Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3: It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4: Here's Amy Kick.
Speaker 3: It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 5: This is your wake up call for Thursday, January sixteenth.
Speaker 5: Good morning, I'm Amy King. I think we're starting to
Speaker 5: take a bit of a breath. We know that thousands
Speaker 5: of people are affected by the fires. Thanks to Michael Monks,
Speaker 5: Matt money Smith, Chris Berry getting us up to date
Speaker 5: as you early risers were getting up and about.
Speaker 3: It's just crazy, but hopefully things.
Speaker 5: Will start to sort of get on a more even keel,
Speaker 5: although this one's going to last for a very long time.
Speaker 3: Thousands of people lost everything.
Speaker 5: So it's going to be weird as we start to
Speaker 5: get back into a normal rhythm, knowing that there's still
Speaker 5: so much devastation and so many lives affected.
Speaker 3: But we'll do our best. Here's what's ahead on wake
Speaker 3: Up Call.
Speaker 5: As the winds die down, firefighters continue to shore up
Speaker 5: lines around the two largest fires in southern California. The
Speaker 5: Pacific Palisades Fire is now twenty one percent surrounded. The
Speaker 5: fire in Altadena and Pasadena forty five percent surrounded. CalFire
Speaker 5: has been working to put out hotspots with water dropping helicopters.
Speaker 5: Some people who live in wildfire zones have taken up
Speaker 5: arms to protect their homes. Several residents tell KTLA they're
Speaker 5: defying evacuation orders and are staying behind to protect their
Speaker 5: homes from looters and to watch for any embers that
Speaker 5: may reignite. Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and Yahoo's office says
Speaker 5: Hamas is backing out of some of its agreements, putting
Speaker 5: the hostage release deal in Jeopardymas and Israel agreed to
Speaker 5: a ceasefire yesterday, but the Prime Minister's office is Amas
Speaker 5: is renigging on parts of it. If approved, it would
Speaker 5: go into effect on Sunday. We're going to get the
Speaker 5: latest on the peace deal, the ceasefire, the hostage released
Speaker 5: with ABC's Giordonna Miller in Jerusalem. That's coming up at
Speaker 5: five twenty. Also, I'm going out and about to Dream
Speaker 5: Center LA, where they are dealing with the nightmare of
Speaker 5: the fires and bringing hope to the thousands who lost everything.
Speaker 5: It is something you've got to hear and got to see,
Speaker 5: and it's coming up at five to thirty five, let's
Speaker 5: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 5: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Red flag warnings for
Speaker 5: critical fire danger have expired in much of the LA area,
Speaker 5: though a warning will remain in effect until three this
Speaker 5: afternoon in the western San Gabriel Mountains, the Santa Susannas,
Speaker 5: and the five and fourteen freeway corridors. The National Weather
Speaker 5: Service says the region will see a significant cooling trend
Speaker 5: through the weekend, but meteorologist Todd Hall tells KFI more
Speaker 5: strong winds are expected early next week.
Speaker 6: I would give it about a sixty percent chance at
Speaker 6: this point of us seeing Santa Ana wentz again across
Speaker 6: southern California. At this point, it looks like it's going
Speaker 6: to be more of a western Los Angeles County eastern
Speaker 6: Ventura County type event. The sun most similar to what
Speaker 6: we saw yesterday.
Speaker 5: He says, we will very likely see critical fire weather
Speaker 5: conditions between Monday and Wednesday. A hillside home that survived
Speaker 5: the fire and Pacific Palisite Palisades has been destroyed in
Speaker 5: a mud slide.
Speaker 7: The home overlooking the Pacific Ocean is split in half
Speaker 7: and surrounded by mud and debris. It's unclear exactly when
Speaker 7: this happened, but it will likely be added to the
Speaker 7: total number of structures destroyed as a result of the
Speaker 7: Palisades fire.
Speaker 5: Kay if i's Daniel Martindale says thousands of homes and
Speaker 5: other buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the fire,
Speaker 5: including one on the hillside just above the one destroyed
Speaker 5: in the side. More than eighty thousand people in La
Speaker 5: County remain under evacuation orders because of the fires and
Speaker 5: Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon above Altadena. Some evacuation orders
Speaker 5: have been lifted on the outskirts of the Eton Fire
Speaker 5: burn area as that fire is forty five percent surrounded.
Speaker 5: The La County Medical Examiner's office has reported sixteen deaths
Speaker 5: in the area around Pacific Palisades. At least nine deaths
Speaker 5: have been reported that fire is twenty one percent surrounded.
Speaker 5: People in the Altadena and Pacific Palisades wildfire areas have
Speaker 5: been banned from removing debris.
Speaker 8: LA County Health Officer doctor Muntu Davis issued a hazardous
Speaker 8: materials inspection that needs to be completed first According to
Speaker 8: the Public Health Department, that inspection issued on Tuesday includes
Speaker 8: fire debris, ash and dirt from burned down homes and
Speaker 8: businesses that might contain asbestos, metals, and other toxic substances.
Speaker 8: The inspection order will also help determine the fire debris
Speaker 8: clean up process required in burn areas from the Kenneth,
Speaker 8: Creek Hurst, and Lydia fires as well. Andrew Caravella KFI.
Speaker 5: News the leaves around LA may start filing up. LA
Speaker 5: County has temporarily banned the use of all lea flowers.
Speaker 5: The Department of Public Health says it's to reduce health
Speaker 5: risks from breathing in wildfire ash and smoke. It's not
Speaker 5: clear how long the band will be in place. People
Speaker 5: who lost their homes in the fires can apply for
Speaker 5: a hotel voucher to stay free at Hilton hotels for
Speaker 5: up to seven nights. Hilton, American Express and two one
Speaker 5: one LA announced plans yesterday to provide the vouchers, making
Speaker 5: twenty thousand hotel room nights available. People who have already
Speaker 5: applied through two to one one LA do not need
Speaker 5: to fill out another application. Let's see how the roads
Speaker 5: are filling out.
Speaker 3: Take a first look at your morning commute.
Speaker 5: We've got Will Cole Schreiber with us, and we've got
Speaker 5: a crash in Curritos on the ninety one.
Speaker 3: Good morning, well, good.
Speaker 2: Morning, Yeah, kind of a bad start there in Cerrito's
Speaker 2: ninety one eastbound right there at Bloomfield, a crash there
Speaker 2: and we had reports that was on the right shoulder,
Speaker 2: but the latest says all lanes are blocked, So keep
Speaker 2: an eye on that eastbound ninety one at Bloomfield, the
Speaker 2: south bend side of the five at the two ten,
Speaker 2: just before the two ten.
Speaker 3: A camp shell in the carpoolane. You don't want to
Speaker 3: hit that. Be careful.
Speaker 2: Also in downtown La, the one to one northbound right
Speaker 2: around First Street, we've got reports of a fire on
Speaker 2: the side of the roadway and another fire in poent A.
Speaker 2: It's going to be the westbound side of the ten
Speaker 2: in law Pointe at Pointe westbound ten, they're fire there
Speaker 2: on the right shoulder getting some attention, So watch out
Speaker 2: for that. With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports and
Speaker 2: Will Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 5: As you know, a lot of people stepping up to
Speaker 5: help out with the wildfire relief and as you know,
Speaker 5: we have thousands of extra firefighters here in Southern California
Speaker 5: and they're working their tails off to get these fires
Speaker 5: under control and doing an amazing job. And several restaurants
Speaker 5: around the area have been giving first responders free meals.
Speaker 5: One of those is Ono Hawaiian Barbecue. It's scheduled to
Speaker 5: be just through today and I love me some Hawaiian barbecue,
Speaker 5: but they're doing free meals for first responders.
Speaker 3: You can go in there, and.
Speaker 5: It's in most of their locations in West La Alhambra, Pasadena,
Speaker 5: South Pass, Glendora, upland, Mission Hills, Van Uy's, Silmar, Culver City.
Speaker 5: Thanks Ono Hawaiian Barbecue, and thanks to all the restaurants
Speaker 5: who've been stepping up to help the first responders who
Speaker 5: are really not only putting their lives on the line,
Speaker 5: but also working to save Southern California, which we desperately need.
Speaker 5: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
Speaker 3: Karen. President Biden bid farewell last night.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a surprising speech from the President. You know,
Speaker 9: he reflected back on his four years in office what
Speaker 9: he sees those whose key accomplishments. It was another chance
Speaker 9: for him to try and convince Americans of his legacy,
Speaker 9: but he acknowledged that much of what they consider to
Speaker 9: be their signature achievement, the infrastructure legislation, the chips manufacturing.
Speaker 9: Bringing back to the US investment in climate action, he said,
Speaker 9: it's going to take time to see effects if the
Speaker 9: seeds are planted, as you put it, and they will grow.
Speaker 3: But it was of an acknowledgment from.
Speaker 9: The President that they didn't get credit for things that
Speaker 9: they feel they deserve to get credit for. So he
Speaker 9: tried to convince people last night of it on the
Speaker 9: way out the door. But it was also surprising because
Speaker 9: he gave a warning about what he says concerned him
Speaker 9: about the future. And it's surprising because he is somebody
Speaker 9: who always talks so optimistic about the United States and
Speaker 9: what he feels is coming. But last night he warned
Speaker 9: about a tech industrial complex, echoing Dwight Eisenhower back in
Speaker 9: nineteen sixty one from his own farewell address with the
Speaker 9: military industrial complex, the President said that there's a dangerous
Speaker 9: concentration of power in the hands of a very few
Speaker 9: ultra wealthy people, and that there are dangerous consequences if
Speaker 9: their abuse of power is left unchecked, and he talked
Speaker 9: about an oligarchy that he says is taking shape in
Speaker 9: America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens
Speaker 9: our entire democracy.
Speaker 3: Okay, and who's he talking about.
Speaker 9: I think you can imagine it's talking about some of
Speaker 9: the tech CEOs and some of just the wealthiest Americans
Speaker 9: right now. But certainly it's notable given the fact that
Speaker 9: you see Elon Musk so tied Donald Trump right now
Speaker 9: and having a role in the incoming administration. Mark Zuckerberg,
Speaker 9: Jeff Bezos and others who are going to be apt
Speaker 9: the inauguration last week invited to be there. This CEO
Speaker 9: of TikTok is also confirmed to becoming. You know, the
Speaker 9: President didn't call it any of these people by name,
Speaker 9: but I think that that's who the message was aimed at,
Speaker 9: and his concerns about what this means when you have
Speaker 9: this wealthy Americans with so much power and then also
Speaker 9: tied to so closely to an administration and government like that.
Speaker 5: Haven't the wealthy always had so much power, It's just
Speaker 5: that these ones are right front and center.
Speaker 9: He talked about, you know, kind of referencing like the
Speaker 9: robber barons of yesteryear. But you know, I think the
Speaker 9: difference he is saying now is these platforms, especially the
Speaker 9: social media platforms, having so much power, and that unchecked power.
Speaker 9: He was calling out the social media company needs and
Speaker 9: the dangers of misinformation and the concerns about a lack
Speaker 9: of fact checking. He said, on these platforms, truth is
Speaker 9: smothered by lies sold for power and for profit.
Speaker 5: And as you were mentioning, this address seems kind of
Speaker 5: depressing and ominous.
Speaker 3: Is that typical?
Speaker 5: Aren't the farewell addresses usually pretty much more sunshine and joy.
Speaker 9: I think it's a mix. I think it depends on,
Speaker 9: you know, what message you're trying to send.
Speaker 6: Sometimes, you know, you have that.
Speaker 9: Like reflective look back, but also you know, we've seen
Speaker 9: other presidents do a similar you know, here's what I'm
Speaker 9: concerned about, you know, make sure this doesn't happen, or
Speaker 9: here's the fight that needs to continue. I think by
Speaker 9: the end, for the president, the rallying cry was optimistic.
Speaker 9: He was pushing and urging Americans to stay engaged because
Speaker 9: it's your turn to stand guard, keeps the faith. And
Speaker 9: he finished by saying something we've heard him say many
Speaker 9: times over his four years in the White House end
Speaker 9: a fifty plus year career in public service. He said,
Speaker 9: I love America.
Speaker 3: You love it too, and that's the important part.
Speaker 5: Okay, ABC's Karen Travis, thank you so much. We'll be
Speaker 5: talking to you again soon because I think things are
Speaker 5: about to get really excited in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 3: Exciting.
Speaker 9: We'll be a little busy, I think absolutely.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much.
Speaker 5: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 5: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A woman in
Speaker 5: Pasadena says she just paid off her home the day
Speaker 5: before she lost it in the fire that started in
Speaker 5: Eaton Canyon.
Speaker 7: We evacuated not knowing that our house was going to
Speaker 7: be on fire, but came back to ruins is gone.
Speaker 5: Sixty four year old Tutras Beasley tells KTLA she and
Speaker 5: her son are now looking for a new place to live,
Speaker 5: but they're dealing with price gouging landlords.
Speaker 3: I've been quoted maybe five thousand. Some of my friends
Speaker 3: have talked to people and they said six thousand plus,
Speaker 3: and then one girl told me somebody was charging eight
Speaker 3: thousand a month.
Speaker 5: Landlords are not allowed to raise rents by more than
Speaker 5: ten percent above previously advertised rates while La County is
Speaker 5: under a state of emergency. FEMA says donations received through
Speaker 5: crowdsourcing like gofund me can affect how much aid a
Speaker 5: person gets from the federal government. FEMA only covers losses
Speaker 5: not covered by something else. The agency says, by law,
Speaker 5: it cannot duplicate benefits. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who
Speaker 5: says a last minute crisis with Hamas is holding up
Speaker 5: Israel's approval of the just announced ceasefire. Netanyahu began signaling
Speaker 5: issues with the deal hours after President Biden and key
Speaker 5: mediator Qatar announced it was complete. Netanyas, whose office says
Speaker 5: his cabinet will not meet to approve the deal until
Speaker 5: Hamas backs down. He accused the terrorist group of reneging
Speaker 5: on parts of the agreement in an attempt to gain
Speaker 5: further concessions. The deal announced yesterday would see dozens of
Speaker 5: hostages held in Gaza released and a pause in fighting
Speaker 5: in the fifteen month war. We're going to be talking
Speaker 5: more with Jordana Miller in Jerusalem to find out more
Speaker 5: about the wrinkle and whether it can be ironed out
Speaker 5: to that fe ceasefire can move forward. That's coming up.
Speaker 5: In about nine minutes. President Biden has delivered his farewell
Speaker 5: address from the Oval Office.
Speaker 10: I'm so proud of how much we've accomplished together for
Speaker 10: the American people.
Speaker 5: Biden warned that an oligarchy of the ultra wealthy is
Speaker 5: taking shape in America and said Americans should be on
Speaker 5: guard for their freedoms and institutions during a turbulent era
Speaker 5: of rapid technological and economic change. He also spoke yesterday
Speaker 5: about the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
Speaker 10: This plan was developed and negotiated by my team and
Speaker 10: will be largely implemented by the incoming administration. That's why
Speaker 10: I told my team to keep the incoming administration fully informed,
Speaker 10: because that's how it should be working together as Americans.
Speaker 5: Biden's farewell speech comes five days before he leaves office.
Speaker 5: One of the four former Minneapolis police officers convicted in
Speaker 5: the murder of George Floyd has been released from prison.
Speaker 5: Jay Alexander King was released yesterday morning from a low
Speaker 5: security federal prison in Ohio. Another of the convicted officers
Speaker 5: was released from federal prison last summer. Poultry and dairy
Speaker 5: cattle will be missing from county fairs. In California, the
Speaker 5: state Department of Food and Agriculture has imposed a ban,
Speaker 5: effective indefinitely. The state veterinarian says it is a necessary
Speaker 5: step to stop the spread of bird flu. There have
Speaker 5: been dozens of cases at dairy farms across California, and
Speaker 5: Governor Newsom has declared a state of emergency. Film production
Speaker 5: in and around LA has dropped to its lowest level
Speaker 5: since the first year of the pandemic. Film LA says
Speaker 5: overall production is down, even though production did increase six
Speaker 5: percent in the last few months of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: Officials say they are optimistic about twenty twenty five because
Speaker 5: of a three hundred and thirty to seven hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty million dollars per year film tax credit program. Comic
Speaker 5: Con is staying in San Diego. Mayor Todd Gloria says
Speaker 5: there was a debate about the convention stay due to
Speaker 5: San Diego's perceived lack of affordability. Last year, more than
Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty thousand people attending the convention generated
Speaker 5: more than one hundred and sixty million dollars for San Diego.
Speaker 5: Comicon twenty five is scheduled to happen July twenty fourth
Speaker 5: through the twenty seventh. You know, everyone's stepping up to
Speaker 5: help during this time. And I got the nicest message
Speaker 5: on Instagram from.
Speaker 3: Sandy who said, Hey, Amy, I'm a so.
Speaker 5: Cal Native transported or transported transplanted to Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 3: She says she listens to wake up call.
Speaker 5: Thank you Sandy, and also the bill Handles showed daily
Speaker 5: on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: She says, love your show.
Speaker 5: Wanted to let you know that Parlor Pizza in Louisville
Speaker 5: is holding a fundraiser around their seven locations and they're
Speaker 5: raising money for Pasadena Humane. He says they love animals,
Speaker 5: wanted to help. Twenty five percent of all restaurant meals
Speaker 5: are being donated. Wanted to let you know that even
Speaker 5: all the way across the country, people want to help.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Sandy. Isn't that awesome?
Speaker 6: Nice?
Speaker 5: Of course, Pasadena Humane is taken in like it's. At
Speaker 5: last count, it was over four hundred animals tied to
Speaker 5: the evacuations in the Eaten fire zone, and they're helping
Speaker 5: them all. They're taking them in, they're treating them. Some
Speaker 5: of them have been injured, and they did say we
Speaker 5: talked to Kevin McManus. He says, for right now, they
Speaker 5: have enough supplies, they're good to go. They've gotten so
Speaker 5: many donations because you guys have been so generous, but
Speaker 5: they said they do need monetary donations because, as I mentioned,
Speaker 5: a lot of these animals are coming in, they've had
Speaker 5: smoke inhalation, they've got their little paws burned, that kind
Speaker 5: of thing, and they need they need emergency surgeries and treatments.
Speaker 5: And so if you can donate, Pasadena Humane would of
Speaker 5: course appreciate that. And that's a Pasadena Humane dot Org.
Speaker 5: I believe a man's been arrested for allegedly starting a
Speaker 5: fire and Sam Bernardino. The fire started yesterday afternoon threatens mahomes.
Speaker 5: Firefighters were able to stop it at thirty four acres
Speaker 5: in about an hour and a half. A hillside home
Speaker 5: that survived the fire and Pacific Palisades has been destroyed
Speaker 5: after what appears to be a mud slide behind the property.
Speaker 5: The home, overlooking the Pacific Ocean has been split in
Speaker 5: half and is surrounded by mud and debris. More of
Speaker 5: President elect Trump's cabinet picks will be on Capitol Hill today.
Speaker 5: A Senate confirmation hearings continue. We're going to be talking
Speaker 5: more about how things went yesterday and what to expect
Speaker 5: today with Stephen Portnoy from ABC. That's coming up at
Speaker 5: five point fifty. Right now, we want to do a
Speaker 5: quick check with Todd Hall with the National Weather Service
Speaker 5: because our red flag warnings for the most part have expired,
Speaker 5: but we still have a few hangars on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we just have a few. We just have a
Speaker 6: few areas that are in red flag still and that's
Speaker 6: mainly the Sennasusana Mountains and up into the La Kenny Mountains.
Speaker 6: That's all that's remaining. Generally, winds are about fifteen to
Speaker 6: twenty miles prior, much less than yesterday, much weaker, and
Speaker 6: we're looking at those continued resplay conditions. We still have
Speaker 6: a lot of dry conditions in place out there, so
Speaker 6: and dry vegetation and dryer mass in place. So please
Speaker 6: be careful today. You know, we need to stay vigilant,
Speaker 6: as you know, as these dry conditions will linger probably
Speaker 6: at least through this evening.
Speaker 3: Okay, and Todd, we kind of we did dodge a
Speaker 3: bit of a bullet.
Speaker 5: I mean, we had some some pretty strong wind gusts,
Speaker 5: but Overall, this Santa Ana wind event, at least from
Speaker 5: my perspective where I was, but I wasn't out in
Speaker 5: the really windy zones, was not what we were anticipating.
Speaker 11: It.
Speaker 6: I mean, it did measure up to that if you
Speaker 6: were in Ventura County and to the area areas to
Speaker 6: the north of the Ella Basin, it measured up pretty
Speaker 6: well as far as our wind gusts that we saw.
Speaker 6: So it was a very you know, being high lived
Speaker 6: in Ventura, it was. It was a fairly strong wind yesterday.
Speaker 6: We had some power outages sporadically throughout the day and
Speaker 6: so yeah, it did measure up pretty well up here.
Speaker 6: So uh, it's it's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 6: the upper level support and a lot of the wind
Speaker 6: support went to the north of the La Basin.
Speaker 5: Okay, and then Todd, we have a do we have
Speaker 5: more wins on the way next week?
Speaker 6: Fortunately after a brief after a brief respite for Friday
Speaker 6: and Saturday, we have are looking out to Tuesday, possibly Wednesday,
Speaker 6: the potential for another stand ana in event and critical
Speaker 6: fire weather conditions Again.
Speaker 5: Okay, Todd Hall with the National Weather Service, thank you
Speaker 5: so much for the update.
Speaker 3: We appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Okay, now let's say good morning to ABCS. We're not
Speaker 5: going to say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller. Okay, Well,
Speaker 5: we're waiting for ABC's Jordana Miller to give us a call.
Speaker 5: We're going to find out the latest on the ceasefire,
Speaker 5: the wrinkle that has cropped up, and if they can
Speaker 5: get that thing ironed out. The CEO of so Cal, Edison,
Speaker 5: says wins above Alta Dina were not strong enough to
Speaker 5: warrant de energizing power lines at the time the fire
Speaker 5: started in Eaton Canyon. Kfi's Daniel Martindale says Stephen Powell
Speaker 5: told the La Times wins typically would have to be
Speaker 5: sixty to eighty miles per hour for the company to
Speaker 5: consider the de energization of transmission lines.
Speaker 7: He says the readings Edison saw were lower than that,
Speaker 7: adding that data showed no abnormalities in the area. Right
Speaker 7: before the fire started, the National Weather Service recorded gusts
Speaker 7: of fifty nine miles per hour at its Eaton Canyon
Speaker 7: monitoring site.
Speaker 5: Investigators are still working to figure out what started the
Speaker 5: fire in Eaton Canyon last week. Okay, we've got Jordana Miller.
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes we're we've got a little bit of
Speaker 5: delay because we're talking to someone who's halfway around the world.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Jordana, Good morning.
Speaker 12: I mean, there's been a last minute snag in the
Speaker 12: Gaza ceasefire deal, even after all of the announcements last
Speaker 12: night and the really optimism and celebrations in Gaza and
Speaker 12: relief here in Israel. Today the Israeli Minister is saying
Speaker 12: that Hamas has renagged and they're trying to renegotiate one
Speaker 12: part of the deal. He's keeping his negotiators in Doha
Speaker 12: to try to handle this last minute dispute. And now
Speaker 12: John Kirby is now also saying that US officials are
Speaker 12: there trying to figure this out. It appears that Hamas
Speaker 12: is trying to change something on the issue of the Palestinians,
Speaker 12: the jailed Palestinians, who will get out how many of
Speaker 12: them in exchange for the thirty three hostages. It's a
Speaker 12: very contentious issue. Hamas of course wants.
Speaker 6: Some of the.
Speaker 12: Jailed criminals is what would call them terrorists right, who've
Speaker 12: carried out crimes, murder and other terrorist attacks. The Palestinians.
Speaker 12: Hamas wants some of their most senior members out and
Speaker 12: Israel saying no, we have a veto over some of
Speaker 12: the names, and so this is part of the dispute.
Speaker 12: That's what Israeli sources have told us. We do expect
Speaker 12: it can be resolved, but it's going to take several
Speaker 12: more hours, and that means that we're not going to
Speaker 12: see the Israelis officially come out and approve of the
Speaker 12: deal and then even put it for a vote to
Speaker 12: the cabinet and the government. Those are steps that have
Speaker 12: to be done to ratify the agreement, and you know,
Speaker 12: ahead of actually the deal being implemented and having the
Speaker 12: start of the deal on Sunday. So we're seeing a
Speaker 12: delay here. God willing will get through this last detail
Speaker 12: because as you know, Amy, this has been a deal
Speaker 12: that we've been talking about for months and months. It
Speaker 12: has so many moving parts, and certainly if the sides
Speaker 12: have agreed on everything else, they're going to get through
Speaker 12: this last dispute.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, we certainly hope.
Speaker 5: So so going on the assumption we know that's dangerous
Speaker 5: that they actually do get this one iron out and
Speaker 5: decide that they are going to move forward. We had
Speaker 5: heard that the ceasefire would start on Sunday, the nineteen Monday,
Speaker 5: and then just a quick quick overview, there's phases of it,
Speaker 5: so just like in thirty seconds or less, you know
Speaker 5: what happens in Phase one and then Phase two and
Speaker 5: phase three.
Speaker 12: Right, so Phase one ushers in the seafire for six weeks.
Speaker 12: We see thirty three hostages come out, including two Americans.
Speaker 12: The Israelis will release dozens of Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli
Speaker 12: Army will redeploy to a buffer zone, AID will flood in.
Speaker 12: In the middle of Phase one, the sides, we'll start
Speaker 12: talking about Phase two and Phase three, which will bring
Speaker 12: a permanent end to the war, the rest of the
Speaker 12: hostages to come out, and a new governing body for
Speaker 12: the Godza Strip and plans for reconstruction, rebuilding.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, as this moves forward and hopefully takes fold,
Speaker 5: we'll be talking more and get into more details about,
Speaker 5: you know, the first phase and the second and third. Sure,
Speaker 5: John Miller, thank you so much for the information, and
Speaker 5: we'll keep our fingers crossed.
Speaker 6: Talks you Amy.
Speaker 5: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 5: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA
Speaker 5: City Council members have proposed giving at least ten thousand
Speaker 5: dollars to city employees who've lost their homes in the wildfires.
Speaker 13: The motion, introduced by five members of council, would call
Speaker 13: on the Personnel Department and labor unions to help in
Speaker 13: identifying the impacted workers. The proposal also calls for help
Speaker 13: in other ways, like creating a city fund to assist
Speaker 13: workers offer flexibility with sick time and paid leave. In
Speaker 13: addition to giving eighty additional hours of paid leave, it
Speaker 13: would also allow paid leave to be donated by other
Speaker 13: employees and expand work from home opportunities. The council's Personnel
Speaker 13: Committee is slated to take up the issue first. Michael
Speaker 13: Monks KFI News.
Speaker 5: People who lost their homes and the fires can apply
Speaker 5: for hotel vouchers to stay free at Hilton properties for
Speaker 5: up to seven nights. Hilton, American Express and two one
Speaker 5: one LA announced the plans yesterday. It will provide vouchers
Speaker 5: for twenty one thousand hotel room nights available. The Biden
Speaker 5: administration is said to be considering ways to keep TikTok
Speaker 5: available in the US if a ban takes effect on
Speaker 5: Sunday as scheduled. One official says they are exploring options
Speaker 5: for how to implement the law so TikTok doesn't go dark.
Speaker 5: The video app is said to be banned unless the
Speaker 5: Supreme Court blocks the ban. The government approved the law
Speaker 5: last year that prohibits app stores from offering TikTok because
Speaker 5: of concerns the Chinese government has used it to spy
Speaker 5: on Americans. President ellect Trump has directed his legal team
Speaker 5: to ask the Supreme Court to block the ban until
Speaker 5: a political solution can be found. But Francis has been
Speaker 5: hurt in a fall for the second time in just
Speaker 5: over a month. The Vatican says Francis didn't break his
Speaker 5: arm today, but it's in a sling as a precaution.
Speaker 5: A few weeks ago, the Pope fell and got a
Speaker 5: bad bruise on his chin. Most red flag warnings have
Speaker 5: expired with no new major fires breaking out in the Southland.
Speaker 5: Wins may return to the area early next week, as
Speaker 5: Toddhall with the National Weather Service was just telling us.
Speaker 5: The break in the winds is expected to give firefighters
Speaker 5: an opportunity to shore up fire lines around the fires
Speaker 5: in Pacific Palisades and Altadena and Pasadena. Hotlines have been
Speaker 5: set up for pet owners who have lost their pets
Speaker 5: in the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and the Eaten Fires.
Speaker 5: For the Palisades fire, the number to call two one three,
Speaker 5: two seven zero eighty one fifty five. For Eaten fire
Speaker 5: victims looking for dogs, cats, horses and other livestock the
Speaker 5: number to call six two six five seven seven three
Speaker 5: seven five too. If you didn't get those, you can
Speaker 5: probably google it as well. President Biden says he is
Speaker 5: greatly concerned that an oligarchy is taking shape in the US.
Speaker 5: He says, giving power to the extremely wealthy and powerful
Speaker 5: threatens are democracy, basic rights, and freedoms. He gave his
Speaker 5: farewell address from the Oval office last night. He has
Speaker 5: less than five days left in office. At six oh five,
Speaker 5: it's handle on the news. The clock is ticking toward
Speaker 5: a TikTok band at five point fifty. Who got grilled
Speaker 5: on Capitol Hill and who's going to be on the
Speaker 5: hot seat today? We're going to find out with ABC's
Speaker 5: Stephen Portnoy. That's just in about fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 5: This week, we didn't feel like it was appropriate to
Speaker 5: go out and about to do a normal segment, like
Speaker 5: we go out and we see cool things about and
Speaker 5: around LA and southern California that maybe you forgot about
Speaker 5: because there's so much to do around here, and so
Speaker 5: we like to share different places to go and things
Speaker 5: to see. But this week we wanted to go out
Speaker 5: and about to see what people are doing to help.
Speaker 5: Like we talked about, it's so amazing to see all
Speaker 5: the people coming out to help in the wake of
Speaker 5: the fires. We went to Dream Center LA and caught
Speaker 5: up with the director of Disaster Services, Clint Carlton. So
Speaker 5: Clint tell us what the Dream Center is doing to
Speaker 5: help the thousands of people who've lost everything in the fires.
Speaker 14: Well, believe it or not, this is actually our tenth
Speaker 14: year with my Heart Radio. So tenth year our Heart
Speaker 14: Radio serving the community of Los Angeles. So we can't
Speaker 14: thank you guys enough to start out with for standing
Speaker 14: with us together. I think this has been one of
Speaker 14: the hardest, hardest things for Los Angeles to deal with. Obviously,
Speaker 14: we had COVID nineteen and that was that was a
Speaker 14: horrible fear disaster. But this there's there's so many people
Speaker 14: that have been impacted and and so we're just trying
Speaker 14: to provide support, joy, hope and light at the end
Speaker 14: of the tunnel through the uncertainty. Right now, the wind's
Speaker 14: blowing you, your hair is blowing because because we don't
Speaker 14: know what's going to happen tonight.
Speaker 4: And so so where we are right now, we're in
Speaker 4: our line, and so.
Speaker 14: We're providing relief right now to individuals over We'll walk
Speaker 14: over there in a second, but you see our drop offline.
Speaker 14: So the Dream Center is just here right now. So
Speaker 14: we're in we have four stages of a disaster. We
Speaker 14: have the rescue face, we have the relief face, and
Speaker 14: the and the rescue face and relief face together right now.
Speaker 4: They're messed together.
Speaker 14: And then and then coming up hopefully next week, we
Speaker 14: can start the recovery fase, okay, and that'll that'll allow
Speaker 14: us to go in and help people out in their homes.
Speaker 4: Believe it or not, We're going to go door to door.
Speaker 4: It's called adopt the block.
Speaker 14: We've been doing a doctor walk for thirty years here
Speaker 14: in Los Angeles, and we go on knock on people's
Speaker 14: door and say what do you need?
Speaker 4: How can we meet your needs?
Speaker 14: And so that's what we're going to do for many,
Speaker 14: many people in Los Angeles, the Alta Dina area, the
Speaker 14: Palisades area.
Speaker 3: And the beautiful thing is the Dream Center is obviously
Speaker 3: built for this. So let's take a look at the
Speaker 3: the relief part.
Speaker 5: Now, there's a line of cars. I had to park
Speaker 5: about a block away and walk in because there is
Speaker 5: this line of cars of people who want to drop
Speaker 5: off donations to help people. And then there's another line
Speaker 5: that's filtering in and they're picking up supplies because these
Speaker 5: are people who don't have anything.
Speaker 3: They had like ninety seconds to get out of their home.
Speaker 3: They've lost absolutely every kick medical.
Speaker 4: So it is so heartwarming.
Speaker 5: And I know I'm an all teary and stupid about it,
Speaker 5: but it's just amazing to see the.
Speaker 3: Outpouring of support from people. I mean, look at all
Speaker 3: these donations. What kind of donations are we looking for?
Speaker 14: Paper shows, non character food items is what we.
Speaker 4: Need right now. But it breaks my heart. I have
Speaker 4: a lady come through and you're gonna make me cry?
Speaker 6: Is she just?
Speaker 4: She just showed up and she said, I don't know
Speaker 4: where to start. Yeah, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 4: So so our team just, you know, surrounded her, and
Speaker 4: I mean, you start with a toothbrush. Yep. You start
Speaker 4: rebuilding somebody's life with a toothbrush. And you look at
Speaker 4: these these.
Speaker 14: Houses that have been passed on from generation to generations.
Speaker 4: That's her wealth.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And some of them didn't have insurance. Yeah, and so
Speaker 4: we got to stand in the gap.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So the immediate need now is to get those donations,
Speaker 5: and we're tempting them on the addresses two.
Speaker 14: Three zero one Bellevue Avenue, Los Angeles, California, and nine
Speaker 14: zero zero two six.
Speaker 3: Right, it's right in in Echo Park Park, easy to find.
Speaker 3: Type it into ways and we'll get you there.
Speaker 4: And then again those are people dropping off yep.
Speaker 14: And then these are people picking up, and so they're
Speaker 14: coming in from two different ends of the street. Got
Speaker 14: drop off, pickup, drop off pickup.
Speaker 4: When we go door to door, well we'll knock on
Speaker 4: the door. What are your needs?
Speaker 14: You need an air feer, fires, you need, you need something?
Speaker 14: You need anything for your house? You know, do you
Speaker 14: need a new count because it's got smoke inside of it?
Speaker 4: You need a new bed? I mean, that's what we're
Speaker 4: going to be looking for now.
Speaker 5: It's amazing and look at all of these donations. I
Speaker 5: mean it's just it's just again, it's heartbreaking what happened.
Speaker 5: It's heartwarming to see what we've done. Now, If they
Speaker 5: want to make a monetary donation, how do they do that?
Speaker 14: They can they can go to dream Center dot org
Speaker 14: backslash donate, or they can go on kfi's website and
Speaker 14: give there, or they can text relief to three three
Speaker 14: one zero zero.
Speaker 4: That's relief to three three one zero zero.
Speaker 14: And also what I want to show you is these
Speaker 14: are volunteers from all over Los Angeles. Yeah, these people,
Speaker 14: these people have truly truly showed up for their community.
Speaker 3: And that's the amazing part. How people are just showing up.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's so beautiful to see because I know
Speaker 3: that we.
Speaker 5: Get jaded and cynical, but when disaster strikes, man, people.
Speaker 3: Have turned out.
Speaker 14: We had over this weekend, we had over twenty five
Speaker 14: hundred volunteers on Saturday and Sunday. Twenty five hundred volunteers
Speaker 14: showed up to volunteer for us on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 4: Just the most amazing thing.
Speaker 5: Thank Carlton, thank you for what you're doing, for what
Speaker 5: your organization, Dream Center LA is doing.
Speaker 3: We're so proud to have partnered up with you.
Speaker 5: I know we've had a relationship with iHeartMedia for like
Speaker 5: ten years until legit five O one see organization.
Speaker 3: We need your help.
Speaker 5: That's where we're out and about and we would love
Speaker 5: to have you donate because they need our help. It
Speaker 5: again when we talk about what happened to these people
Speaker 5: and how they just lost everything and basically the blink
Speaker 5: of an eye, and it was so cool to see
Speaker 5: everybody stepping up and helping out and uh, if you again,
Speaker 5: if you want to make a contribution, it's Dreamcenter dot
Speaker 5: org slash donate. You can also drop off donations at
Speaker 5: two three zero one Bellevue Avenue. That's continuing, I believe
Speaker 5: through next week. But just if you go, just know that,
Speaker 5: you know, don't go if you're in a super big hurry,
Speaker 5: because it's gonna take a little while. They the lines
Speaker 5: are astounding and I would love for you to go
Speaker 5: and take a look at the interview with Clint and
Speaker 5: get a look at what's going on at Dream Center La.
Speaker 5: I'm posting this on my Instagram at amy K King
Speaker 5: a M y K A y K I n G
Speaker 5: at amy K King, Also on Kfi's Instagram at KFI
Speaker 5: AM six forty. You got to see what they're doing
Speaker 5: a dream Center La and it's probably gonna make you
Speaker 5: want to do something too if you haven't already. Thanks
Speaker 5: again to dream Center La, and again the contribution is
Speaker 5: dreamcenter dot org slash donate. Thanks again to everything that
Speaker 5: dream Center LA is doing, just doing God's work. Really,
Speaker 5: let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 5: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some people in
Speaker 5: fire evacuation areas have chosen to stay behind to protect
Speaker 5: their homes. Ivanna Manly in Altadna tells KTLA she and
Speaker 5: a few neighbors are watching for any embers that might
Speaker 5: reignite and are protecting their homes from looters.
Speaker 3: I do have firearms, and I've been, you know, calling
Speaker 3: my friends like to make sure I know.
Speaker 7: How to legally exist with them.
Speaker 5: Since the fire started last week, dozens of people have
Speaker 5: been arrested on suspicion of looting homes and businesses in
Speaker 5: the Palisades and Eaten fire evacuation areas. Local authorities and
Speaker 5: fire officials advise all residents to follow evacuation orders. The
Speaker 5: deadly Palisades fire is now twenty one percent surrounded. That's
Speaker 5: up from eighteen percent a day ago. Winds are expected
Speaker 5: to reduce dramatically over the next few days and pretty
Speaker 5: much take calm through the weekend. But as we've mentioned,
Speaker 5: another Santa Ana wind event is in the forecast for
Speaker 5: early next week. The fire in the Pacific Palisades area
Speaker 5: erupted on January seventh and has burned through more than
Speaker 5: twenty three thousand acres and at least five thousand homes, buildings, businesses, schools,
Speaker 5: you name it, it's burned. At least nine people have
Speaker 5: died in that fire. More evacuation orders have been lifted
Speaker 5: on the outskirts of the Eton Fire burn area near
Speaker 5: Altadena and Pasadena. Containment of that fire is going up.
Speaker 5: It's up to forty five percent surrounded. The Eaten Fire
Speaker 5: has left sixteen people dead and burned more than fourteen
Speaker 5: thousand acres. Southern California. Edison continued to do public safety
Speaker 5: power shutoffs in areas with high wildfire risk. It's due
Speaker 5: to continued high winds and dry conditions in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 5: As of early this morning, about twenty seven thousand customers
Speaker 5: in San Bernardino County are without power. It was shut
Speaker 5: off as a precautionary measure. The numbers down to only
Speaker 5: about one hundred and fifty customers. In Riverside County, the
Speaker 5: brush fire in Riverside that broke out Tuesday in the
Speaker 5: Santa Ana River Bottom has been classified as arson. Riverside
Speaker 5: Fire authorities confirmed the fire in near Mission in Avenue
Speaker 5: and Indian Hill Road was intentionally set. They are investigating
Speaker 5: the blade. The fire burned about two and a half
Speaker 5: acres and did prompt some evacuations in road closures. No
Speaker 5: arrests have been made yet. Prosecutors in La and Orange
Speaker 5: Counties want to make looting during an emergency a felony.
Speaker 5: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the legislation proposed yesterday would make
Speaker 5: the crime punishable by prison time.
Speaker 7: It would also classify looting as a strike under California's
Speaker 7: three strike law, and it would make a looting charge
Speaker 7: toffer to expunge from a criminal record.
Speaker 5: Dozens of people have been interested for looting and other
Speaker 5: crimes in the fire areas around Pacific Palisades and Altadina.
Speaker 5: Two of the men charged in the murder of actor
Speaker 5: Johnny Wacter in downtown LA have been sentenced to prison.
Speaker 5: Lionel Gutierrez was sentenced yesterday to four years after pleading
Speaker 5: guilty to attempted robbery and grand theft. Frank Alano pleaded
Speaker 5: no contest in October to being an accessory, receiving stolen property,
Speaker 5: and possession of a firearm by a felon. Two other
Speaker 5: eighteen year old men were ordered last week to stand
Speaker 5: trial on murder and robbery charges for the actors killing
Speaker 5: last May. The FDA is banning an additive used in
Speaker 5: thousands of food and drink items.
Speaker 8: The classic red dye number three has been put in
Speaker 8: American's food products since nineteen oh seven. However, the end
Speaker 8: of a thirty year study by scientists shows evidence that
Speaker 8: the food dye, which is used as artificial coloring, has
Speaker 8: links to cancer and animals. The dye, which is made
Speaker 8: from petroleum, was challenged by several organizationations in twenty twenty
Speaker 8: two that led to the ban on Wednesday by the FDA,
Speaker 8: which covers the rest of the US. California was proactive
Speaker 8: by banning red dye number three in its drinks and
Speaker 8: foods back in October twenty twenty three. Andrew Caravella kay
Speaker 8: if I News the.
Speaker 5: US Border Patrol has busted up an attempt to smuggle
Speaker 5: five baby spider monkey monkeys into Texas. The animals were
Speaker 5: found in a car Tuesday at a highway checkpoint near
Speaker 5: Corpus Christi Monkey shelter Primarily Primates says it is tragic
Speaker 5: that people are trying to smuggle monkeys. No kidding, They
Speaker 5: say the animals are difficult to live with and often
Speaker 5: become dangerous. Remember not too long ago we heard that
Speaker 5: people were smuggling tortoises in socks.
Speaker 3: People are just crazy.
Speaker 5: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who says a last minute
Speaker 5: crisis with Hamasa's holding up Israeli approval of a just
Speaker 5: announced cease fire. ABC's Ian Pannell says the news comes
Speaker 5: as people in Gaza have been celebrating in the streets.
Speaker 11: So Netzignaho governments is accusing the mass of reneging on deal.
Speaker 11: They were supposed to have mets already this morning. The
Speaker 11: Security Cabinet should have ratified the deal, but that hasn't happened,
Speaker 11: raising questions.
Speaker 4: About what happens next.
Speaker 5: Natanya Who's office has said the Cabinet won't meet until
Speaker 5: Hamas backs down the ceasefire was supposed to begin on Sunday.
Speaker 5: It would include the release of thirty three hostages and
Speaker 5: the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Musicians will i Am,
Speaker 5: Derek D, Nice Jones, and DJ Head, along with actor
Speaker 5: and philanthropist Ettian Maurice, will be presenting a live stream
Speaker 5: benefit tonight to support those impacted by the La County wildfires.
Speaker 5: It's modeled after Club Quarantine, created by d Nis in
Speaker 5: his living room during the COVID nineteen pandemic. Remember when
Speaker 5: they were doing that. I remember Toad the wet Sprocket
Speaker 5: was doing concerts. Glenn I believe is his name, and
Speaker 5: they're just doing concerts in their living room. So cool,
Speaker 5: nice way to spend the time. But anyway they're doing it.
Speaker 5: It's basically the same format. It's called lah aimed at
Speaker 5: rejuvenating fire affected residents during a time of displacement and isolation.
Speaker 5: That's according to the Annenberg Foundation and the will I
Speaker 5: Am Angel Foundation, which are both sponsors of the event.
Speaker 5: It's going to happen at six pm. It will originate
Speaker 5: from will i AM's Fyi campus. You can watch it
Speaker 5: on Instagram and YouTube. It will include sets featuring d
Speaker 5: Nice and Djhad and will include updates on available resources
Speaker 5: and also feature stories of hope, which is always a
Speaker 5: wonderful thing.
Speaker 3: I totally forgot to tell you this.
Speaker 5: I got a DM from another listener on Instagram at
Speaker 5: Amy kay King and they said, oh, Amy, are you
Speaker 5: going to be watching this?
Speaker 3: And I said, what am I watching?
Speaker 5: So? You know, our our friend Colonel Nick Haig, who's
Speaker 5: a NASA astronaut and also a Space Force guardian, and
Speaker 5: we've had the opportunity to talk to him several times.
Speaker 5: We also got to talk to him on the International
Speaker 5: Space Station. Well, he's up there and he gets to
Speaker 5: go for a space walk today. In fact, it's supposed
Speaker 5: to have started at five o'clock. It's on the NASA
Speaker 5: plus app. I need to go turn this on in
Speaker 5: our next break. But Commander Sonny Williams is going to
Speaker 5: be going out there along with Nick Haig. Plans call
Speaker 5: for Williams to float back out next week with Butch Wilmore.
Speaker 5: And of course Sonny and Butch are the ones that
Speaker 5: went up to the space station on the Boeing Starliner
Speaker 5: and they were supposed to be there for a week,
Speaker 5: but then now they've been there for like nine months.
Speaker 5: They were planning to come back in February, but I
Speaker 5: believe a last time we heard, it's now been pushed
Speaker 5: back to March. They just want to make sure that
Speaker 5: everything is right and ready for them to come. And
Speaker 5: in fact, Colonel Haig's whole mission got redone. He was
Speaker 5: scheduled to go up with a crew of four people
Speaker 5: in August, and that's what we had been talking to
Speaker 5: him several times leading up to that, and then when
Speaker 5: Sonny and Butch got stuck up there, they had to
Speaker 5: reconfigure everything, so the mission changed. Colonel Haig was promoted
Speaker 5: to commander, so he's the commander of his mission, and
Speaker 5: they just went up with two astronauts. It was actually
Speaker 5: Colonel Haig and then a Russian cosmonaut, and they left
Speaker 5: two spots open so they can bring Butch and Sunny home.
Speaker 3: But what I's thrilled they're going to be doing a
Speaker 3: space walk today, Well, just walking in space. I know, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, I'll have to ask him about that next
Speaker 3: time we talk to him.
Speaker 5: Here's another way you can help fire victims and get entertained.
Speaker 5: At the same time, fire aid relief is coming to
Speaker 5: the Intuit Dome on January thirtieth, performers and ticket information.
Speaker 5: We don't know yet it's coming soon, but they have
Speaker 5: scheduled fire aid relief. Did the into It Dome on
Speaker 5: January thirtieth, and we'll share the ticket information and the
Speaker 5: performer information once that's announced. State Farm says it will
Speaker 5: offer policy renewals to homeowners impacted by the Southern California wildfires.
Speaker 5: State Farm was planning to drop coverage for the homeowners,
Speaker 5: but says it has paused that and now says people
Speaker 5: who had coverage as of January seventh, when the fire started,
Speaker 5: will have the option to renew for another policy term.
Speaker 5: The US Air Forces it has deployed three military planes
Speaker 5: assigned to the Wyoming National Guard to Los Angeles to
Speaker 5: help with the wildfires. Three other C one thirties from
Speaker 5: a Colorado Springs based US Air Force Reserve unit and
Speaker 5: the Nevada Air National Guard have also been deployed. President
Speaker 5: elect Trump may be considering an executive order that would
Speaker 5: put a pause on a new law that requires TikTok
Speaker 5: to sell or be banned. Suspending enforcement of the law
Speaker 5: would give the Trump administration time to work out a
Speaker 5: sale or some other solution. The Chinese owned app is
Speaker 5: scheduled to be banned in the US starting on Sunday.
Speaker 5: We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning,
Speaker 5: the Israel Hama ceasefire just announced yesterday has hit a snag.
Speaker 5: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen Moore,
Speaker 5: of President elect Trump's nominees were on the proverbial hot seat.
Speaker 5: Pam Bondi, the nominee to be Attorney general, how'd she
Speaker 5: do yesterday?
Speaker 15: Well, look, she demonstrated her discipline because republic Democrats tried
Speaker 15: to repeatedly get her to talk about what she would
Speaker 15: do if the president ordered her to go after his
Speaker 15: political opponents, and she wouldn't give an inch. I mean,
Speaker 15: you know, she wouldn't acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the
Speaker 15: twenty twenty election. She said that Joe Biden is president,
Speaker 15: but she refused to say yes, Senator Joe Biden won
Speaker 15: and Donald Trump lost. She also refused to engage when
Speaker 15: questioned by Senator Schiff about whether she would push back
Speaker 15: against the demands to, for example, investigate Liz Cheney or
Speaker 15: Jack Smith, the former Special counsel. She said that if
Speaker 15: everyone's so worried about Liz Cheney. Senator Shiff ought to
Speaker 15: be worried about the crime rate in the state of California.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a fun little exchange.
Speaker 15: Yes, And she also pointed out that Senator Shiff was
Speaker 15: censured by his colleagues in the House. Now, when all
Speaker 15: is said and done, I think it'd be a huge
Speaker 15: shock if Pambody were not to be confirmed by this
Speaker 15: Republican controlled Senate. And Senator Lindsey Graham spoke for most Republicans,
Speaker 15: not all of them. What he said that he's glad
Speaker 15: that the President elect picked her, that Donald Trump knows
Speaker 15: Pam Bondy, that he trusts Pambondy, and that Pam Bondy
Speaker 15: is highly qualified, having served for eight years as the
Speaker 15: state attorney general in Florida.
Speaker 5: Do most attorney generals previously serve in a like in
Speaker 5: a lower capacity? Is it an attorney general or is
Speaker 5: does it matter?
Speaker 4: I think it varies.
Speaker 15: I mean, you have various examples of attorneys general who
Speaker 15: have served as federal judges. That was certainly the case
Speaker 15: with Merrick Arland. You have attorney's general who have served
Speaker 15: in senior posts in the Department of Justice, previously. I
Speaker 15: don't know that that's the case with Pam Bondy, but Pambody,
Speaker 15: having served as the chief law enforcement officer of one
Speaker 15: of the largest states in the country, certainly has the
Speaker 15: requisite qualifications compared to others who have been confirmed for
Speaker 15: the post.
Speaker 5: Gotcha, okay, And then yesterday, Stephen, they were also talking
Speaker 5: to Senator Marco Rubio, he got his confirmation hearing. I
Speaker 5: thought that they did them like one after another after another,
Speaker 5: but that one appeared to be going at the same time.
Speaker 15: Yesterday was apparently a tied the record in the Senate
Speaker 15: for the number of simultaneous confirmation hearings. And the whole
Speaker 15: idea is to see to it that the instant that
Speaker 15: President elect Trump takes the oath of office at noon
Speaker 15: on Monday, he can go into an anti room off
Speaker 15: the Senate Chamber sign papers that formalize these nominations, and
Speaker 15: maybe by the end of next Monday, the Senate will
Speaker 15: vote to confirm some of these key posts. But you know,
Speaker 15: while these hearings are held essentially protectively, the whole idea
Speaker 15: is for continuity and so that you know, the new
Speaker 15: president can have team confirmed as soon as possible. They
Speaker 15: can hit the ground running. Now we're talking about a
Speaker 15: couple key posts, certainly the most senior posts in the
Speaker 15: cabinet Secretary of State, Attorney General as the Treasury secretary
Speaker 15: designate Scott Bessant has his confirmation hearing today, and again
Speaker 15: I don't expect that these nominees will have trouble. It'll
Speaker 15: be interesting to see how the vote comes out for
Speaker 15: Pete Hegseth, the Defense Secretary nominee. But ultimately, when all
Speaker 15: of a sudden done, the effort here on the part
Speaker 15: of this new Republican controlled Senate is to demonstrate to
Speaker 15: the country and to the incoming president that are they
Speaker 15: are ready to go to make sure that, as they say,
Speaker 15: elections have consequences and the president has his team in place, okay?
Speaker 3: And then do we have more confirmation hearings tomorrow or
Speaker 3: are they kind of done after that.
Speaker 15: I'm not aware of anything scheduled for tomorrow. I think
Speaker 15: everyone's getting ready going to the Burlinton coat factory to
Speaker 15: buy all the coats and scarves and gloves and hats
Speaker 15: that everyone's going to need because Monday's inauguration ceremony is
Speaker 15: set to be the coldest in four decades. We're talking
Speaker 15: about midday temperatures at noon Eastern time under twenty degrees
Speaker 15: with windshills in the single digits. The last time it
Speaker 15: was that cold, or about that cold, the president decided
Speaker 15: to have the ceremony held indoors.
Speaker 3: I was just going to ask you, do they ever
Speaker 3: move it indoors?
Speaker 15: It has happened once in the modern era, and that
Speaker 15: was Ronald Reagan decided in nineteen eighty five. I don't
Speaker 15: know if it was Nancy Reagan or whoever, just maybe
Speaker 15: it was him himself said you know what, it's not
Speaker 15: worth making everybody freeze. I don't know how Donald Trump
Speaker 15: feels about it, but you know, as evidenced by the
Speaker 15: desire to have the flag at full masted full staff,
Speaker 15: despite the law which says that for thirty days after
Speaker 15: the passing of a former president the flag shall be
Speaker 15: at half staff, the idea is I think it would
Speaker 15: perhaps be seen as the wrong message to send to
Speaker 15: the country for the new president to yield to the
Speaker 15: climate and the weather. Let's see how it all plays.
Speaker 5: Out, all right, ABC. Stephen Portner, thanks so much for
Speaker 5: the information.
Speaker 3: As always, you bet.
Speaker 5: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 5: of the KMFI twenty four from southern California's expected to
Speaker 5: get a break from the Santa Ana wins over the weekend,
Speaker 5: but they're not done yet. Todd Hall with the National
Speaker 5: Weather Service tells KFI more strong winds are expected early
Speaker 5: next week.
Speaker 6: And yes, we will very likely see critical fire rid
Speaker 6: conditions again developed once again sometime between I would say
Speaker 6: Monday and Wednesday next week.
Speaker 5: For now, red flag warnings of critical fire danger have
Speaker 5: expired in much of the region. A red flag warning
Speaker 5: will remain in effect until three this afternoon for the
Speaker 5: western San Gabriel Mountains, the Santa Susanna Mountains, and the
Speaker 5: five and fourteen Freeway corridors, with gus up to about
Speaker 5: forty miles per hour expected. A hillside home in Pacific
Speaker 5: Palisades that survived the fire has split in half from
Speaker 5: what appears to be a mud and debris slide. Not
Speaker 5: clear when the home on Castemalai Castella Mare Drive was damaged.
Speaker 5: Video from the air shows the home in two pieces,
Speaker 5: with one section leaning heavily toward another nearby house, with
Speaker 5: mud and debris surrounding it. A home just above on
Speaker 5: the hillside burned to the ground. The La County Health
Speaker 5: Director is issued in order prohibiting debris cleanup or removal
Speaker 5: in the fire areas that include Pacific Palisades and Altadena
Speaker 5: until has met inspection is done. The Health departments is
Speaker 5: fire debris, ash and dirt from the fires may contain asbestos,
Speaker 5: heavy metals, and other hazardous substances. Once cleanup starts, property
Speaker 5: owners have to get special approval and then follow laws
Speaker 5: regarding fire debris and hazardous waste cleanup and disposal. And
Speaker 5: The Autrey Museum in Griffith Park is planning to reopen
Speaker 5: today and is offering free admission. The museum has been
Speaker 5: closed during the wildfires. The museum said in a statement,
Speaker 5: the Autry's top priorities the safety of our visitors and community,
Speaker 5: and it is with caution the autre Is Police to
Speaker 5: announce we're reopening our doors Thursday, January sixteenth. The museum
Speaker 5: is offering free admission through Monday. This is KFI and
Speaker 5: kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County Southland weather from KFI,
Speaker 5: the winds are diminishing, but as I just mentioned that
Speaker 5: red flag warning remains in effect until three pm for
Speaker 5: the western San Gabriel and Santa Susanna Mountains and also
Speaker 5: the five and fourteen freeway corridors. Sunny skies. Highs in
Speaker 5: the upper sixties at the beaches Metro La and inland
Speaker 5: O c. Sixties to about seventy in the valleys, and
Speaker 5: I E. Fifties in the Anelote Valley. Morning clouds, afternoon
Speaker 5: sun Tomorrow cooler with highs just around sixty. It's forty
Speaker 5: two and fuller ten fifty four in San Clementy, twenty
Speaker 5: six in Lancaster, forty two in Studio City. We lead
Speaker 5: local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm
Speaker 5: Amy King. This has been your wake up call, and
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