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Uncovered 9/11 Records · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640. Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 1: for a voice check. Station, this is Amy King with
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  Speaker 1: KFI's wake-up call. How do you hear me?
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  Speaker 2: I can hear you loud and clear. It's time for
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  Speaker 2: your morning wake-up call. Here's Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It's 5 o'clock straight up. This is your
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  Speaker 1: wake-up call for Wednesday, September 9th. I'm Amy King. We're
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  Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks for starting your
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  Speaker 1: day with us, as always. Is it hot enough for you?
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  Speaker 1: It was 79 degrees as I was driving in. The
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  Speaker 1: overnight temperature... I mean, it felt nice. It didn't feel hot.
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  Speaker 1: It just felt like weird because I didn't need a
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  Speaker 1: jacket or anything. Glad I wore shorts to work today.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you can too. We have producer Michelle sitting in
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  Speaker 1: for producer Ann today because Ann got to go to
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  Speaker 1: a Padres game last night and it was in San
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  Speaker 1: Diego and it was too far away to get back.
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  Speaker 1: So she took the day off. So producer Michelle is here.
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  Speaker 1: And I have to tell you that Michelle gave me
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  Speaker 1: a tip one time And every time I have a
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  Speaker 1: boiled egg, I think of Michelle. And I have I
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  Speaker 1: just happened to bring a boiled egg for breakfast this
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  Speaker 1: morning because, you know, when you do boiled eggs and
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about this before, you do boiled eggs and
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  Speaker 1: then it like is so hard to get the shell
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  Speaker 1: off of the egg. Michelle's like, I have a surefire
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  Speaker 1: way to do it. And so she outlined that way
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And that's how I do my eggs now,
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  Speaker 1: including a cold bath at the end of the boiling
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  Speaker 1: and And the shell almost falls off. It works every time.
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  Speaker 1: Every time. If you want to know how to DM
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  Speaker 1: me and I'll give you the specific instructions, but it
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  Speaker 1: always cracks me up. And what you told us about that, what,
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  Speaker 1: two years ago, Michelle? And I swear to God, every
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  Speaker 1: time I have a boy leg, I think of you. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I go, oh, Michelle taught me how to do this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it only took me 100 years to find
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  Speaker 1: out before that. Anyway, here's what's ahead on Wake Up
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  Speaker 1: Call this Wednesday morning. Six homes have been red tagged.
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  Speaker 1: Two others have been yellow tagged as officials in Dana
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  Speaker 1: Point monitor that damage done by heavy rains and big
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  Speaker 1: waves caused by Hurricane Marie. The high tides and swells
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  Speaker 1: hammered homes in Long Beach, Seal Beach and Malibu, too.
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  Speaker 1: A few days after authorities descended on a street takeover
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  Speaker 1: in L.A., the City Council has asked for a report
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  Speaker 1: on available and additional enforcement tools that are needed to
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  Speaker 1: continue these kinds of crackdowns. Councilman Tim McCosker's motion also
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  Speaker 1: asked staff to identify the 50 intersections most impacted around
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  Speaker 1: the city by street takeovers. There haven't been any more
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  Speaker 1: takeovers since the one early Saturday morning in which hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of citations were handed out, 66 were arrested, and more
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  Speaker 1: than 200 cars were impounded.
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  Speaker 4: The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Has struck Iranian oil tankers, including at least one near
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  Speaker 1: Karg Island. Karg Island is that key oil hub that's
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  Speaker 1: off Iran's southern coast. Iran recently threatened that it would
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  Speaker 1: attack U.S. bases in the Middle East if the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: targeted Karg Island. President Trump threatened to strike Karg Island
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  Speaker 1: earlier this summer before he walked back that threat. A
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  Speaker 1: show that just cleaned up at the early Emmys over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, the Creative art Emmys, that's what I'm on
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  Speaker 1: for Amy's on it this week. It's freaky and it's strange,
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  Speaker 1: and I think you're going to want to watch it
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  Speaker 1: because it just may be the favorite heading into next
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  Speaker 1: week's Emmy Awards. We're approaching the 25th anniversary of 9-11,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, and there are still a lot of
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  Speaker 1: open wounds. Families of Twin Towers victims still want someone
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  Speaker 1: held accountable. Former FBI special agent in charge, ABC's Rich Frankel,
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  Speaker 1: is going to join us to tell us about how
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  Speaker 1: they may have just taken a step closer to that end.
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  Speaker 1: And John Andrasik of Five for Fighting, the man behind
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  Speaker 1: the hit Superman, It's Not Easy, love that song, is
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  Speaker 1: going to join us on Wake Up Call this morning
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  Speaker 1: to tell us about a very special performance he's doing
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  Speaker 1: to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9-11 in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: It's something you don't want to miss. That's coming up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit later on Wake Up Call. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: KFI 24-hour newsroom. The stormy weather of the last few
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  Speaker 1: days has been replaced by a blast of extreme heat.
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  Speaker 1: The National Weather Service has upgraded its warnings for much
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  Speaker 1: of L.A.
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  Speaker 4: County.
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  Speaker 1: An extreme heat warning goes into effect at 8 this morning.
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  Speaker 1: It'll continue until 8 tomorrow night. Forecasters say temperatures between
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  Speaker 1: 92 and 109 are expected in downtown L.A., The San
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  Speaker 1: Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys, the Malibu Coast, L.A. County beaches,
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  Speaker 1: the Palos Verdes Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains. They
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  Speaker 1: say the heat is expected to peak in most places today.
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  Speaker 1: Evacuations have been ordered along a private road in Malibu
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  Speaker 1: where a beachfront home was damaged by the powerful waves.
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  Speaker 5: After days of pounding waves, a sinkhole formed yesterday at
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  Speaker 5: the home's driveway along Sea Level Drive East. The 30
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  Speaker 5: by 30 collapse also ruptured a gas main. It appears
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  Speaker 5: to be the result of coastal erosion. as the remnants
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  Speaker 5: of Hurricane Marie shoved waves into the Southern California beaches.
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  Speaker 5: Video shows that the main part of the beachfront house
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  Speaker 5: is still being held up by large pylons. The house
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  Speaker 5: was not occupied at the time of the damage. Mark Mayfield,
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  Speaker 5: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: News brought to you by American Vision Windows. The family
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  Speaker 1: of murdered teenager Celeste Rivas Hernandez is suing singer David
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  Speaker 1: and others for wrongful death.
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  Speaker 6: Rivas' parents named David, a.k.a. David Burke, his company's manager's
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  Speaker 6: mother and a security guard as defendants. They claim Burke
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  Speaker 6: began a sexual relationship with Celeste in November 2023 when
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  Speaker 6: she was 13 that continued until her April 2025 death.
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  Speaker 6: that Burke killed her at his Hollywood Hills home and
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  Speaker 6: dismembered her to conceal evidence of the alleged abuse. The
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  Speaker 6: suit claims others around Burke enabled him to isolate the
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  Speaker 6: girl and facilitated his travel, housing, and security. It seeks
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  Speaker 6: damages for wrongful death, sexual abuse of a minor, and negligence.
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  Speaker 6: Burke's pleaded not guilty to murder and other criminal charges.
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  Speaker 6: Mark Rauner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: And more than 220 students are returning to St. Matthew's
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  Speaker 1: Parish School in Pacific Palisades today as the campus reopens
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  Speaker 1: for full-time in-person instruction following COVID. Extensive damage done by
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  Speaker 1: the January 2025 Palisades fire. Other schools that have reopened
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  Speaker 1: or welcomed students back following the fire include Palisades Charter
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  Speaker 1: High School, Paul Revere Middle School, Marquez Elementary School and
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  Speaker 1: Calvary Schools. It's 508 on your wake up call. Let's
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  Speaker 1: say good morning now to former special agent in charge
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  Speaker 1: of the FBI, ABC's Rich Brankle. Good morning, Rich. We're
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  Speaker 1: approaching the 25th anniversary, as we all know. And there
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  Speaker 1: are still open wounds. Families of Twin Towers victims still
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  Speaker 1: want someone held accountable. And are they a step closer now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they are. The judge had ruled on
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  Speaker 4: some very important documentary evidence that's been unclassified or declassified
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  Speaker 4: that is important enough that the judge has said that
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  Speaker 4: it has the information that can show that Who might
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  Speaker 4: have assisted in the 9-11 attacks? Who may have facilitated
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  Speaker 4: in the 9-11 attacks? And because of that, he's going
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  Speaker 4: to let the those documents in at a trial that's
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  Speaker 4: going to be probably in the next year or so.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so who is the trial? Who is who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be on trial?
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  Speaker 4: Yep, yep. So it's a trial that's been brought by
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  Speaker 4: the families of the 9-11 victims, and basically they're targeting
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  Speaker 4: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and individuals from Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 4: who they believe assisted in the facilitation or assisted in
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  Speaker 4: the attack of 9-11, that they may have come here
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  Speaker 4: prior to 9-11 and made it easier for the hijackers
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  Speaker 4: to get into the United States. provided them housing, may
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  Speaker 4: have done pre-planning and surveillance for them for their attack
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  Speaker 4: on 9-11. So it's going to be looking into was
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  Speaker 4: it the kingdom itself, was it people within the government
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  Speaker 4: of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or was it citizens
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  Speaker 4: of Saudi Arabia who came here and facilitated the attack
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  Speaker 4: working with al-Qaeda? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot to dig into. So, Rich, here's a
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  Speaker 1: question for you, too. If they're going to have a trial,
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is
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  Speaker 1: going to send representatives to defend themselves to the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think they are.
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  Speaker 3: They are?
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  Speaker 4: This has been an ongoing case. Yeah, they're– Well, they
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  Speaker 4: have war firms here in the United States. That's who's
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  Speaker 4: going to be representing them. They're going to be defending themselves.
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  Speaker 4: And they've come out and said that they did not
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  Speaker 4: facilitate or assist in the attack on 9-11. They've come
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  Speaker 4: out several times saying that they did not do so.
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  Speaker 4: They've looked at the evidence. They give it alternative reasons
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  Speaker 4: for some of the pictures or photos that and other
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  Speaker 4: information that is in the evidence. But again, the judge
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  Speaker 4: said that there was enough there that a jury could
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  Speaker 4: look into this and make a determination that either the
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  Speaker 4: kingdom or people from Saudi Arabia were involved in the
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  Speaker 4: facilitation of the attack on 9-11. And that's sort of
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  Speaker 4: like when the hijackers came in, where did they live?
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  Speaker 4: How did they– where did they stay? How did they
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  Speaker 4: know how to get around the United States without somebody
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  Speaker 4: assisting them? And that was part of our investigation when
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  Speaker 4: we were in the FBI. Who facilitated that? Who helped them?
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  Speaker 4: And did somebody do preplanning? There is an allegation that–
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  Speaker 4: and they have specific evidence– that there was an individual
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  Speaker 4: who went and took pictures of the Capitol and then
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  Speaker 4: did some calculations on some of the trajectories of either
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  Speaker 4: a plane or something else hitting the Capitol. And all
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  Speaker 4: that evidence is part of what has been declassified. Also,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, the family is still looking to declassify
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  Speaker 4: many more documents, basically the entire investigation of 9-11. After
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  Speaker 4: 10 years, some of it was declassified. At 25 years,
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  Speaker 4: actually all of it is supposed to be declassified unless
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  Speaker 4: the government comes forward, the U.S. government comes forward and
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  Speaker 4: says there are specific reasons why we can't declassify it yet,
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  Speaker 4: such as it will give away sources and methods that
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  Speaker 4: are still important to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. ABC's Rich Frankel. Just thank you for your perspective
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  Speaker 1: on this. This is just so interesting to me. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just astounding to me that it's 25 years later.
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  Speaker 4: And it's still, you know, yeah, I can't believe it's
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  Speaker 4: 25 years. I think it's five years later and I
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  Speaker 4: think we're still looking into it. You know, it's just
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  Speaker 4: you can't believe it is that far removed, you know, that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that we've moved on that far. But but
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  Speaker 4: it's still that etched in our memory.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A day that changed all of our lives. Special agent
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  Speaker 1: in charge of the FBI, former special agent in charge,
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  Speaker 1: Rich Frankel, ABC. Thank you so much for your information
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  Speaker 1: and insight. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Hurricane Lowell is weakening and
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  Speaker 1: moving away from Hawaii. But ABC's Kena Whitworth says high
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  Speaker 1: surf advisories are still in place for parts of the islands.
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  Speaker 7: Damage assessments and massive cleanup underway in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 1: After Hurricane Lowell slammed the islands with 100-plus mile-an-hour winds,
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  Speaker 1: 30-foot waves and nearly a foot and a half of rain.
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  Speaker 1: At least one person has been killed by the hurricane.
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  Speaker 1: Oil has topped $ 100 a barrel following the latest wave
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  Speaker 1: of fighting in the Middle East. The war in Iran,
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  Speaker 1: spiking oil prices, and the escalating trade war with Canada
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  Speaker 1: are being blamed for a drop in stock prices on
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street. GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, Patrick DeHaan, says
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  Speaker 1: things are not likely to change anytime soon.
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  Speaker 8: These attacks could also delay the potential seasonal decline that
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  Speaker 8: we tend to see in gasoline. So Americans may not
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  Speaker 8: see much break at the pump when it comes to
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  Speaker 8: gasoline and diesel.
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  Speaker 1: He says those prices could still continue to rise. Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State Marco Rubio is on a three-day trip to
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  Speaker 1: South America. His first stop is Colombia, where he says
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  Speaker 1: he hopes to strengthen ties with the U.S.
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  Speaker 9: Having lived in South Florida the majority of my life,
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  Speaker 9: how we follow so closely the events that happen in Colombia,
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  Speaker 9: because it has a direct impact on life in South
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  Speaker 9: Florida and ultimately in our country.
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  Speaker 1: Rubio has signed a memorandum of understanding with Colombian officials.
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  Speaker 1: He's headed to Peru and Ecuador next. Your official home
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  Speaker 1: from the Galpin Ford broadcast booth. An extreme heat warning.
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  Speaker 1: We'll kick in at 8 this morning and continue until
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  Speaker 1: 8 tomorrow night with temperatures expected to hit up to
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  Speaker 1: 109 in some areas. 90s to low 100s are expected
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  Speaker 1: in downtown L.A., San Fernando, San Gabriel Valleys, Malibu Coast, L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County beaches, the Palos Verdes Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains.
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  Speaker 8: The L.A.
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  Speaker 1: City Council has advanced a plan to offer protections to
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  Speaker 1: fast food workers under its 2024 Fair Workweek Ordinance. The
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  Speaker 1: benefits would include predictable work schedules and paid labor rights training.
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  Speaker 1: Both items expected to come back to the full council
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  Speaker 1: for a final vote. Council members John Lee and Tracy
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  Speaker 1: Park voted against the measures. TSA is now allowing non-ticketed
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  Speaker 1: visitors into terminals at several airports in the U.S., Those
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  Speaker 1: who have TSA pre-check or known traveler numbers can apply
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  Speaker 1: for a pass on the TSA website between one and
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  Speaker 1: three days before a scheduled flight arrival. The new gateside
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  Speaker 1: passes may have limited availability during peak times. At 6.05,
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  Speaker 1: it's handle on the news. A weird orange plume developed
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  Speaker 1: over City Hall in Le Havre yesterday. Tell you about that.
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  Speaker 1: What am I on? I'm on the stream because there's
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  Speaker 1: so much to watch. How do you possibly know what
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  Speaker 1: to watch? And there's some great shows out there and
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  Speaker 1: there's some bad ones. I just got done with a
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  Speaker 1: real stinker. It's an older show because I was kind
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  Speaker 1: of out of new shows. It was called Extinct. It stinks. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: it was bad. Anyway, this week I am on Widow's Bay,
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  Speaker 1: which is on Apple TV. And it's because at the
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  Speaker 1: Creative Arts Emmys, I'm calling them the early Emmys that
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  Speaker 1: happened over the weekend, Widow's Bay cleaned up and took
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  Speaker 1: home eight trophies. And some are saying, hey, that might
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  Speaker 1: be kind of a precursor that Widow's Bay is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a favorite heading into the big Emmys, which
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  Speaker 1: is next Monday. So Widows Bay, Apple TV, 10 episodes,
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  Speaker 1: all on the stream, all available. The setting is a
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  Speaker 1: small town in coastal New England. It's a beautiful little
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  Speaker 1: old town needs needs tourists. Right. They all need tourists.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where the optimistic mayor comes in. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: everything he can to attract tourists into town. And the mayor, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: is paid by played by Matthew Reese, who is terrific.
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  Speaker 1: And you buy into his character right away, probably just
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  Speaker 1: because he's such a good actor and he's great in
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  Speaker 1: everything he does. The supporting cast is terrific. There's some
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  Speaker 1: familiar faces. There's some new ones. And there is something
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  Speaker 1: very creepy about this town. Something's a little off. You
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  Speaker 1: get it right off the bat. And from a little off,
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  Speaker 1: it goes to Stephen King freaky at times. Weird things happen.
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  Speaker 1: Deadly things happen. And why are they happening? That's the
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  Speaker 1: big question. Is it a haunting? Is it a figment
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  Speaker 1: of their imagination? Is it a curse? And why did
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  Speaker 1: it start? And how do they get rid of it?
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  Speaker 1: Those are all questions that are posed and floating around
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  Speaker 1: during the season. There are a couple of things that
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  Speaker 1: happen that don't quite get explained that I wish they
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  Speaker 1: would have kind of delved into a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: But overall, it is solid and it's creepy. Not scary
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  Speaker 1: like a horror movie necessarily, but just really creepy and funny.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually in the comedy category in the Emmys. And
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  Speaker 1: it's called Widow's Bay. I'm on it. I think you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be creeped out by it. And I think
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  Speaker 1: you're going to enjoy it, too. Let me know what
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  Speaker 1: you think. So watch if you dare. California is expected
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  Speaker 1: to feel the pinch from Canada's retaliatory tariffs on more
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  Speaker 1: than $ 20 billion in products from the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: It's killing whole industries.
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  Speaker 10: Senator Adam Schiff in Burbank says California in particular is
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  Speaker 10: feeling the effects of President Trump's trade war and behavior
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  Speaker 10: toward Canada.
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  Speaker 3: Canadians right now, as a result of The Trump tariffs
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  Speaker 3: are responding with boycotts of California wine, for example, and
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  Speaker 3: that industry is hurting. They're now going to put tariffs
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  Speaker 3: on cheese. We're the number one dairy state.
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  Speaker 10: Canada's tariffs are in response to President Trump's 50 percent
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  Speaker 10: tariffs on Canadian goods, which began last month. Michael Crozier,
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  Speaker 10: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed legal paperwork supporting a
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  Speaker 1: challenge to ICE's practice of arresting illegal immigrants without a warrant.
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  Speaker 1: Bonta is co-leading a multi-state coalition against the Trump administration's
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  Speaker 1: mass deportation campaign. The brief argues that Congress has put
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  Speaker 1: clear limits on immigration agents' authority to make warrantless arrests.
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  Speaker 1: Bonta also filed a brief with the Supreme Court in
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  Speaker 1: support of due process rights for illegal immigrants held in
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  Speaker 1: detention without a bond hearing. Republican candidate for governor Steve
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Hilton says he wants to get rid of the DMV
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: and cut the cost of car registrations in California to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a flat fee of 73 bucks.
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: And we are going to shut down this bloated nanny
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: state bureaucratic agency that treats Californians with complete contempt.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: We are done with it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Hilton says drivers pay hundreds of dollars each year. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: only a quarter of the money actually goes to roads.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: He says a three-month audit would be done before eliminating
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the DMV. A smaller state operation would be responsible for
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: driver licenses, fraud prevention, real ID and other records for
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: safety functions. Governor Newsom claims President Trump is going to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: steal the election in November.
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: In a video posted to Newsom Socials, he didn't mince words.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: This is why you should be worried about this election.
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: He's going to try to steal it. Newsom hasn't said
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: if he's running for president, but he's definitely got an
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: opinion on the current administration.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: This is who he is.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: It's the core of the character, a lack thereof, of
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: a legitimate, malignant narcissist, an invasive species.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: As I describe it. I don't mean that in a
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: dehumanizing way.
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: He went on to say that the forefathers gave us
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: tools to stop tyranny and the madness from President Trump.
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: A coyote known to people in Studio City as Wendy
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: has been euthanized after a veterinary exam found a severe
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: infection in and two pellets lodged in her head. Wildlife
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Care of Southern California said its diagnostic imaging showed that
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Wendy had apparently been shot at some point and that
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the infection destroyed part of her upper jaw on the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: left side. Wendy lived with a large growth or abscess
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: in her face for more than a year before she
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: was captured and treated and ultimately put to sleep. Stevie
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Wonder is going to perform at the Intuit Dome in
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Inglewood in December as part of a tour celebrating the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: 50th anniversary of his landmark album, Songs in the Key
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of Life. Organizers say the 25-time Grammy Award winner will
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: perform the album in its entirety. at the December 19th concert,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: including I Wish, Isn't She Lovely, and so many more hits.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: The concert will support Wonder's 26th house full of toys benefits,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: which assists kids, people with disabilities, and families in need.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: If you do go to the show, you're being asked
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: to bring an unwrapped toy or other gift. Tickets will
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. The L.A. County
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Department of Public Health has extended an ocean water quality
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: rain advisory for all county beaches until at least noon
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Thursday because of all the rain. People are being advised
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to stay out of the water, particularly near storm drains,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: creeks and rivers where runoff can carry elevated levels of
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: bacteria and other contaminants. Doesn't that sound lovely? Metrolink raising
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: fares for the first time in 13 years. One-way tickets
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: are going up by 14%. SoCal day passes will cost
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: $ 19 on weekdays, $ 12 on weekends and holidays. Agency officials
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: say rising operating and maintenance costs are behind the increases,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: plus reduced post-pandemic ridership and declining state and federal funding.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Phil Jackson is going to be the latest former Laker
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to get his own statue at Crypto.com Arena. The team
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: will unveil the statue in Star Plaza April 9th, 2027,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: before a game against Minnesota. Jackson won a record 11
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: NBA championships as a head coach, including five with the Lakers. Okay,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: so today is the 9th. That means we're 16 days out.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: So just over two weeks before we go over the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: edge for the Union rescue mission. Okay, so here's what
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: we're doing. We're rappelling off a 26-story building to raise
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: money for the folks at Union Rescue Mission who actually
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: help people get off the streets. They don't just throw
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: money at the problem. They do feed a lot of people,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: but their plan is not to get people in shelters,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: but their plan is to get people back into homes
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and into a place where they can live and thrive again.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And they really do an amazing job with it. And
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that's why we're asking you, to help us and donate
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: what you can. If it's $ 5 or $ 10 or $ 100
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: or $ 500, it doesn't matter. Every little bit counts. 87
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: cents out of every dollar that's donated to the Union
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Rescue Mission goes directly to help people get off the streets.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: So here's what we're doing. We're raising money to rappel
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: down the side of a building, 26 stories, And if
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you want to do it with us, here's a really
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: cool thing. If this is on your bucket list to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: rappel down the side of a building, it's only, you know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: three or four hundred feet. You could do it. It's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a thousand dollar donation and you can go over the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: edge and you can donate that yourself or get your
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: friends together and have them chip in and come up
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: with a thousand dollars and go over the edge. So
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: we'd love to have you join us going over the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: edge or just donate if you can. Again, we know
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that you're Your charitable dollars are tight these days because
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: of everything going on with the economy and gas and blah, blah, blah.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: But if you can spare some, we certainly would appreciate it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Want to say thanks to a few of the people
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: who've donated so far. Felice Klein just made a donation
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: last night. Our friend Chris Burry, David Stern, Lori Morris Curtis,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Tim Easton, Mark Shifflett, Starrett and Joey Harper. Thank you
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: guys so much. We really appreciate this. And of course,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: all the anonymous donors, too. You don't even have to say.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Who it is.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: But we'd love for you to join us. We're on
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: our way. We're getting there. But, you know, just like
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: starting on the 26th floor, we've got a long way
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to go. And we've got just over two weeks to
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: get there. We need your help. So if you can,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: we would appreciate your donation to Over the Edge for
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission.
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: Where?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that might help. URM.org. URM.org. And just click
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: on the Over the Edge link. It's right there on
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the homepage. And then there's even a Team KFI button.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: And Neil Saavedra and I both doing it and trying
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to get somebody from The Conway Show to do it, too.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: We hear that Michael Kroger really wants to take the dive.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So we're working on that, too. Here's what we're following
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: in the KFI 24-Hour Newsroom.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: L.A.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass, formerly stepping down as a member of LASA,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the L.A. Homeless Services Authority. Her office's Bass is going
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to be appointing a new person to fill her spot.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: In an interview last week, Bass told KFI's Gary and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Shannon that she would be leaving the LASA commission. I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: am going to be stepping down because I just, you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: in terms of time and all. Bass has been criticized
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: for allegedly skipping more than half of LASA commission meetings
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: since she appointed herself to the board in 2023. Bass
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: has been called to testify before a congressional committee about
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: LASA's spending, but her lawyer says she's not available. Parole
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: has been revoked for a guy arrested... several times in
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Burbank and Glendale for sniffing women's butts in public. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: hearing for Khalees Crowder was held yesterday. The 39-year-old registered
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: sex offender was sentenced to 170 days in jail after
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: his most recent arrest last month in Glendale.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: L.A.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: City Council is asking for a report on available and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: extra enforcement tools needed to crack down on street takeovers.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Councilman Tim McCosker says his 15th council district has been
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the site of persistent street takeovers. He says those takeovers,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: known as sideshows, can significantly damage public infrastructure and create
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: hefty repair bills that taxpayers have to put the bill for.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Reading scores in the U.S. are at their lowest level
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in a quarter of a century.
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: Global exam results show that students from Canada, Singapore, and
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: parts of China outperformed American students on the Program for
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: International Student Assessment. Students in the U.S. fell below the
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: average score by more than 30 points. The scores released
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: this year are also the lowest average levels of performance
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: in all three subject areas across all countries that take
• 26:49
  Speaker 12: the test, not just the U.S., since the test began
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: in 2000. Debra Mark, KFI News.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business as we do each
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: weekday morning with Bloomberg's Erica Herskovitz. Good morning, Erica.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: Good morning, Amy.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about crude oil because those prices just
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: hit another milestone.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Brent crude oil topped $ 100 a barrel for the
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: first time since July as attacks between the U.S. and
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Iran continue. And recovery in Chinese oil buying propelled the
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: global crude benchmark higher. The conflict has disrupted flows through
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: the crucial Strait of Hormuz checkpoint, although millions of barrels
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: a day continue to cross the waterway, mostly on tankers
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: with their signals turned off.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're also getting out through pipelines. It's interesting
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: because the oil is getting out. Not as much as
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: we need. It is getting out, but it's still just
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: people are panicking in the crude oil business. Speaking of
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: spending a lot of money on crude oil, Americans have
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: spent $ 100 billion more on fuel since the start of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the war.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's according to Brown University's Iran War Energy Cost Tracker.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: That's looked at fuel prices since the conflict started on
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: February 28th. That total comes out to just over an
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: additional $ 770 per household. A little more than $ 55 billion
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: of the total is from gas, while just over $ 45 billion.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Has been spent on diesel.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: This comes as Goldman Sachs has warned that the price
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: of a barrel of oil could surge past $ 120 as
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: tensions in the Middle East rise.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: We'll be watching for that and hope that it doesn't happen.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Here's something that people have been waiting to have happen
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: for a very long time, and that is Apple debuting
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: its foldable phone.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's part of the highly anticipated product event that's
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: going to take place later today. And depending on its features,
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: that foldable phone, Amy, could cost you $ 3, 000. Remember when
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: flip phones were just the norm, right? So the event
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: will also feature the introduction of Apple's new CEO, John Ternes.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: He took over for Tim Cook on September 1st. The
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: tech giant will also be rolling out the iPhone 18 Pro,
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: new Apple Watches, and updated AirPods. Apple stock has rallied
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: 15 percent since June 25th, driven by the excitement of
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: this event and the new lineup.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Getting in your business as we do each weekday morning
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: with Bloomberg's Erica Herskovitz.
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: Thanks, Erica.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Amy.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: City Councilwoman Nithya Raman has called out L.A. Mayor Bass
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: for declining to participate in any more debates before the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: November 3rd election. The two candidates for mayor did one
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: debate last month. Rahman's campaign says it's accepted invitations for
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: several other debates, but Bass has agreed to just one
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: more televised debate. Cleanup underway in Seal Beach, where water
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and debris from high surf breached a sand berm and
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: ended up on the boardwalk. Several residents had their garages.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Flooded.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: They had to pump the water out. Some people had
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: some fun with the flooding and were spotted kayaking down
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the boardwalk. If you're a fan of Stevie Wonder's songs
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: in the Key of Life album, you can see him
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: perform the whole album, December 19th. The 25-time Grammy winner
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: is going to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the album's
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: release by performing it in its entirety at the Intuit
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Dome in Inglewood. Let's say good morning now to Grammy
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: award-winning and platinum-selling artist and Southern California's own John Andrasik
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: of Five for Fighting. Good morning, John.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Good morning. I have to say Songs in the Key
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: of Life was the first record I ever owned.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. I think it's so cool that Stevie Wonder
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: is going to just play the whole album.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's such a classic. Sir Duke, go down the list. Amazing.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Okay, so John, we are so excited to talk
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to you this morning because it's excited is the weird
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: word about it because of what's going on and what
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: we're commemorating, but you're doing something very special. commemorate the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: 25th anniversary of 9 11 this friday night in new
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: york can you please tell us.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: About it yeah i got a couple things certainly very
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: honored to do so um on the night of 9
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: 11 i will be performing my song superman between the
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: two light beams that shoot up into the heavens here
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: in new york city to recognize the heroes of 9
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: 11 and and uh certainly Remember those we lost. Today, actually,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: in a few hours, I'll be leaving for Staten Island
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: to perform also for the firefighters on their remembrance event
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: with their families. So there will actually be some firefighters
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: there that I shared the stage with at the concert
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: for New York. So that'll certainly be a very emotional moment,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: but just honored to support those heroes who showed us
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the best of ourselves 25 years ago.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, I was going to be all tough about this.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: And then you see what you're doing and it immediately
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: just brings back emotions. It's hard to believe that it
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: was 25 years ago that this all happened and that
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: you're going to be there in the footprint of where
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: it happened at ground zero. It's just, it's got to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: be just humbling, overwhelming. I mean, how do you describe it?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: It is very emotional. I mean, last night I walked
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: by the memorial and and the the kind of footprints
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: as you said of of the twin towers they're kind
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: of gated because they have the um the ceremony on
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: 9-11 here but it does you know amy it does
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: it brings it back you know i i'm not exactly
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: sure how i'm going to get through these songs but
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: um it it it's such a cliche but it it
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: does seem like just yesterday that this atrocity happened. But again,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I think hopefully it's a reminder of the lessons of 9-11,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the evil that attacked our shores. And I think it's
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: an obligation. We talk about never forget, and every September 11th,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: we say never forget. But never forget is more than
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: a slogan.
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: It's a duty.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: It's an obligation to teach our kids about what happened
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: that day and And also remind them and tell the
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: stories of those heroes who ran into the buildings when
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: everybody was running out, the heroes of Flight 93, those
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: folks that, again, I think showed what America is all about.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: So to me, it's a lot of emotions, you know, anger, inspiration.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: But again, it's also I hope it brings us back
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: to that moment. Remember, Amy, how the country came together
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: in ways we've never seen before or since that week.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: And I hope we have a little bit of that
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: this week as well.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I do as well, John. So you're performing Superman.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Which has become kind of an anthem for 9-11. And
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I thought it was so interesting because you wrote the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: song five months before 9-11.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was actually in London on 9-11 promoting Superman.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Superman was kind of on its way to becoming a
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: global hit and I didn't realize until two weeks later
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: that it had become kind of a song to recognize
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: and provide solace for the families who'd lost loved ones,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: for the country. And obviously performing at the Concert for
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: New York was the honor of a lifetime. And still
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: to this day, every time we kind of roll around
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: to September and we get closer and closer to 9-11
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: and I'm on tour, the song gets heavier and it
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: kind of brings us back. But that's the nice thing
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: about music, you know, it kind of does a lot
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: of things that nothing else can do. And I think, again,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: this 25th anniversary, for me personally, it'll be, you know,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: very emotional. But I think it's a way that the
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: country can also remember and remember. give love to those
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: who are still suffering. And you know, Amy, since 9-11,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: we've lost about 10,000 people to illnesses and diseases caused
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: by 9-11. So unfortunately, the toll continues to rise. And
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I think we need to recognize that as well.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Now, you mentioned that you were just down at Ground Zero,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: kind of wandering around. Had you been there before?
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I had not. You know, to be honest with you,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: it's so emotional for me over the years, and I
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: wanted to make sure while I was here that I
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: spent some time. I'll be going to the Memorial Museum
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: tomorrow as well, the 9-11 Memorial Museum. is one of
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the folks who are putting on this presentation, this Two
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Lights special Friday night. So I want, my wife and
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I are gonna go, and again, I think it's gonna
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: be very emotional, but I think, you know, you have.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: To see it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: That's part of never forgetting, and it's part of honoring
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: those that were lost.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I haven't had the opportunity to go there.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I was there. I was in New York the last
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: time was like one year almost to the day before
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: 9-11 happened. But I haven't been back. And I was
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: wondering for a lot of people on the West Coast
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: that we haven't made that trip. What is it? What
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: does it feel like at Ground Zero?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: You know, in a weird way, it's beautiful what they
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: have done with the museum and what they've done with
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: the footprint of the towers. it's, it's incredibly beautiful, but
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: it's also incredibly sad and, and infuriating that, that, that,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: that it, that it happened. So again, it's a confluence
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: of emotions and I think all of them are legitimate. And,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: and just like today, I don't know how I'm going
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: to react playing the song, the firefighters, but I think
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: that's part of it for us to, to have all
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  Speaker 2: these emotions there. You know, there's there, I'm now meeting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kids of these, these heroes that are now
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  Speaker 2: 30 years old, 35 years old. They have their own families,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so that that kind of gives you hope
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  Speaker 2: and a smile. So there's a lot of emotions that
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  Speaker 2: go into it, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And then playing for the firefighters today, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to get through that? How do
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  Speaker 1: you get through that? Because I know that like there
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  Speaker 1: are times when I just get completely choked up even
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  Speaker 1: talking about 9-11 and you've got to perform.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you do the best you can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and if you're emotional, that's you should be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you should be. And sometimes I kind of lock on
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  Speaker 2: to somebody who's standing there, a firefighter. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: performed on the Nimitz for Freedom 250, which is also
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  Speaker 2: very emotional. And I kind of just locked on to somebody,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and sang the song with them, just like
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  Speaker 2: I did at the concert for New York. So but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think, hey, if you cry, if you're angry,
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  Speaker 2: you should be. We should be. But also, it's incredibly
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  Speaker 2: inspiring to meet these people, and that gives me strength
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  Speaker 2: every day. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: John Androsik, Five for Fighting. So thrilled that you were
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  Speaker 1: able to join us this morning to share what you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be doing to commemorate the 25th anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: 9-11 this Friday night in New York from between the
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  Speaker 1: footprint of the lights. We'll be watching.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Amy. Always a pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, John. Take care.
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  Speaker 4: Bye-bye. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yikes. Seriously, how do you get through a performance like
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  Speaker 1: that and where he's going to be? I am going
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to be glued to the television set for sure. And
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: on that note, our time on Wake Up Call is
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: done for today. If you missed any of the interview
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: with John Andrasik or you just want to hear it again,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you can hear it anytime. It's on the iHeartRadio app
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: on the Wake Up Call podcast. And I know for sure.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I will be watching that special Friday night. Can you
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  Speaker 1: believe it? 25 years. This is KFI and KOSTHD2, Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: Orange County, live from the KFI 24-hour newsroom for producer Michelle,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: who's in for Anne today. And technical producer Kono, along
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: with traffic specialist Will, I'm Amy King. This has been
• 38:51
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• 38:52
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• 38:54
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• 38:58
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• 39:00
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• 39:03
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• 39:07
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