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Highway To The Danger Zone · 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. Ooh, it's
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  Speaker 1: Friday already. Big day on Wake Up Call. We got
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  Speaker 1: Disney tickets to give away. So I'm wearing my Disneyland
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  Speaker 1: Halloween shirt to celebrate. Because it is October, so I
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  Speaker 1: can go all Halloween all the time. Except that I
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  Speaker 1: have all these Disneyland Halloween... Spirit jerseys. But it's 100 degrees,
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  Speaker 1: so I can't wear them. It'll cool down eventually. I
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  Speaker 1: think they said it might cool down by October 15th.
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  Speaker 1: We shall see. We shall see. Anyway, glad you're with
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  Speaker 1: us this Friday morning. We got a lot of great
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  Speaker 1: things planned for you for Wake Up Call. And let's
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  Speaker 1: get right to it, shall we? Here comes the heat.
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  Speaker 1: Temperatures expected to top 100 degrees for inland areas for
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  Speaker 1: the next week. The National Weather Service has issued an
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  Speaker 1: extreme heat warning from 10 this morning through 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: next Thursday for coastal and valley areas of LA County.
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  Speaker 1: Temps could hit 90 degrees along the coast up to
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  Speaker 1: 105 in the valleys during the warming period. The body
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  Speaker 1: of a woman missing in a helicopter crash off Catalina
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  Speaker 1: Island has been found. The U.S. Coast Guard says LA
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's divers found the body of 45-year-old Catalina Hernandez
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  Speaker 1: yesterday evening in the wreckage of the helicopter. 218 feet underwater.
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  Speaker 1: The sales tax has just increased in L.A. County. Voters
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  Speaker 1: approved it. It goes from 9.75 to 10.25 percent. Revenue
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  Speaker 1: from the temporary five-year tax will go into the county
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  Speaker 1: general fund. It's supposed to support health care services, clinics,
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  Speaker 1: and public health programs. Have you ever known a temporary
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  Speaker 1: tax to be temporary? We'll check back in five years.
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  Speaker 1: The pilot of the fly Dubai flight that almost crashed
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  Speaker 1: in the Middle East this week is talking. FBI former
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  Speaker 1: special agent in charge, ABC's Rich Frankel, is going to
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  Speaker 1: be with us in just a couple of minutes to
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  Speaker 1: tell us what he's saying. I'm still just amazed at
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  Speaker 1: the survival of those passengers and how everybody jumped into action.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll get the latest on that with Rich in
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes. So there's this secret building
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  Speaker 1: boom going on and it might not even break the bank.
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  Speaker 1: the host of Home on KFI. Dean Sharp's going to
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  Speaker 1: join us to tell us all about that. That's coming
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  Speaker 1: up at about 5.20. Anne Hathaway seems to be in everything.
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  Speaker 1: She's got another movie coming out this weekend. ABC's Will
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  Speaker 1: Gans is going to tell us about that. Plus on
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  Speaker 1: the stream, something dark and something a little lighter. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be joining us a little later. And as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Disneyland Resort tickets. We've got a four-pack for you. Coming
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  Speaker 1: up before wake-up call is over, so keep your radio
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  Speaker 1: up loud and keep your phone close. Let's get started
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  Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
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  Speaker 1: 24-hour newsroom. The body of a woman reported missing following
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  Speaker 1: the crash of a medical helicopter off Catalina Island has
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  Speaker 1: been found. ABC's Alex Stone says the helicopter went down
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday evening.
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  Speaker 2: The Reach medical helicopter crashed as it was lifting off
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  Speaker 2: from Catalina Island. The wreckage found over 200 feet deep.
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  Speaker 2: A pilot and nurse were killed. Two others on board
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  Speaker 2: were rescued from the water.
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  Speaker 1: The woman found yesterday was being flown to the mainland
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  Speaker 1: for treatment after having an allergic reaction to shrimp. Her
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  Speaker 1: family identified her as 45-year-old Catalina Hernandez, who worked as
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  Speaker 1: a housekeeper on the island. Her son was also apparently
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  Speaker 1: on the helicopter. He survived. Two others were killed. Weather
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  Speaker 1: experts say the long heat wave starts today across Southern California.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking at seven days, potentially more, of heat events.
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  Speaker 3: National Weather Service meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld says an extreme heat
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  Speaker 3: warning runs today through next Thursday. Could get over 100
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  Speaker 3: degrees a couple of times in downtown L.A., 90s at
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  Speaker 3: the beaches, and even though SoCal can get hot in October,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't normal.
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  Speaker 4: Like around 15 to 20 degrees above normal.
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  Speaker 3: And with the heat.
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  Speaker 5: We also have a high risk for....
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  Speaker 4: Also, there's meaning.
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  Speaker 3: More dangerous beach conditions and perhaps some humidity. Jason Aithenson,
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  Speaker 3: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that doesn't sound fun at all. We'll get through it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get through it. A leading nonprofit environmental group says
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  Speaker 1: a lack of response by city officials to the Lineage
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  Speaker 1: Logistics Warehouse fire in Boyle Heights... shows that there is
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  Speaker 1: a need for more robust protections for communities. Food and
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  Speaker 1: Water Watch says community-led testing has shown elevated levels of
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  Speaker 1: metals in the L.A. river after the fire. The group
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  Speaker 1: says as a city at the front line of the
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  Speaker 1: climate crisis and with dangerous infrastructure everywhere, L.A. needs better
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  Speaker 1: emergency procedures and strong community protections to hold corporate polluters accountable.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of drivers zipping through Malibu. In less than 10
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  Speaker 1: days of testing, the city says its four new speed
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  Speaker 1: cameras recorded more than 100,000 violations. City says because of
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  Speaker 1: those results, it needs some more time to study traffic
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  Speaker 1: and evaluate existing speed limits, specifically in eastern Malibu, where 86%
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  Speaker 1: of the speed violations were recorded. Carbon Canyon and Tuna
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  Speaker 1: Canyon were also trouble spots. It's 5.07 on your wake-up call.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to Rich Frankel, former special
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  Speaker 1: agent in charge with the FBI, now with ABC. Good morning, Rich.
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  Speaker 1: So the pilot of the fly Dubai flight that almost
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  Speaker 1: crashed in the Middle East is talking today.
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  Speaker 5: Correct. He was taken from Saudi Arabia over to the
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  Speaker 5: Emirates into Dubai, and the Emirati authorities are now interviewing
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  Speaker 5: and interrogating him.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, the pilot or the co-pilot?
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, the co-pilot. My mistake.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, the co-pilot.
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  Speaker 5: The pilot actually, though, is speaking at this point, too,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, and has actually made a comment or
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  Speaker 5: a quote that he was fighting for his life. So
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  Speaker 5: this was not, you know, just some, you know, where
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  Speaker 5: he gets, you know, a pinprick and they start going
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  Speaker 5: at it. He said that it was a stabbing. This
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  Speaker 5: guy was coming at him. And luckily, he was able
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  Speaker 5: to unlock the door in some capacity so the passengers
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  Speaker 5: could get in.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so and the pilot had a conversation, I believe
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  Speaker 1: it was with India's prime minister or something that that
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  Speaker 1: he had that conversation. But do we know what's Was
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  Speaker 1: he able to open the cockpit door as the plane
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  Speaker 1: was diving? Do we know the timeline of that?
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  Speaker 5: So that's what's still being.
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  Speaker 4: Looked at.
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  Speaker 5: We've heard a couple of different scenarios. From what I understand,
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  Speaker 5: he'd been attacked. The plane was starting to dive. He
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  Speaker 5: was somehow able to open or unlock the door. The
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  Speaker 5: passengers then got into the cockpit, and while they are
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  Speaker 5: pulling out the– uh, the, uh, uh, the co-pilot and
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  Speaker 5: the pilot, they're pulling them both out of the cockpit. Um,
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  Speaker 5: from what I understand, a plumber who is, uh, one
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  Speaker 5: of the guys who immediately got into the cockpit was
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  Speaker 5: able to grab onto the yoke and straighten out the
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  Speaker 5: plane to some capacity so that it did not.
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  Speaker 3: Keep going down.
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  Speaker 5: Um, and then, uh, at that point, a pilot on
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  Speaker 5: board who was deadheading on that flight was able to
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  Speaker 5: run up and jump into the pilot seat and take
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  Speaker 5: over controls of the plane. But for a short time,
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  Speaker 5: no one was flying that plane, or it was being
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  Speaker 5: controlled by this passenger plumber who was able just, you know,
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  Speaker 5: based upon what he had seen on a TV movie,
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  Speaker 5: to right the plane.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, it's so incredible. Okay, so now let's move
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  Speaker 1: on to the co-pilot. So they'd The copilot is the
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  Speaker 1: one who allegedly stabbed the pilot. They were able to
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  Speaker 1: subdue him. How did they kind of keep control of
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  Speaker 1: him once they got him out of the cockpit?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so they'd pull him out, and the only thing
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  Speaker 5: that they had to tie him up with to restrain
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  Speaker 5: him were cords for the cell phones. So basically, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all your extension cords or your phone cords that you
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  Speaker 5: bring on the plane, that's what they were able to grab.
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  Speaker 5: They were able to tie him up and restrain him
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  Speaker 5: with that. And then later on during the flight, they
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  Speaker 5: were able to find some zip ties and make it
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  Speaker 5: more secure. OK, good.
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  Speaker 1: And then we we hear that once he was subdued
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  Speaker 1: or they had him kind of tied down, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: talk much, but he did say a couple of things.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, actually, he was yelling, kill me, kill me. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the. Authorities, the law enforcement is looking at
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  Speaker 5: that possibly a couple of different ways, and that's why
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  Speaker 5: they're really intent on finding out what his motive was,
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  Speaker 5: because it could be that he was saying, kill me,
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  Speaker 5: kill me, because he was having a mental breakdown. a
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  Speaker 5: breakdown and he wanted to use the flight basically just
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  Speaker 5: to commit suicide. And this was the end of that
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  Speaker 5: attempt to commit suicide or that he was actually an
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  Speaker 5: Islamic radical fundamentalist, that he his intent had always been
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  Speaker 5: to use the plane as and commit an act of
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  Speaker 5: terrorism and as basically a suicide pilot and crashed the
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  Speaker 5: plane either into an Israeli building or just to put
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  Speaker 5: the plane down and kill all the Israelis. And this
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  Speaker 5: was while that was unsuccessful, if he had been killed,
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  Speaker 5: it would have been the successful culmination of the attempt.
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  Speaker 5: And it would have been the successful culmination of his
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  Speaker 5: of his jihad.
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  Speaker 1: That's just so scary. And so now he's in the UAE.
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  Speaker 1: They took him from Saudi Arabia, took him to UAE.
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  Speaker 1: And now what's happened? What happens now?
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  Speaker 5: So now he's being interviewed by the authorities, and that's
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  Speaker 5: going to continue for a while. The Emirati authorities are
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  Speaker 5: being very tight, and actually so are the Israelis and
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  Speaker 5: Americans who appear to be helping in the– not in
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  Speaker 5: the interrogation, but in providing intelligence on this case. No
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  Speaker 5: one is giving out his name, and that's– I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 5: that is surprising. Normally we find out the name of
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  Speaker 5: an attempted terrorist fairly quickly, especially here in the U.S.,
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  Speaker 5: But over there, they kept it very tight as to
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  Speaker 5: all the information about the co-pilot. The only thing that
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  Speaker 5: they've put out is that he was an Omani citizen
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  Speaker 5: and that he has been working for the company for
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  Speaker 5: about nine months as a pilot.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, it'll be interesting to see because I
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  Speaker 1: think interrogation techniques may be a little different.
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  Speaker 5: I've worked with the Dubai authorities. They're very– they actually now– well,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's now, but we've worked with them,
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  Speaker 5: and they definitely follow many of the same procedures we do,
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  Speaker 5: but they will definitely stay strong in the sense of–
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  Speaker 5: that they will interrogate him for as long as they
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  Speaker 5: need to to find out the information related to this attack.
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  Speaker 5: And again, we don't know if it's somebody with a
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  Speaker 5: mental condition, a lone wolf, or somebody directed by a
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  Speaker 5: terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully we will find that out. Former special agent
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  Speaker 1: in charge with the FBI, Rich Frankel, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for the information today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: 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. The Trump administration says it
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  Speaker 1: has no plans to have ICE officers at the polls
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  Speaker 1: during the midterm elections. Department of Homeland Security officials dismissed
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  Speaker 1: concerns as fear-mongering. Election law experts say federal law bars
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  Speaker 1: the government from deploying armed troops, agents, or officers to
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  Speaker 1: election sites except to, as they put it, repel armed
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  Speaker 1: enemies of the United States. Organizations representing Latino, Black, and
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  Speaker 1: Asian American voters say they worry that any ICE activity
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  Speaker 1: near polling places could deter voters already on edge over
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  Speaker 1: immigration enforcement. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has issued an
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  Speaker 1: executive order appointing Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: for the alleged gang rape at a frat house at
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  Speaker 1: Cornell University in 2024. ABC's Peter Haralambu says this comes
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  Speaker 1: five days after the local DA said he would reopen
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  Speaker 1: the investigation.
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  Speaker 7: Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Hooten said he based
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  Speaker 7: his decision to decline to bring charges based off a
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  Speaker 7: six-page statement written by Jane Doe about the alleged incident
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  Speaker 7: at a Cornell fraternity.
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  Speaker 1: The school has agreed to do a third-party review of
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  Speaker 1: its response to the allegations. Lawyers for a prison inmate
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  Speaker 1: in Tennessee say the woman is in critical condition following
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  Speaker 1: her botched execution. Krista Pike was given two doses of
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  Speaker 1: a lethal drug this week but didn't die. She was
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  Speaker 1: still snoring when the microphone in the execution chamber was
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  Speaker 1: cut off more than an hour into the execution attempt.
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  Speaker 1: Pike was later taken to the hospital. She had been
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to die for murdering a woman in 1995. Another
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  Speaker 1: hurricane has spun up in the Pacific. It's Hurricane Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: off the Pacific coast of Mexico. It's now a Category
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  Speaker 1: 3 storm. The National Hurricane Center says the storm's about
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  Speaker 1: 235 miles off the southern tip of Baja, California, and
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  Speaker 1: slowly moving west. It's expected to weaken during the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of days. Forecasters say swells generated by Rachel will
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  Speaker 1: affect the coast of west-central Mexico and the Baja, California
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  Speaker 1: peninsula through the weekend. They say those swells are likely
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  Speaker 1: to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. It's Halloween
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  Speaker 1: time at the Disneyland Resort. KFI wants to give you
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  Speaker 1: a chance to experience the frightful fun. A happiest Halloween
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  Speaker 1: has returned to Disney California Adventure Park and Disneyland Park
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  Speaker 1: now through October 31st. Don't miss out on all the
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  Speaker 1: fiendishly tasty treats and thrills for one and all. Keep
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  Speaker 1: listening to Wake Up Call this morning and to KFI
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  Speaker 1: all day long. For your chance to win a four-pack
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  Speaker 1: of one-day, one-park tickets to the Disneyland Resort. Yep, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: You heard it right. We got a pair, actually a
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  Speaker 1: four-pack of Disney tickets to give away this morning before
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  Speaker 1: 6 a.m. Will Kohlschreiber was just giving me a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of flack because I'm eating my oatmeal this morning,
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  Speaker 1: which is a much better texture than yesterday morning. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm eating it with a knife. We're all out of
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  Speaker 1: spoons in the kitchen. So yeah, it's... It is one
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  Speaker 1: of those days. Here's what we're following in the KFI
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  Speaker 1: 24-hour newsroom. A bill backed by Eaton Fire Survivors that
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  Speaker 1: aims to stop unwanted development will become law. Governor Newsom
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  Speaker 1: signed SB 1090 before the midnight deadline Wednesday. The new
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  Speaker 1: law puts a three-year pause on multifamily development. in wildfire-impacted
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  Speaker 1: areas like Altadena. It received near-unanimous support in the State
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  Speaker 1: Assembly and Senate. In one part of Altadena, developers were
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  Speaker 1: planning to build 10 houses on a single-family lot. A
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  Speaker 1: 19-year-old woman accused of leaving her four-month-old daughter in a
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  Speaker 1: dumpster in South L.A. has been charged with murder and
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  Speaker 1: assault on a child causing death. Takiyah Babers. appeared in
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  Speaker 1: court yesterday afternoon. She's being held on $ 2 million bail.
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  Speaker 1: A company out of California has unveiled a new semi-humanoid
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  Speaker 1: robot designed to complete workplace tasks all on its own.
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  Speaker 1: Dyna Robotics says its robot can load the dishwasher, fold towels,
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  Speaker 1: chop vegetables, stock shelves, and more. It says the technology
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  Speaker 1: is already being used in restaurants, hotels, and laundromats. The
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  Speaker 1: company named the robot Dyna, Taku from the Japanese word takumi,
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  Speaker 1: which means master craftsman. At 6.05, it is handle on
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  Speaker 1: the news. No handle today. We got Neil Saavedra again.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a lot of fun. Let's say good morning
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  Speaker 1: now to the host of Home on KFI. It's our
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  Speaker 1: house whisperer, Dean Sharp. Morning, Dean.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Amy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we got a little quiet housing boom going on,
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  Speaker 1: and this little boom might not break the bank. What
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  Speaker 1: is it?
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  Speaker 8: It's ADUs, accessory dwelling units. A lot of people talking
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  Speaker 8: about them these days. Not a lot of folks understand
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  Speaker 8: fully what all of the advantages are of an ADU
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  Speaker 8: and why ADUs are just truly, and you're right, booming.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, booming.
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  Speaker 8: In 2018, ADUs were about 10% of the county's new
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  Speaker 8: housing budget. In 2025, the permits being pulled down at
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  Speaker 8: LA Building and Safety, 37% of those permits are for ADUs.
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  Speaker 8: It's unprecedented how many ADUs are going in in SoCal
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  Speaker 8: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk specifically about what an ADU is
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  Speaker 1: and what it looks like.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so that name throws people, but I think folks
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  Speaker 8: are starting to get used to it. An ADU is
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  Speaker 8: what we used to call the guest house, the granny flat, the.
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  Speaker 1: Casita, you know, the- The casita, I like the casita.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's that room that you build, sometimes attached, sometimes detached, for,
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  Speaker 8: you know, somebody to basically live in.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so, yeah, and I always thought of them as
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  Speaker 1: like a mother-in-law's house, but now they're being used for
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things. They're being used for home offices, gyms,
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  Speaker 1: mother-in-law units, of course, maybe a pool house.
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  Speaker 3: Pool house.
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  Speaker 8: This is, you know, that's kind of the traditional use.
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  Speaker 8: These days, I would say more often than not, you
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  Speaker 8: got adult children boomeraming back to home.
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  Speaker 1: Can't get rid of them.
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  Speaker 3: You've got....
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  Speaker 8: You've got elderly parents, instead of heading to a care facility,
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  Speaker 8: moving in to the backyard and being a part of
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  Speaker 8: your household again, extended community. That is one of the
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  Speaker 8: biggest uses of ADUs, one of the biggest justifications for
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  Speaker 8: why they're being built. And it's one of the reasons,
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  Speaker 8: quite honestly, why the state of California a few years
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  Speaker 8: ago mandated that every county, every city has to, has
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  Speaker 8: to allow ADUs. And that is what has made the
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  Speaker 8: permitting process so streamlined because there's a set of state
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  Speaker 8: requirements for what an ADU is, and they're not very
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  Speaker 8: complex or stringent. And once you fulfill those requirements, your
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  Speaker 8: local city doesn't have really a say in whether or
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  Speaker 8: not they get to review it, turn it down or
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  Speaker 8: turn you down. It simply is something to be approved.
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  Speaker 8: So pulling an ADU permit on the whole is faster
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: and quicker and far easier than I'll give you an example.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: If you were to convert your garage into a rec room,
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: you're like, I want my garage to be a rec room,
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: and you want to do it by the permits, then
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: you are completely subject to your city's standards in regards
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: to that. Very likely, the city's going to say, oh, well,
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: you're taking away two covered parking spaces, so you're going
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: to have to give those back to us somewhere with
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: a carport on the outside or something like that. And
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: then there's all sorts of review process. And in the end,
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: the city might say, nope. But if you were to
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: say no. I'm going to convert this garage to an ADU,
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: then it's done and done. Parking spaces, not relevant. None
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: of those hoops have to be jumped through.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Okay. So now if I'm going to build an ADU
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: or there's certain restrictions, Restrictions like can it only be
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: one room or can it be more than one room?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Can be multiple rooms.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: I believe the state standard right now is the state
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: has authority over it up to about 750 square feet.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: That's a sizable addition when you think about it. And
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: so it can be multi room and have its own bathroom,
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: its own kitchen. You can have more than one living room,
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: a separate bedroom, more than one bedroom. So however it
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: is that you need to lay it out.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: OK, and then the kitchen is a good point, too,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: because if you're actually going to live in it, you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: need more than a burner.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: We've gone a long ways from like the sort of
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: the mother-in-law's suite of just like a little hot plate
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: and a mini fridge. These are units with essentially full kitchens.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: They may be kind of a miniaturized version of it,
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: but they're full kitchens, ovens, cooktops, dishwashers, refrigerators, sink, a
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: complete kitchen unit.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: OK, so you're going to be talking about ADUs all weekend,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a little more explanation of them, what they can do,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: what they can't do, that kind of stuff.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: All right. And you can hear our very own Dean
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Sharp at the right here on KFI. The show is
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: called Home. It's from six to eight on Saturdays. It's
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: from nine to noon on Sundays. You can follow Dean
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: at House Whisperer Design.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: That's the new design dot com.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And the website is House Whisperer Design dot com. Dean Sharp,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: thank you so much.
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: Thanks, Amy.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Makes me want a little ADU. They're so cute. The
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: warning from CHP is do not drink or do drugs
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and then drive.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: They're running another maximum enforcement period, similar to one around
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Halloween last year, where more than 500 drivers were arrested
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: on suspicion of DUI and another 2,000 got speeding tickets.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: The latest crackdown starts tonight at 6 and runs for
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: 12 hours. CHP Commissioner Sean Duryea says that CHP personnel
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: of every rank will make it their mission to identify
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: and remove impaired drivers from our roads. Jason Athenson, KFI News.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: The driver of a Culver City bus... has been fatally
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: shot in Mar Vista during a fight with an intoxicated passenger.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Police say the fight was apparently over a wrong direction.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: CBS LA reported the passenger got off the bus after
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the shooting yesterday, took his bicycle out of the rack
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: in front of the bus and rode away. A person
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: was detained, but it's not clear if it was the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: same guy. Republican candidate for governor of California, Steve Hilton,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: says he stands by what he's been saying about his
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: plans to address high gas prices if he's elected in November.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Hilton tells KFI's John Kobelt that one of the first
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: things he'll do is move to cut the gas tax.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: That needs the legislature.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: I will call a special session of the legislature and
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: I will ask them to suspend, cut, whatever, the gas tax.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: He says other things to be addressed are low carbon
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: fuel standards and the cap and invest program. which he
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: says are hidden taxes on gas paid by oil companies
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that are included in prices at the pump. Cal Fire
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: has released a free new emergency info app.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: The Aware CA app is available now, and CAL FIRE
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Battalion Chief Brent Pasqua has the spiel.
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: What it does is provide information from participating fire and
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: public safety agencies available for iPhone and Android, and it
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: just gives you that real-time, near-real-time information in the palm
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: of your hand.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: It's for wildfires, floods, earthquakes, and all manner of emergencies.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Features include near-real-time incident updates, interactive maps, evacuation zones, and
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: lots more. You can even listen to firefighters on their
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: command frequencies. Pasqua says in 2025, Cal Fire had more
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: than 100 million website hits and more than 85% came
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: from phones, which sparked the app. Mark Rahner, KFI News.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Still to come this morning on Wake Up Call, KFI
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: wants to give you a chance to experience the frightful
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: fun of Disneyland at Halloween time. It's going on at
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: both Disney California Adventure Park and Disneyland Park. Now through
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: October 31st, we've got a four-pack of one-day, one-park tickets
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to the Disneyland Resort to give to you if you're
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the right caller number when we give you the number.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And it's coming up on Wake Up Call. So stay
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: close to your phone and your radio. Southland weather from KFI.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Becoming sunny, hotter, highs in the upper 70s to low
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: 80s at the coast. 90 to low 100s for Metro
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: LA and Inland OC. 90s to about 103 in the Valleys,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: up to 103 in the Inland Empire area. 90s for
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the antelope valley it's going to stay sunny and hot
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: with highs about the same as today through the weekend
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: maybe even a couple degrees hotter 66 now in diamond
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: bar it's 66 in newport beach and we've got another
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: cone zone this one in harupa we got nothing but
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: cone zones today so here's what we're following in the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: kfi 24-hour newsroom the man convicted of murdering an la
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: county sheriff's deputy at a stoplight in palmdale more than
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: without the possibility of parole. Jurors found Kevin Salazar was
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: sane when he shot Deputy Ryan Klinkenbrumer in the back
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: of the head. A judge has denied a motion to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: get Lindsay Clancy's murder charges thrown out. The motion was
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: filed by Clancy's attorney yesterday, would have found her not
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: guilty of murdering her three children. Her attorney, Mr. Reddington,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: had said that there was no evidence that said Clancy
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: admitted to the murders. Clancy's first trial ended last month
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: in a mistrial. She's due back in court November 2nd.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: California Highway Patrol officers are increasing patrols across the state
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: starting this evening. It's part of a 12-hour maximum enforcement
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: operation targeting impaired drivers. All uniformed CHP personnel will be participating.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Here's what's coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: guy in Orange County accused of faking a story about
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a venomous viper could face charges.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: Joel Ciprian of Santa Ana caused a buzz earlier this
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: week when he said he saw a gaboon viper in
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: a tree and took a photo of it. The species
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: is highly dangerous and not native to North America. Police
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: resources descended on the neighborhood for three days while Ciprian's
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: neighbors feared for their safety. He finally admitted to hoaxing
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: the photo with AI. The Santa Ana Police Department says
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: that's a crime. and is hoping to press charges against him.
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: A report is being sent to the Orange County District
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: Attorney's Office. Ciprian could get a year in jail if
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: he's convicted. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I'll start over. The city of L.A. is expanding its
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: contract financing program. The idea is to help more businesses
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: win competitive contracts, including those for the upcoming 2028 Olympic
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and Paralympic Games. The program was launched through a public-private
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: partnership with Bank of California and to help small businesses
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: get competitive loans to cover the upfront costs of fulfilling
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: government contracts like materials and equipment. The Trump administration has
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: proposed a change to the 1040 tax form.
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: The change will require Americans to disclose their citizenship and
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: residency status. Officials argue the goal is to prevent immigrants
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: lacking permanent legal status from receiving benefits like the earned
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: income tax credit. Critics express privacy concerns, saying this information
• 27:17
  Speaker 11: is not needed to process returns. This is the latest
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: effort by the Trump administration to use the IRS to
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: pursue its immigration policies. Debra Mark, KFI News.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: A federal report says an air traffic controller failed to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: warn the pilots of an Amazon cargo plane about the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: potential for strong tailwinds before it crashed in Miami. The
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: NTSB released its preliminary report yesterday about the crash early
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: last month. It says the controller had given a wind
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: advisory to another flight just minutes earlier, but didn't inform
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the Amazon pilots. The plane landed too fast and overshot
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the runway, hitting a van, killing five people inside. The
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: two pilots had minor injuries. FanDuel is taking some heat
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: for getting personal with its loyal customers.
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: FanDuel says in a letter to Congress that its customer
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: loyalty rewards and programs are not meant to keep them gambling.
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: It's the second letter the company has sent since lawmakers
• 28:15
  Speaker 12: demanded it end its VIP program after a report of
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: a short video from Major League Baseball player Bryce Harper
• 28:21
  Speaker 12: was sent to a better who had a gambling addiction.
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: FanDuel says other sportsbooks have similar programs. It wouldn't give
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: the names of the athletes and entertainers, but says it's
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: sent about 30 of them to its valued customers over
• 28:32
  Speaker 12: the last two years. But they're not meant to induce
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: customers to continue gambling. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Get ready for a purr-fect weekend.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: It's kind of like Comic-Con for cat people. Disneyland for
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: cat people.
• 28:49
  Speaker 13: CatCon is returning to Pasadena October 10th and 11th with
• 28:52
  Speaker 13: hundreds of vendors, celebrity cats, and more than 200 kittens
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: looking for homes.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: We have gotten over 1,500 cats adopted at CatCon.
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: And yes, the Australian Firefighter Calendar guys are back posing
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: with fans and talking about making their popular kitten calendar.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: They budget for double the time to shoot the cat
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: calendar above all the other ones because of fur babies
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: that they have in tow.
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: And it's not just about the cat fashion, collectibles and treats.
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: Last year, every kitten brought to CatCon was adopted. Heather Rooker,
• 29:21
  Speaker 13: KFI News.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And you can find more out about CatCon this Sunday
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: with Live with Heather Brooker. That's at noon on Sunday.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I love the cat. I don't know, CatCon might be
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit too much for me I'm a little
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: allergic to the cats. You're a little allergic.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: We got one at home and every day I wake up.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: That's me.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: You sound like you're coughing up a furball.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that could be it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business as we do each
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: weekday morning. This morning, we're talking to Bloomberg's Erica Herskovitz.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Morning, Erica.
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Amy.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: We got jobs. Yeah, we do.
• 30:01
  Speaker 14: But not as many as we thought. It was weaker
• 30:04
  Speaker 14: than expected this morning.
• 30:06
  Speaker 11: It showed the U.S.
• 30:07
  Speaker 14: Added fewer jobs in September and the unemployment rate edged higher,
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: pointing to employers' cautiousness to hire amid rising costs. Nonfarm
• 30:14
  Speaker 14: payrolls increased 29,000 last month, missing all estimates in a
• 30:18
  Speaker 14: Bloomberg survey of economists. They were expecting 90,000 and the
• 30:21
  Speaker 14: unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Which is a huge turnaround because last month we had
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a huge number, right?
• 30:31
  Speaker 14: Yeah, and they revised that down for sure. So this
• 30:34
  Speaker 14: was expected to be a little better than it actually
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: came out.
• 30:39
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: We'll see what that, well, the Dow futures are up
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: huge because of that, huh?
• 30:45
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Dow is up. Dow is up 474 points right
• 30:48
  Speaker 14: now of futures. NASDAQ futures up 357. S & P
• 30:50
  Speaker 14: futures up 67 right now on that report.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You know, I always think bad news should make a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: bad impact on the stock market, but it seems like
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: it's the opposite of that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 14: Completely the opposite. Completely the opposite.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about Amazon and the more than a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: billion dollars it's investing in the next five years.
• 31:10
  Speaker 14: Yeah, it's going to be investing a billion dollars on
• 31:12
  Speaker 14: communities where it is building those AI data centers. The
• 31:15
  Speaker 14: money is going to go toward job training, free community college,
• 31:19
  Speaker 14: energy saving upgrades, water projects and a bunch of other efforts.
• 31:22
  Speaker 14: And it's Amazon's latest attempt to address the intensifying blowback
• 31:26
  Speaker 14: to the unprecedented build out of computing infrastructures. People are
• 31:30
  Speaker 14: just not excited about these these data centers coming to
• 31:33
  Speaker 14: their town. So Amazon's trying to make up for.
• 31:35
  Speaker 15: It a bit.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I need to go see one in person. You see them, like,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: on the news and stuff, but, I mean, they just
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: look like they're massive.
• 31:42
  Speaker 14: Yeah, but they're not building them in neighborhoods. Which is
• 31:47
  Speaker 14: a good thing. Yeah, they're building them in the middle
• 31:49
  Speaker 14: of basically nothing.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, so as we continue looking for good deals on cars,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: there are a couple of car makers that are turning
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: out to be winners in all of this.
• 32:00
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Toyota and Hyundai gaining ground on Detroit's automakers as
• 32:03
  Speaker 14: Americans look for cheaper, more fuel-efficient cars. Toyota's sales edged
• 32:07
  Speaker 14: higher last quarter, while Hyundai and affiliate Kia both posted
• 32:10
  Speaker 14: record volume. On the other hand, deliveries at GM's fell 5.5%,
• 32:15
  Speaker 14: with the average new car now topping $ 50, 000 and monthly
• 32:19
  Speaker 14: payments above $ 800 a month. Affordability is becoming a bigger
• 32:23
  Speaker 14: factor for buyers, and Toyota and Hyundai have multiple models
• 32:26
  Speaker 14: that start less than $ 30, 000.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Americans are spending a whole lot of money, but not
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: spending it right now.
• 32:35
  Speaker 14: No, $ 160 billion being used for that buy now, pay
• 32:39
  Speaker 14: later plan last year. And that's according to Fed economists
• 32:43
  Speaker 14: who say these plans are increasingly being used for everyday expenses,
• 32:46
  Speaker 14: including groceries, bills, transportation, and even rent. Pay in four plans.
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: That's like make four monthly, you know, four payments throughout
• 32:53
  Speaker 14: the year counted for about Half of that spending with
• 32:56
  Speaker 14: the use of those plans up nearly 80% since 2023.
• 32:59
  Speaker 14: And financial experts are warning consumers to read the fine
• 33:02
  Speaker 14: print and understand how missed payments can affect their credit
• 33:05
  Speaker 14: and avoid taking on multiple plans that they just can't afford.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's scary. I can see where they could get
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: backed up really quick. And then Barbie might soon have
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a new home.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:15
  Speaker 14: Mattel is said to have drawn a takeover interest from
• 33:18
  Speaker 14: Authentic Brands. That's according to the Wall Street Journal reporting
• 33:20
  Speaker 14: this morning that Authentic Brands has been privately discussing an
• 33:23
  Speaker 14: offer that could value Mattel at more than $ 20 a share.
• 33:26
  Speaker 14: That's around $ 6 billion or more. Authentic has grown rapidly
• 33:30
  Speaker 14: in recent years by acquiring brands from Reebok and Forever
• 33:33
  Speaker 14: 21 to Care Bears. But Mattel says it doesn't comment
• 33:36
  Speaker 14: on speculation.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, OK, fine.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We're just going to have to wait. Getting in your
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: business as we do each weekday morning with Bloomberg's Erica Herskovitz.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Erica.
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: Thanks, Amy.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: OK, it is time. KFI is giving you a chance
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to experience the frightful fun of Disneyland at Halloween time
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: going on at Disney California Adventure Park and Disneyland Park
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: now through October 31st. And right now is your chance
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: to win. We've got a four pack of one day
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: one park tickets to either Disneyland Resort or Disney California
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Adventure Park. And now's the time to call 1-800-520-1KFI. That's 800-520-1534.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And because it's Halloween time, let's do Halloween day. The
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: number to call or the number caller we need is
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: number 31. Be caller number 31. Anne's like, oh my God,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I have to pick up the phone 31 times. It's okay.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Producer Anne's a pro. She can do it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: 1-800-520-1KFI. 800-520-1534.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Caller number 31 for a four pack of one day,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: one park tickets to either Disney California Adventure Park or
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Disneyland Park for Halloween time. Congratulations, Gina Sand from Highland.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: You're going to Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park. Either one.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: They're both celebrating Halloween time at the Disneyland Resort. And
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: stay close to your radio today. I have a feeling
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: we're going to give away some more Disney tickets. In fact,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: we're going to have some on The Handel Show guest
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: starring Neil Saavedra today. So stick around. And don't forget,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: also Handel on the News with Neil Saavedra is up
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: in about 15 minutes. Here's what we're following in the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: KFI 24-hour newsroom. California Senator Alex Padilla and Representative Salud
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Carbajal of Santa Barbara are have introduced a bill to
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: investigate DDT pollution off the coast of Southern California. The
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Ocean Protection and DDT Reduction Act would look into marine
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: pollution and its effects following reports that say as many
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: as a half million barrels of toxic waste had been
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: dumped into the ocean after World War II. The nation's
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: largest manufacturer of DDT disposed of its waste at sea
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: for years. Rapper Sean Combs has been put in solitary
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: confinement following a report that he's been living pretty large
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: behind bars. Diddy was allegedly paying several inmates to do
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: his chores and give him massages. Prisoners who stayed at
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the same unit also claimed that Combs was able to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: smuggle in banned items like cell phones and liquor. Governor
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Newsom has banned so-called AI robo bosses with a landmark
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: state law. The No Robo Bosses Act bans California's employers
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Newsom had vetoed an earlier version of the bill last October. OK,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that I'm glad he did. Glad he signed that. Letting
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: AI fire you is bad enough getting fired on an email, right? Oh,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: that's just you are fired. It's like breaking up with
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: somebody by text. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
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  Speaker 1: multi-platform reporter, Will Gans.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, Will.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, good morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Doing good. So the Energizer bunny of movies, Anne Hathaway's
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  Speaker 1: back at it again.
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  Speaker 15: Doesn't it feel like every Friday morning we're talking about
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  Speaker 15: a new Anne Hathaway movie? You're going to feel like,
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  Speaker 15: I mean, I feel like I'm glitching or something. But no,
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  Speaker 15: she does have another movie on the big screen this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we need to discuss why that's happening. I mean,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: you strike while the iron is hot. For a while,
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  Speaker 1: it was like Amy Adams seemed to be in everything.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's Anne Hathaway. And I think it kind of
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: goes in cycles. When someone's hot, they want them in everything.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 15: And, you know, she is very, very pregnant. She said
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  Speaker 15: once this movie hits theaters, which is today, Verity, that
• 37:38
  Speaker 15: she's going to go away for a little while. But
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  Speaker 15: she can't go away for that long because I think
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  Speaker 15: she's going to be nominated for an Oscar, you know,
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  Speaker 15: come January. And then we'll have to start, you know,
• 37:46
  Speaker 15: making appearances for that. So it's like, you know, I
• 37:50
  Speaker 15: guess a few months is all she needs.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so is she going to be nominated for an
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  Speaker 1: Oscar for this movie or another one?
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  Speaker 15: I would say The Odyssey is probably the one that
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  Speaker 15: you'll get. This movie, Verity, is not the kind that
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  Speaker 15: we'll be talking about come Oscar season, but it is
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  Speaker 15: very fun. So this is based on a Colleen Hoover novel.
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  Speaker 15: Anne Hathaway plays a famous author. who under mysterious circumstances has,
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  Speaker 15: you know, fallen into a coma and her estate basically
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  Speaker 15: hires a new author played by Dakota Johnson to come
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  Speaker 15: to the house and sort of continue ghostwriting for her
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  Speaker 15: so that, you know, the machine can continue to turn out,
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  Speaker 15: you know, content or whatever. But of course, Dakota Johnson
• 38:33
  Speaker 15: starts to uncover some, some sketchy things about Anne Hathaway's
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  Speaker 15: past and, and her marriage and her husband starts flirting
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  Speaker 15: with her. So it's almost like a, a Lifetime movie
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  Speaker 15: on steroids. Is it going to change anybody's life? Probably not.
• 38:49
  Speaker 15: Is it the greatest film of all time? Probably not.
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  Speaker 15: But it's a lot of fun to watch. There are
• 38:53
  Speaker 15: a few really fun jump scares and a lot of
• 38:56
  Speaker 15: brooding atmosphere. So if you are looking for something to
• 39:01
  Speaker 15: see on the big screen this weekend, Verity is a
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  Speaker 15: fun one to check out with a bunch of other people.
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  Speaker 1: OK, now, when you say it's fun, is it supposed
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: to be fun as in funny or fun as in
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: you're going to go and you're going to get scared?
• 39:14
  Speaker 15: You're going to go and you're going to get scared.
• 39:17
  Speaker 15: You can tell that Anne Hathaway was just like having
• 39:20
  Speaker 15: a ball, you know, with that kind of energy.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
• 39:23
  Speaker 15: It's almost campy like she's, you know, it's, you know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 15: just like the femme fatale sort of blasts. Widow type
• 39:30
  Speaker 15: of character.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it can't be that exciting. She's in a coma
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the whole time.
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  Speaker 15: She is in a coma for a lot of it,
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  Speaker 15: but she, in flashbacks and things like that, you know.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Verity.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Let's go now to the small screen. We've got a
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: new show that's Not brand new on Netflix. It's a
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: remake of an old show.
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  Speaker 15: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: East of Eden.
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  Speaker 15: So this is based on the John Steinbeck novel, which
• 39:56
  Speaker 15: was itself based on the story of Cain and Abel
• 39:59
  Speaker 15: in the Bible. And Florence Pugh is at the center
• 40:02
  Speaker 15: of this. And she is just amazing. So she plays
• 40:05
  Speaker 15: a character who pretty much turns up on these brothers' doorstep,
• 40:08
  Speaker 15: you know, bloody and battered and You know, they take
• 40:12
  Speaker 15: her in, but, you know, at what cost? So she
• 40:16
  Speaker 15: is a complicated character. This is a seven episode limited
• 40:21
  Speaker 15: series and it is heady and gritty and Florence is
• 40:26
  Speaker 15: just phenomenal in it. So if you're looking for something
• 40:29
  Speaker 15: to sort of sink your teeth into over the weekend,
• 40:33
  Speaker 15: this will take you, you know, it's only seven episodes,
• 40:36
  Speaker 15: but they are rich. So it's a great, Great new show.
• 40:41
  Speaker 15: And I think the real standout here is Florence Pugh.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: OK, I love a good limited series. OK, and for
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: something a little bit lighter.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 40:50
  Speaker 15: Scrubs season two of The Revival is has dropped its
• 40:54
  Speaker 15: first couple episodes this week. And it does, you know
• 40:58
  Speaker 15: what I think a lot of season two of Scrubs.
• 41:02
  Speaker 15: comedy series do, which is like it finds its footing.
• 41:05
  Speaker 15: It's got its rhythm back. It sets itself up for like, OK,
• 41:08
  Speaker 15: here's where the characters are headed and what we're looking at. So,
• 41:12
  Speaker 15: you know, it's a Bill Lawrence show, which is like
• 41:14
  Speaker 15: Ted Lasso and Rooster. And, you know, you get all
• 41:17
  Speaker 15: of those shrinking. You get all of those like laugh
• 41:20
  Speaker 15: out loud moments, but it's also really jam packed full
• 41:22
  Speaker 15: of heart. And so if you haven't checked out Scrubs yet,
• 41:26
  Speaker 15: I do think now's a fun time to board the
• 41:27
  Speaker 15: ship because it feels like it's back in a great place.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: The ship has righted itself. It's doing okay. Will Gans,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: ABC News, multi-platform reporter. Thank you so much. Sounds like
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: he's got a police scanner in the background. Have a
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: great weekend. We'll talk to you soon.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: You too.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The Indian pilot who was
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: stabbed allegedly by his co-pilot on a fly Dubai flight
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: on its way to Israel says he couldn't let everybody die.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Smith Muchar. spoke from his hospital bed in a video
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: call to India's prime minister, who praised his bravery and
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: said his presence of mind saved lives. Machar was able
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: to open the cockpit door after he was stabbed while
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the plane was starting in a nosedive, which let others
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: into the cockpit to stop the stabber. Passengers on the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: flight said the attacker didn't say much. A dentist who
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: helped restrain the man says at one point, Somebody asked
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: him where he was from.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: He confirmed that he was from Omar. And then at
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: one point, he basically told Shota Musayev and the other
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: passengers and cabin crew who were crowded around the two
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: pilots that he wanted to die. He asked them to
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: kill him.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: ABC's Tom Sufi-Burridge says Israeli officials claim the man was
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: radicalized and suicidal. Thousands of sanitation workers in Southern California
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: could soon be on strike.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: The workers say they're fighting for safer conditions and better
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: health care because they need it.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: This job has more death and injury than firefighters and
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: the cops put together.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Victor Moneros with Teamsters Local 396, which represents almost 4,000
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: sanitation workers from L.A. to San Diego, says, Their contract
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: ended last night at midnight. They also want better retirement
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: plans and, like everyone else these days, guarantees that AI
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: won't take their jobs.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: Driverless vehicles.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, these vehicles being put on the street and
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: putting communities at harm.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: He says they're ready to strike. One of the companies,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Republic Services, says it'll continue to negotiate for a deal
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: that benefits employees, customers, and the company. Jason Athanson, KFI News.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: And President Trump has taken the beast from Texas to
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma for a campaign stop. because his team was told
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it wasn't safe to fly in bad weather. He went
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma last night to support the Republican candidate for governor.
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: You got to get out and vote.
• 43:44
  Speaker 9: But I really came here to pay my respect to
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: a place, really to a place that I love and
• 43:48
  Speaker 9: I appreciate.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: So that's why I'm here.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Trump posted on True Social, they wanted me to postpone
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the event. And I said, in all caps, no way
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Oklahoma. The beast is going faster than
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: it ever has gone before. the two stops on the
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: campaign trail about 80 miles apart. And just like that,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: our time is done on Wake Up Call for today
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and for this week. Thanks so much for starting your
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: day with us every day. We'll do it again on
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Monday morning. So talk to you first thing. You've been
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: listening to Wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You
• 44:20
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• 44:22
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