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Speaker 1: your wake up call for Monday, February seventeenth, President's Day.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. Good morning. We're live everywhere on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Well, Col Schreiber came in. He's getting ready
Speaker 1: to give us our first traffic report, and he's like,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was a holiday, dude, you're
Speaker 1: the traffic guy. Well it was light on the roads.
Speaker 1: Well it's yeah, I forgot four point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Why not really busy, but kids are out of school today.
Speaker 1: Federal offices close, no stock market, I would guess, no mail,
Speaker 1: although who really gets much mail anymore.
Speaker 5: I get junk mail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get junk mail, and every once in a
Speaker 1: while I get a check and I go, oh, thank god.
Speaker 1: But not a whole lot. Although for birthdays it was
Speaker 1: nice because I actually had mail in my mailbox. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's what's ahead on wake up call. The fire delayed
Speaker 1: fortieth Kingdom Day Parade steps off this morning in South la.
Speaker 1: The parade was supposed to happen on January eighteenth. Organizers
Speaker 1: say it was postponed to keep fire and law enforcement
Speaker 1: personnel available for the fires in Pacific Palisades in Altadena.
Speaker 1: The theme of this year's parade is peace and Unity.
Speaker 1: Let it start with Us. Last week's heavy rains have
Speaker 1: caused a balcony to collapse in Silver Like. Four people
Speaker 1: and a dog were standing on the balcony when it
Speaker 1: collapsed onto a balcony below Saturday night on Robinson Street.
Speaker 1: One person had some minor injuries. The Department of Building
Speaker 1: and Safety said heavy rains led to a structural compromise
Speaker 1: of the balcony. That's one of my big fears, because
Speaker 1: I go over to my friend's house and she's got
Speaker 1: one of those little balconies that sticks out and there's
Speaker 1: like no brace, you know. And I know it's concrete
Speaker 1: and solid and all that, but it always makes me
Speaker 1: just just a schmidge nervous. Europeinion leaders are gathering in
Speaker 1: Paris for an emergency summit about Russia's war against Ukraine.
Speaker 1: The meetian was called after President Trump spoke with Russian
Speaker 1: President Putin about negotiating an end to the war. We're
Speaker 1: going to get the latest on that meeting. What they're
Speaker 1: going to be talking about with kfi's White House correspondent
Speaker 1: John Decker. That's coming up at five twenty. Test scores
Speaker 1: and graduation rates are down all over the place except
Speaker 1: in Compton. We're going to find out why Compton is
Speaker 1: rocketed when it comes to success in education. Love this.
Speaker 1: We've had fires, we've had some floods. Maybe a big
Speaker 1: earthquake is next and now is the time to prepare
Speaker 1: your home for it. So we're going to bolt up.
Speaker 1: And that has nothing to do with the Chargers. We're
Speaker 1: going to be talking with the California Earthquake Authority about
Speaker 1: a new grant program that can help you pay for it.
Speaker 1: And flu is really bad this year. We're going to
Speaker 1: find out why, what to look for, and what you
Speaker 1: can do to try to stay healthy through this flu season.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La Mayor bass
Speaker 1: Now says it was a mistake for her to have
Speaker 1: been out of town last month when the deadly wildfires
Speaker 1: in past Pacific Place Essades and Alta Dina broke out.
Speaker 3: Bass was in Ghan as part of a US delegation
Speaker 3: attending the inauguration of that country's president when the fires
Speaker 3: broke out on January seventh. She returned early the next day.
Speaker 3: Forecasters had warned of dangerous fire conditions with wins ab
Speaker 3: up to one hundred miles an hour in low humidity.
Speaker 3: Baos says she's now working to regain the public's confidence
Speaker 3: by speeding up the cleanup in the fire area so
Speaker 3: the rebuilding process can begin.
Speaker 1: KF It's Tammy Truehio says. The mayor's also touting the
Speaker 1: Disastery Recover Center. Disaster Recovery Center is easy for me
Speaker 1: to say at UCLA Research Park West and the Altadena
Speaker 1: Disaster Recovery Center on Woodbury Street that are open daily.
Speaker 1: They'll help you get documents, permits, and other things needed
Speaker 1: to begin the rebuilding process. Researchers in la are trying
Speaker 1: to understand how the recent fires may have affected the ocean.
Speaker 1: The fires burned thousands of homes, businesses, cars, and electronics
Speaker 1: that has turned everyday items into hazardous ash made of pesticides, asbestos, plastics, lead,
Speaker 1: and heavy metals. Much of it could end up in
Speaker 1: the Pacific. Researchers say they want to know how that
Speaker 1: could affect life underwater. News brought to you by Premier
Speaker 1: America Credit Union. A man wanted for murder in Santa
Speaker 1: Monica has been arrested.
Speaker 6: The fatal shooting happened early in the morning hours of
Speaker 6: January fifteenth near Second and Broadway. Police have arrested twenty
Speaker 6: seven year old Fabian Mendez of Englewood in connection with
Speaker 6: the crime. Police say just before the shooting, the victim,
Speaker 6: described only as a man in his thirties who is
Speaker 6: believed to be homeless, was seen arguing with an unidentified woman.
Speaker 6: Bendez allegedly approached the victim and chased him into the
Speaker 6: middle of the street before shooting him in the back.
Speaker 6: Officers found the victim lying on the ground, where he
Speaker 6: was pronounced dead, and Mendez fled the scene. Mendes was
Speaker 6: charged with homicide and has a bail set of three
Speaker 6: million dollars. How the brooker can't find news.
Speaker 1: Right now, we got to tell you about something very
Speaker 1: special that's happening in Compton. So let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to Compton District Superintendent doctor Darren BRAWLEI, thanks for joining us,
Speaker 1: Doctor Browley.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 1: So Compton, Compton is bucking the trend of declining student performance.
Speaker 1: We're seeing it all over the place as students try
Speaker 1: to get back up to speed after the pandemic. Math
Speaker 1: and reading test scores are down all over in LA
Speaker 1: but not in Compton, which is now boasting a ninety
Speaker 1: three percent graduation rate. So doctor BROWLEI tell us, what
Speaker 1: are you doing different that is so successful in setting
Speaker 1: these kids up for success.
Speaker 5: Well, we really have a different system and placed in Compton.
Speaker 5: We focus on Malcolm Baldrich Performance excellent standards incorporated into
Speaker 5: everything that we do and doing so, we benchmark our
Speaker 5: performance against our surrounding school districts that I like to
Speaker 5: call our surrounding competitors. And we've been doing that for
Speaker 5: quite some time. And when we first started that process,
Speaker 5: we were significantly behind all of the surrounding school districts.
Speaker 5: When I got there thirteen years ago, our graduation rates
Speaker 5: were fifty eight percent. They're now ninety three percent. They're
Speaker 5: number one in Los Angeles County for some olar school
Speaker 5: districts and number one in the state for similar school
Speaker 5: districts with more than ninety percent, I'm duplicated people count
Speaker 5: and higher than ten thousand students.
Speaker 7: And so.
Speaker 5: That benchmarking performance. We incorporate that into everything that we
Speaker 5: do against all the state dashboard indicators.
Speaker 1: Okay, so talk to us a little bit more about
Speaker 1: specifically what are you doing. So you not only say
Speaker 1: here's what we're doing, here's what they're doing, let's beat them,
Speaker 1: but you've got to put some You've got to have
Speaker 1: some systems in place to help the kids.
Speaker 5: Right there, right So based upon that, then we create
Speaker 5: smart goals, specific measurable, attainable results over time, and we
Speaker 5: also have superintendent data chats probably about every six weeks
Speaker 5: where we're looking at all those metrics, whether it's a
Speaker 5: ELA performance. As you saw, our performance over the last
Speaker 5: two years has been remarkable with m Compton. It's led
Speaker 5: to state two years in a row, as well as
Speaker 5: our math performance the same thing. We've led to stay
Speaker 5: two years in a row for some early situated school districts.
Speaker 5: So based upon that, our our site principles are responsible
Speaker 5: for creating action plans around those smart goals and then
Speaker 5: creating interventions for the students that are served. And in
Speaker 5: doing so, we have brought in quite a bit of tutors.
Speaker 5: More than tenhundred and fifty tutors have been brought into
Speaker 5: the system during the instructional day because we know that
Speaker 5: that's where we can have the most impact. And then
Speaker 5: those tutors are working with the students that are identified
Speaker 5: for interventions.
Speaker 1: Okay. And when you say they're identified for interventions, so
Speaker 1: you're looking for someone who might be struggling a little
Speaker 1: bit or they just need more personal attention.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So we have lots of systems in place.
Speaker 1: So okay, So if I'm understanding correctly, it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're checking up on everybody pretty constantly. There's like a
Speaker 1: you're always watching and then there's some that are doing
Speaker 1: good and you just keep encouraging them, and the ones
Speaker 1: that might be falling behind a little bit, then they
Speaker 1: get the tutors and they get the extra attention to
Speaker 1: get them back up to speed.
Speaker 5: That is correct, okay.
Speaker 1: And how do you get the students to buy in
Speaker 1: on it? I mean, like, are the students excited about
Speaker 1: it that there's competition or how are they reacting?
Speaker 7: Students?
Speaker 5: Students loved the additional attention that they get because you know,
Speaker 5: something that was you know, pretty abstract to them all
Speaker 5: of a sudden becomes attainable with the additional support. So
Speaker 5: students have brought I have bought into the concept. And
Speaker 5: we've also created a competition this year where you know,
Speaker 5: specific school wants to be another school. So now we've
Speaker 5: created this competition where one school wants to be a
Speaker 5: neighboring school that is doing better than them. And so
Speaker 5: we've we've rallied teachers as well as students behind that.
Speaker 5: And there's one one a different thing that we focus on,
Speaker 5: and that is the academic language of the assessment.
Speaker 1: So what does that mean?
Speaker 5: So the curriculum that we adopt uses language that is
Speaker 5: not necessarily the same as the academic language that students
Speaker 5: will actually take when they take the test. And so
Speaker 5: we have a high EL population thirty two percent within
Speaker 5: our organization, and so we focus on teaching students that
Speaker 5: explicit language so that when they see it, they know
Speaker 5: what the words mean. Gotcha, So you can know how
Speaker 5: to do it. But if you see words that you've
Speaker 5: never seen before, then you might freeze up and think
Speaker 5: that you do not know how to do it. And
Speaker 5: so we take a lot of time in ELA and
Speaker 5: math teaching the explicit vocabulary that they're likely to account.
Speaker 1: Got it. Doctor Darren Browley at Compton Unified, congratulations on
Speaker 1: the great work that you're doing with kids, and we
Speaker 1: expect great things from those kids one day.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you, all right, take care.
Speaker 1: Isn't that fun? I'd love to hear success stories because
Speaker 1: you think about why are test scores declining and why
Speaker 1: aren't students about bouncing back? And it just sounds like
Speaker 1: Compton's figured it out and really focusing on the kid's benchmark,
Speaker 1: watching them closely and saying, hey, if that one isn't
Speaker 1: quite up to you know, isn't quite at the right level,
Speaker 1: We're going to work specifically that with that person and
Speaker 1: have tutors come in. I know that. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys ever had tutors, but I remember specifically.
Speaker 1: I was in pre algebra and it was like in
Speaker 1: eighth grade or something, or maybe it was in no,
Speaker 1: maybe it was it was a higher level, and there
Speaker 1: was something that I wasn't catching, and we went and
Speaker 1: got a tutor. There were several of us, and like
Speaker 1: when the light bulb goes on, you go, oh, I
Speaker 1: get it. But I wouldn't have gotten it. If I
Speaker 1: hadn't had that personal attention, who like made it make
Speaker 1: sense to me? So I think tutors are so cool. Anyway,
Speaker 1: wait to go, Compton. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: At least ten people have been killed in winter storms
Speaker 1: on the East Coast. Nine were in Kentucky, where Governor
Speaker 1: Andy Busheer says more flooding is on the way. He's
Speaker 1: also warning about snow for tomorrow and Wednesday, and that
Speaker 1: could complicate recovery efforts.
Speaker 8: While we have dealt with parts of the flash flooding,
Speaker 8: we are now going to see riverbank flooding that's going
Speaker 8: to hit a number of our communities and hit them significantly.
Speaker 1: This char's calling this one of Kentucky's most serious weather
Speaker 1: events in at least a decade. It's been five hundred
Speaker 1: days since the start of the war in Gaza between
Speaker 1: Israel and Hamas. Gaiffi's Michael Kassner says Hamas crossed the
Speaker 1: border into Israel October seventh, twenty twenty three, killing more
Speaker 1: than a thousand people and taking hundreds more hostage.
Speaker 9: The resulting war on leash by Israel on the Gaza
Speaker 9: Strip has since killed nearly fifty thousand and left the
Speaker 9: region devastated. As of Saturday, some seventy of the original
Speaker 9: two hundred and fifty one hostages remain in Hamas custody.
Speaker 1: He says Jimas also has the bodies of dozens of
Speaker 1: Israelis who've been killed by the terror group. Israeli Prime
Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Natanya, who says Israel and the US share
Speaker 1: a common strategy on the future of Gaza. President Trump
Speaker 1: has proposed moving Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip. A
Speaker 1: court in Russia has ordered a US citizen held in
Speaker 1: pre trial detention for thirty days for alleged drug smuggling.
Speaker 1: Russian police a twenty eight year old Colobe Buyers tried
Speaker 1: to smuggle a significant amount of drugs into the country
Speaker 1: ten days ago. A statement says Buyers was detained after
Speaker 1: customs officials at an airport found cannabis laced marmalade in
Speaker 1: his luggage. Buyers had arrived on a flight from Istanbul.
Speaker 1: President Trump says he thinks Russian President Putin wants to
Speaker 1: stop the fighting in Ukraine.
Speaker 9: I see that we spoke long and hard see whitcoffers
Speaker 9: with him for a very extended period, like about three hours.
Speaker 1: Wikoff is Special Envoy to the Middle East. Trump and
Speaker 1: Putin spoke last week, agreeing during the call to work
Speaker 1: together to start negotiations. Ukrainian President Zelenski says he wants
Speaker 1: security guarantees before any talks, and President Trump's been part
Speaker 1: of his weekend and with race fans in Florida. ABC's
Speaker 1: Nicole D'Antonio says Trump was at the Daytona five hundred yesterday.
Speaker 10: One week after becoming the first citing US president to
Speaker 10: attend the Super Bowl. With fighter jets flying overhead, Trump
Speaker 10: took a spin around the track in his presidential limousine.
Speaker 1: Trump and some of his family members also walked down
Speaker 1: into the pit and greeted drivers, team owners, crew members,
Speaker 1: and some fans. Two LAPD officers and a sergeant and
Speaker 1: lieutenant have been told to work from home and have
Speaker 1: had responsibilities taken away as the LAPD investigates sexist and
Speaker 1: racist remarks they allegedly made. Bli Times says a source,
Speaker 1: calls the comments shucking and crude. The fore work in
Speaker 1: the LAPD's recruiting employment division Santa Monica police are investigating
Speaker 1: a stabbing outside a popular bar that left one man
Speaker 1: dead and another injured. Plase say the stabbing happened shortly before
Speaker 1: two am Saturday outside the Bungalow on Wiltshire Boulevard that's
Speaker 1: within the Fairmount Miramar Hotel. Starbucks is rolling out new
Speaker 1: compostable cups in California and several other states. They are
Speaker 1: fiber based, with a bioplastic lining and having a opaque appearance.
Speaker 1: They'll be used for cold drinks. Starbucks says it has
Speaker 1: a goal to make its packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable
Speaker 1: by twenty thirty. At six oh five, Handle on the
Speaker 1: news Prime Minister Netanya, who says he wants to finish
Speaker 1: the job with Iran. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. John, the job is
Speaker 1: just getting started. For EU leaders who called an emergency summit.
Speaker 11: Well, that's right, Amy, And the reason they've done that
Speaker 11: is because they are concerned that maybe left out of
Speaker 11: the whole process, the peace process in regards to the
Speaker 11: war in Ukraine that was started by Russia more than
Speaker 11: three years ago. In fact, the first meeting that will
Speaker 11: take place will not involve any EU leaders, any NATO leaders,
Speaker 11: any European folks at the table. It's just Russian officials,
Speaker 11: high level Russian officials, high level US officials. That meeting
Speaker 11: taking place in Saudi Arabia, the US delegation being led
Speaker 11: by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. So what Emmanuel Macron,
Speaker 11: the President of France, has decided is let's have our
Speaker 11: own meeting because when and if there is an end
Speaker 11: of the war, Europe certainly should have a say in
Speaker 11: terms of what the future of Ukraine looks like, what
Speaker 11: its security looks like. And that's the reason for that
Speaker 11: meeting taking place in Paris today.
Speaker 1: So who all is participating in that.
Speaker 11: Well, it's every Western European leader, as well as any
Speaker 11: country that has been a part of what's known as
Speaker 11: the Contact Group, that's all together fifty countries around the world.
Speaker 11: Will they all be represented, No, it's primarily European leaders
Speaker 11: that will be at this meeting in Paris that is
Speaker 11: taking place today. In the meantime, what President Trump has
Speaker 11: said is that Europe will have a seat at the table,
Speaker 11: Ukraine will have a seat at the table. It's just
Speaker 11: that this very first meeting that's taking place in Saudi
Speaker 11: Arabia is just going to involve US senior officials, Russian
Speaker 11: senior officials. I would imagine Mark Rubio's counterpart, Russian Foreign
Speaker 11: Minister Sergei Lavrov, would be there in Saudi Arabia as well.
Speaker 11: But the President has assured President Zelensky that he indeed
Speaker 11: will have a seat at the table and Ukraine will
Speaker 11: have a say in what Ukraine's future actually looks like.
Speaker 1: But Ukraine is not part of those talks in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 11: Correct, they are not, No, and that is a concerning
Speaker 11: obviously to President Zelensky. He was concerned by what we
Speaker 11: heard from Defense Secretary Pete Haigsith last week, who walked
Speaker 11: back comments that he made to defense ministers in Brussels
Speaker 11: last week in which he seemed to be giving away
Speaker 11: the store essentially to Vladimir Putin. Now it is the
Speaker 11: Vice President jd Vance who's speaking on these topics as
Speaker 11: it relates to what the end of the war in
Speaker 11: Ukraine looks like and what the future of Ukraine looks like.
Speaker 11: I don't think we're going to see Pete Hegseth going
Speaker 11: forward talking about the war in Ukraine to the extent
Speaker 11: that he was in Brussels just last week.
Speaker 1: And that's because he may have oversighted.
Speaker 11: That's because he just, yeah, he made some missteps and
Speaker 11: in terms of what he said which angered our European allies,
Speaker 11: angered Presidents Olinsky, and also angered some Republicans here at home.
Speaker 11: Republican senators who are big allies of Ukraine want to
Speaker 11: see Ukraine represented well in terms of bringing an end
Speaker 11: to the war, and they were angered that essentially the
Speaker 11: negotiating was being done by Pete Hegseth in such a
Speaker 11: way that you were taking negotiating tactics off the table
Speaker 11: as it relates to those conversations that will be happening
Speaker 11: with Russia in the very near future.
Speaker 1: Okay, and are there any indications John you mentioned giving
Speaker 1: away the store, Are there any indications of what Ukraine
Speaker 1: is going to have to concede and what Russia is
Speaker 1: going to have to concede to get to, you.
Speaker 11: Know, Amy, to know that answer, I think we have
Speaker 11: to know, you know, how close how close Russian officials
Speaker 11: are and Ukraine officials are in terms of just getting
Speaker 11: to the point where you could have a temporary ceasefire
Speaker 11: and we're not there yet I don't know how close
Speaker 11: that is. I don't know if it's days, weeks, months away.
Speaker 11: I think that that's part of the conversations that Secretary
Speaker 11: Rubio will be having with his Russian counterparts to figure
Speaker 11: out is there some sort of meeting of the minds
Speaker 11: to get to the point where you initially have what
Speaker 11: we have right now, at least on paper. Is this
Speaker 11: ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. That's what President Trump would
Speaker 11: like to have, a temporary ceasefire to begin with between
Speaker 11: Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Okay, and we'll be watching and hoping that they can
Speaker 1: figure that out. Thank you so much. Kfi's White House
Speaker 1: correspondent John Decker. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 1: Four people have been hurt in Silver Lake when the
Speaker 1: balcony they were standing on collapsed. One of those hurt
Speaker 1: late Saturday was taken to the hospital. This man tells
Speaker 1: KTLA he had just gone to bed when he heard
Speaker 1: a loud boom from upstairs.
Speaker 2: Portunate for them, the balcony below had broken its fall,
Speaker 2: and so they were just literally trapped in the corner
Speaker 2: with all the furniture on top of them, walking into
Speaker 2: carnage and adam our neighbor is just getting up off
Speaker 2: the balcony that had collapsed and says call nine one one.
Speaker 1: People in the building were reportedly told by the Department
Speaker 1: of Building and Safety that the recent rain had led
Speaker 1: to a structural compromise. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Byancos expected
Speaker 1: to announce today whether he plans to run for governor
Speaker 1: of California. Bianco is a Republican and has been a
Speaker 1: vocal supporter of President Trump and a critical opponent of
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom and Democratic Party policies. He is expected to
Speaker 1: make the announcement at eleven am. A voter and a
Speaker 1: dog are recovering after being rescued from a dinghy eighteen
Speaker 1: miles east of Catalina. A friend put in a distress
Speaker 1: call on Saturday night. The Coastguard was sent out. They
Speaker 1: found the person and the dog in the dinghy and
Speaker 1: brought them back to shore. The voter has mild hypothermia
Speaker 1: but is otherwise okay. Attention LA drivers. New cameras on
Speaker 1: buses could mean a ticket in your mailbox.
Speaker 12: Starting today, Metro and La Dot will start issuing two
Speaker 12: hundred and ninety three dollars tickets for illegally parking in
Speaker 12: bus only lanes on Wilsher and Librea. To crack down,
Speaker 12: fifty cameras have been installed on buses along these seven
Speaker 12: to twenty and two point two bus routes. The cameras
Speaker 12: will spot violators, record license plates, and send footage to
Speaker 12: LA DOT officers to issue fines. Metro says one parked
Speaker 12: car can delay hundreds of writers and heads up. Even
Speaker 12: more enforcement is on the way. Cameras will also roll
Speaker 12: out on lines nine, ten, nine fifty, and seventy with
Speaker 12: a sixty day warning period starting March third. So ellie
Speaker 12: drivers stay out of those bus lanes unless you want
Speaker 12: a pricey reminder in the mail. Brigida Degostino KFI News.
Speaker 1: Even the Department of Homeland Securities feeling the effects of
Speaker 1: President Trump's efforts to streamline the federal government. About four
Speaker 1: hundred people at DHS have been laid off, many of
Speaker 1: them at FEMA. Workers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Speaker 1: Agency and at US Citizenship and Immigration Services also lost jobs.
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live has celebrated fifty years with lots of
Speaker 1: famous friends. Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter opened the SNL
Speaker 1: fifty anniversary special last night. Paul McCartney closed it out
Speaker 1: with medley of Abbey Road. Actor and comedian Steve Martin
Speaker 1: delivered the opening monologue seems only fitting Sketches featured former
Speaker 1: cast members Will Ferrell, Kristin Wigg and Eddie Murphy. Shoot.
Speaker 1: I missed it. I was sleeping. I hope I can
Speaker 1: get the streaming. I bet it was really fun. A
Speaker 1: forty seven year old man has been arrested in connection
Speaker 1: with the fatal shooting of a thirty two year old
Speaker 1: man on a busy street in North Hollywood. Police say
Speaker 1: gunfire broke out shortly before two am Saturday in front
Speaker 1: of a bar on Magnolia Boulevard. At least ten people
Speaker 1: have been killed in flooding from the severe storms that
Speaker 1: slammed the southern US. Kentucky Governor Andy Bursheer says President
Speaker 1: Trump has already approved a disaster declaration and FEMA will
Speaker 1: be responding to the hardest hit areas. A lot of
Speaker 1: people are seeing red at the box office. Captain America
Speaker 1: Brave New World, featuring a new Red Hulk, took in
Speaker 1: eighty eight and a half million dollars in its opening
Speaker 1: weekend is expected to top one hundred million by the
Speaker 1: time the holiday weekend is over. Paddington in Peru was
Speaker 1: a distance second in its opening weekend, earning thirteen million
Speaker 1: dollars in theaters at six o five at tandle on
Speaker 1: the news. Guess what else is getting more expensive gas?
Speaker 1: It's approaching five dollars again. Okay, brace yourself. We had
Speaker 1: fires last month and then some flooding last week, so
Speaker 1: now maybe be a good time to get ready for
Speaker 1: the next natural disaster, maybe an earthquake. So let's say
Speaker 1: good morning to the Chief Mitigation Officer for the California
Speaker 1: Earthquake Authority, Janille Maffay.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Thank you for having me, Thanks.
Speaker 1: So much for coming on. I know that we had
Speaker 1: talked about this in the past, but now this new
Speaker 1: program is becoming available and we want to get the
Speaker 1: word out so people take advantage of it, and it's
Speaker 1: going to help protect your home against an earthquake.
Speaker 11: It's right.
Speaker 4: The Earthquake Brace and Bolt program is open and ready
Speaker 4: for registrations. It's an important opportunity to make your house
Speaker 4: more resistant to earthquake damage.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's called Earthquake Brace and Bolt. So tell
Speaker 1: us what exactly we need to do and what the
Speaker 1: what the money goes to. How do people make their
Speaker 1: homes safer?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: So this is so very important for older houses, and
Speaker 4: to be more specific, if you have a pre nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty house, you might have this vulnerability. If you have
Speaker 4: a pre nineteen forty house, you do have this vulnerability.
Speaker 4: And it's the house that has a crawl space under it,
Speaker 4: under that first floor. And the older houses were just
Speaker 4: designed and built before we knew a lot about how
Speaker 4: buildings performed in earthquakes, and so it lacks bolting to
Speaker 4: the foundation and bracing around those short little walls around
Speaker 4: the crawl space, and this can be very very devastating.
Speaker 4: These houses come off their foundation, not yet reoccupied, two
Speaker 4: and a half years later and you're out somewhere else,
Speaker 4: living somewhere else, all the while still paying that mortgage.
Speaker 4: So earthquake Brace and Bolt has some great retrofit schemes
Speaker 4: to make your house more protected in an earthquake.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Janelle, And it's as simple, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's not like I can't do it myself, But
Speaker 1: it's as simple as bolting the foundation and like putting
Speaker 1: the foundation and the house together so when there's those
Speaker 1: significant shaking, the house doesn't bounce off the foundation.
Speaker 4: That's exactly right. And you know, maybe Amy, you and
Speaker 4: I couldn't do it, but there are some talented do
Speaker 4: it yourselfers who actually can do this work. People who
Speaker 4: you have already got the tools. A contractor can do
Speaker 4: this in two to three days. It's really it's all
Speaker 4: under the house, and nobody's patting around your house and
Speaker 4: little Booty's and that's exactly right. They're going under the
Speaker 4: house and they're putting bolts between the wood part of
Speaker 4: the house and the concrete foundation. And then they're putting plywood.
Speaker 4: If you've got those short little stud walls, they're putting
Speaker 4: plywood and nailing it up. Like everybody's heard the term
Speaker 4: shear wall. Just nice stiff plywood that's going to keep
Speaker 4: that house over its foundation.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you can get help doing this because obviously
Speaker 1: it's not going to be free, but the California Earthquake
Speaker 1: Authority can help you pay for this.
Speaker 4: It's exactly right. What we have are grants. These are
Speaker 4: not loans, they're grants. And on average it's about a
Speaker 4: fifty two hundred dollars retrofit a little bit less expensive
Speaker 4: actually in southern California, and we have an up to
Speaker 4: three thousand dollars grant that's our typical grant, and then
Speaker 4: very importantly for income qualifying households, we have an additional
Speaker 4: supplemental grant that down in southern California can help and
Speaker 4: for many people might pay for the entire retrofit. So
Speaker 4: very important also is that we have the rules, and
Speaker 4: the rules are that you do a code compliant retrifit,
Speaker 4: you do the entire cross space, you do it with
Speaker 4: a permit, and you significantly increase the likelihood that house
Speaker 4: is going to stay on its foundation in an earthquake.
Speaker 4: Lots of information. Our rules are going to keep you
Speaker 4: right there at that code compliant retrofit, and that permit
Speaker 4: process will keep you on schedule, and it's a grant
Speaker 4: and really really increase the likelihood that you can shelter
Speaker 4: in place after an earthquake.
Speaker 1: I love that so kind of an ounce of prevention.
Speaker 1: Spend a little bit now, a little bit of time,
Speaker 1: and hopefully get some grant to help you with it,
Speaker 1: and save your house from probably hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars in damage. Where do they get more information?
Speaker 4: Janiel So Earthquake brace bolt dot com registration open until
Speaker 4: March twenty sixth. And we've got fantastic people the other
Speaker 4: end of a phone or email if you have questions.
Speaker 1: Okay, great Janille Mfi with the California Earthquake Authority, the
Speaker 1: Chief Mitigation Officers. Such great information again, Earthquake brace Bolt.
Speaker 1: Find out if your house is going to get one
Speaker 1: of those grants to make your house more earthquakes safe.
Speaker 7: Thanks Janail, thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And La County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's deputy has been hurt in a crash in Carson.
Speaker 1: The deputy was responding to a call with no lights
Speaker 1: or sirens last night when the patrol car was t
Speaker 1: boned on the driver's side. The driver for the other
Speaker 1: car was not hurt. They remained at the scene. Smash
Speaker 1: and grab burglars have rammed a car into a smoke
Speaker 1: shop in Eagle Rock. Video shows a black car slamming
Speaker 1: into the store twice last night on Colorado Boulevard near
Speaker 1: Eagle Rock Boulevard. At least three people ran into the
Speaker 1: store to steal stuff. It's not clear how much they
Speaker 1: got away. With the federal governments expected to run out
Speaker 1: of money in less than a month unless lawmakers can
Speaker 1: read a new budget agreement. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries
Speaker 1: says Democratic lawmakers will insist any spending agreement protects the
Speaker 1: American wallets, health and safety, and meets national security needs.
Speaker 9: This budget that is working its way through the House
Speaker 9: of Representatives is a nonstought.
Speaker 5: Every single Democrat opposed it a few days ago in
Speaker 5: the Budget Committee.
Speaker 1: The deadline is March fourteenth. The CHP is working to
Speaker 1: hire more women. Women only make up six percent of
Speaker 1: the CHP officers in the state. Interested ladies, you do
Speaker 1: have to be able to pass a written and physical
Speaker 1: agility test and also be between twenty one and thirty
Speaker 1: five years old. Health experts say the disease infecting one
Speaker 1: hundred different species of birds and a range of mammals,
Speaker 1: including millions of chickens, is a global pandemic in animals.
Speaker 1: ABC's Alexis Christoforosys, it's one reason why egg brices are
Speaker 1: through the roof.
Speaker 6: The price of eggs up fifty three percent in just
Speaker 6: the past year. The average is now four ninety five
Speaker 6: for a dozen eggs, but some people are paying much
Speaker 6: more than that.
Speaker 1: She says, with Easter just a few weeks away, demand
Speaker 1: is going to rise even more, and it is expected
Speaker 1: that egg prices will go up another twenty percent by
Speaker 1: the end of the year. Honora has picked up another
Speaker 1: trophy as we get closer to the big daddy of
Speaker 1: them all, the Oscars, which is coming up March second.
Speaker 1: At Saturday Nights Writers Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton,
Speaker 1: Sean Baker to comb Best Original Screenplay for Honora in
Speaker 1: the Adapted category the screenplay for Nickel Boys by Ramel
Speaker 1: Ross and Jocelyn Barnes to comb the prize. La Mayor
Speaker 1: Bass has admitted it was a mistake for her to
Speaker 1: take a trip to attend the presidential inauguration in Ghana
Speaker 1: right before the deadly wildfires broke out in Pacific Palisades
Speaker 1: in Altadena. The mayor says she's working now to regain
Speaker 1: the public's trust. A bird flu vaccine for chickens has
Speaker 1: been given the green light. The Department of Agriculture gave
Speaker 1: conditional approval Friday to an updated vaccine. This comes as
Speaker 1: millions of chickens have been killed to try to stop
Speaker 1: the spread of bird flu, which is in turn led
Speaker 1: to massive spikes in egg prices. Metro and the LA
Speaker 1: Department of Transportation are going to start issuing tickets today
Speaker 1: for cars parked along two bus lines bus lanes in LA.
Speaker 1: The lanes are being watched. They are bus lines seven
Speaker 1: twenty along Wilshire Boulevard and the two twelve along LaBrea Avenue.
Speaker 1: More will be added in later. The fine for parking
Speaker 1: in a bus lane two hundred and ninety three dollars.
Speaker 1: We are just minutes away from handle. On the news
Speaker 1: this morning, European Union leaders have called an emergency summit.
Speaker 1: Bill's gonna have something to say about that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: right now. We've got flu season and it's a bad one,
Speaker 1: so we wanted to get somebody on a specialist to
Speaker 1: let us know a little bit more about it and
Speaker 1: what we can do to protect ourselves against it. So
Speaker 1: let's say good morning now to Sun Jones, who has
Speaker 1: the longest title ever. So I'm just going to say
Speaker 1: that you are the Systematic plan of Evaluation and Curriculum
Speaker 1: Evaluator for the University of Phoenix. Good morning, sun.
Speaker 7: Good morning. Yeah, it's a long title, but basically, I'm
Speaker 7: a family that's practitioner in practicing for the last twenty
Speaker 7: four years.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then let's dive right in. The flu season.
Speaker 1: This year is really bad. How bad.
Speaker 7: It is? The CDC reports is the one of the
Speaker 7: worst in years, and I think it's the highest rate
Speaker 7: in fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Okay, and son, then that begs the question, why is
Speaker 1: it so bad this year?
Speaker 7: So the assumption is, you know a lot of people
Speaker 7: did not get fleu you know, during the COVID season
Speaker 7: because we were using the protection, you know, so we
Speaker 7: stayed away and it increased their immunity. And the other
Speaker 7: thing is that the flue vaccine uptake was really low,
Speaker 7: the fear compared to previous years.
Speaker 1: And so that's the flu vaccine rate.
Speaker 7: Was low, right, The people who are receiving flu vaccine
Speaker 7: were lower than usual.
Speaker 1: Okay. And you mentioned during COVID that we all stayed
Speaker 1: away from each other, like we were told to the
Speaker 1: six feet or ten feet apart and don't be in
Speaker 1: crowded rooms and all of those helped to mitigate the
Speaker 1: spread of the flu as well. And then you mentioned
Speaker 1: because we didn't get it. Are immunity lowers right?
Speaker 7: Sometimes by having flu or being exposed to flu virus,
Speaker 7: we can build some immunity. And it is you know,
Speaker 7: when we don't get exposed that our immunity goes down.
Speaker 7: So and then also the precussion, you know, wearing the
Speaker 7: mask and washing our hands, and those are they thinks
Speaker 7: that we prevented ourselves someone getting flu and that's one
Speaker 7: of the reasons. Maybe we're more relaxed now and being
Speaker 7: exposed to each other a little bit more. Not too
Speaker 7: many people are using the precaution such as you know,
Speaker 7: staying away from sick people or if you're sick, staying
Speaker 7: out of the public places. And maybe those are the reasons.
Speaker 7: So why there's saying Chris, number of flus at this time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned the hand washing. Remember during COVID
Speaker 1: you were supposed to wash your hands for like twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: And I think that you've gone back to our old ways,
Speaker 1: although I'm still kind of an obsessive hand washer. Then,
Speaker 1: as far as the spread of the flu, it's just airborne.
Speaker 1: So if you're in a room, how long do you
Speaker 1: have to be exposed to somebody? Can it be like
Speaker 1: passing somebody in the hallway or do you have to
Speaker 1: sit and have exposure for a while.
Speaker 7: Right, incubation is about seven days, but it's the drop
Speaker 7: lest So if you're unfortunate to get one of the
Speaker 7: drop lefts from those people who are thick and they cough,
Speaker 7: it sneeds and it can travel to sixty you know,
Speaker 7: and you get that on your hands and you happen
Speaker 7: to rub your eyes, your nose or whatever, and you
Speaker 7: get that in your system, you're going to get you're
Speaker 7: going to get sick with the flu.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then you mentioned the vaccine, and the vaccine
Speaker 1: is actually flu virus, right, but.
Speaker 7: It's dead virus right. Instead, it's a portions it's a
Speaker 7: chopped up you know, virus strain. So you don't really
Speaker 7: get glue from the flu vaccine. And a lot of
Speaker 7: people fear that they would get flu from flu vaccine,
Speaker 7: but you don't. You may get little bit sick because
Speaker 7: your body is trying to build your immunity from that virus,
Speaker 7: you know, virus strain. And that's a lot of people
Speaker 7: translate that from getting you know, flu from flu vaccine.
Speaker 7: But it's not okay.
Speaker 1: And if you do get the flu, what are some
Speaker 1: of the common symptoms that you're going to watch for.
Speaker 1: And how is it different than a cult.
Speaker 7: You get more seriously ill with the flu. Body aches
Speaker 7: might be more sick year you get higher temperature. You know,
Speaker 7: your fever can go up to one of three and
Speaker 7: one of four, where common cold you may get, you know,
Speaker 7: fever of one on one. You know, you get that
Speaker 7: with your body aches. And some people elderly and the
Speaker 7: children can get pneumonia and they can get seriously ill. Unfortunately,
Speaker 7: even last you know, a couple of weeks so we
Speaker 7: had quite a few deaths related to flu. So you
Speaker 7: you will fail. You will feel the pain body you know,
Speaker 7: body extend, just chills and not feeling well with the flu.
Speaker 1: Okay, and if you do have the flu, you know,
Speaker 1: you might just write it out, but when is it
Speaker 1: time to go to the doctor or even to the hospital.
Speaker 7: So especially for the young children or if you're pregnant,
Speaker 7: if you have low immunity, I would if you feel
Speaker 7: like you have flu symptoms like fever and body agges,
Speaker 7: and just take yourself to your health care provider get
Speaker 7: yourself tested, because there are tests for COVID and flu.
Speaker 7: But if you're healthy young, just stay home, get some vest,
Speaker 7: plenty of fluids and you can take them over the
Speaker 7: counter medications for fever and by eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect, And don't forget to wash your hands, right.
Speaker 7: That's correct, wash their hands and stay away from people.
Speaker 1: Stay away from people. Yeah, okay, Son Jones again the
Speaker 1: longest title ever Systematic Plan of Evaluation and Curriculum Evaluator
Speaker 1: at the University of Phoenix. Very well earned, I'm sure, Son.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the information. Hopefully it'll help
Speaker 1: some people not get sick this season.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, take care. You know it is President's Day.
Speaker 1: I have some fun facts about presidents. So starting with
Speaker 1: number one, we've all heard that he had wooden teeth,
Speaker 1: George Washington. Well, apparently they weren't wood but this is
Speaker 1: even grosser. Okay. So they're made of ivory okay, fine
Speaker 1: gold and human and animal teeth. So they like took
Speaker 1: teeth out of somebody else and put them into dr
Speaker 1: Yeah okay. John Adams is kind of interesting, and Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 1: They are President's number two and three. They died within
Speaker 1: hours of each other on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 1: Right, that's interesting. So maybe they were like, I gotta
Speaker 1: stay alive to say fifty years of this new nation.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: John Quincy Adams only agreed to speak with Anne Royle,
Speaker 1: who was the first woman to interview a president. So
Speaker 1: John Quincy Adams was number six. And how did she
Speaker 1: get him to agree to it? Well, she stole his
Speaker 1: clothes while he was taking a bath in the Potomac River.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give your clothes back if you talk with me.
Speaker 1: I love that. Martin van Buren number eight owned two
Speaker 1: tiger tiger cubs. They were pets. They were given to
Speaker 1: him as gifts from the Sultan of Oman. This is
Speaker 1: very sad. William Henry Harrison, President number nine, gave the
Speaker 1: longest inaugural address in history, even longer than Trump's. Can
Speaker 1: you believe it? One hundred and five minutes. He didn't
Speaker 1: wear a hat or an overcoat. The address was held
Speaker 1: in March four of eighteen forty one. And then after
Speaker 1: he gave that long address where he was outside without
Speaker 1: a hat or overcoat, he got pneumonia and died at
Speaker 1: the White House a month later. Boom first president to
Speaker 1: die in office. James Buchanan number fifteen was the only
Speaker 1: president who never married, and so they didn't have a
Speaker 1: first lady, so they had a White House hostess while
Speaker 1: he was in office, and it was his niece, Ulysses S. Grant,
Speaker 1: number eighteen. He was born High Room Ulysses Grant, but
Speaker 1: he changed his name because you know how like you
Speaker 1: get the three, you get your initials on stuff, and
Speaker 1: he didn't want his monogram to be hug Markay yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And Benjamin Harris number twenty three was the first president
Speaker 1: and to have electricity in the White House, and one
Speaker 1: time he apparently got an electrical shock, and so his
Speaker 1: family was freaked out about touching the light switches, and
Speaker 1: so sometimes they just leave the lights on all night
Speaker 1: because they didn't want to turn them off. Yeah, fun facts.
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