 7: a place you'd like to live, that's going to be
Speaker 7: one of the initial things we share with you. Okay,
Speaker 7: and this is our expectation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then John, what happens if you end up
Speaker 1: getting a nasty neighbor and they break the kindness.
Speaker 3: Rules, Well, that'll be an interesting one.
Speaker 8: And we don't know. You know, it's not like that.
Speaker 7: This is a contract that you sign and you're obligated
Speaker 7: to do it, and there's some remedies or damages associated
Speaker 7: with your being a nasty neighbor. But what I think
Speaker 7: is is it's aspirational. It sets us standard. It creates
Speaker 7: an environment that people are going to feel compelled to
Speaker 7: cooperate in that regard. The same thing has to happen
Speaker 7: with all your organization documents like your HOA, your CCNRS,
Speaker 7: all these little pieces, they all have to have that
Speaker 7: same tenant running through them, and code of conduct for
Speaker 7: all the meetings and all the different things like that.
Speaker 7: We're developing all of that as part of our process
Speaker 7: and hopes of creating a situation where fear pressure keeps
Speaker 7: you from being a jerk.
Speaker 5: Yes, I hope.
Speaker 1: I love this idea. And the all important question is
Speaker 1: when are you going to start construction or did you
Speaker 1: already start construction? And when are what's going to be.
Speaker 5: A restructed really Okay, we are franking.
Speaker 7: We're hoping to have our grand opening in the first
Speaker 7: quarter of twenty twenty five. We are full blow blowing
Speaker 7: and going right now building all of the road, streets
Speaker 7: and infrastructure that goes along with a.
Speaker 3: Community like this.
Speaker 7: Hopefully we'll be starting model homes and have those available.
Speaker 7: The goal is to have them available in March of
Speaker 7: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's so exciting and then eventually fifteen thousand homes
Speaker 1: in this new community and it's called Silverwood, and wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be nice? I love the whole reasoning behind it,
Speaker 1: you know, bringing us back to the way it used
Speaker 1: to be. I think we need a lot of that.
Speaker 1: And where can people find some more information about this, John.
Speaker 7: Well, they can get our website Silverwood California dot com
Speaker 7: and register there and then you'll be on the main
Speaker 7: list and get all the kinds of information about the
Speaker 7: community you get on the website Silverwood California dot com.
Speaker 7: Also you can see some progress videos. We fly at
Speaker 7: drone fly it every month and post some videos of
Speaker 7: all our progress, and so it's kind of exciting to
Speaker 7: watch the progression as we get closer to launch.
Speaker 1: All Right, maybe the first of many kind communities. John o'hanni,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for your time today. Doesn't
Speaker 1: that sound like a cool place. It could either be
Speaker 1: a super cool place or a little bit more, a
Speaker 1: little bit like Stepford Wives, one of the two. But
Speaker 1: I think like just signing the pledge and saying I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be a jerk of a neighbor and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, because I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: I've had a couple of jerks of neighbors and I
Speaker 1: would rather not have had that experience. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. Five people have survived a boat
Speaker 1: fire near the port of La The thirty foot boat
Speaker 1: caught fire yesterday afternoon. La City Fire says the captain
Speaker 1: reported it started in the engine compartment. Firefighters were able
Speaker 1: to help people get off the boat. No injuries were reported.
Speaker 1: The jury in the New York City subway chokehold case
Speaker 1: is set to resume deliberations today with the most serious
Speaker 1: of the charges off the table. The judge dismissed the
Speaker 1: second degree manslaughter charge against Marine veteran Daniel Penny on
Speaker 1: Friday after jurors said that they were deadlocked. Legal expert
Speaker 1: Brian Buckmeyer says that changes the case.
Speaker 7: It's no longer a high level felony that Daniel Penny
Speaker 7: is facing, but in fact the lowest level felony of
Speaker 7: the state of New York homes.
Speaker 1: He says there could be a plea deal as soon
Speaker 1: as today. Economists say any tariffs put on imports from China, Canada,
Speaker 1: and Mexico could cause major financial issues for the agriculture
Speaker 1: industry in California. A report in the La Time says
Speaker 1: if tariffs are imposed by President elect Trump's incoming administration,
Speaker 1: the retaliatory trade war that could happen could lead to
Speaker 1: as much as six billion dollars in losses for California.
Speaker 1: President elect Trump has appointed his New York hush money
Speaker 1: case defense attorney, Alina Haba as his Counselor to the President.
Speaker 1: In Trump's first term, the position of counselor was held
Speaker 1: by Republican strategist Kellyan Conway. Rock and Roll Hall of
Speaker 1: famers Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks are teaming up to
Speaker 1: co headline a couple of shows in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: They're going to be performing in Detroit in March and
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium in New York in August, or at
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. I can't remember anyway, it's
Speaker 1: back east. Billy Joel's also co headlighting some show with
Speaker 1: Sting and Rod Stewart next year. Unfortunately, it doesn't look
Speaker 1: like any of the co headlining shows are here. In California,
Speaker 1: investigators trying to figure out what caused a huge fire
Speaker 1: that destroyed an Amazon warehouse early yesterday morning in South Almonte.
Speaker 1: The fire was reported around four am. The roof of
Speaker 1: the building collapsed, the building was destroyed. There were reportedly
Speaker 1: a lot of lithium ion batteries and small electronics in
Speaker 1: the return warehouse. It's day six of the man hunt
Speaker 1: for the man who murdered the CEO of United Healthcare
Speaker 1: outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Authorities say they
Speaker 1: believe the man has left. The city Police are also
Speaker 1: saying they've identified the guy, but aren't saying yet who
Speaker 1: it is. Pictures of the shooter are up along the
Speaker 1: Mexican and Canadian borders, and a fifty thousand dollars rewards
Speaker 1: been offered by the FBI, the NYPDS kicking and another
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars reward. Yankees star outfielder Juan Soto was
Speaker 1: gone across town and has signed a record seven hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five million dollar fifteen year deal with the
Speaker 1: New York Mets. He'd have the right to opt out
Speaker 1: of the contract after the twenty twenty nine season if
Speaker 1: the Mets didn't agree at that time to raise the
Speaker 1: contract to eight hundred and five million dollars. Nice at
Speaker 1: six oh five, it's handled on the news. Jay Z
Speaker 1: could have just become wrapped up in the Sean Combs case.
Speaker 1: Bill's going to talk about that right now. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning to ABC's Geordana Miller in Jerusalem. Geordana, people
Speaker 1: are dancing in the streets in Syria.
Speaker 8: That's right, because the rebels rebel offensive that began in
Speaker 8: the north a little more than ten days ago. In
Speaker 8: the stunning and swift offensive this rebel group, along with
Speaker 8: others the Kurds and some that are affiliated with the
Speaker 8: Islamic State, they have successfully toppled the regime of President
Speaker 8: Bashar al Assad. He is gone after more than two
Speaker 8: decades in power. He fled on Sunday. He's in Russia,
Speaker 8: where he's been given immunity by the Kremlin. No surprise there.
Speaker 8: Russia was Assad's biggest backer for years, along with Iran,
Speaker 8: both Moscow and Tehran, helping Assad stay in power more
Speaker 8: than ten years after this uprising against Assad's power began.
Speaker 8: But the rebels smartly watching how things have unfolded here
Speaker 8: in the Middle East over the last fourteen months and
Speaker 8: what's happening in Ukraine, and they saw a window in
Speaker 8: which they could launch a kind of surprise offensive and
Speaker 8: if they could move quickly enough, they figured Iran and
Speaker 8: Russia would not be in a position to help keep
Speaker 8: Asad in power this time around. And that's exactly what happened. Remember,
Speaker 8: Iran and Hsbala have suffered major, you know, setback because
Speaker 8: of the war here against Israel. Israel's now signed a
Speaker 8: ceasefire with Hasbola, but they have been you know, really
Speaker 8: decimated over the last several months. And Iran had you know,
Speaker 8: tried to attack Israel that failed, and in Russia bogged
Speaker 8: down and it's war in Ukraine. So Asad was left
Speaker 8: really with nobody to help prop up his regime, which
Speaker 8: after more than a decade, it seems the fighters were
Speaker 8: you know, unwilling to stick up for this regime, uh
Speaker 8: and they quickly surrendered and defected. And now people are
Speaker 8: celebrating in the streets because Asad was a brutal dictator.
Speaker 8: He helped to stay in power. He killed tens of
Speaker 8: thousands of his own civilians. He brutally toreured people in jails,
Speaker 8: he jailed his political opponents and any you know, there
Speaker 8: was no freedom of the press there. Journalists suffered, women suffered.
Speaker 8: So there's great celebrations across Syria that this regime, seen
Speaker 8: as not only a dictatorship but corrupt, is gone. But
Speaker 8: a lot of questions about, you know, what's going to
Speaker 8: happen now these rebel groups are it is a varied
Speaker 8: group and they are going to have to work together
Speaker 8: if they're going to keep the state of Syria alive,
Speaker 8: if it won't descend and break down into separate fiefdoms.
Speaker 8: And it's unclear if this is going to be a
Speaker 8: radical Islamist government or possibly a more modern Arab country
Speaker 8: after all of this, it's unclear. I don't think though,
Speaker 8: anybody really knows yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I saw that the leader of the
Speaker 1: rebel group that overtook Damascus is actually labeled as a
Speaker 1: terrorist and his group a terrorist organization by the US.
Speaker 1: But he has, like you said, is he going to
Speaker 1: be more moderate because he's talking more moderately, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we have to work together. You know, it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like he's not sounding like an extremist right now.
Speaker 8: That's right. I mean, he's given a few interviews with
Speaker 8: international media, you know, trying to broadcast a more reformed
Speaker 8: or friendly version. But he is someone who was a
Speaker 8: member of al Qaeda, who is on America's list of terrorists.
Speaker 8: His organization is a breakoff from al Qaeda, and as
Speaker 8: you said, rightly listed as a terrorist organization. You know,
Speaker 8: we shouldn't be deceived by any kind of pr campaign
Speaker 8: by Joliana. We have Joliani. We do not know yet
Speaker 8: how he will put together a transitional government, but what
Speaker 8: it will look like, if it will be inclusive, if
Speaker 8: it will be transparent or not. And so I think,
Speaker 8: like you know, President Biden said, it's a moment of
Speaker 8: justice for the people of Syria who lived under the
Speaker 8: oppressive regime of Aasha Assad, but it's also a moment
Speaker 8: of risks and danger.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and and then Jordana, does it appear that
Speaker 1: anyone from the outside is going to come help them
Speaker 1: try to figure out how to move forward or is
Speaker 1: it going to be hands off and just let them
Speaker 1: see how it comes together.
Speaker 8: Well, I think that's a good a good question. It
Speaker 8: doesn't look like there's going to be anybody to come
Speaker 8: in and try to craft or help help the help
Speaker 8: the rubble leader for now. I mean, the UN and
Speaker 8: other organizations are saying they're gonna, you know, they're going
Speaker 8: to work with Juliani and see, you know what kind
Speaker 8: of government he puts he puts together. The Prime Minister
Speaker 8: is staying in place to help with that transition. But again,
Speaker 8: I think there's a lot of questions from Jerusalem. You
Speaker 8: can see that Israel is taking a very aggressive stance
Speaker 8: and they are really preparing for the worst case scenario,
Speaker 8: which is that Syria descends into you know, a group
Speaker 8: of Islamist radical Islamists fiefdoms. We can see the Israelis
Speaker 8: have already taken the entirety of the what was once
Speaker 8: a demilitarized security buffer between Israel and Syria along the
Speaker 8: goal On Heights in the north. That that buffer zone
Speaker 8: is about fifty miles long and about ten miles deep.
Speaker 8: These relies are already really moving even further into Syrian
Speaker 8: territory to fortify their northern border, and they're being very
Speaker 8: aggressive and open on their strikes inside Syria. They're going
Speaker 8: after regime military assets that they want to destroy before
Speaker 8: the rebels get their hands on them. That includes everything
Speaker 8: from aircraft, military bases, missiles, to residual chemical war weapons.
Speaker 1: So a time to celebrate, but also be cautious because
Speaker 1: this is going to be very fragile and potentially a
Speaker 1: dangerous time and we'll be watching and appreciate. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the update. It's very helpful. Thank you, Jordana. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you soon.
Speaker 5: Talk soon, all right. Ye.
Speaker 1: A red flag warning set to take effect this morning
Speaker 1: for the La in Ventura County Mountains as well as
Speaker 1: much of the Inland Empire. The National Weather Service has
Speaker 1: sant Anna wins will peak at thirty to forty miles
Speaker 1: per hour Tonight into tomorrow could see gusts up to
Speaker 1: fifty miles per hour. Meteorologist David Munyon says that combined
Speaker 1: with low humidity, is going to increase.
Speaker 2: Fire risks when you have that really dry air that
Speaker 2: comes down with the winds, and then the strong wind
Speaker 2: that can help fan the flames of any fires that
Speaker 2: want to start, and then all the ground is an
Speaker 2: air so dry.
Speaker 1: The red flag warnings will be in effect through Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Burbank Congressman Adam Schiff is set to be sworn in
Speaker 1: as California's newest US Senator, He said to fill the
Speaker 1: rest of Diane Feinstein's term. She died in September of
Speaker 1: last year. In January, he will begin the full six
Speaker 1: year term which he was elected to last month. Shift
Speaker 1: resigned his House seat last week. The health insurance industry
Speaker 1: is facing a national backlash following the murder of United
Speaker 1: Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York. Northern California Democratic
Speaker 1: Congressman Rocana says while there's no justification for violence, the
Speaker 1: industry needs to change.
Speaker 7: Why shouldn't we have a rule that if a doctor
Speaker 7: prescribes something and if Medicare traditional Medicare is going to
Speaker 7: cover it, then private RUS companies should be forced to
Speaker 7: cover it.
Speaker 1: He says, the US should be moving towards medicare for all.
Speaker 1: A tree lighting ceremony build as an evening of healing
Speaker 1: and reflection has honored the memory of children who were
Speaker 1: murdered in La County. This ceremony at the Sheriff's South
Speaker 1: La station was held last night, with surviving members handing
Speaker 1: personalized or hanging rather personalized ornaments on the tree as
Speaker 1: a tribute to their lost loved ones. Hey want to
Speaker 1: say thanks real quick because the numbers are still going
Speaker 1: up from Pastathan twenty twenty four. Your generosity is astounding.
Speaker 1: We've got the newest totals from Saturday night. We should
Speaker 1: have finals later today because we're waiting for some numbers
Speaker 1: from Smart and Final and Wendy's. But as of Saturday night,
Speaker 1: you guys donated one million, one hundred forty two, three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven dollars, all of that money going
Speaker 1: right to Katerina's Club Defeed Kids twenty five thousand meals,
Speaker 1: A week and how much pasta and sauce eighty nine
Speaker 1: thousand five pounds. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Couldn't
Speaker 1: do Katerinas Club without you. President biden Is called the
Speaker 1: collapse of the Assad government a moment of historic opportunity
Speaker 1: for the people of Syria. A coalition of rebels captured
Speaker 1: the Syrian capital of Damascus over the weekend, and Assad
Speaker 1: left the country. He's been given asylum along with his
Speaker 1: family in Moscow. Police have arrested a twenty two year
Speaker 1: old man from San Diego who they say led him
Speaker 1: on or led them on a chase from Irvine to
Speaker 1: Newport Beach. Irvine police say the guy jumped out of
Speaker 1: the car into a kayak and rode out to a
Speaker 1: boat in the Newport Beach Harbor. The guy eventually surrendered
Speaker 1: and was taken from the boat to the hospital because
Speaker 1: of self inflicted injuries. Malana Too is still making waves,
Speaker 1: wrapping up racking up fifty two million dollars in its
Speaker 1: second weekend in theaters. It sales into first place again.
Speaker 1: Wickett took in another almost thirty five million dollars to
Speaker 1: take second place at six oh five its handle on
Speaker 1: the news. A passenger on a flight in Mexico. Apparently
Speaker 1: really wanted to get to the US because he tried
Speaker 1: to hijack his flight at five point fifty. The pack
Speaker 1: is back. We got wolves again in California. We're going
Speaker 1: to be talking to the state gray wolf coordinator find
Speaker 1: out where they are and what they're up to. Right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to ABC's Steve Roberts. Good morning, Steve, Hey,
Speaker 1: good morning Amy. So President elect Trump has been largely
Speaker 1: out of the spotlight since the election, kind of hold
Speaker 1: up in mar A Lago, but he did give his
Speaker 1: first network interview since the election on a competing network yesterday.
Speaker 1: One of the main topics, of course, illegal immigration, is
Speaker 1: he sticking to his campaign stance that deportation starts on
Speaker 1: day one.
Speaker 5: It does seem to be and unfortunately, and many of
Speaker 5: his assumptions and many of his policies are based on
Speaker 5: false assumptions. Okay, I mean, he says his justification is
Speaker 5: a we got to deport them because they commit crimes.
Speaker 5: But in fact, sure there are some tragic, isolated examples
Speaker 5: of immigrants causing crimes, but on balance, native foreign Americans
Speaker 5: commit crimes a much greater rate than immigrants it's a
Speaker 5: false assumption. And the second false assumption, which in some
Speaker 5: ways they even more damaging, is that somehow immigrants are
Speaker 5: bad for the economy. The fact is they're good for
Speaker 5: the economy. And there are isolated examples of school systems
Speaker 5: being strained. You see that in the LA area sometimes
Speaker 5: that's certainly true, and the local facilities being strained. But
Speaker 5: on balance, every economist who's every study this issue says
Speaker 5: immigrants are good for the economy. They take jobs Americans
Speaker 5: don't want do, they pay taxes, they create businesses. And
Speaker 5: you've got to remember in America, like most industrialized countries,
Speaker 5: have very low birth rates these days, and who is
Speaker 5: going to take these jobs of retiring Trumpet voters. The
Speaker 5: fact is, in many cases it's going to be hardworking,
Speaker 5: younger immigrants, and countries that don't have immigrants, like Japan,
Speaker 5: are suffering enormously. One of the reasons why the United
Speaker 5: States has one of the most vibrant economies in the
Speaker 5: world is because we have so many immigrants, and so
Speaker 5: in many ways, the danger here, the threat here is
Speaker 5: that if Tunk does carry out his policies, the people
Speaker 5: who are going to suffer economically from his policies the
Speaker 5: people who voted for him.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Steve, I have a question for you, because
Speaker 1: you're talking about immigrants, and of course we know that
Speaker 1: immigrants are great. We love immigrants. But he's talking about
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants and says he's going to go after the
Speaker 1: ones who have committed crimes, that that's who they're going
Speaker 1: after first, that's the priority.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, that's fair enough. I mean, every person in
Speaker 5: this country, immigrant or not, to be subject to the
Speaker 5: rule of law. You commit crime, you should be penalized
Speaker 5: for it. I don't think anybody has a problem with that.
Speaker 5: But when you're talking about eleven million undocumented immigrants, you're
Speaker 5: talking about people who've been here for a generation. You're
Speaker 5: talking about people who have run businesses. You're talking about
Speaker 5: people who are part of the economy in many California towns.
Speaker 5: You think about the Central Valley of California. If you
Speaker 5: took undocumented immigrants out of the agriculture business, what would
Speaker 5: happen tomorrow? The agriculture business in California would be in
Speaker 5: desperate shape.
Speaker 1: Half of about half of workers in California's agriculture Department
Speaker 1: or agriculture industry are estimated to be illegal immigrants.
Speaker 5: At least you talk about the construction industry, you talk
Speaker 5: about the healthcare industry. And by the way, in addition
Speaker 5: to that, many of those eleven million undocumenteds have children
Speaker 5: who were born in America four million at least, there
Speaker 5: are at least four million children born to these immigrants.
Speaker 5: That means you have two choices. If you deport the
Speaker 5: undocumented parents, you're ripping families upon right, or you deport
Speaker 5: the whole family, which is something Trump's talking about. That
Speaker 5: means you're deporting people who are American citizens. So it's
Speaker 5: not just an economic question, it's in many ways a
Speaker 5: moral question and the practical question. It's easy to get
Speaker 5: up there and say we're going to throw out everybody
Speaker 5: who broke the law, but people in California know that
Speaker 5: it's not nearly that easy. These immigrants. Yes, at one
Speaker 5: point they broke the law by coming here illegally, but
Speaker 5: the reality is, the practical reality is they are hardworking,
Speaker 5: tax paying members of many communities throughout California and absolutely
Speaker 5: vital to the economic well building those communities in the
Speaker 5: whole state.
Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be interesting to watch and see
Speaker 1: what happens and I watch part of the interview too,
Speaker 1: and he said he does have to be careful because
Speaker 1: if public sentiment turns against him, because right now it
Speaker 1: seems like, you know, people are more supporting, like saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: we do need to do something about this. But if
Speaker 1: he starts doing things that separate families and stuff, he said,
Speaker 1: they'll turn against us.
Speaker 5: And look, Amy, folks in California know the Donald count
Speaker 5: were in a very American figure. Throughout our history, there
Speaker 5: have been spasms of anti immigrant feelings in this country.
Speaker 5: In the eighteen eighties, it was directed at Chinese immigrants
Speaker 5: in the West who were barred from owning property. Everybody
Speaker 5: remembers that. There's read in California about the nineteen forties
Speaker 5: in the incarceration of more than one hundred thousand loyal
Speaker 5: Japanese American citizens, at the point where Ronald Reagan as
Speaker 5: president dying a bill apologizing to those citizens for the
Speaker 5: unfair incarceration and providing financial reparations. So this has happened
Speaker 5: over and over again in our history, where presidents arise
Speaker 5: and play on these fears of foreigners, and it happened
Speaker 5: in the nineteen forties in California. That's happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, in each situation I think too. I mean,
Speaker 1: like there are differences, and with this one, we're specifically
Speaker 1: talking about illegal immigrants, not legal immigrants, So there is
Speaker 1: some difference there.
Speaker 5: There is. But as I point out, you can say
Speaker 5: that they're illegal, and that is a fair fact, but
Speaker 5: they're also after twenty years or whatever. It is deeply
Speaker 5: embedded in American many of these communities. And by the way,
Speaker 5: it's also true that Trump has opposed a lot of
Speaker 5: legal immigrants. He opposes refugees who come that's a legal process,
Speaker 5: asylum seekers, that's a legal process. There's something called TPA
Speaker 5: Temporary protect TPS, temporary protected status. Hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 5: Haitians and Venezuelans and others are in this country as
Speaker 5: a result of affording the protection from both political violence
Speaker 5: and weather related disasters in their home countries. So it's
Speaker 5: not just that he opposes illegals. There are a lot
Speaker 5: of legal processes that heats against as well.
Speaker 1: Well. It's gonna be a wild ride for sure, Steve,
Speaker 1: and we appreciate your insight and information and look forward
Speaker 1: to talking to you again. All right, let's get back
Speaker 1: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
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Speaker 1: Amazon return warehouse has collapsed in a massive fire in Almonte.
Speaker 1: The fire broke out early yesterday morning. Authority say there
Speaker 1: were a lot of lithium ion batteries inside the building
Speaker 1: that could have fueled the flames. The cause of the
Speaker 1: fire still being investigated. The Oregon Ducks are headed to
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. They'll be playing eh, we
Speaker 1: don't know yet. The number one ranked Ducks will play
Speaker 1: the winner of the Tennessee, Ohio state playoff game on
Speaker 1: December twenty first. The winner will be looking to end
Speaker 1: Oregon's undefeated season on New Year's Day. Right now, we're
Speaker 1: going to check in with the state gray wolf coordinator
Speaker 1: with California's Department of Fish and Wildlife, Axl Honeycut Good morning.
Speaker 3: Axel, Yes, good morning.
Speaker 1: So thanks for taking a few minutes to talk to
Speaker 1: us today. We found this news out last week and
Speaker 1: I was like, we got to talk to somebody about
Speaker 1: this because the packs are back. Tell us what's going
Speaker 1: on with gray wolves in California.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So gray wolves have been back in California
Speaker 3: since twenty fifteen. There's been packs consistently in the state,
Speaker 3: and as of last month, we were able to announce
Speaker 3: officially two new packs, making it currently we have nine packs.
Speaker 5: In the state.
Speaker 1: Okay, so when you talk about a pack, is that
Speaker 1: like one or two or is it ten or how
Speaker 1: many wolves are we talking about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it varies. So one of the new packs is
Speaker 3: just two animals. It's two adults, but they have been
Speaker 3: in one spot consistently for over six months now, so
Speaker 3: we call that a pack. But we also call a
Speaker 3: pack two animals that also have pups and breed. And
Speaker 3: you know, generally some of our packs, you know, they
Speaker 3: will have one or two litters, you know, two years
Speaker 3: of worth of reproduction. So some of our larger packs
Speaker 3: can be up to fifteen or sixteen animals as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I want to back up just a little bit,
Speaker 1: because wolves were pretty much wiped out in California And
Speaker 1: when did that happen? And then you mentioned that they
Speaker 1: started showing up again in twenty fifteen, but so what
Speaker 1: happened to them?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So wolves, you know, existed across the western US, you know,
Speaker 3: over one hundred years ago in quite large numbers, but
Speaker 3: we pretty much systematically removed wolves across the western US
Speaker 3: and across most of North America. And in California, that
Speaker 3: last wolf for the last wolf on record was in
Speaker 3: Laston County in nineteen twenty four, So we had not
Speaker 3: had a wolf officially in the state since nineteen twenty
Speaker 3: four up until twenty eleven when a single wolf came
Speaker 3: down from Oregon, famously R. Seven. So that was the
Speaker 3: first wolf to step foot in the state that we
Speaker 3: have on records since then.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then my question, Axel is so R seven
Speaker 1: comes down in twenty fifteen or that's when you first
Speaker 1: note see him or track him. Did he go back
Speaker 1: up north and go get a mate and come back
Speaker 1: south or did another one just come back down on
Speaker 1: their own.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he came down in twenty eleven and he
Speaker 3: went back. He didn't stay. So it wasn't till twenty
Speaker 3: fifteen that two wolves came down on their own again
Speaker 3: and formed the Shasta Pack, which was our first pack
Speaker 3: in contemporary times, the northern slopes of out Shasta. So
Speaker 3: that was two wolves that came down from Oregon. And
Speaker 3: since then we've had a number of wolves come down
Speaker 3: from Oregon and formed or help form different packs. And
Speaker 3: now that we have quite a large population by itself,
Speaker 3: over the years we've had more and more packs. We're
Speaker 3: seeing that more of the packs are coming from wolves
Speaker 3: that are born within California. So since twenty fifteen, we've
Speaker 3: confirmed at least one hundred a little over one hundred
Speaker 3: pups have been born in California since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then Axel, do they typically travel that far? Like,
Speaker 1: why why do you think that they left their Oregon
Speaker 1: habitat and headed south.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're looking for they're looking for mates. So those
Speaker 3: wolves in Oregon came from the wolves in Idaho and
Speaker 3: even Yellowstone National Park that were famously reintroduced in the
Speaker 3: nineteen nineties. So those wolves were reintroduced as part of
Speaker 3: the Endangered Species Act and the effort to you know,
Speaker 3: bring back wolves in the West, and those wolves quickly
Speaker 3: spread into Oregon and then spread across Oregon and now
Speaker 3: they're in California. And the reason behind that is just
Speaker 3: that wolves disperse to try to find mates that they're
Speaker 3: not related to, and so those wolves that came from
Speaker 3: Oregon were seeking territories that were unoccupied by wolves, which
Speaker 3: California was not that occupied at all. So yeah, the
Speaker 3: wolves just continue to disperse into California and further into
Speaker 3: California looking for areas that there aren't wolves and hopefully
Speaker 3: looking for mates. So they can travel quite large distances,
Speaker 3: and we have seen that with a number of wolves.
Speaker 3: One very famously that went down close to where you
Speaker 3: guys are yeh or ninety three in two thousand and one,
Speaker 3: came from Oregon, walked all the way down into Ventura
Speaker 3: County and then eventually to turn to Kern County, where
Speaker 3: unfortunately it was hit by a vehicle. But it just
Speaker 3: shows you that wolves can travel hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 3: miles looking for mates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, and actually mention the reintroduction of the wolves
Speaker 1: into Yellowstone because they'd been eradicated from there as well,
Speaker 1: if that's the right word. But it really did a
Speaker 1: lot for the ecosystem. I read a story about it
Speaker 1: was fascinating how they're saying introducing those predators back in
Speaker 1: kind of rebalances what life is supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there has been a lot, you know, there have
Speaker 3: been a number of articles and even documentaries on how
Speaker 3: wolves famously changed rivers in Yellowstone. Some of that science
Speaker 3: has been since reevaluated, and you know, perhaps the actual
Speaker 3: effects are aren't as traumatic, but nevertheless, wolves, you know,
Speaker 3: do have a place in the ecosystem in Yellowstone and
Speaker 3: in California, and because they've been vacant for so long,
Speaker 3: with their return, there is going to be some you know,
Speaker 3: realignment of the interactions between different carnivores, the interactions the
Speaker 3: interactions between wolves and the elk and deer on the landscape.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, just a good example here in
Speaker 3: California is that we have quite large coyote numbers, and
Speaker 3: those coyote numbers are probably somewhat artificially inflated.
Speaker 5: Because of the lack of wolves for them. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So with wolves returning, we would expect both mountain line
Speaker 3: numbers and coyote numbers to sort of realign and you know,
Speaker 3: reach more natural levels with wolves coming back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've always said if we got if people got
Speaker 1: out of the way, nature would take care of itself.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that's that's a prime example here where we've
Speaker 3: been able to give wolves, you know, the an appropriate
Speaker 3: amount of state and federal protection, and with that that
Speaker 3: minimal amount of protection, they have come back and they're
Speaker 3: doing very well.
Speaker 1: Good. Okay, ax Well, is there a place that people
Speaker 1: can get more information about the wolves and conservation efforts
Speaker 1: that kind of thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if they go to our website, you know,
Speaker 3: if you just look for the California Department Official Life online.
Speaker 3: We do have a gray Wolf page where we do
Speaker 3: post quarterly updates and we also continually update our pack
Speaker 3: map where you could see where wolves are across the state,
Speaker 3: and that's probably the best way to stay informed wolves
Speaker 3: in California.
Speaker 1: Great. Thank you so much, Axel. I'm just fascinated by this,
Speaker 1: and again, I hope they don't cause it too many problems.
Speaker 1: But I'm I for one, am happy that the packs
Speaker 1: are back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, meet me as well, And yeah, it does bring
Speaker 3: a lot of management challenges, but yeah, we're continuing to
Speaker 3: work with Californians who live with wolves and the livestocker
Speaker 3: live with wolves, but nevertheless, it is exciting to see
Speaker 3: wolves return.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: State gray Wolf Coordinator Axel Honeycut with the California Department
Speaker 1: of Fish and Wildlife, thanks so much for your time
Speaker 1: this morning. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All I take care is that cool. We get out
Speaker 1: of the way, the wolves find their way back. It
Speaker 1: reminds me of the line from from Jurassic Park where
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