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Speaker 1: It's also almost a full moon, which was beautiful on
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Speaker 1: More than thirty seven hundred Malibu residents have been allowed
Speaker 1: to return home as firefighters continue to gain control of
Speaker 1: the more than four thousand acre fire. Sixteen hundred homes
Speaker 1: are still under evacuation orders. The fire that started late
Speaker 1: Monday night is about thirty percent surrounded. Bird flu has
Speaker 1: been detected at a farm in northern California that supplies
Speaker 1: turkeys to foster farms. The California Department of Food and
Speaker 1: Agriculture has euthanized the infected birds at Nilson Farms. This
Speaker 1: is the fourth time bird flu has been reported in
Speaker 1: Sacramento County this year. Stanley is calling two point six
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Speaker 1: could cause people to get burned. The mugs lid threads
Speaker 1: shrink when they're exposed to heat and torque, which could
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Speaker 1: The Consumer Product Safety Commission is telling people to stop
Speaker 1: using the switchback and trigger action mugs. And contact Stanley
Speaker 1: to get a replacement. So what is up with all
Speaker 1: the drones buzzing around back East. We're gonna find out
Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes with ABC's John Cohen,
Speaker 1: also a ceasefire may actually be closer to reality in
Speaker 1: the Middle East. We're gonna check him. With ABC's Jordanna
Speaker 1: Miller at five point twenty, we're gonna be talking with
Speaker 1: the house whispered Dean Sharp about how you can slime
Speaker 1: your house and then why that could save it from
Speaker 1: a wildfire. And ABC's Willgans has what's good and maybe
Speaker 1: not so good on the stream this weekend that's coming
Speaker 1: up before the top of the hour at five point fifty,
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Cooler weather and
Speaker 1: weaker winds have helped fire fighters trying to stop that
Speaker 1: four thousand acre wildfire in Malibu. Lacantic Fire Section Chief
Speaker 1: Drew Smith says the fire is now thirty percent surrounded.
Speaker 4: When we have this change in the weather, we're taking
Speaker 4: advantage of that so we can get in deeper to
Speaker 4: those areas to support that mop up endeavor. But we
Speaker 4: know that with the steep, rugged topography. There's areas that
Speaker 4: are going to be very challenging for us due to
Speaker 4: the topography and the heavy fuel loading.
Speaker 1: Some people have been allowed to return home, but about
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred remain under evacuation orders. Twelve homes and other
Speaker 1: buildings have been destroyed by the fire. Eleven are damaged
Speaker 1: most of the ones destroyed where other buildings, sheds and
Speaker 1: that kind of thing for homes were actually destroyed. The
Speaker 1: family of the woman from Hawaii reported missing in LA
Speaker 1: started refunding donations to the go fund Me page. Kfi's
Speaker 1: Tammy Truchillo says the family started the page last month
Speaker 1: to help with the search for Hannah Kobayashi, who turned
Speaker 1: out to have gone to Mexico on her own.
Speaker 5: The family expressed its appreciation for everyone who supported them
Speaker 5: during what they call they're unimaginable ordeal, and his father
Speaker 5: committed suicide while in Los Angeles who search for his daughter.
Speaker 1: People donated nearly fifty thousand dollars for the search. Those
Speaker 1: who want their money back can submit a claim by
Speaker 1: December eighteenth. Some hotel and airport workers in LA are
Speaker 1: going to be getting raises.
Speaker 6: Thealy City council's vote sets the minimum wage for some
Speaker 6: tourism workers at twenty two to fifty an hour next year,
Speaker 6: with regular increases until it's thirty dollars in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 6: Councilman John Lee was among those opposed to the living
Speaker 6: wage ordinance because business owners have expressed fears.
Speaker 7: There are going to be underperforming stores that shutdown because
Speaker 7: of this, and they're going to those people are going to.
Speaker 1: Lose their jobs.
Speaker 6: The workers have argued they need more money to survive
Speaker 6: in the increasingly expensive city, especially before the Olympics bring
Speaker 6: many international visitors. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Amazon is planning to donate a million dollars to President
Speaker 1: elect Trump's inauguration fund, a company spokesman confirmed yesterday. The
Speaker 1: e commerce giant will also stream Trump's inauguration on Prime Video.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's John Cohen. So, John,
Speaker 1: let's talk drones. What is going on in the skies
Speaker 1: over New York and New Jersey.
Speaker 8: I'd be great to be with you again. Okay, So,
Speaker 8: what we have seen over the last week or so
Speaker 8: are a number of alleged sightings of drones which are
Speaker 8: being described as suspicious activities. I think it's important for
Speaker 8: everybody to understand that, you know, drones or unmanned aviation
Speaker 8: vehicles as we're calling them in the government, have become
Speaker 8: very widespread as it relates to usage for legitimate purposes
Speaker 8: commercial imaging. You know, the forest fires you were just
Speaker 8: talking about. Our fire services used drones to maintain awareness
Speaker 8: of what's going on, but they've also increasingly been used
Speaker 8: by those involved in threat related or illegal activities. Drug
Speaker 8: traffickers use drones to transport drugs. Intelligence services use drones
Speaker 8: to collect intelligence. So what this case really illustrates is
Speaker 8: two things. One, we have real challenges in the country
Speaker 8: as far as who's responsible for maintaining awareness of both
Speaker 8: legal and illegal purposes. Usages of shows, who's responsible for
Speaker 8: identifying those illegitimate or threat related purposes, and who has
Speaker 8: responsibility for mitigating those threats. The other thing, quite frankly,
Speaker 8: this illustrates is something you and I have talked about
Speaker 8: over the years, which is how quickly conspiracy theories can
Speaker 8: can travel and across the internet. There are you know,
Speaker 8: if you only have to turn on the news to
Speaker 8: see people saying that these drones should be shot down,
Speaker 8: and just last night, we heard from Homeland Security and
Speaker 8: the FBI that they've actually determined a number of these
Speaker 8: videos are of legitimate aircraft.
Speaker 1: Legitimate aircraft meaning just regular old planes.
Speaker 8: Correct, Homeland Security and FBI that they've reviewed some of
Speaker 8: the videos that were were that were posted online and
Speaker 8: getting a lot of commentary, and they actually said that
Speaker 8: they were small manned aircraft being flown for legitimate purposes.
Speaker 8: So it's just it's really important. And I think this
Speaker 8: really illustrates is that when these types of videos or
Speaker 8: other content get posted online become the topic for widespread discussion,
Speaker 8: perhaps even these targets for conspiracy theories, that government really
Speaker 8: has a responsibility to provide accurate information so that if
Speaker 8: it is something that's truly a threat, steps can be
Speaker 8: taken to deal with it. If it's truly a threat,
Speaker 8: the public can be educated. But if it's not a threat,
Speaker 8: the public can feel feel safer. Quite frankly, that we
Speaker 8: don't have a bunch of in this case, drones being
Speaker 8: deployed for illicit or nefarious purposes around the country.
Speaker 1: Hey, but John, isn't that part of the problem Because
Speaker 1: there's so much buzz about the drones and in true
Speaker 1: government form. No one's saying they're responsible, like you're saying
Speaker 1: that some of them. They're saying, oh, some of those
Speaker 1: might be legitimate aircraft, but people have been reporting hundreds
Speaker 1: of them, like hovering over their houses.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly, I mean, and you're exactly right. Part of
Speaker 8: the problem is that we have more and more people
Speaker 8: using drones, right. I mean, just in my neighborhood alone,
Speaker 8: we have two families that love to fly their drones,
Speaker 8: and often I'll be in my yard and the drone
Speaker 8: will be hovering. We have some people who use drones,
Speaker 8: you know, for the legitimate purposes, and we also have
Speaker 8: drones that are being used for illegitimate purposes. I think
Speaker 8: Amazon just announced that they're going to be incorporating drones
Speaker 8: increasingly in what they you know, how they deliver packages
Speaker 8: to people's houses. That said, you know, and I ran
Speaker 8: the office for a while, or the office that was
Speaker 8: responsible for this at DHS fell under my responsibilities. We
Speaker 8: have really struggled nationally to develop a comprehensive and cohesive
Speaker 8: plan to deal with what you said. So, on the
Speaker 8: one hand, drones are becoming much more pervasive in our
Speaker 8: domestic airspace, and on the other hand, there is no
Speaker 8: clear delineation of who's responsible for making sure that a
Speaker 8: drone that may be hovering over someone's house, or over
Speaker 8: a government facility, or over some other type of sensitive location,
Speaker 8: or even near an airport, who's responsible for detecting that drone,
Speaker 8: determine whether it's legitimate, and if it's there for illegitimate
Speaker 8: purposes bringing it down? And then how do you bring
Speaker 8: it down if you shoot down a drone, which, by
Speaker 8: the way, for everyone listening, if you see a drone
Speaker 8: and you shoot it down, your in violation of federal law.
Speaker 8: But if it's a drone that's a threat or being
Speaker 8: used for illegal purposes, there's no clear delineation of who's
Speaker 8: responsible for taking care of that and bringing it down
Speaker 8: in a safe manner.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then John, do we have drones or does
Speaker 1: the government have drones that can go check out these
Speaker 1: supposed drones? I mean, can't they go up and say, hey,
Speaker 1: what is this?
Speaker 8: So typically the response to something like this is you
Speaker 8: can use a drone to check out the other drone
Speaker 8: you But what law enforcement would seek to do in
Speaker 8: a situation where they have concerns is try to identify
Speaker 8: who's controlling the drone, so, you know, because that's really
Speaker 8: what's going to help you identify whether it's a legitimate
Speaker 8: or a legitimate purposes. So what you often see, particularly
Speaker 8: you know, in cities and towns around the country, is
Speaker 8: if there's a report going into law enforcement, they'll try
Speaker 8: to find who's controlling the drone. They'll then seek to
Speaker 8: identify by talking to that person who, you know, what
Speaker 8: their purpose for, if they're in violation of the law,
Speaker 8: actions will be taken. If they're just sort of you know,
Speaker 8: if it's a legitimate purpose that type of action, or
Speaker 8: in and around airports, TSA has responsibility for maintaining safety
Speaker 8: of the you know, planes coming in and out of
Speaker 8: the airport, and that includes when there's there's a drone usage,
Speaker 8: if the drone usage is around you know, in and
Speaker 8: around a protective of the Secret Service, they have responsibility.
Speaker 8: But there's a big part of this country that right
Speaker 8: now it's not really clearly laid out who is responsible
Speaker 8: to detect, investigate, and respond to illicit drone usage.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then I think the other thing, you know
Speaker 1: that you're saying we should contact the people who are
Speaker 1: operating them, but I think that's part of the frustration
Speaker 1: of the people who say that these the drones just
Speaker 1: keep flying and we haven't heard that. Hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: we went and contacted this was the drone operator. Don't worry,
Speaker 1: it's fine, Like nobody's saying anything, which I think is
Speaker 1: leading to sort of the conspiracy theories.
Speaker 8: It's actually even worse than that is that you know
Speaker 8: what I've been watching is these videos have been posted.
Speaker 8: There has been a lot of content, you know, describing
Speaker 8: these thrones as being nefarious, even before investigation has been concluded.
Speaker 8: We've actually had lawmakers saying that the drone should be
Speaker 8: shot down. And then last night we hear from Homeland
Speaker 8: Security and FBI that they have started investigating these drones
Speaker 8: and a number of them are actually you know, manned
Speaker 8: aircraft or unmanned aircraft being used for legitimate purposes. What
Speaker 8: concerns me is, as we've seen in other areas of threat,
Speaker 8: is that sometimes the the amplification and the loud volume
Speaker 8: of the conspiracy theories can lead people to violent actions. So,
Speaker 8: you know, when suspicious circumstances such as whether it's a
Speaker 8: drone or something else, occurs, contact local authorities, let them
Speaker 8: investigate it. If required. Let them investigate it with the
Speaker 8: federal authorities, get a clear understanding of what is actually reality,
Speaker 8: and then respond accordingly. My concern is that people are
Speaker 8: going to hear some about some of these conspiracy theories
Speaker 8: and they're going to go out and start shooting at
Speaker 8: aircrafts that are flying over their house.
Speaker 1: Okay. John Cohen, a former counter terrorism coordinator at the
Speaker 1: Toarament of Homeland Security, thank you so much for your
Speaker 1: time for shedding a little light on our drone dilemma.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, take care. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Two men have been charged with murder and connection with
Speaker 1: the death of a doctor who was shot on August
Speaker 1: twenty third while leaving his medical practice in Woodland Hills.
Speaker 1: Authority say this may have been a case of murder
Speaker 1: for hire. The doctor's ex wife and another man were
Speaker 1: also arrested in connection with the investigation. A man from
Speaker 1: Thousand Oaks has been sent to life in prison for
Speaker 1: severely beating and torturing his four year old daughter. Kfi's
Speaker 1: Mark Mayfield says the girl was punched and beaten and
Speaker 1: hit with a belt and a power cable.
Speaker 2: Prosecutors say the beatings in November of twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: continued for several days, leaving the girl in a vegetative state.
Speaker 1: When the girl was airlifted to Children's Hospital in LA
Speaker 1: she was diagnosed with traumatic injuries to her brain and spine,
Speaker 1: as well as broken bones and dozens of cuts and bruises.
Speaker 1: The NYPD says there's no sign the man accused of
Speaker 1: killing the United Healthcare CEO and New New York was
Speaker 1: ever a client.
Speaker 9: NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny tells NBC News that
Speaker 9: Luigi Mangioni may have targeted Brian Thompson because of the
Speaker 9: size of the insurance company, and Mangioni knew there was
Speaker 9: a conference happening at the hotel the day of December fourth.
Speaker 1: Kafi's Natalie Migliori says Mangioni did have an injury last
Speaker 1: year and posted images online of X rays showing screws
Speaker 1: in his spine. World champion hot dog eater Joey Chestnut
Speaker 1: has been named the chief Eggnog official for the Holiday
Speaker 1: Bowl in San Diego. He'll oversee the celebration at the
Speaker 1: end of the Holiday Bowl, where the winning coach is
Speaker 1: going to be covered in eggnog. Washington State and Syracuse
Speaker 1: will play in the Direct TV Holiday Bowl December twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: The City of Westminster and Orange County has sued two
Speaker 1: of its council members. The suit claims Amy Fan West
Speaker 1: and Namquan Win have repeatedly disrupted meetings, stopped business from
Speaker 1: being completed, and created a dysfunctional and racket this atmosphere.
Speaker 1: The suit asks the court to mediate the matter and
Speaker 1: make West and Win play pay the city's legal fees.
Speaker 1: The DMV says it is taking swift action to recall
Speaker 1: a set of license plates that mock the October seventh
Speaker 1: Hamas attack on Israel. The plates read LOL October seven.
Speaker 1: The vehicle that has them was seen at the intersection
Speaker 1: of Jefferson Boulevard and Supulvida in Culver City. The watchdog
Speaker 1: group Stop Anti Semitism ask the DMV to recall the plates.
Speaker 1: Rescue teams are searching for a humpback whale with fishing
Speaker 1: line wrapped around its pectoral fin and through its mouth.
Speaker 1: The whale was spotted by a whale watching group off
Speaker 1: Newport Beach. A whale Entanglement Response Team and whale watching
Speaker 1: groups are on the lookout for it. There are some
Speaker 1: concerns about how to safely remove the fishing line if
Speaker 1: the whale is found. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: ABC's Jordona Miller in Jerusalem, Jordana. President Biden's top two
Speaker 1: national security advisors are in the Middle East pushing for
Speaker 1: an Israeli Hamas ceasefire, and there may finally be some
Speaker 1: hope that that could actually happen.
Speaker 10: Right, It's not. You know, first of all, I say
Speaker 10: President Biden, he's just been you know, really really relentless
Speaker 10: and trying to get a deal between Israel and Hamas.
Speaker 10: And this time I think there's a combination of factors
Speaker 10: that has led everyone to feel optimistic. The most important
Speaker 10: one is that Hamas for the first time, is indicating
Speaker 10: that it will be flexible about some of the issues
Speaker 10: that it has just not given an inch on for
Speaker 10: really more than a year. And that is first that
Speaker 10: it will not demand Israel declares an end to the
Speaker 10: war at the very start of the ceasefire, and two,
Speaker 10: that it will not demand every Israeli troop withdraw from
Speaker 10: the Gaza strip in this phase one.
Speaker 1: That's a big thing.
Speaker 10: So it's a big thing. I mean, the Israeli troops
Speaker 10: will move out of some areas, but they will day
Speaker 10: for example, on a corridor that splits UH the Gozla
Speaker 10: trip in two, they will stay in along the periphery
Speaker 10: that runs north south UH and buffers on the Israeli side.
Speaker 10: They you know, they've been building a buffers on there.
Speaker 10: So these are big changes that Hamas you know, appears
Speaker 10: to be ready to make. And that will make all
Speaker 10: the difference really, because the Israelis uh, you know, are
Speaker 10: ready to move out as long as they can stay
Speaker 10: and watch that all the hostages come out and that
Speaker 10: they can see who comes in to replace Hamas. There
Speaker 10: are several, uh, several different proposals for that on the table.
Speaker 10: And remember there's a ceasefire now in Lebanon. Syria has
Speaker 10: fallen apart. Iran and Husbala have been beaten back. I mean,
Speaker 10: there's no and the Russians are busy. There's no one
Speaker 10: really this save Hamas right now in the Gaza strip.
Speaker 10: So they are isolated, they are battered. It is time
Speaker 10: for them to finally relinquish control over the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 10: And you know, and if they take steps towards doing that,
Speaker 10: I think we really could see a deal in the
Speaker 10: next several weeks.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it's it's a quite a different position from
Speaker 1: when we were talking a few months ago. And Hamas
Speaker 1: was like saying, we're sitting and we're sitting pretty we're
Speaker 1: holding strong. We've got you know, we've got a lot
Speaker 1: of backing, we've got a lot of support we can
Speaker 1: and like you said, it's all right, right.
Speaker 10: Up, it's all fallen apart. Yeah. Remember Hamas's fantasy, if
Speaker 10: you will, on October seventh, who that they would ignite
Speaker 10: kind of regional war against Israel, right and they would
Speaker 10: be able to somehow create a divide between Israel and
Speaker 10: the United States. None of that happened. Actually, you know,
Speaker 10: the Axis of resistance, if you will, Iran, Hasbala, Iraqi militias,
Speaker 10: and Hama all took major, major hits, and the United
Speaker 10: States and Israel are standing strong like they always have.
Speaker 10: So Hamas, you know, really is in a corner right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know it's we hate to get political,
Speaker 1: but of course everything turns political. And there's been some
Speaker 1: speculation that Benjamin Nettna, who's waiting to make any big
Speaker 1: moves until President elect Trump takes office. But Jake Sullivan
Speaker 1: is saying, no, that's not the.
Speaker 10: Case, right, And I actually don't think it's the case.
Speaker 10: I think President Trump has already made it clear what
Speaker 10: he wants. He wants a deal, he wants, he wants
Speaker 10: a deal done, he wants the hostages out. You know,
Speaker 10: will the signing of a deal, you know, come right
Speaker 10: before you know, President Trump returns to the Oval Office,
Speaker 10: and then it'll play out while he's in his first month, maybe,
Speaker 10: but still, you know, there's a lot of legwork that
Speaker 10: needs to be done. It's actually you know, we talk
Speaker 10: about the hostages coming out in aid coming in, but
Speaker 10: there's a lot of details. First of all, the redeployment
Speaker 10: of these Erali armies a major issue. Where and when
Speaker 10: you know they'll move out over what kind of time table?
Speaker 10: And also remember the there are ninety six hostages they're holding,
Speaker 10: some are alive, some are dead. They include seven Americans,
Speaker 10: and so there's deals about getting the Americans out in
Speaker 10: the first in the first round of this. And in
Speaker 10: order to get any hostages out it it all has
Speaker 10: to release Palestinians that are jailed here in Israel for
Speaker 10: very serious crimes, terrorist crimes, you know, with a lot
Speaker 10: of blood on their hands. And that's a stiff negotiation.
Speaker 10: Who are they going to let out? You know, is
Speaker 10: it going to be ten ten people serving a life
Speaker 10: sentence for everyone hostage? And if so, where do they
Speaker 10: go to send them to the West Bank, to Gaza
Speaker 10: or abroad? So it's there are a lot of details
Speaker 10: to figure out, and it's going to take a few weeks.
Speaker 1: Well, lots of details, lots of questions, but signs of
Speaker 1: ope and that's a good thing. Yeah, all right, thank.
Speaker 7: You, Jerdana Miller.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we'll talk sin all right.
Speaker 1: Thanks, have a great weekend. BIL billboard supporting the alleged
Speaker 1: killer of the United Healthcare CEO in New York has
Speaker 1: popped up in San Bernardino County. The sign off the
Speaker 1: two fifteen in Colton looks like it was painted by hand.
Speaker 1: It has a pink background with black letters in all
Speaker 1: capitals that reads free Luigi Mangioni. He's a hero. An
Speaker 1: ex FBI informant charged with making up corruption allegations about
Speaker 1: President Biden and his son has agreed to plead guilty
Speaker 1: to four felony charges in La.
Speaker 2: Politico reports Alexander Smirnov has admitted to lying that he
Speaker 2: took part in meetings with executives from Ukrainian energy company
Speaker 2: Barisma in twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen. How about a
Speaker 2: scheme to pay ten million dollars to Joe and Hunter Biden.
Speaker 2: According to a plea agreement in federal court in La,
Speaker 2: Smirnov agreed to plead guilty to one kind of obstruction
Speaker 2: of justice and three tax evasion charges. His deal was
Speaker 2: with special counsel David Weiss, who also brought criminal cases
Speaker 2: against Hunter Biden for tax crimes and buying a gun
Speaker 2: while on drugs. Mark Groener KFI News.
Speaker 1: A man in La is expected to plead guilty to
Speaker 1: federal charges of illegally exporting turtles. Wildlife inspectors had a
Speaker 1: male facility in Torrents intercepted four packages earlier this year
Speaker 1: containing protected Eastern box turtles allegedly addressed to one of
Speaker 1: the man's aliases in China. The packages were falsely labeled
Speaker 1: as containing almonds and chocolate cookies. The turtles were found
Speaker 1: wrapped in socks. That doesn't sound like any fun at all.
Speaker 1: Experts on China say they can't see the Chinese president
Speaker 1: coming to Washington next month to celebrate President elects Trump's
Speaker 1: return to the White House. Trump's team sent an invitation
Speaker 1: to Shijinping for the inauguration, but the experts say the
Speaker 1: Chinese leader may find it too risky to accept. The
Speaker 1: director of the China program at the Stimson Center says
Speaker 1: she would look like a fool if Trump goes ahead
Speaker 1: and imposes high tariffs on Chinese imports when he takes office. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: Dolly parton life story is headed to Broadway and you
Speaker 1: may have a chance to step in the spotlight and
Speaker 1: be part of the show. Dolly posted on Instagram recently
Speaker 1: of scrolling through and came across this that she is
Speaker 1: doing a nationwide casting call for her show called Dolly,
Speaker 1: an Original Musical.
Speaker 11: And now I'm announcing the search for Dolly. Now, whether
Speaker 11: you're chasing your dreams from a small town or you've
Speaker 11: spent years performing on stages across the country, I want
Speaker 11: to give you the chance to help me bring my
Speaker 11: story to Broadway and maybe even play me. This show
Speaker 11: is a celebration of my music, my life, and all
Speaker 11: the amazing people who've been with me along the way.
Speaker 1: A select few will be auditioning in person in front
Speaker 1: of the casting director. You can get more information about
Speaker 1: the casting search. If you want to go audition for
Speaker 1: Dolly's Musical, It's at dolly Musical dot com.
Speaker 11: So what are you waiting for? This might be your
Speaker 11: big moment to take Centers day. Just step into the
Speaker 11: spot live and hey break the night.
Speaker 1: Firefighters have surrounded thirty percent of the fire burning in Malibu.
Speaker 1: It's burned just over four thousand acres, so it's holding
Speaker 1: its footprint. More than nineteen hundred firefighters are on the
Speaker 1: lines of the fire that started Monday night, and more
Speaker 1: than sixty percent of the people in affected areas have
Speaker 1: now been allowed to return back to their homes. Two
Speaker 1: cats have died after drinking raw milk that may have
Speaker 1: tainted with H five bird flu. The La County Department
Speaker 1: of Public House says the cats consumed the raw milk
Speaker 1: linked to a recall from Raw Farm LLC. They then
Speaker 1: developed symptoms including lack of appetite, fever, and neurologic signs.
Speaker 1: Both later died. The US Navy is cutting boot camp
Speaker 1: by a week. Basic training is going to be cut
Speaker 1: by a week from ten weeks to nine starting next year.
Speaker 1: The Navy says military dot Com or tells Military dot
Speaker 1: Com rather that the shortened boot camps are a result
Speaker 1: of cutting out inefficiencies. The Navy said it has met
Speaker 1: recruiting goals in twenty twenty four for the first time
Speaker 1: in years, and it expects recruiting numbers to remain high
Speaker 1: in the near future. At six so five a handle
Speaker 1: on the news. Amazon is kicking in a million bucks
Speaker 1: for President Trump's inauguration fund. Right now, let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to the house whisper Dean Sharp. Good morning, Dean,
Speaker 1: Good morning Amy.
Speaker 12: If the connection sounds a little weird, it's because I'm
Speaker 12: up in morro Bay.
Speaker 1: You're on vacation.
Speaker 12: Well, yeah, yeah, we're doing a little antiquing up here.
Speaker 12: Antiquing and vintage and furniture buying is what we're covering
Speaker 12: this weekend. And yeah, we took two or three days
Speaker 12: and kind of got away in the middle of the
Speaker 12: week here.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're going to talk about that, but little
Speaker 1: inside Baseball, Dean sends us like what he's going to
Speaker 1: talk about every week, and the files corrupted, So neither
Speaker 1: Anne and I we didn't know what you wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about. So now we know, but before you talk
Speaker 1: about that, we want to really really quickly because of
Speaker 1: all the fires in Malibu, and we've heard of some
Speaker 1: of the people who like literally have they bought generators
Speaker 1: or pumps in that kind of stuff and big fire
Speaker 1: hoses and are literally tapping into their swimming pools to
Speaker 1: douse their houses. But you also had talked with us
Speaker 1: about a gel. It's like you can slime your house
Speaker 1: to protect it, And so I wanted to hit that
Speaker 1: because I think that that is a really interesting, interesting
Speaker 1: thing that people should kind of put on their radar
Speaker 1: because these wildfires, they come out of nowhere and they
Speaker 1: can wipe out your house in seconds.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, there's I've been talking about this for years. I
Speaker 12: think if you live next to an open space and
Speaker 12: there's a threat of the actual fire line reaching your home,
Speaker 12: then this is an investment you will never regret making.
Speaker 12: It's a few hundred dollars for an average sized home.
Speaker 12: Let's say an average sized home about seven hundred dollars
Speaker 12: or so. It's fire gel, and fire gel is a compound,
Speaker 12: totally safe to store. You can store it for decades
Speaker 12: in your garage. Obviously, because it's non flammable. Fire gel
Speaker 12: is a compound that you would literally hook up to
Speaker 12: your garden hose. It comes in these containers, you know,
Speaker 12: kind of like how you spray fertilizer on your roses,
Speaker 12: like a miracle grow canister, and then you would spray
Speaker 12: this around. You can spray it on anything sprayed on
Speaker 12: the house. You spray it on the eaves, you can
Speaker 12: spray it on patio furniture, you can spray it on
Speaker 12: plants and landscape in your backyard, and it gets very
Speaker 12: foamy and it clings and it hangs on for about
Speaker 12: forty eight hours. And if you know anything about how
Speaker 12: fire lines travel, they travel very very quickly. If the
Speaker 12: fire actually reaches your home, it's going to pass by
Speaker 12: it very very fast. And so the idea is right
Speaker 12: before you evacuate, instead of trying to do something silly
Speaker 12: like staying home and fighting a thousand degree fire while
Speaker 12: fire that's thirty feet high with a garden hose, you
Speaker 12: move the junk away from your house. Anything that could
Speaker 12: start catch on fire and actually burn up the wall
Speaker 12: of your house. You just move that away and then
Speaker 12: spray everything down with the fire gel before you leave.
Speaker 12: It is an amazingly efficient coating, and it just gives
Speaker 12: you that one more edge and that peace of mind
Speaker 12: as you evacuate that there's a good chance that that
Speaker 12: surface will resist the flame if it actually reaches your house. Now,
Speaker 12: there are different fire jails out there, but the one
Speaker 12: that I've recommended throughout the years you can find at
Speaker 12: firegel dot com. It's called Barricade. I think it's now
Speaker 12: Barricade two. It might be three, but firejail dot com.
Speaker 12: This is obviously not something that you're gonna, you know,
Speaker 12: reach out for if the fire has already headed your
Speaker 12: way right now. But these fires are an amazingly good
Speaker 12: way for the rest of us to remember, you know,
Speaker 12: this could happen to any of us here in southern California,
Speaker 12: so be prepared.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sort of like having an earthquake preparedness kit.
Speaker 1: You also need to have wildfire preparedness because they come
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and they go so fast, and it's
Speaker 1: only a few hundred dollars, which is another like bonus.
Speaker 1: It's not like you're you don't have to spend twenty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. You just and then it just sits there
Speaker 1: until God forbid.
Speaker 12: You need it exactly, you know. I mean, it's not cheap,
Speaker 12: but it's a small price to pay to come back
Speaker 12: to your home when it's over.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, And just like that, of course we're out
Speaker 1: of time, but you're going to be talking about. Tell
Speaker 1: us what you're going to be talking about this weekend
Speaker 1: on your show.
Speaker 12: Well, I thought it was a good time of year
Speaker 12: to kind of stay in the decor mood. Not to
Speaker 12: Christmas decor, but furniture you're buying and antique, and I
Speaker 12: want to explain this weekend the difference between antique, vintage, retro,
Speaker 12: and what nostalgic design is all about. And then as
Speaker 12: I encourage people to do a better job buying furniture,
Speaker 12: we're going to give you guidelines as to what to
Speaker 12: ask and what to look for, so you know whether
Speaker 12: or not the furniture you're buying is truly good quality furniture.
Speaker 1: Good to know because a lot of furniture now is
Speaker 1: just crap. I keep having people tell me it's just
Speaker 1: not well made anymore.
Speaker 12: So, absolutely, and I think we're moving past this phase,
Speaker 12: the long phase that we went through as American buying
Speaker 12: furniture of what I call disposable furniture, the kind of
Speaker 12: stuff that you don't expect to keep. I want you
Speaker 12: to save up and buy the furniture that you know
Speaker 12: you're going to pass on to the kids.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, okay, And then one more last thing for Dean.
Speaker 1: If you listen to Dean's Holiday show. He allowed me
Speaker 1: to stop buy a couple of weeks ago, and we
Speaker 1: both brought our ho ho ho h two o's to
Speaker 1: show to show the audience. So it's an automatic watering
Speaker 1: system for your Christmas tree. And after a couple of
Speaker 1: little glitches, because I'm not very good at this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, I have it hooked up. So it's a
Speaker 1: it looks like a Christmas package and it holds two
Speaker 1: and a half gallons of water and it's got like
Speaker 1: a censor and a little tube, and it automatically waters
Speaker 1: your Christmas tree so you never have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's just always watering and it's working like a charm.
Speaker 12: I was going to ask you, because I know this
Speaker 12: is your first year of playing with it, how it
Speaker 12: was working out for you. Ours is hooked up to
Speaker 12: and again talk about trouble Free and Rudolph's nose goes
Speaker 12: on lights up when the reservoir gets low. If it
Speaker 12: gets low. But it's a present that's sitting out away
Speaker 12: from the tree. It's so easy to refill and otherwise
Speaker 12: it takes care of it for you. And yeah, it's
Speaker 12: got a weird name, but it's called the ho Ho
Speaker 12: ho h two O tree filler. And you know what,
Speaker 12: everybody should just go look it up because it's seriously cool.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, absolutely, it's so great. Dean Sharp, have a
Speaker 1: great time. And again you can listen to Dean this
Speaker 1: weekend six ' eight tomorrow morning and then nine to
Speaker 1: noon on Sunday morning. It's home with Dean Sharp right
Speaker 1: here on KFI. Thank you Dean, Thanks Amy, all right.
Speaker 1: The family of Hannah Kobayashi is offering refunds to people
Speaker 1: who donated to a go fund Me account to help
Speaker 1: find her. She went missing after missing a connection to
Speaker 1: New York at Lax in November. The family says it
Speaker 1: has made contact with her. She is in Mexico and
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to come back. California will get one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five million dollars to reduce air pollution
Speaker 1: and fight climate change. The Biden administration has earmarked the
Speaker 1: money for replacing diesel and gas powered buses and trucks
Speaker 1: with electric vehicles. The funding comes from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Speaker 1: A bird strike has forced an American Airlines flight out
Speaker 1: of New York to make an emergency landing. A bird
Speaker 1: flew into the engine of the plane shortly after it
Speaker 1: took off from LaGuardia Airport last night. Passengers say they
Speaker 1: saw flames and an explosion when the bird hit. The
Speaker 1: pilot was able to land the plane safely at JFK.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from a Handle on the news
Speaker 1: this morning. Handle's going to give us quick update on
Speaker 1: the Malibu fire and lots and lots of people getting
Speaker 1: to go back to their homes after being forced to
Speaker 1: leave them because of the fire earlier this week. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning to ABC's Will Gans.
Speaker 7: Will.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Christmas nonsense.
Speaker 7: Christmas all right, it's a good place to start. So
Speaker 7: I heard you guys playing Espressco as you bumped into
Speaker 7: this block, and that is very fitting because Sabrina Carpenter,
Speaker 7: who has just been on like an incredible trajectory all
Speaker 7: year thanks to espresso and taste and please, please please,
Speaker 7: she is getting into the Christmas special. Game. She has
Speaker 7: a new special that's streaming on Netflix. It's called A
Speaker 7: Nonsense Christmas and it is in the vein of those
Speaker 7: classic holiday Christmas specials, you know, where oh Who's knocking
Speaker 7: at the door. It's another celebrity guest and those type
Speaker 7: of things. But it's also very Sabrina Carpenter. So it's
Speaker 7: a little sexy. It's a little funny and silly. And
Speaker 7: so for anyone who I don't know, maybe you have
Speaker 7: your Jen Alpha or and the you know, family members
Speaker 7: coming into town, it's a it's a cute special to
Speaker 7: watch together. And in short, it's like less than an
Speaker 7: hour on Netflix, and and it'll get you in the
Speaker 7: holiday spirit and it helps you understand Sabraina Carpenter a
Speaker 7: little bit better too.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's it's just a musical special, but it's
Speaker 1: is it kind of borderline into a variety thing because
Speaker 1: like you said, there are people knocking at the door.
Speaker 1: Is it all just singing?
Speaker 7: No, there there's like little you know, scenes acting, you know,
Speaker 7: moments as well that are you know, very cheesily scripted.
Speaker 7: So you'll get a little bit of everything too. And
Speaker 7: it is you know, she like walks around backstage, and
Speaker 7: you know there's different you know, people trying on costumes
Speaker 7: and things like that. So it's very it's more than music.
Speaker 7: It's more than just the music.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect, So if that'll get you in the Christmas spirit,
Speaker 1: and then for the anti Christmas spirit, no joke Joker
Speaker 1: Faliad is on the string.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, so this is finally available to stream as
Speaker 7: of this morning on HBO Max. So if you didn't
Speaker 7: see it in theaters, which I didn't most people, most
Speaker 7: people did not, And you want to know what all
Speaker 7: the hubbub was about why people maybe didn't like it
Speaker 7: so much? The movie is finally available to stream as
Speaker 7: of today on HBO Max. And you know this is
Speaker 7: the one with Lady Gaga and of course Joaquin Phoenix,
Speaker 7: and it's part musical, part comic book film. And yeah,
Speaker 7: you don't have to pay to sit in the theater
Speaker 7: to watch it. You can watch it from your couch
Speaker 7: starting to day.
Speaker 1: Which is good. I might watch it. So well with
Speaker 1: that movie, it didn't do well, even though like the
Speaker 1: first Joker movie did with with Joaquin Phoenix did do
Speaker 1: very well. Did people know it was a musical going
Speaker 1: in because I didn't.
Speaker 10: I mean it.
Speaker 7: Was, you know, it was there was music in the
Speaker 7: trailers and stuff, but it wasn't like Wicked, where it's like,
Speaker 7: you know, we're going to be singing along, and it
Speaker 7: was not advertised as and it also, I mean when
Speaker 7: you consider like who the audience was for the first Joker,
Speaker 7: that's not the type of audience member you really think
Speaker 7: about when you think musical, you know. So it was
Speaker 7: they took a big swing, and I think maybe in
Speaker 7: this case it didn't really pay off.
Speaker 1: Okay, but it's out on the stream and now I
Speaker 1: can watch it with no guilts because I'm not.
Speaker 7: Spending exactly exactly well, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Spending the twenty bucks up front. I'm spending the fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars every month for Netflix. And where is is Netflix
Speaker 1: is where you'll see it.
Speaker 7: It's on a field Joker, Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And then one other one, also on a little bit
Speaker 1: on the darker side. Hugh Grant's got a movie for you.
Speaker 7: Yes, And this is not notting Hill, this is not
Speaker 7: Bridget Jones's diary. This is Hugh Grant like you've never
Speaker 7: seen him before. So this is a thriller called Heretic
Speaker 7: and he plays this like really scary guy. So the
Speaker 7: plot is basically, there's two young women who are Mormon
Speaker 7: missionaries and unfortunately they go to Hugh Grant's house to
Speaker 7: spread the good word and he invites them in and
Speaker 7: doesn't have plans on letting them out. And it is Yeah,
Speaker 7: it is freaky and it is spooky, but it's really
Speaker 7: really great. So if you're looking for the anti Christmas
Speaker 7: movie maybe this weekend. It's a good one to watch
Speaker 7: and really really well received critically. And Hugh Grant, I mean,
Speaker 7: I don't know what took him so long to get
Speaker 7: into this genre because he plays a creepy guy very well.
Speaker 1: Really Okay, and that is that a movie or a series.
Speaker 7: It's a movie. It's a movie. And I watched it
Speaker 7: on Amazon Prime Video, but it's sort of available everywhere,
Speaker 7: so you're, you know, if you if you still pay
Speaker 7: for cable, you could stream it, you know, through your
Speaker 7: cable provider or whatever. But yeah, it's great, but.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you have to pay for it on Prime like
Speaker 1: three bucks or four bucks or something.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, maybe a little bit more than that because
Speaker 7: this is the first week that it's out, but uh yeah,
Speaker 7: it's it's worth it if you want to get the
Speaker 7: whole family sort of glued to the edge of their
Speaker 7: seat this week.
Speaker 1: Yest of course to be decorating this weekend. And I
Speaker 1: don't know that these are going to be great movies
Speaker 1: for decorating for Christmas.
Speaker 7: Maybe stick to the Sabrina Carpenter special.
Speaker 8: You got it all.
Speaker 1: Right, perfect? Willgans? Thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Thanks Amy, all right, have a good weekend. Let's do.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The fire that
Speaker 1: has burned more than four thousand acres in Malibu now
Speaker 1: thirty percent surrounded. Weaker winds, cooler weather, and higher humidity.
Speaker 1: Humidity have helped. CalFire says there was no significant fire
Speaker 1: growth yesterday, good news, but the fire is still smoldering
Speaker 1: in steep, dangerous terrains. Some people have been allowed to
Speaker 1: return home. About sixteen hundred or still under evacuation orders.
Speaker 1: Twelve homes and other buildings have been destroyed by the fire,
Speaker 1: eleven are damaged. The DMV says it is working to
Speaker 1: recall a set of license plates that mock the October
Speaker 1: seventh attack on Israel. Kfi's Tammy Truchios's the group Stop
Speaker 1: Anti Semitism reported seeing the plates on a car and
Speaker 1: Culver City.
Speaker 5: The plates READLL oct seven, which it says stands for
Speaker 5: laugh Out Loud October seventh and celebrates October seventh terrorist
Speaker 5: attack by Hamas in Israel.
Speaker 1: The DMV has apologized for allowing the plates to be issued.
Speaker 1: LA's temporary outdoor dining permits have been extended again.
Speaker 6: This time, Mayor Bass is giving restaurant operators until the
Speaker 6: end of next year to apply for a permanent al
Speaker 6: fresco permit. Many restaurants have turned a sidewalks, streets, and
Speaker 6: parking spots to serve customers since the onset of the
Speaker 6: COVID pandemic. Their permits were slated to expire this week. Now,
Speaker 6: Bass says city hall should continue to support the operations
Speaker 6: and not be a barrier to their potential success. Michael Monks,
Speaker 6: KFI News.
Speaker 1: Okay, couple of reminders, since we are getting close to Christmas,
Speaker 1: only twelve days to go, We've got mailing deadlines coming up,
Speaker 1: and if you haven't seen them here they are for
Speaker 1: the US Postal Service. If you're just doing regular ground
Speaker 1: advantage service. You need to have that in the mail
Speaker 1: or at the post office by December eighteenth. If you're
Speaker 1: doing priority mail, December nineteenth is your deadline, and if
Speaker 1: you're doing express, December twenty first. So if you've got
Speaker 1: packages going out again, December eighteenth for ground advantage, December
Speaker 1: nineteenth for priority mail, and December twenty first for priority
Speaker 1: mail express. Christmas is coming so fast. This is KFI
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Speaker 1: the Antelote Valley. Overnight lows tonight in the thirties and forties,
Speaker 1: then mostly cloudy tomorrow with a chance of rain just
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